I must sleep now. [ Dying words of Byron ]

He that would thrive
Must rise by five. [ Proverb ]

What cannot be cured,
Must be endured. [ Proverb ]

Old vessels must leak. [ Proverb ]

Blind men must not run. [ Proverb ]

Children and chicken
Must be always picking. [ Proverb ]

Live upon trust,
And pay double you must. [ Proverb ]

If we think, we must act. [ Desmakis ]

To do, one must be doing. [ French Proverb ]

He that serves must serve. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you must fly, fly well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Art must be deluded by Art. [ Proverb ]

One must pay with his life. [ French Proverb ]

Carthage must be destroyed. [ Cato Major ]

Nature must obey necessity. [ Julius Caesar ]

Every dog must have his day. [ Swift ]

He must needs swim,
That is held up by the chin. [ Proverb ]

You must sell as markets go. [ Proverb ]

Day is the Child of Time,
And Day must cease to be:
But Night is without a sire,
And cannot expire.
One with Eternity. [ R. H. Stoddard ]

Beggars must not be choosers. [ Proverb ]

'Tis deeds must win the prize. [ William Shakespeare ]

They that are bound must obey. [ Proverb ]

You must not cut and deal too. [ Proverb ]

A wilful man must have his way. [ Proverb ]

The end must justify the means. [ Prior ]

We must not stand upon trifles. [ Cervantes ]

With foxes we must play the fox. [ Proverb ]

Such a pot must have such a lid. [ Proverb ]

Young men may die, old men must. [ Proverb ]

Thou must be true thyself.
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
The soul must overflow if thou
Another's soul wouldst reach; [ Horatius Bonar ]

He that will conquer must fight. [ Proverb ]

Even what is beautiful must die. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Those who in quarrels interpose.
Must often wipe a bloody nose. [ Gay ]

I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing. [ Tennyson ]

That which you sow you must reap. [ Proverb ]

Sweet meats must have sour sauce. [ Proverb ]

Needs must when the devil drives. [ Scotch Proverb ]

I must be cruel, only to be kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

Wherries must not put out to sea. [ Proverb ]

All that's bright must fade -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest. [ Moore ]

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! [ Longfellow ]

The wolf must die in his own skin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Barefoot must not go among thorns. [ Proverb ]

Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. [ Cymb ]

The longest day must have. an end. [ Proverb ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

So many hours must I take my rest;
So many hours must I contemplate. [ William Shakespeare ]

There must be a man behind a book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Who talks much, must talk in vain. [ Gay ]

A great ship must have deep water. [ Proverb ]

Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul:
The mind's the standard of the man. [ Watts ]

Vice must never plead prescription. [ Proverb ]

He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive. [ Proverb ]

Great faith must have great trials. [ Spurgeon ]

Hell itself must yield to industry. [ Ben Jonson ]

He must stoop that hath a low door. [ Proverb ]

Every bird must hatch its own ecro. [ Proverb ]

Obscene words must have a deaf ear. [ Proverb ]

One must be either anvil or hammer. [ German Proverb ]

He that is once born once must die. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that would win his dame must do
As love does when he draws his bow;
With one hand thrust the lady from,
And with the other pull her home. [ Butler ]

Our life must answer for our faith. [ Thomas Wilson ]

One common fate we both must prove;
You die with envy, I with love. [ Gay ]

He that comes of a hen must scrape. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary. [ Longfellow ]

That must be true which all men say. [ Proverb ]

The young may die, but the old must! [ Longfellow ]

A good servant must have good wages. [ Proverb ]

A mad parish must have a mad priest. [ Proverb ]

As the market goes, wives must sell. [ Proverb ]

If you will obtain you must attempt. [ Proverb ]

Because my blessings are abus'd,
Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd?
Even virtue's self by knaves is made
A cloak to carry on the trade. [ Gay ]

A full cup must be carried steadily. [ Proverb ]

Tasks in hours of insight willed,
In hours of gloom must be fulfilled. [ Matthew Arnold ]

War must not be waged by men asleep. [ Proverb ]

We must be young to do great things. [ Goethe ]

You must spoil before you spin well. [ Proverb ]

You must take the will for the deed. [ Swift ]

A poet must sing for his own people. [ Stedman ]

Who bulls the cow must keep the calf. [ Proverb ]

A mad beast must have a sober driver. [ Proverb ]

Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did, and does, smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I saved and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again. [ Browning ]

We must bear what the gods lay on us.

In oratory the will must predominate. [ Hare ]

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The poor must dance as the rich pipe. [ German Proverb ]

He that would live in peace and rest
Must hear, and see, and say the best. [ Proverb ]

Alas by some degree of woe,
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can never a transport know,
That never feels a pain. [ Lord Lyttleton ]

As the year is, your pot must seethe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We must follow, not force Providence. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you would live for ever,
You must wash the milk off your liver. [ Proverb ]

I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear. [ Shelley ]

Counsel must be followed, not praised. [ Proverb ]

Every one must pay his debt to Nature. [ German Proverb ]

You must howl if you are among wolves. [ French Proverb ]

He that would reap well must sow well. [ Proverb ]

When fate summons, monarchs must obey. [ Dryden ]

We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly. [ William Shakespeare ]

The goat must browse where she is tied. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How wise must one be to be always kind. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]

Ye must seek and find God in the heart. [ Jean Paul ]

Must hear, and see, and speak the best. [ Proverb ]

He that will be served must be patient. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He must needs go whom the devil drives. [ Proverb ]

Every tub must stand on its own bottom. [ Proverb ]

As the good man saith, so say we:
As the good woman saith, so it must be. [ Proverb ]

Resty horses must be roughly dealt with. [ Proverb ]

Love must be as much a light as a flame. [ Thoreau ]

As you make your bed you must lie on it. [ Proverb ]

They that live longest must die at last. [ Proverb ]

There must be two at least to a quarrel. [ Proverb ]

O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature.
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One. [ Tegner ]

We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. [ French Proverb ]

I must go seek some dew-drops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. [ William Shakespeare ]

A cask and an ill custom must be broken. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Who will sell the cow must say the word. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Our Federal Union: it must be preserved. [ Andrew Jackson ]

Every herring must hang by his own gills. [ Proverb ]

Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
And in itself to ashes burn. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Forsaken ]

One must accustom one's self to be bored. [ Lady Bloomfield ]

When an old dog barks, one must look out. [ German Proverb ]

A fair gamester among rooks must be beat. [ Proverb ]

Reform, like charity, must begin at home. [ Carlyle ]

Every idea must have a visible enfolding. [ Victor Hugo ]

Every tub must stand upon its own bottom. [ Bunyan ]

Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. [ William Shakespeare ]

Time conquers all, and we must Time obey. [ Pope ]

Guards from outward harms are sent;
Ills from within thy reason must prevent. [ John Dryden ]

Where shall the ox go but he must labour? [ Proverb ]

Since you will buckle fortune on my back;
To bear her burden whe'r I will or no,
I must have patience to endure the load. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, say! what is that thing called light,
Which I must never enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy! [ Colley Cibber ]

He that is a master must serve (another). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We must love, as looking one day to hate. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. [ Proverb ]

A man must become wise at his own expense. [ Montaigne ]

For good or evil must in our actions meet;
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. [ Donne ]

Death is but what the haughty brave,
The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. [ Byron ]

As the good-man saith, so say we,
But as the good-wife saith, so it must be. [ Proverb ]

He that buys magistracy must sell justice. [ Proverb ]

Farewell and be hanged, friends must part. [ Proverb ]

Few have wealth, but all must have a home. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Beggars and borrowers must be no choosers. [ Proverb ]

He who surpasses or subdues mankind
Must look down on the hate of those below. [ Byron ]

All who joy would win
Must share it - happiness was born a twin. [ Byron ]

You must bring with you certain documents. [ Law ]

Desperate cases must have desperate cures. [ Proverb ]

Good-nature and good sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive divine. [ Pope ]

As the wind blows, you must set your sail. [ Proverb ]

Tailors and writers must mind the fashion. [ Proverb ]

Poor folks must say thank ye for a little. [ Proverb ]

Different sores must have different salves. [ Proverb ]

One must be a woman to know how to revenge. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

We must not lie down, and cry, God help us. [ Proverb ]

He must not talk of running that cannot go. [ Proverb ]

When better cherries are not to be had.
We needs must take the seeming best of bad. [ Daniel ]

Those who think must govern those who toil. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

A friend must not be injured, even in jest. [ Syrus ]

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,
The heart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep;
Thus runs the world away. [ William Shakespeare ]

You must plough with such oxen as you have. [ Proverb ]

We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

Mortal man must not keep up immortal anger. [ Proverb ]

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. [ Sheridan ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man. [ Pope ]

Friends I have made, whom envy must commend.
But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. [ Churchill ]

Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more. [ Pope ]

You must be content to taste your own broth. [ Proverb ]

Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing;
But either that or nothing must I be;
I will not live degraded. [ Byron ]

Those who think must govern those that toil. [ Goldsmith ]

A shameless beggar must have a short denial. [ Proverb ]

He that goes barefoot must not plant thorns. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They that buy an office must sell something. [ Proverb ]

Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can alter or forsake,
Who for inconstant roving have no power,
And all neglect, perforce, must calmly take. [ Mrs. Norton ]

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano:
A stage where every man must play a part. [ William Shakespeare ]

Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. [ Pope ]

Inspiration must find answering inspiration. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]

Things must turn when they can go no farther. [ Spurgeon ]

You must honour the place, not the place you. [ Proverb ]

No man must seek to constrain the impossible. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Must I tell you a tale and find you ears too? [ Proverb ]

The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]

We must love our friend with all his defects. [ Italian Proverb ]

When the hop grows high, it must have a pole. [ Proverb ]

He that hath some land must have some labour. [ Proverb ]

The old horse must die in somebody's keeping. [ Proverb ]

To succeed well, one must have his lucky day. [ Proverb ]

Idleness must thank itself if it go barefoot. [ Proverb ]

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good. [ Aurelius Antoninus ]

He that will sell lawn must learn to fold it. [ Proverb ]

He that scatters thorns must not go barefoot. [ Proverb ]

You must look into people as well as at them. [ Chesterfield ]

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade. [ Montaigne ]

He that will take the bird must not scare it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Like clocks, one wheel another on must drive,
Affairs by diligent labors only thrive. [ Chapman ]

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it. [ Mme. de Stael ]

It is not enough to forgive: one must forget. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Genius must be born, and never can be taught. [ John Dryden ]

Famished people must be slowly nursed,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. [ Byron ]

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded,
But must be current, and the good thereof
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. [ Milton ]

He, who would free from malice pass his days,
Must live obscure, and never merit praise. [ Gay ]

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. [ Smollett ]

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. [ Churchill ]

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. [ Pope ]

He must cry loud who would frighten the devil. [ Danish Proverb ]

He that is always shooting must sometimes hit. [ Proverb ]

God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. [ Mary R. Smith ]

He that will outwit the fox must rise betimes. [ Proverb ]

Scanderbeg's sword must have Scanderbeg's arm. [ Proverb ]

Work must stand or stumble by intrinsic worth. [ Robert Browning ]

But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the erection;
Which if we find outweighs ability.
What do we then, but draw anew the model
In fewer offices; or, at least, desist
To build at all? [ William Shakespeare ]

Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man. [ Goldsmith ]

He who seeks for gain must be at some expense. [ Plautus ]

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try. [ Claude Mermet ]

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber. [ Schiller ]

Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

He that would be well old must be old betimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where bad is the best, bad must be the choice. [ Proverb ]

Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. [ Proverb ]

About Jesus we must believe no one but himself. [ Amiel ]

We must be brief when traitors brave the field. [ William Shakespeare ]

A true reformation must begin at the upper end. [ Proverb ]

We must live by the quick, and not by the dead. [ Proverb ]

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. [ Lamb ]

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. [ Chesterfield ]

That's the greatest torture souls feel in hell.
In hell, that they must live, and cannot die. [ John Webster ]

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]

Whoever is right, the persecutor must be wrong. [ William Penn ]

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

You must be content sometimes with rough roads. [ Proverb ]

It must be night where Friedland's stars shine. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The heart must glow before the tongue can gild. [ W. R. Alger ]

He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person. [ Proverb ]

Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed. [ Burke ]

There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries:
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great is passed away. [ Wordsworth ]

Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]

He that weighs the wind must have a steady hand. [ Proverb ]

Whatever wants, pleasure and vanity must be had. [ Proverb ]

He that would deceive the fox must rise betimes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fame must necessarily be the portion of but few. [ Robert Hall ]

