Order gave each thing view. [ Shakespeare ]

Those eyes that were so bright, love,
Have now a dimmer shine;
But what they've lost in light, love.
Is what they gave to mine.
And, still those orbs reflect, love,
The beams of former hours.
That ripened all my joys, love,
And tinted all my flowers. [ Hood ]

I had not so much of man in me,
And all my mother came into mine eyes
And gave me up to tears. [ William Shakespeare ]

The softest blush that nature spreads
Gave color to her cheek:
Such orient color smiles through heaven
When vernal mornings break. [ Mallet ]

It was Homer who gave laws to the artist. [ Francis Wayland ]

Lose not thyself, nor give thy humors way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way;
God gave them to thee under lock and key. [ George Herbert ]

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]

I gave you a stick to break my own head with. [ Proverb ]

Offer not the pear to him that gave the apple. [ Proverb ]

Like a led victim, to my death I'll go.
And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. [ Dryden ]

If the council be good, no matter who gave it. [ Proverb ]

He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe
That all was lost. [ Milton ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know
Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe!
The all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave
Thee every thing a mortal state should have. [ Dryden ]

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear.
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguish'd days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend,
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend. [ Martial ]

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers
Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers. [ Herbert ]

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us. [ Proverb ]

Forgive and forget! - why, the world would be lonely,
The garden a wilderness left to deform.
If the flowers but remember'd the chilling winds only.
And the fields gave no verdure for fear of the storm. [ Charles Swain ]

He gave him a thing of nothing to hang upon his sleeve. [ Proverb ]

He gave a deep sigh; I saw the iron enter into his soul. [ Sterne ]

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. [ Thomas Jefferson ]

She gave a forced laugh (laughed with the end of her teeth). [ French Proverb ]

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. [ Varro ]

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before. [ Swift ]

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. [ Bible ]

God gave him no children, but the devil furnished him with abundance of bastards. [ Proverb ]

O you much partial gods! why gave ye men affections, and not power to govern them? [ Ludovic Barry ]

Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health; and Fortune, for a passport, gave him wealth. [ Walter Harte ]

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars. [ Ovid ]

Life is a desert waste: to beguile the ennui of the journey across it, heaven gave us the kiss. [ S. Marichal ]

But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]

As often as I come back to his door, his love met me on the threshold, and his noble serenity gave me comfort and peace. [ William Winter ]

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Venus was the daughter of the waves. She gave birth to Love: we can expect nothing but tempest from a daughter of the sea.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. [ Johnson ]

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty. [ Montaigne ]

Poesy, drawing within its circle all that is glorious and inspiring, gave itself but little concern as to where its flowers originally grew. [ Karl Ottfried Muller ]

God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffinman's bell. [ Carlyle ]

Socrates, who is by all accounts the undoubted head of the sect of the hen-pecked, owed, and acknowledged that he owed a great part of his virtue to the exercise his useful wife constantly gave him. [ Steele ]

The accusing spirit, which flew off to heaven's chancery with the oath blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. [ Sterne ]

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from the ties and objects that recall them: but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. [ Hazlitt ]

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 ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters turns upon one shilling. [ Chesterfield ]