Thus each extreme to equal danger tends,
Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. [ Cowley ]
Cursed be the verse, how well so ever it flow,
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. [ Pope ]
The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. [ Lord Kames ]
Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large towns vitiate the air. [ Amiel ]
The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous. [ Juvenal ]
A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. [ C. J. Weber ]
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and everything tends to make them so. [ Mary Wollstonecraft ]
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. [ Whately ]
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science' as to suffer it to stagnate. [ Burke ]
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth, - truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier. [ Horace Greeley ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which man is lifted up above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention; purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, purity apprehends and tastes him. [ Thomas a Kempis ]
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it. [ Rousseau ]
Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]