Search not for a good man's pedigree. [ Proverb ]

For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old. [ Longfellow ]

We may see a prince, but not search him. [ Proverb ]

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind. [ Goldsmith ]

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
Nothing so hard but search will find it out. [ Herrick ]

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid;
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. [ Denham ]

Nothing is so hard but search will find it out. [ Robert Herrick ]

Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]

Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Search not a wound too deep, lest thou make a new one. [ Proverb ]

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [ Horace ]

Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. [ Fuller ]

Thou art not required to search into the nature of God, but into the nature of the beings which he has created. [ Rückert ]

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. [ Burke ]

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all. [ Horace ]

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce. [ Barrow ]

His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]

The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. [ Seneca ]

Men with gray eyes are generally keen, energetic, and at first cold; but you may depend upon their sympathy with real sorrow. Search the ranks of our benevolent men and you will agree with me. [ Dr. Leask ]

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do: therefore never go abroad in search of your wants. If they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind. [ Bruyere ]

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]

The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]