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

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. Goethe.

Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. Goethe.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps. Hazlitt.

Those persons who do most good are least 40 conscious of it. Ward Beecher.

Those tender tears that humanise the soul. Thomson.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. Colton.

Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. Bacon.

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. Bishop Hall.

Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can 45 never do that's slain. Butler.

Those that have loved longest love best. Johnson.