Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical orderRichardson, John Purver
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Life and Literature: Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,; and classified in alphabetical order
Richardson, John Purver
Quotations
Religion, Costs nothing, does nothing, 1631
Doubt not blessings of, 1632
Good, if good for all days, 1633
Is knowledge of what? 1634
It is rare to see a rich man, 1635
More in walk than talk, 1636
Presents difficulties to whom, 1637
True, when seen is admired, 1638
Repentance, When deferred, lost in judgment, 1639
Not to bewail, but to forsake sin, 1640
Reproof, A gentle, anecdote of Wesley, 1641
Reputation, Man known by his, 1642
Resignation, It is reported of a person, 1643
Rest, All seek it, 1644
A present need, 1645
Is sweet to those who, 1646
It yields a bountiful crop, 1647
The man who goes easiest, 1648
Too much creates rust, 1649
Resolution, Hasty, unsafe, 1650
Irresolute people, etc., 1651
Sleep over, etc., 1652
Rewards, Disinterested, seldom miss, 1653
One knows not for whom he gathers, 1654
Rich, Man is, who is content, 1655
Some miseries of the, 1656
The, poor, if saving for heirs, 1657
The, should be generous, 1658
Very rich men seldom or never, 1659
Who is truly, 1660
Riches, Hard to gather, easy to scatter, 1661
How to learn to use them, 1662
Influence of, 1663
Inseparable from care, 1664
Loss of, changes judgment of men, 1665
Not conducive to labor, 1666
Opposed to generosity and humility, 1667
Serve a wise man, 1668
Strange that the miser strives for, 1669
We see how much a man has, 1670
What are? 1671
Where to find them, 1672
Without frugality none, 1673
Right, When one can do as he pleases, 1674
Rising, Late, effect of, 1675
Road, To wish for anything that is, 1676
Robbery, What is not, 1677
Roof, One, and two winds, 1678
Root, Water and protect the, 1679
Rose, Worth an empire, when, 1680
Royalty, A feather in the cap, 1681
Rudeness, There cannot be a greater, 1682
Rumor, No, wholly dies, once, 1683
Sabbath, Blessing to the poor, 1684
Observance of, freshens the mind, 1685
Peculiarly the poor man's day, 1686
Well spent, prepares for better, 1687
Safety, Better a little in, 1688
Said, More can be, in one minute, 1689
Salt, Where a luxury, 1690
Sand, Name on that of the sea, 1691
School, Emulation in, 1692
His first,--Henry Kirke White, 1693
It has been remarked that, 1694
Scholars, Early trials of, 1695
Scotland, Climate of, etc., 1696
Sea, Love it? 1697
Sweet to look at from land, 1698
Thoughts at, 1699
See, Old people, best in the, 1700
Secret, A thing locked in memory, 1701
A, when safe, 1702
Not a, if known to three, 1703
To keep, shun the inquisitive, 1704
Secrets, Folly to expect others to keep, etc., 1705
Make dungeons of the heart, 1706
Where secrecy or, 1707
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