Alas Quote by Lydia Sigourney Download Open image “Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.” — Lydia Sigourney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Names Pride Prosperity Wealth
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Prosperity is the ability to do what you want to do at the instant you want to do it. — Raymond Charles Barker Copy Share Image
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly prosperous people… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness. — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
