Quotes
Quotes about End
Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other manâs nose begins.
O how grandly cometh Even, Sitting on the mountain summit, Purple-vestured, grave, and silent, Watching o'er the dewy valleys, Like a good king near his end.
One by one the flowers close, Lily and dewy rose Shutting their tender petals from the moon.
Evil beginning houres may end in good.
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn. [Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se aprende el hacerle.]
Of two evils choose the least. [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
A mighty stream of tendency.
And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude.
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.]
Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
