| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. |
| Bible | Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. |
| Blaise Pascal | If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed. |
| Charles Simon Favart | Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. |
| Elizabeth Bibesco | Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into. |
| Homer | Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links Both Goddesses and Gods. |
| James Russell Lowell | The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm f'om floor to ceilin'. |
| Margot Asquith | It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. |
| Matthew Barker | God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself. |
| Ovidius Naso | If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. |
| Plato | By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun. |
| George MacDonald | You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you, and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. |
| John Dryden | He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. |
| Thomas Carlyle | The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
| Thomas Carlyle | Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well, for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation. |
| Unattributed Author | Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul. |
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