A little instrument of mighty power. [ Cervantes ]
We are but as the instrument of heaven. [ Owen Meredith ]
His tongue is now a stringless instrument. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument. [ Joubert ]
Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist. [ Stendhal ]
The heart is like an instrument whose strings steal nobler music from life's many frets. [ Gerald Massey ]
The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument. [ Agnes Strickland ]
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license. [ Goethe ]
The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
Nature is an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the reecho of higher strings within us. [ Novalis ]
The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. [ Beecher ]
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. [ Saadi ]
Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. [ Aristotle ]
There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes. [ John Ruskin ]
Many are not able to suffer and endure prosperity; it is like the light of the sun to a weak eye, - glorious indeed in itself, but not proportioned to such an instrument. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (the vessel makes the content). [ Friedrich Schiller ]
No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
There never has been a nation that has not looked upon woman as the companion or the consolation of man, or as the sacred instrument of his life, and that has not honored her in those characters. [ A. de Musset ]
Let every mother consider herself as an instrument in the hands of Providence - let her reflect on the immense importance the proper education of one single family may eventually prove; and that, while the fruit of her labors may descend to generations yet unborn, she will herself reap a glorious reward. [ Miss Hamilton ]
That which I have found the best recreation both to my mind and body, whensoever either of them stands in need of it, is music, which exercises at once both body and soul; especially when I play myself; for then, methinks, the same motion that my hands make upon the instrument, the instrument makes upon my heart. [ J. Beveridge ]
Vulgar habit people have nowadays of asking one, after one has given them an idea, whether one is serious or not. Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect is the British intellect. And on the British form of intellect the illiterates play the drum. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]
Over Under. These words have various meanings besides the designation of mere locality, and are often misapplied. The terms under oath,
under hand and seal,
under arms,
under his own signature,
etc., are fully established and authorized forms of expression, which do not concern the relative positions of the persons and things indicated, but are idiomatic. Hence, over his own signature,
is an unjustifiable phrase, despite the fact that the signature is really at the bottom of the instrument signed. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]