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Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age
and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich.—Lavater.
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.—Horace Mann.
Affection.—A loving heart is the truest wisdom.—Dickens.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.—Colossians 3:2.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained love will die at the roots.—Hawthorne.
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Affection is a garden, and without it there would not be a verdant spot on the surface of the globe.
Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.—Beecher.
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.—Willis.
Affliction.—God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.—T.L. Cuyler.
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.—Phillips Brooks.
Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they are the very ones he needs.—Richter.
Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.—George Macdonald.
No spicy fragrance where they grow;
But crushed and trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
—Goldsmith.
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.
Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.—Matthew Henry.
If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.—Burgh.
Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.—Job 5:7.
Where patience, honor, sweet humanity,
Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.
—Mallet and Thomson.
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
—Burns.
With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul, the chaff from the corn.—Molinos.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.—Hebrews 12:11.
Age.—No wise man ever wished to be younger.—Swift.
I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.—Longfellow.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.—Goethe.
That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.—Cicero.
We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age; for old age brings with it its own defects.—Goethe.
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill;
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.
—Pope.
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.—James A. Garfield.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.—Victor Hugo.
Remember that some of the brightest drops in the chalice of life may still remain for us in old age. The last draught which a kind Providence gives us to drink, though near the bottom of the cup, may, as is said of the draught of the Roman of old, have at the very bottom, instead of dregs, most costly pearls.—W.A. Newman.
Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.—Shakespeare.
Few people know how to be old.—La Rochefoucauld.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.—Swift.
The defects of the mind, like those of the countenance, increase with age.—La Rochefoucauld.
He who would pass the declining years of his life with honor and comfort, should when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.—Addison.
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age rob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us.—Richter.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.—H.W. Shaw.
Ambition.—Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.—Longfellow.
The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow;
He who surpasses or subdues mankind,
Must look down on the hate of those below.
—Southey.