Quotations # 43

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*It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken. Menander.

*Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words; the spirit in which we act is the great matter. Goethe.

*As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing. Rochefoucauld.

*Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,/Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope.

*Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we? Leigh Hunt.

*Gentle words, quiet words, are after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. Washington Gladden.

*It would be well for us all, old and young, to remember that our words and actions, ay, and our thoughts also, are set upon never-stopping wheels, rolling on and on unto the pathway of eternity. M.M. Brewster.

*The last word should be the last word. It is like a finishing touch given to color; there is nothing more to add. But what precaution is needed in order not to put the last word first. Joubert.

*Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word,/And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird. Francis Thompson.

*O! many a shaft, at random sent,/Finds mark the archer little meant!/And many a word, at random spoken,/May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! Scott.

*"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bombshell. Douglas Jerrold.

*Better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Cumberland.

*Work is the means of living, but it is not living. J.G. Holland.

*Never idle a moment, but be thrifty and thoughtful of others. Longfellow.

*Get work! Be sure it is better than what you work to get. Mrs. E.B. Browning.

*Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. Emerson.

*You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. T.L. Cuyler.

*The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. Vauvenargues.

*Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and drinking. Wilhelm von Humboldt.

*Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure. Hamerton.

*I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody. Lord Stanley.

*Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. Tolstoi.

*Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. J.G. Holland.

*It is far better to give work which is above the men than to educate the men to be above their work. Ruskin.

*Mind, it is our best work that He wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think He must prefer quality to quantity. George MacDonald.

*Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed, which declares his dignity; while other animals unactive range, and of their doings God takes no account. Milton.

*No man born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil. Lowell.

*The world is ashamed of being virtuous. Sterne.

*O, how full of briars is this working-day world! Shakespeare.

*This world is God's workshop for making men in. Beecher.

*Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. Chamfort.

*Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. Waller.

*The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Locke.

*The world is a great poem, and the world's/The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. Bailey.

*Feast, and your halls are crowded;/Fast, and the world goes by. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

*This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Samuel Johnson.

*The tree of the world hath its poisons, but beareth two fruits of exquisite flavor, the nectar of poetry and the society of noble men [and women]. Hitopadesa.

*The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another. H.W. Shaw.

*The world is grown so bad,/That wrens made prey where eagles dare not perch. Shakespeare.

*How beautiful is all this visible world!/How glorious in its action and itself!/But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,/Half dust, half deity, alike unfit/To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make/A conflict of its elements, and breathe/The breath of degradation and of pride,/Contending with low wants and lofty will,/Till our mortality predominates,/And men are--what they name not to themselves,/And trust not to each other. Byron.

*A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful. C.H. Spurgeon.

*As the love of the heavens makes us heavenly, the love of virtue virtuous, so doth the love of the world make one become worldly. Sir P. Sidney.

*Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink. D.L. Moody.

*It has been well said that there is a sin of other-worldliness no less than a sin of worldliness, and Christendom has had a large measure of the former sin as well as of the latter. People have been taught so much about preparing for heaven that they have sometimes become very indifferent workers on earth, and in anticipating the joys of the future world have overlooked the infinite possibilities for good in the world that now is. W.J. Potter.

*And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Emerson.

*A little bread and wine in a dungeon sufficed for the liturgy of the martyrs. Hamerton.

*Worship as though the Deity were present. If my mind is not engaged in my worship, it is as though I worshipped not. Confucius.

*Man always worships something; always he sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite. Carlyle.

*'Tis certain that worship stands in some commanding relation to the health of man, and to his highest powers, so as to be, in some manner, the source of intellect. Emerson.

*Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities. Sir J. Suckling.

*Worth begets in base minds envy; in great souls, emulation. Fielding.

*To hide true worth from public view,/Is burying diamonds in their mine,/All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;/But all that is gold ought to shine. Bishop.

*The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd/'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst. Shakespeare.

*Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee/And cherish'd thine image for years;/Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,/In secret, in silence, and in tears. Mrs. David Porter.

*Wrinkles of the face may be successfully hidden by art; not so with the wrinkles of the heart. Mme. Dufresnoy.

*The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. Horace Greeley.

*To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render properly; it is to have, at the same time, mind, soul, taste. Buffon.

*Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious. Hume.

*True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pope.

*A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind. Bruyere.

*No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. Blakey.

*Wrong cannot have a legal descendant. Thomas Paine. (The multitude is always in the wrong. Wentworth Dillon.

*My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which the earth is filled. Cowper.

*The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. Coleridge.

*It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Johnson.

*We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others. Dewey.

*To revenge a wrong is easy, usual, and natural, and, as the world thinks, savors of nobleness of mind; but religion teaches the contrary, and tells us it is better to neglect than to requite it. J. Beaumont.

*The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. Retif de la Bretonne.

*The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Goethe. (God help us!)

*If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. Goethe.

*Every street has two sides, the shady and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. Bulwer-Lytton.

*I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. Dr. Johnson.

*Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. Watts.

*The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope. (Ha!)

*Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human; the latter is divine. Hosea Ballou.

*Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. Pasquier Quesnel.

*The zeal of friends it is that razes me,/And not the hate of enemies. Schiller.

*Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. Tillotson.

*True zeal is...a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand. Cudworth.

*It were better to be of no church than to be bitter for any. William Penn.

* Nothing has wrought more prejudice to religion, or brought more disparagement upon truth, than boisterous and unseasonable zeal. Barrow.

*The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. Emerson.

*Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. Addison.

*Motives by excess reverse their very nature, and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind. Coleridge.

*Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable. Thomas Sprat.

Dear Readers -- I pray you have been as blessed by these quotations as I have been through the years. We cannot estimate the power of loving thoughts! God bless you.

Patricia