I Samuel Quotes

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea.

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

The peculiar doctrine of Christianity is that of a universal sacrifice and perpetual propitiation.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Great men are always exceptional men; and greatness itself is but comparative. Indeed, the range of most men in life is so limited that very few have the opportunity of being great.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

He that travels in theory has no inconveniences.

The most likely site for error is in the most fundamental of our beliefs.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

Yes, last year in interviewing. Empathy is when you repeat the last three words the patient says and nod your head.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.

My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.

Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.