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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

For whatever man has, is in reality only a gift.

Fresh as the lovely form of youthful May, when nymphs and graces in the dance unite.

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it; was by taking to his heels in time.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Oft have I thought—jabber as he will, how learned soever, man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience!

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest when they are most silent.