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

Every species of activity is met by a negation. 5 Goethe.

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Emerson.

Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit. Emerson.

Every step of life shows how much caution is required. Goethe.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips.

Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom 10 where is the Christian? Emerson.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced. Whipple.

Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. Hen. V., iv. 1.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. Matthew Henry.

Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something. J. G. Holland.