Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell. [ Swedenborg ]
The fine tints and fluent curves which constitute beauty of character. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. [ Vicesimus Knox ]
Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character. [ Lavater ]
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. [ Dewey ]
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. [ Charles Sumner ]
Let literature be an honorable augmentation to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon. [ S. T. Coleridge ]
The extension and perfection of friendship will constitute a great part of the future happiness of the blest. [ R. Whately ]
To think and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
I am persuaded that he who is capable of being a bitter enemy can never possess the necessary virtues that constitute a true friend. [ Fitzosborne ]
Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. [ Rollin ]
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 ]
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers; they arouse and animate our own people. [ Henry Clay ]
To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]