 Command thy servant advisably with few plain words, fully, freely, and positively, with a grave countenance, and settled carriage: These will procure obedience, gain respect, and maintain authority. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| A good marksman may miss. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| All things are difficult before they are easy. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| Better hazard once than always be in fear. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| He that would have fruit must climb the tree. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| To persevere in one's duty, and be silent, is the best answer to calumny. Author: Richard Cecil |
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| The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. Author: Robert Leighton |
| The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
| Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. Author: Samuel Rutherford |
| A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
| Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself. Author: Thomas a Kempis |
