Who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us? Goethe.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? / Or sells eternity to get a toy? Shakespeare.
Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of heaven, nor earth. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who can be patient in extremes? 3 Hen. VI., i. 1.
Who can compute what the world loses in the 45 multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral? J. S. Mill.
Who can direct when all pretend to know? Goldsmith.
Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which men shall praise, a higher task may find, / Plodding his dull round on the common earth, / But conquering envies rising in the mind. Dr. W. Smith.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil, all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Bible.
Who can heal the woes of him to whom balm has become poison, who has imbibed hatred of mankind from the fulness of love? Goethe.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Bible.