Time is sovereign over all things. [ Motto ]
Gold is the sovereign of sovereigns. [ Rivarol ]
The nightingale is sovereign of song. [ Spenser ]
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects. [ William Shakespeare ]
Patience, sovereign over transmuted ills. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. [ Sheridan ]
Time is the sovereign physician of all passions. [ Montaigne ]
Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]
Love is the sovereign of youth and the tyrant of age.
A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life. [ Pliny ]
Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. [ Buffon ]
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. [ Voltaire ]
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. [ Massey ]
Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial. [ Froude ]
True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. [ Lamartine ]
Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, - pain and pleasure. [ Jeremy Bentham ]
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. [ William Shakespeare ]
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. [ Napoleon I ]
Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]
It is untrue that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality; its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty. [ Horace ]
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 ]
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being. [ Goldsmith ]
Every woman carries in the depths of her soul a mysterious weapon, instinct - that virgin instinct, incorruptible, which requires her neither to learn, to reason, nor to know, which binds the strong will of man, dominates his sovereign reason, and pales our little scientific tapers.
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him. [ Seneca ]
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it. [ Bishop Porteus ]
Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]