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=Daar niets goeds in is, gaat niets goeds nit=--Where 20 no good is in, no good comes out. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar 't een mensch wee doet, daar heeft hij de hand=--A man lays his hand where he feels the pain. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar twee kijven hebben ze beiden schuld=--When two quarrel both are to blame. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar zijn meer dieven als er opgehangen worden=--There are more thieves than are hanged. _Dut. Pr._
=Dabit Deus his quoque finem=--God will put an end to these calamities also. _Virg._
=Da capo=--From the beginning. _It._ 25
=D'accord=--Agreed; in tune. _Fr._
=Da chi mi fido, / Guardi mi Dio. / Da chi non mi fido, / Mi guarderò io=--From him I trust may God keep me; from him I do not trust I will keep myself. _It. Pr._
=Dachtet ihr, der Löwe schliefe, weil er nicht brüllte?=--Did you think the lion was sleeping because it did not roar? _Schiller._
=Da die Götter menschlicher noch waren, / Waren Menschen göttlicher=--When the gods were more human, men were more divine. _Schiller._
=Dádivas quebrantan peñas=--Gifts dissolve rocks. 30 _Sp. Pr._
=Da du Welt nicht kannst entsagen, / Erobre dir sie mit Gewalt=--Where thou canst not renounce the world, subdue it under thee by force. _Platen._
=Dafür bin ich ein Mann, dass sich aushalte in dem was ich begonnen, dass ich einstehe mit Leib und Leben für das Trachten meines Geistes=--For this end am I a man, that I should persevere steadfastly in what I have began, and answer with my life for the aspiration of my spirit. _Laube._
=Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.= _Goethe._
[Greek: daitos eïsês]--An equal diet. _Hom._
[Greek: Dakry' adakrya]--Tearless tears. _Eurip._ 35
=Dal detto al fatto v'è un gran tratto=--From saying to doing is a long stride. _It. Pr._
=Da locum melioribus=--Make way for your betters. _Ter._
=Dame donde me asiente, que yo me haré donde me acueste=--Give where I may sit down, and I will make where I may lie down. _Sp. Pr._
=Dames quêteuses=--Ladies who collect for the poor. _Fr._
=Dämmerung ist Menschenlos in jeder Beziehung=--Twilight 40 (of dawn) is the lot of man in every relation. _Feuchtersleben._
=Damna minus consueta movent=--Losses we are accustomed to, affect us little. _Juv._
=Damnant quod non intelligunt=--They condemn what they do not understand. _Quinct._
=Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, / Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring.= _Dryden._
=Damnosa hæreditas=--An inheritance which entails loss. _L._
=Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?=--What is 45 there that corroding time does not impair? _Hor._
=Damnum absque injuria=--Loss without injustice. _L._
=Damnum appellandum est cum mala fama lucrum=--Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. _Pr._
=Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.= _Pope._
=Danari fanno danari=--Money breeds money. _It. Pr._
=Dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.= 50 _Hen. VIII._, v. 2.
=Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, / On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be filed.= _Spenser._
=Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Danger for danger's sake is senseless.= _Victor Hugo._
=Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Danger levels man and brute, / And all are fellows in their need.= _Byron._
=Danger past, God forgotten.= _Pr._ 5
=Dannosa è il dono che toglie la libertà=--Injurious is the gift that takes away our liberty. _It. Pr._
=Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplait pas=--In the misfortune of our best friends we find always something which does not displease us. _La Roche._
=Dans la morale, comme l'art, dire n'est rien, faire est tout=--In morals as in art, talking is nothing, doing is all. _Renan._
=Dans l'art d'intéresser consiste l'art d'écrire=--The art of writing consists in the art of interesting. _Fr._
=Dans le nombre de quarante ne fait-il pas un= 10 =zéro?=--In the number forty is there not bound to be a cipher? _Fr._
=Dans les conseils d'un état, il ne faut pas tant regarder ce qu'on doit faire, que ce qu'on peut faire=--In the councils of a state, the question is not so much what ought to be done, as what can be done. _Fr._
=Dante was very bad company, and was never invited to dinner.= _Emerson._
=Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.= _Browning._
=Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus=--Wealth now-a-days goes all to the rich. _Mart._
=Dapes inemptæ=--Dainties unbought, _i.e._, home 15 produce. _Hor._
=Dapibus supremi / Grata testudo Jovis=--The shell (lyre) a welcome accompaniment at the banquets of sovereign Jove. _Hor._
=Dare pondus idonea fumo=--Fit only to give importance to trifles (_lit._ give weight to smoke). _Pr._
=Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; / A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.= _George Herbert._
=Daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, / Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.= _Butler._
=Darkness visible.= _Milton._ 20
=Darkness which may be felt.= _Bible._
=Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, / The ear more quick of apprehension makes.= _Mid. N. Dream_, iii. 2.
=Dark with excessive bright.= _Milton._
=Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, / Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen=--The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. _Schiller._
=Das Alter der göttlichen Phantasie / Es= 25 =ist verschwunden, es kehret nie=--The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. _Schiller._
=Das Alter wägt, die Jugend wagt=--Age considers, youth ventures. _Raupach._
=Das arme Herz, hienieden / Von manchem Sturm bewegt, / Erlangt den wahren Frieden, / Nur, wo es nicht mehr schlägt=--The poor heart, agitated on earth by many a storm, attains true peace only when it ceases to beat. _Salis-Seewis._
=Das Auge des Herrn schafft mehr als seine beiden Hände=--The master's eye does more than both his hands. _Ger. Pr._
=Das begreife ein andrer als ich!=--Let another try to understand that; I cannot. _A. Lortzing._
=Das Beste, was wir von der Geschichte haben,= 30 =ist der Enthusiasmus, den sie erregt=--The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it excites. _Goethe._
=Das Edle zu erkennen ist Gewinnst / Der nimmer uns entrissen werden kann=--The ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain which no one can ever take from us. _Goethe._
=Das einfach Schöne soll der Kenner schätzen; / Verziertes aber spricht der Menge zu=--The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. _Goethe._
=Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe=--The first and last thing which is required of genius is love of truth. _Goethe._
=Das Geeinte zu entzweien, das Entzweite zu einigen, ist das Leben der Natur=--Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the life of Nature. _Goethe._
=Das Geheimniss ist für die Glücklichen=--Mystery 35 is for the favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Das Genie erfindet, der Witz findet bloss=--Genius invents, wit merely finds. _Weber._
=Das Gesetz ist der Freund des Schwachen=--Law is the protector of the weak. _Schiller._
=Das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben=--Only law can give us freedom. _Goethe._
=Das Gewebe dieser Welt ist aus Nothwendigkeit und Zufall gebildet; die Vernunft des Menschen stellt sich zwischen beide, und weiss sie zu beherrschen=--The web of this world is woven out of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between the two, and knows how to control them. _Goethe._
=Das glaub' ich=--That is exactly my opinion. 40 _Ger. Pr._
=Das Glück deiner Tage / Wäge nicht mit der Goldwage. / Wirst du die Krämerwage nehmen, / So wirst du dich schämen und dich bequemen=--Weigh not the happiness of thy days with goldsmith's scales. Shouldst thou take the merchant's, thou shalt feel ashamed and adapt thyself. _Goethe._
=Das Glück giebt Vielen zu viel, aber Keinem genug=--Fortune gives to many too much, but to no one enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Das glücklichste Wort es wird verhöhnt, / Wenn der Hörer ein Schiefohr ist=--The happiest word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted ear. _Goethe._
=Das grosse unzerstörbare Wunder ist der Menschenglaube an Wunder=--The great indestructible miracle is man's faith in miracle. _Jean Paul._
=Das Grösste, was dem Menschen begegnen= 45 =kann, ist es wohl, in der eigenen Sache die allgemeine zu vertheitigen=--The noblest function, I should say, that can fall to man is to vindicate all men's interests in vindicating his own. _Ranke._
=Das hat die Freude mit dem Schmerz gemein, / Dass sie die Menschen der Vernunft beraubt=--Joy has this in common with pain, that it bereaves man of reason. _Platen._
=Das Heiligste, die Pflicht, ist leider das, was wir am öftersten in uns bekämpfen und meistens wider Willen thun=--Duty, alas! which is the most sacred instinct in our nature, is that which we most frequently struggle with in ourselves, and generally do against our will. _R. Gutzkow._
=Das Herz gleicht dem Mühlsteine der Mehl gibt, wenn man Korn aufshüttet, aber sich selbst zerreibt, wenn man es unterlasst=--The heart is like a millstone, which yields meal if you supply it with grain, but frets itself away if you neglect to do so. _Weber._
=Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den Mann=--It is his heart, and not his opinion, that is an honour to a man. _Schiller._
=Das höchste Glück ist das, welches unsere= 5 =Mängel verbessert und unsere Fehler ausgleicht=--The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. _Goethe._
=Das Hohngelächter der Hölle=--The scoffing laughter of Hell. _Lessing._
=Das Ideal in der Kunst, Grösse in Ruhe darzustellen, sei das Ideal auf dem Throne=--Let the ideal in art, the representation of majesty in repose, be the ideal on the throne. _Jean Paul._
=Das ist die wahre Liebe, die immer und immer sich gleich bleibt, / Wenn man ihr alles gewährt, wenn man ihr alles versagt=--That is true love which is ever the same (_lit._ equal to itself), whether everything is conceded to it or everything denied. _Goethe._
=Das Jahrhundert / Ist meinem Ideal nicht reif. Ich lebe / Ein Bürge derer, welche kommen werden=--The century is not ripe for my ideal; I live as an earnest of those that are to come. _Schiller._
=Das Kind mit dem Bade verschütten=--To throw 10 away the child with the bath, _i.e._, the good with the bad. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Kleine in einen grossen Sinne behandeln, ist Hoheit des Geistes; das Kleine für gross und wichtig halten, ist Pedantismus=--To treat the little in a large sense is elevation of spirit; to treat the little as great and important is pedantry. _Feuchersleben._
=Das Leben dünkt ein ew'ger Frühling mir=--Life seems to me an eternal spring. _Lortzing._
=Das Leben eines Staates ist, wie ein Strom, in fortgehender Bewegung; wenn der Strom steht, so wird er Eis oder Sumpf=--The life of a state, like a stream, lies in its onward movement; if the stream stagnates, it is because it is frozen or a marsh. _J. v. Müller._
=Das Leben gehört den Lebendigen an, und wer lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein=--Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. _Goethe._
=Das Leben heisst Streben=--Life is a striving. 15 _Ger. Pr._
=Das Leben ist die Liebe / Und des Lebens Leben Geist=--Life is love, and the life of life, spirit. _Goethe._
=Das Leben ist nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer=--Life is but a moment, death also is but another. _Schiller._
=Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns / Und andern strenge sein=--Life teaches us to be less severe both with ourselves and others. _Goethe._
=Das Nächste das Liebste=--The nearest is the dearest. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Nächste steht oft unergreifbar fern=--What 20 is nearest is often unattainably far off. _Goethe._
=Da spatium tenuemque moram; male cuncta, ministrat / Impetus=--Allow time and slight delay; haste and violence ruin everything. _Stat._
=Das Publikum, das ist ein Mann / Der alles weiss und gar nichts kann=--The public is a personage who knows everything and can do nothing. _L. Roberts._
=Das Recht hat eine wächserne Nase=--Justice has a nose of wax. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Reich der Dichtung ist das Reich der Wahrheit / Schliesst auf das Heiligthum, es werde Licht=--The kingdom of poetry is the kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there is light. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Das Schicksal ist ein vornehmer aber theurer= 25 =Hofmeister=--Fate is a distinguished but expensive pedagogue. _Goethe._
=Das schönste Glück des denkenden Menschen ist, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren=--The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. _Goethe._
=Das schwere Herz wird nicht durch Worte leicht=--Words bring no relief to a saddened heart. _Schiller._
=Das Schwerste in allen Werken der Kunst ist dass dasjenige, was sehr ausgearbeitet worden, nicht ausgearbeitet scheine=--The most difficult thing in all works of art is to make that which has been most highly elaborated appear as if it had not been elaborated at all. _Winkelmann._
=Das Siegel der Wahrheit ist Einfachheit=--The seal of truth is simplicity. _Boerhave._
=Das sind die Weisen, / Die durch Irrtum zur= 30 =Wahrheit reisen; / Die bei dem Irrtum verharren, / Das sind die Narren=--Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. _Rückert._
=Das Sprichwort sagt: Ein eigner Herd, / Ein braves Weib sind Gold und Perlen wert=--A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. _Goethe._
=Das Talent arbeitet, das Genie schafft=--Talent works, genius creates. _Schumann._
=Das Unglück kann die Weisheit nicht, Doch Weisheit kann das Unglück tragen=--Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. _Bodenstedt._
=Das Universum ist ein Gedanke Gottes=--The universe is a thought of God. _Schiller._
=Das Unvermeidliche mit Würde trage=--Bear 35 the inevitable with dignity. _Streckfuss._
=Das Vaterland der Gedanken ist das Herz: an dieser Quelle muss schöpfen, wer frisch trinken will=--The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. _Börne._
=Das Verhängte muss geschehen, / Das Gefürchte muss nahn=--The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. _Schiller._
=Das Volk ist frei; seht an, wie wohl's ihm geht!=--The people are free, and see how well they enjoy it. _Mephisto, in "Faust."_
=Das Volk schätzt Stärke vor allem=--The people rate strength before everything. _Goethe._
=Das Vortreffliche ist unergründlich, man mag damit anfangen was man will=--What is excellent cannot be fathomed, probe it as and where we will. _Goethe._
=Das Wahre ist gottähnlich; es erscheint nicht unmittelbar, wir müssen es ans seinen Manifestationen errathen=--Truth is like God; it reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out of its manifestations. _Goethe._
=Das Warum wird offenbar, / Wann die Toten aufersteh'n=--We shall know the wherefore when the dead rise again. _Müllner._
=Das was mir wichtig scheint, hältst du für= 5 =Kleinigkeiten; / Das was mich ärgert hat bei dir nichts zu bedeuten=--What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. _Goethe._
=Das Weib sieht tief, der Mann sieht weit. Dem Manne ist die Welt das Herz, dem Weibe ist das Herz die Welt=--The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman her heart is her world. _Grabbe._
=Das Wenige verschwindet leicht dem Blick, / Der vorwärts sieht, wie viel noch übrig bleibt=--The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. _Goethe._
=Das Werk lobt den Meister=--The work praises the artist. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Wort ist frei, die That ist stumm, der Gehorsam blind=--The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. _Schiller._
=Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind=--Miracle 10 is the pet child of faith. _Goethe._
=Data fata secutus=--Following what is decreed by fate. _M._
=Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi=--God gives the vicious ox short horns. _Pr._
=Dà tempo al tempo=--Give time to time. _It. Pr._
=Date obolum Belisario=--Give a mite to Belisarius!
=Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores /= 15 =Sed Moses sacco cogitar ire pedes=--Galen gives wealth, Justinian honours, but Moses must go afoot with a beggar's wallet.
=Dat inania verba, / Dat sine mente sonum=--He utters empty words; he utters sound without meaning. _Virg._
=Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas=--He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. _Juv._
=Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered with flies.= _Pr._
=Dauer im Wechsel=--Persistence in change. _Goethe._
=Da veniam lacrymis=--Forgive these tears. 20
=Da ventura a tu hijo, y echa lo en el mar=--Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. _Sp. Pr._
=Davus sum, non Œdipus=--I am a plain man, and no Œdipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx). _Ter._
=Dawted dochters mak' dawly wives=, _i.e._ petted daughters make slovenly wives. _Sc. Pr._
=Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.= _Schiller._
=Day is driven on by day, and the new moons= 25 =hasten to their wane.= _Smart, from Hor._
=Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow.= _Dan. Pr._
=Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.= _Bible._
=De adel der ziel is meer waardig dan de adel des geslachts=--Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility by birth. _Dut. Pr._
=Dead men open living men's eyes.= _Sp. Pr._
=Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.= 30 _Byron._
=De alieno largitor, et sui restrictor=--Lavish of what is another's, tenacious of his own. _Cic._
=Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy all hope of trifling with you.= _Emerson._
=Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.= _Port. Pr._
=Dear son of memory, great heir of fame.= 35 _Milton on Shakespeare._
=Death and life are in the power of the tongue.= _Bible._
=Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas.= _Gael. Pr._
=Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.= _Bp. Hall._
=Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.= _Coleridge._
=Death comes equally to us all, and makes us= 40 =all equal when it comes.= _Donne._
=Death finds us 'mid our playthings--snatches us, / As a cross nurse might do a wayward child. / From all our toys and baubles.= _Old Play._
=Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.= _Jean Paul._
=Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door.= _Turk. Pr._
=Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time.= _Goethe._
=Death is a fearful thing.= _Meas. for Meas._, 45 iii. 1.
=Death is a friend of ours, and he who is not ready to entertain him is not at home.= _Bacon._
=Death is but another phasis of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell.= _Carlyle._
=Death is but a word to us. Our own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Death is but what the haughty brave, / The weak must bear, the wretch must crave.= _Byron._
=Death is sure / To those that stay and those= 50 =that roam.= _Tennyson._
=Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.= _George Eliot._
=Death is the quiet haven of us all.= _Wordsworth._
=Death is the tyrant of the imagination.= _Barry Cornwall._
=Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.= _Sen._
=Death joins us to the great majority; / 'Tis to be borne to Platos and to Cæsars; / 'Tis to be great for ever; / 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then, to die.= _Young._
=Death lays his icy hand on kings.= _Shirley._
=Death levels all distinctions.=
=Death lies on her, like an untimely frost, / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Death may expiate faults, but it does not= 5 =repair them.= _Napoleon._
=Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it.= _Sterne, after Bacon._
=Death pays all debts.= _Pr._
=Death puts an end to all rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.= _Hazlitt._
=Death rides in every passing breeze, / He lurks in every flower.= _Heber._
=Death's but a path that must be trod, / If= 10 =man would ever pass to God.= _Parnell._
=Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet.= _Byron._
=Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, / And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.= _Byron._
=Death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.= _T. Adams._
=Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world.= _Young._
=Death will have his day.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2. 15
=De auditu=--By hearsay.
=Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine; the former angular, the latter circular and radiant of the underlying unity.= _A. B. Alcott._
=De beste zaak heeft nog een goed' advocaat noodig=--The best cause has need of a good pleader. _Dut. Pr._
=Debetis velle quæ velimus=--You ought to wish as we wish. _Plaut._
=De bonne grâce=--With good grace; willingly. 20 _Fr._
=De bonne lutte=--By fair means. _Fr._
=De bon vouloir servir le roy=--To serve the king with good-will. _M._
=Debt is the worst kind of poverty.= _Pr._
=Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Debts make the cheeks black.= _Arab. Pr._ 25
=De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans=--Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot. _L. Pr._
=Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.= _Johnson._
=Deceit is a game played only by small minds.= _Corneille._
=Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the one which is the most strictly observed.= _La Roche._
=Deceptio visus=--Optical illusion. 30
=Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere nec subjicere serviliter=--We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. _Cic._
=Decet imperatorem stantem mori=--An emperor ought to die at his post (_lit._ standing). _Vespasian._
=Decet patriam nobis cariorem esse quam nosmetipsos=--Our country ought to be dearer to us than ourselves. _Cic._
=Decet verecundum esse adolescentem=--It becomes a young man to be modest. _Plaut._
=Decies repetita placebit=--Ten times repeated, it 35 will still please. _Hor._
=Decipimur specie recti=--We are deceived by the semblance of rectitude. _Hor._
=Decipit / Frons prima multos=--First appearances deceive many.
=Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man.= _Goethe._
=Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done.= _Bible._
=Decori decus addit avito=--He adds honour to 40 the honour of his ancestors. _M._
=Decorum ab honesto non potest separari=--Propriety cannot be sundered from what is honourable. _Cic._
=De court plaisir, long repentir=--A short pleasure, a long penance. _Fr._
=Decrevi=--I have decreed. _M._
=Decus et tutamen=--An honour and defence. _M._
=Dedecet philosophum abjicere animum=--It does 45 not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. _Cic._
=De die in diem=--From day to day.
=Dedimus potestatem=--We have given power. _L._
=Dediscit animus sero quod didicit diu=--The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. _Sen._
=Deeds survive the doers.= _Horace Mann._
=Deep calleth unto deep.= _Bible._ 50
=Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.= _Emerson._
=Deep in the frozen regions of the north, / A goddess violated brought thee forth, / Immortal liberty.= _Smollett._
=Deep on his front engraven / Deliberation sat, and public care.= _Milton._
=Deep subtle wits, / In truth, are master spirits in the world.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep 55 silence.= _Alfieri._
=Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.= _Milton._
=De ezels dragen de haver, en de paarden eten die=--Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. _Dut. Pr._
=De facto=--In point of fact.
=Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.= _Ward Beecher._
=Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but 60 the first step to something better.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception.= _Emerson._
=Defectio virium adolescentiæ vitiis efficitur sæpius quam senectutis=--Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. _Cic._
=Defendit numerus junctæque umbone phalanges=--Their numbers protect them and their compact array. _Juv._
=Defend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.= _Maréchal Villars._
=Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.= _Shenstone._
=Defer no time; / Delays have dangerous ends.= 1 _Henry VI._, iii. 2.
=Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /= 5 =Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.= _George Herbert._
=Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, / To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.= _Congreve._
=Deficiunt vires=--Ability is wanting.
=Defienda me Dios de my=--God defend me from myself. _Sp. Pr._
=Definition of words has been commonly called a mere exercise of grammarians; but when we come to consider the innumerable evils men have inflicted on each other from mistaking the meaning of words, the exercise of definition certainly begins to assume rather a more dignified aspect.= _Sydney Smith._
=Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time /= 10 =Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, / And that so lamely and unfashionable, / That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make itself the equal, ay, the superior of the rest.= _Byron._
=De fumo in flammam=--Out of the frying-pan into the fire. _Pr._
=Dégagé=--Free and unrestrained. _Fr._
=De gaieté de cœur=--In gaiety of heart; sportively; wantonly. _Fr._
=Degeneres animos timor arguit=--Fear is proof 15 of a low-born soul. _Virg._
=Degli uomini si può dire questo generalmente che sieno ingrate, volubili simulatori, fuggitori pericoli, cupidi di guadagno=--Of mankind we may say in general that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, intent on a whole skin and greedy of gain. _Machiavelli._
=Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race for ever.= _Ruskin._
=De gustibus non disputandum=--There is no disputing about tastes.
=De hambre a nadie vi morir, de mucho comer a cien mil=--I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. _Sp. Pr._
=De haute lutte=--By main force. _Fr._ 20
=De hoc multi multa, omnes aliquid, nemo satis=--Of this many have said many things, all something, no one enough.
=Dei gratia=--By the grace of God.
=Dei jussu non unquam credita Teneris=--Fated she (_i.e._, Cassandra) never to be believed by her Trojan countrymen. _Virg._
=Deil stick pride, for my dog deed o'd.= _Sc. Pr._
=Deil tak' the hin'most! on they drive, / Till= 25 =a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve / Are bent like drums, / And auld guid man maist like to rive / "Bethankit" hums.= _Burns._
=Dein Auge kann die Welt trüb' oder hell dir machen; / Wie du sie ansiehst, wird sie weinen oder lachen=--Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. _Rückert._
=De industria=--Purposely.
=De integro=--Over again; anew.
[Greek: Dei pherein ta tôn theôn]--We must bear what the gods lay on us.
=Dei plena sunt omnia=--All things are full of God. 30 _Cic._
=Déjeûner à la fourchette=--A meat breakfast. _Fr._
=De jure=--By right.
=De kleine dieven hangt men, de groote laat men loopen=--We hang little thieves and let great ones off. _Dut. Pr._
=Del agua mansa me libre Dios; que de la recia me guardaré yo=--From smooth water God guard me; from rough, I can guard myself. _Sp. Pr._
=De lana caprina=--About goat's wool, _i.e._, a worthless 35 matter.
=Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready.= _Lucan._
=Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.= _J. Ford._
=Delay of justice is injustice.= _Landor._
=Delectando pariterque monendo=--By pleasing as well as instructing. _Hor._
=Delenda est Carthago=--Carthage must be destroyed. 40 _Cato Major._
=Del giudizio, ognun ne vende=--Of judgment every one has some to sell. _It. Pr._
=Deliberando sæpe perit occasio=--An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. _Pub. Syr._
=Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel=--We must take time for deliberation, where we have to determine once for all. _Pub. Syr._
=Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor.= _Junius._
=Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;= 45 =and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.= _Colton._
=Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum=--While Rome deliberates, Saguntum perishes. _Pr._
=Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.= _Degerando._
=Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and misery, and makes us sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind.= _Hume._
=Deliciæ illepidæ atque inelegantes=--Unmannerly and inelegant pleasures. _Catull._
=Deligas tantum quem diligas=--Choose only him 50 whom you love.
=Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.= _Thomson._
=Deliramenta doctrinæ=--The crazy absurdities of learned men. _L._
=Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi=--Whatsoever devilry kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. _Hor._
=Deliriums are dreams not rounded with a sleep.= _Jean Paul._
=Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= _Bryant._
=Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza=--You can't judge of a tree by its bark. _It. Pr._
=De loin c'est quelque chose, et de près ce n'est rien=--At a distance it is something, at hand nothing. _La Fontaine._
=Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum=--He 5 paints a porpoise in the woods, a boar amidst the waves. _Hor._
=De lunatico inquirendo=--To inquire into a man's state of mind.
=Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less because they are universal.= _Burke._
=Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day.= _Macaulay._
=Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.= _Bovee._
=Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest= 10 =part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.= _Mackenzie._
=Del vero s'adira l'uomo=--It is the truth that irritates a man. _It. Pr._
=De mal en pis=--From bad to worse. _Fr._
=De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres=--A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. _Juv._
=Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand.= _Quarles._
=De medietate linguæ=--Of a moiety of languages, 15 _i.e._, foreign jurymen. _L._
=Dem Esel träumet von Disteln=--When the ass dreams, it is of thistles. _Ger. Pr._
=Dem Glücklichen schlägt keine Stunde=--When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. _Ger. Pr._
=Dem harten Muss bequemt sich Will' und Grille=--To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. _Goethe._
=Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen, drängt Stoff sich an=--Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird= 20 =selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen=--Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred. _Goethe._
=De minimis non curat lex=--The law takes no notice of trifles. _L._
=Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer lieber als ein Engel=--A man is ever dearer to man than an angel. _Lessing._
=Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.= _W. H. Seward._
=Democracy has done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate.= _Amiel._
=Democracy is always the work of kings.= 25 =Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon.= _Landor._
=Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business, and gives in the long-run a net result of zero.= _Carlyle._
=Democracy is the healthful life-blood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.= _Coleridge._
=Democracy is the most powerful solvent of military organisation. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline.= _Renan._
=De monte alto=--From a lofty mountain. _M._
=De mortuis nil nisi bonum= (or =bene=)--Let nothing 30 be said of the dead but what is favourable.
=De motu proprio=--From the suggestion of one's own mind; spontaneously.
=Dem thätigen Menschen kommt es darauf an, dass er das Rechte thue; ob das Rechte geschehe, soll ihn nicht kümmern=--With the man of action the chief concern is that he do the right thing; the success of that ought not to trouble him. _Goethe._
=Den Bösen sind sie los; die Bösen sind geblieben=--They are rid of the Wicked One, (but) the wicked are still there. _Goethe._
=De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti=--From nothing is nothing, and nothing can be reduced to nothing.
=Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All 35 men do not admire and love the same things. _Hor._
=Den Irrthum zu bekennen, schändet nicht=--It is no disgrace to acknowledge an error. _R. Gutzkov._
=Denken und Thun, Thun und Denken, das ist die Summe aller Weisheit von jeher anerkannt, von jeher geübt, nicht eingesehen von einem jeden=--To think and act, to act and think, this is the sum of all the wisdom that has from the first been acknowledged and practised, though not understood by every one, _i.e._, (as added) the one must continually act and react on the other, like exhaling and inhaling, must correspond as question and answer. _Goethe._
=Denke nur niemand, dass man auf ihn als den Heiland gewartet habe=--Let no one imagine that he is the man the world has been waiting for as its deliverer. _Goethe._
=Den leeren Schlauch bläst der Wind auf, / Den leeren Kopf der Dünkel=--The empty bag is blown up with wind, the empty head with self-conceit. _Claudius._
=Den Mantel nach dem Winde kehren=--To trim 40 one's sails (_lit._ to turn one's cloak) to the wind. _Ger. Pr._
=Den Menschen Liebe, den Göttern Ehrfurcht=--To men, affection; to gods, reverence. _Grillparzer._
=Denn geschwätzig sind die Zeiten, / Und sie sind auch wieder stumm=--For the times are babbly, and then again the times are dumb. _Goethe._
=De non apparentibus, et non existentibus, eadem est ratio=--Things which do not appear are to be treated as the same as those which do not exist. _Coke._
=De novo=--Anew.
=Den Profit som kom seent, er bedre end aldeles= 45 =ingen=--The profit which comes late is better than none at all. _E. H. Vessel._
=Den rechten Weg wirst nie vermissen, / Handle nur nach Gefühl und Gewissen=--Wilt thou never miss the right way, thou hast only to act according to thy feeling and conscience. _Goethe._
=Den schlecten Mann muss man verachten / Der nie bedacht was er vollbringt=--We must spurn him as a worthless man who never applies his brains to what he is working at. _Schiller._
=Dens theonina=--A calumniating disposition (_lit._ tooth).
=Deo adjuvante non timendum=--God assisting, there is nothing to be feared.
=Deoch an doris=--The parting cup. _Gael._
=Deo dante nil nocet invidia, et non dante, nil= 5 =proficit labor=--When God gives, envy injures us not; when He does not give, labour avails not.
=Deo date=--Give unto God. _M._
=Deo duce, ferro comitante=--God my guide, my sword my companion. _M._
=Deo duce, fortuna comitante=--God for guide, fortune for companion. _M._
=Deo ducente=--God guiding. _M._
=Deo favente=--With God's favour. 10
=Deo fidelis et regi=--Faithful to God and the king. _M._
=Deo gratias=--Thanks to God.
=Deo honor et gloria=--To God the honour and glory. _M._
=Deo ignoto=--To the unknown God.
=Deo juvante=--With God's help. 15
=De omnibus rebus, et quibusdam aliis=--About everything, and certain things else.
=De omni re scibile et quibusdam aliis=--On everything knowable and some other matters.
=Deo, non fortuna=--From God, not fortune. _M._
=Deo, optimo maximo=--To God, the best and greatest. _M._
=Deo, patriæ, amicis=--For God, country, and 20 friends. _M._
=Deo, regi, patriæ=--To God, king, and country. _M._
=Deo, regi, vicino=--For God, king, and our neighbour. _M._
=Deo, republicæ, amicis=--To God, the state, and friends. _M._
=Deorum cibus est=--A feast fit for the gods.
=De oui et non vient toute question=--All disputation 25 comes out of "Yes" and "No." _Fr. Pr._
=Deo volente=--With God's will.
=Depart from the highway and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.= _St. Chrysostom._
=De paupertate tacentes / Plus poscente ferent=--Those who say nothing of their poverty fare better than those who beg. _Hor._
=De' peccati de' signori fanno penitenza i poveri=--The poor do penance for the sins of the rich. _It. Pr._
=Dependence goes somewhat against the grain= 30 =of a generous mind; and it is no wonder, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatsoever.= _Addison._
=Depend upon it, if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.= _Johnson._
=De pilo=, _or_ =de filo, pendet=--It hangs by a hair. _Pr._
=De pis en pis=--From worse to worse. _Fr._
=De plano=--With ease. 35
=De præscientia Dei=--Of the foreknowledge of God.
=Deprendi miserum est=--To be caught is a wretched experience.
=Depressus extollor=--Having been depressed, I am exalted. _M._
=De profundis=--Out of the depths.
=De propaganda fide=--For propagating the Catholic 40 faith.
=De publico est elatus=--He was buried at the public expense. _Livy._
=Der Ausgang giebt den Thaten ihre Titel=--It is the issue that gives to deeds their title. _Goethe._
=Der beste Prediger ist die Zeit=--Time is the best preacher. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Böse hat nicht nur die Guten, sondern auch die Bösen gegen sich=--The bad man has not only the good, but also the evil opposed to him. _Bischer._
=Der brave Mann denkt an sich selbst zuletzt=--The 45 brave man thinks of himself last of all. _Schiller._
=Der civilisierte Wilde ist der schlimmste aller Wilden=--The civilised savage is the worst of all savages. _C. J. Weber._
=Der den Augenblick ergreift / Das ist der rechte Mann=--He who seizes the moment is the right man. _Goethe._
=Der Dichter steht auf einer höhern Warte / Als auf den Zinnen der Partei=--The poet stands on a higher watch-tower than the pinnacle of party. _Freiligrath._
=Der echte Geist schwingt sich empor / Und rafft die Zeit sich nach=--The genuine spirit soars upward, and snatches the time away after it. _Uhland._
=Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam=--The 50 abandonment of what is for the common good is a crime against nature. _Cic._
=Der Erde Paradies und Hölle / Liegt in dem Worte "Weib"=--Heaven and Hell on earth lie in the word "woman." _Seume._
=Der Fluss bleibt trüb, der nicht durch einen See gegangen, / Das Herz unsauber, das nicht durch ein Weh gegangen=--The river remains troubled that has not passed through a lake, the heart unpurified that has not passed through a woe. _Rückert._
=Der Frauen Zungen ja nimmer ruhn=--Women's tongues never rest. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Der Friede ist immer die letzte Absicht des Krieges=--Peace is ever the final aim of war. _Wieland._
=Der Fuchs ändert den Pelz und behält den= 55 =Schalk=--The fox changes his skin but keeps his knavery. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Fürst ist nichts, als der erste Diener des Staates=--The prince is nothing but the first servant of the state. _Frederick the Great._
=Der Geist, aus dem wir handeln, ist das Höchste=--The spirit from which we act is the principal (_lit._ the highest) matter. _Goethe._
=Der Geist der Medicin ist leicht zu fassen; / Ihr durchstudiert die gross' und kleine Welt, / Um es am Ende gehn zu lassen, / Wie's Gott gefällt=--The spirit of medicine is easy to master; you study through the great and the little worlds, to let it go in the end as God pleases. _Mephisto, in "Faust."_
=Der Geist, der stets verneint=--The spirit that constantly denies, that says everlastingly "No." _Goethe's "Mephistopheles."_
=Der Geist ist immer autochthone=--Spirit is always indigenous, _i.e._, always native to the soil out of which it springs. _Goethe._
=Der geringste Mensch kann complet sein, wenn er sich innerhalb der Gränzen seiner Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten bewegt=--The humblest mortal may attain completeness if he confine his activities within the limits of his capability and skill. _Goethe._
=Der Glaube ist der rechte, der, dass er der rechte bleibt, nicht gezwungen ist einen andern irrgläubig zu finden=--That faith is the orthodox which, that it may remain such, is under no necessity of finding another heterodox. _Börne._
=Der Gott, der mir im Busen wohnt, / Kann= 5 =tief mein Innerstes erregen; der über allen meinen Kräften thront, er kann nach aussen nichts bewegen=--The God who dwells in my breast can stir my inmost soul to its depths; he who sits as sovereign over all my powers has no control over things beyond. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind=--The greatest man remains always a man-child, or son of man. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Schritt ist der aus der Thür=--The greatest step is that out of the door. _Ger. Pr._
=Der gute Mann braucht überall viel Boden=--The good man needs always large room. _Lessing._
=Der gute Wille ist in der Moral alles; aber in der Kunst ist er nichts: da gilt, wie schon das Wort andeutet, allein Können=--Goodwill is everything in morals, but in art it is nothing: in it, as the word indicates, only ability counts for aught. _Schopenhauer._
=Der Hahn schliesst die Augen, wann er krähet,= 10 =weil er es auswendig kann=--The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he has it by heart. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos, es hat niemand Gewissen, als der Betrachtende=--The man who acts merely is always without conscience; no one has conscience but the man who reflects. _Goethe._
=Der hat die Macht, an den die Menge glaubt=--He has the power whom the majority believe in. _Raupach._
=Der hat nie das Glück gekostet, der's in Ruh geniessen will=--He has never tasted happiness who will enjoy it in peace. _Th. Körner._
=Der Hauptfehler des Menschen bleibt, dass er so viele kleine hat=--Man's chief fault is ever that he has so many small ones. _Jean Paul._
=Der Himmel giebt die Gunst des Augenblicks; /= 15 =Wer schnell sie fasst, wird Meister des Geschicks=--Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. _Raupach._
=Der Himmel kann ersetzen / Was er entzogen hat=--What Heaven has taken away, Heaven can make good. _Rückert._
=Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet=--The historian is a prophet with his face turned backwards. _F. v. Schlegel._
=Der höchste Stolz und der höchste Kleinmuth ist die höchste Unkenntniss seiner selbst=--Extreme pride and extreme dejection are alike extreme ignorance of one's self. _Spinoza._
=Der höchste Vorwurf der Kunst für denkende Menschen ist der Mensch=--The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. _Winkelmann._
=Deridet, sed non derideor=--He laughs, but I am 20 not laughed at.
