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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6742fde | The teaching of axioms should come after conveying the theory in a looser version. | Ivor Grattan-Guinness | ||
| 26fe59f | Walls must get the weather stainBefore they grow the ivy. | Ivy | ||
| 89ed8b2 | As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone,And hides the ruin that it feeds upon. | Ivy | ||
| 22ac034 | Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken vine,The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join | Ivy | ||
| 06dfab7 | Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd | Ivy | ||
| 2b68814 | The great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon. | Izaak Walton | ||
| d7229d9 | God has two dwellings -- one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 4ed1879 | I have laid aside business, and gone a-fishing. | Izaak Walton | ||
| c1b2006 | As the Italians say, Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 26e4f0e | I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle. | Izaak Walton | ||
| ae41b3c | It [angling] deserves commendations;... it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 8878d59 | Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 473c4f9 | Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. | Izaak Walton | ||
| b5a9e54 | I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 9f08054 | No man can lose what he never had. | Izaak Walton | ||
| 597c7ae | Cited in Shui Wakashu (c. 1005). | Izumi Shikibu | ||
| 121ef82 | Until the lion learns to write tales of hunting, we'll always glorify the hunter | J Nozipo Mararire | ||
| 1151896 | On what a slippery slope ...international morality reposes. | J. A. Hobson | ||
| e4a007a | The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate. | J. B. Priestley | ||
| af1aa1c | Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. | J. B. Priestley | ||
| ea49632 | A man can afford to let himself go in a hen-house. | J. B. Priestley | ||
| 74fd6f0 | Your mother knows no more about organization than a -- a prize rabbit. | J. B. Priestley | ||
| af28073 | Fifty years ago I seemed to myself older than other people assumed me to be; now I seem younger. | J. B. Priestley | ||
| 84fba10 | An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. | J. B. S. Haldane | ||
| 260e10f | No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. | J. B. S. Haldane | ||
| c3454ca | Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| b616c00 | T]here is more to be learned at the foot of the cross than anywhere else in the world. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| cd2a628 | It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| a6d88d1 | Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 055135a | The heart is the part of man which God chiefly notices in religion. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 51faebc | It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 2b47fe1 | The world's idea of greatness is to rule, but Christian greatness consists in serving. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 8d4c904 | However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 962823f | A converted man will not wish to go to heaven alone. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 78c88d8 | The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 761a3f5 | Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| ed86311 | Wealth is no mark of God's favour. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 8cee3c0 | We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family-disease of all the children of Adam. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 282a75d | The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 5db310e | The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 6174cfc | So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| ccf079f | Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 1fca023 | The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God. | J. C. Ryle | ||
| 01f1a63 | Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of every heresy. | J. C. Ryle |