Wells Quotes - Page 46
Don Quixote II, Ch. 10 (1605)
Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song”, p.418
Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2014). “Frankenstein: The Original Story”, p.183, Lettere Animate Editore
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881). “Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.”
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
"Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.
Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”
Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.3252, GENERAL PRESS
Mark Helprin (2017). “Ellis Island and Other Stories”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
Marilyn Monroe, Ben Hecht (2006). “My Story”, p.117, Rowman & Littlefield
I think still that someone wiser than I might well have remained happy till his death.
Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1855). “Cicero's Three books of offices, or moral duties: also his Cato Major, an essay on old age; Lælius, an essay on friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's dream; and Letter to Quintus on the duties of a magistrate”, p.73
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
"Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book XVI, Chapter 7), 68-43 BC.