God works in moments. [ French Proverb ]
Talent works, genius creates. [ Schumann ]
Read much, but not many works. [ Sir W. Hamilton ]
Words of love are works of love. [ W. R. Alger ]
Man blindly works the will of fate. [ Wieland ]
Logic works; metaphysic contemplates. [ Joubert ]
Every man is the son of his own works. [ Proverb ]
Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works. [ Milton ]
The sweat of industry would dry, and die,
But for the end it works to. [ William Shakespeare ]
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. [ William Shakespeare ]
The divine chemistry works in the subsoil. [ Hawthorne ]
Sow good works and you shalt reap gladness. [ Proverb ]
God ever works with those who work with will. [ Aeschylus ]
These are Thy glorious works. Parent of good. [ Milton ]
Love works a different way in different minds,
The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds. [ John Dryden ]
The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]
Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works
Must yield at length to Time. [ Thomas Love Peacock ]
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image. [ Milton ]
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 ]
Friends are to incite one another to God's works. [ William Ellery Channing ]
Perseverance performs greater works than strength. [ Proverb ]
Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. [ Bible ]
Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant. [ Joubert ]
What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]
My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. [ Joseph Joubert ]
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too. [ Cowper ]
He that works wickedness by another is wicked himself. [ Proverb ]
The truth works sometimes from without as from within. [ Dr. W. Smith ]
The rather since every man is the son of his own works. [ Cervantes ]
Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
They lard their lean books with the fat of other's works. [ Burton ]
In every author let us distinguish the man from his works. [ Voltaire ]
Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste His works. [ Cowper ]
In science read the newest works; in literature, the oldest. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do. [ Hamerton ]
Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
He that works journey-work with the devil shall never want work. [ Proverb ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. [ Johnson ]
As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works. [ Whately ]
Faith is the root of works. A root that produceth nothing is dead. [ Thomas Wilson ]
The poet, of all sorts of artificers, is the fondest of his works. [ Proverb ]
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. [ Emerson ]
He that works after his own manner, his head aches not at the matter. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. [ G. Bancroft ]
Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good. [ Prescott ]
Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works. [ Proverb ]
Good works will never save you, but you can never be saved without them. [ Proverb ]
Hell is full of good meanings and wishes, but heaven is full of good works. [ Proverb ]
Every one according to his talent, and every talent according to its works. [ French Proverb ]
Every one is the son of his own works; (i.e. is responsible for his own acts. [ Spanish Proverb ]
Resolves perish into vacancy, that, if executed, might have been noble works. [ Henry Giles ]
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. [ Lady Blessington ]
No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. [ Jean Paul ]
When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended. [ La Fontaine ]
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. [ Bacon ]
Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works even be it against his will. [ Goethe ]
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. It is the doctrine of faith over works. [ Emerson ]
Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence? [ Arsene Houssaye ]
Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead. [ Cervantes ]
Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]
Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, after Spinoza ]
He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas. [ John Ruskin ]
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works as by his patience. [ Horace Bushnell ]
You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works. [ T. L. Cuyler ]
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely. [ Arthur Helps ]
It is in the heart that God has placed the genius of women, because the works of this genius are all works of love. [ Lamartine ]
In science, read by preference the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works: they have eyes only for spots and blemishes. [ Addison ]
Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
You think much too well of me as a man. No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons. [ Richter ]
It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments. [ J. F. Boyes ]
One writer excels at a plan or a title-page; another works away at the body of the book; and a third is a dab hand at an index. [ Goldsmith ]
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spare neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bury empires and cities in a common grave. [ Gibbon ]
Of all the marvelous works of the Deity, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. [ Colton ]
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well established authors. [ Whately ]
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. [ Dr. Johnson ]
We should have a glorious conflagration if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. [ Colton ]
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 ]
Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
When the press is the echo of sages and reformers, it works well; when it is the echo of turbulent cynics, it merely feeds political excitement. [ Lamartine ]
The most difficult thing in all works of art is to make that which has been most highly elaborated appear as if it had not been elaborated at all. [ Winkelmann ]
Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. [ Carlyle ]
In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals. [ Macaulay ]
The direct relation of music is not to ideas, but emotions. Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry. [ Henry Giles ]
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious. [ Addison ]
Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men. [ Carlyle ]
The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]
This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life. [ Charles Kingsley ]
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. [ Goldsmith ]
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
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 ]
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works. [ Bishop Hall ]
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance. [ Carlyle ]
There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [ Carlyle ]
The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. [ Bacon ]
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature. [ James Freeman Clarke ]
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. [ Ausonius ]
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 ]
Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. [ Whewell ]
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity or classical works with gross and trivial recollections. [ Wordsworth ]
An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe: but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. [ O. W. Holmes ]
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing. [ Addison ]
There are persons who flatter themselves that the size of their works will make them immortal. They pile up reluctant quarto upon solid folio, as if their labors, because they are gigantic, could contend with truth and heaven! [ Junius ]
Love works miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and strengthening the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favoring the passions, destroying reason, and, in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. [ Macaulay ]
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]
Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. [ Chateaubriand ]
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere. [ Bovee ]
There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. [ Sir John Herschel ]
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe. [ Johnson ]
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing. [ Isaac Disraeli ]
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. [ R. L, Stevenson ]
Every common dauber writes rascal and villain under his pictures, because the pictures themselves have neither character nor resemblance. But the works of a master require no index. His features and coloring are taken from nature. The impression they make is immediate and uniform; nor is it possible to mistake his characters. [ Junius ]
The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]
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 ]
Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]
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 ]
I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]
The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth. [ Willmott ]