New things are fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Good things take time. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Time devours all things. [ Proverb ]

Death levels all things. [ Claudianus ]

All things human change. [ Tennyson ]

Time reveals all things.

Money masters all things. [ Proverb ]

Moderate things are best. [ Proverb ]

Things ill gotten go ill. [ Proverb ]

Things well fitted abide. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth conquers all things. [ Motto ]

Facts are stubborn things. [ Smollett or Le Sage or Elliot ]

All these things pass away. [ Motto ]

All things are full of God. [ Cicero ]

Words, however, are things. [ Owen Meredith ]

Keep touch in small things. [ Proverb ]

All things obey fixed laws. [ Lucretius ]

We cannot all do all things. [ Virgil ]

A surfeit of sweetest things. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

To trifle with sacred things.

Custom makes all things easy. [ Proverb ]

Love accomplishes all things. [ Petrarch ]

There's a time for all things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Good things should be praised. [ Shakespeare ]

Like things are cured by like.

New things are most looked at. [ Proverb ]

There is a time for all things. [ Proverb ]

Adversity, sage useful guest,
Severe instructor, but the best.
It is from thee alone we know
Justly to value things below. [ Somerville ]

He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. [ Coleridge ]

Humble things become the humble. [ Horace ]

To the pure all things are pure. [ Shelley ]

Esteem all things that are good. [ Tibullus ]

If things were to be done twice.
All would be wise. [ Proverb ]

Sea things that be
On the hot sand fainting long,
Revive with the kiss of the sea. [ Lewis Morris ]

God gives all things to industry. [ Proverb ]

All things are full of the Deity. [ Virgil ]

Natural things are without shame.

Oh, frail estate of human things! [ Dryden ]

Weak things united, become strong. [ Proverb ]

Things not understood are admired. [ Proverb ]

Mirth and mischief are two things. [ Proverb ]

Diligence accomplishes all things. [ Strato ]

More things affright than hurt us. [ Proverb ]

Think of many things, do only one. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

Time is sovereign over all things. [ Motto ]

Of fair things the autumn is fair. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Little things please little minds. [ Proverb ]

How like they are to human things! [ Longfellow ]

Truth and ceremony are two things. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Above all things reverence thyself. [ Pythagoras ]

He liveth long who liveth well.
All else is life but flung away;
He liveth longest who can tell
Of true things truly done each day. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream,
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem. [ Longfellow ]

Born merely to consume good things. [ La Bruyère ]

Things refuse to be mismanaged long. [ Carlyle ]

Lay things by, they may come to use. [ Proverb ]

The best things are hard to come by. [ Proverb ]

We come to ruin by permitted things. [ Proverb ]

A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet. [ Monckton Milnes ]

We must be young to do great things. [ Goethe ]

God taketh an account of all things. [ Koran ]

Patience and time conquer all things [ Corneille ]

Father! forgive the heart that clings
Thus trembling to the things of time,
And bid my soul, on angel's wings
Ascend into a purer clime. [ Jane Roscoe ]

And when a lady's in the case.
You know all other things give place. [ Gay ]

Decency renders all things tolerable. [ De Gerando ]

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things! [ Milton ]

Things which have been lost are safe. [ Motto ]

Abundance changes the value of things. [ Terence ]

Good things come to some while asleep. [ French Proverb ]

Good-humor makes all things tolerable. [ Beecher ]

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

Death is the last limit of all things. [ Horace ]

Men may rise on steppingstones
Of their dead selves to higher things. [ Tennyson ]

All things can corrupt perverse minds. [ Ovid ]

Things are always best at their source. [ Pascal ]

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous form of things:
We murder to dissect. [ Wordsworth ]

The beginnings of all things are small. [ Cicero ]

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude,
Suffering, yet hoping all things. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

In all things let reason be your guide. [ Solon ]

There are few things that we know well. [ Vauvenargues ]

Precious things are not found in heaps. [ Proverb ]

Things are often spoke and seldom meant. [ William Shakespeare ]

Man laughs and weeps at the same things. [ Montaigne ]

But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things. [ Wordsworth ]

Inexperienced men think all things easy. [ Proverb ]

True happiness never entered at an eye;
True happiness resides in things unseen. [ Young ]

Take things always by the smooth handle.

Many things are lost for want of asking. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The eye sees not itself
But by reflection, by some other things. [ William Shakespeare ]

How strangely easy difficult things are! [ Charles Buxton ]

The soul needs few things, the body many. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Like a man do all things, not sneakingly. [ George Herbert ]

To-morrow a new scene of things may open. [ Proverb ]

All things require skill but an appetite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Mystery hovers over all things here below. [ Lamartine ]

It is not permitted us to know all things. [ Horace ]

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 ]

Things may serve long, but not serve ever. [ William Shakespeare ]

Patience and fortitude conquer all things. [ Emerson ]

True happiness resides in things not seen. [ Young ]

Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below. [ Homer ]

Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity. [ William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Sc.1 ]

Patience and pusillanimity are two things. [ Proverb ]

He seems wise with whom all things thrive. [ Proverb ]

Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things,
The fall of empires and the fate of kings. [ Burns ]

