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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

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