Wisdom Quotes — page 467

Hostility towards non-native sections of the population can only be eliminated when the non-native sections of the population cease to be alien and blend with the general mass of the population. That is the only possible solution of the …

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

All my joys to this are folly Naught so sweet as melancholy.

There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.

When I talk about trade and industry, it is not because I think trade and industry are more important than social reform. It is purely because I know that you must make wealth in the country before you can distribute it.

Yee have many strings to your bowe.

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Decide, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,—how exquisite the bliss!

The excavations made in 1517, for repairing the city of Verona, brought to light a multitude of curious petrifactions, and furnished matter for speculation to different authors, and among the rest to Fracastoro, who declared his opinion, …

All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.

In the construction of St. Sophia the Byzantines used baked clay and of Vesuvius, or -stone.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

One important remark has been made, that a comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant...

strike out into paths of their own.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

For conversation well endued; She calls it witty to be rude; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing.

When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.

He saw a Lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.