Quotes
Quotes about Will
Note 19.'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.--William Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5.
Take time enough: all other graces
Will soon fill up their proper places.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, "Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves."
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view?
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
This story will not go down.
A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow,--attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
A man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.
Every white will have its blacke,
And every sweet its soure.
Have you not heard these many years ago
Jeptha was judge of Israel?
He had one only daughter and no mo,
The which he loved passing well;
And as by lott,
God wot,
It so came to pass,
As God's will was.
Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine;
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will ne'er make grow againe.
A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree;
Oh willow, willow, willow!
With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee,
Oh willow, willow, willow!
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
