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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
“Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.”
“It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.”
“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.”
“Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.”
“Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.”
“The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
“Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.”
“Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.”
“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.”
“We ask advice, but we mean approbation.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.”
“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”
“When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.”
“He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.”
“Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.”
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.”