Definition of soon

"soon" in the adverb sense

1. soon, shortly, presently, before long

in the near future

"the doctor will soon be here"

"the book will appear shortly"

"she will arrive presently"

"we should have news before long"

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Quotations for soon

Soon hot soon cold. [ Proverb ]

Soon got soon spent. [ Proverb ]

Patch and long sit,
Build and soon flit. [ Proverb ]

Linen often to water,
Soon to tatter. [ Proverb ]

Soon ripe soon rotten. [ Proverb ]

Hot love is soon cold. [ Proverb ]

Evil is soon believed. [ Proverb ]

Beauty is soon blasted. [ Proverb ]

Old men are soon angry. [ Proverb ]

Love overhot soon cools. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Sorrow and an evil life,
Makes soon an old wife. [ Proverb ]

A little pot is soon hot. [ Proverb ]

Guilt soon learns to lie. [ Miss Braddon ]

An ill turn is soon done. [ Proverb ]

None can be good too soon. [ Proverb ]

Sudden glory soon goes out. [ Proverb ]

Bald heads are soon shaven. [ Proverb ]

Life is too short to waste.
It will soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark! [ Emerson ]

A fool's bolt is soon shot. [ Proverb ]

Little pots soon boil over. [ German Proverb ]

Soon enough if well enough. [ French Proverb ]

A thin meadow is soon mowed. [ Proverb ]

Little goods are soon spent. [ Proverb ]

Little said is soon amended. [ Proverb ]

A green wound is soon healed. [ Proverb ]

Many dogs soon eat up a horse. [ Proverb ]

A short horse is soon curried. [ Proverb ]

A fine thing is soon snapt up. [ French Proverb ]

A jealous head is soon broken. [ Proverb ]

Poor folks are soon pissed on. [ Proverb ]

A good thing is soon caught up. [ Proverb ]

Money borrowed is soon sorrowed. [ Proverb ]

In silence sad.
Trip we after the night's shade;
We the globe can compass soon.
Swifter than the wandering moon. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love me little, love me long,
Is the burden of my song;
Love that is too hot and strong
Burneth soon to waste;
Still I would not have thee cold,
Not too backward or too bold;
Love that lasteth till 'tis old
Fadeth not in haste. [ Old Ballad ]

In an enemy, spots are soon seen. [ 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 ]

Short reckonings are soon cleared. [ Proverb ]

Poor men's tables are soon spread. [ Proverb ]

O flattery!
How soon thy smooth insinuating oil
Supples the toughest fool! [ Fenton ]

A small family is soon provided for. [ Proverb ]

A man is not so soon healed as hurt. [ Proverb ]

Though stars in skies may disappear,
And angry tempests gather,
The happy hour may soon be near
That brings us pleasant weather. [ Burns ]

The longest day soon comes to an end. [ Pliny the Younger ]

A fool and his money are soon parted. [ Proverb ]

Penny come quick soon makes twopence. [ Proverb ]

All is soon ready in an orderly house. [ Proverb ]

Honest men marry soon, wise men never. [ Scotch ]

Take time enough - all other graces
Will soon fill up their proper places. [ Byron ]

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again. [ Robert Herrick ]

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

What ardently we wish, we soon believe. [ Young ]

Enthusiasts soon understand each other. [ Washington Irving ]

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. [ Bailey ]

In an ermine, spots are soon discovered. [ Proverb ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short summer - man a flower -
He dies - alas! how soon he dies! [ Dr. Johnson ]

There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

He'll as soon eat sand as do a good turn. [ Proverb ]

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign.
And wretches hang that jurymen may dine. [ Pope ]

One may come soon enough to an ill market. [ Proverb ]

As soon as a man is born he begins to die. [ German Proverb ]

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. [ F. R. Havergal ]

He'll soon be a beggar that cannot say nay. [ Proverb ]

That which is easily done is soon believed. [ Proverb ]

Unprovoked and calm
You reason well, see as you ought to see,
And wonder at the madness of mankind:
Seized with the common rage, you soon forget
The speculations of your wiser hours. [ Armstrong ]

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies!
Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue!
The weeping messenger of grace from heaven! [ Brown ]

What children hear at home soon flies abroad. [ Proverb ]

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;
Old age is slow in both. [ Addison ]

A mouse that has only one hole is soon taken. [ French Proverb ]

The flush of youth soon passes from the face,
The spells of fancy from the mind depart;
The form may lose its symmetry, its grace.
But time can claim no victory over the heart. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]

There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late
She finds some honest gander for her mate. [ Pope ]

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act II. Sc. 7 ]

But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]

The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]

The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. [ Tobias Smollett ]

Leave off play as soon as the pleasure is past. [ Proverb ]

