The corpse is not the whole animal; there is still something that appertains to it, still a corner-stone, and in this case, as in every other, a very chief corner-stone—life, the spirit that makes everything beautiful. Goethe.
The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep thyself. Pr.
The country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has "made a step from which it cannot retrograde." Carlyle.
The courage (Muth) of truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Hegel.
The courage that dares only die is on the 40 whole no sublime affair.... The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Carlyle.
The course of nature is the art of God. Young.
The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us; but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle (of causes) our little epicycle revolves on? Carlyle.
The course of prayer who knows? Keble.
The course of scoundrelism, any more than that of true love, never did run smooth. Carlyle.
The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.