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" A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword. "
Blow
Deeper
Word
" A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. "
Standing
Giant
See
" A good conscience is a continual feast. "
Good
Feast
Conscience
" Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards. "
Ancient
First
Kingdom
" A quiet mind cureth all. "
Mind
Peace
Quiet
" Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. "
Long
Man
Bad
" Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. "
Illusion
Faith
Feelings
" Idleness is an appendix to nobility. "
Appendix
Idleness
Nobility
" Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. "
Great
Men
Anxiety
" No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. "
Fast
Cable
Bind
" No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. "
Rule
Some
Which
" Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. "
Friends
Toys
Small
" One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. "
Plague
Hell
Married
" The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. "
Will
Succeed
Power
" To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. "
Sun
Love Is
Power
" We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. "
Make
Officers
Year
" What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. "
Nature
Morning
Love
" Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. "
Devil
Wealth
Sun
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