Things are long-lived, and God above appoints their term; yet when the brains of a thing have been out for three centuries and odd, one does wish it would be kind enough and die. Carlyle.
Things are not so false always as they seem. Carlyle.
Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. Cudworth.
Things are what they are by nature, not by 35 will. Cudworth.
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward / To what they were before. Macb., iv. 2.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. Macb., iii. 2.
Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.
Things fasten upon thee only according as the degree of thy own love and inclination for them gives opportunity and advantage. Thomas à Kempis.
Things good, great Jove, asked or unasked, 40 supply: / Things evil, though we ask for them, deny. Anon.
Things have their laws as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with. Emerson.