Thomas Sprat Quotes

#1. Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious.

Thomas Sprat

#2. It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations.

Thomas Sprat

#3. All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

Thomas Sprat

#4. Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

Thomas Sprat

#5. Magic is desire made real.

Deborah Harkness

#6. Why would you want to be free of your destiny? Nothing else will satisfy. As for freedom, that's a matter of the heart. Pursue your destiny, and you'll find your freedom along the way.

Karyn Henley

#7. I 'aint a killer but don't push me.

Lil' Wayne

#8. Are we not to pity and supply the poor, though they have no relation to us? No relation? That cannot be. The Gospel styles them all our brethren.

Thomas Sprat

#9. As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up ... We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

Billy Graham

#10. A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Thomas Sprat

#11. In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.

Thomas Sprat

#12. The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Vernon Howard

#13. What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Thomas Sprat

#14. I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

Sam Shepard

#15. Greediness of getting more deprives ... the enjoyment of what it had got.

Thomas Sprat

#16. Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.

Thomas Sprat

#17. It wasn't until I'd turned 50 and had been in the business 25 years that I realized I might actually have a career as an actor.

James Garner

#18. Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi