Quotations #11


by Patricia Nordman - Date: 2007-01-18 - Word Count: 1949 Share This!

*There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ship as soon to him as he can desire. In a word, it conquers all enemies and makes fortune itself pay contribution. Clarendon.

*No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. Richter.

*I am a part of all that I have met. Tennyson.

*You can only make others better by being good yourself. Hugh R. Haweis.

*The serene, silent beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God. C.H. Spurgeon.

*Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. Emerson.

*No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. Elihu Burritt.

*If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. George MacDonald.

*The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing, hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Carlyle.

*It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters! Whose? our own or others? Both--and in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. Who is sufficient for the thought? Elihu Burritt.

*Ingratitude is treason to mankind. Thomson.

*Ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness. Richelieu.

*Flints may be melted--we can see it daily--but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. South.

*The worst of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed. Landor.

*Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. Saadi.

*Ingratitude is a nail which, driven into a tree of courtesy, causes it to wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and lump of soot, which, falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavor. Basil.

*Say not you know another, until you have divided an inheritance with him. Lavater.

*Slight small injuries, and they'll become none at all. Fuller.

*Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion. Hosea Ballou.

*No man ever did a designed injury to another without doing a greater to himself. Henry Home.

*He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker; if weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. Seneca.

*If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. J. Beaumont.

*He's armed without that's innocent within. Pope.

*Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined. Balzac.

*Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. Fuller.

*Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill. Colton.

*Receive not satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it. Lavater.

*Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Johnson.

*The hand that follows intellect can achieve. Michael Angelo.

*There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. William Winter.

*Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. R.W. Emerson.

*A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family. Rev. Thomas Scott.

*In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. Lowell.

*A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. Chamfort.

*Sensual pleasures are like soap-bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. Aughey.

*The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance; but the soul reveals itself in the voice only. Longfellow.

*Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. Chapin.

*Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. Colton.

*As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. Colton.

*No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be broken. Fuller.

*Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. La Bruyere.

*Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them. Lavater.

*He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Fuller.

*Joyousness is Nature's garb of health. Lamartine.

*Joy softens more hearts than tears. Mme. de Sartory.

*Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Beecher.

*Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment. Mme. Roland. *What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds. Madame Deluzy.

*The very society of joy redoubles it; so that, whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. South.

*Many men fail to realize that joy is distinctly moral. It is a fruit of the spiritual life. We have no more right to pray for joy, if we are not doing the things that Jesus said would bring it, than we would have to ask interest in a savings bank in which we had never deposited money...The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God, and a disgrace to itself. Maltbie Babcock.

*The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others, are always the most free from faults themselves. Aughey.

*Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just. Dean Stanley.

*Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning. F.W. Faber.

*Kind words...soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Pascal.

*Work is God's ordinance as truly as prayer. George D. Boardman.

*The lottery of honest labor, drawn by Time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. Theodore Parker.

*God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. J.G. Holland.

*It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy, you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids, but love and trust are sweet juices. Beecher.

*To labor rightly and earnestly is ...to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known. J.G. Holland.

*To be gentle is the test of a lady. Feltham.

*It is good manners, not rank, wealth, or beauty, that constitute the real lady. Roger Ascham.

*It is true politeness, gentleness, and love for humanity, that constitute a lady. Annie E. Lancaster.

*Landscapes are Nature's pictures. M.E. Lee.

*The laughter of man is the contentment of God. John Weiss.

*Life without laughing is a dreary blank. Thackeray.

*Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. Greville. (It's a special GIFT)

*The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. Chamfort.

*Laughter is the chorus of conversation. Steele.

*Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. H.W. Shaw.

*Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt;/And every grin, so merry, draws one out. Peter Pindar.

*Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted. Dr. Hufeland.

*I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh. Chesterfield. (!!What a loss to him--and his friends!)

*I am persuaded that every time a man smiles--but much more so when he laughs--it adds something to this fragment of life. Sterne.

*Where law ends, there tyranny begins. Earl of Chatham.

*The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare. (Ha!)

*A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. Franklin.

*We should ask not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned. Montainge.

*The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him, and to imitate Him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue. Milton.

*He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learned, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. Steele.

*My library was dukedom large enough. Shakespeare.

*The great consulting-room of a wise man is a library. George Dawson.

*A great library contains the diary of the human race. George Dawson.

*Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof, and obtain access for himself and family to some social library. Almost any luxury should be sacrificed to this. William Ellery Channing.

*What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. Charles Lamb.

*The freedom of some is the freedom of the herd of swine that ran violently down a steep place into the sea and were drowned. Rev. W. Jay.

*Life is the gift of God, and is divine.

*O God, how lovely still is life! Schiller.


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