- the blush is formed - and flies -
Nor owns reflection's calm control;
It comes, it deepens - fades and dies,
A gush of feeling from the soul. [ Mrs. Dinnies ]
Our soil is formed only of human dust. [ G. Legouvi ]
A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. [ Byron ]
Society is now one polished horde
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. [ Byron ]
Formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored. [ Byron ]
Man is a social animal formed to please in society. [ Montesquieu ]
Acquaintances are best formed in prosperity; friendships in adversity. [ T. A. Emmett ]
Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Angels boast ethereal vigor, and are formed from seeds of heavenly birth. [ Virgil ]
Habits formed in early life and early education press upon us as we grow older. [ U. S. Grant ]
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced. [ Whipple ]
How many minds - almost all the great ones - were formed in secrecy and solitude! [ Matthew Arnold ]
A woman would be in despair if nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear. [ Mlle. de Lespinasse ]
Poplars and alders ever quivering played, and nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. [ Pope ]
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [ Goethe ]
Consider man, weigh well thy frame; the king, the beggar, are the same; dust formed us all. [ Gay ]
If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. [ Hannah More ]
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness. [ Lady Blessington ]
The balls of sight are so formed that one man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. [ Johnson ]
Friendships which are born in misfortune are more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness. [ D'Urfey ]
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. [ Abraham Lincoln ]
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. [ Beaconsfield ]
Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself. [ Jean Paul ]
All great designs are formed in solitude; in the world, no object is pursued long enough to produce an impression. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire. [ Colton ]
When you have formed your plans, be quick to execute them; one will catch his fish before another shall have baited his hook. [ E. Rich ]
The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. [ Burke ]
Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. [ Disraeli ]
Woman was formed to admire; man to be admirable. His are the glories of the sun at noonday; hers the softened splendors of the midnight moon. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues - even He will provide for their support. [ Hitopadesa ]
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth, - by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood becomes the genius that rules the rest of life. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]
Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father. [ Jean Paul ]
Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes. [ Emerson ]
Love is - I know not what; which comes - I know not whence; which is formed - I know not how; which enchants - I know not by what; and which ends - I know not when or why. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. [ J. S. Mill ]
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions. [ Colton ]
The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights, frequently repeated, the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. [ Locke ]
Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]
There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]