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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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He is rich that is satisfied.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Topic: Anger
Source: Holy and Profane States--Anger
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Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman,
laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought
to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Holy and Profane States--Apparel
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He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul,
biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a
passage through it.
Topic: Appearance
Source: Life of the Duke of Alva
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Good clothes open all doors.
Topic: Appearance
Source: None
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Blindness Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Topic: Blind
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A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
Topic: Blind
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Topic: Books
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Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God's own work must be done by God's own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Lord, before I commit a sin, it seems to me so shallow that I may wade through it dry-shod from any guiltiness; but when I have committed it, it often seems so deep that I cannot escape without drowning.
Topic: Christianity
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It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him--a happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offenses, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 Sorrow for sin and sorrow for suffering are ofttimes so twisted and interwoven in the same person -- yea, in the same sigh and groan -- that sometimes it is impossible for the party himself so to separate and divide them in his own sense and feeling, as to know which proceeds from the one and which from the other. Only the all-seeing eye of an infinite God is able to discern and distinguish them.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Pride calls me to the window, gluttony to the table, wantonness to the bed, laziness to the chimney-corner; ambition commands me to go upstairs, and covetousness to come down. Vices, I see, are as well contrary to themselves as to virtue. Free me, Lord, from this distracted case; fetch me from being sin's servant to be Thine, whose "service is perfect freedom," for Thou art but one, and ever the same.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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It is to be feared lest our long quarrels about the manner of His presence cause the matter of His absence, for our want of charity to receive Him.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Topic: Christianity
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Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side ;of the face can smile while the other is pinched.
Topic: Class
Source: None
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The noblest revenge is to forgive.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.
Topic: Cliches and One-Liners
Source: None
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
Source: None
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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Topic: Custom
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Debt is the worst poverty.
Topic: Debt
Source: None
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Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into
Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean.
And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine,
which now is dispersed all the world over.
Topic: Doctrine
Source: Church History (sec. II, bk. IV, par. 53), Wickliffe's body was burned and his ashes thrown into the
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Bad excuses are worse than none.
Topic: Excuses
Source: None
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Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Topic: Existence
Source: None
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong.
Topic: Facts
Source: None
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He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
Topic: Failure
Source: Medicina Gymnastica (vol. X, p, 7)
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Debt is the worst poverty.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Gnomolia (no. 4497)
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It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Gnomologia
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Still he fishes that catches one.
Topic: Fishing
Source: Gnomologia (no. 4262)
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Fools grow without watering.
Topic: Flattery
Source: None
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A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their
birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race
of their lives.
Topic: Folly
Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Natural Fools (maxim IV)
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The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the
names of their founders.
Topic: Forgetfulness
Source: Holy and Profane States--Of Tombs (maxim VI)
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It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Topic: Gold
Source: None
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Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Topic: Gossip
Source: None
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He that fears you present will hate you absent.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Topic: Hope
Source: None
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