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

The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater.

The great school for learning is the brain itself 35 of the learner. Carlyle.

The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice. Carlyle.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. J. G. Holland.

The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. Goldsmith.

The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices. Carlyle.

The great successes of the world have been 40 affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial. John Morley.

The great thieves punish the little ones. Pr.

The great thing, after all, is only Forwards. Goethe.

The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly. Carlyle.