Comets Quote by Edward Young Download Open image “Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.” — Edward Young ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comets Prosperity Shining Wealth
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare… — Quintus Curtius Rufus Copy Share Image
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is the hard target to hit. Displaying enough prosperity to call good will from the masses for yourself, but not going too far… — Marv Stark Copy Share Image
“In reality we actually don’t create prosperity. It has already been created by God in us. We simply remove the things that are blocking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Britannia's shame! There took her gloomy flight, On wing impetuous, a black sullen soul . Less base the fear of death than fear of… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact." "What did you say?" said Sniff. Moomintroll went… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Human society is part of the general order, and the more our knowledge increases the less we are inclined to believe that the birth… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered… — Joan Bennett Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.” — David H. Levy Copy Share Image
What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image