There is a critical minute for all things. [ Proverb ]

Things hardly attained, are long retained. [ Proverb ]

Good deeds remain, all things else perish. [ Proverb ]

Energy and persistence conquer all things. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

I was always a lover of soft-winged things. [ Victor Hugo ]

To the poetic mind all things are poetical. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Time, - the most independent of all things. [ Hazlitt ]

A surfeit or the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

Things seen are mightier than things heard. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Your sayer of smart things has a bad heart. [ Pascal ]

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise
From outward things. [ Robert Browning ]

Now our fates from unmomentous things
May rise like rivers out of little springs. [ Campbell ]

Surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Reason is mistress and queen of all things. [ Cicero ]

I desire to see the things which are above. [ Motto ]

Things please the more the farther fetched. [ Proverb ]

Honest minds are pleased with honest things. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. [ Horace ]

Love and madness judge of things much alike. [ Proverb ]

There are remedies for all things but death. [ Carlyle ]

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy. [ Dryden ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate.
In all things ruled - mind, body and estate;
In pain or sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

All things that great men do, are well done. [ Proverb ]

We rise by things that are 'neath our feet,
By what we have mastered of good and gain,
By the pride deposed, and passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

All things are easy that are done willingly. [ Proverb ]

Things which are above us are nothing to us. [ Proverb ]

Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolate bosoms: mute
The camel labors with the heaviest load.
And the wolf dies in silence: Not bestowed
In vain should such examples be; if they.
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear - it is but for a day. [ Byron ]

Words are the only things that last forever. [ Hazlitt ]

Rashness and haste make all things insecure. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Fancy and pride seek things at vast expense. [ Young ]

One cannot take true aim at things too high. [ Proverb ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate,
In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate;
In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply
To them we know not, and we know not why. [ Crabbe ]

Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God. [ Bailey ]

Great is truth, and mighty above all things. [ Apocrypha ]

All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments, to melancholy bells;
Our wedding cheer, to sad burial feast;
Our solemn hymns, to sullen dirges change:
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary. [ William Shakespeare ]

God reaches us good things by our own hands. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

The fire that all things else consumeth clean
May hurt and heal. [ Sir Thomas Wyatt ]

The wisest among us is a fool in some things. [ Richardson ]

Things must turn when they can go no farther. [ Spurgeon ]

When one is on horseback he knows all things. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid;
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. [ Denham ]

Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs. [ Hannah More ]

Let all things be done decently and in order. [ Bible ]

Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. [ Pope ]

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

There is music in all things, If men had ears. [ Byron ]

What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]

Not to have hope is the poorest of all things. [ Proverb ]

All things are not to be granted at all times. [ Proverb ]

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. [ William Shakespeare ]

All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting. [ Proverb ]

Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings.
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things. [ Wm. Blake ]

Order and system are nobler things than power. [ Ruskin ]

What mighty contests rise from trivial things! [ Pope ]

All things are difficult, before they are easy. [ Proverb ]

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 ]

Madame, bear in mind
That princes govern all things - save the wind. [ Victor Hugo ]

Two to one in all things against the angry man. [ Proverb ]

The absurd vulgar tastes all things by the ear. [ Proverb ]

Time the producer, time the devourer of things.

The study of vain things is laborious idleness. [ Proverb ]

Craft counting all things, brings nothing home. [ Proverb ]

The things that are below us are nothing to us. [ Proverb ]

It is not so with Him that all things knows
As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men. [ William Shakespeare ]

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. [ William Shakespeare ]

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with it. [ William Shakespeare ]

A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. [ Alex. Smith ]

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace. [ Bailey ]

The two principal things are wisdom and health. [ Proverb ]

Love conquers all things; let us yield to love. [ Virgil ]

There are things
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection,
And not an impulse of mere anger; though
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injured souls
Oft do a public right with private wrong. [ Byron ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death and that vast forever,
One grand, sweet song. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance. [ George Herbert ]

Good order is the foundation of all good things. [ Burke ]

Little things blame not: Grace may on them wait.
Cupid is little; but his godhead's great. [ Anon ]

He lives unsafely that looks too near on things. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet.
The basest weed outbraves its dignity:
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

In things that must be it is good to be resolute. [ Proverb ]

All things in their being are good for something. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Patience, time, and money accommodate all things. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. [ Johnson ]

Many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Proverb ]

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

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Even the best things are not equal to their fame. [ Thoreau ]

In great things it is enough even to have willed. [ Propertius ]

Custom calls me to it -
What custom wills, in all things should we do it? [ William Shakespeare ]

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 ]

Those things which now seem frivolous and slight.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. [ Roscommon ]

Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]

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 ]

The teaching of art is the teaching of all things. [ John Ruskin ]

There is a tendency in things to right themselves. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Good neighbours, and true friends, are two things. [ Proverb ]

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain
But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ...
Many affecting wit beyond their power,
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. [ George Herbert ]

Life outweighs all things, if love lies within it. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
These are not done by jostling in the street. [ Wm. Blake ]

Things fit only to give weight to smoke. (Trifles) [ Persius ]

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth. [ Milton ]

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [ Cicero ]

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]

Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd,
And then they shine. [ Beaumont ]

The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself. [ Proverb ]

Words, however, are things; and the man who accords
To his language the license to outrage his soul
Is controlled by the words he disdains to control. [ Lord Lytton ]

The slow sweet hours that bring us all things good. [ Tennyson ]

Such is the strength of art, rough things to shape. [ James HowelL ]

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [ Horace ]

Words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. [ Byron ]

A little incense offered puts many things to rights.

Great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. [ Proverb ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

Few things in the world will bear too much refining. [ Proverb ]

Patience, money and time, brings all things to pass. [ Proverb ]

Things that differ in the end, will part in the way. [ Proverb ]

Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven. [ Robert Browning ]

Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this -
Men prize the thing ungamed more than it is. [ William Shakespeare ]

These little things are great to little men.(Trifles) [ Goldsmith ]

It is simply expression that gives reality to things. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Behold, we live through all things, - famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery.
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body, - but we cannot die.
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn, -
Lo, all things can be borne! [ Elizabeth Akers Allen ]

How many things hath he to repent of that lives long! [ Proverb ]

In a case of extreme emergency all things are common. [ Law ]

Men speak of the fair as things went with them there. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Not myself, but the truth that in life I have spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life I have sown.
Shall pass on to ages; all about me forgotten.
Save the truth I have spoken, the things I have done. [ Horatius Bonar ]

To be employed in useless things, is half to be idle. [ Proverb ]

The file grates other things; but rub itself out too. [ Proverb ]

Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed.
So shall they be fulfilled. [ Robert Browning ]

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. [ Samuel Madden ]

We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. [ St. Peter and St. John ]

The brightest of all things,, the sun, hath its spots. [ Proverb ]

Of all serious things, marriage is the most ludicrous. [ Beaumarchais ]

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things. [ Epictetus ]

Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste. [ La Roche ]

He that looks too nicely into things never lives easy. [ Proverb ]

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things. [ Lamartine ]

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 ]

The earth produces all things, and receives all again. [ Proverb ]

As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; -
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. [ Goldsmith ]

Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied. [ Steele ]

All things unrevealed belong to the kingdom of mystery. [ J. G. Holland ]

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. [ Byron ]

The greatest things are done by the help of small ones. [ Proverb ]

The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. [ Quoted by Emerson ]

Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

All things have their place, knew we how to place them. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Can that which is not shape, shape the things that are?
Is chance omnipotent - resolve me why
The meanest shellfish, and the noblest brute,
Transmit their likeness to the years that come? [ Dilnot Sladden ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Be good, sweet child, and let who will be clever,
Do noble things, not dream them all day long;
Thus shalt thou make life, death, and the vast forever. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. [ Ovid ]

Many make straight things crooked, but few the contrary. [ Proverb ]

Things that are accidents to us, are providences to God. [ Proverb ]

What God wishes and man wishes are two different things. [ French Proverb ]

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. [ Proverb ]

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. [ Cowley ]

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

The luxurious want many things, the covetous all things. [ Proverb ]

A poor man wants some things, a covetous man all things. [ Proverb ]

Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. [ Publius Syrus ]

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things. [ Jane Porter ]

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The motions of passion and of conscience, are two things. [ Proverb ]

Patience is good for abundance of things besides the gout. [ Proverb ]

An ass among perfumes, (i.e. things he cannot appreciate).

He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says Adieu. [ J. G. Saxe ]

Things subject to mutability are every moment growing old. [ Dr. Winter ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. [ Spenser ]

A man is known to be mortal by two things : sleep and lust. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All things thrive with him; he eats silk, and voids velvet. [ Proverb ]

Many things grow in the garden that were never sowed there. [ Proverb ]

More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. [ Tennyson ]

Oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. [ Greene ]

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [ Terence ]

Obedience is much more seen in little things than in great. [ Proverb ]

Little things console us, because little things afflict us. [ Pascal ]

In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. [ Molière ]

There may be such things as old fools and young counsellors. [ Proverb ]

All things help, quoth the wren, when she pissed in the sea. [ Proverb ]

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.

They that desire but a few things, can he crossed but in few. [ Proverb ]

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

The things of the earth are not worth our attachment to them. [ Nicole ]

Things above your height are to be looked at, not reached at. [ Proverb ]

Old men remember such things as they delighted in when young. [ Proverb ]

The last taste of things gives them the name of sweet or sour. [ Proverb ]

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. [ William Shakespeare ]

All things must change to something new, to something strange. [ Longfellow ]

We can do not great things, only small things with great love. [ Mother Teresa ]

There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things. [ William Shakespeare ]

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [ Virgil ]

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Books are the best things, well used; abused, among the worst. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Age bears away with it all things, even the powers of the mind. [ Virgil ]

All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate. [ Plato ]

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [ Colossians, chap. iii ]

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. [ Whipple ]

Time divided, is never long, and regularity abridges all things. [ Mme. De Stael ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. [ Tac ]

Come forth into the light of things; let nature be your teacher. [ Wordsworth ]

Charity resembleth fire, which inflameth all things it toucheth. [ Erasmus ]

The nature of things will not be altered by our fancies of them. [ Proverb ]

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves. [ John Ruskin ]

It is now as in the days of yore when the sword ruled all things. [ Schiller ]

A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. [ Bonaventura ]

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. [ Horace ]

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities wound, but they are better. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

To change, and to change for the better, are two different things. [ German Proverb ]

I provide you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.

