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Cleverness is not wisdom.
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Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
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Slight not what is near, while aiming at what is far.
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If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.
Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.
Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by...
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for...
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself -- and how little I deserve it.
Things are seldom what they seem,
Skim milk masquerades as cream.
Source: In The...
Down went the owners --greedy men whom hope of gain allured:
Oh, dry the starting tear, for they were heavily...
If you wish in this world to advance,
Your merits you're bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
and...
There is an education of the mind
Which all require and parents only start.
But there is training of a nobler...
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf
I want to be able to like myself.
I don't want to look at myself...
Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that --
At least no one ever has done it;
But he took off his coat and he...
With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin
Without any doubting or quit it,
He started to sing, as he tackled...
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds,
For to see good put in action is what everybody...
In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers are our fortresses.
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When words leave off, music begins.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of...
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited...
The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it . . . did not...