Merry meet, merry part. [ Proverb ]
Lenity is part of justice. [ Joubert ]
The eye will have his part. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The heart aye's the part aye
That makes us right or wrang. [ Burns ]
In part payment (on account). [ French ]
Fear is one part of prudence. [ Proverb ]
Let echo, too, perform her part,
Prolonging every note with art;
And in a low expiring strain,
Play all the comfort over again. [ Addison ]
Pity, the tenderest part of love. [ Yalden ]
Days, that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow. [ Richard Crashaw ]
Discretion, the best part of valor. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
I am a part of all that I have met. [ Tennyson ]
Nature is always wise in every part. [ Lord Thurlow ]
Suffering is part of the divine idea. [ Ward Beecher ]
To wish for death is a coward's part. [ Ovid ]
Good manners are part of good morals. [ Whately ]
Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. [ La Bruyère ]
He that repairs not a part builds all. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
O, I have lost my reputation!
I have lost the immortal part of myself
And what remains is bestial. [ Shakespeare ]
Love is the smallest part of gallantry. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Complete self-devotion is woman's part. [ Macaulay ]
Faith in friendship is the noblest part. [ Earl of Orrery ]
I am misanthropos, and hate mankind,
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog.
That I might love thee something. [ William Shakespeare ]
And her immortal part with angels lives. [ William Shakespeare ]
The principal part of faith is patience. [ George MacDonald ]
In the whole the part also is contained.
What men call accident is God's own part. [ Bailey ]
Farewell and be hanged, friends must part. [ Proverb ]
Some asked how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarrelets of pearl. [ Robert Herrick ]
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine! [ Milton ]
He that loses hope may part with anything. [ Congreve ]
Christianity is part of the law of England. [ Lord Eldon ]
It is a cunning part to play the fool well. [ Proverb ]
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [ Juvenal ]
Superstition is part of the poetry of life. [ Goethe ]
Love on his lips and hatred in his heart:
His motto - constancy, his creed - to part. [ Byron ]
A pilot's part in calms cannot be spy'd,
In dangerous times true worth is only tried. [ Stirling — Doomes-day. The Fifth Houre ]
They speak of hope to the fainting heart,
With a voice of promise they come and part,
They sleep in dust through the wintry hours,
They break forth in glory - bring flowers,
bright flowers! [ Mrs. Hemans ]
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano:
A stage where every man must play a part. [ William Shakespeare ]
Chance will not do the work -
Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm.
The very wind that wafts us towards the port
May dash us on the shelves.
The steersman's part is vigilance.
Blow it or rough or smooth. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy, -
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is not hand, nor foot.
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]
Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. [ Alexander Pope ]
In prayer the lips never act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. [ Herrick ]
It is a wicked world, and we make part of it. [ Proverb ]
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. [ Coleridge ]
Alas, by what rude fate
Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet.
Then part forever on their courses fleet. [ E. C. Stedman ]
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. [ Juvenal ]
Act well your part; there all the honour lies. [ Pope ]
In this world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird. [ Swinburne ]
No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]
He gave his honours to the world again,
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]
Books make up no small part of human happiness. [ Frederick the Great ]
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]
The principal part of everything is the beginning. [ Law Maxim ]
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 ]
Eloquence is to the sublime as a whole to its part. [ La Bruyère ]
She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge. [ Proverb ]
Things that differ in the end, will part in the way. [ Proverb ]
Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]
You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. [ Seneca ]
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. [ Seneca ]
Malice drinks up the greatest part of its own poison. [ Proverb ]
I have heard they are the most lewd impostors,
Made of all terms and shreds, no less beliers
Of great men's favours than their own vile medicines,
Which they will utter upon monstrous oaths;
Selling that drug for two pence ere they part.
Which they have valued at twelve crowns before. [ Ben Jonson ]
The worst part of poverty, is to bear it impatiently. [ Proverb ]
A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself. [ Mencius ]
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts. [ F. W. Newman ]
Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. [ Feltham ]
For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. [ William Shakespeare ]
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you. [ Epictetus ]
Hark! how the gentle echo from her cell
Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring over the stream.
Repeats the accent - we shall part no more. [ Akenside ]
Woman is the nervous part of humanity; man, the muscular. [ Halle ]
To refine and polish is a part of our work in this world. [ J. T. Headley ]
He who shares honey with a bear hath the least part of it. [ Proverb ]
Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion. [ F. H. Hedge ]
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to its part. [ La Bruyere ]
A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits. [ Paley ]
Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. [ Goldsmith ]
The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. [ Emerson ]
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him. [ Carlyle ]
Fools will not part with their bauble for all Lombard street. [ Proverb ]
Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part? [ Johnson ]
Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! [ Byron ]
Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. [ Whately ]
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. [ Plutarch ]
That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. [ Bacon ]
Lay your hand upon your halfpenny twice before you part with it. [ Proverb ]
To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.
