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Labor humanizes, exalts.
The less routine the more life.
Our ideals are our better selves.
Every sin provokes its punishment.
Many can argue - not many converse.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
One's outlook is a part of his virtue.
Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.
Opposition strengthens the manly will.
A good style fits like a good costume.
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Nature is thought immersed in matter. . .
A work of real merit finds favor at last.
Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament.
The richest minds need not large libraries.
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
Inspiration must find answering inspiration.
Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
None can teach admirably if not loving his task.
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.
A happy childhood is the pledge of a ripe manhood.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Civilization degrades many in order to exalt the few.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams.
Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.
Egotists cannot converse, they talk to themselves only.
Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.
Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.
Many are those who can argue; few are those who can converse
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.
Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.
Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines.
A candid spirit is mightier than the most persistent dogmatism.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.