Definition of ever

"ever" in the adverb sense

1. ever, of all time

at any time

"did you ever smoke?"

"the best con man of all time"

2. always, ever, e'er

at all times all the time and on every occasion

"I will always be there to help you"

"always arrives on time"

"there is always some pollution in the air"

"ever hoping to strike it rich"

"ever busy"

3. ever, ever so

intensifier for adjectives) very

"she was ever so friendly"

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Quotations for ever

Ever drink, ever dry. [ Proverb ]

Love ever flows downward. [ Quoted by Hare ]

Mills and wives ever want. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To see her is to love her,
And love but her for ever. [ Burns ]

Pride is scarce ever cured. [ Proverb ]

Merit was ever modest known. [ Gay ]

Truth and oil are ever above. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The reverend are ever before. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God permits, but not for ever. [ Proverb ]

Once a whore and ever a whore. [ Proverb ]

I have all I have ever enjoyed. [ Bettine ]

Wine ever pays for his lodging. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]

Fate is ever better than design. [ Thos. Doubleday ]

No one ever knew his own father. [ Buckley ]

No thought which ever stirred
A human breast should be untold. [ Robert Browning ]

The cat sees not the mouse ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No good doctor ever takes physic. [ Italian Proverb ]

It rises more glorious than ever. [ Motto ]

Marriage is ever made by destiny. [ Chapman ]

Affection lights a brighter flame
Than ever blazed by art. [ William Cowper ]

Genius is ever a riddle to itself. [ Richter ]

No author ever spared a brother;
Wits are gamecocks to one another. [ Gay ]

He that on pilgrimages goeth ever,
Becometh holy late or never. [ Proverb ]

Genius is ever a secret to itself. [ Carlyle ]

He that once hits is ever bending. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Kindness nobler ever than revenge. [ William Shakespeare ]

The sex is ever to a soldier kind. [ Homer ]

The sense of duty pursues us ever. [ Joseph Cook ]

Nature ever faithful is
To such as trust her faithfulness. [ Emerson ]

A light broke in upon my soul -
It was the carol of a bird;
It ceased - and then it came again
The sweetest song ear ever heard. [ Byron ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

No man is ever hurt but by himself. [ Diogenes ]

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more!
Men were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never. [ Percy ]

Who ever repented of a good action? [ Proverb ]

For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son.
Though baffled oft is ever won. [ Byron ]

No man was ever scared into heaven. [ Proverb ]

It is ever thus with happiness;
It is the gay tomorrow of the mind,
That never comes. [ Proctor ]

Though lost to sight, to memory dear
Thou ever wilt remain. [ George Linley: Song ]

Who will not mercy unto others show,
How can he mercy ever hope to have? [ Edmund Spenser ]

Benign restorer of the soul!
Who ever fly'st to bring relief.
When first we feel the sure control,
Of love or pity, joy or grief. [ Rogers ]

Violence does ever justice unjustly. [ Carlyle ]

Hardness ever of hardness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]

Once in use and ever after a custom. [ Proverb ]

A man well mounted is ever choleric. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Error is ever the sequence of haste. [ Wellington ]

With women worth the being won.
The softest lover ever best succeeds. [ Hill ]

What probing deep
Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? [ T. B. Aldrich ]

Fools, to talking ever prone
Are sure to make their follies known. [ Gay ]

The best hearts are ever the bravest. [ Sterne ]

He whom nature thus bereaves,
Is ever fancy's favourite child;
For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
Of changeful beauty, bright and wild. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

This world is ever running its round. [ Proverb ]

The world goes whispering to its own,
This anguish pierces to the bone;
And tender friends go sighing round,
What love can ever cure this wound?
My days go on, my days go on. [ E. B. Browning ]

He that is thrown would ever wrestle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What skilful limner ever would choose
To paint the rainbow's varying hues.
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven? [ Scott ]

The more haste, ever the worst speed. [ Churchill ]

A mother's love is ever in its spring. [ Chenier ]

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 ]

No wise man ever wished to be younger. [ Swift ]

If you would live for ever,
You must wash the milk off your liver. [ Proverb ]

Be sure no lie can ever reach old age. [ Sophocles ]

