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Familar Quotes

MEDITATION:
...Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgement.
Dr. I. Watts
MERCY:
... The quality of mercy is not strain'd:
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd,
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:
"Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this scepter'd sway,
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's.
When mercy seasons justice.

Consider this,-
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.
Shakespeare.
BELIEF
..."Tis witn our judgments as our watches;
none
Are just alike, yet each believes his own.
Pope.

...You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.
Terence.
REASON
...He who will not reason, is a bigot:
he who cannot, is a fool;
and he who dares not, is a slave.
Byron
REFORM
...Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work: kindling every new light by incalculable contagion, spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide, doing good only wherever it spreads, and not evil.
Carlyle.

...He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.
Lavater.

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GOVERNING
...A man must first govern himself ere he be fit to govern a family, and his family ere he fit to bear the government in the commonwealth.
Sir Walter Raleigh
GOVERNMENT
...It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.
Aristotle.

...They that govern most make the least noise. You see, when they row in a barge they that do drudgery work, slash and puff, and sweat, but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and is scarce seen to stir.
Selden.

...We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government.
Franklin
CUNNING AND WISDOM
...We Take cunning for a sinister and crooked wisdom, and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty but in point of ability
Bacon
CONSEQUENCES
...As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them.
Colton
BEHAVIOR
...Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
Seneca

...Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
We seldom repent having eaten too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
Take things always by the smooth handle.
When angry, count ten before you speak:
if very angry, a hundred.
Jefferson
APPEARANCE
...Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough inside.
Mrs. Osgood.

..."Tis not the fairest form that holds
The mildest, purest soul within;
"Tis not the richest plant that holds
The sweetest fragrance in.
Dawes.