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

Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. Pr.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; / A woman's noblest station is retreat. Lyttelton.

Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Bacon.

Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 5 ye upon him while he is near. Bible.

Seek your salve where you got your sore. Pr.

Seekest thou great things? seek them not. Jeremiah.

Seeking for a God there, and not here; everywhere outwardly in physical nature, and not inwardly in our own soul, where He alone is to be found by us, begins to get wearisome. Carlyle.

Seeking nothing, he gains all; foregoing self, the universe grows "I." Sir Edwin Arnold.

Seeking the bubble reputation, / Even in the 10 cannon's mouth. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Seele des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wasser! / Schicksal des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wind!—Soul of man, how like art thou to water! Lot of man, how like art thou to wind! Goethe.