Quotes
Quotes about Will
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Yesterday the greatest question was decided which was ever debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest.
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead In summer luxury--he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Let but the commons hear this testament, Which (pardon me) I do not mean to read, And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it as a rich legacy Upon their issue.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's presentâlove, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasureâthe wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold! - William Blake,
O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. - William Hazlitt,
No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
