William R. Alger Quotes

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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.

William R. Alger
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

William R. Alger
The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.

William R. Alger
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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When man seized the loadstone of science, the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.

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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.

William R. Alger
Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

William R. Alger
Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

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Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.

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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication
Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

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How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!

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Banqueting with gods on the ambrosia and nectar of the mind.

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An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
A smile within his eyelids plays
And into words his longing gushes.

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False eloquence is exaggeration, true eloquence is emphasis.

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Fill up the goblet and reach to me some!
Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.

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Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.

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With strength and patience all his grievous loads are borne,
And from the world's rose-bed he only asks a thorn.

William R. Alger