416 quotes found
“Courage leads starward fear toward death.”
“Where fear is happiness is not.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“Whom they have injured they also hate.”
“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look up...”
“Failure changes for the better success for the worse.”
“No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.”
“A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.”
“What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.”
“Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor.”
“One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.”
“There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.”
“For greed all nature is too little.”
“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
“Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.”
“No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.”
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
“A hungry people listens not to reason nor cares for justice nor is bent by any prayers.”
“He who decides a case without hearing the other side though he decide justly cannot be considered just.”
