Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEFor there is no folly so great as keeping one’s sorrows hidden.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
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The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.
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When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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It is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.
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Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night… Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.
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The concrete sound that meets the ears of any outside listener is always a sound of women’s voices?
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover’s mind if she knew the whole of it.
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There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.
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It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.
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I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.
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What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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