No greater men are now than ever were. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view? [ John Dyer ]

No good man ever became suddenly rich. [ Syrus ]

Think not, dream not that thou livest,
If thy hand doth idly lie,
If thy soul for ever longing,
Yearn but for the by and bye. [ M. W. Wood ]

A ship and a woman are ever repairing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost. [ Shakespeare ]

A woman and a glass are ever in danger. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Pardon ever follows sincere repentance. [ Spurgeon ]

It is ever so! affection feeds
Sometimes on flowers, how oft on weeds! [ J. F. Wiffen ]

To open your windows be ever your care. [ Proverb ]

I wonder did you ever count
The value of one human fate;
Or sum the infinite amount
Of one heart's treasure, and the weight
Of life's one venture, and the whole
Concentrate purpose of a soul. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

Be always as merry as ever you can,
For no man delights in a sorrowful man. [ Proverb ]

No young man believes he shall ever die. [ John Hazlitt ]

For he that once is good, is ever great. [ Ben Jonson ]

Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever. [ Shelley ]

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office; and his tongue
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,
Remember'd tolling a departed friend. [ Shakespeare ]

No time was ever suitable in all points. [ Proverb ]

No good lawyer ever goes to law himself. [ Italian Proverb ]

Man should be ever better than he seems. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

It is the little rift within the lute
That by and by will make the music mute,
And, ever widening, slowly silence all. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

No man was ever scolded out of his sins. [ William Cowper ]

Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss. [ Byron ]

He that once deceives is ever suspected. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

No sensible person ever made an apology. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. [ William Shakespeare ]

The wisest, happiest of our kind are they
That ever walk content with Nature's way. [ Wordsworth ]

O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]

God permits the wicked, but not for ever. [ Proverb ]

No work begun shall ever pause for death! [ Robert Browning ]

How poor are they who have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? [ William Shakespeare ]

He that wrongs his friend
Wrongs himself more, and ever bears about
A silent court of justice in his breast,
Himself the judge and jury, and himself
The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

It is an old story, yet remains ever new. [ Heinrich Heine ]

No man ever yet became great by imitation. [ Johnson ]

No man ever surfeited on too much honesty. [ Proverb ]

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. [ William Congreve ]

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Books cannot always please, however good.
Minds are not ever craving for their food. [ Crabbe ]

The proud are ever most provoked by pride. [ Cowper ]

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. [ Proverb ]

All that I know is, that the facts I state
Are true as truth has ever been of late. [ Byron ]

Things may serve long, but not serve ever. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good-nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine. [ Pope ]

He had never kindly heart
Nor ever cared to better his own kind,
Who first wrote satire with no pity in it. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Necessity is ever stronger than human law. [ Dionysius ]

A decent boldness ever meets with friends. [ Homer ]

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. [ Swift ]

No man's religion ever survives his morals. [ South ]

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. [ Carlyle ]

No honest man ever repented of his honesty. [ Proverb ]

We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

If the partridge had the woodcock's thigh,
It would be the best bird that ever did fly. [ Proverb ]

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies. [ Seneca ]

The ever-burning lamp of accumulated wisdom. [ G. W. Curtis ]

No really great man ever thought himself so. [ Hazlitt ]

No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. [ Bodenstedt ]

Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]

And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell.
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. [ Homer ]

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Let love prevail!
The love that envies not, that thinks no ill,
That faileth not, but ever lives.
All things believing, hoping, bearing still. [ Horatius Bonar ]

God ever works with those who work with will. [ Aeschylus ]

Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self. [ Canon Liddon ]

Our home is still home, be it ever so homely. [ Charles Dibdin ]

Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light,
For ever blessing those that look on them. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

May widows wed as often as they can,
And ever for the better change their man;
And some devouring plague pursue their lives,
Who will not well be governed by their wives. [ Dryden ]

Let not the cooings of the world allure thee;
Which of her lovers ever found her true? [ Young ]

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. [ Edward Everett ]

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ...
The course of true love never did run smooth. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

By land or water the wind is ever in my face. [ Proverb ]

Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Cursed be the verse, how well so ever it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. [ Pope ]

