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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Consult duty not events.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.

Delay in justice is injustice.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

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