The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEI judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards.
More Anthony Trollope Quotes
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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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Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.
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There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
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Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
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When once a woman is married she should be regarded as having thrown off her allegiance to her own sex. She is sure to be treacherous at any rate in one direction.
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Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.
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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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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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There is such a difference between life and theory.
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I hate a stupid man who can’t talk to me, and I hate a clever man who talks me down. I don’t like a man who is too lazy to make any effort to shine; but I particularly dislike the man who is always striving for effect.
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My sweetheart is to me more than a coined hemisphere.
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Wine is valued for its price, not its flavor.
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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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We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves.
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Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.
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