|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Topic | Authors by Date | | |||
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils. - [Teaching] Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. - [Ambition] We mistake the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our own in-dustry. - [Blessings] We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. - [Irresolution] What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied. - [Superfluity] What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end? - [Prayer] When men will not be reasoned out of a vanity, they must be ridiculed out of it. - [Vanity] Wickedness may prosper for a while. - [Wickedness] Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. - Fables (398) [Proverbs] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
|
|