Through the death of.
Through carelessness.
Free through difficulty. [ Motto ]
Through the perils of war. [ Motto ]
Through hardship to triumph. [ Motto ]
The sure way to wickedness
Is always through wickedness. [ Seneca ]
Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Passing through Nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]
To lick honey through a cleft stick. [ Proverb ]
Eyes so transparent,
That through them one sees the soul. [ Theophile Gautier ]
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]
Grief is a tattered tent
Where through God's light doth shine. [ Lucy Larcom ]
I look through the grave into heaven. [ Theodore Parker ]
Hunger will break through stone walls. [ Proverb ]
The great world's altar-stairs
That slope through darkness up to God. [ Tennyson ]
I shall show the cinders of my spirits
Through the ashes of my chance. [ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2 ]
As we sail through life towards death,
Bound unto the same port - heaven -
Friend, what years could us divide? [ D. M. Mulock ]
The softest blush that nature spreads
Gave color to her cheek:
Such orient color smiles through heaven
When vernal mornings break. [ Mallet ]
But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]
Gashed with honourable scars,
Low in Glory's lap they lie;
Though they fell, they fell like stars,
Streaming splendour through the sky. [ Montgomery ]
To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between. [ Scott ]
The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed.
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls,
As if that soul were fled. [ Moore ]
Press onward through each varying hour;
Let no weak fears thy course delay;
Immortal being! feel thy power,
Pursue thy bright and endless way. [ Andrews Norton ]
Christ leads me through no darker rooms
Than He went through before. [ Richard Baxter ]
Looks through nature up to nature's God. [ Pope ]
Through every fibre of my brain,
Through every nerve, through every vein,
I feel the electric thrill, the touch
Of life, that seems almost too much. [ Henry W. Longfellow ]
But felt through all this fleshly dresse
Bright shootes of everlastingness. [ Henry Vaughan ]
Through perils both of wind and limb.
Through thick and thin she follow'd him. [ Butler ]
Her hair is bound with myrtle leaves,
(Green leaves upon her golden hair!),
Green grasses through the yellow sheaves
Of autumn corn are not more fair. [ Oscar Wilde ]
Oh! never breathe a dead one's name,
When those who loved that one are nigh;
It pours a lava through the frame
That chokes the breast and fills the eye. [ Eliza Cook ]
A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]
Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]
Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]
But through the heart
Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse
'Tis then delightful misery no more
But agony unmixed, incessant gall
Corroding every thought, and blasting all
Love's paradise. [ Thomson ]
Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and space,
Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark
To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark. [ William Cowper ]
A good man, through obscurest aspirations,
Has still an instinct of the one true way. [ Goethe ]
Pacing through the forest.
Chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees!
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play! [ Whittier ]
Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. [ Dutch Proverb ]
When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak - little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. [ T. B. Aldrich ]
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls. [ Longfellow ]
Like a tailor's needle, say, I go through.
[ Proverb ]
Truth has rough flavors if we bite through. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence through the empty-vaulted night.
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! [ Milton ]
Wit will shine
Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. [ Dryden ]
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. [ Pope ]
Those thoughts that wander through eternity. [ Milton ]
The lovely town was white with apple blooms.
And the great elms o'erhead
Dark shadows wove on their serial looms.
Shot through with golden thread. [ Longfellow ]
Through age both weak in body and oblivious. [ Latimer ]
They speak of hope to the fainting heart,
With a voice of promise they come and part,
They sleep in dust through the wintry hours,
They break forth in glory - bring flowers,
bright flowers! [ Mrs. Hemans ]
E'en like the passage of an angel's tear
That falls through the clear ether silently. [ Keats ]
Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious painter doth pursue
Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks.
And tracks thee dancing down thy waterbreaks. [ Wordsworth ]
Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]
A moneyless man goes fast through the market. [ Proverb ]
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]
Life passes through us; we do not possess it. [ Amiel ]
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace,
Brought from a pensive through a happy place. [ Wordsworth ]
Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks.
And through the opening door that time unlocks
Feel the fresh breathing of Tomorrow creep. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who
Before us passed the door of Darkness through,
Not one returns to tell us of the road
Which to discover we must travel too. [ Omar Khayyam ]
We see but dimly through the mists and vapors;
Amid these earthly damps,
What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps. [ Longfellow ]
The winds of winter wailing through the woods;
The mighty laughter of the vernal floods. [ Abraham Coles ]
Love will find its way
Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. [ Byron ]
Gradual sinks the breeze,
Into a perfect calm; that not a breath
I heard to quiver thro' the closing woods,
Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves,
Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffused?
