Dr. Bob Jones Sr. Quotes

"Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate."

"The test of your character is what it takes to stop you."

"You can do anything you ought to do."

"It is one thing to know there is a God; it's another thing to know the God that is."

"What you love and what you hate reveal what you are."

"Do not ask God to give you a light burden; ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden."

From http://strader.cehd.tamu.edu/BobJonesQuotes.php

George MacDonald Quotes

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

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Lewis Carroll Quotes

I love Lewis Carroll. The world needs imaginative people who can be fun, clean, deep, and odd. :)




Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

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Longfellow Quotes

Here are some quotes from dear Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

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