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From the loss of our friends teach us how to enjoy and improve those who remain.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worthy the name.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Precept is instruction written in the sand, the tide flows over it and the record is gone. Example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Friends should not be chosen to flatter. The quality we should prize is that rectitude which will shrink from no truth. Intimacies which increase vanity destroy friendship.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arranged in this their natural and fit attire.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. In other words, the same inward principle which teaches the former bears witness to the latter. Duties and rights must stand and fall together.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Whatever high station you may be placed in by fortune, remember this, that God will not estimate you by the office, but by the manner in which you fill it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A true friend embraces our objects as his own. We feel another mind bent on the same end, enjoying it, ensuring it, reflecting it, and delighting in our devotion to it.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail. It is even heightened by sufferings.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A true friend will appear such in leaving us to act according to our intimate conviction,—will cherish this nobleness of sentiment, will never wish to substitute his power for our own.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Knowledge is essential to freedom.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them—we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Peace is the fairest form of happiness.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Friendship heightens all our affections. We receive all the ardor of our friend in addition to our own. The communication of minds gives to each the fervor of each.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Home—the nursery of the Infinite.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)