If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
There are many, and there will be many, who will gladly purchase eternal life for a small price, if they see that others are fighting for God in earnest, rather than pretending to do so.
Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never suspected - that he can paint what has occurred and what must occur, with such clearness to a company, as if they saw it done before their eyes. By leading their thought he leads their will, and can make them do gladly what an hour ago they would not believe that they could be led to do at all.
Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
Because I'm an American, I know there's all sorts of international folks who would gladly kidnap and behead me.
I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.
I suffer fools gladly because I am one of them.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.
I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.
I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.
If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.
I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.
I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