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He must be a good shot who always hits the mark. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Thus, day by day, and month by month, we passed;
It pleased the Lord to take my spouse at last.
I tore my gown, I soiled my locks with dust.
And beat my breasts - as wretched widows must:
Before my face my handkerchief I spread,
To hide the flood of tears I did - not shed. [ Pope ]

If you play with boys, you must take boy's play. [ Proverb ]

We must write as Homer wrote, not what he wrote. [ Theophile Vian ]

Good reasons must of force give place to better. [ Jul. Caes ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

Men of business must not break their word twice. [ Proverb ]

It is a bad well into which you must pour water. [ German Proverb ]

Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies. [ Proverb ]

He that has nothing to spare must not keep a dog. [ Proverb ]

Who eats his dinner alone, must saddle his horse. [ Proverb ]

Who has not what he loves, must love what he has. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

In things that must be it is good to be resolute. [ Proverb ]

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held! [ Wordsworth ]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too; what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. [ Proverb ]

They that live longest must go farthest for wood. [ Proverb ]

Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust;
Thou knowst 'tis common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that fears every bush must never go a birding. [ Proverb ]

We must always have old memories and young hopes. [ Arsene Houssaye ]

You cannot fare well but you must cry roast-meat. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is a plant which one must water often. [ German Proverb ]

Whoso serves two masters must lie to one of them. [ Italian Proverb ]

To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt. [ Stanislaus ]

The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

In Faith and Hope the world will disagree.
But all mankind's concerned in Charity;
All must be false that thwart this one great end.
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. [ Alexander Pope ]

We must not look for a golden life in an iron age. [ Proverb ]

There must be in prudence also some master virtue. [ Aristotle ]

What cannot be altered, must be borne, not blamed. [ Proverb ]

He who reckons without his host must reckon again. [ Italian Proverb ]

There is a strength
Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

He that reckons before his host must reckon again. [ Proverb ]

He that will have the kernel must crack the shell. [ Proverb ]

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband. [ Balzac ]

If you utter abuse, you must expect to receive it. [ Plaut ]

Men that have much business must have much pardon. [ Proverb ]

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. [ Churchill ]

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger. [ Tacitus ]

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books. [ Bacon ]

Truth lies deep, and must be fetched up at leisure. [ Proverb ]

An ass must be tied where the master will have him. [ Proverb ]

He that wears black, must hang a brush at his back. [ Proverb ]

He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force. [ Goldsmith ]

This fellow must have a rare understanding;
For nature recompenseth the defects
Of one part with redundance in another;
Blind men have excellent memories, and the tongue
Thus indisposed, there's treasure in the intellect. [ Shirley ]

A man must go forth to face life with its enmities. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself when thou 'rt to fly.
Oh, man! ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art under ground to lie?
Thou sow'st and plantest, but no fruit must see.
For death, alas! is reaping thee. [ Cowley ]

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

He must have iron nails that scratches with a bear. [ Proverb ]

Good men must die, but death cannot kill them quite. [ Proverb ]

To know life, a man must separate himself from life. [ Feuerbach ]

You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. [ Seneca ]

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right. [ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr ]

Those are miserable pleasures that must end in pain. [ Proverb ]

A good orator must be Cicero and Roscius in one man. [ Proverb ]

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot. [ Ovid ]

He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle. [ Proverb ]

One must tell women only what one wants to be known. [ Caron ]

He that goes the contrary way must go it over twice. [ Proverb ]

Who eats his cock alone must saddle his horse alone. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. [ William Shakespeare ]

Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth. [ Proverb ]

As soon as we have learned how to live, we must die. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

He must be a most sad fellow that nobody can please. [ Proverb ]

We must strive to make of humanity one single family. [ Mazzini ]

Who hath no more bread than need must not keep a dog. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you would create something, you must be something. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

You must look where it is not as well as where it is. [ Proverb ]

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. [ Terrence ]

Misfortunes that cannot be avoided must be sweetened. [ Proverb ]

You must not hope to reap wheat where you sowed none. [ Proverb ]

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]

He's miserable indeed that must lock up his miseries. [ Proverb ]

He that rides behind another must not think to guide. [ Proverb ]

God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it. [ Dutch Proverb ]

If the channel's too small, the water must break out. [ Proverb ]

He that will not bear the itch must endure the smart. [ Proverb ]

Cannot I be your friend, but I must be your fool too? [ Proverb ]

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]

He that woos a maid must come seldom in her sight,
But he that woos a widow, must woo her day and night. [ Proverb ]

Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done. [ German Proverb ]

Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd, who never was born. [ Prior ]

There must first be seducing men before seduced women. [ Jean Paul ]

He has but a short Lent that must pay money at Easter. [ Proverb ]

They who cannot do as they would, must do as they can. [ Proverb ]

If you increase the water, you must increase the malt. [ Proverb ]

Virtue and Love are two ogres: one must eat the other. [ D'Houdetot ]

He that will enter into Paradise must have a good key. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. [ Proverb ]

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. [ Schiller ]

A garden must be looked unto and dressed, as the body. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]

It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear. [ Proverb ]

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. [ Owen Meredith ]

If you would compare two men, you must know them both. [ Proverb ]

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. [ Gracian ]

To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He must have leave to speak who cannot hold his tongue. [ Proverb ]

He that will enter paradise must come with a right key. [ Proverb ]

The custom of the manor and the place must be observed. [ Law Maxim ]

Who must account for himself and others must know both. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that makes his bed ill must be contented to lie ill. [ Proverb ]

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory [ Longfellow ]

It is no shame to yield to him that we must not oppose. [ Proverb ]

He carries too big a gun for me, I must not engage him. [ Proverb ]

Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. [ Proverb ]

They that walk in the sun must be content to be tanned. [ Proverb ]

A horse that will not carry a saddle must have no oats. [ Proverb ]

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance. [ Edward Gibbon ]

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. [ Proverb ]

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. [ La Bruyère ]

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

That which will not be butter, must be made into cheese. [ Proverb ]

You must ask your neighbours if you shall live in peace. [ Proverb ]

The first years of man must make provision for the last. [ Samuel Johnson ]

To wilful men. The injuries that they themselves procure
Must be their school-masters. [ William Shakespeare ]

He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end. [ Danish Proverb ]

Alas that we must dwell, my heart and I, so far asunder! [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful. [ Johnson ]

He that dares not venture must not complain of ill luck. [ Proverb ]

He that strikes with his tongue must ward with his head. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They must hunger in winter, that will not work in summer. [ Proverb ]

Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A mouse must not think to cast a shadow like an elephant. [ Proverb ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that lies down with the dogs must rise with the fleas. [ Proverb ]

How much one must have suffered to be weary even of hope! [ Pauline ]

The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

If a man wishes to become rich he must appear to be rich. [ Goldsmith ]

Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. [ Emerson ]

Every thing hath its time, and that time must be watched. [ Proverb ]

The fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin. [ Byron ]

Either the hearer or relater of fopperies, must be a fool. [ Proverb ]

In love, one must not attack a place unless one storms it.

