* Let us have faith that the right is force, and in that faith let us dare to fulfill our duty as we understand it. lincoln
* Express rights of actions what rectitude makes of lines; and there can be no two kinds of right action any more than there can be two kinds of straight lines. Herbert Spencer.
*I can’t see anything very noble in a man who is always demanding his own rights. Poor me! Poor me! for the man who feels nothing greater in this wonderful divine world than his own rights. Frederick W. Robertson.
*The river knows the way to the sea:/Without a pilot it runs and falls,/Blessing all the lands with its charity. Emerson.
* The grudge and bad nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life. Dr Johnson.
* Nothing is sillier than the pleasure some people find in “speaking their minds.” Such a man will swear rudely for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite conduct, as full as it was innocent, might have preserved his friend or made his fortune. Steele.
* Rumor is the food of gossip. Anthony Brett.
* Every word dies a reputation. Dad.
*The rumor is like bees; the more you fight them, the less you get rid of them. H.W. Shaw.
*Rumor is a homeless drifter and lives on what he can pick up. H.W. Shaw. (Rumor is a vulture at heart.)
*The rumor, once started, rushes like a river, until it mixes and is lost in the sea. Rivarol.
*Enemies carry a report in a form quite different from the original. Plautus.
* Nine-tenths of the world entertains itself with outrageous rumours, which are never dissected until they are dead, and when appraised, collapse like an empty bladder. Horace Greenley.
*Humor is like the pipe blown by conjecture, jealousy, conjecture, and from a stop so easy and so clear that the blunt monster with countless heads, the crowd still discordant and wavering, can play with it. Shakespeare.
* He who easily believes in rumors has the principle within him to increase rumors. It is strange to see the voracious appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fixate on the sides of the innocent and unfortunate. Jane Porter.
*The Sabbath is the savings bank of humanity. Frederick Saunders.
* The basis of all great thoughts is sadness. Exterior wall.
*They praise my whisper show, and never see my heart break for a little love. Cristina G. Rossetti.
* Believe me, the saddest thing under heaven is a soul incapable of sadness. Madame de Gasparin.
* Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you will create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Sir Walter Scott.
*It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or so it is thought, confuse suffering with holiness, and think that a sad face and a gloomy habit are auspicious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light, brightness and harmony. and beauty Mrs. Morgana.
*Nothing can stop you from being a Christian but your own worldly, selfish, proud, stubborn, unworthy, self-righteous heart. Ichabod Spencer.
*If Satan chains us, he does not care if it is with a cable or with a hair; what’s more, perhaps the smallest sins are his greatest ploys. (Strategic Gems! SOS: The Little Foxes!)
* All surfing is the father of a lot of fast. Shakespeare.
* But your words, imbued with divine grace, bring no satiety to their sweetness. Milton.
* The longest absence is less dangerous for love than the terrible tests of incessant proximity. Yes Dad
*The flower that we do not pluck is the only one that never loses its beauty or its fragrance. WR Algiers.
* Remorse must follow the fruition of the illicit. The heart sticks in the throat after eating the apple, and the sated appetite detests the forbidden pleasure for which innocence was exchanged. Jane Porter. (The core of the stolen apple chokes us to spiritual death!)
* The most voluptuous and free of breath, if he were tied to follow every day his hawks and his dogs, his dice and his courtships, would find in it the greatest torment and calamity that could befall him; he would fly to the mines and galleys for his recreation. South.
*No sword bites as fiercely as an evil tongue. Sir P. Sidney.
*The empty container makes the most sound. Shakespeare.
*Satirists expose their own sick nature. Dr. Watts.
* In the current state of the world it’s hard not to write satire. youthful. Ha!
*The feathered arrow of satire has often been drenched in the heartblood of its victims. Disraeli.
*In my youth I thought of writing a satire on humanity! but now at my age i think i should write an apology for them. Horace Walpole.
*Satires and satires, which are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable. Addison.
*The truth is beyond the reach of satire. There is in her a courageous simplicity that cannot be ridiculed more than an oak or a pine. Lowell.
*For a presumptuous young poet, the disposition to write satire is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. He tempts him to personalities, who are not always forgiven after having repented and been ashamed of them. South.
*Satirical writers and speakers are not half as intelligent as they themselves think, or what they are thought to be. They winnow the grain, it is true, but it is to feed on the straw… Those who speak ill of others are also very prone to harm them. Talent and some generosity are required to discover talent and generosity in others, though it takes nothing more than vanity and malice to discover or imagine flaws. It is much easier for a bad-tempered man than for a good-tempered man to be clever and witty. Rev. Dr Sharpe.
