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- One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
- Percival
- A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
- Tom Blair
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Johann Von Schiller
- Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
- Author Unknown
- Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove.
- Cardinal John Newman
- There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
- Frederika Bremer
- Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
- Arthur Helps
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