Prayer ardent opens heaven. [ Young ]
When war begins, hell opens. [ Proverb ]
A gold key opens every door. [ Proverb ]
He opens an oyster with a dagger. [ Proverb ]
The wishing-gate opens into nothing. [ Spurgeon ]
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring:
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting? [ Pope ]
God never shuts one door but He opens another. [ Irish Proverb ]
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. [ Cato ]
Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]
Alms are the golden key that opens the gate of Heaven. [ Proverb ]
In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. [ Auson. of the rose ]
No heart opens to sympathy without letting in delicacy. [ J. M. Barrie ]
Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man. [ J. H. Evans ]
Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man. [ Jean Paul ]
Behind every individual closes organisation; before him opens liberty. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. [ Horace ]
The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and of the king. [ Horace ]
Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment. [ Victor Hugo ]
Sweet as dew-drops on the flowery lawns when the sky opens, and the morning dawns. [ Tickell ]
The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul only when all self-seeking is abandoned. [ John Burroughs ]
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Joy is the ray of sunshine that brightens and opens those two beautiful flowers, Confidence and Hope. [ E. Souvestre ]
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shows at the same time pearls and the soul. [ Victor Hugo ]
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]
If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. [ Bishop Beveridge ]
Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand. [ Sterne ]
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character: biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton. [ Willmott ]
Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters? [ Alcott ]
The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. [ A. Brisbane ]
All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to* indicate the one miracle of intellectual enlargement. [ Emerson ]
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]
Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]