Proof of a God? A probable God! The smallest of finites struggling to prove to itself ... and include within itself, the Highest Infinite, in which, by hypothesis, it lives and moves and has its being! Man, reduced to wander about, in stooping posture, with painfully-constructed sulphur-match, and farthing rushlight, or smoky tar-link, searching for the sun. Carlyle.
Prope ad summum, prope ad exitum—Near the summit, near the end. Pr.
Propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. Hume.
Proper words in proper places make the true 5 definition of a style. Swift.
Properly speaking, the land belongs to these two: to the Almighty God and to all His children of men that have ever worked well on it, or shall ever work well on it. Carlyle.
Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working. Carlyle.
Property has its duties as well as its rights. Drummond.
Property, O brother? Of my body I have but a liferent.... But my soul, breathed into me by God, my Me, and what capability is there, I call that mine and not thine. I will keep that, and do what work I can with it; God has given it me; the devil shall not take it away. Carlyle.
Property there is among us valuable to the 10 auctioneer; but the accumulated manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lies impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer can estimate? Carlyle.
Prophecy, not poetry, is the thing wanted in these days. How can we sing and paint when we do not yet believe and see? Carlyle.