In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse
Forgetful of their course. 'Tis silence all.
And pleasing expectation. [ Thomson ]
And now from Nature up to Nature's God,
But down from Natures God look Nature through. [ Robert Montgomery ]
Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe
That all was lost. [ Milton ]
Behold the threaden sails.
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge. [ William Shakespeare ]
Patience and application will carry us through. [ Proverb ]
Either don't attempt it, or go through with it. [ Ovid ]
Lulled by soft zephyrs through the broken pane. [ Pope ]
To go through fire and water to serve a friend. [ 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 ]
For through the south the custom still commands
The gentleman to kiss the lady's hands. [ Byron ]
Come what, come may:
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. [ William Shakespeare ]
The careful insect 'midst his works I view,
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew.
With golden treasures load his little thighs,
And steer his distant journey through the skies. [ Gay ]
How beautiful is night!
A dewy freshness fills the silent air.
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain
Breaks the serene heaven:
In full-orb'd glory yonder moon divine
Rolls through the dark blue depths.
Beneath her steady ray
The desert circle spreads,
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.
How beautiful is night! [ Southey ]
Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends. [ Sprague ]
Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. [ Virgil ]
Hear the mellow wedding bells.
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten golden notes,
And all in tune
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle-dove that listen? while she gloats
On the moon! [ Poe ]
So doth Thy right hand guide us through the world
Wherein we stumble. [ Robert Browning ]
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. [ Proverb ]
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]
See the dapple coursers of the morn
Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs,
And chase it through the sky. [ Marston ]
Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust;
Thou knowst 'tis common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Through danger safety comes, through trouble rest. [ John Marston ]
Through the lone groves would pace in solemn mood.
Wooing the pensive charms of solitude. [ Pye ]
An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. [ Publius Syrus ]
Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself. [ Emerson ]
Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be sore. [ Proverb ]
At last the golden oriental gate
Of greatest heaven began to open fair;
And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate,
Came dancing forth shaking his dewy hair,
And hurled his glistering beams through gloomy air. [ Spenser ]
But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear. [ William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I. Sc. 3 ]
Her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright.
That birds would sing, and think it were not night. [ William Shakespeare ]
Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd,
And then they shine. [ Beaumont ]
Ten thousand furies lash my soul with whips.
At every look sharp stings transfix my heart.
And my chill blood thrills cold through every vein. [ Darcy ]
The slaves of custom and established mode,
With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells,
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. [ Cowper ]
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. [ Waller ]
Thine eyes are like the deep, blue, boundless heaven
Contracted in two circles underneath
Their long, fine lashes; dark, far, measureless,
Orb within orb, and line through line inwoven. [ Shelley ]
The world is his who can see through its pretension. [ Emerson ]
There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. [ Spurgeon ]
He knows the water the best who has waded through it. [ Proverb ]
Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes).
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise
Flashed an expression more of pride than ire,
And love than either; and there would arise,
A something in them which was not desire,
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul,
Which struggled through and chastened down the whole. [ Byron ]
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 ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse. [ De Bernis ]
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. [ Byron ]
We condemn vice and extol virtue only through interest. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Hark! how the gentle echo from her cell
Talks through the cliffs, and murmuring over the stream.
Repeats the accent - we shall part no more. [ Akenside ]
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation. [ Edward Burke ]
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. [ Emerson ]
The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes. [ Silius Italicus ]
A servant never yet miscarried through excess of respect. [ Proverb ]
He looks as though he had sucked his dam through a hurdle. [ Proverb ]
Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]
It is through the feeling of wonder that men philosophise. [ Aristotle ]
Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance. [ Channing ]
All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. [ Shakespeare ]
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. [ Spenser ]
Mark how there still has run, inwoven from above,
Through thy life's darkest woof, the golden thread of love. [ R. C. Trench ]
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us agreeably through life. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. [ M. of Paris ]
We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through our pretensions. [ Mme, d Girardin ]
Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. [ Virgil ]
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]
Every child walks into existence through the golden gate of love. [ Beecher ]
Through the arts the wonder of the ignorant multitude is excited. [ Anaxilaus ]
To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. [ Donn Piatt ]
Through aisles of long-drawn centuries my spirit walks in thought. [ Lowell ]
Through the wide world, he only is alone who lives not for another. [ Samuel Rogers ]
Friendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart. [ Mildmay ]
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 ]
Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise. [ Lowell ]
I know him as well as if I had gone through him with a lighted link. [ Proverb ]
Half the ease of life oozes away through the leaks of unpunctuality. [ Anon ]
Error will slip through a crack, while truth will stick in a doorway. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The way to fame, is like the way to heaven, through much tribulation. [ Sterne ]
Often has a small spark through neglect raised a great conflagration. [ Rufus ]
Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. [ Geo. MacDonald ]
Women are demons that make us enter hell through the door of paradise.
Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure. [ Alcott ]
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]
Women are women, but to become mothers they go to duty through pleasure. [ Joubert ]
Health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before. [ Bacon ]
Character is moral order seen through the medium of an individual nature. [ Emerson ]
You arrive at truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth. [ Joubert ]
Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp gets through, the gnat sticks. [ La Fontaine ]
Pretty women are like sovereigns: one flatters them only through interest.
Style is the gossamer on which the needs of truth float through the world. [ Bancroft ]
As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables. [ Thackeray ]
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! [ William Shakespeare ]
And out of darkness came the hands That reach through nature, moulding men. [ Tennyson ]
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Good men can more easily see through bad men than the latter can the former. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
After love friendship (when we have lived through love we begin friendship). [ Heine ]
I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child. [ Judge Haliburton ]
The tanager flies through the green foliage as if he would ignite the leaves. [ Thoreau ]
The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. [ Sir E. Coke ]
We are often more agreeable through our faults than through our good qualities. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. [ Bishop Hall ]
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. [ Owen Feltham ]
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she may give birth to one. [ Jean Paul ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; robes and furred gowns hide all. [ William Shakespeare ]
The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance. [ Tupper ]
No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own. [ F. W. Robertson ]
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! [ Carlyle ]
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them. [ Sherlock ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law. [ Pascal ]
The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. [ Wordsworth ]
All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude. [ Carlyle ]
The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex. [ Richardson ]
Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. [ Lowell ]
As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. [ William Shakespeare ]
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. [ W. E. Channing ]
Reading is useless to some people: ideas pass through their heads without remaining. [ C. Jordan ]
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. [ Balzac ]
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. [ Bayard Taylor ]
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. [ Richter ]
In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. [ William Shakespeare ]
A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. [ Ovid ]
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
The spider lost her distaff, and is ever since forced to draw her thread through her tail. [ Proverb ]
Hope, deceitful as she is, serves at least to conduct us through life by an agreeable path. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. [ Rückert ]
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood. [ Arndt ]
Reason is as it were a light to lighten our steps and guide us through the journey of life. [ Cicero ]
Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. [ Mrs. E. B. Browning ]
True eyes, too pure and too honest in aught to disguise the sweet soul shining through them. [ Owen Meredith ]
Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. [ Horace ]
A small number of men and women think for the million; through them the million speak and act. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. [ Juv ]
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. [ Richter ]
The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew. [ Whittier ]
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. [ Luther ]
But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light. Shone like the moon in water seen by night. [ William Shakespeare ]
The death of your first wife made such an impression in your heart, that all the rest fly through. [ Proverb ]
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]
My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee. [ Christian Scriver ]
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. [ Bovee ]
Since your eyes are so sharp, that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind. [ Lyly ]
He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. [ Emerson ]
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life. [ J. C. Geikie ]
The grace will carry us, if we do not willfully betray our succors, victoriously through all difficulties. [ Henry Hammond ]
Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. [ Seneca ]
Beauty has no lustre except when it gleams through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it. [ Maturin ]
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]
Poetry is deep pain, and the genuine song issues only from the human heart through which a deep sorrow glows. [ Justin Kerner ]
Adversity tries men, and virtue strives for glory through adverse circumstances, undeterred by hard obstacles. [ Silius Italicus ]
Despair defies even despotism; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with leveled spears. [ Byron ]
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself. [ Montesquieu ]
The future of society is in the hands of the mothers. If the world was lost through woman, she alone can save it. [ De Beaufort ]
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. [ Sir W. Temple ]
There are peculiar ways in men, which discover what they are, through the most subtle feints and closest disguises. [ La Bruyere ]
Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university. [ Chapin ]
I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. [ Virgil ]
Time glides away, and we grow older through the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are restrained by no rein. [ Ovid ]
Life is before you, - not earthly life alone, but life - a thread running interminably through the warp of eternity. [ J. G. Holland ]
Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. [ Horace ]
There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. [ Ovid, in the name of Daedalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings ]
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story. [ Sterne ]
Life is rather a state of embryo, - a preparation for life. A man is not completely born until he has passed through death. [ Franklin ]
Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. [ William Harris ]
A little love rapidly develops the sensibilities and intelligence of women: it is through the heart that they ripen or mold. [ Latena ]
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. [ T. Starr King ]
