17 Quotes by Orville Dewey

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses – vanishing away of things – are among the teachings of this world of shadows.

Occupied people are not unhappy people.

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

The taxes of government are heavy enough, but not so heavy as the taxes we lay upon ourselves.

Truth is the root of all the charities.