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True art is reverent imitation of God.
Never be so brief as to become obscure.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.
Hell is truth seen too lateduty neglected in its season.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
He who can suppress a moments anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.
Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.
Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.
All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.
Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish.
He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.
No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.
Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong