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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

H. R. Haweis

All good government must begin at home.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.

Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music; and emotion quite as often precedes as follows thought.

Feeling comes before reflection.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in.

It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.

Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.

When words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises.

Words are but poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power.