Leaves The 99 Quotes & Sayings

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends. — Publilius Syrus

Blessed be the name of the Lord, the disease is not incurable; the Savior's precious blood is the universal remedy, and — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings. — Karl Philipp Moritz

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is already inclined to do so. Secondly, when a man lays his case before you, the idea that he is asking your advice is a polite fabrication. He merely is suggesting that he is doing so, while as a fact his real object is to acquaint you with his personal activity. He wants to talk to somebody, being a natural gossip or gadder, and he plays upon your propensity for "giving advice" in order to get an audience. — William H. McMaster

When words are most empty, tears are most apt. — Max Lucado

Without free will, sinners and criminals would be nothing more than poorly calibrated clockwork, — Sam Harris

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good
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considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again. — Abraham Lincoln

Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas. — Michael J. Cohen

Still, if there was anything, it came about by no one else's power save the divine will. Everything is from God. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky