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“Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good. The unconcious acknowledgement of the superiority or excellence of others.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 108.

“Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 20.

“The desires and longings of man are vast as eternity, and they point him to it.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 29.

“Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your household.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 464.

“Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 3.

“True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 236.

“Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 115.

“We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 83.

“Sense, brevity and point are the elements of a good proverb.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 452.

“Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 416.

“The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 550.

“The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 134.

“Fables, like parables, are more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 162.

“The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 438.

“The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 152.

“Whatever the place allocated us by providence, that is for us the post of honor and duty. – God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 545; also reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 203.

“Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 88.

“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 68.

“Some men are born old, and some never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful we are always young, and at last die in youth, even when years would count us old.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 385.

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”

Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 212.