Definition of find

"find" in the noun sense

1. discovery, breakthrough, find

a productive insight

2. discovery, find, uncovering

the act of discovering something

"find" in the verb sense

1. find, happen, chance, bump, encounter

come upon, as if by accident meet with

"We find this idea in Plato"

"I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"

"She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

2. detect, observe, find, discover, notice

discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of

"She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"

"We found traces of lead in the paint"

3. find, regain

come upon after searching find the location of something that was missed or lost

"Did you find your glasses?"

"I cannot find my gloves!"

4. determine, find, find out, ascertain

establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

"find the product of two numbers"

"The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"

5. find, feel

come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds

"I feel that he doesn't like me"

"I find him to be obnoxious"

"I found the movie rather entertaining"

6. witness, find, see

perceive or be contemporaneous with

"We found Republicans winning the offices"

"You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"

"The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"

"I want to see results"

7. line up, get hold, come up, find

get something or somebody for a specific purpose

"I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"

"I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"

"The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"

8. discover, find

make a discovery, make a new finding

"Roentgen discovered X-rays"

"Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"

9. discover, find

make a discovery

"She found that he had lied to her"

"The story is false, so far as I can discover"

10. find

obtain through effort or management

"She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"

"We found the money to send our sons to college"

11. rule, find

decide on and make a declaration about

"find someone guilty"

12. receive, get, find, obtain, incur

receive a specified treatment (abstract

"These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"

"His movie received a good review"

"I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"

13. find

perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place

"I found myself in a difficult situation"

"When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"

14. recover, retrieve, find, regain

get or find back recover the use of

"She regained control of herself"

"She found her voice and replied quickly"

15. find

succeed in reaching arrive at

"The arrow found its mark"

16. find oneself, find

accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation

"My son went to Berkeley to find himself"

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Quotations for find

Good mind, good find. [ Proverb ]

Fast bind, fast find. [ Proverb ]

They that hide can find. [ Proverb ]

Love will find out the way. [ Percy's Reliques ]

Great pains quickly find ease. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Find you without excuse,
And find a hare without a muse. [ Proverb ]

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act that each tomorrow
May find us farther than today. [ Longfellow ]

You find fault with a fat goose. [ Proverb ]

To waste a candle to find a pin. [ French Proverb ]

Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive. [ Wordsworth ]

Can by their pangs and aches find
All turns and changes of the wind. [ Butler ]

You would find knots in a bulrush. [ Proverb ]

Every one knows how to find fault. [ Proverb ]

Every one that flatters thee,
Is no friend in misery;
Words are easy, like the wind,
Faithful friends are hard to find. [ Shakespeare ]

Be sure your sin will find you out. [ Bible ]

We always find what we do not seek. [ Proverb ]

Tell a lie, and find out the truth. [ Proverb ]

Greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The burning soul, the burdened mind.
In books alone companions find. [ Mrs. Hale ]

Our youth we can have but today;
We may always find time to grow old. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

The brave find a home in every land. [ Ovid ]

Leave no dirt, you will find no dirt. [ Proverb ]

Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may hide,
Trust me you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Stay a little, and news will find you. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He thought the World to him was known,
Whereas he only knew the Town;
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set - Mankind. [ Hannah More ]

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Music so softens and disarms the mind
That not an arrow does resistance find. [ Waller ]

Sow love, and taste its fruitage pure;
Sow peace, and reap its harvest bright;
Sow sunbeams on the rock and moor.
And find a harvest-home of light. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Ye must seek and find God in the heart. [ Jean Paul ]

He doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. [ Jul. Caes ]

Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly. [ Jonathan Swift ]

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies
And turn delight into a sacrifice. [ George Herbert ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

The saddest birds a season find to sing. [ Southwell ]

One day with life and heart,
Is more than time enough to find a world. [ Lowell ]

The grave where even the great find rest. [ Pope ]

We seldom find out that we are flattered. [ Proverb ]

You find a gap, where the hedge is whole. [ Proverb ]

Let his tormentor conscience find him out. [ Milton ]

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind. [ Goldsmith ]

An old ox will find a shelter for himself. [ Proverb ]

