All cruelty springs from weakness. [ Seneca ]
Fear always springs from ignorance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Muddy springs will have muddy streams. [ Proverb ]
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene
And silent waters heaven is seen. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
True happiness springs from moderation. [ Goethe ]
In a night's time springs up a mushroom. [ Proverb ]
But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things. [ Wordsworth ]
Our life contains a thousand springs.
And dies if one be gone.
Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long. [ Watts ]
Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. [ Burns ]
Hope springs eternal in the human breast. [ Pope ]
Half our misery from our foibles springs. [ Hannah More ]
From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take. [ Gray ]
The rising winds
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurled
In sacred hymns and order, the great chime
And symphony of nature. [ Henry Vaughan ]
Now our fates from unmomentous things
May rise like rivers out of little springs. [ Campbell ]
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Do not idolatrize; beauty's a flower,
Which springs and withers almost in an hour. [ Wm. Smith ]
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs. [ Hannah More ]
See the enfranchised bird, who wildly springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glowing eye
And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
Up to the blue vault of the happy sky. [ Mrs. Norton ]
What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]
The greatest hate springs from the greatest love. [ Proverb ]
Her years
Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;
But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,
And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things. [ Byron ]
From labor health, from health contentment springs. [ Beattie ]
Alas! that from happiness there so often springs pain. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop. [ P. N. Destouches ]
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. [ Matthew Henry ]
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. [ Joseph Roux ]
The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. [ Sir J. Denham ]
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 ]
Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. [ Kirke White ]
Pearly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die. [ H. K. White ]
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little. [ Swift ]
The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. [ Hannah More ]
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. [ Carlyle ]
In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straightforward, and springs from the heart. [ Cicero ]
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. [ H. Ballou ]
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. [ Gellert ]
In the grimmest rocky wildernesses of existence there are blessed well-springs, there is an everlasting guiding star. [ Carlyle ]
Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]
Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears. [ M. de Guérin ]
How long a time lies in one little word! Four lagging winters and four wanton springs End in a word: such is the breath of kings. [ William Shakespeare ]
In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing. [ Tac ]
Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas. [ Macaulay ]
The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. [ Emile Souvestre ]
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. [ Amiel ]
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness. [ Lowell ]
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]
The night is made for tenderness; so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music; and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs, and on the lip made holy. [ N. P. Willis ]
Praise or Applause? We express our approbation by praise and applause. Praise is the general, applause, the specific term. Applause springs from impulse, while praise is the result of reason and reflection. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt; its essence is love: it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. [ Carlyle ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]
In the hands of genius, the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. Is he a Burns? the sight of a mountain daisy unseals the fountains of his nature, and he embalms the bonny gem
in the beauty of his spirit. Is he a Wordsworth? at his touch all nature is instinct with feeling; the spirit of beauty springs up in the footsteps of his going, and the darkest, nakedest grave becomes a sunlit bank empurpled with blossoms of life. [ H. N. Hudson ]
Gratitude is a link between justice and love. It discharges by means of affections those debts which the affections only can discharge, and which are so much the more sacred for this reason. Gratitude never springs up in the soil of selfishness, for self-interest in its eagerness to appropriate is unable to understand the impulses of generosity or to measure the true value of the gift. And, when we do understand it, we must love much to be willing to accept, we refuse when we love but little. Gratitude is the justice of the heart. [ Degerando ]