William R. Alger Quotes

• What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

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  Topics in God, Victory

  Tags in Peace, Will, Strike, Destiny

• Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proverbs, Gems, Gathered, Diamond

• A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

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  Topics in Sympathy

  Tags in Reason, Crowd

• He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happier, Happiness, Men

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

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  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Wrath, Reason, Men

• 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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  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Maxim, Vital, Exercise, Mind

• Public opinion is a second conscience.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Public Opinion, Opinions, Conscience

• After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

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  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Duty, Will, Solution, Storm

• Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pearls, Teeth

• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Poverty

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emphasis, Eloquence, Exaggeration

• The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Diagonal, Duty

• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

  William R. Alger

  Topics in Advice

William R. Alger (13)

Birth:	30th December, 1822
Death:	1905
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Abolitionist, Clergyman, Writer

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