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

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Paul.

To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus. 40 Macb., iii. 1.

To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity. Froude.

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Swift.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. Stanislaus.

To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering. Milton.

To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one 45 must be suffering. Heine.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. Carlyle.

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. A. Warwick.