Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas FullerRead
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Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
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.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
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