Better one house well filled,
Than two houses spilled. [ Proverb ]
Better a barn filled; than a bed. [ Proverb ]
And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away. [ Longfellow ]
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. [ Victor Hugo ]
The spongy clouds are filled with gathering rain. [ Dryden ]
Whose every little ringlet thrilled, as if with soul and passion filled! [ Moore ]
The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. [ Bovee ]
Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it. [ Mme. de Staël ]
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked. [ Voltaire ]
As the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. [ Cowper ]
We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. [ Cicero ]
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. [ Balzac ]
True merit, wherever found, is ever modest, just as the well-filled heads of grain are always bent. [ Charles Dickens ]
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne. [ Johnson ]
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]
The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. [ Phaedr ]
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning softness that brings and shuts the day,
while the whole air was filled with the carols of birds, the hymns of the feathered tribe. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]
And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or, break. [ L. E. Landon ]
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light! [ Dewey ]
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure; but it is an ornament for those who have filled up their lives with great deeds. I liken them to beauty in dishabille, but more bewitching on that account. [ Bruyere ]
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise - the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive. [ H. W. Beecher ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]