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

There is a frightful interval between the seed 35 and the timber. Johnson.

There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. Hare.

There is a God within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. Ovid.

There is a great deal of folly in talking unnecessarily of one's private affairs. Burns.

There is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defence, which is always prudent and justifiable. Chesterfield.

There is a great discovery still to be made in 40 literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. Carlyle.

There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. St. Evremond.

There is a higher law than the constitution. W. H. Seward.

There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring the nature of the times deceased; / The which observed, a man may prophesy, / With a near aim of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life: which, in their seeds / And weak beginnings, lie intreasurèd. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

There is a kind of pride in which are included all the commandments of God, and a kind of vanity which contains the seven mortal sins. Chamfort.