Austin O'Malley Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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“Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.”
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“The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.”
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“Law is the rudder of the ship of state.”
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“A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.”
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“They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.”
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“The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.”
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“You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.”
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“After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.”
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“It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.”
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“The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.”
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“It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.”
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“A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.”
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“Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.”
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“Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.”
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“Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.”
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“All things come to him who waits - even justice.”
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“Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.”
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“We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.”
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“It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.”
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“Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.”
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“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
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“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
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“Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.”
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“Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”
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“Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.”
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“Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.”
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“Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.”
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“Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.”
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“True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.”
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