Endure Quotes - 3
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'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself.
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
william congreve— 1700 Millamant to Mirabell. The Way of the World, act 4, sc.5.
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.
john donne— c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
— 1847 The Journal of Euge' ne Delacroix (translated by W Pach, 1948).
What Chekhov saw in our failure to communicate was something positive and precious: the private silence in which we live, and which enables us to endure our own solitude.
— 1979 The Myth Makers,'Chekhov'.
Aspirations pure and high —Strength to do and to endure —Heir of all the Ages, I —Lo! I am no longer poor!
julia caroline dorr— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.
I like a church, I like a cowl,I love a prophet of the soul,And on my heart monastic aislesFall like sweet strains or pensive smiles;Yet not for all his faith can see,Would I that cowled churchman be.Why should the vest on him allure,Which I could not on me endure?
ralph waldo emerson— St. 1
The pope understands this eternal truth: Societies cannot endure for long without a belief in God and a submission to His will. We are ignoring him at our peril.
jeffrey t. kuhner— Real Conservative Vision,Washington Times, 2009-8-9.
I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick", I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.
rose wilder lane— Diary, sick and depressed (December 9, 1933)
Unions were created to make living conditions just a little better than they were before they were created, and the union that does not manifest that kind of interest in human beings cannot endure, it cannot live.
— Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Vol. 14 (1952), p. 232
In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.
william winwood reade— "Intellect", pp. 405-6
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.
william wordsworth— Weak is the Will of Man.
He doth raise his country's fame with his own And in the mouths of nations yet unborn His praises will be sung; Death comes to all, But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556); also quoted in prose form as "Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold".
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
rachel carson— The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Take courage, lover! Could you endure such pain At any hand but hers?
robert graves— "Symptoms of Love" from More Poems (1961)
The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club the famous Cincinnati Literary Club in my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.
rutherford b. hayes— Letter to Fanny Hayes (1 November 1885).
And when the devil hath seen that they have set so little by him, after certain essays, made in such times as he thought most fitting, he hath given that temptation quite over. And this he doth not only because the proud spirit cannot endure to be mocked, but also lest, with much tempting the man to the sin to which he could not in conclusion bring him, he should much increase his merit.
— Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation (1553), Book Two, Section XVI
To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.
friedrich nietzsche— Sec. 110. (Helen Zimmern translation)
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
alexis de tocqueville— This is a variant expression of a sentiment which is often attributed to Tocqueville or Alexander Fraser Tytler, but the earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."Variant: The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
[M]orale is the spiritual capacity of a people to endure pain and suffering, and not a campaign of bill posters, pep talks and band concerts.
— Ralph Austin Bard, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, New York City, September 24, 1942.: Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 21-23
Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3, line 250.
The wealth of rich feelings the deep the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.
— Frances S. Osgood, to F. D. Maurice.
In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation.
— Section 4 : Moral Ideals
I armed her against the censures of the world; showed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they could not bring us to enjoy life, they would at least teach us to endure it.
Oliver Goldsmith— Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Chapter XXII.
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.
Robert Browning— Robert Browning, Dramatis Personae (1864), "Rabbi Ben Ezra"
Are you making war upon us, because you anticipate that we will not endure such indignity, but that we will fight on behalf of our laws, and die in defence of our national customs? For you cannot possibly have been ignorant of what was likely to result from your attempt to introduce these innovations respecting our temple.
— Embassy to Gaius, Chapter 28-31, Yonge's translation.
Believe that many precepts are better than much wealth; for wealth quickly fails us, but precepts abide through all time; for wisdom alone of all possessions is imperishable. Do not hesitate to travel a long road to those who profess to offer some useful instruction; for it were a shame, when merchants cross vast seas in order to increase their store of wealth, that the young should not endure even journeys by land to improve their understanding.
— As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 495
The pope understands this eternal truth: Societies cannot endure for long without a belief in God and a submission to His will. We are ignoring him at our peril.
— Jeffrey T. Kuhner, real conservative vision,"Washington Times", August 9, 2009
Jesus' message is about love and compassion, but there is nothing loving or compassionate at factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals endure miserable lives and die violent deaths. Jesus mandates kindness and mercy for all God's creatures. He'd be appalled by the suffering that we inflict on animals today to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh.
— Bruce Friedrich, in an interview by Hank Pellissier, Is Eating Meat A Catholic Sin? (February 2004)
