Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
man's life lies within the present. Marcus 40 Antoninus.
Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve (a Douglas Castle) fa'. Sc. Pr.
Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus. Sir Thomas Browne.
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood. J. G. Holland.
Every man's reason is every man's oracle. Bolingbroke.
Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite 45 value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.
Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure. Emerson.
Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion. South.
Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood. Carlyle.
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. Draper.
Every natural action is graceful. Emerson. 50
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Emerson.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election. Julia W. Howe.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Carlyle.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. Carlyle.
Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world. Ruskin.
Every noble work is at first impossible. Carlyle.
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Emerson. 5
Every offence is not a hate at first. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.
Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. Goethe.
Every one bows to the bush that bields (protects) him, i.e., pays court to him that does so. Sc. Pr.
Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Much Ado, iii. 2.
Every one complains of his memory, no one of 10 his judgment. La Roche.
Every one draws the water to his own mill. Pr.
Every one excels in something in which another fails. Pub. Syr.
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. As You Like It, iii. 2.
Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter. Dan. Pr.
Every one for himself and God for us all. Pr. 15
Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other. Saying of Pittacus.
Every one is a preacher under the gallows. Dut. Pr.
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Cervantes.
Every one is his own worst enemy. Schefer.
Every one is judge of what a man seems, no 20 one of what a man is. Schiller.
Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. Manlius.
Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself. Montaigne.
Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him. Pr.
Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys. Froude.
Every one knows good counsel except him who 25 needs it. Ger. Pr.
Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not. Thackeray.
Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Bible.
Every one rakes the fire under his own pot. Dan. Pr.
Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. La Roche.
Every one should sweep before his own door. 30 Pr.
Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck. Port. Pr.
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Jesus.
Every one that doeth evil hateth the light. St. John.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Jesus.
Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest. 35 Pr.
Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough. Goethe.
Every one would be wise; no one will become so. Feuchtersleben.
Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment. Sen.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Emerson.
Every other master is known by what he 40 utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence. Schiller.
Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves. Ruskin.
Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. Addison.
Every people has its prophet. Arab. Pr.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? Montaigne.
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations 45 and dangers. J. Hawes.
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come. Johnson.
Every person who manages another is a hypocrite. Thackeray.
Every petition to God is a precept to man. Jeremy Taylor.
Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. Epictetus.
Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of 50 activity. Schopenhauer.
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has