Saturday, December 26, 2009

What are phrases/quotes that relate abstract concepts, such as beauty and truth, etc?

like


beauty is truth, etc. im not really sure since thats the first time ive encountered a comparison like that.





anyways, any input is appreciated!


thanks in advance!What are phrases/quotes that relate abstract concepts, such as beauty and truth, etc?
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. - Kahlil Gibran author of The Prophet








Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. - Kahlil Gibran





The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched 鈥?they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller





It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,


And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!


- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWhat are phrases/quotes that relate abstract concepts, such as beauty and truth, etc?
Virtue is the fountain whence honor springs.


- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)





Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.


- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)





Glory is the shadow of virtue.


- Latin proverb





Peace is liberty in tranquility.


- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)





Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.


- William Ellery Channing (1780-1842)





Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.


- Voltaire (1694-1778)





Ambition is in fact the avarice of power.


- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)





Justice is truth in action.


- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)





Resignation is the timid side of courage.


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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.


- Alphonse de Lamartine





Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.


- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)





Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.


- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)





Criticism is prejudice made plausible.


- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)





Repentance is another name for aspiration.


- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)





Anger is brief madness.


- Horace (65-8 B.C.)





Gratitude is the memory of the heart.


- Massieu to the Abb茅 Sicard





Envy is a kind of praise.


- John Gay (1685-1732)





Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.


- Gilfillan





Religion is morality touched by emotion.


- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)





Philosophy is doubt.


- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)





Charity is the sterilized milk of human kindness.


- Oliver Herford (1863-1935)





Envy is left-handed praise.


- American proverb





Hatred is a settled anger.


- Latin proverb





Patience is the art of hoping.


- French proverb





Patience is the companion of wisdom.


- Saint Augustine (354-430)





Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.


- Saint Augustine (354-430)





Politeness... is fictitious benevolence.


- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)





Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.


- George Santayana (1863-1952)





Curiosity, which is a lust of the mind...


- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)





Philosophy is the microscope of thought.


- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)





Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.


- Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
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