Who shall bell the cat? [ Proverb ]

He that speaks lavishly,
Shall hear as knavishly. [ Proverb ]

I was born an American;
I live an American;
I shall die an American. [ Daniel Webster ]

One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

As you sow you shall reap. [ Proverb ]

Who shall keep the keepers? [ Proverb ]

Yet who shall shut out fate? [ Edwin Arnold ]

Who will not lay up a penny,
Shall never have many. [ Proverb ]

We shall fight in the shade. [ Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun ]

You shall have the whetstone. [ Proverb ]

Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell? [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

The redeemed shall walk there. [ Bible ]

It needs the overflow of heart
To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the world's famine feed; [ Horatius Bonar ]

The truth shall make you free. [ Jesus ]

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die. [ Wordsworth ]

Shall Error in the round of time
Still father Truth? [ Tennyson ]

The pure in heart shall see God. [ Jesus ]

Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent-house lid. [ William Shakespeare ]

Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice! [ William Shakespeare ]

He that will be surety shall pay. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

That curse shall be - forgiveness! [ Byron ]

Happy men shall have many friends. [ Proverb ]

Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee. [ Doane ]

Put thou thy trust in God;
In duty's path go on;
Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
So shall thy work be done. [ Martin Luther ]

When time itself shall be no more. [ Addison ]

Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed. [ Horatius Bonar ]

You shall cause to take possession. [ Law Writ ]

What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own? [ Cowley ]

The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldier's last tattoo;
No more on Life's parade shall meet
The brave and fallen few.
On Fame's eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And Glory guards, with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead. [ Theodore O'Hara ]

And the Raven, never flitting.
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamplight over him streaming
Throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow,
That lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - nevermore. [ Poe ]

Thy peace shall be in much patience. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

What should we speak of
When we are old as you?
When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December. [ William Shakespeare ]

We shall lie ail alike in our graves. [ Proverb ]

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. [ William Shakespeare ]

Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there? [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

Who spends more than he should,
Shall not have to spend when he would. [ Proverb ]

If the sky fall, we shall catch larks. [ Proverb ]

I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance. [ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2 ]

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

As thy days, so shall thy strength be. [ Bible ]

The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. [ Tate and Brady ]

The night comes on that knows not morn,
When I shall cease to be all alone,
To live forgotten, and love forlorn. [ Tennyson ]

Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been. [ Coleridge ]

He that believeth shall not make haste. [ Bible ]

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]

Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I. [ Scott ]

An avenger shall arise out of my bones. [ Virgil ]

To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]

There shall no evil happen to the just. [ Bible ]

No young man believes he shall ever die. [ John Hazlitt ]

A companion of fools shall be destroyed. [ Proverbs xiii. 20 ]

Choose you this day whom ye shall serve. [ Bible ]

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate,
That fate is thine - no distant date;
Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate
Full on thy bloom,
Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight
Shall be thy doom. [ Burns ]

Years have not seen, Time shall not see,
The hour that tears my soul from thee. [ Byron ]

He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow. [ Proverb ]

Be not idle and you shall not be longing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. [ Bible ]

At the game's end we shall see who gains. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where shall the ox go but he must labour? [ Proverb ]

He that eats the hard shall eat the ripe. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No work begun shall ever pause for death! [ Robert Browning ]

Live for today! tomorrow's light,
Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight;
Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night,
And Heaven thy morn will bless. [ Keble ]

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away. [ Longfellow ]

No longer mourn for me when I am dead.
Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled. [ William Shakespeare ]

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. [ Tennyson ]

God shall be my hope,
My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet. [ William Shakespeare ]

O goodness! that shall evil turn to good. [ Milton ]

Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
And sound casuists doubt like you and me? [ Pope ]

He that sows thistles shall reap prickles. [ Proverb ]

Death comes to all.
His cold and sapless hand
Waves over the world, and beckons us away.
Who shall resist the summons? [ Thomas Love Peacock ]

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]

He that handles thorns shall smart for it. [ Proverb ]

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. [ St. Peter ]

Gadding gossips shall dine on the pot-lid. [ Proverb ]

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]

He that commands well shall be obeyed well. [ Proverb ]

An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
No, not for Venice. [ William Shakespeare ]

Shall the goslings teach the goose to swim? [ Proverb ]

Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves;
Britons never shall be slaves. [ Thomson ]

