Joseph Jekyll famous quotes

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay.
-- Joseph Jekyll

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Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

Mutability is written upon all things.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.