Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Quote by George Herbert

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Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Calmness is always Godlike

Calmness is always Godlike

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines...

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines...

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.

Spend not on hopes.

Spend not on hopes.

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one...

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one...

O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful...

O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful...

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

One enemy is too much.

One enemy is too much.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and...

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and...

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The eyes have one language everywhere.

The shortest answer is doing.

The shortest answer is doing.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right...