Like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect. [ William Shakespeare ]

The little bee returns with evening's gloom,
To join her comrades in the braided hive,
Where, housed beside their mighty honeycomb,
They dream their polity shall long survive. [ Charles (Tennyson) Turner ]

Then shall our names
Familiar in his mouth as household words.
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. [ Solomon ]

The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man. [ Bible ]

This life is but the passage of a day,
This life is but a pang and all is over;
But in the life to come which fades not away
Every love shall abide and every lover. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

All shall be well, and Jack shall have Jill. [ Proverb ]

Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone, thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. [ Milton ]

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly
When consternation turns the good man pale? [ Young ]

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. [ Bailey ]

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love. [ William Shakespeare ]

When the devil is a hog, you shall eat bacon. [ Proverb ]

All places shall be hell that are not heaven. [ Marlowe ]

He that handles pitch shall foul his fingers. [ Proverb ]

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest. [ Keble ]

The stars shall fade away, the Sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years;
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amid the war of elements,
The wreck of matter, and the crash of worlds. [ Joseph Addison ]

They only babble who practice not reflection,
I shall think - and thought is silence. [ Sheridan ]

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. [ Homer ]

There is no past, so long as books shall live. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

You shall never clap a padlock upon my tongue. [ Proverb ]

Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why?
To find one good, you must a hundred try. [ Claude Mermet ]

Who waits until the winds shall silent keep,
Will never have the ready hour to sow;
Who watcheth clouds will have no time to reap. [ Helen Hunt Jackson ]

When shall we come to that delightful day.
When each can say to each, Dost thou remember? [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

The surest road to health, say what they will,
Is never to suppose we shall be ill. [ Churchill ]

Although my cares do hang upon my soul
Like mines of lead, the greatness of my spirit
Shall shake the sullen weight off. [ Clapthorne ]

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. [ William Shakespeare ]

Down to the dust! and as thou rottest away,
Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. [ Byron ]

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views.
Life's little cares and little pains refuse?
Shall he not rather feel a double share
Of mortal woe, when doubly armed to bear? [ Crabbe ]

Nothing is too late
Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

In her days, every man shall eat in safety.
Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing
The merry song of peace to all his neighbours. [ William Shakespeare ]

This day is yours, but whose shall tomorrow be? [ Proverb ]

He that hunts after vanity shall take vexation. [ Proverb ]

And you, brave Cobham! to the latest breath
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. [ Pope ]

A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself:
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. [ Edward Young ]

If you are wise, and prize your peace of mind,
Believe me true, nor listen to your Jealousy,
Let not that devil which undoes your sex,
That cursed curiosity seduce you
To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected,
Shall never hurt your quiet, but once known
Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain,
And banish sweet sleep forever from you. [ Rowe ]

I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself? [ William Shakespeare ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [ Bible ]

I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls
The burial ground, God's Acre! It is just;
It consecrates each grave within its walls.
And breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.
* * * * *
Into its furrows shall we all be cast.
In the sure faith, that we shall rise again
At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast
Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. [ Longfellow ]

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,
When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;
When the present is all and it questions not
If those flowers shall pass away,
But pleased with its own delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay. [ Bohn ]

The soul, immortal as its sire, shall never die. [ Montgomery ]

He that eats most porridge shall have most meat. [ Proverb ]

Take heart of grace, younger you shall never be. [ Proverb ]

He that casts all doubts shall never be resolved. [ Proverb ]

No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain;
Here Patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. [ Joseph Story ]

Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

Whither shall the ox go where he shall not labor? [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]

What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,
Thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

Whist, then, delightful whist, my theme shall be. [ A. Thompson ]

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too; what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

He that buys and lies, shall feel it in his purse. [ Proverb ]

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. [ George Herbert ]

What is, what has been, and what shall in time be. [ Virgil ]

He that trusts in a lie shall perish in the truth. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

You came for wool but shall return shorn yourself. [ Proverb ]

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven. [ Pope ]

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed. [ Cowper ]

If you despise king Log, you shall fear king Crane. [ Proverb ]

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. [ Prov. 23: 21 ]

Silver, though white.
Yet it draws black lines; it shall not rule my palm
There to mark forth its base corruption. [ Middleton and Rowley ]

If we be enemies to ourselves whither shall we fly? [ Proverb ]

