It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, “I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you