Top 35 Charles Simmons Quotes
#3. If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
Charles Simmons
#4. Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
Charles Simmons
#6. Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
Charles Simmons
#7. Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.
Charles Simmons
#8. Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.
Charles Simmons
#9. Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.
Charles Simmons
#10. Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons
#11. Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
Charles Simmons
#12. Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Charles Simmons
#13. No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
Charles Simmons
#14. For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
Charles Simmons
#15. Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."
Charles Simmons
#17. Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Charles Simmons
#18. Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.
Charles Simmons
#19. Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons
#20. It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
Charles Simmons
#21. There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.
Charles Simmons
#22. A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.
Charles Simmons
#23. Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.
Charles Simmons
#24. The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
Charles Simmons
#25. Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Charles Simmons
#26. Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
Charles Simmons
#27. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
#28. It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Charles Simmons
#29. A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.
Charles Simmons
#30. A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
Charles Simmons
#31. Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
Charles Simmons
#32. When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.
Charles Simmons
#33. Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.
Charles Simmons
#34. When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.
Charles Simmons
#35. Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
Charles Simmons
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top