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   God, giveusgracetoaccept with serenity thethingsthat cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

—Niebuhr, Reinhold

What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel, How mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?

—Spenser, Edmund

My whole life have I lived in pleasant thought, As if life's business were a summer mood; As if all needful things would come unsought To genial faith, still rich in genial good.

—Wordsworth,William

   Alle anderen Dinge mu«  ssen; der Mensch ist das Wesen, welches will. All other things must; man is the being who wills.

—Schiller, Friedrich

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

—Bible (Old Testament)

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

—Browne, SirThomas

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   All things are literally better, lovelier, more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinelyappointed.

—Ruskin,John

  Let all things be done decentlyand in order.

—Bible (NewTestament)

All things began in order, so shall they end, and so shall they begin again; according to the ordainer of order and mystical mathematics of the city of heaven.

—Browne, SirThomas

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

—Alexander, Cecil Frances

The fountains mingle with the river, And the rivers with the ocean; The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things, bya law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle. Why not I with thine?

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

And we know that all things work together for good to 120 them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Very God of very God,Begotten, not made,Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven.

—Book of Common Prayer

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

—Bible (NewTestament)

For theearof jealousyhearethallthings: and thenoiseof murmurings is not hid.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

The poet shares with other artists the faculty of seeing things as though for the first time.

—Spender, Sir Stephen Harold

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

—Thompson, Francis

   Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

We have a habit in this country of correcting things just as they are about to correct themselves.

—Brady, Nicholas F(rederick)

A labouring manthat isgivento drunkennessshall not be rich: and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

All violent feelings†produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the'Pathetic Fallacy'.

—Ruskin,John

In rerum natura nullum datur contingens; sed omnia ex necessitate divinae naturae determinata sunt ad certo modo existandum et operandum. In the nature of things nothing contingent isgranted, but all things are determined by the necessity of divine nature for existing and working in a certain way.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into, that countedöand the manwho was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

—Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Little things affect little minds.

—Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

—Sophocles

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate.Benot wise inyourown conceits.Recompenseto no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

—Bible (Apocrypha)

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternallyanchored.One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

—Sophocles

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment†but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedötrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

—Bagehot,Walter

This sad vicissitude of things.

—Sterne, Laurence

When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?

—Sorley, Charles Hamilton

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

—Curie, Marie originally Marya Sklodowska

The secret things belong unto the L our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and our children forever, that we maydoall the words of this law.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Thesorts ofthingsthat Icanfind out about myselfarethe same as thesorts of things that I canfind out about other people and the methods of finding them out are much the same.

—Ryle, Gilbert

These FoolishThings Remind Me of You.

—Marvell, Holt originally Eric Maschwitz

Iamnot yet so lost inlexicographyastoforgetthat words arethe daughters of earth, and thatthings arethesons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but thesigns of ideas: Iwish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. SeeAchebe 2:18.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by deathö Percivalöothers through sheer inability to cross the street.

—Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen

Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

Things in book's clothing.

—Lamb, Charles

   Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

—Ruskin,John

I cannot remember things I once read A few friends, but theyare in cities. Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air.

—Snyder, Gary Sherman

   If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very littleösomebody who is obsessed by Making.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

The things people had once held against her† unconventional beauty†un-American elegance, the taste for French clothes and French foodöwere suddenly no longer liabilities but assets.

—Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? Theyare more true: theyare the only things that are true.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Things that are seen but not looked at.

—Johns,Jasper

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it isgood to break the ice by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

There's three things you can do in a baseball game^you can win, you can lose, or it can rain.

—Stengel, Casey (Charles Dillon)

Finally, brethren, 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, thinkon these things.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Cast their crowns before the throne, saying,Thou art worthy,O Lord, to receive gloryand honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

—Bible (NewTestament)

DieWelt ist die Gesamtheit derTatsachen, nicht der Dinge. The world is the totality of facts, not of things.

—Wittgenstein, LudwigJosef Johann

It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.

—Sophocles

Political economy (the economyof a State, orofcitizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things.

—Ruskin,John

The worker becomes poorer the more wealth he produces and the more his production increases in powerand extent.The worker becomes anevercheaper commodity the more good he creates. The devaluation of the human world increases in direct relation with the increase in value of the world of things. Labour does not only create goods; it also produces itself and the worker as a commodity, and indeed in the same proportion as it produces goods.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

When I was a young man, I wanted to be three things: I wanted to be the world's greatest horseman, the world's greatest economist, and the world's greatest lover. Unfortunately I never became the world's greatest horseman.

—Schumpeter,Joseph Alois

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

—Ruskin,John

   What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life.

—Beaumont, Francis