Dwelling Quote by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“Left or right, which will you take? For both of them your heart will break. One is cruel, one is fair, One a passage,…

— Emily Rodda

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets a sight…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a…

— H. Rider Haggard

But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long…

— James Anthony Froude

“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or…

— Plutarch

“The just and the worthy have to suffer in order to spread their ideas and let them be known. One has to shake and…

— José Rizal

Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.

— Horatius Bonar

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

— John Henry Newman

“Straight is the line of Duty, Curved is the line of Beauty, Follow the straight line, thou shall see. The curved line ever follow…

— Hilary Mantel

“All the fruit is ripe, plunged in fire, cooked, And they have passed their test on earth, and one law is this: That everything…

— Friedrich Holderlin

Do right! and thou hast naught to fear;Right hath a power that makes thee strong.The night is dark, but light is near;The grief is…

— Thomas Cogswell Upham