A still, small voice. [ Bible ]
Thy voice
Is a celestial melody. [ Longfellow ]
The music of the heart. [ Akenside ]
Silence, beautiful voice. [ Tennyson ]
Voice of one, voice of none. [ Italian Proverb ]
Prayer is the voice of faith. [ Horne ]
The still small voice is wanted. [ Cowper ]
Words are the voice of the heart. [ Confucius ]
The still small voice of gratitude. [ Gray ]
Stern daughter of the voice of God! [ Wordsworth ]
What by duty's voice is bidden.
There, where duty's star may guide,
Thither follow, that accomplish,
Whatsoever else betide. [ R. C. Trench ]
And kind the voice and glad the eyes
That welcome my return at night. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought;
Nor voice, nor sound betrays
Its deep, impassioned gaze. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice. [ William Shakespeare ]
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice. [ Addison ]
For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old. [ Longfellow ]
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
The passions are the voice of the body. [ Rousseau ]
Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever. [ Shelley ]
The human voice is the organ of the soul. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Her step is music, and her voice is song. [ Bailey ]
Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? [ Bible ]
Conscience is the voice of God in the soul. [ Aughey ]
Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
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 ]
The voice of an ass will never reach heaven. [ Proverb ]
To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. [ Bryant ]
Youth dreams a bliss on this side death.
It dreams a rest, if not more deep.
More grateful than this marble sleep;
It hears a voice within it tell:
Calm's not life's crown, though calm is well.
'Tis all perhaps which man acquires,
But 'tis not what our youth desires. [ Matthew Arnold ]
Alas! today I would give everything
To see a friend's face, or hear a voice
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Even from the tomb the voice of nature cries,
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires. [ Gray ]
So many miseries have crazed my voice,
That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. [ William Shakespeare ]
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death? [ Gray ]
To have heard the voice
Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas,
To have known him in the circling of the suns,
And in the changeful fates and lives of men. [ Lewis Morris ]
Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. [ Hawthorne ]
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers.
And tender broken voice that fills
With ravishment the listening hours, -
Whisperings, wooings.
Liquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings
In low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!
Dark the night
Yet is she bright.
For in her dark she brings the mystic star.
Trembling yet strong, as is the voice of love.
From some unknown afar. [ George Eliot ]
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Make heaven drowsy with the harmony. [ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act. IV. Sc. 3 ]
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion. [ Charles Lamb ]
The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun. [ Rev. J. Parker ]
Solitude is the voice of Nature that speaks to us. [ George Sand ]
These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]
One is never criminal in obeying the voice of Nature. [ Balzac ]
Religion - that voice of the deepest human experience. [ Matthew Arnold ]
God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse. [ De Bernis ]
Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar as a king. [ Decker ]
The press should be the voice of the people, not of party. [ James Ellis ]
It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [ Virg., of Rumour ]
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
Only a signal shewn and a distant voice in the darkness:
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another.
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Conscience is the voice of the soul; passion, the voice of the body. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Her voice was ever soft, gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. [ Longfellow ]
We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. [ Bible ]
They that have voice of lions and act of hares, - are they not monsters? [ William Shakespeare ]
Listen to yourself, and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. [ Maya Angelou ]
The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible. [ Longfellow ]
The Sibyl, speaking with inspired mouth, sends her voice to remotest ages. [ Heraclitus ]
His sweetest dreams were still of that dear voice that soothed his infancy. [ Southey ]
The shadow of a sound, - a voice without a mouth, and words without a tongue. [ Paul Chatfield ]
Violence in the voice is often only the death-rattle of reason in the throat. [ J. F. Boyes ]
The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! [ Percival ]
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. [ Mme. Du Deffand ]
Wise friends are the best book of life, because they teach with voice and looks. [ Calderon ]
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise. [ Fontenelle ]
The human voice has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. [ Joubert ]
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. [ Maturin ]
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. [ Balzac ]
Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, and the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. [ Campbell ]
A bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. [ Ecclesiastes ]
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, or flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of death? [ Gray ]
Obey the voice of your mother, O my children! and remember the teachings of the Most High. [ Rabbi Judah ]
The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart. [ Alfred de Musset ]
That the voice of the common people is the voice of God is as full of falsehood as commonness. [ Warwick ]
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the still small voice.
[ Sidney Dobell ]
There is as much eloquence in the tone of the voice, in the eyes, and in the air of a speaker as in his choice of words. [ Rochefoucauld ]
How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity! [ Jane Porter ]
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and Duty - the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. [ Carlyle ]
Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action. [ Hare ]
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams will define our American destiny, and your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]
Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. [ E. Burritt ]
When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. [ Mrs. Browning ]
Music is the harmonious voice of creation, an echo of the invisible world, one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound. [ Mazzini ]
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]
The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance; but the soul reveals itself in the voice only. [ Longfellow ]
What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? and is there any harmony of tints that has such stirrings of delight as the sweet modulations of her voice? [ George Eliot ]
Nothing makes so much impression on the heart of man as the voice of friendship when it is really known to be such; for we are aware that it never speaks to us except for our advantage. [ Rousseau ]
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me. [ Napoleon ]
A frequent intercourse and intimate connection between two persons make them so like, that not only their dispositions are moulded like each other, but their very face and tone of voice contract a certain analogy. [ Lavater ]
The deep mellow voice of the waves of the mighty deep is full of mystery and awe; and the ocean moaning over the dead it holds in its bosom, lulls them to unbroken slumbers in the chambers of its unfathomable depths. [ Haliburton ]
Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. [ Ruskin ]
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. [ Bible ]
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention. [ Sterne ]
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes. [ George Washington ]
Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers. [ Joubert ]
How oft my guardian angel gently cried, Soul, from thy casement look, and thou shalt see How he persists to knock and wait for thee!
And, O! how often to that voice of sorrow, Tomorrow we will open,
I replied. And when the morrow came I answered still, Tomorrow.
[ Tome Burguillos ]
The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble. The proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none. By itself, the voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. [ Enchiridion ]
Each successive generation plunges into the abyss of passion, without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of reason. [ Steele ]
There is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. [ Washington Irving ]
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]