Fortune, my friend, I've often thought
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again. [ Sheridan ]
No gale can equally serve all passengers. [ Proverb ]
Shun equally a sombre air and vivacious sallies. [ Marcus Antoninus ]
They were both equally bad; so the devil put them together. [ Proverb ]
I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. [ Goldsmith ]
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]
I entrench myself in my books, equally against sorrow and the weather. [ Leigh Hunt ]
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all. [ Lord Mansfield ]
A downright contradiction is equally mysterious to wise men as to fools. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. [ Milton ]
Neatness is an inheritance to which the poor can lay claim equally with the rich. [ H. Greenough ]
The foolish and vulgar are always accustomed to value equally the good and the bad. [ Yriarte ]
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. [ Johnson ]
Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect. [ Zoroaster ]
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. [ Lowell ]
Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]
Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the greatest danger lies. [ Goethe ]
Words of cheer thrill not only the soul of the hearer, but equally the soul of the speaker, because they are God's words. [ Unknown ]
Pride seems to be equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem to have it just alike. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. [ Bruyere ]
The finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. [ Fielding ]
None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant. [ Henry Home ]
There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change. [ Pope ]
The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]
It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]
There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom. [ Alexander von Humboldt ]
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be. [ Landor ]
To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required - intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it. [ Carlyle ]
Some women have in the course of their lives a double engagement to sustain, equally difficult to break or to dissimulate: in one case the contract is wanting, in the other the heart. [ La Bruyere ]
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move, as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest. [ Colton ]
Gallantry to women (the sure road to their favor) is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute towards it. The slightest indifference with regard to them, or distrust of yourself is equally fatal. [ Hazlitt ]
Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]
The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]
Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny. [ Heroidotus ]
We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art: but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. [ Montaigne ]