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Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's...

Even miracles take a little time

Even miracles take a little time

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring...

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so...

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves...

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for...

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts...

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts...

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

Earth laughs in flowers.

Earth laughs in flowers.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.

Beauty is ten, nine of which is dressing.

Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.

Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind

Grace is to the body, what good manners are to the mind