American - Educator | 1865 - 1925
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Frank Moore Colby
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Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
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I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
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Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
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Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
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