James Hervey Quotes

• Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

  James Hervey

  Doors, Silence, Tongue

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.214

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• Quédate, pues, tranquilo, mortal inquieto; sabe que Dios es infaliblemente sabio; y ten la seguridad de que, en medio de la mayor multiplicidad de seres, no te pasa por alto.

  James Hervey

  Wise, Wisdom, Doe

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.117

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• Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

  James Hervey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Men

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• El amor divino es una flor sagrada, que en su brote temprano es la felicidad, y en su plena floración es el cielo.

  James Hervey

  Religious, Flower, Love Is

  James Hervey (1762). “A Collection of the Letters of the Late Reverend Mr James Hervey ... To which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Death”, p.297

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• Man is a product of nature, a part of the Universe. The Universe is operated under exact natural laws. Man is a product of millions of years of evolution. He adapts himself to the laws of nature or he perishes.

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  Hombres, Años, Ley

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• Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

  James Hervey

  Bible, Mountain, Lines

  James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136

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• God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

  James Hervey

  Bible, Flower, Different

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• The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

  James Hervey

  Wall, Tree, Fruit

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.143

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• Religion gives a dignity to distress.

  James Hervey

  Giving, Religion, Dignity

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.33

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• The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.

  James Hervey

  Ocean, Islands, Climate

  James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90

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• The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

  James Hervey

  Sky, Heaven, Deities

  James Hervey, William ROMAINE (1812). “Meditations and Contemplations ... To which is prefixed the life of the author: and a sermon on his death by the Rev. W. Romaine ... With ... engravings, etc. [With a portrait.]”, p.284

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• Creo en tratar a los demás como quiero que me traten a mí, pero desde luego no creo en poner la otra mejilla y la verdad es que nunca he conocido a ningún cristiano que lo hiciera tampoco.

  James Hervey

  Cristiano, Creer, Pensar

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