We find in life exactly what we put in it. [ Emerson ]

The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. [ Cowper ]

I find the medicine worse than the malady. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Not always actions show the man; we find
Who does a kindness is not therefore kind. [ Pope ]

Truth finds foes where it should find none. [ Proverb ]

Women, like princes, find few real friends. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find. [ Goldsmith ]

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard but search will find it out. [ Herrick ]

Take heed you find not that you do not seek. [ Proverb ]

Take head you find not what you do not seek. [ Proverb ]

And out of good still to find means of evil. [ Milton ]

I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it. [ Marmontel ]

Death is the port where all may refuge find,
The end of labor, entry into rest;
Death hath the bounds of misery confin'd
Whose sanctuary shrouds affliction best. [ Earl of Stirling ]

Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet
Your powers in happy harmony I find;
One oft recalls what I would fain forget,
And one blots out what I would bear in mind. [ Macedonius ]

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling,
Rain in the woods, rain on the sea;
Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling
As if to find shelter here with me. [ James Herbert Morse ]

Inspiration must find answering inspiration. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too? [ Proverb ]

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid;
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. [ Denham ]

Can so much gall find access in devout souls? [ Boileau ]

Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest. [ Keble ]

Leave us in the dirt and find us in the mire. [ Proverb ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Love will find its way
Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. [ Byron ]

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. [ Bible ]

Where can we find talent equal to the subject? [ Juvenal, Roman Poet ]

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try. [ Claude Mermet ]

Here I left a needle, and here I will find it. [ Proverb ]

Sweet letters of the angel tongue,
I've loved ye long and well.
And never have failed in your fragrance sweet
To find some secret spell -
A charm that has bound me with witching power,
For mine is the old belief,
That midst your sweets and midst your bloom,
There's a soul in every leaf! [ M. M. Ballou ]

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame,
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it Fame. [ Pope ]

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. [ Pope ]

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For even the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. [ Sir John Davies ]

Bosom up my counsel. You'll find it wholesome. [ William Shakespeare ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]

Like conquering tyrants you our breasts invade.
Where you are pleased to ravage for awhile;
But soon you find new conquests out and leave
The ravaged province ruinate and bare. [ Otway ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

Nothing is so hard but search will find it out. [ Robert Herrick ]

Look unto those they call unfortunate;
And, closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise. [ Young ]

A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green. [ E. B. Browning ]

The grave unites; where even the great find rest,
And blended lie the oppressor and the opprest. [ Pope ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

He may find fault, but let him mend it if he can. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

Before employing a fine word, find a place for it. [ Joubert ]

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. [ Cervantes ]

It is an easy thing to find a stick to beat a dog. [ Proverb ]

To find his place and fill it is success for a man. [ Phillips Brooks ]

There is a remedy for everything could men find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find. [ Plutarch ]

Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. [ Proverb ]

Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him. [ Carlyle ]

I knew exactly where it was, I just couldn't find it. [ Yogi Berra ]

I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains. [ Johnson ]

A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! [ Lord Lytton ]

Astrology is true, but the astrologers cannot find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The righteous find peace, when the wicked feel torment. [ Proverb ]

What tutor shall we find for a child of sixty years old? [ Proverb ]

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind. [ Juvenal ]

He would find waters with the first stroke of his spade. [ Proverb ]

We find nothing good in life but what makes us forget it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

If you seek trouble, it is a pity but you should find it. [ Proverb ]

A nobody is just the person to find fault with everybody. [ E. P. Day ]

When an ass climbs a ladder, you may find wisdom in women. [ Proverb ]

It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly. [ Proverb ]

A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Whenever you find Humor, you find Pathos close by its side. [ Whipple ]

There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? [ Milton ]

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [ Vauvenargues ]

The eye of Paul Pry often finds more than he wished to find. [ Lessing ]

Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. [ German Proverb ]

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. [ Hamerton ]

There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. [ German Proverb ]

What we seek, we shall find; what we flee from,flees from us. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He'll find money for mischief when he can find none for corn. [ Proverb ]

Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. [ Langbein ]

