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A Dictionary of Thoughts Quotes
“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”
“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”
“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
The New Dictionary of Thoughts Quotes
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”
“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.”
“Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.”
“Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door.”
“Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only accomplish more, but have far more leisure than those who are always hurrying.”
“He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.”
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
“Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth.”
“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws – a thing which can never be demonstrated.”
“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”
“Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.”
“To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin.”
“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.”
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“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”
“We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.”
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“Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.”
“There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.”
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