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" Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. "
You
Spell
Words
" Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. "
Conscience
Virtue
Sentinel
" Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others. "
Will
Depend
Friend
" Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? "
Yourself
You
Evil
" Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart? "
Seen
Ever
Heart
" He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. "
Caught
Who
Through
" He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. "
Love
Forgive
Enemy
" He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. "
Genius
Hero
Calm
" Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. "
Him
You
Street
" I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. "
Humanity
I Am
Boldness
" If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. "
Down
Him
You
" If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. "
Wish
Know
Consent
" Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. "
Once
Clear
Whole
" Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. "
Good
Person
More
" Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. "
Difference
Genius
Love
" Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. "
Till
Say
Divided
" The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time. "
Great
Moral
God
" The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time. "
Time
Devil
Jealous
" The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. "
Great
Difficulties
Bold
" There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. "
Men
Stationary
Progressive
" Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. "
Alone
Secrets
Over
" What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. "
Ask
Country
Questions
" Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. "
Quick
Genius
Time
" You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. "
Best
Good
You
" You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. "
Bad
Good Man
Friends
" You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. "
Alone
Man
You
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