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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Ikatan yang terjalin antara ibu dan anak terbentuk dari kekuatan yang sangat tulus dan tanpa cela, yang tak akan pernah terceraikan.

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Saya selalu bingung seberapa percaya cerita saya sendiri.

They who drink beer will think beer.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.