Richard Cecil Quotes

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good,…
• The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
• God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
• Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
• The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His…
• If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my…
• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
• The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
• There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
• The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose…
• Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality

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