William Rounseville Alger Famous Quotes
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
Keep your working power at its maximum.
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
Every man is his own greatest dupe.
The best aphorisms are ... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
Laws are the silent assessors of God.
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
Polite beggary is too common.
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,
a friend.
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
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.
