If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. |
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. |
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. |
If we begin with certainties, we will end in doubt. But if we begin with doubts and bear them patiently, we may end in certainty. |
Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. |
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is |
In civil business; what first? Boldness; what second, and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. |
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties. |
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. |
It is impossible to love and to be wise. |
It is natural to die as to be born. |
It is not what men eat but what they digest that makes them strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; not what we preach but what we practice that makes us Christians. |