Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

His laughter. . . sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

Popular Topics
Fitness, Humble, Afternoon, Pregnancy, Life, Love You, World, Adventure, Feeling, Heart, English, Character, Fly, Soccer, Stage, Value Of Life, Stories, Love, Philosophy, Air, Light, Dress, Education, Wonder, Positive, Involve, Alien, Living My Life, Feelings, Thought, Justice, Like, Children, Food, Nice, Peace Love, Movie Love, Dream, Subject, Ideas, Disco, Willing, I Miss You, Inspiration, Drama, Important, Leadership, Good, Difference, Job
John Jortin

The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.

Duties, Duty, Life, Sunbeam, Sunbeams, Written
Same Author Quotes

The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.

Art, Give, Knowledge, Passion, Things, Wise

Prefer not the esteem of men to the approbation of God.

Approbation, Esteem, Men, Prefer

A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

Hoarded, Luxury, Men, Violence, Whence

He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.

Authority, Conducting, Greatness, Hands, Mean, Men
Similar Quotes