A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
Francis J. Grimke
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SOURCE UNKNOWN It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
G. K. CHESTERTON It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
G.K. CHESTERTON It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
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JANIS SERRANO The test of a mans character is not the mistakes he makes but the way he responds to them.
WILLIAM MOYERS A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.
OLIVER THOMAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... If you want to know what a mans like,see how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.''-Sirius black...
J.K. ROWLING A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT A person's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how t...
JAMES MOFFATT Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI That?s a pretty close vote as it is, ... I?d like to have a little more in my pocketbook in case som...
KATE BROWN For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books.
ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th...
APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms...
EULA BISS Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
TED TURNER Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY It's not a pocketbook issue for the American consumer. We're already applying pretty low tariffs to ...
ALAN WOLFF Especially when a person is deceased, you want to remember all the good things. The two fears of wri...
ED WILKS I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.
SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want...
SARAH J. MAAS In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS The year in school of a student is another factor that affects how an instructor interacts with his ...
CATHERINE ASARO Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS A forage test will tell you how good the hay is and how much you can afford to pay for it.
GARY NAYLOR Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM . . . unless there comes to the Nation a greater emancipation than Lincoln's Proclamation effected, ...
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never fail...
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
FRANCIS J. GRIMKE I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an...
ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�...
مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer rea...
ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
GEORGE HERBERT A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN The test of mans determination to leave a legacy behind, a fraction of his vision and thought, to di...
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
HENRY BLOCK I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. Kindness can thrive even amongst cruelty.
SARAH J. MAAS I wonder if some part of me knew what was waiting for me. That I would never be a gentle grower of t...
SARAH J. MAAS ...I'm not sure I can give my entire heart to him that way. And... and I love him enough to want him...
SARAH J. MAAS When do you come home to me?
SARAH J. MAAS Never thought I’d intentionally sleep on a bathromm floor next to a toilet while sober, but I mean...
J.A. REDMERSKI If you're lucky, in some point in the future when you're in need of guidance or perhaps moral suppor...
MICHAEL J. FOX If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE It is a pretty stern test, ... You have to keep it down the middle because of the rough.
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LAURA STROMBERG For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a ma...
SIR EDWARD COKE Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN How we practice affects our playing time, and I felt like I had a really good week of practice.
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ANGELINA GRIMKE We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a gre...
ANGELINA GRIMKE The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or eccl...
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ANGELINA GRIMKE We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
ANGELINA GRIMKE If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course...
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FRANCIS J. BECKWITH Focusing on the public school system, former Secretary of Education, William Bennett explains the mo...
FRANCIS J. BECKWITH Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
CHARLOTTE FORTEN GRIMKE Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.
SARAH MOORE GRIMKE I ask no favors for my sex... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off o...
SARAH MOORE GRIMKE Whereas the well-functioning executive encourages the best in brains and skills, the one who is para...
DR. FRANCIS J. BRACELAND The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
DR. FRANCIS J. BRACELAND If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate m...
CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN GRIMKE Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
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