No one is so accursed by fate,
No one so utterly desolate,
But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime. [ Lowell ]

Though much is taken, much abides. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Though I am young, I scorn to flit
On the wings of borrowed wit [ George Wither ]

O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son.
Though baffled oft is ever won. [ Byron ]

Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]

Let there be gall enough in thy ink,
Though thou write with a goose-pen. [ William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III. Sc. 2 ]

Though stars in skies may disappear,
And angry tempests gather,
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us pleasant weather. [ Burns ]

Hearts may agree though heads differ. [ Proverb ]

Art is art, even though unsuccessful. [ J. Harris ]

The world will turn when we are earth
As though we had not come nor gone;
There was no lack before our birth.
When we are gone there will be none. [ Omar Khayyam ]

To lordlings proud I tune my lay,
Who feast in bower or hall;
Though dukes they be, to dukes I say,
That pride will have a fall. [ Gay ]

Though old and wise, yet still advise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Adversity makes wise, though not rich. [ Proverb ]

Fear though blind is swift and strong. [ Dr. Mackay ]

Though the sun shines, take your cloak. [ Proverb ]

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]

Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky. [ Montgomery ]

An ape's an ape, a varlet's a varlet,
Though they be clad in silk or scarlet. [ Proverb ]

Though the cat winks, she is not blind. [ Proverb ]

Let the hen live though it be with pip. [ Proverb ]

Though I am bitten, I am not all eaten. [ Proverb ]

A spirit pure as hers,
Is always pure, even while it errs:
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. [ Moore ]

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give - though it might seem bold -
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]

Too young for woe, though not for tears. [ Washington Irving ]

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield. [ Milton ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

Though inland far we be,
Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither. [ Wordsworth ]

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But, though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. [ George Herbert ]

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. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The watchful mother tarries nigh,
Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye. [ Keble ]

Let gleaners glean, though crops be lean. [ Proverb ]

No tree in all the grove but has its charm
Though each its hue peculiar. [ Cowper ]

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines.
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive.
What is she, but the means of happiness?
That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. [ Young ]

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. [ William Congreve ]

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. [ Job xiii. 15 ]

Love waits for love, though the sun be set,
And the stars come out, the dews are wet,
And the night-winds moan. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Though the fox run, the chicken hath wings. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The soul,
Though made in time, survives for aye;
And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. [ Sir J. Davies ]

Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silent when glad; affectionate, though shy. [ Beattie ]

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame. [ Pollok ]

We never forget, though there we are forgot. [ Byron ]

Though the fox runs the chickens have wings. [ Proverb ]

Her air, her manners, all who saw admired;
Courteous though coy, gentle though retired. [ Crabbe ]

Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. [ Byron ]

Sweet is true love though given in vain,
And sweet is death that puts an end to pain. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

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. [ George Herbert ]

Though absent, present in desires they be;
Our souls much further than our eyes can see. [ Drayton ]

Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak
With most miraculous organ. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, love forever lost,
And with it faith gone out! what is't remains
But duty, though the path be rough and trod
By bruised and bleeding feet? [ Lewis Morris ]

Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Will will have its will, though will woe win. [ Proverb ]

Even though vanquished, he could argue still. [ Goldsmith ]

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. [ Proverb ]

Though the chameleon Love can feed on the air,
I am one that am nourished by my victuals. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Sc. 1 ]

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. [ James Beattie ]

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it,
For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. [ Byron ]

Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress;
And, as the evening twilight fades away.
The stars are seen by night, invisible by day. [ Longfellow ]

Blood, though it sleep a time, yet never dies. [ Chapman ]

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]

Though a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it. [ Italian Proverb ]

Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven,
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. [ Pope ]

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Content with poverty, my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. [ Dryden after Hor ]

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes.
But not too humbly, or she will despise
Thee and thy suit though told in moving tropes;
Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. [ Byron ]

Windy attorneys to their client woes,
Airy succeeders of intestate joys,
Poor breathing orators of miseries!
Let them have scope: though what they do impart
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. [ William Shakespeare ]

Old age though despised, is coveted by all men. [ Proverb ]

May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name.
And glorify what else is damned to fame. [ Richard Savage ]

When our thoughts are born
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray. [ Jean Ingelow ]

What matter though the scorn of fools be given,
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! [ Mrs. Hale ]

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. [ F. S. Osgood ]

Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it; though thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel. [ William Shakespeare ]

Thy will be done though the heavens should fall.

