David Eugene Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result.
A divided heart loses both worlds.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.
Great masters merit emulation, not worship.
I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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