All things are symbolical, and what we call results are beginnings. [ Plato ]

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]

Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great. [ Demosthenes ]

The mind attracted by what is false has no relish for better things. [ Horace ]

Diversity of opinion proves that things are only what we think them. [ Montaigne ]

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. [ Bible ]

Most things have two handles, and a wise man takes hold of the best. [ Proverb ]

The two rarest things to be met with are good sense and good nature. [ William Hazlitt ]

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. [ James A. Garfield ]

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time. [ Sir Richard Cecil ]

These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. [ Ovid ]

Things are not always what they seem; first appearances deceive many. [ Phaedrus ]

The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Little things console us, because little things afflict us. (Trifles) [ Pascal ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Reason can discover things only near, - sees nothing that's above her. [ Quarles ]

In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. [ Froude ]

The harmony of things, as well as that of sound, from discord springs. [ Sir J. Denham ]

In all things, but particularly in law, regard is to be had to equity. [ Law ]

Ambiguous things that ape goats in their visage, women in their shape. [ Byron ]

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. [ Waller ]

Things confirmed by long practice and usage have all the force of law. [ Hooker ]

Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason. [ Seneca ]

Death and the sun are two things not to be looked on with a steady eye. [ Proverb ]

A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. [ Amiel ]

To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. [ Abbe Trublet ]

Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn all earthly things but virtue. [ Shelley ]

Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

All things should be common between friends. Our friend is another self. [ Pythagoras ]

Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same; and to speak well are two things. [ Ben Jonson ]

He that cheats in small things is a fool, but in great things is a rogue. [ Proverb ]

If we have but the right mind, all things, even those which hurt, help us. [ Spalding ]

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. [ Cicero ]

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. [ Bacon ]

You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. [ Horace ]

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. [ Landor ]

The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. [ L'Estrange ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. [ Franklin ]

In order to do great things, we should live as though we were never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]

A man who is proud of small things shows that small things are great to him. [ Madame de Girardin ]

He that knows useful things, not he that knows many things, is the wise man. [ Proverb ]

A mathematician is a practical man, estimating things by their real utility. [ W. H. Prescott ]

And yet you had the look of one that promised (threatened) many fine things. [ Horace ]

In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble. [ Plautus ]

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. [ Bible ]

Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do afar off. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. [ La Fontaine ]

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive for things that are not to be remedied. [ William Shakespeare ]

All things are admired either because they are new or because they are great. [ Bacon ]

Where order in variety we see; and where, though all things differ, all agree. [ Pope ]

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. [ Richard Hooker ]

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. [ De La Bruyere ]

Chance is a kind of god. for it preserves many things which we do not observe. [ Menander ]

Soul of the world, divine Necessity, Servant of God, and master of all things. [ Bailey ]

Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command. [ Landor ]

How can the cat help it if the maid is fool enough to leave things in her way) [ Italian Proverb ]

We live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward to what they were before. [ William Shakespeare ]

Persist, persevere, and you will find most things attainable that are possible. [ Chesterfield ]

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. [ Heine ]

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. [ Sir T. F. Buxton ]

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. [ Dryden ]

Of all things that man possesses, women alone take pleasure in being possessed. [ Malherbe ]

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [ Bible ]

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]

Stinging envy is more merciful to good things that are old than such as are new. [ Phaedr ]

Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. [ Proverb ]

Great things are not accomplished by idle dreams, but by years of patient study. [ Aughey ]

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more the heart of man. [ Plutarch ]

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? [ Bible ]

All of us learn to write in second grade, then most of us go on to better things. [ Bob Knight ]

True dignity is his whose tranquil mind virtue has raised above the things below. [ Beattie ]

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. [ H. W. Beecher ]

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

When we say there is nothing new under the sun, we do not count forgotten things. [ E. Thierry ]

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things. [ Bacon ]

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. [ Holmes ]

Good things have to be engraved on the memory; bad ones stick there of themselves. [ Charles Reade ]

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. [ Chapin ]

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [ La Bruyere ]

When things are come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity. [ Bacon ]

The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things. [ Pascal ]

Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. [ Aristotle ]

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. [ Wellington ]

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out. [ William Shakespeare ]

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [ Plautus ]

For it is certain to the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant. [ Carlyle ]

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love. [ William Shakespeare ]

Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder. [ Colton ]

There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile. [ D'Alembert ]

Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. [ Bible ]

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. [ Halleck ]

In the great majority of things habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt. [ John Foster ]

Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their hue. [ Byron ]

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches. [ Horace ]

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things - law and war. [ Bailey ]

So, with decorum all things carried, Miss frowned, and blushed, and then was married. [ Goldsmith ]

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves. [ Montaigne ]

To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [ Sallust ]

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Sleep hath its own world, a boundary between the things misnamed death and existence. [ Byron ]

The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyere ]

All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful. [ Plato ]

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. [ Lowell ]

Set all things in their own peculiar place, And know that order is the greatest grace. [ Dryden ]

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. [ Cudworth ]

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned. [ Chamfort ]

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. [ Charnock ]

Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, - in all things ruled, mind, body, and estate. [ Crabbe ]

What pretty things men will make for money, quoth the old woman, when she saw a monkey. [ Proverb ]

There are three things that women throw away: their time, their money, and their health. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]

Ten Things To Do.

Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. [ Amiel ]

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

If you in every thing fear, you shall not do well, you will come to do ill in all things. [ Proverb ]

The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. [ Thoreau ]

Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes. [ Persian Proverb ]

Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things. [ Hannah More ]

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

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love. [ George MacDonald ]

There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty. [ Madame Swetchine ]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [ William Shakespeare,Hamlet ]

Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]

Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. [ Jesus ]

The castle which Conservatism is set to defend is the actual state of things, good and bad. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected. [ William Shakespeare ]

By diligent and laborious examination of things past, we may easily foresee things to come. [ King ]

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit. [ Epictetus ]

There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. [ Juv ]

Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops, which give such a depth to the morning meadow. [ Emerson ]

Time restores all things. Wrong! Time restores many things, but eternity alone restores all. [ Joseph Roux ]

All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death. [ Ecclus ]

After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyère ]

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. [ Johnson ]

Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest. [ Pascal ]

True magnanimity does not consist so much in undertaking difficult things, as enduring evils. [ Proverb ]

Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings. [ Bishop Hall ]

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. [ Montaigne ]

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry. Take time for all things. Great haste makes great waste. [ Franklin ]

There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. [ Lessing ]

Style seems to depend on three things:
1. a mental attitude and character,
2. a familiarity with the best authors,
3. dexterity in the use of words, acquired by constant practice.
So we must learn to speak by speaking, as we learn to walk by walking, or to dance by dancing. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. [ La Roche ]

Religion without piety hath done more mischief in the world than all other things put together. [ Proverb ]

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine. [ Alan Turing ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. [ Stanislaus ]

Great men undertake great things because they are great, and fools because they think them easy. [ Vauvenargues ]

Women only call each other sister after they have called each other a lot of other things first. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]

How many things have we esteemed that we despise, and how many joys have resulted in afflictions!

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. [ Chesterfield ]

Happiness generally depends more on the opinion we have of things, than on the things themselves. [ Proverb ]

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. [ Longfellow ]

Humour is properly the exponent of low things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. [ Carlyle ]

Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done. [ Bible ]

Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. [ Bible ]

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. [ S. Bailey ]

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. [ Thackeray ]

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. [ Colton ]

Persevering labour overcomes all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the pressure of things. [ Virgil ]

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good. [ Bishop Hall ]

Lovers are angry, reconciled, entreat, thank, appoint, and finally speak all things, by their eyes. [ Montaigne ]

It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things. [ Carlyle ]

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others. [ Syrus ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

I have been too much occupied with things themselves to think either of their beginning or their end. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are very few things in the world upon which an honest man can repose his soul, or his thoughts. [ Chamfort ]

Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things. [ John Ruskin ]

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, Music, and Woman. [ Fontanelle ]

There is in things a resistance superior to ideas, but for which the world would not exist six months. [ Lamennais ]

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer. [ Horace ]

To seek these things is lost labor: geese in an oil-pot, fat hogs among Jews, and wine in a fishingnet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend: but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things. [ Epictetus ]

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [ Cicero ]

Dexterity respects the manner of executing things; it is the mechanical facility of performing an office. [ Abbe Girard ]

To become an able man in any profession, there are three things necessary, - nature, study, and practice. [ Aristotle ]

A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. [ Epictetus ]

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. [ Burke ]

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which by has. [ Epictetus ]

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death. [ John Ruskin ]

Quills are things that are sometimes taken from the pinions of one goose to spread the opinions of another. [ Chatfield ]

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing. [ E. H. Chapin ]

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms. [ Aristotle ]

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike. [ Madame de Stael ]

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance. [ Ruskin ]

Methinks a being that is beautiful becomes more so as it looks on beauty, the eternal beauty of undying things. [ Byron ]

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; dispatch, of a strong one. [ Caleb C. Colton ]

He who trusts all things to chance makes a lottery of his life. He who wants content cannot find an easy chair. [ Proverb ]

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. [ Sallust ]

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are. [ Colton ]

The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness. [ Fuller ]

Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. [ Terence ]

Amongst so many borrowed things , I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. [ Montaigne ]

The two most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. [ An Indian sage ]

These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. [ Horace ]

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. [ I. Watts ]

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness. [ Daniel Webster ]

There are only two beautiful things in the world - women and roses; and only two sweet things - women and melons. [ Malherbe ]

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him wJth patience. [ A. Lang ]

Mind is the great lever of all things: human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]

High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. [ La Bruyère ]

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises. [ La Bruyere ]

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. [ Emerson ]

To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of. [ Italian Proverb ]

Avoid law suits beyond all things; they influence your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. [ La Bruyere ]

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Mind is the great leveller of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. [ La Bruyère ]

