Quotes
Quotes about End
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears. [Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer von schwankendem Rufe.]
Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
I have offended reputation, A most unnoble swerving.
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. â¢John Muir Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. â¢William Cowper No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. â¢Jean Paul Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. â¢S. W. Duffield Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. â¢Plutarch I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! â¢Louise A. Bogan A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. â¢Walter Winchell One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. â¢Chinese Proverb How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. â¢Proverb The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.
From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
The ends must justify the means.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.]
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth."
I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended with ridicule; which two are as near one another as extreme wisdom and folly.
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act. - Francis Hutcheson,
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
