Wise or Otherwise | Page 9

answer. We can find it in no other way.
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Man and misery are not twins but father and son.
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The woman to whom temptation never came cannot be said to be virtuous.
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The blast of the golden bugle shall not always drown the wail of the poor.
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When faults lie thick and die, the crop of good deeds to follow will be the greater.
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A priest at ten thousand a year is a monument erected over the grave of Christianity.
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The cry of the child for bread reaches further into the universe than peans sung to kings.
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When Eve was created nature must have cried 'no,' for ever since woman has continued to repeat the word.
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The rich go about the world on stilts, lest the poor should touch the hems of their garments. They are so so high in the air that they gather no perfume from the wild flowers blooming by the wayside.
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The hand of Justice has lost its thumb and forefinger.
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Vulgar speech is a drop of filth from a rotten heart.
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A fly never sees the window pane until his bruised nose bleeds.
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The greatest kindness is that which we are not compelled to remember.
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My aspirations are cut out with a broad sword. My results with a pen knife.
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The mathemetician can measure a world, yet he cannot weigh the secret thing which stirs a poet's heart.
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Man has waited for ages for heaven to help him. Heaven has waited equally long for man to help himself.
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Slaves are bound with fetters of steel--poor men with fetters of law. One corrodes with age, the other is perpetually renewed.
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The devil fish of the sea claws his victim, then sinks to the bottom. The devil fish of the land claws his, then rises to the top.
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Want issues from the womb of greed.
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Justice will be done when greed dies.
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Sympathy is the sheet-anchor of the Ship of Life.
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One tear is more potent for good than a thousand laws.
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Charity, though white of plumage, is born of black parents.
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The avenger strikes down one evil and creates a thousand.
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Universal love is, but another name for universal happiness.
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Life without hope is death without a grave wherein to find rest.
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A man is not only responsible for his acts, but for their influence.
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To know, and not to do is vile--to do and not to know, an accident.
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The white flowers of sympathy shall yet bloom over graves in which the rich rot.
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Luxury lulls--poverty dulls.
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A fat priest and a poor flock.
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The hooked fish has an open mouth.
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The money lender loves a close shave.
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Preachers and brokers, alike, deal in future options.
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Humility is sweet but its path is strewn with bitter herbs.
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The change for which every woman prays--a change of name.
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Passengers inside the coach 'Prosperity,' never see the galled steeds.
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The knout pinches the slave's back. The combine, the free man's belly.
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The ball dress is diplomatic, in that it reveals what it pretends to conceal.
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There is colour in the statement that one nigger in a missionary report throws a shadow greater than ten white men.
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Vile thoughts only bloom on the dung-hills of depravity.
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Coarseness is as akin to vice as the flame to the candle.
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Indolence lolls in luxury while energy goes hungry to bed.
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Toil with recompense is sweeter than recompense without toil.
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Is the African heathen more precious than a sick child in a London garret?
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The ashes of a bad woman cannot be cleansed with the waters of an ocean.
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She who walks the street by night is an outcast. She who seduces a Prince may die a Queen.
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Princes on sale for gold, women for titles, virtue for bread, statesmen for place, and priests for salary.
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Monopoly. A whip in the hands of plutocrats, which bites the backs of men and saddens the hearts of women.
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