It is almost as easy to find a true diamond, as a true friend. [ Proverb ]

Thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight. [ William Shakespeare ]

I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells! [ Samuel Lover ]

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is rare to find a fish,, that will not sometime or other bite. [ Proverb ]

To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them. [ William Ellery Channing ]

I find that most people are made only for the common uses of life. [ John Foster ]

What is the use of patience, if we cannot find it when we want it? [ Proverb ]

We find greater violence and more perseverance among the wretched. [ Tac ]

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

A real grief I never can find till thou provest perjured or unkind. [ Prior ]

There is no art whereby to find the mind's construction in the face. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have often thought of death, and I find it the least of all evils. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it. [ Yogi Berra, when asked what he would do if he found a million dollars ]

Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]

Base natures,, if they find themselves suspected, will never be true. [ Proverb ]

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]

We always find wit and merit in those who look at us with admiration.

When you have counted your cards, you will find you have little left. [ Proverb ]

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. [ Dryden ]

The good which bloodshed could not gain your peaceful zeal shall find. [ Whittier ]

It is a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. [ Rochester ]

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. [ Whittier ]

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors. [ Shakespeare ]

The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

You will find that most books worth reading once are worth reading twice. [ John Morley ]

My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without. [ Kepler ]

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. [ Charles Buxton ]

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. [ Creech ]

How much easier do we find it to commend a good action than to imitate it. [ Anon ]

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. [ Landor ]

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]

All great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties. [ Emerson ]

Nothing is more significant of men's character than what they find laughable. [ Goethe ]

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne. [ Landor ]

'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. [ Herrick ]

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one. [ Richardson ]

Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Persist, persevere, and you will find most things attainable that are possible. [ Chesterfield ]

Women make us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms! [ De Finod ]

Whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks. [ Cyrus ]

A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. [ Knowles ]

When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. [ Proverb ]

You will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it. [ Emerson ]

The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Authors now find, as once Achilles found, the whole is mortal if a part's unsound. [ Young ]

Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere to find and value what is good. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. [ Juvenal ]

You will find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence. [ Sydney Smith ]

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. [ Euripides ]

He who determines to love only those who are faultless will soon find himself alone. [ Vihischti ]

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans. [ George MacDonald ]

When we die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams; we have only lost our sleep. [ Richter ]

The misfortune of those who have loved is that they can find nothing to replace love. [ Duclos ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; in adversity, nothing is so difficult. [ Epictetus ]

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own. [ Cicero ]

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

Devote each day to the object then in time, and every evening will find something done. [ Goethe ]

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. [ Pope ]

O nude truth! O true truth! How difficult thou art to find, and how difficult to utter! [ Sainte-Beuve ]

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for. [ Kames ]

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure. [ Mme. de Motteville ]

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He who is an ass and thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he has to leap a ditch. [ Italian Proverb ]

Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances. [ Crabbe ]

There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. [ Jesus ]

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided. [ Lord Collingwood ]

We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure that we find in appearing so. [ De Barthelemy ]

You will find that silence, or very gentle words, are the most exquisite revenge for reproaches. [ Judge Hale ]

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. [ Themistocles ]

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

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. [ Addison ]

Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]

Love! Love! Eternal enigma! Will not the Sphinx that guards thee find an Oedipus to explain thee? [ F. Pyat ]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

You will as often find a great man above, as below, his reputation, when once you come to know him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Instead of seeking happiness by going out of our place, our skill should be to find it where we are. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others. [ Auerbach ]

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I have been reasoning all my life, and find that all argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. [ Colman ]

This man (Chesterfield) I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [ La Bruyere ]

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel. [ Dryden ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend: but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. [ Epictetus ]

We censure the inconstancy of women when we are the victims: we find it charming when we are the objects. [ L. Desnoyers ]

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend. [ George MacDonald ]

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. [ Johnson ]

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Modern women find a new scandal as becoming as a new bonnet, and air them both in the Park every afternoon. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. [ Ovid ]

There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. [ Schiller ]

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein. [ Beecher ]

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straightforward, and springs from the heart. [ Cicero ]

The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. [ Plato ]

