The end makes all equal. [ Proverb ]
Turtle makes all men equal. [ Beaconsfield ]
All women are equal in love.
Birds pay equal honours to all men. [ Proverb ]
My equal he will be again
Down in that cold oblivious gloom,
Where all the prostrate ranks of men
Crowd without fellowship, the tomb. [ J. Montgomery ]
An equal has no power over an equal. [ Law Maxim ]
The coward never on himself relies,
But to an equal for assistance flies. [ Crabbe ]
Six feet of earth make all men equal. [ Proverb ]
The coward wretch whose hand and heart
Can bear to torture aught below.
Is ever first to quail and start
From slightest pain or equal foe. [ Eliza Cook ]
Have no friends not equal to yourself. [ Confucius ]
Mortals are equal; their mask differs. [ Voltaire ]
Extremes in nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use. [ Pope ]
Our necessities never equal our wants. [ Franklin ]
Justice always whirls in equal measure. [ William Shakespeare ]
We are not all equal, nor can we be so. [ Goethe ]
All men are equal before the natural law. [ Law Maxim ]
I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]
With equal pace, impartial fate.
Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate. [ Horace ]
Clemency alone mates us equal to the gods. [ Claudianus ]
Equal nature fashion'd us
All in one mould.
All's but the outward gloss
And politic form that does distinguish us. [ Massinger ]
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. [ Cowley ]
God created man, but Sam Colt made them equal! [ Unknown ]
Where can we find talent equal to the subject? [ Juvenal, Roman Poet ]
With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]
There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]
Even the best things are not equal to their fame. [ Thoreau ]
Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. [ Socrates ]
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. [ Gracian ]
One jeer seldom goes forth but it brings back its equal. [ Proverb ]
Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. [ Carew ]
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. [ Horace ]
There is no blessing equal to the possession of a stout heart. [ S. Smiles ]
Death is an equal doom to good and bad, the common inn of rest. [ Spenser ]
It is an equal failing to trust every body and to trust no body. [ Proverb ]
He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. [ Confucius ]
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards hast taken with equal thanks. [ William Shakespeare ]
To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. [ Abbe Trublet ]
She commandeth her husband, in any equal matter, by constant obeying him. [ Fuller ]
The gods know all countries; by navigation we equal the gods in knowledge. [ Pharaoh Neclues ]
Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value. [ Francis Quarles ]
Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights. [ Charles Sumner ]
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability. [ Horace ]
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them. [ Alfieri ]
Envy lies between two beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]
So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. [ Byron ]
No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family. [ Burnap ]
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference. [ Voltaire ]
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils, even if equal in number. [ Pliny ]
To bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject excites no interest in any. [ Hazlitt ]
A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity is superior to any man of equal capacity. [ Lavater ]
Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal. [ Froude ]
My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. [ Virgil ]
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. [ Bacon ]
When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]
In the gates of eternity, the black hand and the white hand hold each other with an equal clasp. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
There is no use or money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows upon reflection. [ Mackenzie ]
Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. [ Cicero ]
Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. [ Cervantes ]
It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. [ Ruskin ]
Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]
Since every man that lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal minds what happens let us bear. [ Dryden ]
Health is so necessary to all the duties as well as pleasures of life that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The night, proceeding on with silent pace, stood in her noon, and viewed with equal face her sleepy rise and her declining race. [ Dryden ]
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. [ Carlyle ]
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal? [ Milton ]
As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal. [ Steele ]
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. [ Horace ]
People who are arrogant on account of their wealth are about equal to our Laplanders, who measure a man's worth by the number of his reindeer. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
Poetry and flowers are the wine and spirit of The Arab; a couplet is equal to a bottle, and a rose to a dram, without the evil effects of either. [ Layard ]
Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal. [ Charron ]
If a traveler does not meet with one who is his better or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool. [ Max Muller ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]
Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior. [ Plutarch ]
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. [ Johnson ]
The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it. [ Emerson ]
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]
He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter. [ Fielding ]
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]
A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]
No possession can surpass, or even equal, a good library to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures which never cloy. [ John Alfred Langford ]
We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [ Thomas Jefferson ]
Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal. [ Henry Giles ]
Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it,, or have it not equal to their deserts. [ Milton ]
Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer. [ Carlyle ]
The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right. [ Henry George ]
We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]
Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. [ Johnson ]
Nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. [ Voltaire ]
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him. [ Thomas Hobbes ]
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. [ Hume ]
Taking our stand on the immovable rock of Christ's character we risk nothing in saying that the wine of miracle answered to the wine of nature, and was not intoxicating. No counterproof can equal the force of that drawn from His attributes. It is an indecency and a calumny to impute to Christ conduct which requires apology. [ Abraham Coles ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]