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Success at first doth many times undo men at last.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)