I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.
He that finds out he's changed his lot for worse, Let him betimes the untoward choice reverse: For still, when all is said, the rule stands fast, That each man's shoe be made on his own last.
When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.
I have always been faithful to you if faithful means the experience against which everything else has been measured.
The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