Like conquering tyrants you our breasts invade.
Where you are pleased to ravage for awhile;
But soon you find new conquests out and leave
The ravaged province ruinate and bare. [ Otway ]

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. [ St. Augustine ]

And soon
Their hushing dances languished to a stand,
Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon.
All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned. [ Hood ]

Brutus and Caesar: what should be in Caesar?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name;
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;
Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with them,
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Now in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,
That he is grown so great? [ William Shakespeare ]

With equal foot (rich friend), impartial Fate
Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate;
Life's span forbids thee to extend thy cares
And stretch thy hopes beyond thy destined years:
Night soon will seize, and you must quickly go
To storied ghosts and Pluto's house below. [ Horace ]

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 ]

Friends are not so soon got or recovered, as lost. [ Proverb ]

Rage is the shortest passion of our souls:
Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers,
It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. [ Rowe ]

The death of a young wolf doth never come too soon. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As soon as women are ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

Affairs that are done by due degrees are soon ended. [ Proverb ]

She will as soon part with the cook as the porridge. [ Proverb ]

And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. [ Moore ]

As soon as we have learned how to live, we must die. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

A good man will as soon run into a fire as a quarrel. [ Proverb ]

Wealth ill acquired soon goes (goes with the stream). [ French Proverb ]

If you pay for every lie, you will soon be a bankrupt. [ Proverb ]

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; -
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. [ Goldsmith ]

With an honest and a good man, business is soon ended. [ Proverb ]

As soon goes the lamb's skin to the market as the ewe's. [ Proverb ]

One may as soon break his neck as his fast at your house. [ Proverb ]

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough. [ Carlyle ]

God created the coquette as soon as he had made the fool. [ Victor Hugo ]

He who decides hastily, will soon repent of his decision. [ Publius Syrus ]

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. [ Johnson ]

That fish will soon be caught that nibbles at every bait. [ Proverb ]

As soon as a woman becomes ours, we are no longer theirs. [ Montaigne ]

He that builds castles in the air will soon have no land. [ Proverb ]

We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

Honest men are soon bound, but you can never bind a knave. [ Proverb ]

Liberty unregulated by law, soon degenerates into anarchy. [ M. Fillmore ]

The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest. [ Proverb ]

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. [ Proverb ]

He who slights a friend will soon have no friends to slight. [ Duwad ]

Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe. [ Jean Paul ]

Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. [ Hunter ]

As soon as you have drank, you turn your back upon the spring. [ Proverb ]

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon. [ Lowell ]

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! [ Voltaire ]

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long. [ Lady R. Russel ]

When enthusiasts get together, they soon understand each other. [ W. Irving ]

No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained. [ W. Secker ]

As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. [ Mallet ]

When the good man is abroad, the good woman's table is soon spread. [ Proverb ]

A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow. [ Confucius ]

Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved. [ Proverb ]

By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. [ Spanish Proverb ]

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. [ Sappho ]

All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon languish. [ Tacitus ]

Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. [ Lady Rachel Russell ]

Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. [ Proverb ]

Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. [ George Eliot ]

Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them. [ Swift ]

Friendship that begins between a man and a woman will soon change its name.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds soon choke up the unused path. [ Scandinavian proverb ]

Marriage leaps up upon the saddle, and soon after repentance upon the crupper. [ Proverb ]

Cherish flowers; a flower plucked from its parent stock soon loses its beauty. [ Catullus ]

Those who appear cold, but are only timid, as soon as they dare to love, adore. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

A slip of the foot may be soon recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never. [ Proverb ]

A man among children will be long a child, a child among men will be soon a man. [ Proverb ]

A woman who throws herself at a man's head will soon find her place at his feet. [ Louis Desnoyers ]

A day of grace is as a day in harvest; one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Who takes an eel by the tail, or a woman at her word, soon finds he holds nothing. [ Proverb ]

Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what our county conventions often exhibit. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He who determines to love only those who are faultless will soon find himself alone. [ Vihischti ]

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. [ Addison ]

Soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death. [ Young ]

Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

He that gives himself leave to play with his neighbour's fame, may soon play it away. [ Proverb ]

Where there is slavery in the heart, it will soon show itself in the outward conduct. [ Seume ]

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. [ Cowper ]

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find two of a face as soon as of a mind. [ Pope ]

It is because honesty will soon be scarce that we must use it to deceive the deceivers.

