C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Presumption

Who dares
To say that he alone has found the truth?

Longfellow.

Presume to lay their hand upon the ark
Of her magnificent and awful cause.

Cowper.

How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment?

Shakespeare.

It is not so with Him that all things knows
As ’tis with us that square our guess by shows:
But most it is presumption in us when
The help of heaven we count the act of men.

Shakespeare.

He will steal himself into a man’s favor and for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but when you find him out, you have him ever after.

Shakespeare.

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