They shall have wars and pay for their presumption. [ William Shakespeare ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

I stout and you stout, who shall carry the dirt out? [ Proverb ]

Trojan or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to me. [ Virgil ]

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned. [ Proverb ]

Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven. [ Robert Browning ]

Whoso is apt to believe, shall frequently repent it. [ Proverb ]

He that lives with the muses shall die in the straw. [ Proverb ]

I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed;
But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Charity may be mistaken, but shall never be rewarded. [ Proverb ]

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. [ Proverb ]

He that pays beforehand shall have his work ill done. [ Proverb ]

We shall know the wherefore when the dead rise again. [ Müllner ]

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed.
So shall they be fulfilled. [ Robert Browning ]

Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to rest in? [ Arnauld ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray you. [ Proverb ]

Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me;
For in faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree. [ Playford ]

They seldom live long who think they shall live long. [ Proverb ]

Blessed be the pure in heart, for they shall see God. [ Bible ]

If you steal for others, you shall be hanged yourself. [ Proverb ]

Lord, shall we grumble, when thy flames do scourge us?
Our sins breathe fire; that fire returns to purge us.
Lord, what an alchemist art thou, whose skill
Transmutes to perfect good from perfect ill! [ Francis Quarles ]

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. [ Bible ]

He that spends without regard shall want without pity. [ Proverb ]

A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. [ Ecclus ]

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]

Shall not a man have his spring as well as the plants? [ Thoreau ]

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. [ Bible ]

He shall have enough to do who studies to please fools. [ Proverb ]

If a daughter you have, she's the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know though you've buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her -
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter! [ Sheridan ]

He that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolf. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that speaks without care shall remember with sorrow. [ Proverb ]

This day shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. [ William Shakespeare ]

You must ask your neighbours if you shall live in peace. [ Proverb ]

What tutor shall we find for a child of sixty years old? [ Proverb ]

Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. [ Bible ]

Hark! how the gentle echo from her cell
Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring over the stream.
Repeats the accent - we shall part no more. [ Akenside ]

Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer. [ Bible ]

Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

If fools should not fool it they shall lose their season. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill. [ Proverb ]

He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define. [ Quoted by Emerson ]

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead. [ Atterbury ]

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. [ Emerson ]

And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]

He that shall endure unto the end the same shall be saved. [ Bible ]

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. [ Ward Beecher ]

If you eat a pudding at home, your dog shall have the skin. [ Proverb ]

Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. [ Bible ]

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [ Bible ]

Who shall be true to us when we are so unsecret to ourselves? [ William Shakespeare ]

I shall never turn my ninepence into a noble by this bargain. [ Proverb ]

What we seek, we shall find; what we flee from,flees from us. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

He that doth what he should not shall feel what he would not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that is only his own pupil shall have a fool to his tutor. [ Proverb ]

He that will not stoop for a pin shall never be worth a point. [ Proverb ]

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. [ Job, in Bible ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

He that would know what shall be, must consider what hath been. [ Proverb ]

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home? [ Proverb ]

Death, as the psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow. [ Dodsley ]

It will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass. [ Shakespeare ]

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. [ Bible ]

He that works journey-work with the devil shall never want work. [ Proverb ]

He that eats the king's geese shall be choked with the feathers. [ Proverb ]

Leave the spring for the stream, so you shall have mud for water. [ Proverb ]

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God. [ Horace ]

He that sits to work in the market-place shall have many teachers. [ Proverb ]

Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don't talk. [ Reynolds ]

Be mild to others, to thyself severe, - So truth shall shield thee. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

An happy man shall have more cousins, than his father had kinsfolks. [ Proverb ]

He that minds not his own business shall never be trusted with mine. [ Proverb ]

He that listens after what people say of him shall never have peace. [ Proverb ]

The dearer it is, the cheaper it is to me, for I shall buy the less. [ Proverb ]

'Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Faith and hope themselves shall die, while deathless charity remains. [ Prior ]

We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]

Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest. [ Wellington at Waterloo ]

Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay. [ Shakespeare ]

Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death. [ Ovid ]

You shall never beat the fly from the candle, though she burn for it. [ Proverb ]

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. [ Swift ]

The good which bloodshed could not gain your peaceful zeal shall find. [ Whittier ]

This heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep. [ William Shakespeare ]

I shall ne'er beware of mine own wit till I break my shins against it. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act II. Sc. 4 ]

