"YOUTH WILL NEVER LIVE TO AGE, WITHOUT THEY KEEP THEMSELVES IN BREATH WITH EXERCISE, AND IN HEART WITH JOYFULNESS. TOO MUCH THINKING DOTH CONSUME THE SPIRITS; AND OFT IT FALLS OUT, THAT WHILE ONE THINKS TOO MUCH OF DOING, HE LEAVES TO DO THE EFFECT OF HIS THINKING."
"YOUTH NO LESS BECOMES / THE LIGHT AND CARELESS LIVERY THAT IT WEARS, / THAN SETTLED AGE HIS SABLES AND HIS WEEDS, / IMPORTING HEALTH AND GRAVENESS."
"YOUTH NEVER YET LOST ITS MODESTY WHERE AGE HAD NOT LOST ITS HONOUR; NOR DID CHILDHOOD EVER REFUSE ITS REVERENCE, EXCEPT WHERE AGE HAD FORGOTTEN CORRECTION."
"YOUTH MAY MAKE / EVEN WITH THE YEAR; BUT AGE, IF IT WILL HIT, / SHOOTS A BOW SHORT, AND LESSENS STILL HIS STAKE, / AS THE DAY LESSENS, AND HIS LIFE WITH IT."
"YOUTH IS NOT RICH IN TIME; IT MAY BE, POOR; PART WITH IT, AS WITH MONEY, SPARING; PAY NO MOMENT BUT IN PURCHASE OF ITS WORTH; AND WHAT ITS WORTH ASK DEATH-BEDS, THEY CAN TELL."
"YOUTH IS FULL OF SPORT, AGE'S BREATH IS SHORT; / YOUTH IS NIMBLE, AGE IS LAME: / YOUTH IS HOT AND BOLD, AGE IS WEAK AND COLD; / YOUTH IS WILD, AND AGE IS TAME."
"YOUTH IS A BLUNDER; MANHOOD, A STRUGGLE; OLD AGE, A REGRET."
YOUTH EVER THINKS THAT GOOD WHOSE GOODNESS OR EVIL HE SEES NOT.
"YOUTH BEHOLDS HAPPINESS GLEAMING IN THE PROSPECT. AGE LOOKS BACK ON THE HAPPINESS OF YOUTH, AND, INSTEAD OF HOPES, SEEKS ITS ENJOYMENT IN THE RECOLLECTION OF HOPE."
YOUR WORDS ARE LIKE NOTES OF DYING SWANS--/ TOO SWEET TO LAST.
"YOUR PRIME ONE NEED IS TO DO RIGHT, UNDER WHATEVER COMPULSION, TILL YOU CAN DO IT WITHOUT COMPULSION. AND THEN YOU ARE A MAN."
"YOUR LEARNING, LIKE THE LUNAR BEAM, AFFORDS LIGHT BUT NOT HEAT."
"YOUR ""IF"" IS THE ONLY PEACEMAKER; MUCH VIRTUE IN ""IF."""
"YOUR HANDS IN YOUR OWN POCKETS IN THE MORNING, IS THE BEGINNING OF THE LAST DAY; YOUR HANDS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S POCKETS AT NOON, IS THE HEIGHT OF THE LAST DAY."
"YOUR ACTS ARE DETECTIVES, KEENER AND MORE UNERRING THAN EVER THE HAND OF SENSATIONAL NOVELIST DEPICTED; THEY WILL DOG YOU FROM THE DAY YOU SINNED TILL THE HOUR YOUR TRIAL COMES OFF."
"YOUNG MEN SOON GIVE, AND SOON FORGET AFFRONTS; OLD AGE IS SLOW IN BOTH."
YOUNG MEN ARE FITTER TO INVENT THAN TO JUDGE; FITTER FOR EXECUTION THAN FOR COUNSEL; AND FITTER FOR NEW PROJECTS THAN FOR SETTLED BUSINESS.
"YOUNG MEN ARE APT TO THINK THEMSELVES WISE ENOUGH, AS DRUNKEN MEN ARE TO THINK THEMSELVES SOBER ENOUGH."
"YOU WILL NEVER LIVE TO MY AGE, WITHOUT YOU KEEP YOURSELVES IN BREATH WITH EXERCISE, AND IN HEART WITH JOYFULNESS."
"YOU WILL FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS WHEN FIRST YOU TAKE ON YOU THE YOKE OF CHRIST, BUT JOY ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE BORNE IT AS LONG AS HE WILLS."
"YOU WHO FORGET YOUR FRIENDS, MEANLY TO FOLLOW AFTER THOSE OF A HIGHER DEGREE, ARE A SNOB."
"YOU WHO ARE ASHAMED OF YOUR POVERTY, AND BLUSH FOR YOUR CALLING, ARE A SNOB; AS ARE YOU WHO BOAST OF YOUR PEDIGREE, OR ARE PROUD OF YOUR WEALTH."
"YOU THAT CHOOSE NOT BY THE VIEW, / CHOOSE AS FAIR, AND CHOOSE AS TRUE."
"YOU TAKE MY HOUSE, WHEN YOU DO TAKE THE PROP / THAT DOTH SUSTAIN MY HOUSE; YOU TAKE MY LIFE / WHEN YOU DO TAKE THE MEANS WHEREBY I LIVE."
"YOU OUGHT TO READ BOOKS, AS YOU TAKE MEDICINE, BY ADVICE, AND NOT ADVERTISEMENT."
YOU NEVER WILL LOVE ART WELL TILL YOU LOVE WHAT SHE MIRRORS BETTER.
"YOU MUST NOT THINK / THAT WE ARE MADE OF STUFF SO FLAT AND DULL, / THAT WE CAN LET OUR BEARD BE SHOOK WITH DANGER, / AND THINK IT PASTIME."
YOU MUST BEGIN AT A LOW ROUND OF THE LADDER IF YOU MEAN TO GET ON.
"""YOU MUST BE IN THE FASHION,"" IS THE UTTERANCE OF WEAK-HEADED MORTALS."
"YOU MAY OVERTHROW A GOVERNMENT IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AS YOU CAN BLOW UP A SHIP OR UPSET AND SINK ONE; BUT YOU CAN NO MORE CREATE A GOVERNMENT WITH A WORD THAN AN IRON-CLAD."
"YOU MAY DEPEND UPON IT, RELIGION IS, IN ITS ESSENCE, THE MOST GENTLEMANLY THING IN THE WORLD. IT WILL ALONE GENTILISE, IF UNMIXED WITH CANT; AND I KNOW NOTHING ELSE THAT WILL, ALONE; CERTAINLY NOT THE ARMY, WHICH IS THOUGHT TO BE THE GRAND EMBELLISHER OF MANNERS."
YOU MAKE BUT A POOR TRAP TO CATCH LUCK IF YOU GO AND BAIT IT WITH WICKEDNESS.
"YOU KNOW NO RULES OF CHARITY, / WHICH RENDERS GOOD FOR BAD, BLESSINGS FOR CURSES."
"YOU KNOCK A MAN INTO THE DITCH, AND THEN YOU TELL HIM TO REMAIN CONTENT IN THE ""POSITION IN WHICH PROVIDENCE HAS PLACED HIM."""
YOU HAVE TOO MUCH RESPECT UPON THE WORLD; / THEY LOSE IT THAT DO BUY IT WITH MUCH CARE.
YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS WITH CONSEQUENCES; YOU ARE TO TELL THE TRUTH.
"YOU HAVE DESERVED / HIGH COMMENDATION, TRUE APPLAUSE AND LOVE."
"YOU FIND FAUT WI' YOUR MEAT, AND THE FAUT'S ALL I' YOUR OWN STOMACH."
"YOU DRAW ME, YOU HARD-HEARTED ADAMANT; / BUT YET YOU DRAW NOT IRON, FOR MY HEART / IS TRUE AS STEEL; LEAVE YOU YOUR POWER TO DRAW, / AND I SHALL HAVE NO POWER TO FOLLOW YOU."
YOU DON'T VALUE YOUR PEAS FOR THEIR ROOTS OR YOUR CARROTS FOR THEIR FLOWERS. NOW THAT'S THE WAY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE WOMEN.
"YOU DO NOT EDUCATE A MAN BY TELLING HIM WHAT HE KNEW NOT, BUT BY MAKING HIM WHAT HE WAS NOT, AND WHAT HE WILL REMAIN FOR EVER."
YOU COMPLAIN OF THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING WORK FOR YOUR MEN; THE REAL DIFFICULTY RATHER IS TO FIND MEN FOR YOUR WORK.
"YOU CAN'T ""HAVE"" YOUR PUDDING UNLESS YOU CAN ""EAT"" IT."
"YOU CANNOT SAVE MEN FROM DEATH BUT BY FACING IT FOR THEM, NOR FROM SIN BUT BY RESISTING IT FOR THEM."
"YOU CANNOT PUT A QUARTERN LOAF INTO A CHILD'S HEAD; YOU MUST BREAK IT UP, AND GIVE HIM THE CRUMB IN WARM MILK."
"YOU CANNOT LOVE THE REAL SUN, THAT IS TO SAY, PHYSICAL LIGHT AND COLOUR, RIGHTLY, UNLESS YOU LOVE THE SPIRITUAL SUN, THAT IS TO SAY, JUSTICE AND TRUTH, RIGHTLY."
YOU CANNOT GET ANYTHING OUT OF NATURE OR FROM GOD BY GAMBLING;--ONLY OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBOUR.
"YOU BEAT YOUR PATE, AND FANCY WIT WILL COME; / KNOCK AS YOU PLEASE, THERE'S NOBODY AT HOME."
"YOU ARE PROSPEROUS, YOU ARE GREAT, YOU ARE ""BEYOND THE WORLD,"" AS I HAVE HEARD PEOPLE SAY, MEANING THE POWER OR THE CAPRICE THEREOF; BUT YOU ARE NOT BEYOND THE POWER OF EVENTS."
"YOU ARE ALWAYS WILLING ENOUGH TO READ LIVES, BUT NEVER WILLING TO LEAD THEM."
"YIELDING, TIMID WEAKNESS IS ALWAYS ABUSED AND INSULTED BY THE UNJUST AND UNFEELING; BUT MEEKNESS, WHEN SUSTAINED BY THE ""FORTITER IN RE,"" IS ALWAYS RESPECTED, COMMONLY SUCCESSFUL."
"YIELD TO GOD'S WORD AND WILL, AND YOU WILL ESCAPE MANY A CALAMITY."
"YIELD NOT THY NECK / TO FORTUNE'S YOKE, BUT LET THY DAUNTLESS MIND / STILL RIDE IN TRIUMPH OVER ALL MISCHANCE."
"YET THIS GRIEF / IS ADDED TO THE GRIEFS THE GREAT MUST BEAR, / THAT HOWSOEVER MUCH THEY MAY DESIRE / SILENCE, THEY CANNOT WEEP BEHIND A CLOUD."
"YET TAUGHT BY TIME, MY HEART HAS LEARNED TO GLOW / FOR OTHER'S GOOD AND MELT AT OTHER'S WOE."
"YET I DOUBT NOT THROUGH THE AGES ONE INCREASING PURPOSE RUNS, / AND THE THOUGHTS OF MEN ARE WIDEN'D BY THE PROCESS OF THE SUNS."
YET DO I FEAR THY NATURE; / IT IS TOO FULL O' THE MILK O' HUMAN KINDNESS.
"YET BETTER THUS, AND KNOWN TO BE CONTEMN'D, / THAN STILL CONTEMN'D AND FLATTER'D."
"YET ALL THAT POETS SING, AND GRIEF HATH KNOWN, / OF HOPES LAID WASTE, KNELLS IN THAT WORD--ALONE."
"YES, THERE ARE THINGS WE MUST DREAM AND DARE, / AND EXECUTE ERE THOUGHT BE HALF AWARE."
"YEARS STEAL / FIRE FROM THE MIND AS VIGOUR FROM THE LIMB, / AND LIFE'S ENCHANTED CUP BUT SPARKLES NEAR THE BRIM."
YEARS FOLLOWING YEARS STEAL SOMETHING EVERY DAY; / AT LAST THEY STEAL US FROM OURSELVES AWAY.
"YEAR CHASES YEAR, DECAY PURSUES DECAY, / STILL DROPS SOME JOY FROM WITHERING LIFE AWAY."
"YEA, LET ALL GOOD THINGS AWAIT / HIM WHO CARES NOT TO BE GREAT, / BUT AS HE SAVES OR SERVES THE STATE."
YE THINK THE RUSTIC CACKLE OF YOUR BOURG / THE MURMUR OF THE WORLD.
"YE STARS! WHICH ARE THE POETRY OF HEAVEN!... IN OUR ASPIRATIONS TO BE GREAT, / OUR DESTINIES O'ERLEAP THEIR MORTAL STATE, / AND CLAIM A KINDRED WITH YOU; FOR YE ARE / A BEAUTY AND A MYSTERY, AND CREATE / IN US SUCH LOVE AND REVERENCE FROM AFAR, / THAT FORTUNE, FAME, POWER, LIFE, HAVE NAMED THEMSELVES A STAR."
"YE MEN OF GLOOM AND AUSTERITY, WHO PAINT THE FACE OF INFINITE BENEVOLENCE WITH AN ETERNAL FROWN, READ IN THE EVERLASTING BOOK, WIDE OPEN TO YOUR VIEW, THE LESSON IT WOULD TEACH. ITS PICTURES ARE NOT IN BLACK AND SOMBRE HUES, BUT BRIGHT AND GLOWING TINTS; ITS MUSIC--SAVE WHEN YE DROWN IT--IS NOT IN SIGHS AND GROANS, BUT SONGS AND CHEERFUL SOUNDS. LISTEN TO THE MILLION VOICES IN THE SUMMER AIR, AND FIND ONE DISMAL AS YOUR OWN."
"YE FEARFUL SAINTS, FRESH COURAGE TAKE; / THE CLOUDS YE SO MUCH DREAD / ARE BIG WITH MERCY, AND SHALL BREAK / IN BLESSINGS ON YOUR HEAD."
"WRONGS ARE OFTEN FORGIVEN, BUT CONTEMPT NEVER IS. OUR PRIDE REMEMBERS IT FOR EVER. IT IMPLIES A DISCOVERY OF WEAKNESSES, WHICH WE ARE MUCH MORE CAREFUL TO CONCEAL THAN CRIMES. MANY A MAN WILL CONFESS HIS CRIMES TO A COMMON FRIEND, BUT I NEVER KNEW A MAN WHO WOULD TELL HIS SILLY WEAKNESSES TO HIS MOST INTIMATE ONE."
WOULDST THOU THE LIFE OF SOULS DISCERN? / NOR HUMAN WISDOM NOR DIVINE / HELPS THEE BY AUGHT BESIDE TO LEARN; / LOVE IS LIFE'S ONLY SIGN.
"WORTH MAKES THE MAN, AND WANT OF IT THE FELLOW; / THE REST IS ALL BUT LEATHER OR PRUNELLO."
"WORSE THAN BEING FOOL'D / OF OTHERS, IS TO FOOL ONE'S SELF."
"WORK WITHOUT HOPE DRAWS NECTAR IN A SIEVE, / AND HOPE WITHOUT AN OBJECT CANNOT LIVE."
"WORK FIRST, YOU ARE GOD'S SERVANTS; FEE FIRST, YOU ARE THE FIEND'S."
"WORDS, LIKE NATURE, HALF REVEAL / AND HALF CONCEAL THE SOUL WITHIN."
"WORDS ARE THINGS, AND A SMALL DROP OF INK, / FALLING LIKE DEW UPON A THOUGHT, PRODUCES / THAT WHICH MAKES THOUSANDS, PERHAPS MILLIONS, THINK."
"WORDS ARE LIKE LEAVES, AND WHEN THEY MOST ABOUND / MUCH FRUIT OF SENSE BENEATH IS RARELY FOUND."
"""WONDER,"" SAYS ARISTOTLE, ""IS THE FIRST CAUSE OF PHILOSOPHY."" THIS IS QUITE AS TRUE IN THE PROGRESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS IN THAT OF THE CONCRETE MIND; AND THE CONSTANT AIM OF PHILOSOPHY IS TO DESTROY ITS PARENT."
"WOMEN, LIKE THE PLANTS IN WOODS, DERIVE THEIR SOFTNESS AND TENDERNESS FROM THE SHADE."
WOMEN KNOW BY NATURE HOW TO DISGUISE THEIR EMOTIONS FAR BETTER THAN THE MOST CONSUMMATE MALE COURTIERS CAN DO.
"WOMAN'S FEAR AND LOVE HOLD QUANTITY; / IN NEITHER AUGHT, OR IN EXTREMITY."
"WOMAN IS NOT UNDEVELOPT MAN, / BUT DIVERSE; COULD WE MAKE HER AS THE MAN, / SWEET LOVE WERE SLAIN: HIS DEAREST BOND IS THIS / NOT LIKE TO LIKE, BUT LIKE IN DIFFERENCE."
WOE DOES THE HEAVIER SIT / WHERE IT PERCEIVES IT IS BUT FAINTLY BORNE.
"WIVES ARE YOUNG MEN'S MISTRESSES, COMPANIONS FOR MIDDLE AGE, AND OLD MEN'S NURSES."
"WITHOUT JUSTICE SOCIETY IS SICK, AND WILL CONTINUE SICK TILL IT DIES."
"WITHOUT ECONOMY NONE CAN BE RICH, AND WITH IT FEW CAN BE POOR."
"WITHOUT DISCRETION LEARNING IS PEDANTRY AND WIT IMPERTINENCE; VIRTUE ITSELF LOOKS LIKE WEAKNESS. THE BEST PARTS ONLY QUALIFY A MAN TO BE MORE SPRIGHTLY IN ERRORS, AND ACTIVE TO HIS OWN PREJUDICE."
"WITHOUT AFFECTING STOICISM, IT MAY BE SAID THAT IT IS OUR BUSINESS TO EXEMPT OURSELVES AS MUCH AS WE CAN FROM THE POWER OF EXTERNAL THINGS."
WITHOUT ADVERSITY A MAN HARDLY KNOWS WHETHER HE IS HONEST OR NOT.
"WITHOUT A SIGN HIS SWORD THE BRAVE MAN DRAWS, / AND ASKS NO OMEN BUT HIS COUNTRY'S CAUSE."
"WITHIN THE HOLLOW CROWN / THAT ROUNDS THE MORTAL TEMPLES OF A KING, / KEEPS DEATH HIS COURT."
WITH WHAT IS DEBATEABLE I AM UNCONCERNED; AND WHEN I HAVE ONLY OPINIONS ABOUT THINGS ... I DO NOT TALK ABOUT THEM. I ATTACK ONLY WHAT CANNOT ON ANY POSSIBLE GROUND BE DEFENDED; AND STATE ONLY WHAT I KNOW TO BE INCONTROVERTIBLY TRUE.
WITH TOO MUCH QUICKNESS EVER TO BE TAUGHT; / WITH TOO MUCH THINKING TO HAVE COMMON THOUGHT.
WITH THE DEAD THERE IS NO RIVALRY. IN THE DEAD THERE IS NO CHANGE. PLATO IS NEVER SULLEN. CERVANTES IS NEVER PETULANT. DEMOSTHENES NEVER COMES UNSEASONABLY. DANTE NEVER STAYS TOO LONG.
"WITH POETRY SECOND-RATE IN QUALITY, NO ONE OUGHT TO BE ALLOWED TO TROUBLE MANKIND."
"WITH NECESSITY, THE TYRANT'S PLEA, EXCUSED HIS DEVILISH DEEDS."
"WITH NONE WHO BLESS US, NONE WHOM WE CAN BLESS--/ THIS IS TO BE ALONE; THIS, THIS IS SOLITUDE!"
WITH DEVOTION'S VISAGE / AND PIOUS ACTION WE DO SUGAR OVER / THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
"WITH CENTRIC AND ECCENTRIC SCRIBBLED O'ER, / CYCLE AND EPICYCLE, ORB IN ORB."
"WIT'S AN UNRULY ENGINE, WILDLY STRIKING / SOMETIMES A FRIEND, SOMETIMES THE ENGINEER: / HAST THOU THE KNACK? PAMPER IT NOT WITH LIKING; / BUT IF THOU WANT IT, BUY IT NOT TOO DEAR."
WIT IS A PERNICIOUS THING WHEN IT IS NOT TEMPERED WITH VIRTUE AND HUMANITY.
"WIT AND JUDGMENT OFTEN ARE AT STRIFE, / THOUGH MEANT EACH OTHER'S AID, LIKE MAN AND WIFE."
"WISE SAYINGS ARE NOT ONLY FOR ORNAMENT, BUT FOR ACTION AND BUSINESS, HAVING A POINT OR EDGE, WHEREBY KNOTS IN BUSINESS ARE PIERCED AND DISCOVERED."
"WISE MEN NE'ER SIT AND WAIL THEIR LOSS, / BUT CHEERLY SEEK HOW TO REDRESS THEIR HARMS."
"WISE MEN, FOR THE MOST PART, ARE SILENT AT PRESENT, AND GOOD MEN POWERLESS; THE SENSELESS VOCIFERATE, AND THE HEARTLESS GOVERN; WHILE ALL SOCIAL LAW AND PROVIDENCE ARE DISSOLVED BY THE ENRAGED AGITATION OF A MULTITUDE, AMONG WHOM EVERY VILLAIN HAS A CHANCE OF POWER, EVERY SIMPLETON OF PRAISE, AND EVERY SCOUNDREL OF FORTUNE."
"WISE MEN ARE WISE BUT NOT PRUDENT, IN THAT THEY KNOW NOTHING OF WHAT IS FOR THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE, BUT KNOW SURPASSING THINGS, MARVELLOUS THINGS, DIFFICULT THINGS, AND DIVINE THINGS."
WISDOM PICKS FRIENDS; CIVILITY PLAYS THE REST. / A TOY SHUNN'D CLEANLY PASSETH WITH THE BEST.
WISDOM IS A PEARL; WITH MOST SUCCESS / SOUGHT IN STILL WATER AND BENEATH CLEAR SKIES.
"WINGS HAVE WE--AND AS FAR AS WE CAN GO, / WE MAY FIND PLEASURE: WILDERNESS AND WOOD, / BLANK OCEAN AND MERE SKY, SUPPORT THAT MOOD / WHICH WITH THE LOFTY, SANCTIFIES THE LOW."
"WILT THOU DRAW NEAR THE NATURE OF THE GODS? DRAW NEAR THEM, THEN, IN BEING MERCIFUL."
"WILLING TO WOUND, AND YET AFRAID TO STRIKE, / JUST HINT A FAULT, AND HESITATE DISLIKE."
"WILL ALL GREAT NEPTUNE'S OCEAN WASH THIS BLOOD / CLEAN FROM MY HAND? NO, THIS MY HAND WILL RATHER / THE MULTITUDINOUS SEAS INCARNADINE, / MAKING THE GREEN ONE RED."
"WILD AMBITION LOVES TO SLIDE, NOT STAND; / AND FORTUNE'S ICE PREFERS TO VIRTUE'S LAND."
"WIDE OUR WORLD DISPLAYS ITS WORTH, MAN'S STRIFE AND STRIFE'S SUCCESS, / ALL THE GOOD AND BEAUTY, WONDER CROWNING WONDER, / TILL MY HEART AND SOUL APPLAUD PERFECTION, NOTHING LESS."
"WHY, WHAT SHOULD BE THE FEAR? / I DO NOT SET MY LIFE AT A PIN'S FEE; / AND FOR MY SOUL, WHAT CAN IT DO TO THAT, / BEING A THING IMMORTAL AS ITSELF?"
"WHY, UNIVERSAL PLODDING PRISONS UP / THE NIMBLE SPIRITS IN THE ARTERIES, / AS MOTION AND LONG-DURING ACTION TIRES / THE SINEWY VIGOUR OF THE TRAVELLER."
"WHY, THEN, THE WORLD'S MINE OYSTER, / WHICH I WITH SWORD WILL OPEN."
"WHY SO LARGE COST, HAVING SO SHORT A LEASE, / DOST THOU UPON THY FADING MANSION SPEND?"
"WHY SHOULD WE FAINT AND FEAR TO LIVE ALONE, / SINCE ALL ALONE, SO HEAVEN HAS WILLED, WE DIE, / NOR EVEN THE TENDEREST HEART, AND NEXT OUR OWN, / KNOWS HALF THE REASONS WHY WE SMILE OR SIGH?"
"WHY SHOULD WE CRAVE A HALLOW'D SPOT? / AN ALTAR IS IN EACH MAN'S COT, / A CHURCH IN EVERY GROVE THAT SPREADS / ITS LIVING ROOF ABOVE OUR HEADS."
"WHY SHOULD THE POOR BE FLATTER'D? / NO, LET THE CANDIED TONGUE LICK ABSURD POMP, / AND CROOK THE PREGNANT HINGES OF THE KNEE, / WHERE THRIFT MAY FOLLOW FAWNING."
WHY SHOULD NOT CONSCIENCE HAVE VACATION / AS WELL AS OTHER COURTS O' TH' NATION?
"""WHY SHOULD CALAMITY BE FULL OF WORDS?"" / ""LET THEM HAVE SCOPE; THOUGH WHAT THEY DO IMPART / HELP NOT AT ALL, YET DO THEY EASE THE HEART."""
"WHY SHOULD A MAN, WHOSE BLOOD IS WARM WITHIN, / SIT LIKE HIS GRANDSIRE CUT IN ALABASTER?"
"WHY RATHER, SLEEP, LIEST THOU IN SMOKY CRIBS, / UPON UNEASY PALLETS STRETCHING THEE, / AND HUSH'D WITH BUZZING NIGHT-FLIES TO THY SLUMBER, / THAN IN THE PERFUMED CHAMBERS OF THE GREAT, / UNDER THE CANOPIES OF COSTLY STATE, / AND LULL'D WITH SOUNDS OF SWEETEST MELODY?"
"WHY IS IT THAT WE CAN BETTER BEAR TO PART IN SPIRIT THAN IN BODY, AND, WHILE WE HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO ACT FAREWELL, HAVE NOT THE NERVE TO SAY IT?"
WHY HAS NOT MAN A MICROSCOPIC EYE? / FOR THIS PLAIN REASON--MAN IS NOT A FLY.
"WHY, ALL THE SOULS THAT WERE, WERE FORFEIT ONCE; / AND HE THAT MIGHT THE VANTAGE BEST HAVE TOOK / FOUND OUT THE REMEDY. HOW WOULD YOU BE / IF HE, WHICH IS THE TOP OF JUDGMENT, SHOULD / BUT JUDGE YOU AS YOU ARE?"
"WHOSOEVER, IN THE FRAME OF HIS NATURE AND AFFECTIONS, IS UNFIT FOR FRIENDSHIP, HE TAKETH IT OF THE BEAST, AND NOT FROM HUMANITY."
"WHOSOEVER HATH HIS MIND FRAUGHT WITH MANY THOUGHTS, HIS WITS AND UNDERSTANDING DO CLARIFY AND BREAK UP, IN THE COMMUNICATING AND DISCOURSING WITH ANOTHER. HE TOSSETH HIS THOUGHTS MORE EASILY, HE MARSHALLETH THEM MORE ORDERLY, HE SEETH HOW THEY LOOK WHEN THEY ARE TURNED INTO WORDS; FINALLY, HE WAXETH WISER THAN HIMSELF."
"WHOSE FAITH HAS CENTRE EVERYWHERE, / NOR CARES TO FIX ITSELF TO FORM."
"WHOEVER WISHES TO ATTAIN AN ENGLISH STYLE, FAMILIAR BUT NOT COARSE, AND ELEGANT BUT NOT OSTENTATIOUS, MUST GIVE HIS DAYS AND NIGHTS TO THE VOLUMES OF ADDISON."
"WHOEVER THINKS A FAULTLESS PIECE TO SEE, / THINKS WHAT NE'ER WAS, NOR IS, NOR E'ER SHALL BE."
"WHOEVER SINKS HIS VESSEL BY OVERLOADING IT, THOUGH IT BE WITH GOLD, AND SILVER, AND PRECIOUS STONES, WILL GIVE HIS OWNER BUT AN ILL ACCOUNT OF HIS VOYAGE."
WHOEVER IS OUT OF PATIENCE IS OUT OF POSSESSION OF HIS SOUL.
WHOEVER IS IN A HURRY SHOWS THAT THE THING HE IS ABOUT IS TOO BIG FOR HIM. HASTE AND HURRY ARE VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
"WHOEVER IS A GENUINE FOLLOWER OF TRUTH, KEEPS HIS EYE STEADY UPON HIS GUIDE, INDIFFERENT WHITHER HE IS LEAD, PROVIDED THAT SHE IS THE LEADER."
"WHO WOULD FARDELS BEAR, / TO GRUNT AND SWEAT UNDER A WEARY LIFE, / BUT THAT THE DREAD OF SOMETHING AFTER DEATH, / THE UNDISCOVER'D COUNTRY FROM WHOSE BOURN / NO TRAVELLER RETURNS, PUZZLES THE WILL, / AND MAKES US RATHER BEAR THOSE ILLS WE HAVE / THAN FLY TO OTHERS THAT WE KNOW NOT OF?"
WHO WOULD CHECK THE HAPPY FEELING / THAT INSPIRES THE LINNET'S SONG? / WHO WOULD STOP THE SWALLOW WHEELING / ON HER PINIONS SWIFT AND STRONG?
"WHO WOULD BEAR THE WHIPS AND SCORNS OF TIME, / THE OPPRESSOR'S WRONG, THE PROUD MAN'S CONTUMELY, / THE PANGS OF DESPISED LOVE, THE LAW'S DELAY, / THE INSOLENCE OF OFFICE AND THE SPURNS / THAT PATIENT MERIT OF THE UNWORTHY TAKES, / WHEN HE HIMSELF MIGHT HIS QUIETUS MAKE / WITH A BARE BODKIN?"
WHO VALUES A GOOD NIGHT'S REST WILL NOT LIE DOWN WITH ENMITY IN HIS HEART IF HE CAN HELP IT.
WHO SURPASSES OR SUBDUES MANKIND / MUST LOOK DOWN ON THE HATE OF THOSE BELOW.
"WHO STEALS MY PURSE STEALS TRASH; 'TIS SOMETHING, NOTHING; / 'TWAS MINE, 'TIS HIS, AND HAS BEEN SLAVE TO THOUSANDS; / BUT HE THAT FILCHES FROM ME MY GOOD NAME, / ROBS ME OF THAT WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM, / AND MAKES ME POOR INDEED."
"WHO SHALL DECIDE WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE, / AND SOUNDEST CASUISTS DOUBT, LIKE YOU AND ME."
"WHO SAY, I CARE NOT, THOSE I GIVE FOR LOST; / AND TO INSTRUCT THEM, 'TWILL NOT QUIT THE COST."
WHO RISETH FROM A FEAST / WITH THAT KEEN APPETITE THAT HE SITS DOWN? / WHERE IS THE HORSE THAT DOTH UNTREAD AGAIN / HIS TEDIOUS MEASURES WITH THE UNABATED FIRE / THAT HE DID PACE THEM FIRST? ALL THINGS THAT ARE / ARE WITH MORE SPIRIT CHASÉD THAN ENJOY'D.
"WHO PLAYS FOR MORE / THAN HE CAN LOSE WITH PLEASURE, STAKES HIS HEART."
WHO PANTS FOR GLORY FINDS BUT SHORT REPOSE; / A BREATH REVIVES HIM OR A BREATH O'ERTHROWS.
"WHO MARKS IN CHURCH-TIME OTHERS' SYMMETRY, / MAKES ALL THEIR BEAUTY HIS DEFORMITY."
"WHO KNOWS NOT THAT TRUTH IS STRONG, NEXT TO THE ALMIGHTY? SHE NEEDS NO POLITICS, NOR STRATAGEMS, NOR LICENSINGS TO MAKE HER VICTORIOUS; THOSE ARE THE SHIFTS AND THE DEFENCES THAT ERROR USES AGAINST HER POWER; GIVE HER BUT ROOM AND DO NOT BIND HER WHEN SHE SLEEPS."
"WHO KILLS A MAN KILLS A REASONABLE CREATURE, BUT HE WHO KILLS A GOOD BOOK KILLS REASON ITSELF."
"WHO KEEPS NO GUARD UPON HIMSELF IS SLACK, / AND ROTS TO NOTHING AT THE NEXT GREAT THAW."
"WHO IS THERE ALMOST, WHOSE MIND AT SOME TIME OR OTHER, LOVE OR ANGER, FEAR OR GRIEF, HAS NOT SO FASTENED TO SOME CLOG THAT IT COULD NOT TURN ITSELF TO ANY OTHER OBJECT?"
"WHO IN WANT A HOLLOW FRIEND DOTH TRY, / DIRECTLY SEASONS HIM HIS ENEMY."
"WHO GIVES THE LILIES CLOTHING, / WILL CLOTHE HIS PEOPLE TOO."
"WHO FEELS INJUSTICE, WHO SHRINKS BEFORE A SLIGHT, WHO HAS A SENSE OF WRONG SO ACUTE, AND SO GLOWING A GRATITUDE FOR KINDNESS, AS A GENEROUS BOY?"
"WHO DOES THE BEST HIS CIRCUMSTANCE ALLOWS, / DOES WELL, DOES NOBLY; ANGELS COULD NO MORE."
"WHO COMBATS BRAVELY IS NOT THEREFORE BRAVE, / HE DREADS A DEATH-BED LIKE THE MEANEST SLAVE; / WHO REASONS WISELY IS NOT THEREFORE WISE,--/ HIS PRIDE IN REASONING, NOT IN ACTING LIES."
"WHO CANNOT REST TILL HE GOOD FELLOWS FIND, / HE BREAKS UP HOUSE, TURNS OUT OF DOORS HIS MIND."
"WHO CAN COMPUTE WHAT THE WORLD LOSES IN THE MULTITUDE OF PROMISING INTELLECTS COMBINED WITH TIMID CHARACTERS, WHO DARE NOT FOLLOW OUT ANY BOLD, VIGOROUS, INDEPENDENT TRAIN OF THOUGHT, LEST IT SHOULD LAND THEM IN SOMETHING WHICH WOULD ADMIT OF BEING CONSIDERED IRRELIGIOUS OR IMMORAL?"
WHO BUYS A MINUTE'S MIRTH TO WAIL A WEEK? / OR SELLS ETERNITY TO GET A TOY?
"WHO BUILDS A CHURCH TO GOD AND NOT TO FAME, / WILL NEVER MARK THE MARBLE WITH HIS NAME."
"WHO ASCENDS TO MOUNTAIN-TOPS, SHALL FIND / THE LOFTIEST PEAKS MOST WRAPT IN CLOUDS AND SNOW."
"WHINING LOVER MAY AS WELL REQUEST / A SCORNFUL BREAST / TO MELT IN GENTLE TEARS, AS WOO THE WORLD FOR REST."
"WHILST LIONS WAR AND BATTLE FOR THEIR DENS, / POOR HARMLESS LAMBS ABIDE THEIR ENMITY."
"WHILE THERE IS HOPE LEFT, LET NOT THE WEAKNESS OF SORROW MAKE THE STRENGTH OF RESOLUTION LANGUISH."
"WHILE MEN SLEEP, / SAD-HEARTED MOTHERS HEAVE, THAT WAKEFUL LIE, / TO MUSE UPON SOME DARLING CHILD / ROAMING IN YOUTH'S UNCERTAIN WILD."
"WHILE MANUFACTURE IS THE WORK OF HANDS ONLY, ART IS THE WORK OF THE WHOLE SPIRIT OF MAN; AND AS THAT SPIRIT IS, SO IS THE DEED OF IT."
"WHILE GRIEF IS FRESH, EVERY ATTEMPT TO DIVERT ONLY IRRITATES. YOU MUST WAIT TILL GRIEF BE DIGESTED, AND THEN AMUSEMENT WILL DISSIPATE THE REMAINS OF IT."
"WHICH WAY I FLY IS HELL; MYSELF AM HELL; / AND IN THE LOWEST DEEP A LOWER DEEP, / STILL THREAT'NING TO DEVOUR ME, OPENS WIDE, / TO WHICH THE HELL I SUFFER SEEMS A HEAVEN."
WHICH IS THE LIGHTEST IN THE SCALE OF FATE? / THAT WHERE FOND CUPID STILL IS ADDING WEIGHT.
"WHERETO SERVES MERCY, / BUT TO CONFRONT THE VISAGE OF OFFENCE? / AND WHAT'S IN PRAYER, BUT THIS TWOFOLD FORCE,--TO BE FORESTALLED ERE WE COME TO FALL, / OR PARDON'D, BEING DOWN? THEN I'LL LOOK UP."
"WHERESOEVER THE SEARCH AFTER TRUTH BEGINS, THERE LIFE BEGINS; WHERESOEVER THE SEARCH CEASES, THERE LIFE CEASES."
"WHEREVER THERE IS WAR, THERE MUST BE INJUSTICE ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER, OR ON BOTH."
"WHEREVER A TRUE WOMAN COMES, HOME IS ALWAYS AROUND HER. THE STARS MAY BE OVER HER HEAD, THE GLOW-WORMS IN THE NIGHT-COLD GRASS MAY BE THE FIRE AT HER FEET; BUT HOME IS WHERE SHE IS; AND FOR A NOBLE WOMAN IT STRETCHES FAR AROUND HER, BETTER THAN HOUSES CEILED WITH CEDAR OR PAINTED WITH VERMILION, SHEDDING ITS QUIET LIGHT FAR FOR THOSE WHO ELSE ARE HOMELESS."
"WHERE'ER I WANDER, BOAST OF THIS I CAN, / THOUGH BANISHED, YET A TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN."
"WHERE THERE IS NO SYMPATHY WITH THE SPIRIT OF MAN, THERE CAN BE NO SYMPATHY WITH ANY HIGHER SPIRIT."
"WHERE THERE IS MYSTERY, IT IS GENERALLY SUPPOSED THAT THERE MUST ALSO BE EVIL."
"WHERE THE GREATER MALADY IS FIX'D, / THE LESSER IS SCARCE FELT."
"WHERE SECRECY OR MYSTERY BEGINS, VICE OR ROGUERY IS NOT FAR OFF."
"WHERE POWER IS ABSENT WE MAY FIND THE ROBE OF GENIUS, BUT WE MISS THE THRONE."
"WHERE PEACE / AND REST CAN NEVER DWELL, HOPE NEVER COMES, / THAT COMES TO ALL."
"WHERE MAN IS, ARE THE TROPICS; WHERE HE IS NOT, THE ICE-WORLD."
"WHERE LOVE REIGNS, DISTURBING JEALOUSY DOTH CALL HIMSELF AFFECTION'S SENTINEL."
"WHERE LIES ARE EASILY ADMITTED, THE FATHER OF LIES WILL NOT EASILY BE EXCLUDED."
WHERE IS ANY AUTHOR IN THE WORLD / TEACHES SUCH BEAUTY AS A WOMAN'S EYE?
"WHENEVER A SEPARATION IS MADE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, NEITHER IS, IN MY OPINION, SAFE."
"WHENEVER A MAN TALKS LOUDLY AGAINST RELIGION, ALWAYS SUSPECT THAT IT IS NOT HIS REASON, BUT HIS PASSIONS, WHICH HAVE GOT THE BETTER OF HIS CREED. A BAD LIFE AND A GOOD BELIEF ARE DISAGREEABLE AND TROUBLESOME NEIGHBOURS; AND WHEN THEY SEPARATE, DEPEND UPON IT, 'TIS FOR NO OTHER CAUSE BUT QUIETNESS' SAKE."
"WHEN YOUR HEAD DID BUT ACHE, / I KNIT MY HANDKERCHIEF ABOUT YOUR BROWS, / THE BEST I HAD; A PRINCESS WROUGHT IT ME; / AND I DID NEVER ASK IT YOU AGAIN."
"WHEN YOUR BROTH'S READY-MADE FOR YOU, YOU MUN SWALLOW THE THICKENIN', OR ELSE LET THE BROTH ALONE."
"WHEN YOU SEE A MAN WITH A GREAT DEAL OF RELIGION DISPLAYED IN HIS SHOP-WINDOW, YOU MAY DEPEND UPON IT HE KEEPS A VERY SMALL STOCK OF IT WITHIN."
"WHEN YOU LEAVE THE UNIMPAIRED HEREDITARY FREEHOLD TO YOUR CHILDREN, YOU DO BUT HALF YOUR DUTY. BOTH LIBERTY AND PROPERTY ARE PRECARIOUS, UNLESS THE POSSESSORS HAVE SENSE AND SPIRIT ENOUGH TO DEFEND THEM."
"WHEN YOU HAVE GOT SO MUCH TRUE KNOWLEDGE AS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR, YOU ARE BOUND TO FIGHT OR TO DIE FOR IT, BUT NOT TO DEBATE ABOUT IT ANY MORE."
"WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO, IT IS A CLEAR INDICATION THAT YOU ARE TO DO NOTHING."
"WHEN YOU ARE PREDETERMINED TO TAKE ONE SOUL'S ADVICE, ACT WITHOUT CONSULTING FURTHER WITH ANY SOUL LIVING."
"WHEN WORDS ARE SCARCE THEY'RE SELDOM SPENT IN VAIN, / FOR THEY BREATHE TRUTH THAT BREATHE THEIR WORDS IN PAIN."
"WHEN WE OUR BETTERS SEE BEARING OUR WOES, / WE SCARCELY THINK OUR MISERIES OUR FOES."
"WHEN WE CANNOT GET AT THE VERY THING WE WISH, NEVER TO TAKE UP WITH THE NEXT BEST IN DEGREE TO IT, THAT'S PITIFUL BEYOND DESCRIPTION."
"WHEN, TO GRATIFY A PRIVATE APPETITE, IT IS ONCE RESOLVED UPON THAT AN INNOCENT AND A HELPLESS CREATURE SHALL BE SACRIFICED, 'TIS AN EASY MATTER TO PICK UP STICKS ENOUGH FROM ANY THICKET WHERE IT HAS STRAYED TO MAKE A FIRE TO OFFER IT UP WITH."
"WHEN THOU DOST PURPOSE OUGHT WITHIN THY POWER, / BE SURE TO DO IT, THOUGH IT BE BUT SMALL."
"WHEN THINGS ARE ONCE COME TO THE EXECUTION, THERE IS NO SECRECY COMPARABLE TO CELERITY, LIKE THE MOTION OF A BULLET IN THE AIR, WHICH FLIETH SO SWIFT AS IT OUTRUNS THE EYE."
"WHEN THE WORLD HAS ONCE GOT HOLD OF A LIE, IT IS ASTONISHING HOW HARD IT IS TO GET IT OUT OF THE WORLD. YOU BEAT IT ABOUT THE HEAD, TILL IT SEEMS TO HAVE GIVEN UP THE GHOST, AND LO! THE NEXT DAY IT IS AS HEALTHY AS EVER."
"WHEN THE SHORE IS WON AT LAST, / WHO WILL COUNT THE BILLOWS PAST?"
"WHEN THE REASON OF OLD ESTABLISHMENTS IS GONE, IT IS ABSURD TO KEEP NOTHING BUT THE BURDEN OF THEM. THIS IS SUPERSTITIOUSLY TO EMBALM A CARCASE NOT WORTH AN OUNCE OF THE GUMS THAT ARE USED TO EMBALM IT."
"WHEN THE NEW LIGHT WHICH WE BEG FOR SHINES IN UPON US, THERE BE WHO ENVY AND OPPOSE, IF IT COME NOT IN FIRST AT THEIR CASEMENTS."
"WHEN THE FIGHT BEGINS WITHIN HIMSELF, / A MAN'S WORTH SOMETHING."
"WHEN THE BLOOD BURNS, HOW PRODIGAL THE SOUL / LENDS THE TONGUE VOWS."
WHEN THE AFFECTIONS ARE MOVED THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THE IMAGINATION.
"WHEN SORROWS COME, THEY COME NOT SINGLE SPIES, / BUT IN BATTALIONS."
"WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN, IN THUNDER, LIGHTNING, OR IN RAIN?"
"WHEN RICH VILLAINS HAVE NEED OF POOR ONES, POOR ONES MAY MAKE WHAT PRICE THEY WILL."
"WHEN REMEDIES ARE PAST, THE GRIEFS ARE ENDED / BY SEEING THE WORST, WHICH LATE ON HOPES DEPENDED."
"WHEN PEOPLE LAUGH AT THEIR OWN JOKES, THEIR WIT IS VERY SMALL BEER, AND IS LOST IN ITS OWN FROTH."
"WHEN ONCE OUR GRACE WE HAVE FORGOT, / NOTHING GOES RIGHT; WE WOULD, AND WE WOULD NOT."
"WHEN ONCE A MAN IS DETERMINED TO BELIEVE, THE VERY ABSURDITY OF THE DOCTRINE CONFIRMS HIM IN HIS FAITH."
WHEN NATURE IS SOVEREIGN THERE IS NO NEED OF AUSTERITY OR SELF-DENIAL.
"WHEN NATIONS ARE TO PERISH IN THEIR SINS, / 'TIS IN THE CHURCH THE LEPROSY BEGINS; / THE PRIEST, WHOSE OFFICE IS, WITH ZEAL SINCERE, / TO WATCH THE FOUNTAIN AND PRESERVE IT CLEAR, / CARELESSLY NODS AND SLEEPS UPON THE BRINK, / WHILE OTHERS POISON WHAT THE FLOCK MUST DRINK."
"WHEN MEN GROW VIRTUOUS IN THEIR OLD AGE, THEY ONLY MAKE A SACRIFICE TO GOD OF THE DEVIL'S LEAVINGS."
"WHEN MEN ARE PURE, LAWS ARE USELESS; WHEN MEN ARE CORRUPT, LAWS ARE BROKEN."
"WHEN LOVE SPEAKS, THE VOICE OF ALL THE GODS / MAKES HEAVEN DROWSY WITH THE HARMONY."
"WHEN I CONSIDER LIFE, 'TIS ALL A CHEAT. / YET FOOL'D WITH HOPE, MEN FAVOUR THE DECEIT; / TRUST ON, AND THINK TO-MORROW WILL REPAY. / TO-MORROW'S FALSER THAN THE FORMER DAY; / LIES WORSE, AND WHILE IT SAYS WE SHALL BE BLEST / WITH SOME NEW JOYS, CUTS OFF WHAT WE POSSEST."
"WHEN HOLY AND DEVOUT RELIGIOUS MEN / ARE AT THEIR BEADS, 'TIS HARD TO DRAW THEM THENCE."
"WHEN GRIPING GRIEF THE HEART DOTH WOUND, / AND DOLEFUL DUMPS THE MIND OPPRESS, / THEN MUSIC, WITH HER SILVER SOUND, / WITH SPEEDY HELP DOTH LEND REDRESS."
"WHEN FORTUNE MEANS TO MEN MOST GOOD, / SHE LOOKS UPON THEM WITH A THREATENING EYE."
WHEN DID FRIENDSHIP TAKE / A BREED FOR BARREN METAL OF HIS FRIEND?
"WHEN DESPERATE ILLS DEMAND A SPEEDY CURE, DISTRUST IS COWARDICE AND PRUDENCE FOLLY."
"WHEN DEATH COMES, IT IS NEVER OUR TENDERNESS THAT WE REPENT OF, BUT OUR SEVERITY."
"WHEN CLOUDS APPEAR, WISE MEN PUT ON THEIR CLOAKS; / WHEN GREAT LEAVES FALL, THE WINTER IS AT HAND."
"WHEN BROTHERS PART FOR MANHOOD'S RACE, / WHAT GIFT MAY MOST ENDEARING PROVE / TO KEEP FOND MEMORY IN HER PLACE, / AND CERTIFY A BROTHER'S LOVE? / ... NO FADING FRAIL MEMORIAL GIVE / TO SOOTH HIS SOUL WHEN THOU ART GONE, / BUT WREATHES OF HOPE FOR AYE TO LIVE, / AND THOUGHTS OF GOOD TOGETHER DONE."
"WHEN BASENESS IS EXALTED, DO NOT BATE / THE PLACE ITS HONOUR FOR THE PERSON'S SAKE."
"WHEN BAD MEN COMBINE, THE GOOD MUST ASSOCIATE; ELSE THEY WILL FALL ONE BY ONE, AN UNPITIED SACRIFICE IN A CONTEMPTIBLE STRUGGLE."
"WHEN ANY ONE CEASES TO CARE FOR HIS HOME, IT IS ONE OF THE WORST POSSIBLE SIGNS OF MORAL SICKNESS."
"WHEN ANY MAN FINDS HIMSELF DISPOSED TO COMPLAIN WITH HOW LITTLE CARE HE IS REGARDED, LET HIM REFLECT HOW LITTLE HE CONTRIBUTES TO THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS."
"WHEN ANY FIT OF ANXIETY, OR GLOOMINESS OR PERVERSION OF THE MIND, LAYS HOLD UPON YOU, MAKE IT A RULE NOT TO PUBLISH IT BY COMPLAINTS, BUT EXERT YOUR WHOLE CARE TO HIDE IT; BY ENDEAVOURING TO HIDE IT YOU WILL DRIVE IT AWAY."
"WHEN AMBITIOUS MEN FIND AN OPEN PASSAGE, THEY ARE RATHER BUSY THAN DANGEROUS; AND IF WELL WATCHED IN THEIR PROCEEDINGS, THEY WILL CATCH THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN SNARE, AND PREPARE A WAY FOR THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION."
"WHEN ALL IS DONE, THE HELP OF GOOD COUNSEL IS THAT WHICH SETTETH BUSINESS STRAIGHT."
"WHEN AFFLICTION THUNDERS OVER OUR ROOFS, TO HIDE OUR HEADS AND RUN INTO OUR GRAVES SHOWS US NO MEN, BUT MAKES US FORTUNE'S SLAVES."
"WHEN A YOUTH IS FULLY IN LOVE WITH A GIRL, AND FEELS THAT HE IS WISE IN LOVING HER, HE SHOULD AT ONCE TELL HER SO PLAINLY, AND TAKE HIS CHANCE BRAVELY WITH OTHER SUITORS."
"WHEN A WRITER SETS TO WORK AGAIN AFTER A LONG PAUSE, HIS FACULTIES HAVE, AS IT WERE, TO BE CAUGHT IN THE FIELD AND BROUGHT IN AND HARNESSED."
"WHEN A WORK HAS A UNITY, IT IS AS MUCH SO IN A PART AS IN THE WHOLE."
"WHEN A MISFORTUNE IS IMPENDING, I CRY, ""GOD FORBID!"" BUT WHEN IT FALLS UPON ME, I SAY, ""GOD BE PRAISED!"""
"WHEN A MAN SMILES, AND MUCH MORE WHEN HE LAUGHS, IT ADDS SOMETHING TO HIS FRAGMENT OF LIFE."
"WHEN A MAN MISTAKES HIS THOUGHTS FOR PERSONS AND THINGS, THIS IS MADNESS."
"WHEN A MAN IS IN LOVE WITH ONE WOMAN IN A FAMILY, IT IS ASTONISHING HOW FOND HE BECOMES OF EVERY PERSON CONNECTED WITH IT."
"WHEN A MAN IS CONSCIOUS THAT HE DOES NO GOOD HIMSELF, THE NEXT THING IS TO CAUSE OTHERS TO DO SOME."
"WHEN A MAN IS BASE AT THE HEART, HE BLIGHTS HIS VIRTUES INTO WEAKNESSES; BUT WHEN HE IS TRUE AT THE HEART, HE SANCTIFIES HIS WEAKNESSES INTO VIRTUES."
"WHEN A MAN GIVES HIMSELF UP TO THE GOVERNMENT OF A RULING PASSION--OR, IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN HIS HOBBY-HORSE GROWS HEADSTRONG--FAREWELL COOL REASON AND FAIR DISCRETION!"
"WHEN A GENTLEMAN IS CUDGELLING HIS BRAIN TO FIND ANY RHYME FOR SORROW BESIDES ""BORROW"" OR ""TO-MORROW,"" HIS WOES ARE NEARER AT AN END THAN HE THINKS."
"WHEN A BASE MAN MEANS TO BE YOUR ENEMY, HE ALWAYS BEGINS WITH BEING YOUR FRIEND."
"WHATSOEVER THINE ILL, / IT MUST BE BORNE, AND THESE WILD STARTS ARE USELESS."
"WHATEVER OUR WANDERINGS, OUR HAPPINESS WILL ALWAYS BE FOUND WITHIN A NARROW COMPASS, AND AMIDST THE OBJECTS MORE IMMEDIATELY WITHIN OUR REACH."
"WHATEVER MAKES RELIGION ITS SECOND OBJECT, MAKES IT NO OBJECT."
"WHATEVER IS NEW IS UNLOOKED FOR, AND EVER IT MENDS SOME AND IMPAIRS OTHERS; AND HE THAT IS HOLPEN TAKES IT FOR A FORTUNE, AND HE THAT IS HURT FOR A WRONG."
WHATEVER IS GREAT IN HUMAN ART IS THE EXPRESSION OF MAN'S DELIGHT IN GOD'S WORK.
"WHATEVER IN LITERATURE, ART, OR RELIGION IS DONE FOR MONEY IS POISONOUS ITSELF, AND DOUBLY DEADLY IN PREVENTING THE HEARING OR SEEING OF THE NOBLE LITERATURE AND ART WHICH HAVE BEEN DONE FOR LOVE AND TRUTH."
"WHATEVER FOOLISH PEOPLE READ, DOES THEM HARM; AND WHATEVER THEY WRITE, DOES OTHER PEOPLE HARM."
"WHATEVER CRUSHES INDIVIDUALITY IS DESPOTISM, BY WHATEVER NAME IT MAY BE CALLED."
"WHATEVER COMES OUT OF DESPAIR CANNOT BEAR THE TITLE OF VALOUR, WHICH SHOULD BE LIFTED UP TO SUCH A HEIGHT THAT, HOLDING ALL THINGS UNDER ITSELF, IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN ITS GREATNESS EVEN IN THE MIDST OF MISERIES."
"WHATEVER BIT OF A WISE MAN'S WORK IS HONESTLY AND BENEVOLENTLY DONE, THAT BIT IS HIS BOOK OR HIS PIECE OF ART."
"WHATEVER BEFALLS US, THOUGH IT IS WISE TO BE SERIOUS, IT IS USELESS AND FOOLISH, AND PERHAPS SINFUL, TO BE GLOOMY."
"WHATEVER BE THE MOTIVE OF INSULT, IT IS ALWAYS BEST TO OVERLOOK IT; FOR FOLLY SCARCELY CAN DESERVE RESENTMENT, AND MALICE IS PUNISHED BY NEGLECT."
"WHATEVER BE THE CAUSE OF HAPPINESS, MAY BE MADE LIKEWISE THE CAUSE OF MISERY. THE MEDICINE WHICH, RIGHTLY APPLIED, HAS POWER TO CURE, HAS, WHEN RASHNESS OR IGNORANCE PRESCRIBES IT, THE SAME POWER TO DESTROY."
"WHATE'ER HE DID WAS DONE WITH SO MUCH EASE, / IN HIM ALONE 'TWAS NATURAL TO PLEASE."
WHAT'S IN A NAME? THAT WHICH WE CALL A ROSE / BY ANY OTHER NAME WOULD SMELL AS SWEET.
"WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM OR HE TO HECUBA, / THAT HE SHOULD WEEP FOR HER?"
WHAT'S COME TO PERFECTION PERISHES. / THINGS LEARNED ON EARTH WE SHALL PRACTISE IN HEAVEN; / WORKS DONE LEAST RAPIDLY ART MOST CHERISHES.
"WHAT YOU SEE IS BUT THE SMALLEST PART / AND LEAST PROPORTION OF HUMANITY; / ... WERE THE WHOLE FRAME HERE, / IT IS OF SUCH A SPACIOUS LOFTY PITCH, / YOUR ROOF WERE NOT SUFFICIENT TO CONTAIN IT."
"WHAT WERE MIGHTY NATURE'S SELF? / HER FEATURES COULD THEY WIN US, / UNHELP'D BY THE POETIC VOICE / THAT HOURLY SPEAKS WITHIN US?"
WHAT? WEARIED OUT WITH HALF A LIFE? / SCARED WITH THIS SMOOTH UNBLOODY STRIFE? / THINK WHERE THY COWARD HOPES HAD FLOWN / HAD HEAVEN HELD OUT THE MARTYR'S CROWN.
"WHAT WE LIKE DETERMINES WHAT WE ARE, AND IS THE SIGN OF WHAT WE ARE."
WHAT WE HOPE EVER TO DO WITH EASE WE MAY LEARN FIRST TO DO WITH DILIGENCE.
"WHAT WE HAVE WE PRIZE NOT TO THE WORTH, / WHILES WE ENJOY IT; BUT BEING LACK'D AND LOST, / WHY THEN WE RACK THE VALUE."
WHAT WE FOOLISHLY CALL VASTNESS IS NOT MORE WONDERFUL OR NOT MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN WHAT WE INSOLENTLY CALL LITTLENESS.
"WHAT WE DO DETERMINE OFT WE BREAK, / PURPOSE IS BUT THE SLAVE TO MEMORY."
"WHAT WAS ONCE TO ME / MERE MATTER OF THE FANCY, NOW HAS GROWN / THE VAST NECESSITY OF HEART AND LIFE."
"WHAT THOUGH THE FIELD BE LOST? / ALL IS NOT LOST; TH' UNCONQUERABLE WILL, / AND STUDY OF REVENGE, IMMORTAL HATE, / AND COURAGE NEVER TO SUBMIT OR YIELD."
WHAT THOUGH CARE KILLED A CAT: THOU HAST METTLE ENOUGH IN THEE TO KILL CARE.
"WHAT SKILLS IT IF A BAG OF STONES OR GOLD / ABOUT THY NECK DO DROWN THEE? RAISE THY HEAD; / TAKE STARS FOR MONEY; STARS NOT TO BE TOLD / BY ANY ART, YET TO BE PURCHASED."
"""WHAT SAYS LORD WARWICK? SHALL WE AFTER THEM?"" ""AFTER THEM! NAY, BEFORE THEM IF WE CAN."""
"WHAT PERSONS ARE BY STARTS, THEY ARE BY NATURE. YOU SEE THEM AT SUCH TIMES OFF THEIR GUARD. HABIT MAY RESTRAIN VICE, AND VIRTUE MAY BE OBSCURED BY PASSION, BUT INTERVALS BEST DISCOVER THE MAN."
"WHAT NEED THE BRIDGE MUCH BROADER THAN THE FLOOD? THE FAIREST GRANT IS THE NECESSITY; LOOK, WHAT WILL SERVE IS FIT."
"WHAT MATTER THOUGH I DOUBT AT EVERY PORE ... / IF FINALLY I HAVE A LIFE TO SHOW, / THE THING I DID, BROUGHT OUT IN EVIDENCE / AGAINST THE THING DONE TO ME UNDERGROUND / BY HELL AND ALL ITS BROOD, FOR AUGHT I KNOW?"
"WHAT MAKES ALL DOCTRINES PLAIN AND CLEAR? / ABOUT TWO HUNDRED POUNDS A YEAR. / AND THAT WHICH WAS PROV'D TRUE BEFORE / PROVE FALSE AGAIN, TWO HUNDRED MORE."
WHAT IS TWICE READ IS COMMONLY BETTER REMEMBERED THAN WHAT IS TRANSCRIBED.
"WHAT IS STRENGTH WITHOUT A DOUBLE SHARE / OF WISDOM? VAST, UNWIELDY, BURDENSOME, / PROUDLY SECURE, YET LIABLE TO FALL / BY WEAKEST SUBTLETIES; NOT MADE TO RULE, / BUT TO SUBSERVE WHERE WISDOM BEARS COMMAND."
"WHAT IS PAST IS PAST. THERE IS A FUTURE LEFT TO ALL MEN, WHO HAVE THE VIRTUE TO REPENT AND THE ENERGY TO ATONE."
"WHAT IS OBVIOUS IS NOT ALWAYS KNOWN, AND WHAT IS KNOWN IS NOT ALWAYS PRESENT."
"WHAT IS NOW CALLED THE NATURE OF WOMEN IS AN EMINENTLY ARTIFICIAL THING--THE RESULT OF FORCED REPRESSION IN SOME DIRECTIONS, UNNATURAL STIMULATION IN OTHERS."
"WHAT IS MINE, EVEN TO MY LIFE, IS HERS I LOVE; BUT THE SECRET OF MY FRIEND IS NOT MINE!"
"WHAT IS MAN, / IF HIS CHIEF GOOD, AND MARKET OF HIS TIME, / BE BUT TO SLEEP AND FEED? A BEAST, NO MAN."
"WHAT IS CHIEFLY NEEDED IN THE ENGLAND OF THE PRESENT DAY IS TO SHOW THE QUANTITY OF PLEASURE THAT MAY BE OBTAINED BY A CONSISTENT, WELL-ADMINISTERED COMPETENCE, MODEST, CONFESSED, AND LABORIOUS."
WHAT IS CHEAPEST TO YOU NOW IS LIKELY TO BE DEAREST IN THE END.
"WHAT IS A MAN, / IF HIS CHIEF GOOD AND MARKET OF HIS TIME, / BE BUT TO SLEEP, AND FEED? A BEAST, NO MORE."
WHAT IS A HANDFUL OF REASONABLE MEN AGAINST A CROWD WITH STONES IN THEIR HANDS?
"WHAT HYPOCRITES WE SEEM TO BE WHENEVER WE TALK OF OURSELVES! OUR WORDS SOUND SO HUMBLE, WHILE OUR HEARTS ARE SO PROUD."
"WHAT HOUSE MORE STATELY HATH THERE BEEN, / OR CAN BE, THAN IS MAN?"
"WHAT HAVE I TO DO, ... EITHER WITH YOUR AMUSEMENTS OR YOUR PLEASURES, UNLESS IT WAS IN MY POWER TO INCREASE THEIR MEASURE?"
"WHAT FATES IMPOSE, THAT MEN MUST NEEDS ABIDE; / IT BOOTS NOT TO RESIST BOTH WIND AND TIDE."
"WHAT DOTH CHERISH WEEDS, BUT GENTLE AIR? / AND WHAT MAKES ROBBERS BOLD, BUT TOO MUCH LENITY?"
WHAT DIRE OFFENCE FROM AMOROUS CAUSES SPRINGS! / WHAT MIGHTY CONTESTS RISE FROM TRIVIAL THINGS!
"WHAT CHIEFLY DISTINGUISHES GREAT ARTISTS FROM FEEBLE ARTISTS IS FIRST THEIR SENSIBILITY AND TENDERNESS; SECONDLY, THEIR IMAGINATION; AND THIRDLY, THEIR INDUSTRY."
WHAT CARE I FOR WORDS? YET WORDS DO WELL / WHEN HE THAT SPEAKS THEM PLEASES THOSE THAT HEAR.
"WHAT CANNOT BE AVOIDED, / 'TWERE CHILDISH WEAKNESS TO LAMENT OR FEAR."
"WHAT BOOTS IT AT ONE GATE TO MAKE DEFENCE, / AND AT ANOTHER TO LET IN THE FOE?"
"WHAT BITTER PILLS, / COMPOS'D OF REAL ILLS, / MEN SWALLOW DOWN TO PURCHASE ONE FALSE GOOD."
"WHAT BETTER TIME FOR DRIVING, RIDING, WALKING, MOVING THROUGH THE AIR BY ANY MEANS, THAN A FRESH, FROSTY MORNING, WHEN HOPE RUNS CHEERILY THROUGH THE VEINS WITH THE BRISK BLOOD AND TINGLES IN THE FRAME FROM HEAD TO FOOT?"
"WHAT ART WAS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD, SCIENCE IS TO THE MODERN."
"WHAT ARE MEN BETTER THAN SHEEP OR GOATS, / THAT NOURISH A BLIND LIFE WITHIN THE BRAIN, / IF, KNOWING GOD, THEY LIFT NOT HANDS OF PRAYER / BOTH FOR THEMSELVES AND THOSE WHO CALL THEM FRIEND?"
"WHAT ARE ALL PRAYERS BENEATH / BUT CRIES OF BABES, THAT CANNOT KNOW / HALF THE DEEP THOUGHT THEY BREATHE?"
WHAT A STRANGE THING MAN IS! AND WHAT A STRANGER / IS WOMAN!
WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS A MAN! HOW NOBLE IN REASON! HOW INFINITE IN FACULTY! IN FORM AND MOVING HOW EXPRESS AND ADMIRABLE! IN ACTION HOW LIKE AN ANGEL! IN APPREHENSION HOW LIKE A GOD!
"WHAT A MAN FINDS GOOD OF, AND WHAT HE FINDS HURT OF, IS THE BEST PHYSIC TO PRESERVE HEALTH."
WHAT A LARGE VOLUME OF ADVENTURES MAY BE GRASPED WITHIN THIS LITTLE SPAN OF LIFE BY HIM WHO INTERESTS HIS HEART IN EVERYTHING.
WHAT A HELL OF WITCHCRAFT LIES IN THE SMALL ORB OF ONE PARTICULAR TEAR!
"WELL, WHILES I AM A BEGGAR, I WILL RAIL, / AND SAY, THERE IS NO SIN BUT TO BE RICH; / AND BEING RICH, MY VIRTUE THEN SHALL BE, / TO SAY, THERE IS NO VICE BUT BEGGARY."
"WEIGH NOT SO MUCH WHAT MEN SAY, AS WHAT THEY PROVE: REMEMBERING THAT TRUTH IS SIMPLE AND NAKED, AND NEEDS NOT INVECTIVE TO APPAREL HER COMELINESS."
WEED YOUR BETTER JUDGMENTS / OF ALL OPINION THAT GROWS RANK IN THEM.
WEARERS OF RINGS AND CHAINS! / PRAY DO NOT TAKE THE PAINS / TO SET ME RIGHT. / IN VAIN MY FAULTS YE QUOTE; / I WRITE AS OTHERS WROTE / ON SUNIUM'S HEIGHT.
"WEAR YOUR LEARNING, LIKE YOUR WATCH, IN A PRIVATE POCKET; AND DO NOT PULL IT OUT AND STRIKE IT, MERELY TO SHOW THAT YOU HAVE ONE. IF YOU ARE ASKED WHAT O'CLOCK IT IS, TELL IT, BUT DO NOT PROCLAIM IT HOURLY AND UNASKED, LIKE THE WATCHMEN."
"WEALTH WITHOUT CONTENTMENT CLIMBS A HILL, / TO FEEL THOSE TEMPESTS WHICH FLY OVER DITCHES."
"WEALTH IS THE POSSESSION OF USEFUL ARTICLES WHICH WE CAN USE, (SO THAT) INSTEAD OF DEPENDING MERELY ON A ""HAVE,"" IT IS THUS SEEN TO DEPEND ON A ""CAN."""
WEALTH IMPLIES THE POSSESSION OF WHAT IS OF INTRINSIC VALUE AND OF A CAPACITY TO USE IT.
"WEALTH HEAPED ON WEALTH, NOR TRUTH NOR SAFETY BUYS; / THE DANGERS GATHER AS THE TREASURES RISE."
"WEALTH CONSISTS OF THE GOOD, AND THEREFORE USEFUL, THINGS IN THE POSSESSION OF THE NATION; MONEY IS ONLY THE WRITTEN OR COINED SIGN OF THE RELATIVE QUANTITIES OF WEALTH IN EACH PERSON'S POSSESSION."
"WEAK MINDS SINK UNDER PROSPERITY AS WELL AS UNDER ADVERSITY; STRONG AND DEEP ONES HAVE TWO HIGHEST TIDES--WHEN THE MOON IS AT THE FULL, AND WHEN THERE IS NO MOON."
"WE'D JUMP THE LIFE TO COME. BUT, IN THESE CASES, / WE STILL HAVE JUDGMENT HERE; THAT WE BUT TEACH / BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS, WHICH, BEING TAUGHT, RETURN / TO PLAGUE THE INVENTOR. THIS EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE / COMMENDS THE INGREDIENTS OF OUR POISON'D CHALICE / TO OUR OWN LIPS."
"WE WANT ONE MAN TO BE ALWAYS THINKING, AND ANOTHER TO BE ALWAYS WORKING, AND WE CALL THE ONE A GENTLEMAN, AND THE OTHER AN OPERATIVE; WHEREAS THE WORKMAN OUGHT OFTEN TO BE THINKING, AND THE THINKER OFTEN TO BE WORKING, AND BOTH SHOULD BE GENTLEMEN IN THE BEST SENSE."
"WE TREAT GOD WITH IRREVERENCE BY BANISHING HIM FROM OUR THOUGHTS, NOT BY REFERRING TO HIS WILL ON SLIGHT OCCASIONS."
WE TELL THE LADIES THAT GOOD WIVES MAKE GOOD HUSBANDS; I BELIEVE IT IS A MORE CERTAIN POSITION THAT GOOD BROTHERS MAKE GOOD SISTERS.
"WE TELL OUR TRIUMPHS TO THE CROWD, BUT OUR OWN HEARTS ARE THE SOLE CONFIDANTS OF OUR SORROWS."
"WE SHOULD NOT BE TOO HASTY IN BESTOWING EITHER OUR PRAISE OR CENSURE ON MANKIND, SINCE WE SHALL OFTEN FIND SUCH A MIXTURE OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE SAME CHARACTER, THAT IT MAY REQUIRE A VERY ACCURATE JUDGMENT AND A VERY ELABORATE INQUIRY TO DETERMINE ON WHICH SIDE THE BALANCE TURNS."
WE SACRIFICE TO DRESS TILL HOUSEHOLD JOYS AND COMFORTS CEASE. DRESS DRAINS OUR CELLAR DRY AND KEEPS OUR LARDER LEAN.
"WE REAP WHAT WE SOW, BUT NATURE HAS LOVE OVER AND ABOVE THAT JUSTICE, AND GIVES US SHADOW AND BLOSSOM AND FRUIT THAT SPRING FROM NO PLANTING OF OURS."
"WE POETS IN OUR YOUTH BEGIN IN GLADNESS, / BUT THEREOF COME IN THE END DESPONDENCY AND MADNESS."
"WE PLAY THE FOOLS WITH THE TIME, AND THE SPIRITS OF THE WISE SIT IN THE CLOUDS AND MOCK US."
WE OWE IT TO OUR ANCESTORS TO PRESERVE ENTIRE THOSE RIGHTS WHICH THEY HAVE DELIVERED TO OUR CARE; WE OWE IT TO OUR POSTERITY NOT TO SUFFER THEIR DEAREST INHERITANCE TO BE DESTROYED.
"WE OUR BETTERS SEE BEARING OUR WOES, / WE SCARCELY THINK OUR MISERIES OUR FOES."
WE OUGHT TO ATTEMPT NO MORE THAN WHAT IS IN THE COMPASS OF OUR GENIUS AND ACCORDING TO OUR VEIN.
"WE OUGHT NOT, IN GENERAL, TO TAKE THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS UPON TRUST, BUT TO REASON AND JUDGE FOR OURSELVES."
WE NEVER CAN KNOW THE TRUTH OF SIN; FOR ITS NATURE IS TO DECEIVE ALIKE ON THE ONE SIDE THE SINNER AND ON THE OTHER THE JUDGE.
"WE NEEDS MUST LOVE THE HIGHEST WHEN WE SEE IT, / NOT LANCELOT, NOR ANOTHER."
"WE MUST PUT UP WITH OUR CONTEMPORARIES, SINCE WE CAN NEITHER LIVE WITH OUR ANCESTORS NOR POSTERITY."
"WE MUST JUDGE OF A FORM OF GOVERNMENT BY ITS GENERAL TENDENCY, NOT BY HAPPY ACCIDENTS."
WE MUST HAVE THE REAL THING BEFORE WE CAN HAVE A SCIENCE OF THE THING.
"WE MUST FIRST PRAY, AND THEN LABOUR; FIRST IMPLORE THE BLESSING OF GOD, AND USE THOSE MEANS WHICH HE PUTS INTO OUR HANDS."
"WE MUST BE FREE OR DIE WHO SPEAK THE TONGUE / THAT SHAKESPEARE SPAKE, THE FAITH AND MORALS HOLD / WHICH MILTON HELD."
"WE MAY TAKE FANCY FOR A COMPANION, BUT MUST FOLLOW REASON AS OUR GUIDE."
"WE MAY HAVE ONCE BEEN SLUGS, AND MAY ONE DAY BE ANGELS, BUT WE ARE MEN NOW; AND WE MUST, AS MEN, DO OUR WORK HONOURABLY AND THOROUGHLY."
"WE MAY HAVE A LAW, OR WE MAY HAVE NO LAW, BUT WE CANNOT HAVE HALF A LAW."
WE MAY GIVE MORE OFFENCE BY OUR SILENCE THAN EVEN BY IMPERTINENCE.
WE MAY BE PRETTY CERTAIN THAT PERSONS WHOM ALL THE WORLD TREATS ILL DESERVE ENTIRELY THE TREATMENT THEY GET.
WE LOATHE WHAT NONE ARE LEFT TO SHARE; / EVEN BLESS 'TWERE WOE ALONE TO BEAR.
"WE LIVE BY ADMIRATION, HOPE, AND LOVE; / AND EVEN AS THESE ARE WELL AND WISELY FIX'D, / IN DIGNITY OF BEING WE ASCEND."
"WE LIKE SLIPPING, BUT NOT FALLING; OUR REAL DESIRE IS TO BE TEMPTED ENOUGH."
WE LIE DOWN AND RISE UP WITH THE SKELETON ALLOTTED TO US FOR OUR MORTAL COMPANION--THE PHANTOM OF OURSELVES.
WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SPACE (OR POSSIBLY MAY HAPPEN IN TIME); WE HAVE ONLY TO ATTEND TO WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE--AND NOW.
"WE HAVE DONE DEEDS OF CHARITY, / MADE PEACE OF ENMITY, FAIR LOVE OF HATE."
"WE GAPE, WE GRASP, WE GRIPE, ADD STORE TO STORE; / ENOUGH REQUIRES TOO MUCH; TOO MUCH CRAVES MORE."
"(WE) FEEL THAT LIFE IS LARGE, AND THE WORLD SMALL, / SO WAIT TILL LIFE HAVE PASSED FROM OUT THE WORLD."
"WE FANCY WE SUFFER FROM INGRATITUDE, WHILE IN REALITY WE SUFFER FROM SELF-LOVE."
"WE FAIL? / BUT SCREW YOUR COURAGE TO THE STICKING-PLACE, / AND WE'LL NOT FAIL."
WE DO NOT DIE WHOLLY AT OUR DEATHS; WE HAVE MOULDERED AWAY GRADUALLY LONG BEFORE.
"WE CONCEIVE, I THINK, MORE NOBLY OF THE WEAK PRESENCE OF PAUL THAN OF THE FAIR AND RUDDY COUNTENANCE OF DAVID."
"WE CANNOT SPEAK A LOYAL WORD AND BE MEANLY SILENT; WE CANNOT KILL AND NOT KILL AT THE SAME MOMENT; BUT A MOMENT IS ROOM ENOUGH FOR THE LOYAL AND MEAN DESIRE, FOR THE OUTFLASH OF A MURDEROUS THOUGHT, AND THE SHARP BACKWARD STROKE OF REPENTANCE."
"WE CANNOT PASS OUR GUARDIAN ANGEL'S BOUND, / RESIGN'D OR SULLEN, HE WILL HEAR OUR SIGHS."
"WE CANNOT FIGHT FOR LOVE, AS MEN MAY DO; / WE SHOULD BE WOOED, AND WERE NOT MADE TO WOO."
"WE CANNOT CONQUER FATE AND NECESSITY, YET WE CAN YIELD TO THEM IN SUCH A MANNER AS TO BE GREATER THAN IF WE COULD."
"WE CANNOT BE KIND TO EACH OTHER HERE FOR AN HOUR; / WE WHISPER, AND HINT, AND CHUCKLE, AND GRIN AT A BROTHER'S SHAME; / HOWEVER WE BRAVE IT OUT, WE MEN ARE A LITTLE BREED."
"WE CANNOT ALL BE MASTERS, NOR ALL MASTERS / CANNOT BE TRULY FOLLOW'D."
"WE CAN HAVE NO DEPENDENCE UPON MORALITY WITHOUT RELIGION; SO, ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE IS NOTHING BETTER TO BE EXPECTED FROM RELIGION WITHOUT MORALITY."
"WE CAN HARDLY BE CONFIDENT OF THE STATE OF OUR OWN MINDS, BUT AS IT STANDS ATTESTED BY SOME EXTERNAL ACTION."
"WE BOAST OUR LIGHT; BUT IF WE LOOK NOT WISELY ON THE SUN ITSELF, IT SMITES US INTO DARKNESS."
"WE ARE SLAVES, / THE GREATEST AS THE MEANEST--NOTHING RESTS / UPON OUR WILL.... AND WHEN WE THINK WE LEAD, WE ARE MOST LED."
WE ARE SELDOM SURE THAT WE SINCERELY MEANT WHAT WE OMITTED TO DO.
"WE ARE NOT SENT INTO THIS WORLD TO DO ANYTHING INTO WHICH WE CANNOT PUT OUR HEARTS. WE HAVE CERTAIN WORK TO DO FOR OUR BREAD, AND THAT IS TO BE DONE STRENUOUSLY; OTHER WORK TO DO FOR OUR DELIGHT, AND THAT IS TO BE DONE HEARTILY; NEITHER IS TO BE DONE BY HALVES OR SHIFTS, BUT WITH A WILL; AND WHAT IS NOT WORTH THIS EFFORT IS NOT TO BE DONE AT ALL."
WE ARE NOT INDEBTED TO THE REASON OF MAN FOR ANY OF THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS WHICH ARE THE LANDMARKS OF HUMAN ACTION AND HUMAN PROGRESS.
"""WE ARE MEN, MY LIEGE.""--/ AY, IN THE CATALOGUE YE GO FOR MEN."
"WE ARE INCLINED TO BELIEVE THOSE WHOM WE DO NOT KNOW, BECAUSE THEY HAVE NEVER DECEIVED US."
"WE ARE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS TO EACH OTHER, BUT NOT TO OURSELVES."
"WE ARE CONTENTED BECAUSE WE ARE HAPPY, AND NOT HAPPY BECAUSE WE ARE CONTENTED."
"WE ARE BORN WITH FACULTIES AND POWERS CAPABLE ALMOST OF ANYTHING, SUCH, AT LEAST, AS MIGHT CARRY US FURTHER THAN CAN EASILY BE IMAGINED; BUT IT IS ONLY THE EXERCISE OF THOSE POWERS THAT GIVES US ABILITY AND SKILL IN ANYTHING, AND LEADS US TOWARDS PERFECTION."
"WE ARE AS TURKEYS DRIVEN, WITH A STICK AND RED CLOUT, TO MARKET."
WE ARE ANCIENTS OF THE EARTH / AND IN THE MORNING OF THE TIMES.
"WE ARE ALWAYS COMPLAINING OUR DAYS ARE FEW, AND ACTING AS THOUGH THERE WOULD BE NO END OF THEM."
"WE ALL LIVE UPON THE HOPE OF PLEASING SOMEBODY; AND THE PLEASURE OF PLEASING OUGHT TO BE GREATEST, AND AT LAST ALWAYS WILL BE GREATEST, WHEN OUR ENDEAVOURS ARE EXERTED IN CONSEQUENCE OF OUR DUTY."
"WE ALL KNOW A HUNDRED WHOSE COATS ARE WELL MADE, AND A SCORE WHO HAVE EXCELLENT MANNERS; BUT OF GENTLEMEN HOW MANY? LET US TAKE A LITTLE SCRAP OF PAPER AND EACH MAKE OUT HIS LIST."
"WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, / AND ALL THE BOARDS DID SHRINK, / WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, / NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK."
WAS NEVER EVENING YET / BUT SEEMED FAR BEAUTIFULLER THAN ITS DAY.
WAS EVER WOMAN IN THIS HUMOUR WOO'D? / WAS EVER WOMAN IN THIS HUMOUR WON?
"WAR SUSPENDS THE RULES OF MORAL OBLIGATION, AND WHAT IS LONG SUSPENDED IS IN DANGER OF BEING TOTALLY ABROGATED."
"WAR IS A GAME WHICH, WERE THEIR SUBJECTS WISE, KINGS SHOULD NOT PLAY AT."
"WANT OF TENDERNESS IS WANT OF PARTS, AND IS NO LESS A PROOF OF STUPIDITY THAN DEPRAVITY."
"VULGARITY CONSISTS IN A DEADNESS OF THE HEART AND BODY, RESULTING FROM PROLONGED, AND ESPECIALLY FROM INHERITED CONDITIONS OF ""DEGENERACY,"" OR LITERALLY ""UNRACING;"" GENTLEMANLINESS BEING ANOTHER NAME FOR INTENSE HUMANITY. AND VULGARITY SHOWS ITSELF IN DULNESS OF HEART, NOT IN RAGE OR CRUELTY, BUT IN INABILITY TO FEEL OR CONCEIVE NOBLE CHARACTER OR EMOTION. DULNESS OF BODILY SENSE AND GENERAL STUPIDITY ARE ITS MATERIAL MANIFESTATIONS."
"VIRTUOUS AND VICIOUS EVERY MAN MUST BE; / FEW IN THE EXTREME, BUT ALL IN A DEGREE."
"VIRTUE, WHICH BREAKS THROUGH ALL OPPOSITION / AND ALL TEMPTATIONS CAN REMOVE, / MOST SHINES AND MOST IS ACCEPTABLE ABOVE."
VIRTUE SHOWS QUITE AS WELL IN RAGS AND PATCHES AS SHE DOES IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN.
"VIRTUE ITSELF TURNS VICE, BEING MISAPPLIED, / AND VICE SOMETIME'S BY ACTION DIGNIFIED."
"VIRTUE IS LIKE PRECIOUS ODOURS, MOST FRAGRANT WHERE THEY ARE INCENSED OR CRUSHED."
"VIRTUE DOES NOT CONSIST IN DOING WHAT WILL BE PRESENTLY PAID; IT WILL BE PAID SOME DAY; BUT THE VITAL CONDITION OF IT, AS VIRTUE, IS THAT IT SHALL BE CONTENT IN ITS OWN DEED, AND DESIROUS RATHER THAT THE PAY OF IT, IF ANY, SHOULD BE FOR OTHERS."
VIRTUE ALONE OUTBUILDS THE PYRAMIDS; / HER MONUMENTS SHALL LAST WHEN EGYPT'S FALL.
"VIOLENT MIRTH IS THE FOAM, AND DEEP SADNESS THE SUBSIDENCE, OF A MORBID FERMENTATION."
"VIOLENT DELIGHTS HAVE VIOLENT ENDS, / AND IN THEIR TRIUMPH DIE, LIKE FIRE AND POWDER, / WHICH, AS THEY KISS, CONSUME."
"VIOLENT COMBATIVENESS FOR PARTICULAR SECTS, AS EVANGELICAL, ROMAN CATHOLIC, HIGH CHURCH, BROAD CHURCH, OR THE LIKE, IS MERELY A FORM OF PARTY EGOISM, AND A DEFIANCE OF CHRIST, NOT A CONFESSION OF HIM."
"VIOLENCE OF SORROW IS NOT AT THE FIRST TO BE STRIVEN WITHAL; BEING, LIKE A MIGHTY BEAST, SOONER TAMED WITH FOLLOWING THAN OVERTHROWN BY WITHSTANDING."
"VICE IS A MONSTER OF SUCH FRIGHTFUL MIEN, / AS TO BE HATED NEEDS BUT TO BE SEEN; / YET SEEN TOO OFTEN, FAMILIAR WITH HER FACE, / WE FIRST ENDURE, THEN PITY, THEN EMBRACE."
"VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE GOOD ECONOMISTS OF THEIR FORTUNE, AND STILL FEWER OF THEIR TIME."
"VENUS WILL NOT CHARM SO MUCH WITHOUT HER ATTENDANT GRACES, AS THEY WILL WITHOUT HER."
"VAULTING AMBITION, WHICH O'ERLEAPS ITSELF, / AND FALLS ON THE OTHER."
VAST CHAIN OF BEING! / FROM NATURE'S CHAIN WHATEVER LINK YOU STRIKE / TENTH OR TEN THOUSANDTH BREAKS THE CHAIN ALIKE.
"VARY AND INTERMINGLE SPEECH OF THE PRESENT OCCASION WITH ARGUMENTS, TALES WITH REASONS, ASKING OF QUESTIONS WITH TELLING OF OPINIONS, AND JEST WITH EARNEST; FOR IT IS A DULL THING TO TIRE, AND, AS WE SAY NOW, TO JADE ANYTHING TOO FAR."
"VARIETY'S THE VERY SPICE OF LIFE, / THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOUR."
"UTTERING SUCH DULCET AND HARMONIOUS BREATH, / THAT THE RUDE SEA GREW CIVIL AT HER SONG, / AND CERTAIN STARS SHOT MADLY FROM THEIR SPHERES / TO HEAR THE SEA-MAID'S MUSIC."
"USURY IS A ""CONCESSUM PROPTER DURITIAM CORDIS"" FOR, SINCE THERE MUST BE BORROWING AND LENDING, AND MEN ARE SO HARD OF HEART AS THEY WILL NOT LEND FREELY, USURY MUST BE PERMITTED."
"USEFUL BE WHERE THOU LIVEST, THAT THEY MAY / BOTH WANT AND WISH THY PLEASING PRESENCE STILL. / KINDNESS, GOOD PARTS, GREAT PLACES, ARE THE WAY / TO COMPASS THIS."
"USE EVERY MAN AFTER HIS DESERT, AND WHO SHOULD 'SCAPE WHIPPING? USE THEM AFTER YOUR OWN HONOUR AND DIGNITY; THE LESS THEY DESERVE, THE MORE MERIT IS IN YOUR BOUNTY."
"USE ALMOST CAN CHANGE THE STAMP OF NATURE, / AND EITHER CURB THE DEVIL OR THROW HIM OUT."
UPON THE HEAT AND FLAME OF THY DISTEMPER / SPRINKLE COOL PATIENCE.
UPON THE EDUCATION OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY THE FATE OF THIS COUNTRY DEPENDS.
UPON THE COMMON COURSE OF LIFE MUST OUR THOUGHTS AND OUR CONVERSATION BE GENERALLY EMPLOYED.
"UP! UP! MY FRIEND, AND QUIT YOUR BOOKS, / OR SURELY YOU'LL GROW DOUBLE. / UP! UP! MY FRIEND, AND CLEAR YOUR LOOKS, / WHY ALL THIS TOIL AND TROUBLE?"
"UNTWINE ME FROM THE MASS / OF DEEDS WHICH MAKE UP LIFE, ONE DEED / POWER SHALL FALL SHORT IN OR EXCEED."
"UNTO HIM WHO WORKS, AND FEELS HE WORKS, / THIS SAME GRAND YEAR"
UNSTAINED THOUGHTS DO SELDOM DREAM ON EVIL; / BIRDS NEVER LIMED NO SECRET BUSHES FEAR.
"UNSOCIABLE TEMPERS ARE CONTRACTED IN SOLITUDE, WHICH WILL IN THE END NOT FAIL OF CORRUPTING THE UNDERSTANDING AS WELL AS THE MANNERS, AND OF UTTERLY DISQUALIFYING A MAN FOR THE SATISFACTIONS AND DUTIES OF LIFE. MEN MUST BE TAKEN AS THEY ARE, AND WE NEITHER MAKE THEM NOR OURSELVES BETTER BY FLYING FROM OR QUARRELLING WITH THEM."
"UNNUMBERED SUPPLIANTS CROWD PREFERMENT'S GATE, / ATHIRST FOR WEALTH, AND BURNING TO BE GREAT; / DELUSIVE FORTUNE HEARS THE INCESSANT CALL, / THEY MOUNT, THEY SHINE, EVAPORATE, AND FALL."
UNNATURAL DEEDS / DO BREED UNNATURAL TROUBLES: INFECTED MINDS / TO THEIR DEAF PILLOWS WILL DISCHARGE THEIR SECRETS.
"UNMINGLED JOYS TO NO ONE HERE BEFALL; / WHO LEAST, HATH SOME; WHO MOST, HATH NEVER ALL."
"UNMINGLED GOOD CANNOT BE EXPECTED; BUT AS WE MAY LAWFULLY GATHER ALL THE GOOD WITHIN OUR REACH, WE MAY BE ALLOWED TO LAMENT OVER THAT WHICH WE LOSE."
"UNMARRIED MEN ARE BEST FRIENDS, BEST MASTERS, BEST SERVANTS, BUT NOT ALWAYS BEST SUBJECTS; FOR THEY ARE LIGHT TO RUN AWAY, AND ALMOST ALL FUGITIVES ARE OF THAT CONDITION."
"UNLIKE MY SUBJECT NOW SHALL BE MY SONG; / IT SHALL BE WITTY, BUT IT SHAN'T BE LONG."
"UNLESSON'D GIRL, UNSCHOOL'D, UNPRACTISED; / HAPPY IN THIS, SHE IS NOT YET SO OLD / BUT SHE MAY LEARN."
"UNLESS MUSIC EXALT AND PURIFY, VIRTUALLY IT IS NOT MUSIC AT ALL."
"UNLESS A TREE HAS BORNE BLOSSOMS IN SPRING, YOU WILL VAINLY LOOK FOR FRUIT ON IT IN AUTUMN."
"UNLEARNED MEN OF BOOKS ASSUME THE CARE, / AS EUNUCHS ARE THE GUARDIANS OF THE FAIR."
UNLAWFUL DESIRES ARE PUNISHED AFTER THE EFFECT OF ENJOYING; BUT IMPOSSIBLE DESIRES ARE PUNISHED IN THE DESIRE ITSELF.
"UNIVERSAL PLODDING PRISONS UP / THE NIMBLE SPIRITS IN THE ARTERIES, / AS MOTION AND LONG-DURING ACTION TIRES / THE SINEWY VIGOUR OF THE TRAVELLER."
"UNIFORMITY MUST TIRE AT LAST, THOUGH IT BE UNIFORMITY OF EXCELLENCE. WE LOVE TO EXPECT, AND WHEN EXPECTATION IS DISAPPOINTED OR GRATIFIED, WE WANT TO BE AGAIN EXPECTING."
"UNDIPPED PEOPLE MAY BE AS GOOD AS DIPPED, IF THEIR HEARTS ARE CLEAN."
"UNDERSTANDING IS THE WAGES OF A LIVELY FAITH, AND FAITH IS THE REWARD OF A HUMBLE IGNORANCE."
"UNDER THE WEIGHT OF HIS KNOWLEDGE, A MAN CANNOT MOVE SO LIGHTLY AS IN THE DAYS OF HIS SIMPLICITY."
"UNDER ALL SORROW THERE IS THE FORCE OF VIRTUE; OVER ALL RUIN, THE RESTORING CHARITY OF GOD. TO THESE ALONE WE HAVE TO LOOK; IN THESE ALONE WE MAY UNDERSTAND THE PAST, AND PREDICT THE FUTURE DESTINY OF THE AGES."
"UNBOUNDED COURAGE AND COMPASSION JOIN'D, / TEMPTING EACH OTHER IN THE VICTOR'S MIND, / ALTERNATELY PROCLAIM HIM GOOD AND GREAT, / AND MAKE THE HERO AND THE MAN COMPLETE."
"TYPE OF THE WISE WHO SOAR, BUT NEVER ROAM, / TRUE TO THE KINDRED POINTS OF HEAVEN AND HOME."
"TWO PRINCIPLES IN HUMAN NATURE REIGN--/ SELF-LOVE TO URGE, AND REASON TO RESTRAIN."
"TWO ORDERS OF POETS I ADMIT, BUT NO THIRD; THE CREATIVE (SHAKESPEARE, HOMER, DANTE), AND REFLECTIVE OR PERCEPTIVE (WORDSWORTH, KEATS, TENNYSON); AND BOTH THESE MUST BE FIRST-RATE IN THEIR RANGE."
TWO MISFORTUNES ARE TWICE AS MANY AT LEAST AS ARE NEEDFUL TO BE TALKED OVER AT ONE TIME.
"TWENTY PEOPLE CAN GAIN MONEY FOR ONE WHO CAN USE IT; AND THE VITAL QUESTION FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FOR NATIONS, IS NEVER ""HOW MUCH DO THEY MAKE,"" BUT ""TO WHAT PURPOSE DO THEY SPEND."""
"'TWAS STRANGE, 'TWAS PASSING STRANGE, / 'TWAS PITIFUL; 'TWAS WONDROUS PITIFUL."
"TURN, FORTUNE, TURN THY WHEEL WITH SMILE OR FROWN; / WITH THAT WILD WHEEL WE GO NOT UP OR DOWN; / OUR HOARD IS LITTLE, BUT OUR HEARTS ARE GREAT."
"TRY WHAT REPENTANCE CAN; WHAT CAN IT NOT? YET WHAT CAN IT, WHEN ONE CANNOT REPENT?"
"TRY TO FORGET OUR CARES AND OUR MALADIES, AND CONTRIBUTE, AS WE CAN, TO THE CHEERFULNESS OF EACH OTHER."
TRUTH SCARCE EVER YET CARRIED IT BY VOTE ANYWHERE AT ITS FIRST APPEARANCE.
"TRUTH MAY PERHAPS COME TO THE PRICE OF A PEARL, THAT SHOWETH BEST BY DAY, BUT IT WILL NOT RISE TO THE PRICE OF A DIAMOND OR CARBUNCLE, THAT SHOWETH BEST IN VARIED LIGHTS."
"TRUTH, LIKE THE JUICE OF A POPPY, IN SMALL QUANTITIES, CALMS MEN; IN LARGER, HEATS AND IRRITATES THEM, AND IS ATTENDED BY FATAL CONSEQUENCES IN ITS EXCESS."
"TRUTH, LIKE GOLD, IS NOT THE LESS SO FOR BEING NEWLY BROUGHT OUT OF THE MINE."
"TRUTH IS TO BE COSTLY TO YOU--OF LABOUR AND PATIENCE; AND YOU ARE NEVER TO SELL IT, BUT TO GUARD AND TO GIVE."
"TRUTH IS NEVER LEARNED, IN ANY DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY, BY ARGUING, BUT BY WORKING AND OBSERVING."
TRUTH IS AS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE SOILED BY ANY OUTWARD TOUCH AS THE SUNBEAM.
"TRUTH IS A GOOD DOG; BUT BEWARE OF BARKING TOO CLOSE TO THE HEELS OF AN ERROR, LEST YOU GET YOUR BRAINS KICKED OUT."
"TRUTH, IN THE GREAT PRACTICAL CONCERNS OF LIFE, IS SO MUCH A QUESTION OF THE RECONCILING AND COMBINING OF OPPOSITES, THAT VERY FEW HAVE MINDS SUFFICIENTLY CAPACIOUS AND IMPARTIAL TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENT WITH AN APPROACH TO CORRECTNESS."
"TRUTH HAS NO GRADATIONS; NOTHING WHICH ADMITS OF INCREASE CAN BE SO MUCH WHAT IT IS AS TRUTH IS TRUTH. THERE MAY BE A STRANGE THING, AND A THING MORE STRANGE; BUT IF A PROPOSITION BE TRUE, THERE CAN BE NONE MORE TRUE."
"TRUTH DWELLS NOT IN THE CLOUDS; THE BOW THAT'S THERE / DOTH OFTEN AIM AT, NEVER HIT THE SPHERE."
TRUST THAT MAN IN NOTHING WHO HAS NOT A CONSCIENCE IN EVERYTHING.
"TRUST NOT THOSE CUNNING WATERS OF HIS EYES, FOR VILLANY IS NOT WITHOUT SUCH RHEUM."
"TRUST NOT THIS HOLLOW WORLD; SHE'S EMPTY; HARK, SHE SOUNDS."
"TRUST ME, THAT FOR THE INSTRUCTED, TIME WILL COME / WHEN THEY SHALL MEET NO OBJECT BUT MAY TEACH / SOME ACCEPTABLE LESSON TO THEIR MINDS / OF HUMAN SUFFERING OR HUMAN JOY. / FOR THEM SHALL ALL THINGS SPEAK OF MAN."
TRUST IN THAT MAN'S PROMISE WHO DARES TO REFUSE THAT WHICH HE FEARS HE CANNOT PERFORM.
"TRUST AS LITTLE AS YOU CAN TO REPORT, AND EXAMINE ALL YOU CAN BY YOUR OWN SENSES."
TRULY GREAT MEN ARE EVER MOST HEROIC TO THOSE MOST INTIMATE WITH THEM.
"TRUE VIRTUE, BEING UNITED TO HEAVENLY GRACE OF FAITH, MAKES UP THE HIGHEST PERFECTION."
"TRUE TASTE IS FOR EVER GROWING, LEARNING, READING, WORSHIPPING, LAYING ITS HAND UPON ITS MOUTH BECAUSE IT IS ASTONISHED, CASTING ITS SHOES FROM OFF ITS FEET BECAUSE IT FINDS ALL GROUND HOLY."
TRUE MODESTY AVOIDS EVERYTHING THAT IS CRIMINAL; FALSE MODESTY EVERYTHING THAT IS UNFASHIONABLE.
"TRUE LOVE WORKS NEVER FOR THE LOVED ONE SO, / NOR SPARES SKIN-SURFACE, SMOOTHING TRUTH AWAY."
TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF ANY THING OR ANY CREATURE IS ONLY OF THE GOOD OF IT.
"TRUE FORTITUDE I TAKE TO BE THE QUIET POSSESSION OF A MAN'S SELF, AND AN UNDISTURBED DOING HIS DUTY, WHATEVER EVIL BESETS HIM OR DANGER LIES IN HIS WAY."
"TRUE EASE IN WRITING COMES FROM ART, NOT CHANCE, / AS THOSE MOVE EASIEST WHO HAVE LEARNED TO DANCE."
TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR / ARE TO THE JEALOUS CONFIRMATIONS STRONG / AS PROOFS OF HOLY WRIT.
"TREASON HAS DONE HIS WORST; NOR STEEL, NOR POISON, / MALICE DOMESTIC, FOREIGN LEVY, NOTHING / CAN TOUCH HIM FURTHER."
"TREACHERY DON'T COME NATURAL TO BEAMING YOUTH: BUT TRUST AND PITY, LOVE AND CONSTANCY, THEY DO."
"TRAVEL IN THE YOUNGER SORT IS A PART OF EDUCATION; IN THE OLDER, A PART OF EXPERIENCE."
"TOWARDS GREAT PERSONS USE RESPECTIVE BOLDNESS: / THAT TEMPER GIVES THEM THEIRS, AND YET DOTH TAKE / NOTHING FROM THINE."
"TOO SURELY, EVERY SETTING DAY, / SOME LOST DELIGHT WE MOURN."
"TOO MUCH IDLENESS, I HAVE OBSERVED, FILLS UP A MAN'S TIME MUCH MORE COMPLETELY, AND LEAVES HIM LESS HIS OWN MASTER, THAN ANY SORT OF EMPLOYMENT WHATSOEVER."
TO WILFUL MEN / THE INJURIES THAT THEY THEMSELVES PROCURE / MUST BE THEIR SCHOOLMASTERS.
TO WHAT THEY KNOW BEST ENTICE ALL NEATLY; / FOR SO THOU DOST THYSELF AND HIM A PLEASURE.
"TO WAIL FRIENDS LOST / IS NOT BY MUCH SO WHOLESOME, PROFITABLE, / AS TO REJOICE AT FRIENDS BUT NEWLY FOUND."
TO UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUS SIDE OF THINGS REQUIRES A MATURED FACULTY; THE RIDICULOUS IS CAUGHT MORE EASILY.
"TO TREAD UPON THE BRINK IS SAFE, BUT TO COME A STEP FURTHER IS DESTRUCTION."
"TO THREATS THE STUBBORN SINNER OFT IS HARD, / WRAPP'D IN HIS CRIMES, AGAINST THE STORM PREPARED; / BUT, WHEN THE MILDER BEAMS OF MERCY PLAY, / HE MELTS, AND THROWS HIS CUMBROUS CLOAK AWAY."
"TO THOSE THAT HAVE LIVED LONG TOGETHER, EVERYTHING HEARD AND EVERYTHING SEEN RECALLS SOME PLEASURE COMMUNICATED OR SOME BENEFIT CONFERRED, SOME PETTY QUARREL OR SOME SLIGHT ENDEARMENT."
TO THE NOBLE MIND / RICH GIFTS WAX POOR WHEN GIVERS PROVE UNKIND.
"TO TELL OUR OWN SECRETS IS GENERALLY FOLLY, BUT THAT FOLLY IS WITHOUT GUILT; TO COMMUNICATE THOSE WITH WHICH WE ARE INTRUSTED IS ALWAYS TREACHERY, AND TREACHERY FOR THE MOST PART COMBINED WITH FOLLY."
"TO TAX THE COMMUNITY FOR THE ADVANTAGE OF A CLASS IS NOT PROTECTION; IT IS PLUNDER, AND I DISCLAIM IT."
"TO TALK WITHOUT EFFORT IS, AFTER ALL, THE GREAT CHARM OF TALKING."
TO SHOW MERCY IS NOTHING--THY SOUL MUST BE FULL OF MERCY; TO BE PURE IN ACT IS NOTHING--THOU SHALT BE PURE IN HEART ALSO.
"TO SEE CLEARLY IS POETRY, PROPHECY, AND RELIGION--ALL IN ONE."
"TO SEE A WORLD IN A GRAIN OF SAND / AND A HEAVEN IN A WILD FLOWER, / HOLD INFINITY IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, / AND ETERNITY IN AN HOUR."
"TO REIGN IS WORTH AMBITION, THOUGH IN HELL; / BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAV'N."
TO READ WITHOUT REFLECTING IS LIKE EATING WITHOUT DIGESTING.
"TO PREFER ONE FUTURE MODE OF LIFE TO ANOTHER, UPON JUST REASONS, REQUIRES FACULTIES WHICH IT HAS NOT PLEASED OUR CREATOR TO GIVE US."
"TO PERSEVERE / IN OBSTINATE CONDOLEMENT, IS A COURSE / OF IMPIOUS STUBBORNNESS; 'TIS UNMANLY GRIEF: / IT SHOWS A WILL MOST INCORRECT TO HEAVEN."
"TO MOURN A MISCHIEF THAT IS PAST AND GONE, / IS THE NEXT WAY TO DRAW NEW MISCHIEF ON."
"TO MOST MEN EXPERIENCE IS LIKE THE STERN LIGHTS OF A SHIP, WHICH ILLUMINE ONLY THE TRACK IT HAS PASSED."
"TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW, AND TO-MORROW, / CREEPS IN THIS PETTY PACE FROM DAY TO DAY, / TO THE LAST SYLLABLE OF RECORDED TIME; / AND ALL OUR YESTERDAYS HAVE LIGHTED FOOLS / TO DUSTY DEATH."
TO ME THE MEANEST FLOWER THAT BLOWS CAN GIVE / THOUGHTS THAT DO OFTEN LIE TOO DEEP FOR TEARS.
"TO MAKE A BOY DESPISE HIS MOTHER'S CARE IS THE STRAIGHTEST WAY TO MAKE HIM ALSO DESPISE HIS REDEEMER'S VOICE; AND TO MAKE HIM SCORN HIS FATHER AND HIS FATHER'S HOUSE, THE STRAIGHTEST WAY TO MAKE HIM DENY HIS GOD AND HIS GOD'S HEAVEN."
TO LAMENT THE PAST IS VAIN; WHAT REMAINS IS TO LOOK FOR HOPE IN FUTURITY.
"TO KNOW WHAT IS USEFUL AND WHAT USELESS, AND TO BE SKILFUL TO PROVIDE THE ONE AND WISE TO SCORN THE OTHER, IS THE FIRST NEED FOR ALL INDUSTRIOUS MEN."
"TO KNOW, TO ESTEEM, TO LOVE, AND THEN TO PART, / MAKES UP LIFE'S TALE TO MANY A FEELING HEART."
"TO KNOW / THAT WHICH BEFORE US LIES IN DAILY LIFE, / IS THE PRIME WISDOM."
"TO IMPROVE THE GOLDEN MOMENT OF OPPORTUNITY, AND CATCH THE GOOD THAT IS WITHIN OUR REACH, IS THE GREAT ART OF LIFE."
"TO HOLY TEARS, / IN LONELY HOURS, CHRIST RISEN APPEARS; / IN SOCIAL HOURS, WHO CHRIST WOULD SEE / MUST TURN ALL TASKS TO CHARITY."
"TO HIM NO HIGH, NO LOW, NO GREAT, NO SMALL; / HE FILLS, HE BOUNDS, CONNECTS AND EQUALS ALL."
TO HEAR COMPLAINTS IS WEARISOME ALIKE TO THE WRETCHED AND THE HAPPY.
"TO HAVE THE FEAR OF GOD BEFORE OUR EYES, AND, IN OUR MUTUAL DEALINGS WITH EACH OTHER, TO GOVERN OUR ACTIONS BY THE ETERNAL MEASURES OF RIGHT AND WRONG; THE FIRST OF THESE WILL COMPREHEND THE DUTIES OF RELIGION; THE SECOND, THOSE OF MORALITY."
"TO HAVE NO ASSISTANCE FROM OTHER MINDS IN RESOLVING DOUBTS, IN APPEASING SCRUPLES, IN BALANCING DELIBERATIONS, IS A VERY WRETCHED DESTITUTION."
"TO HAVE GOLD IS TO BE IN FEAR, AND TO WANT IT TO BE IN SORROW."
TO HAVE A RESPECT FOR OURSELVES GUIDES OUR MORALS; AND TO HAVE A DEFERENCE FOR OTHERS GOVERNS OUR MANNERS.
"TO GOVERN MEN, YOU MUST EITHER EXCEL THEM IN THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS OR DESPISE THEM."
"TO GO BACK IS EASY, IF WE HAVE MISSED OUR WAY ON THE ROAD UPHILL; IT IS IMPOSSIBLE ONLY WHEN THE ROAD IS DOWNHILL."
TO GIVE TO THE HUMAN MIND A DIRECTION WHICH IT SHALL RETAIN FOR AGES IS THE RARE PREROGATIVE OF A FEW IMPERIAL SPIRITS.
"TO GIVE ALMS IS NOTHING UNLESS YOU GIVE THOUGHT ALSO, AND THEREFORE IT IS WRITTEN, NOT ""BLESSED IS HE THAT FEEDETH THE POOR,"" BUT ""BLESSED IS HE THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR."""
"TO GILD REFINED GOLD, TO PAINT THE LILY, / TO THROW A PERFUME ON THE VIOLET, / TO SMOOTH THE ICE, OR ADD ANOTHER HUE / UNTO THE RAINBOW, OR WITH TAPER-LIGHT / TO SEEK THE BEAUTEOUS EYE OF HEAVEN TO GARNISH, / IS WASTEFUL AND RIDICULOUS EXCESS."
"TO FIGHT AND DIE IS DEATH DESTROYING DEATH; / WHERE FEARING DYING, PAYS DEATH SERVILE BREATH."
"TO FEAR THE FOE, SINCE FEAR OPPRESSETH STRENGTH, / GIVES, IN YOUR WEAKNESS, STRENGTH UNTO YOUR FOE."
"TO EXPECT AN AUTHOR TO TALK AS HE WRITES IS RIDICULOUS: OR EVEN IF HE DID, YOU WOULD FIND FAULT WITH HIM AS A PEDANT."
TO ENDEAVOUR TO WORK UPON THE VULGAR WITH FINE SENSE IS LIKE ATTEMPTING TO HEW BLOCKS WITH A RAZOR.
"TO DREAD NO EYE, AND TO SUSPECT NO TONGUE, IS THE GREATEST PREROGATIVE OF INNOCENCE; AN EXEMPTION GRANTED ONLY TO INVARIABLE VIRTUE."
"TO DO HIM ANY WRONG WAS TO BEGET / A KINDNESS FROM HIM, FOR HIS HEART WAS RICH, / OF SUCH FINE MOULD, THAT IF YOU SOW'D THEREIN / THE SEED OF HATE, IT BLOSSOM'D CHARITY."
"TO DIE, TO SLEEP; / NO MORE! PERCHANCE TO DREAM; AY, THERE'S THE RUB; / FOR IN THAT SLEEP OF DEATH WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, / WHEN WE HAVE SHUFFLED OFF THIS MORTAL COIL, / MUST GIVE US PAUSE."
"TO DIE, TO SLEEP; / NO MORE; AND BY A SLEEP TO SAY WE END / THE HEARTACHE AND THE THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS / THAT FLESH IS HEIR TO, 'TIS A CONSUMMATION / DEVOUTLY TO BE WISHED."
"TO CONFESS CHRIST IS, FIRST, TO BELIEVE RIGHTEOUSLY, TRUTHFULLY, AND CONTINENTLY; AND, THEN, TO SEPARATE OURSELVES FROM THOSE WHO ARE MANIFESTLY OR BY PROFESSION ROGUES, LIARS, AND FORNICATORS."
"TO CARRY ON THE FEELINGS OF CHILDHOOD INTO THE POWERS OF MANHOOD, TO COMBINE THE CHILD'S SENSE OF WONDER AND NOVELTY WITH THE APPEARANCES WHICH EVERY DAY, FOR PERHAPS FORTY YEARS, HAS RENDERED FAMILIAR; THIS IS THE CHARACTER AND PRIVILEGE OF GENIUS, AND ONE OF THE MARKS WHICH DISTINGUISH GENIUS FROM TALENT."
"TO BEGUILE THE TIME, / LOOK LIKE THE TIME; BEAR WELCOME IN YOUR EYE, / YOUR HAND, YOUR TONGUE; LOOK LIKE THE INNOCENT FLOWER, / BUT BE THE SERPENT UNDER 'T."
"TO BE WROTH WITH ONE WE LOVE, / DOTH WORK LIKE MADNESS IN THE BRAIN."
TO BE TRUE IN HEART AND JUST IN ACT ARE THE FIRST QUALITIES NECESSARY FOR THE ELEVATION OF HUMANITY.
"TO BE, OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION; / WHETHER 'TIS NOBLER IN THE MIND TO SUFFER / THE SLINGS AND ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE, / OR TO TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST A SEA OF TROUBLES, / AND, BY OPPOSING, END THEM."
"TO BE MAGNANIMOUS--MIGHTY OF HEART, MIGHTY OF MIND--IS TO BE GREAT IN LIFE; TO BECOME THIS INCREASINGLY IS TO ""ADVANCE IN LIFE."""
"TO BE IDLE AND TO BE POOR HAVE ALWAYS BEEN REPROACHES; AND THEREFORE EVERY MAN ENDEAVOURS WITH HIS UTMOST CARE TO HIDE HIS POVERTY FROM OTHERS, AND HIS IDLENESS FROM HIMSELF."
"TO BE HONEST, AS THIS WORLD GOES, IS TO BE ONE MAN PICKED OUT OF TEN THOUSAND."
"TO BE DISOBEDIENT THROUGH TEMPTATION IS HUMAN SIN; BUT TO BE DISOBEDIENT FOR THE SAKE OF DISOBEDIENCE, FIENDISH SIN. TO BE OBEDIENT FOR THE SAKE OF SUCCESS IN CONDUCT IS HUMAN VIRTUE; TO BE OBEDIENT FOR THE SAKE OF OBEDIENCE, ANGELIC VIRTUE."
TO BE ANGRY IS TO AVENGE THE FAULTS OF OTHERS UPON OURSELVES.
"TO BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE MERIT OF A MINISTRY, WE NEED ONLY OBSERVE THE CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE."
"TO BE A POET IS TO HAVE A SOUL IN WHICH KNOWLEDGE PASSES INSTANTANEOUSLY INTO FEELING, AND FEELING FLASHES BACK AS A NEW ORGAN OF KNOWLEDGE."
"TO ATTACK VICES IN THE ABSTRACT WITHOUT TOUCHING PERSONS, MAY BE SAFE FIGHTING INDEED, BUT IT IS FIGHTING WITH SHADOWS."
"'TIS WITH OUR JUDGMENTS AS OUR WATCHES; NONE / GO JUST ALIKE, YET EACH BELIEVES HIS OWN."
"'TIS TOO MUCH PROVED THAT, WITH DEVOTION'S VISAGE / AND PIOUS ACTION, WE DO SUGAR O'ER / THE DEVIL HIMSELF."
"'TIS THE SUBLIME OF MAN, / OUR NOONTIDE MAJESTY, TO KNOW OURSELVES / PARTS AND PROPORTIONS OF ONE WONDROUS WHOLE! / THIS FRATERNISES MAN, THIS CONSTITUTES / OUR CHARITIES AND BEARINGS."
'TIS THE PART OF A POOR SPIRIT TO UNDERVALUE HIMSELF AND BLUSH.
"'TIS THE MIND THAT MAKES THE BODY RICH; / AND AS THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH THE DARKEST CLOUDS, / SO HONOUR PEERETH IN THE MEANEST HABIT."
"'TIS THE DIVINITY THAT STIRS WITHIN US; / 'TIS HEAVEN ITSELF THAT POINTS OUT AN HEREAFTER, / AND INTIMATES ETERNITY TO MAN."
"'TIS THE CURSE OF SERVICE; PREFERMENT GOES BY LETTER AND AFFECTION, NOT BY THE OLD GRADATION WHERE EACH SECOND STOOD HEIR TO THE FIRST."
"'TIS STRANGE; / AND OFTENTIMES TO WIN US TO OUR HARM, / THE INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS TELL US TRUTHS; / WIN US WITH HONEST TRIFLES, TO BETRAY 'S, / IN DEEPEST CONSEQUENCE."
'TIS SAID FANTASTIC OCEAN DOTH UNFOLD THE LIKENESS OF WHATE'ER ON LAND IS SEEN.
"'TIS PLEASANT, SURE, TO SEE ONE'S NAME IN PRINT; / A BOOK'S A BOOK, ALTHOUGH THERE'S NOTHING IN'T."
"'TIS ONLY NOBLE TO BE GOOD; / KIND HEARTS ARE MORE THAN CORONETS, / AND SIMPLE FAITH THAN NORMAN BLOOD."
"'TIS NOW THE VERY WITCHING TIME OF NIGHT, / WHEN CHURCHYARDS YAWN, AND HELL ITSELF BREATHES OUT / CONTAGION TO THIS WORLD."
"'TIS NOT WHAT MAN DOES WHICH EXALTS HIM, BUT WHAT MAN WOULD DO."
'TIS NOT SO ABOVE: / THERE IS NO SHUFFLING; THERE THE ACTION LIES / IN ITS TRUE NATURE.
"'TIS NOT IN MORTALS TO COMMAND SUCCESS, / BUT WE'LL DO MORE, SEMPRONIUS--WE'LL DESERVE IT."
'TIS NOT ENOUGH YOUR COUNSEL STILL BE TRUE; / BLUNT TRUTHS MORE MISCHIEF THAN NICE FALSEHOODS DO.
"'TIS NOT ENOUGH WHEN SWARMING FAULTS ARE WRIT, / THAT HERE AND THERE ARE SCATTER'D SPARKS OF WIT."
"'TIS NOT A LIP, OR EYE, WE BEAUTY CALL, / BUT THE JOINT FORCE AND FULL RESULT OF ALL."
"'TIS MY VOCATION, HAL; 'TIS NO SIN FOR A MAN TO LABOUR IN HIS VOCATION."
"'TIS IMPOSSIBLE YOU SHOULD TAKE TRUE ROOT, BUT BY THE FAIR WEATHER THAT YOU MAKE YOURSELF; IT IS NEEDFUL THAT YOU FRAME THE SEASON FOR YOUR OWN HARVEST."
'TIS GOD / DIFFUSED THROUGH ALL THAT DOTH MAKE ALL ONE WHOLE.
"'TIS EDUCATION FORMS THE COMMON MIND, / JUST AS THE TWIG IS BENT, THE TREE'S INCLINED."
"'TIS DEATH TO ME TO BE AT ENMITY; / I HATE IT, AND DESIRE ALL GOOD MEN'S LOVE."
"'TIS, BY COMPARISON, AN EASY TASK / EARTH TO DESPISE; BUT TO CONVERSE WITH HEAVEN--/ THIS IS NOT EASY."
"'TIS BUT A BASE, IGNOBLE MIND / THAT MOUNTS NO HIGHER THAN A BIRD CAN SOAR."
'TIS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST / THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL.
'TIS A VILE THING TO DIE ... / WHEN MEN ARE UNPREPAR'D AND LOOK NOT FOR IT.
"TIRED NATURE'S SWEET RESTORER, BALMY SLEEP! / HE, LIKE THE WORLD, HIS READY VISIT PAYS / WHERE FORTUNE SMILES; THE WRETCHED HE FORSAKES: / SWIFT ON HIS DOWNY PINIONS FLIES FROM WOE, / AND LIGHTS ON LIDS UNSULLIED WITH A TEAR."
"TIME'S WATERS WILL NOT EBB NOR STAY; / POWER CANNOT CHANGE THEM, BUT LOVE MAY; / WHAT CANNOT BE, LOVE COUNTS IT DONE."
"TIME WRITES NO WRINKLE ON THINE AZURE BROW; / SUCH AS CREATION'S DAWN BEHELD, THOU ROLLEST NOW."
"TIME, WHEN WELL HUSBANDED, IS LIKE A CULTIVATED FIELD, OF WHICH A FEW ACRES PRODUCE MORE OF WHAT IS USEFUL TO LIFE, THAN EXTENSIVE PROVINCES, EVEN OF THE RICHEST SOIL, WHEN OVERRUN WITH WEEDS AND BRAMBLES."
"TIME SHALL UNFOLD WHAT PLAITED CUNNING HIDES: / WHO COVER FAULTS, AT LAST SHAME THEM DERIDES."
"TIME IS LIKE A RIVER, IN WHICH METALS AND SOLID SUBSTANCES ARE SUNK, WHILE CHAFF AND STRAWS SWIM UPON THE SURFACE."
"TIE UP THY FEARS. / HE THAT FORBEARS / TO SUIT AND SERVE HIS NEED, / DESERVES HIS LOAD."
THY NATURE / IT IS TOO FULL OF THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS / TO CATCH THE NEAREST WAY.
"THY FRIEND PUT IN THY BOSOM; WEAR HIS EYES / STILL IN THY HEART, THAT HE MAY SEE WHAT'S THERE. / IF CAUSE REQUIRE, THOU ART HIS SACRIFICE.... / BUT LOVE IS LOST; THE WAY OF FRIENDSHIP'S GONE."
"THUS WITH THE YEAR / SEASONS RETURN; BUT NOT TO ME RETURNS / DAY, OR THE SWEET APPROACH OF EVEN OR MORN, / OR SIGHT OF VERNAL BLOOM OR SUMMER'S ROSE, / OR FLOCKS, OR HERDS, OR HUMAN FACE DIVINE; / BUT CLOUD INSTEAD, AND EVER-DURING DARK / SURROUNDS ME."
"THUS WHEN I SHUN SCYLLA, YOUR FATHER, I FALL INTO CHARYBDIS, YOUR MOTHER."
"THUS WE PLAY THE FOOLS WITH THE TIME; AND THE SPIRITS OF THE WISE SIT IN THE CLOUDS, AND MOCK US."
THUS THE NATIVE HUE OF RESOLUTION / IS SICKLIED O'ER WITH THE PALE CAST OF THOUGHT.
THROUGH TATTER'D CLOTHES SMALL VICES DO APPEAR; / ROBES AND FURR'D GOWNS HIDE ALL.
"THRICE IS HE ARM'D THAT HATH HIS QUARREL JUST; / AND HE BUT NAKED, THOUGH LOCKED UP IN STEEL, / WHOSE CONSCIENCE WITH INJUSTICE IS CORRUPTED."
"THREE POETS IN THREE DISTANT AGES BORN, / GREECE, ITALY, AND ENGLAND DID ADORN. / THE FIRST IN LOFTINESS OF THOUGHT SURPASS'D; / THE NEXT, IN MAJESTY; IN BOTH, THE LAST. / THE FORCE OF NATURE COULD NO FURTHER GO; / TO MAKE A THIRD, SHE JOIN'D THE FORMER TWO."
"THREATEN THE THREATENER, AND OUTFACE THE BROW / OF BRAGGING HORROR; SO SHALL INFERIOR EYES, / THAT BORROW THEIR BEHAVIOURS FROM THE GREAT, / GROW GREAT BY YOUR EXAMPLE, AND PUT ON / THE DAUNTLESS SPIRIT OF RESOLUTION."
"THOUGHTS SHUT UP WANT AIR, AND SPOIL, LIKE BALES UNOPENED TO THE SUN."
THOUGHTLESSNESS IS PRECISELY THE CHIEF PUBLIC CALAMITY OF OUR DAY.
"THOUGHT IS THE WIND, KNOWLEDGE THE SAIL, AND MANKIND THE VESSEL."
"THOUGH WISDOM WAKE, SUSPICION SLEEPS / AT WISDOM'S GATE; AND TO SIMPLICITY / RESIGNS HER CHARGE, WHILE GOODNESS THINKS NO ILL WHERE NO ILL SEEMS."
"THOUGH LITTLE FIRE GROWS GREAT WITH LITTLE WIND, / YET EXTREME GUSTS WILL BLOW OUT FIRE AND ALL."
"THOUGH JUSTICE BE THY PLEA, CONSIDER THIS--/ THAT IN THE COURSE OF JUSTICE NONE OF US / SHOULD SEE SALVATION."
"THOU! WHY, THOU WILT QUARREL WITH A MAN THAT HATH A HAIR MORE OR A HAIR LESS IN HIS BEARD THAN THOU HAST. THOU WILT QUARREL WITH A MAN FOR CRACKING NUTS, HAVING NO OTHER REASON BUT BECAUSE THOU HAST HAZEL EYES.... THY HEAD IS FULL OF QUARRELS AS AN EGG IS FULL OF MEAT."
"THOU, TOO CURIOUS EAR, THAT FAIN / WOULDST THREAD THE MAZE OF HARMONY, / CONTENT THEE WITH ONE SIMPLE STRAIN, / ... TILL THOU ART DULY TRAINED, AND TAUGHT / THE CONCORD SWEET OF LOVE DIVINE."
"THOU, NATURE, ART MY GODDESS; TO THY LAW / MY SERVICES ARE BOUND."
"THOU HAST GIVEN ME / A WORLD OF EARTHLY BLESSINGS TO MY SOUL, / IF SYMPATHY OF LOVE UNITE OUR THOUGHTS."
"THOU BEAR'ST THY HEAVY RICHES BUT A JOURNEY, / AND DEATH UNLOADS THEE."
"THOU ART HEAVEN'S TASKER; AND THY GOD REQUIRES / THE PUREST OF THY FLOUR, AS WELL AS OF THY FIRES."
THOSE WHO SEEK FOR SOMETHING MORE THAN HAPPINESS IN THIS WORLD MUST NOT COMPLAIN IF HAPPINESS BE NOT THEIR PORTION.
THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO LEVEL NEVER EQUALISE; THEY LOAD THE EDIFICE OF SOCIETY BY SETTING UP IN THE AIR WHAT THE SOLIDITY OF THE STRUCTURE REQUIRES TO BE ON THE GROUND.
THOSE WHO ARE QUITE SATISFIED SIT STILL AND DO NOTHING; THOSE WHO ARE NOT QUITE SATISFIED ARE THE SOLE BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD.
"THOSE THAT FLY MAY FIGHT AGAIN, / WHICH HE CAN NEVER DO THAT'S SLAIN."
"THOSE THAT COME UNSOUGHT FOR ARE COMMONLY THE MOST VALUABLE, AND SHOULD BE SECURED, BECAUSE THEY SELDOM RETURN."
"THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS IMPROVING NEVER BECOME GREAT. GREATNESS IS AN EMINENCE, THE ASCENT TO WHICH IS STEEP AND LOFTY, AND WHICH A MAN MUST SEIZE ON AT ONCE BY NATURAL BOLDNESS AND VIGOUR, AND NOT BY PATIENT, WARY STEPS."
"THOSE HOLY FIELDS / OVER WHOSE ACRES WALKED THOSE BLESSÈD FEET / WHICH, FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO WERE NAILED, / FOR OUR ADVANTAGE, ON THE BITTER CROSS."
"THOSE FRIENDS THOU HAST, AND THEIR ADOPTION TRIED, / GRAPPLE THEM TO THY SOUL WITH HOOPS OF STEEL."
THOSE ARE OFTEN RAISED INTO THE GREATEST TRANSPORTS OF MIRTH WHO ARE SUBJECT TO THE GREATEST DEPRESSIONS OF MELANCHOLY.
"THO' WORLD ON WORLD IN MYRIAD MYRIADS ROLL / ROUND US, EACH WITH DIFFERENT POWERS, / AND OTHER FORM OF LIFE THAN OURS, / WHAT KNOW WE GREATER THAN THE SOUL?"
"THO' MEN MAY BICKER WITH THE THINGS THEY LOVE, / THEY WOULD NOT MAKE THEM LAUGHABLE IN ALL EYES, / NOT WHILE THEY LOVED THEM."
"THIS WORLD, WHERE MUCH IS TO BE DONE AND LITTLE TO BE KNOWN."
"THIS SHE KNOWS IN JOYS AND WOES, / THAT SAINTS WILL AID IF MEN WILL CALL; / FOR THE BLUE SKY BENDS OVER ALL."
"THIS LOW MAN SEEKS A LITTLE THING TO DO, / SEES IT AND DOES IT; / THIS HIGH MAN, WITH A GREAT THING TO PURSUE, / DIES ERE HE KNOWS IT."
THIS IS THE VERY COINAGE OF YOUR BRAIN; / THIS BODILESS CREATION ECSTASY / IS VERY CUNNING IN.
"THIS IS NOT THE LIBERTY WHICH WE CAN HOPE, THAT NO GRIEVANCE SHOULD ARISE IN THE COMMONWEALTH, BUT WHEN COMPLAINTS ARE FREELY HEARD, DEEPLY CONSIDERED, AND SPEEDILY REFORMED, THEN IS THE UTMOST BOUND OF CIVIL LIBERTY ATTAINED THAT WISE MEN LOOK FOR."
THIS EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE / COMMENDS THE INGREDIENTS OF OUR POISON'D CHALICE / TO OUR OWN LIPS.
"THIS COMMUNICATING OF A MAN'S SELF TO HIS FRIEND WORKS TWO CONTRARY EFFECTS, FOR IT REDOUBLETH JOYS AND CUTTETH GRIEFS IN HALVES."
"THIS ABOVE ALL; TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, / AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, / THOU CANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN."
THINK'ST THOU EXISTENCE DOTH DEPEND ON TIME? / IT DOTH; BUT ACTIONS ARE OUR EPOCHS.
"THINK YOU, 'MID ALL THIS MIGHTY SUM / OF THINGS FOR EVER SPEAKING, / THAT NOTHING OF ITSELF WILL COME, / BUT WE MUST STILL BE SEEKING."
"THINK NOT YOUR ESTATE YOUR OWN, WHILE ANY MAN CAN CALL UPON YOU FOR MONEY WHICH YOU CANNOT PAY."
THINK NOT THY FAME AT EVERY TWITCH WILL BREAK; / BY GREAT DEEDS SHOW THAT THOU CANST LITTLE DO; / AND DO THEM NOT; THAT SHALL THY WISDOM BE; / AND CHANGE THY TEMPERANCE INTO BRAVERY.
"THINK NAUGHT A TRIFLE, THOUGH IT SMALL APPEAR; / SMALL SANDS THE MOUNTAIN, MOMENTS MAKE THE YEAR, / AND TRIFLES LIFE."
"THINGS WITHOUT REMEDY SHOULD BE WITHOUT REGARD; WHAT IS DONE, IS DONE."
THINGS ILL GOT HAD EVER BAD SUCCESS.... I'LL LEAVE MY SON MY VIRTUOUS DEEDS BEHIND.
"THINGS BASE AND VILE, HOLDING NO QUANTITY, / LOVE CAN TRANSPOSE TO FORM AND DIGNITY."
"THINGS AT THE WORST WILL CEASE, OR ELSE CLIMB UPWARD / TO WHAT THEY WERE BEFORE."
THINGS ARE GRACEFUL IN A FRIEND'S MOUTH WHICH ARE BLUSHING IN A MAN'S OWN.
"THINGS ALL ARE BIG WITH JEST; NOTHING THAT'S PLAIN / BUT MAY BE WITTY, IF THOU HAST THE VEIN ... / MANY AFFECTING WIT BEYOND THEIR POWER, / HAVE GOT TO BE A DEAR FOOL FOR AN HOUR."
"THINE OWN WORM BE NOT: YET SUCH JEALOUSY, AS HURTS NOT OTHERS, BUT MAY MAKE THEE BETTER, / IS A GOOD SPUR."
THICK AS AUTUMNAL LEAVES THAT STREW THE BROOKS / IN VALLOMBROSA.
THEY WHOM TRUTH AND WISDOM LEAD / CAN GATHER HONEY FROM A WEED.
THEY TOLD ME I WAS EVERYTHING; 'TIS A LIE: I AM NOT AGUE-PROOF.
THEY THAT MEAN TO MAKE NO USE OF FRIENDS WILL BE AT LITTLE TROUBLE TO GAIN THEM: AND TO BE WITHOUT FRIENDSHIP IS TO BE WITHOUT ONE OF THE FIRST COMFORTS OF OUR PRESENT STATE.
"THEY THAT DENY A GOD DESTROY MAN'S NOBILITY. FOR, CERTAINLY, MAN IS OF KIN TO THE BEASTS, BY HIS BODY; AND IF HE BE NOT OF KIN TO GOD BY HIS SPIRIT, HE IS A BASE AND IGNOBLE CREATURE."
"THEY THAT BY PLEADING CLOTHES / DO FORTUNES SEEK, WHEN WORTH AND SERVICE FAIL, / WOULD HAVE THEIR TALE BELIEVED FOR THEIR OATHS, / AND ARE LIKE EMPTY VESSELS UNDER SAIL."
"THEY, SWEET SOUL, THAT MOST IMPUTE A CRIME / ARE PRONEST TO IT, AND IMPUTE THEMSELVES, / WANTING THE MENTAL RANGE; OR LOW DESIRE / NOT TO FEEL LOWEST MAKES THEM LEVEL ALL; / YEA, THEY WOULD PARE THE MOUNTAIN TO THE PLAIN, / TO LEAVE AN EQUAL BASENESS."
"THEY SAY BEST MEN ARE MOULDED OUT OF FAULTS, / AND, FOR THE MOST, BECOME MUCH MORE THE BETTER / FOR BEING A LITTLE BAD."
"THEY SAID THAT LOVE WOULD DIE WHEN HOPE WAS GONE, / AND LOVE MOURN'D LONG, AND SORROW'D AFTER HOPE; / AT LAST SHE SOUGHT OUT MEMORY, AND THEY TROD / THE SAME OLD PATHS WHERE LOVE HAD WALK'D WITH HOPE, / AND MEMORY FED THE SOUL OF LOVE WITH TEARS."
"THEY HAVE BEEN AT A GREAT FEAST OF LANGUAGES, AND STOLEN THE SCRAPS."
"THEY ARE NOT A PIPE FOR FORTUNE'S FINGER, / TO SOUND WHAT STOP SHE PLEASE."
THEY ARE NEVER ALONE THAT ARE ACCOMPANIED WITH NOBLE THOUGHTS.
"THEY ARE AS SICK THAT SURFEIT WITH TOO MUCH, AS THEY THAT STARVE WITH NOTHING."
"THERE'S SUCH DIVINITY DOTH HEDGE A KING, / THAT TREASON CAN BUT PEEP TO WHAT IT WOULD."
"THERE'S SOMETHING GOOD IN ALL WEATHERS. IF IT DON'T HAPPEN TO BE GOOD FOR MY WORK TO-DAY, IT'S GOOD FOR SOME OTHER MAN'S TO-DAY, AND WILL COME ROUND TO ME TO-MORROW."
"THERE'S NONE THAT CAN / READ GOD ARIGHT, UNLESS HE FIRST SPELL MAN."
THERE'S NOTHING BUT WHAT'S BEARABLE AS LONG AS A MAN CAN WORK.
"THERE'S NOT THE SMALLEST ORB WHICH THOU BEHOLD'ST, / BUT IN HIS MOTION LIKE AN ANGEL SINGS, / STILL QUIRING TO THE YOUNG-EYED CHERUBIMS."
THERE'S NOT ONE WISE MAN AMONG TWENTY THAT WILL PRAISE HIMSELF.
THERE'S NOT A JOY THE WORLD CAN GIVE LIKE THAT IT TAKES AWAY.
"THERE'S NO WORK SO TIRIN' AS DANGLIN' ABOUT AN' STARIN', AN' NOT RIGHTLY KNOWIN' WHAT YOU'RE GOIN' TO DO NEXT; AN' KEEPIN' YOUR FACE I' SMILIN' ORDER, LIKE A GROCER O' MARKET-DAY."
"THERE'S NO SLIPPING UP-HILL AGAIN, AND NO STANDING STILL WHEN ONCE YOU'VE BEGUN TO SLIP DOWN."
"THERE'S NO PLEASURE I' LIVING, IF YOU'RE TO BE CORKED UP FOR EVER, AND ONLY DRIBBLE YOUR MIND OUT BY THE SLY, LIKE A LEAKY BARREL."
THERE'S NO ART / TO FIND THE MIND'S CONSTRUCTION IN THE FACE.
"THERE'S MUSIC IN THE SIGHING OF A REED; / THERE'S MUSIC IN THE GUSHING OF A RILL; / THERE'S MUSIC IN ALL THINGS, IF MEN HAD EARS."
"THERE'S MERCY IN EVERY PLACE, / AND MERCY, ENCOURAGING THOUGHT, / GIVES EVEN AFFLICTION A GRACE, / AND RECONCILES MAN TO HIS LOT."
THERE'S FOLKS 'UD STAND ON THEIR HEADS AND THEN SAY THE FAULT WAS IN THEIR BOOTS.
"THERE'S FOLKS AS MAKE BAD BUTTER, AND TRUSTEN TO THE SALT T' HIDE IT."
"THERE'S A SWEETER FLOWER THAN E'ER / BLUSH'D ON THE ROSY SPRAY, / A BRIGHTER STAR, A RICHER BLOOM, / THAN E'ER DID WESTERN HEAVEN ILLUME / AT CLOSE OF SUMMER DAY--/ 'TIS LOVE, THE LAST BEST GIFT OF HEAVEN."
THERE'S A MEDIUM IN THOUGHTFULNESS AND GAIETY: FIND IT OUT AND KEEP TO IT.
"THERE'S A DIVINITY THAT SHAPES OUR ENDS, / ROUGH-HEW THEM AS WE WILL."
THERE WAS NEVER YET PHILOSOPHER / WHO COULD ENDURE THE TOOTHACHE PATIENTLY.
"THERE WAS A TIME WHEN MEADOW, GROVE, AND STREAM, / THE EARTH AND EVERY COMMON SIGHT, / TO ME DID SEEM / APPARELLED IN CELESTIAL LIGHT, / THE GLORY AND THE FRESHNESS OF A DREAM. / IT IS NOT NOW AS IT HAS BEEN OF YORE; / TURN WHERESOE'ER I MAY, / BY NIGHT OR DAY, / THE THINGS WHICH I HAVE SEEN, I NOW CAN SEE NO MORE."
"THERE NEVER WAS ANY PARTY, FACTION, OR SECT IN WHICH THE MOST IGNORANT WAS NOT THE MOST VIOLENT."
"THERE NEEDS NO GHOST, MY LORD, COME FROM THE GRAVE / TO TELL US THIS."
"THERE MUST BE WORK DONE BY THE ARMS, OR NONE OF US WOULD LIVE; AND WORK DONE BY THE BRAINS, OR THE LIFE WOULD NOT BE WORTH HAVING. AND THE SAME MEN CANNOT DO BOTH."
THERE MAY COME A DAY WHEN THERE SHALL BE NO MORE CURSE; IN THE MEANTIME YOU MUST BE HUMBLE AND HONEST ENOUGH TO TAKE YOUR SHARE OF IT.
"THERE LIVES MORE FAITH IN HONEST DOUBT, BELIEVE ME, THAN IN HALF THE CREEDS."
"THERE IS SCARCELY A GOOD CRITIC OF BOOKS BORN IN OUR AGE, AND YET EVERY FOOL THINKS HIMSELF JUSTIFIED IN CRITICISING PERSONS."
"THERE IS SCARCE TRUTH ENOUGH ALIVE TO MAKE SOCIETIES SECURE, BUT SECURITY ENOUGH TO MAKE FELLOWSHIPS ACCURSED."
"THERE IS ONLY ONE CURE FOR PUBLIC DISTRESS, AND THAT IS PUBLIC EDUCATION, DIRECTED TO MAKE MEN THOUGHTFUL, MERCIFUL, AND JUST."
"THERE IS OFTEN A COMPLAINT OF WANT OF PARTS, WHEN THE FAULT LIES IN A WANT OF A DUE IMPROVEMENT OF THEM."
"THERE IS NOTHING SO SMALL BUT THAT WE MAY HONOUR GOD BY ASKING HIS GUIDANCE OF IT, OR INSULT HIM BY TAKING IT INTO OUR OWN HANDS."
"THERE IS NOTHING SO GREAT OR SO GOODLY IN CREATION, BUT IT IS A MEAN SYMBOL OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, AND OF THE THINGS THAT HE HAS PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM."
THERE IS NOTHING SO AGONISING TO THE FINE SKIN OF VANITY AS THE APPLICATION OF A ROUGH TRUTH.
"THERE IS NOTHING REALLY MORE MONSTROUS IN ANY RECORDED SAVAGERY OR ABSURDITY OF MANKIND THAN THAT GOVERNMENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET MONEY FOR ANY FOLLY THEY CHOOSE TO COMMIT, BY SELLING TO CAPITALISTS THE RIGHT OF TAXING FUTURE GENERATIONS TO THE END OF TIME."
THERE IS NOTHING MORE TERRIBLE TO A GUILTY HEART THAN THE EYE OF A RESPECTED FRIEND.
THERE IS NOTHING INNOCENT OR GOOD THAT DIES AND IS FORGOTTEN.
THERE IS NOTHING IN WHICH THE POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE IS MORE EVIDENT THAN IN POLITICS.
"THERE IS NOTHING EXASPERATES PEOPLE MORE THAN THE DISPLAY OF SUPERIOR ABILITY OR BRILLIANCY IN CONVERSATION. THEY SEEM PLEASED AT THE TIME, BUT THEIR ENVY MAKES THEM CURSE HIM AT THEIR HEARTS."
THERE IS NOTHING EVIL BUT WHAT IS WITHIN US; THE REST IS EITHER NATURAL OR ACCIDENTAL.
"THERE IS NOTHING EITHER GOOD OR BAD, BUT THINKING MAKES IT SO."
THERE IS NOT SO AGONIZING A FEELING IN THE WHOLE CATALOGUE OF HUMAN SUFFERING AS THE FIRST CONVICTION THAT THE HEART OF THE BEING WHOM WE MOST TENDERLY LOVE IS ESTRANGED FROM US.
THERE IS NOT IN EARTH A SPECTACLE MORE WORTHY THAN A GREAT MAN SUPERIOR TO HIS SUFFERINGS.
"THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE--LIFE, INCLUDING ALL ITS POWERS OF LOVE, OF JOY, AND OF ADMIRATION."
THERE IS NO VICE SO SIMPLE BUT ASSUMES / SOME MARK OF VIRTUE IN HIS OUTWARD PARTS.
THERE IS NO TRAITOR LIKE HIM WHOSE DOMESTIC TREASON PLANTS THE PONIARD WITHIN THE BREAST WHICH TRUSTED TO HIS TRUTH.
THERE IS NO SURE FOUNDATION SET ON BLOOD; / NO CERTAIN LIFE ACHIEVED BY OTHERS' DEATH.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LIBERTY IN THE UNIVERSE: THERE CAN NEVER BE. THE STARS HAVE IT NOT; THE EARTH HAS IT NOT; THE SEA HAS IT NOT; AND WE MEN HAVE THE MOCKERY AND SEMBLANCE OF IT ONLY FOR OUR HEAVIEST PUNISHMENT.
"THERE IS NO SOLEMNITY SO DEEP, TO A RIGHT THINKING CREATURE, AS THAT OF DAWN."
THERE IS NO QUALIFICATION FOR GOVERNMENT BUT VIRTUE AND WISDOM.
"THERE IS NO POLICY LIKE POLITENESS; AND A GOOD MANNER IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD, EITHER TO GET A GOOD NAME OR TO SUPPLY THE WANT OF IT."
THERE IS NO PART OF THE FURNITURE OF A MAN'S MIND WHICH HE HAS A GREATER RIGHT TO EXULT IN THAN THAT WHICH HE HAS HEWN AND FASHIONED FOR HIMSELF.
"THERE IS NO OTHER GHOST SAVE THE GHOST OF OUR OWN CHILDHOOD, THE GHOST OF OUR OWN INNOCENCE, THE GHOST OF OUR OWN AIRY BELIEF."
"THERE IS NO MAN THAT IMPARTETH HIS JOYS TO HIS FRIEND, BUT HE JOYETH THE MORE; AND NO MAN THAT IMPARTETH HIS GRIEFS TO HIS FRIEND, BUT HE GRIEVETH THE LESS."
THERE IS NO MAN SO FRIENDLESS BUT THAT HE CAN FIND A FRIEND SINCERE ENOUGH TO TELL HIM DISAGREEABLE TRUTHS.
"THERE IS NO LOSS / IN BEING SMALL; GREAT BULKS BUT SWELL WITH DROSS. / MAN IS HEAVEN'S MASTERPIECE; IF IT APPEAR / MORE GREAT, THE VALUE'S LESS; IF LESS, MORE DEAR."
THERE IS NO LEGISLATION FOR LIARS AND TRAITORS; THEY CANNOT BE PREVENTED FROM THE PIT; THE EARTH FINALLY SWALLOWS THEM.... THERE IS NO LAW FOR THESE BUT GRAVITATION.
THERE IS NO HARM IN ANYBODY THINKING THAT CHRIST IS IN BREAD. THE HARM IS IN THE EXPECTATION OF HIS PRESENCE IN GUNPOWDER.
THERE IS NO GREATER WISDOM THAN WELL TO TIME THE BEGINNINGS AND ONSET OF THINGS.
THERE IS NO GAMBLING LIKE POLITICS.... NOTHING IN WHICH THE POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE IS MORE EVIDENT.
THERE IS NO FATIGUE SO WEARISOME AS THAT WHICH COMES FROM WANT OF WORK.
"THERE IS NO EXTREMITY OF DISTRESS WHICH OF ITSELF OUGHT TO REDUCE A GREAT NATION TO DESPAIR. IT IS NOT THE DISORDER, BUT THE PHYSICIAN ... WHICH ALONE CAN MAKE A WHOLE PEOPLE DESPERATE."
"THERE IS NO DESPAIR SO ABSOLUTE AS THAT WHICH COMES WITH THE FIRST MOMENTS OF OUR FIRST GREAT SORROW, WHEN WE HAVE NOT YET KNOWN WHAT IT IS TO HAVE SUFFERED AND BE HEALED, TO HAVE DESPAIRED AND HAVE RECOVERED HOPE."
"THERE IS NO DEARTH OF CHARITY IN THE WORLD IN GIVING, BUT THERE IS COMPARATIVELY LITTLE EXERCISED IN THINKING AND SPEAKING."
"THERE IS NO CAUSE WHY ONE MAN'S NOSE IS LONGER THAN ANOTHER'S, BUT BECAUSE THAT GOD PLEASES TO HAVE IT SO."
THERE IS NO BETTER TYPE OF A PERFECTLY FREE CREATURE THAN THE COMMON HOUSE-FLY.
"THERE IS NEED, BITTER NEED, TO BRING BACK, IF WE MAY, INTO MEN'S MINDS, THAT TO LIVE IS NOTHING UNLESS TO LIVE BE TO KNOW HIM BY WHOM WE LIVE, AND THAT HE IS NOT TO BE KNOWN AMIDST THE HURRY OF CROWDS AND CRASH OF INNOVATION, BUT IN SOLITARY PLACES, AND OUT OF THE GLOWING INTELLIGENCE WHICH HE GAVE TO MEN OF OLD."
THERE IS MORE SERFDOM IN ENGLAND NOW THAN AT ANY TIME SINCE THE CONQUEST.
"THERE IS LITTLE WISDOM IN KNOWING THAT EVERY MAN MUST BE UP AND DOING, AND THAT ALL MANKIND ARE MADE DEPENDENT ON ONE ANOTHER."
"THERE IS IN THIS WORLD INFINITELY MORE JOY THAN PAIN TO BE SHARED, IF YOU WILL ONLY TAKE YOUR SHARE WHEN IT IS SET BEFORE YOU."
THERE IS IN THE HEART OF WOMAN SUCH A DEEP WELL OF LOVE THAT NO AGE CAN FREEZE IT.
"THERE IS IN HUMAN NATURE GENERALLY MORE OF THE FOOL THAN OF THE WISE, AND THEREFORE THOSE FACULTIES BY WHICH THE FOOLISH PART OF MEN'S MINDS IS TAKEN ARE MOST POTENT."
"THERE IS FORGIVENESS WITH GOD AND CHRIST FOR THE PASSING SIN OF THE HOT HEART, BUT NONE FOR THE ETERNAL AND INHERENT SIN OF THE COLD."
THERE IS FAR LESS PLEASURE IN DOING A THING BEAUTIFULLY THAN IN SEEING IT BEAUTIFULLY DONE.
"THERE IS EVER A CERTAIN LANGUOR ATTENDING THE FULNESS OF PROSPERITY. WHEN THE HEART HAS NO MORE TO WISH, IT YAWNS OVER ITS POSSESSIONS, AND THE ENERGY OF THE SOUL GOES OUT, LIKE A FLAME THAT HAS NO MORE TO DEVOUR."
THERE IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING OF EXQUISITE KINDNESS AND THOUGHTFUL BENEVOLENCE IN THAT RAREST OF GIFTS--FINE BREEDING.
"THERE IS BUT ONE SOLID BASIS OF HAPPINESS, AND THAT IS THE REASONABLE HOPE OF A HAPPY FUTURITY. THIS MAY BE HAD EVERYWHERE."
"THERE IS BUT ONE CASE WHEREIN A MAN MAY COMMEND HIMSELF WITH GOOD GRACE, AND THAT IS IN COMMENDING VIRTUE IN ANOTHER, ESPECIALLY IF IT BE SUCH A VIRTUE WHEREUNTO HIMSELF PRETENDETH."
"THERE IS AS MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COUNSEL THAT A FRIEND GIVETH AND THAT A MAN GIVETH HIMSELF, AS THERE IS BETWEEN THE COUNSEL OF A FRIEND AND OF A FLATTERER."
"THERE IS AN INSOLENCE WHICH NONE BUT THOSE WHO DESERVE SOME CONTEMPT THEMSELVES CAN BESTOW, AND THOSE ONLY WHO DESERVE NO CONTEMPT CAN BEAR."
THERE IS A WORTH IN HONEST IGNORANCE; 'TWERE ALMOST A PITY TO EXCHANGE FOR KNOWLEDGE.
"THERE IS A TRUE CHURCH WHENEVER ONE MEETS ANOTHER HELPFULLY, AND THAT IS THE ONLY HOLY OR MOTHER CHURCH WHICH EVER WAS OR EVER SHALL BE."
THERE IS A SUNDAY CONSCIENCE AS WELL AS A SUNDAY COAT; AND THOSE WHO MAKE RELIGION A SECONDARY CONCERN PUT THE COAT AND CONSCIENCE CAREFULLY BY TO PUT ON ONLY ONCE A WEEK.
"THERE IS A PLEASURE, SURE, IN BEING MAD, WHICH NONE BUT MAD MEN KNOW."
"THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS; / THERE IS A RAPTURE ON THE LONELY SHORE; / THERE IS SOCIETY, WHERE NONE INTRUDES, / BY THE DEEP SEA, AND MUSIC IN ITS ROAR; / I LOVE NOT THE MAN THE LESS, / BUT NATURE MORE."
"THERE IS A MERCY THAT IS WEAKNESS, AND EVEN TREASON AGAINST THE COMMON GOOD."
"THERE IS A MAGIC IN THE MEMORY OF SCHOOLBOY FRIENDSHIPS; IT SOFTENS THE HEART, AND EVEN AFFECTS THE NERVOUS SYSTEM OF THOSE WHO HAVE NO HEARTS."
"THERE IS A HISTORY IN ALL MEN'S LIVES, / FIGURING THE NATURE OF THE TIMES DECEASED; / THE WHICH OBSERVED, A MAN MAY PROPHESY, / WITH A NEAR AIM OF THE MAIN CHANCE OF THINGS / AS YET NOT COME TO LIFE: WHICH, IN THEIR SEEDS / AND WEAK BEGINNINGS, LIE INTREASURÈD."
"THERE IS A GREAT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEARING MALICE, WHICH IS ALWAYS UNGENEROUS, AND A RESOLUTE SELF-DEFENCE, WHICH IS ALWAYS PRUDENT AND JUSTIFIABLE."
"THERE IS A GLARE ABOUT WORLDLY SUCCESS, WHICH IS VERY APT TO DAZZLE MEN'S EYES."
THERE IS A FRIGHTFUL INTERVAL BETWEEN THE SEED AND THE TIMBER.
"THERE IS A FLUSH OF THE BODY WHICH IS FULL OF WARMTH AND LIFE, AND ANOTHER WHICH WILL PASS INTO PUTREFACTION."
"THERE IS A DIFFERENT KIND OF KNOWLEDGE GOOD FOR EVERY DIFFERENT CREATURE, AND THE GLORY OF THE HIGHER CREATURES IS IN IGNORANCE OF WHAT IS KNOWN TO THE LOWER."
"THERE IS A CERTAIN MIEN AND MOTION OF THE BODY AND ALL ITS PARTS, BOTH IN ACTING AND SPEAKING, WHICH ARGUES A MAN WELL WITHIN."
"THERE IS A CARE FOR TRIFLES WHICH PROCEEDS FROM LOVE AND CONSCIENCE, AND IS MOST HOLY; AND A CARE FOR TRIFLES WHICH COMES OF IDLENESS AND FRIVOLITY, AND IS MOST BASE. AND SO, ALSO, THERE IS A GRAVITY PROCEEDING FROM THOUGHT, WHICH IS MOST NOBLE; AND A GRAVITY PROCEEDING FROM DULNESS AND MERE INCAPABILITY OF ENJOYMENT, WHICH IS MOST BASE."
"THERE IS A BOOK, WHO RUNS MAY READ, / WHICH HEAVENLY TRUTH IMPARTS, / AND ALL THE LOVE ITS SCHOLARS NEED, / PURE EYES AND CHRISTIAN HEARTS. / THE WORKS OF GOD ABOVE, BELOW, / WITHIN US, AND AROUND, / ARE PAGES IN THAT BOOK, TO SHOW / HOW GOD HIMSELF IS FOUND."
"THERE HAVE BEEN IN ALL AGES CHILDREN OF GOD AND OF MAN; THE ONE BORN OF THE SPIRIT, AND OBEYING IT; THE OTHER BORN OF THE FLESH, AND OBEYING IT."
"THERE BE SOME THAT THINK THEIR WITS HAVE BEEN ASLEEP, EXCEPT THEY DART OUT SOMEWHAT THAT IS PIQUANT, AND TO THE QUICK; THAT IS A VEIN WHICH WOULD BE BRIDLED."
"THERE ARE, WHOM HEAVEN HAS BLESSED WITH STORE OF WIT, / YET WANT AS MUCH AGAIN TO MANAGE IT; / FOR WIT AND JUDGMENT EVER ARE AT STRIFE, / THO' MEANT EACH OTHER'S AID, LIKE MAN AND WIFE."
THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WHO GET ANY GOOD BY EITHER WRITING OR READING.
"THERE ARE VERY FEW MOMENTS IN A MAN'S EXISTENCE WHEN HE EXPERIENCES SO MUCH LUDICROUS DISTRESS, OR MEETS WITH SO LITTLE CHARITABLE COMMISERATION, AS WHEN HE IS IN PURSUIT OF HIS OWN HAT."
"THERE ARE TWO, AND ONLY TWO, FORMS OF POSSIBLE GOSPEL OR ""GOOD MESSAGE""--ONE, THAT MEN ARE SAVED BY THEMSELVES DOING WHAT IS RIGHT; AND THE OTHER, THAT THEY ARE SAVED BY BELIEVING THAT SOMEBODY ALSO DID RIGHT INSTEAD OF THEM. THE FIRST OF THESE GOSPELS IS ETERNALLY TRUE AND HOLY; THE OTHER ETERNALLY FALSE, DAMNABLE, AND DAMNING."
"THERE ARE THREE MATERIAL THINGS, NOT ONLY USEFUL, BUT ESSENTIAL, TO LIFE--PURE AIR, WATER, AND EARTH; AND THREE IMMATERIAL THAT ARE EQUALLY ESSENTIAL--ADMIRATION, HOPE, AND LOVE."
"THERE ARE THOSE WHO NEVER REASON ON WHAT THEY SHOULD DO, BUT WHAT THEY HAVE DONE; AS IF REASON HAD HER EYES BEHIND, AND COULD ONLY SEE BACKWARDS."
THERE ARE SOME CASES IN WHICH HUMAN NATURE AND ITS DEEP WRONGS WILL BE EVER STRONGER THAN THE WORLD AND ITS PHILOSOPHY.
THERE ARE SOLDIERS OF THE PLOUGHSHARE AS WELL AS SOLDIERS OF THE SWORD.
"THERE ARE SHADES IN ALL GOOD PICTURES, BUT THERE ARE LIGHTS TOO, IF WE CHOOSE TO CONTEMPLATE THEM."
"THERE ARE PROSELYTES FROM ATHEISM, BUT NONE FROM SUPERSTITION."
THERE ARE NO CHAGRINS SO VENOMOUS AS THE CHAGRINS OF THE IDLE; NO PANGS SO SICKENING AS THE SATIETIES OF PLEASURE.
"THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, HORATIO, / THAN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY."
"THERE ARE MORE OFFENCES AT MY BECK THAN I HAVE THOUGHTS TO PUT THEM IN, IMAGINATION TO GIVE THEM SHAPE, OR TIME TO ACT THEM IN."
THERE ARE MANY TRUTHS OF WHICH THE FULL MEANING CANNOT BE REALISED UNTIL PERSONAL EXPERIENCE HAS BROUGHT IT HOME.
"THERE ARE IN THIS LOUD STUNNING TIDE / OF HUMAN CARE AND CRIME, / WITH WHOM THE MELODIES ABIDE / OF TH' EVERLASTING CHIME; / WHO CARRY MUSIC IN THEIR HEART, / THROUGH DUSTY LANE AND WRANGLING MART, / PLYING THEIR DAILY TASK WITH BUSIER FEET, / BECAUSE THEIR SECRET SOULS A HOLY STRAIN REPEAT."
"THERE ARE FEW THOUGHTS LIKELY TO COME ACROSS ORDINARY MEN WHICH HAVE NOT ALREADY BEEN EXPRESSED BY GREATER MEN IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY; AND IT IS A WISER, MORE GENEROUS, MORE NOBLE THING TO REMEMBER AND POINT OUT THE PERFECT WORDS THAN TO INVENT POORER ONES, WHEREWITH TO ENCUMBER TEMPORARILY THE WORLD."
"THERE ARE FEW THINGS THAT ARE WORTHY OF ANGER, AND STILL FEWER THAT CAN JUSTIFY MALIGNITY."
THERE ARE FEW FACES THAT CAN AFFORD TO SMILE. A SMILE IS SOMETIMES BEWITCHING; IN GENERAL VAPID; OFTEN A CONTORTION.
THERE ARE CHARMS MADE ONLY FOR DISTANT ADMIRATION. NO SPECTACLE IS NOBLER THAN A BLAZE.
THERE ARE CASES WHERE LITTLE CAN BE SAID AND MUCH MUST BE DONE.
"THERE ARE AT BOTTOM BUT TWO POSSIBLE RELIGIONS--THAT WHICH RISES IN THE MORAL NATURE OF MAN, AND WHICH TAKES SHAPE IN MORAL COMMANDMENTS, AND THAT WHICH GROWS OUT OF THE OBSERVANCE OF THE MATERIAL ENERGIES WHICH OPERATE IN THE EXTERNAL UNIVERSE."
"THEN DRAW WE NEARER DAY BY DAY, / EACH TO HIS BRETHREN, ALL TO GOD; / LET THE WORLD TAKE US AS SHE MAY, / WE MUST NOT CHANGE OUR ROAD."
"THEIRS NOT TO MAKE REPLY, / THEIRS NOT TO REASON WHY, / THEIRS BUT TO DO OR DIE."
"THE YOUNG DISEASE, THAT MUST SUBDUE AT LENGTH, / GROWS WITH HIS GROWTH, AND STRENGTHENS WITH HIS STRENGTH."
"THE WORTH OF A STATE, IN THE LONG-RUN, IS THE WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUALS COMPOSING IT."
"THE WORST OF MANY IS THAT THEIR GOODNESS IS DISTRIBUTED RATHER THAN CONCENTRATED. THEY ARE LIKE A SHEET OF WATER INSTEAD OF BEING LIKE A RUNNING STREAM, WHICH CAN BE USED TO TURN A WHEEL."
"THE WORLD'S A ROOM OF SICKNESS, WHERE EACH HEART / KNOWS ITS OWN ANGUISH AND UNREST! / THE TRUEST WISDOM THERE, AND NOBLEST ART, / IS HIS WHO SKILLS OF COMFORT BEST."
"THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, AND THE LIFE OF MAN LESS THAN A SPAN."
"THE WORLD TRULY EXISTS ONLY IN THE PRESENCE OF MAN, ACTS ONLY IN THE PASSION OF MAN. THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT IS IN HIS EYES--THE CENTRE OF FORCE IN HIS SOUL--THE PERTINENCE OF ACTION IN HIS DEEDS."
"THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US; LATE AND SOON, / GETTING AND SPENDING, WE LAY WASTE OUR POWERS; / LITTLE WE SEE IN NATURE THAT IS OURS."
"THE WORLD IS STILL DECEIVED WITH ORNAMENT. / IN LAW, WHAT PLEA SO TAINTED AND CORRUPT, / BUT, BEING SEASONED WITH A GRACIOUS VOICE, / OBSCURES THE SHOW OF EVIL? IN RELIGION, / WHAT DAMNÉD ERROR BUT SOME SOBER BROW / WILL BLESS IT AND APPROVE IT WITH A TEXT, / HIDING THE GROSSNESS WITH FAIR ORNAMENT?"
"THE WORLD IS NOT TO BE DESPISED BUT AS IT IS COMPARED WITH SOMETHING BETTER. COMPANY IS IN ITSELF BETTER THAN SOLITUDE, AND PLEASURE BETTER THAN INDOLENCE."
THE WORLD IS ALL BARREN TO HIM WHO WILL NOT CULTIVATE THE FRUIT IT OFFERS.
"THE WORLD IS A LOOKING-GLASS, AND GIVES BACK TO EVERY MAN THE REFLECTION OF HIS OWN FACE. FROWN AT IT, AND IT WILL IN TURN LOOK SOURLY UPON YOU; LAUGH AT IT AND WITH IT, AND IT IS A JOLLY KIND COMPANION."
"THE WORLD CONSIDERS ECCENTRICITY IN GREAT THINGS GENIUS: IN SMALL THINGS, FOLLY."
"THE WORK OF SCIENCE IS TO SUBSTITUTE FACTS FOR APPEARANCES, AND DEMONSTRATIONS FOR IMPRESSIONS."
THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN IS AS GOOD AS HIS BOND--SOMETIMES BETTER.
"THE WOMEN ARE QUICK ENOUGH--THEY'RE QUICK ENOUGH. THEY KNOW THE RIGHTS OF A STORY BEFORE THEY HEAR IT, AND CAN TELL A MAN WHAT HIS THOUGHTS ARE BEFORE HE KNOWS 'EM HIMSELF."
THE WOMAN AND THE SOLDIER WHO DO NOT DEFEND THE FIRST PASS WILL NEVER DEFEND THE LAST.
"THE WISEST, HAPPIEST OF OUR KIND ARE THEY / THAT EVER WALK CONTENT WITH NATURE'S WAY."
THE WISER MIND / MOURNS LESS FOR WHAT AGE TAKES AWAY / THAN WHAT IT LEAVES BEHIND.
"THE WISE WILL DETERMINE FROM THE GRAVITY OF THE CASE; THE IRRITABLE, FROM SENSIBILITY TO OPPRESSION; THE HIGH-MINDED, FROM DISDAIN AND INDIGNATION AT ABUSIVE POWER IN UNWORTHY HANDS."
"THE WISE MAN KNOWS HIS MASTER; ALWAYS SOME CREATURE LARGER THAN HIMSELF, SOME LAW HOLIER THAN HIMSELF."
"THE WISDOM OF LIFE IS IN PREVENTING ALL THE EVIL WE CAN, AND USING WHAT IS INEVITABLE TO THE BEST PURPOSE."
"THE WHOLE FUNCTION OF THE ARTIST IN THE WORLD IS TO BE A SEEING AND A FEELING CREATURE; TO BE AN INSTRUMENT OF SUCH TENDERNESS AND SENSITIVENESS THAT NO SHADOW, NO HUE, NO LINE, NO INSTANTANEOUS AND EVANESCENT EXPRESSION OF THE VISIBLE THINGS AROUND HIM, NOR ANY OF THE EMOTIONS WHICH THEY ARE CAPABLE OF CONVEYING TO THE SPIRIT WHICH HAS BEEN GIVEN HIM, SHALL EITHER BE LEFT UNRECORDED, OR FADE FROM THE BOOK OF RECORD."
"THE WHOLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN OF GENIUS AND OTHER MEN ... IS THAT THE FORMER REMAINS IN GREAT PART A CHILD, SEEING WITH THE LARGE EYES OF CHILDREN, IN PERPETUAL WONDER, NOT CONSCIOUS OF MUCH KNOWLEDGE--CONSCIOUS RATHER OF INFINITE IGNORANCE, AND YET INFINITE POWER."
"THE WEARIEST AND MOST LOATHÉD WORLDLY LIFE, / THAT AGE, ACHE, PENURY, AND IMPRISONMENT / CAN LAY ON NATURE, IS A PARADISE / TO WHAT WE FEAR OF DEATH."
THE WEALTH OF BOTH INDIES SEEMS IN GREAT PART BUT AN ACCESSORY TO THE COMMAND OF THE SEAS.
"THE WEALTH OF A COUNTRY IS IN ITS GOOD MEN AND WOMEN, AND IN NOTHING ELSE."
"THE WAY TO MAKE THY SON RICH IS TO FILL / HIS MIND WITH REST, BEFORE HIS TRUNK WITH RICHES."
"THE WATCHFUL MOTHER TARRIES NIGH, / THOUGH SLEEP HAS CLOS'D HER INFANT'S EYE."
THE VIRTUE OF PROSPERITY IS TEMPERANCE; THE VIRTUE OF ADVERSITY IS FORTITUDE; WHICH IN MORALS IS THE MORE HEROICAL VIRTUE.
"THE VERY HEAD AND FRONT OF MY OFFENDING / HATH THIS EXTENT, NO MORE."
"THE VALUE OF A MAN, AS OF A HORSE, CONSISTS IN YOUR BEING ABLE TO BRIDLE HIM, OR, WHAT IS BETTER, IN HIS BEING ABLE TO BRIDLE HIMSELF."
"THE UTMOST POINT AND ACME OF HONOUR IS NOT MERELY IN DOING NO EVIL, BUT IN THINKING NONE."
"THE USURER IS THE GREATEST SABBATH-BREAKER, BECAUSE HIS PLOUGH GOETH EVERY SUNDAY."
"THE USE OF TRAVELLING IS TO REGULATE IMAGINATION BY REALITY, AND INSTEAD OF THINKING HOW THINGS MAY BE, TO SEE THEM AS THEY ARE."
THE UPPER CURRENT OF SOCIETY PRESENTS NO CERTAIN CRITERION BY WHICH WE CAN JUDGE OF THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THE UNDER-CURRENT FLOWS.
"THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, FROM WHOSE BOURN / NO TRAVELLER RETURNS."
