All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.
Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.
But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Should never crave the rose.
God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.
If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them- not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.
It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth.
It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.
Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.
Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.
Life and hope must cease together.
No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
The best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.
There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
There is always a but in this imperfect world.
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.
You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.
You will form a very inadequate estimate of a man's character, if you judge by what a fond sister says of him. The worst of them generally know how to hide their misdeeds from their sisters' eyes, and their mother's, too.
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