The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. - William Rounseville Alger
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
- William Rounseville Alger
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity. - William Rounseville Alger
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities. - William Rounseville Alger
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. - William Rounseville Alger
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor. - William Rounseville Alger
Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. - William Rounseville Alger
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others. - William Rounseville Alger
God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
Keep your working power at its maximum. - William Rounseville Alger
Keep your working power at its maximum.
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis. - William Rounseville Alger
False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.
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