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Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
He is a good man who can receive a gift well.
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.
Throb thine with Nature’s throbbing breast.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
Nature tells every secret once.
Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They’ve filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.
The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity.
A man often pays dear for a small frugality.
Some men’s words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals.
We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.