No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possessed. [ Cowper ]

The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. [ Proverb ]

There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above or dark or fair,
There is ever a song that our hearts may hear -
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear -
There is ever a song somewhere. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]

No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be. [ Old saying ]

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow
For thee, that ever felt another's woe! [ Homer ]

Listen! O, listen!
Here ever hum the golden bees
Underneath full-blossomed trees.
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. [ Lowell ]

None ever loved, but at first sight they loved. [ George Chapman ]

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. [ Publius Syrus ]

He was a man
Versed in the world as pilot in his compass;
The needle pointed ever to that interest
Which was his loadstar; and he spread his sails
With vantage to the gale of others' passions. [ Ben Jonson ]

With as good a will as ever I came from school. [ Proverb ]

No great man was ever other than a genuine man. [ Carlyle ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

None ever gives the lie to him that praises him. [ Proverb ]

No age ever seemed the age of Romance to itself. [ Carlyle ]

No book was ever written down by any but itself. [ Bentley ]

Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]

They live ill who think they will live for ever. [ Publius Syrus ]

The best of men have ever loved repose;
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray;
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. [ Thomson ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Do you never think what wondrous beings these?
Do you never think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man ever caught! [ Longfellow ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

He looks not well to himself that looks not ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [ John Howard Payne ]

No man can ever rise above that at which he aims. [ Archibald A. Hodge ]

O, reputation! dearer far than life.
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell.
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. [ Sewell ]

Who ever suffered for not speaking ill of others? [ Proverb ]

Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust;
Thou knowst 'tis common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

Ever onward! ever onward! without rest and quiet. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Ever since Adam, fools have been in the majority. [ Casimir Delavigne ]

Did you ever before hear an ass play upon a lute? [ Proverb ]

No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [ Cicero ]

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

The stream flows, and will go on flowing for ever. [ Horace ]

The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Ever let the fancy roam; pleasure never is at home. [ Keats ]

Ever since we wear clothes we know not one another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love should have some rest and pleasure in himself,
Not ever be too curious for a boon,
Too prurient for a proof against the grain
Of him ye say ye love. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one. [ Hawthorne ]

The sea is flowing ever; the land retains it never. [ Goethe ]

The tattler’s tongue is ever dancing a silly jig. [ Proverb ]

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove;
No! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me proved;
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night.
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men.
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

The soul of a choleric man is ever by the fire-side. [ Proverb ]

Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace,
He will be in the furnace with them. [ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Gleanings among the Sheaves ]

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it. [ Congreve ]

No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. [ Mrs. Browning ]

By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. [ Landor ]

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. [ George William Curtis ]

As sure as God ever puts His children into the furnace.
He will be in the furnace with them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

He that is a cuckold, and allows it, may be so for ever. [ Proverb ]

Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary. [ Thos. Middleton ]

A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. [ Tennyson ]

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live for ever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle, and that no more. [ Young ]

No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]

Hope ever urges on, and tells us tomorrow will be better. [ Tibullus ]

Life is a mournful silence in which the heart ever calls. [ Lamartine ]

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. [ Lord Greville ]

No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him. [ Burke ]

Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. [ John Ruskin ]

Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

No great talker ever did any great thing yet in this world. [ Ouida ]

We are ever young enough to sin, never old enough to repent. [ Proverb ]

When you enter into a house leave the anger ever at the door. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. [ Madame Necker ]

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise. [ Goethe ]

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. [ Goldsmith ]

He who is ashamed of his calling ever lives shamefully in it. [ Proverb ]

The sweat of Adam's brow hath streamed down our's ever since. [ Proverb ]

No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever. [ Proverb ]

The magic of first love is the ignorance that it can ever end. [ Beaconsfield ]

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust. [ Goldsmith ]

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one. [ Jean Paul ]

Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

Extremes are ever neighbors; it is a step from one to the other. [ Sheridan Knowles ]

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. [ St Evremond ]

Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. [ Petrarch ]

If ever I catch his cart overthrowing, I will give it one shove. [ Proverb ]

A man - be the heavens ever praised! - is sufficient for himself. [ Carlyle ]

By the verdict of his own breast no guilty man is ever acquitted. [ Juvenal ]

