Quote

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

William Rounseville Alger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Rounseville Alger
Hands
Whispers
Gifts
Others

More quotes by William Rounseville Alger

Image
I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Polite beggary is too common.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Keep your working power at its maximum.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Words of love are works of love.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
William Rounseville Alger
Image
Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.
William Rounseville Alger