THE TWO MOST ENGAGING POWERS OF AN AUTHOR ARE TO MAKE NEW THINGS FAMILIAR AND FAMILIAR THINGS NEW.
THE TWO GREAT MOVERS OF THE HUMAN MIND ARE THE DESIRE OF GOOD AND THE FEAR OF EVIL.
"THE TRUTHS OF NATURE ARE ONE ETERNAL CHANGE, ONE INFINITE VARIETY."
"THE TRUE VEINS OF WEALTH ARE PURPLE--NOT IN ROCK, BUT IN FLESH THE FINAL OUTCOME AND CONSUMMATION OF ALL WEALTH IS IN PRODUCING AS MANY AS POSSIBLE FULL-BREATHED, BRIGHT-EYED, AND HAPPY-HEARTED HUMAN CREATURES."
"THE TRUE, STRONG, AND SOUND MIND IS THE MIND THAT CAN EMBRACE EQUALLY GREAT THINGS AND SMALL."
"THE TRUE STRENGTH OF EVERY HUMAN SOUL IS TO BE DEPENDENT ON AS MANY NOBLER AS IT CAN DISCERN, AND TO BE DEPENDED UPON BY AS MANY INFERIOR AS IT CAN REACH."
"THE TRUE MIND OF A NATION, AT ANY PERIOD, IS ALWAYS BEST ASCERTAINABLE BY EXAMINING THAT OF ITS GREATEST MEN."
"THE TRUE LABOURER IS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE, BUT, IN THE BEGINNING AND FIRST CHOICE OF INDUSTRY, HIS HEART MUST NOT BE THE HEART OF AN HIRELING."
THE TRUE CROSS OF THE REDEEMER IS THE SIN AND SORROW OF THE WORLD.
"THE TRUE ""COMPULSORY EDUCATION"" NOW NEEDED IS NOT CATECHISM, BUT DRILL."
"THE TRUE ART OF BEING AGREEABLE IS TO APPEAR WELL PLEASED WITH ALL THE COMPANY, AND RATHER TO SEEM WELL ENTERTAINED WITH THEM THAN TO BRING ENTERTAINMENT TO THEM."
"THE TRIVIAL ROUND, THE COMMON TASK, / WILL FURNISH ALL WE OUGHT TO ASK. / ROOM TO DENY OURSELVES, A ROAD / TO BRING US DAILY NEARER GOD."
"THE TRENCHANT BLADE, TOLEDO TRUSTY, / FOR WANT OF FIGHTING WAS GROWN RUSTY, / AND ATE INTO ITSELF, FOR LACK / OF SOMEBODY TO HEW AND HACK."
"THE TREASURES OF HEAVEN ARE NOT NEGATIONS OF PASSION BUT REALITIES OF INTELLECT, FROM WHICH ALL PASSIONS EMANATE, UNCURBED IN THEIR ETERNAL GLORY."
THE TRAPPINGS OF A MONARCHY WOULD SET UP AN ORDINARY COMMONWEALTH.
THE TONGUES OF DYING MEN / ENFORCE ATTENTION LIKE DEEP HARMONY.
THE TIME OF BREEDING IS THE TIME OF DOING CHILDREN GOOD; AND NOT AS MANY WHO THINK THEY HAVE DONE FAIRLY IF THEY LEAVE THEM A GOOD PORTION AFTER THEIR DECEASE.
"THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT; O CURSÈD SPITE, / THAT EVER I WAS BORN TO SET IT RIGHT."
"THE TIME HAS BEEN / THAT WHEN THE BRAINS WERE OUT THE MAN SHOULD DIE, / AND THERE AN END."
THE THORNY POINT / OF BARE DISTRESS HATH TA'EN FROM ME THE SHOW / OF SMOOTH CIVILITY.
"THE THIRST FOR TRUTH STILL REMAINS WITH US, EVEN WHEN WE HAVE WILFULLY LEFT THE FOUNTAINS OF IT."
"THE TEACHINGS OF HEAVEN ARE GIVEN--BY SAD LAW--IN SO OBSCURE, NAY, OFTEN IN SO IRONICAL A MANNER, THAT A BLOCKHEAD NECESSARILY READS THEM WRONG."
THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD IS ENTIRELY ONE; SMALL THINGS AND GREAT ARE ALIKE PART OF ONE MIGHTY WHOLE.
"THE SUN PASSETH THROUGH POLLUTIONS, AND ITSELF REMAINS AS PURE AS BEFORE."
"THE SUBSTANTIAL WEALTH OF A MAN CONSISTS IN THE EARTH HE CULTIVATES WITH ITS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND IN THE RIGHTLY PRODUCED WORKS OF HIS OWN HANDS."
"THE STRONGEST CASTLE, TOWER, AND TOWN, / THE GOLDEN BULLET BEATS IT DOWN."
"THE STRONG TORRENTS, WHICH IN THEIR OWN GLADNESS FILL THE HILLS WITH HOLLOW THUNDER AND THE VALES WITH WINDING LIGHT, HAVE YET THEIR BOUNDEN CHARGE OF FIELD TO FEED AND BARGE TO BEAR."
THE STRENGTH AND POWER OF A COUNTRY DEPENDS ABSOLUTELY ON THE QUANTITY OF GOOD MEN AND WOMEN IN IT.
"THE STARS THEMSELVES ARE ONLY BRIGHT BY DISTANCE; GO CLOSE, AND ALL IS EARTHY; BUT VAPOURS ILLUMINATE THERE; FROM THE BREATH AND FROM THE COUNTENANCE OF GOD COMES LIGHT ON WORLDS HIGHER THAN THEY."
"THE STARS SHALL FADE AWAY, THE SUN HIMSELF / GROW DIM WITH AGE, AND NATURE SINK IN YEARS; / BUT THOU SHALT FLOURISH IN IMMORTAL YOUTH, / UNHURT AMIDST THE WAR OF ELEMENTS, / THE WRECKS OF MATTER AND THE CRASH OF WORLDS."
"THE SPRINGING OF A SERPENT IS FROM THE SUN; THE WISDOM OF THE SERPENT, WHENCE IS THAT?"
THE SOUL'S ARMOUR IS NEVER WELL SET TO THE HEART UNLESS A WOMAN'S HAND HAS BRACED IT.
"THE SOUL SHUT UP IN HER DARK ROOM, / VIEWING SO CLEAR ABROAD, AT HOME SEES NOTHING; / BUT, LIKE A MOLE IN EARTH, BUSY AND BLIND, / WORKS ALL HER FOLLY UP, AND CASTS IT OUTWARD / TO THE WORLD'S OPEN VIEW."
THE SORROWFULEST OF FATES IS TO HAVE LIBERTY WITHOUT DESERVING IT.
"THE SOLDIER'S ULTIMATE AND PERENNIAL OFFICE IS TO PUNISH KNAVES AND MAKE IDLE PERSONS WORK; THE DEFENCE OF HIS COUNTRY AGAINST OTHER COUNTRIES, WHICH IS HIS OFFICE AT PRESENT, WILL SOON NOW BE EXTINCT."
"THE SOLDIER'S TRADE, VERILY AND ESSENTIALLY, IS NOT SLAYING, BUT BEING SLAIN ... AND THE REASON THE WORLD HONOURS THE SOLDIER IS BECAUSE HE HOLDS HIS LIFE AT THE SERVICE OF THE STATE."
"THE SIN THAT PRACTICE BURNS INTO THE BLOOD, / AND NOT THE ONE DARK HOUR WHICH BRINGS REMORSE, / WILL BRAND US, AFTER, OF WHOSE FOLD WE BE."
"THE SHRINE IS THAT WHICH THOU DOST VENERATE, / AND NOT THE BEAST THAT BEARS IT ON HIS BACK."
"THE SHEPHERD IN VIRGIL GREW AT LAST ACQUAINTED WITH LOVE, AND FOUND HIM A NATIVE OF THE ROCKS."
THE SEVERE AND RESTRICTIVE VIRTUES ARE ALMOST TOO COSTLY FOR HUMANITY.
"THE SERENITY THAT IS NOT FELT, IT CAN BE NO VIRTUE TO FEIGN."
"THE SENSE OF DEATH IS MOST IN APPREHENSION, / AND THE POOR BEETLE THAT WE TREAD UPON / IN CORPORAL SUFFERANCE FINDS A PANG AS GREAT / AS WHEN A GIANT DIES."
THE SENSE OF BEAUTY NEVER FURTHERED THE PERFORMANCE OF A SINGLE DUTY.
"THE SEERS ARE WHOLLY A GREATER RACE THAN THE THINKERS A TRUE THINKER, WHO HAS A PRACTICAL PURPOSE IN HIS THINKING, AND IS SINCERE, AS PLATO, OR CARLYLE, OR HELPS, BECOMES IN SOME SORT A SEER, AND MUST BE ALWAYS OF INFINITE USE IN HIS GENERATION."
"THE SECRET OF MAN'S NATURE LIES IN HIS RELIGION, IN WHAT HE REALLY BELIEVES ABOUT THE WORLD AND HIS OWN PLACE IN IT."
"THE SECRET OF LANGUAGE IS THE SECRET OF SYMPATHY, AND ITS FULL CHARM IS POSSIBLE ONLY TO THE GENTLE."
"THE SECOND FRUIT OF FRIENDSHIP IS HEALTHFUL AND SOVEREIGN FOR THE UNDERSTANDING, AS THE FIRST IS FOR THE AFFECTIONS; FOR FRIENDSHIP MAKETH INDEED A FAIR DAY IN THE AFFECTIONS FROM STORM AND TEMPESTS, BUT IT MAKETH DAYLIGHT IN THE UNDERSTANDING OUT OF DARKNESS AND CONFUSION OF THOUGHTS."
"THE SEAT OF KNOWLEDGE IS IN THE HEAD; OF WISDOM, IN THE HEART. WE ARE SURE TO JUDGE WRONG IF WE DO NOT FEEL ARIGHT."
THE SCHOOLBOY COUNTS THE TIME TILL THE RETURN OF THE HOLIDAYS; THE MINOR LONGS TO BE OF AGE; THE LOVER IS IMPATIENT TILL HE IS MARRIED.
"THE SCHOLAR WITHOUT GOOD-BREEDING IS A PEDANT; THE PHILOSOPHER, A CYNIC; THE SOLDIER, A BRUTE; AND EVERY MAN DISAGREEABLE."
THE SAFEST AND PUREST JOYS OF HUMAN LIFE REBUKE THE VIOLENCE OF ITS PASSIONS; THEY ARE OBTAINABLE WITHOUT ANXIETY AND MEMORABLE WITHOUT REGRET.
"THE RULING PASSION, BE IT WHAT IT WILL, / THE RULING PASSION, CONQUERS REASON STILL."
"THE ROOT OF ALMOST EVERY SCHISM AND HERESY FROM WHICH THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS SUFFERED HAS BEEN THE EFFORT OF MEN TO EARN, RATHER THAN TO RECEIVE, THEIR SALVATION; AND THE REASON THAT PREACHING IS SO COMMONLY INEFFECTUAL IS, THAT IT CALLS ON MEN OFTENER TO WORK FOR GOD THAN TO BEHOLD GOD WORKING FOR THEM."
"THE ROMANTIC IS THE INSTINCTIVE DELIGHT IN, AND ADMIRATION FOR, SUBLIMITY, BEAUTY, AND VIRTUE, UNUSUALLY MANIFESTED."
"THE RIGHTEOUS MAN FALLS OFT, / YET FALLS BUT SOFT; / THERE MAY BE DIRT TO MIRE HIM, BUT NO STONES / TO CRUSH HIS BONES."
"THE RIGHT LAW OF EDUCATION IS THAT YOU TAKE THE MOST PAINS WITH THE BEST MATERIAL. NEVER WASTE PAINS ON BAD GROUND, BUT SPARE NO LABOUR ON THE GOOD, OR ON WHAT HAS IN IT THE CAPACITY OF GOOD."
"THE RIGHT EAR, THAT IS FILL'D WITH DUST, / HEARS LITTLE OF THE FALSE OR JUST."
"THE REVERENCE OF A MAN'S SELF IS, NEXT RELIGION, THE CHIEFEST BRIDLE OF ALL VICES."
THE RELIGIOUS PASSION IS NEARLY ALWAYS VIVIDEST WHERE THE ART IS WEAKEST; AND THE TECHNICAL SKILL ONLY REACHES ITS DELIBERATE SPLENDOUR WHEN THE ECSTASY WHICH GAVE IT BIRTH HAS PASSED AWAY FOR EVER.
"THE RELIGION OF CHRIST IS PEACE AND GOODWILL, THAT OF CHRISTENDOM WAR AND ILL-WILL."
THE REAL SCIENCE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IS THAT WHICH TEACHES NATIONS TO DESIRE AND LABOUR FOR THE THINGS THAT LEAD TO LIFE; AND WHICH TEACHES THEM TO SCORN AND DESTROY THE THINGS THAT LEAD TO DESTRUCTION.
THE REAL OBJECT OF THE DRAMA IS THE EXHIBITION OF HUMAN CHARACTER.
"THE QUESTION OF QUESTIONS (FOR MEN AND NATIONS) IS--NOT HOW FAR THEY ARE FROM HEAVEN, BUT WHETHER THEY ARE GOING TO IT. (SO IN ART) IT IS NOT THE WISDOM OR THE BARBARISM THAT YOU HAVE TO ESTIMATE, NOT THE SKILL OR THE RUDENESS, BUT THE TENDENCY."
"THE QUESTION IS THIS: IS MAN AN APE OR ANGEL? I, MY LORD, I AM ON THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS."
"THE QUARREL TOUCHETH NONE BUT US ALONE, / BETWIXT OURSELVES LET US DECIDE IT THEN."
THE QUALITY OF MERCY IS NOT STRAIN'D; / IT DROPPETH AS THE GENTLE RAIN FROM HEAVEN / UPON THE PLACE BENEATH. IT IS TWICE BLEST; / IT BLESSETH HIM THAT GIVES AND HIM THAT TAKES. / 'TIS MIGHTIEST IN THE MIGHTIEST; IT BECOMES / THE THRONED MONARCH BETTER THAN HIS CROWN.
"THE PUREST TREASURE MORTAL TIMES AFFORD / IS SPOTLESS REPUTATION; THAT AWAY, / MEN ARE BUT GILDED LOAM OR PAINTED CLAY."
"THE PRUDENT MAN MAY DIRECT A STATE, BUT IT IS THE ENTHUSIAST WHO REGENERATES OR RUINS IT."
THE PRUDENCE OF THE BEST OF HEARTS IS OFTEN DEFEATED BY THE TENDERNESS OF THE BEST OF HEARTS.
"THE PROVERB SAYS OF THE GENOESE, THAT THEY HAVE A SEA WITHOUT FISH, LANDS WITHOUT TREES, AND MEN WITHOUT FAITH."
"THE PROSPERITY OF OUR NEIGHBOURS IN THE END IS OUR OWN, AND THE POVERTY OF OUR NEIGHBOURS BECOMES ALSO IN THE END OUR OWN."
"THE PROPERTY OF A MAN CONSISTS IN   , (_B_)  GOODS HE CAN SKILFULLY USE."
"THE PROPER REWARD OF THE GOOD WORKMAN IS TO BE ""CHOSEN."""
"THE PROPER POWER OF FAITH IS TO TRUST EVIDENCE, NOT EVIDENCE."
"THE PROPER CONFIDANT OF A GIRL IS HER FATHER. WHAT SHE IS NOT INCLINED TO TELL HER FATHER SHOULD BE TOLD TO NO ONE, AND, IN NINE CASES OUT OF TEN, NOT THOUGHT OF BY HERSELF."
THE PROFESSION OF RICHES WITHOUT THEIR POSSESSION LEADS TO THE WORST FORM OF POVERTY.
"THE PRODUCTION OF SOMETHING, WHERE NOTHING WAS BEFORE, IS AN ACT OF GREATER ENERGY THAN THE EXPANSION OR DECORATION OF THE THING PRODUCED."
THE PRINCIPAL POINT OF GREATNESS IN ANY STATE IS TO HAVE A RACE OF MILITARY MEN.
"THE PRIMAL DUTIES SHINE ALOFT, LIKE STARS; / THE CHARITIES THAT SOOTHE, AND HEAL, AND BLESS, / ARE SCATTERED AT THE FEET OF MAN, LIKE FLOWERS."
"THE PRIMAL CONDITION OF VIRTUE IS THAT IT SHALL NOT KNOW OF, OR BELIEVE IN, ANY BLESSED ISLANDS TILL IT FIND THEM, IT MAY BE, IN DUE TIME."
THE PRACTICE OF SUBMISSION TO THE AUTHORITY OF ONE WHOM ONE RECOGNISES AS GREATER THAN ONE'S SELF OUTWEIGHS THE CHANCE OF OCCASIONAL MISTAKE.
"THE PRACTICE OF FAITH AND OBEDIENCE TO SOME OF OUR FELLOW-CREATURES IS THE ALPHABET BY WHICH WE LEARN THE HIGHER OBEDIENCE TO HEAVEN; AND IT IS NOT ONLY NEEDFUL TO THE PROSPERITY OF ALL NOBLE UNITED ACTION, BUT ESSENTIAL TO THE HAPPINESS OF ALL NOBLE LIVING SPIRITS."
"THE POWER, WHETHER OF PAINTER OR POET, TO DESCRIBE RIGHTLY WHAT HE CALLS AN IDEAL THING DEPENDS UPON ITS BEING TO HIM NOT AN IDEAL BUT A REAL THING. NO MAN EVER DID OR EVER WILL WORK WELL, BUT EITHER FROM ACTUAL SIGHT OR SIGHT OF FAITH."
THE POWER OF FAITH WILL OFTEN SHINE FORTH THE MOST WHEN THE CHARACTER IS NATURALLY WEAK.
"THE POWER OF EVERY GREAT PEOPLE, AS OF EVERY LIVING TREE, DEPENDS ON ITS NOT EFFACING, BUT CONFIRMING AND CONCLUDING THE LABOURS OF ITS ANCESTORS."
"THE POOR WREN, / THE MOST DIMINUTIVE OF BIRDS, WILL FIGHT, / HER YOUNG ONES IN HER NEST, AGAINST THE OWL."
"THE POET'S EYE, IN A FINE FRENZY ROLLING, / DOTH GLANCE FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH, FROM EARTH TO HEAVEN, / AND, AS IMAGINATION BODIES FORTH / THE FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN, THE POET'S PEN / TURNS THEM TO SHAPES, AND GIVES TO AIRY NOTHING / A LOCAL HABITATION AND A NAME."
THE PLEA OF IGNORANCE WILL NEVER TAKE AWAY OUR RESPONSIBILITIES.
THE PIOUS AND JUST HONOURING OF OURSELVES MAY BE THOUGHT THE RADICAL MOISTURE AND FOUNTAIN-HEAD FROM WHENCE EVERY LAUDABLE AND WORTHY ENTERPRISE ISSUES FORTH.
"THE PILOT OF THE GALILEAN LAKE; / TWO MASSY KEYS HE BORE, OF METALS TWAIN, / THE GOLDEN OPES, THE IRON SHUTS AMAIN."
"THE PERFECTION OF CONVERSATION IS NOT TO PLAY A REGULAR SONATA, BUT, LIKE THE ÆOLIAN HARP, TO AWAIT THE INSPIRATION OF THE PASSING BREEZE."
THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND ARE THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC IN THE WORLD.
THE PENCIL OF THE HOLY GHOST HATH LABOURED MORE IN DESCRIBING THE AFFLICTIONS OF JOB THAN THE FELICITIES OF SOLOMON.
THE PEACE OF HEAVEN IS THEIRS WHO LIFT THEIR SWORDS / IN SUCH A JUST AND CHARITABLE WAR.
"THE PATH OF SORROW, AND THAT PATH ALONE, / LEADS TO THE LAND WHERE SORROW IS UNKNOWN."
THE PASSIONS RISE HIGHER AT DOMESTIC THAN AT IMPERIAL TRAGEDIES.
"THE PASSIONS OF MANKIND ARE PARTLY PROTECTIVE, PARTLY BENEFICENT, LIKE THE CHAFF AND GRAIN OF THE CORN; BUT NONE WITHOUT THEIR USE, NONE WITHOUT NOBLENESS WHEN SEEN IN BALANCED UNITY WITH THE REST OF THE SPIRIT WHICH THEY ARE CHARGED TO DEFEND."
"THE PAINTER SHOULD GRIND HIS OWN COLOURS; THE ARCHITECT WORK IN THE MASON'S YARD WITH HIS MEN; THE MASTER-MANUFACTURER BE HIMSELF A MORE SKILFUL OPERATOR THAN ANY MAN IN HIS MILLS; AND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ANOTHER BE ONLY IN EXPERIENCE AND SKILL, AND THE AUTHORITY AND WEALTH WHICH THESE MUST NATURALLY AND JUSTLY OBTAIN."
"THE PAINFUL WARRIOR FAMOUSÈD FOR FIGHT, / AFTER A THOUSAND VICTORIES, ONCE FOIL'D, / IS FROM THE BOOKS OF HONOUR RAZÈD QUITE, / AND ALL THE REST FORGOT FOR WHICH HE TOIL'D."
THE PAIN THAT ANY ONE ACTUALLY FEELS IS STILL OF ALL OTHERS THE WORST.
THE ONLY WAY TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULT PARTS OF THE BIBLE IS FIRST TO READ AND OBEY THE EASY ONES.
THE ONLY SCHOOL OF GENUINE MORAL SENTIMENT IS SOCIETY BETWEEN EQUALS.
THE ONLY LIBERTY THAT IS VALUABLE IS A LIBERTY CONNECTED WITH ORDER.
"THE ONLY FREEDOM WHICH DESERVES THE NAME IS THAT OF PURSUING OUR OWN GOOD IN OUR OWN WAY, SO LONG AS WE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DEPRIVE OTHERS OF THIS, OR IMPEDE THEIR EFFORTS TO OBTAIN IT."
THE ONLY FENCE AGAINST THE WORLD IS A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF IT.
THE ONLY FAILURE A MAN OUGHT TO FEAR IS FAILURE IN CLEAVING TO THE PURPOSE HE SEES TO BE BEST.
"THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH, YIELDING PLACE TO NEW, / AND GOD FULFILS HIMSELF IN MANY WAYS, / LEST ONE GOOD CUSTOM SHOULD CORRUPT THE WORLD."
"THE OBJECT OF ALL TRUE POLICY AND TRUE ECONOMY IS, THE UTMOST MULTITUDE OF GOOD MEN ON EVERY GIVEN SPACE OF GROUND."
"THE NOBLEST WORKS AND FOUNDATIONS HAVE PROCEEDED FROM CHILDLESS MEN, WHICH HAVE SOUGHT TO EXPRESS THE IMAGES OF THEIR MINDS WHERE THOSE OF THEIR BODIES HAVE FAILED."
"THE NERVE THAT NEVER RELAXES, THE EYE THAT NEVER BLENCHES, THE THOUGHT THAT NEVER WANDERS--THESE ARE THE MASTERS OF VICTORY."
THE NECESSITIES OF THINGS ARE STERNER STUFF THAN THE HOPES OF MEN.
"THE NEARER WE APPROACH THE GOAL OF LIFE, THE BETTER WE BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUE VALUE OF OUR EXISTENCE, AND THE REAL WEIGHT OF OUR OPINIONS."
THE MUSIC IN MY HEART I BORE / LONG AFTER IT WAS HEARD NO MORE.
THE MOTHER'S YEARNING FEELS THE PRESENCE OF THE CHERISHED CHILD EVEN IN THE DEGRADED MAN.
"THE MORE WE KNOW, THE GREATER OUR THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE. THE WATER-LILY, IN THE MIDST OF WATERS, OPENS ITS LEAVES AND EXPANDS ITS PETALS AT THE FIRST PATTERING OF SHOWERS, AND REJOICES IN THE RAINDROPS WITH A QUICKER SYMPATHY THAN THE PARCHED SHRUB IN A SANDY DESERT."
"THE MORE WE DO, THE MORE WE CAN DO; THE MORE BUSY WE ARE, THE MORE LEISURE WE HAVE."
"THE MORE OF THE SOLID THERE IS IN A MAN, THE LESS DOES HE ACT THE BALLOON."
"THE MORE MEN REFINE UPON PLEASURE, THE LESS WILL THEY INDULGE IN EXCESSES OF ANY KIND."
"THE MORE LAWS YOU ACCEPT, THE FEWER PENALTIES YOU WILL HAVE TO ENDURE, AND THE FEWER PUNISHMENTS TO ENFORCE."
"THE MORE FAIR AND CRYSTAL IS THE SKY, / THE UGLIER SEEM THE CLOUDS THAT IN IT FLY."
"THE MORALITY OF A KING IS NOT TO BE MEASURED BY VULGAR RULES. THERE ARE FAULTS WHICH DO HIM HONOUR, AND VIRTUES THAT DISGRACE HIM."
"THE MORAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAN AND A BEAST IS, THAT THE ONE ACTS PRIMARILY FOR USE, AND THE OTHER FOR PLEASURE."
THE MOMENT THERE IS A BARGAIN OVER THE POTTAGE THE FAMILY RELATION IS DISSOLVED.
(THE MOB IS) THE SCUM THAT RISES UPPERMOST WHEN THE NATION BOILS.
"THE MISERY OF MAN PROCEEDS NOT FROM ANY SINGLE CRUSH OF OVERWHELMING EVIL, BUT FROM SMALL VEXATIONS CONTINUALLY REPEATED."
"THE MIND PROFITS BY THE WRECKS OF EVERY PASSION, AND WE MAY MEASURE OUR ROAD TO WISDOM BY THE SORROWS WE HAVE UNDERGONE."
"THE MIND IS ITS OWN PLACE, AND IN ITSELF / CAN MAKE A HEAVEN OF HELL, A HELL OF HEAVEN."
"THE MIND IS ENLARGED AND ELEVATED BY MERE PURPOSES, THOUGH THEY END AS THEY BEGIN BY AIRY CONTEMPLATION."
"THE MIND CAN MAKE / SUBSTANCE, AND PEOPLE PLANETS OF ITS OWN / WITH BEINGS BRIGHTER THAN HAVE BEEN, AND GIVE / A BREATH TO FORMS THAT CAN OUTLIVE ALL FLESH."
THE MERCHANT WHO WAS AT FIRST BUSY IN ACQUIRING MONEY CEASES TO GROW RICHER FROM THE TIME WHEN HE MAKES IT HIS BUSINESS ONLY TO COUNT IT.
"THE MEANS THAT HEAVEN YIELDS MUST BE EMBRACED, / AND NOT NEGLECTED."
THE MATERIAL WEALTH OF A COUNTRY IS THE PORTION OF ITS POSSESSIONS WHICH FEEDS AND EDUCATES GOOD MEN AND WOMEN IN IT.
THE MANY STILL MUST LABOUR FOR THE ONE! IT IS NATURE'S DOOM.
"THE MAN WHO WILL LIVE ABOVE HIS PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES IS IN GREAT DANGER OF LIVING IN A LITTLE TIME MUCH BENEATH THEM, OR, AS THE ITALIAN PROVERB SAYS, ""THE MAN WHO LIVES BY HOPE WILL DIE BY DESPAIR."""
"THE MAN WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHEN TO DIE, DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO LIVE."
"THE MAN THAT HATH NO MUSIC IN HIMSELF, / NOR IS NOT MOVED WITH CONCORD OF SWEET SOUNDS, / IS FIT FOR TREASONS, STRATAGEMS, AND SPOILS; / THE MOTIONS OF HIS SPIRIT ARE DULL AS NIGHT, / AND HIS AFFECTIONS DARK AS EREBUS: / LET NO SUCH MAN BE TRUSTED."
THE MAJORITY HAVE NO OTHER REASON FOR THEIR OPINIONS THAN THAT THEY ARE THE FASHION.
"THE LUNATIC, THE LOVER, AND THE POET, / ARE OF IMAGINATION ALL COMPACT."
"THE LOVER, / SIGHING LIKE A FURNACE, WITH A WOEFUL BALLAD / MADE TO HIS MISTRESS' EYEBROW."
THE LOVE OF LETTERS IS THE FORLORN HOPE OF THE MAN OF LETTERS.
"THE LONGER WE LIVE AND THE MORE WE THINK, THE HIGHER VALUE WE LEARN TO PUT ON THE FRIENDSHIP AND TENDERNESS OF PARENTS AND OF FRIENDS."
THE LIVES OF THE BEST OF US ARE SPENT IN CHOOSING BETWEEN EVILS.
"THE LIGHT THAT A MAN RECEIVETH BY COUNSEL FROM ANOTHER IS DRIER AND PURER THAN THAT WHICH COMETH FROM HIS OWN UNDERSTANDING AND JUDGMENT, WHICH IS EVER INFUSED AND DRENCHED IN HIS AFFECTIONS AND CUSTOMS."
"THE LIFE OF A NATION IS USUALLY, LIKE THE FLOW OF A LAVA STREAM, FIRST BRIGHT AND FIERCE, THEN LANGUID AND COVERED, AT LAST ADVANCING BY THE TUMBLING OVER AND OVER OF ITS FROZEN BLOCKS."
"THE LESSONS OF ADVERSITY ARE NOT ALWAYS SALUTARY; SOMETIMES THEY SOFTEN AND AMEND, BUT AS OFTEN THEY INDURATE AND PERVERT."
"THE LEGAL AND PROPER MERCY OF A KING OF ENGLAND MAY REMIT THE PUNISHMENT, BUT OUGHT NOT TO STOP THE TRIAL."
THE LEGACY OF HEROES--THE MEMORY OF A GREAT NAME AND THE INHERITANCE OF A GREAT EXAMPLE.
"THE LEAN AND SLIPPERED PANTALOON, / WITH SPECTACLES ON NOSE AND POUCH ON SIDE; / HIS YOUTHFUL HOSE, WELL SAVED, A WORLD TOO WIDE / FOR HIS SHRUNK SHANK; AND HIS BIG MANLY VOICE / TURNING AGAIN TOWARDS CHILDISH TREBLE, PIPES / AND WHISTLES IN HIS SOUND."
"THE LAW HAS NO EYES, THE LAW HAS NO HANDS, THE LAW IS NOTHING--NOTHING BUT A PIECE OF PAPER, TILL PUBLIC OPINION BREATHES THE BREATH OF LIFE INTO THE DEAD LETTER."
THE KING'S HONOUR IS THAT OF HIS PEOPLE. THEIR REAL HONOUR AND REAL INTEREST ARE THE SAME.
"THE JUSTICE, / IN FAIR ROUND BELLY WITH GOOD CAPON LINED, / WITH EYES SEVERE AND BEARD OF FORMAL CUT, / FULL OF WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES; / AND SO HE PLAYS HIS PART."
"THE JOYS OF PARENTS ARE SECRET, AND SO ARE THEIR GRIEFS AND FEARS."
"THE JEALOUS MAN'S DISEASE IS OF SO MALIGNANT A NATURE, THAT IT CONVERTS ALL IT TAKES INTO ITS OWN NOURISHMENT."
"THE INTELLECTUAL POWER, THROUGH WORDS AND THINGS / WENT SOUNDING ON A DIM AND PERILOUS WAY."
THE INTELLECT OF THE WISE IS LIKE GLASS; IT ADMITS THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN AND REFLECTS IT.
"THE INQUIRY OF TRUTH, WHICH IS THE LOVE-MAKING OR WOOING OF IT; THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUTH, WHICH IS THE PRESENCE OF IT; AND THE BELIEF OF TRUTH, WHICH IS THE ENJOYING OF IT, IS THE SOVEREIGN GOOD OF HUMAN NATURE."
"THE INITIAL VIRTUE OF THE RACE CONSISTS IN THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THEIR OWN LOWLY NATURE, AND SUBMISSION TO THE LAWS OF HIGHER BEING."
THE INJUSTICE DONE TO AN INDIVIDUAL IS SOMETIMES OF SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC.
"THE INFANT / MEWLING AND PUKING IN THE NURSE'S ARMS. / AND THEN THE WHINING SCHOOLBOY, WITH HIS SATCHEL, / AND SHINING MORNING FACE, CREEPING LIKE SNAIL / UNWILLINGLY TO SCHOOL."
"THE IMPORTUNITIES AND PERPLEXITIES OF BUSINESS ARE SOFTNESS AND LUXURY, COMPARED WITH THE INCESSANT CRAVINGS OF VACANCY, AND THE UNSATISFACTORY EXPEDIENTS OF IDLENESS."
"THE IMAGINATIVE POWER ALWAYS PURIFIES, THE WANT OF IT THEREFORE ESSENTIALLY DEFILES."
"THE ILL THAT'S WISELY FEARED IS HALF WITHSTOOD, / AND FEAR OF BAD IS THE BEST FOIL TO GOOD."
"THE HONOURABLEST PART OF TALK IS TO GIVE THE OCCASION; AND AGAIN TO MODERATE AND PASS TO SOMEWHAT ELSE, FOR THEN A MAN LEADS THE DANCE."
"THE HISTORY OF A SOLDIER'S WOUND BEGUILES THE PAIN OF IT. WE LOSE THE RIGHT OF COMPLAINING SOMETIMES BY FORBEARING IT, BUT WE OFTEN TREBLE THE FORCE."
"THE HIGHEST THING THAT ART CAN DO IS TO SET BEFORE YOU THE TRUE IMAGE OF THE PRESENCE OF A NOBLE HUMAN BEING. IT HAS NEVER DONE MORE THAN THIS, AND IT MIGHT NOT DO LESS."
THE HEROES OF LITERARY HISTORY HAVE BEEN NO LESS REMARKABLE FOR WHAT THEY HAVE SUFFERED THAN FOR WHAT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED.
THE HEAVY AND THE WEARY WEIGHT / OF ALL THIS UNINTELLIGIBLE WORLD.
"THE HEARTS OF MEN ARE THEIR BOOKS, EVENTS ARE THEIR TUTORS, GREAT ACTIONS ARE THEIR ELOQUENCE."
"THE HEALTH OF A STATE CONSISTS SIMPLY IN THIS, THAT IN IT THOSE WHO ARE WISEST SHALL ALSO BE STRONGEST."
"THE HAPPY MAN IS HE WHO DISTINGUISHES THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN DESIRES AND DELIGHT, AND STANDS FIRMLY ON THE HIGHER GROUND."
"THE HAPPINESS OF LIFE IS MADE UP OF MINUTE FRACTIONS,--THE LITTLE, SOON-FORGOTTEN CHARITIES OF A KISS, A SMILE, A KIND LOOK, A HEARTFELT COMPLIMENT IN THE DISGUISE OF A PLAYFUL RAILLERY, AND THE COUNTLESS OTHER INFINITESIMALS OF PLEASANT THOUGHT AND FEELING."
"THE HAND THAT HATH MADE YOU FAIR HATH MADE YOU GOOD; THE GOODNESS THAT IS CHEAP IN BEAUTY MAKES BEAUTY BRIEF IN GOODNESS; BUT GRACE, BEING THE SOUL OF YOUR COMPLEXION, SHOULD KEEP THE BODY OF IT EVER FAIR."
THE HABIT OF LOOKING ON THE BEST SIDE OF EVERY EVENT IS WORTH MORE THAN A THOUSAND A YEAR.
"THE GRIEF THAT DOES NOT SPEAK / WHISPERS THE O'ER-FRAUGHT HEART, AND BIDS IT BREAK."
"THE GREEKS CARED FOR MAN ONLY, AND FOR THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL; THE MODERNS FOR THE UNIVERSE ONLY, AND MAN NOT AT ALL."
THE GREATEST TRUTHS ARE THE SIMPLEST; AND SO ARE THE GREATEST MEN.
THE GREATEST PART OF MANKIND LABOUR UNDER ONE DELIRIUM OR ANOTHER.
"THE GREATEST OF ALL ECONOMISTS ARE THE FORTIFYING VIRTUES, WHICH THE WISEST MEN OF ALL TIME HAVE ARRANGED UNDER THE GENERAL HEADS OF PRUDENCE, OR DISCRETION, THE SPIRIT WHICH DISCERNS AND ADOPTS RIGHTLY; JUSTICE, THE SPIRIT WHICH RULES AND DIVIDES RIGHTLY; FORTITUDE, THE SPIRIT WHICH PERSISTS AND ENDURES RIGHTLY; AND TEMPERANCE, THE SPIRIT WHICH STOPS AND REFUSES RIGHTLY."
"THE GREATEST MEN, WHETHER POETS OR HISTORIANS, LIVE ENTIRELY IN THEIR OWN AGE, AND THE GREATEST FAULTS OF THEIR WORKS ARE GATHERED OUT OF THEIR OWN AGE."
"THE GREATEST MEN OF ANY AGE, THOSE WHO BECOME ITS LEADERS WHEN THERE IS A GREAT MARCH TO BE BEGUN, ARE SEPARATED FROM THE AVERAGE INTELLECTS OF THEIR DAY BY A DISTANCE WHICH IS IMMEASURABLE IN ORDINARY TERMS OF WONDER."
"THE GREATEST BENEFIT WHICH ONE FRIEND CAN CONFER UPON ANOTHER, IS TO GUARD, AND EXCITE, AND ELEVATE HIS VIRTUES."
"THE GREATER HEIGHT SENDS DOWN THE DEEPER FALL: / AND GOOD DECLIN'D TURNS BAD, TURNS WORST OF ALL."
THE GREAT RIVER-COURSES WHICH HAVE SHAPED THE LIVES OF MEN HAVE HARDLY CHANGED.
"THE GREAT PRINCIPLE OF ALL EFFORT IS TO ENDEAVOUR TO DO, NOT WHAT IS ABSOLUTELY BEST, BUT WHAT IS EASILY WITHIN OUR POWER, AND ADAPTED TO OUR TEMPER AND CONDITION."
"THE GREAT MOMENTS OF LIFE ARE BUT MOMENTS LIKE THE OTHERS. YOUR DOOM IS SPOKEN IN A WORD OR TWO. A SINGLE LOOK FROM THE EYES, A MERE PRESSURE OF THE HAND, MAY DECIDE IT; OR OF THE LIPS, THOUGH THEY CANNOT SPEAK."
"THE GREAT ERROR OF OUR NATURE IS, NOT TO KNOW WHERE TO STOP, NOT TO BE SATISFIED WITH ANY REASONABLE ACQUIREMENT, NOT TO COMPOUND WITH OUR CONDITION; BUT TO LOSE ALL WE HAVE GAINED BY AN INSATIABLE PURSUIT AFTER MORE."
"THE GREAT DISTINCTION BETWEEN MEDIÆVAL ART AND MODERN IS, THAT THE FORMER WAS BROUGHT INTO THE SERVICE OF RELIGION AND THE LATTER IS NOT."
"THE GREAT CAUSE OF REVOLUTIONS IS THIS: THAT, WHILE NATIONS MOVE ONWARD, CONSTITUTIONS STAND STILL."
THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN EGGS LIKES TO LAY WHERE THERE ARE EGGS ALREADY.
THE GOOD THINGS WHICH BELONG TO PROSPERITY ARE TO BE WISHED; BUT THE GOOD THINGS THAT BELONG TO ADVERSITY ARE TO BE ADMIRED.
"THE GOOD OLD RULE / SUFFICETH THEM, THE SIMPLE PLAN, / THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE WHO HAVE THE POWER, / AND THEY SHOULD KEEP WHO CAN."
"THE GOOD DIE FIRST, / AND THEY WHOSE HEARTS ARE DRY AS SUMMER DUST / BURN TO THE SOCKET."
"THE GOLDEN MOMENTS IN THE STREAM OF LIFE RUSH PAST US, AND WE SEE NOTHING BUT SAND; THE ANGELS COME TO VISIT US, AND WE ONLY KNOW THEM WHEN THEY ARE GONE."
"THE GODS ARE JUST, AND OF OUR PLEASANT VICES / MAKE INSTRUMENTS TO SCOURGE US."
"THE GODS APPROVE THE DEPTH, AND NOT THE TUMULT, OF THE SOUL."
"THE GLASS OF FASHION AND THE MOULD OF FORM, / THE OBSERVED OF ALL OBSERVERS."
"THE GENIUS, WIT, AND SPIRIT OF A NATION ARE DISCOVERED BY THEIR PROVERBS."
THE GENERAL TENDENCY OF THINGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IS TO RENDER MEDIOCRITY THE ASCENDANT POWER AMONG MANKIND.
"THE FURIOUSLY WICKED HAVE BUT A SHORT CAREER. BAD FOR THEM, BUT GOOD FOR THE UNIVERSE."
"THE FRUIT OF FRIENDSHIP, IN OPENING THE UNDERSTANDING, IS NOT RESTRAINED ONLY TO SUCH FRIENDS AS ARE ABLE TO GIVE COUNSEL (THEY INDEED ARE BEST), BUT EVEN WITHOUT THAT A MAN LEARNETH OF HIMSELF, AND BRINGETH HIS OWN THOUGHTS TO LIGHT, AND WHETTETH HIS WITS AS AGAINST A STONE, WHICH ITSELF CUTS NOT."
"THE FRIENDS THOU HAST, AND THEIR ADOPTION TRIED, / GRAPPLE THEM TO THY SOUL WITH HOOPS OF STEEL."
THE FORTUNE WHICH NOBODY SEES MAKES A MAN HAPPY AND UNENVIED.
THE FORCE OF THE GUINEA IN YOUR POCKET DEPENDS ON THE DEFAULT OF A GUINEA IN YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S.
"THE FOOL DOTH THINK HE IS WISE, BUT THE WISE MAN KNOWS HIMSELF TO BE A FOOL."
THE FOLLIES OF MODERN LIBERALISM ARE PRACTICALLY SUMMED UP IN THE DENIAL OR NEGLECT OF THE QUALITY AND INTRINSIC VALUE OF THINGS.
"THE FLOWER IS THE PROPER OBJECT OF THE SEED, NOT THE SEED OF THE FLOWER."
"THE FLIGHTY PURPOSE NEVER IS O'ERTOOK, / UNLESS THE DEED GO WITH IT."
THE FIRST USE OF EDUCATION IS TO ENABLE US TO CONSULT WITH THE WISEST AND THE GREATEST MEN ON ALL POINTS OF EARNEST DIFFICULTY.
"THE FIRST TEST OF A TRULY GREAT MAN IS HIS HUMILITY. I DO NOT MEAN BY HUMILITY, DOUBT OF HIS POWER OR HESITATION IN SPEAKING HIS OPINIONS; BUT A RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THE RELATION BETWEEN WHAT HE CAN SAY AND DO, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD'S SAYINGS AND DOINGS."
"THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF ALL HUMAN ECONOMY--INDIVIDUAL OR POLITICAL--IS TO LIVE WITH AS FEW WANTS AS POSSIBLE, AND TO WASTE NOTHING OF WHAT IS GIVEN US TO SUPPLY THEM."
THE FIRST POWER OF A NATION CONSISTS IN KNOWING HOW TO GUIDE THE PLOUGH; ITS SECOND POWER CONSISTS IN KNOWING HOW TO WEAR THE FETTER.
"THE FIRST DUTY OF EVERY MAN IN THE WORLD IS TO FIND HIS TRUE MASTER, AND, FOR HIS OWN GOOD, SUBMIT TO HIM; AND TO FIND HIS TRUE INFERIOR, AND, FOR THAT INFERIOR'S GOOD, CONQUER HIM."
THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD IN THE WORKS OF THE DAYS WAS THE LIGHT OF THE SENSE; THE LAST WAS THE LIGHT OF THE REASON; AND HIS SABBATH-WORK EVER SINCE IS THE ILLUMINATION OF THE SPIRIT.
"THE FIRST CONDITION OF GOODNESS IS SOMETHING TO LOVE; THE SECOND, SOMETHING TO REVERENCE."
THE FIRST CONDITION OF EDUCATION IS BEING PUT TO WHOLESOME AND USEFUL WORK.
"THE FIRST, AS INDEED THE LAST, NOBILITY OF EDUCATION IS IN THE RULE OVER OUR THOUGHTS."
"THE FINEST MINDS, LIKE THE FINEST METALS, DISSOLVE THE EASIEST."
"THE FINEST COMPOSITION OF HUMAN NATURE, AS WELL AS THE FINEST CHINA, MAY HAVE A FLAW IN IT, AND THIS IN EITHER CASE IS EQUALLY INCURABLE."
"THE FINER THE NATURE, THE MORE FLAWS IT WILL SHOW THROUGH THE CLEARNESS OF IT; AND IT IS A LAW OF THIS UNIVERSE THAT THE BEST THINGS SHALL BE SELDOMEST SEEN IN THEIR BEST FORM."
THE FATES BUT ONLY SPIN THE COARSER CLUE; / THE FINEST OF THE WOOL IS LEFT FOR YOU.
"THE FATAL TENDENCY OF MANKIND TO LEAVE OFF THINKING ABOUT A THING WHEN IT IS NO LONGER DOUBTFUL, IS THE CAUSE OF HALF THEIR ERRORS. A CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR HAS WELL SPOKEN OF ""THE DEEP SLUMBER OF A DECIDED OPINION."""
"THE FALL FROM THE (CHRISTIAN) FAITH, AND ALL THE CORRUPTIONS OF ITS ABORTIVE PRACTICE, MAY BE SUMMED UP BRIEFLY AS THE HABITUAL CONTEMPLATION OF CHRIST'S DEATH INSTEAD OF HIS LIFE, AND THE SUBSTITUTION OF HIS PAST SUFFERING FOR OUR PRESENT DUTY."
"THE EYE--IT CANNOT CHOOSE BUT SEE; / WE CANNOT BID THE EAR BE STILL; / OUR BODIES FEEL, WHERE'ER THEY BE, / AGAINST OR WITH OUR WILL."
"THE EWE THAT WILL NOT HEAR HER LAMB WHEN IT BAES, WILL NEVER ANSWER A CALF WHEN IT BLEATS."
"THE EVEN AND CHEERFUL TEMPER MAKES US PLEASING TO OURSELVES, TO THOSE WITH WHOM WE CONVERSE, AND TO HIM WHOM WE WERE MADE TO PLEASE."
THE ESSENTIAL THING FOR ALL CREATURES IS TO BE MADE TO DO RIGHT.
THE ESSENCE OF WEALTH CONSISTS IN ITS AUTHORITY OVER MEN; IF
"THE ESSENCE OF TRUE NOBILITY IS NEGLECT OF SELF. LET THE THOUGHT OF SELF PASS IN, AND THE BEAUTY OF A GREAT ACTION IS GONE, LIKE THE BLOOM FROM A SOILED FLOWER."
"THE ESSENCE OF ALL GOVERNMENT AMONG GOOD MEN IS THIS, THAT IT IS MAINLY OCCUPIED IN THE PRODUCTION AND RECOGNITION OF HUMAN WORTH, AND IN THE DETECTION AND EXTINCTION OF HUMAN UNWORTHINESS."
"THE ERRORS OF YOUNG MEN ARE THE RUIN OF BUSINESS; BUT THE ERRORS OF AGED MEN AMOUNT TO BUT THIS, THAT MORE MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONE, OR SOONER."
THE ERRORS OF A WISE MAN MAKE YOUR RULE / RATHER THAN THE PERFECTIONS OF A FOOL.
THE ENTIRE VITALITY OF ART DEPENDS UPON ITS HAVING FOR OBJECT EITHER TO STATE A TRUE THING OR ADORN A SERVICEABLE ONE.
"THE ENTIRE OBJECT OF TRUE EDUCATION IS TO MAKE PEOPLE NOT MERELY DO THE RIGHT THINGS, BUT ENJOY THE RIGHT THINGS."
"THE ENNOBLING DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE MAN AND ANOTHER--BETWEEN ONE ANIMAL AND ANOTHER--IS PRECISELY THIS, THAT ONE FEELS MORE THAN ANOTHER."
"THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH WILL NEVER BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE FACE OF A MAN, WITH HIS SOUL IN IT, ENCOURAGING ANOTHER MAN TO BE BRAVE AND TRUE."
THE EFFECT OF VIOLENT ANIMOSITIES BETWEEN PARTIES HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INDIFFERENCE TO THE GENERAL WELFARE AND HONOUR OF THE STATE.
"THE EARTH HATH BUBBLES, AS THE WATER HAS, / AND THESE ARE OF THEM."
"THE DULLEST JOHN BULL CANNOT WITH PERFECT COMPLACENCY ADORE HIMSELF, EXCEPT UNDER THE FIGURE OF BRITANNIA OR THE BRITISH LION."
THE DRYING UP A SINGLE TEAR HAS MORE / OF HONEST FAME THAN SHEDDING SEAS OF GORE.
"THE DRUNKARD FORFEITS MAN, AND DOTH DIVEST / ALL WORLDLY RIGHT, SAVE WHAT HE HATH BY BEAST."
"THE DREAD OF SOMETHING AFTER DEATH, / THE UNDISCOVER'D COUNTRY, FROM WHOSE BOURN / NO TRAVELLER RETURNS, PUZZLES THE WILL; / AND MAKES US RATHER BEAR THOSE ILLS WE HAVE / THAN FLY TO OTHERS THAT WE KNOW NOT OF."
"THE DIVINE MIND IS AS VISIBLE IN ITS FULL ENERGY OF OPERATION ON EVERY LOWLY BANK AND MOULDERING STONE, AS IN THE LIFTING OF THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN, AND SETTING THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH."
"THE DISTINGUISHING TRAIT OF PEOPLE ACCUSTOMED TO GOOD SOCIETY IS A CALM, IMPERTURBABLE QUIET, WHICH PERVADES ALL THEIR ACTIONS AND HABITS."
THE DISTINGUISHING SIGN OF SLAVERY IS TO HAVE A PRICE AND BE BOUGHT FOR IT.
THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF A CHILD IS TO LIVE ALWAYS IN THE TANGIBLE PRESENT.
"THE DISTANCES OF NATIONS ARE MEASURED, NOT BY SEAS, BUT BY IGNORANCES; AND THEIR DIVISIONS DETERMINED, NOT BY DIALECTS, BUT BY ENMITIES."
"THE DISSECTION OF A SENTENCE IS AS BAD A WAY TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF IT, AS THE DISSECTION OF A BEAST TO THE BIOGRAPHY OF IT."
THE DISPUTE ABOUT RELIGION AND THE PRACTICE OF IT SELDOM GO TOGETHER.
"THE DISEASE WHICH AFFLICTS BUREAUCRATIC GOVERNMENTS, AND WHICH THEY USUALLY DIE OF, IS ROUTINE."
"THE DISEASE OF THE MIND LEADING TO FATALIST RUIN IS THE CONCENTRATION OF MAN UPON HIMSELF, WHETHER HIS HEAVENLY INTERESTS OR HIS WORLDLY INTERESTS, MATTERS NOT; IT IS THEIR BEING HIS OWN INTERESTS WHICH MAKES THE REGARD OF THEM MORTAL."
"THE DICTUM THAT TRUTH ALWAYS TRIUMPHS OVER PERSECUTION IS ONE OF THOSE PLEASANT FALSEHOODS ... WHICH ALL EXPERIENCE REFUTES. HISTORY TEEMS WITH INSTANCES OF TRUTH PUT DOWN BY PERSECUTION. IF NOT SUPPRESSED FOR EVER, IT MAY BE THROWN BACK FOR CENTURIES."
"THE DEVIL TEMPTS US NOT--'TIS WE TEMPT HIM, / BECKONING HIS SKILL WITH OPPORTUNITY."
"THE DEVIL CAN CITE SCRIPTURE FOR HIS PURPOSE! / AN EVIL SOUL PRODUCING HOLY WITNESS / IS LIKE A VILLAIN WITH A SMILING CHEEK, / A GOODLY APPLE ROTTEN AT THE HEART."
"THE DESIRE OF POWER IN EXCESS CAUSED THE ANGELS TO FALL; THE DESIRE OF KNOWLEDGE IN EXCESS CAUSED MAN TO FALL; BUT IN CHARITY THERE IS NO EXCESS, NEITHER CAN MAN OR ANGEL COME IN DANGER BY IT."
"THE DARKEST DAY, LIVE TILL TO-MORROW, WILL HAVE PASSED AWAY."
"THE CURIOUS UNTHRIFT MAKES HIS CLOTHES TOO WIDE, / AND SPARES HIMSELF, BUT WOULD HIS TAILOR CHIDE."
THE CUNNING WORKMAN NEVER DOTH REFUSE / THE MEANEST TOOL THAT HE MAY CHANCE TO USE.
"THE CROWD ... IF THEY FIND / SOME STAIN OR BLEMISH IN A NAME OF NOTE, / NOT GRIEVING THAT THEIR GREATEST ARE SO SMALL, / INFLATE THEMSELVES WITH SOME INSANE DELIGHT, / AND JUDGE ALL NATURE FROM HER FEET OF CLAY, / WITHOUT THE WILL TO LIFT THEIR EYES, AND SEE / HER GODLIKE HEAD CROWN'D WITH SPIRITUAL FIRE / AND TOUCHING OTHER WORLDS."
"THE CROW DOTH SING AS SWEETLY AS THE LARK / WHEN NEITHER IS ATTENDED, AND I THINK / THE NIGHTINGALE, IF SHE SHOULD SING BY DAY, / WHEN EVERY GOOSE IS CACKLING, WOULD BE THOUGHT / NO BETTER A MUSICIAN THAN THE WREN."
"THE COVETOUS MAN NEVER HAS MONEY, AND THE PRODIGAL WILL HAVE NONE SHORTLY."
"THE COURT OF THE PAST DIFFERS FROM ALL LIVING ARISTOCRACY IN THIS; IT IS OPEN TO LABOUR AND TO MERIT, BUT TO NOTHING ELSE."
"THE CONSOLATION WHICH IS DERIVED FROM TRUTH, IF ANY THERE BE, IS SOLID AND DURABLE; THAT WHICH MAY BE DERIVED FROM ERROR MUST BE, LIKE ITS ORIGINAL, FALLACIOUS AND FUGITIVE."
"THE CONSCIENCE IS THE MOST ELASTIC MATERIAL IN THE WORLD. TO-DAY YOU CANNOT STRETCH IT OVER A MOLE-HILL, TO-MORROW IT HIDES A MOUNTAIN."
THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR THE ARTS OF MEN ARE THE BEST FOR THEIR SOULS AND BODIES.
"THE COMMON ""KEEPING UP APPEARANCES"" OF SOCIETY IS A MERE SELFISH STRUGGLE OF THE VAIN WITH THE VAIN."
THE COMMON CROWD BUT SEE THE GLOOM / OF WAYWARD DEEDS AND FITTING DOOM; / THE CLOSE OBSERVER CAN ESPY / A NOBLE SOUL AND LINEAGE HIGH.
THE COMMENCEMENT OF ATONEMENT IS / THE SENSE OF ITS NECESSITY.
"THE COCK, THAT IS THE TRUMPET OF THE MORN, / DOTH WITH HIS LOFTY AND SHRILL-SOUNDING THROAT / AWAKE THE GOD OF DAY."
"THE CLOUDS THAT WRAP THE SETTING SUN / ... WHY, AS WE WATCH THEIR FLOATING WREATH, / SEEM THEY THE BREATH OF LIFE TO BREATHE? / TO FANCY'S EYE THEIR MOTIONS PROVE / THEY MANTLE ROUND THE SUN FOR LOVE."
THE CLOUDS THAT GATHER ROUND THE SETTING SUN / DO TAKE A SOBER COLOURING FROM AN EYE / THAT HATH KEPT WATCH O'ER MAN'S MORTALITY.
"THE CIVILISED NATION CONSISTS BROADLY OF MOB, MONEY-COLLECTING MACHINE, AND CAPITALIST; AND WHEN THE MOB WISHES TO SPEND MONEY FOR ANY PURPOSE, IT SETS ITS MONEY-COLLECTING MACHINE TO BORROW THE MONEY IT NEEDS FROM THE CAPITALIST, WHO LENDS IT ON CONDITION OF TAXING THE MOB GENERATION AFTER GENERATION."
"THE CIVIL GUEST / WILL NO MORE TALK ALL, THAN EAT ALL THE FEAST."
"THE CHURCHMEN FAIN WOULD KILL THEIR CHURCH, / AS THE CHURCHES HAVE KILLED THEIR CHRIST."
"THE CHILD WHO DESIRES EDUCATION WILL BE BETTERED BY IT; THE CHILD WHO DISLIKES IT, ONLY DISGRACED."
THE CHIEF VALUE AND VIRTUE OF MONEY CONSISTS IN ITS HAVING POWER OVER HUMAN BEINGS; A POWER WHICH IS ATTAINABLE BY OTHER MEANS THAN BY MONEY.
"THE CHIEF OF ALL THE CURSES OF THIS UNHAPPY AGE IS THE UNIVERSAL GABBLE OF ITS FOOLS, AND OF THE FLOCKS THAT FOLLOW THEM, RENDERING THE QUIET VOICES OF THE WISE OF ALL PAST TIME INAUDIBLE."
THE CHEAP SWEARER THROUGH HIS OPEN SLUICE / LETS HIS SOUL RUN FOR NOUGHT.
"THE CHASTE MIND, LIKE A POLISHED PLANE, MAY ADMIT FOUL THOUGHTS, WITHOUT RECEIVING THEIR TINCTURE."
THE CHARIEST MAID IS PRODIGAL ENOUGH / IF SHE UNMASK HER BEAUTY TO THE MOON.
"THE CHARACTERISTIC OF CHAUCER IS INTENSITY; OF SPENCER, REMOTENESS; OF MILTON, ELEVATION: OF SHAKESPEARE, EVERYTHING."
"THE CHAMPION TRUE / LOVES VICTORY MORE WHEN, DIM IN VIEW, / HE SEES HER GLORIES GILD AFAR / THE DUSKY EDGE OF STUBBORN WAR, / THAN IF TH' UNTRODDEN BLOODLESS FIELD / THE HARVEST OF HER LAURELS YIELD."
THE CHAINS OF HABIT ARE GENERALLY TOO SMALL TO BE FELT TILL THEY ARE TOO STRONG TO BE BROKEN.
"THE CANKER GALLS THE INFANTS OF THE SPRING / TOO OFT BEFORE THEIR BUTTONS ARE DISCLOSED, / AND IN THE MORN AND LIQUID DEW OF YOUTH / CONTAGIOUS BLASTMENTS ARE MOST IMMINENT."
"THE CAMOMILE, THE MORE IT IS TRODDEN ON, THE FASTER IT GROWS; YET YOUTH, THE MORE IT IS WASTED, THE SOONER IT WEARS."
"THE CALLING OF A MAN'S SELF TO A STRICT ACCOUNT IS A MEDICINE SOMETIMES TOO PIERCING AND CORROSIVE; READING GOOD BOOKS OF MORALITY IS A LITTLE FLAT AND DEAD ... BUT THE BEST RECEIPT (BEST TO WORK, AND BEST TO TAKE) IS THE ADMONITION OF A FRIEND."
"THE BUD MAY HAVE A BITTER TASTE, / BUT SWEET WILL BE THE FLOWER."
"THE BREEDING OF A MAN MAKES HIM COURAGEOUS BY INSTINCT, TRUE BY INSTINCT, LOVING BY INSTINCT, AS A DOG IS; AND THEREFORE, FELICITOUSLY ABOVE, OR BELOW (WHICHEVER YOU LIKE TO CALL IT), ALL QUESTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY AND DIVINITY."
THE BRAIN MAY DEVISE LAWS FOR THE BLOOD; BUT A HOT TEMPER LEAPS O'ER A COLD DECREE.
"THE BOOKFUL BLOCKHEAD, IGNORANTLY READ, / WITH LOADS OF LEARNED LUMBER IN HIS HEAD."
"THE BLOOD OF MAN SHOULD NEVER BE SHED BUT TO REDEEM THE BLOOD OF MAN. IT IS WELL SHED FOR OUR FAMILY, FOR OUR FRIENDS, FOR OUR GOD, FOR OUR COUNTRY, FOR OUR KIND. THE REST IS VANITY, THE REST IS CRIME."
THE BLOOD MORE STIRS / TO ROUSE A LION THAN TO START A HARE.
THE BLESSED WORK OF HELPING THE WORLD FORWARD DOES NOT WAIT TO BE DONE BY PERFECT MEN.
"THE BLAZE OF REPUTATION CANNOT BE BLOWN OUT, BUT IT OFTEN DIES IN THE SOCKET."
"THE BIRD OF WISDOM FLIES LOW, AND SEEKS HER FOOD UNDER HEDGES; THE EAGLE HIMSELF WOULD BE STARVED IF HE ALWAYS SOARED ALOFT AND AGAINST THE SUN."
"(THE BIBLE) CONTAINS PLAIN TEACHING FOR MEN OF EVERY RANK OF SOUL AND STATE OF LIFE, WHICH SO FAR AS THEY HONESTLY AND IMPLICITLY OBEY, THEY WILL BE HAPPY AND INNOCENT TO THE UTMOST POWERS OF THEIR NATURE, AND CAPABLE OF VICTORY OVER ALL ADVERSITIES, WHETHER OF TEMPTATION OR PAIN."
"THE BETTER A MAN IS MORALLY, THE LESS CONSCIOUS HE IS OF HIS VIRTUES. THE GREATER THE ARTIST, THE MORE AWARE HE MUST BE OF HIS SHORTCOMINGS."
"THE BEST WORKS, AND OF GREATEST MERIT FOR THE PUBLIC, HAVE PROCEEDED FROM UNMARRIED OR CHILDLESS MEN, WHICH, BOTH IN AFFECTION AND MEANS, HAVE MARRIED AND ENDOWED THE PUBLIC."
"THE BEST WORK NEVER WAS, NOR EVER WILL BE, DONE FOR MONEY AT ALL."
"THE BEST WAY TO COME TO TRUTH IS TO EXAMINE THINGS AS THEY REALLY ARE, AND NOT TO CONCLUDE THEY ARE, AS WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT BY OTHERS TO IMAGINE."
THE BEST PRESERVATIVE TO KEEP THE MIND IN HEALTH IS THE FAITHFUL ADMONITION OF A FRIEND.
THE BEST PORTRAITS ARE THOSE IN WHICH THERE IS A SLIGHT MIXTURE OF CARICATURE.
THE BEST ARCHITECTURE IS THE EXPRESSION OF THE MIND OF MANHOOD BY THE HANDS OF CHILDHOOD.
THE BELL STRIKES ONE. WE TAKE NO NOTE OF TIME / BUT FOR ITS LOSS.
"THE BEGINNING OF ALL GOOD LAW, AND NEARLY THE END OF IT, IS THAT EVERY MAN SHALL DO GOOD WORK FOR HIS BREAD, AND THAT EVERY MAN SHALL HAVE GOOD BREAD FOR HIS WORK."
"THE BEGINNING, AND VERY NEARLY THE END, OF BODILY EDUCATION FOR A GIRL, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE CAN STAND AND SIT UPRIGHT; THE ANKLE VERTICAL, AND FIRM AS A MARBLE SHAFT; THE WAIST ELASTIC AS A REED, AND AS UNFATIGUABLE."
"THE BASEST THOUGHT ABOUT MAN IS THAT HE HAS NO SPIRITUAL NATURE; AND THE FOOLISHEST, THAT HE HAS, OR SHOULD HAVE, NO ANIMAL NATURE."
THE ARGUMENT ALL BARE IS OF MORE WORTH / THAN WHEN IT HATH MY ADDED PRAISE BESIDE.
THE APPREHENSION OF THE GOOD / GIVES BUT THE GREATER FEELING TO THE WORSE.
THE AGES OF GREATEST PUBLIC SPIRIT ARE NOT ALWAYS EMINENT FOR PRIVATE VIRTUE.
"THE AGE OF CHIVALRY IS GONE. THAT OF SOPHISTERS, ECONOMISTS, AND CALCULATORS HAS SUCCEEDED; AND THE GLORY OF EUROPE IS EXTINGUISHED FOR EVER."
"THE AFFECTION OF YOUNG LADIES IS OF AS RAPID GROWTH AS JACK'S BEANSTALK, AND REACHES UP TO THE SKY IN A NIGHT."
THE ADVICE THAT IS WANTED IS COMMONLY UNWELCOME; THAT WHICH IS NOT WANTED IS EVIDENTLY IMPERTINENT.
"THE ACCUSING SPIRIT, WHICH FLEW UP TO HEAVEN'S CHANCERY WITH THE OATH, BLUSHED AS HE GAVE IT IN; AND THE RECORDING ANGEL, AS HE WROTE IT DOWN, DROPPED A TEAR UPON THE WORD AND BLOTTED IT OUT FOR EVER."
"THAT'S WHAT A MAN WANTS IN A WIFE, MOSTLY: HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE O' ONE FOOL AS'LL TELL HIM HE'S WISE. BUT THERE'S SOME MEN CAN DO WI'OUT THAT--THEY THINK SO MUCH O' THEMSELVES A'READY--AN' THAT'S HOW IT IS THERE'S OLD BACHELORS."
"THAT WHICH WE HAVE WE PRIZE NOT TO THE WORTH; / BUT BEING LACKED AND LOST, WHY THEN WE RAKE ITS VALUE."
THAT WHICH SEEMS TO BE WEALTH MAY IN VERITY BE ONLY THE GILDED INDEX OF FAR-REACHING RUIN; A WRECKER'S HANDFUL OF COIN GLEANED FROM THE BEACH TO WHICH HE HAS BEGUILED AN ARGOSY.
THAT WHICH IS TRULY AND INDEED CHARACTERISTIC OF THE MAN IS KNOWN ONLY TO GOD.
"THAT WHICH IS PAST IS GONE AND IRREVOCABLE, AND WISE MEN HAVE ENOUGH TO DO WITH THINGS PRESENT AND TO COME; THEREFORE THEY DO BUT TRIFLE WITH THEMSELVES THAT LABOUR IN PAST MATTERS."
"THAT WHICH IN MEAN MEN WE ENTITLE PATIENCE, / IS PALE COLD COWARDICE IN NOBLE BREASTS."
"THAT WHICH CAN BE DONE WITH PERFECT CONVENIENCE AND WITHOUT LOSS, IS NOT ALWAYS THE THING THAT MOST NEEDS TO BE DONE, OR WHICH WE ARE MOST IMPERATIVELY REQUIRED TO DO."
"THAT WE WOULD DO, / WE SHOULD DO WHEN WE WOULD; FOR THIS ""WOULD"" CHANGES, / AND HATH ABATEMENTS AND DELAYS AS MANY / AS THERE ARE TONGUES, ARE HANDS, ARE ACCIDENTS; / AND THEN THIS ""SHOULD"" IS LIKE A SPENDTHRIFT'S SIGH, / THAT HURTS BY EASING."
THAT WE DEVOTE OURSELVES TO GOD IS SEEN / IN LIVING JUST AS THOUGH NO GOD THERE WERE.
"THAT VOLUNTARY DEBILITY, WHICH MODERN LANGUAGE IS CONTENT TO TERM INDOLENCE, WILL, IF IT IS NOT COUNTERACTED BY RESOLUTION, RENDER IN TIME THE STRONGEST FACULTIES LIFELESS, AND TURN THE FLAME TO THE SMOKE OF VIRTUE."
THAT MAN WILL NEVER BE A PERFECT GENTLEMAN WHO LIVES ONLY WITH GENTLEMEN. TO BE A MAN OF THE WORLD WE MUST VIEW THAT WORLD IN EVERY GRADE AND IN EVERY PERSPECTIVE.
"THAT MAN IS LITTLE TO BE ENVIED WHOSE PATRIOTISM WOULD NOT GAIN FORCE UPON THE PLAIN OF MARATHON, OR WHOSE PIETY WOULD NOT GROW WARMER AMONG THE RUINS OF IONA."
"THAT MAN IS AN ILL HUSBAND OF HIS HONOUR THAT ENTERETH INTO ANY ACTION, THE FAILING WHEREIN MAY DISGRACE HIM MORE THAN THE CARRYING OF IT THROUGH CAN HONOUR HIM."
"THAT MAN IS ALWAYS HAPPY WHO IS IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMETHING WHICH HE CANNOT KNOW TO THE FULL, WHICH HE IS ALWAYS GOING ON TO KNOW."
THAT IS THE BEST PART OF BEAUTY WHICH A PICTURE CANNOT EXPRESS.
"THAT IN THE CAPTAIN'S BUT A CHOLERIC WORD, / WHICH IN THE SOLDIER IS FLAT BLASPHEMY."
"THAT HE IS MAD 'TIS TRUE; 'TIS TRUE, 'TIS PITY; / AND PITY 'TIS 'TIS TRUE."
"THAT BUT THIS BLOW / MIGHT BE THE BE-ALL AND THE END-ALL HERE, / BUT HERE, UPON THIS BANK AND SHOAL OF TIME, / WE'D JUMP THE LIFE TO COME."
"THAT ACTION IS NOT WARRANTABLE WHICH EITHER BLUSHES TO BEG A BLESSING, OR, HAVING SUCCEEDED, DARES NOT PRESENT A THANKSGIVING."
"TESTIMONY IS LIKE AN ARROW SHOT FROM A LONG BOW; THE FORCE OF IT DEPENDS UPON THE STRENGTH OF THE HAND THAT DRAWS IT. ARGUMENT IS LIKE AN ARROW FROM A CROSS-BOW, WHICH HAS EQUAL FORCE THOUGH SHOT BY A CHILD."
"TELL ME WHERE IS FANCY BRED, / OR IN THE HEART, OR IN THE HEAD? / HOW BEGOT, HOW NOURISHÉD? / IT IS ENGENDER'D IN THE EYES, / WITH GAZING FED."
"TEARS, IDLE TEARS, I KNOW NOT WHAT THEY MEAN, / TEARS FROM THE DEPTH OF SOME DIVINE DESPAIR / RISE IN THE HEART AND GATHER IN THE EYES, / IN LOOKING ON THE HAPPY AUTUMN FIELDS, / AND THINKING OF THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE."
"TEARS ARE OFTEN TO BE FOUND WHERE THERE IS LITTLE SORROW, AND THE DEEPEST SORROW WITHOUT TEARS."
"TEACH ME TO FEEL ANOTHER'S WOE, / TO HIDE THE FAULT I SEE; / THAT MERCY I TO OTHERS SHOW, / THAT MERCY SHOW TO ME."
"TALENTS ANGEL-BRIGHT, IF WANTING WORTH, ARE SHINING INSTRUMENTS IN FALSE AMBITION'S HAND, TO FINISH FAULTS ILLUSTRIOUS, AND GIVE INFAMY RENOWN."
"TALENT, LYING IN THE UNDERSTANDING, IS OFTEN INHERITED; GENIUS, BEING THE ACTION OF REASON AND IMAGINATION, RARELY OR NEVER."
"TAKE THE SHOWERS AS THEY FALL, / ... ENOUGH IF AT THE END OF ALL / A LITTLE GARDEN BLOSSOM."
"TAKE NOTE, TAKE NOTE, O WORLD, / TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST IS NOT SAFE."
"TAKE NOT HIS NAME WHO MADE THY MOUTH IN VAIN: / IT GETS THEE NOTHING, AND HAS NO EXCUSE."
"TAKE AWAY DESIRE FROM THE HEART, AND YOU TAKE AWAY THE AIR FROM THE EARTH."
"TAKE ANY SUBJECT OF SORROWFUL REGRET, AND SEE WITH HOW MUCH PLEASURE IT IS ASSOCIATED."
"TAKE ALL THAT IS GIVEN, WHETHER WEALTH, / OR LOVE, OR LANGUAGE; NOTHING COMES AMISS; / A GOOD DIGESTION TURNETH ALL TO HEALTH."
"SYMPATHY IS THE SOLACE OF THE POOR, BUT FOR THE RICH THERE IS CONSOLATION."
SYMPATHETIC PEOPLE ARE OFTEN UNCOMMUNICATIVE ABOUT THEMSELVES; THEY GIVE BACK REFLECTED IMAGES WHICH HIDE THEIR OWN DEPTHS.
"SWORN TO NO MASTER, OF NO SECT AM I; / AS DRIVES THE STORM, AT ANY DOOR I KNOCK, / AND HOUSE WITH MONTAIGNE NOW, AND NOW WITH LOCKE."
SWEETEST MELODIES ARE THOSE THAT ARE BY DISTANCE MADE MORE SWEET.
"SWEET READER, DO YOU KNOW WHAT A TOADY IS? THAT AGREEABLE ANIMAL WHICH YOU MEET EVERY DAY IN CIVILISED SOCIETY."
"SWEET PLIABILITY OF MAN'S SPIRIT, THAT CAN AT ONCE SURRENDER ITSELF TO ILLUSIONS WHICH CHEAT EXPECTATION AND SORROW OF THEIR WEARY MOMENTS!"
"SWEET IS TRUE LOVE THOUGH GIVEN IN VAIN, / AND SWEET IS DEATH THAT PUTS AN END TO PAIN."
SWEET IS THE LORE WHICH NATURE BRINGS; / OUR MEDDLING INTELLECT / MISSHAPES THE BEAUTEOUS FORM OF THINGS: / WE MURDER TO DISSECT.
"SWEET IS THE BREATH OF MORN, HER RISING SWEET, / WITH CHARM OF EARLIEST BIRDS."
"SWEET BIRD, THAT SHUNN'ST THE NOISE OF FOLLY, / MOST MUSICAL, MOST MELANCHOLY."
"SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY, / WHICH LIKE THE TOAD, UGLY AND VENOMOUS, / WEARS YET A PRECIOUS JEWEL IN HIS HEAD; / AND THIS OUR LIFE, EXEMPT FROM PUBLIC HAUNT, / FINDS TONGUES IN TREES, BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, / SERMONS IN STONES, AND GOOD IN EVERYTHING."
"SWEARING IS INVOKING THE WITNESS OF A SPIRIT TO AN ASSERTION YOU WISH TO MAKE, BUT CURSING IS INVOKING THE ASSISTANCE OF A SPIRIT IN A MISCHIEF YOU WISH TO INFLICT."
"SUSPICIONS AMONGST THOUGHTS ARE LIKE BATS AMONGST BIRDS; THEY EVER FLY BY TWILIGHT; THEY ARE TO BE REPRESSED, OR AT THE LEAST WELL GUARDED, FOR THEY CLOUD THE MIND."
"SUSPICION IS A HEAVY ARMOUR, AND WITH ITS OWN WEIGHT IMPEDES MORE THAN PROTECTS."
SUSPICION ALWAYS HAUNTS THE GUILTY MIND; / THE THIEF DOTH FEAR EACH BUSH AN OFFICER.
SURFEIT OF THE SWEETEST THINGS / THE DEEPEST LOATHING TO THE STOMACH BRINGS.
"SURELY LIFE, IF IT BE NOT LONG, IS TEDIOUS, SINCE WE ARE FORCED TO CALL IN THE ASSISTANCE OF SO MANY TRIFLES TO RID US OF OUR TIME, OF THAT TIME WHICH CAN NEVER RETURN."
"SURELY IT IS BETTER TO ENCLOSE THE GULF AND HINDER ALL ACCESS, THAN BY ENCOURAGING US TO ADVANCE A LITTLE, TO ENTICE US AFTERWARDS A LITTLE FURTHER, AND LET US PERCEIVE OUR FOLLY ONLY BY OUR DESTRUCTION."
SURELY HALF THE WORLD MUST BE BLIND; THEY CAN SEE NOTHING UNLESS IT GLITTERS.
"SURE, OF QUALITIES DEMANDING PRAISE, / MORE GO TO RUIN FORTUNES, THAN TO RAISE."
"SURE, HE THAT MADE US WITH SUCH LARGE DISCOURSE, / LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER, GAVE US NOT / THAT CAPABILITY AND GODLIKE REASON / TO FUST IN US UNUSED."
"SURE AS NIGHT FOLLOWS DAY, / DEATH TREADS IN PLEASURE'S FOOTSTEPS ROUND THE WORLD, / WHEN PLEASURE TREADS THE PATH WHICH REASON SHUNS."
"SUPERSTITION IS THE FEAR OF A SPIRIT WHOSE PASSIONS AND ACTS ARE THOSE OF A MAN, WHO IS PRESENT IN SOME PLACES, AND NOT IN OTHERS; WHO MAKES SOME PLACES HOLY, AND NOT OTHERS; WHO IS KIND TO ONE PERSON, AND UNKIND TO ANOTHER; WHO IS PLEASED OR ANGRY ACCORDING TO THE DEGREE OF ATTENTION YOU PAY HIM, OR PRAISE YOU REFUSE HIM; WHO IS HOSTILE GENERALLY TO HUMAN PLEASURE, BUT MAY BE BRIBED BY SACRIFICING A PART OF THAT PLEASURE INTO PERMITTING THE REST."
SUPERSTITION IS CERTAINLY NOT THE CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS AGE. YET SOME MEN ARE BIGOTED IN POLITICS WHO ARE INFIDELS IN RELIGION.
SUPERIOR STRENGTH IS FOUND IN THE LONG-RUN TO LIE WITH THOSE WHO HAD THE RIGHT ON THEIR SIDE.
SUPERIOR POWERS OF MIND AND PROFOUND STUDY ARE OF NO USE IF THEY DO NOT SOMETIMES LEAD A PERSON TO DIFFERENT CONCLUSIONS FROM THOSE WHICH ARE FORMED BY ORDINARY POWERS OF MIND WITHOUT STUDY.
"SUPERFLUITY COMES SOONER BY WHITE HAIRS, BUT COMPETENCY LIVES LONGER."
"SUNDAYS OBSERVE; THINK WHEN THE BELLS DO CHIME, / 'TIS ANGELS' MUSIC, THEREFORE COME NOT LATE."
SUNBEAMS POUR ALIKE THEIR GLORIOUS TIDE / TO LIGHT UP WORLDS OR WAKE AN INSECT'S MIRTH.
SUM UP AT NIGHT WHAT THOU HAST DONE BY DAY; / AND IN THE MORNING WHAT THOU HAST TO DO.
"SUIT THE ACTION TO THE WORD, THE WORD TO THE ACTION; WITH THIS SPECIAL OBSERVANCE, THAT YOU O'ERSTEP NOT THE MODESTY OF NATURE."
"SUDDEN RESOLUTIONS, LIKE THE SUDDEN RISE OF THE MERCURY IN THE BAROMETER, INDICATE LITTLE ELSE THAN THE CHANGEABLENESS OF THE WEATHER."
"SUDDEN BLAZE OF KINDNESS MAY, BY A SINGLE BLAST OF COLDNESS, BE EXTINGUISHED; BUT THAT FONDNESS WHICH LENGTH OF TIME HAS CONNECTED WITH MANY CIRCUMSTANCES AND OCCASIONS, THOUGH IT MAY FOR A WHILE BE SUPPRESSED BY DISGUST OR RESENTMENT, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE, IS HOURLY REVIVED BY ACCIDENTAL RECOLLECTION."
"SUCH TRICKS HATH STRONG IMAGINATION, / THAT, IF IT WOULD BUT APPREHEND SOME JOY, / IT COMPREHENDS SOME BRINGER OF THAT JOY; / OR IN THE NIGHT, IMAGINING SOME FEAR, / HOW EASY IS A BUSH SUPPOSED A BEAR."
"SUCH ONLY ENJOY THE COUNTRY AS ARE CAPABLE OF THINKING WHEN THEY ARE THERE; THEN THEY ARE PREPARED FOR SOLITUDE, AND IN THAT CASE SOLITUDE IS PREPARED FOR THEM."
"SUCH IS THE ASPECT OF THIS SHORE; / 'TIS GREECE, BUT LIVING GREECE NO MORE! / SO COLDLY SWEET, SO DEADLY FAIR, / WE START, FOR SOUL IS WANTING THERE."
"SUCH IS HOPE, HEAVEN'S OWN GIFT TO STRUGGLING MORTALS; PERVADING, LIKE SOME SUBTLE ESSENCE FROM THE SKIES, ALL THINGS BOTH GOOD AND BAD."
"SUCH HATH BEEN--SHALL BE--BENEATH THE SUN, / THAT MANY STILL MUST LABOUR FOR THE ONE."
SUCCESS (BY LAWS OF COMPETITION) SIGNIFIES ALWAYS SO MUCH VICTORY OVER YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS TO OBTAIN THE DIRECTION OF HIS WORK AND TAKE THE PROFITS OF IT. THIS IS THE REAL SOURCE OF ALL GREAT RICHES.
"SUBVERTING WORLDLY STRONG AND WORLDLY WISE, / BY SIMPLY MEEK."
"""SUAVITER IN MODO, FORTITER IN RE,""--I DO NOT KNOW ANY ONE RULE SO UNEXCEPTIONABLY USEFUL AND NECESSARY IN EVERY PART OF LIFE."
"STUNG BY STRAITNESS OF OUR LIFE, MADE STRAIT / ON PURPOSE TO MAKE SWEET THE LIFE AT LARGE."
STUDY THYSELF; WHAT RANK OR WHAT DEGREE / THE WISE CREATOR HATH ORDAINED FOR THEE.
STUDY OF THE BIBLE WILL KEEP ANY MAN FROM BEING VULGAR IN STYLE.
"STUDY IS THE BANE OF BOYHOOD, THE ELEMENT OF YOUTH, THE INDULGENCE OF MANHOOD, AND THE RESTORATIVE OF AGE."
"STUDY IS LIKE THE HEAVEN'S GLORIOUS SUN, / THAT WILL NOT BE DEEP-SEARCHED WITH SAUCY LOOKS."
STRONGEST MINDS / ARE OFTEN THOSE OF WHOM THE NOISY WORLD / HEARS LEAST.
"STRONG SON OF GOD, IMMORTAL LOVE, / WHOM WE THAT HAVE NOT SEEN THY FACE, / BY FAITH, AND FAITH ALONE, EMBRACE, / BELIEVING WHERE WE CANNOT PROVE."
"STRONG CONCEIT, LIKE A NEW PRINCIPLE, CARRIES ALL EASILY WITH IT, WHEN YET ABOVE COMMONSENSE."
STRONG CHARACTER CURDLES ITSELF OUT OF THE SCUM INTO ITS OWN PLACE AND POWER OR IMPOTENCE.
"STRIP THE BISHOP OF HIS APRON, THE COUNSELLOR OF HIS GOWN, AND THE BEADLE OF HIS COCKED HAT, WHAT ARE THEY? MEN, MERE MEN. DIGNITY, AND EVEN HOLINESS TOO SOMETIMES, ARE MORE QUESTIONS OF COAT AND WAISTCOAT THAN SOME PEOPLE IMAGINE."
