Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]
The world boasts that it can render men happy! [ Massillon ]
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 ]
Trifles render us miserable, but trifles also console us. [ Romainville ]
Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Circumstances that render us frail, only show how frail we are. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]
Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his existence harmonious. [ Carlyle ]
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. [ Carlyle ]
To render a marriage happy, the husband should be deaf and the woman blind. [ Proverb ]
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the most easy. [ Tillotson ]
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. [ Joubert ]
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. [ Wellington ]
It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions! [ A. Chenier ]
An asp would render its sting more venomous by dipping it into the heart of a coquette. [ Poincelot ]
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure. [ Mme. de Motteville ]
We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. [ Horace ]
Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. [ Francis Wayland ]
Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable. [ Pythagoras ]
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. [ Buffon ]
What are these wondrous civilizing arts, this Roman polish, and this smooth behavior that render man thus tractable and tame? [ Addison ]
To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render properly; it is to have, at the same time, mind, soul, taste. [ Buffon ]
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]
Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Vice is infamous, though in a prince, and virtue honorable, though in a peasant. [ Addison ]
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be. so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources. [ Horace Greeley ]
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as commonsense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. [ Hume ]
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand one cannon ball than a volley of bullets. [ Colton ]
The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. [ Kossuth ]
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]