Respect us human, and relieve us poor. [ Pope ]

They love us truly who correct us freely. [ Proverb ]

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. [ Virgil ]

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

Leave us in the dirt and find us in the mire. [ Proverb ]

Little consoles us because little afflicts us. [ Pascal ]

Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends. [ Delille ]

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

Let US make no vows, but let us act as if we had. [ Rochepedre ]

What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What comes from God to us, returns from us to God.

Difficulties spur us whenever they do not check us. [ Charles Reade ]

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. [ Lowell ]

Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave us. [ Proverb ]

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same! [ Lord Lytton ]

Nothing so much contents us as that which confounds us. [ Goldsmith ]

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. [ A. B. Alcott ]

Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. [ French Proverb ]

There is nothing without us that is not also within us. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think [ Mlle. de Guerin ]

Trifles render us miserable, but trifles also console us. [ Romainville ]

Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable. [ Alexander Smith ]

Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods. [ Proverb ]

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. [ Thomas Jefferson ]

Our birth made us mortal, our death will make us immortal. [ Proverb ]

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

A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes us collected. [ Jean Paul ]

Those faces which have charmed us most escape us the soonest. [ Walter Scott ]

Better is an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. [ Proverb ]

That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

For one virtue that makes us walk, how many vices make us run! [ Pichot ]

That fire which lights us at a distance, will burn us when near. [ Proverb ]

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. [ Stanislaus ]

Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are. [ Cecil ]

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

It is God himself who speaks to us, when noble thoughts inspire us.

One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

Love, that seldom gives us happiness, at least makes us dream of it. [ Senancourt ]

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. [ Donne ]

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

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

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. [ Lowell ]

Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. [ The Lord's Prayer ]

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

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

What a force of illusion begins life with us, and attends us to the end! [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake. [ Amiel ]

One adversary may do us more harm than a great many friends can do us good. [ Proverb ]

It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect for us before they permit us. [ Pythagoras ]

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. [ Fenelon ]

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

Hope says to us at every moment: Go on! go on! and leads us thus to the grave. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. [ J. Petit-Senn ]