things (n.)
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
All things are the same,—familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
All things are the same,—familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.
And when a lady's in the case,
You know all other things give place.
All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.
How like a younker or a prodigal
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
How like the prodigal doth she return,
With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,
Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!
A sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,—
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
I am made all things to all men.
All things work together for good to them that love God.
These little things are great to little man.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Things are not always what they seem.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
These things are beyond all use,
And I do fear them.
How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise and true perfection!
Call things by their right names. . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Can such things be,
And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?
I cannot but remember such things were,
That were most precious to me.
The best of things beyond their measure cloy.
To compare
Great things with small.
For who hath despised the day of small things?
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.
What things have we seen
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been
So nimble and so full of subtile flame
As if that every one from whence they came
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,
And resolved to live a fool the rest
Of his dull life.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight,
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair,
Like twilights too her dusky hair,
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind;
Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat
To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote.
Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining,
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining:
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out.
Facts are stubborn things.
Facts are stubborn things.
A feast of fat things.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Thus times do shift,—each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
What dire offence from amorous causes springs!
What mighty contests rise from trivial things!
It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,—
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
Wherefore are these things hid?
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"
Oh that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I am taught.
Didst thou never hear
That things ill got had ever bad success?
And happy always was it for that son
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
The setting sun, and music at the close,
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,
Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things.
Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.
Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.
A man's best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.
It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.
Great is truth, and mighty above all things.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
It was a common saying of Myson that men ought not to investigate things from words, but words from things; for that things are not made for the sake of words, but words for things.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Past and to come seems best; things present worst.
A man's happiness,—to do the things proper to man.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
A sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,—
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
The sad vicissitude of things.
Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
She feels no biting pang the while she sings;
Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around,
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.
How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
The secret things belong unto the Lord.
Those obstinate questionings
Of sense and outward things,
Fallings from us, vanishings,
Blank misgivings of a creature
Moving about in worlds not realized,
High instincts before which our mortal nature
Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised.
It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
All things that are
Made for our general uses are at war,—
Even we among ourselves.
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favour; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
"High characters," cries one, and he would see
Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be.
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,
And in clear dream and solemn vision
Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear,
Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants
Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But as the world, harmoniously confus'd,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,
And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things to come.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
Had in him those brave translunary things
That the first poets had.
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind;
Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat
To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote.
Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining,
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining:
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact:
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,
That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things,—God.
We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
We will answer all things faithfully.
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,
The place is dignified by the doer's deed.
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard; what's done is done.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
