Quotes about Samuel

The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

ANACEPHALÆOSIS  (ANACEPHALÆO'SIS)   n.s.[   or summary of the principal heads of a discourse.Dict.

It has been, from age to age, an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude, among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner.Spectator,No 264.

He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.

ÆGILOPS  (Æ'GILOPS)   n.s.[Gr. signifying goat-eyed, the goat being subject to this ailment.] A tumour or swelling in the great corner of the eye, by the root of the nose, either with or without an inflammation: also a plant so called, for its supposed virtues

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)