*Let all your preaching be in the most easy and plainest manner; look not to the prince, but to the plain, simple, gross, unlearned people, of which cloth the prince also himself was made. Luther.
*To get, then, the mind of Christ, and to declare it, is the traditional end of the teaching offices of the church...John Hall.
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*Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. Seneca.
*Prejudice is the intuit of fools. Voltaire.
*All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. Pope.
*Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong. Kane O'Hara.
*Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks. H.W. Shaw.
*National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices. Jane Porter.
*To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. Greville.
*He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. Goldoni.
*Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. Macaulay.
*The rabble estimate few things agreeing to their real value, most things agreeing to their prejudices. Cicero.
*Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way. Shaftesbury.
*Prejudice may be considered as a continual false medium of viewing things, for prejudiced persons not only never speak well, but also never think well, of those whom they dislike, and the whole character and guide is considered with an eye to that particular thing which offends them. Butler.
*Prejudice, like the spider, makes in any place its home. It has neither taste nor option of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be dominated the spider of the mind. Thomas Paine.
*When prejudices are caught up from bad passions, the worst of men feel intervals of remorse to soften and disperse them; but when they arise from a generous though mistaken source, they are hugged closer to the bosom, and the kindest and most generous natures feel a pleasure in fostering a blind and unjust resentment. Lord Erskine.
*The gift occasion is a powerful deity. Goethe.
*This occasion is a flower too fair and brief. Moore.
*Duty and today are ours; results and futurity belong to God. Horace Greeley.
*Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something done. Goethe.
*In the parliament of the gift every [person] represents a constituency of the past. Lowell.
*'Tis but a short journey over the isthmus of Now. Bovee.
*We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no occasion like the present. Miss Edgeworth.
*What is certainly momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored. Whittier.
*Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to conduct when the occasion arrives. Corneille.
*If we stand in the openings of the gift moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best health to receive what God is always ready to communicate. T.C. Upham.
*The Present, the gift is all thou hast/For thy sure possessing;/Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast/Till it gives its blessing. Whittier.
*Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some duration or other, when they have time. But the gift time has one benefit over every other--it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. Colton.
*One today is worth two tomorrows. Quarles.
*Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. Napoleon.
*The productions of the press, fast as steam, can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an supplementary tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument, or grievance, to millions in a day. Chapin.
*He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. Lavater.
*They who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. Herder.
*When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Spurgeon.
*As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. Chapin.
*When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss supervene very closely. Louis the Eleventh. *Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Franklin.
*Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power. Hazlitt.
*Pride is increased by ignorance; those assume the most who know the least. Gay.
*There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science. Roswell D. Hitchcock.
*Of all the powerful works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such consummate astonishment as a proud man. Colton.
*When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full. Beecher.
*If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime. Legouve.
*The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. Beecher.
*God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine.
*There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable length in the middle of late and too late. Mme. Swetchine.
*There is no occasion like the present...The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards. Miss Edgeworth.
*Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. Shakespeare.
*On profanity: It is difficult to list for a institution which gratifies no passion and promotes no interest. Robert Hall.
*Human improvement is from within outwards. Froude.
*Not because I raise myself above something but because I raise myself to something, do I approve myself. Jacobi.
*Nature knows no pause in expand and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Goethe.
*We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and that what came to us as bloom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress. Beecher.
*He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. Ruskin.
*All attempts to urge men forward, even in the right path, beyond the part of their light, are impracticable; and unlawful, if they were practicable; augment their light, conciliate their affections, and they will supervene of their own accord. Robert Hall.
*To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past...is to misapply noble means, to reduce glorious opportunities for the execution of preeminent deeds, to become cumberers of the ground. Garrison.
*Arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing. Carlyle.
*"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Everything new is received with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved. Feuerbach.
*The first party of painted savages who raised a few huts upon the Thames did not dream of the London they were creating, or know that in lighting the fire on their hearth they were kindling one of the great foci of Time...All the grand agencies which the expand of mankind evolves are formed in the same unconscious way. They are the compound supervene of countless particular wills, each of which, reasoning merely of its own end, and perhaps fully gaining it, is at the same time enlisted by Providence in the private assistance of the world. James Martineau.
*Promise is most given when the least is said. George Chapman.
*A mind that is aware of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform. Burns.
*Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. Theodore Parker.
*An acre of execution is worth the whole world of promise. Howell.
*I had rather not promise, than promise and not do. Arthur Warwick.
*He who is the most slow in manufacture a promise is the most meticulous in the execution of it. Rousseau.
*Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying. Corneille.
*Every promise is built upon four pillars:--God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish. Salter.
*Who makes quick use of the occasion is a genius of prudence. Lavater.
*Timely service, like timely gifts, is doubled in value. George MacDonald.
*Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity. Cicero.
*In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness. Confucius.
*It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity. J.L. Basford.
*It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. Beecher.
*...He that in prosperity can prevent a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance. Quarles.
*To bring the best human qualities to anyone like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate whole of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots. Alexander Smith.
*Prosperity too often has the same supervene on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. Bishop Horne.
*Proverbs are reasoning gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. W.R. Alger.
*The study of proverbs may be more instructive and unabridged than the most interpret task of philosophy. Motherwell.
*Duties are ours; events are God's. Cecil.
*God's providence is on the side of clear heads. Beecher.
*God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. Bacon.
*Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms. Goethe.
*Surely the equity of Providence has balanced peculiar sufferings with peculiar enjoyments. Johnson.
*We are not to lead events, but to supervene them. Epictetus.
*We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, He is in heaven, and not on earth. Beecher.
*I must not quarrel with the will/Of highest dispensation, which herein,/Haply had ends above my reach to know. Milton.
*That very law which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course. Sam'l Rogers.
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