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 barter life for pottage. Keble. 30

We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Milton.

We build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt. Scott.

We by Fancy may assuage / The festering sore by Fancy made. Keble.

We can conceive or desire nothing more exquisite or perfect than what is round us every hour. W. R. Greg.

We can do more good by being good than in 35 any other way. Rowland Hill.

We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. St. Paul.

We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example. Smiles.

We can hardly be confident of the state of our own minds, but as it stands attested by some external action. Johnson.

We can have no dependence upon morality without religion; so, on the other hand, there is nothing better to be expected from religion without morality. Sterne.