Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence. George Eliot.
Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to discover and appropriate what is good wherever we come upon it. Goethe.
Our memories are independent of our wills. Sheridan.
Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good. Johnson.
Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation 35 of excellence. Joshua Reynolds.
Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest in those moments when we are most driven back upon ourselves. Goethe.
Our most exalted feelings are not meant to be the common food of daily life. Contentment is more satisfying than exhilaration; and contentment means simply the sum of small and quiet pleasures. Ward Beecher.
Our narrow ken / Reaches too far, when all that we behold / Is but the havoc of wide-wasting Time, / Or what he soon shall spoil. Crowe.
Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word "desire" (the craving for something not possessed) implies that our present felicity is not complete. Hobbes.
Our natures are like oil; compound us with 40 anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top. Beaumont and Fletcher.