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

Quote by George Herbert

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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.

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...

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

The shortest answer is doing.

The shortest answer is doing.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no...

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no...

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings

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.

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he...

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought...