A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Humboldt

4 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.— filed under Character
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.— filed under Devotion
When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.— filed under Happiness
The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.— filed under Manhood
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