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Bible
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
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Blaise Pascal
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
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Charles Simon Favart
Ah, who could have ever foretold that that little retrousse nose would change the laws of an empire. [Fr., Ah, qui jamais autoir pu dire Que ce petit nez retrousse Changerait les lois d'un empire.]
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Elizabeth Bibesco
Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.
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George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence; live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
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George MacDonald
You've got to save your own soul first, and then the souls of your neighbors if they will let you; and for that reason you must cultivate, not a spirit of criticism, but the talents that attract people to the hearing of the Word.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.
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John Dryden
He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
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John Norris of Bemerton
Even here Thy strong magnetic charms I feel, And pant and tremble like the amorous steel. To lower good, and beauties less divine, Sometimes my erroneous needle does incline; But yet (so strong the sympathy) It turns, and points again to Thee.
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Lord Byron
My heart is feminine, nor can forget-- To all, except one image, madly blind; So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole, As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.
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Margot Asquith
It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.
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Matthew Barker
God in making man intended by him to reduce all His Works back again to Himself.
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Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. [Lat., Si possem sanior essem. Sed trahit invitam nova vis; aliudque Cupido, Mens aliud.]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Thomas Carlyle
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Thomas Carlyle
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Thomas Hood
Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north?
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Unattributed Author
Our life's a flying shadow, God the pole, The needle pointing to Him is our soul.
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