"Yet Sion hath dared to say: The Lord hath forsaken and hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb, but if she forget, yet will I not forget thee, O Sion. I will bear thee always between my hands, and thy walls shall be ever before me. Thy builders are come, thy destroyers shall go forth of thee. Lift up thy eyes round about, and see all these are gathered together, to come to thee: as I live, saith the Lord, thou shall be clothed with all these as with an ornament, thy deserts, and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction shall now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and the children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: the place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in. And thou shall say in thy heart: Who hath begotten these? I was barren and brought not forth, led away, and captive: and who hath brought up these? I was destitute and alone: and these, where were they? And the Lord shall say: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and will set up my standard to the people. And they shall bring thy children in their arms, and in their bosoms. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and queens thy nursing mothers: they shall worship thee with their face toward the earth, and they shall lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shall know that I am the Lord, for they shall not be confounded that wait for him. Shall the prey be taken from the strong and mighty? But even if the captivity be taken away from the strong: nothing can hinder me to judge those that have judged thee, and thy children I will save. And all flesh shall know, that I am the Lord thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer the mighty One of Jacob.
Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab omni materi? concretione sejuncta=--Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter.
Cineri gloria sera venit=--Glory comes too late to one in the dust.
This is one of the last effects of grace.
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty it hits some one else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Love--superseding faith--seems to be the keynote of all Christianity. But the world is still far from true Christianity, and whoever is honest towards himself knows how far away he himself is from the ideal he wishes to reach. One can hardly imagine what this world would be if we were really what we profess to be, followers of Christ. The first thing we have to learn is that we are not what we profess to be. When we have learnt that, we shall at all events be more forbearing, forgiving, and loving towards others. We shall believe in them, give them credit for good intentions, with which, I hope, not hell, but heaven, is paved.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.
We live here in a narrow dwelling-house, which presses us in on all sides, and yet we fancy it is the whole universe. But when the door opens and a loved one passes out, never to return, we too step to the door and look out into the distance, and realise then how small and empty the dwelling is, and how a larger, more beautiful world waits for us without. How it is in that larger world, who can say? but if we were so happy in the narrow dwelling, how far more happy shall we be out there! Be not afraid. See how beautifully all is ordered; look up to the widespread firmament, and think how small it is in comparison with God's almighty power. He who regulates the courses of the stars will regulate the fate of the souls of men, and those souls who have once met, shall they not meet again like the stars?
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.--_Montesquieu._
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD: Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case.
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
Do not spoil the chime of this morning's bells by ringing one half a peal! Do not say, "Hold thou me up," and stop there, or add, "But all the same I shall stumble and fall!" Finish the peal with God's own music, the bright words of faith that He puts into your mouth: "Hold thou me up, _and I shall be safe!_"--_Frances Ridley Havergal._
The slave system is one of constant danger, distrust, suspicion, and watchfulness. It debases those whose toil alone can produce wealth and resources for defence, to the lowest degree of which human nature is capable, to guard against mutiny and insurrection, and thus wastes energies which otherwise might be employed in national development and aggrandizement. The free-labor system educates all alike, and by opening all the fields of industrial employment and all the departments of authority, to the unchecked and equal rivalry of all classes of men, at once secures universal contentment, and brings into the highest possible activity all the physical, moral, and social energies of the whole state.
Man has two and a half minutes here below--one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.
Man kann nicht wider sein Geshick=--There is no striving against one's fate.
Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.
ii. Line 73._ When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
Wenn man was Boses thut, erschrickt man vor dem Bosen=--When people do evil, they are afraid of the Evil One.
Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox--because they meet with no one to give it to them.
He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another, merely because he tells more truth.
It is one thing to see that a line is crooked, and another thing to be able to draw a straight one.
L'ami du genre humain n'est point du tout mon fait=--He who is the friend of every one has no interest for me.
No evil can touch him who looks on human beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world.
Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on the one side and striking on the other.
I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.
~Will.~--In the schools of the wrestling master, when a boy falls he is bidden to get up again, and to go on wrestling day by day till he has acquired strength; and we must do the same, and not be like those poor wretches who, after one failure, suffer themselves to be swept along as by a torrent. You need but _will_, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.--_Epictetus._
Nonetheless, love is a funny thing. More specifically, second loves are a funny thing. For no matter how special that second or third or even fourth love is, no matter how much you can’t live without him, the first one always creeps in.
Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest.
You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud who was not equally ungrateful.
Nothing I like better than when I meet a man who differs from me; he always gives me something, and for that I am grateful. Nor am I at all so hopeless as many people, who imagine that two people who differ can never arrive at a mutual understanding.... Why do people differ, considering that they all begin with the same love of truth, and are all influenced by the same environment? Well, they often differ because one is ignorant of facts which the other knows and has specially studied.... But in most cases people differ because they use their words loosely, and because they mix up different subjects instead of treating them one by one.
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.
When one has fallen into some fault, what better remedy can there be than to have immediate recourse to the Most Blessed Sacrament?--ST. ALPHONSUS.
Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.
