Quotemeal for Saturday, October 23, 2004

"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgement of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others."

— Hazlitt

More Quotemeal

"He who has God and Everything has nothing more than he who has God alone."

— C. S. Lewis —

"Find out how much God has given you and take from it what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

— St. Augustine of Hippo —

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— Sadhu Sundar Singh —

"Men perish with whispering sins — nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell..."

— John Donne —