Virtue seeks the greatest distance from vice.
Innocence tinctures all things with brightest hues.
Things desired are oftentimes of less value than our present possessions.
There is a desert of time as well as of land.
Pride serves mostly at the door of success.
Bow with submission before thy soul's dictates rather than before the world's.
Ideas are born in chaos.
Truth wears an unchanging countenance.
The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by mortals.
Labour is the root of riches.
Pleasure is a crumbling statue.
Desire of praise is a fruitful tree.
Evils are the breathings of the unjust.
Revenge is but a small circle.
Wisdom is ever fresh; other things grow stale, but this is the evergreen flower of nature.
Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time.
The vain man is like a painter who continually draws but his own picture.
Life is a journey we are always travelling; but, unlike most others, seldom care we to reach the end.
Let not wisdom be an occasional visitor--let it ever dwell with thee.
Virtue wears well in any garb.
Evil is the canker of life.
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
Wisdom is an endless tower. Who but One hath ever attained the summit?
Success is an easy road (when gained).
Short is life, but endless is the theme.
Life is an uncertain flower--oft by the tempest o'erthrown.
The farther from truth, the farther from happiness.
Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it.
Purity is the diamond of the soul.
Unless patience is founded on hope, it stagnates.
Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.
Every day brings forth a new destiny.
Memory is a bad book-keeper.
Nature looks with an equal smile on all.
Peace is strong in war.
The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost.
Many-tinted are the eyes of fashion.
Conquer thy own evils before you judge others.
Wisdom is a safe ship; and we may trust ourselves to it in all weathers.
Books, like bricks, depend upon each other for support.
Fortune sometimes knocks like a schoolmistress, but then she teaches when she does.
Perfection is an undiscovered jewel.
Laws are a nation's egotism.
In dreams no man wears a mask.
The first step in our journey of prosperity often is defeat.
When the world frowns, heaven smiles.
Rumors generally grow deformed as they travel.
It takes longer to cure evil than to seek it.
There are many gates to the house of wisdom.
Age is but a comparison.
Silence often has the strongest voice.
The past is a towering mansion.
Fame is a bright flower, but weeds abound mostly around it.
Truth is both arms and armour.
Success is a magnet that draws many followers.
Mystery is the magnet of inquiry.
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