In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
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Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
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Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
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A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
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The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
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The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
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We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
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Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
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The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.
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Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
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If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
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A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.
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The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.
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You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
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If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
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Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
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We are mere notes in a piece of music played by the angel Death--heard and lost.
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Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
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Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
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A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.
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If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.
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A charitable man is like an apple tree--he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
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Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
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The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
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We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.
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Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
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Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
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Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
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Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
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There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
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It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
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There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
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The statesman shears the sheep, the politician skins them.
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The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
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Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
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Power should answer by action, not by speech.
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Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.
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The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
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Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.
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You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
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A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
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Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
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The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
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Some folk never handle the truth without scratching it.
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Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
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Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
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The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
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That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
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There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
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We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
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You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.
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The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
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Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.
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If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
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If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
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If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
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If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
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Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
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Most mysteries are soluble in time.
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