Wisdom Quotes — page 22

Affection requires a firmer foundation than sympathy, and few people have a principle of action sufficiently stable to produce rectitude of feeling; for in spite of all the arguments I have heard to justify deviations from duty, I am …

The sacraments and ceremonies of the gospel operate not without the concurrent actions and moral influences of the suscipient.

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt.

Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none.

Noble lords would do him the justice to recollect, that not one session had passed over since 1793, in which he had not, to use a vulgar but a strong expression, bored their lordships with his prophetic admonitions.

Remembering Jane’s accusation of bitterness, he tried hard to put aside his rancor in judging Tull. But it was bitter knowledge that made him see the truth. He had felt the shadow of an unseen hand; he had watched till he saw its dim …

That was putting the case in a nutshell. But it is one thing to put a case like Shelley's in a nutshell and another thing to keep it there.

If it were a doubtful point how the statute should be construed, I must consider myself as bound by the construction it has already received in two Courts in Westminster Hall.

The firste fyndere of our faire langage.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in …

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

I know of no privileged class of society, and I do not know an esquire has any privileges a yeoman has not.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not 'in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

How full and rich a world Theirs to inhabit is— Sweet scent of grass and bloom, Playmates’ glad symphony, Cool touch of western wind, Sunshine’s divine caress.

Know What You Want To Say.

Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.

I first adventure: follow me who list, And be the second Eastern Melodist

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.

For those sacred powers Tread on oblivion; no desert odours Can be entombed in their celestial breasts.

With these come, what may be called, a sense of immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already.

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.