Definition of still

"still" in the noun sense

1. still

a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes

"he wanted some stills for a magazine ad"

2. hush, stillness, still

poetic) tranquil silence

"the still of the night"

3. still

an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed

4. distillery, still

a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation

"still" in the verb sense

1. calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still

make calm or still

"quiet the dragons of worry and fear"

2. hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up

cause to be quiet or not talk

"Please silence the children in the church!"

3. still, allay, relieve, ease

lessen the intensity of or calm

"The news eased my conscience"

"still the fears"

4. still

make motionless

"still" in the adjective sense

1. inactive, motionless, static, still

not in physical motion

"the inertia of an object at rest"

2. silent, soundless, still

marked by absence of sound

"a silent house"

"soundless footsteps on the grass"

"the night was still"

3. placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled

of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

"a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"

"the quiet waters of a lagoon"

"a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"

"a smooth channel crossing"

"scarcely a ripple on the still water"

"unruffled water"

4. still

used of pictures of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion or representing objects not capable of motion

"a still photograph"

"Cezanne's still life of apples"

5. still, noneffervescent

not sparkling

"a still wine"

"still mineral water"

6. still

free from noticeable current

"a still pond"

"still waters run deep"

"still" in the adverb sense

1. still

with reference to action or condition without change, interruption, or cessation

"it's still warm outside"

"will you still love me when we're old and grey?"

2. however, nevertheless, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, nonetheless, notwithstanding, at the same time

despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession

"although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"

"while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"

"he was a stern yet fair master"

"granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go"

3. even, yet, still

to a greater degree or extent used with comparisons

"looked sick and felt even worse"

"an even (or still) more interesting problem"

"still another problem must be solved"

"a yet sadder tale"

4. still, stock-still

without moving or making a sound

"he sat still as a statue"

"time stood still"

"they waited stock-still outside the door"

"he couldn't hold still any longer"

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Quotations for still

A still, small voice. [ Bible ]

I carry my satchel still. [ Michael Angelo ]

Be still and have thy will. [ Tyndal ]

Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me. [ Moore ]

Still people are dangerous. [ La Fontaine ]

Your crop is still in grass. [ Ovid ]

Still harping on my daughter. [ William Shakespeare ]

Vulgar people can't be still. [ O. W. Holmes ]

For my soul prays, Sweet,
Still to your face in Heaven,
Heaven in your face, Sweet. [ Francis Thompson ]

Fare thee well! and if forever.
Still forever, fare thee well. [ Byron ]

Curses are like young chickens,
And still come home to roost! [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Labor with what zeal we will.
Something still remains undone,
Something uncompleted still
Waits the rising of the sun. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do. [ Watts ]

Ever absent, ever near;
Still I see thee, still I hear;
Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! [ Francis Kazinczy ]

And still be doing, never done. [ Butler ]

The hours are viewless angels,
That still go gliding by,
And bear each moment's record up
To Him that sits on high. [ C. P. Cranch ]

Men are still children at sixty. [ Aubert ]

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Learn to labor and to wait. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case. [ Cowper ]

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

O God, how lovely still is life! [ Schiller ]

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for every fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait. [ Longfellow ]

The still small voice is wanted. [ Cowper ]

A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]

Yet still we hug the dear deceit. [ Nathaniel Cotton ]

The still, sad music of humanity. [ Wordsworth ]

Still he fishes that catches one. [ Proverb ]

The absent party is still faulty. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

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 ]

All that's bright must fade -
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest. [ Moore ]

Perfect woman, nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort, and command;
And yet a spirit still, and bright
With something of an angel light. [ Wordsworth ]

The poor make no new friends;
But oh, they love the better still
The few our Father sends. [ Lady Dufferin ]

The worst of faces still is human. [ Lavater ]

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong
Which ought not to be true. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

He that complies against his will,
is of the same opinion still. [ Butler ]

And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives. [ Longfellow ]

Serpents engender in still waters. [ Proverb ]

The good are better made by ill,
As odors crushed are sweeter still. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Young widows still bide their time. [ H. W. Shaw ]

He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known. [ Butler ]

The silent man still suffers wrong. [ J. P. Collier ]

Still fisheth he that catcheth one. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A hog in armour is still but a hog. [ Proverb ]

Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The still small voice of gratitude. [ Gray ]

Still we love
The evil we do, until we suffer it. [ Johnson ]

Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still. [ Bishop Heber ]

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead,
To know them still alive,
But sweeter if we earn their bread,
And in us they survive. [ Thomson ]

Follow a shadow, it still flies you.
Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly then,
Styled but the shadows of us men? [ Ben Jonson ]

The still sow eats up all the draff. [ Proverb ]

Ah me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps
Do dog him still with after-claps. [ Butler, Hudibras ]

Achilles absent, was Achilles still. [ Homer ]

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 ]

Good is that darkening of our lives.
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load.
Which none but God can lighten. [ Frederick William Faber ]

Sweet souls around us watch us still,
Press nearer to our side;
Into our thoughts, into our prayers,
With gentle helpings glide. [ Harriet Beecher Stowe ]

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head. [ Watts ]

Those eyes that were so bright, love,
Have now a dimmer shine;
But what they've lost in light, love.
Is what they gave to mine.
And, still those orbs reflect, love,
The beams of former hours.
That ripened all my joys, love,
And tinted all my flowers. [ Hood ]

A tree in the desert is still a tree. [ Talmud ]

From seeming evil still educing good. [ Thomson ]

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will.
We'll keep our Christmas merry still. [ Scott ]

Though old and wise, yet still advise. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And be the thread of coarse or fine,
The loom is still the best receiver!
Whatever I spin, the same is mine.
Returned in full from Time the Weaver. [ Henry Reed ]

Love can do much, but duty still more. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When you are anvil, hold you still,
When you are hammer, strike your fill. [ Proverb ]

To every deep there is a deeper still. [ Proverb ]

God blesses still the generous thought
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds. [ Whittier ]

The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay. [ Homer ]

He thought the World to him was known,
Whereas he only knew the Town;
In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set - Mankind. [ Hannah More ]

Still are the thoughts to memory dear. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Gather the rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. [ Herrick ]

For when disputes are wearied out,
'Tis interest still resolves the doubt. [ Butler ]

Woman is at best a contradiction still. [ Pope ]

The still humours are always the worst. [ Proverb ]

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]

Do good today, since thou still livest. [ Villefre ]

But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Still the Goldenrod of the roadside clod
Is of all, the best! [ Simeon Tucker Clark ]

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. [ John Fletcher ]

My mind to me a kingdom is;
Such perfect joy therein I find.
That it excels all other bliss
That God or Nature hath assign'd,
Though much I want that most would have.
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. [ Wm. Byrd ]

The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist. [ Tennyson ]

A myrtle among thorns is a myrtle still. [ Proverb ]

The world is still deceived by ornament. [ William Shakespeare ]

A spirit pure as hers,
Is always pure, even while it errs:
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. [ Moore ]

The ruling passion conquers reason still. [ Pope ]

Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous. [ German Proverb ]

Ten times repeated, it will still please. [ Horace ]

Sit still rather than rise and fall down. [ Proverb ]

He that worst may still holds the candle. [ Proverb ]

The secret wound still lives in her heart. [ Virgil ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

A God still lives who thinks of my misery. [ Chamisso ]

A good man, through obscurest aspirations,
Has still an instinct of the one true way. [ Goethe ]

On the field of foughten battle still,
Woe knows no limits save the victor's will. [ The Gaulliad ]

Delusive hope still points to distant good. [ Euripides ]

God be praised, we have still the original. [ Lessing ]

Memory, of all things good remind us still:
Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill. [ Macedonius ]

Still to ourselves in every place consigned
Our own felicity we make or find. [ Goldsmith ]

In conduct as in courage you excel.
Still first to act what you advise so well. [ Pope ]

Laws are powerful, necessity still more so. [ Goethe ]

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done. [ William Shakespeare ]

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace. [ Shakespeare ]

Like a cat, he'll still fall upon his legs. [ Proverb ]

If I didn't wake up, I'd still be sleeping. [ Yogi Berra ]

I cannot run and sit still at the same time. [ Proverb ]

When driving ceases, may we still be able
To play the shorts, putt and be comfortable. [ G. F. Carnegie ]

We that acquaint ourselves with every zone,
And pass the tropics, and behold each pole;
When we come home, are to ourselves unknown,
And unacquainted still with our own soul. [ Davies ]

And out of good still to find means of evil. [ Milton ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still. [ Churchill ]

The sun has stood still, but time never did. [ Proverb ]

