Possibilities are infinite. [ Proverb ]
Infinite riches in a little room. [ Marlowe ]
In the infinite meadows of Heaven
Blossomed the lovely stars,
The forget-me-nots of the angels. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Home - the nursery of the Infinite. [ William Ellery Channing ]
But infinite in pardon is my Judge. [ Milton ]
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety. [ William Shakespeare ]
Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity. [ Jeremiah Seed ]
I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
Where can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Infinite is the help man can yield to man. [ Carlyle ]
Infinite in degree, and endless in duration. [ Franklin ]
The thirst for the infinite proves infinity. [ Victor Hugo ]
Time is short; your obligations are infinite. [ Massillon ]
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. [ Ben Jonson ]
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. [ Alexander Smith ]
Amid my list of blessings infinite
Stands this the foremost, that my heart has bled; [ Young ]
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. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Death, thou art infinite; it is life that is little. [ Bailey ]
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. [ Bancroft ]
Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. [ Lord John Russell ]
On the earth, the Infinite has sowed His name in tender flowers. [ Richter ]
Only that being can surmise the infinite who is chosen for infinity. [ Liedge ]
Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite! divine! [ Young ]
The finite is annihilated in the presence of infinity, and becomes a simple nothing. [ Pascal ]
In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. [ Goethe ]
Sweet tears! the awful language eloquent of infinite affection, far too big for words. [ Pollok ]
Oh, poor hearts of poets, eager for the infinite in love, will you never be understood. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. [ Lamartine ]
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. [ Seneca ]
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. [ William Shakespeare ]
Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! [ Victor Hugo ]
Lovers have in their language an infinite number of words, in which each syllable is a caress. [ Rochepedre ]
Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many. [ Hazlitt ]
Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. [ Emerson ]
The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes, and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all. [ Carlyle ]
The difference between love and possession is that one is an infinite desire, the other a satisfied desire. [ Saint-Prosper ]
God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. [ Horace Mann ]
The history of the thoughts of men, curious on account of their infinite variety, is also sometimes instructive. [ Fontanelle ]
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. [ Phillips Brooks ]
Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value; for it is the representative of eternity. [ Goethe ]
I believe not only in special providences,
but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of special Providences.
[ Charles Kingsley ]
The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
We are finite beings: there can be no infinite happiness for us. The soul that dreams it and pursues it will embrace but a shadow. [ Balzac ]
Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ Carlyle ]
Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. [ Chapin ]
God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none. [ Henry James ]
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are infinite in the past [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite. [ Carlyle ]
What is certain in death is somewhat softened by what is uncertain; it is an indefiniteness in the time which holds a certain relation to the infinite, and what is called eternity. [ La Bruyere ]
If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]
The culture of flowers is one of the few pleasures that improves alike the mind and the heart, and makes every true lover of those beautiful creations of Infinite Love, wiser, purer, and nobler. [ J. Vick ]
Who is there that in logical words can express the affect that music has upon us? A kind of unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze into that. [ T. Carlyle ]
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character. [ William Matthews ]
Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]
Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]
Avarice often produces opposite effects; there is an infinite number of people who sacrifice all their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others despise great future advantages to obtain present interests of a trifling nature. [ Kochefoucauld ]
If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns. [ Chapin ]
There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God. that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite. [ James A. Garfield ]
Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. [ Carlyle ]
Words, those fickle daughters of the earth,
are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]
Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty. [ Whittier ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]
O poets! what injury you have done us, and how right Plato was to banish you from his republic! How your ambrosia has rendered more bitter our absinth! How have we found our lives more barren and more desolate, after having turned our eyes toward the sublime perspectives which your dreams have opened in the infinite! [ T. Gautier ]
That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly considered, not more wonderful, not more impressive, than that which we insolently call littleness; and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehensible: it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. [ Ruskin ]
Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]
The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike. [ Ruskin ]
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite. [ Victor Cousin ]
To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]
Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]
Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first 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; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]