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous.
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set. [ Proverb ]

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life. [ Edward Young ]

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems. [ Milton ]

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar. [ Tennyson ]

God give me a rich husband, though he be an ass. [ Proverb ]

Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [ John Howard Payne ]

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. [ George Herbert ]

Though this may be play to you, 'Tis death to us. [ Roger L'Estrange ]

Reynard is still Reynard though he put on a cowl. [ Proverb ]

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from
Virtue alone is true nobility! [ Gifford ]

Have but a few friends, though much acquaintance; [ Proverb ]

Though malice darken truth, it cannot put it out. [ Proverb ]

Though the sore be healed, yet a scar may remain. [ Proverb ]

Wranglers never want words though they may matter. [ Proverb ]

The good you do is not lost, though you forget it. [ Proverb ]

A diamond is valuable though it lie on a dunghill. [ Proverb ]

Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow. [ Danish Proverb ]

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [ John Wesley ]

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silver, though white.
Yet it draws black lines; it shall not rule my palm
There to mark forth its base corruption. [ Middleton and Rowley ]

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. [ Cunningham ]

Whenever he speaks, Heaven, how the listening throng
Dwell on the melting music of his tongue!
His arguments are emblems of his mien,
Mild but not faint, and forcing, though serene:
And when the power of eloquence he'd try,
Here lightning strikes you, there soft breezes sigh. [ Garth ]

Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours
Are barren in return. [ Rowe ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

Light is light, though the blind man doesn't see it. [ German Proverb ]

What though the foot be shackled; the heart is free. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]

Though love is blind, yet it is not for want of eyes. [ Proverb ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. [ Proverb ]

Mightier far
Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
Of magic potent over sun and star,
Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast. [ Wordsworth ]

Humility will exalt you, though sheepishness will not. [ Proverb ]

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man may come to market though he do not buy oysters. [ Proverb ]

Though modesty be a virtue, yet bashfulness is a vice. [ Proverb ]

I know him not though I should meet him in my porridge. [ Proverb ]

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

The tongue breaks the bone, though it hath none itself. [ Proverb ]

Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. [ Proverb ]

A man is a man though he have but a hose upon his head. [ Proverb ]

If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know though you've buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her -
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter! [ Sheridan ]

Well - peace to thy heart, though another's it be;
And health to that cheek, though it bloom I not for me. [ Thomas Moore ]

Harvest comes not every day, though it come every year. [ Proverb ]

A man is a man though he have never a cap to his crown. [ Proverb ]

Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind. [ Proverb ]

Crosses, though they be not pleasant, yet are wholesome. [ Proverb ]

The sun may do its duty, though your grapes are not ripe. [ Proverb ]

It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to appease. [ Grillparzer ]

Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Though your enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion. [ Proverb ]

Caution, though very often wasted. is a good risk to take. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]

It is not good to come near the plague, though to cure it. [ Proverb ]

He looks as though he had sucked his dam through a hurdle. [ Proverb ]

Who would desire to spit blood, though into a golden bason? [ Proverb ]

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]

Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Though the heavens be glorious, yet they are not all stars. [ Proverb ]

The wind is not in your debt, though it fills not your sail. [ Proverb ]

A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the house. [ Proverb ]

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [ Schiller ]

Openness has the mischief though not the malice of treachery. [ Proverb ]

Money will make the pot boil, though the devil is in the fire. [ Proverb ]

Though it is pleasant weaving nets, it is wiser to make cages. [ Moore ]

A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him. [ Proverb ]

Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. [ Mol ]

You look as though you would make the crow a pudding ere long . [ Proverb ]

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. [ Aaron Hill ]

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. [ Goethe ]

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. [ Proverb ]

Repetition is every where unacceptable, though it were in Homer. [ Proverb ]

What is that to him that reaps not harvest of his youthful joys,
Though the deep heart of existence beat forever like a boy's? [ Tennyson ]

Though you see a churchman ill, yet continue in the church still. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. [ Proverb ]

Though fame is smoke, its fumes are frankincense to human thoughts. [ Byron ]

Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]

The diamond, though small, is a heavy load for a poor man to carry. [ Ejik ]

Though the sauce be good, yet you need not forsake the meat for it. [ Proverb ]

Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers. [ Bailey ]

There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language. [ Byron ]

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it. [ Proverb ]

Though God take the sun out of the heaven, yet we must have patience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To keep a custom, you hammer the anvil still, though you have no iron. [ Proverb ]

Though vices repel, they do not always separate us from those we love. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. [ Disraeli ]

You will make an end of your whistle, though the cart overthrow for it. [ Proverb ]

The passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet. [ Dryden ]

My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is a good friend that is always giving, though it be never so little. [ Proverb ]

Though you rise early, yet the day comes at his time, and not till then. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. [ Swift ]

Error, though blind herself, yet sometimes brings forth seeing children. [ Proverb ]

And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. [ Heine ]

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. [ Milton ]

Too great and sudden changes, though for the better, are not easily born. [ Proverb ]

And though all cry down self, none means his own self in a literal sense. [ Butler ]

Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss even of a moment still is bliss. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Though your water be never so muddy, do not say, I will never drink of it. [ Proverb ]

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [ Carlyle ]

The snail slides up the tower at last, though the swallow mounts it sooner. [ Proverb ]

In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [ Quintilian ]

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased. [ J. G. Holland ]

Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. [ Goldsmith ]

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. [ Zimmermann ]

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again, though he were my best friend. [ Franklin ]

Where order in variety we see; and where, though all things differ, all agree. [ Pope ]

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. [ Sir E. Coke ]

Though love use reason for its precision, he admits him not for his councillor. [ William Shakespeare ]

Serve a noble disposition, though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]

There is something in the shape of harps as though they had been made by music. [ P. J. Bailey ]

Like Teague's cocks, that fought one another, though all were of the same side. [ Proverb ]

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. [ Scott ]

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. [ Plutarch ]

A diamond, though set in horn, is still a diamond, and sparkles as in purest gold. [ Massinger ]

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. [ Alphonse Karr ]

Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet it is still but a fool's coat. [ Proverb ]

The path which good order prescribes is the direct one, even though it has windings. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Though all men were made of one metal, yet they were not cast all in the same mould. [ Proverb ]

Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, my mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people. [ Grover Cleveland ]

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit. [ Socrates ]

Heaps of huge words uphoarded hideously, with horrid sound, though having little sense. [ Spenser ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in Fame, though not in life. [ William Shakespeare ]

He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake, (i.e. is wide awake, though pretending not to see). [ Scotch Proverb ]

Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand. [ Proverb ]

How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie; and without dying, oh, how sweet to die! [ John Wolcott ]

Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. [ Cicero ]

Ambition hath one heel nail'd in hell, Though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens. [ Lilly ]

Fly from the crowd, and be to virtue true. Content with what thou hast, though it be small. [ Chaucer ]

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. [ Macaulay ]

A wise man likes that best, that is itself; Not that which only seems, though it look fairer. [ Middleton ]

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last. [ William Penn ]

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]

Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. [ John Dryden ]

Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. [ Ovid ]

The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. [ Bovee ]

Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, but blooms not again, though watered with tears. [ Hooper ]

Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for. He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us. [ Babcock ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distance. [ Xenophon ]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason. [ Hais-Bais ]

The cheek may be tinged with a warm sunny smile, though the cold heart to ruin runs darkly the while. [ Moore ]

A woman can not guarantee her heart, even though her husband be the greatest and most perfect of men. [ George Sand ]

Though the generous man care the least for wealth; yet he will be the most galled with the want of it. [ Proverb ]

When a beautiful woman yields to temptation, let her consult her pride, though she forgets her virtue. [ Junius ]

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection. [ Pindar ]

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. [ Wordsworth ]

Though color be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet it is vulgarly the most striking. [ Joseph Spence ]

Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented. [ Pope ]

What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? [ Hitopadesa ]

He will shoot higher that shoots at the moon, than he that shoots at a dunghill, though he miss the mark. [ Proverb ]

To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the sear of it will remain. [ Sadi ]

Copiousness of words is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. [ Montagu ]

For none can express thee, though all should approve thee. I love thee so, dear, that I only can love thee. [ E. B. Browning ]

We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. [ Cicero ]

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. [ Lord Karnes ]

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others? [ Franklin ]

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. [ Bacon ]

Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! [ Balzac ]

That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. [ Cicero ]

Pride, though it cannot prevent the holy affections of nature from beings felt, may prevent them from being shown. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. [ Kingsley ]

Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]

Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. [ Bible ]

He who commits a wrong will himself inevitably see the writing on the wall, though the world may not count him guilty. [ Tupper ]

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]

A society of people will cursorily represent a certain culture, though there is not a gentleman or a lady in the group. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Genius in poverty is never feared, because Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. [ B. R. Haydon ]

We see, though ordered for the best, permitted laurels grace the lawless brow, the unworthy raised, the worthy cast below. [ Dryden ]

Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

It is astonishing the influence foolish apothegms have upon the mass of mankind, though they are not unfrequently fallacies. [ Sydney Smith ]

Her hair was not more sunny than her heart, though like a natural golden coronet it circled her dear head with careless art. [ Lowell ]

There is no tomorrow; though before our face the shadow named so stretches, we always fail to overtake it, hasten as we may. [ Margaret J. Preston ]

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. [ Burns ]

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye, that we may always advance towards it. though we know it can never be reached. [ Dr. Johnson ]

There is hardly a person in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasures takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust. [ George Washington ]

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth. [ Victor Hugo ]

Mediocre people fear exaltation for the harm that may result from it; though it is something that can not be communicated to them. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]

In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing. [ Tac ]

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. [ Addison ]

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. [ Feltham ]

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning. [ Addison ]

Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, - strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. [ Ruskin ]

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. [ Cato ]

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. [ Swift ]

He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effect; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, as well as extreme hatred. [ Chapman ]

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. [ J. C. Hare ]

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one, and place his virtues in a fairer light. [ Lillo ]

There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom. [ Goldsmith ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

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. [ Locke ]

The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all the more fragrant. [ Sataka ]

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy. [ Cicero ]

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]

Though looks and words, by the strong mastery of his practiced will, are overruled, the mounting blood betrays an impulse in its secret spring too deep for his control. [ Southey ]

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]

Commonsense in one view is the most uncommon sense. While it is extremely rare in possession, the recognition of it is universal. All men feel it, though few men have it [ H. N. Hudson ]

Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. [ Feltham ]

That, of course, they are many in number, or that, after all, they are, other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. [ Burke ]

Nothing is more unreasonable than to entangle our spirits in wildness and amazement; like a partridge flattering in a net, which she breaks not, though she breaks her wings. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, - as though that time should be of another make from this, which has already come and is ours. [ Fuller ]

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched. [ Seneca ]

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason. [ Dryden ]

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it. [ Hazlitt ]

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. [ Macaulay ]

Wisdom sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. [ N. P. Willis ]

Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. [ Cicero ]

Ought or Should? Both of these words, though implying obligation, have different shades of meaning. Ought is the stronger term. Thus a man ought to be honest; he should be neat in his dress. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it: though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. [ Saville ]

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects. [ Pascal ]

The tongue tells the thought of one man only, whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

The day of life spent in honest and benevolent labor comes in hope to an evening calm and lovely; and though the sun declines, the shadows that he leaves behind are only to curtain the spirit unto rest. [ Henry Giles ]

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]

The great moments of life are but moments like 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. [ Thackeray ]

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite, are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions; and it is a fact that the same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. [ Charron ]

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. [ Thackeray ]

Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them. [ H. N. Hudson ]

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder. [ Emerson ]

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. [ Sir J. Mackintosh ]

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a very detestable one; and the wretch who pilfers from us in the hour of distress is an innocent character compared to the plunderer who wantonly robs us of happiness and reputation. [ Rev. H. Kelley ]

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. [ Chesterfield ]

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket. [ Goldsmith ]

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]

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 ]

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers; he that desires to give more than he can hath equaled his gift to his desire, and hath given more than he hath. [ Quarles ]

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. [ Burke ]

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. [ Bacon ]

A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]

Every man, within that inconsiderable figure of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. [ Carlyle ]

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]

Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history. [ Moses Harvey ]

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]

In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well or ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent as death, harmless as a rose's breath to a distant passenger, yet it is rather the state of death than life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations. [ Henry Giles ]

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so. [ Ruskin ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

Dangers are no more light if they once seem light, and more dangers have deceived men than forced them; nay, it were better to meet some dangers half-way, though they come nothing near, than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches; for if a man watch too long it is odds be will fall fast asleep. [ Bacon ]

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. [ Johnson ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]

Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective. [ Chesterfield ]

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. [ Addison ]

Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book, they buy with it the right to abuse the author. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe. to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals. [ Goldsmith ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

It is a mathematical demonstration, that these twenty-six letters admit of so many changes in their order, and make such a long roll of differently-ranged alphabets, not two of which are alike, that they could not all be exhausted though a million millions of writers should each write above a thousand alphabets a day for the space of a million millions of years. [ R. Bentley ]

The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters. [ Colton ]

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]

Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased, till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive. [ Spencer ]

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]

The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know. He started telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought: This story isn't too long. But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, Uh-oh, this story is getting long. But then the story was over, and I said to myself: You know, that story wasn't too long after all. I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]