| Quotes |
Topic |
| Possession | For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort. |
| Possessions | What we do not understand we do not possess. |
| Posterity | What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit, What's genuine, shall posterity inherit. |
| Power | Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! |
| Power | Power is neither male nor female. |
| Pride | Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. |
| Progress | He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! |
| Prosperity | Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. |
| Proverbs | What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely. |
| Proverbs | E'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. |
| Proverbs | Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. |
| Proverbs | Chill penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. |
| Proverbs | Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest. |
| Proverbs | We frolic while 'tis May. |
| Proverbs | What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. |
| Prudence | He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered. |
| Public | I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live. |
| Public | He who serves the public is a poor animal, he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. |
| Reading | The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. |
| Reading | What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal. |
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