William R. Alger - Wise Quotes

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

William R. Alger

A thousand years a poor man watched
Before the gate of Paradise:
But while one little nap he snatched,
It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?

William R. Alger

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

William R. Alger