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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Sep 18, 2025
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how to think. It forbade her to speak in public and said the sex had no orators. It denied her the schools, and said the sex had no genius. It robbed her of every vestige of responsibility, and then called her weak. It taught her that every pleasure must come as a favor from men and when, to gain it, she decked herself in paint and fine feathers, as she had been taught to do, it called her vain.
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Please all, and you will please none.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
The early bird catches the worm.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
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