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings. [ Bible ]

He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. [ Fuller ]

Your gentleness shall force more than your force move us to gentleness. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It ]

He that speaks the thing he should not shall hear the thing he would not. [ Proverb ]

To train the mind shall be the first object, and to stock it, the second. [ William Ewart Gladstone ]

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind. [ Creech ]

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment;
That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. [ Longfellow ]

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. [ Bible ]

Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. [ South ]

He that kisses his wife in the market-place shall have enough to teach him. [ Proverb ]

He that is needy when he is married, shall scarce be rich when he is buried. [ Proverb ]

He that ties up another man's dog, shall have nothing left him but the line. [ Proverb ]

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. [ George MacDonald ]

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return. [ Bible ]

A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? is worse to man than worse necessity. [ Coleridge ]

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. [ Bible ]

He that was born under a three-halfpenny planet shall never be worth twopence. [ Proverb ]

He that punishes another in anger, shall feel it himself when the fit is over. [ Proverb ]

Whoso is not dutiful to a good mother, shall be punished by an ill step-mother. [ Proverb ]

And whatsoever else shall hap tonight. Give it an understanding, but no tongue. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]

Resolved: Never to speak evil of any one, so that it shall tend to his dishonor. [ JONATHAN EDWARDS ]

Triumph not, O Time! strong towers decay, but a great name shall never pass away. [ Park Benjamin ]

If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. [ Bacon ]

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. [ Bible ]

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The dreariest poverty is that of the heart; banish this, and we shall all be rich. [ Bovee ]

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please others as ourselves. [ Greville ]

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality. [ H. W. Beecher ]

When we die, we shall find we have not lost our dreams; we have only lost our sleep. [ Richter ]

A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]

A fair woman shall not only command without authority, but persuade without speaking. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall throne thee with archangels. [ Tupper ]

Reputation, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener. [ Fontenelle ]

The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. [ Omar Khayam ]

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. [ Sir J. Davies ]

If you in every thing fear, you shall not do well, you will come to do ill in all things. [ Proverb ]

A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. [ Ecclesiastes ]

The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. [ Blake ]

He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. [ Bible ]

An old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave. [ Wordsworth ]

Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [ Jesus ]

Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end? or shall their ruthless torment never cease? [ Spenser ]

Shake a Liecestershire man by the collar, and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly. [ Proverb ]

Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, but that which warmed it once shall never die. [ Campbell ]

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. [ Jesus ]

Those that eat cherries with great persons, shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones. [ Proverb ]

May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers. [ Themistocles ]

He that is manned with boys and horsed with colts, shall have his meat eaten and his work undone. [ Proverb ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

Fond fool! six feet shall serve for all thy store, and he that cares for most shall find no more. [ Bishop Hall ]

The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring? [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Who shall contend with time, - vanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation? [ H. K. White ]

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. [ Virgil ]

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. [ Bible ]

That hour is coming, when we shall more earnestly wish to gain time, than ever we studied to spend it. [ Proverb ]

Where rivulets dance their wayward round, and beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face. [ Wordsworth ]

There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. [ Mary Lyon ]

These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. [ Virgil ]

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner; come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Let every one inquire of himself what he loveth, and he shall resolve himself of whence he is a citizen. [ S. Augustine ]

If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am [ William Shakespeare ]

The wheel of fortune turns incessantly round, and who can say within himself, I shall today be uppermost? [ Confucius ]

Let us attend to the present, and as to the future we shall know how to manage when the occasion arrives. [ Corneille ]

We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be. [ Bailey ]

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. [ Franklin ]

Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

The question is not at what door of fortune's palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? [ Burns ]

He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want. [ Bible ]

Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. [ Virgil ]

He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. [ Bible ]

Ah! when shall all men's good be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light across the land? [ Tennyson ]

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune, for, though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. [ Bacon ]

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. [ Jesus ]

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. [ Zimmermann ]

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment and childlike mirthfulness. [ Thoreau ]

Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. [ Faber ]

Who lets his wife go to every feast, and his horse drink at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. [ Bible ]

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. [ Jesus ]

The peasant waits until the river shall cease to flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for all time to come. [ Horace ]

Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. [ Adolph Monod ]

In life, we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. [ Colton ]

Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. [ Johnson ]