I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. [ Joanna Baillie ]
Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. [ Hallam ]
Troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go, with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been. [ Spenser ]
Truth is one, forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]
Good poetry has a lot in common with good copy. A poem evokes vivid images and strong emotions through very careful word choice. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]
Whatever the world may say, there are some mortal sorrows; and our lives ebb away less through our blood than through our tears. [ P. Juillerat ]
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. [ H. W. Beecher ]
Yet through all, we know this tangled skein is in the hands of One who sees the end from the beginning; He shall yet unravel all. [ Alexander Smith ]
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. [ Goethe ]
Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! [ Lessing ]
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. [ Carlyle ]
One lamp, thy mother's love, amid the stars shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before the throne of God burn through eternity. [ N. P. Willis ]
The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried and smelted and polished and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. [ Chapin ]
A homely man of merit is never repulsive: as soon as he is named, his physique is forgotten; the mind passes through it to see the soul. [ Romainville ]
On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. [ Carlyle ]
The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. [ Addison ]
Through all God's works there runs a beautiful harmony. The remotest truth in His universe is linked to that which lies nearest the throne. [ E. H. Chapin ]
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
We look at death through the cheapglazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. [ Lowell ]
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 ]
We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! what can we do when they never sleep! [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out; a house without books is like a room without windows. It is a man's duty to have books. [ H. W. Beecher ]
An honorable name or a good reputation is an excellent protection against wrong-doing: we fear to compromise it more through vanity than virtue.
How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old. [ Phillips Brooks ]
The woman who loves us is only a woman, but the woman we love is a celestial being whose defects disappear under the prism through which we see her. [ E. de Girardin ]
Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]
Stories first heard at a mother's knee are never wholly forgotten - a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. [ Ruffini ]
In all societies it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest. In the grand theater of human life a box ticket takes you through the house. [ Colton ]
The stroke that comes transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? [ Carlyle ]
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. [ Horace Mann ]
Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. [ Jean Paul ]
As music has been the tardiest of arts to make its way through the great world, so it is peculiarly the tardiest of arts to make its way into a new country. [ T. Tilton ]
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen and chariots. [ William M. Paxton ]
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves. [ Bruyere ]
Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during glory and termless joy. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. [ Yogi Berra ]
We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]
That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. [ Bacon ]
It is a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man, that his earthly influence, which has a commencement, will never, through all ages, have an end. [ Aughey ]
Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body. [ Thomas Fuller ]
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. [ Johnson ]
Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone. [ Rev. T. Jones ]
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. [ Richter ]
It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. [ Schiller ]
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. [ Colton ]
A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives lustre and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]
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 ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
Ponder the lives of the glorious in art; or literature through all ages. What are they but records of toils and sacrifices, supported by the earnest hearts of their votaries? [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
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 ]
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once - through inexperience, as we now perceive - we missed that happiness we might have found! [ Cowper ]
The amount of honey which we accumulate from the years as they pass, depends not so much upon the number of flower-gardens through which we rove, as upon our powers of extraction. [ Henry Wood ]
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]
The passage of Providence lies through many crooked ways; a despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of fortune, but not break them. [ Quarles ]
The fact is, that to do anything in tbia world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
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 ]
If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between them and that of the fool; there are infinite reveries and numberless extravagancies pass through both. [ Addison ]
The fact is, that to do any thing in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. [ Sydney Smith ]
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]
Whenever I am in doubt about a sentence I read it aloud to see how it sounds, and indeed, always read the whole book through aloud, sometimes more than once, before it goes to the press. [ Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, English novelist and early feminist, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Each department of knowledge passes in succession through three different theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific, or positive. [ A. Comte ]
Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief. [ Epictetus ]
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]
Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. [ Washington Irving ]
Reflection makes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment. [ Hazlitt ]
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining. [ Adam Clarke ]
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. [ Rutherford ]
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life amid glory and acclamation; but it burns very dimly and low when carried into the valley of the shadow of death.
