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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - [Inspiration] Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves? - [Punishment] Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. - [Suspicion] Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. - [Falsehood] Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless,--nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. - [Speech] Hate is like fire; it makes even light robbish deadly. - [Hate] His years with others must the sweeter be For those brief days he spent in loving me. - [Remembrance] How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience. - [Obedience] I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. - [Flowers] I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. - [Peace : Sin] I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. - [Past] I have been a great deal happier since I have given up thinking about what is easy and pleasant, and being discontented because I could not have my own will. Our life is determined for us; and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do. - [Resignation] I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. - [Love] I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone. - [Courage] I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. - [Flowers] I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. - [Experience] I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death. - [Trust] I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. - [Perseverance] If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings. - [Religion] Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. - [Ignorance] Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. - [Impatience] In high vengeance there is noble scorn. - [Vengeance] In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception. - [Human Nature] In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched to gentle issues. - [Children] In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure. - [Travel] Displaying page 2 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
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