Kindle Notes & Highlights
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty: inaccuracy, of dishonesty.—C. Simmons.
A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer’s need.—Calderon.
Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.—E. L. Magoon.
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts.—H. Mann.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.—Thomas.
Actions are ours; their consequences belong to heaven.—Sir P. Francis.
What man knows should find expression in what he does.—The chief value of superior knowledge is that it leads to a performing manhood.—Bovee.
Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.—Massilon.
They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.—Franklin.
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not he much as take warning.—Swift.
Do not give to your friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.—Tuckerman.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.—Atterbury.
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.—Longfellow.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.—Mrs. Hermans.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us.—When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.—Powell.
The farmers are the founders of civilization and prosperity.—Daniel Webster.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.—Bulwer.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.—Pythagoras.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.—Chinese Proverb.
To rule one’s anger is well; to prevent it is still better.—Tryon Edwards.
Bettor be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.—Burke.
He is well along the road to perfect manhood who does not allow the thousand little worries of life to embitter his temper, or disturb his equanimity.
An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trusts him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants.—Geikie.
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the Up often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.—The
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.—E. R. Beadle.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.—Montaigne.
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.—Co lion.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.—Tryon Edwards.
Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.—Whately.
Heat and animosity, content and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.—Landor.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your greatcoat.—J. R. Lowell.
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.—Hume.
Weigh not so much what men assert, as what they prove.—Truth is simple and naked, and needs not invention to apparel her comeliness.—Sir P. Sidney.
Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.—Goethe.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.—Menander.
No company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is more contagious than health.—Colton.
No man can be provident of his time, who is not prudent in the choice of his company.—Jeremy Taylor.
Company, villainous company hath been the ruin of me.—Shakespeare.
To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.—Addison.
The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.—Colton.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image.—Goethe.
Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.—Thackeray.
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions: try to use ordinary situations.—Richter.
There never was found, in any age of the world, either religion or law that did so highly exalt the public good as the Bible.—Bacon.
True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.—Solon.
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.—II. Moore.
A blush is the color of virtue.—Diogenes.
A blush is a sign that nature hangs out, to show where chastity and honor dwell.—Gotthold.
Better a blush on the face than a blot on the heart.—Cervantes.
The inconvenience, or the beauty of the blush, which is the greater?—Madame Neckar.
