Nicholas Ling quotes

“Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.”
-- Nicholas Ling

Source : Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53

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“Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.”
-- Nicholas Ling

Source : Jonathan BROOKS (Quaker, of Bristol.), Nicholas LING (1773). “Antiquity; or the Wise instructer. Being a collection of ... admonitions and sentences compendiously put together from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, etc. The editor's dedication signed: Jonathan Brooks. A reprint, with minor alterations, of N. Ling's “Politeuphuia. Wits Commonwealth.””, p.197

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“Ignorance is...voluntary... (Paraphrased)”
-- Nicholas Ling

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“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”

“It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.”

Source : Joel Henry Hildebrand (1985). “Science in the Making”, Praeger Pub Text

“There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.”

“A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.”

“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.43, A&C Black

“It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.”

“But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ...”

Source : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”

“Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.”

“Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.”