"STRICTLY SPEAKING, THE IMAGINATION IS NEVER GOVERNED; IT IS ALWAYS THE RULING AND DIVINE POWER, AND THE REST OF THE MAN IS TO IT ONLY AS AN INSTRUMENT WHICH IT SOUNDS, OR A TABLET ON WHICH IT WRITES; CLEARLY AND SUBLIMELY IF THE WAX BE SMOOTH AND THE STRINGS TRUE, GROTESQUELY AND WILDLY IF THEY ARE STAINED AND BROKEN."
STRENGTH WAS THE VIRTUE OF PAGANISM; OBEDIENCE IS THE VIRTUE OF CHRISTIANITY.
STRANGE COZENAGE! NONE WOULD LIVE PAST YEARS AGAIN; / YET ALL HOPE PLEASURE IN WHAT YET REMAIN; / AND FROM THE DREGS OF LIFE THINK TO RECEIVE / WHAT THE FIRST SPRIGHTLY RUNNING COULD NOT GIVE.
"STONY LIMITS CANNOT HOLD LOVE OUT; / AND WHAT LOVE CAN DO, THAT DARES LOVE ATTEMPT."
"STIRRING SPIRITS LIVE ALONE: / WRITE ON THE OTHERS, ""HERE LIES SUCH A ONE."""
"STILLEST STREAMS OFT WATER FINEST MEADOWS, / AND THE BIRD THAT FLUTTERS LEAST IS LONGEST ON THE WING."
"STILL TO THE LOWLY SOUL / HE DOTH HIMSELF IMPART, / AND FOR HIS CRADLE AND HIS THRONE / CHOOSETH THE PURE IN HEART."
STILL SEEMS IT STRANGE THAT THOU SHOULDST LIVE FOR EVER? IS IT LESS STRANGE THAT THOU SHOULDST LIVE AT ALL? THIS IS A MIRACLE; AND THAT NO MORE.
"STILL RAISE FOR GOOD THE SUPPLICATING VOICE, / BUT LEAVE TO HEAVEN THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE."
"STIFF IN OPINIONS, ALWAYS IN THE WRONG, / WAS EVERYTHING BY STARTS, AND NOTHING LONG; / BUT IN THE COURSE OF ONE REVOLVING MOON / WAS CHEMIST, FIDDLER, STATESMAN, AND BUFFOON."
"STATESMEN THAT ARE WISE / SHAPE A NECESSITY, AS SCULPTOR CLAY, / TO THEIR OWN MODEL."
"STAND FAST! TO STAND OR FALL, / FREE IN THINE OWN ARBITRAMENT IT STANDS."
"SPITE OF CORMORANT DEVOURING TIME, / THE ENDEAVOUR OF THIS PRESENT BREATH MAY BUY / THAT HONOUR WHICH WILL BATE HIS SCYTHE'S KEEN EDGE, / AND MAKE US HEIRS OF ALL ETERNITY."
"SPITE OF ALL THE CRITICISING ELVES, / THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE US FEEL MUST FEEL THEMSELVES."
"SPIRITS, WHEN THEY PLEASE, / CAN EITHER SEX ASSUME, OR BOTH."
"SPIRITS ARE NOT FINELY TOUCH'D / BUT TO FINE ISSUES, NOR NATURE NEVER LENDS / THE SMALLEST SCRUPLE OF HER EXCELLENCE / BUT, LIKE A THRIFTY GODDESS, SHE DETERMINES / HERSELF THE GLORY OF A CREDITOR, / BOTH THANKS AND USE."
SPIRIT-POWER BEGINS IN DIRECTING ANIMAL POWER TO OTHER THAN EGOISTIC ENDS.
"SPEAK OF ME AS I AM; NOTHING EXTENUATE, / NOR SET DOWN AUGHT IN MALICE. THEN MUST YOU SPEAK / OF ONE WHO LOVED NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL."
"SOUR WOE DELIGHTS IN FELLOWSHIP, / AND NEEDLY WILL BE RANK'D WITH OTHER GRIEFS."
SOUND TRUMPETS!--LET OUR BLOODY COLOURS WAVE; / AND EITHER VICTORY OR ELSE A GRAVE.
"SOULS MADE OF FIRE, AND CHILDREN OF THE SUN, WITH WHOM REVENGE IS VIRTUE."
"SORROW, LIKE A HEAVY-HANGING BELL, ONCE SET ON RINGING, WITH HIS OWN STRENGTH GOES; THEN LITTLE STRENGTH RINGS OUT THE DOLEFUL KNELL."
SORROW IS THE MERE RUST OF THE SOUL. ACTIVITY WILL CLEANSE AND BRIGHTEN IT.
"SORROW IS KNOWLEDGE; THEY WHO KNOW THE MOST MUST MOURN THE DEEPEST OVER THE FATAL TRUTH, THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE IS NOT THAT OF LIFE."
"SORROW IS ALWAYS TOWARD OURSELVES, NOT HEAVEN; / SHOWING, WE WOULD NOT SPARE HEAVEN, AS WE LOVE IT, / BUT AS WE STAND IN FEAR."
"SORROW BREAKS SEASONS AND REPOSING HOURS, / MAKES THE NIGHT MORNING AND THE NOONTIDE NIGHT."
"SOOTHED WITH THE SOUND, THE KING GREW VAIN, / FOUGHT ALL HIS BATTLES O'ER AGAIN; / AND THRICE HE ROUTED ALL HIS FOES, / AND THRICE HE SLEW THE SLAIN."
"SOONER EARTH / MIGHT GO ROUND HEAVEN, AND THE STRAIT GIRTH OF TIME / INSWATHE THE FULNESS OF ETERNITY, / THAN LANGUAGE GRASP THE INFINITE OF LOVE."
"SONGS MAY EXIST UNSUNG, BUT VOICES EXIST ONLY WHEN THEY SOUND."
"SOMETIMES / 'TIS WELL TO BE BEREFT OF PROMISED GOOD, / THAT WE MAY LIFT THE SOUL, AND CONTEMPLATE / WITH LIVELY JOY THE JOYS WE CANNOT SHARE."
"SOMETIMES IDEAS ARE MADE FLESH; THEY BREATHE UPON US WITH WARM BREATH; THEY TOUCH US WITH SOFT RESPONSIVE HANDS; THEY LOOK UPON US WITH SAD, SINCERE EYES, AND SPEAK TO US IN APPEALING TONES."
SOMETIMES FROM HER EYES / I DID RECEIVE FAIR SPEECHLESS MESSAGES.
"SOME VIRTUES ARE ONLY SEEN IN AFFLICTION, AND SOME IN PROSPERITY."
SOME TROOPS PURSUE THE BLOODY-MINDED QUEEN / THAT LED CALM HENRY.
"SOME TREASURES ARE HEAVY WITH HUMAN TEARS, AS AN ILL-STORED HARVEST WITH UNTIMELY RAIN; AND SOME GOLD IS BRIGHTER IN SUNSHINE THAN IN SUBSTANCE."
"SOME TO WHOM HEAVEN IN WIT HAS BEEN PROFUSE, / WANT AS MUCH MORE TO TURN IT TO ITS USE."
"SOME THERE BE THAT SHADOWS KISS, / SUCH HAVE BUT A SHADOW'S BLISS."
"SOME ARE SCOURGED TO THEIR WORK BY WHIPS, OTHERS BY RESTLESSNESS AND AMBITION."
"SOME PERSONS TAKE REPROOF GOOD-HUMOUREDLY ENOUGH, UNLESS YOU ARE SO UNLUCKY AS TO HIT A SORE PLACE. THEN THEY WINCE AND WRITHE, AND START UP AND KNOCK YOU DOWN FOR YOUR IMPERTINENCE, OR WISH YOU GOOD MORNING."
"SOME PEOPLE PASS THROUGH LIFE SOBERLY AND RELIGIOUSLY ENOUGH, WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, OR REASONING ABOUT IT, BUT, FROM FORCE OF HABIT MERELY, GO TO HEAVEN LIKE FOOLS."
"SOME PEOPLE CARRY THEIR HEARTS IN THEIR HEADS; VERY MANY CARRY THEIR HEADS IN THEIR HEARTS. THE DIFFICULTY IS TO KEEP THEM APART, YET BOTH ACTIVELY WORKING TOGETHER."
"SOME OLD MEN, BY CONTINUALLY PRAISING THE TIME OF THEIR YOUTH, WOULD ALMOST PERSUADE US THAT THERE WERE NO FOOLS IN THOSE DAYS; BUT UNLUCKILY THEY ARE LEFT THEMSELVES FOR EXAMPLES."
SOME MEN WEAVE THEIR SOPHISTRY TILL THEIR OWN REASON IS ENTANGLED.
"SOME GRIEF SHOWS MUCH OF LOVE, / BUT MUCH OF GRIEF SHOWS STILL MORE WANT OF WIT."
"SOME FOR RENOWN, ON SCRAPS OF LEARNING DOTE, / AND THINK THEY GROW IMMORTAL AS THEY QUOTE."
"SOME FOLK'S TONGUES ARE LIKE THE CLOCKS AS RUN ON STRIKIN', NOT TO TELL YOU THE TIME O' THE DAY, BUT BECAUSE THERE'S SUMMAT WRONG I' THEIR INSIDE."
"SOME BOOKS ARE TO BE TASTED, OTHERS TO BE SWALLOWED, AND SOME FEW TO BE CHEWED AND DIGESTED."
"SOLITUDE SOMETIMES IS BEST SOCIETY, / AND SHORT RETIREMENT URGES SWEET RETURN."
SOFT IS THE MUSIC THAT WOULD CHARM FOR EVER; / THE FLOWER OF SWEETEST SMELL IS SHY AND LOWLY.
"SOCIETY IS A LONG SERIES OF UPRISING RIDGES, WHICH FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST OFFER NO VALLEY OF REPOSE. WHEREVER YOU TAKE YOUR STAND, YOU ARE LOOKED DOWN UPON BY THOSE ABOVE YOU, AND REVILED AND PELTED BY THOSE BELOW YOU."
"SOCIETY HAS ALWAYS A DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCE UPON AN ARTIST:--BY ITS SYMPATHY WITH HIS MEANEST POWERS; SECONDLY, BY ITS CHILLING WANT OF UNDERSTANDING OF HIS GREATEST; AND, THIRDLY, BY ITS VAIN OCCUPATION OF HIS TIME AND THOUGHTS."
"SO WE GREW TOGETHER, / LIKE TO A DOUBLE CHERRY, SEEMING PARTED, / BUT YET A UNION IN PARTITION; / TWO LOVELY BERRIES MOULDED ON ONE STEM. / SO WITH TWO SEEMING BODIES, BUT ONE HEART."
"SO THOU BE GOOD, SLANDER DOTH BUT APPROVE / THY WORTH THE GREATER."
"SO STUDY EVERMORE IS OVERSHOT; / WHILE IT DOTH STUDY TO HAVE WHAT IT WOULD, / IT DOTH FORGET TO DO THE THING IT SHOULD; / AND WHEN IT HATH THE THING IT HUNTETH MOST, / 'TIS WON AS TOWNS WITH FIRE,--SO WON, SO LOST."
"SO SOON AS PEOPLE TRY HONESTLY TO SEE ALL THEY CAN OF ANYTHING, THEY COME TO A POINT WHERE A NOBLE DIMNESS BEGINS. THEY SEE MORE THAN OTHERS; BUT THE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR SEEING MORE IS, THAT THEY FEEL THEY CANNOT SEE AT ALL; AND THE MORE INTENSE THEIR PERCEPTION, THE MORE THE CROWD OF THINGS WHICH THEY PARTLY SEE WILL MULTIPLY UPON THEM."
"SO LONG AS THE ""HOLY PLACE"" IN THEIR SOULS IS LEFT IN POSSESSION OF POWERLESS OPINIONS, MEN ARE PRACTICALLY WITHOUT GOD IN THIS WORLD."
"SO LONELY 'TWAS, THAT GOD HIMSELF / SCARCE SEEMÉD THERE TO BE."
"SO I DO MY PART TO OTHERS, LET THEM THINK OF ME WHAT THEY WILL OR CAN.... IF I SHOULD REGARD SUCH THINGS, IT WERE IN ANOTHER'S POWER TO DEFEAT MY CHARITY, AND EVIL SHOULD BE STRONGER THAN GOOD. BUT DIFFICULTIES ARE SO FAR FROM COOLING CHRISTIANS THAT THEY WHET THEM."
"SO FAR IS IT FROM BEING TRUE THAT MEN ARE NATURALLY EQUAL, THAT NO TWO PEOPLE CAN BE HALF AN HOUR TOGETHER BUT ONE SHALL ACQUIRE AN EVIDENT SUPERIORITY OVER THE OTHER."
"SO CAREFUL OF THE TYPE SHE SEEMS, / SO CARELESS OF THE SINGLE LIFE."
"SNATCH FROM THE ASHES OF YOUR SIRES / THE EMBERS OF THEIR FORMER FIRES; / AND HE WHO IN THE STRIFE EXPIRES / WILL ADD TO THEIRS A NAME OF FEAR / THAT TYRANNY SHALL QUAKE TO HEAR, / AND LEAVE HIS SONS A HOPE, A FAME, / THEY TOO WOULD RATHER DIE THAN SHAME."
"SMILES FROM REASON FLOW, / TO BRUTE DENIED, AND ARE OF LOVE THE FOOD."
"SMILE (FORTUNE), AND WE SMILE, THE LORDS OF MANY LANDS; / FROWN, AND WE SMILE, THE LORDS OF OUR OWN HANDS; / FOR MAN IS MAN AND MASTER OF HIS FATE."
"SMELFUNGUS IN THE GRAND PORTICO OF THE PANTHEON SAYS, ""'TIS NOTHING BUT A HUGE COCKPIT."""
"SMALL SERVICE IS TRUE SERVICE WHILE IT LASTS. / OF HUMBLEST FRIENDS, BRIGHT CREATURE! SCORN NOT ONE: / THE DAISY, BY THE SHADOW THAT IT CASTS, / PROTECTS THE LINGERING DEWDROP FROM THE SUN."
SMALL HAVE CONTINUED PLODDERS EVER WON / SAVE BARE AUTHORITY FROM OTHERS' BOOKS.
"SMALL DRAUGHTS OF PHILOSOPHY LEAD TO ATHEISM, BUT LARGER BRING BACK TO GOD."
"SMALL DEBTS ARE LIKE SMALL SHOT--THEY ARE RATTLING ON EVERY SIDE, AND CAN SCARCELY BE ESCAPED WITHOUT A WOUND. GREAT DEBTS ARE LIKE CANNON OF LOUD NOISE, BUT OF LITTLE DANGER."
SMALL CURSES UPON GREAT OCCASIONS ARE BUT SO MUCH WASTE OF OUR STRENGTH AND SOUL'S HEALTH TO NO MANNER OF PURPOSE; THEY ARE LIKE SPARROW-SHOT FIRED AGAINST A BASTION.
SMALL CURS ARE NOT REGARDED WHEN THEY GRIN; / BUT GREAT MEN TREMBLE WHEN THE LION ROARS.
"SLIGHT NOT THE SMALLEST LOSS, WHETHER IT BE / IN LOVE OR HONOUR; TAKE ACCOUNT OF ALL: / SHINE LIKE THE SUN IN EVERY CORNER: SEE / WHETHER THY STOCK OF CREDIT SWELL OR FALL."
"SLEEP, THAT KNITS UP THE RAVELL'D SLEAVE OF CARE, / THE DEATH OF EACH DAY'S LIFE, SORE LABOUR'S BATH, / BALM OF HURT MINDS, GREAT NATURE'S SECOND COURSE, / CHIEF NOURISHER IN LIFE'S FEAST."
"SLEEP HATH ITS OWN WORLD, / A BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE THINGS MISNAMED / DEATH AND EXISTENCE."
"SLEEP, GENTLE SLEEP, / NATURE'S SOFT NURSE, HOW HAVE I FRIGHTED THEE, / THAT THOU NO MORE WILT WEIGH MY EYELIDS DOWN, / AND STEEP MY SENSES IN FORGETFULNESS?"
"SLEEP AND DEATH, TWO TWINS OF WINGED RACE, / OF MATCHLESS SWIFTNESS, BUT OF SILENT PACE."
"SLAVES CANNOT BREATHE IN ENGLAND; IF THEIR LUNGS / RECEIVE OUR AIR, THAT MOMENT THEY ARE FREE; / THEY TOUCH OUR COUNTRY, AND THEIR SHACKLES FALL."
"SLAVERY IS AN INHERENT INHERITANCE OF A LARGE PORTION OF THE HUMAN RACE, TO WHOM THE MORE YOU GIVE OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL, THE MORE SLAVES THEY WILL MAKE THEMSELVES."
"SLAVE TO NO SECT, WHO TAKES NO PRIVATE ROAD, / BUT LOOKS THROUGH NATURE UP TO NATURE'S GOD."
SLANDER'S MARK WAS EVER YET THE FAIR; / ... A CROW THAT FLIES IN HEAVEN'S SWEETEST AIR.
"SLANDER LIVES UPON SUCCESSION; / FOR EVER HOUSED, WHERE IT ONCE GETS POSSESSION."
"SLACKNESS BREEDS WORMS; BUT THE SURE TRAVELLER, / THOUGH HE ALIGHT SOMETIMES, STILL GOETH ON."
"SKY IS THE PART OF CREATION IN WHICH NATURE HAS DONE MORE FOR THE SAKE OF PLEASING MAN, MORE FOR THE SOLE AND EVIDENT PURPOSE OF TALKING TO HIM AND TEACHING HIM, THAN IN ANY OTHER OF HER WORKS, AND IT IS JUST THE PART IN WHICH WE LEAST ATTEND TO HER."
"SKILL IS THE UNITED FORCE OF EXPERIENCE, INTELLECT AND PASSION IN THEIR OPERATION ON MANUAL LABOUR."
"SIR FINE-FACE, SIR FAIR-HANDS; BUT SEE THOU TO IT / THAT THINE OWN FINENESS, LANCELOT, SOME FINE DAY / UNDO THEE NOT."
SINK NOT IN SPIRIT: WHO AIMETH AT THE SKY / SHOOTS HIGHER MUCH THAN HE THAT MEANS A TREE.
SINCERITY MAKES THE LEAST MAN TO BE OF MORE VALUE THAN THE MOST TALENTED HYPOCRITE.
"SINCE EVERY JACK BECAME A GENTLEMAN, / THERE'S MANY A GENTLE PERSON MADE A JACK."
SIMPERING IS BUT A LAY-HYPOCRISY: / GIVE IT A CORNER AND THE CLUE UNDOES.
SILENCE OFTEN EXPRESSES MORE POWERFULLY THAN SPEECH THE VERDICT AND JUDGMENT OF SOCIETY.
"SILENCE IS THE PERFECTEST HERALD OF JOY; I WERE BUT LITTLE HAPPY, IF I COULD SAY HOW MUCH."
"SICKNESS IS CATCHING; OH, WERE FAVOUR SO, / YOURS WOULD I CATCH, SWEET HERNIA, ERE I GO; / MY EAR WOULD CATCH YOUR VOICE, MY EYE YOUR EYE, / MY TONGUE SHOULD CATCH YOUR TONGUE'S SWEET MELODY."
SHRINE OF THE MIGHTY! CAN IT BE / THAT THIS IS ALL REMAINS OF THEE?
"""SHOW SOME PITY?"" ""I SHOW IT MOST OF ALL WHEN I SHOW JUSTICE."""
"SHORT SWALLOW-FLIGHTS OF SONG, THAT DIP / THEIR WINGS IN TEARS AND SKIM AWAY."
"SHE SPEAKS PONIARDS, AND EVERY WORD STABS: IF HER BREATH WERE AS TERRIBLE AS HER TERMINATIONS, THERE WERE NO LIVING WITH HER; SHE WOULD INFECT TO THE NORTH STAR."
"SHE LOVED ME FOR THE DANGERS I HAD PASSED, / AND I LOVED HER THAT SHE DID PITY THEM. / THIS ONLY IS THE WITCHCRAFT I HAVE USED."
"SHE LIVED UNKNOWN, AND FEW COULD KNOW / WHEN LUCY CEASED TO BE; / BUT SHE IS IN HER GRAVE, AND OH / THE DIFFERENCE TO ME!"
SHE IS NOT WORTHY TO BE LOVED THAT HATH NOT SOME FEELING OF HER OWN WORTHINESS.
SHAPES THAT COME NOT AT AN EARTHLY CALL / WILL NOT DEPART WHEN MORTAL VOICES BID.
"SHAME IS LIKE THE WEAVER'S THREAD; IF IT BREAKS IN THE WEB, IT IS WHOLLY IMPERFECT."
"SHAKESPEARE   THEY ARE PERFECT PLAYS JUST BECAUSE THERE IS NO CARE ABOUT CENTURIES IN THEM, BUT A LIFE WHICH ALL MEN RECOGNISE FOR THE HUMAN LIFE OF ALL TIME; ... A ROGUE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BEING, AT HEART, WHAT A ROGUE IS IN THE NINETEENTH AND WAS IN THE TWELFTH; AND AN HONEST OR A KNIGHTLY MAN BEING, IN LIKE MANNER, VERY SIMILAR TO OTHER SUCH AT ANY OTHER TIME."
"SHAKESPEARE WAS FORBIDDEN OF HEAVEN TO HAVE ANY PLANS.... NOT FOR HIM THE FOUNDING OF INSTITUTIONS, THE PREACHING OF DOCTRINES, OR THE REPRESSION OF ABUSES. NEITHER HE, NOR THE SUN, DID ON ANY MORNING THAT THEY ROSE TOGETHER, RECEIVE CHARGE FROM THEIR MAKER CONCERNING SUCH THINGS. THEY WERE BOTH OF THEM TO SHINE ON THE EVIL AND GOOD; BOTH TO BEHOLD UNOFFENDINGLY ALL THAT WAS UPON THE EARTH, TO BURN UNAPPALLED UPON THE SPEARS OF KINGS, AND UNDISDAINING UPON THE REEDS OF THE RIVER."
SHAKESPEARE NEVER PERMITS A SPIRIT TO SHOW ITSELF BUT TO MEN OF THE HIGHEST INTELLECTUAL POWER.
"SHAKE OFF THIS DOWNY SLEEP, DEATH'S COUNTERFEIT, / AND LOOK ON DEATH ITSELF."
SHADOWS TO-NIGHT / HAVE STRUCK MORE TERROR TO THE SOUL OF RICHARD / THAN CAN THE SUBSTANCE OF TEN THOUSAND SOLDIERS.
SEVEN TIMES TRIED THAT JUDGMENT IS / THAT DID NEVER CHOOSE AMISS.
SET IT DOWN TO THYSELF AS WELL TO CREATE GOOD PRECEDENTS AS TO FOLLOW THEM.
"SERVANT OF GOD, WELL DONE; WELL HAST THOU FOUGHT / THE BETTER FIGHT."
"SENTIMENTAL LITERATURE, CONCERNED WITH THE ANALYSIS AND DESCRIPTION OF EMOTION, HEADED BY THE POETRY OF BYRON, IS ALTOGETHER OF LOWER RANK THAN THE LITERATURE WHICH MERELY DESCRIBES WHAT IT SAW."
"SELF-REVERENCE, SELF-KNOWLEDGE, SELF-CONTROL, / THESE THREE ALONE LEAD LIFE TO SOVEREIGN POWER. / YET NOT FOR POWER (POWER OF HERSELF / WOULD COME UNCALL'D FOR), BUT TO LIVE BY LAW, / ACTING THE LAW WE LIVE BY WITHOUT FEAR; / AND, BECAUSE RIGHT IS RIGHT, TO FOLLOW RIGHT, / WERE WISDOM IN THE SCORN OF CONSEQUENCE."
SELF-CONFIDENCE IS THE FIRST REQUISITE TO GREAT UNDERTAKINGS.
"SELDOM CONTENTED, OFTEN IN THE WRONG, / HARD TO BE PLEASED AT ALL, AND NEVER LONG."
"SEEST THOU NOT, I SAY, WHAT A DEFORMED THIEF THIS FASHION IS? HOW GIDDILY HE TURNS ABOUT ALL THE HOT BLOODS BETWEEN FOURTEEN AND FIVE-AND-THIRTY."
"SEEMS, MADAM! NAY, IT IS; I KNOW NOT ""SEEMS."" / 'TIS NOT ALONE MY INKY CLOAK, GOOD MOTHER, / NOR CUSTOMARY SUITS OF SOLEMN BLACK. / NOR WINDY SUSPIRATION OF FORCED BREATH, / NO, NOR THE FRUITFUL RIVER IN THE EYE, / NOR THE DEJECTED 'HAVIOUR OF THE VISAGE, / TOGETHER WITH ALL FORMS, MODES, SHOWS OF GRIEF, / THAT CAN DENOTE TRULY; THESE, INDEED, SEEM, / FOR THEY ARE ACTIONS THAT A MAN CAN PLAY: / BUT I HAVE THAT WITHIN, WHICH PASSETH SHOW; / THESE BUT THE TRAPPINGS AND THE SUITS OF WOE."
"SEEM I NOT AS TENDER TO HIM / AS ANY MOTHER? / AY, BUT SUCH A ONE / AS ALL DAY LONG HATH RATED AT HER CHILD, / AND VEXT HIS DAY, BUT BLESSES HIM ASLEEP."
"SEEKING THE BUBBLE REPUTATION, / EVEN IN THE CANNON'S MOUTH."
"SEEK TO MAKE THY COURSE REGULAR, THAT MEN MAY KNOW BEFOREHAND WHAT THEY MAY EXPECT."
"SEEK THE GOOD OF OTHER MEN, BUT BE NOT IN BONDAGE TO THEIR FACES OR FANCIES; FOR THAT IS BUT FACILITY OR SOFTNESS, WHICH TAKETH AN HONEST MIND PRISONER."
"SEEK NOT TO KNOW WHAT MUST NOT BE REVEAL'D; / JOYS ONLY FLOW WHERE FATE IS MOST CONCEAL'D; / TOO BUSY MAN WOULD FIND HIS SORROWS MORE, / IF FUTURE FORTUNES HE SHOULD KNOW BEFORE; / FOR BY THAT KNOWLEDGE OF HIS DESTINY / HE WOULD NOT LIVE AT ALL, BUT ALWAYS DIE."
"SEE WHAT A SCOURGE IS LAID UPON YOUR HATE, / THAT HEAVEN FINDS MEANS TO KILL YOUR JOYS WITH LOVE."
"SEE HOW MANY THINGS THERE ARE WHICH A MAN CANNOT DO HIMSELF; AND THEN IT WILL APPEAR THAT IT WAS A SPARING SPEECH OF THE ANCIENTS TO SAY, ""THAT A FRIEND IS ANOTHER HIMSELF;"" FOR THAT A FRIEND IS FAR MORE THAN HIMSELF."
"SEARCHING OF THY WOUND, I HAVE BY HARD ADVENTURE FOUND MY OWN."
"SCULPTURE IS NOT THE MERE CUTTING OF THE FORM OF ANYTHING IN STONE; IT IS THE CUTTING OF THE EFFECT OF IT. VERY OFTEN THE TRUE FORM, IN THE MARBLE, WOULD NOT BE IN THE LEAST LIKE ITSELF."
"SCREW YOUR COURAGE TO THE STICKING-PLACE, / AND WE'LL NOT FAIL."
"SCORN'D, TO BE SCORN'D BY ONE THAT I SCORN, / IS THAT A MATTER TO MAKE ME FRET? / THAT A CALAMITY HARD TO BE BORNE?"
"SCORN NO MAN'S LOVE, THOUGH OF A MEAN DEGREE; / LOVE IS A PRESENT FOR A MIGHTY KING,--/ MUCH LESS MAKE ANY ONE THINE ENEMY. AS GUNS DESTROY, SO MAY A LITTLE SLING."
"SCIENTIFIC, LIKE SPIRITUAL TRUTH, HAS EVER FROM THE BEGINNING BEEN DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN TO MAN."
ENGLISH+++SCIENTIA NIHIL ALIUD EST QUAM VERITATIS IMAGO,SCIENCE IS BUT AN IMAGE OF THE TRUTH.
"SCIENCE RESTS ON REASON AND EXPERIMENT, AND CAN MEET AN OPPONENT WITH CALMNESS; (BUT) A CREED IS ALWAYS SENSITIVE."
"SCIENCE LIVES ONLY IN QUIET PLACES, AND WITH ODD PEOPLE, MOSTLY POOR."
"SCIENCE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF CONSTANT THINGS, NOT MERELY OF PASSING EVENTS, AND IS PROPERLY LESS THE KNOWLEDGE OF GENERAL LAWS THAN OF EXISTING FACTS."
SCIENCE / IS BUT AN EXCHANGE OF IGNORANCE FOR THAT / WHICH IS ANOTHER KIND OF IGNORANCE.
"SCIENCE IS AN OCEAN. IT IS AS OPEN TO THE COCKBOAT AS THE FRIGATE. ONE MAN CARRIES ACROSS IT A FREIGHTAGE OF INGOTS, ANOTHER MAY FISH THERE FOR HERRINGS."
SCIENCE DEALS EXCLUSIVELY WITH THINGS AS THEY ARE IN THEMSELVES.
SCARCENESS O' VICTUAL 'ULL KEEP; THERE'S NO NEED TO BE HASTY WI' THE COOKING.
SCARCENESS IS WHAT THERE IS THE BIGGEST STOCK OF IN THE COUNTRY.
SCARCELY ONE MAN IN A THOUSAND IS CAPABLE OF TASTING THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS.
"SCANDAL BREEDS HATRED, HATRED BEGETS DIVISIONS, DIVISION MAKES FACTION, AND FACTION BRINGS RUIN."
"SAY NOT, / THIS WITH THAT LACE WILL DO WELL; / BUT, THIS WITH MY DISCRETION WILL BE BRAVE."
"SAVE ME, AND HOVER O'ER ME WITH YOUR WINGS, / YOU HEAVENLY GUARDS."
SATAN TREMBLES WHEN HE SEES / THE WEAKEST SAINT UPON HIS KNEES.
"SATAN NOW IS WISER THAN OF YORE, / AND TEMPTS BY MAKING RICH, NOT MAKING POOR."
"SALUTE THYSELF: SEE WHAT THY SOUL DOTH WEAR. / DARE TO LOOK IN THY CHEST, FOR 'TIS THINE OWN, / AND TUMBLE UP AND DOWN WHAT THOU FIND'ST THERE."
"SAID WILL BE A LITTLE AHEAD, BUT DONE SHOULD FOLLOW AT HIS HEEL."
SAD WISE VALOUR IS THE BRAVE COMPLEXION / THAT LEADS THE VAN AND SWALLOWS UP THE CITIES.
SAD SOULS ARE SLAIN IN MERRY COMPANY. / GRIEF BEST IS PLEASED WITH GRIEF'S SOCIETY; / TRUE SORROW THEN IS FEELINGLY SUFFICED / WHEN WITH LIKE SEMBLANCE IT IS SYMPATHISED.
"SACRIFICE IS THE FIRST ELEMENT OF RELIGION, AND RESOLVES ITSELF, IN THEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE, INTO THE LOVE OF GOD."
"RUMOUR IS A PIPE / BLOWN BY SURMISES, JEALOUSIES, CONJECTURES; / AND OF SO EASY AND SO PLAIN A STOP / THAT THE BLUNT MONSTER WITH UNCOUNTED HEADS, / THE STILL-DISCORDANT WAVERING MULTITUDE, / CAN PLAY UPON IT."
"RUDE AM I IN MY SPEECH, / AND LITTLE BLESSED WITH THE SOFT PHRASE OF PEACE."
"ROSES HAVE THORNS, AND SILVER FOUNTAINS MUD; / CLOUDS AND ECLIPSES STAIN BOTH MOON AND SUN."
"ROOT AWAY / THE NOISOME WEEDS, WHICH WITHOUT PROFIT SUCK / THE SOIL'S FERTILITY FROM WHOLESOME FLOWERS."
"ROLL ON, THOU DEEP AND DARK BLUE OCEAN, ROLL! / TEN THOUSAND FLEETS SWEEP OVER THEE IN VAIN; / MAN MARKS THE EARTH WITH RUIN,--HIS CONTROL / STOPS WITH THE SHORE."
"ROAST MEAT AT THREE FIRES; AS SOON AS YOU'VE BASTED ONE, ANOTHER'S BURNIN'."
"RING OUT THE OLD, RING IN THE NEW, / RING, HAPPY BELLS, ACROSS THE SNOW!"
"RIGHTLY TO BE GREAT / IS NOT TO STIR WITHOUT GREAT ARGUMENT, / BUT GREATLY TO FIND QUARREL IN A STRAW / WHEN HONOUR'S AT THE STAKE."
RICHES FINELESS IS AS POOR AS WINTER / TO HIM THAT EVER FEARS HE SHALL BE POOR.
"RICHES DO NOT CONSIST IN HAVING MORE GOLD AND SILVER, BUT IN HAVING MORE IN PROPORTION THAN OUR NEIGHBOURS."
"RICHES ARE FOR SPENDING, AND SPENDING FOR HONOUR AND GOOD ACTIONS."
"RICH THE TREASURE, / SWEET THE PLEASURE; / SWEET IS PLEASURE AFTER PAIN."
"REVIEWERS ARE USUALLY PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN POETS, HISTORIANS, BIOGRAPHERS, IF THEY COULD; THEY HAVE TRIED THEIR TALENTS AT ONE OR THE OTHER, AND HAVE FAILED; THEREFORE THEY TURN CRITICS."
"REVENGE IS A KIND OF WILD JUSTICE, WHICH, THE MORE MAN'S NATURE RUNS TO, THE MORE OUGHT LAW TO WEED IT OUT."
"""REVENGE IS A KIND OF WILD JUSTICE."" IT IS SO, BUT WITHOUT THIS WILD AUSTERE STOCK THERE WOULD BE NO JUSTICE IN THE WORLD."
"REVENGE, AT FIRST THOUGH SWEET, BITTER ERELONG BACK ON ITSELF RECOILS."
"RESTRAINT AND DISCIPLINE, EXAMPLES OF VIRTUE AND OF JUSTICE, THESE ARE WHAT FORM THE EDUCATION OF THE WORLD."
RESTORE TO GOD HIS DUE IN TITHE AND TIME: / A TITHE PURLOINED CANKERS THE WHOLE ESTATE.
"REST NOT UPON SCATTERED COUNSELS, FOR THEY WILL RATHER DISTRACT AND MISLEAD THAN SETTLE AND DIRECT."
"RESOLUTION WILL SOMETIMES RELAX, AND DILIGENCE WILL SOMETIMES BE INTERRUPTED; BUT LET NO ACCIDENTAL SURPRISE OR DEVIATION, WHETHER SHORT OR LONG, DISPOSE YOU TO DESPONDENCY."
"RESENTMENT, INDEED, MAY REMAIN, PERHAPS CANNOT BE QUITE EXTINGUISHED IN THE NOBLEST MINDS; BUT REVENGE NEVER WILL HARBOUR THERE."
"RESENTMENT GRATIFIES HIM WHO INTENDED AN INJURY, AND PAINS HIM UNJUSTLY WHO DID NOT INTEND IT."
"RESEMBLES OCEAN INTO TEMPEST WROUGHT, / TO WAFT A FEATHER OR TO DROWN A FLY."
"REPUTATION, REPUTATION, REPUTATION! O I HAVE LOST MY REPUTATION. I HAVE LOST THE IMMORTAL PART OF MYSELF, AND WHAT REMAINS IS BESTIAL."
"REPUTATION IS AN IDLE AND FALSE IMPOSITION, OFT GOT WITHOUT MERIT, AND LOST WITHOUT DESERVING; YOU HAVE LOST NO REPUTATION AT ALL UNLESS YOU REPUTE YOURSELF SUCH A LOSER."
"REMORSE IS AS THE HEART IN WHICH IT GROWS: / IF THAT BE GENTLE, IT DROPS BALMY DEWS / OF TRUE REPENTANCE; BUT IF PROUD AND GLOOMY, / IT IS THE POISON TREE THAT, PIERCED TO THE INMOST, / WEEPS ONLY TEARS OF POISON."
REMEMBRANCE AND REFLECTION HOW ALLIED! / WHAT THIN PARTITIONS SENSE FROM THOUGHT DIVIDE!
"REMEMBER THIS: THAT YOUR CONSCIENCE IS NOT A LAW--NO; GOD AND REASON MADE THE LAW, AND HAS PLACED CONSCIENCE WITHIN YOU TO DETERMINE."
"""REMAIN CONTENT IN THE STATION IN WHICH PROVIDENCE HAS PLACED YOU,"" IS ON THE WHOLE A GOOD MAXIM, BUT IT IS PECULIARLY FOR HOME USE. THAT YOUR NEIGHBOUR SHOULD, OR SHOULD NOT, REMAIN CONTENT WITH HIS POSITION IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS; BUT IT IS VERY MUCH YOUR BUSINESS TO REMAIN CONTENT WITH YOUR OWN."
"RELIGION SHOULD BE THE RULE OF LIFE, NOT A CASUAL INCIDENT IN IT."
"RELIGION PRIMARILY MEANS OBEDIENCE; BENDING TO SOMETHING OR SOME ONE. TO BE BOUND, OR IN BONDS, AS APPRENTICE; TO BE BOUND, OR IN BONDS, BY MILITARY OATH; TO BE BOUND, OR IN BONDS, AS A SERVANT OF MAN; TO BE BOUND, OR IN BONDS, UNDER THE YOKE OF GOD."
"RELIGION PRESENTS FEW DIFFICULTIES TO THE HUMBLE, MANY TO THE PROUD, INNUMERABLE ONES TO THE VAIN."
RELIGION IS THE SPICE WHICH IS MEANT TO KEEP LIFE FROM CORRUPTION.
"RELIGION IS THE MOST GENTLEMANLY THING IN THE WORLD. IT ALONE WILL GENTILISE, IF UNMIXED WITH CANT."
"RELIGION IS THE ELDEST SISTER OF PHILOSOPHY; ON WHATEVER SUBJECTS THEY MAY DIFFER, IT IS UNBECOMING IN EITHER TO QUARREL, AND MOST SO ABOUT THEIR INHERITANCE."
"RELIGION, IF IN HEAVENLY TRUTHS ATTIRED, / NEEDS ONLY TO BE SEEN TO BE ADMIRED."
"RELIGION, BLUSHING, VEILS HER SACRED FIRES, / AND UNAWARES MORALITY EXPIRES."
"REFLECT UPON YOUR PRESENT BLESSINGS, OF WHICH EVERY MAN HAS MANY--NOT ON YOUR PAST MISFORTUNES, OF WHICH ALL MEN HAVE SOME."
"REFLECT THAT LIFE, LIKE EVERY OTHER BLESSING, DERIVES ITS VALUE FROM ITS USE ALONE."
RECEIVE WHAT CHEER YOU MAY; / THE NIGHT IS LONG THAT NEVER FINDS THE DAY.
"REASON'S WHOLE PLEASURE, ALL THE JOYS OF SENSE, / LIE IN THREE WORDS,--HEALTH, PEACE, AND COMPETENCE."
"REASON'S GLIMMERING RAY / WAS LENT, NOT TO ASSURE OUR DOUBTFUL WAY, / BUT GUIDE US UPWARD TO A BETTER DAY."
REASON'S A STAFF FOR AGE WHEN NATURE'S GONE; / BUT YOUTH IS STRONG ENOUGH TO WALK ALONE.
"REASON SERVES WHEN PRESSED, BUT HONEST INSTINCT COMES A VOLUNTEER."
"REASON RAISE O'ER INSTINCT AS YOU CAN; / IN THIS 'TIS GOD DIRECTS, IN THAT 'TIS MAN."
"REASON IS LIKE THE SUN, OF WHICH THE LIGHT IS CONSTANT, UNIFORM, AND LASTING; FANCY, A METEOR OF BRIGHT BUT TRANSITORY LUSTRE, IRREGULAR IN ITS MOTION AND DELUSIVE IN ITS DIRECTION."
"REASON! HOW MANY EYES HAST THOU TO SEE EVILS, AND HOW DIM--NAY, BLIND--THOU ART IN PREVENTING THEM!"
REASON CANNOT SHOW ITSELF MORE REASONABLE THAN TO CEASE REASONING ON THINGS ABOVE REASON.
REAL UGLINESS IN EITHER SEX MEANS ALWAYS SOME KIND OF HARDNESS OF HEART OR VULGARITY OF EDUCATION.
"READING MAKES A FULL MAN, CONFERENCE A READY MAN, AND WRITING AN EXACT MAN. AND THEREFORE IF A MAN WRITE LITTLE, HE HAD NEED HAVE A GREAT MEMORY; IF HE CONFER LITTLE, HAVE A PRESENT WIT; AND IF HE READ LITTLE, HAVE MUCH CUNNING TO SEEM TO KNOW THAT HE DOTH NOT."
READING FURNISHES US ONLY WITH THE MATERIALS OF KNOWLEDGE; IT IS THINKING MAKES WHAT WE READ OURS.
READ THE BOOK YOU DO HONESTLY FEEL A WISH AND CURIOSITY TO READ.
"READ NOT TO CONTRADICT AND CONFUTE, NOR TO BELIEVE AND TAKE FOR GRANTED, NOR TO FIND TALK AND DISCOURSE, BUT TO WEIGH AND CONSIDER."
"READ NOT BOOKS ALONE, BUT MEN, AND AMONGST THEM CHIEFLY THYSELF; IF THOU FIND ANYTHING QUESTIONABLE THERE, USE THE COMMENTARY OF A SEVERE FRIEND RATHER THAN THE GLOSS OF A SWEET-LIPPED FLATTERER; THERE IS MORE PROFIT IN A DISTASTEFUL TRUTH THAN DECEITFUL SWEETNESS."
"READ MY LITTLE FABLE: / HE THAT RUNS MAY READ. / MOST CAN RAISE THE FLOWERS NOW, / FOR ALL HAVE GOT THE SEED."
RATHER TO DO NOTHING THAN TO DO GOOD IS THE LOWEST STATE OF A DEGRADED MIND.
RATHER LET MY HEAD STOOP TO THE BLOCK THAN THESE KNEES BOW TO ANY SAVE TO THE GOD OF HEAVEN.
RATHER BEAR THOSE ILLS WE HAVE / THAN FLY TO OTHERS THAT WE KNOW NOT OF.
RATHER ASSUME THY RIGHT IN SILENCE AND THAN VOICE IT WITH CLAIMS AND CHALLENGES.
"RAILWAY TRAVELLING IS NOT TRAVELLING AT ALL; IT IS MERELY BEING SENT TO A PLACE, AND VERY LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM BECOMING A PARCEL."
"RAILING AND PRAISING WERE HIS USUAL THEMES; / AND BOTH, TO SHOW HIS JUDGMENT, IN EXTREMES; / SO OVER-VIOLENT OR OVER-CIVIL, / THAT EVERY MAN WITH HIM WAS GOD OR DEVIL."
QUICK SENSIBILITY IS INSEPARABLE FROM A READY UNDERSTANDING.
QUESTIONING IS NOT THE MODE OF CONVERSATION AMONG GENTLEMEN.
PUNISHMENT IS THE LAST AND THE WORST INSTRUMENT IN THE HANDS OF THE LEGISLATOR FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIME.
PUBLIC OPINION IS THE MIXED RESULT OF THE INTELLECT OF THE COMMUNITY ACTING UPON GENERAL FEELING.
PRUDENCE IS THAT VIRTUE BY WHICH WE DISCERN WHAT IS PROPER TO BE DONE UNDER THE VARIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OF TIME AND PLACE.
"PROVISION IS THE FOUNDATION OF HOSPITALITY, AND THRIFT THE FUEL OF MAGNIFICENCE."
PROVIDENCE IS NOT COUNTERACTED BY ANY MEANS WHICH PROVIDENCE PUTS INTO OUR POWER.
"PROVIDENCE GIVES THE POWER, OF WHICH REASON TEACHES THE USE."
"PROSPERITY IS THE BLESSING OF THE OLD TESTAMENT; ADVERSITY IS THE BLESSING OF THE NEW, WHICH CARRIETH THE GREATER BENEDICTION AND THE CLEARER REVELATION OF GOD'S FAVOUR."
PROSPERITY IS NOT WITHOUT MANY FEARS AND DISTASTES; AND ADVERSITY IS NOT WITHOUT COMFORTS AND HOPES.
"PROSPERITY DOTH BEST DISCOVER VICE, AND ADVERSITY DOTH BEST DISCOVER VIRTUE."
"PROSE, WORDS IN THEIR BEST ORDER; POETRY, THE BEST WORDS IN THE BEST ORDER."
PROPRIETY OF THOUGHT AND PROPRIETY OF DICTION ARE COMMONLY FOUND TOGETHER. OBSCURITY AND AFFECTATION ARE THE TWO GREATEST FAULTS OF STYLE.
"PROPENSITY TO HOPE AND JOY IS REAL RICHES; ONE TO FEAR AND SORROW, REAL POVERTY."
"PROGRESS, MAN'S DISTINCTIVE MARK ALONE, / NOT GOD'S AND NOT THE BEASTS': GOD IS, THEY ARE; / MAN PARTLY IS, AND WHOLLY HOPES TO BE."
"PRIVATE CREDIT IS WEALTH; PUBLIC HONOUR IS SECURITY. THE FEATHER THAT ADORNS THE ROYAL BIRD SUPPORTS ITS FLIGHT; STRIP HIM OF HIS PLUMAGE, AND YOU FIX HIM TO THE EARTH."
"PRIDE IS STILL AIMING AT THE BLEST ABODES; / MEN WOULD BE ANGELS, ANGELS WOULD BE GODS; / ASPIRING TO BE GODS, IF ANGELS FELL, / ASPIRING TO BE ANGELS, MEN REBEL."
PRIDE FLOWS FROM WANT OF REFLECTION AND IGNORANCE OF OURSELVES. KNOWLEDGE AND HUMILITY COME UPON US TOGETHER.
"PRESERVE THE RIGHTS OF INFERIOR PLACES, AND THINK IT MORE HONOUR TO DIRECT IN CHIEF THAN TO BE BUSY IN ALL."
PREDOMINANT OPINIONS ARE GENERALLY THE OPINIONS OF THE GENERATION THAT IS VANISHING.
"PRAYER IS THE CABLE, AT WHOSE END APPEARS / THE ANCHOR HOPE, NE'ER SLIPP'D BUT IN OUR FEARS."
"PRAISE, LIKE GOLD AND DIAMONDS, OWES ITS VALUE ONLY TO ITS SCARCITY."
"PRAISE IS THE TRIBUTE OF MEN, BUT FELICITY THE GIFT OF GOD."
PRAISE IS SO PLEASING TO THE MIND OF MAN THAT IT IS THE ORIGINAL MOTIVE OF ALMOST ALL OUR ACTIONS.
PRACTICE MUST SETTLE THE HABIT OF DOING WITHOUT REFLECTING ON THE RULE.
"POWER IS SO CHARACTERISTICALLY CALM, THAT CALMNESS IN ITSELF HAS THE ASPECT OF STRENGTH."
"POWER IS NOTHING BUT AS IT IS FELT, AND THE DELIGHT OF SUPERIORITY IS PROPORTIONATE TO THE RESISTANCE OVERCOME."
"POVERTY TAKES AWAY SO MANY MEANS OF DOING GOOD, AND PRODUCES SO MUCH INABILITY TO RESIST EVIL, BOTH NATURAL AND MORAL, THAT IT IS BY ALL VIRTUOUS MEANS TO BE AVOIDED."
"POVERTY SHOULD ENGENDER AN HONEST PRIDE, THAT IT MAY NOT LEAD AND TEMPT US TO UNWORTHY ACTIONS."
POVERTY PALLS THE MOST GENEROUS SPIRITS; IT COWS INDUSTRY AND CASTS RESOLUTION ITSELF INTO DESPAIR.
"POVERTY IS OFTEN CONCEALED IN SPLENDOUR, AND OFTEN IN EXTRAVAGANCE. IT IS THE CARE OF A GREAT PART OF MANKIND TO CONCEAL THEIR INDIGENCE FROM THE REST. THEY SUPPORT THEMSELVES BY TEMPORARY EXPEDIENTS, AND EVERYDAY IS LOST IN CONTRIVING FOR TO-MORROW."
"POVERTY BREEDS WEALTH, AND WEALTH IN ITS TURN BREEDS POVERTY. THE EARTH TO FORM THE MOULD IS TAKEN OUT OF THE DITCH; AND WHATEVER MAY BE THE HEIGHT OF THE ONE WILL BE THE DEPTH OF THE OTHER."
"POUR FORTH THY FERVOURS FOR A HEALTHFUL MIND, / OBEDIENT PASSIONS, AND A WILL RESIGNED; / FOR LOVE, WHICH SCARCE COLLECTIVE MAN CAN FILL; / FOR PATIENCE, SOVEREIGN O'ER TRANSMUTED ILL; / FOR FAITH, THAT, PANTING FOR A HAPPIER SEAT, / COUNTS DEATH KIND NATURE'S SIGNAL OF RETREAT."
"POUND AN ALMOND, AND THE CLEAR WHITE COLOUR WILL BE ALTERED INTO A DIRTY ONE, AND THE SWEET TASTE INTO AN OILY ONE."
"POSSESSION OF LAND IMPLIES THE DUTY OF LIVING ON IT, AND BY IT, IF THERE IS ENOUGH TO LIVE ON; THEN ... IF THERE IS MORE LAND THAN ENOUGH FOR ONE'S SELF, THE DUTY OF MAKING IT FRUITFUL AND BEAUTIFUL FOR AS MANY MORE AS CAN LIVE ON IT."
"PORTRAIT-PAINTING MAY BE TO THE PAINTER WHAT THE PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD IS TO THE POET, PROVIDED HE CONSIDERS IT AS A SCHOOL BY WHICH HE IS TO ACQUIRE THE MEANS OF PERFECTION IN HIS ART, AND NOT AS THE OBJECT OF THAT PERFECTION."
"POPULAR OPINIONS, ON SUBJECTS NOT PALPABLE TO SENSE, ARE OFTEN TRUE, BUT SELDOM OR NEVER THE WHOLE TRUTH."
"POOR THOUGH I AM, DESPISED, FORGOT, / YET GOD, MY GOD, FORGETS ME NOT; / AND HE IS SAFE, AND MUST SUCCEED, / FOR WHOM THE LORD VOUCHSAFES TO PLEAD."
"POOR MEN, WHEN YULE IS COLD, / MUST BE CONTENT TO SIT BY LITTLE FIRES."
"POOR IN ABUNDANCE, FAMISHED AT A FEAST, MAN'S GRIEF IS BUT HIS GRANDEUR IN DISGUISE, AND DISCONTENT IS IMMORTALITY."
POOR AND CONTENT IS RICH AND RICH ENOUGH; / BUT RICHES FINELESS IS AS POOR AS WINTER / TO HIM THAT EVER FEARS HE SHALL BE POOR.
"POETS SHOULD TURN PHILOSOPHERS IN AGE, AS POPE DID. WE ARE APT TO GROW CHILLY WHEN WE SIT OUT OUR FIRE."
POETRY IS THE FIRST AND LAST OF ALL KNOWLEDGE--IT IS AS IMMORTAL AS THE HEART OF MAN.
POETRY IS THE BREATH AND FINER SPIRIT OF ALL KNOWLEDGE; IT IS THE IMPASSIONED EXPRESSION WHICH IS THE COUNTENANCE OF ALL SCIENCE.
POETRY IS THE ART OF UNITING PLEASURE WITH TRUTH BY CALLING IMAGINATION TO THE HELP OF REASON.
POETRY IS THE ART OF SUBSTANTIATING SHADOWS AND OF LENDING EXISTENCE TO NOTHING.
"POETRY IS RIGHT ROYAL. IT PUTS THE INDIVIDUAL FOR THE SPECIES, THE ONE ABOVE THE INFINITE MANY."
POETRY HAS GIVEN ME THE HABIT OF WISHING TO DISCOVER THE GOOD AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN ALL THAT MEETS AND SURROUNDS ME.
"PLEASURE WHICH MUST BE ENJOYED AT THE EXPENSE OF ANOTHER'S PAIN, CAN NEVER BE SUCH AS A WORTHY MIND CAN FULLY DELIGHT IN."
"PLEASURE WHICH CANNOT BE OBTAINED BUT BY UNREASONABLE AND UNSUITABLE EXPENSE, MUST ALWAYS END IN PAIN."
"PLEASURE PRECONCEIVED AND PRECONCERTED ENDS IN DISAPPOINTMENT; BUT DISAPPOINTMENT, WHEN IT INVOLVES NEITHER SHAME NOR LOSS, IS AS GOOD AS SUCCESS; FOR IT SUPPLIES AS MANY IMAGES TO THE MIND, AND AS MANY TOPICS TO THE TONGUE."
"PLEASANT TASTES DEPEND, NOT ON THE THINGS THEMSELVES, BUT THEIR AGREEABLENESS TO THIS OR THAT PARTICULAR PALATE."
"PLATO'S SCHEME WAS IMPOSSIBLE EVEN IN HIS OWN DAY, AS BACON'S ""NEW ATLANTIS"" IN HIS DAY, AS CALVIN'S REFORM IN HIS DAY, AS GOETHE'S ""ACADEME"" IN HIS. OUT OF THE GOOD THERE WAS IN ALL THESE MEN, THE WORLD GATHERED WHAT IT COULD FIND OF EVIL, MADE ITS USELESS PLATONISM OUT OF PLATO, ITS GRACELESS CALVINISM OUT OF CALVIN, DETERMINED BACON TO BE THE MEANEST OF MANKIND, AND OF GOETHE GATHERED ONLY A LUSCIOUS STORY OF SEDUCTION, AND DAINTILY SINGABLE DEVILRY."
"PLATE SIN WITH GOLD, / AND THE STRONG LANCE OF JUSTICE HURTLESS BREAKS; / ARM IT IN RAGS, A PIGMY'S STRAW DOES PIERCE IT."
"PITY ONLY WITH NEW OBJECTS STAYS, / BUT WITH THE TEDIOUS SIGHT OF WOE DECAYS."
"PITCH THY BEHAVIOUR LOW, THY PROJECTS HIGH; / SO SHALT THOU HUMBLE AND MAGNANIMOUS BE."
"PIGMIES ARE PIGMIES STILL, THOUGH PERCHED ON ALPS; / AND PYRAMIDS ARE PYRAMIDS IN VALES."
"PIETY, LIKE WISDOM, CONSISTS IN THE DISCOVERY OF THE RULES UNDER WHICH WE ARE ACTUALLY PLACED, AND IN FAITHFULLY OBEYING THEM."
"PICTURES AND SHAPES ARE BUT SECONDARY OBJECTS, AND PLEASE OR DISPLEASE BUT IN MEMORY."
"PICK OUT OF MIRTH, LIKE STONES OUT OF THY GROUND, / PROFANENESS, FILTHINESS, ABUSIVENESS."
"PHYSICIANS, OF ALL MEN, ARE MOST HAPPY; WHATEVER GOOD SUCCESS SOEVER THEY HAVE, THE WORLD PROCLAIMETH; AND WHAT FAULTS THEY COMMIT, THE EARTH COVERETH."
"PHYSIC IS OF LITTLE USE TO A TEMPERATE PERSON, FOR A MAN'S OWN OBSERVATION ON WHAT HE FINDS DOES HIM GOOD OR WHAT HURTS HIM, IS THE BEST PHYSIC TO PRESERVE HEALTH."
"PHYSIC, FOR THE MOST PART, IS NOTHING ELSE BUT THE SUBSTITUTE OF EXERCISE AND TEMPERANCE."
"PHILOSOPHY, WHILE IT SOOTHES THE REASON, DAMPS THE AMBITION."
"PHILOSOPHY, WHEN SUPERFICIALLY STUDIED, EXCITES DOUBT; WHEN THOROUGHLY EXPLORED, IT DISPELS IT."
"PHILOSOPHY GOES NO FURTHER THAN PROBABILITIES, AND IN EVERY ASSERTION KEEPS A DOUBT IN RESERVE."
"PHILOLOGISTS, WHO CHASE / A PANTING SYLLABLE THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, / START IT AT HOME, AND HUNT IT IN THE DARK / TO GAUL, TO GREECE, AND INTO NOAH'S ARK."
"PERSONS WHO ARE VERY PLAUSIBLE AND EXCESSIVELY POLITE HAVE GENERALLY SOME DESIGN UPON YOU, AS ALSO RELIGIONISTS WHO CALL YOU ""DEAR"" THE FIRST TIME THEY SEE YOU."
"PERSIST, PERSEVERE, AND YOU WILL FIND MOST THINGS ATTAINABLE THAT ARE POSSIBLE."
"PERSEVERANCE AND TACT ARE THE TWO GREAT QUALITIES MOST VALUABLE FOR ALL MEN WHO WOULD MOUNT, BUT ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE TO STEP OUT OF THE CROWD."
PERHAPS THE EARLY GRAVE / WHICH MEN WEEP OVER MAY BE MEANT TO SAVE.
PERHAPS PROPRIETY IS AS NEAR A WORD AS ANY TO DENOTE THE MANNERS OF THE GENTLEMAN.
"PERFECT WOMAN, NOBLY PLANNED, / TO WARN, TO COMFORT, AND COMMAND; / AND YET A SPIRIT STILL, AND BRIGHT / WITH SOMETHING OF AN ANGEL LIGHT."
PEOPLE WILL NOT LOOK FORWARD TO POSTERITY WHO NEVER LOOK BACKWARD TO THEIR ANCESTORS.
PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW HOW TO LAUGH ARE ALWAYS POMPOUS AND SELF-CONCEITED.
PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE WITTY EXERT THEMSELVES TO BE PIOUS AND AFFECTIONATE.
"PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS TAKING CARE OF THEIR HEALTH ARE LIKE MISERS, WHO ARE HOARDING UP A TREASURE WHICH THEY HAVE NEVER SPIRIT ENOUGH TO ENJOY."
"PEOPLE, CRUSHED BY LAWS, HAVE NO HOPES BUT FROM POWER. IF LAWS ARE THEIR ENEMIES, THEY WILL BE ENEMIES TO LAWS; AND THOSE WHO HAVE MUCH TO HOPE AND NOTHING TO LOSE WILL ALWAYS BE DANGEROUS, MORE OR LESS."
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS EXPECTING TO GET PEACE IN HEAVEN; BUT YOU KNOW WHATEVER PEACE THEY GET THERE WILL BE READY-MADE. WHATEVER OF MAKING PEACE THEY CAN BE BLEST FOR MUST BE ON THE EARTH HERE.
"PEACE, JUSTICE, AND THE WORD OF GOD MUST BE GIVEN TO THE PEOPLE, NOT SOLD."
PATRIOTISM DEPENDS AS MUCH ON MUTUAL SUFFERING AS ON MUTUAL SUCCESS.
"PATIENCE, UNMOVED, NO MARVEL THOUGH SHE PAUSE; / THEY CAN BE MEEK THAT HAVE NO OTHER CAUSE."
"PATIENCE HAD NO SOONER PLACED HERSELF BY THE MOUNT OF SORROWS, BUT THE WHOLE HEAP SUNK TO SUCH A DEGREE, THAT IT DID NOT APPEAR A THIRD PART SO BIG AS IT WAS BEFORE."
"PARTING DAY / DIES LIKE A DOLPHIN, WHOM EACH PANG IMBUES / WITH A NEW COLOUR AS IT GASPS AWAY, / THE LAST STILL LOVELIEST, TILL--'TIS GONE, AND ALL IS GRAY."
PARENTS WE CAN HAVE BUT ONCE; AND HE PROMISES HIMSELF TOO MUCH WHO ENTERS LIFE WITH THE EXPECTATION OF FINDING MANY FRIENDS.
"PAINTERS DRAW THEIR NYMPHS IN THIN AND AIRY HABITS, BUT THE WEIGHT OF GOLD AND OF EMBROIDERIES IS RESERVED FOR QUEENS AND GODDESSES."
PAINS OF LOVE BE SWEETER FAR / THAN ALL OTHER PLEASURES ARE.
PAIN IS LESS SUBJECT THAN PLEASURE TO CAPRICIOUS EXPRESSION.
"""PAGAN SELF-ASSERTION"" IS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF HUMAN WORTH AS WELL AS ""CHRISTIAN SELF-DENIAL."""
"OUT OF THE SUFFERING COMES THE SERIOUS MIND; OUT OF THE SALVATION, THE GRATEFUL HEART; OUT OF ENDURANCE, FORTITUDE; OUT OF DELIVERANCE, FAITH."
OURSELVES ARE EASILY PROVIDED FOR; IT IS NOTHING BUT THE CIRCUMSTANTIALS OF HUMAN LIFE THAT COST SO MUCH.
"OUR WORK MUST BE DONE HONOURABLY AND THOROUGHLY, BECAUSE WE ARE NOW MEN; WHETHER WE EVER EXPECT TO BE ANGELS, OR EVER WERE SLUGS, BEING PRACTICALLY NO MATTER. WE ARE NOW HUMAN CREATURES, AND MUST, AT OUR PERIL, DO HUMAN, THAT IS TO SAY, AFFECTIONATE, HONEST, AND EARNEST WORK."
"OUR WILLS AND FATES DO SO CONTRARY RUN, / THAT OUR DEVICES STILL ARE OVERTHROWN; / OUR THOUGHTS ARE OURS, THEIR ENDS NONE OF OUR OWN."
OUR THOUGHTS TAKE WILDEST FLIGHT / EVEN AT THE MOMENT WHEN THEY SHOULD ARRAY THEMSELVES IN PENSIVE ORDER.
"OUR THOUGHTS ARE OFTEN WORSE THAN WE ARE, JUST AS THEY ARE OFTEN BETTER."
"OUR PURITY OF TASTE IS BEST TESTED BY ITS UNIVERSALITY, FOR IF WE CAN ONLY ADMIRE THIS THING OR THAT, WE MAY BE SURE THAT OUR CAUSE FOR LIKING IS OF A FINITE AND FALSE NATURE."
"OUR POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WAS PROSE; OUR PROSE OF THE SEVENTEENTH, POETRY."
OUR PATH OF GLORY / BY MANY A CLOUD IS DARKEN'D AND UNBLEST.
"OUR PASSIONS ARE LIKE CONVULSION FITS, WHICH, THOUGH THEY MAKE US STRONGER FOR THE TIME, LEAVE US WEAKER EVER AFTER."
"OUR PASSIONS AND PRINCIPLES ARE STEADY IN FRENZY; BUT BEGIN TO SHIFT AND WAVER, AS WE RETURN TO REASON."
"OUR OWN HEART, AND NOT OTHER MEN'S OPINIONS, FORMS OUR TRUE HONOUR."
OUR MINDS CANNOT BE EMPTY; AND EVIL WILL BREAK IN UPON THEM IF THEY ARE NOT PRE-OCCUPIED BY GOOD.
"OUR LOVE IS INWROUGHT IN OUR ENTHUSIASM, AS ELECTRICITY IS INWROUGHT IN THE AIR, EXALTING ITS POWER BY A SUBTLE PRESENCE."
OUR HUMANITY WERE A POOR THING BUT FOR THE DIVINITY THAT STIRS WITHIN US.
"OUR HUMAN LAWS ARE BUT THE COPIES, MORE OR LESS IMPERFECT, OF THE ETERNAL LAWS SO FAR AS WE CAN READ THEM."
"OUR GOD IS A HOUSEHOLD GOD, AS WELL AS A HEAVENLY ONE. HE HAS AN ALTAR IN EVERY MAN'S DWELLING; LET MEN LOOK TO IT WHEN THEY REND IT LIGHTLY, AND POUR OUT ITS ASHES."
"OUR FRIENDS SEE NOT OUR FAULTS, OR CONCEAL THEM, OR SOFTEN THEM."
"OUR EYES SEE ALL AROUND IN GLOOM OR GLOW--/ HUES OF THEIR OWN, FRESH BORROWED FROM THE HEART."
"OUR ESTEEM OF GREAT POWERS, OR AMIABLE QUALITIES NEWLY DISCOVERED, MAY EMBROIDER A DAY OR A WEEK, BUT A FRIENDSHIP OF TWENTY YEARS IS INTERWOVEN WITH THE TEXTURE OF LIFE."
"OUR ECHOES ROLL FROM SOUL TO SOUL, / AND GROW FOR EVER AND FOR EVER."
"OUR DOUBTS ARE TRAITORS, / AND MAKE US LOSE THE GOOD WE OFT MIGHT WIN / BY FEARING TO ATTEMPT."
"OUR DEEDS ARE LIKE CHILDREN BORN TO US; THEY LIVE AND ACT APART FROM OUR OWN WILL. CHILDREN MAY BE STRANGLED, BUT DEEDS NEVER."
"OUR DECREES / DEAD TO INFLICTION, TO THEMSELVES ARE DEAD; / AND LIBERTY PLUCKS JUSTICE BY THE NOSE, / THE BABY BEATS THE NURSE, AND QUITE ATHWART / GOES ALL DECORUM."
"OTHERS APART SAT ON A HILL RETIRED, / IN THOUGHTS MORE ELEVATE, AND REASON'D HIGH / OF PROVIDENCE, FORE-KNOWLEDGE, WILL, AND FATE, / FIX'D FATE, FREE-WILL, FORE-KNOWLEDGE ABSOLUTE; / AND FOUND NO END, IN WAND'RING MAZES LOST."
"ORNAMENT IS BUT THE GUILÈD SHORE / TO A MOST DANGEROUS SEA; THE BEAUTEOUS SCARF / VEILING AN INDIAN BEAUTY; IN A WORD, / THE SEEMING TRUTH WHICH CUNNING TIMES PUT ON / TO ENTRAP THE WISEST."
ORIGINALITY IS THE ONE THING WHICH UNORIGINAL MINDS CANNOT FEEL THE USE OF.
"ORGANIC LAWS CAN ONLY BE SERVICEABLE TO, AND, IN GENERAL, WILL ONLY BE WRITTEN BY, A PUBLIC OF HONOURABLE CITIZENS, LOYAL TO THEIR STATE AND FAITHFUL TO EACH OTHER."
"ORATORY, LIKE A DRAMA, ABHORS LENGTHINESS; LIKE THE DRAMA, IT MUST BE KEPT DOING."
ORATORY IS A WARRIOR'S EYE FLASHING FROM UNDER A PHILOSOPHER'S BROW.
"OPPOSE NOT RAGE WHILE RAGE IS IN ITS FORCE, BUT GIVE IT WAY AWHILE AND LET IT WASTE."
OPPORTUNITY IS MORE POWERFUL EVEN THAN CONQUERORS AND PROPHETS.
OPINIONS CONCERNING ACTS ARE NOT HISTORY; ACTS THEMSELVES ALONE ARE HISTORY.
"ONLY WHEN MAN WEEPS HE SHOULD BE ALONE, NOT BECAUSE TEARS ARE WEAK, BUT THEY SHOULD BE SECRET."
"ONLY THE IDLE AMONG THE POOR REVOLT AGAINST THEIR STATE; THE BRAVE WORKERS DIE PASSIVELY, AND GIVE NO SIGN."
"ONLY IN THE WORLD I FILL UP A PLACE, WHICH MAY BE BETTER SUPPLIED WHEN I HAVE MADE IT EMPTY."
"ONLY I DISCERN / INFINITE PASSION, AND THE PAIN / OF FINITE HEARTS THAT YEARN."
"ONLY A SWEET AND VIRTUOUS SOUL, / LIKE SEASONED TIMBER, NEVER GIVES: / BUT WHEN THE WHOLE WORLD TURNS TO COAL, / THEN CHIEFLY LIVES."
"ONE WOE DOTH TREAD UPON ANOTHER'S HEEL, / SO FAST THEY FOLLOW."
"ONE 'UD THINK, AN' HEAR SOME FOLK TALK, AS THE MEN WAR CUTE ENOUGH TO COUNT THE CORNS IN A BAG O' WHEAT WI' ONLY SMELLING AT IT."
"ONE TIRES OF A PAGE OF WHICH EVERY SENTENCE SPARKLES WITH POINTS, OF A SENTIMENTALIST WHO IS ALWAYS PUMPING THE TEARS FROM HIS EYES OR YOUR OWN."
"ONE THOUGHT INCLUDES ALL THOUGHT, IN THE SENSE THAT A GRAIN OF SAND INCLUDES THE UNIVERSE."
"ONE SHRIEK OF HATE WOULD JAR ALL THE HYMNS OF HEAVEN: / TRUE DEVILS WITH NO EAR, THEY HOWL IN TUNE / WITH NOTHING BUT THE DEVIL!"
ONE SHOULD NEVER THINK OF DEATH. ONE SHOULD THINK OF LIFE: THAT IS REAL PIETY.
"ONE SCIENCE ONLY CAN ONE GENIUS FIT, / SO VAST IS ART, SO NARROW HUMAN WIT."
"ONE PRECEDENT CREATES ANOTHER. THEY SOON ACCUMULATE AND CONSTITUTE LAW. WHAT YESTERDAY WAS FACT TO-DAY IS DOCTRINE. EXAMPLES ARE SUPPOSED TO JUSTIFY THE MOST DANGEROUS MEASURES; AND WHERE THEY DO NOT SUIT EXACTLY, THE DEFECT IS SUPPLIED BY ANALOGY."
"ONE OF THE WORST DISEASES TO WHICH THE HUMAN CREATURE IS LIABLE IS ITS DISEASE OF THINKING. IF IT WOULD ONLY JUST LOOK AT A THING INSTEAD OF THINKING WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE, OR DO A THING INSTEAD OF THINKING IT CANNOT BE DONE, WE SHOULD ALL GET ON FAR BETTER."
ONE OF THE OLD MAN'S MISERIES IS THAT HE CANNOT EASILY FIND A COMPANION ABLE TO PARTAKE WITH HIM OF THE PAST.
"ONE OF THE MOST SINGULAR GIFTS, OR, IF ABUSED, MOST SINGULAR WEAKNESSES, OF THE HUMAN MIND, IS ITS POWER OF PERSUADING ITSELF TO SEE WHATEVER IT CHOOSES; A GREAT GIFT IF DIRECTED TO THE DISCERNMENT OF THE THINGS NEEDFUL AND PERTINENT TO ITS OWN WORK AND BEING; A GREAT WEAKNESS IF DIRECTED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THINGS PROFITLESS OR DISCOURAGING."
"ONE OF THE MOST FATAL SOURCES OF THE PREVAILING MISERY AND CRIME LIES IN THE GENERALLY ACCEPTED QUIET ASSUMPTION THAT BECAUSE THINGS HAVE LONG BEEN WRONG, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THEY SHOULD EVER BE RIGHT."
ONE MAY OFTEN FIND AS MUCH THOUGHT ON THE REVERSE OF A MEDAL AS IN A CANTO OF SPENSER.
ONE MAN'S EYES ARE SPECTACLES TO ANOTHER TO READ HIS HEART WITH.
"ONE IMPULSE FROM A VERNAL WOOD / MAY TEACH YOU MORE OF MAN, / OF MORAL EVIL AND OF GOOD, / THAN ALL THE SAGES CAN."
"ONE GOD, ONE LAW, ONE ELEMENT, / AND ONE FAR-OFF DIVINE EVENT, / TO WHICH THE WHOLE CREATION MOVES."
"ONE FUTILE PERSON, THAT MAKETH IT HIS GLORY TO TELL, WILL DO MORE HURT THAN MANY THAT KNOW IT THEIR DUTY TO CONCEAL."
ONE FIRE BURNS OUT ANOTHER'S BURNING; / ONE PAIN IS LESSEN'D BY ANOTHER'S ANGUISH.
ONE DOTH NOT KNOW / HOW MUCH AN ILL WORD MAY EMPOISON LIKING.
"ONCE THOROUGHLY OUR OWN, KNOWLEDGE CEASES TO GIVE US PLEASURE."
ON WRONG / SWIFT VENGEANCE WAITS; AND ART SUBDUES THE STRONG.
ON REASON BUILD RESOLVE! / THAT COLUMN OF TRUE MAJESTY IN MAN.
"ON LIFE'S VAST OCEAN DIVERSELY WE SAIL, / REASON THE CARD, BUT PASSION IS THE GALE."
ON EVERY THORN DELIGHTFUL WISDOM GROWS; / IN EVERY RILL A SWEET INSTRUCTION FLOWS.
"ON EVERY STAGE THE FOES OF PEACE ATTEND / HATE DOGS THEIR FLIGHT, AND INSULT MOCKS THEIR END."
"ON EAGLES' WINGS IMMORTAL SCANDALS FLY, / WHILE VIRTUOUS ACTIONS ARE BUT BORN TO DIE."
"OLD FRIENDS BURN DIM, LIKE LAMPS IN NOISOME AIR; / LOVE THEM FOR WHAT THEY ARE; NOR LOVE THEM LESS; / BECAUSE TO THEE THEY ARE NOT WHAT THEY WERE."
"OH, WORSE THAN ALL! OH, PANG ALL PANGS ABOVE, / IS KINDNESS COUNTERFEITING ABSENT LOVE!"
"OH, WHAT DAMNED MINUTES TELLS HE O'ER, / WHO DOTES, YET DOUBTS; SUSPECTS, YET SOUNDLY LOVES."
"OH, THAT THIS TOO TOO SOLID FLESH WOULD MELT, / THAW AND RESOLVE ITSELF INTO A DEW! / OR THAT THE EVERLASTING HAD NOT FIX'D / HIS CANON 'GAINST SELF-SLAUGHTER."
"OH, LOVE! NO HABITANT OF EARTH THOU ART--/ AN UNSEEN SERAPH, WE BELIEVE IN THEE."
"OH, LOVE, HOW PERFECT IS THY MYSTIC ART, / STRENGTHENING THE WEAK, AND TRAMPLING ON THE STRONG!"
"OH, IT IS EXCELLENT / TO HAVE A GIANT'S STRENGTH, BUT IT IS TYRANNOUS / TO USE IT LIKE A GIANT."
"OH, ... FOR A MAN WITH HEART, HEAD, HAND. / ... WHATEVER THEY CALL HIM, WHAT CARE I, / ARISTOCRAT, DEMOCRAT, AUTOCRAT--ONE / WHO CAN RULE AND DARE NOT LIE!"
"OH, FOR A LODGE IN SOME VAST WILDERNESS, / SOME BOUNDLESS CONTIGUITY OF SHADE, / WHERE RUMOUR OF OPPRESSION AND DECEIT, / OF UNSUCCESSFUL OR SUCCESSFUL WAR, / MAY NEVER REACH ME MORE."
"OFTTIMES NOTHING PROFITS MORE / THAN SELF-ESTEEM, GROUNDED ON JUST AND RIGHT."
"OFTENTIMES, TO WIN US TO OUR HARM, / THE INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS TELL US TRUTHS; / WIN US WITH HONEST TRIFLES, TO BETRAY US / IN DEEPEST CONSEQUENCE."
OFTEN A MAN'S OWN ANGRY PRIDE / IS CAP-AND-BELLS FOR A FOOL.
OF REAL EVILS THE NUMBER IS GREAT; OF POSSIBLE EVILS THERE IS NO END.
"OF MORE THAN EARTH CAN EARTH MAKE NONE POSSESST; / AND HE THAT LEAST / REGARDS THIS RESTLESS WORLD, SHALL IN THIS WORLD FIND REST."
OF HOW FEW LIVES DOES NOT STATED DUTY CLAIM THE GREATER PART?
"OF GREAT RICHES THERE IS NO REAL USE, EXCEPT IT BE IN THE DISTRIBUTION; THE REST IS BUT CONCEIT."
"OF ALL WILD BEASTS, PRESERVE ME FROM A TYRANT; AND OF ALL TAME, A FLATTERER."
"OF ALL THE PULPITS FROM WHICH HUMAN VOICE IS EVER SENT FORTH, THERE IS NONE FROM WHICH IT REACHES SO FAR AS FROM THE GRAVE."
"OF ALL THE GREAT MASTERS, THERE IS NOT ONE WHO DID NOT PAINT HIS OWN PRESENT WORLD, PLAINLY AND TRULY."
"OF ALL THE CANTS WHICH ARE CANTED IN THIS CANTING WORLD,--THOUGH THE CANT OF HYPOCRITES MAY BE THE WORST,--THE CANT OF CRITICISM IS THE MOST TORMENTING!"
"OF ALL GOD'S GIFTS TO THE SIGHT OF MAN, COLOUR IS THE HOLIEST, THE MOST DIVINE, THE MOST SOLEMN."
"OF ALL ATTAINABLE LIBERTIES, BE SURE FIRST TO STRIVE FOR LEAVE TO BE USEFUL."
"O'ERCOME THYSELF, AND THOU MAY'ST SHARE / WITH CHRIST HIS FATHER'S THRONE, AND WEAR / THE WORLD'S IMPERIAL WREATH."
OBSCURITY AND AFFECTATION ARE THE TWO GREAT FAULTS OF STYLE.
OBJECTS IMPERFECTLY DISCERNED TAKE FORMS FROM THE HOPE OR FEAR OF THE BEHOLDER.
OBEY THY PARENTS; KEEP THY WORD JUSTLY; SWEAR NOT; SET NOT THY SWEET HEART ON PROUD ARRAY.
"OBEY SOMETHING, AND YOU WILL HAVE A CHANCE OF FINDING OUT WHAT IS BEST TO OBEY. BUT IF YOU BEGIN BY OBEYING NOTHING, YOU WILL END BY OBEYING BEELZEBUB AND ALL HIS SEVEN INVITED FRIENDS."
"OARS ALONE CAN NE'ER PREVAIL / TO REACH THE DISTANT COAST; / THE BREATH OF HEAV'N MUST SWELL THE SAIL, / OR ALL THE TOIL IS LOST."
O YET WE TRUST THAT SOMEHOW GOOD / WILL BE THE FINAL GOAL OF ILL.
"O WHAT MEN DARE DO! WHAT MEN MAY DO! / WHAT MEN DAILY DO, NOT KNOWING WHAT THEY DO!"
O WHAT A WORLD OF VILE ILL-FAVOURED FAULTS / LOOKS HANDSOME IN THREE HUNDRED POUNDS A-YEAR!
"O WHAT A WORLD IS THIS, WHEN WHAT IS COMELY / ENVENOMS HIM THAT BEARS IT!"
"O WHAT A NOBLE MIND IS HERE O'ERTHROWN! / THE COURTIER'S, SOLDIER'S, SCHOLAR'S EYE, TONGUE, SWORD; / THE EXPECTANCY AND ROSE OF THE FAIR STATE, / THE GLASS OF FASHION, AND THE MOULD OF FORM, / THE OBSERVED OF ALL OBSERVERS, QUITE, QUITE DOWN!"
"O WELL FOR HIM WHOSE WILL IS STRONG! / HE SUFFERS, BUT HE WILL NOT SUFFER LONG; / HE SUFFERS, BUT HE CANNOT SUFFER WRONG."
"O THOUGHTS OF MEN ACCURST! / PAST AND TO COME SEEM BEST; THINGS PRESENT, WORST."
"O THOU, / PASSIONLESS BRIDE, DIVINE TRANQUILLITY, / ... THOU CAREST NOT / HOW ROUGHLY MEN MAY WOO THEE, SO THEY WIN!"
O THESE NAUGHTY TIMES / PUT BARS BETWEEN THE OWNERS AND THEIR RIGHTS.
"O THESE DELIBERATE FOOLS, WHEN THEY DO CHOOSE / THEY HAVE THE WISDOM BY THEIR WIT TO LOSE."
"O THAT ESTATES, DEGREES, AND OFFICES / WERE NOT DERIVED CORRUPTLY, AND THAT CLEAR HONOUR / WERE PURCHASED BY THE MERIT OF THE WEARER! / HOW MANY THEN WOULD COVER THAT STAND BARE; / HOW MANY BE COMMANDED THAT COMMAND; / HOW MUCH LOW PEASANTRY WOULD THEN BE GLEAN'D / FROM THE TRUE SEED OF HONOUR; AND HOW MUCH HONOUR, / PICK'D FROM THE CHAFF AND RUIN OF THE TIMES, / TO BE NEW-VARNISH'D."
"O SONS OF EARTH, ATTEMPT YE STILL TO RISE, / BY MOUNTAINS PILED ON MOUNTAINS, TO THE SKIES? / HEAV'N STILL WITH LAUGHTER THE VAIN TOIL SURVEYS, / AND BURIES MADMEN IN THE HEAPS THEY RAISE."
"O SLEEP, O GENTLE SLEEP, / NATURE'S SOFT NURSE! HOW HAVE I FRIGHTED THEE, / THAT THOU NO MORE WILT WEIGH MY EYELIDS DOWN, / AND STEEP MY SENSES IN FORGETFULNESS!"
"O SLEEP, / IT IS A GENTLE THING, / BELOVED FROM POLE TO POLE!"
O RUIN'D PIECE OF NATURE! THIS GREAT WORLD / SHALL SO WEAR OUT TO NOUGHT.
"O PURBLIND RACE OF MISERABLE MEN! / HOW MANY AMONG US AT THIS VERY HOUR / DO FORGE A LIFELONG TROUBLE FOR OURSELVES, / BY TAKING TRUE FOR FALSE, OR FALSE FOR TRUE; / HERE, THRO' THE FEEBLE TWILIGHT OF THIS WORLD / GROPING, HOW MANY, UNTIL WE PASS AND REACH / THAT OTHER, WHERE WE SEE AS WE ARE SEEN!"
"O PLACE AND GREATNESS, MILLIONS OF FALSE EYES / ARE STUCK UPON THEE! VOLUMES OF REPORT / RUN WITH THESE FALSE AND MOST CONTRARIOUS QUESTS / UPON THY DOINGS! THOUSAND SCAPES OF WIT / MAKE THEE THE FATHER OF THEIR IDLE DREAMS, / AND RACK THEE IN THEIR FANCIES."
"O LOVE, BE MODERATE, ALLAY THY ECSTASY; / IN MEASURE RAIN THY JOY; SCANT THIS EXCESS; / I FEEL TOO MUCH THY BLESSING! MAKE IT LESS, / FOR FEAR I SURFEIT."