The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give. [ Luther ]

He that has purchased the devil must make the most of him. [ Proverb ]

In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. [ Vitruvius ]

There can be no true aristocracy but must possess the land. [ Carlyle ]

All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. [ Shakespeare ]

We must recoil a little, to the end we may leap the better. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I must in face of the storm think, live, and die as a king. [ Frederick the Great ]

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]

It is not the back, but the heart, that must bleed for sin. [ South ]

Religion to be permanently influential must be intelligent. [ E. L. Magoon ]

He that puts on a public gown must put off a private person. [ Proverb ]

He that runs out by extravagancy must retrieve by parsimony. [ Proverb ]

Where none else will, the devil himself must bear the cross. [ Proverb ]

Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. [ Lyly ]

He that will not suffer evil must never think of preferment. [ Proverb ]

You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. [ William Shakespeare ]

A good cause and a good tongue, and yet money must carry it. [ Proverb ]

Distrust is the mother of safety, but must keep out of sight. [ Proverb ]

He that is afraid of every nettle must not piss in the grass. [ Proverb ]

Love's plant must be watered with tears and tended with care. [ Danish Proverb ]

A man must often exercise or fast or take physic, or be sick. [ Sir W. Temple ]

A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another. [ Goldsmith ]

If you would have a hen lay, you must bear with her cackling. [ Proverb ]

I must have something new, even were there none in the world. [ La Fontaine ]

The sign invites you in, 'but your money must redeem you out. [ Proverb ]

Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy. [ Goethe ]

He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens. [ Proverb ]

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. [ William Shakespeare ]

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. [ B. R. Haydon ]

To be happy, one must ask neither the how nor the why of life.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force. [ Joseph Joubert ]

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken. [ Burke ]

All things must change to something new, to something strange. [ Longfellow ]

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love. [ William Shakespeare ]

In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much of them. [ Helvetius ]

He that would right understand a man must read his whole story. [ Proverb ]

Men must endure their going hence. Even as their coming hither. [ William Shakespeare ]

The tall, the wise, the reverend head. Must lie as low as ours. [ Isaac Watts ]

In life, as in a promenade, woman must lean on a man above her. [ A. Karr ]

He that would know what shall be, must consider what hath been. [ Proverb ]

How many deaths must he die, that lives till he desires to die! [ Proverb ]

There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. [ Johnson ]

He who will not answer to the rudder, must answer to the rocks. [ Herve ]

Thy soul's flight, If it find heaven, must find it out tonight. [ William Shakespeare ]

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. [ Thoreau ]

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Some must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

A tired traveller must be glad of an ass, if he have not a horse. [ Proverb ]

If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxury. [ Cicero ]

The error of our eye directs our mind: What error leads must err. [ William Shakespeare ]

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master. [ Dryden ]

He that would have a hare for his breakfast must hunt over night. [ Proverb ]

He that is angry without a cause, must be pleased without amends. [ Proverb ]

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. [ Syrus ]

To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. [ Donn Piatt ]

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. [ Simms ]

Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for pre-eminence. [ Goldsmith ]

Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow. [ Schiller ]

In this world, one must put cloaks on all truths, even the nicest. [ Balzac ]

You will never have a friend if you must have one without failings. [ Proverb ]

I must complain the cards are ill-shuffled till I have a good hand. [ Swift ]

The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure. [ Fielding ]

You must not expect sweet from a dunghill, nor honour from a clown. [ Proverb ]

A young woman married to an old man, must behave like an old woman. [ Proverb ]

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. [ St. Paul ]

In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one. [ Carlyle ]

If you would have honest men, you must go out of the land for them. [ Proverb ]

If you desire to see by my light, you must minister oil to my lamp. [ Proverb ]

He that makes himself an ass, must not take it ill if men ride him. [ Proverb ]

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion. [ Sir David Brewster ]

He that takes the devil into his boat must carry him over the sound. [ Proverb ]

Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God. [ Parnell ]

We must be careful that the bond of wedlock does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly. [ Hare ]

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding. [ William Shakespeare ]

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so who would greatly win. [ Byron ]

Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]

To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. [ Horace ]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too. [ William Shakespeare ]

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. [ Confucius ]

If you live among men, the heart must either break or turn to brass. [ Chamfort ]

Music must begin in harmony, continue in harmony, and end in harmony. [ Confucius ]

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious. [ Colton ]

He that never took oar in his hand must not think scorn to be taught. [ Proverb ]

Though God take the sun out of the heaven, yet we must have patience. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What must be the wealth that avarice, aided by power, cannot exhaust! [ James Otis ]

Surgeons must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand. [ Proverb ]

Pleasures are like liqueurs: they must be drunk but in small glasses. [ Romainville ]

I felt that I was in the world to do something, and I thought I must. [ Whittier ]

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]

Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong. [ Carlyle ]

He that kills a man when he is drunk, must be hanged when he is sober. [ Proverb ]

Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves. [ St. Augustine ]

He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want. [ Proverb ]

Moderate riches will carry you, if you have more, you must carry them. [ Proverb ]

You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing certain in man's life but this, that he must lose it. [ Owen Meredith ]

We must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is. [ Chapin ]

My tongue within my lips I rein. For who talks much must talk in vain. [ Gay ]

He that does not as he ought, must not look to be done to as he would. [ Proverb ]

You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. [ Petronius ]

Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule. [ Locke ]

He that cannot ride a gentle horse must not attempt to back a mad colt. [ Proverb ]

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. [ Kant ]

Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. [ Hazlitt ]

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. [ Juv ]

A woman must be truly refined to incite chivalry in the heart of a man. [ Mme. Necker ]

Why must we first weep before we can love so deep that our hearts ache. [ Richter ]

