George Horne: Likeness

George Horne was English churchman, writer and university administrator. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Avoid stories, unless short, pointed, and quite apropos. “He who deals in them,” says Swift, “must either have a very large stock, or a good memory, or must often change his company.” Some have a set of them hung together like onions: they take possession of the conversation by an early introduction of one; and then you must have the whole rope, and there is an end of everything else, perhaps, for that meeting, though you may have heard all twenty times before.”

George Horne

Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, 1880

Memory , Change , Time

“A little, with the blessing of God upon it, is better than a great deal, with the encumbrance of His curse; His blessing can multiply a mite into a talent, but His curse will shrink a talent into a mite; by Him the arms of the wicked are broken, and by Him the righteous are upholden: so that the great question is, whether He be with or against us, and the great misfortune is, that this question is seldom asked. The favour of God is to them that obtain it a better and enduring substance, which, like the widow’s barrel of oil, wasted not in the evil days of famine, nor will fail.”

George Horne

Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne, 1809, p. 220 ; As quoted in Allibone (1880)

God , Question , Evil

“He who seldom thinks of heaven is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.”

George Horne

George Horne, Aphorisms and Opinions of Dr. George Horne http://books.google.com/books?id=lJECAAAAQAAJ 1857, p. 39

Way , Thinking