| Quotes |
Topic |
| Possession | Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of,the air! |
| Printing | He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world, he had invented the Art of printing. |
| Proverbs | Speech is silvern, silence is golden. |
| Proverbs | Be firm or mild as the occasion may require. |
| Proverbs | Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue. |
| Proverbs | Do not expect good from another's death. |
| Proverbs | Don't promise twice what you can do at once. |
| Proverbs | In doing nothing men learn to do evil. |
| Proverbs | Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. |
| Proverbs | We see not our own backs. |
| Proverbs | Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. |
| Reading | If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. |
| Reading | We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. |
| Rebellion | Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. |
| Rebellion | Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. |
| Religion | His religion at best is an anxious wish,,like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. |
| Religion | On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration. |
| Repentance | Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. |
| Resolution | The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. |
| Ridicule | We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." |
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