Within yourselves deliverance must be sought: Each man his prison makes. [ Edwin Arnold ]

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. [ Hazlitt ]

When the lion's skin cannot prevail, a little of the fox's must be used. [ Lysander ]

And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. [ Heine ]

It never rains roses; when we want more roses, we must plant more trees. [ George Eliot ]

So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. [ Byron ]

Because its blessings are abused, must gold be censured, cursed, accused? [ Gay ]

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side. [ Le Sage ]

Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. [ German Proverb ]

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. [ Madame Swetchine ]

You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. [ Charles Buxton ]

Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art. [ Aristotle ]

As we must account for every idle word, so we must for every idle silence. [ Franklin ]

Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond, and must be polished ere he shine. [ Dryden ]

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing. [ Proverb ]

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. [ Calderon ]

To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

To succeed in the world, we must be foolish in appearance, but really wise. [ Montesquieu ]

He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin. [ Seeker ]

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking-glass. [ Rabelais ]

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. [ Cicero ]

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. [ L'Estrange ]

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with diligence. [ Dr. Johnson ]

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. [ Goldsmith ]

He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth. [ Proverb ]

Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died. [ Yogi Berra ]

To succeed as a lawyer, a man must work like a horse and live like a hermit. [ Lord Eldon ]

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. [ Bunyan ]

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. [ Bovee ]

Kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that's the end of human misery. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that would thrive by law, must fee his enemy's counsel as well as his own. [ Proverb ]

We must laugh before we are happy, lest we should die without having laughed. [ La Bruyere ]

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms. [ William Shakespeare ]

To blow on the flute is not to play on it; you must move the fingers as well. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. [ Hare ]

Those who live on vanity must not unreasonably expect to die of mortification. [ Mrs. Ellis ]

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. [ Byron ]

Sometimes we must have love, either as a desirable good or an inevitable evil. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them. [ Owen Feltham ]

Where there is nothing to be had, even the king of France must lose his right. [ Proverb ]

Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. [ Feltham ]

You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe. [ Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, The Sour-Toe Cocktail ]

Every man must have his own style, as he has his own face and his own features. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

One may live as a conquerer, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. [ Daniel Webster ]

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. [ Hitopadesa ]

One must be serious about something if one wants to have any amusement in life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. [ Heine ]

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about. [ Quesnel ]

A mariner must have his eye upon rocks and sands as well as upon the north star. [ Proverb ]

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. [ Whipple ]

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers. [ William Shakespeare ]

A higher morality, like a higher intelligence, must be reached by a slow growth. [ Herbert Spencer ]

To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. [ Jean Paul ]

We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Friends must be preserved with good deeds, and enemies reclaimed with fair words. [ Severus ]

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eterna1. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]

Day and night, sun and moon, air and light, every one must have, and none can buy. [ Proverb ]

A day of grace is as a day in harvest; one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we must measure a great man. [ George Henry Lewes ]

Men are like money: we must take them for their value, whatever may be the effigy. [ Mme. Necker ]

If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. [ Colton ]

God! thy pity must have been profound when this miserable world emerged from chaos! [ A. de Musset ]

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable. [ Menander ]

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

If you be false to both beasts and birds, you must with the bat, fly only by night. [ Proverb ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

Wives must have their wills, while they live; because they make none, when they die. [ Proverb ]

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. [ Franklin ]

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them. [ Beaconsfield ]

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does, - skip. [ Rogers ]

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. [ Sharp ]

Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. [ St. Evremond ]

To be happy, there are certain sides of our nature that must be entirely stultified. [ Chamfort ]

He that would soothe sorrow must not argue on the vanity of the most deceitful hopes. [ Walter Scott ]

When I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared. [ Caesar Borgia ]

Man must either make provision of sense to understand, or of a halter to hang himself. [ Antisthenes ]

The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. [ Ward Beecher ]

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Affection is a coal that must be cooled: Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. [ William Shakespeare ]

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession. [ Beaconsfield ]

Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right: I've done it from my youth. [ Crabbe ]

It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.

That happiness may enter the soul, we must first sweep it clean of all imaginary evils. [ Fontanelle ]

It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. [ Feuchtersleben ]

Even the best must own patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth. [ Young ]

If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable. [ Bruyere ]

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. [ Lowell ]

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. [ South ]

Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and education must finish him. [ Locke ]

The sands are number'd, that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end. [ William Shakespeare ]

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die. [ Johnson ]

Education begins the gentleman, but leading, good company, and reflection must finish him. [ Locke ]

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]

Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to. [ Zimmermann ]

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. [ William Shakespeare ]

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. [ Amiel ]

If thou wouldest please the ladies, thou must endeavor to make them pleased with themselves. [ Fuller ]

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life. [ Bailey ]

When one writes of woman, he must reserve the right to laugh at his ideas of the day before. [ A. Ricard ]

Upon the common course of life must our thoughts and our conversation be generally employed. [ Johnson ]

Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. [ Sterne ]

Petitioners for admittance into favour must not harass the condescension of their benefactor. [ Burns ]

A man must be a fool, who does not succeed in making a woman believe that which flatters her. [ Balzac ]

The training of children is a profession where we must know to lose time in order to gain it. [ Rousseau ]

The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. [ Gottfried von Strassburg ]

We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. [ Solon ]

Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

He that makes a question where there is no doubt, must take an answer where there is no reason. [ Proverb ]

It is not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise? [ Young ]

Truth is like God; it reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out of its manifestations. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. [ Rückert ]

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence? [ Arsene Houssaye ]

Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. [ Plato ]

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit. [ L'Estrange ]

Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. [ Dewey ]

There's some ill planet reigns; I must be patient till the heavens look with an aspect favorable. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration. [ H. Giles ]

The use of wine must inevitably be a steppingstone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. [ J. C Holbrook, D.D ]

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. [ Bovee ]

We must be patient; but I cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him in the cold ground. [ Shakespeare ]

How true it is that, sooner or later, the most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune! [ De Stael ]

The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. [ Börne ]

We have been thrust into the world - we know not why; and we must die to become - we know not what. [ Mme. d'Albany ]

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are no rules for friendship; it must be left to itself; we cannot force it any more than love. [ Hazlitt ]

He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation. [ Locke ]

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. [ Heine ]

Heaven's above all; and there be souls that must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved. [ William Shakespeare ]

To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two. [ Carlyle ]

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth. [ Dryden ]

Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day is closed, must sleep on during one never-ending night. [ Catullus ]