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair or manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for awhile, and we shall be in his company. [ St. Basil ]

When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them; one will catch his fish before another shall have baited his hook. [ E. Rich ]

I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace. [ Kossuth ]

The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. [ Thomas Chalmers ]

Look forward a little further to the period when all the noise and tumult and business of this world shall have closed forever. [ J. G. Pike ]

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom. [ Wm. Mountford ]

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it. [ William Wake ]

Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; He shall yet unravel all. [ Alexander Smith ]

Employ your time in improving yourselves by other men's documents: so shall you come easily by what others have labored hard for. [ Socrates ]

Where much is given, much shall be required. There are never privileges to enjoy without corresponding duties to fulfil in return. [ Phiiups Brooks ]

Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]

Shun to seek what is hid in the Womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee. [ Horace ]

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Books are true friends that will never flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself, . . . and you shall need no other comfort. [ Bacon ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it. [ John Ruskin ]

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks. [ Thackeray ]

O gentle sleep! my welcome breath shall hail thee midst our mortal strife, who art the very thief of life, the very portraiture of death. [ Alonzo de Ledesma ]

Always driven toward new shores, or carried hence without hope of return, shall we never, on the ocean of age, cast anchor for even a day! [ Lamartine ]

O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]

If a woman says to you, I will never see you again! hope; but, if she says, Notwithstanding, I shall always see you with pleasure - travel.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [ Emerson ]

You can have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government; while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall occasionally be visited on their children, as well as the sins of fathers. [ Dickens ]

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. [ Bible ]

The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him. [ Fisher's Catechism ]

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]

There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony. [ South ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [ Latimer ]

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain, what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. [ George Washington ]

In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. [ Bacon ]

Who shoots at the midday sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is that he shall shoot higher than he who aims but at a bush. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink together; dwarfed or godlike, bond or free; if she be small, slight-natured, miserable, how shall men grow? [ Tennyson ]

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people. [ Beaconsfield ]

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 ]

They who neglect the opportunity of reaping a small advantage in hopes they shall obtain a better, are far from acting on a reasonable and welladvised foundation. [ S. Croxall ]

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us by the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. We are bought by the enemy with the treasure in our own coffers. [ Burke ]

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? [ Chapin ]

If you make a law against dancing-masters imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master. [ Goldsmith ]

I have all reverence for principles which grow out of sentiments; but as to sentiments which grow out of principles, you shall scarcely build a house of cards thereon. [ Jacobi ]

He that would die well must always look for death, every day knocking at the gates of the grave; and then the grave shall never prevail against him to do him mischief. [ Jeremv Taylor ]

Taught by experience to know my own blindness, shall I speak as if I could not err, and as if others might not in some disputed points be more enlightened than myself? [ Channing ]

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. [ Johnson ]

When a woman is deliberating with herself whom she shall choose of many near each other in other pretensions, certainly he of the best understanding is to be preferred. [ Steele ]

You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. The times (as Carlyle says) are bad; very well, you are there to make them better. [ John Burroughs ]

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored and taken pains to belie me. It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions. [ Ben Jonson ]

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. [ Schiller ]

With vivid words your just conceptions grace. Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. [ Pindar ]

As for the ass's behavior in such nice circumstances, whether he would starve sooner than violate his neutrality to the two bundles of hay, I shall not presume to determine. [ Addison ]

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. [ John Ruskin ]

Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection. [ William Adams ]

Books are the true metempsychosis, - they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep. [ Beecher ]

Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. [ Horace ]

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever. [ Johnson ]

We declare to you that the earth has exhausted its contingent of master spirits. Now for decadence and general closing. We must make up our minds to it. We shall have no more men of genius. [ Victor Hugo ]

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. [ Hazlitt ]

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. [ Beecher ]

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them. [ Phillips Brooks ]

It is so possible to be glad in the gladness of other people ; and, too, it is possible so to extend one's own life into higher regions that his happiness shall not be altogether dependent upon other people. [ Lilian Whiting ]

Make a point never so clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another; if thou receive not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter; if thou receive them, they flee forward and wound the receiver. [ Quarles ]

The more we can be raised above the petty vexations and pleasures of this world into the eternal life to come, the more shall we be prepared to enter into that eternal life whenever God shall please to call us hence. [ Dean Stanley ]

Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety, - old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastical, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, - one in all, all in one. [ Marston ]

