Quotes # 7

* The corpse of friendship does not deserve to be embalmed. Hazlitt.

* In friendship, your heart is like a bell that rings whenever your friend is in trouble. Henry Ward Beecher.

* The dearest of nature is not comparable to the dearest of friendship. Jeremy Taylor.

* Every time I returned to his door, his love greeted me on the threshold and his noble serenity brought me comfort and peace. William Winter.

* A friendship that makes the least noise is often the most helpful; That is why I would prefer a wise friend to a jealous one. Addison.

* I would give more for one’s private esteem and love than for the public praise of ten thousand. WR Algiers.

* Most of us are very lonely in this world; you who have someone who loves you, hold on to him and give thanks to God. Thackeray.

* That friendship is, indeed, genuine only when two friends, without saying a word, can nevertheless find happiness in being together. George Ebers.

* I consider it to be one of the greatest demonstrations of true friendship, that a friend can really strive for his friend to advance in honor, in reputation, in the opinion of wit or scholarship, before himself. Jeremy Taylor.

* What is more conspicuous that wherever a pecuniary interest appears on the scene, friendship is withdrawn? Whether you take money from me or give it, the transaction is equally fatal to our old bond of friendship. William Smith.

*[Friends] They write their names on our albums, but they do more, they help us become who we are. So be careful when selecting them; And when selected wisely, never sacrifice them. Mr. Hilburd.

* Let me return to your metaphor. Friendship is a vase that, when spoiled by heat, violence, or accident, can also break immediately; you can never trust him afterwards. The more elegant and ornamental it was, the more clearly we discern the hopelessness of restoring it to its former state. Coarse stones, if fractured, can be re-cemented; gemstones, never. Landor.

* Young people, crude and affable, think that it is easy to win love and consider that their own friendship is a sure price of the man; But when experience has shown you the hardness of most hearts, the emptiness of others, and the baseness and ingratitude of almost everyone, you will discover that a true friend is the gift of God, and that only the one who made hearts can unite them. them. South.

* Poor me! that Christians must stand at the gate of eternity with more work on their hands than their time is enough, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles. John Flavel.

* Frugality can be called the daughter of prudence, sister of temperance and progenitor of freedom. Dr. Johnson.

* Frugality is good if liberality is added to it. The first is to set aside superfluous expenses; the last is to bestow them for the benefit of others in need. The former without the latter breeds greed; the latter without the former begets lavishness. William Penn.

* Nothing great is produced suddenly, since neither the grape nor the fig are. If you tell me now that you want a fig, I will answer you that it takes time: let it bloom first, then bear fruit and then ripen. Epictetus.

* The best preparation for the future is the present well taken care of, the last duty fulfilled. George MacDonald.

* Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat. J. Petit-Senn.

* The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and the sky, of the future. Coleridge.

* There is no divination rod whose immersion tells us at twenty what we will most enjoy at thirty. NP Willis.

* How narrow our souls become when they are absorbed in any present good or bad! It is only the idea of ​​the future that makes them great. Richter.

* Whatever improvement we make in ourselves, we are sure that we will improve our future condition. Paley.

* May you live without envy, and spend many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have nice friends. Ovid.

* Do not look sadly at the past, it does not come back; wisely improve the present, it is yours; Go out to meet the bleak future without fear and with a manly heart. Longfellow.

* AN hopes in the next world the happiness of living with Raphael, Mozart and Goethe. But how can they be happy if they must live with him? Auerbach. (Something to think about!)

* Divine wisdom, with the intention of stopping us for some time on earth, has done well to veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our eyes could clearly distinguish the opposite shore, who would remain on this stormy shore? Madame de Stael.

* A brave man is above bad words. Selden.

* In this world, it is not what we accept, but what we give up, that makes us rich. Beecher.

* If there is a truer measure of a man for what he does, it must be for what he gives. South.

* Men of the noblest provisions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. Duncan.

* All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe side and the fair side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. Ms. Jameson.

* It is good to be selfless and generous; But don’t take that too far It is not advisable to indulge in melting for the benefit of the tallow trade; you must know where to find yourself. George Eliot.

* The genius, without work, is certainly a mute oracle; and it is unquestionably true that men of the highest genius have invariably found themselves among the most industrious, hard-working, and determined men; its main characteristic apparently consists simply in its power to work more intensely and efficiently than others. Samuel Smiles.

* Regarding the manner, be careful to speak softly, tenderly, kindly and lovingly. Even when you have a chance to rebuke, be careful to do it with overt kindness. The effect will be incalculably better. Hosea Ballou.

