The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure...

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure...

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

If I speak to thee in friendship's name, thou think'st I speak too coldly, if...

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of...

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of...

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded...

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded...

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much...

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much...

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -...

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one...

He travels best that knows when to return.

He travels best that knows when to return.

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature...

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature...

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few...

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few...