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

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Mirrors, Soul, Body

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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.

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Destiny, Humanity, Tears

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Laws are the silent assessors of God.

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Law, Silent

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Words of love are works of love.

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Love, Teacher

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

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Heart, Cry, Sigh

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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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Dwarves, Cunning, Dwarfs

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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.

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Exercise, Appreciate, Mind

"The Utility and the futility of Aphorism". Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics, Volume 11, p. 180, 1863.

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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

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Inspiring, Jewels, Mind

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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

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Air, Castles, Building

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Public opinion is a second conscience.

William Rounseville Alger

Second Chance, Public Opinion, Opinion

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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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Fall, Twilight, Two

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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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Blessed, Eight, Heaven

William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.223

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

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Woe, Grind, Retribution

William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.123

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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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Drunk, Mad, Sobriety

William Rounseville Alger (1874). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.167

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

William Rounseville Alger

Men, His Love, Benevolence

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

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Liberty, Duty, Obligation

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

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Poetry, Literature, Natural

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Polite beggary is too common.

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Common, Polite, Request

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

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Pride, Ice, May

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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

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Retribution, Handmaids, Nemesis

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

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Fancy

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

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God, Believer, Traditional

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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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Heart, Tongue

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

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Leadership, Art, Ought

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Born: 1822
Died: 1905
Occupation: Author
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