William Rounseville Alger Quotes

#1. The most terrible of all things is terror.

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#2. Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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#3. Laws are the silent assessors of God.

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#4. Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

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#5. I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

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#6. In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.

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#7. The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

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#8. Every man is his own greatest dupe.

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#9. Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

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#10. The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.

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#11. Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

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#12. There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.

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#13. God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

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#14. Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

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#15. Keep your working power at its maximum.

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#16. The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

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#17. Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

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#18. Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

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#19. The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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#20. In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.

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#21. Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,
a friend.

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#22. Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

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#23. A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.

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#24. Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

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#25. How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

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#26. Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

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#27. He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

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#28. The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

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#29. Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

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#30. The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

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#31. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

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#32. True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

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#33. A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

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#34. Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

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#35. Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

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#36. Polite beggary is too common.

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#37. God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

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#38. Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.

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