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Meanness is more in half doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.
Mere parsimony is not economy… Expense and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman.
There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) American novelist, poet, critic.
There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means the exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree of our natural powers, was not given us to be burnt or blighted but to be grafted on.
The end must justify the means.
Prior.
We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south, and it is.
Horace Mann.
The means heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would nad we will not; heaven’s offer we refuse.
Shakespeare.
Mahomet hearing one of his soldiers say, “I will turn my camel loose and trust him to God,” said to him, “Tie your camel, and then trust him to God.” And Cromwell’s charge to his soldiers, on the eve of battle, was. “ Trust in Providence, but keep your powder dry.”
Means without God cannot help, God without means can, and often doth. I will use good means, but not rest in them.
Bp. Hall.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!.
Shakespeare.
Some men possess means that are great, but fritter them away in the execution of conceptions that are little others, who can form great conceptions, attempt to carry them into execution with little means. These two descriptions of men might succeed if united, but kept asunder, both fail. It is a rare thing to find a combination of great means and of great conceptions in one mind,
Colton.
All outward means if grace, if separate from the sprit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
John Wesley.
Superior men, and yet not always virtuous, there have been; but there never has been a mean man, and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius.
Whoever is mean in his youth runs a great risk of becoming a scoundrel in riper years; meanness leads to villainy with fatal attraction.
V.Cherbuliez.
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality.
Sterne.
I have great hope of a wicked man; slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
H.W.Beecher.
To dally much with subjects mean and low, proves that the mind is weak or makes it so.
Cowper.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author.
Mere parsimony is not economy… Expense and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman.
There are many things that we would throw away, if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) American novelist, poet, critic.
There can be no end without means; and God furnishes no means the exempt us from the task and duty of joining our own best endeavors. The original stock, or wild olive tree of our natural powers, was not given us to be burnt or blighted but to be grafted on.
The end must justify the means.
Prior.
We put things in order; God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south, and it is.
Horace Mann.
The means heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would nad we will not; heaven’s offer we refuse.
Shakespeare.
Mahomet hearing one of his soldiers say, “I will turn my camel loose and trust him to God,” said to him, “Tie your camel, and then trust him to God.” And Cromwell’s charge to his soldiers, on the eve of battle, was. “ Trust in Providence, but keep your powder dry.”
Means without God cannot help, God without means can, and often doth. I will use good means, but not rest in them.
Bp. Hall.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!.
Shakespeare.
Some men possess means that are great, but fritter them away in the execution of conceptions that are little others, who can form great conceptions, attempt to carry them into execution with little means. These two descriptions of men might succeed if united, but kept asunder, both fail. It is a rare thing to find a combination of great means and of great conceptions in one mind,
Colton.
All outward means if grace, if separate from the sprit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
John Wesley.
Superior men, and yet not always virtuous, there have been; but there never has been a mean man, and at the same time virtuous.
Confucius.
Whoever is mean in his youth runs a great risk of becoming a scoundrel in riper years; meanness leads to villainy with fatal attraction.
V.Cherbuliez.
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than of a person who could be capable, in any instance, of the former vice. Under meanness, I comprehend dishonesty; under dishonesty, ingratitude; under ingratitude, irreligion; and under this latter, every species of vice and immorality.
Sterne.
I have great hope of a wicked man; slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
H.W.Beecher.
To dally much with subjects mean and low, proves that the mind is weak or makes it so.
Cowper.
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