Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
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Great writers and orators are commonly economists 30 in the use of words. Whipple.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Jesus.
Greater than man, less than woman. Essex, of Queen Elizabeth.
Greatest scandal waits on greatest state. Shakespeare.
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.
Greatness and goodness are not means, but 35 ends. Coleridge.
Greatness appeals to the future. Emerson.
Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable. Landor.
Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least. Ruskin.
Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down. Hitopadesa.
Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby / 40 Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. Herbert.
Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances. W. Winter.
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Matthew Arnold.
Greatness is its own torment. Theodore Parker.
Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back. Fielding.
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable 45 thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another. … And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. Ruskin.
Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting. Napoleon.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Ward Beecher.
Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small. Phil. Brooks.
Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. Ruskin.
Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion. Emerson.
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.
Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. Colton.
Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools. Otway.
Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a 5 blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean. Massinger.
Greediness bursts the bag. Pr.
Greedy folk hae lang airms. Sc. Pr.
Greedy misers rail at sordid misers. Helvetius.
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. Emerson.
Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it 10 makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can. Ruskin.
Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest—Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. M. Claudius.
Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein—Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. Körner.
Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit—The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. Juv.
Grex venalium—A venal pack. Sueton.
Grey hairs are wisdom—if you hold your 15 tongue; / Speak—and they are but hairs, as in the young. Philo.
Grief best is pleased with grief's society. Shakespeare.
Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight. Rich. II., i. 2.
Grief divided is made lighter. Pr.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief. King John, iii. 4.
Grief finds some ease by him that like doth 20 bear. Spenser.
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. Bailey.
Grief has its time. Johnson.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. Lamartine.
Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. Dr. Johnson.
Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two 25 bear it lightly. W. Hauff.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. James Martineau.
Grief is proud and makes his owner stout. King John, iii. 1.
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses. Wycherley.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. Disraeli.
Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true 30 fertiliser. Mme. de Girardin.
Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit. Philemon.
Grief makes one hour ten. Rich. II., i. 3.
Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue. Fearon.
Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate