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 nothing without us that is not also within us. Goethe.

There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. Locke.

There is often more true spiritual force in a proverb than in a philosophical system. Carlyle.

There is / One great society alone on earth; / The noble living and the noble dead. (?)

There is one preacher who does preach with 15 effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. Carlyle.

There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just. Ruskin.

There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. Schopenhauer.

There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. Lowell.

There is only one true religion, but there may be many forms of belief. Kant.

There is poetry and beauty in the common 20 lives about us, if we look at them with imaginative and sympathetic eye. J. Morley.