One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England’s hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people’s money.
I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don’t understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Wisdom , penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement , leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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