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It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.
Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
As the excitement of the game increases, prudence is sure to diminish.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.
Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets.
The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.
The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.
Beautiful eyes in the face of a handsome woman are like eloquence to speech.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.
Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.
Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up!
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.
Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
There is in the heart of woman such a deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.
Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.