I Samuel Quotes

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

It has become dramatically clear that the foundation of corporate integrity is personal integrity.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

Don't pay any attention to the critics; don't even ignore them.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Film is a battleground.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.