Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine. Sh.
Even success needs its consolations. George 30 Eliot.
Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it. Dan. Pr.
Even the just man has need of help. It. Pr.
Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written. Goethe.
Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least. Burns at the plough.
Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever 35 in the canopy of heaven (Himmelszelt). A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance. F. K. Weber.
Even though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith.
Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine—no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom. Burns.
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. Chapin.
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. Cowper.
Eventus stultorum magister est—Only the event 40 teaches fools. Liv.
Even weak men when united are powerful. Schiller.
Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois—Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. Fr. Pr.
Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. Carlyle.
Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view? John Dyer.
Ever learning, and never able to come to the 45 knowledge of the truth. St. Paul.
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. Rich. II., ii. 3.
Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.
Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king, i.e., the man who kens and can. Carlyle.
Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. Casimir Delavigne.
Ever take it for granted that man collectively 50 wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! Schiller.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. Goldsmith.
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. Emerson.
Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence. Emerson.
Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding. Jean Paul.
Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it. C. Fox.
Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will. Goethe.
Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. Sir P. Sidney.
Every bean has its black. Pr.
Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is 5 the place of expectation. Goethe.
Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise. Novalis.
Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite. Jean Paul.
Everybody is wise after the event. Pr.
Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion. Whipple.
Everybody knows that government never began 10 anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. W. Phillips.
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. Holmes.
Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. J. F. Cooper.
Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable. Dickens.
Everybody's business is nobody's. Pr.
Everybody's friend is nobody's. Pr. 15
Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. Emerson.
Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million. Emerson.
Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown. Jean Paul.
Every brave man is a man of his word. Corneille.
Every brave youth is in training to ride and 20 rule his dragon. Emerson.
Every bullet has its billet. Pr.
Every Calvary has its Olivet. H. Giles.
Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man. Goethe.
Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child. Schopenhauer.
Every cloud engenders not a storm. 3 Hen. 25 VI., v. 3.
Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love. Tennyson.
Every cock is proud on his own dunghill. Pr.
Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution. Carlyle.
Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank. Disraeli.
Every couple is not a pair. Pr. 30
Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest. Sc. Pr.
Every creature can bear well-being except man. Gael. Pr.
Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel. Schiller.
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