#holy

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#fame #holy #modestly #rank #unworthy

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#away #betray #charm #finds #folly

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#always #company #end #feel #first

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#accounted #charter #christ #grant #great

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. ↗

— Jane Grey

#bowels #eyes #gift #given #god

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

#christian #demoralizing #die #exert #exerted

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. ↗

— David Guterson

#feel #grasp #i #interpret #melancholy

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need. ↗

— David Guterson

#i #me #melancholy #need #produce

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me. ↗

— David Guterson

#haunts #me #melancholy