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 promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. La Roche.

We properly learn from those books only which are above our criticism, which we cannot judge. Goethe.

We read far too many things, thus losing time 5 and gaining nothing. We should only read what we admire. Goethe.

We readily believe what we wish to be true. Pr.

We reap what we sow, but Nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit that spring from no planting of ours. George Eliot.

We receive but little advantage from repeated protestations of gratitude, but they cost them very much from whom we exact them in return. Goldsmith.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. Mme. Swetchine.

We retain from our studies only that which 10 we practically apply. Goethe.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. Cowper.

We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels and consuming herself. Isaac Walton.