Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]
Civil wars leave nothing but tombs. [ Lamartine ]
The wounds of civil war are deepest. [ Lucan ]
Religion is the basis of civil society. [ Burke ]
Justice is the great end of civil society. [ David Dudley Field ]
A civil denial is better than a rude grant. [ Proverb ]
So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Civil carriage is the best sign of affection to a woman. [ Proverb ]
Come, civil night, thou sober-suited matron, all in black. [ William Shakespeare ]
A proud man uever shows his pride so much as when he is civil. [ Lord Greville ]
Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life. [ Chinese Proverb ]
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. [ Milton ]
Civil wars of France made a million of atheists, and thirty thousand witches. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. [ Goldsmith ]
A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. [ Cicero ]
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. [ Burke ]
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. [ Colton ]
Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste: civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure. [ Paley ]
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights. [ Junius ]
Commonsense punishes all departures from her, by forcing those who rebel into a desperate war with all facts and experience, and into a still more terrible civil war with each other and with themselves. [ Colton ]
No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]
Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]