Fain Quotes
41 quotes by 33 authors
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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
— Joseph Addison
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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
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
— Walter Raleigh
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I would fain die a dry death.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
— Robert Herrick
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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
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Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war.
— Okakura Kakuzo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.
— Petrarch
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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
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and…
— Joseph Joubert
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I would fain grow old learning many things.
— Plato
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