Accident ever varies; substance can never suffer change or decay. [ Wm. Blake ]

Nobody should ever look anxious except those who have no anxiety. [ Beaconsfield ]

The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. [ John Ruskin ]

Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? [ Milton ]

Here are a few of the unpleasantest words that ever blotted paper! [ William Shakespeare ]

Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for pre-eminence. [ Goldsmith ]

May no good Christian ever see an ugly woman that affects niceness. [ Proverb ]

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. [ Carlyle ]

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion. [ Sir David Brewster ]

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. [ Proverb ]

Loquacity is the fistula of the soul, ever running, and never cured. [ Proverb ]

Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God. [ Parnell ]

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]

Worth hath been under-rated, ever since wealth hath been overvalued. [ Proverb ]

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? [ Tillotson ]

No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless. [ Carlyle ]

No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]

By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. [ Spanish Proverb ]

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent. [ Richardson ]

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has for its first duty to forgive. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. [ Bruyere ]

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself. [ Goethe ]

Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them. [ John Ruskin ]

Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. [ William Shakespeare ]

No man ever thought too highly of his nature or too meanly of himself. [ Young ]

Society is ever ready to worship success, but rarely forgives failure. [ Mme. Roland ]

No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful. [ Goldsmith ]

Justice is the key-note of the world, and all else is ever out of tune. [ Theodore Parker ]

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. [ Dryden ]

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised. [ Landor ]

Ever keep thy promise, cost what it may; this it is to be true as steel. [ Charles Reade ]

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [ Ovid ]

Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play? [ Anna Cora Mowatt ]

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Who of us has not regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips! [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]

O friendship! thou divinest alchemist, that man should ever profane thee! [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Memory is ever active, ever true. Alas, if it were only as easy to forget! [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance. [ Locke ]

But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]

Charity ever finds in the act reward, and needs no trumpet in the receiver. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The humor of youth, which ever thinks that good whose goodness it sees not. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. [ Carlyle ]

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. [ Dr. Johnson ]

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. [ Milton ]

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seem beautiful. [ Ouida ]

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. [ Goldsmith ]

Admiration is a youthful fancy which scarcely ever survives to mature years. [ H. W. Shaw ]

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloyed? [ Colton ]

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. [ Ovid ]

On her cheek blushes the richness of an autumn sky with ever-shifting beauty. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

No man ever became, or can become, largely rich merely by labour and economy. [ John Ruskin ]

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful. [ Colton ]

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. [ Carlyle ]

As for environments, the kingliest being ever born in the flesh lay in a manger. [ Chapin ]

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. [ John Ruskin ]

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Nothing in nature, much less conscious being, was ever created solely for itself. [ Young ]

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. [ H. W. Beecher ]

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. [ Tuckerman ]

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. [ Sherlock ]

No woman or man need ever suffer from ennui or despair; the panacea is occupation. [ Mme. de Surin ]

No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine. [ Hitopadesa ]

No one has deceived the whole world, nor has the whole world ever deceived any one. [ Pliny the Younger ]

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. [ Colton ]

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. [ Monk ]

In the great majority of things habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt. [ John Foster ]

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. [ Johnson ]

The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. [ Barrow ]

The ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain which no one can ever take from us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. [ William Shakespeare ]

The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Poplars and alders ever quivering played, and nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. [ Pope ]

Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. [ Rückert ]

I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. [ J. G. Holland ]

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. [ Coleridge ]

Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

His hair is of a good color, an excellent color; your chestnut was ever the only color. [ William Shakespeare ]

No one would ever meet death in defence of his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. [ Colton ]

What would we not give to still have in store the first blissful moment we ever enjoyed! [ Rochepedre ]

Envy is so shameful and cowardly a passion, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. [ Proverb ]

The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]

By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall. [ Rabelais ]

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day. [ Seneca ]

Hatred is nearly always honest - rarely, if ever, assumed. So much cannot be said for love. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require. [ Alexander Maclaren ]

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [ Ovid ]

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. [ H. W. Shaw ]

In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words - not in many words, I think, ever. [ Carlyle ]

