Human laws reach not thoughts. [ Proverb ]
Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]
Thou must be true thyself.
If thou the truth wouldst teach;
The soul must overflow if thou
Another's soul wouldst reach; [ Horatius Bonar ]
Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. [ Hannah More ]
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measured by my soul:
The mind's the standard of the man. [ Watts ]
Be sure no lie can ever reach old age. [ Sophocles ]
Base envy withers at another's joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. [ Thomson ]
Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. [ Lowell ]
What the hand can not reach is but a dream. [ Soulary ]
Music resembles poetry; in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master-hand alone can reach. [ Pope ]
Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. [ Pope ]
The voice of an ass will never reach heaven. [ Proverb ]
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball. [ H. W. Shaw ]
A true philosopher is beyond the reach of fortune. [ Landor ]
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 ]
A short prayer may reach up to the Heaven of Heavens. [ Proverb ]
Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach. [ Proverb ]
A malady preys on my heart that medicine cannot reach. [ Maturin ]
There is no mortal whom pain and disease do not reach. [ Cicero ]
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. [ Syrus ]
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. [ Edmund Spenser ]
80% of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in. [ Yogi Berra, on golf ]
Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]
Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach. [ Milton ]
Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven. [ Danish Proverb ]
When the fox could not reach the grapes, he cried they are sour. [ Proverb ]
Be commonplace and cringing, and everything is within your reach. [ Beaumarchais ]
The fox, when he cannot reach the grapes, says they are not ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Whatever is given to the poor, is laid out of the reach of fortune. [ Proverb ]
It is better to fall short of a high mark, than to reach a low one. [ H. C. Payne ]
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections. [ Addison ]
And out of darkness came the hands That reach through nature, moulding men. [ Tennyson ]
Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Mediocre minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
If we stretch our thoughts as far as they can reach, eternity is still before us. [ J. Edmondson ]
Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [ Juvenal ]
There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile. [ D'Alembert ]
I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity; and I determined to obtain it. [ Jay ]
When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees. [ Young ]
Love without esteem can not reach far, nor rise very high: it is an angel with but one wing. [ A. Dumas fils ]
When any one has offended me. I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. [ Descartes ]
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence. [ Stedman ]
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. [ Thackeray ]
High positions are like the summit of high, steep rocks: eagles and reptiles alone can reach them. [ Mme. Necker ]
Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness, which nature has kindly placed within our reach. [ Johnson ]
The very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions. [ Lander ]
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. [ H. W. Shaw ]
We can't reach old age by another man's road. My habits protect my life, but they would assassinate you. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. [ Amiel ]
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. [ La Bruyere ]
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. [ Johnson ]
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach. [ S. T. Coleridge ]
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that, - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. [ George Eliot ]
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all. [ Horace ]
If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that. [ Carlyle ]
Music cleanses the understanding, inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. [ H. W. Beecher ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]
The true strength of every human soul is to be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. [ John Ruskin ]
He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]
The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. [ Burnet ]
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, - we are on the death-bed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. [ Louisa May Alcott ]
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are out of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. [ Martial ]
The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]
The study of the mathematics is like climbing up a steep and craggy mountain; when once you reach the top, it fully recompenses your trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect. [ Jeremiah Day ]
It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]
There is a moral excellence attainable by all who have the will to strive after it; but there is an intellectual and physical superiority which is above the reach of our wishes, and is granted to a few only. [ Crabb ]
Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. [ Carlyle ]
What was your dream? It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said: On the third day, Socrates, thou shalt reach the coast of fertile Phthia. [ Plato ]
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]
Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast. [ Jeremy Collier ]
An honest reputation is within the reach of all men; they obtain it by social virtues, and by doing their duty. This kind of reputation, it is true, is neither brilliant nor startling, but it is often the most useful for happiness. [ Duclos ]
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]
In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]