A hydra advances which will soon devour all the men of sentiment: this hydra is the cipher. [ O. Firmez ]

Falsehood is often rocked by truth; but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. [ Colton ]

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. [ Theodore Parker ]

Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books. [ Theodore Tilton ]

Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath. [ Thomas Fuller ]

Neglected, calumny soon expires; show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth. [ Tacitus ]

Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. [ Punch ]

The memory of a benefit soon vanishes, but the remembrance of an injury sticks fast in the heart. [ Proverb ]

As soon as a woman begins to dress loud, her manners and conversation partake of the same element. [ Haliburton ]

As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances. [ Spurgeon ]

Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs, they decay more slowly than in our hearts. [ Victor Hugo ]

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

Keep but ever looking, whether with the body's eye or the mind's, and you will soon find something to look on. [ Robert Browning ]

Jealousy lives upon doubt, and comes to an end or becomes a fury as soon as it passes from doubt to certainty. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right. [ John Ruskin ]

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well. [ Quarles ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). [ La Fontaine ]

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it. [ De Tocqueville ]

For there is no air that men so greedily draw in, that diffuses itself so soon, and that penetrates so deep as that of license. [ Montaigne ]

Education must bring the practice as nearly as possible to the theory. As the children now are, so will the sovereigns soon be. [ Horace Mann ]

Humor is one of the elements of genius - admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius. [ Goethe ]

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Dead is she? No; rather let us call ourselves dead, who tire so soon in the service of the Master whom she has gone to serve forever. [ W. S. Smart ]

So many of our dreams first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. [ Christopher Reeve ]

A homely man of merit is never repulsive: as soon as he is named, his physique is forgotten; the mind passes through it to see the soul. [ Romainville ]

None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves. [ Colton ]

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. [ Addison ]

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]

Would you console yourself when you die for parting from those with whom you liked to live? Think that they will be soon consoled for your death.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. [ Burke ]

The guardian angel of life sometimes flies so high that man cannot see it; but he always is looking down upon us, and will soon hover nearer to us. [ Richter ]

Much complaining I often hear raised against the proud bearing of the great. The pride of the great will disappear as soon as we cease our cringing. [ Körner ]

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it, and the record is gone. Example is engraven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost. [ William Ellery Channing ]

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused: the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [ Propertius ]

The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. [ Colton ]

The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. [ Sir J. Reynolds ]

A man explodes with indignation when a woman ceases to love him, yet he soon finds consolation; a woman is less demonstrative when deserted, and remains longer inconsolable.

Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel that their beautiful generations concern not us; we have had our day; now let the children have theirs. [ R. W. Emerson ]

Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]

I should as soon think of swimming across the Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. [ Emerson ]

As friendship must be founded on mutual esteem, it cannot long exist among the vicious; for we soon find ill company to be like a dog, which dirts those the most whom he loves the best. [ Chatfield ]

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 ]

Virginity of the heart, alas! so soon ravished! sweet dreams! expectations of happiness' and of love! fresh illusions of the morning of life! why do you not last till the end of the day! [ Gavarni ]

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach. [ Bishop Hall ]

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [ Bible ]

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]

A fop who admires his person in a glass soon enters into a resolution of making his fortune by it, not questioning that every woman who falls in his way will do him as much justice as himself. [ Thomas Hughes ]

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 ]

Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of it tallow-chandler. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them. [ H. N. Hudson ]

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]

How dear the sure counsel of a present friend, whose heavenly power failing, the lonely one sinks in silence; for earnest thought and resolution, locked within his breast, are slowly ripened; the presence of the loved one soon warms them into being. [ Goethe ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so. [ Cecil ]

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 ]

Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe; it is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with large discount, or utter unbelief. [ W. B. Kinney ]

Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall, or the wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied. [ Swift ]

When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, I knew he was mortal. So we in all casualties of life should say I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man. Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected. [ Plutarch ]

By eloquence I understand those appeals to our moral perceptions that produce emotion as soon as they are uttered. This is the very enthusiasm that is the parent of poetry. Let the same man go to his closet and clothe in numbers conceptions full of the same fire and spirit, and they will be poetry. [ Bryant ]

Joy wholly from without, is false, precarious, and short. From without it may be gathered; but, like gathered flowers, though fair, and sweet for a season, it must soon wither, and become offensive. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet and fair, it is lasting; and, I must add, immortal. [ Young ]

It is impossible to combat enthusiasm with reason; for though it makes a show of resistance, it soon eludes the pressure, refers you to distinctions not to be understood, and feelings which it cannot explain. A man who would endeavor to fix an enthusiast by argument might as well attempt to spread quicksilver with his finger. [ Goldsmith ]

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 ]

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. [ Goethe ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

As soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirlwind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeoman, this the plebeian bran? [ Rev. Dr. Donne ]

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 ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]

soon in Scrabble®

The word soon is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters soon:

SOON
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word soon

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The 87 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In soon

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soon in Words With Friends™

The word soon is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters soon:

SOON
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word soon

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The 92 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In soon

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Words containing the sequence soon

Words that start with soon (4 words)

Words that end with soon (5 words)

Word Growth involving soon

Shorter words in soon

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so

Longer words containing soon

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