The ancients dreaded death the Christian can only fear dying.
The ancients dreaded death the Christian can only fear dying.
Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in ones horse as he is leaping.
Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
If you and your lips would keep from slips Of five things have a care To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Man without religion is the creature of circumstance.
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.
The real gentleman is one who is gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself in carriage, temper, constructions, aims, desires. He is mild, calm, quiet, even temperate not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not overbearing, not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive.
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, andaudience into the bargain.
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.
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