"There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor."

-- Owen Feltham

#Lying Quotes #Men Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I love Vice President Biden, let's make this clear. But we do need somebody that is going to reconnect with the heart and soul of everyday Americans in this country. The Democrats failed on that. And we can place blame on everybody else that we want to. But the bottom line is you can both love this party and critique this party.”
“Political power without economic power is sterile.”
“Increasingly, America is biblically illiterate.”
“I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?”
“What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.”
“If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it receives it, but a reservoir waits until it is filled before overflowing, and thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.”
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we donâ€™t truly understand.”
“People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.”

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