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. [ Metastasio, Achille ]

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 ]

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours. [ Lord Greville ]

He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life. He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. [ Proverb ]

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world. [ Paxton Hood ]

As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. [ La Bruyere ]

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. [ Voltaire ]

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [ Jesus ]

The reason why so few women are touched by friendship is, that they find it dull when they have experienced love. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with, the echoes of the heart. [ J. F. Boyes ]

It is easy to find a lover and to retain a friend: what is difficult is to find the friend and to retain the lover. [ Levis ]

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness. [ Carlyle ]

There are profound sorrows which remain stored in our souls, and which we always find there when we are melancholy. [ Mme. de Salm ]

The reason we are so pleased to find out other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Live up to the best that is in you: live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

We seldom find persons whom we acknowledge to be possessed of good sense, except those who agree with us in opinion. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. [ Burke ]

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. [ Hazlitt ]

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness. [ Tupper ]

For one Orpheus who went to Hell to seek his wife, how many widowers who would not even go to Paradise to find theirs! [ J. Petit-Senn ]

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him. [ Sterne ]

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its Cause. [ Beecher ]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. [ Richelieu ]

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. [ Colton ]

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know it when you find it. [ Steve Jobs ]

Women are charged with a fondness for nonsense and frivolity. Did not Talleyrand say, I find nonsense singularly refreshing? [ Alfred de Musset ]

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, find a common level in two places - at the foot of the cross, and in the grave. [ Colton ]

When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. [ Pascal ]

By examining the tongue of a patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind. [ Justin ]

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it. [ William Wake ]

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. [ Bovee ]

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. [ Bacon ]

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much. [ Robert Leighton ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A beautiful woman with the qualities of a noble man is the most perfect thing in nature: we find in her all the merits of both sexes. [ La Bruyere ]

Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. [ Pope ]

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns. [ Goldsmith ]

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness - when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. [ H. W. Shaw ]

When one seeks the cause of the successes of great generals, one is astonished to find that they did everything necessary to insure them. [ Napoleon I ]

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it. [ Izaac Walton ]

You will find rest unto your souls when first you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy only when you have borne it as long as He wills. [ John Ruskin ]

Those who go to Heaven will be very much surprised at the people they find there, and much more surprised at those they do not find there. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. [ Swift ]

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also. [ Coleridge ]

Nothing is more common than to talk of a friend; nothing more difficult than to find one; nothing more rare than to improve one as we ought. [ Henry A. Oakley ]

Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion. If you find them at all, be assured that they are but few degrees removed from brutes. [ Hume ]

I confess I should be glad if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to me: in that case, I should often find matter for rejoicing. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]

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 ]

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. [ Drew ]

I think you will find that people who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. [ Holmes ]

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing. [ Beecher ]

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. [ Zimmermann ]

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]

God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs. [ Lowell ]

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. [ Georg Ebers ]

The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein. [ Lowell ]

They consume a considerable quantity of our paper manufacture, employ our artisans in printing, and find business for great numbers of indigent persons. [ Addison ]

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe; but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe! [ Jules Janin ]

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes. [ Herodotus ]

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to think so highly of a friend, as when we find him standing higher than we expected in the esteem of others. [ Sir W. Scott ]

His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. [ William Shakespeare ]

Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow. [ Alan Turing ]

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. [ Shenstone ]

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. [ Swift ]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants. [ Johnson ]

There is no man whom Fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door and flies out at the window. [ Cardinal Imperiali ]

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. [ Jane Porter ]

He who does not respect confidence, will never find happiness in his path. The belief in virtue vanishes from his heart, the source of nobler actions becomes extinct in him. [ Auffenberg ]

People who are jealous, or particularly careful of their own rights and dignity, always find enough of those who do not care for either to keep them continually uncomfortable. [ Barnes ]

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what he calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. [ Addison ]

Books are the true metempsychosis, - they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. [ Beecher ]

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]

We so converse every night with the image of death that every morning we find an argument of the resurrection. Sleep and death have but one mother, and they have one name in common. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

