Quotes
Quotes about Sin
Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing,
Hope, and comfort from above;
Let us each, thy peace possessing,
Triumph in redeeming love.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
I saw two clouds at morning
Tinged by the rising sun,
And in the dawn they floated on
And mingled into one.
Nose, nose, nose, nose!
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves,
And that gave me my jolly red nose.
Note 13.Robert Stephen Hawker incorporated these lines into "The Song of the Western Men," written by him in 1825. It was praised by Sir Walter Scott and Macaulay under the impression that it was the ancient song. It has been a popular proverb throughout Cornwall ever since the imprisonment by James II. of the seven bishops,--one of them Sir Jonathan Trelawny.
Note 21.This poem entire may be found in Rossiter Johnson's "Famous Single and Fugitive Poems."
A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.
Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth.
If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.
Even a single hair casts its shadow.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Come of it what may, as Sinon said.
It was a custom with Apelles, to which he most tenaciously adhered, never to let any day pass, however busy he might be, without exercising himself by tracing some outline or other,--a practice which has now passed into a proverb. It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the view of the passers-by in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the picture, would listen to the criticisms.... Under these circumstances, they say that he was censured by a shoemaker for having represented the shoes with one latchet too few. The next day, the shoemaker, quite proud at seeing the former error corrected, thanks to his advice, began to criticise the leg; upon which Apelles, full of indignation, popped his head out and reminded him that a shoemaker should give no opinion beyond the shoes, --a piece of advice which has equally passed into a proverbial saying.
He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.
Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun.
Using the proverb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dangerous and bold attempts, "The die is cast," he took the river.
To sing the same tune, as the saying is, is in everything cloying and offensive; but men are generally pleased with variety.
Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!"
Diogenes the Cynic, when a little before his death he fell into a slumber, and his physician rousing him out of it asked him whether anything ailed him, wisely answered, "Nothing, sir; only one brother anticipates another,--Sleep before Death."
Anacharsis said a man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible favours and blessings of Fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises.
Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
