Dwell Quotes

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. (Petrarch)
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next. View quote
Steve Jobs
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. View quote
Edmund Waller
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. View quote
Joseph Addison
When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future. View quote
Dian Fossey
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. View quote
William Cowper
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. View quote
Jane Austen
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been. (Henry David Thoreau)
It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and whom he has admired; that constitute his ideal audience and his better self. View quote
Richard Wilbur
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell Thy fools no more I'll tease This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease. View quote
Alexander Pope
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! View quote
Joseph Addison
A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. View quote
Jean Giraudoux
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts ... his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them. View quote
George Fox
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost. View quote
William Butler Yeats
God appears, and God is Light,To those poor souls who dwell in Night,But does a human form displayTo those who dwell in realms of day. View quote
William Blake
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. View quote
Johnny Cash
She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love. View quote
William Wordsworth
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell! (William Shakespeare)
The future's too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster. View quote
Frank Iero
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness. View quote
Rick Riordan
You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought. View quote
Emmet Fox
You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind. View quote
Emmet Fox
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