The mind remains unsubdued.
Labor with what zeal we will.
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
O, I have lost my reputation!
I have lost the immortal part of myself
And what remains is bestial. [ Shakespeare ]
A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]
It is an old story, yet remains ever new. [ Heinrich Heine ]
From the great,
Illustrious actions are a debt to Fame.
No middle path remains for them to tread,
Whom she hath once ennobled. [ Glover ]
Written testimony remains, but oral perishes.
Oh, love forever lost,
And with it faith gone out! what is't remains
But duty, though the path be rough and trod
By bruised and bleeding feet? [ Lewis Morris ]
Look not on pleasures as they come, but go.
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe.
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains;
If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. [ George Herbert ]
Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
When all else is lost, the future still remains. [ Bovee ]
'Tis true; 'tis certain; man though dead retains
Part of himself; the immortal mind remains. [ Homer ]
His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. [ Virgil ]
Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind? [ Wordsworth ]
What remains when hope is fled? She answered, Endless weeping.
[ Rogers ]
Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. [ Jean Paul ]
Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity remains. [ Prior ]
To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. [ Johnson ]
The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before. [ Bacon ]
Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. [ Proverb ]
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains. [ Robert Collyer ]
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. [ Sir E. Coke ]
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains. [ Lamartine ]
Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. [ Hosea Ballou ]
It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Calumny spreads like an oil-spot: we endeavor to cleanse it, but the mark remains. [ Mlle de Lespinasse ]
Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. [ J. B. Rousseau ]
Of permanent mourning there is none; no cloud remains fixed. The sun will shine tomorrow. [ Richter ]
A sublime idea remains the same, from whatever brain or in whatever region it has its birth. [ Menzel ]
Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal. [ Joseph Roux ]
The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. [ Ovid, in the name of Daedalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings ]
There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]
On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle. [ Richter ]
All the countries of our globe have been discovered, all the seas have been furrowed: nothing remains to traverse but the heavens. [ Baron Taylor ]
When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. [ Rochefoucauld ]
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [ Johnson ]
Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone{} (wenn du lange dahin bist). [ Friedrich Schiller ]
God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. [ Joubert ]
Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains. [ Johnson ]
A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]
In youth, grief comes with a rush and overflow, but it dries up, too, like the torrent. In the winter of life it remains a miserable pool, resisting all evaporation. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to love him, yet he soon finds consolation; a woman is less demonstrative when deserted, and remains longer inconsolable.
Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]
If there remains an eternity to us after the short revolution of time we so swiftly run over here, it is clear that all the happiness that can be imagined in this fleeting state is not valuable in respect of the future. [ Locke ]
Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]