Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand …Thomas CarlyleWrite now →Details & source
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Of manners gentle, of affections mild; In wit a man, simplicity a child.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.Alfred TennysonWrite now →Details & source
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.EpictetusWrite now →Details & source
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!Thomas HoodWrite now →Details & source
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candi…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.Edmund BurkeWrite now →Details & source
God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, To give sign we and they are his children, one famil…Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.William WordsworthWrite now →Details & source
For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!John MiltonWrite now →Details & source
The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown prop…Thomas CarlyleWrite now →Details & source
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.John DrydenWrite now →Details & source
Men in great place are thrice servants,—servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.Thomas Babington MacaulayWrite now →Details & source
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,—conscience.George WashingtonWrite now →Details & source
Kings are like stars,—they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.Percy Bysshe ShelleyWrite now →Details & source
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their…Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source