It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach,… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. — James Sharp Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