"O LORD, THAT LEND'ST ME LIFE, / LEND ME A HEART REPLETE WITH THANKFULNESS!"
"O LET THY VOW, / FIRST MADE TO HEAVEN, FIRST BE TO HEAVEN PERFORM'D.... IT IS RELIGION THAT DOTH MAKE VOWS KEPT."
O LET MY BOOKS BE THEN THE ELOQUENCE / AND DUMB PRESAGERS OF MY SPEAKING BREAST.
"O, IF THIS WERE SEEN, / THE HAPPIEST YOUTH--VIEWING HIS PROGRESS THROUGH / WHAT PERILS PAST, WHAT CROSSES TO ENSUE--/ WOULD SHUT THE BOOK AND SIT HIM DOWN AND DIE."
"O GUARD THY ROVING THOUGHTS WITH JEALOUS CARE, FOR SPEECH IS BUT THE DIAL-PLATE OF THOUGHT; AND EVERY FOOL READS PLAINLY IN THY WORDS WHAT IS THE HOUR OF THY THOUGHT."
"O DEAREST, DEAREST BOY, MY HEART / FOR BETTER LOVE WOULD SELDOM YEARN, / COULD I BUT TEACH THE HUNDREDTH PART / OF WHAT FROM THEE I LEARN."
"O CUNNING ENEMY, THAT, TO CATCH A SAINT, / WITH SAINTS DOST BAIT THY HOOK."
NUPTIAL LOVE MAKETH MANKIND; FRIENDLY LOVE PERFECTETH IT; BUT WANTON LOVE CORRUPTETH AND EMBASETH IT.
"NUMERICAL INQUIRIES WILL GIVE YOU ENTERTAINMENT IN SOLITUDE BY THE PRACTICE, AND REPUTATION IN PUBLIC BY THE EFFECT."
NUMBERS ERR IN THIS: / TEN CENSURE WRONG FOR ONE WHO WRITES AMISS.
"NOWADAYS COMPROMISE AND INDIFFERENCE RULE SUPREME, AND INSTEAD OF SOLID GRIT WE HAVE PUTTY OR WAX."
"NOW 'TIS THE SPRING, AND WEEDS ARE SHALLOW-ROOTED; / SUFFER THEM NOW, AND THEY'LL O'ERGROW THE GARDEN, / AND CHOKE THE HERBS FOR WANT OF HUSBANDRY."
"NOW SEE THAT NOBLE AND MOST SOVEREIGN REASON, / LIKE SWEET BELLS JANGLED, OUT OF TUNE, AND HARSH; / THAT UNMATCH'D FORM AND FEATURE OF BLOWN YOUTH / BLASTED WITH ECSTACY: O, WOE IS ME, / TO HAVE SEEN WHAT I HAVE SEEN, SEE WHAT I SEE."
"NOW MORN HER ROSY STEPS IN TH' EASTERN CLIME, / ADVANCING, SOWED THE EARTH WITH ORIENT PEARL."
"NOW JOIN YOUR HANDS, AND WITH YOUR HANDS YOUR HEARTS, / THAT NO DISSENSION HINDER GOVERNMENT."
"NOW! IT IS GONE. OUR BRIEF HOURS TRAVEL POST, / EACH WITH ITS THOUGHT OR DEED, ITS WHY OR HOW; / BUT KNOW, EACH PARTING HOUR GIVES UP A GHOST / TO DWELL WITHIN THEE--AN ETERNAL NOW!"
"NOW, GOOD DIGESTION WAIT ON APPETITE, / AND HEALTH ON BOTH."
"NOVELTY IS ONLY IN REQUEST; AND IT IS AS DANGEROUS TO BE AGED IN ANY KIND OF COURSE, AS IT IS VIRTUOUS TO BE CONSTANT IN ANY UNDERTAKING."
"NOUGHT SO STOCKISH, HARD, AND FULL OF RAGE, / BUT MUSIC FOR THE TIME DOTH CHANGE ITS NATURE."
"NOUGHT IS SO VILE THAT ON THE EARTH DOTH LIVE, / BUT TO THE EARTH SOME SPECIAL GOOD DOTH GIVE; / NOR AUGHT SO GOOD, BUT, STRAIN'D FROM THAT FAIR USE, / REVOLTS FROM TRUE BIRTH, STUMBLING ON ABUSE."
"NOTHING'S MORE DULL AND NEGLIGENT / THAN AN OLD LAZY GOVERNMENT, / THAT KNOWS NO INTEREST OF STATE, / BUT SUCH AS SERVES A PRESENT STRAIT, / AND, TO PATCH UP OR SHIFT, WILL CLOSE, / OR BREAK ALIKE, WITH FRIENDS OR FOES."
"NOTHING THAT LIVES IS OR CAN BE RIGIDLY PERFECT; PART OF IT IS DECAYING, PART NASCENT. THE FOXGLOVE BLOSSOM--A THIRD PART BUD, A THIRD PART PAST, A THIRD PART IN FULL BLOOM--IS A TYPE OF THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD."
"NOTHING SO DIFFICULT AS A BEGINNING / IN POESY, EXCEPT PERHAPS THE END; / FOR OFTENTIMES WHEN PEGASUS SEEMS WINNING / THE RACE, HE SPRAINS A WING, AND DOWN WE TEND, / LIKE LUCIFER, WHEN HURL'D FROM HEAVEN FOR SINNING."
"NOTHING REMAINS TO MAN, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE TO HIM OF TRUE JOY, BUT IN THE RIGHTEOUS LOVE OF HIS FELLOWS, IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAWS AND THE GLORY OF GOD, AND IN THE DAILY USE OF THE FACULTIES OF SOUL AND BODY WITH WHICH GOD HAS ENDOWED HIM."
NOTHING PRECLUDES SYMPATHY SO MUCH AS A PERFECT INDIFFERENCE TO IT.
NOTHING IS SUPERFICIAL TO A DEEP OBSERVER. IT IS IN TRIFLES THAT THE MIND BETRAYS ITSELF.
"NOTHING IS SO GRAND AS TRUTH, NOTHING SO FORCIBLE, NOTHING SO NOVEL."
NOTHING IS SO PERFECTLY AMUSEMENT AS A TOTAL CHANGE OF IDEAS.
NOTHING IS SO BEAUTIFUL TO THE EYE AS TRUTH IS TO THE MIND; NOTHING SO DEFORMED AND IRRECONCILABLE TO THE UNDERSTANDING AS A LIE.
"NOTHING IS PERMANENTLY HELPFUL TO ANY RACE OR CONDITION OF MEN BUT THE SPIRIT THAT IS IN THEIR OWN HEARTS, KINDLED BY THE LOVE OF THEIR NATIVE LAND."
NOTHING IS MORE SURPRISING THAN THE EASINESS WITH WHICH THE MANY ARE GOVERNED BY THE FEW.
"NOTHING IS MORE COMMON THAN MUTUAL DISLIKE, WHERE MUTUAL APPROBATION IS PARTICULARLY EXPECTED."
NOTHING IS INSIPID TO THE WISE; / TO THEE INSIPID ALL BUT WHAT IS MAD; / JOY SEASON'D HIGH AND TASTING STRONG OF GUILT.
"NOTHING IS HIGH BECAUSE IT IS IN A HIGH PLACE, AND NOTHING LOW BECAUSE IT IS IN A LOW ONE."
"NOTHING IS FARTHER THAN EARTH FROM HEAVEN, AND NOTHING IS NEARER THAN HEAVEN TO EARTH."
"NOTHING IN THE DEALINGS OF HEAVEN WITH EARTH IS SO WONDERFUL TO ME AS THE WAY IN WHICH THE EVIL ANGELS ARE ALLOWED TO SPOT, PERVERT, AND BRING TO NOTHING, OR TO WORSE, THE POWERS OF THE GREATEST MEN: SO THAT GREECE MUST BE RUINED, FOR ALL THAT PLATO CAN SAY; GENEVA, FOR ALL THAT CALVIN CAN SAY; ENGLAND, FOR ALL THAT SIR THOMAS MORE AND BACON CAN SAY; AND ONLY GOUNOD'S ""FAUST"" TO BE THE VISIBLE OUTCOME TO EUROPE OF THE SCHOOL OF WEIMAR."
"NOTHING IN NATURE, MUCH LESS CONSCIOUS BEING, / WAS E'ER CREATED SOLELY FOR ITSELF."
NOTHING HATH GOT SO FAR / BUT MAN HATH CAUGHT AND KEPT IT AS HIS PREY; / HIS EYES DISMOUNT THE HIGHEST STAR; / HE IS IN LITTLE ALL THE SPHERE.
NOTHING GOOD BURSTS FORTH ALL AT ONCE. THE LIGHTNING MAY DART OUT OF A BLACK CLOUD; BUT THE DAY SENDS HIS BRIGHT HERALDS BEFORE HIM TO PREPARE THE WORLD FOR HIS COMING.
NOTHING GIVES SUCH A BLOW TO FRIENDSHIP AS THE DETECTING ANOTHER IN AN UNTRUTH. IT STRIKES AT THE ROOT OF OUR CONFIDENCE EVER AFTER.
"NOTHING EXTENUATE, / NOR SET DOWN AUGHT IN MALICE; THEN MUST YOU SPEAK / OF ONE, THAT LOVED NOT WISELY, BUT TOO WELL ... OF ONE, WHOSE HAND / LIKE THE BASE INDIAN, THREW A PEARL AWAY, / RICHER THAN ALL HIS TRIBE."
"NOTHING EXCEEDS IN RIDICULE, NO DOUBT, / A FOOL IN FASHION, SAVE A FOOL THAT'S OUT; / HIS PASSION FOR ABSURDITY'S SO STRONG, / HE CANNOT BEAR A RIVAL IN THE THRONG."
NOTHING ENDEARS SO MUCH A FRIEND AS SORROW FOR HIS DEATH. THE PLEASURE OF HIS COMPANY HAS NOT SO POWERFUL AN INFLUENCE.
NOTHING DESTROYETH AUTHORITY SO MUCH AS THE UNEQUAL AND UNTIMELY INTERCHANGE OF POWER PRESSED TOO FAR AND RELAXED TOO MUCH.
"NOTHING AMUSES MORE HARMLESSLY THAN COMPUTATION, AND NOTHING IS OFTENER APPLICABLE TO REAL BUSINESS OR SPECULATIVE INQUIRIES. A THOUSAND STORIES WHICH THE IGNORANT TELL AND BELIEVE DIE AWAY AT ONCE WHEN THE COMPUTIST TAKES THEM IN HIS GRIP."
"NOT TO DESIRE OR ADMIRE, IF A MAN COULD LEARN IT, WERE MORE / THAN A WALK ALL DAY LIKE THE SULTAN OF OLD IN A GARDEN OF SPICE."
"NOT ONE WORD OF ANY BOOK IS READABLE BY YOU, EXCEPT SO FAR AS YOUR MIND IS ONE WITH ITS AUTHOR'S; AND NOT MERELY HIS WORDS LIKE YOUR WORDS, BUT HIS THOUGHTS LIKE YOUR THOUGHTS."
"NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR ROUGH ISLAND-STORY, / THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY: / HE THAT WALKS IT, ONLY THIRSTING / FOR THE RIGHT, AND LEARNS TO DEADEN / LOVE OF SELF, BEFORE HIS JOURNEY CLOSES / HE SHALL FIND THE STUBBORN THISTLE BURSTING / INTO GLOSSY PURPLES, WHICH OUTREDDEN / ALL VOLUPTUOUS GARDEN-ROSES."
"NOT HEAVEN ITSELF UPON THE PAST HAS POWER; / BUT WHAT HAS BEEN, HAS BEEN, AND I HAVE HAD MY HOUR."
"NOT BY THE LAW OF FORCE, BUT BY THE LAW OF LABOUR, HAS ANY MAN RIGHT TO THE POSSESSION OF THE LAND."
NOT ALL THE WATER IN THE ROUGH RUDE SEA / CAN WASH THE BALM FROM AN ANOINTED KING; / THE BREATH OF WORLDLY MEN CANNOT DEPOSE / THE DEPUTY ELECTED BY THE LORD.
"NOT ALL THAT HERALDS RAKE FROM COFFIN'D CLAY, / NOR FLORID PROSE, NOR HONEYED LINES OF RHYME, / CAN BLAZON EVIL DEEDS OR CONSECRATE A CRIME."
NOR SEQUENT CENTURIES COULD HIT / ORBIT AND SUM OF SHAKESPEARE'S WIT.
"NOR LOVE THY LIFE, NOR HATE, BUT WHAT THOU LIV'ST / LIVE WELL, HOW LONG OR SHORT PERMIT TO HEAVEN."
NOR LESS I DEEM THAT THERE ARE POWERS / WHICH OF THEMSELVES OUR MINDS IMPRESS; / THAT WE CAN FEEL THIS MIND OF OURS / IN A WIDE PASSIVENESS.
NOR IS IT POSSIBLE TO THOUGHT / A GREATER THAN ITSELF TO KNOW.
"NOR FAME I SLIGHT, NOR FOR HER FAVOURS CALL; / SHE COMES UNLOOK'D FOR, IF SHE COMES AT ALL."
"NOR E'EN THE TENDEREST HEART, AND NEXT OUR OWN, / KNOWS HALF THE REASONS WHY WE SMILE AND SIGH!"
NOR BY THE WAYSIDE RUINS LET US MOURN / WHO HAVE TH' ETERNAL TOWERS FOR OUR APPOINTED BOURNE.
NOR ARE THOSE EMPTY-HEARTED WHOSE LOW SOUND / REVERBS NO HOLLOWNESS.
NONE OF THE AFFECTIONS HAVE BEEN NOTED TO FASCINATE AND BEWITCH BUT ENVY.
NONE IS SO WRETCHED AS THE POOR MAN WHO MAINTAINS THE SEMBLANCE OF WEALTH.
"NONE IS SO WASTEFUL AS THE SCRAPING DAME; / SHE LOSETH THREE FOR ONE--HER SOUL, REST, FAME."
"NONE BUT AN AUTHOR KNOWS AN AUTHOR'S CARES, / OR FANCY'S FONDNESS FOR THE CHILD SHE BEARS."
"NONE ARE SO DESOLATE BUT SOMETHING DEAR, / DEARER THAN SELF, POSSESSES OR POSSESS'D / A THOUGHT, AND CLAIMS THE HOMAGE OF A TEAR."
NONE ARE MORE UNJUST IN THEIR JUDGMENTS OF OTHERS THAN THOSE WHO HAVE A HIGH OPINION OF THEMSELVES.
"NONE ARE ALL EVIL; QUICKENING ROUND HIS HEART, / ONE SOFTER FEELING WOULD NOT YET DEPART."
NOISOME WEEDS THAT WITHOUT PROFIT SUCK / THE SOIL'S FERTILITY FROM WHOLESOME FLOWERS.
NOBODY WILL PERSIST LONG IN HELPING THOSE WHO WILL NOT HELP THEMSELVES.
NOBODY KNOWS WHO MAY BE LISTENING; SAY NOTHING WHICH YOU WOULD NOT WISH PUT IN THE DAILY PAPER.
"NOBODY CONTENTS HIMSELF WITH ROUGH DIAMONDS, OR WEARS THEM SO. WHEN POLISHED AND SET, THEN THEY GIVE A LUSTRE."
"NOBODY CAN LIVE BY TEACHING ANY MORE THAN BY LEARNING; BOTH TEACHING AND LEARNING ARE PROPER DUTIES OF HUMAN LIFE, OR PLEASURES OF IT, BUT HAVE NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH THE SUPPORT OF IT."
"NOBLER IS A LIMITED COMMAND, / GIVEN BY THE LOVE OF ALL YOUR NATIVE LAND, / THAN A SUCCESSIVE TITLE, LONG AND DARK, / DRAWN FROM THE MOULDY ROLLS OF NOAH'S ARK."
NOBLE ART IS NOTHING LESS THAN THE EXPRESSION OF A GREAT SOUL; AND GREAT SOULS ARE NOT COMMON THINGS.
"NO WORDS SUFFICE THE SECRET SOUL TO SHOW, / FOR TRUTH DENIES ALL ELOQUENCE TO WOE."
"NO WISE MAN CAN HAVE A CONTEMPT FOR THE PREJUDICES OF OTHERS; AND HE SHOULD EVEN STAND IN A CERTAIN AWE OF HIS OWN, AS IF THEY WERE AGED PARENTS AND MONITORS. THEY MAY IN THE END PROVE WISER THAN HE."
NO WILD ENTHUSIAST EVER YET COULD REST / TILL HALF MANKIND WERE LIKE HIMSELF POSSESS'D.
"NO THOUGHT IS CONTENTED. THE BETTER SORT, / AS THOUGHTS OF THINGS DIVINE, ARE INTERMIXED / WITH SCRUPLES, AND DO SET THE WORD ITSELF / AGAINST THE WORD."
"NO THOUGHT IS BEAUTIFUL WHICH IS NOT JUST, AND NO THOUGHT CAN BE JUST WHICH IS NOT FOUNDED ON TRUTH."
NO THEOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES SO GLARING THAT THEY HAVE NOT SOMETIMES BEEN EMBRACED BY MEN OF THE GREATEST AND MOST CULTIVATED UNDERSTANDING. NO RELIGIOUS PRECEPTS SO RIGOROUS THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ADOPTED BY THE MOST VOLUPTUOUS AND MOST ABANDONED OF MEN.
"NO SOONER IS A TEMPLE BUILT TO GOD, BUT THE DEVIL BUILDS A CHAPEL CLOSE BY."
NO REPORTS ARE MORE READILY BELIEVED THAN THOSE WHICH DISPARAGE GENIUS AND SOOTHE ENVY OF CONSCIOUS MEDIOCRITY.
"NO RECKONING MADE, BUT SENT TO MY ACCOUNT / WITH ALL MY IMPERFECTIONS ON MY HEAD."
"NO PROFIT GROWS WHERE IS NO PLEASURE TA'EN: / IN BRIEF, SIR, STUDY WHAT YOU MOST AFFECT."
NO POWER OF GOOD CAN BE OBTAINED BY DOING NOTHING AND BY KNOWING NOTHING.
"NO PEACE WAS EVER WON FROM FATE BY SUBTERFUGE OR AGREEMENT; NO PEACE IS EVER IN STORE FOR ANY OF US BUT THAT WHICH WE SHALL WIN BY VICTORY OVER SHAME OR SIN--VICTORY OVER THE SIN THAT OPPRESSES, AS WELL AS OVER THAT WHICH CORRUPTS."
NO PAY IS RECEIVABLE BY ANY TRUE MAN; BUT POWER IS RECEIVABLE BY HIM IN THE LOVE AND FAITH YOU GIVE HIM.
"NO PASSIONS ARE WITHOUT THEIR USE, NONE WITHOUT THEIR NOBLENESS, WHEN SEEN IN BALANCED UNITY WITH THE REST OF THE SPIRIT WHICH THEY ARE CHARGED TO DEFEND."
NO ONE CAN TEACH YOU ANYTHING WORTH LEARNING BUT THROUGH MANUAL LABOUR; THE VERY BREAD OF LIFE CAN ONLY BE GOT OUT OF THE CHAFF OF IT BY RUBBING IT IN YOUR HANDS.
"NO ONE CAN BE A GREAT THINKER WHO DOES NOT RECOGNISE THAT, AS A THINKER, IT IS HIS FIRST DUTY TO FOLLOW HIS INTELLECT TO WHATEVER CONCLUSIONS IT MAY LEAD."
"NO, NO! I AM BUT SHADOW OF MYSELF; / YOU ARE DECEIVED, MY SUBSTANCE IS NOT HERE."
"NO MORE SUBTLE MASTER UNDER HEAVEN / THAN IS THE MAIDEN-PASSION FOR A MAID, / NOT ONLY TO KEEP DOWN THE BASE IN MAN, / BUT TEACH HIGH THOUGHT, AND AMIABLE WORDS / AND COURTLINESS, AND THE DESIRE OF FAME, / AND LOVE OF TRUTH, AND ALL THAT MAKES A MAN."
NO MORE DANGEROUS SNARE IS SET BY THE FIENDS FOR HUMAN FRAILTY THAN THE BELIEF THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE ALSO THE ENEMIES OF GOD.
"NO MORE CAN YOU DISTINGUISH OF A MAN / THAN OF HIS OUTWARD SHOW; WHICH, GOD HE KNOWS, / SELDOM OR NEVER JUMPETH WITH THE HEART."
NO MIGHT NOR GREATNESS IN MORTALITY / CAN CENSURE 'SCAPE; BACK-WOUNDING CALUMNY / THE WHITEST VIRTUE STRIKES.
NO MAN WHO IS WRETCHED IN HIS OWN HEART AND FEEBLE IN HIS OWN WORK CAN RIGHTLY HELP OTHERS.
"NO MAN WAS MORE FOOLISH WHEN HE HAD NOT A PEN IN HIS HAND, OR MORE WISE WHEN HE HAD."
"NO MAN TALKS OF THAT WHICH HE IS DESIROUS TO CONCEAL, AND EVERY MAN DESIRES TO CONCEAL THAT OF WHICH HE IS ASHAMED."
"NO MAN SHOULD THINK SO HIGHLY OF HIMSELF AS TO THINK HE CAN RECEIVE BUT LITTLE LIGHT FROM BOOKS, NOR SO MEANLY AS TO BELIEVE HE CAN DISCOVER NOTHING BUT WHAT IS TO BE LEARNED FROM THEM."
"NO MAN SHOULD EVER BE ASHAMED TO OWN HE HAS BEEN IN THE WRONG, WHICH IS BUT SAYING, IN OTHER WORDS, THAT HE IS WISER TO-DAY THAN HE WAS YESTERDAY."
"NO MAN REGARDS AN ERUPTION UPON THE SURFACE WHEN THE NOBLE PARTS ARE INVADED, AND HE FEELS A MORTIFICATION APPROACHING TO HIS HEART."
NO MAN LOVES TO FRUSTRATE EXPECTATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN FORMED IN HIS FAVOUR.
"NO MAN IS SO FREE AS A BEGGAR, AND NO MAN MORE SOLEMNLY A SERVANT THAN AN HONEST LAND-OWNER."
NO MAN IS EVER GOOD FOR MUCH WHO HAS NOT BEEN CARRIED OFF HIS FEET BY ENTHUSIASM BETWEEN TWENTY AND THIRTY.
"NO MAN HAS ANY DATA FOR ESTIMATING, FAR LESS RIGHT OF JUDGING, THE RESULTS OF A LIFE OF RESOLUTE SELF-DENIAL, UNTIL HE HAS HAD THE COURAGE TO TRY IT HIMSELF."
"NO MAN HAS A CLAIM TO CREDIT UPON HIS OWN WORD, WHEN BETTER EVIDENCE, IF HE HAD IT, MAY BE EASILY PRODUCED."
"NO MAN EVER BECAME, OR CAN BECOME, LARGELY RICH MERELY BY LABOUR AND ECONOMY."
"NO MAN CAN BECOME LARGELY RICH BY HIS PERSONAL TOIL, BUT ONLY BY DISCOVERY OF SOME METHOD OF TAXING THE LABOUR OF OTHERS."
"NO MAN CAN BE A POET / THAT IS NOT A GOOD COOK, TO KNOW THE PALATES / AND SEVERAL TASTES OF THE TIME."
"NO LYING KNIGHT OR LYING PRIEST EVER PROSPERED IN ANY AGE, BUT CERTAINLY NOT IN THE DARK ONES. MEN PROSPERED THEN ONLY IN FOLLOWING OPENLY-DECLARED PURPOSES, AND PREACHING CANDIDLY-BELOVED AND TRUSTED CREEDS."
"NO LOVER SHOULD HAVE THE INSOLENCE TO THINK OF BEING ACCEPTED AT ONCE, NOR SHOULD ANY GIRL HAVE THE CRUELTY TO REFUSE AT ONCE, WITHOUT SEVERE REASONS."
"NO HUMAN FACE IS EXACTLY THE SAME IN ITS LINES ON EACH SIDE, NO LEAF PERFECT IN ITS LOBES, NO BRANCH IN ITS SYMMETRY."
NO HUMAN CAPACITY EVER YET SAW THE WHOLE OF A THING; BUT WE MAY SEE MORE AND MORE OF IT THE LONGER WE LOOK.
NO HAND CAN MAKE THE CLOCK STRIKE FOR ME THE HOURS THAT ARE PAST.
"NO GREAT TRUTH IS ALLOWED BY NATURE TO BE DEMONSTRABLE TO ANY PERSON WHO, FORESEEING ITS CONSEQUENCES, DESIRES TO REFUSE IT."
NO GREAT COMPOSITION WAS EVER PRODUCED BUT WITH THE SAME HEAVENLY INVOLUNTARINESS IN WHICH A BIRD BUILDS HER NEST.
NO GOOD WORK WHATEVER CAN BE PERFECT; AND THE DEMAND FOR PERFECTION IS ALWAYS A SIGN OF A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE ENDS OF ART.
"NO GOOD OR LOVELY THING EXISTS IN THIS WORLD WITHOUT ITS CORRESPONDENT DARKNESS; AND THE UNIVERSE PRESENTS ITSELF CONTINUALLY TO MANKIND UNDER THE STERN ASPECT OF WARNING, OR OF CHOICE, THE GOOD AND THE EVIL SET ON THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT."
NO GOOD IS EVER DONE TO SOCIETY BY THE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF ITS DISEASES.
"NO GIRL WHO IS WELL BRED, KIND, AND MODEST IS EVER OFFENSIVELY PLAIN; ALL REAL DEFORMITY MEANS WANT OF MANNERS OR OF HEART."
NO DYNAMITE WILL EVER BE INVENTED THAT CAN RULE; IT CAN BUT DISSOLVE AND DESTROY. ONLY THE WORD OF GOD AND THE HEART OF MAN CAN GOVERN.
"NO DISTANCE BREAKS THE TIE OF BLOOD: / BROTHERS ARE BROTHERS EVERMORE; / NOR WRONG, NOR WRATH OF DEADLIEST MOOD, / THAT MAGIC MAY O'ERPOWER."
NO COMPOUND OF THIS EARTHLY BALL / IS LIKE ANOTHER ALL IN ALL.
"NO CEREMONY THAT TO GREAT ONE 'LONGS, / NOT THE KING'S CROWN, NOR THE DEPUTED SWORD, / THE MARSHAL'S TRUNCHEON NOR THE JUDGE'S ROBE, / BECOME THEM WITH ONE HALF SO GOOD A GRACE / AS MERCY DOES."
"NO BOOK IS WORTH ANYTHING WHICH IS NOT WORTH MUCH; NOR IS IT SERVICEABLE UNTIL IT HAS BEEN READ, AND RE-READ, AND LOVED, AND LOVED AGAIN."
"NO ASHES ARE LIGHTER THAN THOSE OF INCENSE, AND FEW THINGS BURN OUT SOONER."
"NO ART CAN BE NOBLE WHICH IS INCAPABLE OF EXPRESSING THOUGHT, AND NO ART IS CAPABLE OF EXPRESSING THOUGHT WHICH DOES NOT CHANGE."
NO AFFECTIONS AND A GREAT BRAIN; THESE ARE THE MEN TO COMMAND THE WORLD.
"""NO,"" A MONOSYLLABLE, THE EASIEST LEARNED BY THE CHILD, BUT THE MOST DIFFICULT TO PRACTISE BY THE MAN, CONTAINS WITHIN IT THE IMPORT OF A LIFE, THE WEAL OR WOE OF AN ETERNITY."
NINE TITHES OF TIMES / FACE-FLATTERER AND BACK-BITER ARE THE SAME.
"NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN IT IS OVER THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS THAT WE PASS THE NARROW GULF FROM YOUTH TO MANHOOD. THAT INTERVAL IS USUALLY OCCUPIED BY AN ILL-PLACED OR DISAPPOINTED AFFECTION. WE RECOVER AND WE FIND OURSELVES A NEW BEING. THE INTELLECT HAS BECOME HARDENED BY THE FIRE THROUGH WHICH IT HAS PASSED. THE MIND PROFITS BY THE WRECKS OF EVERY PASSION, AND WE MAY MEASURE OUR ROAD TO WISDOM BY THE SORROWS WE HAVE UNDERGONE."
"NINE-TENTHS OF EXISTING BOOKS ARE NONSENSE, AND THE CLEVER BOOKS ARE THE REFUTATION OF THAT NONSENSE."
"NIGHT'S CANDLES ARE BURNT OUT, AND JOCUND DAY / STANDS TIPTOE ON THE MISTY MOUNTAIN-TOPS."
"NIGHT IS THE SABBATH OF MANKIND, / TO REST THE BODY AND THE MIND."
"NEXT TO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF DOING A GOOD ACTION, THAT OF DOING A CIVIL ONE IS THE MOST PLEASING."
NEXT TO THE ASSUMPTION OF POWER IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF RELINQUISHING IT.
NEXT TO CHRISTMAS DAY THE MOST PLEASANT ANNUAL EPOCH IN EXISTENCE IS THE ADVENT OF THE NEW YEAR.
"NEW SCENES IMPRESS NEW IDEAS, ENRICH THE IMAGINATION, AND ENLARGE THE POWER OF REASON."
"NEW-MADE HONOUR DOTH FORGET MEN'S NAMES; / 'TIS TOO RESPECTIVE AND TOO SOCIABLE, / FOR YOUR CONVERSION."
"NEVER WASTE PAINS ON BAD GROUND; LET IT REMAIN ROUGH. THOUGH PROPERLY LOOKED AFTER AND CARED FOR, IT WILL BE OF BEST SERVICE SO."
"NEVER SEEK TO TELL THY LOVE, / LOVE THAT NEVER TOLD CAN BE, / FOR THE GENTLE WIND DOTH MOVE / SILENTLY, INVISIBLY."
"NEVER READ BORROWED BOOKS. TO BE WITHOUT BOOKS OF YOUR OWN IS THE ABYSS OF PENURY. DON'T ENDURE IT. AND WHEN YOU HAVE TO BUY THEM, YOU'LL THINK WHETHER THEY'RE WORTH READING; WHICH YOU HAD BETTER, ON ALL ACCOUNTS."
"NEVER MORNING WORE / TO EVENING, BUT SOME HEART DID BREAK."
NEVER ELATED WHEN ONE MAN'S OPPRESS'D; / NEVER DEJECTED WHILE ANOTHERS BLESS'D.
"NEVER DURST POET TOUCH A PEN TO WRITE / UNTIL HIS INK WERE TEMPER'D WITH LOVE'S SIGHS; / O, THEN HIS LINES WOULD RAVISH SAVAGE EARS, / AND PLANT IN TYRANTS MILD HUMILITY."
NEVER CONFUSE A MYTH WITH A LIE.... THE THOUGHTS OF ALL THE GREATEST AND WISEST MEN HITHERTO HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED THROUGH MYTHOLOGY.
NEVER ANYTHING CAN BE AMISS / WHEN SIMPLENESS AND DUTY TENDER IT.
"NEMESIS IS LAME, BUT SHE IS OF COLOSSAL STATURE, LIKE THE GODS."
"NEITHER PAINTING NOR FIGHTING FEED MEN; NOR CAN CAPITAL, IN THE FORM OF MONEY OR MACHINERY, FEED THEM."
"NEITHER HEAT, NOR FROST, NOR THUNDER / SHALL WHOLLY DO AWAY, I WEEN, / THE MARKS OF THAT WHICH ONCE HATH BEEN."
"NEITHER EXALT YOUR PLEASURES, NOR AGGRAVATE YOUR VEXATIONS, BEYOND THEIR REAL AND NATURAL STATE."
NEITHER A BORROWER NOR A LENDER BE; / FOR LOAN OFT LOSES BOTH ITSELF AND FRIEND.
"NEARLY ALL OUR POWERFUL MEN IN THIS AGE OF THE WORLD ARE UNBELIEVERS; THE BEST OF THEM IN DOUBT AND MISERY; THE PLURALITY IN PLODDING HESITATION, DOING, AS WELL AS THEY CAN, WHAT PRACTICAL WORK LIES READY TO THEIR HANDS."
"NATURES THAT HAVE MUCH HEAT, AND GREAT AND VIOLENT DESIRES AND PERTURBATIONS, ARE NOT RIPE FOR ACTION TILL THEY HAVE PASSED THE MERIDIAN OF THEIR YEARS."
NATURE NEVER MADE AN UNKIND CREATURE; ILL-USAGE AND BAD HABITS HAVE DEFORMED A FAIR AND LOVELY CREATION.
"NATURE MADE EVERY FOP TO PLAGUE HIS BROTHER, / JUST AS ONE BEAUTY MORTIFIES ANOTHER."
"NATURE HERE SHOWS ART, / THAT THROUGH THY BOSOM MAKES ME SEE THY HEART."
"NATURE HATH FRAMED STRANGE FELLOWS IN HER TIME. / SOME THAT WILL EVERMORE PEEP THROUGH THEIR EYES / AND LAUGH LIKE PARROTS AT A BAGPIPER; / AND OTHER OF SUCH VINEGAR ASPECT / THAT THEY'LL NOT SHOW THEIR TEETH IN WAY OF SMILE, / THOUGH NESTOR SWEAR THE JEST BE LAUGHABLE."
"NATURE HAS SOMETIMES MADE A FOOL, BUT A COXCOMB IS ALWAYS OF MAN'S OWN MAKING."
"NATURE HAS MADE MAN'S BREAST NO WINDOWS / TO PUBLISH WHAT HE DOES WITHIN DOORS, / NOR WHAT DARK SECRETS THERE INHABIT, / UNLESS HIS OWN RASH FOLLY BLAB IT."
NATURE DOES MORE THAN SUPPLY MATERIALS; SHE ALSO SUPPLIES POWERS.
"NATURE, CRESCENT, DOES NOT GROW ALONE / IN THEWS AND BULK; BUT, AS THIS TEMPLE WAXES, / THE INWARD SERVICE OF THE MIND AND SOUL / GROWS WIDE WITHAL."
"NATURE COUNTS NOTHING THAT SHE MEETS WITH BASE, / BUT LIVES AND LOVES IN EVERY PLACE."
"NATURE AND TRUTH, THOUGH NEVER SO LOW OR VULGAR, ARE YET PLEASING WHEN OPENLY AND ARTLESSLY REPRESENTED."
"NATURE AND NATURE'S LAWS LAY HID IN NIGHT; / GOD SAID, ""LET NEWTON BE!"" AND ALL WAS LIGHT."
"NATURE AND HEAVEN COMMAND YOU, AT YOUR PERIL, TO DISCERN WORTH FROM UNWORTH IN EVERYTHING, AND MOST OF ALL IN MAN."
"NATURAL OBJECTS ALWAYS DID AND DO WEAKEN, DEADEN, AND OBLITERATE IMAGINATION IN ME."
"NATURAL ABILITIES ARE LIKE NATURAL PLANTS, THAT NEED PRUNING BY STUDY; AND STUDIES THEMSELVES DO GIVE FORTH DIRECTIONS TOO MUCH AT LARGE, EXCEPT THEY BE BOUNDED IN BY EXPERIENCE."
"NATIONS AND EMPIRES FLOURISH AND DECAY, / BY TURNS COMMAND, AND IN THEIR TURN OBEY."
"NATIONAL CHARACTER VARIES AS IT FADES UNDER INVASION OR CORRUPTION; BUT IF EVER IT GLOWS AGAIN INTO A NEW LIFE, THAT LIFE MUST BE TEMPERED BY THE EARTH AND SKY OF THE COUNTRY ITSELF."
"NAKEDNESS IS UNCOMELY, AS WELL IN MIND AS BODY; AND IT ADDETH NO SMALL REVERENCE TO MEN'S MANNERS AND ACTIONS IF THEY BE NOT ALTOGETHER OPEN."
"MYTHOLOGY IS NOT RELIGION. IT MAY RATHER BE REGARDED AS THE ANCIENT SUBSTITUTE, THE POETICAL COUNTERPART, FOR DOGMATIC THEOLOGY."
"MYSTERIOUS TO ALL THOUGHT, / A MOTHER'S PRIME OF BLISS, / WHEN TO HER EAGER LIPS IS BROUGHT / HER INFANT'S THRILLING KISS."
MYSTERIES WHICH MUST EXPLAIN THEMSELVES ARE NOT WORTH THE LOSS OF TIME WHICH A CONJECTURE ABOUT THEM TAKES UP.
"MY WORDS FLY UP, MY THOUGHTS REMAIN BELOW; / WORDS, WITHOUT THOUGHTS, NEVER TO HEAVEN GO."
"MY WAY OF LIFE / IS FALL'N INTO THE SERE, THE YELLOW LEAF; / AND THAT WHICH SHOULD ACCOMPANY OLD AGE, / AS HONOUR, LOVE, OBEDIENCE, TROOPS OF FRIENDS, / I MUST NOT LOOK TO HAVE; BUT IN THEIR STEAD, / CURSES, NOT LOUD, BUT DEEP, MOUTH-HONOUR, BREATH / WHICH THE POOR HEART WOULD FAIN DENY, BUT DARE NOT."
"MY STRENGTH IS AS THE STRENGTH OF TEN, BECAUSE MY HEART IS PURE."
"MY SOUL, WHAT'S LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER? WIND. / THAN WIND? THE FIRE. AND WHAT THAN FIRE? THE MIND. / WHAT'S LIGHTER THAN THE MIND? A THOUGHT. THAN THOUGHT? / THIS BUBBLE WORLD. WHAT THAN THIS BUBBLE? NOUGHT."
MY RIGOUR RELENTS: I PARDON SOMETHING TO THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY.
"MY PULSE, AS YOURS, DOTH TEMPERATELY KEEP TIME, / AND MAKES AS HEALTHFUL MUSIC."
"MY JOY IS DEATH;--/ DEATH, AT WHOSE NAME I OFT HAVE BEEN AFEARED, / BECAUSE I WISH'D THIS WORLD'S ETERNITY."
"MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD / A RAINBOW IN THE SKY: / SO WAS IT WHEN MY LIFE BEGAN, / SO IS IT NOW I AM A MAN; / SO BE IT WHEN I SHALL GROW OLD, / OR LET ME DIE."
"MY FATE CRIES OUT, / AND MAKES EACH PETTY ARTERY IN THIS BODY / AS HARDY AS THE NEMEAN LION'S NERVE."
"MY DAYS ARE IN THE YELLOW LEAF; / THE FLOWERS AND FRUITS OF LOVE ARE GONE; / THE WORM, THE CANKER, AND THE GRIEF / ARE MINE ALONE."
"MY BOUNTY IS AS BOUNDLESS AS THE SEA, / MY LOVE AS DEEP; THE MORE I GIVE TO THEE, / THE MORE I HAVE, FOR BOTH ARE INFINITE."
"MY ALMS-PEOPLE ARE TO BE THE ABLEST BODIED I CAN FIND, THE ABLEST MINDED I CAN MAKE, AND EVERY DAY WILL BE A DUTY ... SHALL STAND WITH TOOLS AT WORK, MATTOCK OR FLAIL, AXE OR HAMMER."
"MUSIC, WHEN HEALTHY, IS THE TEACHER OF PERFECT ORDER; AND ALSO WHEN DEPRAVED, THE TEACHER OF PERFECT DISORDER."
"MUSIC, ONCE ADMITTED INTO THE SOUL, BECOMES A SORT OF SPIRIT, AND NEVER DIES."
"MUSIC OFT HATH SUCH A CHARM / TO MAKE BAD GOOD, AND GOOD PROVOKE TO HARM."
MUSIC IS THE ONLY SENSUAL GRATIFICATION WHICH MANKIND MAY INDULGE IN TO EXCESS WITHOUT INJURY TO THEIR MORAL AND RELIGIOUS FEELINGS.
"MURDER, THOUGH IT HAVE NO TONGUE, WILL SPEAK / WITH MOST MIRACULOUS ORGAN."
"MUCH OF WHAT IS GREAT, AND TO ALL MEN BENEFICIAL, HAS BEEN WROUGHT BY THOSE WHO NEITHER INTENDED NOR KNEW THE GOOD THEY DID; AND MANY MIGHTY HARMONIES HAVE BEEN DISCOURSED BY INSTRUMENTS THAT HAD BEEN DUMB AND DISCORDANT BUT THAT GOD KNEW THEIR STOPS."
MUCH OF THIS WORLD'S WISDOM IS STILL ACQUIRED BY NECROMANCY--BY CONSULTING THE ORACULAR DEAD.
"MUCH LEARNING SHOWS HOW LITTLE MORTALS KNOW; MUCH WEALTH, HOW LITTLE WORLDLINGS CAN ENJOY."
"MOUNTAINS NEVER SHAKE HANDS. THEIR ROOTS MAY TOUCH; THEY MAY KEEP COMPANY SOME WAY UP; BUT AT LENGTH THEY PART COMPANY, AND RISE INTO INDIVIDUAL, ISOLATED PEAKS. SO IT IS WITH GREAT MEN."
"MOUNTAINS INTERPOSED / MAKE ENEMIES OF NATIONS, WHO HAD ELSE / LIKE KINDRED DROPS BEEN MINGLED INTO ONE."
"MOTIVES ARE SYMPTOMS OF WEAKNESS, AND SUPPLEMENTS FOR THE DEFICIENT ENERGY OF THE LIVING PRINCIPLE, THE LAW WITHIN US."
"MOTHER, A MAIDEN IS A TENDER THING, / AND BEST BY HER THAT BORE HER UNDERSTOOD."
"MOST PEOPLE THINK NOW-A-DAYS THE ONLY HOPEFUL WAY OF SERVING YOUR NEIGHBOUR IS TO MAKE A PROFIT OUT OF HIM; WHEREAS, IN MY OPINION, THE HOPEFULEST WAY OF SERVING HIM IS TO LET HIM MAKE A PROFIT OUT OF ME."
"MOST MEN THINK INDISTINCTLY, AND THEREFORE CANNOT SPEAK WITH EXACTNESS."
"MOST MEN DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS IN THEM TILL THEY RECEIVE THE SUMMONS FROM THEIR FELLOWS; THEIR HEARTS DIE WITHIN THEM, SLEEP SETTLES UPON THEM--THE LETHARGY OF THE WORLD'S MIASMATA; THERE IS NOTHING FOR WHICH THEY ARE SO THANKFUL AS FOR THAT CRY, ""AWAKE, THOU THAT SLEEPEST."""
MOST DANGEROUS / IS THAT TEMPTATION THAT DOTH GOAD US ON / TO SIN IN LOVING VIRTUE.
MORE THINGS ARE WROUGHT BY PRAYER / THAN THIS WORLD DREAMS OF.
"MORE PLEASED WE ARE TO SEE A RIVER LEAD / HIS GENTLE STREAMS ALONG A FLOWERY MEAD, / THAN FROM HIGH BANKS TO HEAR LOUD TORRENTS ROAR, / WITH FOAMY WATERS ON A MUDDY SHORE."
"MORE IS GOT FROM ONE BOOK ON WHICH THE THOUGHT SETTLES FOR A DEFINITE END IN KNOWLEDGE, THAN FROM LIBRARIES SKIMMED OVER BY A WANDERING EYE. A COTTAGE FLOWER GIVES HONEY TO THE BEE, A KING'S GARDEN NONE TO THE BUTTERFLY."
MORE HELPFUL THAN ALL WISDOM IS ONE DRAUGHT OF SIMPLE HUMAN PITY THAT WILL NOT FORSAKE US.
MORE HEARTS PINE AWAY IN SECRET ANGUISH FOR UNKINDNESS FROM THOSE WHO SHOULD BE THEIR COMFORTERS THAN FOR ANY OTHER CALAMITY IN LIFE.
"MORAL PREJUDICES ARE THE STOPGAPS OF VIRTUE; AND, AS IS THE CASE WITH OTHER STOPGAPS, IT IS OFTEN MORE DIFFICULT TO GET EITHER OUT OR IN THROUGH THEM THAN THROUGH ANY OTHER PART OF THE FENCE."
"MORAL EDUCATION BEGINS IN MAKING THE CREATURE TO BE EDUCATED CLEAN AND OBEDIENT; AND IT IS SUMMED UP WHEN THE CREATURE HAS BEEN MADE TO DO ITS WORK WITH DELIGHT, AND THOROUGHLY."
"MONKEYS, AS SOON AS THEY HAVE BROUGHT FORTH THEIR YOUNG, KEEP THEIR EYES FASTENED ON THEM, AND NEVER WEARY OF ADMIRING THEIR BEAUTY; SO AMOROUS IS NATURE OF WHATEVER SHE PRODUCES."
"MONEY IS LIKE AN ICICLE, SOON FOUND AT CERTAIN SEASONS, AND SOON MELTED UNDER OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES."
MODESTY IS SO PLEASED WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S DOINGS THAT SHE HAS NO LEISURE TO LAMENT HER OWN.
"MODERN SCIENCE GIVES LECTURES ON BOTANY, TO SHOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FLOWER; ON HUMANITY, TO SHOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A MAN; AND ON THEOLOGY, TO SHOW THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOD. NO SUCH THING AS A MAN, BUT ONLY A MECHANISM. NO SUCH THING AS A GOD, BUT ONLY A SERIES OF FORCES."
MODERN REVOLUTION HAS NOTHING GRAND ABOUT IT; IT IS MERELY THE RESOLUTION OF SOCIETY INTO ITS COMPONENT ATOMS.
"MODERN PROTESTANTISM SEES IN THE CROSS, NOT A FURCA TO WHICH IT IS TO BE NAILED, BUT A RAFT ON WHICH IT, AND ALL ITS VALUABLE PROPERTIES, ARE TO BE FLOATED INTO PARADISE."
"MODERN EDUCATION HAS DEVOTED ITSELF TO THE TEACHING OF IMPUDENCE, AND THEN WE COMPLAIN WE CAN NO MORE MANAGE OUR MOBS."
"MISLIKE ME NOT FOR MY COMPLEXION, / THE SHADOW'D LIVERY OF THE BURNISH'D SUN, / TO WHOM I AM A NEIGHBOUR AND NEAR BRED."
"MISERY IS TRODDEN DOWN BY MANY, / AND, BEING LOW, NEVER RELIEVED BY ANY."
MISERABLE BEYOND ALL NAMES OF WRETCHEDNESS IS THAT UNHAPPY PAIR WHO ARE DOOMED TO REDUCE BEFOREHAND TO THE PRINCIPLES OF ABSTRACT REASON ALL THE DETAILS OF EACH DOMESTIC DAY.
"MIRTH IS SHORT AND TRANSIENT, CHEERFULNESS FIXED AND PERMANENT."
"MIRTH IS LIKE A FLASH OF LIGHTNING, THAT BREAKS THROUGH A GLOOM OF CLOUDS, AND GLITTERS FOR A MOMENT; CHEERFULNESS KEEPS UP A KIND OF DAYLIGHT IN THE MIND, AND FILLS IT WITH A STEADY AND PERPETUAL SERENITY."
MINDS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO CONFER / FIND LITTLE TO PERCEIVE.
"MIND AND BODY--THAT BEAUTEOUS COUPLE--EXERCISE MUCH AND VARIOUSLY, BUT AT HOME, AT HOME, INDOORS, AND ABOUT THINGS INDOORS; FOR GOD IS THERE TOO."
"MILLIONS OF SPIRITUAL CREATURES WALK THE EARTH / UNSEEN, BOTH WHEN WE WAKE AND WHEN WE SLEEP."
"MIDST THE CROWD, THE HUM, THE SHOCK OF MEN, / TO HEAR, TO SEE, TO FEEL, AND TO POSSESS, / AND ROAM ALONG, THE WORLD'S TIRED DENIZEN, / WITH NONE WHO BLESS US, NONE WHOM WE CAN BLESS; / ... THIS IS TO BE ALONE; THIS, THIS IS SOLITUDE!"
"METAPHYSICIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS ARE, ON THE WHOLE, THE GREATEST TROUBLES THE WORLD HAS GOT TO DEAL WITH.... BUSY METAPHYSICIANS ARE ALWAYS ENTANGLING GOOD AND ACTIVE PEOPLE, AND WEAVING COBWEBS AMONG THE FINEST WHEELS OF THE WORLD'S BUSINESS, AND ARE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BY ALL PRUDENT PERSONS, TO BE BRUSHED OUT OF THEIR WAY."
"MERIT AND GOOD WORKS IS THE END OF MAN'S MOTION, AND CONSCIENCE OF THE SAME IS THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF MAN'S REST."
"MERE SENSIBILITY IS NOT TRUE TASTE, BUT SENSIBILITY TO REAL EXCELLENCE IS."
"MERCY, MISERICORDIA, DOES NOT IN THE LEAST MEAN FORGIVENESS OF SINS, BUT PITY OF SORROWS."
"MERCY IS NOT ITSELF, THAT OFT LOOKS SO; / PARDON IS STILL THE NURSE OF SECOND WOE."
"MERCY IS ABOVE THIS SCEPTRED SWAY, / IT IS ENTHRONÉD IN THE HEARTS OF KINGS, / IT IS AN ATTRIBUTE TO GOD HIMSELF; / AND EARTHLY POWER DOTH THEN SHOW LIKEST GOD'S / WHEN MERCY SEASONS JUSTICE."
"MEN'S THOUGHTS ARE MUCH ACCORDING TO THEIR INCLINATIONS; THEIR DISCOURSES AND SPEECHES, ACCORDING TO THEIR LEARNING AND INFUSED OPINIONS."
"MEN'S PROSPERITY IS IN THEIR OWN HANDS, AND NO FORMS OF GOVERNMENT ARE, IN THEMSELVES, OF THE LEAST USE."
"MEN'S NATURES WRANGLE WITH INFERIOR THINGS, / THOUGH GREAT ONES ARE THEIR OBJECT."
MEN'S MUSCLES MOVE BETTER WHEN THEIR SOULS ARE MAKING MERRY MUSIC.
MEN WHO MAKE MONEY RARELY SAUNTER; MEN WHO SAVE MONEY RARELY SWAGGER.
MEN WHO EARN NOTHING BUT COMPLIMENTS ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE VERY DILIGENT IN SO UNPROFITABLE A SERVICE.
MEN THINK TO MEND THEIR CONDITION BY A CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES. THEY MIGHT AS WELL HOPE TO ESCAPE THEIR SHADOWS.
"MEN THINK HIGHLY OF THOSE WHO RISE RAPIDLY IN THE WORLD; WHEREAS NOTHING RISES QUICKER THAN DUST, STRAW, AND FEATHERS."
MEN THAT ARE RUINED ARE RUINED ON THE SIDE OF THEIR NATURAL PROPENSITIES.
MEN SHOULD NOT BE TOLD OF THE FAULTS WHICH THEY HAVE MENDED.
"MEN SHOULD BE WHAT THEY SEEM; / OR THOSE THAT BE NOT, WOULD THEY MIGHT SEEM NONE."
"MEN SAY THEIR PINNACLES POINT TO HEAVEN. WHY, SO DOES EVERY TREE THAT BUDS, AND EVERY BIRD THAT RISES AS IT SINGS. MEN SAY THEIR AISLES ARE GOOD FOR WORSHIP. WHY, SO IS EVERY MOUNTAIN GLEN AND ROUGH SEASHORE. BUT THIS THEY HAVE OF DISTINCT AND INDISPUTABLE GLORY,--THAT THEIR MIGHTY WALLS WERE NEVER RAISED, AND NEVER SHALL BE, BUT BY MEN WHO LOVE AND AID EACH OTHER IN THEIR WEAKNESS."
MEN OUGHT TO FIND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SALTNESS AND BITTERNESS.
"MEN ONLY ASSOCIATE IN PARTIES BY SACRIFICING THEIR OPINIONS, OR BY HAVING NONE WORTH SACRIFICING; AND THE EFFECT OF PARTY GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS TO DEVELOP HOSTILITIES AND HYPOCRISIES, AND TO EXTINGUISH IDEAS."
"MEN OF TRUE WISDOM AND GOODNESS ARE CONTENTED TO TAKE PERSONS AND THINGS AS THEY ARE, WITHOUT COMPLAINING OF THEIR IMPERFECTIONS OR ATTEMPTING TO AMEND THEM."
"MEN OF THE GREATEST ABILITIES ARE MOST FIRED WITH AMBITION, AND, ON THE CONTRARY, MEAN AND NARROW MINDS ARE THE LEAST ACTUATED BY IT."
MEN OF MOST RENOWNED VIRTUE HAVE SOMETIMES BY TRANSGRESSING MOST TRULY KEPT THE LAW.
"MEN OF HUMOUR ARE ALWAYS IN SOME DEGREE MEN OF GENIUS; WITS ARE RARELY SO, ALTHOUGH A MAN OF GENIUS MAY, AMONGST OTHER GIFTS, POSSESS WIT, AS SHAKESPEARE."
"MEN OF GENIUS HAVE ACUTER FEELINGS THAN COMMON MEN; THEY ARE LIKE THE WIND-HARP, WHICH ANSWERS TO THE BREATH THAT TOUCHES IT, NOW LOW AND SWEET, NOW RISING INTO WILD SWELL OR ANGRY SCREAM, AS THE STRINGS ARE SWEPT BY SOME PASSING GUST."
"MEN OF GENIUS DO NOT EXCEL IN ANY PROFESSION BECAUSE THEY LABOUR IN IT, BUT THEY LABOUR IN IT BECAUSE THEY EXCEL."
"MEN OF GENIUS ARE RARELY MUCH ANNOYED BY THE COMPANY OF VULGAR PEOPLE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE A POWER OF LOOKING AT SUCH PERSONS AS OBJECTS OF AMUSEMENT OF ANOTHER RACE ALTOGETHER."
"MEN OF AGE OBJECT TOO MUCH, CONSULT TOO LONG, ADVENTURE TOO LITTLE, REPENT TOO SOON, AND SELDOM DRIVE BUSINESS HOME TO THE FULL PERIOD, BUT CONTENT THEMSELVES WITH A MEDIOCRITY OF SUCCESS."
MEN MAY RISE ON STEPPING-STONES / OF THEIR DEAD SELVES TO HIGHER THINGS.
MEN LIKE ADVISING THE WOMEN BETTER THAN DOING RIGHT THEMSELVES.
"MEN IN GREAT PLACE ARE THRICE SERVANTS--SERVANTS OF THE SOVEREIGN OR STATE, SERVANTS OF FAME, AND SERVANTS OF BUSINESS."
MEN HAVE BEEN WISE IN VERY DIFFERENT MODES; BUT THEY HAVE ALWAYS LAUGHED THE SAME WAY.
"MEN DON'T AND CAN'T LIVE BY EXCHANGING ARTICLES, BUT BY PRODUCING THEM: THEY DON'T LIVE BY TRADE BUT BY WORK."
"MEN DO NOT MAKE THEIR HOMES UNHAPPY BECAUSE THEY HAVE GENIUS, BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT ENOUGH GENIUS."
"MEN DEAL WITH LIFE AS CHILDREN WITH THEIR PLAY, / WHO FIRST MISUSE, THEN CAST THEIR TOYS AWAY."
"MEN COMMONLY THINK ACCORDING TO THEIR INCLINATIONS, SPEAK ACCORDING TO THEIR LEARNING AND IMBIBED OPINIONS, BUT GENERALLY ACT ACCORDING TO CUSTOM."
"MEN CANNOT BENEFIT THOSE THAT ARE WITH THEM AS THEY CAN BENEFIT THOSE THAT COME AFTER THEM; AND OF ALL THE PULPITS FROM WHICH THE HUMAN VOICE IS EVER SENT FORTH, THERE IS NONE FROM WHICH IT REACHES SO FAR AS FROM THE GRAVE."
"MEN CAN SEE THROUGH A BARN-DOOR, THEY CAN. PERHAPS THAT'S THE REASON THEY CAN SEE SO LITTLE O' THIS SIDE ON'T."
"MEN / CAN COUNSEL, AND SPEAK COMFORT TO THAT GRIEF / WHICH THEY THEMSELVES NOT FEEL; BUT, TASTING IT, / THEIR COUNSEL TURNS TO PASSION, WHICH BEFORE / WOULD GIVE PRECEPTIAL MEDICINE TO RAGE, / FETTER STRONG MADNESS IN A SILKEN THREAD, / CHARM ACHE WITH AIR AND AGONY WITH WORDS."
"MEN CAN BE ESTIMATED BY THOSE WHO KNOW THEM NOT, ONLY AS THEY ARE REPRESENTED BY THOSE WHO KNOW THEM."
"MEN ARE WE, AND MUST GRIEVE WHEN EVEN THE SHADE / OF THAT WHICH ONCE WAS GREAT IS PASSED AWAY."
"MEN ARE THE SPORT OF CIRCUMSTANCES, WHEN THE CIRCUMSTANCES SEEM THE SPORT OF MEN."
MEN ARE SELDOM MORE INNOCENTLY EMPLOYED THAN WHEN THEY ARE MAKING MONEY.
"MEN ARE MOSTLY SO SLOW, THEIR THOUGHTS OVERRUN 'EM, AN' THEY CAN ONLY CATCH 'EM BY THE TAIL."
"MEN ARE MADE BY NATURE UNEQUAL: IT IS VAIN, THEREFORE, TO TREAT THEM AS IF THEY WERE EQUAL."
"MEN ARE ETERNALLY DIVIDED INTO THE TWO CLASSES OF POET (OR BELIEVER, MAKER, AND PRAISER), AND DUNCE (OR UNBELIEVER, UNMAKER, AND DISPRAISER)."
MEN ARE ENLISTED FOR THE LABOUR THAT KILLS; LET THEM BE ENLISTED FOR THE LABOUR THAT FEEDS; AND LET THE CAPTAINS OF THE LATTER BE HELD AS MUCH GENTLEMEN AS THE CAPTAINS OF THE FORMER.
"MEN ARE BUT CHILDREN OF A LARGER GROWTH; / OUR APPETITES ARE APT TO CHANGE AS THEIRS, / AND FULL AS CRAVING TOO, AND FULL AS VAIN."
"MEMORY IS THE PRIMARY AND FUNDAMENTAL POWER, WITHOUT WHICH THERE COULD BE NO OTHER INTELLECTUAL OPERATION."
"MELANCHOLY SPREADS ITSELF BETWIXT HEAVEN AND EARTH, LIKE ENVY BETWEEN MAN AND MAN, AND IS AN EVERLASTING MIST."
MEEKNESS IS THE CHERISH'D BENT / OF ALL THE TRULY GREAT AND ALL THE INNOCENT.
"MEDITATION IS THE LIFE OF THE SOUL; ACTION, THE SOUL OF MEDITATION; HONOUR, THE REWARD OF ACTION."
MATHEMATIC FORM IS ETERNAL IN THE REASONING MEMORY; LIVING FORM IS ETERNAL EXISTENCE.
MARRIAGE MUST BE A RELATION EITHER OF SYMPATHY OR OF CONQUEST.
MARRIAGE IS THE BEST STATE FOR MAN IN GENERAL; AND EVERY MAN IS A WORSE MAN IN PROPORTION AS HE IS UNFIT FOR THE MARRIED STATE.
"MARK WHAT ANOTHER SAYS; FOR MANY ARE / FULL OF THEMSELVES, AND ANSWER THEIR OWN NOTION. / TAKE ALL INTO THEE; THEN WITH EQUAL CARE / BALANCE EACH CHAIN OF REASON, LIKE A POTION."
"MARK IF HIS BIRTH MAKES ANY DIFFERENCE, IF TO HIS WORDS IT ADDS ONE GRAIN OF SENSE."
MANY TIMES DEATH PASSETH WITH LESS PAIN THAN THE TORTURE OF A LIMB; FOR THE MOST VITAL PARTS ARE NOT THE QUICKEST OF SENSE.
"MANY STROKES, THOUGH WITH A LITTLE AXE, / HEW DOWN AND FELL THE HARDEST TIMBER'D OAK."
"MANY OF THE SUPPOSED INCREASERS OF KNOWLEDGE HAVE ONLY GIVEN A NEW NAME, AND OFTEN A WORSE, TO WHAT WAS WELL KNOWN BEFORE."
"MANY MEN SPEND THEIR LIVES IN GAZING AT THEIR OWN SHADOWS, AND SO DWINDLE AWAY INTO SHADOWS THEREOF."
"MANY INDIFFERENT THINGS WHICH MEN ORIGINALLY DID FROM A MOTIVE OF SOME SORT, THEY CONTINUE TO DO FROM HABIT."
MANY DELIGHT MORE IN GIVING OF PRESENTS THAN IN PAYING THEIR DEBTS.
MANY A MAN'S VICES HAVE AT FIRST BEEN NOTHING WORSE THAN GOOD QUALITIES RUN WILD.
"MANY A MAN IS MAD IN CERTAIN INSTANCES, AND GOES THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT HAVING PERCEIVED IT."
"MANY A FATHER MIGHT SAY, ... ""I PUT IN GOLD INTO THE FURNACE, AND THERE CAME OUT THIS CALF."""
"MANNERS MUST ADORN KNOWLEDGE, AND SMOOTH ITS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD. LIKE A GREAT ROUGH DIAMOND, IT MAY DO VERY WELL IN A CLOSET BY WAY OF CURIOSITY, AND ALSO FOR ITS INTRINSIC VALUE."
MANNERS ARE OF MORE IMPORTANCE THAN LAWS; UPON THEM IN A GREAT MEASURE LAWS DEPEND.
"MANNERS ARE NOT IDLE, BUT THE FRUIT / OF LOYAL NATURE AND OF NOBLE MIND."
"MANHOOD, WHEN VERGING INTO AGE, GROWS THOUGHTFUL, / FULL OF WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES."
"MAN'S ONLY TRUE HAPPINESS IS TO LIVE IN HOPE OF SOMETHING TO BE WON BY HIM, IN REVERENCE OF SOMETHING TO BE WORSHIPPED BY HIM, AND IN LOVE OF SOMETHING TO BE CHERISHED BY HIM, AND CHERISHED--FOR EVER."
MAN'S HISTORY IS LITTLE ELSE THAN A NARRATIVE OF DESIGNS THAT HAVE FAILED AND HOPES THAT HAVE BEEN DISAPPOINTED.
"MAN'S GRIEF IS BUT HIS GRANDEUR IN DISGUISE, AND DISCONTENT IS IMMORTALITY."
"MAN'S FIRST CARE SHOULD BE TO AVOID THE REPROACHES OF HIS OWN HEART; HIS NEXT, TO ESCAPE THE CENSURES OF THE WORLD."
"MAN'S CONVICTION SHOULD BE STRONG, AND SO WELL TIMED THAT WORLDLY ADVANTAGES MAY SEEM TO HAVE NO SHARE IN IT."
"MAN'S BODY AND HIS MIND ARE EXACTLY LIKE A JERKIN AND A JERKIN'S LINING--RUMPLE THE ONE, YOU RUMPLE THE OTHER."
MAN WERE BETTER RELATE HIMSELF TO A STATUE OR PICTURE THAN TO SUFFER HIS THOUGHTS TO PASS IN SMOTHER.
"MAN UNCONNECTED IS AT HOME EVERYWHERE, UNLESS HE MAY BE SAID TO BE AT HOME NOWHERE."
MAN THE PEASANT IS A BEING OF MORE MARKED NATIONAL CHARACTER THAN MAN THE EDUCATED AND REFINED.
MAN SHOULD LET ALONE OTHER'S PREJUDICES AND EXAMINE HIS OWN.
"MAN, PROUD MAN, / DRESS'D IN A LITTLE BRIEF AUTHORITY; / MOST IGNORANT OF WHAT HE'S MOST ASSUR'D, / HIS GLASSY ESSENCE, LIKE AN ANGRY APE, / PLAYS SUCH FANTASTIC TRICKS BEFORE HIGH HEAVEN, / AS MAKE THE ANGELS WEEP."
MAN MUST SERVE HIS TIME TO EVERY TRADE / SAVE CENSURE; CRITICS ALL ARE READY MADE.
"MAN, LIKE THE GEN'ROUS VINE, SUPPORTED, LIVES;/ THE STRENGTH HE GAINS IS FROM THE EMBRACE HE GIVES."
"MAN IS TO MAN THE SOREST, SUREST ILL.... / EARTH TREMBLES ERE HER YAWNING JAWS DEVOUR; / AND SMOKE BETRAYS THE WIDE-CONSUMING FIRE; / RUIN FROM MAN IS MOST CONCEAL'D WHEN NEAR, / AND SENDS THE DREADFUL TIDINGS IN THE BLOW."
"MAN IS SO INCONSISTENT A CREATURE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REASON FROM HIS BELIEF TO HIS CONDUCT, OR FROM ONE PART OF HIS BELIEF TO ANOTHER."
MAN IS ONLY TRULY GREAT WHEN HE ACTS FROM HIS PASSIONS; NEVER IRRESISTIBLE BUT WHEN HE APPEALS TO THE IMAGINATION.
"MAN IS OFTEN A WOLF TO MAN, A SERPENT TO GOD, AND A SCORPION TO HIMSELF."
"MAN IS NOT THE CREATURE OF CIRCUMSTANCES; CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THE CREATURES OF MEN. WE ARE FREE AGENTS, AND MAN IS MORE POWERFUL THAN MATTER."
"MAN IS NOT GOD, BUT HATH GOD'S END TO SERVE, / A MASTER TO OBEY, A COURSE TO TAKE, / SOMEWHAT TO CAST OFF, SOMEWHAT TO BECOME."
"MAN IS NOT AS GOD, / BUT THEN MOST GODLIKE, BEING MOST A MAN."
MAN IS NEITHER THE VILE NOR THE EXCELLENT BEING WHICH HE SOMETIMES IMAGINES HIMSELF TO BE.
"MAN IS GOD'S IMAGE; BUT A POOR MAN IS / CHRIST'S STAMP TO BOOT: BOTH IMAGES REGARD. / GOD RECKONS FOR HIM, COUNTS THE FAVOUR HIS."
MAN HAS SELDOM AN OFFER OF KINDNESS TO MAKE TO A WOMAN BUT SHE HAS A PRESENTIMENT OF IT SOME MOMENTS BEFORE.
"MAN AM I GROWN, A MAN'S WORK MUST I DO. / FOLLOW THE DEER? FOLLOW THE CHRIST, THE KING, / LIVE PURE, SPEAK TRUE, RIGHT WRONG, FOLLOW THE KING--/ ELSE WHEREFORE BORN?"
"MAKE YOUR EDUCATIONAL LAWS STRICT, AND YOUR CRIMINAL ONES MAY BE GENTLE; BUT LEAVE YOUTH ITS LIBERTY, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO DIG DUNGEONS FOR AGE."
"MAKE THICK MY BLOOD, / STOP UP THE ACCESS AND PASSAGE TO REMORSE, / THAT NO COMPUNCTIOUS VISITINGS OF NATURE / SHAKE MY FELL PURPOSE."
"MAKE THEE MY KNIGHT? MY KNIGHTS ARE SWORN TO VOWS / OF UTTER HARDIHOOD, UTTER GENTLENESS, / AND, LOVING, UTTER FAITHFULNESS IN LOVE, / AND UTTERMOST OBEDIENCE TO THE KING."
"MAKE THE MOST AND THE BEST OF YOUR LOT, AND COMPARE YOURSELF NOT WITH THE FEW THAT ARE ABOVE YOU, BUT WITH THE MULTITUDES WHICH ARE BELOW YOU."
"MAKE NOT THY SPORT ABUSES; FOR THE FLY, / THAT FEEDS ON DUNG, IS COLOURED THEREBY."
"MAKE KNOWLEDGE CIRCLE WITH THE WINDS; / BUT LET HER HERALD, REVERENCE, FLY / BEFORE HER TO WHATEVER SKY / BEAR SEED OF MEN AND GROWTH OF MINDS."
"MAKE IT AN INVARIABLE AND OBLIGATORY LAW TO YOURSELF NEVER TO MENTION YOUR OWN MENTAL DISEASES. WHEN YOU TALK OF THEM, IT IS PLAIN THAT YOU WANT EITHER PRAISE OR PITY; FOR PRAISE THERE IS NO ROOM, AND PITY WILL DO YOU NO GOOD."
"MAKE DOORS FAST UPON A WOMAN'S WIT, AND IT WILL OUT AT THE CASEMENT; SHUT THAT, AND 'TWILL OUT AT THE KEYHOLE."
"MAIDS ARE MAY WHEN THEY ARE MAIDS, BUT THE SKY CHANGES WHEN THEY ARE WIVES."
"MAIDENS, LIKE MOTHS, ARE EVER CAUGHT WITH GLARE, / AND MAMMON WINS HIS WAY WHERE SERAPHS MIGHT DESPAIR."
"MAGNIFICENCE CANNOT BE CHEAP, FOR WHAT IS CHEAP CANNOT BE MAGNIFICENT."
"MADNESS IS CONSISTENT, WHICH IS MORE THAN CAN BE SAID FOR POOR REASON. OUR PASSIONS AND PRINCIPLES ARE STEADY IN FRENZY, BUT BEGIN TO SHIFT AND WAVER AS WE RETURN TO REASON."
"MACHINES CANNOT INCREASE THE POSSIBILITIES OF LIFE, ONLY THE POSSIBILITIES OF IDLENESS."
"MACBETH DOES MURDER SLEEP, THE INNOCENT SLEEP; / SLEEP, THAT KNITS UP THE RAVELL'D SLEEVE OF CARE, / THE DEATH OF EACH DAY'S LIFE, SORE LABOUR'S BATH, / BALM OF HURT MINDS, GREAT NATURE'S SECOND COURSE, / CHIEF NOURISHER IN LIFE'S FEAST."
LYING IS THE STRONGEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE FORCE OF TRUTH.
"LUST OF GAIN, IN THE SPIRIT OF CAIN, IS IT BETTER OR WORSE / THAN THE HEART OF THE CITIZEN HISSING IN WAR ON HIS OWN HEARTHSTONE?"
"LOVING GOES BY HAPS; SOME CUPID KILLS WITH ARROWS, SOME WITH TRAPS."
"LOVERS AND MADMEN HAVE SUCH SEETHING BRAINS, / SUCH SHAPING FANTASIES, THAT APPREHEND / MORE THAN COOL REASON EVER COMPREHENDS."
"LOVE'S HERALDS SHOULD BE THOUGHTS, / WHICH TEN TIMES FASTER GLIDE THAN THE SUN'S BEAMS / DRIVING BACK SHADOWS OVER LOWERING HILLS."
"LOVE WORKS A DIFFERENT WAY IN DIFFERENT MINDS, / THE FOOL ENLIGHTENS AND THE WISE HE BLINDS."
LOVE WILL FIND ITS WAY / THROUGH PATHS WHERE WOLVES WOULD FEAR TO PREY.
"LOVE TOOK UP THE HARP OF LIFE, AND SMOTE ON ALL THE CHORDS WITH MIGHT; / SMOTE THE CHORD OF SELF, THAT, TREMBLING, PASSED IN MUSIC OUT OF SIGHT."
LOVE THE SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG CONFOUNDS; / STRONG LOVE AND PROUD AMBITION HAVE NO BOUNDS.
"LOVE SHOULD HAVE SOME REST AND PLEASURE IN HIMSELF, / NOT EVER BE TOO CURIOUS FOR A BOON, / TOO PRURIENT FOR A PROOF AGAINST THE GRAIN / OF HIM YE SAY YE LOVE."
"LOVE SELDOM HAUNTS THE BREAST WHERE LEARNING LIES, / AND VENUS SETS ERE MERCURY CAN RISE."
"LOVE RECKONS HOURS FOR MONTHS, AND DAYS FOR YEARS; AND EVERY LITTLE ABSENCE IS AN AGE."
"LOVE ON HIS LIPS AND HATRED IN HIS HEART: / HIS MOTTO--CONSTANCY, HIS CREED--TO PART."
"LOVE NOT THYSELF, NOR GIVE THY HUMOURS WAY; / GOD GAVE THEM TO THEE UNDER LOCK AND KEY."
LOVE MODERATELY; LONG LOVE DOTH SO; / TOO SWIFT ARRIVES AS TARDY AS TOO SLOW.
"LOVE LOOKS NOT WITH THE EYES, BUT WITH THE MIND; / AND THEREFORE IS WING'D CUPID PAINTED BLIND."
"LOVE LIKE A SHADOW FLIES WHEN SUBSTANCE LOVE PURSUES; / PURSUING THAT THAT FLIES, AND FLYING WHAT PURSUES."
"LOVE LIETH DEEP; LOVE DWELLS NOT IN LIP-DEPTHS; / LOVE LAPS HIS WINGS ON EITHER SIDE THE HEART / ... ABSORBING ALL THE INCENSE OF SWEET THOUGHTS, / SO THAT THEY PASS NOT TO THE SHRINE OF SOUND."
"LOVE IS THE BUSINESS OF THE IDLE, BUT THE IDLENESS OF THE BUSY."
"LOVE IS OLD, OLD AS ETERNITY, BUT NOT OUTWORN; WITH EACH NEW BEING BORN OR TO BE BORN."
LOVE IS NOT TO BE REASON'D DOWN OR LOST / IN HIGH AMBITION OR A THIRST OF GREATNESS.
"LOVE IS FULL OF UNBEFITTING STRAINS; / ALL WANTON AS A CHILD, SKIPPING AND VAIN; / FORMED BY THE EYE, AND THEREFORE, LIKE THE EYE, / FULL OF STRANGE SHAPES, OF HABITS, AND OF FORMS, / VARYING IN SUBJECTS AS THE EYE DOTH ROLL / TO EVERY VARIED OBJECT IN HIS GLANCE."
"LOVE IS BLIND, AND LOVERS CANNOT SEE THE PRETTY FOLLIES THAT THEMSELVES COMMIT."
"LOVE IS A SPIRIT ALL COMPACT OF FIRE; / NOT GROSS TO SINK, BUT LIGHT AND WILL ASPIRE."
"LOVE IS A SMOKE MADE WITH THE FUME OF SIGHS; / BEING PURGED, A FIRE SPARKLING IN LOVERS' EYES; / BEING VEX'D, A SEA NOURISH'D WITH LOVERS' TEARS: / WHAT IS IT ELSE? A MADNESS MOST DISCREET, / A CHOKING GALL, AND A PRESERVING SWEET."
"LOVE IS A SECONDARY PASSION IN THOSE WHO LOVE MOST, A PRIMARY IN THOSE WHO LOVE LEAST. HE WHO IS INSPIRED BY IT IN A HIGH DEGREE IS INSPIRED BY HONOUR IN A HIGHER; IT NEVER REACHES ITS PLENITUDE OF GROWTH AND PERFECTION BUT IN THE MOST EXALTED MINDS."
"LOVE IS A FAMILIAR; LOVE IS A DEVIL: THERE IS NO EVIL ANGEL BUT LOVE. YET WAS SAMSON SO TEMPTED, AND HE HAD AN EXCELLENT STRENGTH; YET WAS SOLOMON SO SEDUCED, AND HE HAD A VERY GOOD WIT."
"LOVE GOES TOWARD LOVE, AS SCHOOLBOYS FROM THEIR BOOKS; / BUT LOVE FROM LOVE, TOWARD SCHOOL WITH HEAVY LOOKS."
"LOVE, FREE AS AIR, AT SIGHT OF HUMAN TIES, / SPREADS HIS LIGHT WINGS, AND IN A MOMENT FLIES."
LOVE ENDS WITH HOPE: THE SINKING STATESMAN'S DOOR / POURS IN THE MORNING WORSHIPPER NO MORE.
"LOVE DELIGHTS TO BRING HER BEST, / AND WHERE LOVE IS, THAT OFFERING EVERMORE IS BLEST."
"LOVE BETTERS WHAT IS BEST, / EVEN HERE BELOW, BUT MORE IN HEAVEN ABOVE."
"LOUD LAUGHTER IS THE MIRTH OF THE MOB, WHO ARE ONLY PLEASED WITH SILLY THINGS; FOR TRUE WIT OR GOOD SENSE NEVER EXCITED A LAUGH SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD."
"LOOK UNTO THOSE THEY CALL UNFORTUNATE; / AND, CLOSER VIEWED, YOU'LL FIND THEY ARE UNWISE."
LOOK TO THE PLAYERS; ... / THEY ARE THE ABSTRACT AND BRIEF CHRONICLERS OF THE TIMES.
"LOOK, THE MORN, IN RUSSET MANTLE CLAD, / WALKS O'ER THE DEW OF YON HIGH EASTERN HILL."
"LOOK ROUND THE HABITABLE WORLD, HOW FEW / KNOW THEIR OWN GOOD, OR, KNOWING IT, PURSUE."
"LOOK OUT FOR A PEOPLE ENTIRELY DESTITUTE OF RELIGION. IF YOU FIND THEM AT ALL, BE ASSURED THAT THEY ARE BUT FEW DEGREES REMOVED FROM BRUTES."
"LOOK NOT ON PLEASURES AS THEY COME, BUT GO. / DEFER NOT THE LEAST VIRTUE; LIFE'S POOR SPAN / MAKE NOT AN ELL BY TRIFLING IN THY WOE. / IF THOU DO ILL, THE JOY FADES, NOT THE PAINS; / IF WELL, THE PAIN DOTH FADE, THE JOY REMAINS."
"LOOK HOW WE CAN, OR SAD OR MERRILY, / INTERPRETATION WILL MISQUOTE OUR LOOKS."
"LOOK HOW THE FLOOR OF HEAVEN / IS THICK INLAID WITH PATINES OF BRIGHT GOLD; / THERE'S NOT THE SMALLEST ORB WHICH THOU BEHOLD'ST / BUT IN HIS MOTION LIKE AN ANGEL SINGS, / STILL QUIRING TO THE YOUNG-EYED CHERUBIMS."
LONG CUSTOMS ARE NOT EASILY BROKEN; HE THAT ATTEMPTS TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF HIS OWN LIFE VERY OFTEN LABOURS IN VAIN.
"LO! THE POOR INDIAN, WHOSE UNTUTOR'D MIND / SEES GOD IN CLOUDS, OR HEARS HIM IN THE WIND; / HIS SOUL PROUD SCIENCE NEVER TAUGHT TO STRAY / FAR AS THE SOLAR WALK OR MILKY WAY; / YET SIMPLE NATURE TO HIS HOPE HAS GIVEN, / BEHIND THE CLOUD-TOPT HILLS, A HUMBLER HEAVEN."
"LIVE THOU! AND OF THE GRAIN AND HUSK, THE GRAPE, / AND IVY BERRY, CHOOSE; AND STILL DEPART / FROM DEATH TO DEATH THRO' LIFE AND LIFE, AND FIND / NEARER AND EVER NEARER HIM, WHO WROUGHT / NOT MATTER, NOR THE FINITE-INFINITE, / BUT THIS MAIN MIRACLE, THAT THOU ART THOU, / WITH POWER ON THINE OWN ACT AND ON THE WORLD."
"LIVE ON WHAT YOU HAVE; LIVE IF YOU CAN ON LESS; DO NOT BORROW EITHER FOR VANITY OR PLEASURE--THE VANITY WILL END IN SHAME, AND THE PLEASURE IN REGRET."
"LIVE FOR TO-DAY! TO-MORROW'S LIGHT, / TOMORROW'S CARES SHALL BRING TO SIGHT; / GO SLEEP, LIKE CLOSING FLOWERS, AT NIGHT, / AND HEAVEN THY MORN WILL BLESS."
LIVE AND LEARN; AND INDEED IT TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF LIVING TO GET A LITTLE DEAL OF LEARNING.
LITTLE ONES ARE TAUGHT TO BE PROUD OF THEIR CLOTHES BEFORE THEY CAN PUT THEM ON.
"LITTLE OF THIS GREAT WORLD CAN I SPEAK, / MORE THAN PERTAINS TO FEATS OF BROIL AND BATTLE; / AND, THEREFORE, LITTLE SHALL I GRACE MY CAUSE / IN SPEAKING FOR MYSELF. YET BY YOUR GRACIOUS PATIENCE, / I WILL A ROUND UNVARNISH'D TALE DELIVER / OF MY WHOLE COURSE OF LOVE."
"LITTLE KINGDOM IS GREAT HOUSEHOLD, AND GREAT HOUSEHOLD LITTLE KINGDOM."
"LITTLE FLOWER--IF I COULD UNDERSTAND / WHAT YOU ARE, ROOT AND ALL, AND ALL IN ALL, / I SHOULD KNOW WHAT GOD AND MAN IS."
"LITTLE DO MEN PERCEIVE WHAT SOLITUDE IS, AND HOW FAR IT EXTENDETH; FOR A CROWD IS NOT COMPANY, AND FACES ARE BUT A GALLERY OF PICTURES, AND TALK BUT A TINKLING CYMBAL, WHERE THERE IS NO LOVE."
LITERATURE HAPPENS TO BE THE ONLY OCCUPATION IN WHICH WAGES ARE NOT GIVEN IN PROPORTION TO THE GOODNESS OF THE WORK DONE.
"LIKE THE HAND WHICH ENDS A DREAM, / DEATH, WITH THE MIGHT OF HIS SUNBEAM, / TOUCHES THE FLESH AND THE SOUL AWAKES."
"LIKE MIGHTY RIVERS, WITH RESISTLESS FORCE, / THE PASSIONS RAGE, OBSTRUCTED IN THEIR COURSE, / SWELL TO NEW HEIGHTS, FORBIDDEN PATHS EXPLORE, / AND DROWN THOSE VIRTUES WHICH THEY FED BEFORE."
"LIKE LEAVES ON TREES THE RACE OF MAN IS FOUND, / NOW GREEN IN YOUTH, NOW WITHERING ON THE GROUND; / ANOTHER RACE THE FOLLOWING SPRING SUPPLIES; / THEY FALL SUCCESSIVE, AND SUCCESSIVE RISE."
"LIGHTNING AND THUNDER (HEAVEN'S ARTILLERY) / AS HARBINGERS BEFORE TH' ALMIGHTY FLY: / THOSE BUT PROCLAIM HIS STYLE, AND DISAPPEAR; / THE STILLER SOUNDS SUCCEED, AND GOD IS THERE."
"LIGHT THAT A MAN RECEIVETH BY COUNSEL FROM ANOTHER IS DRIER AND PURER THAN THAT WHICH COMETH FROM HIS OWN UNDERSTANDING AND JUDGMENT, WHICH IS EVER IN HIS AFFECTIONS AND CUSTOMS."
