THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
|
Home Page |
GIGA Quotes |
Biographical Name Index |
Chronological Name Index |
Topic List |
Reading List |
Site Notes |
Crossword Solver |
Anagram Solver |
Subanagram Solver |
LexiThink Game |
Anagram Game |
There is a proud modesty in merit. - [Merit] There's a proud modesty in merit! Averse from asking, and resolv'd to pay Ten times the gifts it asks. - [Merit] There's a spirit above, and a spirit below, A spirit of joy, and a spirit of woe, The spirit above is the spirit divine, The spirit below is the spirit of wine.[Unattributed--[written about 1825]} Wicked spirits may by their cunning carry further in a seeming confederacy or subserviency to the designs of a good angel. - written about 1825 [Spirits] These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution. - [Age] They conquer who believe they can. - [Conquest] They first condemn that first advised the ill. - [Advice] They live too long who happiness outlive. - [Happiness] This famine has a sharp and meagre face; 'Tis death in an undress of skin and bone, Where age and youth, their landmark, ta'en away, Look all one common sorrow. - [Famine] This hand, I cannot but in death resign! - [Proposals] Those fair ideas to my aid I'll call, and emulate to my great original. - [Emulation] Those wanting wit, affect gravity and go by the name of solid men. - [Bores] Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation. - [Shakespeare] Those who are prosperously unjust are entitled to panegyric, but afflicted virtue is stabbed with reproaches. - [Success] Those who believe that the praises which arise from valor are superior to those which proceed from any other virtues have not considered. - [Valor] Those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. - [Fate] Thou strong seducer, opportunity! of womankind, half are undone by thee. - [Opportunity] Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt. - [Guilt] Thy shape in every part so clean as might instruct the sculptor's art. - [Sculpture] Time's abyss, the common grave of all. - [Time] 'Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard may be let alone; And, after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern. - [Religion] To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense. - [Education] To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. - [Perverseness] To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. - [Proverbs] To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. - [Today : Tomorrow] Too curious mans! why dost thou seek to know Events, which, good or ill, foreknown, are woe! Th' all-seeing power, that made thee mortal, gave Thee every thing a mortal state should have. - [Eternity] Displaying page 11 of 21 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Support GIGA. Buy something from Amazon. |
|