We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Happiness
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Prayer
I have lived to know that the great secret of human happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of “too many irons in the fire,” conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many—poker, tongs, and all—keep them all going.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Occupation
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Chance
Strong drink is not only the devil’s way into a man, but man’s way to the devil.
—Adam Clarke
Topics: Drinking
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- E. Stanley Jones American Methodist Priest
- Richard Livingstone British Scholar
- A. E. Housman English Scholar, Poet
- C. Northcote Parkinson British Historian
- Edward McKendree Bounds American Methodist Clergyman
- Charles L. Allen American Methodist Minister
- Bonaventure Italian Christian Scholar
- Shantideva Indian Buddhist Scholar
- Dero A. Saunders American Journalist
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