Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEThis habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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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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A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
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Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can.
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.
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Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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Beware of creating tedium!
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Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.
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When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
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Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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It’s dogged as does it. It ain’t thinking about it.
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In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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