Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's lives.
~Wrong.~--There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.--_George Eliot._
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.
Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning.
'T is all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.--_Socrates._
I more and more see this, that we judge men's abilities less from what they say or do, than from what they look. 'T is the man's face that gives him weight. His doings help, but not more than his brow.--_Charles Buxton._
It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause.--_Adam Clarke._
Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self.= (?)
So that if society, having, quite gratuitously, done all these things for me, asks me in turn to do something towards its preservation--even if that something is to contribute to the teaching of other men's children--I really, in spite of all my individualist learnings, feel rather ashamed to say no. And, if I were not ashamed, I cannot say that I think that society would be dealing unjustly with me in converting the moral obligation into a legal one. There is a manifest unfairness in letting all the burden be borne by the willing horse.
Is it not proven beyond all dispute that there is no limit to the enormities which men will commit when they are once persuaded that they are keepers of other men's consciences? To spread religion by any means, and to crush heresy by all means is the practical inference from the doctrine that one man may control another's religion. Given the duty of a state to foster some one form of faith, and by the sure inductions of our nature slowly but certainly persecution will occur. To prevent for ever the possibility of Papists roasting Protestants, Anglicans hanging Romish priests, and Puritans flogging Quakers, let every form of state-churchism be utterly abolished, and the remembrance of the long curse which it has cast upon the world be blotted out for ever.
There is no ordinance obliging us to fight those who are stronger than ourselves. Such fighting, as it were, with an elephant, is the same as men's fighting against rocks.
There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring the nature of the times deceased; / The which observed, a man may prophesy, / With a near aim of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life: which, in their seeds / And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open.
The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.
Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth place, gentle words. These things are never to be refused in good men's houses.
"Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, "and you have all men's hearts and purses."
Nihil morosius hominum judiciis=--Nothing so peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience to those that wring under the load of sorrow; but no man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he shall endure the like himself.--_Shakespeare._
Cut men's throats with whisperings.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own?
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Find out men's wants and will, / And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses.
Woman, sister! there are some things which you do not execute as well as your brother, man; no, nor ever will. Pardon me, if I doubt whether you will ever produce a great poet from your choirs, or a Mozart, or a Phidias, or a Michael Angelo, or a great philosopher, or a great scholar. By which last is meant, not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life. If you can create yourselves into any of these grand creators, why have you not?--_De Quincey._
The last stage of human perversion is when sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the indestructible interest we take in men's doings has become a joy over their faults and misfortunes.
My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next age.--_Bacon._
New-made honour doth forget men's names; / 'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For your conversion.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.
I should be glad were all the meadows on the earth left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Even should the whole human race be absorbed in one vast polity, within which "absolute political justice" reigns, the struggle for existence with the state of nature outside it, and the tendency to the return of the struggle within, in consequence of over-multiplication, will remain; and, unless men's inheritance from the ancestors who fought a good fight in the state of nature, their dose of original sin, is rooted out by some method at present unrevealed, at any rate to disbelievers in supernaturalism, every child born into the world will still bring with him the instinct of unlimited self-assertion. He will have to learn the lesson of self-restraint and renunciation. But the practice of self-restraint and renunciation is not happiness, though it may be something much better.
O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you! She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
Words are wise men's counters, but they are the money of fools.
Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.--_George Eliot._
Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere=--To construe men's characters by their looks.
Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
And if his name be George, I 'll call him Peter; For new-made honour doth forget men's names.
Worse poison to men's souls, doing more murders in this loathsome world than any mortal drug.--_Shakespeare._
His deeds inimitable, like the sea That shuts still as it opes, and leaves no tracts Nor prints of precedent for poor men's facts.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.--_Sir W. Raleigh._
One of the mistakes in the conduct of human life is, to suppose that other men's opinions are to make us happy.--_Burton._
For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck.
Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.--_Pascal._
Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy.
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell.
~Envy.~--A man who hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other.--_Lord Bacon._
Christianity removes the attraction of the earth; and this is one way in which it diminishes men's burden. It makes them citizens of another world. Pax Vobiscum, p. 47.
Dead men open living men's eyes.
"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead", said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!" The Spirit was immovable as ever.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
And who doubts that if we dreamt in company, and if by chance men's dreams agreed, which is common enough, and if we were always alone when awake, we should believe that the conditions were reversed? In a word, as we often dream that we dream, and heap vision upon vision, it may well be that this life itself is but a dream, on which the others are grafted, from which we wake at death; having in our lifetime as few principles of what is good and true, as during natural sleep, the different thoughts which agitate us being perhaps only illusions like those of the flight of time and the vain fantasies of our dreams....
