The tidal wave of deepest souls
Into our inmost being rolls,
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The wounds of civil war are deepest. [ Lucan ]
Habit is the deepest law of human nature. [ Carlyle ]
In the deepest water is the best fishing. [ Proverb ]
The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth most abound in care. [ Earl of Stirling ]
A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]
Surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]
There is a society in the deepest solitude. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
Where the river is deepest it runs quietest. [ Proverb ]
Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]
Religion - that voice of the deepest human experience. [ Matthew Arnold ]
The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safest. [ Savage ]
Where the stream runneth smoothest, the water is deepest. [ Lyly ]
Beneath closed lids and folds of deepest shade we think we see. [ N. L. Frothingham ]
The seeds of first instructions are dropped into the deepest furrows. [ Tupper ]
Heavy sorrow is silent, and the deepest mourning is the most solitary. [ Charles Buxton ]
The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished. [ Herder ]
It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest. [ Chapin ]
The Christian religion, rightly understood, is the deepest and choicest price of philosophy. [ Sir Thomas Moore ]
As the best wine makes the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hatred. [ Proverb ]
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. [ Johnson ]
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. [ Johnson ]
We cannot expect the deepest friendship unless we are willing to pay the price, a self-sacrificing love. [ Peloubet ]
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. [ Hallam ]
I have thought that in all women's deepest loves, be they ever so full of reverence, there enters sometimes much of the motherly element. [ Miss Muloch ]
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts. [ Horace ]
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. [ Lander ]
Friendship and love require the deepest and most entire confidence, but souls of a high character demand not communications of a familiar nature. [ Humboldt ]
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. [ Carlyle ]
If the deepest and best affections which God has given us sometimes brood over the heart like doves of peace, - they sometimes suck out our life-blood like vampires. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. [ Bovee ]
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, most earnest humor. [ E. P. Whipple ]
The greatest flood has the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. [ Socrates ]
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him. [ Carlyle ]
The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. [ Daniel Webster ]
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. [ Cicero ]
The study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]