We are easily tired of a popular modish tune, but never of the voice of the wind in the woods.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
—Carl Jung
“When a man admires himself, he never adores God.”
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
—George Orwell
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
“Christ’s eyes never slumber,
his hands never rest,
and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people’s burdens.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
There is never a fear that has not a corresponding Fear not.
—Amy Carmichael
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
—John Milton
Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
—Thomas Edison
“We never rest till the Comforter makes us lie down.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
When I think what an aid tobacco is to friendship and Christian patience, I have sometimes regretted that I never began to smoke.
—J. Gresham Machen
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
—Aldous Huxley
I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
—J. Gresham Machen
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
—Henry David Thoreau
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
—Ernest Hemingway
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
—Ernest Hemingway
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
—Thomas Edison
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science
—Charles Darwin
“He that believes in Christ shall be delivered from sin, he shall trample it under his feet; he may have a life-long battle with it, nay, I am sure he will have that, else Christ would never have taught his disciples to pray, Lead us not into temptation.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
—Cicero
Never listen to people who speak badly of others and good of you.
—Leo Tolstoy
Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Never spend your money before you have it.
—Thomas Jefferson
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
“The sun may leave us, but our God never ceases to shine upon us.”
— Charles Spurgeon