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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.
Ambrose Bierce

Opinion, Another, Vote

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce

Desire, Direction, Line

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Trust, Great, Hope

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
Rene Descartes

Hope, Judge, Others

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
Dwight L. Moody

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Infinite, Nowhere

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Nature, Justice, Humanity

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
Booker T. Washington

Long, Place, Moral

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Experience, Live

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Life, Men, Death

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
John Ruskin

Love, Thoughtful, Minds

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

Lost, Trying, Between

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens

Money, Rarely, Civility

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Love, Light, Her

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake

Men, Care, Made

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

Life, God, Power

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Time, Second

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce

Religion, Place, State

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
Ambrose Bierce

Weather, Instrument, Ingenious

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
Ambrose Bierce

Thinking, While, Talking

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Leaving, American, Wit

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.
Gilbert Murray

Enemy, Nothing, Soul

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Doubt, Often

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

Faith, Attitude, Today

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, Emotion

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling

Power, Human, Whose

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin

Natural, Useful, Principle

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk

Great, Men, Children

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Feeling, Lost

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education, Somebody, Period

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