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education. [ Harriet Martineau ]

Imagination has more charm in writing than in speaking: great wings must fold before entering a salon. [ Prince de Ligne ]

The devil must be very powerful, since the sacrifice of a god for men has not rendered them any better. [ Piron ]

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the inkpot. [ L'Estrange ]

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it. [ Phillips Brooks ]

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain. [ Beaconsfield ]

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. [ Hazlitt ]

Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. [ Chamfort ]

In life, woman must wait until she is asked to love; as in a salon she waits for an invitation to dance. [ A. Karr ]

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. [ Emerson ]

To test the Reality we must see it on the tightrope. When the verities become acrobats we can judge them. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. [ William Penn ]

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. [ Ruskin ]

Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half. [ Fenélon ]

He that takes a wife at Shrewsbury must carry her to Staffordshire, else she will drive him to Cumberland. [ Proverb ]

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]

Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as king's palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. [ Daniel Webster ]

Nature has said to woman: Be fair if thou canst, be virtuous if thou wilt; but, considerate, thou must be. [ Beaumarchais ]

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. [ Bacon ]

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend, must have a very long head, or a very short creed. [ C. C. Colton ]

We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. [ Aeschylus ]

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it. [ Cicero ]

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. [ Massinger ]

The error of certain women is to imagine that, to acquire distinction, they must imitate the manners of men. [ J. de Maistre ]

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. [ Seneca ]

We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! - a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. [ Dr. Johnson ]

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love. [ F. W. Robertson ]

You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, (i.e. in default of the necessary inspiration.) [ Horace ]

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child. [ Macaulay ]

It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one: society does not exist on moral ideas only. [ Balzac ]

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear. [ Goethe ]

The friends of the present day are of the nature of melons; we must try fifty before we meet with a good one. [ Claude-Mermet ]

Mysteries which must explain themselves are not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up. [ Sterne ]

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Every one must have felt that a cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

We must be neat in our person, though not over particular; and let us shun boorish and ungenteel slovenliness. [ Cicero ]

You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk. [ Spurgeon ]

There are some women who require much dressing, as some meats must be highly seasoned to make them palatable. [ Rochebrune ]

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little. [ La Bruyere ]

Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. [ S. Smiles ]

Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. [ Luther ]

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side. [ Addison ]

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us. [ Gutzkow ]

In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. [ Tillotson ]

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. [ Lew Wallace ]

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless forever. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. [ Diogenes ]

The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees. [ Whately ]

You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. [ Seneca ]

Character, like porcelain ware, must be printed before it is glazed. There can be no change after it is burned in. [ Beecher ]

I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. [ Virgil ]

A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward. [ Bovee ]

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal rightlined circle must conclude and shut up all. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. [ Froude ]

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Paradise must be a tiresome place if it is peopled only by those saintly souls whose company we so dread here below. [ De Finod ]

Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it. [ South ]

To please, one must make up his mind to be taught many things which he already knows, by people who do not know them. [ Chamfort ]

The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal. [ Chatfield ]

All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own. [ Charlotte Bronte ]

That two men may be real friends, they must have opposite opinions, similar principles, and different loves and hatreds. [ Chateaubriand ]

In all our reasonings concerning men, we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances. [ Robert Hall ]

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. [ Edward Herbert ]

Truthfulness is not so much a branch as a blossom of moral, manly strength. The weak, whether they will or not, must lie. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. [ Rückert ]

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it. [ Willmott ]

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together. [ Jeremy Collier ]

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; and the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools. [ Confucius ]

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round, If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground. [ Longfellow ]

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. [ Charles Dickens ]

The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. [ Ovid ]

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. [ Mme. Necker ]

Never argue. In society nothing must be: give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation. [ Beaconsfield ]

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment. [ Landor ]

The Stomach is a slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as the slave does. [ E. Souvestre ]

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

In comparing men and books, one must always remember this important distinction, that one can put the books down at any time. [ N. P. Willis ]

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best. [ Dryden ]

Admiration is a forced tribute; and to extort it from mankind, envious and ignorant as they are, they must be taken unawares. [ James Northcote ]

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate. [ Colton ]

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. [ Heine ]

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. [ Horace Mann ]

It is not easy to be a widow: one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to even feign its ignorance. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world; no heart was ever cast in the same mould, as that which we bear within us. [ F. Berni ]

That a liaison between a man and a woman may be truly interesting, there must be between them enjoyment, remembrance, or desire. [ Chamfort ]

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. [ Bayard Taylor ]

We must be diligent in our particular calling and charge, in that province and station which God has appointed us, whatever it be. [ Tillotson ]

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]

It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression. [ Campbell ]

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. [ Richter ]

Art, as far as it has ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [ Dante ]

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it. [ Seneca ]

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. [ Fenelon ]

'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet. [ Massinger ]

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy, which must sadden, or at least soften, every reflecting observer. [ Coleridge ]

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. [ Johnson ]

A similitude of nature and manners in such a degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. [ F. Atterbury ]

There may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it. [ John Ruskin ]

We must love our friends as true amateurs love paintings; they have their eyes perpetually fixed on the fine parts, and see no others. [ Mme. d'Epinay ]

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. [ Wordsworth ]

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition. [ Emerson ]

No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him. [ Philips Brooks ]

To remain virtuous, a man has only to combat his own desires: a woman must resist her own inclinations, and the continual attack of man. [ Latena ]

Jails and state prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former. [ Horace Mann ]

One must have a heart to know how to love; senses do not suffice. Temperament led by the mind leads to voluptuousness, but never to love. [ De Bernis ]

To be impatient at the death of a person concerning whom it was certain he must die is to mourn because thy friend was not born an angel. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in. [ Thomas Adams ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic. [ South ]

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the doorsill of insanity, at least once. [ Taine ]

A man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. [ Chamfort ]

The better a man is morally, the less conscious he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. [ Froude ]

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]

Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. [ James A. Garfield ]

True passion is not a wisp-light; it is a consuming flame, and either it must find fruition or it will burn the human heart to dust and ashes. [ William Winter ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. [ Colton ]

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it. [ Whately ]

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall occasionally be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. [ Dickens ]

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must never undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [ Washington ]

Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? [ Carlyle ]

To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. [ Lowell ]

We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others. [ Bruyere ]

The heart must be perpetually fortified by wise counsel and high moral principle, or it will inevitably submit to the invasion of the vilest foes. [ Magoon ]