"LIGHT IS, IN REALITY, MORE AWFUL THAN DARKNESS; MODESTY MORE MAJESTIC THAN STRENGTH; AND THERE IS TRUER SUBLIMITY IN THE SWEET JOY OF A CHILD, OR THE SWEET VIRTUE OF A MAIDEN, THAN IN THE STRENGTH OF ANTÆUS OR THE THUNDER-CLOUDS OF ÆTNA."
"LIGHT GAINS MAKE HEAVY PURSES, BECAUSE THEY COME THICK, WHEREAS THE GREAT COME BUT NOW AND THEN."
"LIGHT FLASHES IN THE GLOOMIEST SKY, / AND MUSIC IN THE DULLEST PLAIN."
"LIFE'S EBBING STREAM ON EITHER SIDE / SHOWS AT EACH TURN SOME MOULD'RING HOPE OR JOY, / THE MAN SEEMS FOLLOWING STILL THE FUNERAL OF THE BOY."
"LIFE'S BUT A WALKING SHADOW; A POOR PLAYER, / THAT STRUTS AND FRETS HIS HOUR UPON THE STAGE, / AND THEN IS HEARD NO MORE! IT IS A TALE / TOLD BY AN IDIOT, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY, / SIGNIFYING NOTHING."
"LIFE WITH ALL IT YIELDS OF JOY AND WOE, / AND HOPE AND FEAR, / IS JUST OUR CHANCE O' THE PRIZE OF LEARNING LOVE, / HOW LOVE MIGHT BE, HATH BEEN INDEED, AND IS."
"LIFE, TO BE WORTHY OF A RATIONAL BEING, MUST BE ALWAYS IN PROGRESSION: WE MUST ALWAYS PURPOSE TO DO MORE OR BETTER THAN IN TIME PAST."
"LIFE PROTRACTED IS PROTRACTED WOE, / TIME HOVERS O'ER, IMPATIENT TO DESTROY, / AND SHUTS UP ALL THE PASSAGES OF JOY."
"LIFE MAY AS PROPERLY BE CALLED AN ART AS ANY OTHER, AND THE GREAT INCIDENTS IN IT ARE NO MORE TO BE CONSIDERED AS MERE ACCIDENTS THAN THE SEVEREST MEMBERS OF A FINE STATUE OR A NOBLE POEM."
"LIFE JUST THE STUFF / TO TRY THE SOUL'S STRENGTH ON, EDUCE THE MAN."
"LIFE IS THE TRIUMPH OF OUR MOULDERING CLAY; DEATH, OF THE SPIRIT INFINITE, DIVINE!"
"LIFE IS SO COMPLICATED A GAME, THAT THE DEVICES OF SKILL ARE LIABLE TO BE DEFEATED AT EVERY TURN BY AIR-BLOWN CHANCES, INCALCULABLE AS THE DESCENT OF THISTLE-DOWN."
"LIFE IS PROBATION, AND THIS EARTH NO GOAL, / BUT STARTING-POINT OF MAN."
"LIFE IS NOT LONG, AND TOO MUCH OF IT MUST NOT PASS IN IDLE DELIBERATION HOW IT SHALL BE SPENT."
"LIFE IS NOT AS IDLE ORE, / BUT IRON DUG FROM CENTRAL GLOOM, / AND HEATED HOT WITH BURNING FEARS, / AND DIPT IN BATHS OF HISSING TEARS, / AND BATTERED WITH THE SHOCKS OF DOOM / TO SHAPE AND USE."
"LIFE IS AS TEDIOUS AS A TWICE-TOLD TALE, / VEXING THE DULL EAR OF A DROWSY MAN."
"LIFE IS A PROGRESS FROM WANT TO WANT, NOT FROM ENJOYMENT TO ENJOYMENT."
"LIFE IS A CASKET, NOT PRECIOUS IN ITSELF, BUT VALUABLE IN PROPORTION TO WHAT FORTUNE, OR INDUSTRY, OR VIRTUE HAS PLACED WITHIN IT."
"LIFE, HOWEVER SHORT, IS MADE SHORTER BY WASTE OF TIME; AND ITS PROGRESS TOWARDS HAPPINESS, THOUGH NATURALLY SLOW, IS MADE STILL SLOWER BY UNNECESSARY LABOUR."
LIFE CANNOT SUBSIST IN SOCIETY BUT BY RECIPROCAL CONCESSIONS.
"LIES ARE SUFFICIENT TO BREED OPINION, AND OPINION BRINGS ON SUBSTANCE."
"LIE NOT, NEITHER TO THYSELF, NOR MAN, NOR GOD. LET MOUTH AND HEART BE ONE; BEAT AND SPEAK TOGETHER, AND MAKE BOTH FELT IN ACTION. IT IS FOR COWARDS TO LIE."
"LIBRARIES ARE AS THE SHRINES WHERE ALL THE RELICS OF SAINTS FULL OF TRUE VIRTUE, AND THAT WITHOUT DELUSION AND IMPOSTURE, ARE PRESERVED AND REPOSED."
"LIBERTY OF THINKING AND EXPRESSING OUR THOUGHTS IS ALWAYS FATAL TO PRIESTLY POWER, AND TO THOSE PIOUS FRAUDS ON WHICH IT IS COMMONLY FOUNDED."
LIBERTY IS TO THE LOWEST RANK OF EVERY NATION LITTLE MORE THAN THE CHOICE OF WORKING OR STARVING.
"LETTING DOWN BUCKETS INTO EMPTY WELLS, AND GROWING OLD WITH DRAWING NOTHING UP."
LETTERS MAY BE ALWAYS MADE OUT OF THE BOOKS OF THE MORNING OR TALK OF THE EVENING.
"LET'S TEACH OURSELVES THAT HONOURABLE STOP, NOT TO OUT-SPORT DISCRETION."
"LET'S NOT UNMAN EACH OTHER--PART AT ONCE; / ALL FAREWELLS SHOULD BE SUDDEN WHEN FOR EVER, / ELSE THEY MAKE AN ETERNITY OF MOMENTS, / AND CLOG THE LAST SAD SANDS OF LIFE WITH TEARS."
"LET YOUR ENEMIES BE DISARMED BY THE GENTLENESS OF YOUR MANNER, BUT LET THEM FEEL, AT THE SAME TIME, THE STEADINESS OF YOUR JUST RESENTMENT."
"LET WHIG AND TORY STIR THEIR BLOOD; / THERE MUST BE STORMY WEATHER; / BUT FOR SOME TRUE RESULT OF GOOD, / ALL PARTIES WORK TOGETHER."
"LET US NOT THROW AWAY ANY OF OUR DAYS UPON USELESS RESENTMENT, OR CONTEND WHO SHALL HOLD OUT LONGEST IN STUBBORN MALIGNITY."
"LET US ENDEAVOUR TO SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, AND THEN INQUIRE WHETHER WE OUGHT TO COMPLAIN."
"LET US BEWARE THAT OUR REST BECOME NOT THE REST OF STONES, WHICH, SO LONG AS THEY ARE TORRENT-TOSSED AND THUNDER-STRICKEN, MAINTAIN THEIR MAJESTY; BUT WHEN THE STREAM IS SILENT AND THE STORM PASSED, SUFFER THE GRASS TO COVER THEM AND THE LICHEN TO FEED UPON THEM, AND ARE PLOUGHED DOWN INTO DUST."
"LET US BE BACK'D WITH GOD, AND WITH THE SEAS, / WHICH HE HATH GIVEN FOR FENCE IMPREGNABLE, / AND WITH THESE HELPS ONLY DEFEND OURSELVES; / IN THEM, AND IN OURSELVES, OUR SAFETY LIES."
"LET THY MIND'S SWEETNESS HAVE HIS OPERATION / UPON THY BODY, CLOTHES, AND HABITATION."
"LET THY MIND STILL BE BENT, STILL PLOTTING WHERE, / AND WHEN, AND HOW THY BUSINESS MAY BE DONE, / SLACKNESS BREEDS WORMS; BUT THE SURE TRAVELLER, / THOUGH HE ALIGHTS SOMETIMES, STILL GOETH ON."
"LET THY GREAT DEEDS FORCE FATE TO CHANGE HER MIND; / HE THAT COURTS FORTUNE BOLDLY, MAKES HER KIND."
"LET THY ALMS GO BEFORE, AND KEEP HEAVEN'S GATE / OPEN FOR THEE, OR BOTH MAY COME TOO LATE."
"LET THERE BE THISTLES, THERE ARE GRAPES; / IF OLD THINGS, THERE ARE NEW; / TEN THOUSAND BROKEN LIGHTS AND SHAPES, / YET GLIMPSES OF THE TRUE."
LET THEM CALL IT MISCHIEF; / WHEN IT IS PAST AND PROSPER'D IT WILL BE VIRTUE.
LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN FOREVER DOWN THE RINGING GROOVES OF CHANGE.
"LET THE DAINTY ROSE AWHILE / HER BASHFUL FRAGRANCE HIDE; / REND NOT HER SILKEN VEIL TOO SOON, / BUT LEAVE HER, IN HER OWN SOFT NOON, / TO FLOURISH AND ABIDE."
"LET SUCH TEACH OTHERS WHO THEMSELVES EXCEL, / AND CENSURE FREELY WHO HAVE WRITTEN WELL."
"LET PRESENT RAPTURE, COMFORT, EASE, / AS HEAVEN SHALL BID THEM, COME AND GO; / THE SECRET THIS OF REST BELOW."
"LET OUR FINGER ACHE, AND IT ENDUES / OUR OTHER HEALTHFUL MEMBERS EV'N TO THAT SENSE / OF PAIN."
"LET OBSERVATION, WITH EXTENSIVE VIEW, / SURVEY MANKIND, FROM CHINA TO PERU; / REMARK EACH ANXIOUS TOIL, EACH EAGER STRIFE, / AND WATCH THE BUSY SCENES OF CROWDED LIFE."
"LET NOT MY BARK IN CALM ABIDE, / BUT WIN HER CHEERLESS WAY AGAINST THE CHAFING TIDE."
"LET NONE HENCEFORTH SEEK NEEDLESS CAUSE T' APPROVE / THE FAITH THEY OWE; WHEN EARNESTLY THEY SEEK / SUCH PROOF, CONCLUDE THEY THEN BEGIN TO FAIL."
LET NONE ADMIRE / THAT RICHES GROW IN HELL; THAT SOIL MAY BEST / DESERVE THE PRECIOUS BANE.
"LET NO MAN TRUST THE FIRST FALSE STEP OF GUILT; IT HANGS UPON A PRECIPICE, WHOSE STEEP DESCENT IN LAST PERDITION ENDS."
"LET NO COMPLAISANCE, NO GENTLENESS OF TEMPER, NO WEAK DESIRE OF PLEASING ON YOUR PART, NO WHEEDLING, COAXING, NOR FLATTERY ON OTHER PEOPLE'S, MAKE YOU RECEDE ONE JOT FROM ANY POINT THAT REASON AND PRUDENCE HAVE BID YOU PURSUE."
"LET NEVER MAIDEN THINK, HOWEVER FAIR, / SHE IS NOT FINER IN NEW CLOTHES THAN OLD."
"LET NEVER DAY NOR NIGHT UNHALLOW'D PASS, / BUT STILL REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD HATH DONE."
"LET ME PLAY THE FOOL; / WITH MIRTH AND LAUGHTER LET OLD WRINKLES COME, / AND LET MY LIVER RATHER HEAT WITH WINE / THAN MY HEART COOL WITH MORTIFYING GROANS."
"LET ME BE CRUEL, NOT UNNATURAL; / I WILL SPEAK DAGGERS TO HER, BUT USE NONE. / MY TONGUE AND SOUL IN THIS BE HYPOCRITES."
"LET KNOWLEDGE GROW FROM MORE TO MORE, / BUT MORE OF REVERENCE IN US DWELL."
LET HIM WHO WOULD WRITE HEROIC POEMS MAKE HIS LIFE A HEROIC POEM.
"LET HERCULES HIMSELF DO WHAT HE MAY, / THE CAT WILL MEW, AND DOG WILL HAVE HIS DAY."
"LET FORTUNE EMPTY HER WHOLE QUIVER ON ME, / I HAVE A SOUL THAT, LIKE AN AMPLE SHIELD, / CAN TAKE IN ALL, AND VERGE ENOUGH FOR MORE."
LESSONS OF WISDOM HAVE NEVER SUCH POWER OVER US AS WHEN THEY ARE WROUGHT INTO THE HEART THROUGH THE GROUNDWORK OF A STORY WHICH ENGAGES THE PASSIONS.
"LEAVE YOU YOUR POWER TO DRAW, / AND I SHALL HAVE NO POWER TO FOLLOW YOU."
"LEAVE THIS KEEN ENCOUNTER OF OUR WITS, / AND FALL SOMEWHAT INTO A SLOWER METHOD."
"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN, / AND TO THOSE THORNS THAT IN HER BOSOM LODGE, / TO PRICK AND STING HER."
LEAVE ALL PIGGIES' EARS ALONE RATHER THAN SEIZE UPON THE WRONG ONE.
"LEAVE A MAN TO HIS PASSIONS, AND YOU LEAVE A WILD BEAST OF A SAVAGE AND CAPRICIOUS NATURE."
LEARNING NEEDS REST; SOVEREIGNTY GIVES IT. SOVEREIGNTY NEEDS COUNSEL; LEARNING AFFORDS IT.
"LEARNING ITSELF, RECEIVED INTO A MIND / BY NATURE WEAK OR VICIOUSLY INCLINED, / SERVES BUT TO LEAD PHILOSOPHERS ASTRAY, / WHERE CHILDREN WOULD WITH EASE DISCERN THE WAY."
"LEARNING IS THE DICTIONARY, BUT SENSE THE GRAMMAR, OF SCIENCE."
"LEARNING IS BUT AN ADJUNCT TO OURSELF; / AND, WHERE WE ARE, OUR LEARNING LIKEWISE IS."
"LEARNING HATH ITS INFANCY, WHEN IT IS ALMOST CHILDISH; THEN ITS YOUTH, WHEN LUXURIOUS AND JUVENILE; THEN ITS STRENGTH OF YEARS, WHEN SOLID; AND LASTLY ITS OLD AGE, WHEN DRY AND EXHAUST."
LEARN TO SAY NO! AND IT WILL BE OF MORE USE TO YOU THAN TO BE ABLE TO READ LATIN.
"LEARN OF THE LITTLE NAUTILUS TO SAIL, / SPREAD THE THIN OAR AND CATCH THE DRIVING GALE."
"LEARN NEVER TO REPINE AT YOUR OWN MISFORTUNES, OR TO ENVY THE HAPPINESS OF ANOTHER."
"LAZARUS DID NOT GO TO ABRAHAM'S BOSOM BECAUSE HE WAS POOR, OR EVERY SLUGGARD WOULD GO THERE EASILY."
"LAWYERS, OF WHOSE ART THE BASIS / IS RAISING FEUDS AND SPLITTING CASES."
LAWS EXIST IN VAIN FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT THE COURAGE AND THE MEANS TO DEFEND THEM.
LAWS ARE USUALLY MOST BENEFICIAL IN OPERATION ON THE PEOPLE WHO WOULD HAVE MOST STRONGLY OBJECTED TO THEIR ENACTMENT.
"LAWS ARE NOT MADE LIKE NETS--TO CATCH, BUT LIKE SEA-MARKS--TO GUIDE."
"LAWS ARE NOT MADE FOR PARTICULAR CASES, BUT FOR MEN IN GENERAL."
"LAWS ARE INTENDED TO GUARD AGAINST WHAT MEN MAY DO, NOT TO TRUST WHAT THEY WILL DO."
LAW TEACHES US TO KNOW WHEN WE COMMIT INJURY AND WHEN WE SUFFER IT.
LAUGHTER ALMOST EVER COMETH OF THINGS MOST DISPROPORTIONED TO OURSELVES.
"LAUGH WHERE WE MUST, BE CANDID WHERE WE CAN, / BUT VINDICATE THE WAYS OF GOD TO MAN."
"LAUGH NOT TOO MUCH: THE WITTY MAN LAUGHS LEAST: / FOR WIT IS NEWS ONLY TO IGNORANCE. / LESS AT THINE OWN THINGS LAUGH: LEST IN THE JEST / THY PERSON SHARE, AND THE CONCEIT ADVANCE."
"LAST SCENE OF ALL, ... / IS SECOND CHILDISHNESS AND MERE OBLIVION; / SANS TEETH, SANS EYES, SANS TASTE, SANS EVERYTHING."
LARGE FORTUNES CANNOT BE MADE BY THE WORK OF ANY ONE MAN'S HANDS OR HEAD.
"LARGE FORTUNES ARE ALL FOUNDED EITHER ON OCCUPATION OF LAND, OR USURY, OR TAXATION OF LABOUR."
LARGE BODIES ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO ERR THAN INDIVIDUALS. THE PASSIONS ARE INFLAMED BY SYMPATHY; THE FEAR OF PUNISHMENT AND THE SENSE OF SHAME ARE DIMINISHED BY PARTITION. EVERY DAY WE SEE MEN DO FOR THEIR FACTION WHAT THEY WOULD DIE RATHER THAN DO FOR THEMSELVES.
LANGUAGES ARE THE BAROMETERS OF NATIONAL THOUGHT AND CHARACTER.
"LANGUAGE IS THE ARMOURY OF THE HUMAN MIND, AND AT ONCE CONTAINS THE TROPHIES OF ITS PAST, AND THE WEAPONS OF ITS FUTURE, CONQUESTS."
"LANDS INTERSECTED BY A NARROW FIRTH / ABHOR EACH OTHER. MOUNTAINS INTERPOSED / MAKE ENEMIES OF NATIONS, WHICH HAD ELSE, / LIKE KINDRED DROPS, BEEN MINGLED INTO ONE."
"LAND SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO CAN USE IT, AND TOOLS TO THOSE WHO CAN USE THEM."
"LAMPOONS AND SATIRES, THAT ARE WRITTEN WITH WIT AND SPIRIT, ARE LIKE POISONED DARTS, WHICH NOT ONLY INFLICT A WOUND, BUT MAKE IT INCURABLE."
"LAISSEZ FAIRE--THE ""LET ALONE"" PRINCIPLE, IS, IN ALL THINGS WHICH MAN HAS TO DO WITH, THE PRINCIPLE OF DEATH. IT IS RUIN TO HIM, CERTAIN AND TOTAL, IF HE LETS HIS LAND ALONE--IF HE LETS HIS FELLOW-MEN ALONE--IF HE LETS HIS OWN SOUL ALONE."
LADIES LIKE VARIEGATED TULIPS SHOW; / 'TIS TO THEIR CHANGES HALF THEIR CHARMS THEY OWE.
"LABOUR LIKE THIS OUR WANT SUPPLIES, / AND THEY MUST STOOP WHO MEAN TO RISE."
"LABOUR, IF IT WERE NOT NECESSARY FOR THE EXISTENCE, WOULD BE INDISPENSABLE FOR THE HAPPINESS, OF MAN."
LABOUR IS EXERCISE CONTINUED TO FATIGUE; EXERCISE IS LABOUR USED ONLY WHILE IT PRODUCES PLEASURE.
"KNOWLEDGE, WHEN WISDOM IS TOO WEAK TO GUIDE HER, / IS LIKE A HEADSTRONG HORSE THAT THROWS THE RIDER."
"KNOWLEDGE MAY NOT BE AS A COURTESAN FOR PLEASURE AND VANITY ONLY; OR AS A BOND-WOMAN, TO ACQUIRE AND GAIN FOR HER MASTER'S USE; BUT AS A SPOUSE, FOR GENERATION, FRUIT, AND COMFORT."
"KNOWLEDGE IS THAT WHICH, NEXT TO VIRTUE, TRULY AND ESSENTIALLY RAISES ONE MAN ABOVE ANOTHER."
KNOWLEDGE IS PROUD THAT HE HAS LEARN'D SO MUCH; / WISDOM IS HUMBLE THAT HE KNOWS NO MORE.
"KNOWLEDGE IS OF THINGS WE SEE; / AND YET WE TRUST IT COMES FROM THEE, / A BEAM IN DARKNESS; LET IT GROW."
"KNOWLEDGE IS NOT HAPPINESS, AND SCIENCE BUT AN EXCHANGE OF IGNORANCE FOR THAT WHICH IS ANOTHER KIND OF IGNORANCE."
"KNOWLEDGE IS NOT EDUCATION, AND CAN NEITHER MAKE US HAPPY NOR RICH."
"KNOWLEDGE IS LIKE CURRENT COIN. A MAN MAY HAVE SOME RIGHT TO BE PROUD OF POSSESSING IT, (ONLY) IF HE HAS WORKED FOR THE GOLD OF IT, AND ASSAYED IT, AND STAMPED IT, SO THAT IT MAY BE RECEIVED OF ALL MEN AS TRUE, OR EARNED IT FAIRLY, BEING ALREADY ASSAYED."
"KNOWLEDGE IS AS FOOD, AND NEEDS NO LESS / HER TEMP'RANCE OVER APPETITE, TO KNOW / IN MEASURE WHAT THE MIND MAY WELL CONTAIN, / OPPRESSES ELSE WITH SURFEIT, AND SOON TURNS / WISDOM TO FOLLY, AS NOURISHMENT TO WIND."
"KNOWLEDGE IS A RETREAT AND SHELTER FOR US IN ADVANCED AGE; AND IF WE DO NOT PLANT IT WHEN YOUNG, IT WILL GIVE US NO SHADE WHEN WE GROW OLD."
KNOWLEDGE HAS ITS PENALTIES AND PAINS AS WELL AS ITS PRIZES.
"KNOWLEDGE DESCRIES ALONE, WISDOM APPLIES; / THAT MAKES SOME FOOLS, THIS MAKETH NONE BUT WISE."
"KNOWLEDGE BEING TO BE HAD ONLY OF VISIBLE AND CERTAIN TRUTH, ERROR IS NOT A FAULT OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, BUT A MISTAKE OF OUR JUDGMENT, GIVING ASSENT TO THAT WHICH IS NOT TRUE."
"KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM, FAR FROM BEING ONE, / HAVE OFTTIMES NO CONNECTION. KNOWLEDGE DWELLS / IN HEADS REPLETE WITH THOUGHTS OF OTHER MEN; / WISDOM, IN MINDS ATTENTIVE TO THEIR OWN."
"KNOWLEDGE ALWAYS DESIRES INCREASE; IT IS LIKE FIRE, WHICH MUST FIRST BE KINDLED BY SOME EXTERNAL AGENT, BUT WHICH WILL AFTERWARDS PROPAGATE ITSELF."
"KNOW YE THE LAND WHERE THE CYPRESS AND MYRTLE / ARE EMBLEMS OF DEEDS THAT ARE DONE IN THEIR CLIME; / WHERE THE RAGE OF THE VULTURE, THE LOVE OF THE TURTLE, / NOW MELT INTO SORROW, NOW MADDEN TO CRIME?"
KNOW YE NOT WHO WOULD BE FREE THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW? / BY THEIR RIGHT ARMS THE CONQUEST MUST BE WROUGHT.
"KNOW THYSELF, FOR THROUGH THYSELF ONLY THOU CANST KNOW GOD."
KNOW THEN THYSELF; PRESUME NOT GOD TO SCAN; / THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN.
"KNOW THEN THIS TRUTH (ENOUGH FOR MAN TO KNOW), / VIRTUE ALONE IS HAPPINESS BELOW."
"KNOW, NATURE'S CHILDREN ALL DIVIDE HER CARE; / THE FUR THAT WARMS A MONARCH WARM'D A BEAR."
"KNOW FROM THE BOUNTEOUS HEAVEN ALL RICHES FLOW; / AND WHAT MAN GIVES, THE GODS BY MAN BESTOW."
KNEELING NE'ER SPOILED SILK STOCKINGS; QUIT THY STATE; / ALL EQUAL ARE WITHIN THE CHURCH'S GATE.
"KNAVE! BECAUSE THOU STRIKEST AS A KNIGHT; / BEING BUT KNAVE, I HATE THEE ALL THE MORE."
"KINGS WILL BE TYRANTS FROM POLICY, WHEN SUBJECTS ARE REBELS FROM PRINCIPLE."
"KINGS' TITLES COMMONLY BEGIN BY FORCE, / WHICH TIME WEARS OFF, AND MELLOWS ON TO RIGHT."
"KINDNESS IN WOMEN, NOT THEIR BEAUTEOUS LOOKS, SHALL WIN MY LOVE."
KINDNESS IN US IS THE HONEY THAT BLUNTS THE STING OF UNKINDNESS IN ANOTHER.
"KINDNESS, IN ACT AT LEAST, IS IN OUR POWER, BUT FONDNESS IS NOT."
KINDNESS BY SECRET SYMPATHY IS TIED; / FOR NOBLE SOULS IN NATURE ARE ALLIED.
KIND WORDS PREVENT A GOOD DEAL OF THAT PERVERSENESS WHICH ROUGH AND IMPERIOUS USAGE OFTEN PRODUCES IN GENEROUS MINDS.
"KIND HEARTS ARE MORE THAN CORONETS, AND SIMPLE FAITH THAN NORMAN BLOOD."
KEYHOLES ARE THE OCCASIONS OF MORE SIN AND WICKEDNESS THAN ALL THE OTHER HOLES IN THIS WORLD PUT TOGETHER.
"KEEP YOU IN THE REAR OF YOUR AFFECTION, / OUT OF THE SHOT AND DANGER OF DESIRE."
"KEEP WHAT YOU WANT, CAST WHAT YOU CAN, AND EXPECT NOTHING BACK ONCE LOST OR ONCE GIVEN."
KEEP TO YOUR SUBJECT CLOSE IN ALL YOU SAY; / NOR FOR A SOUNDING SENTENCE EVER STRAY.
"KEEP ME IN PATIENCE; AND, WITH RIPENED TIME, / UNFOLD THE EVIL WHICH IS HERE WRAPT UP / IN COUNTENANCE."
"KEEP ALWAYS IN YOUR MIND THAT, WITH DUE SUBMISSION TO PROVIDENCE, A MAN OF GENIUS HAS BEEN SELDOM RUINED BUT BY HIMSELF."
"KEEP ALL THY NATIVE GOOD, AND NATURALISE / ALL FOREIGN OF THAT NAME; BUT SCORN THEIR ILL; / EMBRACE THEIR ACTIVENESS, NOT VANITIES."
"KEEP A GAMESTER FROM DICE, AND A GOOD STUDENT FROM HIS BOOK."
"JUSTICE, WHILE SHE WINKS AT CRIMES, / STUMBLES ON INNOCENCE SOMETIMES."
"JUSTICE MAY BE FURNISHED OUT OF FIRE, AS FAR AS HER SWORD GOES; AND COURAGE MAY BE ALL OVER A CONTINUAL BLAZE."
JUSTICE GIVES SENTENCE MANY TIMES / ON ONE MAN FOR ANOTHER'S CRIMES.
"JUSTICE CONSISTS MAINLY IN THE GRANTING TO EVERY HUMAN BEING DUE AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH FACULTIES AS IT POSSESSES FOR ACTION AND ENJOYMENT, ... TAKING MOST PAINS WITH THE BEST MATERIAL."
"JUST LAWS ARE NO RESTRAINT UPON THE FREEDOM OF THE GOOD, FOR THE GOOD MAN DESIRES NOTHING WHICH A JUST LAW WILL INTERFERE WITH."
"JUST KNOWS, AND KNOWS NO MORE, HER BIBLE TRUE, / A TRUTH THE BRILLIANT FRENCHMAN NEVER KNEW."
"JUST ARE THE WAYS OF GOD, / AND JUSTIFIABLE TO MEN; / UNLESS THERE BE WHO THINK NOT GOD AT ALL."
"JUST A KIND WORD AND A YIELDING MANNER, AND ANGER AND COMPLAINING MAY BE AVOIDED."
JUDICIOUS PERSONS WILL THINK ALL THE LESS OF US BECAUSE OF THE ILL-JUDGED PRAISES OF OUR SILLY FRIENDS.
"JUDGMENT MUST SWAY THE FEELINGS AND KEEP THEM IN THEIR RIGHT PLACE, OR HARM WILL BE DONE WHERE GOOD WAS INTENDED."
"JUDGES OUGHT TO BE MORE LEARNED THAN WITTY, MORE REVERENT THAN PLAUSIBLE, AND MORE ADVISED THAN CONFIDENT. ABOVE ALL THINGS, INTEGRITY IS THEIR PORTION AND PROPER VIRTUE."
JUDGES AND SENATES HAVE BEEN BOUGHT FOR GOLD; / ESTEEM AND LOVE WERE NEVER TO BE SOLD.
"JUDGE THOU ME BY WHAT I AM, / SO SHALT THOU FIND ME FAIREST."
JUDGE OF THE PLEASURE OF THE HEART BY THE PLEASURE OF THE EYE.
"JUDGE NOT THE PREACHER.... DO NOT GRUDGE / TO PICK OUT TREASURES FROM AN EARTHEN POT. / THE WORST SPEAK SOMETHING GOOD; IF ALL WANT SENSE, / GOD TAKES A TEXT AND PREACHETH PATIENCE."
JUDGE NOT THE PLAY BEFORE THE PLAY IS DONE; / HER PLOT HAS MANY CHANGES; EVERY DAY / SPEAKS A NEW SCENE; THE LAST ACT CROWNS THE PLAY.
"JUDGE NOT THE LORD BY FEEBLE SENSE, / BUT TRUST HIM FOR HIS GRACE."
"JUDGE BEFORE FRIENDSHIP, THEN CONFIDE TILL DEATH, / WELL FOR THY FRIEND, BUT NOBLER FAR FOR THEE."
"JOY'S RECOLLECTION IS NO LONGER JOY, WHILE SORROW'S MEMORY IS A SORROW STILL."
"JOYS ARE FOR THE GODS; / MAN'S COMMON COURSE OF NATURE IS DISTRESS; / HIS JOYS ARE PRODIGIES; AND LIKE THEM TOO, / PORTEND APPROACHING ILL. THE WISE MAN STARTS / AND TREMBLES AT THE PERILS OF A BLISS."
"JOY WHOLLY FROM WITHOUT IS FALSE, PRECARIOUS AND SHORT. JOY FROM WITHIN IS LIKE SMELLING THE ROSE ON THE TREE; IT IS MORE SWEET, AND FAIR, AND LASTING."
"JOHN GILPIN KISS'D HIS LOVING WIFE; / O'ERJOY'D WAS HE TO FIND / THAT, THOUGH ON PLEASURE SHE WAS BENT, / SHE HAD A FRUGAL MIND."
"JEWELS FIVE WORDS LONG, / THAT ON THE STRETCH'D FOREFINGER OF ALL TIME / SPARKLE FOR EVER."
JESS WOULD HAVE BEEN AN OMNIVOROUS READER OF BOOKS HAD IT NOT BEEN HER CONVICTION THAT READING WAS IDLING.
JEALOUSY: / IT IS THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER THAT DOTH MOCK / THE MEAT IT FEEDS ON.
"JEALOUSY IS A PAINFUL PASSION; YET WITHOUT SOME SHARE OF IT, THE AGREEABLE AFFECTION OF LOVE HAS DIFFICULTY TO SUBSIST IN ITS FULL FORCE AND VIOLENCE."
JEALOUSY / HATH IN IT AN ALCHEMIC FORCE TO FUSE / ALMOST INTO ONE METAL LOVE AND HATE.
"JEALOUS IN HONOUR, SUDDEN AND QUICK IN QUARREL, / SEEKING THE BUBBLE REPUTATION / EVEN IN THE CANNON'S MOUTH."
"IT'S WISER BEING GOOD THAN BAD; / IT'S SAFER BEING MEEK THAN FIERCE; / IT'S FITTER BEING SANE THAN MAD. / MY OWN HOPE IS, A SUN WILL PIERCE / THE THICKEST CLOUD EARTH EVER STRETCH'D; / THAT AFTER LAST RETURNS THE FIRST, / THOUGH A WIDE COMPASS ROUND BE FETCH'D; / THAT WHAT BEGAN BEST CAN'T END WORST, / NOR WHAT GOD BLESSÈD ONCE PROVE ACCURST."
"IT'S THEM AS TAKE ADVANTAGE THAT GET ADVANTAGE I' THIS WORLD, I THINK; FOLKS HAVE TO WAIT LONG ENOUGH BEFORE IT'S BROUGHT TO 'EM."
IT'S POOR EATING WHERE THE FLAVOUR OF THE MEAT LIES IN THE CRUETS.
IT'S NO USE FILLING YOUR POCKET FULL OF MONEY IF YOU HAVE GOT A HOLE IN THE CORNER.
IT'S ILL LIVIN' IN A HEN-ROOST FOR THEM AS DOESN'T LIKE FLEAS.
IT'S HARD TO TELL WHICH IS OLD HARRY WHEN EVERYBODY'S GOT BOOTS ON.
"IT'S ALL VERY WELL HAVING A READY-MADE RICH MAN, BUT IT MAY HAPPEN HE'LL BE A READY-MADE FOOL."
IT'S A SMALL JOKE SETS MEN LAUGHING WHEN THEY SIT A-STARING AT ONE ANOTHER WI' A PIPE I' THEIR MOUTHS.
"IT WOULD BE BETTER THAT WE SHOULD NOT EXIST, THAN THAT WE SHOULD GUILTILY DISAPPOINT THE PURPOSES OF EXISTENCE."
"IT WILL HAVE BLOOD; THEY SAY, BLOOD WILL HAVE BLOOD; / STONES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO MOVE, AND TREES TO SPEAK."
IT WERE EASIER TO STOP EUPHRATES AT ITS SOURCE THAN ONE TEAR OF A TRUE AND TENDER HEART.
"IT WAS THE NIGHTINGALE, AND NOT THE LARK / THAT PIERCED THE FEARFUL HOLLOW OF THINE EAR."
"IT WAS ALWAY YET THE TRICK OF OUR ENGLISH NATION, IF THEY HAVE A GOOD THING, TO MAKE IT TOO COMMON."
IT TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF LIVING TO GET A LITTLE DEAL OF LEARNING.
"IT SO FALLS OUT, / THAT WHAT WE HAVE WE PRIZE NOT TO THE WORTH / WHILES WE ENJOY IT; BUT BEING LACK'D AND LOST, / WHY THEN WE RACK THE VALUE."
IT SEEMS AS IF THEM AS AREN'T WANTED HERE ARE TH' ONLY ONES AS AREN'T WANTED I' THE OTHER WORLD.
IT OFT FALLS OUT TO HAVE WHAT WE WOULD HAVE; WE SPEAK NOT WHAT WE MEAN.
"IT OFFENDS ME TO THE SOUL TO HEAR A ROBUSTIOUS PERIWIG-PATED FELLOW TEAR A PASSION TO TATTERS, TO VERY RAGS, TO SPLIT THE EARS OF THE GROUNDLINGS, WHO FOR THE MOST PART ARE CAPABLE OF NOTHING BUT INEXPLICABLE DUMB SHOW AND NOISE."
"IT MAY BE WE SHALL TOUCH THE HAPPY ISLES, / AND SEE THE GREAT ACHILLES WHOM WE KNEW."
"IT IS WHOLESOMER FOR THE MORAL NATURE TO BE RESTRAINED, EVEN BY ARBITRARY POWER, THAN TO BE ALLOWED TO EXERCISE ARBITRARY POWER."
"IT IS WELL THAT THERE IS NO ONE WITHOUT A FAULT, FOR HE WOULD NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN THE WORLD. HE WOULD SEEM TO BELONG TO A DIFFERENT SPECIES."
"IT IS WAR'S PRIZE TO TAKE ALL ADVANTAGES, / AND TEN TO ONE IS NO IMPEACH OF VALOUR."
"IT IS VERY LITTLE THAT WE CAN EVER KNOW OF THE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE OR THE LAWS OF EXISTENCE; BUT THAT LITTLE IS ENOUGH, AND EXACTLY ENOUGH."
IT IS USELESS TO DENY WITH THE TONGUE THAT WHICH MAN GIVES CREDENCE TO WITH THE HEART.
IT IS THE WORK OF A PHILOSOPHER TO BE EVERY DAY SUBDUING HIS PASSIONS AND LAYING ASIDE HIS PREJUDICES.
IT IS THE WITNESS STILL OF EXCELLENCY / TO PUT A STRANGE FACE ON HIS OWN PERFECTION.
"IT IS THE TEMPER OF THE HIGHEST HEARTS, LIKE THE PALM-TREE, TO STRIVE MOST UPWARDS WHEN IT IS MOST BURDENED."
IT IS THE NATURE OF PARTIES TO RETAIN THEIR ORIGINAL ENMITIES FAR MORE FIRMLY THAN THEIR ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES.
"IT IS THE NATURE OF EXTREME SELF-LOVERS, AS THEY WILL SET AN HOUSE ON FIRE, AN IT WERE BUT TO ROAST THEIR EGGS."
IT IS THE NATURE OF DESPAIR TO BLIND US TO ALL MEANS OF SAFETY.
"IT IS THE LITTLE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE / THAT BY AND BY WILL MAKE THE MUSIC MUTE, / AND, EVER WIDENING, SLOWLY SILENCE ALL."
"IT IS THE LAW OF FATE THAT WE SHALL LIVE IN PART BY OUR OWN EFFORTS, BUT IN THE GREATER PART BY THE HELP OF OTHERS; AND THAT WE SHALL ALSO DIE IN PART FOR OUR OWN FAULTS, BUT IN THE GREATER PART FOR THE FAULTS OF OTHERS."
"IT IS THE GREAT ERROR OF REFORMERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS IN OUR TIME TO NIBBLE AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF UNJUST POWER, INSTEAD OF REDRESSING THE INJUSTICE ITSELF."
IT IS THE GLORIOUS DOOM OF LITERATURE THAT THE EVIL PERISHES AND THE GOOD REMAINS.
"IT IS THE GLISTENING AND SOFTLY-SPOKEN LIE, ... THE PATRIOTIC LIE OF THE HISTORIAN, THE PROVIDENT LIE OF THE POLITICIAN, THE ZEALOUS LIE OF THE PARTISAN, THE MERCIFUL LIE OF THE FRIEND, AND THE CARELESS LIE OF EACH MAN TO HIMSELF, THAT CAST THE BLACK MYSTERY OVER HUMANITY, THROUGH WHICH WE THANK ANY MAN WHO PIERCES, AS WE WOULD THANK ONE WHO HAD DUG A WELL IN THE DESERT."
IT IS THE FLASH THAT MURDERS; THE POOR THUNDER NEVER HARM'D HEAD.
"IT IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF ECONOMY TO MAKE USE OF AVAILABLE VITAL POWER FIRST, THEN THE INEXPENSIVE NATURAL FORCES, AND ONLY AT LAST TO HAVE RECOURSE TO ARTIFICIAL POWER."
"IT IS THE CONDITION OF HUMANITY TO DESIGN WHAT NEVER WILL BE DONE, AND TO HOPE WHAT NEVER WILL BE ATTAINED."
"IT IS PRECISELY IN ACCEPTING DEATH AS THE END OF ALL AND IN LAYING DOWN, ON THAT SORROWFUL CONDITION, HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS, THAT THE HERO AND PATRIOT OF ALL TIME HAS BECOME THE GLORY AND SAFETY OF HIS COUNTRY."
"IT IS ONLY GOD'S BUSINESS TO MAKE LAWS, AND THE LAWYER'S TO READ AND ENFORCE THEM."
"IT IS ONLY BY LABOUR THAT THOUGHT CAN BE MADE HEALTHY, AND ONLY BY THOUGHT THAT LABOUR CAN BE MADE HAPPY."
"IT IS NOT WISDOM, BUT IGNORANCE WHICH TEACHES MEN PRESUMPTION."
"IT IS NOT, TRULY SPEAKING, THE LABOUR THAT IS DIVIDED, BUT THE MEN; DIVIDED INTO MERE SEGMENTS OF MEN, BROKEN INTO SMALL FRAGMENTS AND CRUMBS OF LIFE; SO THAT ALL THE LITTLE PIECE OF INTELLIGENCE THAT IS LEFT IN A MAN IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE A PIN OR A NAIL, BUT EXHAUSTS ITSELF IN MAKING THE POINT OF A PIN OR THE HEAD OF A NAIL."
"IT IS NOT THE FRAUD, BUT THE COLD-HEARTEDNESS WHICH IS CHIEFLY DREADFUL IN TREACHERY."
"IT IS NOT FROM NATURE, BUT FROM EDUCATION AND HABITS, THAT OUR WANTS ARE CHIEFLY DERIVED."
IT IS NOT EVERYBODY ONE WOULD SET TO CHOOSE A HORSE OR A PIG; HOW MUCH LESS A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT?
IT IS NO WONDER MAN'S RELIGION HAS MUCH SUFFERING IN IT; NO WONDER HE NEEDS A SUFFERING GOD.
"IT IS NO MAN'S BUSINESS WHETHER HE HAS GENIUS OR NOT: WORK HE MUST, WHATEVER HE IS, BUT QUIETLY AND STEADILY; AND THE NATURAL AND UNFORCED RESULTS OF SUCH WORK WILL ALWAYS BE THE THINGS THAT GOD MEANT HIM TO DO, AND WILL BE HIS BEST."
IT IS MORE PLEASING TO SEE SMOKE BRIGHTENING INTO FLAME THAN FLAME SINKING INTO SMOKE.
"IT IS MADNESS TO MAKE FORTUNE THE MISTRESS OF EVENTS, BECAUSE IN HERSELF SHE IS NOTHING, BUT IS RULED BY PRUDENCE."
IT IS JUST THOSE WHO GROPE WITH THE MOLE AND CLING WITH THE BAT WHO ARE VAINEST OF THEIR SIGHT AND OF THEIR WINGS.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE THAT AN ILL-NATURED MAN CAN HAVE A PUBLIC SPIRIT; FOR HOW SHOULD HE LOVE TEN THOUSAND MEN WHO NEVER LOVED ONE?
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ANY MAN TO FORM A RIGHT JUDGMENT OF HIS NEIGHBOUR'S SUFFERINGS.
"IT IS HIS RESTRAINT WHICH IS HONOURABLE TO A MAN, NOT HIS LIBERTY."
"IT IS FAR MORE DIFFICULT TO BE SIMPLE THAN TO BE COMPLICATED; FAR MORE DIFFICULT TO SACRIFICE SKILL AND EASE EXERTION IN THE PROPER PLACE, THAN TO EXPEND BOTH INDISCRIMINATELY."
IT IS FAR EASIER TO MAKE A GREAT RUSH THAN TO PLOD STEADILY ON THROUGH A LONG LIFE.
IT IS FAR BETTER TO GIVE WORK WHICH IS ABOVE THE MEN THAN TO EDUCATE THE MEN TO BE ABOVE THEIR WORK.
IT IS FALLING IN WITH THEIR OWN MISTAKEN IDEAS THAT MAKES FOOLS AND BEGGARS OF THE HALF OF MANKIND.
"IT IS EXCELLENT / TO HAVE A GIANT'S STRENGTH, BUT TYRANNOUS / TO USE IT LIKE A GIANT."
"IT IS EASY FOR A MAN WHO SITS IDLE AT HOME, AND HAS NOBODY TO PLEASE BUT HIMSELF, TO RIDICULE OR CENSURE THE COMMON WAYS OF MANKIND."
IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO GOOD WITHOUT MULTIPLYING THE SOURCES OF EVIL.
"IT IS CERTAIN THAT EITHER WISE BEARING OR IGNORANT CARRIAGE IS CAUGHT AS MEN TAKE DISEASES, ONE OF ANOTHER."
"IT IS BY IMITATION, MORE THAN BY PRECEPT, THAT WE LEARN ANYTHING."
IT IS BY HIS PERSONAL CONDUCT THAT ANY MAN OF ORDINARY POWER WILL DO THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF GOOD THAT IS IN HIM TO DO.
IT IS BUT VAIN TO WASTE HONEY ON THOSE THAT WILL BE CAUGHT WITH GALL.
IT IS BUT THE OUTER HEM OF GOD'S GREAT MANTLE OUR POOR STARS DO GEM.
IT IS BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THAN NEVER TO HAVE LOVED AT ALL.
IT IS BETTER AND KINDER TO FLOG A MAN TO HIS WORK THAN TO LEAVE HIM IDLE TILL HE ROBS AND FLOG HIM AFTERWARDS.
"IT IS BEST NOT TO BE ANGRY; AND BEST, IN THE NEXT PLACE, TO BE QUICKLY RECONCILED."
IT IS AS NATURAL FOR THE OLD TO BE PREJUDICED AS FOR THE YOUNG TO BE PRESUMPTUOUS; AND IN THE CHANGE OF CENTURIES EACH GENERATION HAS SOMETHING TO JUDGE FOR ITSELF.
IT IS AS MUCH A PART OF TRUE TEMPERANCE TO BE PLEASED WITH THE LITTLE THAT WE KNOW AND THE LITTLE THAT WE CAN DO AS WITH THE LITTLE THAT WE HAVE.
IT IS AS LITTLE THE PART OF A WISE MAN TO REFLECT MUCH ON THE NATURE OF BEINGS ABOVE HIM AS OF BEINGS BENEATH HIM.
"IT IS AN ASSURED SIGN OF A WORTHY AND GENEROUS SPIRIT WHOM HONOUR AMENDS; FOR HONOUR IS, OR SHOULD BE, THE PLACE OF VIRTUE."
IT IS ALWAYS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO OURSELVES TO BE SCRUPULOUSLY TRUE.
IT IS ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SHOW SOME GOOD OPINION OF THOSE WHOSE GOOD OPINION WE SOLICIT.
"IT IS ADVISABLE THAT A MAN SHOULD KNOW AT LEAST THREE THINGS:--FIRST, WHERE HE IS; SECONDLY, WHERE HE IS GOING; THIRDLY, WHAT HE HAD BEST DO UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES."
IT IS A STRANGE HABIT OF WISE HUMANITY TO SPEAK IN ENIGMAS ONLY.
"IT IS A RARE THING, EXCEPT IT BE FROM A PERFECT AND ENTIRE FRIEND, TO HAVE COUNSEL GIVEN US, BUT SUCH AS SHALL BE BOWED AND CROOKED TO SOME ENDS WHICH HE HATH THAT GIVETH IT."
"IT IS A MORAL IMPOSSIBILITY THAT ANY SON OR DAUGHTER OF ADAM CAN STAND ON ANY GROUND THAT MORTAL TREADS, AND GAINSAY THE HEALTHY TENURE ON WHICH WE HOLD OUR EXISTENCE."
"IT IS A MERE AND MISERABLE SOLITUDE TO WANT TRUE FRIENDS, WITHOUT WHICH THE WORLD IS BUT A WILDERNESS."
"IT IS A GREAT SIN TO SWEAR UNTO A SIN, / BUT A GREATER STILL TO KEEP A SINFUL OATH."
IT IS A GREAT PITY WHEN THE MAN WHO SHOULD BE THE HEAD FIGURE IS A MERE FIGURE-HEAD.
"IT IS A GOOD THING TO STAY AWAY TILL ONE'S COMPANY IS DESIRED, BUT NOT SO GOOD TO STAY AFTER IT IS DESIRED."
IT IS A CUSTOM / MORE HONOURED IN THE BREACH THAN THE OBSERVANCE.
IT IS A COMMON FAILING OF OLD MEN TO ATTRIBUTE ALL WISDOM TO THEMSELVES.
IT IS A COMMON ERROR TO THINK THAT IN POLITICS LEGISLATION IS EVERYTHING AND ADMINISTRATION NOTHING.
"IT HAS BEEN WELL SAID THAT OUR ANXIETY DOES NOT EMPTY TO-MORROW OF ITS SORROWS, BUT ONLY EMPTIES TO-DAY OF ITS STRENGTH."
"ISAAC'S FOND BLESSING MAY NOT FALL ON SCORN, / NOR BALAAM'S CURSE ON LOVE WHICH GOD HATH BLEST."
"IS THIS A DAGGER WHICH I SEE BEFORE ME, / THE HANDLE TOWARD MY HAND? COME, LET ME CLUTCH THEE."
IS THE JAY MORE PRECIOUS THAN THE LARK BECAUSE HIS FEATHERS ARE MORE BEAUTIFUL?
"IS IT IN DESTROYING AND PULLING DOWN THAT SKILL IS DISPLAYED? THE SHALLOWEST UNDERSTANDING, THE RUDEST HAND, IS MORE EQUAL TO THAT TASK."
"IRRITATION, LIKE FRICTION, IS LIKELY TO GENERATE HEAT INSTEAD OF PROGRESS."
INWARD CHEERFULNESS IS AN IMPLICIT PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING TO PROVIDENCE UNDER ALL ITS DISPENSATIONS.
"""INVIDIA,"" JEALOUSY OF YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S GOOD, HAS BEEN, SINCE DUST WAS FIRST MADE FLESH, THE CURSE OF MAN; AND ""CHARITAS,"" THE DESIRE TO DO YOUR NEIGHBOUR GRACE, THE ONE SOURCE OF ALL HUMAN GLORY, POWER AND MATERIAL BLESSING."
INTENSE STUDY OF THE BIBLE WILL KEEP ANY MAN FROM BEING VULGAR IN POINT OF STYLE.
"INTEGRITY WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE IS WEAK AND USELESS, AND KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT INTEGRITY IS DANGEROUS AND DREADFUL."
"INSTEAD OF WATCHING THE BIRD AS IT FLIES ABOVE OUR HEADS, WE CHASE HIS SHADOW ALONG THE GROUND; AND, FINDING WE CANNOT GRASP IT, WE CONCLUDE IT TO BE NOTHING."
"INGRATITUDE! THOU MARBLE-HEARTED FIEND, / MORE HIDEOUS, WHEN THOU SHOW'ST THEE IN A CHILD, / THAN THE SEA-MONSTER."
"INFERIOR POETRY IS AN INJURY TO THE GOOD, INASMUCH AS IT TAKES AWAY THE FRESHNESS OF RHYMES, BLUNDERS UPON AND GIVES A WRETCHED COMMONALITY TO GOOD THOUGHTS, AND, IN GENERAL, ADDS TO THE WEIGHT OF HUMAN WEARINESS IN A MOST WOEFUL AND CULPABLE MANNER."
INFANCY PRESENTS BODY AND SPIRIT IN UNITY; THE BODY IS ALL ANIMATED.
"INDIVIDUALS MAY FORM COMMUNITIES, BUT IT IS INSTITUTIONS ALONE CAN CREATE A NATION."
"INDEPENDENCE YOU HAD BETTER CEASE TO TALK OF, FOR YOU ARE DEPENDENT NOT ONLY ON EVERY ACT OF PEOPLE WHOM YOU NEVER HEARD OF, WHO ARE LIVING ROUND YOU, BUT ON EVERY PAST ACT OF WHAT HAS BEEN DUST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS."
INCREASED MEANS AND INCREASED LEISURE ARE THE TWO CIVILISERS OF MEN.
"IN WONDER THE SPIRITS FLY NOT AS IN FEAR, BUT ONLY SETTLE."
IN WONDER ALL PHILOSOPHY BEGAN; IN WONDER IT ENDS; AND ADMIRATION FILLS UP THE INTERSPACE.
"IN TRUE MARRIAGE LIES / NOR EQUAL, NOR UNEQUAL: EACH FULFILS / DEFECT IN EACH, AND ALWAYS THOUGHT IN THOUGHT, / PURPOSE IN PURPOSE, WILL IN WILL, THEY GROW, / THE SINGLE PURE AND PERFECT ANIMAL, / THE TWO-CELL'D HEART BEATING, WITH ONE FULL STROKE, / LIFE."
"IN TREACHERY IT IS NOT THE FRAUD, BUT THE COLD-HEARTEDNESS, THAT IS CHIEFLY DREADFUL."
"IN THY THRIVING STILL MISDOUBT SOME EVIL: / LEST GAINING GAIN ON THEE, AND MAKE THEE DIM / TO ALL THINGS ELSE."
"IN THE WORLD-STRIFE NOW WAGING, THE VICTORY CANNOT BE BY VIOLENCE; AND EVERY CONQUEST UNDER THE PRINCE OF WAR RETARDS THE STANDARDS OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE."
"IN THE WORKS OF MANY CELEBRATED AUTHORS MEN ARE MERE PERSONIFICATIONS. WE HAVE NOT A JEALOUS MAN, BUT JEALOUSY; NOT A TRAITOR, BUT PERFIDY; NOT A PATRIOT, BUT PATRIOTISM. THE MIND OF BUNYAN, ON THE CONTRARY, WAS SO IMAGINATIVE THAT PERSONIFICATIONS, WHEN HE DEALT WITH THEM, BECAME MEN."
"IN THE UTMOST SOLITUDES OF NATURE, THE EXISTENCE OF HELL SEEMS TO ME AS LEGIBLY DECLARED BY A THOUSAND SPIRITUAL UTTERANCES AS THAT OF HEAVEN."
"IN THE TRUE UTOPIA, MAN WILL RATHER HARNESS HIMSELF WITH HIS OXEN TO HIS PLOUGH, THAN LEAVE THE DEVIL TO DRIVE IT."
IN THE MODESTY OF FEARFUL DUTY / I READ AS MUCH AS FROM THE RATTLING TONGUE / OF SAUCY AND AUDACIOUS ELOQUENCE.
"IN THE LEXICON OF YOUTH, WHICH FATE RESERVES FOR A BRIGHT MANHOOD, THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL."
"IN THE EXACT PROPORTION IN WHICH MEN ARE BRED CAPABLE OF WARM AFFECTION, COMMON-SENSE, AND SELF-COMMAND, AND ARE EDUCATED TO LOVE, TO THINK, AND TO ENDURE, THEY BECOME NOBLE, LIVE HAPPILY, DIE CALMLY, ARE REMEMBERED WITH PERPETUAL HONOUR BY THEIR RACE, AND FOR THE PERPETUAL GOOD OF IT."
"IN THE DEGREE IN WHICH YOU DELIGHT IN THE LIFE OF ANY CREATURE, YOU CAN SEE IT; NOT OTHERWISE."
"IN THE CAREER OF NATIONS NO LESS THAN OF MEN, THE ERROR OF THEIR INTELLECT AND THE HARDENING OF THEIR HEARTS MAY BE ACCURATELY MEASURED BY THEIR DENIAL OF SPIRITUAL POWER."
"IN THE BALANCE, HERO DUST / IS VILE AS VULGAR CLAY: / THOU, MORTALITY, ART JUST / TO ALL THAT PASS AWAY."
"IN SOME MEN THERE IS A MALIGNANT PASSION TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF GENIUS, LITERATURE, AND FREEDOM."
IN SOLITUDE THE MIND GAINS STRENGTH AND LEARNS TO LEAN UPON ITSELF.
"IN SO COMPLEX A THING AS HUMAN NATURE, WE MUST CONSIDER IT HARD TO FIND RULES WITHOUT EXCEPTIONS."
"IN SMALL PROPORTION WE JUST BEAUTIES SEE, / AND IN SHORT MEASURES LIFE MAY PERFECT BE."
"IN SERVICE, CARE OR COLDNESS / DOTH RATABLY THY FORTUNES MAR OR MAKE."
"IN SCIENCE READ THE NEWEST WORKS; IN LITERATURE, THE OLDEST."
"IN RESOLVING TO DO OUR WORK WELL, IS THE ONLY SOUND FOUNDATION OF ANY RELIGION WHATSOEVER; AND BY THAT RESOLUTION ONLY, AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE, AND NOT BY OUR BELIEF, CHRIST WILL JUDGE US, AS HE HAS PLAINLY TOLD US HE WILL."
IN RELIGION / WHAT DAMNÉD ERROR BUT SOME SOBER BROW / WILL BLESS IT AND APPROVE IT WITH A TEXT?
"IN PRIDE, IN REASONING PRIDE, OUR ERROR LIES; / ALL QUIT THEIR SPHERE AND RUSH INTO THE SKIES."
"IN PLATO'S OPINION, MAN WAS MADE FOR PHILOSOPHY; IN BACON'S OPINION, PHILOSOPHY WAS MADE FOR MAN."
IN OLD TIMES MEN USED THEIR POWERS OF PAINTING TO SHOW THE OBJECTS OF FAITH; IN LATER TIMES THEY USED THE OBJECTS OF FAITH TO SHOW THEIR POWERS OF PAINTING.
"IN NATURE THINGS MOVE VIOLENTLY TO THEIR PLACES, AND CALMLY IN THEIR PLACE; SO VIRTUE IN AMBITION IS VIOLENT, IN AUTHORITY SETTLED AND CALM."
IN MODERN ENGLAND THE ORDINARY HABITS OF LIFE AND MODES OF EDUCATION PRODUCE GREAT PLAINNESS OF MIND IN MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN.
"IN MEDIÆVAL ART, TRUTH IS FIRST, BEAUTY SECOND; IN MODERN ART, BEAUTY IS FIRST, TRUTH SECOND."
"IN MEDIÆVAL ART, THOUGHT IS THE FIRST THING, EXECUTION THE SECOND; IN MODERN ART, EXECUTION IS THE FIRST THING AND THOUGHT THE SECOND."
"IN LOVING THOU DOST WELL, IN PASSION NOT, / WHEREIN TRUE LOVE CONSISTS NOT."
"IN LOVE WE NEVER THINK OF MORAL QUALITIES, AND SCARCELY OF INTELLECTUAL ONES. TEMPERAMENT AND MANNER ALONE, WITH BEAUTY, EXCITE LOVE."
"IN LIFE A FRIEND MAY BE OFTEN FOUND AND LOST; BUT AN OLD FRIEND NEVER CAN BE FOUND, AND NATURE HAS PROVIDED THAT HE CANNOT EASILY BE LOST."
"IN HER FIRST PASSION, WOMAN LOVES HER LOVER, / IN ALL THE OTHERS, ALL SHE LOVES IS LOVE."
"IN GREAT STATES, CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO REMAIN CHILDREN, AND THE PARENTS WANTING TO MAKE MEN AND WOMEN OF THEM. IN VILE STATES, THE CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS WANTING TO BE MEN AND WOMEN, AND THE PARENTS TO KEEP THEM CHILDREN."
"IN FAITH AND HOPE THE WORLD WILL DISAGREE, / BUT ALL MANKIND'S CONCERN IS CHARITY."
"IN EVERY HEART ARE SOWN THE SPARKS THAT KINDLE FIERY WAR; OCCASION NEEDS BUT FAN THEM, AND THEY BLAZE."
IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LIFE WE THANK GOD THAT WE ARE NOT LIKE OUR FATHERS.
"IN EVERY CHANGE THERE WILL BE MANY THAT SUFFER REAL OR IMAGINARY GRIEVANCES, AND THEREFORE MANY WILL BE DISSATISFIED."
"IN DYEING THE SPIRITUAL NATURE THERE ARE TWO PROCESSES--FIRST, THE CLEANSING AND WRINGING OUT, WHICH IS THE BAPTISM WITH WATER; AND THEN THE INFUSING OF THE BLUE AND SCARLET COLOURS, GENTLENESS AND JUSTICE, WHICH IS THE BAPTISM WITH FIRE."
"IN DIM ECLIPSE DISASTROUS TWILIGHT SHEDS / ON HALF THE NATIONS, AND WITH FEAR OF CHANGE PERPLEXES MONARCHS."
"IN DELAY / WE WASTE OUR LIGHTS IN VAIN, LIKE LAMPS BY DAY."
"IN CONTEMPLATION, IF A MAN BEGIN WITH CERTAINTIES, HE SHALL END IN DOUBTS; BUT IF HE WILL BE CONTENT TO BEGIN WITH DOUBTS, HE SHALL END IN CERTAINTIES."
IN COMMON THINGS THE LAW OF SACRIFICE TAKES THE FORM OF POSITIVE DUTY.
"IN ARGUMENT WITH MEN, A WOMAN EVER / GOES BY THE WORSE, WHATEVER BE HER CAUSE."
"IN ARGUING, BE CALM; FOR FIERCENESS MAKES / ERROR A FAULT, AND TRUTH DISCOURTESY."
IN ALMS REGARD THY MEANS AND OTHERS' MERIT. / THINK HEAVEN A BETTER BARGAIN THAN TO GIVE / ONLY THY SINGLE MARKET-MONEY FOR IT.
"IN ALL THINGS THAT LIVE THERE ARE CERTAIN IRREGULARITIES AND DEFICIENCIES, WHICH ARE NOT ONLY SIGNS OF LIFE, BUT SOURCES OF BEAUTY."
"IN ALL MATTERS PREFER THE LESS EVIL TO THE GREATER, AND SOLACE YOURSELF UNDER ANY ILL WITH THE REFLECTION THAT IT MIGHT BE WORSE."
IN A MAN'S LETTERS HIS SOUL LIES NAKED; HIS LETTERS ARE ONLY THE MIRROR OF HIS BREAST.
"IN A FAIR GALE EVERY FOOL MAY SAIL, BUT WISE BEHAVIOUR IN A STORM COMMENDS THE WISDOM OF THE PILOT."
IN A COMMERCIAL NATION IMPOSTORS ARE ABROAD IN ALL PROFESSIONS.
"IN A BOUNDLESS UNIVERSE / IS BOUNDLESS BETTER, BOUNDLESS WORSE."
"IMPERIOUS CÆSAR, DEAD AND TURN'D TO CLAY, / MIGHT STOP A HOLE TO KEEP THE WIND AWAY."
"IMPERFECTION MEANS PERFECTION HID, / RESERVED IN PART TO GRACE THE AFTER-TIME."
"IMPERFECTION IS IN SOME SORT ESSENTIAL TO ALL THAT WE KNOW OF LIFE. IT IS THE SIGN OF LIFE IN A MORTAL BODY, THAT IS, OF A STATE OF PROGRESS AND CHANGE."
IMPATIENCE IS THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MOST OF OUR IRREGULARITIES AND EXTRAVAGANCES.
"IMMEDIATE ARE THE ACTS OF GOD, MORE SWIFT / THAN TIME OR MOTION."
IMAGINATION IS TOO OFTEN ACCOMPANIED WITH A SOMEWHAT IRREGULAR LOGIC.
"IMAGINATION IS ALWAYS THE RULING AND DIVINE POWER, AND THE REST OF THE MAN IS ONLY THE INSTRUMENT WHICH IT SOUNDS, OR THE TABLET ON WHICH IT WRITES."
"ILL HABITS GATHER BY UNSEEN DEGREES, / AS BROOKS MAKE RIVERS, RIVERS RUN TO SEAS."
ILL FORTUNE NEVER CRUSHES THAT MAN WHOM GOOD FORTUNE DECEIVED NOT.
"IGNORANCE IS THE CURSE OF GOD, KNOWLEDGE THE WING WHEREWITH WE FLY TO HEAVEN."
"IF YOU WOULD WORK ANY MAN, KNOW HIS NATURE AND FASHIONS, AND SO LEAD HIM."
"IF YOU WOULD SLIP INTO A ROUND HOLE, YOU MUST MAKE A BALL OF YOURSELF."
"IF YOU RESOLVE TO DO RIGHT, YOU WILL SOON DO WISELY; BUT RESOLVE ONLY TO DO WISELY, AND YOU WILL NEVER DO RIGHT."
"IF YOU READ THE BIBLE WITH A PREDETERMINATION TO PICK OUT EVERY TEXT YOU APPROVE OF, ON THESE TERMS YOU WILL FIND IT ENTIRELY INTELLIGIBLE AND WHOLLY DELIGHTFUL; BUT IF YOU READ IT WITH A REAL PURPOSE OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT, AND OBEY, AND SO READ IT ALL THROUGH STEADILY, YOU WILL FIND IT, OUT AND OUT, THE CRABBEDEST AND MOST DIFFICULT BOOK YOU EVER TRIED."
"IF YOU LISTEN TO DAVID'S HARP, YOU SHALL HEAR AS MANY HEARSE-LIKE AIRS AS CAROLS."
"IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL WEAKNESS, DO NOT EXPOSE IT BY ATTEMPTING TO DO THINGS WHICH WILL BRING IT OUT."
"IF YOU DISSEMBLE SOMETIMES YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THAT YOU ARE THOUGHT TO KNOW, YOU SHALL BE THOUGHT, ANOTHER TIME, TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW NOT."
"IF YOU CAN'T PAY FOR A THING, DON'T BUY IT. IF YOU CAN'T GET PAID FOR IT, DON'T SELL IT. SO YOU WILL HAVE CALM DAYS, DROWSY NIGHTS, AND ALL THE GOOD BUSINESS YOU HAVE NOW, AND NONE OF THE BAD."
"IF YOU ARE IDLE, BE NOT SOLITARY; IF YOU ARE SOLITARY, BE NOT IDLE."
"IF YOU ANTICIPATE YOUR INHERITANCE, YOU CAN AT LAST INHERIT NOTHING."
"IF WHAT HAPPENS DOES NOT MAKE US RICHER, WE MUST BID IT WELCOME IF IT MAKE US WISER."
"IF WE WILL DISBELIEVE EVERYTHING BECAUSE WE CANNOT CERTAINLY KNOW ALL THINGS, WE SHALL DO MUCH AS WISELY AS HE WHO WOULD NOT USE HIS LEGS, BUT SIT STILL AND PERISH BECAUSE HE HAD NO WINGS."
"IF WE LOVE THOSE WE LOSE, CAN WE ALTOGETHER LOSE THOSE WE LOVE?"
"IF WE HOPE FOR WHAT WE ARE NOT LIKELY TO POSSESS, WE ACT AND THINK IN VAIN, AND MAKE LIFE A GREATER DREAM AND SHADOW THAN IT REALLY IS."
"IF WE CLEAR THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENT OUT OF MODERN LITERATURE, WE SHALL FIND ITS BULK AMAZINGLY DIMINISHED, AND THE CLAIMS OF THE REMAINING WRITERS, OR OF THOSE WHOM WE HAVE THINNED BY THIS ABSTRACTION OF THEIR STRAW-STUFFING, MUCH MORE EASILY ADJUSTED."
"IF WE ARE WISE, WE MAY THANK OURSELVES; IF WE ARE GREAT, WE MUST THANK FORTUNE."
"IF WE ARE NOT FAMOUS FOR GOODNESS, WE ARE PRACTICALLY INFAMOUS."
"IF VAIN OUR TOIL, WE OUGHT TO BLAME THE CULTURE, NOT THE SOIL."
"IF TO DO WERE AS EASY AS TO KNOW WHAT WERE GOOD TO DO, CHAPELS HAD BEEN CHURCHES AND POOR MEN'S COTTAGES PRINCES' PALACES."
"IF THY SON CAN MAKE TEN POUND HIS MEASURE, / THEN ALL THOU ADDEST MAY BE CALLED HIS TREASURE."
"IF THOU WOULDST REAP IN LOVE, / FIRST SOW IN HOLY FEAR; / SO LIFE A WINTER'S MORN MAY PROVE / TO A BRIGHT ENDLESS YEAR."
"IF THOU DENIEST TO A LABORIOUS MAN AND A DESERVING, THOU KILLEST A BEE; IF THOU GIVEST TO OTHER THAN SUCH, THOU PRESERVEST A DRONE."
"IF THOU BE MASTER-GUNNER, SPEND NOT ALL / THAT THOU CANST SPEAK AT ONCE, BUT HUSBAND IT."
"IF THEM ART RICH, THOU ART POOR; / FOR, LIKE AN ASS WHOSE BACK WITH INGOTS BOWS, / THOU BEAR'ST THY HEAVY RICHES BUT A JOURNEY, / AND DEATH UNLOADS THEE."
"IF THERE WERE NO FALSEHOOD IN THE WORLD, THERE WOULD BE NO DOUBT; IF NO DOUBT, NO INQUIRY; AND IF NO INQUIRY, NO WISDOM, NO KNOWLEDGE, NO GENIUS."
"IF THE WEATHER DON'T HAPPEN TO BE GOOD FOR MY WORK TO-DAY, IT'S GOOD FOR SOME OTHER MAN'S, AND WILL COME ROUND TO ME TO-MORROW."
"IF THE PROFESSION YOU HAVE CHOSEN HAS SOME UNEXPECTED INCONVENIENCES, CONSOLE YOURSELF BY REFLECTING THAT NO PROFESSION IS WITHOUT THEM."
"IF THE CHAFF-CUTTER HAD THE MAKING OF US, WE SHOULD ALL BE STRAW, I RECKON."
"IF THAT THY FAME WITH EVERY TOY BE POSED, / 'TIS A THIN WEB WHICH POISONOUS FANCIES MAKE; / BUT THE GREAT SOLDIER'S HONOUR WAS COMPOSED / OF THICKER STUFF, WHICH WOULD ENDURE A SHAKE."
"IF REASONS WERE AS PLENTY AS BLACKBERRIES, I WOULD GIVE NO MAN A REASON UPON COMPULSION."
"IF ONE WERE TO THINK CONSTANTLY OF DEATH, THE BUSINESS OF LIFE WOULD STAND STILL."
"IF ONCE YOU FIND A WOMAN GLUTTONOUS, EXPECT FROM HER VERY LITTLE VIRTUE; HER MIND IS ENSLAVED TO THE LOWEST AND GROSSEST TEMPTATION."
"IF MONEY BE NOT THY SERVANT, IT WILL BE THY MASTER. THE COVETOUS MAN CANNOT SO PROPERLY BE MADE TO POSSESS WEALTH AS THAT IT MAY BE SAID TO POSSESS HIM."
"IF MAN IS NOT KIN TO GOD BY HIS SPIRIT, HE IS A BASE AND IGNOBLE CREATURE."
"IF LADIES BE BUT YOUNG AND FAIR, / THEY HAVE THE GIFT TO KNOW IT."
"IF IT WERE DONE WHEN 'TIS DONE, THEN 'TWERE WELL / IT WERE DONE QUICKLY ... THAT BUT THIS BLOW / MIGHT BE THE BE ALL AND THE END ALL HERE."
"IF IT BE ASKED, WHAT IS THE IMPROPER EXPECTATION WHICH IT IS DANGEROUS TO INDULGE, EXPERIENCE WILL QUICKLY ANSWER THAT IT IS SUCH EXPECTATION AS IS DICTATED NOT BY REASON BUT BY DESIRE--AN EXPECTATION THAT REQUIRES THE COMMON COURSE OF THINGS TO BE CHANGED, AND THE GENERAL RULES OF ACTION TO BE BROKEN."
"IF I SHOULD SAY NOTHING, I SHOULD SAY MUCH (MUCH BEING INCLUDED IN MY LOVE); THOUGH MY LOVE BE SUCH, THAT IF I SHOULD SAY MUCH, I SHOULD YET SAY NOTHING, IT BEING, AS COWLEY SAYS, EQUALLY IMPOSSIBLE EITHER TO CONCEAL OR TO EXPRESS IT."
"IF I MUST DIE, / I WILL ENCOUNTER DARKNESS AS A BRIDE / AND HUG IT IN MY ARMS."
"IF I HAD WIT ENOUGH TO GET OUT OF THIS WOOD, I HAVE SAID ENOUGH TO SERVE MINE OWN TURN."
"IF I FOR MY OPINION BLEED, / OPINION SHALL BE SURGEON TO MY HURT."
"IF I DO LOSE THEE I DO LOSE A THING / THAT NONE BUT FOOLS WOULD KEEP; A BREATH THOU ART, / SERVILE TO ALL THE SKYEY INFLUENCES, / THAT DO THIS HABITATION, WHERE THOU KEEP'ST / HOURLY INFLICT."
"IF I CAN CATCH HIM ONCE UPON THE HIP, / I WILL FEED FAT THE ANCIENT GRUDGE I BEAR HIM."
"IF I BE DEAR TO SOME ONE ELSE, / THEN I SHOULD BE TO MYSELF MORE DEAR."
"IF I AM RIGHT, THY GRACE IMPART / STILL IN THE RIGHT TO STAY; / IF I AM WRONG, O TEACH MY HEART TO FIND THE BETTER WAY."
"IF HERCULES AND LICHAS PLAY AT DICE / WHICH IS THE BETTER MAN, THE GREATER THROW / MAY TURN BY FORTUNE FROM THE WEAKER HAND; / SO IS ALCIDES BEATEN BY HIS PAGE."
"IF FUN IS GOOD, TRUTH IS STILL BETTER, AND LOVE MOST OF ALL."
"IF ANY SPEAK ILL OF THEE, FLY HOME TO THY OWN CONSCIENCE AND EXAMINE THY HEART. IF THOU ART GUILTY, IT IS A FAIR CORRECTION; IF NOT GUILTY, IT IS A FAIR INSTRUCTION."
"IF ANY FALSE STEP BE MADE IN THE MORE MOMENTOUS CONCERNS OF LIFE, THE WHOLE SCHEME OF AMBITIOUS DESIGNS IS BROKEN."
"IF AN IDIOT WERE TO TELL YOU THE SAME STORY EVERY DAY FOR A YEAR, YOU WOULD END BY BELIEVING HIM."
"IF ALL THE YEAR WERE PLAYING HOLIDAYS, / TO SPORT WOULD BE AS TEDIOUS AS TO WORK."
"IF ALL THE WORLD WERE FALCONS, WHAT OF THAT? / THE WONDER OF THE EAGLE WERE THE LESS, / BUT HE NOT LESS THE EAGLE."
"IF A PIG COULD GIVE HIS MIND TO ANYTHING, HE WOULDN'T BE A PIG."
"IF A MAN READ LITTLE, HE HAD NEED OF MUCH CUNNING TO SEEM TO KNOW THAT HE DOTH NOT."
"IF A MAN FEAR OR REVERENCE GOD, HE MUST HATE COVETOUSNESS; AND IF HE FEAR OR REVERENCE COVETOUSNESS, HE MUST HATE GOD."
"IF A MAN DO NOT ERECT IN THIS AGE HIS TOMB ERE HE DIES, HE WILL LIVE NO LONGER IN MONUMENT THAN THE BELL RINGS AND THE WIDOW WEEPS."
"IF A GREAT THING CAN BE DONE AT ALL, IT CAN BE DONE EASILY; BUT IT IS IN THAT KIND OF EASE WITH WHICH A TREE BLOSSOMS AFTER LONG YEARS OF GATHERED STRENGTH."
"IDOLATRY IS SIMPLY THE SUBSTITUTION OF AN ""EIDOLON,"" PHANTASM, OR IMAGINATION OF GOOD FOR THAT WHICH IS REAL AND ENDURING, FROM THE HIGHEST LIVING GOOD WHICH GIVES LIFE, TO THE LOWEST MATERIAL GOOD WHICH MINISTERS TO IT."
I WOULD NOT ENTER ON MY LIST OF FRIENDS ... THE MAN / WHO NEEDLESSLY SETS FOOT UPON A WORM.
"I WOULD APPLAUD THEE TO THE VERY ECHO, THAT SHOULD APPLAUD AGAIN."
"I WISH THERE WERE SOME CURE, LIKE THE LOVER'S LEAP, FOR ALL HEADS OF WHICH SOME SINGLE IDEA HAS OBTAINED AN UNREASONABLE AND IRREGULAR POSSESSION."
"I WILL GIVE THRICE AS MUCH TO ANY WELL-DESERVING FRIEND; BUT IN THE WAY OF BARGAIN, MARK ME, I WILL CAVIL ON THE NINTH PART OF A HAIR."
"I WILL CHIDE NO BREATHER IN THE WORLD BUT MYSELF, AGAINST WHOM I KNOW MOST FAULTS."
I WILL A ROUND UNVARNISH'D TALE DELIVER / OF MY WHOLE COURSE OF LOVE.
"I WAS NOT BORN FOR COURTS OR GREAT AFFAIRS; / I PAY MY DEBTS, BELIEVE, AND SAY MY PRAYERS."
"I WANT THAT GLIB AND OILY ART, / TO SPEAK AND PURPOSE NOT; SINCE WHAT I WELL INTEND, / I'LL DO'T BEFORE I SPEAK."
"I'VE NEVER ANY PITY FOR CONCEITED PEOPLE, BECAUSE I THINK THEY CARRY THEIR COMFORT ABOUT WITH THEM."
"I'VE HAD MY SAY OUT, AND I SHALL BE TH' EASIER FOR'T ALL MY LIFE."
I THINK WOMEN HAVE AN INSTINCT OF DISSIMULATION; THEY KNOW BY NATURE HOW TO DISGUISE THEIR EMOTIONS FAR BETTER THAN THE MOST CONSUMMATE MALE COURTIERS CAN DO.
"I SAY THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GOD IN CHRIST, / ACCEPTED BY THY REASON, SOLVES FOR THEE / ALL QUESTIONS ON THE EARTH AND OUT OF IT."
"I NEVER WHISPER'D A PRIVATE AFFAIR / WITHIN THE HEARING OF CAT OR MOUSE, / NO, NOT TO MYSELF IN THE CLOSET ALONE, / BUT I HEARD IT SHOUTED AT ONCE FROM THE TOP OF THE HOUSE; / EVERYTHING CAME TO BE KNOWN."
I NEVER KNEW ANY MAN IN MY LIFE WHO COULD NOT BEAR ANOTHER'S MISFORTUNES PERFECTLY AS A CHRISTIAN.
I'M NOT ONE OF THOSE WHO CAN SEE THE CAT I' THE DAIRY AN' WONDER WHAT SHE'S COME AFTER.
I'M NOT DENYIN' THE WOMEN ARE FOOLISH; GOD ALMIGHTY MADE 'EM TO MATCH THE MEN.
"I'LL MAKE ASSURANCE DOUBLY SURE, / AND TAKE A BOND OF FATE."
"I LIVE NOT IN MYSELF, BUT I BECOME / PORTION OF THAT AROUND ME; AND TO ME / HIGH MOUNTAINS ARE A FEELING."
"I LIVE IN THE CROWD OF JOLLITY, NOT SO MUCH TO ENJOY COMPANY AS TO SHUN MYSELF."
"I KNOW THAT DANCIN' 'S NONSENSE; BUT IF YOU STICK AT EVERYTHING BECAUSE ITS NONSENSE, YOU WONNA GO FAR IN THIS LIFE."
I KNOW NOTHING SUBLIME WHICH IS NOT SOME MODIFICATION OF POWER.
"I KNOW NO EVIL DEATH CAN SHOW, WHICH LIFE / HAS NOT ALREADY SHOWN TO THOSE WHO LIVE / EMBODIED LONGEST."
I KNOW BUT OF ONE SOLID OBJECTION TO ABSOLUTE MONARCHY; THE DIFFICULTY OF FINDING ANY MAN ADEQUATE TO THE OFFICE.
"I HOLD THE WORLD BUT AS THE WORLD, GRATIANO; / A STAGE, WHERE EVERY MAN MUST PLAY A PART, / AND MINE A SAD ONE."
"I HOLD IT TRUTH, WITH HIM WHO SINGS / TO ONE CLEAR HARP IN DIVERS TONES, / THAT MEN MAY RISE ON STEPPING-STONES / OF THEIR DEAD SELVES TO HIGHER THINGS."
I HOLD IT COWARDICE / TO REST MISTRUSTFUL WHERE A NOBLE HEART / HATH PAWN'D AN OPEN HAND IN SIGN OF LOVE.
"I HOLD AMBITION OF SO AIRY AND LIGHT A QUALITY, THAT IT IS BUT A SHADOW'S SHADOW."
"I HAVE THOUGHT SOME OF NATURE'S JOURNEYMEN HAD MADE MEN, AND NOT MADE THEM WELL; THEY IMITATED HUMANITY SO ABOMINABLY."
"I HAVE THIS GREAT COMMISSION, / FROM THAT SUPERNAL JUDGE THAT STIRS GOOD THOUGHTS / IN ANY BREAST OF STRONG AUTHORITY, / TO LOOK INTO THE BLOTS AND STAINS OF RIGHT."
I HAVE THAT WITHIN WHICH PASSETH SHOW; / THESE BUT THE TRAPPINGS AND THE SUITS OF WOE.
"I HAVE SET MY LIFE UPON A CAST, / AND I WILL STAND THE HAZARD OF THE DIE."
"I HAVE SEEN SOME NATIONS, LIKE OVERLOADED ASSES, / KICK OFF THEIR BURDENS, MEANING THE HIGHER CLASSES."
I HAD RATHER HAVE A FOOL TO MAKE ME MERRY THAN EXPERIENCE TO MAKE ME SAD.
"I HAD RATHER BELIEVE ALL THE FABLES IN THE LEGENDS, THE TALMUD, AND THE KORAN, THAN THAT THIS UNIVERSAL FRAME IS WITHOUT A MIND."
I FEAR THY NATURE; / IT IS TOO FULL OF THE MILK OF HUMAN KINDNESS / TO CATCH THE NEAREST WAY.
"I EARN THAT I EAT, GET THAT I WEAR; OWE NO MAN HATE, ENVY NO MAN'S HAPPINESS; GLAD OF OTHER MEN'S GOOD, CONTENT WITH MY HARM."
"I DO KNOW, / WHEN THE BLOOD BURNS, HOW PRODIGAL THE SOUL / LENDS THE TONGUE VOWS."
I DO KNOW OF THESE / THAT THEREFORE ONLY ARE REPUTED WISE / FOR SAYING NOTHING.
"I DO BUT SING BECAUSE I MUST, / AND PIPE BUT AS THE LINNETS SING."
"I DARE DO ALL THAT MAY BECOME A MAN; / WHO DARES DO MORE, IS NONE."
"I COULD A TALE UNFOLD, WHOSE LIGHTEST WORD / WOULD HARROW UP THY SOUL, FREEZE THY YOUNG BLOOD, / MAKE THY TWO EYES, LIKE STARS, START FROM THEIR SPHERES, / THY KNOTTED AND COMBINED LOCKS TO PART, / AND EACH PARTICULAR HAIR TO STAND ON END, / LIKE QUILLS UPON THE FRETFUL PORCUPINE."
"I CHATTER, CHATTER, AS I FLOW / TO JOIN THE BRIMMING RIVER, / FOR MEN MAY COME AND MEN MAY GO, / BUT I GO ON FOR EVER."
"I CARE NOT THOUGH THE CLOTH OF STATE SHOULD BE / NOT OF RICH ARRAS, BUT MEAN TAPESTRY."
"I CANNOT PRAISE A FUGITIVE AND CLOISTERED VIRTUE, UNEXERCISED AND UNBREATHED, THAT NEVER SALLIES OUT AND SEEKS HER ADVERSARY, BUT SLINKS OUT OF THE RACE WHERE THAT IMMORTAL GARLAND IS TO BE RUN FOR, NOT WITHOUT DUST AND HEAT."
