Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
Now comes rest. [ President Garfield's Epitaph ]
Celerity wins the race. [ Sir John Astley ]
I am the last of my race.
My name ends with me. [ Schiller ]
The race is got by running. [ Proverb ]
Who the race of men doth love,
Loves also him above. [ Lewis Morris ]
Freedom's soil hath only place
For a free and fearless race! [ Whittier ]
Two hands upon the breast.
And labor's done;
Two pale feet cross'd in rest.
The race is won. [ D. M. Mulock ]
The gentle race of flowers
Are lying in their lowly beds. [ William Cullen Bryant ]
Heroes are a mischievous race. [ Jeremy Collier ]
Every race has its own habitat. [ Knox ]
A race-horse is an open sepulchre. [ Proverb ]
Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]
Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve.
And press with vigor on;
A heavenly race demands thy zeal.
And an immortal crown. [ Philip Doddridge ]
What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. [ Homer ]
To contemplation's sober eye.
Such is the race of man;
And they that creep, and they that fly.
Shall end where they began.
Alike the busy and the gay,
But flutter through life's little day. [ Gray ]
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare. [ Pope ]
Gamesters and race-horses never last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
There's nothing in the world like etiquette
In kingly chambers, or imperial halls,
As also at the race and county balls. [ Byron ]
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race,
Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. [ Pope ]
See Time has touched me gently in his race.
And left no odious furrows in my face. [ Crabbe ]
Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind,
To build a college, or to found a race,
An hospital, a church - and leave behind
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face,
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind
Even with the very ore which makes them base;
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation,
Or revel in the joys of calculation. [ Byron ]
The human race is governed by its imagination. [ Napoleon ]
This fidelity will bring new glory to our race. [ Motto ]
As this auspicious day began the race
Of every virtue join'd with every grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore. [ Jeffrey ]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;
Another race, the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay;
So flourish these, when those have passed away. [ Homer, Pope's Iliad ]
Venus, thy eternal sway all the race of men obey. [ Euripides ]
Men may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. [ De Boufflers ]
A great library contains the diary of the human race. [ Dawson, Address on Opening the Birmingham Free Library ]
All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good. [ Bailey ]
Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion. [ Lady Morgan ]
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. [ Bible ]
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]
Music is a gift of the, Author of Nature to the whole human race. [ Hogarth ]
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. [ Scott ]
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. [ B. R. Haydon ]
Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race. [ A. Helps ]
As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]
Sorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that fertilize this world. [ Jean Ingelow ]
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual meaning, is a man of pure race. [ John Ruskin ]
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. [ Dante ]
Words are like leaves; some wither every year, and every year a younger race succeed. [ Roscommon ]
In running their race, men of birth look back too much, which is the mark of a bad runner. [ Bacon ]
Not all the pumice of the polish'd town
Can smooth the roughness of the barnyard clown; Rich, honor'd, titled, he betrays his race
By this one mark - he's awkward in his face. [ Holmes ]
It is a reproach to be the first gentleman of his race, but it is a greater to be the last. [ Proverb ]
Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. [ Horace ]
The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. [ Earl of Bath ]
God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. [ Bürger ]
When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. [ Joseph Bartlett ]
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day and the race a life. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
The night, proceeding on with silent pace, stood in her noon, and viewed with equal face her sleepy rise and her declining race. [ Dryden ]
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race. [ Bovee ]
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. [ From the French ]
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race. [ Zimmermann ]
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth. [ Theodore Parker ]
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. [ Chapin ]
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. [ Montaigne ]
There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the miracle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy. [ Earl of Beaconsfield ]
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether. [ Coleridge ]
Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]
Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, - proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate. [ Leigh Hunt ]
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [ Bible ]
If as much care were taken to perpetuate a race of fine men as is done to prevent the mixture of ignoble blood in horses and dogs, the genealogy of every one would be written on his face and displayed in his manners. [ Voltaire ]
Almost every great soul that has led forward, or lifted up the race, has been furnished for each nobler deed, and inspired with each patriotic and holy aspiration, by the retiring fortitude of some Spartan - some Christian mother. [ C. J. White ]
Whoever can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. [ Jonathan Swift ]
O mothers! reflect upon the power that your Maker has placed in your hands; there is no earthly influence to be compared with yours; there is no combination of causes so powerful in promoting the happiness or misery of our race, as the instructions of home! [ J. S. C. Abbott ]
Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions - these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term experience.
[ G. H. Lewes ]
The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe. [ Whipple ]
The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion, - Death! Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, - of Immortality! [ Charles Dickens ]
The love of flowers seems a naturally implanted passion, without any alloy or debasing object in its motive; we cherish them in youth, we admire them in declining years; but perhaps it is the early flowers of spring that always bring with them the greatest degree of pleasure; and our affections seem to expand at the sight of the first blossom under the sunny wall, or sheltered bank, however humble its race may be. With summer flowers we seem to live, as with our neighbors, in harmony and good order; but spring flowers are cherished as private friendships. [ G. A. Sola ]
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]