William R. Alger Quotes (13 Quotes)
- Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
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- After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
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- He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
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- What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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- The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
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- Public opinion is a second conscience.
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- Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
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- Words of love, are works of love.
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- Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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- To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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- The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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- A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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- False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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