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 nobler ambition than the getting of all California, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now. Carlyle.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. Carlyle.

There is a period of life when our backward 15 movements are steps in advance. Rousseau.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know. Cowper.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not the man the less, / But Nature more. Byron.

There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, which none but mad men know. Dryden.

There is a power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. Emerson.

There is a probity of manners as well as of 20 conscience, and a true Christian will regard in a degree the conventionalities of society. De Boufflers.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts—that is, the poet. Emerson.

There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others,—men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies. Sir Thomas Browne.