English Writing

Popular Quotations VI

Success

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsome, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does! – Moss Hart

A minute’s success pays the failure of years. – Robert Browning

Experience shows that success is less due to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. – Charles Buxton

Sun

As a giant strong, a bridegroom gay,
The sun comes through the gates of day. – Brome

Thank you

‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’ – they are the little courtesies by which we keep the machine of life oiled and running sweetly. – A G Gardiner

Time

Time is the greatest innovator. – Francis Bacon

Trust

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself a public property. – Thomas Jefferson

Truth

Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know – John Keats

University

A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning. – Disraeli

Variety

Variety is the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour. – William Cowper

Growth of civilization

God made the country and man made the town. – William Cowper

War

War is a horrible thing, and constantly more horrible and dreadful. Unless it is ended, it will certainly end human society. – HG Wells

Work

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. – Thomas Carlyle

Worries

A poor life this is full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare. – W H Davies

Writing

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon

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