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If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.
It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.
The sweetest of all success is that which one wins by hard exertion.
There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another
Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite.
Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.
It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
Sweet Truth is a queen proud and mighty-- Her throne is in heaven above.
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.
In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure
We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.
I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about.
Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.