=Der Irrthum ist recht gut, so lange wir jung sind; man muss ihn nur nicht mit ins Alter schleppen=--Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. _Goethe._
=Der ist edel, / Welcher edel fühlt und handelt=--He is noble who feels and acts nobly. _Heine._
=Der Jugend Führer sei das Alter; beiden sei / Nur wenn sie als Verbundne wandeln, Glück versichert=--Be age the guide of youth; both will be happy only if they go hand in hand (_lit._ as confederates) together. _Goethe._
=Der Jüngling kämpft, damit der Greis geniesse=--The youth fights that the old man may enjoy. _Goethe._
=Der kann nicht klagen über harten Spruch,= 25 =den man zum Meister seines Schicksals macht=--He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate. _Schiller._
=Der kleine Gott der Welt bleibt stets von gleichem Schlag / Und ist so wunderlich, als wie am ersten Tag=--The little god of the world (_i.e._, man) continues ever of the same stamp, and is as odd as on the first day. _Goethe._
=Der Krieg ist die stärkende Eisenkur der Menschheit=--War is the strengthening iron cure of humanity. _Jean Paul._
=Der Künstler muss mit Feuer entwerfen und mit Phlegma ausführen=--The artist must invent (_lit._ sketch) with ardour and execute with coolness. _Winkelmann._
=Der Lebende hat Recht=--The living has right on his side. _Schiller._
=Der Mann, der das Wenn und das Aber= 30 =erdacht / Hat sicher aus Häckerling Gold schon gemacht=--The man who invented "if" and "but" must surely have converted chopt straw into gold. _G. A. Bürger._
=Der Mann muss hinaus ins feindliche Leben=--A man must go forth to face life with its enmities. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch begreift niemals wie anthropomorphisch er ist=--Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic his conceptions are. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt=--Man proposes, God disposes. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Menschenkenner steht überall an seinem Platze=--He who knows man is everywhere in his place. _Klinger._
=Der Mensch erfährt, er sei auch wer er mag, /= 35 =Ein letztes Glück und einen letzten Tag=--No man, be he who he may, but experiences a last happiness and a last day. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch hat nur allzusehr Ursache, sich vor dem Menschen zu schützen=--Man has only too much reason to guard himself from man. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschöpf und wer der vorderste ist, führt die Herde=--Man is an imitative being, and the foremost leads the flock. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist entwickelt, nicht erschaffen=--Man has been developed, not created. _Oken._
=Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei, / Und würd' er in Ketten geboren!=--Man has been created free, is free, even were he born in chains. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist frei wie der Vogel im Käfig; er kann sich innerhalb gewisser Grenzen bewegen=--Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. _Lavater._
=Der Mensch ist im Grunde ein wildes, entsetzliches Thier=--Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. _Schopenhauer._
=Der Mensch ist nicht bloss ein denkendes, er ist zugleich ein empfindendes Wesen. Er ist ein Ganzes, eine Einheit vielfacher, innig verbundner Kräfte, und zu diesem Ganzen muss das Kunstwerk reden=--Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist nicht geboren frei zu sein /= 5 =Und für den Edeln ist kein schöner Glück / Als einem Fürst, den er ehrt, zu dienen=--Man is not born to be free; and for the noble soul there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he regards with honour. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist selbst sein Gott, sein Beruf ist: Handeln=--Man is a god to himself, and his calling is to act. _Tiedge._
=Der Mensch ist, was er isst=--Man is what he eats. _L. Feuerbach._
=Der Mensch liebt nur einmal=--Man loves only once. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche begreiflich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen=--Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not search. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch muss ein Höheres, ein Göttliches= 10 =anerkennen--ob in sich oder über sich, gleichviel=--Man must acknowledge a higher, a divine--whether in himself or over himself, no matter. _Hamerling._
=Der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht=--Let not man tempt the gods. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch war immer Mensch, voll Unvollkommenheit=--Man has ever been man, full of imperfection. _J. P. Uz._
=Der Mensch, wo ist er her? / Zu schlecht für einen Gott, zu gut für's Ungefähr=--Man, whence is he? Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance. _Lessing._
=Der Muth der Wahrheit ist die erste Bedingung des philosophischen Studiums=--The courage of truth is the first qualification for philosophic study. _Hegel._
=Dernier ressort=--A last resource. _Fr._ 15
=Der Pfaff liebt seine Herde, doch die Lämmlein mehr als die Widder=--The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the rams. _Ger. Pr._
=Der preise glücklich sein, der von / Den Göttern dieser Welt entfernt lebt=--Let him count himself happy who lives remote from the gods of this world. _Goethe._
=Der Rathgeber eines Höheren handelt klüglich, wenn er sein geistiges Uebergewicht verbirgt, wie das Weib seine Schönheit verhüllt um des Sieges desto gewisser zu sein=--The adviser of a superior acts wisely if he conceals his spiritual superiority, as the woman veils her beauty in order to be the more certain of conquering. _Zachariae._
=Derrière la croix souvent se tient le diable=--Behind the cross the devil often lurks. _Fr. Pr._
=Der Ring macht Ehen, / Und Ringe sind's, die= 20 =eine Kette machen=--The ring makes marriage, and rings make a chain. _Schiller._
=Der Rose süsser Duft genügt, / Man braucht sie nicht zu brechen / Und wer sich mit dem Duft begnügt / Den wird ihr Dorn nicht stechen=--The sweet scent of the rose suffices; one needs not break it off, and he who is satisfied therewith will not be stung by the thorn. _Bodenstedt._
=Der Schein regiert die Welt, und die Gerechtigkeit ist nur auf der Bühne=--Appearance rules the world, and we see justice only on the stage. _Schiller._
=Der Schein, was ist er, dem das Wesen fehlt? / Das Wesen wär' es, wenn es nicht erschiene?=--The appearance, what is it without the reality? And what were the reality without the appearance? (the clothes, as "Sartor" has it, without the man, or the man without the clothes). _Goethe._
=Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der höheren Naturen=--Pain is the birth of higher natures. _Tiedge._
=Der Sinn erweitert, aber lähmt; die That= 25 =belebt, aber beschränkt=--Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. _Goethe._
=Der Stärkste hat Recht=--The right is with the strongest. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Stein im Sumpf / Macht keine Ringe=--You can make no rings if you throw a stone into a marsh. _Goethe._
=Der Tod entbindet von erzwungnen Pflichten=--Death releases from enforced duties. _Schiller._
=Der Umgang mit Frauen ist das Element guter Sitten=--The society of women is the nursery of good manners. _Goethe._
=Der Verständige findet fast alles lächerlich,= 30 =der Vernünftige fast nichts=--The man of analytic, or critical, intellect finds something ridiculous in almost everything; the man of synthetic, or constructive, intellect, in almost nothing. _Goethe._
=Der Vortrag macht des Redners Glück=--It is delivery that makes the orator's success. _Goethe._
=Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu' ist lang=--The illusion is brief, the remorse is long. _Schiller._
=Der Weg der Ordnung, ging er auch durch Krümmen, / Er ist kein Umweg=--The path which good order prescribes is the direct one, even though it has windings. _Schiller._
=Der Weise hat die Ohren lang, die Zunge kurz=--The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Weise kann des Mächtigen Gunst entbehren,= 35 =/ Doch nicht der Mächtige des Weisen Lehren=--The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. _Bodenstedt._
=Der Wille ist des Werkes Seele=--What we will is the soul of what we do. _Ger. Pr._
=Der wird stets das Beste missen / Wer nicht borgt, was andre wissen=--He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. _Rückert._
=Der Witz ist die Freiheit des Sklaven=--The witty sally is the freedom of the slave. _Ruge._
=Der Zug des Herzens ist des Schicksals Stimme=--In the drawing of the heart is the oracle of fate. _Schiller._
=Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a step in choosing thy friend.= _The Talmud._
=Description is always a bore, both to the describer= 5 =and the describee.= _Disraeli._
=Deserted, at his utmost need, / By those his former bounty fed, / On the bare earth exposed be lies, / With not a friend to close his eyes.= _Dryden._
=Desiderantem quod satis est, neque / Tumultuosum sollicitat mare, / Non verberatæ grandine vineæ / Fundusque mendax=--A storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing farm, cause no anxiety to him who is content with enough. _Hor._
=Desideratum=--A thing desired, but regretfully wanting.
=Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando=--Cease to hope that the decrees of the gods can bend to prayer. _Virg._
=Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne=--A 10 beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. _Hor._
=Désir de Dieu et désir de l'homme sont deux=--What God wishes and man wishes are two different things. _Fr. Pr._
=Desires are the pulse of the soul.= _Manton._
=Des Lebens Mühe / Lehrt uns allein des Lebens Güter schätzen=--The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. _Goethe._
=Des Mannes Mutter ist der Frau Teufel=--The husband's mother is the wife's devil. _Ger. Pr._
=Des Menschen Engel ist die Zeit=--Time is 15 man's angel. _Schiller._
=Des Menschens Leben ist / Ein kurzes Blühen und ein langes Welken=--The life of man is a short blossoming and a long withering. _Uhland._
=Despair defies even despotism; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with levelled spears.= _Byron._
=Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.= _Charron._
=Despair is the only genuine atheism.= _Jean Paul._
=Despair takes heart when there's no hope to= 20 =speed; / The coward then takes arms and does the deed.= _Herrick._
=Despair--the last dignity of the wretched.= _H. Giles._
=Despatch is the soul of business.= _Chesterfield._
=Desperate diseases need desperate remedies.= _Pr._
=Despise anxiety and wishing, the past and the future.= _Jean Paul._
=Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything;= 25 =for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Despise not the discoveries of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs, for of them thou shalt learn instruction.= _Ecclus._
=Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.= _Port. Pr._
=Despite his titles, power, and pelf, / The wretch concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.= _Scott._
=Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.= _Emerson._
=Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, / Weak= 30 =and unmanly, loosens every power.= _Thomson._
=Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.= _J. S. Mill._
=Despotism is essential in most enterprises; I am told they do not tolerate "freedom of debate" on board a seventy-four.= _Carlyle._
=Despotism is often the effort of Nature to cure herself from a worse disease.= _Robert, Lord Lytton._
=Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.= _Landor._
=Despotismus ist der schwarze Punkt in aller= 35 =Menschen Herzen=--Despotism is the black spot in the hearts of all men. _C. J. Weber._
=Desque nací lloré, y cada dia nace porqué=--I wept as soon as I was born, and every day explains why. _Sp. Pr._
=Des Rats bedarf die Seele nicht, die Rechtes will=--The soul which wills what is right needs no counsel. _Platen._
=Destiny is our will, and will is nature.= _Disraeli._
=Destitutus ventis remos adhibe=--The wind failing, ply the oars.
=Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain! / The= 40 =creature's at his dirty work again.= _Pope._
=Des Uebels Quelle findest du nicht aus, und aufgefunden fliesst sie ewig fort=--The well-spring of evil thou canst not discover, and even if discovered, it flows on continually. _Goethe._
=Desunt cætera=--The remainder is wanting.
=Desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Poverty is in want of many things, avarice of everything. _L. Pr._
=Des Zornes Ende ist der Reue Anfang=--The end of anger is the beginning of repentance. _Bodenstedt._
=Deteriores omnes sumus licentia=--We are all 45 the worse for the license. _Ter._
=Determined, dared, and done.= _Smart._
=Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain.= _Cowper._
=De tijd is aan God en ons=--Time is God's and ours. _Dut. Pr._
=Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus=--He who needs pardon should readily grant it. _Sen._
=Detour=--A circuitous march. _Fr._ 50
=De tout s'avise à qui pain faut=--A man in want of bread is ready for anything. _Fr. Pr._
=Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not / To wound the fame of princes, if it find / But any blemish in their lives to work on.= _Massinger._
=De trop=--Too much, or too many; out of place. _Fr._
=Detur aliquando otium quiesque fessis=--Leisure and repose should at times be given to the weary. _Sen._
=Detur digniori=--Let it be given to the most worthy. _M._
=Detur pulchriori=--Let it be given to the fairest. _The inscription on the golden apple of discord._
=Deum cole, regem serva=--Worship God, preserve the king. _M._
=Deum colit, qui novit=--He who knows God worships 5 Him. _Sen._
=Deus avertat=--God forbid.
=Deus ex machina=--A mechanical instead of a rational or spiritual explanation (_lit._ a god mechanically introduced).
=Deus hæc fortasse benigna / Reducet in sedem vice=--God will perhaps by a gracious change restore these things to a stable condition. _Hor._
=Deus id vult=--God wills it. _War-cry of the Crusaders before Jerusalem._
=Deus major columna=--God is the greater support. 10 _M._
=Deus mihi providebit=--God will provide for me. _M._
=Deus omnibus quod sat est suppeditat=--God supplies enough to all. _M._
=Deus vult=--It is God's will.
=Deux hommes se rencontrent bien, mais jamais deux montagnes=--Two men may meet, but never two mountains. _Fr._
=Deux yeux voient plus clair qu'un=--A ghost 15 was never seen by two pair of eyes (_lit._ two eyes see more clearly than one). _Fr._
=Devil take the hindmost.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Devine si tu peux, et choisis si tu l'oses=--Solve the riddle if you can, and choose if you dare. _Corneille._
=Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=De vive voix=--Verbally. _Fr._
=Devote each day to the object then in time,= 20 =and every evening will find something done.= _Goethe._
=Devotion in distress is born, but vanishes in happiness.= _Dryden._
=Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm (fanaticism).= _Addison._
=De waarheid is eene dochter van den tijd=--Truth is a daughter of Time. _Dut. Pr._
=Dewdrops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve.= _Coleridge._
=De wereld wil betrogen zijn=--The world likes 25 to be deceived. _Dut. Pr._
=Dexterity or experience no master can communicate to his disciple.= _Goethe._
=Dextras dare=--To give right hands to each other.
=Dextro tempore=--At a lucky moment. _Hor._
=Diamonds cut diamonds.= _Ford._
=Di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli /= 30 =Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis=--The gods be praised for having made me of a poor and humble mind, with a desire to speak but seldom and briefly. _Hor._
=Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc / Indictum ore alio=--I will utter something striking, something fresh, something as yet unsung by another's lips. _Hor._
=Dicenda tacenda locutus=--Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. _Hor._
=Dicere quæ puduit, scribere jussit amor=--What I was ashamed to say, love has ordered me to write. _Ovid._
=Dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet=--No one should be called happy before he is dead and buried. _Ovid._
=Dicta fides sequitur=--The promise is no sooner 35 given than fulfilled. _Ovid._
=Dicta tibi est lex=--The conditions have been laid before you. _Hor._
=Dictum de dicto=--A report founded on hearsay.
=Dictum factum=--No sooner said than done. _Ter._
=Dictum sapienti sat est=--A word to a wise man is enough. _Plaut. and Ter._
=Did charity prevail, the press would prove / A= 40 =vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.= _Cowper._
=Did I know that my heart was bound to temporal possessions, I would throw the flaming brand among them with my own hand.= _Schiller._
="Did I not tell you that after thunder rain would be sure to come on?"= _Socrates to his friends when, after a volley of upbraidings, Xantippe threw a jugful of water at his head._
=Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, / Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words.= _Two Gen. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He was all for love and a little for the bottle.= _C. Dibden._
=Die Aemter sind Gottes; die Amtleute Teufels=--Places 45 are God's; place-holders are the devil's. _Ger. Pr._
=Die alleinige Quelle des Rechts ist das gemeinsame Bewusstsein des ganzen Volks; der allgemeine Geist=--The only fountain of justice is the common consciousness of the whole people; the spirit common to all of them. _Lasalle._
=Die Alten sind die einzigen Alten, die nie alt werden=--The ancients (_i.e._, the Greeks and Romans) are the only ancients that never grow old. _C. J. Weber._
=Die Anmut macht unwiderstehlich=--Grace makes its possessor irresistible. _Goethe._
=Die ärgsten Studenten werden die frömmsten Prediger=--The worst-behaved students turn out the most pious preachers. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Armen müssen tanzen wie die Reichen= 50 =pfeifen=--The poor must dance as the rich pipe. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren andern Leuten=--The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen sind weiter als der Bauch=--The eyes are larger than the belly. _Ger. Pr._
=Die besten Freunde stehen im Beutel=--Our best friends are in our purse. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Bewunderung preist, die Liebe ist stumm=--Admiration praises, love is dumb. _Börne._
=Die Blumen zu pflegen, / Das Unkraut zu= 55 =tilgen, / Ist Sache des Gärtners=--The gardener's business is to root out the weeds and tend the flowers. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube=--I hear the message, but I lack the faith. _Goethe._
=Die Damen geben sich und ihren Putz zum besten / Und spielen ohne Gage mit=--The ladies by their presence and finery contribute to the treat and take part in the play without pay from us. _The Theatre Manager in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends the wooer. _Seume._
=Die de wereld wel beziet, men zag nooit schoonder niet=--Whoso considers the world well must allow he has never seen a better. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Dornen, die Disteln, sie stechen gar sehr,= 5 =doch stechen die Altjungfernzungen noch mehr=--Thorns and thistles prick very sore, but old maids' tongues sting much more. _C. Geibel._
=Die een ander jaagt zit zelfs niet stil=--He who chases another does not sit still himself. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Ehe ist Himmel und Hölle=--Marriage is heaven and hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Die eigentliche Religion bleibt ein Inneres, ja Individuelles, denn sie hat ganz allein mit dem Gewissen zu thun; dieses soll erregt, soll beschwichtigt werden=--Religion, properly so called, is ever an inward, nay, an individual thing, for it has to do with nothing but the conscience, which has now to be stirred up, now to be soothed. _Goethe._
=Die Einsamkeit ist noth; doch sei nur nicht gemein, / So kannst du überall in einer Wüste sein=--Solitude is painful; only be not vulgar, for then you may be in a desert everywhere. _Angelus Silesius._
=Die Eintracht nur macht stark und gross, /= 10 =Die Zwietracht stürzet alles nieder=--Only concord makes us strong and great; discord overthrows everything. _Gellert._
=Die Erde wird durch Liebe frei; / Durch Thaten wird sie gross=--Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. _Goethe._
=Die Erinnerung ist das einzige / Paradies, aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden kann=--Remembrance is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. _Jean Paul._
=Die Fabel ist der Liebe Heimatwelt, / Gern wohnt sie unter Feen, Talismanen, / Glaubt gern an Götter, weil sie göttlich ist=--Fable is love's native world, is fain to dwell among fairies and talismans, and to believe in gods, being herself divine. _Schiller._
=Die Frauen sind das einzige Gefäss, was uns Neuern noch geblieben ist, um unsere Idealität hineinzugiessen=--Woman is the only vessel which still remains to us moderns into which we can pour our ideals. _Goethe._
=Die Frauen tragen ihre Beweise im Herzen,= 15 =die Männer im Kopfe=--Women carry their logic in their hearts; men, in their heads. _Kotzebue._
=Die Freiheit der Vernunft ist unser wahres Leben=--The freedom of reason is our true life. _Tiedge._
=Die Freiheit kann nicht untergehn, / So lange Schmiede Eisen hämmern=--The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. _E. M. Arndt._
=Die Freude kennst du nicht, wenn du nur Freuden kennest; / Dir fehlt das ganze Licht, wenn du's in Strahlen trennest=--Joy knowest thou not if thou knowest only joys; the whole light is wanting to thee if thou breakest it up into rays. _Rückert._
=Die Freudigkeit ist die Mutter aller Tugenden=--Joyousness is the mother of all virtues. _Goethe._
=Die Gegenwart ist eine mächtige Göttin; Lern'= 20 =ihren Einfluss kennen=--The present is a potent divinity; learn to acquaint thyself with her power. _Goethe._
=Die Geheimnisse der Lebenspfade darf und kann man nicht offenbaren; es gibt Steine des Anstosses, über die ein jeder Wanderer stolpern muss. Der Poet aber deutet auf die Stelle hin=--The secrets of the way of life may not and cannot be laid open; there are stones of offence along the path over which every wayfarer must stumble. The poet, or inspired teacher, however, points to the spot. _Goethe._
=Die Geisterwelt ist nicht verschlossen; / Dein Sinn ist zu, dein Herz ist todt=--The spirit-world is not shut; thy sense is shut, thy heart is dead. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine grosse Fuge, in der die Stimmen der Völker nach und nach zum Vorschein kommen=--The history of the sciences is a great fugue, in which the voices of the nations come one by one into notice. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte des Menschen ist sein Charakter=--The history of a man is in his character. _Goethe._
=Die Gesetze der Moral sind auch die der= 25 =Kunst=--The laws of morals are also those of art. _Schumann._
=Die Glocken sind die Artillerie der Geistlichkeit=--Bells are the artillery of the Church. _Joseph II._
=Die goldne Zeit, wohin ist sie geflohen? / Nach der sich jedes Herz vergebens sehnt=--The golden age, whither has it fled? after which every heart sighs in vain. _Goethe._
=Die Götter brauchen manchen guten Mann / Zu ihrem Dienst auf dieser weiten Erde. / Sie haben noch auf dich gezählt=--The upper powers need many a good man for their service on this wide earth. They still reckon upon thee. _Goethe._
=Die Götter sprechen nur durch unser Herz zu uns=--The gods speak to us only through our heart. _Goethe._
=Die grosse Moral--das Interesse, sagte Mirabeau,= 30 =tötet in der Regel die kleine--das Gewissen=--The great moral teacher, interest, as Mirabeau said, ordinarily slays conscience, the less. _C. J. Weber._
=Die grössten Menschen hängen immer mit ihrem Jahrhundert durch eine Schwachheit zusammen=--It is always through a weakness that the greatest men are connected with their generation. _Goethe._
=Die grössten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo wir sie nicht suchen=--The greatest difficulties lie there where we are not seeking for them. _Goethe._
=Die het in het vuur verloren heeft, moet het in de asch zoeken=--What is lost in the fire must be searched for in the ashes. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Hindus der Wüste geloben keine Fische zu essen=--The Hindus of the desert take a vow to eat no fish. _Goethe._
=Die höchste Naturschönheit ist das gottgleiche Wesen: der Mensch=--The most beautiful object in Nature is the godlike creature: man. _Oken._
=Die höchste Weisheit ist, nicht weise stets zu sein=--It is the highest wisdom not to be always wise. _M. Opitz._
=Die Hölle selbst hat ihre Rechte?=--Has Hell itself its rights? _Goethe._
=Die Ideale sind zerronnen, / Die einst das trunkne Herz geschwellt=--The ideals are all melted into air which once swelled the intoxicated heart. _Schiller._
=Die Idee ist ewig und einzig.... Alles was= 5 =wir gewahr werden und wovon wir reden können, sind nur Manifestationen der Idee=--The idea is one and eternal.... Everything we perceive, and of which we can speak, is only a manifestation of the idea. _Goethe._
=Die Irrthümer des Menschen machen ihn eigentlich liebenswürdig=--It is properly man's mistakes, or errors, that make him lovable. _Goethe._
=Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich überflüssig macht=--That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Die Kinder sind mein liebster Zeitvertreib=--My dearest pastime is with children. _Chamisso._
=Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen, hat ganze Länder aufgefressen, und doch noch nie sich übergessen=--The Church has a good stomach, has swallowed up whole countries, and yet has not overeaten herself. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Kirche ist's, die heilige, die hohe, / Die zu= 10 =dem Himmel uns die Leiter baut=--The Church, the holy, the high, it is that rears for us the ladder to heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Kleinen reden gar so gern von dem was die Grossen thun=--Small people are so fond of talking of what great people do. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Klugheit sich zur Führerin zu wählen / Das ist es, was den Weisen macht=--It is the choice of prudence for his guide that makes the wise man. _Schiller._
=Die Kraft ist schwach, allein die Lust ist gross=--The strength is weak, but the desire is great. _Goethe._
=Die kranke Seele muss sich selber helfen=--The sick soul must work its own cure (_lit._ help itself). _Gutskow._
=Die Krankheit des Gemütes löset sich / In= 15 =Klagen und Vertrauen am leichtesten auf=--Mental sickness finds relief most readily in complaints and confidences. _Goethe._
=Die Kunst darf nie ein Kunststück werden=--Art should never degenerate into artifice. _Ger._
=Die Kunst geht nach Brod=--Art goes a-begging. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Kunst ist eine Vermittlerin des Unaussprechlichen=--Art is a mediatrix of the unspeakable. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaften sind Mängel oder Tugenden, nur gesteigerte=--The passions are vices or virtues, only exaggerated. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaft flieht, / Die Liebe muss bleiben;= 20 =/ Die Blume verblüht, / Die Frucht muss treiben=--Passion takes flight, love must abide; the flower fades, the fruit must ripen. _Schiller._
=Die letzte Wahl steht auch dem Schwächsten offen; / Ein Sprung von dieser Brücke macht mich frei=--The last choice of all is open even to the weakest; a leap from this bridge sets me free. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe hat kein Mass der Zeit; sie keimt / Und blüht und reift in einer schönen Stunde=--Love follows no measure of time; it buds and blossoms and ripens in one happy hour. _Körner._
=Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis=--Love is the price of love. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe macht zum Goldpalast die Hütte=--Love converts the cottage into a palace of gold. _Hölty._
=Die Lieb' umfasst des Weibes volles Leben, /= 25 =Sie ist ihr Kerker und ihr Himmelreich=--Love embraces woman's whole life; it is her prison and her kingdom of heaven. _Chamisso._
=Die Lust ist mächtiger als alle Furcht der Strafe=--Pleasure is more powerful than all fear of the penalty. _Goethe._
=Die Lust zu reden kommt zu rechter Stunde, / Und wahrhaft fliesst das Wort aus Herz und Munde=--The inclination to speak comes at the right hour, and the word flows true from heart and lip. _Goethe._
=Die Manifestationen der Idee als des Schönen, ist eben so flüchtig, als die Manifestationen des Erhabenen, des Geistreichen, des Lustigen, des Lächerlichen. Dies ist die Ursache, warum so schwer darüber zu reden ist=--The manifestation of the idea as the beautiful is just as fleeting as the manifestation of the sublime, the witty, the gay, and the ludicrous. This is the reason why it is so difficult to speak of it. _Goethe._
=Die Meisterhaft gilt oft für Egoismus=--Mastery passes often for egoism. _Goethe._
=Die Menge macht den Künstler irr' und scheu=--The 30 multitude is a distraction and scare to the artist. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt, / Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen=--Only he shrinks from men who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misknow them. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen kennen einander nicht leicht, selbst mit dem besten Willen und Vorsatz; nun tritt noch der böse Wille hinzu, der Alles entstellt=--Men do not easily know one another, even with the best will and intention; presently ill-will comes forward, which disfigures all. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind=--Men are blind all through life. _Goethe._
=Die Menschheit geben uns Vater und Mutter, die Menschlichkeit aber gibt uns nur die Erziehung=--Human nature we owe to father and mother, but humanity to education alone. _Weber._
=Die Milde ziemt dem Weibe, / Dem Manne= 35 =ziemt die Rache!=--Mercy becomes the woman; avengement, the man. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Mode ist weiblichen Geschlechts, hat folglich ihre Launen=--Mode is of the female sex, and has consequently their whims. _C. J. Weber._
=Die monarchische Regierungsform ist die dem Menschen natürliche=--Monarchy is the form of government that is natural to mankind. _Schopenhauer._
=Die Moral steckt in kurzen Sprüchen besser, als in langen Reden und Predigten=--A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. _Immermann._
=Diem perdidi!=--I have lost a day! _Titus, on finding that he had done no worthy action during the day._
=Die Mütter geben uns von Geiste Wärme, und die Väter Licht=--Our mothers give to our spirit heat, our fathers light. _Jean Paul._
=Die Natur ist ein unendlich geteilter Gott=--Nature is an infinitely divided God. _Schiller._
=Die Natur weiss allein, was sie will=--Nature alone knows what she aims at. _Goethe._
=Die of a rose in aromatic pain.= _Pope._
=Die Phantasie ward auserkoren / Zu öffnen= 5 =uns die reiche Wunderwelt=--Fantasy was appointed to open to us the rich realm of wonders. _Tiedge._
=Die Rachegötter schaffen im Stillen=--The gods of vengeance act in silence. _Schiller._
=Dies adimit ægritudinem=--Time cures our griefs. _L. Pr._
=Die Schönheit ist das höchste Princip und der höchste Zweck der Kunst=--Beauty is the highest principle and the highest aim of art. _Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ist vergänglich, die ihr doch / Allein zu ehren scheint. Was übrig bleibt, / Das reizt nicht mehr, und was nicht reizt, ist tot=--Beauty is transitory, which yet you seem alone to worship. What is left no longer attracts, and what does not attract is dead. _Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ruhrt, doch nur die Anmuth= 10 =sieget, / Und Unschuld nur behält den Preis=--Beauty moves us, though only grace conquers us, and innocence alone retains the prize. _Seume._
=Die Schulden sind der nächste Erbe=--Debts fall to the next heir. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Schwierigkeiten wachsen, je näher man dem Ziele kommt=--Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. _Goethe._
=Dies datus=--A day given for appearing in court. _L._
=Dies faustus=--A lucky day.
=Dies infaustus=--An unlucky day. 15
=Die Sinne trügen nicht, aber das Urteil trügt=--The senses do not deceive, but the judgment does. _Goethe._
=Dies iræ, dies illa, / Sæclum solvet in favilla / Teste David cum Sibylla=--The day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world in ashes, as David and the Sibyl say.
=Dies non=--A day when there is no court.
=Die Sorgen zu bannen, / (Das Unkraut des Geistes), den Kummer zu scheuchen, / Die Schmerzen zu lindern, / Ist Sache des Sängers=--To banish cares (the wild crop of the spirit), to chase away sorrow, to soothe pain, is the business of the singer. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Sorg' um Künft'ges niemals frommt; Man= 20 =fühlt kein Uebel, bis es kommt. / Und wenn man's fühlt, so hilft kein Rat; / Weisheit ist immer zu früh und zu spat=--Concern for the future boots not; we feel no evil till it comes. And when we feel it, no counsel avails; wisdom is always too early and too late. _Rückert._
=Dies religiosi=--Religious days; holidays.
=Die süssesten Trauben hängen am höchsten=--The sweetest grapes hang highest. _Ger. Pr._
=Diet cures more than doctors.= _Pr._
=Die te veel onderneemt slaagt zelden=--He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. _Dut. Pr._
=Die That allein beweist der Liebe Kraft=--The 25 act alone shows the power of love. _Goethe._
=Die Thätigkeit ist was den Menschen glücklich macht; / Die, erst das Gute schaffend, bald ein Uebel selbst / Durch göttlich wirkende Gewalt in Gutes kehrt=--It is activity which renders man happy, which, by simply producing what is good, soon by a divinely working power converts an evil itself into a good. _Goethe._
=Die Todten reiten schnell!=--The dead ride fast! _Bürger._
=Die treue Brust des braven Manns allein ist ein sturmfester Dach in diesen Zeiten=--The loyal heart of the good man is in these times the only storm-proof place of shelter. _Schiller._
=Die Tugend des Menschen, der nach dem Geboten der Vernunft lebt, zeigt sich gleich gross in Vermeidung, wie in Ueberwindung der Gefahren=--The virtue of the man who lives according to the commands of reason manifests itself quite as much in avoiding as in overcoming danger. _Spinoza._
=Die Tugend grosser Seelen ist Gerechtigkeit=--The 30 virtue of great souls is justice. _Platen._
=Die Tugend ist das höchste Gut, / Das Laster Weh dem Menschen thut=--Virtue is man's highest good, vice works him nought but woe. _Goethe._
=Die Tugend ist nicht ein Wissen, sondern ein Wollen=--Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing. _Zachariae._
=Die Tugend ohne Lohn ist doppelt schön=--Virtue unrewarded is doubly beautiful. _Seume._
=Dieu aide à trois sortes de personnes, aux fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes=--God protects three sorts of people, fools, children, and drunkards. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu avec nous=--God with us. _M._ 35
=Dieu ayde=--God help me. _M._
=Dieu défend le droit=--God defends the right. _M._
=Dieu donne le froid selon le drap=--God gives the cold according to the cloth. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu et mon droit=--God and my right. _M._
=Dieu fit du repentir la vertu des mortels=--God 40 has made repentance the virtue of mortals. _Voltaire._
=Dieu garde la lune des loups=--God guards the moon from the wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue=--God measures the cold to the shorn lamb. _Fr. Pr._
=Die unbegreiflich hohen Werke / Sind herrlich wie am ersten Tag=--The incomprehensibly high works are as glorious as on the first day. _Goethe._
=Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une affaire=--God keep us from a man who knows only one subject. _Fr. Pr._
=Die Unschuld hat im Himmel einen Freund=--Innocence 45 has a friend in heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht jedermann's Sache=--Immortality is not every man's business or concern. _Goethe._
=Dieu pour la tranchée, qui contre?=--If God is our defence, who is against us? _M._
=Dieu seul devine les sots=--God only understands fools. _Fr. Pr._
=Die veel dienstboden heeft, die heeft veel dieven=--He who has many servants has many thieves. _Dut. Pr._
=Die vernünftige Welt ist als ein grosses unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und dadurch sich sogar über das Zufällige zum Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be regarded as a great immortal individuality, that is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an order which all must submit to), and thereby makes itself lord and master of everything contingent (or accidental). _Goethe._
=Die Vernunft ist auf das Werdende, der Verstand auf das Gewordene angewiesen; jene bekümmert sich nicht: wozu? dieser fragt nicht: woher?=--Reason is directed to what is a-doing or proceeding, understanding to what is done or past; the former is not concerned about the "whereto," the latter inquires not about the "whence." _Goethe._
=Die Wacht am Rhein=--"The watch on the Rhine." _A German national song._
=Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten=--The truth adjusts itself not to us, but we must adjust ourselves to it. _Claudius._
=Die Wahrheit schwindet von der Erde / Auch= 5 =mit der Treu' ist es vorbei, / Die Hunde wedeln noch und stinken / Wie sonst, doch sind sie nicht mehr treu=--Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. _Heine._
=Die Wahrheit zu sagen ist nützlich dem, der höret, schädlich dem der spricht=--Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. _Ger. Pr._
=Die wankelmüt'ge Menge, / Die jeder Wind herumtreibt! Wehe dem, / Der auf dies Rohr sich lehnet=--The fickle mob, how they are driven round by every wind that blows! Woe to him who leans on this reed! _Schiller._
=Die Weiber lieben die Stärke ohne sie nachzuahmen; die Männer die Zartheit, ohne sie zu erwiedern=--Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. _Jean Paul._
=Die Weiber meiden nichts so sehr als das Wörtchen Ja; wenigstens sagen sie es erst nach dem Nein=--Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word "Yes;" at least they say it only after they have said "No." _Jean Paul._
=Die Weisen wägen ihre Worte mit der Goldwage=--The 10 wise weigh their words in the balance of the goldsmith. _Ecclus._
=Die Weiseste merken höchstens nur wie das Schicksal sie leitet, und sind es zufrieden=--The wisest know at highest only how destiny is leading them, and are therewith content. _Forster._
=Die Welt der Freiheit trägt der Mensch in seinem Innern. / Und Tugend ist der Freiheit Götterkind=--Man bears the world of freedom in his heart, and virtue is freedom's divine child. _Tiedge._
=Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht=--The history of the world is the judgment of the world. _Schiller._
=Die Welt ist dumm die Welt ist blind, / Wird täglich abgeschmackter=--The world is stupid, the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd. _Heine._
=Die Welt ist ein Gefängniss=--The world is a 15 prison. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist voller Widerspruch=--The world is full of contradiction. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist vollkommen überall, / Wo der Mensch nicht hinkommt mit seiner Qual=--The world is all perfect except where man comes with his burden of woe. _Schiller._
=Die Worte sind gut, sie sind aber nicht das Beste. Das Beste wird nicht deutlich durch Worte=--Words are good, but are not the best. The best is not to be understood by words. _Goethe._
=Die Zeiten der Vergangenheit / Sind uns ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln; / Was Ihr den Geist der Zeiten heisst / Das ist im Grund' der Herrn eigner Geist, / In dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln=--The times that are past are a book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentry in which the times are mirrored. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Zeit ist schlecht, doch giebt's noch grosse= 20 =Seelen!=--The times are bad, yet there are still great souls. _Körner._
=Die Zukunft decket Schmerzen und Glücke=--The future hides in it gladness and sorrow. _Goethe._
=Different good, by art or nature given, / To different nations, makes their blessings even.= _Goldsmith._
=Different minds / Incline to different objects; one pursues / The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; / Another sighs for harmony and grace, / And gentlest beauty.= _Akenside._
=Different times different manners.= _It. Pr._
=Difficile est crimen non prodere vultu=--It is 25 difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance. _Ovid._
=Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem=--It is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished passion. _Catull._
=Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri, qui semper secunda fortuna sit usus=--It is difficult for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue. _Cic._
=Difficile est proprie communia dicere=--It is difficult to handle a common theme with originality. _Hor._
=Difficile est satiram non scribere=--It is difficult not to indulge in (_lit._ to write) satire. _Juv._
=Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--It is 30 difficult to feign mirth when one is in a gloomy mood. _Tibulle._
=Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina=--One should be slow in listening to criminal accusations. _Pub. Syr._
=Difficilia quæ pulchra=--The really good is of difficult attainment. _L. Pr._
=Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus es idem; / Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te=--Cross but easy-minded, pleasant and sour together; I can neither live with thee nor yet without thee. _Mart._
=Difficilis in otio quies=--Tranquillity is difficult if one has nothing to do.
