An avenging God closely follows the haughty. [ Seneca ]
The honey-bee that wanders all day long
The field, the woodland, and the garden over.
To gather in his fragrant winter store.
Humming in calm content his winter song,
Seeks not alone the rose's glowing breast,
The lily's dainty cup, the violet's lips.
But from all rank and noxious weeds he sips
The single drop of sweetness closely pressed
Within the poison chalice. [ Anne C. Lynch Botta ]
Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. [ Henry Giles ]
A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than a man's. [ Coleridge ]
The hatred of those most closely connected with us is the bitterest. [ Tac ]
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. [ Goethe ]
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. [ Louis the Eleventh ]
Look closely at those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Thou art sworn as deeply to affect what we intend as closely to conceal what we impart. [ William Shakespeare ]
Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. [ H. Giles ]
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together. [ Shenstone ]
It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. [ Horace ]
Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies' wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn-door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas. [ Samuel Smiles ]
I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]