We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel 20 aright. Hazlitt.
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. Ben. Franklin.
We are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo.
We are the miracle of miracles—the great inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot understand it, we know not how to speak of it; but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so. Carlyle.
We are the slaves of objects round us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. Goethe.
We are to earn the joys of a higher existence, 25 not by scorning, but by using, all the gifts of God in this. W. R. Greg.
We are too good for pure instinct. Goethe.
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. De Foe.
We are wiser than we know. Emerson.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Colton.