To fight with its neighbours never was, and is now less than ever, the real trade of England. [ Carlyle ]

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. [ Sterne ]

When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life; and all is seed, and all is fruit. [ Schiller ]

That caressing and exquisite grace - never bold, ever present - which just a few women possess. [ Owen Meredith ]

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution, but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses. [ Ledru-Rollin ]

It is meet that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm, that cannot be seduced? [ William Shakespeare ]

Nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; nor nobly, which is done in pride. [ Ruskin ]

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone. [ Feltham ]

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case. [ Balzac ]

Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. [ Charles Lamb ]

True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot. [ Chapin ]

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart. [ Saadi ]

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, no life that breathes with human breath has ever truly longed for death. [ Tennyson ]

If angels ever condescend to walk on this earth of ours, it is when clad in the form of good mothers. [ W. T. Burke ]

Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. [ Boucher ]

That hour is coming, when we shall more earnestly wish to gain time, than ever we studied to spend it. [ Proverb ]

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree. [ Rutherford ]

Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]

I heard that God had called your mother home to heaven. It will seem more than ever like home to you now. [ Babcock ]

Duty is one and invariable: it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity. [ Thoreau ]

Copiousness of words is always false eloquence, though it will ever impose on some sort of understandings. [ Montagu ]

Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. [ Ovid ]

No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look. [ John Ruskin ]

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. [ Lowell ]

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve. [ Carlyle ]

No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty. [ Froude ]

I ever held this sentence of the poet as a canon of my creed, that whom God loveth not, they love not music. [ T. Morley ]

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full. [ J. C. Hare ]

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]

Madame X. is a woman of too much wit and cleverness to be ever despised as much as some women less despicable. [ Chamfort ]

With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. [ Thoreau ]

He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. [ Horace ]

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself. [ Montesquieu ]

A creation of importance can be produced only when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]

If you ever saw a crow with a kingbird after him, you will get an image of a dull speaker and a lively listener. [ Holmes ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God. [ Daniel Webster ]

In eternal cares we spend our years, ever agitated by new desires: we look forward to living, and yet never live. [ Fontanelle ]

If hearty sorrow be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender it here; I do as truly suffer, as ever I did commit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ever take it for granted that man collectively wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! [ Friedrich Schiller ]

No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest. [ John Ruskin ]

Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Woe for my vine-clad home, that it should ever be so dark to me, with its bright threshold and its whispering tree! [ N. P. Willis ]

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]

The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached upon that subject. [ Saville ]

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry, and is as often trundling in a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. [ Goldsmith ]

Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]

Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian. [ Longfellow ]

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life. [ Renan ]

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature but what he was forced to ascribe it to many inconsistencies. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. [ Burns ]

Now-a-days friends are no longer found; good faith is dead, envy reigns supreme; and evil habits are ever more extending. [ Sannazaro ]

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. [ Longfellow ]

I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness. [ Hamerton ]

To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface. [ Carlyle ]

No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart. [ John Ruskin ]

It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters. [ Carlyle ]

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. [ Lamartine ]

If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]

Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. [ Carlyle ]

These evils I deserve, yet despair not of His final pardon whose ear is ever open and his eye gracious to readmit the supplicant. [ Milton ]

In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression. [ Jean Paul ]

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less. [ Whately ]

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me. [ Beecher ]

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary. [ Sterne ]

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

A little scandal is an excellent thing; nobody is ever brighter or happier of tongue than when he is making mischief of his neighbors. [ Ouida ]

Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. [ Goldsmith ]

No dynamite will ever be invented that can rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. [ John Ruskin ]

The wretch that would wish the poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him forever dwell in flame, in frost, in ever-during night. [ Dante ]

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love? [ W. E. Channing ]

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and be does it without effort. [ Ruskin ]

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful. [ Cicero ]

No character was ever rightly understood until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy. [ Carlyle ]

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 ]

It is the saddest of all things that even one human soul should dimly perceive the beauty that is ever around us, a perpetual benediction. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

The most lucrative commerce has ever been that of hope, pleasure, and happiness: it is the commerce of authors, women, priests, and kings. [ Mme. Roland ]

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to brood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui. [ Hazlitt ]