* Of the gifts, none seems more appropriate to offer to a friend than a beautiful book. Amos Bronson Alcott.

* The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. Luther

* Every gift that is given, even if it is small, is actually great, if it is done with love. Pindar.

* Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when inherited by those who, being alive, would not be separated from anything. Colton.

* Fear the man who does not fear God. Abdl-el-Kader.

* God tempers the wind to the sheared lamb. Laurence Sterne.

* Ride the storm and walk on the wind. Dad.

* You wake us up to delight in your praise; because you made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. Agustin.

* God is a rain for those burned by pain; God is a sun in the face flooded with tears. Joseph Roux.

* It is as easy for God to meet your greatest needs as well as the smallest, just as it was within His power to form a system or an atom, to create a resplendent sun like lighting the lamp of the firefly. Thomas Guthrie.

* When we have broken our god of tradition, and we have stopped our god of rhetoric, then may God ignite the heart with His presence. Emerson.

* The Almighty has sown his name in the heavens with shining stars, but on earth he plants his name with tender flowers. Richter.

* Let us always remember that God has never promised to supply our desires, but only our needs, and these only as they arise from day to day. Alexander Dickson.

* Just as a face is beautified when the soul shines through it, so the world is beautiful when a God shines through it. Jacobi.

* It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests himself to men in all wise, good, humble, generous, great and magnanimous men. Lavater.

* God’s commandments are the iron gate in himself. Keeping them is opening it and revealing His great heart of love. Samuel Willoughby Duffield.

* God rules in the affairs of men; And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His noticing, neither can a kingdom rise without His help. Benjamin Franklin.

* Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and a single light, and I will explain to you the Divine mode of existence. John Wesley.

* He did very little, very little of the sacraments and priests, because God was so intensely real to him. What was he to do with glasses that were so full in the torrent of sunlight? Phillips Brooks.

* Those who deny God destroy the nobility of man; because a certain man is like the beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he is an ignoble creature. Bacon.

* The treasure of God where he keeps the gifts of his children will be like the relics of his children for many mothers, full of things without value for others, but precious in their eyes because of the love that was in them. Fenelon.

* The Christian will sometimes be led to walk a lonely path. God seems to cut his struts to reduce him to himself. Your religion should feel like a personal, private and appropriate possession. He must feel that, just as there is only one Jehovah to bless, it seems to him that there is only one penitent in the universe to be blessed by Him. Richard Cecil.

* Day and night, at every moment, there are voices above us. All the hours speak in passing; and in each event there is a message for us; and all our circumstances speak to us; but it is in divine language that worldliness misinterprets, that scares selfishness and that only the children of God listen with righteousness and joy. Wm. Mountford.

* God should not be worshiped with sacrifices and blood; for what pleasure can He have in the slaughter of the innocents? but with a pure mind, a good and honest purpose. Temples should not be built for Him with stones piled high; God must be consecrated in the chest of each one. Seneca.

* Do you feel like you’ve lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you completely helpless, exhausted, body and soul? Then God’s everlasting love is ready and willing to help you rise up and revive you. Are you tired of doubts and terrors? Then the eternal light of God is ready to show you your way; God’s eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel full of sins and faults? Then cheer up; because the unchanging will of God is to take away those sins and cleanse you of those faults. Charles Kingsley.

* Certainly, the man is completely mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen. Montaigne.

* The poison is drunk in golden cups. Seneca.

* Dangers accumulate as treasures increase. Dr. Johnson.

* You know that the ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were made of gold. Yes Da.

* Good manners are the art of making the people we talk to easy. Whoever bothers the least number of people is the best educated in the company. Fast.

* Good parenting is the result of a lot of common sense, some kindness and a little self-denial, for the good of others and with a view to obtaining the same indulgence from them. Sofa.

* Sin writes history, good is silent. Goethe.

* There is a warp of evil woven into the weft of good. Manilius.

* Don’t be just good; be good for something. Thoreau.

* Each day must be distinguished by at least one particular act of love. Lavater.

* How far that little candle throws its rays! This is how a good deed shines in an evil world. Shakespeare.

* He who does good for good seeks neither praise nor reward, although in the end he is sure of both. William Penn.

* No good book or good thing of any kind shows its best side at first. Carlyle.

* How indestructibly good grows and spreads, even among the entanglements of evil. Carlyle.

* Everything good in a man thrives better when properly recognized. JG Holland.

* A good man is kinder to his enemy than a bad man is to his friends. Bishop Hall.

* As I know humanity more, I expect less of them, and now I am ready to call a good man in easier terms than I was before. Dr. Johnson.

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