Weak things united, become strong. [ Proverb ]
Of a truth men are mystically united. [ Carlyle ]
No greater mischief could be wrought
Than love united to a jealous thought. [ Greene ]
Even weak men when united are powerful. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. [ Victor Hugo ]
Without a genius, learning soars in vain;
And, without learning, genius sinks again;
Their force united, crowns the sprightly reign. [ Elphinston ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the life of Nature. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. [ Goethe ]
Body and soul like peevish man and wife, united jar, and yet are loath to part. [ Young ]
When two beings are united by love, all social conventionalities are suspended. [ Balzac ]
True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. [ Milton ]
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. [ Horace ]
Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour. [ John Ruskin ]
Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together. [ Shenstone ]
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them. [ Swift ]
The word independence
is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word dependence
is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption. [ Bentham ]
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother, - man knows no sadder destiny. [ Carlyle ]
We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
O Love! when thou findest thy true apostles on earth united in kisses, thou commandest their eyelids to close like veils, that they may not see their happiness! [ A. de Musset ]
Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. [ Matthew Arnold ]
The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]
All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]