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A quiet mind cureth all.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores... →
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
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