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Commonly they whose tongue is their weapon, use their feet for defense.—Sir P. Sidney.
The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with loss noise.—W. Seeker.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.—Smollett.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.—E. P. Whipple.
God be thanked for books: they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life or past ages.—Channing.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.—Colton.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.—Brooke.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul.”
When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.—Erasmus.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.—Fielding.
Choose an author as you choose a friend.—Roscommon.
If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, and the people do not become religious, I do not know what is to become of us as a nation.
Christian. If truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and his word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy;
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.—H. Mann.
The constant habit of perusing devout books is be indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer.
Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.—Charming.
The last thing that we discover in writing a book, is to know what to put at the beginning.—Pascal.
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.—Hawthorne.
Have something to say; say it; and stop when you’ve done.—Tryon Edwards.
When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.—Steele.
Whoever in prayer can say, “Our Father,” acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.—Tryon Edwards.
There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.—H. M. Field.
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered, is, how much has been escaped.—Johnson.
The diligent fostering of a candid habit of mind, even in trifles, is a matter of high moment both to character and opinions.—Howson.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.—Quarles.
Fear is the mother of foresight.—H. Taylor.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.—Burke.
There is a virtuous fear which is the effect of faith, and a vicious fear which is the product or doubt and distrust.—The former leads to hope as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying upon God, in whom we do not believe.—Persons of the one character fear to lose God: those of the other character fear to find him.—Pascal.
Be not merely good; be good for something.—Thoreau.
It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.—Johnson.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes—these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles.—John Hall.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.—Wordsworth.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.—Landor.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as pearls slipping from a broken string.—G. D. Prentice.
We cannot be just unless we are kind-hearted.—Vauvenargues.
Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.—Chinese Proverb.
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.—Franklin.
In law nothing is certain but the expense.—S. Butler,
A knowledge of the laws of our country is an highly useful, and I had almost said essential, part of liberal and polite education.
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.—Blackstone.
Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.—Gladstone.
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.—De Tocqueville.
The honor of a maid is her name, and no legacy is so rich as honesty.—Shakespeare.
One and God make a majority.—Frederick Douglass.
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority though he be alone.—H. W. Beecher.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.—Diderot.
The best of all medicines are rest and fasting.—Franklin.
Selfish men may possess the earth; it is the meek only who inherit it from the Heavenly Father, free from all defilements and perplexities of unrighteousness.—Woolman.
There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit.—R. Hooker.
Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions of things which ruin us.—Marcus Antoninus.
