Remorse is virtue's root. [ Bryant ]
To draw the worm out of the root. [ Proverb ]
Grace is a plant, where'er it grows
Of pure and heavenly root;
But fairest in the youngest shows,
And yields the sweetest fruit. [ William Cowper ]
Dishonesty is the root of discussion. [ Roqueplan ]
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws. [ Charles Kingsley ]
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 ]
The love of money is the root of all evil. [ I Timothy vi. 10 ]
Our virtues and vices spring from one root. [ Goethe ]
Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste. [ Danish Proverb ]
Root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. [ Rich. II ]
Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]
Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere;
Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but sticketh nere;
Sweet is the firbloome, but its branches rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough;
Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
[ Spenser ]
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak;
Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store;
For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. [ Eugene Lee-Hamilton ]
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. [ Fielding ]
The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
The pine wishes herself a shrub, when the axe is at her root. [ Proverb ]
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. [ Washington ]
Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead. [ Thomas Wilson ]
Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language. [ Byron ]
Humility - that low, sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot. [ Moore ]
Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. [ Chapin ]
No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener. [ Bodenstedt ]
Individuality is everywhere to be guarded and honored as the root of all good. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
It is better to be unborn than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune. [ Plato ]
Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. [ Bryant ]
This avarice sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeding lust. [ William Shakespeare ]
Born of God, attach thyself to Him, as a plant to its root, that ye may not be withered. [ Demophilus ]
Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life. [ Thomas Hughes ]
Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. [ Carlyle ]
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. [ Lowell ]
Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. [ Buddha ]
These blasted pines, wrecks of a single winter, barkless, branchless, a blighted trunk upon a cursed root [ Byron ]
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
The use of tobacco, more especially in smoking, disposes to idleness, and idleness has been considered as the root of all evil. [ Benjamin Rush M.D ]
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root. [ Colton ]
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting. [ Cicero ]
Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading. [ Vanbrugh ]
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretenses, like flowers, fall to the ground: nor can any counterfeit last long. [ Cicero ]
Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity. Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. [ Mallet and Thomson ]
We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. [ Plutarch ]
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
There is, I know not how, in the minds of men, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. [ Cicero ]
The vengeful thought that has root merely in the mind is but a dream of idlest sort which one clear day will dissipate; while revenge, the passion, is a disease of the heart which climbs up, up to the brain, and feeds itself on both alike. [ Lew Wallace ]
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise - severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming - beautiful, but dead. [ C. Stanford ]
Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pinetrees which take root in, and frown over the rifts of the scathed and petrified heart, and are chiefly nourished by the rain of unavailing tears, and the vapors of fancy. [ J. F. Boyes ]
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing. [ Hillard ]
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]