The eyes, being in the highest part, have the office of sentinels. [ Cicero ]
The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies. [ John Kay ]
Triumphant arch, that fill'st the sky when storms prepare to part! [ Campbell ]
The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. [ Epictetus ]
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul. [ George MacDonald ]
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [ De La Bruyere ]
That is the best part of each writer which has nothing private in it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
It is a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. [ Rochester ]
Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. [ Dryden ]
Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry; imagination the life of it. [ Owen Feltham ]
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner it is bestowed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done. [ Columella ]
It is a part of good-breeding, that a man should be polite, even to himself. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
A mother who doesn't part with a daughter every season has no real affection. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Unhappy scenes which I myself witnessed, and in which I acted a principal part. [ Virgil ]
Body and soul like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loath to part. [ Young ]
Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. [ Carlyle ]
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. [ Plutarch ]
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. [ Vicesimus Knox ]
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance. [ Antoninus ]
He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [ Richter ]
Authors now find, as once Achilles found, the whole is mortal if a part's unsound. [ Young ]
Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]
The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. [ Bruyere ]
A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. [ Addison ]
Procure not friends in haste, and when thou hast a friend part not with him in haste. [ Solon ]
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. [ Bacon ]
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it' with the happiest terms I have. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. [ Feuchtersleben ]
Beware of the fore part of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest. [ Proverb ]
Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest. [ Quarles ]
The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself. [ Gibbon ]
For my own part, I had rather be old only a short time than be old before I really am so. [ Cicero ]
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance. [ Addison ]
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. [ Seneca ]
The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character. [ Bovee ]
That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs. [ Feltham ]
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. [ Brande ]
Like the plants that throw their fragrance from the wounded part, breathe sweetness out of woe. [ Moore ]
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed. [ W. W. Story ]
To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile? [ La Bruyere ]
There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. [ Swift ]
If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us. [ Moliere ]
Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]
The greatest part of mankind have no other reason for their opinions than that they are in fashion. [ Johnson ]
He that will make a good use of any part of his life must allow a large portion of it to recreation. [ Locke ]
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. [ Lowell ]
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested. [ La Roche ]
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor. [ Hazlitt ]
The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! [ Carlyle ]
Any one may do a casual act of good-nature; but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament. [ Sterne ]
A little plot of ground thick sown is better than a great field which, for the most part of it, lies fallow. [ Bishop Norris ]
The extension and perfection of friendship will constitute a great part of the future happiness of the blest. [ R. Whately ]
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees. [ Johnson ]
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude. [ Voltaire ]
Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
As his wife has been given to man as his best half, so night is the half of life, and by far the better part of life. [ Goethe ]
The beloved friend does not fill one part of the soul, but, penetrating the whole, becomes connected with all feeling. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]
It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation. [ Washington Gladden ]
There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is only a part of virtue. [ Pope ]
In all our reasonings concerning men, we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances. [ Robert Hall ]
We are for the most part but the contemporaries of happiness. It is spoken of about us, but we die without having known it. [ O. Firmez ]
No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. [ Sir W. Temple ]
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
None deserve the name of good who have not spirit enough to be bad. Goodness, for the most part, is but indolence, or impotence. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Part with it as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth: and what its worth ask death-beds; they can tell. [ Young ]
We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Obedience, we may remember, is a part of religion, and therefore an element of peace; but love which includes obedience is the whole. [ George Sewell ]
We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Be not liquorish after fame, found by experience to carry a trumpet, that doth for the most part congregate more enemies than friends. [ Osborn ]
A marriageable girl is a kind of merchandise that can be negotiated at wholesale, only on condition that no one takes a part at retail. [ A. Karr ]
I'll give thrice so much land. To any well deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. [ William Shakespeare ]
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. [ Lowell ]
We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment. [ Henry Home ]
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. Thou shalt not
is their characteristic formula. [ Coleridge ]
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part. [ Nathaniel Hawthorne ]
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours. [ Tillotson ]
In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]
By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now. [ J. C. Hare ]
All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity. [ Rev. T. Binney ]
The most painful part of our bodily pain is that which is bodiless or immaterial, - namely, our impatience, and the delusion that it will last forever. [ Richter ]
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last part; but fame relates all, and often more than all. [ Thomas Fuller ]
The tongue is, at the same time, the best part of man and his worst; with good government, none is more useful, and without it, none is more mischievous. [ Anacharsis ]
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one is the age of innocence, the other of reason. [ Joubert ]
To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. [ Sarah Ellis ]
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. [ Goldsmith ]
Mountains never shake hands.
Their roots may touch; they may keep together some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, insulated peaks. So is it with great men. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays but the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him. [ Magendie ]
When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. [ Yogi Berra ]
Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crash of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment and undermine security. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The shortest and surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. [ South ]
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]
Equality is the life of conversation; and he is as much out who assumes to himself any part above another, as he who considers himself below the rest of the society. [ Steele ]
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds are taken are more potent. [ Bacon ]
The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. [ Herder ]
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Many men build as cathedrals were built, - the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete. [ Beecher ]
I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain the makes you want to study the brain. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Affectation in any part of our carriage is lighting up a candle to our defects, and never fails to make us be taken notice of either as wanting sense or wanting sincerity. [ Locke ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. [ Barrow ]
By reasoning we satisfy ourselves: by rhetoric we satisfy others. Most modern orators and rhetoricians content themselves with fulfilling the first part of this proposition. [ P. B. Randolph ]
The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. [ Carlyle ]
Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. [ Burke ]
It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]
Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. [ Hare ]
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow. [ Johnson ]
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. [ Hitopadesa ]
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. [ De Quincey ]
Socrates, who is by all accounts the undoubted head of the sect of the hen-pecked, owed, and acknowledged that he owed a great part of his virtue to the exercise his useful wife constantly gave him. [ Steele ]
This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct. [ Cicero ]
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself [ South ]
Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse. [ Mackenzie ]
The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all. [ Emerson ]
The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]
For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor. [ Napoleon I ]
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 ]
It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]
Some new books it is necessary to read, - part for the information they contain, and others in order to acquaint one's self with the state of literature in the age in which one lives: but I would rather read too few than too many. [ Lord Dudley ]
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. [ Macaulay ]
There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]
Are we capable of so intimate and cordial a coalition of friendship as, that one man may pour out his bosom - his very inmost soul, with unreserved confidence to another, without hazard of losing part of that respect which man deserves from man. [ A. Burn ]
To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil. [ Aristotle ]
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]
The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented. [ Addison ]
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]
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 ]
That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out. [ Addison ]
Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable.
[ Zimmermann ]
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice. [ Ruskin ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
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 ]
Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?
. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. [ Goethe ]
Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]
Talk, except as the preparation for work, is worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. [ Carlyle ]
Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. [ Carlyle ]
The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. [ John Ruskin ]
Most people give up before they start because they think it is too hard, there is too much against me here, I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the resources. I was on the back to work scheme when I applied. I didn’t have resources... It never occurred to me to fail. I always knew it was part of my destiny to do that thing. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show ]
Partake or Eat? Partake, meaning to take a part of in common with others, to participate, is often affectedly used as a synonym of eat. It is correct to say that two or more persons partake of dinner, as they may partake of anything else. But, for the individual who eats alone, to say he partook of refreshments is an egregious blunder. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]
Oceans of ink, reams of paper, and disputes infinite, might have been spared, if wranglers had avoided lighting the torch of strife at the wrong end; since a tenth part of the pains expended in attempting to prove the why, the where, and the when, certain events have happened, would have been more than sufficient to prove that they never happened at all. [ Colton ]
Partially or Partly? The use of the adverb partially for partly, although it has the sanction of Webster, is obviously incorrect. The case in court has been partially heard.
This is a common expression, the intended meaning of which is, that the case has been heard in part, or partly heard. Partially heard, denotes that it was heard in a biased or prejudiced manner. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
I never had the courage to talk across a long, narrow room I should be at the end of the room facing all the audience. If I attempt to talk across a room I find myself turning this way and that, and thus at alternate periods I have part of the audience behind me. You ought never to have any part of the audience behind you; you never can tell what they are going to do. [ Mark Twain, from his speech Courage ]
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]
There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]
A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction an assent, an enraged eye makes beauty deformed. This little member gives life to every other part about us; and I believe the story of Argus implies no more than that the eye is in every part; that is to say, every other part would be mutilated were not its force represented more by the eye than even by itself. [ Joseph Addison ]
It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]
Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like?
- and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]
Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]
If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]