Orville Dewey Quotes & Sayings

#1. Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.

Orville Dewey

#2. Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

Orville Dewey

#3. Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

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#4. How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!

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#5. There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Orville Dewey

#6. Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Orville Dewey

#7. God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.

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#8. The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

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#9. The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

Orville Dewey

#10. We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

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#11. The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

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#12. Godliness is practical religion.

Orville Dewey

#13. The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever.

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#14. A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses
vanishing away of things
are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Orville Dewey