[ Mountford ]
Why was the sight to such a tender ball as the eye confined, so obvious and so easy to be quenched, and not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, that she might look at will through every pore? [ Milton ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone. [ Emerson ]
Friendship has steps which lead up on the throne of God, through all spirits, even to the Infinite; only love is satiable, and like truth admits no three degrees of comparison; and a single being fills the heart. [ Richter ]
Of permanent griefs there are none, for they are but clouds. The swifter they move through the sky. the more follow after them; and even the immovable ones are absorbed by the other, and become smaller till they vanish. [ Richter ]
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]
It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin, - and then we all die so soon. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [ A. B. Hegeman ]
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. [ J. B. Owen ]
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]
Music once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies; it wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of the memory, and is often heard again, distinct and living as when it first displaced the wavelets of the air. [ Bulwer ]
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit: but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures. [ Thucydides ]
If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy - think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow stream are no purifying bath in which you may wash and be clean. No! no! as you go down into them, you will come up from them. [ Alexander Maclaren ]
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her case is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex. [ Colton ]
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]
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 ]
Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]
The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day. [ Chapin ]
The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]
If one could look a while through the chinks of heaven's door, and see the beauty and bliss of paradise; if he could but lay his ear to heaven, and hear the ravishing music of those seraphic spirits, and the anthems of praise which they sing, how would his soul be exhilarated and transported with joy. [ Watson ]
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. [ Goldsmith ]
It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]
Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]
What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong. [ Martin Luther ]
Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]
Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]
The maxim of Cleobulus, Mediocrity is best,
has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits. [ Dr. Johnson ]
In Goethe's drama, Iphigenia defends her chastity, ascribing her firmness to the gods. No god hath said this: thine own heart hath spoken,
answered Thoas, the king. They only speak to us through our heart,
she replies. Have not I the right to hear them too?
he rejoins. Thy storm of passion drowns the gentle whisper,
adds the maiden, and closes all debate. [ Bartol ]
By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]
When the first time of love is over, there comes a something better still; then comes that other love; that faithful friendship which never changes, and which will accompany you with its calm light through the whole of life; it is only needful to place yourself so that it may come, and then it comes of itself; and then everything turns and changes itself for the best. [ Frederika Bremer ]
The little flower which sprung up through the hard pavement of poor Picciola's prison was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here amid rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature. And O, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ Chapin ]
The little flower which sprung up through the hard payment of poor Picciola's prison, was beautiful from contrast with the dreary sterility which surrounded it. So here, amid the rough walls, are there fresh tokens of nature; and oh, the beautiful lessons which flowers teach to children, especially in the city! The child's mind can grasp with ease the delicate suggestions of flowers. [ E. H. Chapin ]
It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. [ Addison ]
It is particularly worth observation that the more we magnify, by the assistance of glasses, the works of nature, the more regular and beautiful they appear, while it is quite different in respect to those of art, for when they are examined through a microscope we are astonished to find them so rough, so coarse and uneven, although they have been done with all imaginable care, by the best workmen. [ Sterne ]
A clear running brook is the best teacher of style. There is a quick forward movement - but not measured or monotonous movement - while the water is so limpid that everything is seen through the crystal medium. It seems to me that the best style is that which reveals the writer's thoughts so easily, plainly, and musically that the reader becomes engrossed in the thought or story and forgets the writer. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]
Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries; and, though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian, philosopher, and historian, - the humble listener, - there has been a divine melody running through the song, which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come. [ James A. Garfield ]
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own. [ Thackeray ]
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]
The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths - not until then can you know what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a wicked and slothful servant. For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done. [ Maltbie Babcock ]
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]
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 ]
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 ]
The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]
My method has been simply this - to think well on the subject which I had to deal with and when thoroughly impressed with it and acquainted with it in all its details, to write away without stopping to choose a word, leaving a blank where I was at a loss for it; to express myself as simply as possible in vernacular English, and afterwards to go through what I had written, striking out all redundancies, and substituting, when possible, simpler and more English words for those I might have written. I found that by following this method I could generally reduce very considerably in length what I had put on paper without sacrificing anything of importance or rendering myself less intelligible. [ Sir Austen Henry Layard, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]