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. [ Chesterfield ]

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. [ Matthew Arnold ]

Those whom we call the ancients were in truth novices in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind. [ Prescott ]

To please, one must make up his mind to be taught many things which he already knows, by people who do not know them. [ Chamfort ]

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially. [ Socrates ]

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. [ Julia Ward Howe ]

There are three things a wise man will not trust - the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith. [ Southey ]

If we did but know how little some enjoy the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. [ Young ]

Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. [ Adolph Monod ]

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. [ C. H. Spurgeon ]

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannonbullets. [ William Shakespeare ]

Equality is not a law of nature. Nature has made no two things equal: its sovereign law is subordination and dependence. [ Vauvenargues ]

On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [ Bible ]

There is nothing in the world that remains unchanged. All things are in perpetual flux, and every shadow is seen to move. [ Ovid ]

I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind. [ Channing ]

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, - of dwarfs giants, suspicions truths. [ Cervantes ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [ Ben Jonson ]

Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. [ St. Evremond ]

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive soeculations. [ Beaconsfield ]

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]

Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. [ James Howell ]

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. [ Johnson ]

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of every thing. [ Sydney Smith ]

Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. [ Bürger ]

He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately. [ Cicero ]

Few things are impracticable in themselves: and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do. [ Johnson ]

We are all of us so hard-up nowadays that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]

It does not take twenty years for men to change their opinions of things which had seemed to them the truest, and most certain. [ La Bruyere ]

There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken - the manner, the place and the time. [ Southey ]

He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper. [ Cicero ]

The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things. [ Madame Swetchine ]

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions. [ Alcott ]

Never be discouraged because good things go on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand. [ Charles Dickens ]

Dramatical or representative play is, as it were, a visible history; for it sets out the image of things as if they were present. [ Bacon ]

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. [ Carlyle ]

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable; and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. [ Colton ]

We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. [ Pliny ]

A double task to paint the finest features of the mind, and to most subtle and mysterious things give color, strength, and motion. [ Akenside ]

I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of today are wont to be fairer and truer in tomorrow's memory. [ Thoreau ]

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without. [ Phillips Brooks ]

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say, nothing. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself. [ Shaftesbury ]

There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. [ Horace ]

O the things unseen, untold, undreamt of, which like shadows pass hourly over that mysterious world, a mind to ruin struck by grief! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

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 ]

What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth; - what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. [ Leigh Hunt ]

Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Of the things which man can make or do here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy, are the things that we call books. [ Carlyle ]

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremoney are two things. [ Marcus Antonius ]

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters. [ Burke ]

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind; a narrow-minded man has it not, for to him they are great things. [ Whately ]

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food, - they nourish, but at the same time they consume it. [ Bruyere ]

He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. [ Tillotson ]

The life of many a man and woman is so filled with overmuch of good things that they have no time to enjoy the least of their treasures. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. [ Glanvill ]

Where men or nations have broken down, it will almost invariably be found that neglect of little things was the rock on which they split. [ Smiles ]

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate. [ Montaigne ]

In describing things, I always try to see the whole scene before beginning to write it, and specially to realise the colour of everything. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

It is the saddest of all things that even one human soul should dimly perceive the beauty that is ever around us, a perpetual benediction. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. [ Johnson ]

In Nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. [ Bacon ]

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed - to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. [ Colton ]

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. [ Cicero ]

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. [ Chapin ]

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. Eloquence is speaking out - a quality few esteem, and fewer aim at. [ Hare ]

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure. [ Emerson ]

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. [ Dr. Watts ]

Let us then be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth, and the sacred professions of friendship. [ Longfellow ]

There is in all of us an obstacle to perfect happiness, which is weariness of the things we possess, and the desire for the things we have not. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. [ Colton ]

Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. [ Locke ]

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 ]

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy than to attempt to understand. [ Tuckerman ]

The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. [ Hooker ]

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it. [ Charles Lamb ]

There are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall cheer and warm his heart even in that last and bitter agony. [ South ]

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. [ John Ruskin ]

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty. [ Savonarola ]

Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. [ Montaigne ]

With the possession or certain expectation of good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together, - manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly self-reliance. [ Wordsworth ]

They learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also, and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. [ Bible ]

Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in Cimmerian darkness. [ Bartholin ]

The great atheists are, indeed, the hypocrites, which are ever handling holy things, but without feeling; so as they must need be cauterized in the end. [ Bacon ]

Of all things known to mortals wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all. [ Lord Bacon ]

There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness; namely, weariness of the things which we possess, and a desire for the things which we have not. [ Mme. de Rieux ]

Two things should always be aimed at in our apparel - neatness and decency; but we should avoid an effeminate spruceness, as much as a fantastic disorder. [ J. Beaumont ]

God has scattered several degrees of pleasure and pain in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together in almost all our thoughts. [ Locke ]

Wine maketh the hand quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things. [ Pliny ]

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

In getting of your riches, and in using of them, you should always have three things in your heart, that is to say, our Lord God, Conscience, and good Name. [ Geoffrey Chaucer ]

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that are in them what were we? [ Leigh Hunt ]