Women always want one to be good. And if we are good when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other - that is a sad riddle! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who so lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die. [ Owen Feltham ]

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is. [ Goethe ]

It is much easier to meet with error than to find truth; error is on the surface, and can be more easily met with; truth is hid in great depths, the way to seek does not appear to all the world. [ Goethe ]

It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallowtrade; you must know where to find yourself. [ George Eliot ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less. [ Colton ]

To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. [ Tillotson ]

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only, to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. [ L'Estrange ]

Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts. [ Whipple ]

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford. [ Shenstone ]

When at last the angels come to convey your departing spirit to Abraham's bosom, depend upon it, however dazzling in their newness they may be to you. you will find that your history is no novelty, and you yourself no stranger to them. [ James Hamilton ]

To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]

I have often heard it said, and I believe it to be true, that even the most eloquent man living, and however deeply impressed with the subject, could scarcely find utterance if he were to be standing up alone, and speaking only against a dead wall. [ Erskine ]

Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth and a general negligence of dress, and he will in all probability find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address. [ Sir Jonah Barrington ]

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]

He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]

Ask men of genius how much they owe to their mothers, and you will find that they attribute almost all to them and their influence; and if we could only guage the mental capacity of the wives of great men, we might perhaps learn why genius is so seldom hereditary. [ Lord Kames ]

Friendship is like a debt of honor; the moment it is talked of it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation. From hence we find that those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavors. [ Goldsmith ]

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there. [ Quarles ]

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch. [ Gotthold ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. [ Voltaire ]

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 ]

There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]

Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]

Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of commonsense she will find this out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. [ Sydney Smith ]

You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]

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 ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

Individuals possessing moderate sized brains easily find their proper sphere, and enjoy in it scope for all their energy. In ordinary circumstances they distinguish themselves, but they sink when difficulties accumulate around them. Persons with large brains, on the other hand, do not readily attain their appropriate place; common occurrences do not rouse or call them forth. [ George Combe ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]

It is particularly worth observation that the more we magnify, by the assistance of glasses, the works of nature, the more regular and beautiful they appear, while it is quite different in respect to those of art, for when they are examined through a microscope we are astonished to find them so rough, so coarse and uneven, although they have been done with all imaginable care, by the best workmen. [ Sterne ]

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result, by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

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 ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

I was walking in the street, a beggar stopped me, — a frail old man. His inflamed, tearful eyes, blue lips, rough rags, disgusting sores . . . oh, how horribly poverty had disfigured the unhappy creature! He stretched out to me his red, swollen, filthy hand. He groaned and whimpered for alms. I felt in all my pockets. No purse, watch, or handkerchief did I find. I had left them all at home. The beggar waited and his out-stretched hand twitched and trembled slightly. Embarrassed and confused, I seized his dirty hand and pressed it. Don't be vexed with me, brother; I have nothing with me, brother. The beggar raised his bloodshot eyes to mine; his blue lips smiled, and he returned the pressure of my chilled fingers. Never mind, brother, stammered he; thank you for this — this, too, was a gift, brother. I felt that I, too, had received a gift from my brother. [ Ivan Tourgueneff ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

find in Scrabble®

The word find is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters find:

FIND
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word find

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The 78 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In find

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find in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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

FIND
(51)
 

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The 83 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In find

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Words within the letters of find

2 letter words in find (3 words)

3 letter words in find (2 words)

4 letter words in find (1 word)

find + 1 blank (3 words)

Word Growth involving find

Shorter words in find

in fin

Longer words containing find

findable unfindable

finder faultfinder faultfinders

finder finders faultfinders

finder finders pathfinders

finder finders rangefinders

finder finders viewfinders

finder finders waterfinders

finder finders witchfinders

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finder witchfinder witchfinders

finder wordfinder wordfinders

finding faultfinding faultfindings

finding findings faultfindings

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finding outfinding

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finding refinding

finding witchfinding

finds outfinds

finds refinds

outfind outfinding

outfind outfinds

refind refinding

refind refinds

selfindulge selfindulged

selfindulge selfindulgence

selfindulge selfindulgent

selfindulge selfindulger selfindulgers

selfindulge selfindulges

selfindulging