=Difficilius est sarcire concordiam quam rumpere=--It 35 is more difficult to restore harmony than sow dissension.
=Difficult to sweep the intricate foul chimneys of law.= _Carlyle._
=Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.= _Channing._
=Difficulties are things that show what men are.= _Epictetus._
=Difficulties may surround our path, but if the difficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be overcome.= _Jowett._
=Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.= _Sen._
=Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.= _Carlyle._
=Diffugiunt, cadis / Cum fæce siccatis, amici, / Ferre jugum pariter dolosi=--When the wine-casks are drained to the lees, our friends soon disperse, too faithless to bear as well the yoke of misfortune. _Hor._
=Diffused knowledge immortalises itself.= _Sir J._ 5 _Macintosh._
=Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.= _Ovid._
=Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in deserving them.= _Arist._
=Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.= _Whipple._
=Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as dignity of carriage.= _Bovee._
=Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori=--The 10 Muse takes care that the man who is worthy of honour does not die. _Hor._
=Digressions in a book are like foreign troops in a state, which argue the nation to want a heart and hands of its own; and often either subdue the natives, or drive them into the most unfruitful corners.= _Swift._
=Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.= _Sterne._
=Dii laboribus omnia vendunt=--The gods sell all things to hard labour. _Pr._
=Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and lower degree.
=Dii majorum gentium=--The twelve gods of the 15 highest order.
=Dii penates=--Household gods.
=Di irati laneos pedes habent=--The gods when angry have their feet covered with wool. _Pr._
=Dii rexque secundent=--May God and the king favour us. _M._
=Diis aliter visum=--The gods have decreed otherwise. _Virg._
=Diis proximus ille est / Quem ratio, non ira= 20 =movet=--He is nearest to the gods whom reason, not passion, impels. _Claud._
=Dilationes in lege sunt odiosæ=--Delays in the law are odious. _L._
=Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind of amateur-search for truth, toying and coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin, the root of all imaginable sins.= _Carlyle._
=Dilexi justiciam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio=--I have loved justice and hated injustice, therefore die I an exile. _Gregory VII. on his death-bed._
=Diligence increases the fruits of labour.= _Hesiod._
=Diligence is the mother of good fortune.= _Cervantes._ 25
=Diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquæ continentur=--Diligence, the one virtue that embraces in it all the rest. _Cic._
=Diligent, that includes all virtues in it a student can have.= _Carlyle, to the Students of Edinburgh University._
=Diligent working makes an expert workman.= _Dan. Pr._
=Diligitur nemo, nisi cui fortuna secunda est=--Only he is loved who is the favourite of fortune. _Ovid._
=Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet=--He who has 30 begun has half done. _Hor._
=Ding (knock) down the nests, and the rooks will flee awa.= _Sc. Pr., used to justify the demolition of the religious houses at the Reformation._
=Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and maist like to return on his head that sent it.= _Scott._
=Dinna gut your fish till you get them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna lift me before I fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna scald your ain mou' wi ither folk's kail= 35 =(broth).= _Sc. Pr._
=Di nos quasi pilas homines habent=--The gods treat us mortals like so many balls to play with. _Plaut._
=Diogenes has well said that the only way to preserve one's liberty was being always ready to die without pain.= _Goethe._
=Dios es el que sana, y el médico lleva la plata=--Though God cures the patient, the doctor pockets the fee. _Sp. Pr._
=Dios me dé contienda con quien me entienda=--God grant me to argue with such as understand me. _Sp. Pr._
=Di picciol uomo spesso grand' ombra=--A little 40 man often casts a long shadow. _It. Pr._
=Dira necessitas=--Cruel necessity. _Hor._
=Dirigo=--I direct. _M._
=Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.= _Palmerston._
=Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis=--He pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into round. _Hor._
=Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule=--Misfortune 45 was for thee a hard school. _Schiller._
=Disappointment is often the salt of life.= _Theodore Parker._
=Disasters, do the best we can, / Will reach both great and small; / And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=Disce aut discede=--Learn or leave.
=Disce pati=--Learn to endure.
=Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,= 50 =/ Fortunam ex aliis=--Learn, my son, valour and patient toil from me, good fortune from others. _Virg._
=Disciplined inaction.= _Sir J. Macintosh._
=Discipulus est prioris posterior dies=--Each succeeding day is the scholar of the preceding. _Pub. Syr._
=Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos=--Warned by me, learn justice, and not to despise the gods. _Virg._
=Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius illud / Quod quis deridet quam quod probat et veneratur=--Each learns more readily, and retains more willingly, what makes him laugh than what he approves of and respects. _Hor._
=Discontent is like ink poured into water, which= 55 =fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.= _Feltham._
=Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.= _Emerson._
=Discontent makes us to lose what we have; contentment gets us what we want. Fretting never removed a cross nor procured a comfort; quiet submission doth both.= _Jacomb._
=Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life.= _Feltham._
=Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.= _Spenser._
=Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.= 5 _Fr. Pr._
=Discrepant facta cum dictis=--The facts don't agree with the statements. _Cic._
=Discretion / And hard valour are the twins of honour, / And, nursed together, make a conqueror; / Divided, but a talker.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.= _La Bruyère._
=Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.= _Bovee._
=Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,= 10 =and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.= _Bacon._
=Discretion, the best part of valour.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye, / Misprising what they look on.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In strange eruptions, and the teeming earth / Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd / By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, / Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples down / Steeples and moss-grown towers.= _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all.= _Ham._, iv. 3.
=Diseur de bons mots=--A sayer of good things; 15 a would-be wit. _Fr._
=Diseuse de bonne aventure=--A mere fortune-teller. _Fr._
=Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime than in the punishment.= _Bacon._
=Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman, woman rules us still.= _Moore._
=Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, thou art a bitter draught.= _Sterne._
=Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for= 20 =temporary advantages.= _Bovee._
=Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them.= _Bovee._
=Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.= _Dickens._
=Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain / Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime / Of cowards.= _C. Johnson._
=Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.=
=Disjecta membra=--Scattered remains. 25
=Disjecti membra poetæ=--Limbs of the dismembered poet. _Hor._
=Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli=--Dash the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of wicked war. _Virg._
=Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they make no battery.= _Shakespeare._
=Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the broad way to ruin.= _D. Davies._
=Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an= 30 =antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.= _Ruskin._
=Disorder is dissolution, death.= _Carlyle._
=Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Disponendo me, non mutando me=--By displacing, not by changing me. _M._
=Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies=--The itch for controversy is the scab of the Church. _Wotton._
=Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, /= 35 =Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.= _Garth._
=Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age.= _Blair._
=Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it.= _Bacon._
=Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective.= _Scott._
=Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.= _Howell._
=Distinction is an eminence that is attained but= 40 =too frequently at the expense of a fireside.= _Simms._
=Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.= _W. Allston._
=Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan / Puffing at all, winnows the light away.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 3.
=Distingué=--Distinguished; eminent; gentlemanlike. _Fr._
=Distinguished talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.= _Junius._
=Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the= 45 =dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.= _Willmott._
=Distrahit animum librorum multitudo=--A multitude of books distracts the mind. _Sen._
=Distrait=--Absent in mind. _Fr._
=Distressed valour challenges great respect, even from enemies.= _Plutarch._
=Distringas=--You may distrain. _L._
=Distrust and darkness of a future state /= 50 =Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate, / Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To be we know not what, we know not where.= _Dryden._
=Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es=--Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. _Brillat-Savarin._
=Ditissimus agris=--An extensive landed proprietor.
=Di tutte le arti maestro è amore=--Love is master of all arts. _It. Pr._
=Diversité, c'est ma devise=--Variety, that is my motto. _La Fontaine._
=Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis=--Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest. _Hor._
=Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres=--A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. _Pr._
=Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet amplius=--He is rich who wishes no more than he has. _Cic._
=Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so at once. _Juv._
=Divide et impera=--Divide and govern.
=Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit= 5 =urbes=--Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. _Varro._
=Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.= _Hervey._
=Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was spoken: Let there be light. Even to the greatest that has felt such a moment, is it not miraculous and God-announcing; even as, under simpler figures, to the humblest and least?= _Carlyle._
=Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We first distinguish, then pursue the right; / Thy power the breast from every error frees, / And weeds out all its vices by degrees.= _Juv._
=Divine= _right_, =take it on the great scale, is found= 10 =to mean divine= _might_ =withal.= _Carlyle._
=Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, / And draw the distant landscape as they please.= _Dryden._
=Divinity should be empress, and philosophy and other arts merely her servants.= _Luther._
=Divitiæ grandes homini sunt, vivere parce / Æquo animo=--It is great wealth to a man to live frugally with a contented mind. _Lucr._
=Divitiæ virum faciunt=--Riches make the man.
=Divitiarum et formæ gloria fluxa atque fragilis;= 15 =virtus clara æternaque habetur=--The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. _Sall._
=Divitis servi maxime servi=--Servants to the rich are the most abject.
=Divorce from this world is marriage with the next.= _Talmud._
=Dla przyjaciela nowego / Nie opuszczaj starego!=--To keep a new friend, never break with the old. _Russ. Pr._
=Do as others do, and few will laugh at you.= _Dan. Pr._
=Do as the bee does with the rose, take the= 20 =honey and leave the thorn.= _Amer. Pr._
=Do as the lassies do; say "No" and tak' it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dobrze to w kazdym znale['s]['c] przyjaciela!=--How delightful to find a friend in every one. _Brodzinski._
=Docendo discimus=--We learn by teaching.
=Dochters zijn broze waren=--Daughters are fragile ware. _Dut. Pr._
=Doch werdet ihr nie Herz zu Herzen schaffen /= 25 =Wenn es auch nicht von Herzen geht=--Yet will ye never bring heart to heart unless it goes out of your own. _Goethe._
=Dociles imitandis / Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus=--We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. _Juv._
=Docti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem=--The learned understand the principles of art, the unlearned feel the pleasure only. _Quinct._
=Doctor Luther's shoes don't fit every village priest.= _Ger. Pr._
=Doctor utriusque legis=--Doctor of both civil and canon law.
=Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam / Rectique= 30 =cultus pectora roborant=--But instruction improves the innate powers, and good discipline strengthens the heart. _Hor._
=Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.= _Ward Beecher._
=Does Homer interest us now, because he wrote of what passed beyond his native Greece, and two centuries before he was born; or because he wrote what passed in God's world, which is the same after thirty centuries?= _Carlyle._
=Do faita dicha, por demas es diligencia=--Diligence is of no use where luck is wanting. _Sp. Pr._
=Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning in the sound.= _Gay._
=Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish= 35 =know it not, the Lord will.= _Turk. Pr._
=Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.= _Pope._
=Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Dogs should not be taught to eat leather (so indispensable for leashes and muzzles).= _Ger. Pr._
=Dogs that bark at a distance ne'er bite at hand.= _Sc. Pr._
=Doing good is the only certainly happy action= 40 =of a man's life.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.= _Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=Doing is the great thing; for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.= _Ruskin._
=Doing leads more surely to saying than saying to doing.= _Vinet._
=Doing nothing is doing ill.= _Pr._
=Dolce far niente=--Sweet idleness. _It._ 45
=Dolci cose a vedere, e dolci inganni=--Things sweet to see, and sweet deceptions. _Ariosto._
=Dolendi modus, timendi non autem=--There is a limit to grief, but not to fear. _Pliny._
=Doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas=--Fraud is not fraud, unless craftily planned. _Plaut._
=Dolium volvitur=--An empty vessel rolls easily. _Pr._
=Dolori affici, sed resistere tamen=--To be affected 50 with grief, but still to resist it. _Pliny._
=Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?=--Who inquires in an enemy whether it be stratagem or valour? _Virg._
=Dolus versatur in generalibus=--Fraud deals in generalities. _L._
=Domandar chi nacque prima, l'uovo o la gallina=--Ask which was first produced, the egg or the hen. _It. Pr._
=Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains.= _Fielding._
=Domestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness= 55 =that has survived the Fall.= _Cowper._
=Domi manere convenit felicibus=--Those who are happy at home should remain at home. _Pr._
=Domine, dirige nos=--Lord, direct us!
=Domini pudet, non servitutis=--I am ashamed of my master, but not of my condition as a servant. _Sen._
=Dominus illuminatio mea=--The Lord is my light. _M._
=Dominus providebit=--The Lord will provide. _M._ 5
=Dominus videt plurimum in rebus suis=--The master sees best in his own affairs. _Phæd._
=Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo=--The Lord be with you, and with thy spirit.
=Domitæ naturæ=--Of a tame nature.
=Domus amica domus optima=--The house of a friend is the best house.
=Domus et placens uxor=--Thy house and pleasing 10 wife.
=Domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium=--The safest place of refuge for every man is his own home. _Coke._
=Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ, et / Linque severa=--Gladly enjoy the gifts of the present hour, and banish serious thoughts. _Hor._
=Donatio mortis causa=--A gift made in prospect of death. _L._
=Don de plaire=--The gift of pleasing. _Fr._
=Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos; /= 15 =Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris=--So long as you are prosperous you will reckon many friends; if fortune frowns on you, you will be alone. _Ovid._
=Done to death by slanderous tongues.= _Much Ado_, v. 3.
=Donna di finestra, uva di strada=--A woman at the window is a bunch of grapes by the wayside. _It. Pr._
=Donna è mobile come piume in vento=--Woman is as changeable as a feather in the wind. _Verdi._
=Donner de si mauvaise grâce qu'on n'a pas d'obligation=--To give so ungraciously as to do away with any obligation. _Fr._
=Donner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable=--To 20 give one candle to God and another to the devil. _Fr. Pr._
=Donnez, mais, si vous pouvez, épargnez au pauvre, la honte de tendre la main=--Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of holding out the hand. _Diderot._
=Dono dedit=--Gave as a gift.
=Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or a St Francis of Assisi. The saints are in heaven.= _Bp. Liguori._
=Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him.= _Chapin._
=Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show= 25 =me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Do not flatter your benefactors.= _Buddhist Pr._
=Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose / That you resolv'd to effect.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.
=Do not give dalliance / Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious, / Or else good night your vow.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.= _Pr._
=Do not lose the present in vain perplexities= 30 =about the future. If fortune lours to-day, she may smile to-morrow.= _Sir T. Martin._
=Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you for one more ambitious.= _Emerson._
=Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.= _Sp. Pr._
=Do not tell a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy.= _Ar. Pr._
=Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and one as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside; it is better our hearts should be swept clean of them.= _Ruskin._
=Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness;= 35 =but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.= _Plato._
=Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue; the light of the public square will test its value.= _Michael Angelo to a young sculptor._
=Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.= _Emerson._
=Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.= _Holmes._
=Don't budge, if you are at ease where you are.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative.= 40 _Dan. Pr._
=Don't dissipate your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.= _Goethe._
=Don terrible de la familiarité=--The terrible gift of familiarity. _Mirabeau._
=Don't fly till your wings are fledged.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't hate; only pity and avoid those that follow lies.= _Carlyle._
=Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear= 45 =it should get blunted.= _Cervantes._
=Don't quit the highway for a short cut.= _Port. Pr._
=Don't reckon your chickens before they are hatched.= _Pr._
=Don't throw away the old shoes till you've got new ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Donum exitiale Minervæ=--The fatal gift to Minerva, _i.e._, the wooden horse, by means of which the Greeks took Troy. _Virg._
=Do on the hill as ye do in the ha'.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot, / Thy heart will cheer thee when the pain's forgot; / Do wrong for pleasure's sake, then count thy gains, / The pleasure soon departs, the sin remains.= _Bp. Shuttleworth._
=Dormit aliquando jus, moritur nunquam=--A right is sometimes in abeyance, but never abolished. _L._
=Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur=--The law sleeps sometimes, but never dies. _L._
=Dos d'âne=--Saddleback (_lit._ ass's back). _Fr._
=Dos est magna parentum / Virtus=--The virtue 55 of parents is a great dowry. _Hor._
=Dos est uxoria lites=--Strife is the dowry of a wife. _Ovid._
[Greek: Dosis d' oligê te, philê te]--Gift both dainty and dear. _Hom._
=Dos linajes solo hay en el mundo, el "tener" y el "no tener"=--There are but two families in the world, those who have, and those who have not. _Cervantes._
[Greek: Dos moi pou stô kai tên gên kinêsô]--Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. _Archimedes._
=Dost thou love life? Then do not squander= 5 =time, for that is the stuff life is made of.= _B. Franklin._
=Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say aye; / And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear'st, / Thou may'st prove false; at lovers' perjuries / They say Jove laughs.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight / Adonis painted by a running brook; / And Cytherea all in sedges hid; / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath; / Even as the waving sedges play with wind.= _Tam. the Shrew_, Ind. 2.
=Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there are to be no more cakes and ale?= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.= _Emerson._
=Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every= 10 =duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.= _Kingsley._
=Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. Thy second duty will already have become clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Do thine own task, and be therewith content.= _Goethe._
=Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, / Or wilt thou go ask the mole?= _William Blake._
=Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know, /= 15 =Great men can do their greatest work no better than just so.= _Goethe._
=Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn, and caldron bubble.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=Double, double toil and trouble; that is the life of all governors that really govern; not the spoil of victory, only the glorious toil of battle can be theirs.= _Carlyle._
=Double entendre=--A double meaning. _Fr._
=Double entente=--Double signification. _Fr._
=Doubting the reality of love leads to doubting= 20 =everything.= _Amiel._
=Doubting things go ill often hurts more / Than to be sure they do.= _Cymbeline_, i. 7.
=Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Doubt is the abettor of tyranny.= _Amiel._
=Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.= _Colton._
=Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being= 25 =cheated as to cheat.= _Butler._
=Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action.= _Goethe._
=Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; / But never doubt I love.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Douceur=--A bribe. _Fr._
=Do ut des=--I give that you may give. _Maxim of Bismarck._
=Doux yeux=--Tender glances. _Fr._ 30
=Dove bisognan rimedj, il sospirar non vale=--Where remedies are needed, sighing is of no use. _It. Pr._
=Dove è grand'amore, quivi è gran dolore=--Where the love is great the pain is great. _It. Pr._
=Dove è il Papa, ivi è Roma=--Where the Pope is, Rome is. _It. Pr._
=Dove è l'amore, là è l'occhio=--Where love is, there the eye is. _It. Pr._
=Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna=--When 35 wine enters modesty goes. _It. Pr._
=Dove la voglia è pronta, le gambe son leggiere=--When the will is prompt, the legs are light. _It. Pr._
=Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt a' men.= _Sc. Pr._
=Do we not all submit to death? The highest sentence of the law, sentence of death, is passed on all of us by the fact of birth; yet we live patiently under it, patiently undergo it when the hour comes.= _Carlyle._
=Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, / The love of love.= _Tennyson, of the poet._
=Do what he will, he cannot realise / Half he= 40 =conceives--the glorious vision flies; / Go where he may, he cannot hope to find / The truth, the beauty pictured in the mind.= _Rogers._
=Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.= _Emerson._
=Down, thou climbing sorrow; / Thy element's below.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Downward to climb and backward to advance.= _Pope._
=Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Do you think the porter and the cook have no= 45 =anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you?= _Emerson._
=Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.= _Napoleon._
=Dramatis personæ=--Characters represented.
=Draw thyself from thyself.= _Goethe._
=Dream after dream ensues, / And still they dream that they shall still succeed / And still are disappointed.= _Cowper._
=Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no= 50 =end to illusion.= _Emerson._
=Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. / When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable soul run mad.= _Dryden._
=Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.= _Amiel._
=Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beams of the sun.= _Dickens._
=Dreams are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which are as thin of substance as the air, / And more inconstant than the wind.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, / Are a substantial world, both pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and our happiness will grow.= _Wordsworth._
=Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Dreams, in general, take their rise from those incidents that have occurred during the day.= _Herodotus._
=Dreams in their development have breath /= 5 =And tears and torture and the touch of joy; / They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts; / They take a weight from off our waking toils; / They do divide our being; they become a portion of ourselves as of our time, / And look like heralds of eternity.= _Byron._
=Dreigers vechten niet=--Those who threaten don't fight. _Dut. Pr._
=Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind.= _Sir J. Barrington._
=Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.= _John Neal._
=Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.= _Port. Pr._
=Drink not the third glass, which thou canst= 10 =not tame / When once it is within thee; but before, / May'st rule it as thou list; and pour the shame, / Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.= _G. Herbert._
=Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine; / Or leave a kiss but in the cup, / And I'll not look for wine.= _Ben Jonson._
=Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.= _Bible._
=Drive a coach and six through an act of parliament.= _Baron S. Rice._
=Drive a cow to the ha', and she'll run to the byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Drive thy business, let not thy business drive= 15 =thee.= _Franklin._
=Droit d'aubaine=--The right of escheat; windfall. _Fr._
=Droit des gens=--Law of nations. _Fr._
=Droit et avant=--Right and forward. _Fr._
=Droit et loyal=--Right and loyal. _Fr._
=Drones hive not with me.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 5. 20
=Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.= _Bible._
=Drudgery and knowledge are of kin, / And both descended from one parent sin.= _S. Butler._
=Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory;--of a constitution so treacherously good than it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.= _Colton._
=Drunkenness is voluntary madness.= _Sen._
[Greek: Dryos pesousês pas anêr xyleuetai]--When an 25 oak falls, every one gathers wood. _Men._
=Dry light is ever the best=, _i.e._, from one who, as disinterested, can take a dispassionate view of a matter. _Heraclitus._
=Dry shoes won't catch fish.= _Gael. Pr._
=Duabus sedere sellis=--To sit between two stools.
=Du bist am Ende was du bist=--Thou art in the end what thou art. _Goethe._
=Dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus=--By way 30 of doubting we arrive at the truth. _Cic._
=Dubiam salutem qui dat afflictis, negat=--He who offers to the wretched a dubious deliverance, denies all hope. _Sen._
=Ducats are clipped, pennies are not.= _Ger. Pr._
=Duce et auspice=--Under his guidance and auspices. _M._
=Duces tecum=--You must bring with you (certain documents). _L._
=Duce tempus eget=--The time calls for a leader. 35 _Lucan._
=Du choc des esprits jaillissent les étincelles=--When great spirits clash, sparks fly about. _Fr. Pr._
=Ducis ingenium, res / Adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ=--Disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal them. _Hor._
=Ducit amor patriæ=--The love of country leads me. _M._
=Du côté de la barbe est la toute-puissance=--The male alone has been appointed to bear rule. _Molière._
=Ductor dubitantium=--A guide to those in doubt. 40
=Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt=--Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. _Sen. from Cleanthes._
=Du fort au faible=--On an average (_lit._ from the strong to the weak). _Fr._
=Du glaubst zu schieben und du wirst geschoben=--Thou thinkest thou art shoving and thou art shoved. _Goethe._
=Du gleichst dem Geist, den du begreifst / Nicht mir=--Thou art like to the spirit which thou comprehendest, not to me. _Goethe._
=Du hast das nicht, was andre haben, /= 45 =Und andern mangeln deine Gabe; / Aus dieser Unvollkommenheit / Entspringt die Geselligkeit=--Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. _Gellert._
=Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles nous contemplent=--From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on us. _Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=Dulce domum=--Sweet home. _A school song._
=Dulce est desipere in loco=--It is pleasant to play the fool (_i.e._ relax) sometimes. _Hor._
=Dulce est miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune.
=Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori=--It is 50 sweet and glorious to die for one's country. _Hor._
=Dulce periculum=--Sweet danger. _M._
=Dulce sodalitium=--A pleasant association of friends.
=Dulcibus est verbis alliciendus amor=--Love is to be won by affectionate words. _Pr._
=Dulcique animos novitate tenebo=--And I will hold your mind captive with sweet novelty. _Ovid._
=Dulcis amor patriæ, dulce videre suos=--Sweet 55 is the love of country, sweet to see one's kindred. _Ovid._
=Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; / Expertus metuit=--The cultivation of friendship with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced, but he who has experienced it dreads it. _Hor._
=Dull, conceited hashes, / Confuse their brains in college classes; / They gang in stirks, and come oot asses, / Plain truth to speak.= _Burns._
=Dull not device by coldness and delay.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous.= _Ger. Pr._
=Dumbie winna lee.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, / More than quick words do move a woman's mind.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Dum deliberamus quando incipiendum incipere jam serum est=--While we are deliberating to begin, the time to begin is past. _Quinct._
=Dum fata fugimus, fata stulti incurrimus=--While we flee from our fate, we like fools rush on it. _Buchanan._
=Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur=--While the mind is in suspense, a very little sways it one way or other. _Ter._
=Dum lego, assentior=--Whilst I read, I assent. 10 _Cic._
=Dum loquor, hora fugit=--While I am speaking, time flies. _Ovid._
=Dummodo morata recte veniat, dotata est satis=--Provided she come with virtuous principles, a woman brings dowry enough. _Plaut._
=Dummodo sit dives, barbarus ipse placet=--If he be only rich, a very barbarian pleases us. _Ovid._
=Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi æstimo=--So be I do not die for evil-doing, I care little for dying. _Plaut._
=Du moment qu'on aime, on devient si doux=--From 15 the moment one falls in love, one becomes sweet in the temper. _Marmontel._
=Dum se bene gesserit=--So long as his behaviour is good. _L._
=Dum singuli pugnant, universi vincuntur=--While they fight separately, the whole are conquered. _Tacit._
=Dum spiro, spero=--While I breathe, I hope. _M._
=Dum tacent, clamant=--While silent, they cry aloud, _i.e._, their silence bespeaks discontent. _Cic._
=Du musst steigen oder sinken, / Du musst herrschen= 20 =und gewinnen, / Oder dienen und verlieren, / Leiden oder triumphiren, / Amboss oder Hammer sein=--Thou must mount up or sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer. _Goethe._
=Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores: / Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede=--While your strength and years permit, you should endure labour; bowed old age will soon come on with silent foot. _Ovid._
=Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt=--While fools shun one set of faults, they run into the opposite one. _Hor._
=Dum vivimus, vivamus=--While we live, let us live. _M._
=D'une vache perdue, c'est quelque chose de recouvrer la queue=--When a cow is lost, it is something to recover the tail. _Fr. Pr._
=Duo quum faciunt idem non est idem=--When 25 two do the same thing, it is not the same. _Ter._
=Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit=--He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither. _Pr._
=Dupes indeed are many; but of all dupes there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.= _Carlyle._
=Durante beneplacito=--During good pleasure.
=Durante vita=--During life.
=Dura più incudine che il martello=--The anvil 30 lasts longer than the hammer. _It. Pr._
=Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Be patient, and preserve yourself for better times. _Virg._
=Durch Vernünfteln wird Poesie vertrieben / Aber sie mag das Vernüftige lieben=--Poetry loves what is true in reason, but is scared away (dispersed) by subtlety in reasoning. _Goethe._
=Durum et durum non faciunt murum=--Hard and hard (_i.e._, without mortar) do not make a wall.
=Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est nefas=--'Tis hard! But that which we are not permitted to correct is rendered lighter by patience. _Hor._
=Durum telum necessitas=--Necessity is a hard 35 weapon. _Pr._
=Du sollst mit dem Tode zufrieden sein. / Warum machst du dir das Leben zur Pein?=--Thou shouldst make peace (_lit._ be content) with death. Why then make thy life a torture to thee? _Goethe._
=Dusting, darning, drudging, nothing is great or small, / Nothing is mean or irksome: love will hallow it all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Dust long outlasts the storied stone.= _Byron._
=Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.= _Bible._
=Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas=--There 40 is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. _Napoleon._
=Dutchmen must have wide breeches.= _Fris. Pr._
=Duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Duties are ours; events are God's.= _Cecil._
=Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is content who to obey has learn'd.= _Sir E. Brydges._
=Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify= 45 =the daughter's choice, / In that is due obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her alone.= _Moore._
=Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world.= _J. G. Holland._
=Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world, while at the same time it detaches us from it.= _Amiel._
=Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to bed with us in the evening.= _Gladstone._
=Duty is the demand of the passing hour.= _Goethe._
=Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few= 50 =terrors for a man with a great purpose.= _Disraeli._
=Duty--the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God.= _Kingsley._
=Dux fœmina facti=--A woman the leader in the deed. _Virg._
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=Each animal out of its habitat would starve.= _Emerson._
=Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, / Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.= _Johnson._
=Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.= _Emerson._
=Each creature seeks its perfection in another.= _Luther._
=Each day still better other's happiness, / Until= 5 =the heavens, envying earth's good hap, / Add an immortal title to your crown.= _Rich. II._, i. 1.
=Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves.= _Jean Paul._
=Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun.= _Whittier._
=Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you.= _Lavater._
=Each human heart can properly exhibit but one love, if even one; the "first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like unto it.= _Carlyle._
=Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude= 10 =forefathers of the hamlet sleep.= _Gray._
=Each man begins the world afresh, and the last man repeats the blunders of the first.= _Amiel._
=Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him--to live and let live.= _Kingsley._
=Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape.= _Goethe._
=Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.= _Emerson._
=Each man sees over his own experience a= 15 =certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.= _Emerson._
=Each man's chimney is his golden milestone, is the central point from which he measures every distance through the gateways of the world around him.= _Longfellow._
=Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.= _Emerson._
=Each must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.= _Emerson._
=Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead?= _Carlyle._
=Each particle of matter is an immensity, each= 20 =leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.= _Lavater._
=Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.= _Emerson._
=Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.= _Sh._
=Each sin at heart is Deicide.= _Aubrey de Vere (the younger)._
=Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, / Which show like grief itself, but are not so; / For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, / Divides one thing entire to many objects.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Each thing is a half, and suggests another thing= 25 =to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; motion, rest; yea, nay.= _Emerson._
=Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.= _Chapin._
=Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Ea fama vagatur=--That report is in circulation.
=Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep that always herd together.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Eamus quo ducit gula=--Let us go where our 30 appetite prompts us. _Virg._
=Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.= _Burke._
=Early birds catch the worms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, / She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.= _Young._
=Early master soon knave (servant).= _Sc. Pr._
=Early start makes easy stages.= _Amer. Pr._ 35
=Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.= _Pr._
=Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed / Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.= _Tennyson._
=Earnest and sport go well together.= _Dan. Pr._
=Earnestness alone makes life eternity.= _Goethe._
=Earnestness in life, even when carried to an= 40 =extreme, is something very noble and great.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Earnestness is a quality as old as the heart of man.= _G. Gilfillan._
=Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.= _Pascal._
=Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.= _Bovee._
=Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.= _Bovee._
=Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand= 45 =sure.= _Browning._
=Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe / That all was lost.= _Milton._
=Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.= _Chapin._
=Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.= _Moore._
=Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.= _Luther._
=Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle= 50 =her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die.= _Kirke White._
=Earth, sea, man, are all in each.= _Dante Gabriel Rossetti._
=Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.= _Burial Service._
=Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man.= _Young._
=Earth with her thousand voices praises God.= 5 _Coleridge._
=Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God.= _Leigh._
=Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.= _Lowell._
=Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ea sola voluptas / Solamenque mali=--That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. _Virg._
=East and west, home (hame) is best= _Eng. and_ 10 _Sc. Pr._
=Ea sub oculis posita negligimus; proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. _Pliny._
=Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting.= _Holmes._
=Easy writing's curst hard reading.= _Sheridan._
=Eat at your own table as you would eat at the table of the king.= _Confucius._
=Eat at your pleasure, drink in measure.= _Pr._ 15
=Eating little and speaking little can never do harm.= _Pr._
=Eating the bitter bread of banishment.= _Rich. II._, iii. 1.
=Eat in measure and defy the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Eat-weel's drink-weel's brither.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Eat what you like, but pocket nothing.= _Pr._
=Eau bénite de cour=--False promises (_lit._ holy water of the court). _Fr._
=Eau sucrée=--Sugared water. _Fr._
[Greek: Heauton timôroumenos]--The self-tormentor. _Menander._
=Ebbe il migliore / De' miei giorni la patria=--The 25 best of my days I devoted to my country. _It._
=E bello predicare il digiuno a corpo pieno=--It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly. _It. Pr._
=Eben die ausgezeichnetsten Menschen bedürfen der Religion am meisten, weil sie die engen Grenzen unseres menschlichen Verstandes am liebhaftesten empfinden=--It is just the most eminent men that need religion most, because they feel most keenly the narrow limits of our human understanding. _Cötvös._
=Eben wo Begriffe fehlen, / Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein=--It is just where ideas fail that a word comes most opportunely to the rescue. _Goethe._
=E buon comprare quando un altro vuol vendere=--It is well to buy when another wishes to sell. _It. Pr._
=Ecce homo=--Behold the man! _Pontius Pilate._ 30
=Ecce iterum Crispinus!=--Another Crispinus, by Jove! (a profligate at the court of Domitian). _Juv._
=Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.= _J. S. Mill._
=Eccentricity is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce with true wisdom.= _Jay._
=Ecce signum=--Here is the proof.
=Eccovi l'uom ch' è stato all'Inferno=--See, there's 35 the man that has been in hell. _It._ (_Said of Dante by the people of Verona._)
=Echoes we: listen! / We cannot stay, / As dewdrops glisten, / Then fade away.= _Shelley._
=Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.= _Hawthorne._
[Greek: Echthros gar moi keinos, homôs Aïdao pylêsin, / Hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de bazei]--Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is he who conceals one thing in his mind and utters another. _Hom._
[Greek: Echthrôn adôra dôra]--An enemy's gifts are no gifts. _Soph._
=Eclaircissement=--The clearing up of a thing. _Fr._ 40
=Eclat de rire=--A burst of laughter. _Fr._
=E cœlo descendit= [Greek: gnôthi seauton]--From heaven came down the precept, "Know thyself." _Juv._
=Economy does not consist in the reckless reduction of estimates; on the contrary, such a course almost necessarily tends to increased expenditure. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.= _Disraeli._
=Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.= _Zimmermann._
=Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so= 45 =hard to earn money as to spend it.= _Spurgeon._
=Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health.= _Johnson._
=Economy no more means saving money than it means spending money. It means the administration of a house, its stewardship; spending or saving, that is, whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage.= _Ruskin._
=E contra=--On the other hand.
