What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Johnson.
What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are. Ruskin.
What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real. F. H. Hedge.
What we poor mortals have to do is to endure and keep ourselves upright as well and as long as we can. God disposes as he thinks best. Goethe.
What we pray to ourselves for is always 35 granted. Emerson.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. Mrs. Jameson.
What we want to be pleased with flattery, is to believe that the man is sincere who gives it us. Steele.
What we want to believe, what it suits our convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to believe, one need not go to sea to learn what slender logic will incline us to believe. Burroughs.
What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think where thy coward hopes had flown / Had Heaven held out the martyr's crown. Keble.
What were mighty Nature's self? / Her 40 features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within us? Wordsworth.