Such forwardness is not resolution, but
rashness; nor is it the fruit of a well-ordered faith, but an
overdaring presumption.--KING.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.
--POPE.
God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many
formal prayers.--WILLIAM PENN.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.--MATTHEW 26:41.
THOUGHT.--Thought is the first faculty of man; to express it is one of
his first desires; to spread it, his dearest privilege.--ABBE RAYNAL.
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have
usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.--COLTON.
Our brains are seventy year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up
once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands
of the Angel of the Resurrection.--HOLMES.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
--WORDSWORTH.
In matters of conscience first thoughts are best, in matters of
prudence last thoughts are best.--ROBERT HALL.
Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not
think.--BUFFON.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes
heroes.--DISRAELI.
Thinking leads man to knowledge.
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