Water, water everywhere, / And all the boards 30 did shrink, / Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge.
Waters that are deep do not babble as they flow. Pr.
We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque. Emerson.
We all bear the misfortunes of other people with a heroic constancy. La Roche.
We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Sen.
We all know a hundred whose coats are well 35 made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make out his list. Thackeray.
We all know that the secret of breakdown and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline of the will. John Morley.
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty. Johnson.
We always believe that God is like ourselves: the indulgent affirm him indulgent; the stern, terrible. Joubert.
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment. Jacobi.