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

We always take credit for the good, and attribute 40 the bad to fortune. La Fontaine.

We are able easily to dispense with greater perfection. Vauvenargues.

We are all a kind of chameleons, taking our hue, the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. Locke.

We are all, at times, unconscious prophets. Spurgeon.

We are all best affected to them who are of the same opinion as ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. I. Disraeli.

We are all collective beings, let us place ourselves as we may; for how little have we, and are we, that we can strictly call our own property? Goethe.

We are all frail; but esteem none more frail than thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

We are all richer for the measurement of a 5 degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Emerson.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. Amiel.