Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Saat, von Gott gesäet, dem Tage der Garben zu reifen—Seed sown by God, to ripen against the day of the sheaf-binding. Klopstock.

Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life. S. W. Duffield.

Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow. Pr.

Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content. 5 Pr.

Sacco pieno rizza l'orecchio—A full sack pricks up (lit. erects) its ear. It. Pr.

Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is aiming neither at self nor comfort, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind. Emerson.

Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself, in theological language, into the love of God. Froude.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Amiel.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, 10 has never been the law of societies. Amiel.

Sacrificed his life to the delineating of life. Goethe, of Schiller.