Great thoughts proceed from the heart. [ Vauvenargues ]

Most women proceed like the flea, by leaps and jumps. [ Balzac ]

It is nothing to begin, unless you proceed, and end well. [ Proverb ]

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom. [ Montaigne ]

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God. [ Bruyere ]

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. [ Wordsworth ]

The art of painting does not proceed so much by intelligence as by sight and feeling and invention. [ Hamerton ]

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet. [ Chamfort ]

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world and ignorance of mankind. [ Addison ]

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. [ Bacon ]

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts. [ Hazlitt ]

Lord Melbourne was so accustomed to garnish his conversation in this way that Sydney Smith once said to him, We will take it for granted that everybody is damned, and now proceed with the subject. [ L'Estrange ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

Excellence is never granted to man, but as the reward of labor. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the bands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes. [ Chesterfield ]