Mirth and motion prolong life. [ Proverb ]
True joy is a serene and sober motion. [ Seneca ]
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma or a hideous dream. [ Jul. Caes ]
Patience is nobler motion than any deed. [ Bartol ]
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift
Than time or motion. [ Milton ]
Action is transitory, a step, a blow.
The motion of a muscle - this way or that. [ Wordsworth ]
A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]
Such harmony in motion, speech and air,
That without fairness, she was more than fair. [ Crabbe ]
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. [ Hen. IV ]
The heart is in motion always, the brain seldom. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]
Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motion grace,
In plumage delicate and beautiful,
Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales.
Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them.
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment. [ James Montgomery ]
Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion. [ Lady Montagu ]
The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. [ Rochefoucauld ]
If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion. [ Proverb ]
The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. [ Lavater ]
Under whose feet (subjected to His grace). Sit nature, fortune, motion, time, and place. [ Tasso ]
What is this little, agile, precious fire, this fluttering motion which we call the mind? [ Prior ]
Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tac ]
Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. [ Tacitus ]
The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. [ Montaigne ]
Invention is activity of mind, as fire is air in motion; a sharpening of the spiritual sight, to discern hidden aptitudes. [ Tupper ]
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity; like the motion of a bullet in the air, it flies so swift that it outruns the eye. [ Bacon ]
A double task to paint the finest features of the mind, and to most subtle and mysterious things give color, strength, and motion. [ Akenside ]
Three letters! but one syllable! Still less, a single motion of the head, and all is done! one is married for ever! I do not know any breakneck comparable to it. [ A. Ricard ]
Guns, swords, batteries, armies and ships of war are set in motion by man for the subjugation of an enemy. Women bring conquerors to their feet with the magic of their eyes. [ Dr. J. V. C. Smith ]
Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]
A thousand wheels of labor are turned by dear affections, and kept in motion by self-sacrificing endurance; and the crowds that pour forth in the morning and return at night are daily processiona of love and duty. [ Chapin ]
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 ]
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation - the realization of an idea by an act of the will. [ John Sterling ]
The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]
When I look upon the tombs of the great, every motion of envy dies; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire forsake me: when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I reflect how vain it is to grieve for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying beside those who deposed them, when I behold rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men who divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the frivolous competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. [ Addison ]