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| William Alger Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. | Anger |
| 2 | We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. | Advice |
| 3 | Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve. | Sadness |
| 4 | Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. | Fate |
| 5 | A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. | Mob |
| 6 | The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. | Soul |
| 7 | A gray eye is a sly eye, And roguish is a brown one; Turn full upon me thy eye,-- Ah, how its wavelets drown one! A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark-sun! A black eye is the best one. | Eye |
| 8 | 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? | Disappointment |
| 9 | In the nine heavens are eight Paradises; Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessèd dwell in the Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast. | Blessings |
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