Quotes 421 till 440 of 530.
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To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2 -
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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Underneath this stone doth lie
As much beauty as could die;
Which in life did harbor give
To more virtue than doth live.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6. -
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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Usually, if I'm yelling at the TV, I'm in a bar. If I'm by myself, and it's not a game, I often find myself scolding reality stars that can't hear me through the television set.
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Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion.
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
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Virtue is a rich stone, best plain set.
Essays: Of Beauty -
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
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We all went up to Washington on a mission to change things. What I found is that the Founding Fathers set it up where it's a little more difficult to do. We've got the Senate and the president to deal with.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled. For the rest, I don't think it worth the trouble to set out in detail here the vacillations of mind that stem from hope and fear - since it follows simply from the definition of these affects that there is no hope without fear
Ethics, part 2 -
We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.
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