A sea before
The Throne is spread; - its pure still glass
Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass.
We, on its shore,
Share, in the bosom of our rest,
God's knowledge, and are blest. [ Cardinal Newman ]

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those. [ William Shakespeare ]

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. [ Pope ]

The temples perish, but the God still lives. [ Bailey ]

For wheresoever I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around.
And still I seem to tread on classic ground. [ Addison ]

Let love prevail!
The love that envies not, that thinks no ill,
That faileth not, but ever lives.
All things believing, hoping, bearing still. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Our home is still home, be it ever so homely. [ Charles Dibdin ]

And steal immortal kisses from her lips;
Which even in pure and vestal modesty.
Still blush as thinking their own kisses sin. [ William Shakespeare ]

So many miseries have crazed my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. [ William Shakespeare ]

Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray,
Had in her sober livery all things clad. [ Milton ]

Even though vanquished, he could argue still. [ Goldsmith ]

Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]

Fancy, like the finger of a clock,
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. [ Cowper ]

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]

The vicar of Bray will be vicar of Bray still. [ Proverb ]

The absent danger greater still appears
Less fears he, who is near the thing he fears. [ Daniel ]

Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]

But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me. [ Bayard Taylor ]

These eyes tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot.
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot.
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year.
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor have a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward. [ Milton ]

When peace and mercy, vanished from the plain,
Sprung on the viewless winds to heaven again,
All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind;
But Hope, the charmer, lingered still behind. [ Thomas Campbell ]

O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,
When women cannot love where they're beloved! [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act V. Sc. 4 ]

Have a care of a silent dog and a still water. [ Proverb ]

Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure. [ Congreve ]

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.
Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end. [ Young ]

Fathers alone a father's heart can know,
What secret tides of still enjoyment flow,
When brothers love, but if their hate succeeds,
They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds. [ Young ]

The tempest is over-blown, the skies are clear,
And the sea charmed into a calm so still
That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face. [ Dryden ]

Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]

Take heed of still waters; the quick pass away. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still. [ 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 ]

In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell,
Aspiring to be angels men rebel;
And who but wishes to invert the laws
Of order, sins against the Eternal cause. [ Pope ]

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower -
Its flash is still the same. [ Lydia M. Child ]

The immortal mind, superior to his fate.
Amid the outrage of external things,
Firm as the solid base of this great world.
Rests on his own foundation. Blow, ye winds!
Ye waves! ye thunders! roll your tempests on!
Shake, ye old pillars of the marble sky!
Till at its orbs and all its worlds of fire
Be loosen'd from their seats; yet still serene,
The unconquer'd mind looks down upon the wreck;
And ever stronger as the storms advance,
Firm through the closing ruin holds his way,
When nature calls him to the destined goal. [ Akenside ]

For through the south the custom still commands
The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. [ Byron ]

Some Grief shows much of Love;
But much of Grief shows still some want of Wit. [ William Shakespeare ]

Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,
The more it grows and fawneth on her still. [ William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Sc. 2 ]

I have a passion for the name of Mary,
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy.
Where I beheld what never was to be. [ Byron ]

The crackling embers on the hearth are dead;
The indoor note of industry is still;
The latch is fast; upon the window-sill
The small birds wait not for their daily bread;
The voiceless flowers - how quietly they shed
Their nightly odours; - and the household rill
Murmurs continuous dulcet sounds that fill
The vacant expectation, and the dread
Of listening night. [ Hartley Coleridge ]

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends.
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still. [ Pollok ]

His conduct still right with his argument wrong. [ Goldsmith ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

O nightingale, that on yon blooming spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lovers heart doth fill! [ Milton ]

When all else is lost, the future still remains. [ Bovee ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

Nature is still the grand agent in making poets. [ Carlyle ]

True love is rare; true friendship, still rarer. [ La Fontaine ]

He thought he thought, and yet he did not think,
But only echoed still the common talk,
As might an empty room. [ Walter C. Smith ]

The sun is still beautiful, though ready to set. [ Proverb ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

War, war is still the cry; War even to the knife! [ Byron ]

Reynard is still Reynard though he put on a cowl. [ Proverb ]

Read Homer once, and you can read no more,
For all books else appear so mean, so poor.
Verse will seem prose, but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need. [ John Sheffield ]

She wept to feel her life so desolate,
And wept still more because the world had made it
So desolate: yet was the world her all;
She loathed it, but she knew it was her all. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry still. [ Young ]