Give, and you may keep your friend if you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He will steal himself into a man's favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Charity balls are a curse. The name is a subtle argument in favor of their existence, but if ever anything belied its name, it is a charity ball. [ Geo. F. Hall ]

Was there ever anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe and the Pilgrim's Progress? [ Dr. Johnson ]

The royal navy of England has ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. [ Sir Wm. Blackstone ]

If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. [ Swift ]

Love is life's end - an end, but never ending.... Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. [ Spenser ]

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end. [ Bacon ]

Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. [ George Macdonald ]

The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed. [ Arthur Helps ]

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. [ Cobden ]

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone{} (wenn du lange dahin bist). [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. [ Jean Paul ]

The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever. [ O. W. Holmes ]

If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. [ Fisher Ames ]

'Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence. Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during glory and termless joy. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

Three letters! but one syllable! Still less, a single motion of the head, and all is done! one is married for ever! I do not know any breakneck comparable to it. [ A. Ricard ]

"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? [ Carlyle ]

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. [ Scott ]

Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. [ Carlyle ]

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. [ Bacon ]

The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. [ Goethe ]

A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. [ Landor ]

For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor. [ Feltham ]

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

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 ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be of godlike in this world, - the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. [ Carlyle ]

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. [ Sir T. F. Buxton ]

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after. [ Bishop Hall ]

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs. [ Bacon ]

If ever this free people, if this government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this human wriggle and struggle for office - that is a way to live without work. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [ Carlyle ]

No villainy or flagitious action was ever yet committed but, upon a due inquiry into the cause of it, it will be found that a lie was first or last the principal engine to effect it. [ South ]

National character varies as it fades under invasion or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself. [ John Ruskin ]

The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. [ Bacon ]

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. [ Chamfort ]

If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have 'under' in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It may be laid down as a general rule that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only a second place. [ Fielding ]

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal. [ Ouida ]

Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest. [ Carlyle ]

Rarity gives a charm: thus early fruits are most esteemed; thus winter roses obtain a higher price; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress; a door ever open attracts no young suitor. [ Martial ]

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, evanescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world. [ Aughey ]

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed, is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed, would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet. [ Landor ]

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. [ William Shakespeare ]

Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

There is nothing of which men are more liberal than their good advice, be their stock of it ever so small; because it seems to carry in it an intimation of their own influence, importance, or worth. [ Young ]

Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life. [ Phillips Brooks ]

This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again. [ Goethe ]

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it: but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. [ Burke ]

She was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood; at the age when, if ever angels be for God's good purpose enthroned in mortal form, they may be, without impiety, supposed to abide in such as hers. [ Dickens ]

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. [ Colton ]

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds. [ John Ruskin ]

That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation. [ Fielding ]

However powerful one may be, whether one laughs or weeps, none can make thee speak, none can open thy hand before the time, O mute phantom, our shadow! specter always masked, ever at our side, called Tomorrow. [ Victor Hugo ]

In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflected from perpendicular fact on an occasion like this. [ Mark Twain, from The Story Of A Speech ]

The want of a more copious diction, to borrow a figure from Locke, is caused by our supposing that the mind is like Fortunatus's purse, and will always supply our wants, with out our ever putting anything into it. [ Bovee ]

As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. [ Ruskin ]

In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. [ Emerson ]

Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations! [ Goldsmith ]

The power of painter or poet to describe rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal, but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well but either from actual sight or sight of faith. [ Ruskin ]

Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. [ Carlyle ]

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]

The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a house of mourning, I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed today, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years. [ Carlyle ]

He is a treacherous supplanter and underminer of the peace of all families and societies. This being a maxim of an unfailing truth, that nobody ever pries into another man's concerns but with a design to do, or to be able to do him a mischief. [ South ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against and not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. [ John Neal ]

If ever you have looked on better days, if ever been where bells have knolled to church, if ever sat at any good man's feast, if ever from your eyelids wiped a tear and know what it is to pity and be pitied, let gentleness my strong enforcement sue. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the earth. [ Swift ]

God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. [ M. Luther ]