What is our pen doing? Is it adding joy to other men's lives? If so, then angels may tune their harps when we sit at our desk. They are sent to minister to the heirs of salvation, and would be glad to look upon our pen as writing music for them to sing, because what we write makes their client's joy to be full.--_Thomas Champness._
In times of misfortune men's understandings even are sullied.
Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.
Words, words, words, are the stumbling-blocks in the way of truth. Until you think of things as they are, and not of the words that misrepresent them, you cannot think rightly. Words produce the appearance of hard and fast lines where there are none. Words divide; thus we call this a man, that an ape, that a monkey, while they are all only differentiations of the same thing. To think of a thing they must be got rid of: they are the clothes that thoughts wear — only the clothes. I say this over and over again, for there is nothing of more importance. Other men's words will stop you at the beginning of an investigation. A man may play with words all his life, arranging them and rearranging them like dominoes. If I could think to you without words you would understand me better.
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.
It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives.
On some men's bread butter will not stick.
O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!
Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds; / In women's it fills all the room it finds.
'Tis a wrong way to proportion other men's pleasures to ourselves. 'Tis like a child's using a little bird--"Oh, poor bird, thou shalt sleep with me"--so lays it in his bosom and stifles it with his hot breath. The bird had rather be in the cold air. And yet, too, 'tis the most pleasing flattery to like what other men like.--_Selden._
There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing unless to live be to know Him by whom we live, and that He is not to be known amidst the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligence which He gave to men of old.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.
It is ill standing in dead men's shoes.
I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.
For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of men's.
They are not sages who do not declare men's duty.
I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
Das Grosste, was dem Menschen begegnen kann, ist es wohl, in der eigenen Sache die allgemeine zu vertheitigen=--The noblest function, I should say, that can fall to man is to vindicate all men's interests in vindicating his own.
How sour sweet music is, when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude … that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits; each would then obey God freely with his whole heart, while nothing would be publicly honoured save justice and charity.
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts: unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idle froth amid the boundless main, To waken doubt in one Holding so fast by Thine infinity; So surely anchored on The stedfast rock of immortality.
That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money.
Poor men's tables are soon placed.
Come home to men's business and bosoms.
Women's jars breed men's wars.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.
Puridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de tres, de todos es=--A secret between two is God's secret; but a secret between three is all men's.
One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy. From all these considerations it is clearer than the sun at noonday, that the true schismatics are those who condemn other men's writings, and seditiously stir up the quarrelsome masses against their authors, rather than those authors themselves, who generally write only for the learned, and appeal solely to reason. In fact, the real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Ah, when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
He who waits for dead men's shoes may go barefoot.
Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgement; and some men they follow after.
A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.
There's nothing worse for your business than extra Santa Clauses
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
How remarkable and how beautiful it is that the last page of the Revelation should come bending round to touch the first page of Genesis. The history of man began with angels with frowning faces and flaming swords barring the way to the Tree of Life. It ends with the guard of cherubim withdrawn; or rather, perhaps, sheathing their swords and becoming guides to the no longer forbidden fruit, instead of being its guards. That is the Bible's grand symbolical way of saying that all between--the sin, the misery, the death--is a parenthesis. God's purpose is not going to be thwarted. The end of His majestic march through history is to be men's access to the Tree of Life, from which, for the dreary ages--that are but as a moment in the great eternities--they were barred out by their sin,--_Alex. McLaren._
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
It is to be recollected in view of the apparent discrepancy between men's acts and their rewards that Nature is juster than we. She takes into account what a man brings with him into the world, which human justice cannot do. If I, born a bloodthirsty and savage brute, inheriting these qualities from others, kill you, my fellow-men will very justly hang me, but I shall not be visited with the horrible remorse which would be my real punishment if, my nature being higher, I had done the same thing.
The sea moans over dead men's bones.
'Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love.
He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
Justice, like lightning, ever shall appear, / To few men's ruin, but to all men's fear.
To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see.
For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.
Alieni appetens, sui profusus=--Covetous of other men's property, prodigal of his own.
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon, Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea: Some lay in dead men's skulls; and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept, As 't were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems.
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.--_Thoreau._
Les magistrates, les rois n'ont aucune autorite sur les ames; et pourvu qu'on soit fidele aux lois de la societe dans ce monde, ce n'est point a eux de se meler de ce qu'on deviendra dans l'autre, ou ils n'ont aucune inspection=--Rulers have no authority over men's souls; and provided we are faithful to the laws of society in this world, it is no business of theirs to concern themselves with what may become of us in the next, over which they have no supervision.
There 's daggers in men's smiles.
Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever.
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.
Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. -- Herodotus
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