God made a
million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed
and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of
little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because
you are neither a hero nor a saint.--BEECHER.
WANT.--How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!--LAVATER.
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do;
therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real
wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he
does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.--COLTON.
Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied
with everything that nature can command, than we sit down to contrive
artificial appetites.--DR. JOHNSON.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known
waste.--SPURGEON.
Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.--THOMAS A
KEMPIS.
Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts
not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.--MANILIUS.
If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer
that it was in some place where there was no other just man.
--ST. CLEMENT.
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants
are chiefly derived.--FIELDING.
WAR.--War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice
and love; and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus
Christ.
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