Who would check the happy feeling / That inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift and strong? Wordsworth.
Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat under a weary life, / But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of? Ham., iii. 1.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not 5 practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow. Saadi.
Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and everything with his entire nature, whoever tries to link together all that is without him by such a species of enjoyment will only lose his time in efforts that can never be successful. Goethe.
Whoever can administer what he possesses, has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it. Goethe.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest judge in the world, who can discern only law. Thoreau.
Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Swift.
Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven 10 has lost nothing, for there above is everything he can wish for here below. He only is a loser who persists in looking down on the narrow plains of the present time. Jean Paul.
Whoever converses much among old books will be hard to please among new. Temple.
Whoever despises mankind will never get the best out of others or himself. Tocqueville.