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Experience is the extract of suffering.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
It takes a great man to make a great listener
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.
An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.
I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.
Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers
Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land.