We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Who that has loved knows not the tender tale
Which flowers reveal, when lips are coy to tell?
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EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literatu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who
writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Our greed for joy is the sole reason for our sorrows
NILESH RATHOD When we tell our stories, the gods hear our sorrows.
CATHY OSTLERE In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own go...
HERMAN MELVILLE Our hearts clearly see our own interests but they are completely blind to other people's interests
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?
ODDNý EIR Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB We are facing the second half of the season with the greatest desire to give to our fans and our fol...
EMILIO BUTRAGUENO Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.
JEAN PAUL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... We are very apt to measure ourselves by our aspiration instead of our performance. But in truth the ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN To inspire love within each other, we realize the fulfillment of our own hearts longing.
JILL ANZINGER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must...
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY When we allow our hands and our minds to wither in our efforts to control our own habits, our own hu...
GENE CRAWFORD At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love some...
NIKKI REED Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON We are always looking for beauty and forget that it is residing inside of our own hearts.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We wanted to tell our story in our own words, We lived through it.
JULIA BASKIN We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ...
PATRICIA HAMPL Later I will tell him: our courage comes out in different ways. We are brave in our bold dreams but ...
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION We are extremely pleased to have Edward Waters and Concordia become part of our non-conference footb...
CHARLES MCCLELLAND Life is our master & we are his subject,if we pleaseth him not,he has the sole power to terminate ou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own ...
JONI EARECKSON TADA Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our ...
BECKY ALIGADA I think all The Shield boys will tell you we hold The Shield very dear to our hearts. That was our v...
ROMAN REIGNS Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our f...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
LARS ULRICH Our own random acts of kindness allow us to receive a gift each day in our hearts.
RON BARATONO We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own po...
WILLIAM LAW Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, b...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts ...
ORHAN PAMUK The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hea...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Livin...
TARA BRACH We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generat...
JOHN RACHEL We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hear...
DARIO FO We make our own sauce. We make our own rub. We make our own marinade. We make everything but the mea...
JAMES ROBBINS If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our...
TARA BRACH How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
PAUL ELDRIDGE We are on a mission to win the hearts and minds of our employees.
VERN DOSCH Hearts of oak are our ships,
Gallant tars are our men.
DAVID GARRICK But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
AMELIA BARR Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others h...
CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES It is difficult to have faith when our hearts are consumed by fear, but it is when we are afraid tha...
A.A. FRIAS What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretension...
ELIAS HICKS Ultimately, we are the sum of our failures and triumphs, the one that is greatest determines what yo...
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our mon...
R. KENT HUGHES It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it k...
CARL GUSTAV JUNG It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it k...
CARL JUNG Hearts of oak are are ships,
Hearts of oak are our men.
DAVID GARRICK Children are the air that we breathe, the sparkle in our eyes, the warmth in our hearts and the ting...
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
THORNTON WILDER ...in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that
surround us, in the sights t...
JOSEPH CONRAD Our dead become the photographs and words we hang on the walls, but they also hang on the walls of o...
ZEINA KASSEM Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
ANDREW MOTION We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our lo...
MAEVE BINCHY Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own ...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.
PSYCHE ROXAS-MENDOZA Our tasks are given, we are but instruments.
Nothing is all our own that we create.
SRI AUROBINDO The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.
APPIANUS How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t...
R.C. SPROUL Words are like seeds, I think, planted into our hearts at a tender age. They take root in us as we g...
TAHEREH MAFI Our hearts are there. Our homes are there. Please don't move our community.
JACQUIE SINGLETON With our faith and the beating of our hearts, we can overcome any obstacles.
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE We are heroes in the hearts of our children. Make sure to live up to the part.
SHELLY KAY WALDE We have for a long time neglected our children. They are our richest treasure. We must give them tim...
DADA VASWANI We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving....
MARTIN SHEEN He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.
JOHN GREEN The Israelis and some Westerners are trying to delete Arafat from our memory, but he will remain ali...
AHMED TIBI Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the d...
BARBARA R. DUGUID What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our he...
AUGUSTUS HARE We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
KEVIN KELLY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Growth comes from questioning our own hearts. But unrelenting self-doubt can lead you astray.
CHELSEA SEDOTI We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God
SOTONYE ANGA Songs are meant to heal our hearts and ease our pain.
ALFRED BALBO We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though o...
BILLY GRAHAM We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KAHLIL GIBRAN We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRAN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
THICH NHAT HANH A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The greatest potential we have for opening our hearts lies in the opening of our minds.
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE Our hearts and our thoughts are with the people down south. What they're going through is a thousand...
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EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be re...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON It is difficult to say who do you the most harm: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, an...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those t...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to wa...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark wh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning i...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extrac...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole h...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, the...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manh...
EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge
EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Arm thyself for the truth!
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light--every
eye looking on finds its own.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When
two men shake hands and part, mark ...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend
sincere enough to tell him disagreeable...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in
his life when he has one too few; bu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but
what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who
writes verses builds it in granite....
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON