Love is a personal debt. [ George Herbert ]
Nothing endures but personal qualities. [ Walt Whitman ]
Personal force never goes out of fashion.
Poetry is always a personal interpretation of life. [ H. W. Mabie ]
There is no truth which personal vice will not distort. [ J. G. Holland ]
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The personal pronoun I
should be the coat of arms of some individuals. [ Rivarol ]
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. [ Daniel Webster ]
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. [ Hosea Ballou ]
It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. [ Goethe ]
Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else. [ Hanway ]
Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. [ J. S. Mill ]
No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others. [ John Ruskin ]
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]
Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. [ Max Muller ]
He who receives his friends, and takes no personal care in preparing the meal that is designed for them, is not deserving of friends. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. [ Macaulay ]
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]
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 ]
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. [ Frederic Saunders ]
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]
Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]