With fame, in just proportion, envy grows. [ Young ]
Positive in proportion to their ignorance. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. [ Webster ]
Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. [ Rousseau ]
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. [ Lavater ]
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [ De La Bruyere ]
How sour sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept! [ William Shakespeare ]
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. [ Landor ]
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. [ Quintilian ]
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. [ Goldsmith ]
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. [ Amiel ]
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. [ Whately ]
Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases. [ Rochefoucauld ]
He that spends to his proportion is as brave as a prince, and a prince exceeding that is a prodigal. [ Proverb ]
Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. [ Beveridge ]
Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. [ Emerson ]
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours. [ Locke ]
In giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. [ George MacDonald ]
The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes. [ Joseph Roux ]
It is good discretion not to make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion. [ Bacon ]
In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to its real value, but to the value our fancies set upon it. [ Addison ]
Every error of the mind is the more conspicuous and culpable in proportion to the rank of the person who commits it. [ Juvenal ]
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. [ Quarles ]
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Every one is the poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. [ Manilius ]
Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. [ Froude ]
When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them - we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. [ Burke ]
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created. [ Tuckerman ]
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. [ Wordsworth ]
Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. [ Montesquieu ]
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase. [ Burton ]
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock. [ Henry George ]
Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]
If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock. [ Solon ]
He was a kind and thankful toad, whose heart dilated in proportion as his skin was filled with good cheer; and whose spirits rose with eating, as some men's do with drink. [ Washington Irving ]
The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. [ Washington Irving ]
Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]
No improvement that takes place if either sex can possibly be confined to itself. Each is a universal mirror to each, and the respective refinement of the one will always be in. reciprocal proportion to the polish of the other. [ Colton ]
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away. Enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce. [ Horace ]
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously; who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them. [ Washington Irving ]
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. [ Ruskin ]