This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve. J. C. Sharp.
This is the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1. 45
This is the monstrosity in love—that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
This is the very coinage of your brain; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in. Ham., iii. 4.
This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it engenders and must bring forth more evil. Schiller.
This is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart. Harley.
This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. Browning.
This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with 5 them. Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach.
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future—two eternities. Moore.