I Samuel Quotes
Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.
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The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.
It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.
Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.
It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.
The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.
The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.
When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.
What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
