Be our joy three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Learn, nor account the pang;
Dare, never grudge the throe! [ Browning ]
Affliction is enamored of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity. [ William Shakespeare ]
There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul. [ Pope ]
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garment with his form. [ William Shakespeare ]
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined,
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind;
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame! [ Pope ]
And where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. [ Holmes ]
Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Human Inventions are no essential parts of divine worship. [ Proverb ]
A beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. [ Horace ]
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. [ Tac ]
Industry will never do much, unless there be natural parts also. [ Proverb ]
When hearts hold converse, other parts of the body are in repose. [ Al-Misri ]
Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. [ Napoleon I ]
A man of parts may lie hid all his life, unless fortune calls him out. [ Proverb ]
Nature gives parts and merit, but it is fortune that brings them forth. [ Proverb ]
There is no vice so simple, but assumes some mark of virtue on its outward parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
Envy is like a fly that passes all a body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. [ Chapman ]
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. [ Johnson ]
Interest speaks all languages, and acts all parts, even that of disinterestedness itself. [ Rochefoucauld ]
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. [ Bible ]
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested. [ La Roche ]
There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. [ Locke ]
Though color be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet it is vulgarly the most striking. [ Joseph Spence ]
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. [ Cicero ]
Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man. [ John Morley ]
A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]
Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. [ Cicero ]
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 ]
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination. [ Swift ]
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily placed as to exhibit a view of the whole design. [ Shenstone ]
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]
As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character, too. [ C. A. Bartol ]
Why was the sight to such a tender ball as the eye confined, so obvious and so easy to be quenched, and not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, that she might look at will through every pore? [ Milton ]
The secret of force in writing lies not so much in the pedigree of nouns and adjectives and verbs, as in having something that you believe in to say, and making the parts of speech vividly conscious of it. [ Lowell ]
He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]
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 ]
As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are continguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity. [ Plutarch ]
I have no wife or children, good or bad, to provide for; a mere spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which, methinks, are diversely presetted unto me, as from a common theatre or scene. [ Burton ]
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 study of art is a taste at once engrossing and unselfish, which may be indulged without effort, and yet has the power of exciting the deepest emotions, - a taste able to exercise and to gratify both the nobler and softer parts of our nature. [ Guizot ]
Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]
I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once. [ Sir Thomas Browns ]
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all - but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. [ Coleridge ]