20+ Orville Dewey Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Orville Dewey quotes and sayings.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation. — Orville Dewey

How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! — Orville Dewey

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness. — Orville Dewey

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

Politeness is practical Christianity. — Orville Dewey

Occupied people are not unhappy people. — Orville Dewey

Labour is man's great function, his peculiar distinction, his privilege. Can he not think so? Can he not see, that from being an animal to eat and drink and sleep, to become a worker... He is nothing, he can be nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfil nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey

Godliness is practical religion. — Orville Dewey

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

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment. — Orville Dewey

The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command. — Orville Dewey

Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. — Orville Dewey

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

Truth is the root of all the charities. — Orville Dewey

The dead carry our thoughts to another and nobler existence. They teach us, and especially by all the strange and seemingly untoward circumstances of their departure from this life, that they and we shall live in a future state forever. — Orville Dewey

The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage. — Orville Dewey

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. — Orville Dewey

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart. — Orville Dewey

God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it. — Orville Dewey

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