Maturin Murray Ballou Quotes

• You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Space, May, Amount

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Book, Brain, Sparks

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Language, Ancient, Modern

  Maturin Murray Ballou (1899). “Edge-tools of speech”

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• For mine is the old belief... There is a soil in every leaf.

  Maturin Murray Ballou

  Tree, Soil, Belief

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