*The main characteristic of the wild state is its rejection or avoidance of the industry. Brisbane.
* Man is neither by birth nor by disposition a savage, nor of antisocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Plutarch.
* Believing that false story that shouldn’t be true. Sheridan.
*On the wings of the eagle immortal scandals fly, while the actions of virtue are only born and die. Stephen Harvey. * You, the main followers of the school of scandal, who rant by precept and distort by rule! Sheridan.
* No particular scandal can be touched, but it confuses the one who breathes. Shakespeare.
*A cruel story runs on wheels and each hand greases the wheels as they run. Yes Dad
*Convey a slander in a frown and wink at a reputation. Fast.
*Scandal, like a reptile, crawling on bright grass, leaves a trail and a stain. Cunningham.
*Scandal is what half the world is pleased to invent, and the other half to believe. Chatfield.
*I never listen to slander, because if they are false I run the risk of being deceived, and if they are true, of hating people who are not worth thinking about. Montesquieu.
* The slander that hurts the back hits the whitest virtue; What king so strong can bind the bile in the slanderous tongue? Shakespeare.
* It is a certain sign of a sick heart to be inclined to slander. Steele.
*There is a group of malicious, talkative, prudent gossips, both men and women, who assassinate characters to kill time; and will rob a young man of his good name before he is years old to know its worth. Sheridan.
*Queen Mary had a way of interrupting gossip about elopements, dueling, and gambling debts, by asking the gossipers, in a very low but meaningful voice, if they had ever read her favorite sermon: Dr. Tillotson on bad talking. Macauley.
* Malice can empty its quiver, but it cannot hurt; Dirt won’t stick, jokes won’t take away. Without the consent of the world, a scandal does not deepen; it is only a light blow on the wounded part, and it returns with greater force on those who gave it. his city
* It is the men of faith, not the skeptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it. singing
*I will listen to anyone’s convictions; but please keep your doubts to yourself. Goethe.
* I know of no crime so great that a man could devise to commit as the poisoning of the fountains of eternal truth. Dr Johnson.
*Skepticism has never founded empires, established principles or changed the heart of the world. The great makers of history have always been men of faith. Chapin.
*In the true writer there is always, recognized or not by the world, a sacredness; he is the light of the world: the priest of the world, guiding it, like a sacred pillar of fire, on his dark pilgrimage through the loss of time. carlyle.
* The scholar’s mind, if he wants it big and liberal, must come into contact with other minds. It’s better for his armor to be a little bruised from rough encounters, even, than hanging forever rusted on the wall. Long boy.
*A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who simply depends on an infinite and electric power of combination; gathering from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what were most dust from the bones of dead men, in the unity of breathing life. De Quincey.
* However, he is gentle, he was never schooled and yet he learned. Shakespeare. (What a description of Jesus!)
* Well digested science is nothing more than good sense and reason. Stanislaus.
*Science is concerned with the later end of things, not the later end. Chas. H. Parkhurst.
* It is true that a serious attention to science and the liberal arts softens and humanizes the temperament, and caresses those beautiful emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It seldom, very seldom happens that a man of good taste and learning is not at least an honest man, whatever may be the accompanying weaknesses. Hume.
No man was ever rebuked for his sins. cowboy.
* The most that severity can do is make men hypocrites; you can never convert them. Dr John Moore.
*The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morality, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God. Daniel Webster.
*The majesty of the Scriptures fills me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. Rousseau.
*The devil can quote scriptures for his purpose. An evil soul that produces a holy testimony is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shakespeare.
* From where in heaven could men inexperienced in the arts, in various parts, weave such concordant truths? Dryden.
*We consider the Scriptures of God as the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. Isaac Newton.
*O pity the man who cannot find in [the Bible] a rich source of thought and rule of conduct. Daniel Webster.
*No man, I fear, can effect great benefits for his country without some sacrifice of the lesser virtues. Sydney Smith.
*Our seasons have no fixed returns,/Without our will they come and go;/At noon our sudden summer burns,/Before sunset all is snow. Lowell.
* The secret is the chastity of friendship. Jeremy Taylor.
* The fire that is closest burns what burns the most. Shakespeare.
*Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin.
* Keeping your secret is wisdom; but expecting others to save it is folly. Holmes.
*Who will be faithful to us, when we are so few secrets to ourselves? Shakespeare.
*The secret is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. carlyle.