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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. (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
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 (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The most terrible of all things is terror (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Every man is his own greatest dupe (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The heart must glow before the tongue can gild (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Polite beggary is too common (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Keep your working power at its maximum (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Words of love are works of love (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Public opinion is a second conscience (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)
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 (William Rounseville Alger Quotes)