The reader, who would follow a close reasoner to the summit of the absolute principle of any one important subject, has chosen a chamois-hunter for his guide. He cannot carry us on his shoulders; we must strain our sinews, as he has strained his; and make firm footing on the smooth rock for ourselves, by the blood of toil from our own feet.--_Coleridge._
There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
_Adhærens Deo unus spiritus est._ We love ourselves because we are members of Jesus Christ. We love Jesus Christ because he is the body of which we are members. All is one, one is in the other, like the Three Persons.
The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
Power and those in control concede nothing . . . without a demand. Hey never have and never will.… Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.
Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plough there with oxen?
Liberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb of one particular tear!
Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!" As some one somewhere sings about the sky.
Cleon hath a million acres,--ne'er a one have I; Cleon dwelleth in a palace,--in a cottage I.
For if we believe they have only one sense it is certain that Messiah has not come; but if they have two senses, it is certain that he has come in Jesus Christ.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Il est trop difficile de penser noblement, quand on ne pense que pour vivre=--It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only to get a livelihood.
Furiosus absentis loco est=--A madman is treated as one absent.
No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining one.
There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Fors et virtus miscentur in unum=--Fortune and valour are blended into one.
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man.
There is but one law for all; namely, that law which governs all law — the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. [January 9, 1795. Needs citation.]
realizing then that it didn’t matter if you found a guy who looked like the one you used to love. It didn’t matter because it wasn’t the hair or the body or the eyes that I’d loved about Erik most, it was the person he was inside that I’d really connected to; and that part you simply couldn’t clone.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it.
The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.
Nemo me impune lacessit=--No one provokes me with impunity.
Men to be of one mind in an house.
Promptness is its own reward, if one lives by the clock instead of the sword.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Of all the sisters of Love one of the most charming is Pity.--_Alfred de Musset._
I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Ad ognuno par piu grave la croce sua=--Every one thinks his own cross the hardest to bear.
No one is a slave whose will is free.
In the natural world it only requires a single vital correspondence of the body to be out of order to ensure Death. It is not necessary to have consumption, diabetes, and an aneurism to bring the body to the grave, if it have heart disease. He who is fatally diseased in one organ necessarily pays the penalty with his life, though all the others be in perfect health. And such, likewise, are the mysterious unity and correlation of functions in the spiritual organism that the disease of one member may involve the ruin of the whole. Natural Law, Mortification, p. 187.
"Now one week, which is the seventieth, which remains, shall confirm the covenant with many, and in the midst of the week, that is to say the last three years and a half, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving.
It is never permitted to any one in heaven to stand behind another and look at the back of his head: for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.
On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One has often need of one inferior to one's self.
Untwine me from the mass / Of deeds which make up life, one deed / Power shall fall short in or exceed.
He had intellect to comprehend his highest duty distinctly, and force of character to do it; which of us dare ask for a higher summary of his life than that? For such a man there can be no fear in facing the great unknown, his life has been one long experience of the substantial justice of the laws by which this world is governed, and he will calmly trust to them still as he lays his head down for his long sleep.
The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience.
Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui=--To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ― Oscar Wilde
There are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No — I recover myself — they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.
Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story, morning and evening, but for one twelve-month, and he will become our master.--_Burke._
In one word Self has two qualities, it is unjust in its essence because it makes itself the centre of all, it is inconvenient to others, in that it would bring them into subjection, for each 'I' is the enemy, and would fain be the tyrant of all others. You take away the inconvenience, but not the injustice, and thus you do not render it loveable to those who hate injustice; you render it loveable only to the unjust, who find in it an enemy no longer. Thus you remain unjust and can please none but the unjust.
Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?
Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
If they believe not Moses, neither will they believe one risen from the dead.
The man who can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow on the spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race of politicians put together.--_Swift._
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence.
La politesse est l'art de rendre a chacun sans effort ce que lui est socialement du=--Politeness is the art of rendering spontaneously to every one that which is his due as a member of society.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth.
Yeah, bro.” Kenji puts his utensils down. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.’ ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.’ ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.’ When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me naked—
Otherwise we should see violence on one side and justice on the other. The end of the twelfth _Provincial_.
To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend.= (?)
Who would not think, when we declare that all that is consists of mind and matter, that we really understood this combination? Yet it is the one thing we least understand. Man is to himself the most marvellous object in Nature, for he cannot conceive what matter is, still less what is mind, and less than all how a material body should be united to a mind. This is the crown of all his difficulties, yet it is his very being: _Modus quo corporibus adhæret spiritus comprehendi ab homine non potest et hoc tamen homo est_.
Every one draws the water to his own mill.
Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet=--Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon, _i.e._, unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.
There are two, and only two, forms of possible gospel or "good message"--one, that men are saved by themselves doing what is right; and the other, that they are saved by believing that somebody also did right instead of them. The first of these gospels is eternally true and holy; the other eternally false, damnable, and damning.
There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
Two sorts of people place things on the same level, as feasts and working days, Christians and priests, all sins among themselves, etc. Therefore the one set conclude that what is bad for priests is so for Christians, and the other that what is not bad for Christians is permissible for priests.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.--_Mme. de Staël._
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.
Marchand qui perd ne peut rire=--The dealer who loses is not the one to laugh.
On ne vit dans la memoire du monde que par des travaux pour le monde=--One lives in the world's memory only by what he has done in the world's behalf. _Fr._ [Greek: hon hoi theoi philousin apothneskei neos]--He whom the gods love dies young.
We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.
Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him.