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Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.
Cupid "the little greatest god."
If you would be pungent, be brief.
There is healing in the bitter cup.
The laws are with us, and God on our side.
By writing much, one learns to write well.
The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.
My name is Death: the last best friend am I.
Cold is thy hopeless heart, even as charity.
Few people give themselves time to be friends.
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.
Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.
There is another world for all that live and move-a better one!
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.
As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon divine, Rolls through the dark blue depths.
The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service.
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me.
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.
They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.
Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.
Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.
Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.
Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.
Some people seem born with a head in which the thin partition that divides great wit from folly is wanting.
Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.
What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.
Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
