Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. Othello, ii. 3.
Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed. Fichte.
Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. Bp. Berkeley.
Every light has its shadow. Pr.
Every little fish expects to become a whale. 40 Dan. Pr.
Every little helps. Pr.
Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat. Dan. Pr.
Every loving woman is a priestess of the past. Amiel.
Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Emerson.
Every man as an individual is secondary to 45 what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him. Stedman.
Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar. Jeremy Taylor.
Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her. Sc. Pr.
Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom. Dan. Pr.
Every man carries within him a potential madman. Carlyle.
Every man deems that he has precisely the 50 trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs. Jean Paul.
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Swift.
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Lowell.
Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. Coriolanus, ii. 1.
Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it. Amer. Pr.
Every man has at times in his mind the ideal 55 of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. Theo. Parker.
Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is. Ham., i. 5.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Timon of Athens, iii. 1.
Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him. Dan. Pr.
Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose. Lessing.
Every man has his weak side. Pr. 5
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stephens.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Pope.
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. Burton.
Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man. W. v. Humboldt.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his 10 faults. Emerson.
Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success. Emerson.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Emerson.
Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick. Johnson.
Every man is exceptional. Emerson.
Every man is his own greatest dupe. A. B. 15 Alcott.
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age. Emerson.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust.
Every man must carry his own sack to the mill. Dan. Pr.
Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. Berne.
Every man of sound brain whom you meet 20 knows something worth knowing better than yourself. Bulwer Lytton.
Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself. Emerson.
Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. Jeremy Taylor.
Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it. Chesterfield.
Every man shall bear his own burden. St. Paul.
Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a 25 right answer. Bible.
Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. Feltham.
Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Schiller.
Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. Emerson.
Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. Sir T. Browne.
Every man turns his dreams into realities as 30 far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine.
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius. Bulwer Lytton.
Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. J. G. Holland.
Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. Emerson.
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. Johnson.
Every man, within that inconsiderable figure 35 of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. Carlyle.
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act. Helvetius.
Every man's blind in his ain cause. Sc. Pr.
Every man's destiny is in his own hands. Sydney Smith.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. J. Sterling.
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