Empire and liberty. [ Cicero ]
My mind to me an empire is. [ Southwell ]
To have the power to forgive,
Is empire and prerogative,
And 'tis in crowns a nobler gem,
To grant a pardon than condemn. [ Butler ]
The empire of custom is most mighty. [ Publius Syrus ]
The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Westward the course of empire takes its way. [ Berkeley ]
O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd.
Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre. [ Gray ]
Frail empire of a day! That with the setting sun extinct is lost. [ Somerville ]
The prick of a pin is enough to make an Empire insipid for a time. [ Proverb ]
To give pain is the tyranny, - to make happy the true empire of beauty. [ Steele ]
Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. [ Johnson ]
If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. [ Mencius ]
It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. [ Daniel Webster ]
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. [ Solon ]
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. [ Bossuet ]
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. [ Emerson ]
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic. [ South ]
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. [ Carlyle ]
O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea. Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam. Survey our empire, and behold our home! [ Byron ]
Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. [ Calderon ]
The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, - words with little meaning, actions with little worth, - one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. [ Carlyle ]
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove; and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. [ Balzac ]
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Let him speak of his own deeds, and not of those of his forefathers. High birth is mere accident, and not a virtue; for if reason had controlled birth, and given empire only to the worthy, perhaps Arbaces would have been Xerxes, and Xerxes Arbaces. [ Metastasio ]
Give thy friend counsel wisely and charitably, but leave him to his liberty whether he will follow thee or no; and be not angry if thy counsel be rejected, for advice is no empire, and he is not my friend that will be my judge whether I will or no. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. [ Carlyle ]
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is held with a firmer grasp; the empire has a wider boundary. We are all the slaves of quackery in one shape or another. Indeed, one portion of our being is always playing the successful quack to the other. [ Carlyle ]