Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder? [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Many friends in general, one in special. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. [ Chesterfield ]

Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds. [ Stedman ]

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give. [ William Shakespeare ]

Light is a special help to obedience, and obedience is a singular help to increase light. [ Flavel ]

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. [ Heine ]

Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest light of truth. [ Holmes ]

I believe not only in special providences, but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of special Providences. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others. [ John Ruskin ]

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered. [ Tupper ]

Make yourself thoroughly acquainted with your subject before writing, write without special attention to composition, and prune afterwards what you have written. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God. [ Luther ]

People travel the world over to visit untouched places of natural beauty, yet modern gardens pay little heed to the simplicity and beauty of these environments... those special places we all must preserve and protect, each in his own way, before they are lost forever. [ Mary Reynolds, 2002 Gold Medal Winner of the Chelsea Flower Show, November 2001 Application Form. Dare to Be Wild movie ]

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good ; exercise ; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Portion or Part? The distinction between these words is usually unheeded. A portion is a part assigned, allotted, or set aside for a special purpose; part has a less limited meaning. Hence, we may say correctly:
In what part of the city do you live?
What portion of the estate do you inherit?. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]