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists. [ Colton ]

Some things will not bear much zeal; and the more earnest we are about them, the less we recommend ourselves to the approbation of sober and considerate men. [ Tillotson ]

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. [ J. G. Holland ]

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. [ Lytton ]

Of all pure things, purity in the acquisition of riches is the best. He who preserves purity in becoming rich is really pure, not he who is purified by water. [ Manu ]

Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. [ Swift ]

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality. [ Emerson ]

Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. [ H. Brooke ]

The head learns new things, but the heart forevermore practices old experiences. Therefore our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

We are too fond of our own will; we want to be doing what we fancy mighty things: but the great point is to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit. [ Cecil ]

Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in the whole course of human life. [ H. P. Liddon ]

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. I would have a man great in great things, and elegant in little things. [ Johnson ]

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]

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 ]

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualisation of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men. [ Whipple ]

Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we love, and the number of things that love us. [ Samuel Smiles ]

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as tbey ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were. [ Cervantes ]

To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. [ Ruskin ]

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others. [ Bruyere ]

In human life there is a constant mutability; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate; life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

Eccentricity is not a proof of genius, and even an artist should remember that originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also in doing things better. [ Stedman ]

Eternity is the divine treasure-house and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing. [ Mountford ]

There are few things more singular than the blindness which, in matters of the highest importance to ourselves, often hides the truth that is plain as noon to all other eyes. [ Rev. Dr. Croly ]

There is one preacher who does preach with effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. [ Carlyle ]

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary. [ Epicurus ]

In human life there is a constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. [ Plutarch ]

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. [ Sir T. F. Buxton ]

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. [ George Eliot ]

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. [ John Ruskin ]

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. [ Swinburne ]

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]

Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. [ John Ruskin ]

A good ear for music, and a good taste for music, are two very different things winch are often confounded; and so is comprehending and enjoying every object of sense and sentiment. [ Lord Greville ]

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else: but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness. [ William Law ]

The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. [ Pope ]

All the good things of this world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and whatever we may heap up to give to others, we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. [ De Foe ]

No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind; the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open. [ Manilius ]

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another. [ Macaulay ]

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Caesar which are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's. [ Quarles ]

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things. [ William Shakespeare ]

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. [ Moses Harvey ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction. [ Dryden ]

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]

Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials. [ B. R. Haydon ]

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. [ Montaigne ]

The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. [ J. G. Holland ]

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints. [ Dryden ]

Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. [ John Ruskin ]

There is a species of ferocity in rejecting indiscriminately all kinds of praises; we should be accessible to those which are given to us by good people, who praise in us sincerely praiseworthy things. [ Bruyere ]

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort. [ Sir Humphry Davy ]

The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. [ John Ruskin ]

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend upon such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, yet is he not certain to win the game. [ George Herbert ]

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 ]

The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them; consequently, whatever the world has treated seriously belongs to the comedy side of things. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The two most precious things on this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. [ Colton ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable. [ Epictetus ]

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we consider those things of little importance which have in fact such extensive consequences. [ Fenelon ]

Someone once observed, and the observation did him credit, whoever he was, that the dearest things in the world were neighbors' eyes, for they cost everybody more than anything else contributing to housekeeping. [ Albert Smith ]

Remember that it is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When, therefore, any one provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you. [ Epictetus ]

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Thou tell'st me there is murder in my eye: 'tis pretty, sure, and very probable that eyes - that are the frailest and softest things, who shut their coward gates on atomies - should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! [ William Shakespeare ]

To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between, plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big thing. This is truth, to me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

He that first likened glory to a shadow did better than he was aware of. They are both of them things excellently vain. Glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it. [ Montaigne ]

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. [ Chesterfield ]

When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. [ Colton ]

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

In the life of a nation ideas are not the only things of value. Sentiment also is of great value; and the way to foster sentiment in a people, and to develop it in the young, is to have a well-recorded past, and to be familiar with it. [ Joseph Anderson ]

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth. [ Tupper ]

Laissez faire, the "let alone" principle, is, in all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone, if he lets his fellow-men alone, if he lets his own soul alone. [ John Ruskin ]

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. [ Colton ]

To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Secrets from other people's wives are a necessary luxury in modern life, but no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soulmoving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow. [ Peter Bayne ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent. The starry heaven, though it occurs so very frequently to our view, never fails to excite an idea of grandeur. [ Burke ]

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance; than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Colton ]

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, - all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. [ Auerbach ]

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they do not know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the freemasons sign - they reveal the initiated to each other. [ Mrs. Stowe ]

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials: when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things. [ Shenstone ]

Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage - the species Man from the genus Ape. [ Carlyle ]

If there is excellence in my composition, set it down, first of all things and last, to the general fact that I have no method. Modes of expression in writing, like modes of expression in speech, are referable purely to feeling, not studied, but of the moment. [ Gen. Lew Wallace, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

Beauty in dress, as in other things, is largely relative. To admit this is to admit that a dress which is beautiful upon one woman may be hideous worn by another. Each should understand her own style, accept it, and let the fashion of her dress be built upon it. [ Miss Oakey ]

