VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

Human beings must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Nothing happens until something moves.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

'Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

Darkness our guide, Despair our leader was.

Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.

Uncertain ways unsafest are, And doubt a greater mischief than despair.

You prove but too clearly that seeking to know Is too frequently learning to doubt.

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.

Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.

O, could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme; Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.