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 can live without our friends, but not without 40 our neighbours. Pr.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Cic.

We can never soon enough convince ourselves how easily we can be dispensed with in the world. Goethe.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Goethe.

We can only know a little, and the question is merely whether or not we know this well. Goethe.

We can only possess wealth according to our 45 capacity. Ruskin.

We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. Emerson.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Mrs. Jameson.

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. Ward Beecher.

We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. John Burroughs.