Seek the truth. [ Proverb ]
If man come not to gather
The roses where they stand,
They fade among their foliage.
They cannot seek his hand. [ Bryant ]
Seek for good, but expect evil. [ Cervantes ]
Even an emmet may seek revenge. [ Proverb ]
We always find what we do not seek. [ Proverb ]
To seek a needle in a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]
It comes -- the beautiful, the free,
The crown of all humanity -
In silence and alone
To seek the elected one. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Evil falls on him who goes to seek it. [ Cervantes ]
As the wind blows, seek your shelter . [ Proverb ]
Neither to seek nor to despise honours. [ Motto ]
Ye must seek and find God in the heart. [ Jean Paul ]
Seek your salve where you got your sore. [ Proverb ]
I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. [ William Shakespeare ]
Angels contented with their face in heaven.
Seek not the praise of men. [ Milton ]
Take heed you find not that you do not seek. [ Proverb ]
Take head you find not what you do not seek. [ Proverb ]
Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. [ Young ]
To seek to know is to seek occasion to doubt. [ French ]
You seek the needle where you never stuck it. [ Proverb ]
Amid the woods of Academus to seek for truth. [ Horace ]
No man must seek to constrain the impossible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Men seek less to be instructed than applauded. [ Proverb ]
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7 ]
Pity and friendship seek different habitations. [ Helen Hunt ]
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let those who hope for brighter shores no more,
Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek
What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore. [ Eugene Lee Hamilton ]
I seek no better warrant than my own conscience. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work. [ Phillips Brooks ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust;
Thou knowst 'tis common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]
Seek not to reform every one's dial by your watch. [ Proverb ]
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. [ George Linley ]
Never seek a wife till you know what to do with her. [ Proverb ]
Let me have music dying, and I seek no more delight. [ Keats ]
Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. [ Proverb ]
When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. [ Montesquieu ]
To seek in a sheep five feet when there are but four. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Seek only to mystify men; to satisfy them is difficult. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the theatre-manager in "Faust." ]
Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. [ German Proverb ]
To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. [ Buckle ]
Those see nothing but faults, that seek for nothing else. [ Proverb ]
If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]
I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause. [ Bible ]
+{Instruction} Seek to, delight, that they may mend mankind.
And, while they captivate, inform the mind. [ Cowper ]
I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness. [ Pascal ]
What we seek, we shall find; what we flee from,flees from us. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal it. [ Proverb ]
A gentleman's greyhound and a salt box, seek them at the fire. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! [ Samuel Lover ]
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Be sure you can obey good laws before you seek to alter bad ones. [ John Ruskin ]
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory. [ Sydney Smith ]
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. [ Robert Hall ]
Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme. [ Addison ]
Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. [ Ter ]
Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat. [ Proverb ]
Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and oblivion. [ Mery ]
Can we not seek the author of life but in the obscure labyrinth of theology? [ Voltaire ]
I am not sorry that my son loses at play, but that he will seek his revenge. [ Proverb ]
Him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and there converse with nature. [ Thomson ]
When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. [ Proverb ]
When a man finds not repose in himself it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. [ From the French ]
Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. [ Bible ]
Those mothers are wise who seek to prepare their daughters for their probable destination. [ Solon ]
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]
It is not so much for love of the world that we seek it, as to escape our own companionship.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. [ Jesus ]
Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not. [ Pascal ]
They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. [ Virgil ]
The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. [ Alexander Smith ]
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]
Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]
To seek these things is lost labor: geese in an oil-pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishingnet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related. [ Heine ]
Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. [ Froude ]
Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. [ Bacon ]
For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs! [ J. Petit-Senn ]
There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death. [ Agathon ]
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith: and seek not at any time the fame of being learned. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! [ Philip, King of Macedon ]
We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example, we will shine for everyone to follow. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun. [ Napoleon I ]
Shun to seek what is hid in the Womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. [ Horace ]
Eloquence may be found in conversation and all kinds of writings; it is rarely where we seek it, and sometimes where it is least expected. [ La Bruyere ]
The chief pleasure (in eating) does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce by sweating. [ Horace ]
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair. [ Pascal ]
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. [ Lowell ]
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. [ Zimmermann ]
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. [ Bacon ]
If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road. [ Thoreau ]
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein. [ Lowell ]
Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. [ George Eliot ]
His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. [ William Shakespeare ]
Seek not proud riches, but such as thou may'st get justly use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. [ Bacon ]
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good workman. [ Bruyere ]
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. [ David Thomas ]
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]
It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]
Learn the lesson of your own pain - learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul - in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. [ Mrs. Humphry Ward ]
To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it, to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love: this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world. [ De Varennes ]
It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as they are overrated by others. [ Whately ]
I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well. [ Montaigne ]
At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]
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. [ William Shakespeare ]
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]
Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
Let us pity the wicked man; for it is very sad to seek happiness where it does not exist. Let our compassion express itself in efforts to bring him gently back to sacred principle, and if he persist, let us pity him the more for a blindness so fatal to himself. [ De Charnage ]
Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]
Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]
It is sufficient to have a simple heart in order to escape the harshness of the age, in order not to fly from the unfortunate; but it is to have some understanding of the imperishable law, to seek them in the forgetfulness against which they dare not complain, to prefer them in their ruin, to admire them in their struggles. [ Senancour ]
Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]
The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]
Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]