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field.
Still on their dinner turn -
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. [ Joanna Baillie ]

I see thou art implacable, more deaf
To prayers than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
Are reconciled at length, and sea to shore:
Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
Eternal tempest never to be calmed. [ Milton ]

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape,
And ivy berry, choose; and still depart
From death to death thro' life and life, and find
Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought
Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
But this main miracle, that thou art thou,
With power on thine own act and on the world. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes.
Desirous still, still impotent to rise. [ Shenstone ]

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where,
And when, and how thy business may be done,
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller,
Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on. [ George Herbert ]

Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]

There is a charm, a power, that sways the breast,
Bids every passion revel or be still,
Inspires with anger, or all your cares dissolves;
Can soothe distraction and most despair,
That power is music. [ Armstrong ]

It is in worldly accidents.
As in the world itself, where things most distant
Meet one another: Thus the east and west.
Upon the globe a mathematical point
Only divides: Thus happiness and misery.
And all extremes, are still contiguous. [ Denham ]

The moon is a moon still, whether it shine or not. [ Proverb ]

Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. [ William Shakespeare ]

Happy thou art not;
For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get,
And what thou hast, forgett'st. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

Generous souls are still most subject to credulity. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

The times are bad, yet there are still great souls. [ Körner ]

All extremes are error.
The reverse of error is not truth, but error still.
Truth lies between these extremes. [ Cecil ]

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

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. [ Spenser ]

O happiness! our being's end and aim!
Good, pleasure, ease, content! whatever thy name;
That something still which prompts the eternal sigh
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. [ Pope ]

Like doth quit like, and measure still for measure. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

Still all great souls still make their own content;
We to ourselves may all our wishes grant;
For, nothing coveting, we nothing want. [ Dryden ]

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. [ William Shakespeare ]

Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. [ Bible ]

While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew. [ Goldsmith ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide;
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. [ Milton ]

A mother is a mother still - the holiest thing alive. [ Coleridge ]

Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain. [ Moore ]

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. [ Ruffini ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous. [ Proverb ]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. [ John Keats, Endymion ]

He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still. [ Scotch Proverb ]

Still seems it strange that thou should'st live forever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? [ Young ]

O merciful Heaven! may my last season be still a spring! [ Beranger ]

Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Time on his head has snowed, yet still it is borne aloft. [ Young ]

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live for ever?
Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all?
This is a miracle, and that no more. [ Young ]

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch. [ Proverb ]

Those who have even studied good books may still be fools. [ Hitopadesa ]

But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]

Mark how there still has run, inwoven from above,
Through thy life's darkest woof, the golden thread of love. [ R. C. Trench ]

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print. [ Moore ]

If a diamond be thrown into the mud, it is a diamond still. [ Ahmed Vesik ]

Real motives, however seemingly apparent, are still hidden. [ Alfred Mercier ]

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time. [ Johnson ]

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. [ Thackeray ]

Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still. [ Christina Rossetti ]

Under the freest constitution ignorant people are still slaves. [ Condorcet ]

Women like brave men exceedingly, but audacious men still more. [ Lemesles ]

The grass may be greener on the other side but it is still grass
An ass may be laden with gold but it is still an ass. [ Unknown ]

Teach him how to live, And, oh? still harder lesson! how to die. [ Bishop Porteus ]

Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other. [ Ben. Franklin ]

To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Pure vestal thoughts in the translucent fane of her still spirit. [ Tennyson ]

Though you see a churchman ill, yet continue in the church still. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

There is still enough to satisfy one in spite of all misfortunes. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. [ Emerson ]

Feeling is deep and still, and the word that floats on the surface
Is as the tossing buoy that betrays where the anchor is hidden. [ Longfellow ]

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man. [ Hume ]

Love is a beggar, who still begs when one has given him everything. [ Rochepedre ]

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals. [ S. de Bouflers ]

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life. [ Gibbon ]

Wisdom is everlasting; early or late we apprehend her still the same. [ Frederic W. H. Myers ]

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. [ Goldsmith ]

To keep a custom, you hammer the anvil still, though you have no iron. [ Proverb ]

I esteem the world as much as I can, and still I esteem it but little. [ Chamfort ]

Whatever poet, orator, or sage May say of it, old age is still old age. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

All truths are not to be uttered; still it is always good to hear them. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. [ Glanvill ]

God defend me from the still water, and I'll keep myself from the rough. [ Proverb ]

Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children. [ Goethe ]

