John Smith Quotes

#1. To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead ... seek God within your own soul.

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#2. The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

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#3. You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sicknesse he be disabled for the labours of thirtie or fortie honest and industrious men shall not be consumed to maintaine an hundred and fiftie idle loyterers.

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#4. I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.

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#5. Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, furs, or love.

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#6. There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

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#7. Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

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#8. The opportunity to serve our country - that is all we ask.

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#9. Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

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#10. With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world

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#11. Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

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#12. The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

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#13. But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy ...

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#14. The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

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#15. Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land ... If he have nothing but his hands, he may ... by industrie quickly grow rich.

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#16. How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

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#17. Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints ...

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#18. He who does not work, will not eat

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#19. History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

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#20. Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

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#21. Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

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#22. Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart ... and that's saying something!

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#23. As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

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#24. 30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

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#25. The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

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