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Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
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Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
Source: Sketches and Essays, On Nicknames -
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful, as hope. Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.
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Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
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Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
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Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
Source: On War (1832)
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