And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. [ Heine ]

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. [ Victor Hugo ]

Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss even of a moment still is bliss. [ Joanna Baillie ]

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. [ Suckling ]

I resemble the poplar, - that tree which, even when old, still looks young. [ Joubert ]

Once true, still more twice true, in the life of the spirit is always true. [ Ed ]

His sweetest dreams were still of that dear voice that soothed his infancy. [ Southey ]

Still it is a fine sight to see a man who has never changed his principles. [ Jules Favre ]

Love, which is such a little thing, is still the most serious thing in life. [ Lemontey ]

The heart that is to be filled to the brim with holy joy must be held still. [ Bovee ]

River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same. [ Barton Holyday ]

One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Those whose tongues are gentlemen ushers to their wit, and still go before it. [ Ben Jonson ]

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. [ Rivarol ]

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]

If one was to think constantly of death the business of life would stand still. [ Johnson ]

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. [ Lowell ]

Men who flatter women do not know them; men who abuse them know them still less. [ Mme. de Salm ]

The blind monster with uncounted heads, the still discordant, wavering multitude. [ William Shakespeare ]

If we stretch our thoughts as far as they can reach, eternity is still before us. [ J. Edmondson ]

A diamond, though set in horn, is still a diamond, and sparkles as in purest gold. [ Massinger ]

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. [ William Shakespeare ]

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the cloud is the sun still shining. [ H. W. Longfellow ]

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest. [ Goethe ]

Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Though a coat be never so fine that a fool wears, yet it is still but a fool's coat. [ Proverb ]

Very few people are good economists of their fortune, and still fewer of their time. [ Chesterfield ]

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. [ Seneca ]

Year chases year, decay pursues decay; still drops some joy from withering life away. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The kiss you take is paid by that you give: The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. [ Lord Lansdowne ]

Hope is so sweet with its golden wings, that, at his last sigh, man still implores it. [ De la Pena ]

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions! [ A. Chenier ]

Words of affection, howsoever expressed, , The latest spoken still are deemed the best. [ Joanna Baillie ]

We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, And still adore the hand that gives the blow. [ Pomfret ]

Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

What would we not give to still have in store the first blissful moment we ever enjoyed! [ Rochepedre ]

The little done vanishes from the sight of man, who looks forward to what is still to do. [ Goethe ]

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Still as the peaceful walks of ancient night; silent as are the lamps that burn on tombs. [ William Shakespeare ]

That happiness does still the longest thrive where joys and griefs have turns alternative. [ Robert Herrick ]

Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary. [ S. Bern ]

There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. [ Johnson ]

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. [ Seneca ]

Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the caprices of the world. [ X. Doudan ]

Thou dwarf dressed up in giant's clothes, that showest far off still greater than thou art. [ Suckling ]

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. [ Milton ]

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large. [ H. W. Shaw ]

If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Our natures are like oil; compound us with anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. [ Brande ]

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it. [ John Selden ]

There's no slipping up hill again, and no standing still, when once you've begun to slip down. [ George Eliot ]

Wrongs do not leave off there where they begin, but still beget new mischiefs in their course. [ Daniel ]

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy - by consulting the oracular dead. [ Hare ]

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision. [ Lavater ]

The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. [ Carlyle ]

Still thou knowest that in the ardor of pursuit men lose sight of the goal from which they start. [ Schiller ]

When men are friends there is no need of justice; but when they are just, they still need friendship. [ Aristotle ]

Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. [ Boucher ]

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. [ Wordsworth ]

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. [ Ausonius ]

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 ]

Still on it creeps, each little moment at another's heels, till hours, days, years, and ages are made up. [ Joanna Baillie ]

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever. [ Carlyle ]

A lover who is no longer loved is still good for something: he serves to hide the one who has replaced him.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice. [ Sidney Dobell ]

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 ]

A man after death is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself. [ Swedenborg ]

The realities of life are so repellent that few dare to look them in the face, and still fewer dare to speak of them. [ De Finod ]

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 ]

All's well that ends well, still the finis is the crown.(Latin finis coronat opus, to crown, to finish or mahe perfect.) [ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI. Part 2. Act V ]

Yet I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer right onward. [ Milton ]

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. [ Schiller ]

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]

Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

Who can blame me if I cherish the belief that the world is still young, - that there are great possibilities in store for it? [ Tyndall ]

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good. [ Atterbury ]

