Fain Quotes

41 quotes by 33 authors

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. — Walter Raleigh
I would fain die a dry death. — William Shakespeare
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the… — J. G. Holland
King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in… — William Shakespeare
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because… — Frederick William Robertson
Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of… — Henry David Thoreau
A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years before he can… — Monty Roberts
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… — Thomas Jefferson
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk… — Henry David Thoreau
We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;… — Heinrich Heine
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would… — John Ruskin
I would fain coin wisdom,â€”mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
I would fain grow old learning many things. — Plato

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