A man who knows the world, will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by the dexterity he displays in hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. [ Sir R. B. Cotton ]

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]

What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]

I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things: the first, that they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess. [ Sir W. Raleigh ]

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise - the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one. [ Lowell ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

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 ]

The difference between a parable and an apologue is that the former, being drawn from human life, requires probability in the narration, whereas the apologue, being taken from inanimate things or the inferior animals, is not confined strictly to probability. The fables of Aesop are apologues. [ Fleming ]

A gentleman's taste in dress is, upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you will find him the cheapest. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best. [ R. D. Hitchcock ]

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together - a main plot and an underplot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. [ Colton ]

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them. There is cheating on both sides of the counter, and generally less behind it than before it. [ Beecher ]

Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him. [ Manning ]

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 ]

It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]

Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, - they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. [ Mary Wortley Montagu ]

A miracle is a supernatural event, whose antecedent forces are beyond our finite vision, whose design is the display of almighty power for the accomplishment of almighty purposes, and whose immediate result, as regards man, is his recognition of God as the Supreme Ruler of all things, and of His will as the only supreme law. [ A. E. Kittredge ]

Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself. [ Bishop Hall ]

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day. [ Hawthorne ]

The word necessary is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]

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 ]

There are two things which help to make music - melody and harmony. Now, as most of you know, there is melody in music when the different sounds of the same tune follow each other so as to give us pleasure; there is harmony in music when different sounds, instead of following each other, come at the same time so as to give us pleasure. [ C. Kingsley ]

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree. [ Barrow ]

Nothing makes a woman more esteemed by the opposite sex than chastity; whether it be that we always prize those most who are hardest to come at, or that nothing besides chastity, with its collateral attendants, truth, fidelity, and constancy, gives the man a property in the person he loves, and consequently endears her to him above all things. [ Addison ]

There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art. in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men - the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. [ Samuel Smiles ]

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

Nominate or Name? To nominate is to mention for a specific purpose. To name is to mention for a general purpose. Persons only are nominated; things, as well as persons, are named. To be nominated is a public act; to be named is generally private. To be nominated is always an honor; to be named may, according to circumstances, be either honorable or dishonorable. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business. [ Seneca ]

There is scare any lot so low, but there is something in it to satisfy the man whom it has befallen, Providence having so ordered things, that in every man's cup how bitter soever, there are some cordial drops, some good circumstances, which if wisely extracted, are sufficient for the purpose he wants them, that is, to make him contented, and if not happy, at least resigned. [ Sterne ]

All are to be men of genius in their degree, - rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on. [ Ruskin ]

Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary. [ Colton ]

If the eye were so acute as to rival the finest microscope, and to discern the smallest hair upon the leg of a gnat, it would be a curse, and not a blessing to us; it would make all things appear rugged and deformed; the most finely polished crystal would be uneven and rough; the sight of our own selves would affright us; the smoothest skin would be beset all over with rugged scales and bristly hair. [ Bentley ]

You must study to give colour by apt images, and warmth by natural passion and earnestness. The music of words and the cadence of sentences is a matter which depends on the ear. Above all things monotony in the form of the sentences is to be avoided; variety means wealth and always pleases. Condensation also ought to be particularly studied, and a loose, rambling, ill-compacted form of sentence avoided. [ John Stuart Blackie, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

It is the saying of an old divine, Two things in ray apparel I will chiefly aim at - commodiousness and decency; more than these is not commendable, yet I hate an effeminate spruceness as much as a fantastic disorder. A neglected comeliness is the best ornament. It is said of the celebrated Mr. Whitfield that he always was very clean and neat, and often said pleasantly that a minister of the gospel ought to be without a spot. [ J. Beaumont ]

Good taste is essentially a moral quality. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the only morality. The first, last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, What do you like? - and the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do right things, but enjoy the right things. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character. [ Ruskin ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

We have no permanent habits until we are forty. Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins. Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up - and that is one of the main things. I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to. This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity. It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. [ Carlyle ]

Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful. [ Montaigne ]

Over Under. These words have various meanings besides the designation of mere locality, and are often misapplied. The terms under oath, under hand and seal, under arms, under his own signature, etc., are fully established and authorized forms of expression, which do not concern the relative positions of the persons and things indicated, but are idiomatic. Hence, over his own signature, is an unjustifiable phrase, despite the fact that the signature is really at the bottom of the instrument signed. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]

Two things a master commits to his servant's care - the child and the child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for the servant to say, at his master's return, Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and clean, but the child is lost. Much so of the account that many will give to God of their souls and bodies at the great day. Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it. [ John Flavel ]

He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]

Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. [ Colton ]

The man who makes a success of an important venture never waits for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticised. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. [ C. V. White ]

My friends, if you had but the power of looking into the future you might see that great things may come of little things. There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. There are the great constellations in the sky, made up of little bits of stars. Oh, if you could consider his future you might see that he might become the greatest poet of the universe, the greatest warrior the world has ever known, greater than Caesar, than Hannibal, than--er--er" (turning to the father) - What's his name? The father hesitated, then whispered back: His name? Well, his name is Mary Ann. [ Mark Twain, Educations and Citizenship ]

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 ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]