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee a vast space; but when thou art a man the boundless world will be too small for thee. [ Schiller ]

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. [ Burke ]

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of. [ Hesiodus ]

As for me, give me turtle or give me death. What is life without turtle? nothing. What is turtle without life? nothinger still. [ Artemus Ward ]

After a man has sown his wild oats in the years of his youth, he has still every year to get over a few weeks and days of folly. [ Richter ]

Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them. [ Colombat ]

Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. [ Rückert ]

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. [ Carlyle ]

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous. [ Bruyere ]

The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved there, and still indicate what he was in former days. [ Corneille ]

When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

It is strange that thought should depend upon the stomach, and still that men with the best stomachs are not always the best thinkers. [ Voltaire ]

Sleep is no servant of the will; it has caprices of its own: when courted most, it lingers still; when most pursued, 'tis swiftly gone. [ Bowring ]

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil, and still more, the man who is indifferent to everything. [ Lavater ]

Eloquence is the painting of thought; and thus, those who, after having painted it, still add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait. [ Pascal ]

Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but, far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. [ 0. A. Sala ]

However old a conjugal union, it still garners some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow some flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

He who thinks he can do without the world deceives himself; but he who thinks that the world can not do without him is still more in error. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

However old a conjugal union, it still gamers some sweetness. Winter has some cloudless days, and under the snow a few flowers still bloom. [ Mme. de Stael ]

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 ]

No greater misfortune can befall a man than to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make. [ Hannah More ]

True dignity abides with him alone who, in the silent hour of inward thought, can still suspect and still revere himself in lowliness of heart. [ Wordsworth ]

Whatever difference there may appear to be in men's fortunes, there is still a certain compensation of good and ill in all, that makes them equal. [ Charron ]

Remembrance! celestial present, shadow of the blessings which are no longer! Thou art still a pleasure that consoles us for all those we have lost!

Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know. [ Goethe ]

O youth! ephemeral song, eternal canticle! The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe! [ Jules Janin ]

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth. [ Chapin ]

The destiny of women is to please, to be amiable, and to be loved. Those who do not love them are still more in the wrong than those who love them too much. [ Rochebrune ]

Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

Our illusions fall one after the other like the parings of fruit: the fruit is experience; its savor may be bitter, still it contains something that strengthens. [ G. de Nerval ]

Three letters! but one syllable! Still less, a single motion of the head, and all is done! one is married for ever! I do not know any breakneck comparable to it. [ A. Ricard ]

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. [ James Hervey ]

Inquisitiveness or curiosity is a kernel of the forbidden fruit, which still sticketh in the throat of a natural man, and sometimes to the danger of his choking. [ Fuller ]

There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness. [ Carlyle ]

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon. [ Coleridge ]

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep, - we are on the death-bed. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. [ Burton ]

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at least, they must work their limbs or features. [ Holmes ]

I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat as much. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Extremes are dangerous: a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea, between a still calm and a violent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven. [ Swinnock ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

If much reason is necessary to remain in celibacy, still more is required to marry. One must then have reason for two; and often all the reason of the two does not make one reasonable being. [ Balzac ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

Common fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it: though she telleth many an untruth, she often hits right, and most especially when she speaketh ill of men. [ Saville ]

Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. [ Wendell Phillips ]

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 ]

Grief is a flower as delicate and prompt to fade as happiness. Still, it does not wholly die. Like the magic rose, dried and unrecognizable, a warm air breathed on it will suffice to renew its bloom. [ Mme. de Gasparin ]

Commonsense punishes all departures from her, by forcing those who rebel into a desperate war with all facts and experience, and into a still more terrible civil war with each other and with themselves. [ Colton ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. [ Martin Luther ]

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free. [ Carlyle ]

Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there. [ Carlyle ]

The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]

Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature. [ Carlyle ]

The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal. [ Charles Buxton ]

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who, though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular. [ Addison ]

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in it, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds, and slowly wears away. [ M. Luther ]

Burke's sentences are pointed at the end, instinct with pungent sense to the last syllable. They are like a charioteer's whip, which not only has a long and effective lash, but cracks and inflicts a still smarter sensation at the end. [ John Foster ]

It has been shrewdly said, that when men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. [ Colton ]

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

In reality, there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. [ Franklin ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries. [ Hawthorne ]

How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee! And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open, I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow. [ Tome Burguillos ]