=E contrario=--On the contrary.
=Ecorcher l'anguille par la queue=--To begin at 50 the wrong end (_lit._ to skin an eel from the tail). _Fr._
=Ecrasons l'infâme=--Let us crush the abomination, _i.e._, superstition. _Voltaire._
=Edel ist, der edel thut=--Noble is that noble does. _Ger. Pr._
=Edel macht das Gemüth, nicht das Geblüt=--It is the mind, not the blood, that ennobles. _Ger. Pr._
=Edel sei der Mensch / Hülfreich und gut / Denn das allein / Unterscheidet ihn / Von allen Wesen / Die wir kennen=--Be man noble, helpful, and good; for that alone distinguishes him from all the beings we know. _Goethe._
=Edition de luxe=--A splendid and expensive edition 55 of a book. _Fr._
=Editiones expurgatæ=--Editions with objectionable passages eliminated.
=Editio princeps=--The original edition.
=Edo, ergo ego sum=--I eat, therefore I am. _Monkish Pr._
=Educated persons should share their thoughts with the uneducated, and take also a certain
## part in their labours.= _Ruskin._
=Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.= _Wellington._
=Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment= 5 =which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity.= _H. Mann._
=Education begins its work with the first breath of the child.= _Jean Paul._
=Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.= _Locke._
=Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.= _H. Ballou._
=Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.= _Ruskin._
=Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness= 10 =of illustration, quickness, vigour, fancy, words, images, and illustrations; it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without being undignified and absurd.= _Sydney Smith._
=Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. Where education ends, genius often begins.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.= _E. Everett._
=Education is generally the worse in proportion to the wealth and grandeur of the parents.= _D. Swift._
=Education is only like good culture; it changes the size, but not the sort.= _Ward Beecher._
=Education is only second to nature.= _H. Bushnell._ 15
=Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.= _H. Mann._
=Education is the apprenticeship of life.= _Willmott._
=Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has sanctioned as truly great.= _Plato._
=Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Education is the leading human souls to what= 20 =is best, and making what is best of them. The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.= _Ruskin._
=Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses.= _Milton._
=Education ought, as a first principle, to stimulate the will to activity.= _Zachariae._
=Education should be as broad as man.= _Emerson._
[Greek: Ê hêkista ê hêdista]--Either the least or the 25 pleasantest.
=Een diamant van eene dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw=--A diamond of a daughter becomes a glass of a wife. _Dut. Pr._
=Een dief maakt gelegenheid=--A thief makes opportunity. _Dut. Pr._
=E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.= _Gray._
=Een hond aan een been kent geene vrienden=--A dog with a bone knows no friends. _Dut. Pr._
=Een kleine pot wordt haast heet=--A little pot 30 becomes soon hot. _Dut. Pr._
=Eenmaal is geen gewoonte=--Once is no custom. _Dut. Pr._
=Een once geduld is meer dan een pond verstand=--One ounce of patience is worth more than a pound of brains. _Dut. Pr._
=E'en though vanquished he could argue still.= _Goldsmith._
[Greek: hê eudaimonia tôn autarchôn esti]--Happiness is theirs who are sufficient for themselves. _Arist._
=Effloresco=--I flourish. _M._ 35
=Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum=--Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. _Ovid._
=Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,--a spirit all sunshine,--graceful from very gladness,--beautiful because bright.= _Carlyle._
=Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum quemque consequitur=--Whoso despises death escapes it, while it overtakes him who is afraid of it. _Curt._
=E flamma cibum petere=--To live by desperate means (_lit._ to seek food from the flames). _Pr._
=Efter en god Avler kommer en god Oder=--After 40 an earner comes a waster. _Dan. Pr._
=Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound.= _Spenser._
=E fungis nati homines=--Upstarts (_lit._ men born of mushrooms).
=Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two.= _Sheridan._
[Greek: hê gar physis bebaion, ou ta chrêmata]--It is only the character of a man, not his wealth, that is stable. _Arist._
=Egen Arne er Guld værd=--A hearth of one's own 45 is worth gold. _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs and oaths are easily broken.= _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a year, but a friend of thirty years is best.= _It. Pr._
[Greek: Engya; para d' atê]--Be security, and mischief is nigh. _Thales._
=Egli ha fatto il male, ed io mi porto la pena=--He has done the mischief, and I pay the penalty. _It. Pr._
=Egli vende l'uccello in su la frasca=--He sells the 50 bird on the branch. _It. Pr._
=Egli venderebbe sino alla sua parte del sole=--He would sell even his share in the sun. _It. Pr._
[Greek: Hê glôss' omômoch', hê de phrên anômotos]--My tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn. _Eurip._
=Ego apros occido, alter fruitur pulpamento=--I kill the boars, another enjoys their flesh. _Pr._
=Ego de caseo loquor, tu de creta respondes=--While I talk to you of cheese, you talk to me of chalk. _Erasmus._
=Ego ero post principia=--I will get out of harm's way (_lit._ I will keep behind the first rank). _Ter._
=Ego et rex meus=--I and my king. _Cardinal Wolsey._
=Ego hoc feci=--That was my doing.
=Egoism is the source and summary of all faults= 5 =and miseries whatsoever.= _Carlyle._
=Ego meorum solus sum meus=--I am myself the only friend I have. _Ter._
=Ego nec studium sine divite vena, / Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium=--I see not what good can come from study without a rich vein of genius, or from genius untrained by art. _Hor._
=Ego primam tollo, nominor quoniam Leo=--I carry off the first share because my name is Lion. _Phædr. in the fable of the lion a-hunting with weaker companions._
=Ego, si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives=--If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. _Plaut._
=Ego spem pretio non emo=--I do not purchase 10 hope with money, _i.e._, I do not spend my resources upon vain hopes. _Ter._
=Ego sum, ergo omnia sunt=--I am, and therefore all things are.
=Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam=--I am king of the Romans, and above grammar. _The Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance._
=Egotism erects its centre in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole.= _Schiller._
=Egotism is the tongue of vanity.= _Chamfort._
=Egotists are the pest of society.= _Emerson._ 15
=Egotists cannot converse; they talk to themselves only.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Egregii mortalem, altique silenti=--A being of extraordinary and profound silence. _Hor._
=Eher schätzet man das Gute / Nicht, als bis man es verlor=--We do not learn to value our blessings till we have lost them. _Herder._
=Ehestand, Wehestand=--State of wedlock, state of sorrow. _Ger. Pr._
=Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, / Labuntur= 20 =anni, nec pietas moram / Rugis et instanti senectæ / Afferet, indomitæque morti=--Alas! Posthumus, our years glide fleetly away, nor can piety stay wrinkles and advancing age and unvanquished death. _Hor._
=Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia causis!=--Alas! what trifling causes often wreck the vastest enterprises. _Claud._
=Ehren und Leben / Kann Niemand zurück geben=--No man can give back honour and life. _Ger. Pr._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie flechten und weben / Himmlische Rosen ins irdische Leben=--Honour to the women! they plait and weave roses of heaven for the life of earth. _Schiller._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie stricken und weben / Wollene Strümpfe fürs frostige Leben=--Honour to the women! they knit and weave worsted stockings for our frosty life. _Volkswitz._
=Ehrlich währt am längsten=--Honesty lasts 25 longest. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ei de theon anêr tis elpetai lathemen / Erdôn, hamartanei]--If any man hopes that his deeds will pass unobserved by the Deity, he is mistaken. _Pindar._
=Eident (diligent) youth makes easy age.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft=--Jealousy is a passion which seeks with zeal what yields only misery. _Schleiermacher._
=Eigenliebe macht die Augen trübe=--Self-love clouds the eyes. _Ger. Pr._
="Ei ist Ei," sagte der Küster, aber er nahm= 30 =das Gans Ei=--"An egg is an egg," said the sexton, but he took the goose-egg. _Ger. Pr._
=Eild and poortith are ill to thole=, _i.e._, age and poverty are hard to bear. _Sc. Pr._
=Eild should hae honour=, _i.e._, old people should. _Sc. Pr._
=Eile mit Weile=--Haste with leisure. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein alter Fuchs läuft nicht zum zweiten Mal in's Garn=--An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Arzt darf auch dem Feind sich nicht= 35 =entziehen=--A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. _Gutzkow._
=Ein Augenblick, gelebt im Paradiese, / Wird nicht zu theuer mit dem Tod gebüsst=--A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. _Schiller._
=Einbildungskraft wird nur durch Kunst, besonders durch Poesie geregelt. Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack=--Power of imagination is regulated only by art, especially by poetry. There is nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty without taste. _Goethe._
=Einbläsereien sind der Teufels Redekunst=--Insinuations are the devil's rhetoric. _Goethe._
=Ein Diadem erkämpfen ist gross; es wegwerfen ist göttlich=--To gain a crown by fighting for it is great; to reject it is divine. _Schiller._
=Ein Ding ist nicht bös, wenn man es gut= 40 =versteht=--A thing is not bad if we understand it well. _Ger. Pr._
=Eine Bresche ist jeder Tag, / Die viele Menschen erstürmen; / Wer da auch fallen mag, / Die Todten sich niemals thürmen=--Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort / Der Frauen weit geführt=--A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie fest zu halten=--A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. _Goethe._
=Ein edles Beispiel macht die schweren Thaten leicht=--A noble example makes difficult enterprises easy. _Goethe._
=Eine grosse Epoche hat das Jahrhundert= 45 =geboren; / Aber der grosse Moment findet ein kleines Geschlecht=--The century has given birth to a great epoch, but it is a small race the great moment appeals to. _Schiller._
=Eine Hälfte der Welt verlacht die andere=--One half of the world laughs at the other half. _Ger. Pr._
=Eine Handvoll Gewalt ist besser als Sackvoll Recht=--A handful of might is better than a sackful of right. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein eigen Herd, ein braves Weib, sind Gold und Perlen werth=--A hearth of one's own and a good wife are as good as gold and pearls. _Ger. Pr._
=Einen Wahn verlieren macht weiser als eine Wahrheit finden=--Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. _Börne._
=Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen=--One can speak and seven can sing. _Ger. Pr._
=Einer neuen Wahrheit nichts ist schädlicher als ein alter Irrtum=--Nothing is more harmful to a new truth than an old error. _Goethe._
=Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert=--A rose broken ere the storm stripped its petals. _Lessing._
=Eine schöne Menschenseele finden / Ist Gewinn=--It 5 is a true gain to find a beautiful human soul. _Herder._
=Ein Esel schimpft den andern Langohr=--One ass nicknames another Longears. _Ger. Pr._
=Eines schickt sich nicht für Alle! / Sehe jeder wie er's treibe, / Sehe jeder wo er bleibe, / Und wer steht, dass er nicht falle=--One thing does not suit every one; let each man see how he gets on, where his limits are; and let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. _Goethe._
=Ein Feind ist zu viel, und hundert Freunde sind zu wenig=--One foe is too many, a hundred friends are too few. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein fester Blick, ein hoher Mut, / Die sind zu allen Zeiten gut=--A steady eye and a lofty mind are at all times good. _Bechstein._
=Ein geistreich aufgeschlossenes Wort / Wirkt= 10 =auf die Ewigkeit.=--The influence of a spiritually elucidated (or embodied) word is eternal. _Goethe._
=Eingestandene Uebereilung ist oft lehrreicher, als kalte überdachte Unfehlbarkeit=--A confessed precipitancy is often more instructive than a coldly considered certainty. _Lessing._
=Ein Gift, welches nicht gleich wirkt, ist darum kein minder gefährliches Gift=--A poison which does not take immediate effect is therefore none the less a dangerous poison. _Lessing._
=Ein Gott ist, ein heiliger Wille lebt, / Wie auch der menschliche wanke; / Hoch über der Zeit und dem Raume webt / Lebendig der höchste Gedanke=--A god is, a holy will lives, however man's will may waver; high over all time and space the highest thought weaves itself everywhere into life's web. _Schiller._
=Ein grosser Fehler; dass man sich mehr dünkt als man ist, und sich weniger schätzt, als man werth ist=--It is a great mistake for people to think themselves more than they are, and to value themselves less than they are worth. _Goethe._
=Ein Herz das sich mit Sorgen quält / Hat= 15 =selten frohe Stunden=--A heart which tortures itself with care has seldom hours of gladness. _Old Ger. Song._
=Ein jeder ist sich selbst der grösste Feind=--Every one is his own greatest enemy. _Schefer._
=Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt=--Though every one lives it (life), it is not to many that it is known. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder lernet nur, was er lernen kann; / Doch der den Augenblick ergreift, / Das ist der rechte Mann=--Each one learns only what he can; yet he who seizes the passing moment is the proper man. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder Wechsel schreckt den Glücklichen=--Every change is a cause of uneasiness to the favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Ein Komödiant könnt' einen Pfarren lehren=--A 20 playactor might instruct a parson. _Goethe._
=Ein Kranz ist gar viel leichter binden / Als ihm ein würdig Haupt zu finden=--It is very much easier to bind a wreath than to find a head worthy to wear it. _Goethe._
=Ein langes Hoffen ist süsser, als ein kurzes Ueberraschen=--A long hope is sweeter than a short surprise. _Jean Paul._
=Ein leerer Sack steht nicht aufrecht=--An empty sack does not stand upright. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein mächtiger Vermittler ist der Tod=--Death is a powerful reconciler. _Schiller._
=Einmal gerettet, ist's für tausend Male=--To 25 be saved once is to be saved a thousand times. _Goethe._
=Ein Mann der recht zu wirken denkt / Muss auf das beste Werkzeug halten=--A man who intends to work rightly must select the most effective instrument. _Goethe._
=Ein Mann, ein Wort; ein Wort, ein Mann=--A man, a word; a word, a man. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch ohne Wille=--A man without understanding is also a man without will or purpose. _Feuerbach._
=Ein Mühlstein wird nicht moosig=--A millstone does not become covered with moss. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein niedrer Sinn ist stolz im Glück, im Leid= 30 =bescheiden; / Bescheiden ist im Glück ein edler, stolz im Leiden=--A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity; a noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. _Rückert._
=Ein "Nimm hin" ist besser als zehn "Helf Gott"=--One "Take this" is better than ten of "God help you." _Ger. Pr._
=Ein offenes Herz zeigt eine offene Stirn=--An open brow shows an open heart. _Schiller._
=Ein Pfennig mit Recht ist besser denn tausend mit Unrecht=--A penny by right is better than a thousand by wrong. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Schauspiel für Götter, / Zwei Liebende zu sehn!=--To witness two lovers is a spectacle for gods. _Goethe._
=Ein Theil bin ich von jener Kraft, / Die stets= 35 =das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft=--I am a part of that power which continually wills the evil and continually creates the good. _Mephistopheles, in "Faust."_
=Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen=--A degree is the first thing necessary to bespeak confidence in your profession. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Ein Tropfen Hass, der in dem Freudenbecher / Zurückbleibt, macht den Segensdrank zum Gifte=--A drop of hate that is left in the cup of joy converts the blissful draught into poison. _Schiller._
=Ein unterrichtetes Volk lässt sich leicht regieren=--An educated people can be easily governed. _Frederick the Great._
=Ein üppig lastervolles Leben büsst sich / In Mangel und Erniedrigung allem=--Only in want and degradation can a life of sensual profligacy be atoned for. _Schiller._
=Ein Vater ernährt eher zehn Kinder, denn zehn= 40 =Kinder einen Vater=--One father supports ten children sooner than ten children one father. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Vergnügen erwarten ist auch ein Vergnügen=--To look forward to a pleasure is also a pleasure. _Lessing._
=Ein Volk ohne Gesetze gleicht einem Menschen ohne Grundsätze=--A people without laws is like a man without principles. _Zachariæ._
=Ein vollkommener Widerspruch / Bleibt gleich geheimnissvoll für Kluge wie für Thoren=--A flat contradiction is ever equally mysterious to wise folks as to fools. _Goethe._
=Ein Wahn der mich beglückt, / Ist eine Wahrheit wert die mich zu Boden drückt=--An illusion which gladdens me is worth a truth which saddens me (_lit._ presses me to the ground). _Wieland._
=Ein wandernd Leben / Gefällt der freien Dichterbrust=--A wandering life delights the free heart of the poet. _Arion._
=Ein wenig zu spät ist viel zu spät=--A little too late is much too late. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fallen=--A little word can 5 slay him. _Luther, of the Pope._
=Ein Wort nimmt sich, ein Leben nie zurück=--A word may be recalled, a life never. _Schiller._
[Greek: Eis anêr oudeis anêr]--One man is no man. _Gr. Pr._
=Either sex alone is half itself.= _Tennyson._
=Eith (quickly) learned, soon forgotten.= _Sc. Pr._
[Greek: Ei ti agathon theleis, para seautou labe]--If 10 you would have anything good, seek for it from yourself. _Arrian._
=Ejusdem farinæ=--Of the same kidney (_lit._ meal).
=Ejusdem generis=--Of the same kind.
=El agujero llama al ladron=--The hole tempts the thief. _Sp. Pr._
=El amor verdadero no sufre cosa encubierta=--True love suffers no concealment. _Sp. Pr._
=Elati animi comprimendi sunt=--Minds which are 15 too much elated ought to be kept in check.
=El corazon manda las carnes=--The heart bears up the body. _Sp. Pr._
=El corazon no es traidor=--The heart is no traitor. _Sp. Pr._
=El dar es honor, y el pedir dolor=--To give is honour; to lose, grief. _Sp. Pr._
=El diablo saba mucho, porque es viejo=--The devil knows a great deal, for he is old. _Sp. Pr._
=El dia que te casas, ó te matas ó te sanas=--The 20 day you marry, it is either kill or cure. _Sp. Pr._
=El Dorado=--A region of unimagined wealth fabled at one time to exist in S. America; a dreamland of wealth. _Sp._
=Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman, dignity is proper to noblemen, and majesty to kings.= _Hazlitt._
=Elegit=--He has chosen. A writ empowering a creditor to hold lands for payment of a debt. _L._
=Elephants endors'd with towers.= _Milton._
=Elève le corbeau, il te crèvera les yeux=--Bring 25 up a raven, he will pick out your eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Elige eum cujus tibi placuit et vita et oratio=--Make choice of him who recommends himself to you by his life as well as address. _Sen._
=Elk het zijne is niet te veel=--Every one his own is not too much. _Dut. Pr._
=Ell and tell is gude merchandise=, _i.e._, ready money is. _Sc. Pr._
=Elle a trop de vertus pour n'être pas chrétienne=--She has too many virtues not to be a Christian. _Corn._
=Elle n'en fit point la petite bouche=--She did not 30 mince matters (_lit._ make a small mouth about it). _Fr. Pr._
=Elle riait du bout des dents=--She gave a forced laugh (_lit._ laughed with the end of her teeth). _Fr. Pr._
=El malo siempre piensa engaño=--The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. _Sp. Pr._
=El mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae=--The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. _Sp. Pr._
=El mal que no tiene cura es locura=--Folly is the one evil for which there is no remedy. _Sp. Pr._
=Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and= 35 =sentiments to the subject in debate.= _Cic._
=Eloignement=--Estrangement. _Fr._
=Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding.= _Hume._
=Eloquence is a pictorial representation of thought.= _Pascal._
=Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker.= _Wm. Pitt._
=Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to= 40 =feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.= _Tac._
=Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.= _Disraeli._
=Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools.= _Colton._
=Eloquence is the painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, still add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait.= _Pascal._
=Eloquence is the poetry of prose.= _Bryant._ 45
=Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is to the sublime as a whole to its part.= _La Bruyère._
=Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.= 50 _Milton._
=Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.= _Colton._
=El pan comido, la compañia deshecha=--The bread eaten, the company dispersed. _Sp. Pr._
=El pie del dueño estierco para la heredad=--The foot of the owner is manure for the farm. _Sp. Pr._
=El que trabaja, y madra, hila oro=--He that labours and perseveres spins gold. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey va hasta do poede, y no hasta do quiere=--The 55 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he would. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey y la patria=--For king and country. _Sp._
=El rio pasado, el santo olvidádo=--The river (danger) past, the saint (delivery) forgotten. _Sp. Pr._
=El sabio muda consejo, el necio no=--The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. _Sp. Pr._
=El secreto á voces=--An open secret. _Calderon._
=El tiempo cura el enfermo, que ne el unguento=--It is time and not medicine that cures the disease. _Sp. Pr._
=Elucet maxime animi excellentia magnitudoque in despiciendis opibus=--Excellence and greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed in contempt of riches.
=El villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera=--The clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. _Sp. Pr._
=Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, / Brought from a pensive through a happy place.= _Wordsworth._
=E mala cosa esser cattivo, ma è peggiore esser= 5 =conosciuto=--It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. _It. Pr._
=Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: / Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. _Cato._
=Embarras de richesses=--An encumbrance of wealth. _D'Allainval._
=Embonpoint=--Plumpness or fulness of body. _Fr._
=E meglio aver oggi un uovo, che dimani una gallina=--Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. _It. Pr._
=E meglio cader dalla finestra che dal tetto=--It 10 is better to fall from the window than the roof. _It. Pr._
=E meglio dare che non aver a dare=--Better give than not have to give. _It. Pr._
=E meglio domandar che errare=--Better ask than lose your way. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse fortunato che savio=--'Tis better to be born fortunate than wise. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse uccel di bosco che di gabbia=--Better to be a bird in the wood than one in the cage. _It. Pr._
=E meglio il cuor felice che la borsa=--Better the 15 heart happy than the purse (full). _It. Pr._
=E meglio lasciare che mancare=--Better leave than lack. _It. Pr._
=E meglio perder la sella che il cavallo=--Better lose the saddle than the horse. _It. Pr._
=E meglio sdrucciolare col piè che con la lingua=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue. _It. Pr._
=E meglio senza cibo restar che senz' onore=--Better be without food than without honour. _It. Pr._
=E meglio una volta che mai=--Better once than 20 never. _It. Pr._
=E meglio un buon amico che cento parente=--One true friend is better than a hundred relations. _It. Pr._
[Greek: hê men gar sophia ouden theôrei ex hôn estai eudaimôn anthrôpos]--Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. _Arist._
=Emere malo quam rogare=--I had rather buy than beg.
=Emerge from unnatural solitude, look abroad for wholesome sympathy, bestow and receive.= _Dickens._
=Emeritus=--One retired from active official duties. 25
=Emerson tells us to hitch our waggon to a star; and the star is without doubt a good steed, when once fairly caught and harnessed, but it takes an astronomer to catch it.= _J. Borroughs._
=Emerson wants Emersonian epigrams from Carlyle, and Carlyle wants Carlylean thunder from Emerson. The thing which a man's nature calls him to do, what else is so well worth his doing?= _John Borroughs._
=Eminent positions are like the summits of rocks; only eagles and reptiles can get there.= _Mme. Necker._
=Eminent stations make great men greater and little men less.= _La Bruyère._
=Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil curo=--I 30 would not die, but care not to be dead. _Cæs._
=Emotion is always new.= _Victor Hugo._
=Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music; and emotion quite as often precedes as follows thought.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.= _John Sterling._
[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô pyri]--When I 35 am dead the earth will be mingled with fire. _Anon._
=Empfindliche Ohren sind, bei Mädchen so gut als bei Pferden, gute Gesundheitszeichen=--In maidens as well as in horses, sensitive ears are signs of good health. _Jean Paul._
=Empires and nations flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turns obey.= _Ovid._
=Empires are only sandhills in the hour-glass of Time; they crumble spontaneously by the process of their own growth.= _Draper._
=Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.= _Wm. Blake._
=Empirical sciences prosecuted simply for their= 40 =own sake, and without a philosophic tendency, resemble a face without eyes.= _Schopenhauer._
=Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.= _Johnson._
=Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.= _D. Webster._
=Employment is enjoyment.= _Pr._
=Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.= _Galen._
=Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain= 45 =leisure, and, since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.= _Ben. Franklin._
[Greek: Empodizei ton logon ho phobos]--Fear hampers speech. _Demades._
=Empressement=--Ardour; warmth. _Fr._
=Empta dolore docet experientia=--Experience bought with pain teaches effectually. _Pr._
=Empty vessels make the most noise.= _Pr._
=Emulation admires and strives to imitate great= 50 =actions; envy is only moved to malice.= _Balzac._
=Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi=--Out of much chaff I have gathered little grain. _Pr._
=Emunctæ naris=--Of nice discernment (_lit._ scent). _Hor._
[Greek: Hena ... alla leonta]--One, but a lion. _Æsop._
=En ami=--As a friend. _Fr._
=En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse=--A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship. _Fr._
=En arrière=--In the rear. _Fr._ 5
=En attendant=--In the meantime. _Fr._
=En avant=--Forward; on. _Fr._
=En badinant=--In jest. _Fr._
=En beau=--In a favourable light. _Fr._
=En bloc=--In a lump. _Fr._ 10
=En boca cerrada no entra mosca=--Flies don't enter a shut mouth. _Sp. Pr._
=En bon train=--In a fair way. _Fr._
=En buste=--Half-length. _Fr._
=En cada tierra su uso=--Every country has its own custom. _Sp. Pr._
=Encouragement after censure is as the sun= 15 =after a shower.= _Goethe._
=En cuéros=--Naked. _Sp._
=Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove the existence of God, were like taking out a candle to look for the sun.= _Carlyle, after Kant._
=Endeavour not to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none.= _Locke._
=En dernier ressort=--As a last resource. _Fr._
=En déshabille=--In an undress. _Fr._ 20
=En Dieu est ma fiance=--In God is my trust. _M._
=En Dieu est tout=--All depends on God. _M._
=Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.= _Ruskin._
=Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion, of great hearts.= _Lowell._
=En échelon=--Like steps. _Fr._ 25
=En effet=--In fact; substantially. _Fr._
=Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg=--Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. _Dan. Pr._
=En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes=--It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. _Sp. Pr._
=En émoi=--In a flutter or ferment. _Fr._
=Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more= 30 =good may always be made of an energetic nature than of an indolent and impassive one.= _J. S. Mill._
=Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.= _Goethe._
[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]--In great acts it is not our strength but our good fortune that has triumphed. _Pindar._
=En famille=--In a domestic state. _Fr._
=Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait=--A child spoiled by the world which he spoiled. _Said of Voltaire._
=Enfants de famille=--Children of the family. _Fr._ 35
=Enfants perdus=--The forlorn hope (_lit._ lost children). _Fr._
=Enfants terribles=--Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors. _Fr._
=Enfant trouvé=--A foundling. _Fr._
=Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie=--To shut up the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound or a disease. _Fr. Pr._
=En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier=--Foxes 40 come to the furrier's in the end. _Fr. Pr._
=Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.= _Milton._
=En foule=--In a crowd. _Fr._
=England expects this day that every man shall do his duty.= _Nelson, his signal at Trafalgar._
=England is a domestic country: here home is revered and the hearth sacred.= _Disraeli._
=England is a paradise for women and a hell= 45 =for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and a hell for women.= _Burton._
=England is safe if true within itself.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=English speech, the sea that receives tributaries from every region under heaven.= _Emerson._
=En grace affié=--On grace depend. _Fr._
=En grande tenue=--In full dress. _Fr._
=En habiles gens=--Like able men. _Fr._ 50
=Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.= _Carlyle._
=Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us; effort, never.= _Jean Paul._
=Enjoyment stops when indolence begins.= _Pollock._
=Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly= 55 =dispense with what thou hast not. Every condition has its own joys and sorrows.= _Gellert._
=Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more.= _Sp. Pr._
=Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.= _Condorcet._
=En la cour du roi chacun y est pour soi=--In the 60 court of the king it is every one for himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Enlarge not thy destiny; endeavour not to do more than is given thee in charge.= _Gr. Oracle._
=En la rose je fleuris=--In the rose I flourish. _M._
=En mariage, comme ailleurs, contentement passe richesse=--In marriage, as in other states, contentment is better than riches. _Molière._
=En masse=--In a body. _Fr._
=En mauvaise odeur=--In bad repute. _Fr._ 65
=Ennemi ne s'endort=--An enemy does not go to sleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ennui has perhaps made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.= _Colton._
=Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language.= _Byron._
=Ennui is a word which the French invented, though of all nations in Europe they know the least of it.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui is our greatest enemy.= _Justus Möser._
=Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its= 5 =light.= _Emerson._
=Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Enough is as good as a feast.= _Pr._
=Enough is better than too much.= _Pr._
=Enough is great riches.= _Dan. Pr._
=Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's= 10 =lives.= _Brothers Mayhew._
=Enough--no foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway.= _Byron._
=Enough requires too much; too much craves more.= _Quarles._
=En papillote.=--In curl-papers. _Fr._
=En parole je vis=--I live by the word. _Fr._
=En passant=--By the way. _Fr._ 15
=En pension=--Board at a pension. _Fr._
=En petit champ croît bien bon blé=--Very good corn grows in a little field. _Fr. Pr._
=En peu d'heure Dieu labeure=--God works in moments, _i.e._, His work is soon done. _Fr._
=En plein jour=--In open day. _Fr._
=En potence=--In the form of a gallows. _Fr._ 20
=En présence=--In sight of each other. _Fr._
=En queue=--Behind.
=Enquire not what is in another man's pot.= _Pr._
=En rapport=--In relation; in connection. _Fr._
=En règle=--According to rules. _Fr._ 25
=En resumé=--Upon the whole. _Fr._
=En revanche=--In revenge; to return; to make amends. _Fr._
=En route=--On the way. _Fr._
=En salvo está el que repica=--He is in safe quarters who sounds the alarm. _Sp. Pr._
=Ense et aratro=--With sword and plough. _M._ 30
=En suite=--In company. _Fr._
=En suivant la vérité=--In following the truth. _Fr._
=Entente cordiale=--A good or cordial understanding. _Fr._
=Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.= _Longfellow._
=Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in= 35 =the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown.= _Dr. Chalmers._
=Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.= _John Sterling._
=Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the= 40 =passing from the human to the divine.= _Emerson._
=Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.= _Emerson._
=Entienda primero, y habla postrero=--Hear first and speak afterwards. _Sp. Pr._
=Entire affection hateth nicer hands.= _Spenser._
=Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry.= _Leigh Hunt._
[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]--The 45 happiest life consists in knowing nothing. _Soph._
=Entourage=--Surroundings. _Fr._
=En toute chose il faut considérer la fin=--In everything we must consider the end. _Fr._
=Entre chien et loup=--In the dusk (_lit._ between dog and wolf). _Fr._
=Entre deux vins=--To be half-seas over; to be mellow. _Fr._
=Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du= 50 =tout à sa partie=--Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. _La Bruyère._
=Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet=--Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. _La Bruyère._
=Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits=--Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. _La Fontaine._
=Entre nous=--Between ourselves. _Fr._
=Entzwei und gebiete=--Divide and rule. _Ger. Pr._
=Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein'= 55 =und leite, Bessrer Hort=--Divide and rule, an excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.
=En vérité=--In truth.
=En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il n'est pas pur=--Love, in fact, can never be deep unless it is pure.
=En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage=--As men grow old they become both foolisher and wiser. _Fr. Pr._
=En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder=--One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked. _Dan. Pr._
=Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture= 60 =of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy does not enter an empty house.= _Dan. Pr._
=Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others.= _Johnson._
=Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.= _Colton._
=Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.= _Rochester._
=Envy is ignorance.= _Emerson._ 65
=Envy is littleness of soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.= _La Roche._
=Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.= _Epictetus._
=Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.= _H. Ballou._
=Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.= _J. Beaumont._
=Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.= _Pope._
=Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus=--To cure all 5 by the same ointment.
=Eo instanti=--At that instant.
=Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur=--He shone the brighter that he was not seen. _Tac._
[Greek: Epea pteroenta]--Winged words. _Hom._
=Epicuri de grege porcus=--A pig of the flock of Epicurus.
[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10 dynôntai]--In general men do wrong whenever circumstances enable them. _Arist._
=E pluribus unum=--One of many.
="Eppur si muove"=--Yet it moves. _Galileo, after he had been forced to swear that the earth stood still._
=Equality= (Gleichheit) =is always the firmest bond of love.= _Lessing._
=Equality= (_i.e._, in essential nature) =is the sacred law of humanity.= _Schiller._
=Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte=--A better 15 horseman than Bellerophon himself. _Hor._
=Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi=--Horses and poets should be fed, not pampered. _Charles IX. of France._
=Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure ... (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.= _Selden._
=Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity.= _Scott._
=Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.= _W. Penn._
=Equo frænato est auris in ore=--The ear of the 20 bridled horse is in the mouth. _Hor._
=Equo ne credite, Teucri=--Trust not the horse, Trojans. _Virg._
=Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium mandata interpretari, quam exsequi=--They attended to their regulations, but still as if they would rather debate about the commands of their superiors than obey them. _Tacit._
=Erase que se era=--What has been has been. _Sp. Pr._
=Erasmus laid the egg= (_i.e._, of the Reformation), =and Luther hatched it.=
=Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann= 25 =das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, / Dieser hochgelobet!--Amen!=--He, the only Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of His hundred names this one the most exalted. Amen. _Goethe._
=Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death came with friendly care, / The opening bud to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there.= _Coleridge._
=Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is.= _Carlyle._
=Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen Brei=--He goes round it like a cat round hot broth. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]--Labour is no disgrace. _Hesiod._
=Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin=--Experience 30 is ever life's mistress. _Goethe._
=Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan=--Duty fulfilled ever entails a sense of further obligation, because one feels he has never done enough to satisfy himself. _Goethe._
=Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört=--He has not yet heard the voice of Nature. _Schiller._
=Eripe te moræ=--Tear thyself from all that detains thee. _Hor._
=Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic age=--Tear away thy neck from the base yoke. Come, say, I am free; I am free. _Hor._
=Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem=--Medicine 35 sometimes destroys health, sometimes restores it. _Ovid._
="Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"=--He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. (_On the bust of Franklin._)
=Eris mihi magnus Apollo=--You shall be my great Apollo. _Virg._
=Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich ziemt=--What pleases us is permitted us; what is seemly is permitted us. _Goethe._
=Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit dem Leben aus=--Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. _Jean Paul._
=Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. /= 40 =Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle Urne=--Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. _Schiller._
=Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst=--Life is earnest; art is serene. _Schiller._
=Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt=--Thou hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee direct out of thine own soul. _Goethe._
=Errantem in viam reducito=--Lead back the wanderer into the right way.
=Errare humanum est=--It is human to err.
=Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera= 45 =sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. _Cic._
=Errata=--Errors in print.
=Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein=--Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. _Goethe._
=Erring is not cheating.= _Ger. Pr._
=Error cannot be defended but by error.= _Bp. Jewel._
=Error is always more busy than ignorance.= 50 =Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase.= _Colton._
=Error is always talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Error is but opinion in the making.= _Milton._
=Error is but the shadow of truth.= _Stillingfleet._
=Error is created; truth is eternal.= _Wm. Blake._
=Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths.= _Goethe._
=Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Error is worse than ignorance.= _Bailey._
=Error never leaves us, yet a higher need= 5 =always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth.= _Goethe._
=Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.= _Jefferson._
=Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below.= _Dryden._
=Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief.= _Sydney Smith._
=Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther= 10 =to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.= _Colton._
=Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?=--Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? _Lessing._
=Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe=--Selection saved is trouble saved. _Platin._
=Er steckt seine Nase in Alles=--He thrusts his nose into everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe=--Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. _Körner._
=Erst wägen, dann wagen=--First weigh, then 15 venture. _M. von Moltke._
=Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz=--We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. _Schiller._
=Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.= _Bacon._
=Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern=--He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. _Goethe._
=Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten=--Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. _Goethe._
=Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein= 20 =Character in dem Strom der Welt=--A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. _Goethe._
=Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte=--Only life forms the man, and words signify little. _Goethe._
=Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.= _Hare._
=Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno=--Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. _Sp. Pr._
=E se finxit velut araneus=--He spun from himself like a spider.
=Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen=--Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. _Ger. Pr._
=Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort=--Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. _Goethe._
=Es findet jeder seinen Meister=--Every one finds his master. _Ger. Pr._
=Es geht an=--It is a beginning. _Ger._
=Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.=--There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. _Goethe._
=Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie= 30 =es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt=--There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. _Börne._
=Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen=--There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. _Lessing._
=Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen=--There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. _Schopenhauer._
=Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann=--There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen=--There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. _Weber._
=Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen=--There are 35 more thieves than gallows. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen=--There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. _Goethe._
=Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen=--There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. _H. Grimm._
=Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben=--There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. _Kant._
=Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht=--Every one hears only what he understands. _Goethe._
=Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt=--Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. _Goethe._
=Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten=--It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. _Goethe._
=Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden=--It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. _Feuchtersleben._
=Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft=--It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. _Gentz._
=Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut=--It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. _Schiller._
=Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen=--It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. _Wieland._
=Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen=--It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. _Goethe._
=Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die= 5 =Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht=--It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. _Cölvös._
=Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe=--It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. _Frederick the Great._ (?)
=Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst=--It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. _Hebbel._
=Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen=--It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (_lit._ causes us _ennui_); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. _Goethe._
=Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden=--It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. _Goethe._
=Es ist unköniglich zu weinen--ach, / Und= 10 =hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich=--To weep is unworthy of a king--alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. _Schiller._
=Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held=--Hero likes best to fight with hero. _Körner._
=Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen=--The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. _Goethe._
=Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond=--Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. _Kotzebue._
=Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat=--It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. _Rahel._
=Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, /= 15 =Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein=--There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. _Schiller._
=Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen=--There live gods who take vengeance on pride. _Schiller._
=Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn=--The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. _Schiller._
=Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten=--Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. _Goethe._
=Es muss auch solche Käuze geben=--There must needs be such fellows in the world too. _Goethe._
[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]--The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. _Gr. Pr._
=Espérance en Dieu=--Hope in God. _M._
=Espionage=--The spy system. _Fr._
=Esprit borné=--Narrow mind. _Fr._
=Esprit de corps=--Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. _Fr._
=Esprit de parti=--Party spirit. _Fr._ 25
=Esprit fort=--A free-thinker. _Fr._
=Esprit juste=--Sound mind. _Fr._
=Esprit vif=--Ready wit. _Fr._
=Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde=--No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. _Schiller._
=Essayez=--Try. _M._ 30
=Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est=--It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. _Ovid._
=Esse quam videri=--To be rather than to seem.
[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]--A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. _Hom._
=Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten=--The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. _Schiller._
=Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten=--All 35 are not free who mock their chains. _Ger. Pr._
=Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht=--That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben=--It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. _Goethe, of Mephistopheles._
=Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.= _Bible._
=Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare=--It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. _Ovid._
=Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus=--You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. _Hor._
=Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque=--Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. _Hor., of a gentleman._
=Est assez riche qui ne doit rien=--He is rich enough who owes nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor=--Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. _Phædr._
=Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45 is so good that no man can be better. _Hor._
=Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia=--There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. _Hor._
=Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri=--True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. _Pliny._
=Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo=--There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. _Ovid._
=Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli=--There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. _Ovid._
=Esteem a man of many words and many lies= 5 =much alike.= _Fuller._
=Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.= _G. A. Sala._
=Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria=--For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. _Cic._
=Est egentissimus in sua re=--He is in very straitened circumstances.
=Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur=--Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. _Ovid._
=Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere,= 10 =quam lucrum=--There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. _Plaut._
=Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt=--There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. _Ter._
=Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus=--It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. _Hor._
=Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis=--'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. _Plaut._
=Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum=--There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. _Hor._
=Est multi fabula plena joci=--It is a story full of 15 fun. _Ovid._
=Est natura hominum novitatis avida=--It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. _Pliny._
=Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris=--Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. _Luc._
=Est nobis voluisse satis=--To have willed suffices us. _Tibull._
=Esto perpetua=--Let it be perpetual.
=Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet= 20 =esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis=--Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.
=Esto quod esse videris=--Be what you seem to be.
=Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis=--Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. _Juv._
=Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. _L._
=Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt=--There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. _Plaut._
=Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia,= 25 =oblivisci suorum=--It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. _Cic._
=Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra=--You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. _Hor._
=Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor=--There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. _Ovid._
=Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum=--Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. _Ovid._
=Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?=--Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? _Goethe._
=Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer= 30 =stirbt vor Durstes Noth=--A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. _Ger. Pr._
=Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia=--There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. _A Monkish Adage._
=Esurienti ne occurras=--Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.
=Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll=--One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. _Goethe._
=Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier=--Even _over there_ it will not be otherwise than it is _here_, I ween. _Goethe._
[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]--Either this or upon this. (_The_ 35 _Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield._)
=E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
=Et cætera=--And the rest.
=Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux=--And misfortune is the badge of innocence. _La Font._
=Et credis cineres curare sepultos?=--And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? _Virg._
=Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det= 40 =var godt=--He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. _Swed. Pr._
=Et decus et pretium recti=--Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. _M._
=E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit=--A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. _Pr._
=Eternal love made me.= _Dante._
=Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.= _Pope._
=Eternity, depending on an hour.= _Young._
=Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile.= _Carlyle._
=Eternity of being and well-being simply for= 5 =being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism= (_Thierheit_), =longing to be infinite gives rise to.= _Schiller._
=Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est=--Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. _Liv._
=Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat=--Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. _Hor._
=Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco=--We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. _Ovid._
=Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est=--Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. _Hor._
=Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise,= 10 =but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.= _Fuller._
=Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.
=Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est=--When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur=--Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.
=Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri=--Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. _Tac._
=Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor=--Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit=--It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet=--Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.
=Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. _Tac._
=Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. _Virg._
=Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes= 20 =qui sont femmes=--And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. _La Font._
=Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie=--And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. _Racine._
=Et le combat cessa faute de combattants=--And the battle ceased for want of combatants. _Corneille._
=Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours=--One returns always to his first love. _Fr. Pr._
=Et mala sunt vicina bonis=--There are bad qualities near akin to good. _Ovid._
=Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus=--And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. _Hor._
=Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum=--My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. _Ovid._
=Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. _Hor._
=Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. _Ovid._
=Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ=--To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. _Cic._
=Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis=--The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, _i.e._, our latest posterity.
=Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta=--And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. _Hor._
=Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo=--I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. _Ovid._
=Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere=--And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. _Virg._
=Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est=--He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. _Sen._
=Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse= 35 =volunt=--Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. _Juv._
=Et quorum pars magna fui=--And in which I played a prominent part. _Virg._
=Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi=--The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. _Richelieu._
=Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber=--To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. _Rousseau._
=Etre sur le qui vive=--To be on the alert. _Fr._
=Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde=--To be in 40 high standing (_lit._ on a great foot) in the world. _Fr._
=Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin=--As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. _Malherbe._
=Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus=--Money is both blood and life to men. _Pr._
=Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum=--And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. _Hor._
=Et sequentia=, =Et seq.=--And what follows.
=Et sic de ceteris=--And so of the rest. 45
=Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.
="Et tu, Brute fili"=--And thou, son Brutus. _Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators._
=Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire=--To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. _Corneille._
=Et vitam impendere vero=--Stake even life for truth. _M._
=Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire=--And that is exactly how history is written. _Voltaire._
=Etwas ist besser als gar nichts=--Something is better than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck=--To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. _Goethe._
[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]--While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. _Gr. Pr._
=Euge, poeta!=--Well done, poet! _Pers._
=Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures=--Listen to him who has four ears, _i.e._, who is readier to hear than to speak. _Pr._
[Greek: Eurêka]--I have found it. _Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown._
=Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings.= _Burns._
[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]--Success is befriended by 10 many people. _Gr. Pr._
[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]--Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. _Cleobulus._
=E' va più d'un asino al mercato=--There is more than one ass goes to the market. _It. Pr._
=Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.= _Balzac._
=Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist.= _Lavater._
=Even a fly has its spleen.= _It. Pr._ 15
=Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.= _Bible._
=Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.= _It. Pr._
=Even a haggis could charge down-hill.= _Scott._
=Even a hair casts a shadow.= _Pr._
=Even a horse, though he has four feet, will= 20 =stumble.= _Pr._
=Even among the apostles there was a Judas.= _It. Pr._
=Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.= _Balzac._
=Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Even foxes are outwitted and caught.= _It. Pr._
=Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful= 25 =thing; God only helps when men can help no more.= _Schiller._
=Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.= _Whipple._
=Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error.= _Goethe._
=Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine.= _Sh._
=Even success needs its consolations.= _George_ 30 _Eliot._
=Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it.= _Dan. Pr._
=Even the just man has need of help.= _It. Pr._
=Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written.= _Goethe._
=Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least.= _Burns at the plough._
=Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever= 35 =in the canopy of heaven= (_Himmelszelt_). =A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance.= _F. K. Weber._
=Even though vanquished, he could argue still.= _Goldsmith._
=Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine--no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom.= _Burns._
=Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.= _Chapin._
=Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.= _Cowper._
=Eventus stultorum magister est=--Only the event 40 teaches fools. _Liv._
=Even weak men when united are powerful.= _Schiller._
=Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois=--Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do.= _Carlyle._
=Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view?= _John Dyer._
=Ever learning, and never able to come to the= 45 =knowledge of the truth.= _St. Paul._
=Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= _Carlyle._
=Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king=, _i.e._, =the man who= _kens_ =and= _can_. _Carlyle._
=Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.= _Casimir Delavigne._
=Ever take it for granted that man collectively= 50 =wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one!= _Schiller._
=Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.= _Emerson._
=Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence.= _Emerson._
=Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding.= _Jean Paul._
=Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it.= _C. Fox._
=Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will.= _Goethe._
=Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Every bean has its black.= _Pr._
=Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is= 5 =the place of expectation.= _Goethe._
=Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.= _Novalis._
=Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite.= _Jean Paul._
=Everybody is wise after the event.= _Pr._
=Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.= _Whipple._
=Everybody knows that government never began= 10 =anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= _W. Phillips._
=Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.= _Holmes._
=Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.= _J. F. Cooper._
=Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable.= _Dickens._
=Everybody's business is nobody's.= _Pr._
=Everybody's friend is nobody's.= _Pr._ 15
=Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.= _Emerson._
=Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.= _Emerson._
=Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown.= _Jean Paul._
=Every brave man is a man of his word.= _Corneille._
=Every brave youth is in training to ride and= 20 =rule his dragon.= _Emerson._
=Every bullet has its billet.= _Pr._
=Every Calvary has its Olivet.= _H. Giles._
=Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man.= _Goethe._
=Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every cloud engenders not a storm.= 3 _Hen._ 25 _VI._, v. 3.
=Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love.= _Tennyson._
=Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.= _Pr._
=Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank.= _Disraeli._
=Every couple is not a pair.= _Pr._ 30
=Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every creature can bear well-being except man.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel.= _Schiller._
=Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.= _Pr._
=Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.= 35 _Arab. Pr._
=Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.= _Emerson._
=Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive.= _Comte._
=Every desire bears its death in its very gratification.= _W. Irving._
=Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,= 40 =when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.= _Johnson._
=Every dog must have his day.= _Swift._
=Every door may be shut but death's door.= _Pr._
=Every established religion was once a heresy.= _Buckle._
=Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.= _Holmes._
=Every evil to which we do not succumb is a= 45 =benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.= _Emerson._
=Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.= _Emerson._
=Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.= _Emerson._
=Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise.= _Epictetus._
=Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.= _J. Sterling._
=Every flood has its ebb.= _Dut. Pr._ 50
=Every fool thinks himself clever enough.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every fool will be meddling.= _Bible._
=Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Every form of human life is romantic.= _T. W. 55 Higginson._
=Every fresh acquirement is another remedy= =against affliction and time.= _Willmott._
=Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows.= _Jean Paul._
=Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd.= _Thoreau._
=Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.= _Cic._
=Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion.= _Jean Paul._
=Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.= _Emerson._
=Every genuine work of art has as much reason= 5 =for being as the earth and the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection.= _Pindar._
=Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.= _Mahomet._
=Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.= _St. James._
=Every good gift comes from God.= _Pr._
=Every good picture is the best of sermons= 10 =and lectures: the sense informs the soul.= _Sydney Smith._
=Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.= _Landor._
=Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.= _Emerson._
=Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.= _Wordsworth._
=Every great book is an action, and every great
## action is a book.= _Luther._
=Every great genius has a special vocation,= 15 =and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed.= _Goethe._
=Every great man is unique.= _Emerson._
=Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.= _Longfellow._
=Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old.= _Buckle._
=Every great writer is a writer of history, let= 20 =him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century.= _Landor._
=Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world.= _Goethe._
=Every heart knows its own bitterness.= _Pr._
=Every hero becomes a bore at last.= _Emerson._
=Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.= _Emerson._
=Every honest miller has a golden thumb.= 25 _Pr._
=Every hour has its end.= _Scott._
=Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.= _St. Paul._
=Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can.= _Channing._
=Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause--a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.= _Coleridge._
=Every idea must have a visible unfolding.= 30 _Victor Hugo._
=Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.= _Jesus._
=Every inch a king.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind.= _Goethe._
=Every individual nature has its own beauty.= 35 _Emerson._
=Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed.= _Fichte._
=Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.= _Bp. Berkeley._
=Every light has its shadow.= _Pr._
=Every little fish expects to become a whale.= 40 _Dan. Pr._
=Every little helps.= _Pr._
=Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every loving woman is a priestess of the past.= _Amiel._
=Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.= _Emerson._
=Every man as an individual is secondary to= 45 =what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him.= _Stedman._
=Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man carries within him a potential madman.= _Carlyle._
=Every man deems that he has precisely the= 50 =trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs.= _Jean Paul._
=Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.= _Swift._
=Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.= _Lowell._
=Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.
=Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every man has at times in his mind the ideal= 55 =of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character.= _Theo. Parker._
=Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 1.
=Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose.= _Lessing._
=Every man has his weak side.= _Pr._ 5
=Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.= _Sir J. Stephens._
=Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.= _Pope._
=Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.= _Burton._
=Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his= 10 =faults.= _Emerson._
=Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success.= _Emerson._
=Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.= _Emerson._
=Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.= _Johnson._
=Every man is exceptional.= _Emerson._
=Every man is his own greatest dupe.= _A. B._ 15 _Alcott._
=Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.= _Emerson._
=Every man is the architect of his own fortune.= _Sallust._
=Every man must carry his own sack to the mill.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.= _Berne._
=Every man of sound brain whom you meet= 20 =knows something worth knowing better than yourself.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself.= _Emerson._
=Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.= _Chesterfield._
=Every man shall bear his own burden.= _St. Paul._
=Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a= 25 =right answer.= _Bible._
=Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.= _Feltham._
=Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.= _Schiller._
=Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him.= _Emerson._
=Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Every man turns his dreams into realities as= 30 =far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood.= _La Fontaine._
=Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.= _J. G. Holland._
=Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground.= _Emerson._
=Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment.= _Johnson._
=Every man, within that inconsiderable figure= 35 =of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity.= _Carlyle._
=Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.= _Helvetius._
=Every man's blind in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's destiny is in his own hands.= _Sydney Smith._
=Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.= _J. Sterling._
=Every man's life lies within the present.= _Marcus_ 40 _Antoninus._
=Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve= (a Douglas Castle) =fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood.= _J. G. Holland._
=Every man's reason is every man's oracle.= _Bolingbroke._
=Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite= 45 =value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.= _Goethe._
=Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure.= _Emerson._
=Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion.= _South._
=Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood.= _Carlyle._
=Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.= _Draper._
=Every natural action is graceful.= _Emerson._ 50
=Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.= _Emerson._
=Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election.= _Julia W. Howe._
=Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world.= _Ruskin._
=Every noble work is at first impossible.= _Carlyle._
=Every novel is a debtor to Homer.= _Emerson._ 5
=Every offence is not a hate at first.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.= _Goethe._
=Every one bows to the bush that bields= (protects) =him=, _i.e._, pays court to him that does so. _Sc. Pr._
=Every one can master a grief but he that has it.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=Every one complains of his memory, no one of= 10 =his judgment.= _La Roche._
=Every one draws the water to his own mill.= _Pr._
=Every one excels in something in which another fails.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every one for himself and God for us all.= _Pr._ 15
=Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other.= _Saying of Pittacus._
=Every one is a preacher under the gallows.= _Dut. Pr._
=Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.= _Cervantes._
=Every one is his own worst enemy.= _Schefer._
=Every one is judge of what a man seems, no= 20 =one of what a man is.= _Schiller._
=Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.= _Manlius._
=Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself.= _Montaigne._
=Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him.= _Pr._
=Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys.= _Froude._
=Every one knows good counsel except him who= 25 =needs it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not.= _Thackeray._
=Every one of us shall give account of himself to God.= _Bible._
=Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.= _La Roche._
=Every one should sweep before his own door.= 30 _Pr._
=Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.= _Port. Pr._
=Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.= _Jesus._
=Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.= _St. John._
=Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.= _Jesus._
=Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest.= 35 _Pr._
=Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough.= _Goethe._
=Every one would be wise; no one will become so.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment.= _Sen._
=Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.= _Emerson._
=Every other master is known by what he= 40 =utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence.= _Schiller._
=Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves.= _Ruskin._
=Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other.= _Addison._
=Every people has its prophet.= _Arab. Pr._
=Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?= _Montaigne._
=Every period of life has its peculiar temptations= 45 =and dangers.= _J. Hawes._
=Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come.= _Johnson._
=Every person who manages another is a hypocrite.= _Thackeray._
=Every petition to God is a precept to man.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.= _Epictetus._
=Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of= 50 =activity.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.= _Carlyle._
=Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity.= _J. Burroughs._
=Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.= _Disraeli._
=Every race has its own habitat.= _Knox._
=Every reader reads himself out of the book= 55 =that he reads.= _Goethe._
=Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material.= _Holmes._
=Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction.= _Amiel._
=Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice, not so much in knowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which it cannot know.= _Ruskin._
=Every rose has its thorn.= _Pr._
=Every scripture is to be interpreted by the= 60 =same spirit which gave it forth.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly uses it; when it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason.= _Locke._
=Every shadow points to the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in.= _Emerson._
=Every shoe fits not every foot.= _Pr._
=Every shot does not bring down a bird.= _Dut. Pr._
=Every soo (sow) to its ain trough.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every species of activity is met by a negation.= 5 _Goethe._
=Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.= _Emerson._
=Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit.= _Emerson._
=Every step of life shows how much caution is required.= _Goethe._
=Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom= 10 =where is the Christian?= _Emerson._
=Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced.= _Whipple._
=Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.= _Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.= _Matthew Henry._
=Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything calls for interest, only it must be= 15 =an interest divested of self-interest and sincere.= _Desjardins._
=Everything comes if a man will only wait.= _Disraeli._
=Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment.= _Stanislaus._
=Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything good in man leans on what is higher.= _Emerson._
=Everything good is on the highway.= _Emerson._ 20
=Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great.= _Demosthenes._
=Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse; angels, but not fallen ones, were created.= _Jean Paul._
=Everything in life, to be of value, must have a sequence.= _Goethe._
=Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature goes by law, and not by= 25 =luck.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature has a positive and a negative pole.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.= _T. T. Munger._
=Everything in the world can be borne except a long succession of beautiful days.= _Goethe._
=Everything in this world depends upon will.= _Disraeli._
=Everything in this world is a tangled yarn;= 30 =we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state.= _Rousseau._
=Everything is as you take it.= _Pr._
=Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as experience.= _Emerson._
=Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.= _Rousseau._
=Everything is mere opinion.= _M. Aurelius._
=Everything is sold to skill and labour.= _Hume._ 35
=Everything is sweetened by risk.= _A. Smith._
=Everything is what it is, and not another thing.= _Bishop Butler._
=Everything is worth the money that can be got for it.= _Pub. Syr._
=Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection.= _Goethe._
=Everything rises but to fall, and increases but= 40 =to decay.= _Sall._
=Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.= _Emerson._
=Everything springs into being and passes away according to law, yet how fluctuating is the lot that presides over the life which is to us so priceless.= _Goethe._
=Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.= _Sen._
=Everything that happens, happens of necessity.= _Schopenhauer._
=Everything that happens in this world is part= 45 =of a great plan of God running through all time.= _Ward Beecher._
=Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind it, and everything insensibly contributes to make us what we are.= _Goethe._
=Everything that is exquisite hides itself.= _J. Roux._
=Everything that is popular deserves the attention of the philosopher; although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises the people.= _Emerson._
=Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present.= _Landor._
=Everything that tends to emancipate us from= 50 =external restraint without adding to our own power of self-government is mischievous.= _Goethe._
=Everything unnatural is imperfect.= _Napoleon._
=Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful.= _Hume._
=Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light.= _Emerson._
=Every thought was once a poem.= _Emerson._ (?)
=Every thought which genius and piety throw= 55 =into the world alters the world.= _Emerson._
=Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.= _Sterne._
=Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness.= _Goethe._
=Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.= _Dickens._
=Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.= _Jesus._
=Every true man's apparel fits your thief.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 2.
=Every tub must stand on its own bottom.= _Pr._
=Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have= 5 =become untrue to my resolutions.= _Jean Paul._
=Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.= _Dan. Webster._
=Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur.= _Ruskin._
=Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society.= _Emerson._
=Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.= _Blackstone._
=Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in= 10 =my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God.= _Emerson._
=Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole.= _Goethe._
=Every white will have its black, / And every= 15 =sweet its sour.= _T. Percy._
=Every why hath a wherefore.= _Com. of Errors_, ii. 2.
=Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.= _Bible._
=Every word was once a poem.= _Emerson._
=Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.= _Tennyson._
=Every youth, from the king's son downwards,= 20 =should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.= _Ruskin._
=E vestigio=--Instantly.
=Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed.= _Carlyle._
=Evil, be thou my good.= _Milton._
=Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.= _Pr._
=Evil communications corrupt good manners.= 25 _Pr._
=Evil events from evil causes spring.= _Aristophanes._
=Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.= _Lowell._
=Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity.= _Emerson._
=Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well= 30 =as want of heart.= _T. Hood._
=Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop.= _Trench._
=Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things.= _Bible._
=Evil news rides post, while good news bates.= _Milton._
=Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.= _J. Roux._
=Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while= 35 =man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= _Carlyle._
=Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good.= _Plato._
=Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis=--To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. _Cic._
=Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben=--To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. _Rückert._
=Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente=--To be eternal 40 at every moment. _Schleiermacher._
=Ex abrupto=--Without preparation.
=Ex abundante cautela=--From excessive precaution. _L._
=Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum=--There is no arguing from the _abuse_ of a thing against the _use_ of it. _L._
=Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem=--The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. _L._
=Exact justice is commonly more merciful in= 45 =the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens.= _Lowell._
=Ex æquo=--By right.
=Ex æquo et bono=--In justice and equity.
=Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood.= _H. Ballou._
=Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.= _Chinese Pr._
=Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.= _Hume._
=Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead.= _Nourisson._
=Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.= _W. Phillips._
=Example has more followers than reason.= _Bovee._
=Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp= 5 =gets through, the gnat sticks.= _La Fontaine._
=Example is more efficacious than precept.= _Johnson._
=Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh.= _Cecil._
=Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.= _Burke._
=Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories.= _Gladstone._
=Examples would indeed be excellent things,= 10 =were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them.= _Hare._
=Ex animo=--From the soul; heartily.
=Ex aperto=--Openly.
=Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus=--An ass is known by his ears. _Pr._
=Ex cathedra=--From the chair; with authority.
=Excellence is never granted to man but as the= 15 =reward of labour.= _Sir Jos. Reynolds._
=Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Excelsior=--Still higher.
=Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.= _Jesus._
=Except by mastership and servantship, there is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny and slavery.= _Carlyle._
=Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is= 20 =no music in the nightingale.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny.= _Ed._
=Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable.= _Carlyle._
=Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary.= _Rousseau._
=Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.= _Bible._
=Except ye be converted and become as little= 25 =children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.= _Jesus._
=Exceptio probat regulam=--The exception proves the rule.
=Exceptis excipiendis=--The requisite exceptions being made.
=Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus=--Except that you were not with me, in other respects I was happy.
=Excerpta=--Extracts. _L._
=Excess generally causes reaction, and produces= 30 =a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.= _Plato._
=Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.= _Wm. Penn._
=Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.= _Marlowe._
=Excessit ex ephebis=--He has come to the age of manhood. _Ter._
=Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.= _Vauvenargues._
=Excitari, non hebescere=--To be spirited, not 35 sluggish. _M._
=Exclusa opes omnes=--All hope is gone. _Plaut._
=Ex commodo=--Leisurely.
=Ex concesso=--Admittedly.
=Ex confesso=--Confessedly.
=Ex curia=--Out of court. 40
=Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.= _King John_, iv. 2.
=Ex debito justitiæ=--From what is due to justice; from a regard to justice.
=Ex delicto=--From the crime.
=Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia=--Rights are forfeited by disuse. _L._
=Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur= 45 =esse solemniter acta=--Everything established for a length of time is presumed to have been done in due form. _L._
=Exeat=--Let him depart.
=Exegi monumentum ære perennius=--I have reared a memorial of myself more durable than brass. _Hor._
=Exempli gratia=--By way of example.
=Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus=--We live more by example than reason.
=Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine= 50 =parva=--Each man is the copy of his God in small. _Manil._
Exercise is labour without weariness. _Johnson._
=Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always.= _Schopenhauer._
=Exercitatio optimus est magister=--Practice is the best master. _Pr._
=Exercitatio potest omnia=--Perseverance conquers all difficulties.
=Exeunt omnes=--All retire. 55
=Ex facie=--Evidently.
=Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi=--Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. _Liv._
=Ex facto jus oritur=--The law arisen out of the fact, _i.e._, it cannot till then be put in force. _L._
=Ex fide fortis=--Strong from faith. _M._
=Ex fumo dare lucem=--To give light from smoke. 60 _M._
=Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari=--As oft as Fortune is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a humble station to the imposing summit of things. _Juv._
=Ex hypothesi=--Hypothetically.
=Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, / Ut si quis cera vultum facit=--Require him as with his thumb to mould their youthful morals, just as one fashions a face with plastic wax. _Juv._
=Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus=--Few in number, yet their valour ardent for war. _Virg._
=Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse=--It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. _Sen._
=Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.= _Cic._
=Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant /= 5 =Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem=--They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. _Virg._
=Ex improviso=--Unexpectedly.
=Ex industria=--Purposely.
=Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum=--Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. _Sen._
=Ex integro=--Anew; afresh.
=Ex intervallo=--At some distance. 10
=Existence is not to be measured by mere duration.= _Caird._
=Exitio est avidium mare nautis=--The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. _Hor._
=Ex malis eligere minima=--Of evils to choose the least. _Cic._
=Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt=--From bad manners good laws have sprung. _Coke._
=Ex mero motu=--Of one's own free will. 15
=Ex nihilo nihil fit=--Nothing produces nothing.
=Ex officio=--By virtue of his office.
=Ex opere operato=--By the external act.
=Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor=--An avenger shall arise out of my bones. _Virg._
=Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus=--Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.
=Ex parte=--One-sided.
=Ex pede Herculem=--We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.
=Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often.= _Jean Paul._
=Expediency is the science of exigencies.= _Kossuth._
=Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses.= 25 _Theophrastus._
=Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary.= _Schopenhauer._
=Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 3.
="Experience is the best teacher," only the= 30 =school-fees are heavy.= _Hegel._ (?)
=Experience is the grand spiritual doctor.= _Carlyle._
=Experience is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._
=Experience is the only genuine knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Experience makes even fools wise.= _Pr._ 35
=Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness.= _Pascal._
=Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other.= _Carlyle._
=Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues.= _Spinoza._
=Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.= (?)
=Experience that is bought is good, if not too= 40 =dear.= _Pr._
=Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.= _Coleridge._
=Experientia docet=--Experience teaches. _Pr._
=Experimentum crucis=--A decisive experiment.
=Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure.= _Bacon._
=Experto credite=--Believe one who has had experience. 45 _Virg._
=Expertus metuit=--He who has had experience is afraid. _Hor._
=Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates=--Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.
=Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo=--Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. _Sil. Ital._
=Ex post facto=--After the event. _L._
=Expression alone can invest beauty with= 50 =supreme and lasting command over the eye.= _Fuseli._
=Expressio unius est exclusio alterius=--The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. _L._
=Ex professo=--As one who knows; professedly.
=Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius=--A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. _Pr._
=Ex scintilla incendium=--From a spark a conflagration. _Pr._
=Ex tempore=--Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55
=Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour.= _Johnson._
=External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul.= _Rich. II._, iv. 1.
=Extinctus amabilis idem=--He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). _Hor._
=Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.= _Huxley._
=Extra ecclesiam nulla salus=--Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.
=Extra lutum pedes habes=--You have got your feet out of the mud. _Pr._
=Extra muros=--Beyond the walls.
=Extra telorum jactum=--Beyond bow-shot.
=Extrema gaudii luctus occupat=--Grief treads on the confines of gladness. _Pr._
=Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est=--The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.
=Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.=
=Extremes beget extremes.= _Pr._
=Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt,= 5 =/ Thy throne had still been thine, or never been.= _Byron._
=Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use.= _Pope._
=Extremes meet.= _Pr._
=Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour tempts chastity as much as too much license.= _Chapman._
=Extremis malis extrema remedia=--Extreme remedies for extreme evils. _Pr._
=Extremity is the trier of spirits.= _Coriol._ iv. 1. 10
=Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti, / In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur=--They lay aside their rustic ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance apace into whatever arts you may initiate them. _Virg._
=Ex umbra in solem=--Out of the shade into the sunshine. _Pr._
=Ex ungue leonem=--The lion may be known by his claw.
=Ex uno disce omnes=--From one judge of all.
=Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non= 15 =tanquam ex domo=--I depart from life as from an inn, not as from a home. _Cic._
=Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum=--From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own. _Laber._
=Ex vitulo bos fit=--From a calf an ox grows up.
=Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere=--To construe men's characters by their looks.
=Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.= _St. Paul._
=Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, /= 20 =And catch the manners living as they rise.= _Pope._
=Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes.= _Emerson._
=Eyes bright, with many tears behind them.= _Carlyle, on his Wife._
=Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity.= _Tennyson._
=Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop.= _J. Montgomery._
=Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful,= 25 =whatever they be.= _Joubert._
=Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time.= _Emerson._
=Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth.= _Sen._
=Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.= _Lowell._
F.
=Fa bene, e non guardare a chi=--Do good, no matter to whom. _It. Pr._
=Faber suæ fortunæ=--The maker of his own fortune. 30 _Sall._
=Fabricando fabri fimus=--We become workmen by working. _Pr._
=Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe=--You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. _Ovid._
=Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.= _Lavater._
=Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer.= _F. G. Trafford._
=Faces are but a gallery of portraits.= _Bacon._ 35
=Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.= _Scott._
=Fac et excusa=--Do it and so justify yourself. _Pr._
=Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est=--It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. _Tac._
=Fach=--Department. _Ger._
=Facienda=--Things to be done. 40
=Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum=--The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. _Ovid._
=Facies tua computat annos=--Your face records your age. _Juv._
=Facile est imperium in bonis=--It is easy to rule over the good. _Plaut._
=Facile est inventis addere=--It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. _Pr._
=Facile largiri de alieno=--It is easy to be generous 45 with what is another's. _Pr._
=Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus=--We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. _Ter._
=Facile princeps=--The admitted chief; with ease at the top.
=Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est=--The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. _Virg._
=Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas=--It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. _Laber._
=Facilius sit Nili caput invenire=--It would be 50 easier to discover the source of the Nile. _Old Pr._
=Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium=--The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. _Plaut._
=Facinus majoris abollæ=--A crime of a very deep dye (_lit._ one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). _Juv._
=Facinus quos inquinat æquat=--Those whom guilt stains it equals, _i.e._, it puts on even terms. _Lucan._
=Facit indignatio versum=--Indignation gives inspiration to verse.
=Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus= 5 =inveniat occupatum=--Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. _St. Jerome._
=Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant=--They are so knowing that they know nothing. _Ter._
=Façon de parler=--A manner of speaking. _Fr._
=Facsimile=--An engraved resemblance of a man's handwriting; an exact copy of anything (_lit._ do the like).
=Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur=--I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. _Ovid._
=Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant=--His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words. _Cic._
=Facta, non verba=--Deeds, not words.
=Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure.= _Emerson._
=Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.= _Junius._
=Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed.= _Burns._
=Facts are stubborn things.= _Le Sage._ 15
=Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body.= _Burke._
=Facts--historical facts, still more biographical--are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key.= _Carlyle._
=Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo=--Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. _Ovid._
=Factotum=--A man of all work (_lit._ do everything).
=Factum abiit; monumenta manent=--The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. _Ovid._
=Factum est=--It is done. _M._
=Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest=--It is done and cannot be undone. _Plaut._
=Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre=--Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. _Dan. Pr._
=Fæx populi=--The dregs of the people.
=Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt=--Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. _Dan. Pr._
=Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden=--Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. _Goethe._
=Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.= _Haliburton._
=Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.= _Raleigh._
="Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall."= _Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added_, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"
=Fainéant=--Do nothing. _Fr._ 30
=Faint heart never won fair lady.= _Pr._
=Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.= _S. Rutherford._
=Fair and softly goes far in a day.= _Pr._
=Fair enough, if good enough.= _Pr._
=Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars= (makes) =folk= 35 =speak as they think.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's my airm.= _Burns to a Haggis._
=Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fair folk are aye fusionless= (pithless). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.= _Pr._
=Fair maidens wear nae purses= (the lads always 40 paying their share). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair play's a jewel.= _Pr._
=Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair.= _Pope._
=Fair words butter no parsnips.= _Pr._
=Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu=--To put a good face on the matter. _Fr._
=Faire le chien couchant=--To play the spaniel; to 45 cringe. _Fr._
=Faire le diable à quatre=--To play the devil or deuce. _Fr._
=Faire le pendant=--To be the fellow. _Fr._
=Faire mon devoir=--To do my duty. _Fr._
=Faire patte de velours=--To coax (_lit._ make a velvet paw). _Fr._
=Faire prose sans le savoir=--To speak prose 50 without knowing it. _Molière._
=Faire sans dire=--To act without talking. _Fr._
=Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre=--To make one hole in order to stop another. _Fr. Pr._
=Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn.= _Milton._
=Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra=--Do your duty, come what may. _Fr. Pr._
=Fait accompli=--A thing already done. _Fr._ 55
=Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny.= _Pascal._
=Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones.= _Holmes._
=Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.= _Stedman._
=Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.= _Young._
=Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the= 60 =next.= _Young._
=Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works.= _Cranmer._
=Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.= _Moore._
=Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty.= _Carlyle._
=Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion.= _John Sterling._
=Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.= _Faber._
=Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced.= _Schopenhauer._
=Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.= 5 _Channing._
=Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.= _Carlyle._
=Faith is necessary to victory.= _Hazlitt._
=Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination.= _Ward Beecher._
=Faith is nothing more than obedience.= _Voltaire._
=Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.= 10 _Young._
=Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers.= _Birrell._
=Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Faith is taking God at His word.= _Evans._
=Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts= 15 =for all good to God.= _Luther._
=Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us.= _Luther._
=Faith is the heroism of intellect.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.= _Colton._
=Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm.= _Holmes._
=Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes= 20 =its own forms.= _Emerson._
=Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries--"It shall be done."= _C. Wesley._
=Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it.= _St. Augustine._
=Faith without works is like a bird without wings.= _J. Beaumont._
=Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Faiths that are different in their roots, /= 25 =Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits.= _J. B. Selkirk._
=Faithful are the wounds of a friend.= _Bible._
=Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he.= _Milton._
=Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.= _Confucius._
=Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem=--Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. _Port. Pr._
=Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit=--One falsehood 30 begets another (_lit._ thrusts aside another). _Ter._
=Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things.= _Locke._
=Fallentis semita vitæ=--The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. _Hor._
=Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum=--For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. _Juv._
=Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio=--Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. _Claud._
=Falls have their risings, wanings have their= 35 =primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times.= _Quarles._
=Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen=--False is the race of men. _Schiller._
=False as dicers' oaths.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=False by degrees and exquisitely wrong.= _Canning._
=False face must hide what the false heart doth know.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=False folk should hae mony witnesses.= _Sc._ 40 _Pr._
=False freends are waur than bitter enemies.= _Sc. Pr._
=False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.= _Bovee._
=False glory is the rock of vanity.= _La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity.= _La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood.= 45 _Chamfort._
=False shame is the parent of many crimes.= _Fox._
=Falsehood and death are synonymous.= _Bancroft._
=Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice.= (?)
=Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.= _H. Ballou._
=Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult.= _George_ 50 _Eliot._
=Falsehood is folly.= _Hom._
=Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth.= _Colton._
=Falsehood is our one enemy in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible.= _Cervantes._
=Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks= 55 =her father's tongue.= _Dan. Pr._
=Falsehood is the essence of all sin.= _Carlyle._
=Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.= _Whately._
=Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.= _Whately._
=Falso damnati crimine mortis=--Condemned to die on a false charge. _Virg._
=Falsum in uno, falsum in omni=--False in one thing, false in everything.
=Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum=--Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. _Hor._
=Fama clamosa=--A current scandal.
=Fama crescit eundo=--Rumour grows as it goes. 5 _Virg._
=Fama nihil est celerius=--Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. _Livy._
=Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint=--The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. _Livy._
=Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur=--It is not easy to repair a damaged character. _Pr._
=Famam extendere factis.=--To extend one's fame by valiant feats. _Virg._
=Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are= 10 =always linked together.= _Swift._
=Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence.= _Mrs. Oliphant._
=Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.= _Longfellow._
=Fame is a fancied life in others' breath.= _Pope._
=Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.= _Colton._
=Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts.= 15 _Mackenzie._
=Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.= _Johnson._
=Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.= _Pr._
=Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.= _Milton._
=Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies.= _Dante._
=Fame is the advantage of being known by= 20 =people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.= _Stanislaus._
=Fame is the breath of popular applause.= _Herrick._
=Fame is the perfume of noble deeds.= _Socrates._
=Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days.= _Milton._
=Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet.= _Fuller._
=Fame only reflects the estimate in which a= 25 =man is held in comparison with others.= _Schopenhauer._
=Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.= _Fuller._
=Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual."= _Holmes._
=Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value.= _Carlyle._
=Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.= _Tennyson._
=Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt=--Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (_lit._ in the nostrils). _Pr._
=Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies=--Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.
=Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere=--It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
=Familiarity breeds contempt.= _Pr._
=Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.= _La Roche._
=Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.= 35 _George Eliot._
=Famine hath a sharp and meagre face.= _Dryden._
=Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco=--Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. _It. Pr._
=Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying.= _Warburton._
=Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this.= _R. Hall._
=Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is= 40 =to fever and rage to anger.= _Voltaire._
=Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.= _Gibbon._
=Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.= _Cowper._
=Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call.= _Sterne._
=Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence.= _Landor._
=Fancy kills and fancy cures.= _Sc. Pr._ 45
=Fancy requires much, necessity but little.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.= _Goldsmith._
=Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present.= _Jean Paul._
=Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it.= _Fuller._
=Fancy surpasses beauty.= _Pr._ 50
=Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop.= _Whately._
=Fanfaronnade=--Boasting. _Fr._
=Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey.= _Prior._
=Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic= (_bürgerlichen_) =origin.= _Feuerbach._
=Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man.= _Carlyle._
=Far ahint maun follow the faster.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers.= _Sc._ 5 _Pr._
=Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything.= _Pickering._
=Far frae court, far frae care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth.= _Milton._
=Far from home is near to harm.= _Fris. Pr._
=Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, /= 10 =Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= _Gray._
=Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear.= _Butler._
=Far niente=--A do-nothing.
=Far-off cows have long horns.= _Gael. Pr._
=Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am.= _Burns._
=Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and= 15 =sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear.= _Emerson._
=Fare, fac=--Speak, do.
=Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving, never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.= _Byron._
=Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht--I dinna ken--/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake.= _Burns._
=Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he falls, as I do.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Farewell! God knows when we shall meet= 20 =again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 3.
=Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail!= _Milton._
=Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Fari quæ sentiat=--To speak what he thinks. _M._
=Farmers are the founders of civilisation.= 25 _Daniel Webster._
=Farrago libelli=--The medley of that book of mine. _Juv._
=Fas est et ab hoste doceri=--It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. _Ovid._
=Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.= _G. Darley._
=Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse.= _Churchill._
=Fashion begins and ends in two things it= 30 =abhors most--singularity and vulgarity.= _Hazlitt._
=Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.= _Stedman._
=Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.= _J. G. Holland._
=Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches.= _Locke._
=Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder.= _Hazlitt._
=Fashion is the great governor of the world.= 35 _Fielding._
=Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.= _Locke._
=Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.= _Tuckerman._
=Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=Fast and loose.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fast bind, fast find.= _Pr._ 40
=Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.= _As You Like It_, iii. 5.
=Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare=--Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. _Sen._
=Fasti et nefasti dies=--Lucky and unlucky days.
=Fat hens are aye ill layers.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty= 45 =bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fata obstant=--The fates oppose it.
=Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt=--Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.
=Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.= _Emerson._
=Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses.= _Schiller._
=Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor.= 50 _Goethe._
=Fate is character.= _W. Winter._
=Fate is ever better than design.= _Thos. Doubleday._
=Fate is known to us as limitations.= _Emerson._
=Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence.= _Hindu saying._
=Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.= _W. R. Alger._
=Fate is unpenetrated causes.= _Emerson._
=Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.= _Pr._
=Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded.= _Byron._
=Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found= 5 =oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow.= _Cowper._
=Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit=--He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. _L._
=Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.= _Pope._
=Fathers alone a father's heart can know, / What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow / When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds, / They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds.= _Young._
=Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; / And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.= _George Herbert._
=Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children= 10 =blind; / But fathers that wear bags / Do make their children kind.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Fathers their children and themselves abuse / That wealth a husband for their daughters choose.= _Shirley._
=Fatigatis humus cubile est=--To the weary the bare ground is a bed. _Curt._
=Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia=--As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. _It. Pr._
=Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth=--Sloth is the key to poverty. _Ger. Pr._
=Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und= 15 =Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes=--Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. _Seume._
=Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.= _Tennyson._
=Faults are beauties in lover's eyes.= _Theocritus._
=Faults are thick when love is thin.= _Pr._
=Faute de grives le diable mange des merles=--For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. _Fr. Pr._
=Faux pas=--A false step. _Fr._ 20
=Favete linguis=--Favour with words of good omen (_lit._ by your tongues). _Ovid._
=Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.= _George Eliot._
=Favour and gifts disturb justice.= _Dan. Pr._
=Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.= _Bible._
=Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are= 25 =generally fatal to friendship.= _Hor. Smith._
=Favours unused are favours abused.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fax mentis honestæ gloria=--Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. _M._
=Fax mentis incendium gloriæ=--The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. _M._
=Fay ce que voudras=--Do as you please. _M._
=Fear always springs from ignorance.= _Emerson._ 30
=Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy.= _Burton._
=Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.= _Pr._
=Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.= _Bible._
=Fear God; honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Fear guards the vineyard.= _It. Pr._ 35
=Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude.= _Goldsmith._
=Fear has many eyes.= _Cervantes._
=Fear hath torment.= _St. John._
=Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property.= _Emerson._
=Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour,= 40 =at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself.= _Peacham._
=Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.= _Longfellow._
=Fear is worse than fighting.= _Gael. Pr._
=Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or= 45 =the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death.= _Shelley._
=Fear not the confusion= (_Verwirrung_) =outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation= (_Stillstand_), =of thy activity.= _Schiller._
=Fear not the future; weep not for the past.= _Shelley._
=Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm.= _Emerson._
=Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.= _Quarles._
=Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.= _Milton._ 50
=Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease.= _Lord Vaux._
=Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving.= _Montaigne._
=Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too.= _Ben Jonson._
=Fear's a fine spur.= _Samuel Lover._
=Fear's a large promiser; who subject live /= 55 =To that base passion, know not what they give.= _Dryden._
=Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.= _Johnson._
=Fearfully and wonderfully made.= _Bible._
=Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.
=Feasting makes no friendship.= _Pr._
=Feast-won, fast-lost.= _Tim. of Athens_, ii. 2. 60
=Feather by feather the goose is plucked.= _Pr._
=Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te=--Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. _St. Augustine._
=Fecit=--He did it.
=Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?=--Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? _Hor._
=Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti=--Faith and innocence are only to be found in little children. _Dante._
=Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time.= _Cardinal de Reiz._
=Feebleness is sometimes the best security.= 5 _Pr._
=Feed a cold and starve a fever.= _Pr._
=Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation.= _George Herbert._
=Feeling comes before reflection.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends.= _Brooke._
=Feelings are always purest and most glowing= 10 =in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold.= _Jean Paul._
=Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell.= _Kingsley._
=Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast.= _Jean Paul._
=Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed.= _Jean Paul._
=Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn=--Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (_lit._ defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. _Goethe._
=Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt;= 15 =Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst=--Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. _Schiller._
=Felices errore suo=--Happy in their error. _Lucan._
=Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die=--Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. _Hor._
=Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ=--Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. _Pr._
=Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit=--He is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. _M._
=Felicity lies much in fancy.= _Pr._ 20
=Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.= _Whipple._
=Felix, heu nimium felix=--Happy, alas! too happy! _Virg._
=Felix qui nihil debet=--Happy is he who owes nothing.
=Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas=--Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. _Virg._
=Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet=--Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. _Ovid._
=Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.= _Hannah More._
=Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.= _Burke._
=Felo de se=--A suicide. _L._
=Female friendships are of rapid growth.= 30 _Disraeli._
=Feme covert=--A married woman. _L._
=Feme sole=--An unmarried woman. _L._
=Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin=--Women, money, and wine have their blessing and their bane. _Fr. Pr._
=Femme de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Femme de charge=--A housekeeper. _Fr._ 35
=Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand elle veut=--A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she likes. _Fr. Pr._
=Feræ naturæ=--Of a wild nature.
=Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt=--Men in general are fain to believe that which they wish to be true. _Cæs._
=Feriis caret necessitas=--Necessity knows no holiday.
=Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur=--How 40 often it happens that men fall into the very evils they are striving to avoid. _Liv._
=Ferme modèle=--A model farm. _Fr._
=Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze; unter ihnen Handlungen=--Principles develop themselves far from men; conduct develops among them. _Jean Paul._
=Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu=--By constant use an iron ring is consumed. _Ovid._
=Ferro, non gladio=--By iron, not by my sword. _M._
=Fervet olla, vivit amicitia=--As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts. _Pr._
=Fervet opus=--The work goes on with spirit. _Virg._
=Festina lente=--Hasten slowly. _Pr._
=Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; / Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit=--It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he is wise who does everything in its proper time. _Ovid._
=Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus=--Nothing is safer than despatch in civil quarrels. _Tac._
=Festinatio tarda est=--Haste is tardy. _Pr._ 50
=Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism.= _Thoreau._
=Fête champêtre=--A rural feast. _Fr._
=Fêtes des mœurs=--Feasts of morals. _Fr._
=Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft=--A fat kitchen, a lean legacy. _Ger. Pr._
=Feu de joie=--Firing of guns in token of joy. 55 _Fr._
=Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.= _Pr._
=Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men to persuasion.= _Goethe._
=Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet, / And every turf beneath their feet / Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.= _Campbell._
=Few have all they need, none all they wish.= _R. Southwell._
=Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.= _Whittier._
=Few have the gift of discerning when to have done.= _Swift._
=Few have wealth, but all must have a home.= 5 _Emerson._
=Few love to hear the sins they love to act.= _Pericles_, i. 1.
=Few may play with the devil and win.= _Pr._
=Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at.= _Hair._
=Few men have been admired by their domestics.= _Montaigne._
=Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or= 10 =best.= _Byron._
=Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line.= _Emerson._
=Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality.= _Goethe._
=Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.= _Washington._
=Few minds wear out; more rust out.= _Bovee._
=Few mortals are so insensible that their affections= 15 =cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.= _Zimmermann._
=Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.= _Macaulay._
=Few people know how to be old.= _La Roche._
=Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are.= _Hair._
=Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair= 20 =looks.= _Pr._
=Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.= _Johnson._
=Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application rather than want of means that men fail of success.= _La Roche._
=Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do.= _Johnson._
=Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que estou rezando=--Spinner, spin quietly, so as not to disturb me; I am praying. _Port. Pr._
=Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda=--Trust in God 25 upon good security. _Sp. Pr._
=Fiat experimentum in corpore vili=--Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.
=Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus=--Let justice be done, and the world perish. _Pr._
=Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum=--Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. _Pr._
=Fiat lux=--Let there be light.
=Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the= 30 =deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones.= _Pascal._
=Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris=--Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. _Hor._
=Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good.= _Mme. Necker._
=Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.= _Burke._
=Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character.= _Carlyle._
=Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis=--Be it remembered 35 that we are amusing you with tales of fiction. _Phædr._
=Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio=--To trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self is better. _It. Pr._
=Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era meglio=--Trust was a good man, Trust not was a better. _It. Pr._
=Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur=--If good faith be abolished, all human society is dissolved. _Livy._
=Fide et amore=--By faith and love. _M._
=Fide et fiducia=--By faith and confidence. _M._ 40
=Fide et fortitudine=--By faith and fortitude. _M._
=Fide et literis=--By faith and learning. _M._
=Fide, non armis=--By good faith, not by arms. _M._
=Fidei coticula crux=--The cross is the touchstone of faith. _M._
=Fidei defensor=--Defender of the faith. 45
=Fideli certa merces=--The faithful are certain of their reward. _M._
=Fidelis ad urnam=--Faithful to death (_lit._ the ashes-urn). _M._
=Fidelis et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fidélité est de Dieu=--Fidelity is of God. _M._
=Fideliter et constanter=--Faithfully and firmly. 50 _M._
=Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable; yet, without faculty, without light, they will not do the work.= _Carlyle._
=Fidelity is the sister of justice.= _Hor._
=Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.= _Sen._
=Fidelius rident tiguria=--The laughter of the cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of the court. _Pr._
=Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest=--He 55 who loses his honour has nothing else he can lose. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet relicuo?=--Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in future? _Pub. Syr._
=Fides facit fidem=--Confidence awakens confidence. _Pr._
=Fides probata coronat=--Approved faith confers a crown. _M._
=Fides Punica=--Punic faith; treachery.
=Fides servanda est=--Faith must be kept. _Plaut._ 60
=Fides sit penes auctorem=--Credit this to the author.
=Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit=--Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidus Achates=--A faithful companion (of Æneas). _Virg._
=Fidus et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fie! fie! how wayward is this foolish love, / That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, / And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fiel pero desdichado=--True though unfortunate. 5 _Sp._
=Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, / In ranks and squadrons, and right form of war, / Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Fieri facias=--See it be done. _A writ empowering a sheriff to levy the amount of a debt or damages._
=Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not, through dark fortune and through bright, the cause thou fightest for, so far as it is true, is very sure of victory.= _Carlyle._
=Fight the good fight.= _St. Paul._
=Filii non plus possessionum quam morborum= 10 =hæredes sumus=--We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates.
=Filius nullius=--The son of no one; a bastard. _L._
=Filius terræ=--A son of the earth; one low-born.
=Fille de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Fille de joie=--A woman of pleasure; a prostitute. _Fr._
=Fin contre fin=--Diamond cut diamond. _Fr._ 15
=Fin de siècle=--Up to date. _Fr._
=Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows.= _Knowles._
=Find employment for the body, and the mind will find enjoyment for itself.= _Pr._
=Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time.= _Sydney Smith._
=Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it= 20 =in living movement, in progress faster or slower; the phœnix soars aloft, hovers with outstretched wings, filling earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Find out men's wants and will, / And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses.= _Herbert._
=Finding your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together; the head inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to both heart and head.= _Ruskin._
=Fine by defect and delicately weak.= _Pope._
=Fine by degrees and beautifully less.= _Prior._ 25
=Fine feathers make fine birds.= _Pr._
=Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail--dragging in the mud.= _John Foster._
=Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.= _Emerson._
=Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so= 30 =useful as common sense.= _Pope._
=Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves / Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or ornament.= _Otway._
=Fine words without deeds go not far.= _Dan. Pr._
=Finem respice=--Have regard to the end.
=Finge datos currus, quid agas?=--Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? _Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid._
=Fingers were made before forks, and hands= 35 =before knives.= _Swift._
=Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus=--Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. _Pr._
=Finis coronat opus=--The end crowns the work, _i.e._, first enables us to determine its merits. _Pr._
=Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler.= _Steele._
=Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.= _Pr._
=Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.= 40 _Ger. Pr._
=Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!= _Carlyle._
=Fire maks an auld wife nimble.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Firmior quo paratior=--The stronger the better 45 prepared. _M._
=Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve.= _Burns._
=First assay / To stuff thy mind with solid bravery; / Then march on gallant: get substantial worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth.= _George Herbert._
=First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.= _Jesus._
=First catch your hare.= _Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife._
=First come, first served.= _Pr._ 50
=First deserve and then desire.= _Sc. Pr._
=First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.= _Moore._
=First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings.= _Carlyle._
=First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest.= _Lessing._
=First worship God; he that forgets to pray / Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day.= _T. Randolph._
=Fishes live in the sea, ... as men do on land--the great ones eat up the little ones.= _Pericles_, ii. 1.
=Fit cito per multas præda petita manus=--The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. _Ovid._
=Fit erranti medicina confessio=--Confession is as 5 healing medicine to him who has erred.
=Fit fabricando faber=--A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. _Pr._
=Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus=--In the master there is the servant, and in the servant the master (_lit._ in masterhood is servanthood, in servanthood masterhood). _Cic._
=Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus=--In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
=Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot.= _Port. Pr._
=Fit words are fine, but often fine words are= 10 =not fit.= _Pr._
=Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it.= _Ruskin._
=Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.= _Emerson._
=Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere.= _Pope._
=Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.= _Pope._
=Flagrante bello=--During the war. 15
=Flagrante delicto=--In the very act.
=Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more.= _Dryden._
=Flamma fumo est proxima=--Where there is smoke there is fire (_lit._ flame is very close to smoke). _Plaut._
=Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch= 20 =behind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes.= _South._
=Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors.= _Raleigh._
=Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.= _Pr._
=Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.= _Burke._
=Flattery is a base coin, to which only our= 25 =vanity gives currency.= _La Roche._
=Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; / The thing the which is flattered, but a spark, / To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; / Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.= _Pericles_, i. 2.
=Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship.= _Disraeli._
=Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility.= _Tac._
=Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing= 30 =is kicked out of doors.= _Pr._
=Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door.= _Walcot._
=Flebile ludibrium=--A "tragic farce;" a farce to weep at.
=Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe=--He shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk of the whole town. _Hor._
=Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo=--If I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up Acheron. _Virg._
=Flecti, non frangi=--To bend, not to break. _M._ 35
=Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.= _Cato._
=Flee you ne'er so fast, your fortune will be at your tail.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against his will.= _Gael. Pr._
=Flet victus, victor interiit=--The conquered one weeps, the conqueror is ruined.
=Fleur d'eau=--Level with the water. _Fr._ 40
=Fleur de terre=--Level with the land. _Fr._
=Fleurs-de-lis=--Lilies. _Fr._
=Fleying= (frightening) =a bird is no the way to catch it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flies are easier caught with honey than vinegar.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the= 45 =angels; how can man, then, / The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and noblest flame.= _South._
=Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant=--As bees sip of everything in the flowery meads. _Lucret._
=Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not to be ground.= _Goethe._
=Flowers and fruits are always fit presents--flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of man.= _Emerson._
=Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of= 50 =Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.= _Goethe._
=Flowers are the pledges of fruit.= _Dan. Pr._
=Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.= _Ward Beecher._
=Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm.= _Jean Paul._
=Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.= _Pope._
=Fluctus in simpulo exitare=--To raise a tempest 55 in a teapot. _Cic._
=Fluvius cum mari certas=--You but a river, and contending with the ocean. _Pr._
=Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly / By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. / If these take up thy day, the sun will cry / Against thee; for his light was only lent.= _George Herbert._
=Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu=--Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. _Livy._
=Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico=--He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. _Hor._
=Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis=--Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. _Virg._
=Folk canna help a' their kin= (relatives). _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels.= _Sc. Pr._
=Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.= _George Eliot._
=Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses.= _George Eliot._
=Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse=--It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. _Fr. Pr._
=Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it= 10 =will follow thee.= _Pr._
=Follow the copy though it fly out of the window.= _Printer's saying._
=Follow the customs or fly the country.= _Dan. Pr._
=Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go to the devil.= _Carlyle._
=Follow the river, and you will get to the sea.= _Pr._
=Follow the road, and you will come to an inn.= 15 _Port. Pr._
=Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many.= _It. Pr._
=Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears.= _Butler._
=Folly ends where genuine hope begins.= _Cowper._
=Folly is its own burden.= _Sen._
=Folly is the most incurable of maladies.= 20 _Sp. Pr._
=Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.= _Byron._
=Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from building churches.= _Randolph._
=Fond gaillard=--A basis of joy or gaiety. _Fr._
=Fons et origo mali=--The source and origin of the 25 mischief.
=Fons malorum=--The origin of evil.
=Fons omnium viventium=--The fountain of all living things.
=Fontes ipsi sitiunt=--Even the fountains complain of thirst. _Pr._
=Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea.= _Ruskin._
=Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; /= 30 =Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee.= _Burns, on Scotch drink._
=Food for powder.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iv. 2.
=Fool before all is he who does not instantly seize the right moment; who has what he loves before his eyes, and yet swerves= (_schweift_) =aside.= _Platen._
=Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, a glorious life or grave.= _George Herbert._
=Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, / And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.= _Dryden._
=Fool of fortune.= _King Lear_, iv. 6. 35
=Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice.= _Persian saying._
=Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.= _Emerson._
=Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish.= _Saadi._
=Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.= 40 _Pr._
=Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.= _Swift._
=Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools are aye seeing ferlies= (wonderful things). _Sc. Pr._
=Fools are known by looking wise.= _Butler._
=Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.= 45 _Byron._
=Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.= _Pr._
=Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act more wisely.= _Langbern._
=Fools for arguments use wagers.= _Butler._
=Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And= 50 =men, once ignorant, are slaves.= _Pope._
=Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting.= _Rus. Pr._
=Fools grow without watering.= _Pr._
=Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men much from fools.= _Dut. Pr._
=Fools make a mock at sin.= _Bible._ 55
=Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. / Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For envy is a kind of praise.= _Gay._
=Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right.= _Bp. Hale._
=Fools need no passport.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fools ravel and wise men redd= (unravel). _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to make their follies known.= _Gay._
=Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain.= _Zimmermann._
=Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times.= _John Burroughs._
=Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.= _Johnson._
=For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient.= _Lewis Morris._
=For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor.= _Carlyle._
=For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.= _Bible._
=For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies= 5 =the same with none.= _Hudibras._
=For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools.= _Butler._
=For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote.= _Butler._
=For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his.= _Butler._
=For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.= _Carlyle._
=For all their luxury was doing good.= _L._ 10 _Garth._
=For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little.= _It. Pr._
=For an orator delivery is everything.= _Goethe._
=For a republic you must have men.= _Amiel._
=For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers.= _Butler._
=For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and= 15 =fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=For a tint= (lost) =thing carena.= _Sc. Pr._
=For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=For a web begun God sends thread.= _Fr. and_ 20 _It. Pr._
=For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.= _Bacon._
=For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.= _Congreve._
=For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog is as sorrowful a type as you will easily find.= _Ruskin._
=For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For= 25 =softness she and sweet attractive grace; / He for God only, she for God in him, / His fair large front and eye sublime declared.= _Milton._
=For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.= _Bovee._
=For dear to gods and men is sacred song.= _Pope._
=For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore.= _Home._
=For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.= _Troil. and Cres._ iii. 3.
=For ever and a day.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1. 30
=For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time.= _Carlyle._
=For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, / And every budding bosom a new life.= _Lewis Morris._
=For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.= _Emerson._
=For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies.= _Sterne._
=For everything you have missed, you have= 35 =gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.= _Emerson._
=For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, / And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man.= _Pope._
=For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below.= _Emerson._
=For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks= (seats, benches). _Sc. Pr._
=For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.= _Pope._
=For forms of government let fools contest; /= 40 =Whate'er is best administered is best.= _Pope._
=For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won.= _Byron._
=For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.= _Byron._
=For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour.= _Burns._
=For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.= _Donne._
=For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= 45 _Shakespeare._
=For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.= _Mrs. Browning._
=For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.= _Shakespeare._
=For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale.= _Butler._
=For he is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= _King John_, i. 1.
=For he lives twice who can at once employ /= 50 =The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= _Pope._
=For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day; / But he who is in battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again.= _Goldsmith._
=For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out of the skies / Ere freedom out of man.= _Emerson._
=For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by reaping.= _Ant. and Cleop._, v. 2.
=For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.= _Littleton on Thomson._
=For hope is but the dream of those that wake.= _Prior._
=For I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, 5 ii. 1.
=For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet all perils very constantly.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 1.
=For I say this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, / And lack of love from love made manifest.= _Browning._
=For it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye.= _N. P. Willis._
=For just experience tells, in every soil, / That= 10 =those that think must govern those that toil.= _Goldsmith._
=For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly.= _Lewis Morris._
=For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread.= _Lewis Morris._
=For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering= 15 =unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see.= _Spenser._
=For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury.= _Carlyle._
=For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it.= _Goethe._
=For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over.= _Butler._
=For men at most differ as heaven and earth, /= 20 =But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= _Tennyson._
=For men cherish love, for gods reverence.= _Grillparzer._
=For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.= _Tennyson._
=For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.= _Pope._
=For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=For my means, I'll husband them so well, /= 25 =They shall go far with little.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.= _Bacon._
=For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.= _St. Paul._
=For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The= 30 =saddest were these: "It might have been."= _Whittier._
=For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath been in prosperite, / And it remember when it passéd is.= _Chaucer._
=For of the soul the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= _Spenser._
=For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.= _Carlyle._
=For one person who can think, there are at least a hundred who can observe. An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.= _Buckle._
=For one rich man that is content there are a= 35 =hundred who are not.= _Pr._
=For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish.= _Confucius._
=For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow parading pageant, with all the gravity of grandeur, moves in review; a single coat, or a single footman, answers all the purposes of the most indolent refinement as well; and those who have twenty, may be said to keep one for their own pleasure, and the other nineteen merely for ours.= _Goldsmith._
=For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils gathering near; / My greatest grief is that I leave / Nothing that claims a tear.= _Byron._
=For poems to have beauty of style is not= 40 =enough; they must have pathos also, and lead at will the hearer's soul.= _Hor._
=For present grief there is always a remedy. However much thou sufferest, hope. The greatest happiness of man is hope.= _Leopold Schefer._
=For rarely do we meet in one combined / A beauteous body and a virtuous mind.= _Juv._
=For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope.= _Butler._
=For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses.= _Butler._
=For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin.= _F. W. Faber._
=For sacred even to gods is misery.= _Pope._
=For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle= 5 =hands to do.= _Watts._
=For slander lives upon successión, / For ever housed where it gets possessión.= _Comedy of Errors_, iii. 1.
=For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return.= _Milton._
=For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing.= _Carlyle._
=For that fine madness still he did retain /= 10 =Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.= _Drayton._
=For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct; and we call everything instinct which we find in ourselves, and for which we cannot trace any rational foundation.= _J. S. Mill._
=For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.= _Cervantes._
=For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.= _It. Pr._
=For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so.= _Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."_
=For the fashion of this world passeth away.= 15 _St. Paul._
=For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but to flout the ruins grey.= _Scott._
=For the greatest crime of man is that he was born.= _Calderon._
=For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.= _Goethe._
=For the rain it raineth every day.= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's= 20 =nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'.= _W. J. Mickle._
=For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned.= _Chinese Pr._
=For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it.= _John Foster._
=For the world was built in order, / And the= 25 =atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon.= _Emerson._
=For they can conquer who believe they can.= _Dryden._
=For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right.= _Cowper._
=For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
=For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.= _Bible._
=For to see and eek for to be seye.= _Chaucer._ 30
=For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen.= _Dryden._
=For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.= _Butler._
=For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure.= _George Herbert._
=For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man,= 35 =for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou?= _Jean Paul._
=For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.= _Pope._
=For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw.= _Swift._
=For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost.= _Ben. Franklin._
=For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell.= _Butler._
=For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, /= 40 =But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour.= _Young._
=For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet?= _Emerson._
=For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt.= _Butler._
=For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, /= 45 =And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young.= _Lewis Morris._
=For whom ill is fated, him it will strike.= _Gael. Pr._
=For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din.= _Lowell._
=For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?= _Gray._
=For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night?= _Milton._
=For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.= 1 _Henry IV._, i. 2.
=For youth no less becomes / The light and= 5 =careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Forbearance is not acquittance.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do.= _Sc. Pr._
=Forbidden fruit is sweetest.= _Pr._
=Force and right rule everything in this world;= 10 =force till right is ready.= _Joubert._ (?)
=Force can never annul right.= _Berryer._
=Force is no argument.= _John Bright._
=Forced love does not last.= _Dut. Pr._
=Forced prayers are no gude for the soul.= _Sc. Pr._
=Force n'a pas droit=--Might knows no right. 15 _Fr. Pr._
=Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force.= _Pascal._
=Force without forecast is of little avail.= _Pr._
=Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting.= _Cötvös._
=Forewarned, forearmed.= _Cervantes._
=Forget the hours of thy distress, but never= 20 =forget what they taught thee.= _Gessner._
=Forget thyself to marble.= _Milton._
=Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.= _Pr._
=Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns.= _Auerbach._
=Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature.= _Epictetus._
=Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not= 25 =ointment to the wound of an oppressor.= _Saadi._
=Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.= _Schiller._
=Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.= _Dryden._
=Forgiveness is not forgotten.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forgotten pains, when follow gains.= _Sc. Pr._
=Forma bonum fragile est=--Beauty is a fragile 30 good. _Ovid._
=Forma viros neglecta decet=--Neglect of appearance becomes men. _Ovid._
=Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal.= _Schlegel._
=Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active.= _Buckle._
=Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.= _Bovee._
=Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone,= 35 =quam leonum cervo=--An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. _Pr._
=Formosa facies muta commendatio est=--A handsome face is a mute recommendation. _Pub. Syr._
=Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos=--I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. _Phæd._
=Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad.= _Carlyle._
=Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him.= _Carlyle._
=Forsake not God till you find a better maister.= 40 _Sc. Pr._
=Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. _Virg._
=Forsan miseros meliora sequentur=--Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. _Virg._
=Fors et virtus miscentur in unum=--Fortune and valour are blended into one. _Virg._
=Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce=--Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Forte et fidele=--Strong and loyal. _M._ 45
=Fortem facit vicina libertas senem=--The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. _Sen._
=Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ=--Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. _Juv._
=Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam=--Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. _Hor._
=Forte scutum salus ducum=--The safety of leaders is a strong shield. _M._
=Fortes fortuna adjuvat=--Fortune assists the 50 brave. _Ter._
=Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus=--Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. _Aquaviva._
=Forti et fideli nihil difficile=--To the brave and true nothing is difficult. _M._
=Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.= _Epictetus._
=Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis=--The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. _L._
=Fortis cadere, cedere non potest=--A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. _M._
=Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis=--It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. _Cic._
=Fortis sub forte fatiscet=--A brave man will yield to a brave. _M._
=Fortiter et recte=--Courageously and honourably. 5 _M._
=Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest=--By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. _Pr._
=Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter=--Boldly, faithfully, successfully. _M._
=Fortiter geret crucem=--He will bravely support the cross. _M._
=Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo=--Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.
=Fortitude is the guard and support of the= 10 =other virtues.= _Locke._
=Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason.= _Bacon._
=Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due.= _Cic._
=Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Fortitudini=--For bravery. _M._
=Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum=--Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. _Cic._
=Fortunæ cætera mando=--I commit the rest to fortune. _Ovid._
=Fortunæ filius=--A child or favourite of fortune. _Hor._
=Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer=--An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. _Claud._
=Fortuna favet fatuis=--Fortune favours fools. _Pr._
=Fortuna favet fortibus=--Fortune favours the 20 brave. _Pr._
=Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus=--A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortunam debet quisque manere suam=--Every one ought to live within his means. _Ovid._
=Fortuna meliores sequitur=--Fortune befriends the better man. _Sall._
=Fortuna miserrima tuta est=--A very poor fortune is safe. _Ovid._
=Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis=--To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. _Mart._
=Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit=--Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna non mutat genus=--Fortune does not change nature. _Hor._
=Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel=--Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest=--Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. _Sen._
=Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes= 30 =efficit=--Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.
=Fortuna sequatur=--Let fortune follow. _M._
=Fortunato omne solum patria est=--To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.
=Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes=--Happy the man who knows the rural gods. _Virg._
=Fortunatus' purse=--A purse which supplies you with all you wish.
=Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur=--Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 3.
=Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave.= _Pr._
=Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them.= _Mme. Riccoboni._
=Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more.= _Cic._
=Fortune has rarely condescended to be the= 40 =companion of genius.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off.= _Charles V._
=Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.= _Billings._
=Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.= _Bacon._
=Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Fortune is not content to do a man one ill= 45 =turn.= _Bacon._
=Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.= _Lowell._
=Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.= _Churchill._
=Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling.= _Bacon._
=Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in= 50 =the lineaments of nature.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.= _Voltaire._
=Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom.= _Sp. Pr._
=Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.= _Tennyson._
=Forwardness spoils manners.= _Gael. Pr._
=Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou= 55 =callest new flowers to birth.= _Schiller._
=Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets.= _Shakespeare._
=Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft.= _Sc. Pr._
=Four eyes see more than two.= _Pr._
=Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.= _Napoleon._
=Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.= _Jesus._
=Foy est tout=--Faith is everything. _M._
=Foy pour devoir=--Faith for duty. _Old Fr._
=Frae saving comes having.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido=--Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. _Hor._
=Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos=--The friar who begs for God begs for two. _Sp. Pr._
=Frailty, thy name is woman.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.= _Tam. of Sh._, Ind. 2.
=Frangas, non flectes=--You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.
=Frappe fort=--Strike hard. _M._
=Fraternité ou la Mort=--Fraternity or death. _The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr._
=Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort=--Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. _Schiller._
=Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen=--Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. _Ger. Pr._
=Fraus est celare fraudem=--It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. _L._
=Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht=--Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. _Ger. Pr._
=Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.= _Epictetus._
=Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram.= _Burns._
=Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us.= _Goethe._
=Freedom exists only with power.= _Schiller._ 20
=Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.= _Cowper._
=Freedom is a new religion--the religion of our time.= _Heine._
=Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.= _C. A. Bartol._
=Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.= _Ruskin._
=Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the= 25 =beautiful only blooms in song.= _Schiller._
=Freedom is the eternal youth of nations.= _Gen. Foy._
=Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron.= _C. M. Arndt._
=Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known.= _Burke._
=Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.= _W. Irving._
=Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna= 30 =be screwed ower tight.= _Sc. Pr._
=Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.= _Sterne._
=Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in
## action the world hampers us enough.= _Goethe._
=Freie Kirche im freien Staat=--A free Church in a free State. _Cavour._
=Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns in der Tugend begegnete=--Not till we are old is it that we learn to know (_lit._ experience) what we met with when young. _Goethe._
=Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen= 35 =Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet, der legt mich in die Gruft=--Freely must I think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in me, and he who robs me of these three entombs me. _Chamisso._
=Freits= (prognostications) =follow those who look to them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht führt oder die Grösse dazu=--To be free from blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade, for only imbecility or greatness leads to it. _Schiller._
=Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe?=--Voluntary dependence is the noblest condition we can be in; and how were that possible without love? _Goethe._
=Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns dem Herzen so nah=--We never love the child of another so much as our own; for this reason error, which is our own child, is so near to our heart. _Goethe._
=Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald= 40 =den Wind verloren=--Another's horse and our own spurs soon outstrip the wind. _Ger. Pr._
=Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo=--A golden bit, no better a horse. _It. Pr._
=Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners.= _Chesterfield._
=Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.= _Goethe._
=Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither= 45 =be thou envious at the wicked; for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._
=Fretting cares make grey hairs.= _Pr._
=Freude hat mir Gott gegeben=--God has to me given joy. _Schiller._
=Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben=--Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. _Goethe._
=Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, / Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn=--Friendship is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a slender cane to promenade with. _Chamisso._
=Friar Modest never was prior.= _It. Pr._ 50
=Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end.= _J. Montgomery._
=Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling, man?= _Carlyle._
=Friend, however thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it.= _Bunyan._
="Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!" "No, but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself; moreover, you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I do not much desire."= _Goldsmith._
=Friends and acquaintances are the surest passports to fortune.= _Schopenhauer._
=Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.= _Gael. Pr._
=Friends are ourselves.= _Donne._ 5
=Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way places.= _Pr._
=Friends may meet, / But mountains never greet.= _Pr._
=Friends reveal to each other most clearly= 10 =exactly that upon which they are silent.= _Goethe._
=Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.= _Tit. Andron._, v. 3.
