The rugged, all-nourishing earth. [ Sophocles ]
The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. [ George Herbert ]
Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. [ Dryden ]
A rugged stone grows smooth from hand to hand. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Virtue's paths are first rugged then pleasant. [ Proverb ]
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. [ Gray ]
A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn. [ Beattie ]
The rolling billows beat the rugged shore, as they the earth would shoulder from her seat. [ Spenser ]
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility to beauty? [ Beecher ]
Perseverance is a Roman virtue that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger. [ Harvard ]
The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. [ John Burroughs ]
Just as a tested and rugged virtue of the moral hero is worth more than the lovely, tender, untried innocence of the child, so is the massive strength of a soul that has conquered truth for itself worth more than the soft peach-bloom faith of a soul that takes truth on trust. [ F. E. Abbot ]
If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]