We may be good in every condition. [ Proverb ]
Variety is the condition of harmony. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Cold of complexion, good of condition. [ Proverb ]
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king. [ Pope ]
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. [ Alexander Pope ]
Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. [ Mathilde Blind ]
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. [ Emerson ]
There is no condition but what sits well upon a wise man. [ Proverb ]
I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the first condition. [ Emerson ]
No condition so low but may have hopes, none so high but may have fears. [ Proverb ]
The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. [ John Ruskin ]
Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. [ Montaigne ]
You are in a pitiable condition when you have to conceal what you wish to tell. [ Syrus ]
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. [ Dante ]
If you cannot bring your condition to your mind, bring your mind to your condition. [ Dr. Jacobus ]
Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Permanence, persistence, is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men. [ Carlyle ]
Many consent to be virtuous, only on condition that everybody will give them credit for it. [ De Finod ]
The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence. [ George Eliot ]
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other. [ Washington Allston ]
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. [ Amiel ]
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Live up to the best that is in you: live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. [ J. C. Sharp ]
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird. [ Balzac ]
Many believe the article of remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance or the fruits of holy life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]
Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life. [ Chapin ]
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. [ Fielding ]
To have the tongue cut out, and to be seated deaf and dumb in a corner, were preferable to his condition who cannot govern his tongue. [ Sadi ]
A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale, only on condition that no one takes a part at retail. [ A. Karr ]
The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. [ Emerson ]
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. [ David Dudley Field ]
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods. [ Seneca ]
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
A man who is not able to make a bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. [ Magendie ]
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul; that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love; and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. [ William Ellery Channing ]
The truly great are to be found everywhere; nor is it easy to say in what condition they spring up most plentifully. Real greatness has nothing to do with a man's sphere. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Genius never grows old - young today, mature yesterday, vigorous tomorrow, always immortal. It is peculiar to no sex or condition, and is the divine gift to woman no less than to man. [ Juan Lewis ]
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]
Nature has lent us life, as we do a sum of money; only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that we received it? [ Cicero ]
If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate. [ T. C. Upham ]
The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]
Another underlying condition of contentment is not to take one's self, or even the affairs of life, too seriously. In looking back, every one can see how much unhappiness has been derived from an over-weening sense of one's importance. [ Henry D. Chapin ]
Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]
When you take the wires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down? - that it does not release me, and put me into some better place, and better condition of life? [ Bishop Randolph S. Foster ]
To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]
It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]
Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]