Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1159.
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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Learning hash gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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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.
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Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
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Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.
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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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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.
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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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