All blood is alike ancient. [ Proverb ]
Society is as ancient as the world. [ Voltaire ]
Ancient custom is always held as law. [ Law ]
A little garden square and walled;
And in it throve an ancient evergreen,
A yew-tree, and all round it ran a walk
Of shingle, and a walk divided it. [ Tennyson ]
Gentility is nothing but ancient riches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! [ Virgil ]
It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won. [ William Shakespeare ]
Custom without reason is but an ancient error. [ Proverb ]
He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more
From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. [ Cleveland ]
The hills, rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun. [ Bryant ]
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
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Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]
Ancient custom is always held or regarded as law. [ Law Maxim ]
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature. [ Voltaire ]
We derive all that is pardonable in us from ancient fountains. [ Dryden ]
Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error. [ Cyprian ]
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals. [ Joubert ]
When a blind man flourishes the ancient, woe be unto those that follow him. [ Proverb ]
Such dupes are men to custom, and so prone
To reverence what is ancient, and can plead
A course of long observance for its use.
That even servitude, the worst of ills,
Because delivered down from sire to son, Is kept and guarded as a sacred thing! [ Cowper ]
For the qualities of sheer wit and humor. Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers. [ William Fleming ]
Still as the peaceful walks of ancient night; silent as are the lamps that burn on tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. [ Bible ]
Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum. [ Madame Swetchine ]
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]
Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology. [ Hare ]
They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. [ Fuller ]
Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. [ Bishop Warburton ]
They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hopes that some one will come and cut the halter. [ Thomas Fuller ]
In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token that they would never again be needed. [ T. W. Higginson ]
In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other, - fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other. [ Thoreau ]
The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. [ Sir Wm. Blackstone ]
We live only on debris; instead of despair, we have indifference; love itself is treated as an ancient illusion. Where has the soul of the world taken refuge? [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
It is a revered thing to see an ancient castle not in decay; how much more to behold an ancient family which have stood against the waves and weathers of time! [ Bacon ]
The exhaustion of taste, genius, and splendor upon its fables and ceremonies, even to our times, constitute the ancient paganism a marvel of all that was attractive and magnificent. [ R. W. Hamilton ]
It is like the Greek fire used in ancient warfare, which burnt unquenched beneath the water; or like the weeds which, when you have extirpated them in one place, are sprouting forth vigorously in another spot, at the distance of many hundred yards; or, to use the metaphor of St. James, it is like the wheel which catches fire as it goes, and burns with fiercer conflagration as its own speed increases. [ F. W. Robertson ]