=Friends should be weighed, not told.= _Coleridge._
=Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.= _Schiller._
=Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.= _Emerson._
=Friends will be much apart. They will respect= 15 =more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.... The hours my friend devotes to me were snatched from a higher society.= _Thoreau._
=Friendship can originate and acquire permanence only practically= (pracktisch). =Liking= (Neigung), =and even love, contribute nothing to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in this, that we keep the same pace= (gleichen Schritt) =in life, that my friend approves of my aims, as I of his, and that thus we go on steadfastly= (unverrückt) =together, whatever may be the difference otherwise between our ways of thinking and living.= _Goethe._
=Friendship canna stand a' on ae side.= _Sc. Pr._
=Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men.= _Carlyle._
=Friendship is a plant which one must water often.= _Ger. Pr._
=Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed= 20 =by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after.= _Landor._
=Friendship is but a name.= _Napoleon._
=Friendship is communion.= _Arist._
=Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; / Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.= _Cic._
=Friendship is like a debt of honour; the= 25 =moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Friendship is love with understanding.= _Ger. Pr._
=Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.= _Hare._
=Friendship is love without its wings.= _Byron._
=Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Friendship is one soul in two bodies.= _Porphyry._ 30
=Friendship is stronger than kindred.= _Pub. Syr._
=Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friendship is the marriage of the soul.= _Voltaire._
=Friendship is the shadow of the evening,= 35 =which strengthens with the setting sun of life.= _La Fontaine._
=Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur.= _Junius._
=Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame.= _Gay._
=Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful.= _H. Giles._
=Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.= _Emerson._
=Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.= 40 _Pr._
=Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.= _Colton._
=Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.= _Emerson._
=Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it.= _Montaigne._
=Friendships are discovered rather than made.= _Mrs. Stowe._
=Friendship's as it's kept.= _Gael. Pr._ 45
=Friendship's full of dregs.= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.
=Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust.= _Goldsmith._
=Friendship's the privilege / Of private men.= _N. Tate._
=Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure.= _Young._
=Friendships which are born in misfortune are= 50 =more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness.= _D'Urfey._
=Frigidam aquam effundere=--To throw cold water on a business.
=Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen=--Boldly ventured is half done (won). _Ger. Pr._
=From a bad paymaster get what you can.= _Pr._
=From a closed door the devil turns away.= _Port. Pr._
=From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation.= _Hen. V._, iv. (_chorus_).
=From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still.= _Carlyle._
=From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.= _Amiel._
=From grave to gay, from lively to severe.= _Pope._
=From great folks great favours are to be= 5 =expected.= _Cervantes._
=From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man.= _Gael. Pr._
=From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance.= _Pr._
=From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take.= _Gray._
=From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only= 10 =wretched are the wise.= _Prior._
=From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement.= _Shelley._
=From labour health, from health contentment springs.= _Beattie._
=From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.= _Montaigne._
=From our ancestors come our names, from our= 15 =virtues our honours.= _Pr._
=From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies.= _Lewis Morris._
=From pillar to post=--originally from whipping-post to pillory, _i.e._ from bad to worse. _Pr._
=From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come.= _Goethe._
=From seeming evil still educing good.= _Thomson._
=From servants hasting to be gods.= _Pollock._ 20
=From small beginnings come great things.= _Dut. Pr._
=From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice.= _Dryden._
=From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic.= _Ruskin._
=From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.= _Socrates._
=From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we= 25 =tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end.= _Johnson._
="From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you."= _Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.= _Carlyle._
=From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear!= _Beattie._
=From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.= _It. Pr._
=From the summit of power men no longer turn= 30 =their eyes upward, but begin to look about them.= _Lowell._
=From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning.= _Lewis Morris._
=From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon.= _Emerson._
=From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.= _Emerson._
=From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The= 35 =grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent.= _Tennyson._
=Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild=--The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. _Ger. Pr._
=Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander=--Good people dwell far apart. _Ger. Pr._
=Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen=--Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. _Goethe._
=Fronti nulla fides=--There is no trusting external appearances (_lit._ features). _Juv._
=Frost and fraud both end in foul.= _Pr._ 40
=Frost is God's plough.= _Fuller._
=Fructu non foliis arborem æstima=--Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. _Phæd._
=Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment.= _Goldsmith._
=Frugality is an estate.= _Pr._
=Frugality is founded on the principle that all= 45 =riches have limits.= _Burke._
=Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it.= _Wm. Penn._
=Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.= _Johnson._
=Fruges consumere nati=--Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe=--Early marriage, long love. _Ger. Pr._
=Fruit is seed.= _Pr._
=Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora=--It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.
=Frustra Herculi=--In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 _Pr._
=Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet=--He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. _Pr._
=Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas=--In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. _Virg._
=Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris=--In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. _Hor._
=Fugam fecit=--He has taken to flight. _L._
=Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges= 10 =et regum vita præcurrere amicos=--Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. _Hor._
=Fugere est triumphus=--Flight (_i.e._, from temptation) is a triumph. _Pr._
=Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit=--The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, _i.e._, to be sacrificed. _Hor._
=Fugit irreparabile tempus=--Time flies, never to be repaired. _Virg._
=Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben--/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben=--Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. _B. Paoli._
=Fuimus=--We have been. _M._ 15
=Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum=--We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. _Virg._
=Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno=--This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. _Hor._
=Fuit Ilium=--Troy was.
=Fules are aye fond o' flittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non= 20 =minus ignotos generosis=--Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. _Hor._
=Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent.= _Spenser._
=Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.= _Eliza Cook._
=Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.= _Gray._
=Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most.= _Byron._
=Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.= 25 _Macb._, v. 5.
=Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers.= _Butler._
=Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh.= _Tennyson._
=Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected.= _Wordsworth._
=Full vessels give the least sound.= _Pr._ 30
=Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.= _Chaucer._
=Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake.= _Goethe._
=Fumos vendere=--To sell smoke. _Mart._
=Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ=--The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. _Juv._
=Functus officio=--Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.
=Fundamentum est justitiæ fides=--The foundation of justice is good faith. _Cic._
=Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi=--I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. _Hor._
=Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat=--Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. _Goethe._
=Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit=--For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. _L. Büchner._
=Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem= 40 =eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern=--Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. _Goethe._
=Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus=--For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. _Goethe's Mephistopheles._
=Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt=--What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. _K. v. Holtei._
=Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze=--There are no laws for just men. _Ger. Pr._
=Furiosus absentis loco est=--A madman is treated as one absent. _Coke._
=Furiosus furore suo punitur=--A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. _L._
=Furor arma ministrat=--Their rage finds them arms. _Virg._
=Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia=--Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. _Pr._
=Furor iraque mentem præcipitant=--Rage and anger hurry on the mind. _Virg._
=Furor loquendi=--A rage for speaking.
=Furor poëticus=--The poet's frenzy.
=Furor scribendi=--A rage for writing.
=Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, /= 5 =Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt=--For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. _Schiller._
=Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn=--Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. _Socialist organ._
=Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren=--Princes have long hands and many ears. _Ger. Pr._
=Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth.= _Pr._
=Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no= 10 =prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls.= _Schiller._
=Futurity is the great concern of mankind.= _Burke._
=Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent=--Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. _La Bruyère._
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=Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen=--Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. _Ger. Pr._
=Gaieté de cœur=--Gaiety of heart. _Fr._ 15
=Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.= _Chapin._
=Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.= _Stanislaus._
=Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them.= _Johnson._
=Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Gain at the expense of reputation should be= 20 =called loss.= _Pub. Syr._
='Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Galea spes salutis=--Hope is the helmet of salvation. _M._
=Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet=--After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, _i.e._, after enlistment. _Juv._
=Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere.= _Mme. Necker._
=Gallicè=--In French. 25
=Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest=--The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. _Pr._
=Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.= _Colton._
=Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase.= _Herbert._
[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]--He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. _Gr. Pr._
=Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.= _Cumberland._
=Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave.= _T. Hughes._
=Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from= _ennui_; =it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.= _Colton._
=Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.= _Marchioness d'Alembert._
=Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand=--An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. _Dan. Pr._
[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]--Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. _Men._
=Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock= (lark). _Sc. Pr._
=Garçon=--A boy; a waiter. _Fr._
=Garde à cheval=--Horse-guards; mounted guard. _Fr._
=Garde à pied=--Foot-guards. _Fr._ 40
=Garde à vous=--Attention. _Fr._
=Garde-chasse=--Gamekeeper. _Fr._
=Garde du corps=--A bodyguard. _Fr._
=Garde-feu=--A fire-guard. _Fr._
=Garde-fou=--A hand-rail. _Fr._ 45
=Gardez=--Keep it. _Fr._
=Gardez bien=--Take care. _Fr._
=Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche=--Keep that for a tit-bit. _Fr. Pr._
=Gardez la foi=--Guard the faith. _M._
=Garments that have once a rent in them are= 50 =subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach.= _Bp. Hall._
=Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas=--He relates old women's tales very apropos. _Hor._
=Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen=--Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. _Rückert._
=Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre=--A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. _Fr. Pr._
=Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle=--To waste a candle to find a pin. _Fr. Pr._
=Gather gear by every wile that's justified by= 55 =honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent.= _Burns._
=Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying.= _Herrick._
=Gathering gear= (wealth) =is pleasant pain.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._
=Gato maullador nunca buen cazador=--A mewing cat is never a good mouser. _Sp. Pr._
=Gaude, Maria Virgo=--Rejoice, Virgin Mary.
=Gaudeamus=--Let us have a joyful time.
=Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ=--His delicate ears are delighted with a title. _Hor._
=Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine= 5 =campi=--He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. _Hor._
=Gaudet tentamine virtus=--Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.
=Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina=--He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. _Lucan, of Julius Cæsar._
=Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long.= _Rich. II._, iv. 1.
=Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast.= _Gray._
=Gear is easier gained than guided.= _Pr._ 10
=Geben ist Sache des Reichen=--Giving is the business of the rich. _Goethe._
=Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht=--Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. _Dut. Pr._
=Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?=--Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? _Ger. Pr._
=Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen=--Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. _Goethe._
=Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken=--If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. _Goethe._
=Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei=--Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. _Ger. Pr._
=Gedenke zu leben=--Think of living. _Goethe._
=Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben=--Poems are painted window-panes, _i.e._, when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. _Goethe._
=Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid=--Patience excels learning. _Dut. Pr._
=Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast=--Love that is 20 forced does not last. _Dut. Pr._
=Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers.= _Dut. Pr._
=Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn=--Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. _Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück=--It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. _Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen=--To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. _Goethe._
=Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen=--Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. _Ger. Pr._
=Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut=--Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. _Goethe._
=Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe=--To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. _Goethe._
=Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten=--Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. _Goethe._
=Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben=--In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. _Goethe._
=Geld beheert de wereld.=--Money rules the 30 world. _Dut. Pr._
=Geld ist der Mann=--Money makes (_lit._ is) the man. _Ger. Pr._
=Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth=--Money in the purse drives away melancholy. _Ger. Pr._
=Gelegenheit macht den Dieb=--Opportunity makes the thief. _Ger. Pr._
=Gelehrte Dummkopf=--A learned blockhead; dryasdust.
[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]--Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. _Men._
=Gemeen goed, geen goed=--Common goods, no goods. _Dut. Pr._
=Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen=--The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. _Ger. Pr._
=General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason.= _Rousseau._
=General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon.= _Paley._
=General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour,= 40 =general dishonesty.= _Carlyle._
=General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions.= _Johnson._
=Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail.= _Bacon._
=Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.= _Goethe._
=Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement.= _Carlyle._
=Generosity during life is a very different thing= 45 =from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.= _Horace Mann._
=Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox--because they meet with no one to give it to them.= _Lord Greville._
=Generosity is the flower of justice.= _Hawthorne._
=Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._
=Generosity should never exceed ability.= _Cic._
=Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.= 5 =A princely mind will undo a private family.= _Fuller._
=Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.= _Sir W. Davenant._
=Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen=--Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. _Goethe._
=Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set.= _Emerson._
=Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.= _Lavater._
=Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes= 10 =them.= _Joubert._
=Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.= _Emerson._
=Genius borrows nobly.= _Emerson._
=Genius can never despise labour.= _Abel Stevens._
=Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.= _Ouida._
=Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere= 15 =of freedom.= _J. S. Mill._
=Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.= _Emerson._
=Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds.= _Stedman._
=Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.= _Owen Meredith._
=Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life.= _Willmott._
=Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the= 20 =greatest harm.= _Emerson._
=Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil.= _Schiller._
=Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.= _Willmott._
=Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem.= _Holmes._
=Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws.= _Carlyle._
=Genius in poverty is never feared, because= 25 =Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode.= _Emerson._
=Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love.= _Emerson._
=Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation.= _Holmes._
=Genius is always consistent when most audacious.= _Stedman._
=Genius is always impatient of its harness; its= 30 =wild blood makes it hard to train.= _Holmes._
=Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.= _Abel Stevens._
=Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.= _Emerson._
=Genius is a nervous disease.= _De Tours._
=Genius is ever a secret to itself.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself.= 35 _Schiller._
=Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.= _I. M. Wise._
=Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.= _H. W. Mabie._
=Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.= _T. W. Higginson._
=Genius is mainly an affair of energy.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Genius is not a single power, but a combination= 40 =of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.= _Whipple._
=Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.= _Buffon._
=Genius is nothing but labour and diligence.= _Hogarth._
=Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity.= _Haydon._
=Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form.= _Fichte._
=Genius is nourished from within and without.= 45 _Willmott._
=Genius is only as rich as it is generous.= _Thoreau._
=Genius is religious.= _Emerson._
=Genius is that in whose power a man is.= _Lowell._
=Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint.= _Goethe._
=Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the= 50 =miner who works and brings it out.= _Lady Blessington._
=Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.= _Coleridge._
=Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.= _Simms._
=Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genius loci=--The presiding genius of the place.
=Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.= _Bovee._
=Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb.= _Longinus._
=Genius melts many ages into one.... A work= 5 =of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.= _Hawthorne._
=Genius must be born, and never can be taught.= _Dryden._
=Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one.= _La Bruyère._
=Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.= _Froude._
=Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.= _Hazlitt._
=Genius should be the child of genius, and every= 10 =child should be inspired.= _Emerson._
=Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.= _Beecher._
=Genius will reconcile men to much.= _Carlyle._
=Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.= _Emerson._
=Gens d'armes=--Armed police. _Fr._ 15
=Gens de bureau=--Officials in a government office. _Fr._
=Gens de condition=--People of rank. _Fr._
=Gens d'église=--Churchmen. _Fr._
=Gens de guerre=--Soldiers. _Fr._
=Gens de langues=--Linguists. _Fr._ 20
=Gens de lettres=--Literary people. _Fr._
=Gens de lois=--Lawyers. _Fr._
=Gens de même famille=--Birds of a feather. _Fr._
=Gens de peu=--The lower classes. _Fr._
=Gens togata=--The nation with the toga, _i.e._, the 25 Roman.
=Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches.= _Lord Burleigh._
=Gentility without ability is waur= (worse) =than plain begging.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.= _W. Gladden._
=Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual= 30 =meaning, is a man of pure race.= _Ruskin._
=Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.= _Talfourd._
=Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity.= _Ruskin._
=Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.= _Ruskin._
="Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict."= _Lord Tenterden's last words._
=Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in= 35 =our manners.= _Blair._
=Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man.= _Tennyson._
=Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould.= _Tennyson._
=Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling.= _Sterne's Uncle Toby._
=Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings= 40 =you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains.= _Aaron Hill._
=Genug ist über einer Sackvoll=--Enough excels a sackful. _Ger. Pr._
=Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.= _Bovee._
=Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.= _Burke._
=Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, /= 45 =Vix ea nostra voco=--Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. _Ovid._
=Genus humanum superavit=--He surpassed the human race in natural ability. _Lucret._
=Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum=--The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. _Virg._
=Genus irritabile vatum=--The sensitive tribe of poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]--Always learning many things the older I grow. _Solon._
=Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe= 50 =mehr die weibliche Tugend=--Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. _Schopenhauer._
=Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen=--What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. _Ger. Pr._
=Germanicè=--In German.
=Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon=--Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. _Goethe._
=Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit=--History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. _C. J. Weber._
=Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist=--Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. _Ger. Pr._
=Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen=--Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. _C. J. Weber._
=Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth=--Law is powerful; necessity is more so. _Goethe._
=Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche=--Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. _Herder._
=Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen=--Ghosts visit only those who look for them. _Holtei._
=Get a good name and go to sleep.= _Pr._
=Get money, honestly if you can, but get money.= _Pr._
=Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself.= _Ed._
=Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis,= 5 =and you may ride round the world.= _Sterne._
=Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place.= _Pope._
=Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax.= _Pr._
=Get thee to a nunnery!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten.= _Herbert._
=Get what ye can and keep what ye hae.= _Sc._ 10 _Pr._
=Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.= _Pope._
=Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude=--Joy shared is joy doubled. _Goethe._
=Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit=--Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. _Schiller._
=Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten=--Getting is easier than keeping. _Ger. Pr._
=Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, /= 15 =Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut=--Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. _Bodenstedt._
=Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen=--Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. _Goethe._
=Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once.= _Carlyle._
=Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others.= _Murphy._
=Gibier de potence=--A gallows-bird. _Fr._
=Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an'= 20 =neither will do well.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel'=, _i.e._, give him enough of his own way. _Sc. Pr._
=Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O.= _Burns._
=Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart.= _Burns._
=Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind= 25 =for siller.= _The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her._
=Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content.= _Burns._
=Gie your heart to God and your awms= (alms) =to the poor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.= 30 _Sc. Pr._
=Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter=--When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?=--What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? _Schiller._
=Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft=--Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. _Dut. Pr._
=Giff-gaff maks gude friends=, _i.e._, mutual giving. _Sc. Pr._
=Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to= 35 =man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman.= _Carlyle._
=Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.= _Burkett._
=Gifts are often losses.= _It. Pr._
=Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms.= _Goethe._
=Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gifts make their way through stone walls.= 40 _Pr._
=Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart.= _Mme. Fee._
=Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem=--We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. _Lucret._
=Gin= (if) =ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot.= _Sc. Pr._
=Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio=--A young saint, an old devil. _It. Pr._
=Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering= 45 =yet hoping all things.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.= _Goethe._
=Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.= _Emerson._
=Give a dog an ill name and hang him.= _Pr._
=Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done.= _Pr._
=Give alms, that thy children may not ask= 50 =them.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give a man luck and throw him into the sea.= _Pr._
=Give ample room and verge enough.= _Gray._
=Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles.= _Dut. Pr._
=Give, and it shall be given to you.= _Jesus._
=Give and spend, / And God will send.= _Pr._ 55
=Give and take.= _Pr._
=Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself.= _Pr._
=Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.= _Diderot._
=Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store.= _Walker._
=Give every man his due.= _Pr._
=Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; /= 5 =Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in.= _Haweis._
=Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.= _Pr._
=Give him a present! give him a halter.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 2.
=Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of= 10 =bread, and liberty.= _Pope._
=Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.= _Ben Jonson._
=Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.= _Emerson._
=Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm.= _Emerson._
=Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, /= 15 =Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.= _Canning._
=Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die.= _Mrs. Osgood._
=Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties.= _Milton._
=Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked= 20 =for it.= _Pr._
=Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.= _Jesus._
=Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain.= _Schiller._
=Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt.= _Fr._ 25 _Pr._ (?)
=Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.= _Macbeth_, iv. 3.
=Give the devil his due.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself.= _Pr._
=Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due.= _Herbert._
=Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned= 30 =thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt.= _Ant. and Cleo._, ii. 5.
=Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.= _Jesus._
=Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of= 35 =self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live.= _Wordsworth._
=Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer.= _Carlyle._
=Give way to your betters.= _Pr._
=Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Given a living man, there will be found clothes= 40 =for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man--= _Carlyle._
=Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one.= _Carlyle._
=Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given.= _Carlyle._
=Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 5.
=Giving alms never lessens the purse.= _Sp. Pr._
=Giving away is the instrument for accumulated= 45 =treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well.= _Hitopadesa._
=Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gladiator in arena consilium capit=--The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. _Pr._
=Glänzendes Elend=--Shining misery. _Goethe._
=Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.= _Sc. Pr._
=Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an=--Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. _Goethe._
[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]--Owls to Athens.
=Glebæ ascriptus=--Attached to the soil. 5
=Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare=--Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich=--Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. _Goethe._
=Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler=--Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe=--Equality is the firmest bond of love. _Lessing._
=Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit=--Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. _Schiller._
=Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto=--Large trees yield more shade than fruit. _It. Pr._
=Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo=--Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica=--After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano=--Men make the wealth and women husband it. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le= 15 =donne quelli che mostrano=--Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere=--Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. _Machiavelli._
=Gloria in excelsis Deo=--Glory to God in the highest.
=Gloria vana florece, y no grana=--Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. _Sp. Pr._
=Gloria virtutis umbra=--Glory is the shadow (_i.e._, the attendant) of virtue.
=Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ= 20 =utilitatis causa=--A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. _Cic._
=Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet=--He who despises glory will have true glory. _Livy._
=Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light.= _Webster._
=Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.= _Bacon._
=Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.= _Pope._
=Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a= 25 =beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits.= _Vauvenargues._
=Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1.
=Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.= 1 _Hen. VI._, i. 2.
=Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.= _Boufflers._
=Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.= _Pascal._
=Glory is the fair child of peril.= _Smollett._ 30
=Glory is the unanimous praise of good men.= _Cic._
=Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind.= _Byron._
=Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts--both to an extreme.= _Shenstone._
=Glück auf dem Weg=--Good luck by the way. _Ger. Pr._
=Glück macht Mut=--Luck inspires pluck. _Goethe._ 35
=Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb=--Fortune and women have a liking for fools. _Ger. Pr._
=Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte=--Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. _Grillparzer._
=Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen=--Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. _Puschkin._
=Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities= 40 =and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.= _Burton._
=Gluttony kills more than the sword.= _Pr._
=Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself.= _Johnson._
=Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye.= _Shakespeare._
[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]--Know thyself. 45
=Go deep enough, there is music everywhere.= _Carlyle._
=Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!"= _Dryden._
=Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me.= _Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window._
=Go to Jericho and let your beards grow.= _See_ 2 _Sam._ x. 5.
=Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.= _Bible._
=Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Go where you may, you still find yourself in= 5 =a conditional world.= _Goethe._
=Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool.= _Pope._
=Go you and try a democracy in your own house.= _Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy._
=Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay.= _Rogers._
=Gobe-mouches=--A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 _Fr._
=God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart.= _J. Roux._
=God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.= _Laboulaye._
=God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it.= _Mrs. Browning._
=God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it; the only choice is how.= _Ward Beecher._
=God asks not what, but whence, thy work is:= 15 =from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root.= _Trench._
=God assists those who rise early in the morning.= _Sp. Pr._
=God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds.= _Whittier._
=God blesses the seeking, not the finding.= _Ger. Pr._
=God builds His temple in the heart and on the ruins of churches and religions.= _Emerson._
=God comes at last, when we think He is= 20 =farthest off.= _Pr._
=God comes in distress, and distress goes.= _Gael. Pr._
=God comes to see us without bell.= _Pr._
=God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.= _Pr._
=God created man in his own image.= _Bible._
=God deals His wrath by weight, but His= 25 =mercy without weight.= _Pr._
=God deceiveth thee not.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God defend me from the man of one book.= _Pr._
=God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak.= _Koran._
=God does not measure men by inches.= _Sc. Pr._
=God does not pay every week, but He pays at= 30 =the end.= _Dut. Pr._
=God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice.= _C. Mildmay._
=God does not smite with both hands.= _Sp. Pr._
=God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.= _Lowell._
=God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do.= _Plato._
=God enters by a private door into every individual.= 35 _Emerson._
=God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.= _T. Edwards._
=God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers.= _Herbert._
=God gives all things to industry.= _Pr._
=God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.= _Dut. Pr._
=God gives every bird its nest, but does not= 40 =throw it into the nest.= _J. G. Holland._
=God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake.= _Harriet E. H. King._
=God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.= _Saadi._
=God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure.= _Hans Andersen._
=God gives the will; necessity gives the law.= _Dan. Pr._
=God gives us love. Something to love / He= 45 =lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone.= _Tennyson._
=God giveth speech to all, song to the few.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.= _Sp. Pr._
=God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.= _W. R. Alger._
=God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.= _Bacon._
=God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His= 50 =own power, and to work out His ends within these limits.= _Paley._
=God has commanded time to console the unhappy.= _Joubert._
=God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair.= _Ruskin._
=God has delegated Himself to a million deputies.= _Emerson._
=God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue.= _Arab Pr._
=God has given nuts to some who have no teeth.= _Port. Pr._
=God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= _Sydney Smith._
=God has His little children out at nurse in many a home.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail.= _Ruskin._
=God has made man to take pleasure in the use= 5 =of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything.= _Ruskin._
=God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?= _Haliburton._
=God has not said all that thou hast said.= _Gael. Pr._
=God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss.= _Engel._
=God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= _Bryant._
=God hath given to man a short time here upon= 10 =earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels.= _Leighton._
=God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery.= _Bryant._
=God help the children of dependence!= _Burns._
=God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.= 15 _Sc. Pr._
=God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg.= _Sc. Pr._
=God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.= _Dan. Pr._
=God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.= _Burns._
=God helps the strongest.= _Ger. and Dut. Pr._
=God helps those who help themselves.= _Pr._ 20
=God Himself cannot do without wise men.= _Luther._
=God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked.= _Welsh Triad._
=God is able to do more than man can understand.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.= _St. Augustine._
=God is a creditor who has no bad debts.= _Ger._ 25 _Pr._
=God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped.= _Basque Pr._
=God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world.= _Quarles._
=God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears.= _Joseph Roux._
=God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay= 30 =at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end.= _Anne of Austria._
=God is a= _tabula rasa_, =on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon.= _Luther._
=God is at once the great original I and Thou.= _Jean Paul._
=God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.= _W. Penn._
=God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our= 35 =thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.= _Willmott._
=God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out.= _Bible._
=God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest.= _Herder._
=God is greater than man.= _Bible._
=God is His own interpreter.= _Cowper._
=God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore= 40 =let thy words be few.= _Bible._
=God is in the generation of the righteous.= _Bible._
=God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God.= _Joseph Cook._
=God is kind to fou= (drunk) =folk and bairns.= _Sc. Pr._
=God is light.= _St. John._
=God is love.= _St. John._ 45
=God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns=, _i.e._, not in what is done so much as how it is done. _Heb. Pr._
=God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is.= _Carlyle._
=God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?= _Bible._
=God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in= 50 =His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds.= _W. R. Greg._
=God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old.= _Ruskin._
=God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it.= _Colton._
=God is patient, because eternal.= _St. Augustine._
=God is spirit.= _Jesus._
=God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here.= _Browning._
=God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven.= _Balzac._
=God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth.= _Jean Paul._
=God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal.= _Renan._
=God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person= 5 =acts His own creations.= _Browning._
=God is the reason of those who have no reason.= _Renan._
=God is where He was.= _Pr._
=God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers.= _Goethe._
=God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself.= _It. Pr._
=God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor= 10 =am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen.= _Burns._
=God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov=--A good king is better than an old law. _Dan. Pr._
=God loveth a cheerful giver.= _St. Paul._
=God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.= _Ward Beecher._
=God made man upright, but they have sought= 15 =out many inventions.= _Bible._
=God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score.= _Herbert._
=God made the country; man made the town.= _Cowper._
=God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude.= _Wordsworth._
=God made us, and we admire ourselves.= _Sp. Pr._
=God manifests Himself to men in all wise,= 20 =good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls.= _Lavater._
=God may consent, but only for a time.= _Emerson._
=God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm.= _Cowper._
=God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below.= _Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle._
=God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God.= _Ed._
=God never forsakes His own.= _Pr._ 25
=God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it.= _Ruskin._
=God never made His work for man to mend.= _Dryden._
=God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines.= _Cowper._
=God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life.= _Wm. Smith._
=God never sends mouths but He sends meat.= 30 _Dan. Pr._
=God never shuts one door but He opens another.= _Irish Pr._
=God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose.= _Emerson._
=God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.= _Joseph Roux._
=God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity.= _J. G. Holland._
=God pardons like a mother, who kisses the= 35 =offence into everlasting forgetfulness.= _Ward Beecher._
=God permits, but not for ever.= _Pr._
=God said, Let there be light; and there was light.= _Bible._
=God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living.= _Amer. Pr._
=God save the mark.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=God send us some siller, for they're little= 40 =thought o' that want it.= _Sc. Pr._
=God send you mair sense and me mair siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.= _Tusser._
=God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.= _It. Pr._
=God sends nothing but what can be borne.= _It. Pr._
=God should be the object of all our desires,= 45 =the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.= _Massillon._
=God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck.= _Boswell's father of Cromwell._
=God stays long, but strikes at last.= _Pr._
=God taketh an account of all things.= _Koran._
=God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.= _Sterne._
=God the first garden made, and the first city= 50 =Cain.= _Cowley._
=God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad.= _W. R. Greg._
=God trusts every one with the care of his own soul.= _Sc. Pr._
=God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning.= _Ward Beecher._
=God will not make Himself manifest to cowards.= _Emerson._
=God will punish him who sees and him who is= 55 =seen.= _Eastern saying._
=God, when He makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.= _Locke._
=God works in moments.= _Fr. Pr._
=God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars.= _Luther._
=God's commandments are the iron door into Himself. To keep them is to have it opened, and His great heart of love revealed.= _S. W. Duffield._
=God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none.= _Henry James._
=God's free mercy streameth / Over all the= 5 =world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere unfurled.= _How._
=God's goodness is the measure of His providence.= _More._
=God's help is nearer than the door.= _Irish Pr._
=God's in His heaven: / All's right with the world!= _Browning._
=God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency.= _Browning._
=God's men are better than the devil's men, and= 10 =they ought to act as though they thought they were.= _Ward Beecher._
=God's mill grinds slow but sure.= _George Herbert._
=God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe.= _Eastern saying._
=God's providence is on the side of clear heads.= _Ward Beecher._
=God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen=--Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. _Dut. Pr._
=God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way.= _Pope._
="Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles.= _Carlyle._
=Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.= _St. Paul._
=Godliness with contentment is great gain.= _St._ 20 _Paul._
=Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications of the flesh in order to help their spirits in the Godward direction.= _John Pulsford._
=Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund=--A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation. _Dan. Pr._
=Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren, veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren; ziel verloren, al verloren=--Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. _Dut. Pr._
=Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.= _Carlyle._
=Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling= 25 =at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.= _Ruskin._
=Going to ruin is silent work.= _Gael. Pr._
=Gold and diamonds are not riches.= _Ruskin._
=Gold beheert de wereld=--Gold rules the world. _Dut. Pr._
=Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care= 30 =begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not.= _Palladas._
=Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more.= _Young._
=Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven.= _Rus. Pr._
=Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.= _Addison._
=Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's.= _Quarles._
=Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his= 35 =defects from the world.= _Feltham._
=Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns.= _Pr._
=Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need.= _Dan. Pr._
=Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege=--Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. _Ger. Pr._
=Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.= _Rivarol._
=Gold that is put to use more gold begets.= 40 _Sh._
=Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick / Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.= _Herbert._
=Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell.= _Sh._
=Gold's worth is gold.= _It. Pr._
=Golden chains are heavy, and love is best!= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers,= 45 =come to dust.= _Cymb._, iv. 2.
=Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties.= _Cic._
=Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour.= _Pascal._
=Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.= _S. Smiles._
=Good advice can be given, a good name cannot= 50 =be given.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good advice / Is beyond all price.= _Pr._
=Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good ale needs no wisp= (of hay for advertisement). _Sc. Pr._
=Good and bad men are less so than they seem.= _Coleridge._
=Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions.= _Hobbes._
=Good and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.= _Johnson._
=Good and quickly seldom meet.= _Pr._
=Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.= _Emerson._
=Good bees never turn drones.= _Pr._ 5
=Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Good bread needs baking.= _Pr. in Goethe._
=Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant.= _Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own.= _Carlyle._
=Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the= 10 =preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life.= _Chatham._
=Good-breeding is surface Christianity.= _Holmes._
=Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.= _Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least.= _Addison._
=Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.= _Emerson._
=Good company and good discourse are the= 15 =very sinews of virtue.= _Izaak Walton._
=Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.= _Pr._
=Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time.= _Dan. Pr._
=Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom.= _Goldsmith._
=Good counsels observed are chains to grace.= _Fuller._
=Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes= 20 =than satisfies them. A draught of milk to serpents only increases their venom.= _Hitopadesa._
=Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good counsellors lack no clients.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 2.
=Good courage breaks ill-luck.= _Pr._
=Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=Good discourse sinks differences and seeks= 25 =agreements.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Good example always brings forth good fruits.= _S. Smiles._
=Good example is half a sermon.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours, although there be nothing sweeter than ease.= _Hitopadesa._
=Good gear goes in sma' book= (bulk). _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.= _Alex. Smith._
=Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.= _Thackeray._
=Good hunters track closely.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good husbandry is good divinity.= _Pr._
=Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes= 35 =better.= _Emerson._
=Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering labours come to nought.= _Southwell._
=Good is good, but better carrieth it.= _Pr._
=Good is never a something into which a man can be borne, but always a something born of the man, which he himself carries, and which does not carry him.= _Ed._
=Good is not got without grief.= _Gael. Pr._
=Good is the delay that makes sure.= _Port._ 40 _Pr._
=Good judges are as rare as good authors.= _St. Evremond._
=Good laws often proceed from bad manners.= _Pr._
=Good leading makes good following.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good luck comes by cuffing.= _Pr._
=Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright,= 45 =energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.= _Lowell._
=Good luck lies in odd numbers.= _Merry Wives_, v. 1.
=Good management is better than a good income.= _Port. Pr._
=Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.= _Emerson._
=Good manners are part of good morals.= _Whately._
=Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When= 50 =native virtues join the arts to please.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.= _Swift._
=Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.= _Joubert._
=Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.= _Ben Jonson._
=Good mind, good find.= _Pr._
=Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, /= 55 =Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 2.
=Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.= _Pope._
=Good-nature and good sense must ever join; / To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._
=Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.= _Addison._
=Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks.= _Emerson._
=Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and,= 60 =like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else.= _Hanway._
=Good-nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue flourishes.= _Goodman._
=Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow / That I will say good-night till it be to-morrow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Good pastures make fat sheep.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=Good people live far apart.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good poetry is always personification, and= 5 =heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition.= _Emerson._
=Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods.= _Plato._
=Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage.= _Locke._
=Good reasons must of force give place to better.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Good right needs good help.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good-sense and good-nature are never separated,= 10 =though the ignorant world has thought otherwise.= _Dryden._
=Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, / And though no science, fairly worth the seven.= _Pope._
=Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance.= _As You Like It_, v. 2.
