Hear ye not the hum
Of mighty workings? [ Keats ]
Love is a mighty lord.
[ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 4 ]
Mean and mighty, rotting
Together, have one dust. [ William Shakespeare ]
The free
Mighty, music-haunted sea. [ Anna Katharine Green ]
Mighty in deeds, not in words. [ German Proverb ]
The mighty hopes that make us men. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Death is a mighty, universal truth. [ Dickens ]
Fragile beginnings of a mighty end. [ Mrs. Norton ]
Words are mighty; words are living. [ Adelaide A. Procter ]
A little instrument of mighty power. [ Cervantes ]
The empire of custom is most mighty. [ Publius Syrus ]
Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought. [ Whittier ]
For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. [ Homer ]
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. [ Herrick ]
To wind the mighty secrets of the past.
And turn the key of time. [ Henry Kirk White ]
The mighty Rain
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes. [ James Russell Lowell ]
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds. [ Dryden ]
Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things,
The fall of empires and the fate of kings. [ Burns ]
Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]
A burlesque word is often a mighty sermon. [ Boileau ]
From little spark may burst a mighty flame. [ Dante ]
The world is the mighty temple of the gods. [ Seneca ]
The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their mighty honeycomb,
They dream their polity shall long survive. [ Charles (Tennyson) Turner ]
Great is truth, and mighty above all things. [ Apocrypha ]
No, let the monarch's bags and coffers hold
The flattering mighty, nay, all-mighty gold. [ John Wolcott ]
Truth is mighty, and will in the end prevail.
Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree;
Love is a present for a mighty king,--
Much less make any one thine enemy.
As guns destroy, so may a little sling. [ George Herbert ]
What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]
The winds of winter wailing through the woods;
The mighty laughter of the vernal floods. [ Abraham Coles ]
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity. [ F. S. Osgood ]
Mighty Nature bounds as from her birth,
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth;
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. [ Byron ]
Society is now one polished horde
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. [ Byron ]
Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze
When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze:
But, that some mighty power controls the whole,
A secret intuition tells the soul. [ William Winter ]
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 ]
Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. [ Byron ]
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. [ Lucan ]
Yet under this rude exterior lies concealed a mighty genius. [ Horace ]
Absolutism is tolerant, only because it knows itself mighty. [ A. de Gasparin ]
Studious let me sit, And hold high converse with the mighty Dead. [ Thomson ]
Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
'Cause I'se wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]
Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. [ Pope ]
I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
To one it is the mighty heavenly goddess; to another it is an excellent cow that furnishes him with milk. [ Schiller ]
The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. [ Bodenstedt ]
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous. He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [ Seneca ]
Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world. [ Mrs. Child ]
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. [ Charles Dickens ]
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, shrunk to this little measure? [ William Shakespeare ]
Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]
The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved there, and still indicate what he was in former days. [ Corneille ]
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, tall oaks, branchcharmed by the earnest stars, dream, and so dream, all night without a stir. [ Keats ]
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion, - on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion. [ Goethe ]
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]
We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]
Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven! By tyrant life dethroned, imprisoned, pained? By death enlarged, ennobled, deifyed? Death but entombs the body; life the soul. [ Young ]
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty. [ Mrs. Stowe ]
But the sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius. [ Longinus ]
For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Its brightness, mighty divinity! has a fleeting empire over the day, giving gladness to the fields, color to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds. [ Calderon ]
Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn. [ Schiller ]
Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter. [ Hartley Coleridge ]
Fiction is no longer a mere amusement; but transcendent genius, accommodating itself to the character of the age, has seized upon this province of literature, and turned fiction from a toy into a mighty engine. [ Channing ]
The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths. [ Haliburton ]
A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]
Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops. [ John Ruskin ]
How mighty is the human heart, with all its complicated energies; this living source of all that moves the world! this temple of liberty, this kingdom of heaven, this altar of God, this throne of goodness, so beautiful in holiness, so generous in love! [ Henry Giles ]
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art. in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men - the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go. to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch. [ Pascal ]
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]