In Athens the ladies were not gaudily but simply arrayed, and we doubt whether any ladies ever excited more admiration. So also the noble old Roman matrons, whose superb forms were gazed on delightedly by men worthy of them, were always very plainly dressed. [ George D. Prentice ]

Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]

The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath. [ Swift ]

From the year 1789 to the year 1860 no nation has ever known a more unbounded prosperity, a fuller space of happiness. In the short space of seventy years, within the turn of a single life, the nation, poor, weak and despised, raised itself to the pinnacle of power and of glory. [ Robert C. Winthrop ]

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler - a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. [ Paulding ]

Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in the last, ever kept visibly distinct, while in the first it escapes from sight amid the shows of color and the curves of grace. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too deep for them. No history was ever true. Lives I have read which, if they were not, had the appearance, the interest, and the utility of truth. [ Landor ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. [ Lord Shaftesbury ]

Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence. [ Walpole ]

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them, - that it was a vain endeavor? [ Thoreau ]

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. [ Watts ]

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. Little old New York's good enough for us - that's what they sing. [ O. Henry, A Tempered Wind ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Founders and senators of states and cities, lawgivers, extirpers of tyrants, fathers of the people, and other eminent persons in civil government, were honored but with titles of worthies or demigods; whereas such as were inventors and authors of new arts, endowments, and commodities towards man's life, were ever consecrated among the gods themselves. [ Bacon ]

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. [ Bishop Porteus ]

Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him the news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance. Labor on character. [ Cobden ]

Cheeriness is a thing to be more profoundly grateful for than all that genius ever inspired or talent ever accomplished. Next best to natural, spontaneous cheeriness is deliberate, intended and persistent cheeriness, which we can create, can cultivate and can so foster and cherish that after a few years the world will never suspect that it was not an hereditary gift. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

It deserves to be considered that boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences. Whence it is bad in council though good in execution. The right use of bold persons, therefore, is that they never command in chief, but serve as seconds, under the direction of others. For in council it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them unless they are very great. [ Bacon ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]

O God, whom the world misjudges, and whom everything declares! listen to the last words that my lips pronounce! If I have wandered, it was in seeking Thy law. My heart may go astray, but it is full of Thee! I see, without alarm, eternity appear; and I can not think that a God who has given me life, that a God who has poured so many blessings on my days, will, now that my days are done, torment me for ever! [ The last prayer of Voltaire ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject. [ Blakey ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

After all there is a weariness that cannot be prevented. It will come on. The work brings it on. The cross brings it on. Sometimes the very walk with God brings it on, for the flesh is weak; and at such moments we hear softer and sweeter than it ever floated in the wondrous air of Mendelssohn, O rest in the Lord, for it has the sound of an immortal requiem: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors. [ James Hamilton ]

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination? to the company of saint and sage, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? More than that, it annihilates time and space for us. [ Lowell ]

Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend: it is, as Mr. Burke calls it, the cheap defense and ornament of nations. It produces more labor and more talent than twice the wealth of a country could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the imperious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice and the wisest economy. [ Sydney Smith ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

Who can fathom the depth of a mother's love! No friendship so pure, so devoted; the wild storm of adversity and the bright sunshine of prosperity are all alike to her; however unworthy we may be of that affection, a mother never ceases to love her erring child. Often, when alone, as we gaze up to the starry heaven, can we in imagination catch a glimpse of the angels around the great white throne, and among the brightest and fairest of them all is our sweet mother, ever beckoning us onward and upward to her celestial home. [ R. Smith ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name? The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]

He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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ever in Words With Friends™

The word ever is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters ever:

VEER
(54)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word ever

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The 106 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In ever

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Words containing the sequence ever

Words with ever in them (240 words)

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Word Growth involving ever

Shorter words in ever

eve

Longer words containing ever

achiever achievers overachievers

achiever achievers superachievers

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achiever achievers underachievers

achiever overachiever overachievers

achiever superachiever superachievers

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believer believers disbelievers

believer believers misbelievers

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everlasting everlastingness

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every everybody

every everyday

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every everyone

every everyplace

every everything

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every thievery

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fever feverberry

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firstever firstevers

forever forevermore

forever foreverness

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however

howsoever

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