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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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• The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.

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  Flower, Pluck, Fragrance

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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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• The most terrible of all things is terror.

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  Terrible, Terror, All Things

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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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• 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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• Public opinion is a second conscience.

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  Second Chance, Public Opinion, Opinion

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• Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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  Dwarves, Cunning, Dwarfs

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• Laws are the silent assessors of God.

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  Law, Silent

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

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  Men, His Love, Benevolence

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

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  Fancy

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• Polite beggary is too common.

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  Common, Polite, Request

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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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• The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.

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  Heart, Tongue

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

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  Poetry, Literature, Natural

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• Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

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  Retribution, Handmaids, Nemesis

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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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• 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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