"I CANNOT LOVE THEE AS I OUGHT, / FOR LOVE REFLECTS THE THING BELOVED; / MY WORDS ARE ONLY WORDS, AND MOVE / UPON THE TOPMOST FROTH OF THOUGHT."
"I CANNOT HIDE WHAT I AM; I MUST BE SAD WHEN I HAVE CAUSE, AND SMILE AT NO MAN'S JESTS; EAT WHEN I HAVE STOMACH, AND WAIT FOR NO MAN'S LEISURE; SLEEP WHEN I AM DROWSY, AND TEND ON NO MAN'S BUSINESS; LAUGH WHEN I AM MERRY, AND CLAW NO MAN IN HIS HUMOUR."
"I CANNOT CALL RICHES BETTER THAN THE BAGGAGE OF VIRTUE.... IT CANNOT BE SPARED OR LEFT BEHIND, BUT IT HINDERETH THE MARCH."
"I CAN TEACH YOU TO COMMAND THE DEVIL, / AND I CAN TEACH YOU TO SHAME THE DEVIL, / BY TELLING TRUTH."
"I CAN COUNT A STOCKING-TOP WHILE A MAN 'S GETTING 'S TONGUE READY; AN' WHEN HE OUT WI' HIS SPEECH AT LAST, THERE'S LITTLE BROTH TO BE MADE ON'T."
"""I CAN CALL SPIRITS FROM THE VASTY DEEP."" ""WHY, SO CAN I, OR SO CAN ANY MAN; BUT WILL THEY COME WHEN YOU DO CALL FOR THEM?"""
"I CAN BUT TRUST THAT GOOD SHALL FALL / AT LAST--FAR OFF--AT LAST, TO ALL."
I AM VERY FOND OF THE COMPANY OF LADIES. I LIKE THEIR BEAUTY; I LIKE THEIR DELICACY; I LIKE THEIR VIVACITY; AND I LIKE THEIR SILENCE.
"I AM SIR ORACLE, / AND WHEN I OPE MY LIPS, LET NO DOG BARK."
I AM NOT MAD; I WOULD TO HEAVEN I WERE! / FOR THEN 'TIS LIKE I SHOULD FORGET MYSELF.
I AM NO HERALD TO INQUIRE OF MEN'S PEDIGREES; IT SUFFICETH ME IF I KNOW THEIR VIRTUES.
"I AM MONARCH OF ALL I SURVEY, / MY RIGHT THERE IS NONE TO DISPUTE; / FROM THE CENTRE ALL ROUND TO THE SEA, / I AM LORD OF THE FOWL AND THE BRUTE."
"I AM AS FREE AS NATURE FIRST MADE MAN, / ERE THE BASE LAWS OF SERVITUDE BEGAN, / WHEN WILD IN WOODS THE NOBLE SAVAGE RAN."
"I AM AMAZED, METHINKS, AND LOSE MY WAY / AMONG THE THORNS AND DANGERS OF THE WORLD."
I AM ALWAYS AFRAID OF A FOOL; ONE CANNOT BE SURE THAT HE IS NOT A KNAVE AS WELL.
I AM AFRAID TO THINK WHAT I HAVE DONE; / LOOK ON'T AGAIN I DARE NOT.
"HYPERION TO A SATYR; SO LOVING TO MY MOTHER, / THAT HE MIGHT NOT BETEEM THE WINDS OF HEAVEN / VISIT HER FACE TOO ROUGHLY."
"HUNTING WAS THE LABOUR OF SAVAGES IN NORTH AMERICA, BUT THE AMUSEMENT OF THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND."
"HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE CAN TALK FOR ONE WHO CAN THINK, BUT THOUSANDS CAN THINK FOR ONE WHO CAN SEE. TO SEE CLEARLY IS POETRY, PROPHECY, AND RELIGION ALL IN ONE."
"HUMAN NATURE ... / IS NOT A PUNCTUAL PRESENCE, BUT A SPIRIT / DIFFUSED THROUGH TIME AND SPACE."
"HUMAN NATURE IN ITS FULNESS IS NECESSARILY HUMAN; WITHOUT LOVE, IT IS INHUMAN; WITHOUT SENSE INHUMAN; WITHOUT DISCIPLINE, INHUMAN."
HUMAN LIFE IS EVERYWHERE A STATE IN WHICH MUCH IS TO BE ENDURED AND LITTLE TO BE ENJOYED.
"HUMAN BELIEFS, LIKE ALL OTHER NATURAL GROWTHS, ELUDE THE BARRIERS OF SYSTEM."
"HOWE'ER IT BE, IT SEEMS TO ME / 'TIS ONLY NOBLE TO BE GOOD. / KIND HEARTS ARE MORE THAN CORONETS, / AND SIMPLE FAITH THAN NORMAN BLOOD."
"HOW WEARY, STALE, FLAT, AND UNPROFITABLE / SEEM TO ME ALL THE USES OF THIS WORLD."
HOW THE SIGHT OF MEANS TO DO ILL DEEDS / MAKE DEEDS ILL DONE!
HOW SWEET THE MOONLIGHT SLEEPS UPON THIS BANK! / HERE WILL WE SIT AND LET THE SOUNDS OF MUSIC / CREEP IN OUR EARS: SOFT STILLNESS AND THE NIGHT / BECOME THE TOUCHES OF SWEET HARMONY.
"HOW STILL THE EVENING IS, / AS HUSHED ON PURPOSE TO GRACE HARMONY!"
"HOW SOUR SWEET MUSIC IS, WHEN TIME IS BROKE AND NO PROPORTION KEPT! SO IS IT IN THE MUSIC OF MEN'S LIVES."
"HOW SILVER-SWEET SOUND LOVERS' TONGUES BY NIGHT, / LIKE SOFTEST MUSIC TO ATTENDING EARS!"
"HOW SMALL, OF ALL THAT HUMAN HEARTS ENDURE, / THAT PART WHICH LAWS OR KINGS CAN CAUSE OR CURE! / STILL TO OURSELVES, IN EVERY PLACE CONSIGNED, / OUR OWN FELICITY WE MAKE OR FIND."
HOW SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH IT IS / TO HAVE A THANKLESS CHILD!
"HOW SCIENCE DWINDLES, AND HOW VOLUMES SWELL, / HOW COMMENTATORS EACH DARK PASSAGE SHUN, / AND HOLD THEIR FARTHING CANDLE TO THE SUN!"
"HOW RARELY REASON GUIDES THE STUBBORN CHOICE, / RULES THE BOLD HAND OR PROMPTS THE SUPPLIANT VOICE."
HOW QUICKLY NATURE FALLS INTO REVOLT / WHEN GOLD BECOMES HER OBJECT!
"HOW POOR, HOW RICH, HOW ABJECT, HOW AUGUST, / HOW COMPLICATE, HOW WONDERFUL IS MAN!"
HOW POOR ARE THEY THAT HAVE NOT PATIENCE! / WHAT WOUND DID EVER HEAL BUT BY DEGREES?
HOW MUCH BETTER IT IS TO WEEP AT JOY THAN TO JOY AT WEEPING!
HOW MUCH A DUNCE THAT HAS BEEN SENT TO ROAM / EXCELS A DUNCE THAT HAS BEEN KEPT AT HOME!
HOW MANY THINGS BY SEASON SEASON'D ARE / TO THEIR RIGHT PRAISE AND TRUE PERFECTION!
"HOW MANY COWARDS, WHOSE HEARTS ARE ALL AS FALSE / AS STAIRS OF SAND, WEAR YET UPON THEIR CHINS / THE BEARDS OF HERCULES AND FROWNING MARS! / WHO, INWARD SEARCHED, HAVE LIVERS WHITE AS MILK."
"HOW HAPPY IS THE BLAMELESS VESTAL'S LOT! / THE WORLD FORGETTING, BY THE WORLD FORGOT."
"HOW GOOD IS MAN'S LIFE, THE MERE LIVING! HOW FIT TO EMPLOY / ALL THE HEART, AND THE SOUL, AND THE SENSES FOR EVER IN JOY!"
HOW FAST HAS BROTHER FOLLOWED / FROM SUNSHINE TO THE SUNLESS LAND.
HOW FAR THAT LITTLE CANDLE THROWS HIS BEAMS! / SO SHINES A GOOD DEED IN A NAUGHTY WORLD.
"HOW DULL IT IS TO PAUSE, TO MAKE AN END, / TO RUST UNBURNISH'D, NOT TO SHINE IN USE, / AS THOUGH TO BREATHE WERE LIFE."
HOW BITTER A THING IT IS TO LOOK INTO HAPPINESS THROUGH ANOTHER MAN'S EYES!
"HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE HUMAN BREAST; / MAN NEVER IS, BUT ALWAYS TO BE, BLEST."
"HOPE NOT WHOLLY TO REASON AWAY YOUR TROUBLES; BUT DO NOT FEED THEM WITH ATTENTION, AND THEY WILL DIE IMPERCEPTIBLY AWAY."
"HOPE IS ITSELF A SPECIES OF HAPPINESS, AND PERHAPS THE CHIEF HAPPINESS WHICH THIS WORLD AFFORDS; BUT, LIKE ALL OTHER PLEASURES, ITS EXCESSES MUST BE EXPIATED BY PAIN; AND EXPECTATIONS IMPROPERLY INDULGED MUST END IN DISAPPOINTMENT."
"HONOURS, LIKE IMPRESSIONS UPON COIN, MAY GIVE AN IDEAL AND LOCAL VALUE TO A BIT OF BASE METAL; BUT GOLD AND SILVER WILL PASS ALL THE WORLD OVER, WITHOUT ANY OTHER RECOMMENDATION THAN THEIR OWN WEIGHT."
HONOUR HATH NO SKILL IN SURGERY.... HONOUR IS A MERE SCUTCHEON.
"HOME IS THE PLACE OF PEACE; THE SHELTER, NOT ONLY FROM ALL INJURY, BUT FROM ALL TERROR, DOUBT, AND DIVISION."
"HOLY FIELDS, / OVER WHOSE ACRES WALKED THOSE BLESSED FEET / WHICH FOURTEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO WERE NAIL'D, / FOR OUR ADVANTAGE, ON THE BITTER CROSS."
HOLD UP THY HEAD; THE TAPER LIFTED HIGH / WILL BROOK THE WIND WHEN LOWER TAPERS DIE.
"""HOC AGE"" IS THE GREAT RULE, WHETHER YOU ARE SERIOUS OR MERRY; WHETHER ... LEARNING SCIENCE OR DUTY FROM A FOLIO, OR FLOATING ON THE THAMES. INTENTIONS MUST BE GATHERED FROM ACTS."
"HITHERTO DOTH LOVE ON FORTUNE TEND; / FOR WHO NOT NEEDS, SHALL NEVER LACK A FRIEND; / AND WHO IN WANT A HOLLOW FRIEND DOTH TRY, / DIRECTLY SEASONS HIM HIS ENEMY."
"HISTORY TEEMS WITH INSTANCES OF TRUTH PUT DOWN BY PERSECUTION; IF NOT SUPPRESSED FOR EVER, IT MAY BE THROWN BACK FOR CENTURIES."
"HISTORY IS MADE UP OF THE BAD ACTIONS OF EXTRAORDINARY MEN. ALL THE MOST NOTED DESTROYERS AND DECEIVERS OF OUR SPECIES, ALL THE FOUNDERS OF ARBITRARY GOVERNMENTS AND FALSE RELIGIONS, HAVE BEEN EXTRAORDINARY MEN, AND NINE-TENTHS OF THE CALAMITIES WHICH HAVE BEFALLEN THE HUMAN RACE HAD NO OTHER ORIGIN THAN THE UNION OF HIGH INTELLIGENCE WITH LOW DESIRES."
"HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE PROVE THAT THE MOST PASSIONATE CHARACTERS ARE THE MOST FANATICALLY RIGID IN THEIR FEELINGS OF DUTY, WHEN THEIR PASSION HAS BEEN TRAINED TO ACT IN THAT DIRECTION."
"HISTORIES MAKE MEN WISE; POETS, WITTY; THE MATHEMATICS, SUBTLE; NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, DEEP; MORALS, GRAVE; LOGIC AND RHETORIC, ABLE TO CONTEND."
"HIS WIT INVITES YOU BY HIS LOOKS TO COME, / BUT WHEN YOU KNOCK, IT NEVER IS AT HOME."
"HIS TONGUE / DROPP'D MANNA, AND COULD MAKE THE WORSE APPEAR / THE BETTER REASON, TO PERPLEX AND DASH / MATUREST COUNSELS."
"HIS SPEECH WAS LIKE A TANGLED CHAIN; / NOTHING IMPAIRED, BUT ALL DISORDERED."
"HIS RASH, FIERCE BLAZE OF RIOT CANNOT LAST, / FOR VIOLENT FIRES SOON OUTBURN THEMSELVES."
HIS OPINION WHO DOES NOT SEE SPIRITUAL AGENCY IN HISTORY IS NOT WORTH ANY MAN'S READING.
"HIS IMAGINATION RESEMBLED THE WINGS OF AN OSTRICH. IT ENABLED HIM TO RUN, THOUGH NOT TO SOAR."
HIS KISSING IS AS FULL OF SANCTITY AS THE TOUCH OF HOLY BREAD.
"HIM ONLY PLEASURE LEADS AND PEACE ATTENDS, / HIM, ONLY HIM, THE SHIELD OF JOVE DEFENDS, / WHOSE MEANS ARE FAIR AND SPOTLESS AS HIS ENDS."
HEROISM IS THE SELF-DEVOTION OF GENIUS MANIFESTING ITSELF IN ACTION.
"HEROES ARE MUCH THE SAME, THE POINT'S AGREED, / FROM MACEDONIA'S MADMAN TO THE SWEDE."
"HEREDITARY BONDSMEN! KNOW YE NOT, / WHO WOULD BE FREE, THEMSELVES MUST STRIKE THE BLOW?"
"HERE'S A SIGH FOR THOSE WHO LOVE ME, / AND A SMILE FOR THOSE WHO HATE, / AND WHATEVER SKY'S ABOVE ME, / HERE'S A HEART FOR EVERY FATE."
HERE I AND SORROWS SIT; / HERE IS MY THRONE; BID KINGS COME BOW TO IT.
"HERE HAVE WE WAR FOR WAR, AND BLOOD FOR BLOOD, / CONTROLMENT FOR CONTROLMENT."
"HERCULES HIMSELF MUST YIELD TO ODDS; / AND MANY STROKES, THOUGH WITH A LITTLE AXE, / HEW DOWN AND FELL THE HARDEST-TIMBER'D OAK."
HEAVEN'S SOVEREIGN SAVES ALL BEINGS BUT HIMSELF THAT HIDEOUS SIGHT--A NAKED HUMAN HEART.
"HEAVEN'S ABOVE ALL; AND THERE BE SOULS THAT MUST BE SAVED, AND THERE BE SOULS THAT MUST NOT BE SAVED."
"HEAVEN, WHICH REALLY IN ONE SENSE IS MERCIFUL TO SINNERS, IS IN NO SENSE MERCIFUL TO FOOLS, BUT EVEN LAYS PITFALLS FOR THEM AND INEVITABLE SNARES."
"HEAVEN FROM ALL CREATURES HIDES THE BOOK OF FATE, / ALL BUT THE PAGE PRESCRIBED--THEIR PRESENT STATE."
"HEAVEN DOTH WITH US AS WE WITH TORCHES DO, / NOT LIGHT THEM FOR THEMSELVES; FOR IF OUR VIRTUES / DID NOT GO FORTH OF US, 'TWERE ALL ALIKE / AS IF WE HAD THEM NOT."
HEAVEN AND YOURSELF / HAD PART IN THIS FAIR MAID NOW HEAVEN HATH ALL.
"HEAR IT NOT, DUNCAN; FOR IT IS A KNELL / THAT SUMMONS THEE TO HEAVEN OR TO HELL."
"HE'S A BLOCKHEAD WHO WANTS A PROOF OF WHAT HE CAN'T PERCEIVE, / AND HE'S A FOOL WHO TRIES TO MAKE SUCH A BLOCKHEAD BELIEVE."
HE WROUGHT ALL KIND OF SERVICE WITH A NOBLE EASE / THAT GRACED THE LOWLIEST ACT IN DOING IT.
HE WILL NEVER HAVE TRUE FRIENDS WHO IS AFRAID OF MAKING ENEMIES.
"HE WHOM GOD HAS GIFTED WITH A LOVE OF RETIREMENT POSSESSES, AS IT WERE, AN EXTRA SENSE."
HE WHO WOULD WRITE HEROIC POEMS MUST MAKE HIS WHOLE LIFE A HEROIC POEM.
HE WHO WOULD NOT BE FRUSTRATE OF HIS HOPE TO WRITE WELL HEREAFTER IN LAUDABLE THINGS OUGHT HIMSELF TO BE A TRUE POEM.
HE WHO TRUSTS A SECRET TO HIS SERVANT MAKES HIS OWN MAN HIS MASTER.
HE WHO THE SWORD OF HEAVEN WILL BEAR / SHOULD BE AS HOLY AS SEVERE.
"HE WHO TELLS A LIE IS NOT SENSIBLE HOW GREAT A TASK HE UNDERTAKES, FOR HE MUST BE FORCED TO INVENT TWENTY MORE TO MAINTAIN THAT ONE."
HE WHO SEETH NOT THE FILTHINESS OF EVIL WANTETH A GREAT FOIL TO PERCEIVE THE BEAUTY OF VIRTUE.
HE WHO MOCKS THE INFANT'S FAITH / SHALL BE MOCK'D IN AGE AND DEATH.
HE WHO MAKES RELIGION HIS FIRST OBJECT MAKES IT HIS WHOLE OBJECT.
"HE WHO LIVES WISELY TO HIMSELF AND HIS OWN HEART LOOKS AT THE BUSY WORLD THROUGH THE LOOPHOLES OF RETREAT, AND DOES NOT WANT TO MINGLE IN THE FRAY."
"HE WHO IS DEFICIENT IN THE ART OF SELECTION MAY, BY SHOWING NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, PRODUCE ALL THE EFFECT OF THE GROSSEST FALSEHOOD. IT PERPETUALLY HAPPENS THAT ONE WRITER TELLS LESS TRUTH THAN ANOTHER, MERELY BECAUSE HE TELLS MORE TRUTH."
"HE WHO DOES NOT IMAGINE IN STRONGER AND BETTER LINEAMENTS, AND IN STRONGER AND BETTER LIGHT THAN HIS PERISHING MORTAL EYE CAN SEE, DOES NOT IMAGINE AT ALL."
"HE WHO DOES EVIL THAT GOOD MAY COME, PAYS A TOLL TO THE DEVIL TO LET HIM INTO HEAVEN."
HE WHO DID WELL IN WAR JUST EARNS THE RIGHT / TO BEGIN DOING WELL IN PEACE.
HE WHO COMES UP TO HIS OWN IDEAL OF GREATNESS MUST ALWAYS HAVE HAD A VERY LOW STANDARD OF IT IN HIS MIND.
"HE WAS PERFUMED LIKE A MILLINER, / AND 'TWIXT HIS FINGER AND HIS THUMB HE HELD / A POUNCET-BOX, WHICH EVER AND ANON / HE GAVE HIS NOSE, AND TOOK 'T AWAY AGAIN."
"HE WAS NOT OF AN AGE, BUT FOR ALL TIME, / SWEET SWAN OF AVON."
"HE WAS EXHALED; HIS GREAT CREATOR DREW / HIS SPIRIT, AS THE SUN THE MORNING DEW."
"HE WAS A MAN, TAKE HIM FOR ALL IN ALL, / I SHALL NOT LOOK UPON HIS LIKE AGAIN."
"HE TRUDGED ALONG, UNKNOWING WHAT HE SOUGHT, / AND WHISTLED AS HE WENT, FOR WANT OF THOUGHT."
HE TRAVELS SAFE AND NOT UNPLEASANTLY WHO IS GUARDED BY POVERTY AND GUIDED BY LOVE.
"HE THAT WRONGS HIS FRIEND / WRONGS HIMSELF MORE, AND EVER BEARS ABOUT / A SILENT COURT OF JUSTICE IN HIS BREAST, / HIMSELF THE JUDGE AND JURY, AND HIMSELF / THE PRISONER AT THE BAR, EVER CONDEMNED."
HE THAT WRESTLES WITH US STRENGTHENS OUR NERVES AND SHARPENS OUR SKILL.
"HE THAT WOULD HAVE HIS VIRTUE PUBLISHED IS NOT THE SERVANT OF VIRTUE, BUT OF GLORY."
HE THAT WILL HAVE HIS SON HAVE A RESPECT FOR HIM MUST HAVE A GREAT REVERENCE FOR HIS SON.
HE THAT WILL CARRY NOTHING ABOUT HIM BUT GOLD WILL BE EVERY DAY AT A LOSS FOR READIER CHANGE.
"HE THAT WANTS MONEY, MEANS, AND CONTENT IS WITHOUT THREE GOOD FRIENDS."
HE THAT VOLUNTARILY CONTINUES IGNORANT IS GUILTY OF ALL THE CRIMES WHICH IGNORANCE PRODUCES.
"HE THAT UNDERVALUES HIMSELF WILL UNDERVALUE OTHERS, AND HE THAT UNDERVALUES OTHERS WILL OPPRESS THEM."
HE THAT TAKES AWAY REASON TO MAKE WAY FOR REVELATION PUTS OUT THE LIGHT OF BOTH.
HE THAT STANDS UPON A SLIPPERY PLACE / MAKES NICE OF NO VAIN HOLD TO STAY HIM UP.
"HE THAT NEEDS FIVE THOUSAND POUND TO LIVE, / IS FULL AS POOR AS HE THAT NEEDS BUT FIVE."
HE THAT LOVES CHRISTIANITY BETTER THAN TRUTH WILL SOON LOVE HIS OWN SECT OR PARTY BETTER THAN CHRISTIANITY.
"HE THAT LIVES MUST GROW OLD; AND HE THAT WOULD RATHER GROW OLD THAN DIE, HAS GOD TO THANK FOR THE INFIRMITIES OF OLD AGE."
"HE THAT LIVES IN PERPETUAL SUSPICION LIVES THE LIFE OF A SENTINEL, OF A SENTINEL NEVER RELIEVED."
"HE THAT IS ROBB'D, NOT WANTING WHAT IS STOLEN, / LET HIM NOT KNOW 'T, AND HE'S NOT ROBB'D AT ALL."
"HE THAT IMPOSES AN OATH MAKES IT, / NOT HE THAT FOR CONVENIENCE TAKES IT."
"HE THAT HATH BUT GAINED THE TITLE OF A JESTER, LET HIM ASSURE HIMSELF THE FOOL IS NOT FAR OFF."
"HE THAT HATH A WIFE AND CHILDREN HATH GIVEN HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE; FOR THEY ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO GREAT ENTERPRISES, EITHER OF VIRTUE OR MISCHIEF."
"HE THAT HATH A SATIRICAL VEIN, AS HE MAKETH OTHERS AFRAID OF HIS WIT, SO HE HATH NEED TO BE AFRAID OF OTHERS' MEMORY."
"HE THAT HATH A BEARD IS MORE THAN A YOUTH, AND HE THAT HATH NO BEARD IS LESS THAN A MAN."
HE THAT HAS LIGHT WITHIN HIS OWN CLEAR BREAST MAY SIT IN THE CENTRE AND ENJOY BRIGHT DAY.
HE THAT HAS BEEN TAUGHT ONLY BY HIMSELF HAS HAD A FOOL FOR A MASTER.
"HE THAT GETS PATIENCE, AND THE BLESSING WHICH / PREACHERS CONCLUDE WITH, HATH NOT LOST HIS PAINS."
"HE THAT FILCHES FROM ME MY GOOD NAME / ROBS ME OF THAT WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM, / AND MAKES ME POOR INDEED."
"HE THAT, EVER FOLLOWING HER (DUTY'S) COMMANDS, / ON WITH TOIL OF HEART AND KNEES AND HANDS, / THRO' THE LONG GORGE TO THE FAR LIGHT HAS WON / HIS PATH UPWARD, AND PREVAIL'D, / SHALL FIND THE TOPPLING CRAGS OF DUTY SCALED, / ARE CLOSE UPON THE SHINING TABLELANDS / TO WHICH OUR GOD HIMSELF IS MOON AND SUN."
"HE THAT DOTH THE RAVENS FEED, / YEA, PROVIDENTLY CATERS FOR THE SPARROW, / BE COMFORT TO MY AGE."
"HE THAT DEFERS HIS CHARITY UNTIL HE IS DEAD IS, IF A MAN WEIGHS IT RIGHTLY, RATHER LIBERAL OF ANOTHER MAN'S GOODS THAN HIS OWN."
"HE THAT COMPLIES AGAINST HIS WILL, / IS OF THE SAME OPINION STILL."
"HE THAT COMETH TO SEEK AFTER KNOWLEDGE WITH A MIND TO SCORN AND CENSURE, SHALL BE SURE TO FIND MATTER FOR HIS HUMOUR, BUT NONE FOR HIS INSTRUCTION."
"HE THAT CLAIMS, EITHER IN HIMSELF OR FOR ANOTHER, THE HONOURS OF PERFECTION WILL SURELY INJURE THE REPUTATION WHICH HE DESIGNS TO ASSIST."
HE THAT CAN HEROICALLY ENDURE ADVERSITY WILL BEAR PROSPERITY WITH EQUAL GREATNESS OF SOUL; FOR THE MIND THAT CANNOT BE DEJECTED BY THE FORMER IS NOT LIKELY TO BE TRANSPORTED BY THE LATTER.
"HE THAT, BY OFTEN ARGUING AGAINST HIS OWN SENSE, IMPOSES FALSEHOODS ON OTHERS, IS NOT FAR FROM BELIEVING THEM HIMSELF."
"HE SCARCE IS KNIGHT, YEA, BUT HALF-MAN, NOR MEET / TO FIGHT FOR GENTLE DAMSEL, HE WHO LETS / HIS HEART BE STIRR'D WITH ANY FOOLISH HEAT / AT ANY GENTLE DAMSEL'S WAYWARDNESS."
"HE RAIS'D A MORTAL TO THE SKIES, / SHE DREW AN ANGEL DOWN."
"HE PRAYETH BEST WHO LOVETH BEST / ALL THINGS, BOTH GREAT AND SMALL; / FOR THE DEAR LORD WHO LOVETH US, / HE MADE AND LOVETH ALL."
"HE ONLY IS ADVANCING IN LIFE WHOSE HEART IS GETTING SOFTER, WHOSE BLOOD WARMER, WHOSE BRAIN QUICKER, AND WHOSE SPIRIT IS ENTERING INTO LIVING PEACE."
HE MUST BE A THOROUGH FOOL WHO CAN LEARN NOTHING FROM HIS OWN FOLLY.
"HE LIVES WHO LIVES TO GOD ALONE, / AND ALL ARE DEAD BESIDE; / FOR OTHER SOURCE THAN GOD IS NONE / WHENCE LIFE CAN BE SUPPLIED."
HE LIVES TWICE WHO CAN AT ONCE EMPLOY / THE PRESENT WELL AND E'EN THE PAST ENJOY.
HE LIFE'S WAR KNOWS / WHOM ALL HIS PASSIONS FOLLOW AS HE GOES.
"HE LEFT A NAME AT WHICH THE WORLD GREW PALE, / TO POINT A MORAL OR ADORN A TALE."
"HE KNEW WHAT'S WHAT, AND THAT'S AS HIGH / AS METAPHYSIC WIT CAN FLY."
"HE IS WIT'S PEDLAR, AND RETAILS HIS WARES / AT WAKES AND WASSAILS, MEETINGS, MARKETS, FAIRS; / AND WE THAT SELL BY GROSS, THE LORD DOTH KNOW, / HAVE NOT THE GRACE TO GRACE IT WITH SUCH SHOW."
"HE IS THE HALF PART OF A BLESSÈD MAN, / LEFT TO BE FINISHÈD BY SUCH AS SHE; / AND SHE A FAIR DIVIDED EXCELLENCE, / WHOSE FULNESS OF PERFECTION LIES IN HIM."
HE IS THE GREATEST ARTIST WHO HAS EMBODIED IN THE SUM OF HIS WORKS THE GREATEST NUMBER OF THE GREATEST IDEAS.
"HE IS THE FREE MAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, / AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDES."
HE IS NO WISE MAN THAT WILL QUIT A CERTAINTY FOR AN UNCERTAINTY.
HE IS HAPPY WHOSE CIRCUMSTANCES SUIT HIS TEMPER; BUT HE IS MORE EXCELLENT WHO CAN SUIT HIS TEMPER TO ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
HE IS BUT THE COUNTERFEIT OF A MAN WHO HATH NOT THE LIFE OF A MAN.
HE IS BUT A BASTARD TO THE TIME / THAT DOTH NOT SMACK OF OBSERVATION.
HE IS A VERY VALIANT TRENCHERMAN; HE HATH AN EXCELLENT STOMACH.
"HE HATH A TEAR FOR PITY, AND A HAND / OPEN AS DAY FOR MELTING CHARITY."
"HE HATH A HEART AS SOUND AS A BELL, AND HIS TONGUE IS THE CLAPPER; FOR WHAT HIS HEART THINKS HIS TONGUE SPEAKS."
"HE HAD NEVER KINDLY HEART / NOR EVER CARED TO BETTER HIS OWN KIND, / WHO FIRST WROTE SATIRE WITH NO PITY IN IT."
HE DRAWETH OUT THE THREAD OF HIS VERBOSITY FINER THAN THE STAPLE OF HIS ARGUMENT.
HE DOES NOTHING WHO ENDEAVOURS TO DO MORE THAN IS ALLOWED TO HUMANITY.
HE COULD DISTINGUISH AND DIVIDE / A HAIR 'TWIXT SOUTH AND SOUTH-WEST SIDE.
HE COMETH UNTO YOU WITH A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY AND OLD MEN FROM THE CHIMNEY-CORNER.
"HAVING WASTE GROUND ENOUGH, / SHALL WE DESIRE TO RAZE THE SANCTUARY / AND PITCH OUR EVILS THERE?"
"HAVE YOU NOT HEARD IT SAID FULL OFT, / A WOMAN'S NAY DOTH STAND FOR NOUGHT?"
"HAVE YOU FOUND YOUR LIFE DISTASTEFUL? / MY LIFE DID, AND DOES, SMACK SWEET. / WAS YOUR YOUTH OF PLEASURE WASTEFUL? / MINE I SAVED AND HOLD COMPLETE. / DO YOUR JOYS WITH AGE DIMINISH? / WHEN MINE FAIL ME, I'LL COMPLAIN. / MUST IN DEATH YOUR DAYLIGHT FINISH? / MY SUN SETS TO RISE AGAIN."
HAVE MORE THAN THOU SHOWEST; / SPEAK LESS THAN THOU KNOWEST; / LEND LESS THAN THOU OWEST; / LEARN MORE THAN THOU TROWEST; / SET LESS THAN THOU THROWEST.
"HAVE I A RELIGION, HAVE I A COUNTRY, HAVE I A LOVE, THAT I AM READY TO DIE FOR? ARE THE FIRST TRIAL QUESTIONS TO ITSELF OF A TRUE SOUL."
"HATH NOT A JEW EYES? HATH NOT A JEW HANDS, ORGANS, DIMENSIONS, SENSES, AFFECTIONS, PASSIONS? FED WITH THE SAME FOOD, HURT WITH THE SAME WEAPONS, SUBJECT TO THE SAME DISEASES, HEALED BY THE SAME MEANS, WARMED AND COOLED BY THE SAME WINTER AND SUMMER, AS A CHRISTIAN IS? IF YOU PRICK US, DO WE NOT BLEED? IF YOU TICKLE US, DO WE NOT LAUGH? IF YOU POISON US, DO WE NOT DIE? AND IF YOU WRONG US, SHALL NOT WE REVENGE?"
HATH FORTUNE DEALT THEE ILL CARDS? LET WISDOM MAKE THEE A GOOD GAMESTER.
"HAPPY WHO IN HIS VERSE CAN GENTLY STEER, / FROM GRAVE TO LIGHT, FROM PLEASANT TO SEVERE."
"HAPPY THE MAN, AND HAPPY HE ALONE, / HE WHO CAN CALL TO-DAY HIS OWN; / HE WHO, SECURE WITHIN, CAN SAY, / TO-MORROW DO THY WORST, FOR I HAVE LIVED TO-DAY."
"HAPPY THAT I CAN / BE CROSSED AND THWARTED AS A MAN, / NOT LEFT IN GOD'S CONTEMPT APART, / WITH GHASTLY SMOOTH LIFE, DEAD AT HEART, / TAME IN EARTH'S PADDOCK, AS HER PRIZE."
HAPPY LOWLY CLOWN! / UNEASY LIES THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN!
HAPPY IS THE BOY WHOSE MOTHER IS TIRED OF TALKING NONSENSE TO HIM BEFORE HE IS OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW THE SENSE OF IT.
HAPPY IN THAT WE ARE NOT OVER-HAPPY; / ON FORTUNE'S CAP WE ARE NOT THE VERY BUTTON.
"HAPPY ARE THEY THAT HEAR THEIR DETRACTIONS, AND CAN PUT THEM TO MENDING."
"HAPPINESS IS LIKE THE STATUE OF ISIS, WHOSE VEIL NO MORTAL EVER RAISED."
"HAPPILY TO STEER / FROM GRAVE TO GAY, FROM LIVELY TO SEVERE."
"HANG CONSTANCY! YOU KNOW TOO MUCH OF THE WORLD TO BE CONSTANT, SURE."
"HANDSOMENESS IS THE MORE ANIMAL EXCELLENCE, BEAUTY THE MORE IMAGINATIVE."
"HALF THE LOGIC OF MISGOVERNMENT LIES IN THIS ONE SOPHISTICAL DILEMMA: IF THE PEOPLE ARE TURBULENT, THEY ARE UNFIT FOR LIBERTY; IF THEY ARE QUIET, THEY DO NOT WANT LIBERTY."
"HABITS LEAVE THEIR IMPRESS UPON THE MIND, EVEN AFTER THEY ARE GIVEN UP."
HABIT IS THE PURGATORY IN WHICH WE SUFFER FOR OUR PAST SINS.
GUARDS FROM OUTWARD HARMS ARE SENT; / ILLS FROM WITHIN THY REASON MUST PREVENT.
"GRIM-VISAGED WAR HATH SMOOTHED HIS WRINKLED FRONT.... HE CAPERS NIMBLY IN A LADY'S CHAMBER, / TO THE LASCIVIOUS PLEASING OF A LUTE."
"GRIEF, WHICH DISPOSES GENTLE NATURES TO RETIREMENT, TO INACTION, AND TO MEDITATION, ONLY MAKES RESTLESS SPIRITS MORE RESTLESS."
"GRIEF SHOULD BE THE INSTRUCTOR OF THE WISE; / SORROW IS KNOWLEDGE: THEY WHO KNOW THE MOST / MUST MOURN THE DEEPEST O'ER THE FATAL TRUTH, / THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE IS NOT THAT OF LIFE."
GRIEF IS THE AGONY OF AN INSTANT; THE INDULGENCE OF GRIEF THE BLUNDER OF A LIFE.
"GRIEF FILLS THE ROOM UP OF MY ABSENT CHILD, / LIES IN HIS BED, WALKS UP AND DOWN WITH ME; / PUTS ON HIS PRETTY LOOK, REPEATS HIS WORDS, / REMEMBERS ME OF ALL HIS GRACIOUS PARTS, / STUFFS OUT HIS VACANT GARMENTS WITH HIS FORM: / THEN HAVE I REASON TO BE FOND OF GRIEF."
"GRIEF BOUNDETH WHERE IT FALLS, / NOT WITH AN EMPTY HOLLOWNESS, BUT WEIGHT."
"GREEK ART, AND ALL OTHER ART, IS FINE WHEN IT MAKES A MAN'S FACE AS LIKE A MAN'S FACE AS IT CAN."
"GREATNESS OF MIND IS NOT SHOWN BY ADMITTING SMALL THINGS, BUT BY MAKING SMALL THINGS GREAT UNDER ITS INFLUENCE. HE WHO CAN TAKE NO INTEREST IN WHAT IS SMALL WILL TAKE FALSE INTEREST IN WHAT IS GREAT."
"GREATNESS IS NOT A TEACHABLE NOR GAINABLE THING, BUT THE EXPRESSION OF THE MIND OF A GOD-MADE MAN: TEACH, OR PREACH, OR LABOUR AS YOU WILL, EVERLASTING DIFFERENCE IS SET BETWEEN ONE MAN'S CAPACITY AND ANOTHER'S; AND THIS GOD-GIVEN SUPREMACY IS THE PRICELESS THING, ALWAYS JUST AS RARE IN THE WORLD AT ONE TIME AS ANOTHER.... AND NEARLY THE BEST THING THAT MEN CAN GENERALLY DO IS TO SET THEMSELVES, NOT TO THE ATTAINMENT, BUT THE DISCOVERY OF THIS: LEARNING TO KNOW GOLD, WHEN WE SEE IT, FROM IRON-GLANCE, AND DIAMOND FROM FLINT-SAND, BEING FOR MOST OF US A MORE PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT THAN TRYING TO MAKE DIAMONDS OF OUR OWN CHARCOAL."
"GREATNESS IS LIKE A LACED COAT FROM MONMOUTH STREET, WHICH FORTUNE LENDS US FOR A DAY TO WEAR, TO-MORROW PUTS IT ON ANOTHER'S BACK."
GREATNESS CAN ONLY BE RIGHTLY ESTIMATED WHEN MINUTENESS IS JUSTLY REVERENCED. GREATNESS IS THE AGGREGATION OF MINUTENESS; NOR CAN ITS SUBLIMITY BE FELT TRUTHFULLY BY ANY MIND UNACCUSTOMED TO THE AFFECTIONATE WATCHING OF WHAT IS LEAST.
"GREATLY TO FIND QUARREL IN A STRAW, / WHEN HONOUR'S AT THE STAKE."
"GREAT WORKS ARE PERFORMED, NOT BY STRENGTH, BUT BY PERSEVERANCE."
"GREAT WITS ARE SURE TO MADNESS NEAR ALLIED, / AND THIN PARTITIONS DO THEIR BOUNDS DIVIDE."
GREAT THINGS ARE DONE WHEN MEN AND MOUNTAINS MEET; / THESE ARE NOT DONE BY JOSTLING IN THE STREET.
GREAT SPIRITS AND GREAT BUSINESS DO KEEP OUT THIS WEAK PASSION
"GREAT SOULS FORGIVE NOT INJURIES TILL TIME HAS PUT THEIR ENEMIES WITHIN THEIR POWER, THAT THEY MAY SHOW FORGIVENESS IS THEIR OWN."
"GREAT REVOLUTIONS, WHATEVER MAY BE THEIR CAUSES, ARE NOT LIGHTLY COMMENCED, AND ARE NOT CONCLUDED WITH PRECIPITATION."
"GREAT POETS TRY TO DESCRIBE WHAT ALL MEN SEE AND TO EXPRESS WHAT ALL MEN FEEL; IF THEY CANNOT DESCRIBE IT, THEY LET IT ALONE."
GREAT MEN TOO OFTEN HAVE GREATER FAULTS THAN LITTLE MEN CAN FIND ROOM FOR.
"GREAT MEN SHOULD THINK OF OPPORTUNITY, AND NOT OF TIME. TIME IS THE EXCUSE OF FEEBLE AND PUZZLED SPIRITS."
"GREAT MEN NOT ONLY KNOW THEIR BUSINESS, BUT THEY USUALLY KNOW THAT THEY KNOW IT, AND ARE NOT ONLY RIGHT IN THEIR MAIN OPINIONS, BUT THEY USUALLY KNOW THAT THEY ARE RIGHT IN THEM."
"GREAT MEN MAY JEST WITH SAINTS; 'TIS WIT IN THEM, / BUT IN THE LESS, FOUL PROFANATION."
GREAT MEN LOSE SOMEWHAT OF THEIR GREATNESS BY BEING NEAR US; ORDINARY MEN GAIN MUCH.
GREAT MEN DO NOT PLAY STAGE TRICKS WITH THE DOCTRINES OF LIFE AND DEATH; ONLY LITTLE MEN DO THAT.
"GREAT LIES ARE AS GREAT AS GREAT TRUTHS, AND PREVAIL CONSTANTLY AND DAY AFTER DAY."
"GREAT JOY, ESPECIALLY AFTER A SUDDEN CHANGE AND REVOLUTION OF CIRCUMSTANCES, IS APT TO BE SILENT, AND DWELLS RATHER IN THE HEART THAN ON THE TONGUE."
"GREAT HONOURS ARE GREAT BURDENS; BUT ON WHOM / THEY'RE CAST WITH ENVY, HE DOTH BEAR TWO LOADS."
"GREAT GOD, I HAD RATHER BE / A PAGAN SUCKLED IN SOME CREED OUTWORN; / SO MIGHT I, STANDING ON THIS PLEASANT LEA, / HAVE GLIMPSES THAT WOULD MAKE ME LESS FORLORN."
"GREAT DEEDS CANNOT DIE; / THEY WITH THE SUN AND MOON RENEW THEIR LIGHT, / FOR EVER BLESSING THOSE THAT LOOK ON THEM."
"GREAT ART DWELLS IN ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL; BUT FALSE ART OMITS OR CHANGES ALL THAT IS UGLY. GREAT ART ACCEPTS NATURE AS SHE IS, BUT DIRECTS THE EYES AND THOUGHTS TO WHAT IS MOST PERFECT IN HER; FALSE ART SAVES ITSELF THE TROUBLE OF DIRECTION BY REMOVING OR ALTERING WHATEVER IS OBJECTIONABLE."
"GREAT ACTS GROW OUT OF GREAT OCCASIONS, AND GREAT OCCASIONS SPRING FROM GREAT PRINCIPLES, WORKING CHANGES IN SOCIETY AND TEARING IT UP BY THE ROOTS."
"GRATIANO SPEAKS AN INFINITE DEAL OF NOTHING.... HIS REASONS ARE AS TWO GRAINS OF WHEAT HID IN TWO BUSHELS OF CHAFF; YOU WILL SEEK ALL DAY ERE YOU FIND THEM; AND WHEN YOU HAVE THEM, THEY ARE NOT WORTH THE SEARCH."
"GRAVITY, WITH ALL ITS PRETENSIONS, WAS NO BETTER, BUT OFTEN WORSE, THAN WHAT A FRENCH WIT HAD LONG AGO DEFINED IT, VIZ., A MYSTERIOUS CARRIAGE OF THE BODY TO COVER THE DEFECTS OF THE MIND."
GRAVITY IS A TAUGHT TRICK TO GAIN CREDIT OF THE WORLD FOR MORE SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE THAN A MAN IS WORTH.
"GRACE WAS IN ALL HER STEPS, HEAV'N IN HER EYE, / IN EVERY GESTURE DIGNITY AND LOVE."
"GRACE IS A PLANT, WHERE'ER IT GROWS / OF PURE AND HEAVENLY ROOT; / BUT FAIREST IN THE YOUNGEST SHOWS, / AND YIELDS THE SWEETEST FRUIT."
GRACE HAS BEEN DEFINED THE OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF THE INWARD HARMONY OF THE SOUL.
"GRACE ABUSED BRINGS FORTH THE FOULEST DEEDS, / AS RICHEST SOIL THE MOST LUXURIANT WEEDS."
GOVERNMENT IS A CONTRIVANCE OF HUMAN WISDOM TO PROVIDE FOR HUMAN WANTS.
"GOVERNMENT AND CO-OPERATION ARE IN ALL THINGS THE LAWS OF LIFE; ANARCHY AND COMPETITION, THE LAWS OF DEATH."
GOSSIP IS A SORT OF SMOKE THAT COMES FROM THE DIRTY TOBACCO-PIPES OF THOSE WHO DIFFUSE IT; IT PROVES NOTHING BUT THE BAD TASTE OF THE SMOKER.
"GOODMAN FACT IS ALLOWED BY EVERYBODY TO BE A PLAIN-SPOKEN PERSON, AND A MAN OF VERY FEW WORDS; TROPES AND FIGURES ARE HIS AVERSION."
"GOOD WINE IS A GOOD FAMILIAR CREATURE, IF IT BE WELL USED."
"GOOD SHEPHERD, TELL THIS YOUTH WHAT 'TIS TO LOVE.... IT IS TO BE ALL MADE OF SIGHS AND TEARS.... IT IS TO BE ALL MADE OF FAITH AND SERVICE.... IT IS TO BE ALL MADE OF FANTASY, / ALL MADE OF PASSION, AND ALL MADE OF WISHES; / ALL ADORATION, DUTY, AND OBSERVANCE; / ALL HUMBLENESS, ALL PATIENCE, AND IMPATIENCE; / ALL PURITY, ALL TRIAL, ALL OBSERVANCE."
"GOOD-SENSE, WHICH ONLY IS THE GIFT OF HEAVEN, / AND THOUGH NO SCIENCE, FAIRLY WORTH THE SEVEN."
"GOOD-SENSE AND GOOD-NATURE ARE NEVER SEPARATED, THOUGH THE IGNORANT WORLD HAS THOUGHT OTHERWISE."
"GOOD QUALITIES ARE THE SUBSTANTIAL RICHES OF THE MIND, BUT IT IS GOOD-BREEDING THAT SETS THEM OFF TO ADVANTAGE."
"GOOD-NIGHT, GOOD-NIGHT; PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW / THAT I WILL SAY GOOD-NIGHT TILL IT BE TO-MORROW."
"GOOD-NATURE IS MORE AGREEABLE IN CONVERSATION THAN WIT, AND GIVES A CERTAIN AIR TO THE COUNTENANCE WHICH IS MORE AMIABLE THAN BEAUTY."
"GOOD-NATURE AND GOOD SENSE MUST EVER JOIN; / TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DIVINE."
"GOOD NAME IN MAN AND WOMAN, DEAR MY LORD, / IS THE IMMEDIATE JEWEL OF THEIR SOULS; / WHO STEALS MY PURSE, STEALS TRASH; 'TIS SOMETHING, NOTHING; / 'TWAS MINE, 'TIS HIS, AND HAS BEEN SLAVE TO THOUSANDS; / BUT HE THAT FILCHES FROM ME MY GOOD NAME, / ROBS ME OF THAT WHICH NOT ENRICHES HIM, / AND MAKES ME POOR INDEED."
"GOOD MEN ARE THE STARS, THE PLANETS OF THE AGES WHEREIN THEY LIVE, AND ILLUSTRATE THE TIMES."
GOOD-HUMOUR MAY BE SAID TO BE ONE OF THE VERY BEST ARTICLES OF DRESS ONE CAN WEAR IN SOCIETY.
GOOD-BREEDING SHOWS ITSELF MOST WHERE TO AN ORDINARY EYE IT APPEARS LEAST.
"GOOD-BREEDING IS THE RESULT OF MUCH GOOD SENSE, SOME GOOD NATURE, AND A LITTLE SELF-DENIAL FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS."
GOOD-BREEDING CARRIES ALONG WITH IT A DIGNITY THAT IS RESPECTED BY THE MOST PETULANT.
GOOD AND EVIL WILL GROW UP IN THIS WORLD TOGETHER; AND THEY WHO COMPLAIN IN PEACE OF THE INSOLENCE OF THE POPULACE MUST REMEMBER THAT THEIR INSOLENCE IN PEACE IS BRAVERY IN WAR.
"GOLD, WORSE POISON TO MEN'S SOULS, / DOING MORE MURDER IN THIS LOATHSOME WORLD, / THAN THESE POOR COMPOUNDS THAT THOU MAY'ST NOT SELL."
"GOLD IS CÆSAR'S TREASURE, MAN IS GOD'S; THY GOLD HATH CÆSAR'S IMAGE, AND THOU HAST GOD'S."
"GOLD IS A WONDERFUL CLEARER OF THE UNDERSTANDING; IT DISSIPATES EVERY DOUBT AND SCRUPLE IN AN INSTANT, ACCOMMODATES ITSELF TO THE MEANEST CAPACITIES, SILENCES THE LOUD AND CLAMOROUS, AND BRINGS OVER THE MOST OBSTINATE AND INFLEXIBLE."
"GOING BY RAILROAD I DO NOT CONSIDER AS TRAVELLING AT ALL; IT IS MERELY ""BEING SENT"" TO A PLACE, AND VERY LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM BECOMING A PARCEL."
"GODFREY SENT THE THIEF THAT STOLE THE CASH AWAY, / AND PUNISHED HIM THAT PUT IT IN HIS WAY."
"GOD'S JUSTICE, TARDY THOUGH IT PROVE PERCHANCE, / RESTS NEVER ON THE TRACK TILL IT REACH / DELINQUENCY."
GOD NEVER MEANT THAT MAN SHOULD SCALE THE HEAVENS / BY STRIDES OF HUMAN WISDOM.... HE COMMANDS US IN HIS WORD / TO SEEK HIM RATHER WHERE HIS MERCY SHINES.
"GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY / HIS WONDERS TO PERFORM; / HE PLANTS HIS FOOTSTEPS IN THE SEA, / AND RIDES UPON THE STORM."
"GOD MADE THE FLOWERS TO BEAUTIFY / THE EARTH AND CHEER MAN'S CAREFUL MOOD; / AND HE IS HAPPIEST WHO HATH POWER / TO GATHER WISDOM FROM A FLOWER, / AND WAKE HIS HEART IN EVERY HOUR / TO PLEASANT GRATITUDE."
"GOD IS THE PERFECT POET, / WHO IN HIS PERSON ACTS HIS OWN CREATIONS."
"GOD MADE ALL THE CREATURES, AND GAVE THEM OUR LOVE AND OUR FEAR, / TO GIVE SIGN WE AND THEY ARE HIS CHILDREN, ONE FAMILY HERE."
"GOD IS NOT TO BE KNOWN BY MARRING HIS FAIR WORKS AND BLOTTING OUT THE EVIDENCE OF HIS INFLUENCES UPON HIS CREATURES; NOT AMIDST THE HURRY OF CROWDS AND THE CRASH OF INNOVATION, BUT IN SOLITARY PLACES, AND OUT OF THE GLOWING INTELLIGENCES WHICH HE GAVE TO MEN OF OLD."
GOD IS ALPHA AND OMEGA IN THE GREAT WORLD; ENDEAVOUR TO MAKE HIM SO IN THE LITTLE WORLD.
"GOD HATH GIVEN YOU ONE FACE, AND YOU MAKE YOURSELVES ANOTHER: YOU JIG, YOU AMBLE, AND YOU LISP, AND YOU NICKNAME GOD'S CREATURES, AND MAKE YOUR WANTONNESS YOUR IGNORANCE."
"GOD HAS MADE MAN TO TAKE PLEASURE IN THE USE OF HIS EYES, WITS, AND BODY; AND THE FOOLISH CREATURE IS CONTINUALLY TRYING TO LIVE WITHOUT LOOKING AT ANYTHING, WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING, AND WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING."
GOD HAS LENT US THE EARTH FOR OUR LIFE; IT IS A GREAT ENTAIL.
"GOD HAS CONNECTED THE LABOUR WHICH IS ESSENTIAL TO THE BODILY SUSTENANCE WITH THE PLEASURES WHICH ARE HEALTHIEST FOR THE HEART; AND WHILE HE MADE THE GROUND STUBBORN, HE MADE ITS HERBAGE FRAGRANT AND ITS BLOSSOMS FAIR."
"GOD GIVES US LOVE. SOMETHING TO LOVE / HE LENDS US; BUT WHEN LOVE IS GROWN / TO RIPENESS, THAT ON WHICH IT THROVE / FALLS OFF, AND LOVE IS LEFT ALONE."
"GO, WONDROUS CREATURE, MOUNT WHERE SCIENCE GUIDES. / GO, MEASURE EARTH, WEIGH AIR, AND STATE THE TIDES; / INSTRUCT THE PLANETS IN WHAT ORBS TO RUN, / CORRECT OLD TIME, AND REGULATE THE SUN; / GO, TEACH ETERNAL WISDOM HOW TO RULE, / THEN DROP INTO THYSELF AND BE A FOOL."
"GO TO YOUR BOSOM; / KNOCK THERE, AND ASK YOUR HEART WHAT IT DOTH KNOW / THAT'S LIKE MY BROTHER'S FAULT; IF IT CONFESS / A NATURAL GUILTINESS, SUCH AS HIS IS, / LET IT NOT SOUND A THOUGHT UPON YOUR TONGUE / AGAINST MY BROTHER'S LIFE."
"GO, MISER, GO; FOR LUCRE SELL THY SOUL; / TRUCK WARES FOR WARES, AND TRUDGE FROM POLE TO POLE. / THAT MEN MAY SAY, WHEN THOU ART DEAD AND GONE: / ""SEE WHAT A VAST ESTATE HE LEFT HIS SON!"""
"GNATS ARE UNNOTICED WHERESO'ER THEY FLY, / BUT EAGLES GAZED UPON BY EVERY EYE."
GNARLING SORROW HATH LESS POWER TO BITE / THE MAN THAT MOCKS AT IT AND SETS IT LIGHT.
"GLUTTONY, WHERE IT PREVAILS, IS MORE VIOLENT, AND CERTAINLY MORE DESPICABLE, THAN AVARICE ITSELF."
"GLORY LONG HAS MADE THE SAGES SMILE, / 'TIS SOMETHING, NOTHING, WORDS, ILLUSION, WIND, / DEPENDING MORE UPON THE HISTORIAN'S STYLE / THAN ON THE NAME A PERSON LEAVES BEHIND."
"GLORY IS LIKE A CIRCLE IN THE WATER, / WHICH NEVER CEASETH TO ENLARGE ITSELF, / TILL, BY BROAD SPREADING, IT DISPERSE TO NAUGHT."
GLORY AND GAIN THE INDUSTRIOUS TRIBE PROVOKE; / AND GENTLE DULNESS EVER LOVES A JOKE.
"GLORIOUS MEN ARE THE SCORN OF WISE MEN, THE ADMIRATION OF FOOLS, THE IDOLS OF PARASITES, AND THE SLAVES OF THEIR OWN VAUNTS."
"GIVES NOT THE HAWTHORN BUSH A SWEETER SHADE / TO SHEPHERDS, LOOKING ON THEIR SILLY SHEEP, / THAN DOTH A RICH EMBROIDER'D CANOPY / TO KINGS THAT FEAR THEIR SUBJECTS' TREACHERY."
"GIVE YOU A REASON ON COMPULSION? IF REASONS WERE AS PLENTY AS BLACKBERRIES, I WOULD GIVE NO MAN A REASON UPON COMPULSION."
"GIVE UNTO ME, MADE LOWLY WISE, / THE SPIRIT OF SELF-SACRIFICE; / THE CONFIDENCE OF REASON GIVE; / AND IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH THY BONDMAN LET ME LIVE."
"GIVE THY THOUGHTS NO TONGUE, / NOR ANY UNPROPORTIONED THOUGHT HIS ACT. / BE THOU FAMILIAR, BUT BY NO MEANS VULGAR. / THE FRIENDS THOU HAST, AND THEIR ADOPTION TRIED, / GRAPPLE THEM TO THY SOUL WITH HOOPS OF STEEL; / BUT DO NOT DULL THY PALM WITH ENTERTAINMENT / OF EACH NEW-HATCH'D UNFLEDGED COMRADE."
"GIVE ME THE LIBERTY TO KNOW, TO THINK, TO BELIEVE, AND TO UTTER FREELY, ACCORDING TO CONSCIENCE, ABOVE ALL OTHER LIBERTIES."
"GIVE ME THAT MAN / WHO IS NOT PASSION'S SLAVE, AND I WILL WEAR HIM / IN MY HEART'S CORE, AY, IN MY HEART OF HEARTS."
"GIVE ME MY ROMEO: AND, WHEN HE SHALL DIE, / TAKE HIM AND CUT HIM OUT IN LITTLE STARS, / AND HE WILL MAKE THE FACE OF HEAVEN SO FINE / THAT ALL THE WORLD WILL BE IN LOVE WITH NIGHT, / AND PAY NO HOMAGE TO THE GARISH SUN."
"GIVE ME A LOOK, GIVE ME A FACE, / THAT MAKES SIMPLICITY A GRACE, / ROBES LOOSELY FLOWING, HAIR AS FREE; / SUCH SWEET NEGLECT MORE TAKETH ME, / THAN ALL THE ADULTERIES OF ART; / THEY STRIKE MINE EYES, BUT NOT MY HEART."
"GIVE ME AGAIN MY HOLLOW TREE, / A CRUST OF BREAD, AND LIBERTY."
"GIVE EVERY MAN THINE EAR, BUT FEW THY VOICE; / TAKE EACH MAN'S CENSURE, BUT RESERVE THY JUDGMENT."
"GET YOUR ENEMIES TO READ YOUR WORKS IN ORDER TO MEND THEM, FOR YOUR FRIEND IS SO MUCH YOUR SECOND SELF THAT HE WILL JUDGE TOO LIKE YOU."
"GET PLACE AND WEALTH, IF POSSIBLE, WITH GRACE; / IF NOT, BY ANY MEANS GET WEALTH AND PLACE."
"GET ON THE CRUPPER OF A GOOD STOUT HYPOTHESIS, AND YOU MAY RIDE ROUND THE WORLD."
GENUINE SIMPLICITY OF HEART IS A HEALING AND CEMENTING PRINCIPLE.
"GENTLY DIDST THOU RAMBLE ROUND THE LITTLE CIRCLE OF THY PLEASURES, JOSTLING NO CREATURE IN THY WAY: FOR EACH ONE'S SORROWS THOU HADST A TEAR; FOR EACH MAN'S NEED THOU HADST A SHILLING."
GENTLY COMES THE WORLD TO THOSE / THAT ARE CAST IN GENTLE MOULD.
"GENTLEMEN HAVE TO LEARN THAT IT IS NO PART OF THEIR DUTY OR PRIVILEGE TO LIVE ON OTHER PEOPLE'S TOIL; THAT THERE IS NO DEGRADATION IN THE HARDEST MANUAL OR THE HUMBLEST SERVILE LABOUR, WHEN IT IS HONEST."
"GENTLEMAN, IN ITS PRIMAL, LITERAL, AND PERPETUAL MEANING, IS A MAN OF PURE RACE."
"GENIUS, THE PYTHIAN OF THE BEAUTIFUL, LEAVES ITS LARGE TRUTHS A RIDDLE TO THE DULL."
GENIUS ONLY COMMANDS RECOGNITION WHEN IT HAS CREATED THE TASTE WHICH IS TO APPRECIATE IT.
GENIUS IS THE POWER OF CARRYING THE FEELINGS OF CHILDHOOD INTO THE POWERS OF MANHOOD.
"GENERALLY ALL WARLIKE PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE IDLE, AND LOVE DANGER BETTER THAN TRAVAIL."
"GAVE / HIS BODY TO THAT PLEASANT COUNTRY'S EARTH, / AND HIS PURE SOUL UNTO HIS CAPTAIN CHRIST, / UNDER WHOSE COLOURS HE HAD FOUGHT SO LONG."
GAIETY OVERPOWERS WEAK SPIRITS; GOOD-HUMOUR RECREATES AND REVIVES THEM.
"FURTHER I WILL NOT FLATTER YOU, / THAT ALL I SEE IN YOU IS WORTHY LOVE, / THAN THIS; THAT NOTHING DO I SEE IN YOU / THAT SHOULD MERIT HATE."
FULL TWENTY TIMES WAS PETER FEAR'D / FOR ONCE THAT PETER WAS RESPECTED.
"FULL SELDOM DOTH A MAN REPENT, OR USE / BOTH GRACE AND WILL TO PICK THE VICIOUS QUITCH / OF BLOOD AND CUSTOM WHOLLY OUT OF HIM, / AND MAKE ALL CLEAN, AND PLANT HIMSELF AFRESH."
FULL OFT HAVE LETTERS CAUSED THE WRITERS / TO CURSE THE DAY THEY WERE INDITERS.
"FULL MANY A STOIC EYE AND ASPECT STERN / MASKS HEARTS WHERE GRIEF HAS LITTLE LEFT TO LEARN; / AND MANY A WITHERING THOUGHT LIES HID, NOT LOST, / IN SMILES THAT LEAST BEFIT WHO WEARS THEM MOST."
"FRUGALITY MAY BE TERMED THE DAUGHTER OF PRUDENCE, THE SISTER OF TEMPERANCE, AND THE PARENT OF LIBERTY."
FRUGALITY IS FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT ALL RICHES HAVE LIMITS.
"FROM YON BLUE HEAVEN ABOVE US BENT, / THE GRAND OLD GARDENER AND HIS WIFE / SMILE AT THE CLAIMS OF LONG DESCENT."
"FROM WOMEN'S EYES THIS DOCTRINE I DERIVE: / THEY SPARKLE STILL THE RIGHT PROMETHEAN FIRE; / THEY ARE THE BOOKS, THE ARTS, THE ACADEMES, / THAT SHOW, CONTAIN, AND NOURISH ALL THE WORLD; / ELSE NONE AT ALL IN AUGHT PROVES EXCELLENT."
"FROM THEE, GREAT GOD, WE SPRING, TO THEE WE TEND, / PATH, MOTIVE, GUIDE, ORIGINAL AND END."
"FROM THE BEGINNING AND TO THE END OF TIME, LOVE READS WITHOUT LETTERS AND COUNTS WITHOUT ARITHMETIC."
"FROM STRATAGEM TO STRATAGEM WE RUN, / AND HE KNOWS MOST WHO LATEST IS UNDONE; / AN HONEST MAN WILL TAKE A KNAVE'S ADVICE, / BUT IDIOTS ONLY WILL BE COZENED TWICE."
"FROM LOWEST PLACE WHERE VIRTUOUS THINGS PROCEED, / THE PLACE IS DIGNIFIED BY THE DOER'S DEED."
FRIENDSHIP'S THE WINE OF LIFE; BUT FRIENDSHIP NEW IS NEITHER STRONG NOR PURE.
FRIENDSHIP IS TOO PURE A PLEASURE FOR A MIND CANKERED WITH AMBITION OR THE LUST OF POWER AND GRANDEUR.
"FRIENDSHIP IS CONSTANT IN ALL OTHER THINGS, / SAVE IN THE OFFICE AND AFFAIRS OF LOVE; / THEREFORE, ALL HEARTS IN LOVE USE THEIR OWN TONGUES; / LET EVERY EYE NEGOTIATE FOR ITSELF, / AND TRUST NO AGENT."
"FRIENDSHIP IS A VASE, WHICH, WHEN IT IS FLAWED BY HEAT, OR VIOLENCE, OR ACCIDENT, MAY AS WELL BE BROKEN AT ONCE; IT NEVER CAN BE TRUSTED AFTER."
"FRESH AS A BRIDEGROOM, AND HIS CHIN, NEW REAP'D, / SHOW'D LIKE A STUBBLE-FIELD AT HARVEST-HOME; / HE WAS PERFUMÉD LIKE A MILLINER, / AND 'TWIXT HIS FINGER AND HIS THUMB HE HELD / A POUNCET-BOX, WHICH EVER AND ANON / HE GAVE HIS NOSE, AND TOOK 'T AWAY AGAIN."
FREQUENT AND LOUD LAUGHTER IS THE CHARACTERISTIC OF FOLLY AND ILL-MANNERS.
FREE GOVERNMENTS HAVE COMMITTED MORE FLAGRANT ACTS OF TYRANNY THAN THE MOST PERFECT DESPOTIC GOVERNMENTS WHICH WE HAVE EVER KNOWN.
FREEDOM IS ONLY GRANTED US THAT OBEDIENCE MAY BE MORE PERFECT.
"FREEDOM HAS A THOUSAND CHARMS TO SHOW, / THAT SLAVES, HOWE'ER CONTENTED, NEVER KNOW."
"FOUL DEEDS WILL RISE, / THOUGH ALL THE EARTH O'ERWHELM THEM, TO MEN'S EYES."
"FOUL CANKERING RUST THE HIDDEN TREASURE FRETS; / BUT GOLD THAT'S PUT TO USE, MORE GOLD BEGETS."
"FORWARD, FORWARD LET US RANGE, / LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN FOR EVER DOWN THE RINGING GROOVES OF CHANGE."
"FORTUNE REIGNS IN THE GIFTS OF THE WORLD, NOT IN THE LINEAMENTS OF NATURE."
"FORTUNE IS LIKE THE MARKET, WHERE MANY TIMES, IF YOU CAN STAY A LITTLE, THE PRICE WILL FALL."
"FORTITUDE IS THE MARSHAL OF THOUGHT, THE ARMOUR OF THE WILL, AND THE FORT OF REASON."
"FORGIVENESS TO THE INJURED DOES BELONG, / BUT THEY NE'ER PARDON WHO HAVE DONE THE WRONG."
"FOR YOUTH NO LESS BECOMES / THE LIGHT AND CARELESS LIVERY THAT IT WEARS, / THAN SETTLED AGE HIS SABLES AND HIS WEEDS, / IMPORTING HEALTH AND GRAVENESS."
"FOR WHO WOULD LOSE, / THOUGH FULL OF PAIN, THIS INTELLECTUAL BEING, / THOSE THOUGHTS THAT WANDER THROUGH ETERNITY; / TO PERISH RATHER, SWALLOWED UP AND LOST, / IN THE WIDE WOMB OF UNCREATED NIGHT?"
FOR WHERE IS ANY AUTHOR IN THE WORLD / TEACHES SUCH BEAUTY AS A WOMAN'S EYE?
"FOR WHEN DISPUTES ARE WEARIED OUT, / 'TIS INTEREST STILL RESOLVES THE DOUBT."
"FOR WHAT THOU HAST NOT, STILL THOU STRIV'ST TO GET, / AND WHAT THOU HAST, FORGETST."
"FOR WHAT ARE MEN WHO GRASP AT PRAISE SUBLIME, / BUT BUBBLES ON THE RAPID STREAM OF TIME, / THAT RISE AND FALL, THAT SWELL AND ARE NO MORE, / BORN AND FORGOT, TEN THOUSAND IN AN HOUR."
FOR WEALTH IS ALL THINGS THAT CONDUCE / TO MAN'S DESTRUCTION OR HIS USE; / A STANDARD BOTH TO BUY AND SELL / ALL THINGS FROM HEAVEN DOWN TO HELL.
FOR VIRTUE'S SELF MAY TOO MUCH ZEAL BE HAD; / THE WORST OF MADMEN IS A SAINT RUN MAD.
"FOR US, THE WINDS DO BLOW, / THE EARTH DOTH REST, HEAVEN MOVE, AND FOUNTAINS FLOW; / NOTHING WE SEE BUT MEANS OUR GOOD, / AS OUR DELIGHT, OR AS OUR TREASURE; / THE WHOLE IS EITHER OUR CUPBOARD OF FOOD, / OR CABINET OF PLEASURE."
"FOR USE ALMOST CAN CHANGE THE STAMP OF NATURE, / AND EITHER CURB THE DEVIL OR THROW HIM OUT / WITH WONDROUS POTENCY."
"FOR TRUTH IS PRECIOUS AND DIVINE, / TOO RICH A PEARL FOR CARNAL SWINE."
"FOR TRUTH HAS SUCH A FACE AND SUCH A MIEN, / AS TO BE LOVED NEEDS ONLY TO BE SEEN."
"FOR 'TIS THE MIND THAT MAKES THE BODY RICH: / AND AS THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH THE DARKEST CLOUDS, / SO HONOUR PEERETH IN THE MEANEST HABIT."
"FOR 'TIS A TRUTH WELL KNOWN TO MOST, / THAT WHATSOEVER THING IS LOST, / WE SEEK IT, ERE IT COMES TO LIGHT, / IN EVERY CRANNY BUT THE RIGHT."
FOR THERE WAS NEVER YET PHILOSOPHER / THAT COULD ENDURE THE TOOTHACHE PATIENTLY.
"FOR THE APOTHEOSIS OF REASON WE HAVE SUBSTITUTED THAT OF INSTINCT; AND WE CALL EVERYTHING INSTINCT WHICH WE FIND IN OURSELVES, AND FOR WHICH WE CANNOT TRACE ANY RATIONAL FOUNDATION."
"FOR SOLITUDE SOMETIMES IS BEST SOCIETY, / AND SHORT RETIREMENT URGES SWEET RETURN."
"FOR RHYME THE RUDDER IS OF VERSES, / WITH WHICH, LIKE SHIPS, THEY STEER THEIR COURSES."
"FOR RHETORIC, HE COULD NOT OPE / HIS MOUTH, BUT OUT THERE FLEW A TROPE."
"FOR PLEASURES PAST I DO NOT GRIEVE, / NOR PERILS GATHERING NEAR; / MY GREATEST GRIEF IS THAT I LEAVE / NOTHING THAT CLAIMS A TEAR."
"FOR NOUGHT SO VILE THAT ON THE EARTH DOTH LIVE, / BUT TO THE EARTH SOME SPECIAL GOOD DOTH GIVE; / NOR AUGHT SO GOOD, BUT STRAIN'D FROM THAT FAIR USE, / REVOLTS FROM TRUE BIRTH, STUMBLING ON ABUSE."
"FOR MY NAME AND MEMORY I LEAVE TO MEN'S CHARITABLE SPEECHES, TO FOREIGN NATIONS, AND TO THE NEXT AGES."
"FOR MY MEANS, I'LL HUSBAND THEM SO WELL, / THEY SHALL GO FAR WITH LITTLE."
"FOR MURDER, THOUGH IT HATH NO TONGUE, WILL SPEAK / WITH MOST MIRACULOUS ORGAN."
FOR MODES OF FAITH LET GRACELESS ZEALOTS FIGHT; / HIS CAN'T BE WRONG WHOSE LIFE IS IN THE RIGHT.
"FOR MEN ARE BROUGHT TO WORSE DISEASES / BY TAKING PHYSIC THAN DISEASES, / AND THEREFORE COMMONLY RECOVER / AS SOON AS DOCTORS GIVE THEM OVER."
"FOR LOVE OF GRACE, / LAY NOT THE FLATTERING UNCTION TO YOUR SOUL / THAT NOT YOUR TRESPASS BUT MY MADNESS SPEAKS."
"FOR LET OUR FINGER ACHE, AND IT ENDUES / OUR OTHER HEALTHFUL MEMBERS EV'N TO THAT SENSE / OF PAIN."
"FOR IT SO FALLS OUT, / THAT WHAT WE HAVE WE PRIZE NOT TO THE WORTH / WHILE WE ENJOY IT, BUT BEING LACK'D AND LOST, / WHY, THEN WE RACK THE VALUE."
"FOR I SAY THIS IS DEATH, AND THE SOLE DEATH, / WHEN A MAN'S LOSS COMES TO HIM FROM HIS GAIN, / DARKNESS FROM LIGHT, FROM KNOWLEDGE IGNORANCE, / AND LACK OF LOVE FROM LOVE MADE MANIFEST."
FOR HE LIVES TWICE WHO CAN AT ONCE EMPLOY / THE PRESENT WELL AND E'EN THE PAST ENJOY.
FOR HE IS BUT A BASTARD TO THE TIME / THAT DOTH NOT SMACK OF OBSERVATION.
"FOR HE, BY GEOMETRIC SCALE, / COULD TAKE THE SIZE OF POTS OF ALE."
"FOR HE BEING DEAD, WITH HIM IS BEAUTY SLAIN, / AND, BEAUTY DEAD, BLACK CHAOS COMES AGAIN."
"FOR GLANCES BEGET OGLES, OGLES SIGHS, / SIGHS WISHES, WISHES WORDS, AND WORDS A LETTER; / AND THEN GOD KNOWS WHAT MISCHIEF MAY ARISE / WHEN LOVE LINKS TWO YOUNG PEOPLE IN ONE FETTER."
"FOR FREEDOM'S BATTLE, ONCE BEGUN, / BEQUEATH'D BY BLEEDING SIRE TO SON, / THOUGH BAFFLED OFT, IS EVER WON."
FOR FORMS OF GOVERNMENT LET FOOLS CONTEST; / WHATE'ER IS BEST ADMINISTERED IS BEST.
"FOR FATE HAS WOVE THE THREAD OF LIFE WITH PAIN, / AND TWINS E'EN FROM THE BIRTH ARE MISERY AND MAN."
"FOR CONTEMPLATION HE AND VALOUR FORM'D, / FOR SOFTNESS SHE AND SWEET ATTRACTIVE GRACE; / HE FOR GOD ONLY, SHE FOR GOD IN HIM, / HIS FAIR LARGE FRONT AND EYE SUBLIME DECLARED."
"FOR CAPTIVITY, PERHAPS YOUR POOR WATCHDOG IS AS SORROWFUL A TYPE AS YOU WILL EASILY FIND."
"FOR BEHAVIOUR, MEN LEARN IT, AS THEY TAKE DISEASES, ONE OF ANOTHER."
"FOR AUGHT THAT EVER I COULD READ, / COULD EVER HEAR BY TALE OR HISTORY, / THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH."
"FOR AUGHT I SEE, THEY ARE AS SICK THAT SURFEIT WITH TOO MUCH AS THEY THAT STARVE WITH NOTHING."
"FOR AS A FLY THAT GOES TO BED / RESTS WITH HIS TAIL ABOVE HIS HEAD, / SO, IN THIS MONGREL STATE OF OURS, / THE RABBLE ARE THE SUPREME POWERS."
FOR ALL MEN LIVE AND JUDGE AMISS / WHOSE TALENTS DO NOT JUMP WITH HIS.
"FOR ALL HE DID HE HAD A REASON, / FOR ALL HE SAID, A WORD IN SEASON; / AND READY EVER WAS TO QUOTE / AUTHORITIES FOR WHAT HE WROTE."
FOR ALL A RHETORICIAN'S RULES / TEACH NOTHING BUT TO NAME HIS TOOLS.
"FOOLS GRANT WHATE'ER AMBITION CRAVES, / AND MEN, ONCE IGNORANT, ARE SLAVES."
"FOOL, NOT TO KNOW THAT LOVE ENDURES NO TIE, / AND JOVE BUT LAUGHS AT LOVERS' PERJURY."
"FOOL NOT; FOR ALL MAY HAVE, / IF THEY DARE TRY, A GLORIOUS LIFE OR GRAVE."
"FOOD CAN ONLY BE GOT OUT OF THE GROUND, OR THE AIR, OR THE SEA."
"FOLLY, LETTING DOWN BUCKETS INTO EMPTY WELLS, AND GROWING OLD WITH DRAWING NOTHING UP."
"FOLLY, AS IT GROWS IN YEARS, / THE MORE EXTRAVAGANT APPEARS."
FOLKS MUST PUT UP WITH THEIR OWN KIN AS THEY PUT UP WITH THEIR OWN NOSES.
FOLKS AS HAVE NO MIND TO BE O' USE HAVE ALWAYS THE LUCK TO BE OUT O' THE ROAD WHEN THERE'S ANYTHING TO BE DONE.
"FLY IDLENESS, WHICH YET THOU CANST NOT FLY / BY DRESSING, MISTRESSING, AND COMPLIMENT. / IF THESE TAKE UP THY DAY, THE SUN WILL CRY / AGAINST THEE; FOR HIS LIGHT WAS ONLY LENT."
"FLOWERS OF RHETORIC IN SERMONS AND SERIOUS DISCOURSES ARE LIKE THE BLUE AND RED FLOWERS IN CORN, PLEASING TO THOSE WHO COME ONLY FOR AMUSEMENT, BUT PREJUDICIAL TO HIM WHO WOULD REAP PROFIT FROM IT."
"FLATTERY CORRUPTS BOTH THE RECEIVER AND THE GIVER, AND ADULATION IS NOT OF MORE SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE THAN TO KINGS."
"FLAMES RISE AND SINK BY FITS; AT LAST THEY SOAR / IN ONE BRIGHT FLAME, AND THEN RETURN NO MORE."
"FIXED LIKE A PLANT ON HIS PECULIAR SPOT, / TO DRAW NUTRITION, PROPAGATE, AND ROT."
"FIX'D TO NO SPOT IS HAPPINESS SINCERE; / 'TIS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, OR EVERYWHERE."
"FIVE GREAT INTELLECTUAL PROFESSIONS HAVE HITHERTO EXISTED IN EVERY CIVILISED NATION: THE SOLDIER'S, TO DEFEND IT; THE PASTOR'S, TO TEACH IT; THE PHYSICIAN'S, TO KEEP IT IN HEALTH; THE LAWYER'S, TO ENFORCE JUSTICE IN IT; AND THE MERCHANT'S, TO PROVIDE FOR IT; AND THE DUTY OF ALL THESE MEN IS, ON DUE OCCASION, TO DIE FOR IT."
"FIRST ASSAY / TO STUFF THY MIND WITH SOLID BRAVERY; / THEN MARCH ON GALLANT: GET SUBSTANTIAL WORTH: / BOLDNESS GILDS FINELY, AND WILL SET IT FORTH."
FINE SENSE AND EXALTED SENSE ARE NOT HALF SO USEFUL AS COMMON SENSE.
"FINE ART IS THAT IN WHICH THE HAND, THE HEAD, AND THE HEART OF MAN GO TOGETHER; THE HEAD INFERIOR TO THE HEART, AND THE HAND INFERIOR TO BOTH HEART AND HEAD."
"FICTION LAGS AFTER TRUTH, INVENTION IS UNFRUITFUL, AND IMAGINATION COLD AND BARREN."
FEW THINGS ARE MORE UNPLEASANT THAN THE TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH MEN WHO ARE ABOVE KNOWING OR CARING WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO.
"FEW OF THE MANY WISE APOTHEGMS WHICH HAVE BEEN UTTERED, FROM THE TIME OF THE SEVEN SAGES OF GREECE TO THAT OF POOR RICHARD, HAVE PREVENTED A SINGLE FOOLISH ACTION."
FELL SORROW'S TOOTH DOTH NEVER RANKLE MORE / THAN WHEN IT BITES BUT LANCETH NOT THE SORE.
FEED NO MAN IN HIS SINS; FOR ADULATION / DOTH MAKE THEE PARCEL-DEVIL IN DAMNATION.
"FEAR'S A LARGE PROMISER; WHO SUBJECT LIVE / TO THAT BASE PASSION, KNOW NOT WHAT THEY GIVE."
"FEAR TO DO BASE, UNWORTHY THINGS IS VALOUR; / IF THEY BE DONE TO US, TO SUFFER THEM / IS VALOUR TOO."
FEAR NOT WHERE HEAVEN BIDS COME; / HEAVEN'S NEVER DEAF BUT WHEN MAN'S HEART IS DUMB.
"FEAR IS THE UNDERMINER OF ALL DETERMINATIONS; AND NECESSITY, THE VICTORIOUS REBEL OF ALL LAWS."
FEAR IS FAR MORE PAINFUL TO COWARDICE THAN DEATH TO TRUE COURAGE.
FAVOURABLE CHANCE IS THE GOD OF ALL MEN WHO FOLLOW THEIR OWN DEVICES INSTEAD OF OBEYING A LAW THEY BELIEVE IN.
FATHERS THAT WEAR RAGS / DO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN BLIND; / BUT FATHERS THAT WEAR BAGS / DO MAKE THEIR CHILDREN KIND.
FATHERS FIRST ENTER BONDS TO NATURE'S ENDS; / AND ARE HER SURETIES ERE THEY ARE A FRIEND'S.
"FATHERS ALONE A FATHER'S HEART CAN KNOW, / WHAT SECRET TIDES OF SWEET ENJOYMENT FLOW / WHEN BROTHERS LOVE! BUT IF THEIR HATE SUCCEEDS, / THEY WAGE THE WAR, BUT 'TIS THE FATHER BLEEDS."
"FATHER OF ALL! IN EVERY AGE, / IN EVERY CLIME ADORED, / BY SAINT, BY SAVAGE, AND BY SAGE, / JEHOVAH, JOVE, OR LORD."
"FATE STEALS ALONG WITH SILENT TREAD, / FOUND OFTENEST IN WHAT LEAST WE DREAD; / FROWNS IN THE STORM WITH ANGRY BROW, / BUT IN THE SUNSHINE STRIKES THE BLOW."
"FATE MADE ME WHAT I AM, MAY MAKE ME NOTHING; / BUT EITHER THAT OR NOTHING MUST I BE; / I WILL NOT LIVE DEGRADED."
"FAT PAUNCHES MAKE LEAN PATES, AND DAINTY BITS / MAKE RICH THE RIBS, BUT BANKRUPT QUITE THE WITS."
"FASTER THAN HIS TONGUE / DID MAKE OFFENCE, HIS EYE DID HEAL IT UP."
"FASHION IS THE SCIENCE OF APPEARANCES, AND IT INSPIRES ONE WITH THE DESIRE TO SEEM RATHER THAN TO BE."
"FASHION IS GENTILITY RUNNING AWAY FROM VULGARITY, AND AFRAID TO BE OVERTAKEN BY IT. IT IS A SIGN THAT THE TWO THINGS ARE NOT FAR ASUNDER."
"FASHION IS, FOR THE MOST PART, NOTHING BUT THE OSTENTATION OF RICHES."
FASHION BEGINS AND ENDS IN TWO THINGS IT ABHORS MOST--SINGULARITY AND VULGARITY.
"FAREWELL THE TRANQUIL MIND! FAREWELL CONTENT! / FAREWELL THE PLUMED TROOP AND THE BIG WARS / THAT MAKE AMBITION VIRTUE! OH, FAREWELL! / FAREWELL THE NEIGHING STEED AND THE SHRILL TRUMP, / THE SPIRIT-STIRRING DRUM, THE EAR-PIERCING FIFE, / THE ROYAL BANNER, AND ALL QUALITY, / PRIDE, POMP, AND CIRCUMSTANCE OF GLORIOUS WAR!"
"FAREWELL, HAPPY FIELDS, / WHERE JOY FOR EVER DWELLS; HAIL, HORROR, HAIL!"
"FAREWELL! GOD KNOWS WHEN WE SHALL MEET AGAIN. / I HAVE A FAINT COLD FEAR THRILLS THROUGH MY VEINS, / THAT ALMOST FREEZES UP THE HEAT OF LIFE."
"FARE THEE WELL! AND IF FOR EVER, / STILL FOR EVER FARE THEE WELL! / E'EN THOUGH UNFORGIVING, NEVER / 'GAINST THEE SHALL MY HEART REBEL."
