Roger Chamberlain quotes
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“Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.”
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“It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.”
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“When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.”
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“A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.”
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“Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.”
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“He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.”
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“There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.”
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“Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.”
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Source : Source: www.soultracks.com
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
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“We must use what we have to invent what we desire.”
Source : Adrienne Rich (2003). “What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company