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All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The first duty toward children is to make them happy. If you have not made them happy, you have wronged them; no other good they may get can make up for that.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
If fortune has fairly sat on a man, he takes it for granted that life consists in being sat upon; but to be coddled on Fortune’s knee, and then have his ears boxed,—that is aggravating.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her common sense.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man’s venom poisons himself more than his victim.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Outward things don’t give; they draw out. You find in them what you bring to them. A cathedral makes only the devotional feel devotional; scenery refines only the fine-minded.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Intercourse is the soul of progress.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
No man is too busy to read Shakespeare.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A lovely girl is above all rank.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
You cannot win without sacrifice.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
You would think, if our lips were made of horn and stuck out a foot or two from our faces, kisses at any rate would be done for. Not so. No creatures kiss each other so much as the birds.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A pretty, silly, self-conceited woman will very often be far more courted, and seemingly far more liked and admired, than a woman of infinitely higher charms. All the while the men do not like her a tenth part as well.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him, the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
It is curious to see how a self-willed, haughty girl, who sets her father and mother and all at defiance, and can’t be managed by anybody, at once finds her master in a baby. Her sister’s child will strike the rock and set all her affections flowing.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P., in his pamphlet, "How to Stop Drunkenness," says: "It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised. Not only does this vice produce all kinds of wanton mischief, but it has also a negative effect of great importance. It is the mightiest of all the forces that clog the progress of good. * * * The struggle of the school, the library and the church, all united against the beer-shop and the gin-palace, is but one development of the war between Heaven and hell. It is, in short, intoxication that fills our jails; it is intoxication that fills our lunatic asylums; it is intoxication that fills our work-houses with poor. Were it not for this one cause, pauperism would be nearly extinguished in England."
Attributed T. S. Arthur Grappling with the Monster (1877)