The harvest song of inward peace. [ Whittier ]
No ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell! [ Byron ]
Grace is the outcome of inward harmony. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
In silence weep, and thy convulsive sorrow
Inward keep. [ Prior ]
Upon her face there was the tint of grief,
The settled shadow of an inward strife,
And an unquiet drooping of the eye.
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. [ Byron ]
That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude. [ Wordsworth ]
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]
All the praise of inward virtue consists in outward action. [ Proverb ]
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. [ Jean Paul ]
The inward fragrance of a young girl's heart is what crystallizes into love. [ Richter ]
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting. [ Seneca ]
Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. [ Hazlitt ]
No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. [ Chapin ]
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. [ Amiel ]
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [ Metastasio ]
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. [ Henry van Dyke ]
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. [ Emerson ]
That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart. [ Jane Porter ]
Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. [ Carlyle ]
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. [ Addison ]
True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. [ John Sterling ]
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. [ Mrs. E. Carter ]
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. [ Lowell ]
The lightsome countenance of a friend giveth such an inward decking to the house where it iodgeth, as proudest palaces have cause to envy the gilding. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. [ Emerson ]
Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]
There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]
Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity. [ Matthew Arnold ]
When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]