Many Thoughts of Many Minds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 316 pages of information about Many Thoughts of Many Minds.

Many Thoughts of Many Minds eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 316 pages of information about Many Thoughts of Many Minds.

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time.—­Mason.

No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any.—­Thomas Jefferson.

Make use of time, if thou valuest eternity.  Yesterday cannot be recalled; to-morrow cannot be assured; to-day only is thine, which, if thou procrastinatest, thou losest; which loss is lost forever.—­Jeremy Taylor.

He is a good time-server that improves the present for God’s glory and his own salvation.—­Thomas Fuller.

Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do.  We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.—­Seneca.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.—­Fenelon.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.—­Hawthorne.

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.—­Franklin.

Toleration.—­Let us be very gentle with our neighbors’ failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.  —­Thackeray.

There is nothing to do with men but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.—­Dewey.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.—­Arthur helps.

It requires far more of constraining love of Christ to love our cousins and neighbors as members of the heavenly family than to feel the heart warm to our suffering brethren in Tuscany and Madeira.  —­Elizabeth Charles.

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldst, how canst thou expect to have another in all things to thy liking?—­Thomas A kempis.

The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.—­Beecher.

Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.—­Fenelon.

Has not God borne with you these many years?  Be ye tolerant to others.—­Hosea Ballou.

Travel.—­A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.—­Saadi.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.—­Carlo goldoni.

Railway traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.—­Ruskin.

To roam giddily, and be everywhere but at home, such freedom doth a banishment become.—­Donne.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.—­Dr. Johnson.

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