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 are in a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.

We are in great danger; / The greater therefore should our courage be. Hen. V., iv. 1.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us. Johnson.

We are incompetent to solve the times.... 30 We can only obey our own polarity. Emerson.

We are instinctively more inclined to hope than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves towards light rather than darkness. Schopenhauer.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. Sen.

"We are men, my liege."—/ Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. Macb., iii. 1.

We are near awakening when we dream that 35 we dream. Novalis.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. Denham.