Quotes #8

*A good man doubles the duration of his existence; to have lived to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. Martial.

* A good deed is never lost, the one who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and the one who sows kindness reaps love. Basil.

*This is a test of a well trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and sadden in the opposite. Pica.

*He who does good to another man, also does good to himself, not only in consequence, but in the very act of doing it; because the awareness of doing good is a rich reward. Seneca.

* Kindness and love mold the shape in its own image and make the joy and beauty of love shine on every part of the face. Swedenborg.

* While the tenderness of feelings and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, kindness is an achievement of the will and a quality of life. Lowell.

*In the heraldry of heaven, goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The humble and charming can often do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted. Bishop Horne.

*There are people whose good qualities shine brighter in the dark, like the ray of a diamond; but there are others whose virtues are only manifested with light, like the colors of silk. Justin McCarthy.

* Goodness conditions utility. A dirty hand can do an act of grace, but a bad heart cannot. Maltbie Babcock.

* The true disciple should aspire to live for the gospel, instead of dying for it. Saadi.

* I will not say that it is not Christian to make accounts with the faults of others, and count them every day; I say it’s hellish. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you know, if you’re one of them. Beecher.

*I take it as an indisputable thing that if everyone knew what each one says about the other, there wouldn’t be four friends in the world. This seems proven by the fights and disputes caused by the disclosures that are occasionally made. Pascal.

* Gossip is always a personal confession, whether of malice or imbecility, and young people must not only avoid it, but through the most complete culture they must free themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It’s a low, frivolous, and all too often dirty business. There are country neighborhoods where it devastates like a plague. The churches are torn to pieces for it. Neighbors become enemies for life. In many people it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young men heal him while they can. JG Holland.

*The government has been a fossil; It must be an Emerson plant.

*If I wanted to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. Frederick the Great. (say oh!)

*The manners of women are the surest criterion for determining whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not. John Adams.

*The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and illuminates the entire bodily presence. Spurgeon.

* Gratitude is the melody of angels. Spenser.

*A single thought of thanks to heaven is the most perfect prayer. Washed.

* He who appreciates little enjoys a lot. A grateful mind is a great mind. Secker.

*Those who make us happy are always grateful to us for being so. Your gratitude is the reward of your own benefits. Mrs. Swechin.

* There is as much greatness of spirit in recognizing a good action as in doing it. Seneca.

*Look at all of creation and you will see that the band, or cement, that holds all the parts of this great and glorious fabric together is gratitude. South.

* There is no more pleasant mental exercise than gratitude. It is accompanied by such internal satisfaction that duty is sufficiently rewarded for performance. Addison.

* Don’t let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Don’t let a hard spot here and there on the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a light-hearted and joyous sense of God’s abundant bounties in your daily life. Alexander Maclaren.

* It is a very high mind for which gratitude is not a painful feeling. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, even to request, favours, than to grant them; because the vanity of the debtor is always flattered, rarely that of the debtor. Bulwer-Lytton.

*Among the many acts of gratitude that we owe to God, one can count as one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of his work of creation. Each new discovery must necessarily awaken in us a new sense of God’s greatness, wisdom, and power. Jonathan Edwards.

*How grateful we are, how touched is a frank and generous heart by a kind word extended to us in our pain! Thackeray.

* Thus love is the easiest and most pleasant, and gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. We never reflect on the man we love without rejoicing in our choice, while he who has bound us to him only for profit rises to our minds as a person to whom we have in some measure lost our freedom. Goldsmith.

*If gratitude, when exercised towards another, naturally produces a very pleasant sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul in ecstasy when it is used in this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already have. we have. we possess, and from whom we expect all that we still expect. Addison.

* The most useful is the greatest. Theodore Parker.

*The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Henry Taylor.

*In a great soul everything is great. Pascal.

* A great man is made for others. Thomas Wilson.

*Not always everything good is good, but everything good is great. Demosthenes.

* Great souls attract pain like mountains attract storms. Richter.

* Nothing is simpler than greatness; in fact, to be simple is to be great. Emerson.

*No sadder proof can a man give of his own smallness than disbelief in great men. carlyle.

* Great men are seldom isolated mountaintops; They are the summits of the mountain ranges. T. W. Higginson.

* Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is above them: only small and bad souls are different. carlyle.

* Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the correct use of force. Beecher.

* It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. Beecher.

*The great man is the servant of humanity, not they of him. Theodore Parker.

*A solemn and religious consideration of spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. Daniel Webster.

* That man lives greatly, whatever his fate or fame, who dies greatly. Young man.

*Great men are those who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. Emerson.

*There has never yet been a truly great man who was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin.

*Great men do not make us happy. It is their loneliness, not their strength, that makes them conspicuous. Emerson.

*Greatness is not something that can be taught or earned, but the expression of the mind of a great man created by God. Ruskin.

*A great man, I suppose, is a man so inspired and imbued with the ideas of God and the spirit of Christ that he is too high-minded for revenge and too selfless to seek his own ends. David Thomas.

*Avoid greatness; more royal happiness can be found in a hut than is enjoyed by kings or their favorites in palaces. Horace.

* Great skills, when used as God commands, do nothing but make their owners bigger and more painful servants to their neighbors. Fast.

*The truly strong and healthy mind is the mind that can encompass big and small things alike. I would like a man who is big in big things and elegant in small things. Johnson.

* Truly great is he who is great in charity. He who is small in himself is truly great, and does not take into account any height of honor. And he is truly learned who does the will of God, and leaves his own. Thomas of Kempis.

*No man has reached true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, he gives to humanity. Phillips Brooks.

*It seems to be one of the laws of nature that the powerful of the intellect must be persecuted and criticized by the small, as the solitary flight of a great bird is followed by the petulant chirping of many smaller ones. Landor. (Say oh!.)

*The truly great consider, first, how they can obtain the approval of God, and, second, that of their own consciences; this done, they would gladly reconcile the good opinion of their fellow men. Colton.

* The great ones make us feel, above all, the indifference of circumstances. They activate the higher perceptions and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only low habits need palaces and banquets. Emerson.

* It is only big of heart who floods the world with great affection. Only one who shakes the world with great thoughts is great in mind. It is only great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career. And it is older who does more of all these things and does them better. Roswell D. Hitchcock.

*The great men of the earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their imperishable thoughts. Living thus, though their footsteps are no longer heard, their voices are louder than thunder, and ceaseless as the flow of the tides of the air. Beecher.

* Only he who does great things, or teaches how they can be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done, is worthy of the name; but great things are only those which tend to make life happier, which increase the innocent enjoyment and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a more permanent and purer state of future bliss. Milton.

*The greatest man is the one who chooses the right with invincible resolve, the one who resists the most painful temptations from within and without, the one who cheerfully carries the heaviest loads, the calmest in storms and the most fearless under threats and the frown, whose confidence in truth, in virtue, in God, is the most unshakable. I think this greatness is more common among the crowd, whose names are never heard. singing

*A great man is a gift, to some extent a revelation from God. A great man, who lives for high purposes, is the divine that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of the story derive chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. In fact, without these, there would be no history, and the progress of a nation would be hardly worth recording, like the march of a trading caravan across the desert. George S. Hillard.