HOOD, Edwin Paxton Quotes
(1820-1885) English nonconformist clergy
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Evil is wrought by want of thought, as well as by want of heart.
There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy.
Evil is wrought by want of thought as well as by want of heart.
Of all the know-nothing persons in this world, commend us to the man who has "never known a day's illness." He is a moral dunce, one who has lost the greatest lesson of life; who has skipped the finest lecture in that great school of humanity, the sick-chamber.
What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial.
When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.
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