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Reform, that we may preserve.
Language is the machine of the poet.
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
Boswell is the first of biographers.
A dominant religion is never ascetic.
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
Complete self-devotion is woman's part.
The temple of silence and reconciliation.
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.
History begins in novel and ends in essay.
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.
Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons.
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
The end of government is the happiness of the people.
I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.
A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read.
I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.
No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.
So true it is, that nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.