Popularity: 2
Vote:   | A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Death is the cure for all diseases. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | It is we that are blind, not fortune. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. |