ThursdaySep 19, 2024
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
The mind wears the colors of the soul, As a valet those of his master.
As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.
If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but By what they are relatively to us.
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. A straw or a feather sustains itself long in the air.
We are rich only through what we give, And poor only through what we refuse.
We are always looking into the future, But we see only the past.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, And the serious part of frivolous ones.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
If we look closely at this world, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is he, who, after All, commands the most fidelity and the most love.
A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy.- The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins All.
In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, And nothing which goes is lost.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
There are times when it would seem as if God fished with a line, and the Devil with a net.
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, But it dries up, too, like a torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation.
Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
There is, by God's grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
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