Matthew Henry Quotes, Men Quotes, Dying Quotes

You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men — this is mine: That a life spent in the service of God, and communion with him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that one can live in the present world.

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I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

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If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

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No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

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Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

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Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

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Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff.

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What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

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A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.

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Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living

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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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With monuments as with men, position means everything.

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Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

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