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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.
It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.
But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.
Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts.
There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.
We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.
It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.
Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.
Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.
Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.
What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!
It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.
To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach.
Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.