The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked; weaklings must lie. [ Richter ]

Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. [ Goldsmith ]

The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce. [ F. Osborn ]

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together, - manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance. [ Wordsworth ]

Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them. [ Shenstone ]

The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, so they must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [ Sallust ]

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [ Johnson ]

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. [ Colton ]

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end. [ Bacon ]

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them. [ Colton ]

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. [ Richard Baxter ]

The science of women, as that of men, must be limited according to their powers: the difference of their characters ought to limit that of their studies. [ Fenelon ]

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. [ Aughey ]

It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life. [ Swift ]

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels must give. [ George Macdonald ]

Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained. [ Jean Paul ]

The book that will make its way in the world, that will remain, or survive, as an imperishable monument, or memorial, must have the stamp of genius upon it. [ Martial ]

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. [ Heine ]

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself. [ Seneca ]

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. [ Edward Everett ]

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. [ Johnson ]

Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave; and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]

Is thy friend angry with thee? Then provide him an opportunity of showing thee a great favor. Over that his heart must needs melt, and he will love thee again. [ Richter ]

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]

There must be chance in the midst of design; by which we mean that events which are not designed necessarily arise from the pursuit of events which are designed. [ Paley ]

The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it. [ Scott ]

The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others. [ A. Karr ]

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. [ John Ruskin ]

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence. [ James Martineau ]

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. [ Seneca ]

O unfortunates who sin without pleasure! in your errors be more reasonable; be, at least, fortunate sinners. Since you must be damned, be damned for amiable faults. [ Voltaire ]

The sense of beauty enters into the highest philosophy, as in Plato. The highest poet must be a philosopher, accomplished like Dante, or intuitive like Shakespeare. [ Gladstone ]

Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]

It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven. [ Macdonald Clarke ]

Whatever that be, which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and, upon that account, must necessarily be eternal. [ Cicero ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as tbey ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. [ Cervantes ]

The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The flavor of detached thoughts depends upon the conciseness of their expression: for thoughts are grains of sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in a drop of water. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at least, they must work their limbs or features. [ Holmes ]

Good counsel is like unto well-water, that must be drawn up with a pump or bucket; ill counsel is like to conduit-water, which if the cork be but turned runs out alone. [ Bishop Hall ]

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. [ De Sales ]

The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative, but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. [ Joshua Reynolds ]

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The useful encourages itself; for the multitude produce it, and no one can dispense with it: the beautiful must be encouraged; for few can set it forth, and many need it. [ Goethe ]

Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. [ Greville ]

When the age of the Vikings came to a close, they must have sensed it. Probably, the gathered together one evening, slapped each other on the back and said, Hey, good job. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Little eyes must be good-tempered or they are ruined. They have no other resource. But this will beautify them enough. They are made for laughing, and should do their duty. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence. His name, like a shuttlecock, must be beat backward and forward, or it falls to the ground. [ Johnson ]

The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

A good deal depends upon luck as well as care, and sometimes a writer must wait, or even leave off and return to work again, before he can hit upon the turn of words required. [ Richard D. Blackmore, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it. [ Ed ]

When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. [ George Eliot ]

Literature is a mere step to knowledge; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain; true knowledge must make us humble. [ Mrs. John Sanford ]

A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Oratory may be symbolized by a warrior's eye, flashing from under a philosopher's brow. But why a warrior's eye rather than a poet's? Because in oratory the will must predominate. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]

When one has been tormented and fatigued by his sensitiveness, he learns that he must live from day to day, forget all that is possible, and efface his life from memory as it passes. [ Chamfort ]

National character varies as it fades under invasion or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself. [ John Ruskin ]

Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds. [ Beecher ]

The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]

In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. [ Lord Herbert ]

The life of a woman is a long dissimulation. Candor, beauty, freshness, virginity, modesty - a woman has each of these but once. When lost, she must simulate them the rest of her life. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools. [ Sterling ]

The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length. Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. [ Pope ]

We declare to you that the earth has exhausted its contingent of master spirits. Now for decadence and general closing. We must make up our minds to it. We shall have no more men of genius. [ Victor Hugo ]

My own firm conviction is that no education can make a writer. The heart must be hot behind the pen. Out of the abundance of life and its manifold experiences comes the power to touch life. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

To be as good as our fathers, Me must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. [ Wendell Phillips ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. Get a reputation and then go to bed, is the absurdest of all maxims. Keep up a reputation or go to bed, would be nearer the truth. [ Chapin ]

Unfortunately friends too often weigh one another in their hypochondriacal humours, and in an over-exacting spirit. One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

We must not inquire too curiously into motives. They are apt to become feeble in the utterance; the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. [ George Eliot ]

As the air and manner of a gentleman can be acquired only by living habitually in the best society, so grace in composition must be attained by an habitual acquaintance with classical writers. [ Dugald Stewart ]

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range. [ John Ruskin ]

It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far. It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the tallowtrade; you must know where to find yourself. [ George Eliot ]

Heaven must scorn the humility which we telegraph thither by genuflection; it must prefer the manliness that stands by all created gifts, and looks itself in the face without pretense of worship. [ John Weiss ]

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid - too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority. [ George Eliot ]

If the ear is the road to the heart, and the heart to the affections, how keen must the affliction of deafness be to those who possess great tenderness of the one, and susceptibility of the other. [ J. Ellis ]

The pilot who is always dreading a rock or a tempest must not complain if he remain a poor fisherman. We must at times trust something to fortune, for fortune has often some share in what happens. [ Metastasio ]

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. [ South ]

To live without bitterness, one must turn his eyes toward the ludicrous side of the world, and accustom himself to look at men only as jumping jacks, and at society as the board on which they jump. [ Chamfort ]

The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who seeks to do the amiable always, can only be successful at the frequent expense of his manhood. [ Simms ]

He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. [ John Foster ]

A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]

How many of these minds are there to whom scarcely any good can be done! They have no excitability. You are attempting to kindle a fire of stone. You must leave them as you find them, in permanent mediocrity. [ John Foster ]

There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. [ Fuller ]

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. [ L'Estrange ]

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]

Rhyme is the elementary art of the poet; but at the same time he must possess that vehement passion for melody that buoys his speech into song, his footsteps into tune, and makes his life move in a melodious rhythm. [ Bentivoglio ]

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern, and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account. [ Goethe ]

