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 owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire 40 those rights which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. Junius.

We owe to man higher succours than food and fire. We owe to man, man. Emerson.

We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves. Ward Beecher.

We pain ourselves to please nobody. Emerson.

We pardon as long as we love. La Roche.

We part with true joy almost more lightly 45 than with a beautiful dream. Fr. Grillparzer.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. Pasquier Quesnel.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. Rousseau.

We play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. Hen. IV., ii. 2.

We poets in our youth begin in gladness, / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Wordsworth.