Quotes
Quotes about Right
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain;
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw,
Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.
Behold how brightly breaks the morning!
Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm.
Right as a trivet.
Sparkling and bright in liquid light
Does the wine our goblets gleam in;
With hue as red as the rosy bed
Which a bee would choose to dream in.
Badness, look you, you may choose easily in a heap: level is the path, and right near it dwells. But before Virtue the immortal gods have put the sweat of man's brow; and long and steep is the way to it, and rugged at the first.
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
Think not that thy word and thine alone must be right.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.
Fortune is like glass,--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.
Who is there whom bright and agreeable children do not attract to play and creep and prattle with them?
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee.
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.
Remember that to change thy mind and to follow him that sets thee right, is to be none the less the free agent that thou wast before.
And this I know: whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite,
One Flash of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright.
It is enough to fright you out of your seven senses.
Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.
In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.
If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink,--
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.
Ah that I-- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
