Likely tumbles in the fire,
When unlikely rises higher. [ Proverb ]
The sun rises after the clouds. [ Motto ]
It rises more glorious than ever. [ Motto ]
Yonder cloud,
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast,
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire. [ Tennyson ]
Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly. [ Proverb ]
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. [ Dante ]
Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]
When anger rises, think of the consequences. [ Confucius ]
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And Cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness.
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come
From God, who is our home.
Heaven lies about us in our infancy.
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At length the man perceives it die away.
And fade into the light of common day. [ Wordsworth ]
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye,
Men will believe, because they love the lie;
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown,
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. [ Churchill ]
In every country the sun rises in the morning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who rises late never does a good day's work. [ Proverb ]
I would not live alway; I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark over the way. [ William A. Muhlenberg ]
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils. [ Dryden ]
As society advances the standard of poverty rises. [ Theodore Parker ]
Set a stool in the sun, when one knave rises another comes. [ Proverb ]
That fabric rises high as heaven whose basis on devotion stands. [ Prior ]
Who rises from a feast with that keen appetite that he sits down? [ William Shakespeare ]
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises. [ Ouida ]
It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early. [ Cervantes ]
There is no weariness like that which rises from doubting. It is unfixed reason. [ South ]
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed. Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. [ Dr. Johnson ]
That man is great who rises to the emergencies of the occasion, and becomes master of the situation. [ Donn Piatt ]
Like the air, the water, and everything else in the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes. [ Cötvös ]
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. [ Hare ]
It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from. [ Bacon ]
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening brain. [ J. Locke ]
A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empires of the earth. [ James A. Garfield ]
I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular, - that slides along like an eel and never rises to what one can call an inequality. [ Shenstone ]
With the possession or certain expectation of good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, so they must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [ Sallust ]
Our favorites are few: since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters journey. [ Alcott ]
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will, and which leaves us only when we leave the light of life. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]
There is nothing so elastic as the human mind. Like imprisoned steam, the more it is pressed the more it rises to resist the pressure. The more we are obliged to do, the more we are able to accomplish. [ T. Edwards ]
Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]
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 ]
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]