The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. [ Carlyle ]

Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with everything that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best. [ C. C. Colton ]

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. [ Lowell ]

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar. [ G. C. Mason ]

Those people who are always improving never become great Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps. [ Hazlitt ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

The poets fabulously fancied that the giants scaled heaven by heaping mountain upon mountain. What was their fancy is the gospel truth. If you would get to heaven you must climb thither by putting Mount Sion upon Mount Sinai. [ Bishop Hopkins ]

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]

If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library (the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford). [ James I ]

Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it, - feel it, and hate in silence. [ Washington Allston ]

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]

As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies. [ Beecher ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]

Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. [ Joubert ]

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness, - these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. [ Miss Sedgwick ]

Every man must bear his own burden, and it is a fine thing to see any one trying to do it manfully; carrying his cross bravely, silently, patiently, and in a way which makes you hope that he has taken for his pattern the greatest of all sufferers. [ James Hamilton ]

No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. [ Franklin ]

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. [ Chateaubriand ]

It seems as if all classes and conditions in life might learn to get more happiness out of their work. To accomplish this, more sentiment and less worry must be put into our efforts, which must also be viewed in their larger relations and possibilities. [ Henry D. Chapin ]

We proudly say we are equal. In the largest sense before God we are, but in every other sense we are not. No two persons have the same gifts, the same tastes, the same habits. One must complement the other. It is a mutual life we lead in a mutual world. [ Caroline Hazard ]

Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours; and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves, - the creature of habits and infirmities. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. [ Carlyle ]

Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws. [ Carlyle ]

There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless soul, like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong! [ Chapin ]

Be cheerful, and seek not external help, nor the tranquillity which others give. A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The whole genius of an author consists in describing well, and delineating character well. Homer, Plato, Virgil, Horace only excel other writers by their expressions and images: we must indicate what is true if we mean to write naturally, forcibly and delicately. [ La Bruyere ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. [ Lamartine ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; it is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation; from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has, and never can sustain any mischief. [ Sydney Smith ]

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see: and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [ Whipple ]

Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. [ Emerson ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend; but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please. [ Lord Greville ]

What a conception of art must those theorists have who exclude portraits from the proper province of the fine arts! It is exactly as if we denied that to be poetry in which the poet celebrates the woman he really loves. Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting. [ Schlegel ]

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]

My May of life is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nature, when she amused herself by giving stiff manners to old maids, put virtue in a very bad light. A woman must have been a mother to preserve under the chilling influences of time that grace of manner and sweetness of temper, which prompt us to say, One sees that love has dwelt there. [ Lemontey ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. [ R. L, Stevenson ]

Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Willmott ]

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. [ Carlyle ]

There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation. [ Coleridge ]

Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]

A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and if a writer of fiction narrow his scope to particulars so positive as polemical controversy in matters ecclesiastical, political or moral, his work may or may not be an able treatise, but it must be a very poor novel. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore. [ Melmoth ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

Under the influence of music we are all deluded in some way; we imagine that the performers must dwell in the regions to which they lift their hearers; we are reluctant to admit that a man may blow the most soul-animating strains from his trumpet and yet be a coward; or melt an audience to tears with his violin, and yet be a heartless profligate. [ H. W. Hillard ]

They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, - we must I chew them over again. [ Channing ]

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else. [ Ruskin ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it, whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack it as an enemy that must be vanquished before night comes, or whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome it as an approaching friend who will keep us delightful company all day, and who will make us feel at evening that the day was well worth its fatigues. [ Lucy Larcom ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man. [ Emerson ]

If there were no readers there certainly would be no writers. Clearly, therefore, the existence of writers depends upon the existence of readers; and, of course, as the cause must be antecedent to the effect, readers existed before writers. Yet, on the other hand, if there were no writers there could be no readers, so it should appear that writers must be antecedent to readers. [ Paul Chatfield, M.D ]

If flowers have souls, said Undine, the bees, whose nurses they are, must seem to them darling children at the breast. I once fancied a paradise for the spirits of departed flowers. They go, answered I, not into paradise, but into a middle state; the souls of lilies enter into maidens' foreheads, those of hyacinths and forget-me-nots dwell in their eyes, and those of roses in their lips. [ Richter ]

Never! never has one forgotten his pure, right educated mother. On the blue mountains of our dim childhood, toward which we ever turn and look, stand the mothers, who marked out to us from thence our life; the most blessed age must be forgotten ere we can forget the warmest heart. You wish, O women! to be ardently loved, and forever, even till death! Be, then, the mothers of your children. [ Richter ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession. [ Ruskin ]

We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Everyone must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

Weakness can never be beautiful, either morally or physically: and though the feminine type may possess greater softness and more feeling, it must be active, firm, and healthy, or it cannot be beautiful; the weak mind, distracted by alternations of feeling, and constant craving for help and sympathy from others, cannot at the same time possess that tenderness and unselfish devotion which is the loveliest trait of the female character. [ M. Martell ]

Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force, and the man who does not make a religion of his business has a business life of no character.
The world is God's workshop; the raw materials are His; the ideals and patterns are His; our hands are "the members of Christ," our reward His recognition. Blacksmith or banker, draughtsman or doctor, painter or preacher, servant or statesman, must work as unto the Lord, not merely making a living, but devoting a life. This makes life sacramental, turning its water into wine. This is twice blessed, blessing both the worker and the work. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

A town, before it can be plundered and deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one. [ Colton ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]

The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. [ Leigh Hunt ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]

A newspaper, like a theatre, must mainly owe its continuance in life to the fact that it pleases many persons; and in order to please many persons it will, unconsciously perhaps, respond to their several tastes, reflect their various qualities, and reproduce their views. In a certain sense it is evolved out of the community that absorbs it, and, therefore, partaking of the character of the community, while it may retain many merits and virtues, it will display itself, as in some respects ignorant, trivial, narrow, and vulgar. [ William Winter ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

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 ]

He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted; as an art, it furnishes such rules as may be derived from those principles, for guarding against erroneous deductions. Some are disposed to view logic as a peculiar method of reasoning, and not as it is, a method of unfolding and analysing our reason. They have, in short, considered logic as an art of reasoning. The logician's object being, not to lay down principles by which one may reason, but by which all must reason, even though they are not distinctly aware of them - to lay down rules not which may be followed with advantage, but which cannot possibly be deviated from in sound reasoning. [ R. Whately ]