Quotations
Contentment is natural wealth,
luxury is artificial poverty.
--Socrates
It is right to be contented with what we have, never
with what we are.
--James Mackintosh
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under
his feet.
--James Oppenheim
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
--Austin O'Malley
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
--Burton Hills
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
--Henry David Thoreau
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
--Samuel Johnson
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others,lives
unblest.
--Henry Home
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
--German Proverb
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
--Erich Fromm
What we frankly give, forever is our own.
--George Granville
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
--Acts, 20:35
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
--Victor Hugo
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of
heart trouble.
--Bob Hope
Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity,
I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
--I Corinthians 13:1-3
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right
as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.
--Abraham Lincoln
.... I see no fault committed that I myself could not have
committed at some time or other.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No man has a right in America to treat any other man
"tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. Our
liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
--Wendell L. Willkie
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
--Henry Ward Beecher
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price
is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
--John Burroughs
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no
more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
--John Bunyan
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy
labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
--Francis Quarles
We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
--Johann von Schiller
The truth is more important than the facts.
--Frank Lloyd Wright
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error
dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
--William Cullen Bryant
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
--Winston Churchill
Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
--Mary Baker Eddy
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is
Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
--Charles Caleb Colton
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
--Jeremy Taylor
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