As we look up into these glorious culminations, how grand life becomes! To be forever with the Lord, and forever changing into His likeness, and, still more, forever deepening in the companionship of His thought and bliss, from glory to glory - could we desire more? [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

Blessings we enjoy daily; and for most of them, because they be so common, most men forget to pay their praises; but let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him that made the sun and us, and still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content. [ Izaak Walton ]

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is the tiny magic mirror on whose crystal surface the moods of feeling fitfully play, like the sunlight and shadow on a still stream. [ Tuckerman ]

If all fools had baubles* we should want fuel. (*The fool or jester carried in his hand a wooden sceptre called a bauble. It was a short stick ornamented at the end with the figure of a fool's head, or with that of a puppet or doll. Jesters were still retained in Herbert's day.) [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God ever gives us. [ Bovee ]

We meet with few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between, these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth. [ La Bruyere ]

If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one's own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend. [ Plautus ]

The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]

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 ]

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner! We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

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 ]

When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]

There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]

The language of the heart - the language which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language - difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied. [ Bovee ]

There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, health and money: Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied: and this superiority of the latter is still more obvious when we reflect that the poorest man would not part with health for money, but that the richest would gladly part with all their money for heath. [ Colton ]

Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and laborious attentions to little objects which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man, who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind, from the moment he told him that he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still. [ Chesterfield ]

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 ]

When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! [ Carlyle ]

Do you wish to become rich? You may become rich, that is, if you desire it in no half way, but thoroughly. A miser sacrifices all to his single passion; hoards farthings and dies possessed of wealth. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. Time and pains will do anything. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come. [ F. W. Robertson ]

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 ]

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forever more. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame. [ Chapin ]

The loss of a mother is always severely felt; even though Her health may incapacitate her from taking any active part in the care of her family, still she is a sweet rallying-point, around which affection and obedience, and a thousand tender endeavors to please concentrate; and dreary is the blank when such a point is withdrawn! It is like that lonely star before us; neither its heat nor light are anything to us in themselves; yet the shepherd would feel his heart sad if he missed it, when he lifts his eye to the brow of the mountain over which it rises when the sun descends. [ Lamartine ]

Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]

Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition, which look bright from below, every step we rise shows us some new and gloomy prospect of hidden disappointment; so in our descent from the summits of pleasure, though the vale of misery below may appear, at first, dark and gloomy, yet the busy mind, still attentive to its own amusement, finds, as we descend, something to flatter and to please. Still as we approach, the darkest objects appear to brighten, and the mortal eye becomes adapted to its gloomy situation. [ Goldsmith ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]

Since I was seven years old I have seldom take, a dose of medicine, and have still seldomer needed one. But up to seven I lived exclusively on allopathic medicines. Not that I needed them, for I don't think I did; it was for economy; my father took a drug-store for a debt, and it made cod-liver oil cheaper than the other breakfast foods. We had nine barrels of it, and it lasted me seven years. Then I was weaned. The rest of the family had to get along with rhubarb and ipecac and such things, because I was the pet. I was the first Standard Oil Trust. I had it all. By the time the drugstore was exhausted my health was established, and there has never been much the matter with me since. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

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Words within the letters of still

2 letter words in still (2 words)

3 letter words in still (4 words)

4 letter words in still (7 words)

5 letter words in still (Anagrams) (3 words)

still + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving still

Shorter words in still

ill till

Longer words containing still

distill distillable nondistillable

distill distillate distillates

distill distillation distillations microdistillations

distill distillation distillations redistillations

distill distillation microdistillation microdistillations

distill distillation redistillation redistillations

distill distillative distillatively

distill distilled redistilled

distill distilled undistilled

distill distiller distilleries

distill distiller distillers

distill distiller distillery

distill distilling redistilling

distill distills redistills

distill redistill redistillation redistillations

distill redistill redistilled

distill redistill redistilling

distill redistill redistills

instill instillation

instill instilled

instill instilling

instill instills

pistillate

postillate postillated

postillate postillates

postillating

postillation postillations

postillator postillators

standstill standstills

stillbirth stillbirths

stillborn stillborns

stilled distilled redistilled

stilled distilled undistilled

stilled instilled

stilled postilled

stiller distiller distilleries

stiller distiller distillers

stiller distiller distillery

stiller postiller postillers

stillest

stillier

stilliest

stilling distilling redistilling

stilling instilling

stilling postilling

stillness

stills distills redistills

stills instills

stills standstills

stilly