Post #2415

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2414

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.
—Plato

Post #2413

Man ought always to have something which he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will appear to him tiresome and void.
—Johann G. Seume

Post #2412

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.
—Joseph Joubert

Post #2411

Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.

—John Greenleaf Whittier

Post #2410

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2409

It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest.
—Sir P. Sidney

Post #2408

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
—Seneca

Post #2407

Kind words are the music of the world.
  —Frederick William Faber

Post #2406

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2405

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
—Hosea Ballou

Post #2404

Time is but a stream I go a fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.
—Henry David Thoreau

Post #2403

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #2402

He who gives advice to a fool, beats the air with a stick.

Post #2401

I cannot abide to see men throw away their tools the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure in their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. The very grindstone 'll go on turning a bit after you loose it.
—George Eliot

Post #2400

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.
—Don Quixote

Post #2399

A lover never sees the faults of the one he loves till the enchantment is over.

Post #2398

Quick resolves are often unsafe.

Post #2397

To call people peculiar is only a polite way of calling them disagreeable.
—W. S. Murphy

Post #2396

Though we should be grateful for good homes, there is no house like God's out-of-doors.
—Robert Louis Stevenson

Post #2395

Indulgence to children breeds ingratitude.