I Samuel Quotes

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

With will one can do anything.

The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight.

We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.

No matter how much theory progresses, how radically styles change, chess play is inconceivable without tactics.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Whatever you have spend less.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

I think fundamentalism is this radical attitude toward one's own identity and civilization as compared to other people's identities and cultures.

You can't do it unless you organize.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

It will create an excitement that will sweep the country like wildflowers