| Quotes |
Topic |
| Christianity | Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it. |
| Christianity | Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool. |
| Class | 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. |
| Cliches and One Liners | The noblest revenge is to forgive. |
| Cliches and One Liners | A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools. |
| Science | It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. |
| Custom | Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. |
| Debt | Debt is the worst poverty. |
| Doctrine | Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over. |
| Excuses | Bad excuses are worse than none. |
| Existence | 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. |
| Facts | Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong. |
| Failure | He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind, That hopes for constant love of woman kind. |
| Finance and Economics | Debt is the worst poverty. |
| Finance and Economics | If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. |
| Fishing | The end of fishing is not angling, but catching. |
| Fishing | It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. |
| Fishing | Still he fishes that catches one. |
| Flattery | Fools grow without watering. |
| Folly | A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place--their birth, and at the post--their death; only they differ in the race of their lives. |
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