It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [ A. B. Hegeman ]

A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a philosopher's stone, but it is a stone which the builders refuse. [ John Ruskin ]

No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts. [ John Ruskin ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]

It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful; and I am afraid that, whether married or unmarried, we shall find the vesture of terrestrial existence more heavy and cumbrous the longer it is worn. [ Steele ]

Seek such union to the Son of God as, leaving no present death within, shall make the second death impossible, and shall leave in all your future only that shadow of death which men call dissolution, and which the gospel calls sleeping in Jesus. [ James Hamilton ]

Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]

Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications. [ Colton ]

Rhetoric is appealing to the passions instead of the reason of your auditors, and claiming that value for the workmanship which ought to be measured by the ore alone. An orator is one who can stamp such a value upon counterfeit coin as shall make it pass for genuine. [ Chatfield ]

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. [ Johnson ]

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 ]

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]

Liberty is the richest inheritance which man has received from the skies! When shall its sacred fire burn in every bosom, and kindling with the thrilling force of inspiration, spread from heart to heart and from mind to mind, and be the common privilege and birthright of every human being? [ Acton ]

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light - instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremeties of the earth. [ Lamartine ]

So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Albeit failure in any cause produces a correspondent misery in the soul, yet it is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully eschew. [ Keats ]

What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]

It unfortunately happens that no man believes that he is likely to die soon. So every one is much disposed to defer the consideration of what ought to be done on the supposition of such an emergency; and while nothing is so uncertain as human life, so nothing is so certain as our assurance that we shall survive most of our neighbors. [ Aughey ]

A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which creates new products, which diffuses comfort and happiness among the great mass of the people, shall occupy in the general estimation of mankind that rank which reason and commonsense now assign to it. [ Arago ]

It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it is the still consecrated spirit of hope, the prophecy of happy days yet to come; the endless variety of nature, with presentiments of eternal flowers which never shall fade, and sympathy with the blessedness of the ever-developing world. [ Novalis ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he boasted, The less you speak of your greatness, the more I shall think of it. Mirrors are the accompaniments of dandies, not heroes. The men of history were not perpetually looking in the glass to make sure of their own size. Absorbed in their work they did it, and did it so well that the wondering world saw them to be great, and labeled them accordingly. [ Rev. S. Coley ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

We readily excuse paralytics from labor; and shall we be angry with a hypochondriac for not being cheerful in company? Must we stigmatize such an unfortunate person as peevish, positive, and unfit for society? His disorder may no more suffer him to be merry, than the gout will suffer another to dance. The advising a melancholic to be cheerful is like bidding a coward to be courageous, or a dwarf be taller. [ Wollaston ]

Whosoever shall look heedfully upon those who are eminent for their riches will not think their condition such as that he should hazard his quiet, and much less his virtue, to obtain it, for all that great wealth generally gives above a moderate fortune is more room for the freaks of caprice, and more privilege for ignorance and vice, a quicker succession of flatteries, and a larger circle of voluptuousness. [ Johnson ]

We must have books for recreation and entertainment, as well as books for instruction and for business; the former are agreeable, the latter useful, and the human mind requires both. The cannon law and the codes of Justinian shall have due honor, and reign at the universities; but Homer and Virgil need not therefore be banished. We will cultivate the olive and the vine, but without eradicating the myrtle and the rose. [ Balzac ]

Your invitation honors me, and pleases me because you still keep me in your remembrance, but I am seventy; seventy, and would nestle in the chimney-corner, and smoke my pipe, and read my book, and take my rest, wishing you well in all affection; and that when you in your return shall arrive at pier No. 70 you may step aboard your waiting ship with a reconciled spirit, and lay your course toward the sinking sun with a contented heart. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem. There are always sunsets, and there is always genius; but only a few hours so serene that we can relish nature or criticism. The more or less depends on structure or temperament. Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung. Of what use is fortune or talent to a cold and defective nature? [ Emerson ]

How fitting to have every day, in a vase of water on your table, the wild flowers of the season which are just blossoming. Can any house be said to be furnished without them? Shall we be so forward to pluck the fruits of Nature and neglect her flowers? These are surely her finest influences. So may the season suggest the thoughts it is fitted to suggest. Let me know what pictures Nature is painting, what poetry she is writing, what ode composing now. [ Thoreau ]

You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]