What remains when hope is fled? She answered, Endless weeping.
[ Rogers ]
Mind is the great lever. Thought is the process by which human ends are answered. [ Webster ]
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered. Opportunity! [ Moore ]
Mind is the great lever of all things: human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]
Mind is the great leveller of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. [ Chapin ]
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered. [ Tupper ]
How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee!
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open,
I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow.
[ Tome Burguillos ]
As Plato entertained some friends in a room where there was a couch richly ornamented, Diogenes came in very dirty, as usual, and getting upon the couch, and trampling on it, said, I trample upon the pride of Plato.
Plato mildly answered, But with greater pride, Diogenes!
[ Erasmus ]
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted. [ Addison ]
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]
In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken,
answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart,
she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too?
he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper,
adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]
If flowers have souls,
said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers.
They go,
answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips.
[ Richter ]