"FAR GREATER NUMBERS HAVE BEEN LOST BY HOPES / THAN ALL THE MAGAZINES OF DAGGERS, ROPES, / AND OTHER AMMUNITIONS OF DESPAIR, / WERE EVER ABLE TO DESPATCH BY FEAR."
FAR FROM ALL RESORT OF MIRTH / SAVE THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH.
"FANCY IS CAPRICIOUS; WIT MUST NOT BE SEARCHED FOR, AND PLEASANTRY WILL NOT COME IN AT A CALL."
"FANATICISM, SOBERLY DEFINED, / IS THE FALSE FIRE OF AN O'ERHEATED MIND."
"FAME WITH MEN, / BEING BUT AMPLER MEANS TO SERVE MANKIND, / SHOULD HAVE SMALL REST OR PLEASURE IN HERSELF, / BUT WORK AS VASSAL TO THE LARGER LOVE, / THAT DWARFS THE PETTY LOVE OF ONE TO ONE."
"FAME IS THE SPUR THAT THE CLEAR SPIRIT DOTH RAISE, / (THAT LAST INFIRMITY OF NOBLE MINDS,) / TO SCORN DELIGHTS AND LIVE LABORIOUS DAYS."
"FAME IS A SHUTTLECOCK. IF IT BE STRUCK ONLY AT ONE END OF A ROOM, IT WILL SOON FALL TO THE FLOOR. TO KEEP IT UP, IT MUST BE STRUCK AT BOTH ENDS."
"FALLS HAVE THEIR RISINGS, WANINGS HAVE THEIR PRIMES, / AND DESPERATE SORROWS WAIT FOR BETTER TIMES."
FALLACIES WE ARE APT TO PUT UPON OURSELVES BY TAKING WORDS FOR THINGS.
"FAITH BUILDS A BRIDGE ACROSS THE GULF OF DEATH, / TO BREAK THE SHOCK BLIND NATURE CANNOT SHUN, / AND LANDS THOUGHT SMOOTHLY ON THE FARTHER SHORE."
"FAIREST OF STARS, LAST IN THE TRAIN OF NIGHT, / IF BETTER THOU BELONG NOT TO THE DAWN."
"FAIR TRESSES MAN'S IMPERIAL RACE ENSNARE, / AND BEAUTY DRAWS US WITH A SINGLE HAIR."
FACTS ARE APT TO ALARM US MORE THAN THE MOST DANGEROUS PRINCIPLES.
"EYES NOT DOWN-DROPP'D NOR OVER-BRIGHT, BUT FED WITH THE CLEAR-POINTED FLAME OF CHASTITY."
"EYE NATURE'S WALKS, SHOOT FOLLY AS IT FLIES, / AND CATCH THE MANNERS LIVING AS THEY RISE."
EXTREMES IN NATURE EQUAL ENDS PRODUCE; / IN MAN THEY JOIN TO SOME MYSTERIOUS USE.
"EXTREME IN ALL THINGS! HADST THOU BEEN BETWIXT, / THY THRONE HAD STILL BEEN THINE, OR NEVER BEEN."
EXTERNAL MANNERS OF LAMENT / ARE MERELY SHADOWS TO THE UNSEEN GRIEF / THAT SWELLS WITH SILENCE IN THE TORTURED SOUL.
"EXTENDED EMPIRE, LIKE EXPANDED GOLD, EXCHANGES SOLID STRENGTH FOR FEEBLE SPLENDOUR."
"EXPERT MEN CAN EXECUTE, BUT LEARNED MEN ARE MORE FIT TO JUDGE AND CENSURE."
"EXPERIENCE TO MOST MEN IS LIKE THE STERN-LIGHTS OF A SHIP, WHICH ILLUMINE ONLY THE TRACK IT HAS PASSED."
"EXPERIENCE, A JEWEL THAT I HAVE PURCHASED AT AN INFINITE RATE."
EXCUSING OF A FAULT / DOTH MAKE THE FAULT WORSE BY THE EXCUSE.
"EXCELLENT WRETCH! PERDITION CATCH MY SOUL, / BUT I DO LOVE THEE! AND WHEN I LOVE THEE NOT, / CHAOS IS COME AGAIN."
"EXAMPLES WOULD INDEED BE EXCELLENT THINGS, WERE NOT PEOPLE SO MODEST THAT NONE WILL SET THEM, AND SO VAIN THAT NONE WILL FOLLOW THEM."
"EXAMPLE IS THE SCHOOL OF MANKIND, AND THEY WILL LEARN AT NO OTHER."
"EXAMINE THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES WHICH HAVE, IN FACT, PREVAILED IN THE WORLD. YOU WILL SCARCELY BE PERSUADED THAT THEY ARE ANYTHING BUT SICK MEN'S DREAMS."
"EVILS THAT TAKE LEAVE, / ON THEIR DEPARTURE MOST OF ALL SHOW EVIL."
"EVERY YOUTH, FROM THE KING'S SON DOWNWARDS, SHOULD LEARN TO DO SOMETHING FINELY AND THOROUGHLY WITH HIS HAND."
"EVERY WORM BENEATH THE MOON / DRAWS DIFFERENT THREADS, AND LATE AND SOON / SPINS, TOILING OUT HIS OWN COCOON."
"EVERY VICIOUS HABIT AND CHRONIC DISEASE COMMUNICATES ITSELF BY DESCENT, AND BY PURITY OF BIRTH THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OF THE HUMAN BODY AND SOUL MAY BE GRADUALLY ELEVATED, OR BY RECKLESSNESS OF BIRTH DEGRADED, UNTIL THERE SHALL BE AS MUCH DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE WELL-BRED AND ILL-BRED HUMAN CREATURE (WHATEVER PAINS BE TAKEN WITH THEIR EDUCATION) AS BETWEEN A WOLF-HOUND AND THE VILEST MONGREL CUR."
"EVERY TRAVELLER HAS A HOME OF HIS OWN, AND HE LEARNS TO APPRECIATE IT THE MORE FROM HIS WANDERING."
"EVERY TIME A MAN SMILES, MUCH MORE WHEN HE LAUGHS, IT ADDS SOMETHING TO HIS FRAGMENT OF LIFE."
"EVERYTHING USEFUL TO THE LIFE OF MAN ARISES FROM THE GROUND, BUT FEW THINGS ARISE IN THAT CONDITION WHICH IS REQUISITE TO RENDER THEM USEFUL."
EVERYTHING THAT LOOKS TO THE FUTURE ELEVATES HUMAN NATURE; FOR NEVER IS LIFE SO LOW AS WHEN OCCUPIED WITH THE PRESENT.
"EVERY SECT, AS FAR AS REASON WILL HELP IT, GLADLY USES IT; WHEN IT FAILS THEM, THEY CRY OUT IT IS MATTER OF FAITH, AND ABOVE REASON."
"EVERY RIGHTLY CONSTITUTED MIND OUGHT TO REJOICE, NOT SO MUCH IN KNOWING ANYTHING CLEARLY, AS IN FEELING THAT THERE IS INFINITELY MORE WHICH IT CANNOT KNOW."
EVERY PRODUCTION OF GENIUS MUST BE THE PRODUCTION OF ENTHUSIASM.
EVERY PERIOD OF LIFE IS OBLIGED TO BORROW ITS HAPPINESS FROM THE TIME TO COME.
"EVERY PASSION GIVES A PARTICULAR CAST TO THE COUNTENANCE, AND IS APT TO DISCOVER ITSELF IN SOME FEATURE OR OTHER."
"EVERY ONE OF US BELIEVES IN HIS HEART, OR WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OTHERS BELIEVE, THAT HE IS SOMETHING WHICH HE IS NOT."
"EVERY ONE KNOWS BETTER THAN HE PRACTISES, AND RECOGNISES A BETTER LAW THAN HE OBEYS."
EVERY ONE FAULT SEEMING MONSTROUS TILL HIS FELLOW-FAULT CAME TO MATCH IT.
EVERY NOBLE LIFE LEAVES THE FIBRE OF IT INTERWOVEN FOR EVER IN THE WORK OF THE WORLD.
"EVERY MAN WILLINGLY GIVES VALUE TO THE PRAISE WHICH HE RECEIVES, AND CONSIDERS THE SENTENCE PASSED IN HIS FAVOUR AS THE SENTENCE OF DISCERNMENT."
EVERY MAN WHO OBSERVES VIGILANTLY AND RESOLVES STEADFASTLY GROWS UNCONSCIOUSLY INTO A GENIUS.
"EVERY MAN SEEKS THE TRUTH, BUT GOD ONLY KNOWS WHO HAS FOUND IT."
EVERY MAN OF SOUND BRAIN WHOM YOU MEET KNOWS SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING BETTER THAN YOURSELF.
EVERY MAN HAS JUST AS MUCH VANITY AS HE WANTS UNDERSTANDING.
"EVERY INORDINATE CUP IS UNBLESS'D, AND THE INGREDIENT IS A DEVIL."
"EVERY HUMAN FEELING IS GREATER AND LARGER THAN THE EXCITING CAUSE--A PROOF, I THINK, THAT MAN IS DESIGNED FOR A HIGHER STATE OF EXISTENCE."
"EVERY GREAT WRITER IS A WRITER OF HISTORY, LET HIM TREAT ON ALMOST WHAT SUBJECT HE MAY. HE CARRIES WITH HIM FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS A PORTION OF HIS TIMES; AND, INDEED, IF ONLY HIS OWN EFFIGY WERE THERE, IT WOULD BE GREATLY MORE THAN A FRAGMENT OF HIS CENTURY."
"EVERY GREAT AND ORIGINAL WRITER, IN PROPORTION AS HE IS GREAT OR ORIGINAL, MUST HIMSELF CREATE THE TASTE BY WHICH HE IS TO BE RELISHED."
EVERY GOOD WRITER HAS MUCH IDIOM; IT IS THE LIFE AND SPIRIT OF LANGUAGE.
"EVERY DESIRE IS A VIPER IN THE BOSOM, WHO, WHEN HE WAS CHILL, WAS HARMLESS, BUT WHEN WARMTH GAVE HIM STRENGTH, EXERTED IT IN POISON."
"EVERY COTTAGE SHOULD HAVE ITS PORCH, ITS OVEN, AND ITS TANK."
"EVERY CLOUD THAT SPREADS ABOVE / AND VEILETH LOVE, ITSELF IS LOVE."
EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS IN THE SOCIAL SYSTEM IS TO BE AGREEABLE.
EVERY BASE OCCUPATION MAKES ONE SHARP IN ITS PRACTICE AND DULL IN EVERY OTHER.
"EVEN SO MY SUN ONE EARLY MORN DID SHINE, / WITH ALL TRIUMPHANT SPLENDOUR ON MY BROW; / BUT OUT, ALACK! IT WAS BUT ONE HOUR MINE."
EVENING IS THE DELIGHT OF VIRTUOUS AGE; IT SEEMS AN EMBLEM OF THE TRANQUIL CLOSE OF BUSY LIFE.
"ETERNAL SMILES HIS EMPTINESS BETRAY, / AS SHALLOW STREAMS RUN DIMPLING ALL THE WAY."
ESCHEW FINE WORDS AS YOU WOULD ROUGE; LOVE SIMPLE ONES AS YOU WOULD NATIVE ROSES ON YOUR CHEEK.
"ERUDITION IS NOT LIKE A LARK, WHICH FLIES HIGH AND DELIGHTS IN NOTHING BUT SINGING; 'TIS RATHER LIKE A HAWK, WHICH SOARS ALOFT INDEED, BUT CAN STOOP WHEN SHE FINDS IT CONVENIENT, AND SEIZE HER PREY."
ERRORS LIKE STRAWS UPON THE SURFACE FLOW; / HE WHO WOULD SEARCH FOR PEARLS MUST DIVE BELOW.
"ERE SIN COULD BLIGHT OR SORROW FADE, / DEATH CAME WITH FRIENDLY CARE, / THE OPENING BUD TO HEAVEN CONVEYED, / AND BADE IT BLOSSOM THERE."
"ENVY WILL MERIT AS ITS SHADE PURSUE, / BUT, LIKE A SHADOW, PROVES THE SUBSTANCE TRUE."
ENVY FEELS NOT ITS OWN HAPPINESS BUT BY COMPARISON WITH THE MISERY OF OTHERS.
"ENVY, AMONG OTHER INGREDIENTS, HAS A MIXTURE OF THE LOVE OF JUSTICE IN IT. WE ARE MORE ANGRY AT UNDESERVED THAN AT DESERVED GOOD FORTUNE."
"ENTHUSIASM IS THE GENIUS OF SINCERITY, AND TRUTH ACCOMPLISHES NO VICTORIES WITHOUT IT."
"ENOUGH--NO FOREIGN FOE COULD QUELL / THY SOUL, TILL FROM ITSELF IT FELL; / YES, SELF-ABASEMENT PAVED THE WAY / TO VILLAIN BONDS AND DESPOT SWAY."
"ENNUI IS A GROWTH OF ENGLISH ROOT, THOUGH NAMELESS IN OUR LANGUAGE."
ENGLAND IS A DOMESTIC COUNTRY: HERE HOME IS REVERED AND THE HEARTH SACRED.
"ENFLAMED WITH THE STUDY OF LEARNING AND THE ADMIRATION OF VIRTUE; STIRRED UP WITH HIGH HOPES OF LIVING TO BE BRAVE MEN AND WORTHY PATRIOTS, DEAR TO GOD, AND FAMOUS TO ALL AGES."
ENERGY MAY BE TURNED TO BAD USES; BUT MORE GOOD MAY ALWAYS BE MADE OF AN ENERGETIC NATURE THAN OF AN INDOLENT AND IMPASSIVE ONE.
"ENDURANCE IS NOBLER THAN STRENGTH, AND PATIENCE THAN BEAUTY."
"ENDEAVOUR NOT TO SETTLE TOO MANY HABITS AT ONCE, LEST BY VARIETY YOU CONFOUND THEM, AND SO PERFECT NONE."
"EMULATION, EVEN IN THE BRUTES, IS SENSITIVELY NERVOUS; SEE THE TREMOR OF THE THOROUGH-BRED RACER BEFORE HE STARTS."
"EMPIRES FLOURISH TILL THEY BECOME COMMERCIAL, AND THEN THEY ARE SCATTERED ABROAD TO THE FOUR WINDS."
"EMERGE FROM UNNATURAL SOLITUDE, LOOK ABROAD FOR WHOLESOME SYMPATHY, BESTOW AND RECEIVE."
"ELYSIAN BEAUTY, MELANCHOLY GRACE, / BROUGHT FROM A PENSIVE THROUGH A HAPPY PLACE."
"ELOQUENCE IS THE CHILD OF KNOWLEDGE. WHEN THE MIND IS FULL, LIKE A WHOLESOME RIVER, IT IS ALSO CLEAR."
"ELOQUENCE, AT ITS HIGHEST PITCH, LEAVES LITTLE ROOM FOR REASON OR REFLECTION, BUT ADDRESSES ITSELF ENTIRELY TO THE FANCY OR THE AFFECTIONS, CAPTIVATES THE WILLING HEARERS, AND SUBDUES THEIR UNDERSTANDING."
"ELEGANCE IS NECESSARY TO THE FINE GENTLEMAN, DIGNITY IS PROPER TO NOBLEMEN, AND MAJESTY TO KINGS."
"EDUCATION OF YOUTH IS NOT A BOW FOR EVERY MAN TO SHOOT IN THAT COUNTS HIMSELF A TEACHER, BUT WILL REQUIRE SINEWS ALMOST EQUAL TO THOSE WHICH HOMER GAVE ULYSSES."
"EDUCATION IS THE LEADING HUMAN SOULS TO WHAT IS BEST, AND MAKING WHAT IS BEST OF THEM. THE TRAINING WHICH MAKES MEN HAPPIEST IN THEMSELVES ALSO MAKES THEM MOST SERVICEABLE TO OTHERS."
EDUCATION DOES NOT MEAN TEACHING PEOPLE TO KNOW WHAT THEY DO NOT KNOW; IT MEANS TEACHING THEM TO BEHAVE AS THEY DO NOT BEHAVE.
"EDUCATION BEGINS THE GENTLEMAN, BUT READING, GOOD COMPANY, AND REFLECTION MUST FINISH HIM."
"EDUCATED PERSONS SHOULD SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS WITH THE UNEDUCATED, AND TAKE ALSO A CERTAIN PART IN THEIR LABOURS."
"ECONOMY NO MORE MEANS SAVING MONEY THAN IT MEANS SPENDING MONEY. IT MEANS THE ADMINISTRATION OF A HOUSE, ITS STEWARDSHIP; SPENDING OR SAVING, THAT IS, WHETHER MONEY OR TIME, OR ANYTHING ELSE, TO THE BEST POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE."
"ECONOMY IS THE PARENT OF INTEGRITY, OF LIBERTY, AND OF EASE, AND THE BEAUTEOUS SISTER OF TEMPERANCE, OF CHEERFULNESS, AND HEALTH."
ECONOMY IS HALF THE BATTLE OF LIFE; IT IS NOT SO HARD TO EARN MONEY AS TO SPEND IT.
"ECONOMY DOES NOT CONSIST IN THE RECKLESS REDUCTION OF ESTIMATES; ON THE CONTRARY, SUCH A COURSE ALMOST NECESSARILY TENDS TO INCREASED EXPENDITURE. THERE CAN BE NO ECONOMY WHERE THERE IS NO EFFICIENCY."
"ECCENTRICITY HAS ALWAYS ABOUNDED WHEN AND WHERE STRENGTH OF CHARACTER HAS ABOUNDED; AND THE AMOUNT OF ECCENTRICITY IN A SOCIETY HAS BEEN PROPORTIONAL TO THE AMOUNT OF GENIUS, MENTAL VIGOUR, AND MORAL COURAGE IT CONTAINED. THAT SO FEW NOW DARE TO BE ECCENTRIC, MARKS THE CHIEF DANGER OF THE TIME."
"EARTH FELT THE WOUND; AND NATURE FROM HER SEAT, / SIGHING THROUGH ALL HER WORK, GAVE SIGN OF WOE / THAT ALL WAS LOST."
"EARN WELL THE THRIFTY MONTHS, NOR WED / RAW HASTE, HALF-SISTER TO DELAY."
"EARLY, BRIGHT, TRANSIENT, CHASTE, AS MORNING DEW, / SHE SPARKLED, WAS EXHALED, AND WENT TO HEAVEN."
EAGLES FLY ALONE; THEY ARE BUT SHEEP THAT ALWAYS HERD TOGETHER.
"EACH SUBSTANCE OF A GRIEF HATH TWENTY SHADOWS, / WHICH SHOW LIKE GRIEF ITSELF, BUT ARE NOT SO; / FOR SORROW'S EYE, GLAZED WITH BLINDING TEARS, / DIVIDES ONE THING ENTIRE TO MANY OBJECTS."
"EACH DAY STILL BETTER OTHER'S HAPPINESS, / UNTIL THE HEAVENS, ENVYING EARTH'S GOOD HAP, / ADD AN IMMORTAL TITLE TO YOUR CROWN."
"EACH CHANGE OF MANY-COLOUR'D LIFE HE DREW, / EXHAUSTED WORLDS, AND THEN IMAGINED NEW."
"DUTY SCORNS PRUDENCE, AND CRITICISM HAS FEW TERRORS FOR A MAN WITH A GREAT PURPOSE."
"DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE EYES, / AND I WILL PLEDGE WITH MINE; / OR LEAVE A KISS BUT IN THE CUP, / AND I'LL NOT LOOK FOR WINE."
"DREAMS IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT HAVE BREATH / AND TEARS AND TORTURE AND THE TOUCH OF JOY; / THEY LEAVE A WEIGHT UPON OUR WAKING THOUGHTS; / THEY TAKE A WEIGHT FROM OFF OUR WAKING TOILS; / THEY DO DIVIDE OUR BEING; THEY BECOME A PORTION OF OURSELVES AS OF OUR TIME, / AND LOOK LIKE HERALDS OF ETERNITY."
"DREAMS, INDEED, ARE AMBITION; FOR THE SUBSTANCE OF THE AMBITIOUS IS MERELY THE SHADOW OF A DREAM."
"DREAMS, BOOKS, ARE EACH A WORLD; AND BOOKS, WE KNOW, / ARE A SUBSTANTIAL WORLD, BOTH PURE AND GOOD; / ROUND THESE, WITH TENDRILS STRONG AS FLESH AND BLOOD, / OUR PASTIME AND OUR HAPPINESS WILL GROW."
"DREAMS ARE THE CHILDREN OF AN IDLE BRAIN, / BEGOT OF NOTHING BUT VAIN PHANTASY; / WHICH ARE AS THIN OF SUBSTANCE AS THE AIR, / AND MORE INCONSTANT THAN THE WIND."
"DREAMS ARE THE BRIGHT CREATURES OF POEM AND LEGEND, WHO SPORT ON THE EARTH IN THE NIGHT SEASON, AND MELT AWAY WITH THE FIRST BEAMS OF THE SUN."
"DREAMS ARE BUT INTERLUDES WHICH FANCY MAKES. / WHEN MONARCH REASON SLEEPS, THIS MIMIC WAKES; / COMPOUNDS A MEDLEY OF DISJOINTED THINGS, / A MOB OF COBBLERS AND A COURT OF KINGS; / LIGHT FUMES ARE MERRY, GROSSER FUMES ARE SAD; / BOTH ARE THE REASONABLE SOUL RUN MAD."
"DREAM AFTER DREAM ENSUES, / AND STILL THEY DREAM THAT THEY SHALL STILL SUCCEED / AND STILL ARE DISAPPOINTED."
"DOWER'D WITH THE HATE OF HATE, THE SCORN OF SCORN, / THE LOVE OF LOVE."
DOUBT THOU THE STARS ARE FIRE; / DOUBT THAT THE SUN DOTH MOVE; / DOUBT TRUTH TO BE A LIAR; / BUT NEVER DOUBT I LOVE.
DOUBTLESS THE PLEASURE IS AS GREAT / OF BEING CHEATED AS TO CHEAT.
"DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, / FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE."
DOTH NOT THE APPETITE ALTER? A MAN LOVES THE MEAT IN HIS YOUTH THAT HE CANNOT ENDURE IN HIS AGE.
DOST THOU LOVE PICTURES? WE WILL FETCH THEE STRAIGHT / ADONIS PAINTED BY A RUNNING BROOK; / AND CYTHEREA ALL IN SEDGES HID; / WHICH SEEM TO MOVE AND WANTON WITH HER BREATH; / EVEN AS THE WAVING SEDGES PLAY WITH WIND.
"DOST THOU LOVE ME? I KNOW THOU WILT SAY AYE; / AND I WILL TAKE THY WORD. YET IF THOU SWEAR'ST, / THOU MAY'ST PROVE FALSE; AT LOVERS' PERJURIES / THEY SAY JOVE LAUGHS."
"DO NOT THINK OF ONE FALSITY AS HARMLESS, AND ONE AS SLIGHT, AND ANOTHER AS UNINTENDED. CAST THEM ALL ASIDE; IT IS BETTER OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE SWEPT CLEAN OF THEM."
"DO NOT, AS SOME UNGRACIOUS PASTORS DO, / SHOW ME THE STEEP AND THORNY WAY TO HEAVEN, / WHILST, LIKE A PUFFED AND RECKLESS LIBERTINE, / HIMSELF THE PRIMROSE PATH OF DALLIANCE TREADS, / AND RECKS NOT HIS OWN REDE."
DOMESTIC HAPPINESS! THOU ONLY BLISS / OF HAPPINESS THAT HAS SURVIVED THE FALL.
"DOMESTIC HAPPINESS IS THE END OF ALMOST ALL OUR PURSUITS, AND THE COMMON REWARD OF ALL OUR PAINS."
"DOING IS THE GREAT THING; FOR IF PEOPLE RESOLUTELY DO WHAT IS RIGHT, THEY COME IN TIME TO LIKE DOING IT."
DOING GOOD IS THE ONLY CERTAINLY HAPPY ACTION OF A MAN'S LIFE.
"DIVINES BUT PEEP ON UNDISCOVERED WORLDS, / AND DRAW THE DISTANT LANDSCAPE AS THEY PLEASE."
"DISTRUST AND DARKNESS OF A FUTURE STATE / MAKE POOR MANKIND SO FEARFUL OF THEIR FATE, / DEATH IN ITSELF IS NOTHING; BUT WE FEAR / TO BE WE KNOW NOT WHAT, WE KNOW NOT WHERE."
DISTINGUISHED TALENTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY CONNECTED WITH DISCRETION.
"DISSIMULATION IS BUT FAINT POLICY, FOR IT ASKETH A STRONG WIT AND A STRONG HEART TO KNOW WHEN TO TELL THE TRUTH AND TO DO IT."
"DISORDER IN A DRAWING-ROOM IS VULGAR; IN AN ANTIQUARY'S STUDY, NOT; THE BLACK STAIN ON A SOLDIER'S FACE IS NOT VULGAR, BUT THE DIRTY FACE OF A HOUSEMAID IS."
"DISMISS YOUR VOWS, YOUR FEIGNED TEARS, YOUR FLATTERY; / FOR WHERE A HEART IS HARD, THEY MAKE NO BATTERY."
"DISHONESTY WILL STARE HONESTY OUT OF COUNTENANCE ANY DAY IN THE WEEK, IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO BE GOT BY IT."
"DISGUISE THYSELF AS THOU WILT, STILL, SLAVERY, THOU ART A BITTER DRAUGHT."
DISGRACE CONSISTS INFINITELY MORE IN THE CRIME THAN IN THE PUNISHMENT.
"DISEASES, DESPERATE GROWN, / BY DESPERATE APPLIANCE ARE RELIEVED, / OR NOT AT ALL."
"DISEASED NATURE OFTENTIMES BREAKS FORTH / IN STRANGE ERUPTIONS, AND THE TEEMING EARTH / IS WITH A KIND OF CHOLIC PINCH'D AND VEX'D / BY THE IMPRISONING OF UNRULY WIND / WITHIN HER WOMB, WHICH, FOR ENLARGEMENT STRIVING, / SHAKES THE OLD BEDLAM EARTH, AND TOPPLES DOWN / STEEPLES AND MOSS-GROWN TOWERS."
"DISDAIN AND SCORN RIDE SPARKLING IN HER EYE, / MISPRISING WHAT THEY LOOK ON."
"DISCRETION OF SPEECH IS MORE THAN ELOQUENCE, AND TO SPEAK AGREEABLY TO HIM WITH WHOM WE DEAL IS MORE THAN TO SPEAK IN GOOD WORDS OR IN GOOD ORDER."
"DISASTERS, DO THE BEST WE CAN, / WILL REACH BOTH GREAT AND SMALL; / AND HE IS OFT THE WISEST MAN / WHO IS NOT WISE AT ALL."
"DIGRESSIONS INCONTESTABLY ARE THE SUNSHINE; THEY ARE THE LIFE, THE SOUL OF READING."
"DID CHARITY PREVAIL, THE PRESS WOULD PROVE / A VEHICLE OF VIRTUE, TRUTH, AND LOVE."
"DEWDROPS ARE THE GEMS OF MORNING, BUT THE TEARS OF MOURNFUL EVE."
"DEVOTION, WHEN IT DOES NOT LIE UNDER THE CHECK OF REASON, IS APT TO DEGENERATE INTO ENTHUSIASM (FANATICISM)."
"DEVISE, WIT; WRITE, PEN; FOR I AM FOR WHOLE VOLUMES IN FOLIO."
"DETESTED SPORT, THAT OWES ITS PLEASURES TO ANOTHER'S PAIN."
DESTROY HIS FIB OR SOPHISTRY--IN VAIN! / THE CREATURE'S AT HIS DIRTY WORK AGAIN.
DESPOTISM SITS NOWHERE SO SECURE AS UNDER THE EFFIGY AND ENSIGNS OF FREEDOM.
"DESPOTISM IS A LEGITIMATE MODE OF GOVERNMENT IN DEALING WITH BARBARIANS, PROVIDED THE END BE THEIR IMPROVEMENT, AND THE MEANS JUSTIFIED BY ACTUALLY EFFECTING THAT END."
DESPAIR DEFIES EVEN DESPOTISM; THERE IS THAT IN MY HEART WOULD MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH HOSTS WITH LEVELLED SPEARS.
"DESERTED, AT HIS UTMOST NEED, / BY THOSE HIS FORMER BOUNTY FED, / ON THE BARE EARTH EXPOSED BE LIES, / WITH NOT A FRIEND TO CLOSE HIS EYES."
"DESCRIPTION IS ALWAYS A BORE, BOTH TO THE DESCRIBER AND THE DESCRIBEE."
"DEPEND UPON IT, IF A MAN TALKS OF HIS MISFORTUNES, THERE IS SOMETHING IN THEM THAT IS NOT DISAGREEABLE TO HIM."
"DEPENDENCE IS A PERPETUAL CALL UPON HUMANITY, AND A GREATER INCITEMENT TO TENDERNESS AND PITY THAN ANY OTHER MOTIVE WHATSOEVER."
"DEMOCRACY IS THE HEALTHFUL LIFE-BLOOD WHICH CIRCULATES THROUGH THE VEINS AND ARTERIES, WHICH SUPPORTS THE SYSTEM, BUT WHICH OUGHT NEVER TO APPEAR EXTERNALLY, AND AS THE MERE BLOOD ITSELF."
"DEMOCRACY IS ALWAYS THE WORK OF KINGS. ASHES, WHICH IN THEMSELVES ARE STERILE, FERTILISE THE LAND THEY ARE CAST UPON."
"DEMEAN THYSELF MORE WARILY IN THY STUDY THAN IN THE STREET. IF THY PUBLIC ACTIONS HAVE A HUNDRED WITNESSES, THY PRIVATE HAVE A THOUSAND."
"DELUSION MAY TRIUMPH, BUT THE TRIUMPHS OF DELUSION ARE BUT FOR A DAY."
DELUSION AND WEAKNESS PRODUCE NOT ONE MISCHIEF THE LESS BECAUSE THEY ARE UNIVERSAL.
"DELICACY OF TASTE HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS DELICACY OF PASSION; IT ENLARGES THE SPHERE BOTH OF OUR HAPPINESS AND MISERY, AND MAKES US SENSIBLE TO PAIN AS WELL AS PLEASURES, WHICH ESCAPE THE REST OF MANKIND."
"DEGREES INFINITE OF LUSTRE THERE MUST ALWAYS BE, BUT THE WEAKEST AMONG US HAS A GIFT, HOWEVER SEEMINGLY TRIVIAL, WHICH IS PECULIAR TO HIM, AND WHICH, WORTHILY USED, WILL BE A GIFT ALSO TO HIS RACE FOR EVER."
"DEFORMITY IS DARING; IT IS ITS ESSENCE TO OVERTAKE MANKIND BY HEART AND SOUL, AND MAKE ITSELF THE EQUAL, AY, THE SUPERIOR OF THE REST."
"DEFORMED, UNFINISHED, SENT BEFORE MY TIME / INTO THIS BREATHING WORLD, SCARCE HALF MADE UP, / AND THAT SO LAMELY AND UNFASHIONABLE, / THAT DOGS BARK AT ME AS I HALT BY THEM."
"DEFER NOT THE LEAST VIRTUE; LIFE'S POOR SPAN / MAKE NOT AN ELL, BY TRIFLING IN THY WOE. / IF THOU DO ILL, THE JOY FADES, NOT THE PAINS; / IF WELL, THE PAIN DOTH FADE, THE JOY REMAINS."
"DEFEND ME, COMMON SENSE, SAY I, / FROM REVERIES SO AIRY, FROM THE TOIL / OF DROPPING BUCKETS INTO EMPTY WELLS, / AND GROWING OLD WITH DRAWING NOTHING UP."
"DEEP ON HIS FRONT ENGRAVEN / DELIBERATION SAT, AND PUBLIC CARE."
"DECEIT AND FALSEHOOD, WHATEVER CONVENIENCES THEY MAY FOR A TIME PROMISE OR PRODUCE, ARE, IN THE SUM OF LIFE, OBSTACLES TO HAPPINESS."
"DEBT IS TO A MAN WHAT THE SERPENT IS TO THE BIRD; ITS EYE FASCINATES, ITS BREATH POISONS, ITS COIL CRUSHES BOTH SINEW AND BONE; ITS JAW IS THE PITILESS GRAVE."
"DEATH, SO CALLED, IS A THING WHICH MAKES MEN WEEP, / AND YET A THIRD OF LIFE IS PASSED IN SLEEP."
"DEATH PUTS AN END TO ALL RIVALSHIP AND COMPETITION. THE DEAD CAN BOAST NO ADVANTAGE OVER US, NOR CAN WE TRIUMPH OVER THEM."
"DEATH OPENS THE GATE OF FAME, AND SHUTS THE GATE OF ENVY AFTER IT."
"DEATH LIES ON HER, LIKE AN UNTIMELY FROST, / UPON THE SWEETEST FLOWER OF ALL THE FIELD."
"DEATH JOINS US TO THE GREAT MAJORITY; / 'TIS TO BE BORNE TO PLATOS AND TO CÆSARS; / 'TIS TO BE GREAT FOR EVER; / 'TIS PLEASURE, 'TIS AMBITION, THEN, TO DIE."
"DEATH IS THE ONLY PHYSICIAN, THE SHADOW OF HIS VALLEY THE ONLY JOURNEYING THAT WILL CURE US OF AGE AND THE GATHERING FATIGUE OF YEARS."
"DEATH IS BUT WHAT THE HAUGHTY BRAVE, / THE WEAK MUST BEAR, THE WRETCH MUST CRAVE."
"DEATH IS A FRIEND OF OURS, AND HE WHO IS NOT READY TO ENTERTAIN HIM IS NOT AT HOME."
DEATH BUT SUPPLIES THE OIL FOR THE INEXTINGUISHABLE LAMP OF LIFE.
"DEAL MILDLY WITH HIS YOUTH; / FOR YOUNG HOT COLTS, BEING RAGED, DO RAGE THE MORE."
"DARK NIGHT, THAT FROM THE EYE HIS FUNCTION TAKES, / THE EAR MORE QUICK OF APPREHENSION MAKES."
"DARING NONSENSE SELDOM FAILS TO HIT, / LIKE SCATTERED SHOT, AND PASS WITH SOME FOR WIT."
"DARE TO BE TRUE, NOTHING CAN NEED A LIE; / A FAULT WHICH NEEDS IT MOST, GROWS TWO THEREBY."
"DANTE, WHO LOVED WELL BECAUSE HE HATED, / HATED WICKEDNESS THAT HINDERS LOVING."
"DANGER LEVELS MAN AND BRUTE, / AND ALL ARE FELLOWS IN THEIR NEED."
"DANDIES, WHEN FIRST-RATE, ARE GENERALLY VERY AGREEABLE MEN."
"DAMN WITH FAINT PRAISE, ASSENT WITH CIVIL LEER, / AND WITHOUT SNEERING, TEACH THE REST TO SNEER. / WILLING TO WOUND, AND YET AFRAID TO STRIKE; / JUST HINT A FAULT, AND HESITATE DISLIKE."
"DAMN'D NEUTERS, IN THEIR MIDDLE WAY OF STEERING, / ARE NEITHER FISH, NOR FLESH, NOR GOOD RED-HERRING."
"CUT OFF EVEN IN THE BLOSSOMS OF MY SIN, / UNHOUSEL'D, DISAPPOINTED, UNANEL'D; / NO RECKONING MADE, BUT SENT TO MY ACCOUNT / WITH ALL MY IMPERFECTIONS ON MY HEAD."
"CUSTOM MAY LEAD A MAN INTO MANY ERRORS, BUT IT JUSTIFIES NONE."
"CURST BE THE VERSE, HOW WELL SOE'ER IT FLOW, / THAT TENDS TO MAKE ONE WORTHY MAN MY FOE, / GIVE VIRTUE SCANDAL, INNOCENCE A FEAR, / OR FROM THE SOFT-EY'D VIRGIN STEAL A TEAR."
"CURSES, NOT LOUD, BUT DEEP, MOUTH-HONOUR, BREATH, / WHICH THE POOR HEART WOULD FAIN DENY, BUT DARE NOT."
CURSED BE THE SOCIAL TIES THAT WARP US FROM THE LIVING TRUTH.
"CUNNING SIGNIFIES ESPECIALLY A HABIT OR GIFT OF OVER-REACHING, ACCOMPANIED WITH ENJOYMENT AND A SENSE OF SUPERIORITY."
"CUNNING IS THE INTENSEST RENDERING OF VULGARITY, ABSOLUTE AND UTTER."
"CUNNING IS THE ART OF CONCEALING OUR OWN DEFECTS, AND DISCOVERING OTHER PEOPLE'S WEAKNESSES."
"CUDGEL THY BRAINS NO MORE ABOUT IT, FOR YOUR DULL ASS WILL NOT MEND HIS PACE WITH BEATING."
CRUELTY IS NO MORE THE CURE OF CRIMES THAN IT IS THE CURE OF SUFFERINGS.
CRIMES SOMETIMES SHOCK US TOO MUCH; VICES ALMOST ALWAYS TOO LITTLE.
"CRIME CANNOT BE HINDERED BY PUNISHMENT, BUT ONLY BY LETTING NO MAN GROW UP A CRIMINAL."
"CREATION SLEEPS! 'TIS AS THE GENERAL PULSE / OF LIFE STOOD STILL, AND NATURE MADE A PAUSE, / AN AWFUL PAUSE, PROPHETIC OF HER END."
"CREATED HALF TO RISE AND HALF TO FALL, / GREAT LORD OF ALL THINGS, YET A PREY TO ALL; / SOLE JUDGE OF TRUTH, IN ENDLESS ERROR HURL'D; / THE GLORY, JEST, AND RIDDLE OF THE WORLD."
"CRAFTY MEN CONTEMN STUDIES; SIMPLE MEN ADMIRE THEM; AND WISE MEN USE THEM; FOR THEY TEACH NOT THEIR OWN USE; BUT THAT IS WISDOM WITHOUT THEM, AND ABOVE THEM WON BY OBSERVATION."
"COURTSHIP CONSISTS IN A NUMBER OF QUIET ATTENTIONS, NOT SO POINTED AS TO ALARM, NOR SO VAGUE AS NOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD."
"COURTESY ITSELF MUST CONVERT TO DISDAIN, IF YOU COME IN HER PRESENCE."
"COURTESY IS OFTEN SOONER FOUND IN LOWLY SHEDS WITH SMOKY RAFTERS, THAN IN TAPESTRY HALLS AND COURTS OF PRINCES, WHERE IT FIRST WAS NAMED."
"COURAGE, SO FAR AS IT IS A SIGN OF RACE, IS PECULIARLY THE MARK OF A GENTLEMAN OR A LADY; BUT IT BECOMES VULGAR IF RUDE OR INSENSITIVE."
"COURAGE, SIR, / THAT MAKES MAN OR WOMAN LOOK THEIR GOODLIEST."
COURAGE IS ON ALL HANDS CONSIDERED AN ESSENTIAL OF HIGH CHARACTER.
"COULD YOU SEE EVERY MAN'S CAREER IN LIFE, YOU WOULD FIND A WOMAN CLOGGING HIM ... OR CHEERING HIM AND GOADING HIM."
"COULD GREAT MEN THUNDER / AS JOVE HIMSELF DOES, JOVE WOULD NE'ER BE QUIET; / FOR EVERY PELTING, PETTY OFFICER / WOULD USE HIS HEAVEN FOR THUNDER; NOTHING BUT THUNDER."
"COSTLY THY HABIT AS THY PURSE CAN BUY, / BUT NOT EXPRESSED IN FANCY; RICH, NOT GAUDY; / FOR THE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE MAN."
"CONVEY THY LOVE TO THY FRIEND AS AN ARROW TO THE MARK; NOT AS A BALL AGAINST THE WALL, TO REBOUND BACK AGAIN."
"CONVERSATION IS A TRAFFIC; AND IF YOU ENTER INTO IT WITHOUT SOME STOCK OF KNOWLEDGE TO BALANCE THE ACCOUNT PERPETUALLY, THE TRADE DROPS AT ONCE."
"CONTRAST INCREASES THE SPLENDOUR OF BEAUTY, BUT IT DISTURBS ITS INFLUENCE; IT ADDS TO ITS ATTRACTIVENESS, BUT DIMINISHES ITS POWER."
"CONTENT THYSELF TO BE OBSCURELY GOOD; / WHEN VICE PREVAILS, AND IMPIOUS MEN BEAR SWAY, / THE POST OF HONOUR IS A PRIVATE STATION."
"CONTENTION, LIKE A HORSE / FULL OF HIGH FEEDING, MADLY HATH BROKEN LOOSE, / AND BEARS ALL DOWN BEFORE HIM."
"CONTENT IF HENCE TH' UNLEARN'D THEIR WANTS MAY VIEW, / THE LEARN'D REFLECT ON WHAT BEFORE THEY KNEW."
"CONTEMPT IS A KIND OF GANGRENE, WHICH, IF IT SEIZES ONE PART OF A CHARACTER, CORRUPTS ALL THE REST BY DEGREES."
"CONSCIENCE IS BUT A WORD THAT COWARDS USE, / DEVISED AT FIRST TO KEEP THE STRONG IN AWE; / OUR STRONG ARMS BE OUR CONSCIENCE, SWORDS OUR LAW."
"CONSCIENCE DOES MAKE COWARDS OF US ALL; / AND THUS THE NATIVE HUE OF RESOLUTION / IS SICKLIED O'ER WITH THE PALE CAST OF THOUGHT; / AND ENTERPRISES OF GREAT PITH AND MOMENT, / WITH THIS REGARD, THEIR CURRENTS TURN AWRY, / AND LOSE THE NAME OF ACTION."
"CONFUSION NOW HATH MADE HIS MASTERPIECE. / MOST SACRILEGIOUS MURDER HATH BROKE OPE / THE LORD'S ANOINTED TEMPLE, AND STOLE THENCE / THE LIFE O' THE BUILDING."
"CONFIDENCE IMPARTS A WONDROUS INSPIRATION TO ITS POSSESSOR. IT BEARS HIM ON IN SECURITY, EITHER TO MEET NO DANGER OR TO FIND MATTER OF GLORIOUS TRIAL."
"CONFESS YOURSELF TO HEAVEN; / REPENT WHAT'S PAST; AVOID WHAT IS TO COME; / AND DO NOT SPREAD THE COMPOST ON THE WEEDS, / TO MAKE THEM RANKER."
"CONDITION, CIRCUMSTANCE, IS NOT THE THING, / BLISS IS THE SAME IN SUBJECT OR IN KING."
"CONDEMN THE FAULT, AND NOT THE ACTOR OF IT! / WHY, EVERY FAULT'S CONDEMNED ERE IT BE DONE."
COMPOUND FOR SINS THEY ARE INCLINED TO / BY DAMNING THOSE THEY HAVE NO MIND TO.
"COMPASSION TO THE OFFENDER WHO HAS GROSSLY VIOLATED THE LAWS IS, IN EFFECT, A CRUELTY TO THE PEACEABLE SUBJECT WHO HAS OBSERVED THEM."
"COMPARE HER FACE WITH SOME THAT I SHALL SHOW, / AND I WILL MAKE THEE THINK THY SWAN A CROW."
COMMONLY THEY USE THEIR FEET FOR DEFENCE WHOSE TONGUE IS THEIR WEAPON.
"COMMERCE IS ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF FORTUNE, INCONSTANT AND DECEITFUL AS HER MOTHER. SHE CHOOSES HER RESIDENCE WHERE SHE IS LEAST EXPECTED, AND SHIFTS HER ABODE WHEN HER CONTINUANCE IS, IN APPEARANCE, MOST FIRMLY SETTLED."
"COMMEND A FOOL FOR HIS WIT OR A KNAVE FOR HIS HONESTY, AND HE WILL RECEIVE YOU INTO HIS BOSOM."
"COMFORT'S IN HEAVEN; AND WE ARE ON THE EARTH, / WHERE NOTHING LIVES BUT CROSSES, CARE, AND GRIEF."
"COME WHAT SORROW CAN, / IT CANNOT COUNTERVAIL TH' EXCHANGE OF JOY / THAT ONE SHORT MINUTE GIVES ME IN HER SIGHT."
"COME WHAT COME MAY, / TIME AND THE HOUR RUNS THROUGH THE ROUGHEST DAY."
"COME THE THREE CORNERS OF THE WORLD IN ARMS, / AND WE SHALL SHOCK THEM. NOUGHT SHALL MAKE US RUE, / IF ENGLAND TO ITSELF DO REST BUT TRUE."
"COME FORTH INTO THE LIGHT OF THINGS, / LET NATURE BE YOUR TEACHER."
"COME, CIVIL NIGHT, / THOU SOBER-SUITED MATRON, ALL IN BLACK."
"COME, AND TRIP IT AS YOU GO, / ON THE LIGHT FANTASTIC TOE."
"COMBINATIONS OF WICKEDNESS WOULD OVERWHELM THE WORLD, DID NOT THOSE WHO HAVE LONG PRACTISED PERFIDY GROW FAITHLESS TO EACH OTHER."
"COLOUR IS THE TYPE OF LOVE. HENCE IT IS ESPECIALLY CONNECTED WITH THE BLOSSOMING OF THE EARTH, AND WITH ITS FRUITS; ALSO WITH THE SPRING AND FALL OF THE LEAF, AND WITH THE MORNING AND EVENING OF THE DAY, IN ORDER TO SHOW THE WAITING OF LOVE ABOUT THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MAN."
"COLOUR BLINDNESS, WHICH MAY MISTAKE DRAB FOR SCARLET, IS BETTER THAN TOTAL BLINDNESS, WHICH SEES NO DISTINCTION OF COLOUR AT ALL."
COLONIES DON'T CEASE TO BE COLONIES BECAUSE THEY ARE INDEPENDENT.
"CLEAR WRITERS, LIKE CLEAR FOUNTAINS, DO NOT SEEM SO DEEP AS THEY ARE; THE TURBID LOOK THE MOST PROFOUND."
"CLEAR AND BRIGHT IT SHOULD BE EVER, / FLOWING LIKE A CRYSTAL RIVER; / BRIGHT AS LIGHT, AND CLEAR AS WIND."
CLASSICAL QUOTATION IS THE PAROLE OF LITERARY MEN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
CIVIL DISSENSION IS A VIPEROUS WORM / THAT GNAWS THE BOWELS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
"CIRCUMSTANCES FORM THE CHARACTER, BUT, LIKE PETRIFYING MATTERS, THEY HARDEN WHILE THEY FORM."
"CIRCUMSTANCES ARE THINGS ROUND ABOUT; WE ARE IN THEM, NOT UNDER THEM."
"CIRCUMSTANCES ARE BEYOND THE CONTROL OF MAN, BUT HIS CONDUCT IS IN HIS OWN POWER."
"CHRISTIANS HAVE BURNT EACH OTHER, QUITE PERSUADED / THAT ALL THE APOSTLES WOULD HAVE DONE AS THEY DID."
CHRISTIANITY TEACHES US TO LOVE OUR NEIGHBOUR. MODERN SOCIETY ACKNOWLEDGES NO NEIGHBOUR.
CHIVALRY WAS FOUNDED INVARIABLY BY KNIGHTS WHO WERE CONTENT ALL THEIR LIVES WITH THEIR HORSE AND ARMOUR AND DAILY BREAD.
"CHILDREN SWEETEN LABOURS, BUT THEY MAKE MISFORTUNES MORE BITTER."
"CHILDREN SHOULD LAUGH, BUT NOT MOCK; AND WHEN THEY LAUGH, IT SHOULD NOT BE AT THE WEAKNESSES AND THE FAULTS OF OTHERS."
"CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE THEIR TIMES OF BEING OFF DUTY, LIKE SOLDIERS."
CHILDREN GENERALLY HATE TO BE IDLE; ALL THE CARE IS THEN THAT THEIR BUSY HUMOUR SHOULD BE CONSTANTLY EMPLOYED IN SOMETHING OF USE TO THEM.
"CHILDHOOD OFTEN HOLDS A TRUTH IN ITS FEEBLE FINGERS WHICH THE GRASP OF MANHOOD CANNOT RETAIN, AND WHICH IT IS THE PRIDE OF UTMOST AGE TO RECOVER."
CHILDHOOD HAS NO FOREBODINGS; BUT THEN IT IS SOOTHED BY NO MEMORIES OF OUTLIVED SORROW.
"CHEERFULNESS IS THE BEST PROMOTER OF HEALTH, AND IS AS FRIENDLY TO THE MIND AS TO THE BODY."
CHEERFULNESS IS JUST AS NATURAL TO THE HEART OF A MAN IN STRONG HEALTH AS COLOUR TO HIS CHEEK.
"CHARITY IS THE TEMPLE OF WHICH JUSTICE IS THE FOUNDATION, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE THE TOP WITHOUT THE BOTTOM."
CHARACTER IS THE RESULT OF A SYSTEM OF STEREOTYPED PRINCIPLES.
"CHANCES, AS THEY ARE NOW CALLED, I REGARD AS GUIDANCES, AND EVEN, IF RIGHTLY UNDERSTOOD, COMMANDS, WHICH, AS FAR AS I HAVE READ HISTORY, THE BEST AND SINCEREST MEN THINK PROVIDENTIAL."
CHANCE IS BUT THE PSEUDONYM OF GOD FOR THOSE PARTICULAR CASES WHICH HE DOES NOT CHOOSE TO SUBSCRIBE OPENLY WITH HIS OWN SIGN-MANUAL.
"CERTAIN IT IS THAT THERE IS NO KIND OF AFFECTION SO PURELY ANGELIC AS THAT OF A FATHER TO A DAUGHTER. IN LOVE TO OUR WIVES THERE IS DESIRE; TO OUR SONS, AMBITION; BUT TO OUR DAUGHTERS THERE IS SOMETHING WHICH THERE ARE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS."
"CEREMONY LEADS HER BIGOTS FORTH, / PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR SHADOWS OF NO WORTH; / WHILE TRUTHS, ON WHICH ETERNAL THINGS DEPEND, / FIND NOT, OR HARDLY FIND, A SINGLE FRIEND."
CEREMONY IS NECESSARY AS THE OUTWORK AND DEFENCE OF MANNERS.
"CAUTIOUS AGE SUSPECTS THE FLATTERING FORM, AND ONLY CREDITS WHAT EXPERIENCE TELLS."
"CATCH, THEN, O CATCH THE TRANSIENT HOUR; / IMPROVE EACH MOMENT AS IT FLIES; / LIFE'S A SHORT SUMMER--MAN A FLOWER--/ HE DIES--ALAS! HOW SOON HE DIES!"
"CARE THAT HAS ENTER'D ONCE INTO THE BREAST, / WILL HAVE THE WHOLE POSSESSION ERE IT REST."
"CARE KEEPS HIS WATCH IN EVERY OLD MAN'S EYE, / AND WHERE CARE LODGES, SLEEP WILL NEVER LIE."
"CARE IS NO CURE, BUT RATHER A CORROSIVE, / FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT TO BE REMEDIED."
"CAN WEALTH GIVE HAPPINESS? LOOK AROUND AND SEE, / WHAT GAY DISTRESS! WHAT SPLENDID MISERY! / WHATEVER FORTUNES LAVISHLY CAN POUR, / THE MIND ANNIHILATES AND CALLS FOR MORE."
CANT IS THE VOLUNTARY OVERCHARGING OR PROLONGING OF A REAL SENTIMENT.
"CAN SUCH THINGS BE, / AND OVERCOME US LIKE A SUMMER'S CLOUD, / WITHOUT OUR SPECIAL WONDER?"
"CANST THOU NOT MINISTER TO A MIND DISEAS'D, / PLUCK FROM THE MEMORY A ROOTED SORROW, / RAZE OUT THE WRITTEN TROUBLES OF THE BRAIN? / AND WITH SOME SWEET OBLIVIOUS ANTIDOTE, / CLEANSE THE STUFF'D BOSOM OF THAT PERILOUS STUFF / WHICH WEIGHS UPON THE HEART?"
"CAN DESPOTS COMPASS AUGHT THAT HAILS THEIR SWAY? / OR CALL WITH TRUTH ONE SPAN OF EARTH THEIR OWN, / SAVE THAT WHEREIN AT LAST THEY CRUMBLE BONE BY BONE?"
"CALL ME WHAT INSTRUMENT YOU WILL, THOUGH YOU FRET ME, YOU CANNOT PLAY ON ME."
"BUT WOULDST THOU KNOW WHAT'S HEAVEN? I'LL TELL THEE WHAT: / THINK WHAT THOU CANST NOT THINK, AND HEAVEN IS THAT."
"BUT WORDS ARE THINGS, AND A SMALL DROP OF INK, / FALLING, LIKE DEW, UPON A THOUGHT, PRODUCES / THAT WHICH MAKES THOUSANDS, PERHAPS MILLIONS, THINK."
"BUT WHO WOULD FORCE THE SOUL, TILTS WITH A STRAW / AGAINST A CHAMPION CASED IN ADAMANT."
"BUT WAR'S A GAME WHICH, WERE THEIR SUBJECTS WISE, / KINGS WOULD NOT PLAY AT."
"BUT TRUTHS ON WHICH DEPEND OUR MAIN CONCERN, / THAT 'TIS OUR SHAME AND MISERY NOT TO LEARN, / SHINE BY THE SIDE OF EVERY PATH WE TREAD, / WITH SUCH A LUSTRE, HE THAT RUNS MAY READ."
"BUT THERE ARE WANDERERS O'ER ETERNITY, / WHOSE BARK DRIVES ON AND ON, AND ANCHOR'D NE'ER SHALL BE."
"BUT SHAPES THAT COME NOT AT AN EARTHLY CALL, / WILL NOT DEPART WHEN MORTAL VOICES BID."
BUT SHAKESPEARE'S MAGIC COULD NOT COPIED BE; / WITHIN THAT CIRCLE NONE DURST WALK BUT HE.
"BUT O WHAT DAMNED MINUTES TELLS HE O'ER, / WHO DOTES, YET DOUBTS; SUSPECTS, YET STRONGLY LOVES?"
"BUT O FOR THE TOUCH OF A VANISH'D HAND, / AND THE SOUND OF A VOICE THAT IS STILL."
"BUT MERCY IS ABOVE THIS SCEPTRED SWAY; / IT IS ENTHRONED IN THE HEARTS OF KINGS, / IT IS AN ATTRIBUTE TO GOD HIMSELF, / AND EARTHLY POWER DOTH THEN SHOW LIKEST GOD'S / WHEN MERCY SEASONS JUSTICE."
"BUT MAN, PROUD MAN, / DREST IN A LITTLE BRIEF AUTHORITY, / MOST IGNORANT OF WHAT HE'S MOST ASSURED, / HIS GLASSY ESSENCE,--LIKE AN ANGRY APE, / PLAYS SUCH FANTASTIC TRICKS BEFORE HIGH HEAVEN / AS MAKE THE ANGELS WEEP."
BUT I WILL WEAR MY HEART UPON MY SLEEVE / FOR DAWS TO PECK AT.
BUT HUSHED BE EVERY THOUGHT THAT SPRINGS / FROM OUT THE BITTERNESS OF THINGS.
BUT FAR MORE NUMEROUS WAS THE HERD OF SUCH / WHO THINK TOO LITTLE AND WHO TALK TOO MUCH.
"BUT EARTHLIER HAPPY IS THE ROSE DISTILLED, / THAN THAT WHICH, WITHERING ON THE VIRGIN THORN, / GROWS, LIVES, AND DIES IN SINGLE BLESSEDNESS."
"BUT BY BAD COURSES MAY BE UNDERSTOOD, / THAT THEIR EVENTS CAN NEVER FALL OUT GOOD."
"BUT ALL WAS FALSE AND HOLLOW; THOUGH HIS TONGUE / DROPP'D MANNA, AND COULD MAKE THE WORSE APPEAR / THE BETTER REASON, TO PERPLEX AND DASH / MATUREST COUNSELS."
"BUSINESS DISPATCHED IS BUSINESS WELL DONE, BUT BUSINESS HURRIED IS BUSINESS ILL DONE."
BRING FORTH MEN-CHILDREN ONLY! / FOR THY UNDAUNTED METTLE SHOULD COMPOSE / NOTHING BUT MALES.
"BRIEF AS THE LIGHTNING IN THE COLLIED NIGHT, / THAT, IN A SPLEEN, UNFOLDS BOTH HEAVEN AND EARTH, / AND ERE A MAN HATH POWER TO SAY, ""BEHOLD!"" / THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOUR IT UP."
"BREATHE HIS FAULTS SO QUAINTLY, / THAT THEY MAY SEEM THE TAINTS OF LIBERTY; / THE FLASH AND OUTBREAK OF A FIERY MIND."
"BOOKS ARE DIVISIBLE INTO TWO CLASSES, THE BOOKS OF THE HOUR AND THE BOOKS OF ALL TIME."
"BLOW, WIND! COME, WRACK! / AT LEAST WE'LL DIE WITH HARNESS ON OUR BACK."
"BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND, / THOU ART NOT SO UNKIND / AS MAN'S INGRATITUDE."
"BLASPHEMY IS WISHING ILL TO ANYTHING, AND ITS OUTCOME WISHING ILL TO GOD; WHILE EUPHEMY IS WISHING WELL TO EVERYTHING, AND ITS OUTCOME WISHING WELL TO--""AH, WAD YE TAK' A THOCHT, AND MEN'."""
"BEWARE / OF ENTRANCE TO A QUARREL; BUT, BEING IN, / BEAR 'T THAT THE OPPOSED MAY BEWARE OF THEE."
"BEWARE, MY LORD, OF JEALOUSY; / IT IS THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER THAT DOTH MOCK / THE MEAT IT FEEDS ON."
"BETTER TO HUNT IN FIELDS FOR HEALTH UNBOUGHT, / THAN FEE THE DOCTOR FOR A NAUSEOUS DRAUGHT. / THE WISE FOR CURE ON EXERCISE DEPEND; / GOD NEVER MADE HIS WORK FOR MAN TO MEND."
BETTER A CHILD SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF A THOUSAND TRUTHS THAN HAVE CONSECRATED IN ITS HEART A SINGLE LIE.
"BE THOU ASSURED, IF WORDS BE MADE OF BREATH, / AND BREATH OF LIFE, I HAVE NO LIFE TO BREATHE / WHAT THOU HAST SAID TO ME."
"BE THOU AS CHASTE AS ICE, AS PURE AS SNOW, THOU SHALT NOT ESCAPE CALUMNY."
BE SURE YOU CAN OBEY GOOD LAWS BEFORE YOU SEEK TO ALTER BAD ONES.
"BE STIRRING AS THE TIME; BE FIRE WITH FIRE; / THREATEN THE THREATNER, AND OUTFACE THE BROW / OF BRAGGING HORROR; SO SHALL INFERIOR EYES, / THAT BORROW THEIR BEHAVIOURS FROM THE GREAT, / GROW GREAT BY YOUR EXAMPLE, AND PUT ON / THE DAUNTLESS SPIRIT OF RESOLUTION."
"BE OUR JOY THREE-PARTS PAIN! STRIVE, AND HOLD CHEAP THE STRAIN; / LEARN, NOR ACCOUNT THE PANG; DARE, NEVER GRUDGE THE THROE!"
"BE NOT THE FIRST BY WHOM THE NEW IS TRIED, / NOR YET THE LAST TO LAY THE OLD ASIDE."
"BENEATH THE RULE OF MEN ENTIRELY GREAT, THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD."
"BEING WITHOUT WELL-BEING IS A CURSE; AND THE GREATER BEING, THE GREATER CURSE."
"BEHOLD THE CHILD, BY NATURE'S KINDLY LAW, / PLEASED WITH A RATTLE, TICKLED WITH A STRAW."
"BEFORE THE CURING OF A STRONG DISEASE, / EVEN IN THE INSTANT OF REPAIR AND HEALTH, / THE FIT IS STRONGEST; EVILS THAT TAKE LEAVE, / ON THEIR DEPARTURE MOST OF ALL SHOW EVIL."
"BEAUTY STANDS / IN THE ADMIRATION ONLY OF WEAK MINDS, / LED CAPTIVE."
"BEAUTY IS BOUGHT BY JUDGMENT OF THE EYE, / NOT UTTER'D BY BASE SALE OF CHAPMEN'S TONGUES."
"BEAUTY IS A WITCH, / AGAINST WHOSE CHARMS FAITH MELTETH INTO BLOOD."
"BEAUTY IS AS SUMMER FRUITS, WHICH ARE EASY TO CORRUPT AND CANNOT LAST."
"BEAUTY DOTH VARNISH AGE, AS IF NEW-BORN, / AND GIVES THE CRUTCH THE CRADLE'S INFANCY. / O, 'TIS THE SUN THAT MAKETH ALL THINGS SHINE."
"BEAUTIES IN VAIN THEIR PRETTY EYES MAY ROLL; / CHARMS STRIKE THE SIGHT, BUT MERIT WINS THE SOUL."
"BE A PHILOSOPHER; BUT, AMIDST ALL YOUR PHILOSOPHY, BE STILL A MAN."
"BASE MEN, BEING IN LOVE, HAVE THEN A NOBILITY IN THEIR NATURES MORE THAN IS NATIVE TO THEM."
"AY, SIR, TO BE HONEST AS THIS WORLD GOES, IS TO BE ONE MAN PICKED OUT OF TWO THOUSAND."
"AY ME! FOR AUGHT THAT EVER I COULD READ, / COULD EVER HEAR BY TALE OR HISTORY, / THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH."
"AY, BUT TO DIE, AND GO WE KNOW NOT WHERE; / TO LIE IN COLD OBSTRUCTION AND TO ROT."
"A WRETCHED SOUL, BRUISED WITH ADVERSITY, / WE BID BE QUIET WHEN WE HEAR IT CRY; / BUT WERE WE BURDENED WITH LIKE WEIGHT OF PAIN, / AS MUCH, OR MORE, WE SHOULD OURSELVES COMPLAIN."
A WOMAN'S FRIENDSHIP BORDERS MORE CLOSELY ON LOVE THAN A MAN'S.
"A WISE PHYSICIAN, SKILL'D OUR WOUNDS TO HEAL, / IS MORE THAN ARMIES TO THE PUBLIC WEAL."
A WICKED FELLOW IS THE MOST PIOUS WHEN HE TAKES TO IT. HE'LL BEAT YOU ALL IN PIETY.
"A VERSE MAY FIND HIM WHO A SERMON FLIES, / AND TURN DELIGHT INTO A SACRIFICE."
ENGLISH+++"AUDACTER CALUMNIARE, SEMPER ALIQUID HÆRET","CALUMNIATE BOLDLY, ALWAYS SOME OF IT STICKS."
"AT THIRTY, MAN SUSPECTS HIMSELF A FOOL, / KNOWS IT AT FORTY, AND REFORMS HIS PLAN. / AT FIFTY, CHIDES HIS INFAMOUS DELAY. / PUSHES HIS PRUDENT PURPOSE TO RESOLVE. / RESOLVES--AND RE-RESOLVES; THEN DIES THE SAME."
A THOUSAND YEARS SCARCE SERVE TO FORM A STATE; / AN HOUR MAY LAY IT IN THE DUST.
"A THIRD INTERPRETS MOTION, LOOKS, AND EYES, / AT EVERY WORD A REPUTATION DIES."
"A THING IS WORTH WHAT IT DO FOR YOU, NOT WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO PAY FOR IT."
"ATHEISM LEAVES A MAN TO SENSE, TO PHILOSOPHY, TO NATURAL PIETY, TO LAWS, TO REPUTATION, ALL WHICH MAY BE GUIDES TO AN OUTWARD MORAL VIRTUE, THOUGH RELIGION WERE NOT; BUT SUPERSTITION DISMOUNTS ALL THESE, AND ERECTETH AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN THE MINDS OF MEN."
AT EVERY TRIFLE SCORN TO TAKE OFFENCE; / THAT ALWAYS SHOWS GREAT PRIDE OR LITTLE SENSE.
"A TALISMAN THAT SHALL TURN BASE METAL INTO PRECIOUS, NATURE ACKNOWLEDGES NOT; BUT A TALISMAN TO TURN BASE SOULS INTO NOBLE, NATURE HAS GIVEN US; AND THAT IS A ""PHILOSOPHER'S STONE,"" BUT IT IS A STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REFUSE."
"AS YET A CHILD, NOT YET A FOOL TO FAME, / I LISP'D IN NUMBERS, FOR THE NUMBERS CAME."
"AS WHOLESOME MEAT CORRUPTETH TO LITTLE WORMS, SO GOOD FORMS AND ORDERS CORRUPT INTO A NUMBER OF PETTY OBSERVANCES."
"AS WE ADVANCE IN LIFE, WE LEARN THE LIMITS OF OUR ABILITIES."
"A SUBSTITUTE SHINES BRIGHTLY AS A KING, UNTIL A KING BE BY."
"A SUBJECT'S FAULTS A SUBJECT MAY PROCLAIM, / A MONARCH'S ERRORS ARE FORBIDDEN GAME."
"AS THE SUN BREAKS THROUGH THE DARKEST CLOUDS, / SO HONOUR PEERETH IN THE MEANEST HABIT."
"AS THERE IS NO WORLDLY GAIN WITHOUT SOME LOSS, SO THERE IS NO WORLDLY LOSS WITHOUT SOME GAIN."
"AS THE HUSBAND IS, THE WIFE IS: / THOU ART MATED WITH A CLOWN, / AND THE GROSSNESS OF HIS NATURE / WILL HAVE WEIGHT TO DRAG THEE DOWN."
"AS THE FIRST ORDER OF WISDOM IS TO KNOW THYSELF, SO THE FIRST ORDER OF CHARITY IS TO BE SUFFICIENT FOR THYSELF."
"AS THE BIRTHS OF LIVING CREATURES AT FIRST ARE ILL-SHAPEN, SO ARE ALL INNOVATIONS, WHICH ARE THE BIRTHS OF TIME."
"A STATESMAN REQUIRES RATHER A LARGE CONVERSE WITH MEN, AND MUCH INTERCOURSE IN LIFE, THAN DEEP STUDY OF BOOKS."
A STATE IS NEVER GREATER THAN WHEN ALL ITS SUPERFLUOUS HANDS ARE EMPLOYED IN THE SERVICE OF THE PUBLIC.
"A SOUL WITHOUT REFLECTION, LIKE A PILE / WITHOUT INHABITANT, TO RUIN RUNS."
"A SOLDIER, / SEEKING THE BUBBLE REPUTATION / EVEN IN THE CANNON'S MOUTH."
"AS MAN, PERHAPS, THE MOMENT OF HIS BREATH, / RECEIVES THE LURKING PRINCIPLE OF DEATH; / THE YOUNG DISEASE, THAT MUST SUBDUE AT LENGTH, / GROWS WITH HIS GROWTH, AND STRENGTHENS WITH HIS STRENGTH."
"AS IN A THEATRE, THE EYES OF MEN, / AFTER A WELL-GRACED ACTOR LEAVES THE STAGE, / ARE IDLY BENT ON HIM THAT ENTERS NEXT, / THINKING HIS PRATTLE TO BE TEDIOUS."
"A SIMPLE MAIDEN IN HER FLOWER, / IS WORTH A HUNDRED COATS OF ARMS."
"A SIMPLE CHILD, / THAT LIGHTLY DRAWS ITS BREATH, / AND FEELS ITS LIFE IN EVERY LIMB, / WHAT SHOULD IT KNOW OF DEATH?"
"AS GOOD ALMOST KILL A MAN AS KILL A GOOD BOOK; WHO KILLS A MAN KILLS A REASONABLE CREATURE, GOD'S IMAGE; BUT HE WHO DESTROYS A GOOD BOOK KILLS REASON ITSELF."
"AS FROM THE WING NO SCAR THE SKY RETAINS, / THE PARTED WAVE NO FURROW FROM THE KEEL; SO DIES IN HUMAN HEARTS THE THOUGHT OF DEATH."
"AS FOR TALKERS AND FUTILE PERSONS, THEY ARE COMMONLY VAIN AND CREDULOUS WITHAL."
"AS FOR DISCONTENTMENTS, THEY ARE IN THE POLITIC BODY LIKE HUMOURS IN THE NATURAL, WHICH ARE APT TO GATHER A PRETERNATURAL HEAT AND INFLAME."
"AS FALLS THE DEW ON QUENCHLESS SANDS, / BLOOD ONLY SERVES TO WASH AMBITION'S HANDS."
"ART MUST ANCHOR IN NATURE, OR IT IS THE SPORT OF EVERY BREATH OF FOLLY."
"ART MAY MAKE A SUIT OF CLOTHES, BUT NATURE MUST PRODUCE A MAN."
"ARTISTS ARE OF THREE CLASSES: THOSE WHO PERCEIVE AND PURSUE THE GOOD, AND LEAVE THE EVIL; THOSE WHO PERCEIVE AND PURSUE THE GOOD AND EVIL TOGETHER, THE WHOLE THING AS IT VERILY IS; AND THOSE WHO PERCEIVE AND PURSUE THE EVIL, AND LEAVE THE GOOD."
ART IS THE WORK OF MAN UNDER THE GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION OF A MIGHTIER POWER.
"ART DOES NOT REPRESENT THINGS FALSELY, BUT TRULY AS THEY APPEAR TO MANKIND."
"ARGUMENT IS LIKE AN ARROW FROM A CROSS-BOW, WHICH HAS GREAT FORCE THOUGH SHOT BY A CHILD."
"A REPUBLIC IS PROPERLY A POLITY IN WHICH THE STATE, WITH ITS ALL, IS AT EVERY MAN'S SERVICE; AND EVERY MAN, WITH HIS ALL, IS AT THE STATE'S SERVICE."
"A PROPENSITY TO HOPE AND JOY IS REAL RICHES; ONE TO FEAR AND SORROW, REAL POVERTY."
"A PRIMROSE BY A RIVER'S BRIM / A YELLOW PRIMROSE WAS TO HIM, / AND IT WAS NOTHING MORE."
A POET ON CANVAS IS EXACTLY THE SAME SPECIES OF CREATURE AS A POET IN SONG.
A PLAGUE OF SIGHING AND GRIEF; IT BLOWS A MAN UP LIKE A BLADDER.
"A PITY THAT THE EAGLE SHOULD BE MEW'D, / WHILE KITES AND BUZZARDS PREY AT LIBERTY."
"A PATRON IS ONE WHO LOOKS WITH UNCONCERN ON A MAN STRUGGLING FOR LIFE IN THE WATER, AND WHEN HE HAS REACHED THE LAND ENCUMBERS HIM WITH HELP."
ENGLISH+++ANTIQUITAS SÆCULI JUVENTUS MUNDI,THE ANCIENT TIME OF THE WORLD WAS THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD.
AN OUNCE OF A MAN'S OWN WIT IS WORTH A POUND OF OTHER PEOPLES'.
"AN OBSTINATE MAN DOES NOT HOLD OPINIONS, BUT THEY HOLD HIM."
AN INNOCENT MAN NEEDS NO ELOQUENCE; HIS INNOCENCE IS INSTEAD OF IT.
AN INFINITUDE OF TENDERNESS IS THE CHIEF GIFT AND INHERITANCE OF ALL TRULY GREAT MEN.
"AN INFANT CRYING IN THE NIGHT, / AN INFANT CRYING FOR THE LIGHT; / AND WITH NO LANGUAGE BUT A CRY."
AN IDLER IS A WATCH THAT WANTS BOTH HANDS; / AS USELESS IF IT GOES AS IF IT STANDS.
"ANGER, WHEN IT IS LONG IN COMING, IS THE STRONGER WHEN IT COMES, AND THE LONGER KEPT."
"ANGELS COME TO VISIT US, AND WE ONLY KNOW THEM WHEN THEY ARE GONE."
"AND THIS OUR LIFE, EXEMPT FROM PUBLIC HAUNT, FINDS TONGUES IN TREES, BOOKS IN THE RUNNING BROOKS, SERMONS IN STONES, AND GOOD IN EVERYTHING."
"AND SO, FROM HOUR TO HOUR, WE RIPE AND RIPE, / AND THEN, FROM HOUR TO HOUR, WE ROT AND ROT, / AND THEREBY HANGS A TALE."
"AND, OFTEN TIMES, EXCUSING OF A FAULT / DOTH MAKE THE FAULT WORSE BY THE EXCUSE."
AND MUCH IT GRIEVED MY HEART TO THINK / WHAT MAN HAS MADE OF MAN.
"""AND IS THIS ALL?"" CRIED CÆSAR AT HIS HEIGHT, DISGUSTED."
"AND EARTHLY POWER DOTH THEN SHOW LIKEST GOD'S, / WHEN MERCY SEASONS JUSTICE."
"AND CAN ETERNITY BELONG TO ME, / POOR PENSIONER ON THE BOUNTIES OF AN HOUR?"
"A NATION WHICH LABOURS, AND TAKES CARE OF THE FRUITS OF LABOUR, WOULD BE RICH AND HAPPY, THOUGH THERE WERE NO GOLD IN THE UNIVERSE."
AN ASS MAY BRAY A GOOD WHILE BEFORE HE SHAKES THE STARS DOWN.
"AN ARTIST SHOULD BE FIT FOR THE BEST SOCIETY, AND SHOULD KEEP OUT OF IT."
"AN ARTIST IS A PERSON WHO HAS SUBMITTED TO A LAW WHICH IT IS PAINFUL TO OBEY, THAT HE MAY BESTOW A DELIGHT WHICH IT IS GRACIOUS TO BESTOW."
"ANALYSIS IS NOT THE BUSINESS OF THE POET. HIS OFFICE IS TO PORTRAY, NOT TO DISSECT."
AN ACRE IN MIDDLESEX IS BETTER THAN A PRINCIPALITY IN UTOPIA.
"A MONARCHY IS APT TO FALL BY TYRANNY; AN ARISTOCRACY, BY AMBITION; A DEMOCRACY, BY TUMULTS."
A MAN'S HAPPINESS CONSISTS INFINITELY MORE IN ADMIRATION OF THE FACULTIES OF OTHERS THAN IN CONFIDENCE IN HIS OWN.
"A MAN THAT IS YOUNG IN YEARS MAY BE OLD IN HOURS, IF HE HAVE LOST NO TIME."
"A MAN SO VARIOUS, THAT HE SEEM'D TO BE, / NOT ONE, BUT ALL MANKIND'S EPITOME."
"A MAN OF MAXIMS ONLY IS LIKE A CYCLOPS WITH ONE EYE, AND THAT EYE IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD."
A MAN MUST CARRY KNOWLEDGE WITH HIM IF HE WOULD BRING HOME KNOWLEDGE.
"A MAN IS NOT AS GOD, / BUT THEN MOST GODLIKE BEING MOST A MAN."
"A MADNESS MOST DISCREET, / A CHOKING GALL AND A PRESERVING SWEET / LOVE IS."
A MACHINE IS NOT A MAN OR A WORK OF ART; IT IS DESTRUCTIVE OF HUMANITY AND ART.
"ALL VIRTUE IS MOST REWARDED, AND ALL WICKEDNESS MOST PUNISHED, IN ITSELF."
ALL THINGS THAT ARE / ARE WITH MORE SPIRIT CHASED THAN ENJOYED.
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE / AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS.
ALL THE PERFUMES OF ARABIA WILL NOT SWEETEN THIS LITTLE HAND.
ALL THE GOOD OF WHICH HUMANITY IS CAPABLE IS COMPRISED IN OBEDIENCE.
"ALL THE DISEASES OF MIND, LEADING TO FATALEST RUIN, ARE DUE TO THE CONCENTRATION OF MAN UPON HIMSELF, WHETHER HIS HEAVENLY INTERESTS OR HIS WORLDLY INTERESTS, MATTERS NOT."
"ALL THAT LIVES MUST DIE, / PASSING THROUGH NATURE TO ETERNITY."
ALL THAT GLISTERS IS NOT GOLD; / GILDED TOMBS DO WORMS INFOLD.
"ALL POWER, EVEN THE MOST DESPOTIC, RESTS ULTIMATELY ON OPINION."
"ALL NATURE IS BUT ART UNKNOWN TO THEE. / ALL CHANCE, DIRECTION WHICH THOU CANST NOT SEE. / ALL DISCORD, HARMONY NOT UNDERSTOOD; / ALL PARTIAL EVIL, UNIVERSAL GOOD."
ALL MEN THAT ARE RUINED ARE RUINED ON THE SIDE OF THEIR NATURAL PROPENSITIES.
ALL MEASURES OF REFORMATION ARE EFFECTIVE IN PROPORTION TO THEIR TIMELINESS.
"ALL GREAT ART IS THE EXPRESSION OF MAN'S DELIGHT IN GOD'S WORK, NOT IN HIS OWN."
"ALL GOOD THINGS / ARE OURS, NOR SOUL HELPS FLESH MORE NOW / THAN FLESH HELPS SOUL."
"ALL GOOD COLOUR IS IN SOME DEGREE PENSIVE, AND THE PUREST AND MOST THOUGHTFUL MINDS ARE THOSE WHICH LOVE COLOUR THE MOST."
"ALL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT ARE GOOD, SO FAR AS THE WISE AND KIND IN THEM GOVERN THE UNWISE AND UNKIND."
"ALL FAITHS ARE TO THEIR OWN BELIEVERS JUST / FOR NONE BELIEVE BECAUSE THEY WILL, BUT MUST."
"ALL DELIGHTS ARE VAIN; BUT THAT MOST VAIN / WHICH, WITH PAIN PURCHAS'D, DOTH INHERIT PAIN."
ALL CENSURE OF A MAN'S SELF IS OBLIQUE PRAISE; IT IS IN ORDER TO SHOW HOW MUCH HE CAN SPARE.
"ALL ART IS GREAT, AND GOOD, AND TRUE, ONLY SO FAR AS IT IS DISTINCTIVELY THE WORK OF MANHOOD IN ITS ENTIRE AND HIGHEST SENSE."
"ALL ARE BUT PARTS OF ONE STUPENDOUS WHOLE / WHOSE BODY NATURE IS, AND GOD THE SOUL."
"A LITTLE PHILOSOPHY INCLINETH A MAN'S MIND TO ATHEISM, BUT DEPTH IN PHILOSOPHY BRINGETH MEN'S MINDS ABOUT TO RELIGION."
"A LITTLE LEARNING IS A DANGEROUS THING / DRINK DEEP, OR TASTE NOT THE PIERIAN SPRING."
"A LITTLE FIRE IS QUICKLY TRODDEN OUT; / WHICH BEING SUFFERED, RIVERS CANNOT QUENCH."
A LIE WHICH IS ALL A LIE MAY BE MET AND FOUGHT WITH OUTRIGHT / BUT A LIE WHICH IS PART A TRUTH IS A HARDER MATTER TO FIGHT.
"A LAST JUDGMENT IS NOT FOR MAKING BAD MEN BETTER, BUT FOR HINDERING THEM FROM OPPRESSING THE GOOD."
"A JEST'S PROSPERITY LIES IN THE EAR / OF HIM THAT HEARS IT, NEVER IN THE TONGUE / OF HIM THAT MAKES IT."
AH! THAT DECEIT SHOULD STEAL SUCH GENTLE SHAPES / AND WITH A VIRTUOUS VISOR HIDE DEEP VICE.
AH ME! FOR AUGHT THAT EVER I COULD READ ... / THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER DID RUN SMOOTH.
"A GREAT THING IS A GREAT BOOK, BUT GREATER THAN ALL IS THE TALK OF A GREAT MAN."
"A GREAT THING CAN ONLY BE DONE BY A GREAT MAN, AND HE DOES IT WITHOUT EFFORT."
A GREAT MAN IS HE WHO CAN CALL TOGETHER THE MOST SELECT COMPANY WHEN IT PLEASES HIM.
"A GREAT ANGUISH MAY DO THE WORK OF YEARS, AND WE MAY COME OUT FROM THAT BAPTISM OF FIRE WITH A SOUL FULL OF NEW AWE AND NEW PITY."
"A GOOD LAW IS ONE THAT HOLDS, WHETHER YOU RECOGNISE IT OR NOT; A BAD LAW IS ONE THAT CANNOT, HOWEVER MUCH YOU ORDAIN IT."
"A GOOD BOOK IS THE PRECIOUS LIFE-BLOOD OF A MASTER-SPIRIT, EMBALMED AND TREASURED UP ON PURPOSE TO A LIFE BEYOND LIFE."
A GENTLEMAN THAT WILL SPEAK MORE IN A MINUTE THAN HE WILL STAND TO IN A MONTH.
"A FIERY SOUL, WHICH, WORKING OUT ITS WAY / FRETTED THE PIGMY BODY TO DECAY."
AFFECTION LIGHTS A BRIGHTER FLAME / THAN EVER BLAZED BY ART.
A DWARF SEES FARTHER THAN THE GIANT WHEN HE HAS THE GIANT'S SHOULDERS TO MOUNT ON.
"ADVERSITY IS A GREAT SCHOOLMISTRESS, AS MANY A POOR FELLOW KNOWS THAT HAS WHIMPERED OVER HIS LESSON BEFORE HER AWFUL CHAIR."
A DEMOCRACY IS A STATE IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT RESTS DIRECTLY WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE CITIZENS.
"A CRITIC SHOULD BE A PAIR OF SNUFFERS. HE IS OFTEN AN EXTINGUISHER, AND NOT SELDOM A THIEF."
"A CONSISTENT MAN BELIEVES IN DESTINY, A CAPRICIOUS MAN IN CHANCE."
"A COMBINATION, AND A FORM, INDEED / WHERE EVERY GOD DID SEEM TO SET HIS SEAL / TO GIVE THE WORLD ASSURANCE OF A MAN."
A CHEERFUL LIFE IS WHAT THE MUSES LOVE; / A SOARING SPIRIT IS THEIR PRIME DELIGHT.
A CERTAIN DEGREE OF SOUL IS INDISPENSABLE TO SAVE US THE EXPENSE OF SALT.
ACCIDENT EVER VARIES; SUBSTANCE CAN NEVER SUFFER CHANGE OR DECAY.
"""A CAT MAY LOOK AT A KING,"" BUT CAN IT SEE A KING WHEN IT LOOKS AT HIM?"
ABSENCE OF OCCUPATION IS NOT REST; / A MIND QUITE VACANT IS A MIND DISTRESS'D.
