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A babe is a mother's anchor. - [Babies] A bird in a cage is not half a bird. - [Freedom] A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society needs another Christ to die for it. - [Christianity] A church debt is the devil's salary. - [Charity] A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it. - [Strength] A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative; but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. - [Conservatism] A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. - [Cunning] A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them. - [Discipline] A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. - [Gambling] A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track,--but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. - [Sympathy] A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. - [Law] A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true. - [Lying] A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all. - [Lying] A man in old age is like a sword in a shop window. Men that look upon the perfect blade do not imagine the process by which it was completed. Man is a sword, daily life is the workshop, and God is the artificer; and those cares which beat upon the anvil, and file the edge, and eat in, acid-like, the inscription upon his hilt,--these are the very things that fashion the man. - [Man] A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth. - [Majority] A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. - [Luck] A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange-tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden,--swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air. - [Man] A man should fear when he enjoys only what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity, rather than the charity, that he loves? - [Charity] A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. - [Anger] A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow. - [Character] A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown. - [Mothers] A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. - [Mothers] A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty. - [Mothers] A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one which is lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other, ambition. Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. - [Ambition] A noble nose compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man by one which is lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other, ambition. Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. - [Ambition] Displaying page 1 of 13 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
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