=Good sword has often been in poor scabbard.= _Gael. Pr._
=Good take heed / Doth surely speed.= _Pr._
=Good taste cannot supply the place of genius= 15 =in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.= _La Roche._
=Good taste is the flower of good sense.= _A. Poincelot._
=Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.= _Mme. Girardin._
=Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows.= _Milton._
=Good things take time.= _Dut. Pr._ 20
=Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed.= _Emerson._
=Good to begin well, but better to end well.= _Pr._
=Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.= _Lowell._
=Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again.= _Lord Lansdowne._
=Good ware makes a quick market.= _Pr._ 25
=Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything.= _Schopenhauer._
=Good-will, like a good name, is got by many
## actions and lost by one.= _Jeffrey._
=Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Good wine is its own recommendation.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good wine needs no brandy.= _Amer. Pr._ 30
=Good wine needs no bush=, _i.e._, advertisement. _Pr._
=Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax.= _Jean Paul._
=Good words and no deeds.= _Pr._
=Good words cool more than cold water.= _Pr._
=Good words cost nothing and are worth much.= 35 _Pr._
=Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.= _Leighton._
=Good works will never save you, but you will never be saved without them.= _Pr._
=Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.= _Emerson._
=Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion.= _Addison._
=Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He= 40 =who imputes ill to them makes them none.= _Euripides._
=Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.= _Chapin._
=Goodness is beauty in its best estate.= _Marlowe._
=Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it.= _P. Desjardins._
=Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire.= _Milton._
=Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.= _Pr._ 45
=Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.= _George Eliot._
=Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht mehr helfen=--God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. _Schiller._
=Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in Grunde der Seele gelegen=--God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. _Jean Paul._
=Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf geschrieben=--God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. _Luther._
=Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum= 50 =macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen=--God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. _Goethe._
=Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter hat=--God is everywhere except where his vicar is. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottlob! wir haben das Original=--God be praised, we have still the original. _Lessing._
=Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld=--God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. _Ger. Pr._
=Gott mit uns=--God with us. _Ger._
=Gott müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden=--Ye must seek and find God in the heart. _Jean Paul._
=Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres Geschlecht=--God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. _Bürger._
=Gott-trunkener Mensch=--A god-intoxicated man. _Novalis, of Spinoza._
=Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer=--God never 5 forsakes the stout of heart. _Körner._
=Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein=--We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. _Schiller._
=Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind=--God's friend, priest's foe. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, / Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht im Friede seiner Hände=--God's is the east, God's is the west; north region and south rests in the peace of his hands. _Goethe._
=Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt fein=--God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. _Ger. Pr._
=Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz= 10 =werden nur zu oft verwechselt=--Divine indifference and brutish indifference are too often confounded. _Feuchtersleben._
=Goutte à goutte=--Drop by drop. _Fr._
=Govern the lips as they were palace-doors, the king within; / Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death.= _Ruskin._
=Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government began in tyranny and force, in= 15 =the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.= _Emerson._
=Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.= _Burke._
=Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.= _H. Clay._
=Government is the greatest combination of= 20 =forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.= _D. D. Field._
=Government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement= (_Bewegung_). _Count Arnim._
=Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.= _Abraham Lincoln._
=Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge.= _Pr._
=Government should direct poor men what to do.= _Emerson._
=Governments exist only for the good of the= 25 =people.= _Macaulay._
=Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.= _Emerson._
=Gowd= (gold) =gets in at ilka= (every) =gate except heaven.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue.= _Sc. Pr._
=Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el= 30 =loco=--Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. _Sp. Pr._
=Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.= _Cowper._
=Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Grace in women has more effect than beauty.= _Hazlitt._
=Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure= 35 =and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit.= _Cowper._
=Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms.= _Joubert._
=Grace is more beautiful than beauty.= _Emerson._
=Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.= _Schiller._
=Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action.= _Winckelmann._
=Grace is to the body what good sense is to the= 40 =mind.= _La Roche._
=Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.= _Milton._
=Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease.= _Rousseau._
=Gradatim=--Step by step; by degrees.
=Gradu diverso, via una=--By different steps but 45 the same way.
=Gradus ad Parnassum=--A help to the composition of classic poetry.
=Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes / Intulit agresti Latio=--Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. _Hor._
=Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat; As. docet astra=--Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
=Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey.= _Molière._
=Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes / Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus--omnia novit=--Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician--he knows everything. _Juv._
=Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures both a fever and lethargicness.= _Herbert._
=Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait=--He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures=--Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. _Fr._
=Grande parure=--Full dress. _Fr._
=Grandescunt aucta labore=--They grow with increase of toil. _M._
=Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other.= _Shenstone._
=Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay.= _Alex. Smith._
=Grand parleur, grand menteur=--Great talker, 10 great liar. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand venteur, petit faiseur=--Great boaster, little doer. _Fr. Pr._
=Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.= _Whittier._
=Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.= _Carlyle._
=Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza=--Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. _Sp. Pr._
=Grasp all, lose all.= _Pr._ 15
=Grass grows not on the highway.= _Pr._
=Gratia naturam vincit=--Grace overcomes Nature.
=Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. _Hor._
=Gratiæ expectativæ=--Expected benefits.
=Gratia gratiam parit=--Kindness produces kindness. 20 _Pr._
=Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; / Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali=--Thanks to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort; thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my woes. _Ovid._
=Gratia placendi=--The satisfaction of pleasing.
=Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis=--Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. _Ovid._
=Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--Even virtue appears more lovely when enshrined in a beautiful form. _Virg._
=Gratis=--For nothing. 25
=Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens=--Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. _Phæd._
=Gratis asseritur=--It is asserted but not proved.
=Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.= _Rousseau._
=Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come.= _Talleyrand._
=Gratitude is a species of justice.= _Johnson._ 30
=Gratitude is memory of the heart.= (?)
=Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues.= _Theodore Parker._
=Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.= _H. Ballou._
=Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude= 35 =the worst of vices.= _Pr._
=Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come.= _La Roche._
=Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead.= _Cervantes._
=Gratis dictum=--Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.
=Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat;= 40 =ingratum semel=--A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. _Sen._
=Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen=--Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. _Ger. Pr._
=Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum=--Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. _Goethe._
=Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas=--No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
=Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, quæ magnum domat populum=--The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.
=Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit=--His 45 exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. _Sen._
=Grave senectus est hominibus pondus=--Old age is a heavy burden to man.
=Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives.= _S. W. Duffield._
=Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere=--More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. _Hor._
=Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis=--Some remedies are worse than the disease. _Pub. Syr._
=Gravis ira regum semper=--The anger of kings 50 is always heavy. _Sen._
=Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis=--The empire of custom is most mighty. _Pub. Syr._
=Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind.= _La Roche._
=Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.= _Sterne._
=Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it.= _Confucius._
=Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps= 55 =the mind steady.= _Fuller._
=Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.= _Fielding._
=Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride.= _Goldsmith._
=Gravity is twin brother to stupidity.= _Bovee._
=Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.= _Sterne._
=Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.= _Jean Paul._
=Gray is all theory, and green the while is the golden tree of life.= _Goethe._
=Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing....= 5 =His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's praise.= _Heath._
=Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots.= _Hazlitt._
=Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him.= _Napoleon._
=Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable.= _Ruskin._
=Great attention to what is said and sweetness= 10 =of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment.= _Hitopadesa._
=Great barkers are nae biters.= _Sc. Pr._
=Great boast, small roast.= _Pr._
=Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it.= _H. Mann._
=Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.= _Emerson._
=Great countries are those that produce great= 15 =men.= _Disraeli._
=Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.= _Lucan._
=Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs.= _Pr._
=Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them.= _Tennyson._
=Great deeds immortal are--they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby.= _Aytoun._
=Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.= 20 _Joseph Roux._
=Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.= _Victor Hugo._
=Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.= _Goethe._
=Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men.= _Carlyle._
=Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.= _Mrs. Carlyle._
=Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs= 25 =to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum.= _Lowell._
=Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them.= _Goldsmith._
=Great fools have great bells.= _Dut. Pr._
=Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive.= _Emerson._
=Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies.= _Emerson._
=Great gifts are for great men.= _Pr._ 30
=Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn.= _Wordsworth._
=Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.= _H. Greeley._
=Great griefs medicine the less.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Great haste makes great waste.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Great honours are great burdens; but on= 35 =whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.= _Ben Jonson._
=Great joy is only earned by great exertion.= _Goethe._
=Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.= _Sen._
=Great is not great to the greater.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not.= _Carlyle._
=Great is song used to great ends.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself.= _Emerson._
=Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world.= _Mrs. Child._
=Great is truth, and mighty above all things.= _Apocrypha._
=Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.= _Carlyle._
=Great joy, especially after a sudden change= 45 =and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.= _Fielding._
=Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day.= _Thackeray._
=Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven.= _Dan. Pr._
=Great Mammon!--greatest god below the sky.= _Spenser._
=Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.= _Arist._
=Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.= _Schopenhauer._
=Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.= _Emerson._
=Great men are never sufficiently known but in= 5 =struggles.= _Burke._
=Great men are not always wise.= _Bible._
=Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.= _T. W. Higginson._
=Great men are sincere.= _Emerson._
=Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature.= _Carlyle._
=Great Men are the inspired (speaking and= 10 =acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.= _Carlyle._
=Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.= _Carlyle._
=Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded.= _Amiel._
=Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.= _Emerson._
=Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.= _Emerson._
=Great men do not play stage tricks with the= 15 =doctrines of life and death; only little men do that.= _Ruskin._
=Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them.= _South._
=Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.= _Emerson._
=Great men have their parasites.= _Sydney Smith._
=Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by= 20 =being near us; ordinary men gain much.= _Landor._
=Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, / But in the less, foul profanation.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds; that is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.= _Hawthorne._
=Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them.= _Ruskin._
=Great men oft die by vile Bezonians.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune,= 25 =just as brave soldiers do at wars.= _Sen._
=Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= _Emerson._
=Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain; but when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches.= _Goethe._
=Great men should drink with harness on their throats.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 2.
=Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.= _Disraeli._
=Great men stand like solitary towers in the= 30 =city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.= _Longfellow._
=Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history.= _Moses Harvey._
=Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.= _Landor._
=Great men will always pay deference to greater.= _Landor._
=Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy.= _Massinger._
=Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous= 35 =applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.= _Colton._
=Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return.= _Rowe._
=Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves.= _H. Giles._
=Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.= _Lowell._
=Great passions are incurable diseases; the= 40 =very remedies make them worse.= _Goethe._
=Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration.= _H. Giles._
=Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.= _Luther._
=Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.= _Hume._
=Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= _Lowell._
=Great poets try to describe what all men see= 45 =and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone.= _Ruskin._
=Great profits, great risks.= _Chinese Pr._
=Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.= _S. Smiles._
=Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.= _Disraeli._
=Great souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise.= _Carlyle._
=Great souls are not cast down by adversity.= _Pr._
=Great souls are not those which have less= 5 =passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs.= _La Roche._
=Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.= _Jean Paul._
=Great souls care only for what is great.= _Amiel._
=Great souls endure in silence.= _Schiller._
=Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.= _Dryden._
=Great spirits and great business do keep out= 10 =this weak passion= (love). _Bacon._
=Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves.= _Goethe._
=Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.= _Niebuhr._
=Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them.= _Pr._
=Great talkers are little doers.= _Pr._
=Great thieves hang little ones.= _Ger._ 15
=Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street.= _Wm. Blake._
=Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd, / And then they shine.= _Beaumont._
=Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God.= _Goethe._
=Great thoughts come from the heart.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, /= 20 =Like instincts, unawares.= _M. Milnes._
=Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.= _Hazlitt._
=Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts.= _Charron._
=Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth?= _Hitopadesa._
=Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.= _Bovee._
=Great wealth, great care.= _Dut. Pr._ 25
=Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.= _Dryden._
=Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both serve to make our poverty our pride.= _Emerson._
=Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.= _Johnson._
=Great writers and orators are commonly economists= 30 =in the use of words.= _Whipple._
=Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.= _Jesus._
=Greater than man, less than woman.= _Essex, of Queen Elizabeth._
=Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= _Shakespeare._
=Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Greatness and goodness are not means, but= 35 =ends.= _Coleridge._
=Greatness appeals to the future.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.= _Landor._
=Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down.= _Hitopadesa._
=Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby /= 40 =Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.= _Herbert._
=Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances.= _W. Winter._
=Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Greatness is its own torment.= _Theodore Parker._
=Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.= _Fielding._
=Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable= 45 =thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.= _Napoleon._
=Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= _Ward Beecher._
=Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small.= _Phil. Brooks._
=Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.= _Colton._
=Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools.= _Otway._
=Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a= 5 =blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean.= _Massinger._
=Greediness bursts the bag.= _Pr._
=Greedy folk hae lang airms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Greedy misers rail at sordid misers.= _Helvetius._
=Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.= _Emerson._
=Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it= 10 =makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can.= _Ruskin._
=Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest=--Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. _M. Claudius._
=Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein=--Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. _Körner._
=Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit=--The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. _Juv._
=Grex venalium=--A venal pack. _Sueton._
=Grey hairs are wisdom--if you hold your= 15 =tongue; / Speak--and they are but hairs, as in the young.= _Philo._
=Grief best is pleased with grief's society.= _Shakespeare._
=Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight.= _Rich. II._, i. 2.
=Grief divided is made lighter.= _Pr._
=Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Grief finds some ease by him that like doth= 20 =bear.= _Spenser._
=Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.= _Bailey._
=Grief has its time.= _Johnson._
=Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.= _Lamartine._
=Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past.= _Dr. Johnson._
=Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two= 25 =bear it lightly.= _W. Hauff._
=Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.= _James Martineau._
=Grief is proud and makes his owner stout.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.= _Wycherley._
=Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.= _Disraeli._
=Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true= 30 =fertiliser.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.= _Philemon._
=Grief makes one hour ten.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue.= _Fearon._
=Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous.= _F. Schubert._
=Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable,= 35 =sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free.= _Aubrey de Vere (the younger)._
=Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.= _Byron._
=Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure.= _Congreve._
=Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.= _Macaulay._
=Griefs assured are felt before they come.= _Dryden._
=Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled= 40 =front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Grind the faces of the poor.= _Bible._
=Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.= _Colton._
=Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich=--Great industry and little conscience make one rich. _Ger. Pr._
=Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; / Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen=--Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. _Seume._
=Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur= 45 =im Unglück zeigen=--One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. _Schiller._ (?)
=Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass=--Big and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. _Ger. Pr._
=Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie erst recht gefährlich=--Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. _Goethe._
=Grosse Seelen dulden still=--Great souls endure in silence. _Schiller._
=Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken=--Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. _Ger. Pr._
=Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Grudge not one against another.= _St. James._
=Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza danar quanto è brutto=--Watch him well, watch him closely; the man without money, how worthless he is! _It. Pr._
=Guardati da aceto di vin dolce=--Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Guardati da chi non ha che perdere=--Beware of 5 him who has nothing to lose. _It. Pr._
=Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio da peccati=--Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. _It. Pr._
=Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills from within thy reason must prevent.= _Dryden._
=Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are heard in heaven.= _Young._
=Gude advice is ne'er out o' season.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude bairns are eith to lear=, _i.e._, easy to teach. 10 _Sc. Pr._
=Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude claes= (clothes) =open a' doors.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude foresight furthers the wark.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude wares mak' a quick market.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle=--To God's council-chamber we have no key. _Dan. Pr._
=Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère=--Call it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to me. _Molière._
=Guerra al cuchillo=--War to the knife. _Sp._
=Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato=--War begun, hell let loose. _It. Pr._
=Guerre à mort=--War to the death. _Fr._ 20
=Guerre à outrance=--War of extermination; war to the uttermost. _Fr._
=Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!=--War to the castles, peace to the cottages! _Fr._
=Guessing is missing= (the point). _Dut. Pr._
=Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.= _Jane Porter._
=Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits= 25 =upon it.= _Congreve._
=Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings.= _Rowe._
=Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness.= _Scott._
=Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use.= _Othello_, v. 1.
=Guilty consciences make men cowards.= _Vanbrugh._
=Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge,= 30 =for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph.= _Fuller._
=Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all.= _Carlyle._
=Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius=--The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. _Cic._
=Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen=--A good conscience is a soft pillow. _Ger. Pr._
=Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren, viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren=--Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. _Goethe._
=Güte bricht einem kein Bein=--Kindness breaks 35 no one's bones. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath kommt über Nacht=--Good counsel comes over-night. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte nicht=--Good advice may be given, but manners not. _Turkish Pr._
=Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor=--Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. _Schiller._
=Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's nicht=--Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. _Goethe._
=Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus= 40 =usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo=--The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. _Ovid._
=Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo=--The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. _Pr._
=Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ=--A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. _Pr._
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=Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen, und du bist sein auf ewig=--Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever. _Lessing._
=Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein=--Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. _Boieldieu._
=Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben=--I 45 have never occupied myself with trifles. _Schiller._
="Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann=--"I have had," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Habeas corpus=--A writ to deliver one from prison, and show reason for his detention, with a view to judge of its justice, _lit._ you may have the body. _L._
=Habeas corpus ad prosequendum=--You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. _L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad respondendum=--You may bring up the body to make answer. _L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum=--You may 50 bring up the body to satisfy. _L. Writ._
=Habemus confitentem reum=--We have the confession of the accused. _L._
=Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam=--We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. _Cato in Sall._
=Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali=--Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. _Phaedr._
=Habent sua fata libelli=--Books have their destinies. _Hor._
=Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit=--I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. _Cic._
=Habere derelictui rem suam=--To neglect one's affairs. _Aul. Gell._
=Habere et dispertire=--To have and to distribute.
=Habere facias possessionem=--You shall cause to take possession. _L. Writ._
=Habere, non haberi=--To hold, not to be held. 5
=Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitur=--Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. _Tac._
=Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi=--There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. _Sen._
=Habet salem=--He has wit; he is a wag.
=Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best= 10 =nightcap.= _Kincaid._
=Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.= _St. Augustine._
=Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.= _Horace Mann._
=Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.= _Pascal._
=Habit is necessary to give power.= _Hazlitt._
=Habit is ten times nature.= _Wellington._ 15
=Habit is the deepest law of human nature.= _Carlyle._
=Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins.= _George Eliot._
=Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking.= _Lavater._
=Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day.= _Lamartine._
=Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.= 20 _Pr._
=Habits= (of virtue) =are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.= _Bernard Gilpin._
=Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up.= _Spurgeon._
=Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar=--Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. _Sp. Pr._
=Hac mercede placet=--I accept the terms. 25
=Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa=--In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. _Inscription on Bede's tomb._
=Hac urget lupus, hac canis=--On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. _Hor._
=Hactenus=--Thus far.
=Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.= _Goldsmith._
=Had God meant me to be different, He would= 30 =have created me different.= _Goethe._
=Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event.= _Euripides._
=Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place.= _Carlyle._
=Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered.= _Renan._
=Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.= 35 _Byron._
=Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted!= _Burns._
=Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala=--These trifles will lead to serious mischief. _Hor._
=Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. _Virg._
=Hae you gear= (goods), =or hae you nane, / Tine= (lose) =heart, and a's gane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hæc a te non multum abludit imago=--This 40 picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. _Hor._
=Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies repetita placebit=--One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. _Hor._
=Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum=--Such is the short sum of our evils. _Ovid._
=Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris; ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis=--These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. _Hor._
=Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque / Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama labori=--"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and so your merits will never receive their due meed of praise." _Hor._
=Hæc generi incrementa fides=--This fidelity will 45 bring new glory to our race. _M._
=Hæc olim meminisse juvabit=--It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. _Virg._
=Hæc omnia transeunt=--All these things pass away. _M._
=Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non utitur recte, mala=--These things are exactly according to the disposition of him who possesses them. To him who knows how to use them, they are blessings; to him who does not use them aright, they are evils. _Ter._
=Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati=--Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. _Cic._
=Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris= 50 =erga te=--I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. _Cic._
=Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur=--These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. _Cic._
=Hæc studia oblectant=--These studies are our delight. _M._
=Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali=--These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. _Ovid._
=Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit=--This mode of living does not suit me. _Cic._
=Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est=--The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. _Pr._
=Hæreditas nunquam ascendit=--The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. _L._
=Hæres jure repræsentationis=--An heir by right of representation. _L._
=Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. _L._
=Hæret lateri lethalis arundo=--The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. _Virg._
=Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh=--Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture. _Goethe._
=Half a house is half a hell.= _Ger. Pr._
=Half a loaf is better than no bread.= _Pr._
=Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.= _Emerson._
=Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection.= _Gray to Palgrave._
=Half the ease of life oozes away through the= 15 =leaks of unpunctuality.= _Anon._
=Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read.= _George Dawson._
=Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.= _Barry Cornwall._
=Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty.= _Macaulay._
=Half-wits greet each other.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, /= 20 =Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, / Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier=--If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. _Geibel._
=Hanc personam induisti, agenda est=--You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. _Sen._
=Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim=--We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. _Hor._
=Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre.= _Gray._
=Handsome is that handsome does.= _Pr._
=Handsomeness is the more animal excellence,= 25 =beauty the more imaginative.= _Hare._
=Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand im Vertrauen spricht=--Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. _Claudius._
=Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure.= _Fielding._
=Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore let's be merry.= _G. Wither._
=Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel=--Hang not 30 all on one nail. _Ger. Pr._
=Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Hannibal ad portas=--Hannibal is at the gates. _Cic._
=Hap and mishap govern the world.= _Pr._
=Happiest they of human race, / To whom God has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; / And better had they ne'er been born, / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._
=Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from= 35 =lively to severe.= _Pope._
=Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.= _J. M. Good._
=Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste.= _La Roche._
=Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.= _Goethe._
=Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality.= 40 _Schopenhauer._
=Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion."= _Quoted by Sterne._
=Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality.= _Voltaire._
=Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose= 45 =veil no mortal ever raised.= _Landor._
=Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing.= _Chamfort._
=Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.= _Pascal._
=Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.= _Amiel._
=Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil.= _Nicole._
=Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which= 50 =penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears.= _M. de Guérin._
=Happiness is unrepented pleasure.= _Socrates._
=Happiness lies first of all in health.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse.= _A. Smith._
=Happiness springs not from a large fortune, but temperate habits and simple wishes. Riches increase not by increase of the supply of want, but by decrease of the sense of it,--the minimum of it being the maximum of them.= _Ed._
=Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness travels incognita to keep a private= 5 =assignation with contentment, and to partake of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs in a cottage.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness, when unsought, is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee.= _Schiller._
=Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.= _Goethe._
=Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun= 10 =brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty.= _Carlyle._
=Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.= _Goethe._
=Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary.= _S. Bern._
=Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst= 15 =of his children.= _Grillparzer._
=Happy is he that is happy in his children.= _Pr._
=Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty.= _Goethe._
=Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.= _Hare._
=Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.= _Emerson._
=Happy is the man who can endure the highest= 20 =and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.= _Sen._
=Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.= _Pr._
=Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free.= _Carlyle._
=Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted= 25 =as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize.= _Browning._
=Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.= _Dryden, after Horace._
=Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself.= _Cervantes._
=Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book.= _Montesquieu._
=Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st.= _Meas. for Meas._ iii. 1.
=Happy who in his verse can gently steer, /= 30 =From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.= _Dryden._
=Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest.= _Wellington at Waterloo._
=Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard.= _Pr._
=Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Hardness ever of hardiness is mother.= _Cymbeline_, 35 iii. 6.
=Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.= _John Neal._
=Harm watch, harm catch.= _Pr._
=Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam nie, / unmenschlich nie=--Virtue may be stern, though never cruel, never inhuman. _Schiller._
=Harvests are Nature's bank dividends.= _Haliburton._
=Has any man, or any society of men, a truth= 40 =to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire.= _Carlyle._
=Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. / Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, / Facti crimen habet=--Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. _Juv._
=Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit=--This punishment a prating tongue brought on him. _Ovid._
=Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit=--The event has verified these predictions. _Cic._
=Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. / Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der Hass sich auf ihn kehrt=--The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. _Gottfried von Strassburg._
=Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann wolle nie zu hoch hinaus=--Hast thou a secure house in the valley? Then set not thy heart on a higher beyond. _Förster._
=Haste and rashness are storms and tempests,= 5 =breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven.= _Fuller._
=Haste is of the devil.= _Koran._
=Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife.= _Sc. Pr._
=Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.= _Sen._
=Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late.= _Bovee._
=Hasty resolutions seldom speed well.= _Pr._ 10
=Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fängt man die Freundschaft an=--After love friendship (_lit._ when we have lived through love we begin friendship). _Heine._
=Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down.= _Goethe._
=Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so.= _Goethe._
=Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage=--Leisurely, and don't lose heart. _Fr._
=Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom= 15 =make thee a good gamester.= _Quarles._
=Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall not we revenge?= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 1.
=Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.= _Buddha._
=Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.= _Goethe._
=Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate.= _Goethe._
=Hatred is but an inverse love.= _Carlyle._ 20
=Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.= _Vauvenargues._
=Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.= _George Eliot._
="Hätte ich gewusst," ist ein armer Mann=--"If I had known," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Haud æquum facit, / Qui quod didicit, id dediscit=--He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. _Plaut._
=Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat= 25 =/ Res angusta domi=--Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. _Juv._
=Haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. _Hor._
=Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco=--Not unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have learned to succour the wretched. _Virg._
=Haud passibus æquis=--With unequal steps. _Virg._
=Haut et bon=--Great and good. _M._
=Haut goût=--High flavour. _Fr._ 30
=Have a care o' the main chance.= _Butler._
=Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home.= _Spurgeon._
=Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the universe and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His counsel, that they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible All, and can say, This stands marked therein, and no more than this? Alas! not in any wise.= _Carlyle._
=Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul.= _Ruskin._
=Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far /= 35 =To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth?= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it?= _Tennyson._
=Have more than thou showest; / Speak less than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; / Set less than thou throwest.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Have not all nations conceived their God as omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a universal Here, an everlasting Now?= _Carlyle._
=Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.= _Pr._
=Have the French for friends, but not for neighbours.= 40 _Pr._
=Have you found your life distasteful? / My life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved and hold complete. / Do your joys with age diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain. / Must in death your daylight finish? / My sun sets to rise again.= _Browning._
=Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires.= _Montaigne._
=Have you not heard it said full oft, / A woman's nay doth stand for nought?= _Shakespeare._
=Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?= _Othello_, v. 2.
=Having food and raiment, let us be therewith= 45 =content.= _St. Paul._
=Having is having, come whence it may.= _Ger. Pr._
=Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living.= _Ed._
=Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper.= _Hitopadesa._
=Having waste ground enough, / Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary / And pitch our evils there?= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca=--The account is all right, but the money-bags are empty. _Sp. Pr._
=He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it.= _Lavater._
=He alone is happy, and he is truly so, who can say, "Welcome life, whatever it brings! welcome death, whatever it is!"= _Bolingbroke._
=He alone is worthy of respect who knows what is of use to himself and others, and who labours to control his self-will.= _Goethe._
=He also that is slothful in his work is brother= 5 =to him that is a great waster.= _Bible._
=He always wins who sides with God.= _Faber._
=He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.= _Bible._
=He behoves to have meat enou' that sal stop ilka man's mou'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He best restrains anger who remembers God's eye is upon him.= _Plato._
=He buys very dear who begs.= _Port. Pr._ 10
=He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues--even He will provide for their support.= _Hitopadesa._
=He can ill run that canna gang= (walk). _Sc. Pr._
=He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.= _Dut. Pr._
=He cannot see the wood for the trees.= _Ger. Pr._
=He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his= 15 =pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.= _Goldsmith._
=He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution.= _Goethe._
=He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.= _Butler._
=He cries out before he is hurt.= _It. Pr._
=He dances well to whom fortune pipes.= _Pr._ 20
=He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings.= _Sc. Pr._
=He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water.= _Bodenstedt._
=He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity.= _Johnson._
=He doeth much that doeth a thing well.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He doeth well that serveth the common= 25 =good rather than his own will.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He doubts nothing who knows nothing.= _Port. Pr._
=He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 1.
=He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything.= _Ruskin._
=He either fears his fate too much, / Or his= 30 =deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all.= _Marquis of Montrose._
=He frieth in his own grease.= _Pr._
=He gave his honours to the world again, / His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He giveth His beloved sleep.= _Bible._
=He goeth back that continueth not.= _St. Augustine._
=He goeth better that creepeth in his way= 35 =than he that runneth out of his way.= _St. Augustine._
=He had a face like a benediction.= _Cervantes._
=He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons.= _Swift._
=He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it.= _Tennyson._
=He has a bee in his bonnet=, _i.e._, is hare-brained. _Sc. Pr._
=He has a head, and so has a pin.= _Port._ 40 _Pr._
=He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.
=He has faut= (need) =o' a wife wha marries mam's pet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He has hard work who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He has no religion who has no humanity.= _Arab. Pr._
=He has not learned the lesson of life who= 45 =does not every day surmount a fear.= _Emerson._
=He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He has seen a wolf.= _Pr. of one who suddenly curbs his tongue._
=He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man.= _Carlyle._
=He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still.= _Sc. Pr._
=He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his= 50 =tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open as day for melting charity.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated.= _St. Augustine._
=He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.
=He honours God that imitates Him.= _Sir T. Browne._
=He in whom there is much to be developed will= 55 =be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world.= _Goethe._
=He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's.= _Sp. Pr._
=He is a fool who thinks by force or skill / To turn the current of a woman's will.= _S. Tuke._
=He is a great and a good man from whom the needy, or those who come for protection, go not away with disappointed hopes and discontented countenances.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty: he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, while they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.= _Emerson._
=He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.= _Arthur Warwick._
=He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise.= _Voltaire._
=He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment!= _Longfellow._
=He is a little man; let him go and work with= 5 =the women!= _Longfellow._
=He is a madman= (_Rasender_) =who does not embrace and hold fast the good fortune which a god= (_ein Gott_) =has given into his hand.= _Schiller._
=He is a man who doth not suffer his members and faculties to cause him uneasiness.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke.= _Pr._
=He is a strong man who can hold down his= 10 =opinion.= _Emerson._
=He is a true sage who learns from all the world.= _Eastern Pr._
=He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He is a wise child that knows his own father.= _Pr._
=He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.= _Epictetus._
=He is a wise man who knoweth that his words= 15 =should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a wise man who knows what is wise.= _Xenophon._
=He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is all there when the bell rings.= _Pr._
=He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.= _Cic._
=He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin= 20 =who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot.= _Goethe._
=He is below himself who is not above an injury.= _Quarles._
=He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms.= _Rousseau._
=He is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= _King John_, i. 1.
=He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man.= _Shakespeare._
=He is gentil that doth gentil dedes.= _Chaucer._ 25
=He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.= _Emerson._
=He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home.= _Goethe._
=He is happy who is forsaken by his passions.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.= _Hare._
=He is just as truly running counter to God's= 30 =will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong.= _W. R. Greg._
=He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is lifeless that is faultless.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that grinds at my mill.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.= _Pr._
=He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants.= 35 _Dan. Pr._
=He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.= _Pr._
=He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.= _Johnson._
=He is noble who feels and acts nobly.= _Heine._
=He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn.= _Dan. Pr._
=He is not a true man of science who does not= 40 =bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.= _Thoreau._
=He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.= _Socrates._
=He is not the best carpenter who makes the most chips.= _Pr._
=He is not yet born who can please everybody.= _Dan. Pr._
=He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=He is richest that has fewest wants.= _Pr._ 45
=He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes.= _Trollope._
=He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.= _Victor Hugo._
=He is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides.= _Cowper._
=He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.= _Ruskin._
=He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered= 50 =himself.= _Pr._
=He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= _Ward Beecher._
=He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation.= _Emerson._
=He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.= _Emerson._
=He is the world's master who despises it, its= 55 =slave who prizes it.= _It. Pr._
=He is truly great who is great in charity.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it.= _Sen._
=He is well paid that is well satisfied.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=He is wise that is wise to himself.= _Euripides._
=He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture.= _Carlyle._
=He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, / Have not the grace to grace it with such show.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=He is wrong who thinks that authority based= 5 =on force is more weighty and more lasting than that which rests on kindness.= _Ter._
=He jests at scars that never felt a wound.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to haud= (hold) =his tongue.= _Sc. Pr._
=He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly.= _Butler._
=He knocks boldly at the door who brings good= 10 =news.= _Pr._
=He knows best what good is that has endured evil.= _Pr._
=He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.= _Fuller._
=He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.= _Pr._
=He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision.= _Lavater._
=He knows not what love is that has no children.= 15 _Pr._
=He knows the water the best who has waded through it.= _Pr._
=He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.= _Lavater._
=He left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a tale.= _Johnson._
=He lies there who never feared the face of man.= _The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave._
=He life's war knows / Whom all his passions= 20 =follow as he goes.= _George Herbert._
=He little merits bliss who others can annoy.= _Thomson._
=He lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= _Pope._
=He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied.= _Cowper._
=He looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.= _Longfellow._
=He loses his thanks who promises and delays.= 25 _Pr._
=He loves but lightly who his love can tell.= _Petrarch._
=He makes no friend who never made a foe.= _Tennyson._
=He= (your Father) =maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.= _Jesus._
=He maun lout= (stoop) =that has a laigh= (low) =door.= _Sc. Pr._
=He may rate himself a happy man who lives= 30 =remote from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras après ta harangue=--Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. _La Fontaine._
=He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He must be a good shot who always hits the mark.= _Dut. Pr._
=He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.= _Hare._
=He must cry loud who would frighten the devil.= 35 _Dan. Pr._
=He must needs go that the devil drives.= _Pr._
=He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end.= _Dan. Pr._
=He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.= _Johnson._
=He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil.= _Pr._
=He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper= 40 =light.= _Dryden._
=He ne'er made a gude darg= (day's work) =wha gaed= (went) =grumbling about it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He never is crowned / With immortality, who fears to follow / Where airy voices lead.= _Keats._
=He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love.= _Platen._
=He never lees= (lies) =but when the holland's= (holly's) =green=, _i.e._, always. _Sc. Pr._
=He never yet stood sure that stands secure.= 45 _Quarles._
=He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it.= _Corneille._
=He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.= _Cic._
=He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace.= _Ruskin._
=He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.= _Lavater._
=He only is exempt from failures who makes= 50 =no efforts.= _Whately._
=He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=He only is rich who owns the day.= _Emerson._
=He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live.= _Keble._
=He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them.= _Cic._
=He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he= 55 =tak's care no to wet his feet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He prayeth best who loveth best / All things, both great and small; / For the dear Lord who loveth us, / He made and loveth all.= _Coleridge._
=He preaches well who lives well.= _Sp. Pr._
=He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown.= _Bovee._
=He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew an angel down.= _Dryden._
=He raises not himself up whom God casts down.= _Goethe._
=He reads much: / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony; he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit / That could be moved to smile at anything. / Such men as he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; / And therefore are they very dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He rideth easily enough whom the grace of= 5 =God carrieth.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He runs far who never turns.= _It. Pr._
=He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness.= _Tennyson._
=He serves his party best who serves his country best.= _R. B. Hayes._
=He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=He shone with the greater splendour because= 10 =he was not seen.= _Tac._
=He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it.= _Fr. Pr._
=He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake=, _i.e._, is wide awake, though pretending not to see. _Sc. Pr._
=He spends best that spares to spend again.= _Pr._
=He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.= _Lavater._
=He swallows the egg and gives away the shell= 15 =in alms.= _Ger. Pr._
=He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.= _Bible._
=He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong.= _Colton._
=He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have.= _It. Pr._
=He that believeth shall not make haste.= _Bible._
=He that blows the coals in quarrels he has= 20 =nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own.= _Charron._
=He that builds by the wayside has many masters.= _Pr._
=He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice.= _Pr._
=He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want.= _Pr._
=He that, by often arguing against his own= 25 =sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself.= _Locke._
=He that by the plough would thrive, / Himself must either hold or drive.= _Pr._
=He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.= _Bible._
=He that can be patient has his foe at his feet.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw.= _Pr._
=He that can conceal his joys is greater than he= 30 =who can hide his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.= _Emerson._
=He that can discriminate is the father of his father.= _The Vedas._
=He that can endure / To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord, / Does conquer him that did his master conquer, / And earns a place i' the story.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iii. 11.
=He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter.= _Fielding._
=He that can write a true book to persuade= 35 =England, is not he the bishop and archbishop, the primate of England and of all England?= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many.= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever.= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person.= _Pr._
=He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.= _Pr._
=He that claims, either in himself or for another,= 40 =the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist.= _Johnson._
=He that climbs the tall tree has won a right to the fruit: / He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.= _Scott._
=He that comes unca'd= (uninvited) =sits unsair'd= (unserved). _Sc. Pr._
=He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction.= _Bacon._
=He that complies against his will, / is of the same opinion still.= _Butler._
=He that conquers himself conquers an enemy.= 45 _Gael. Pr._
=He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve.= _Pr._
=He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.= _Bacon._
=He that descends not to word it with a shrew does worse than beat her.= _L'Estrange._
=He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.= _Pr._
=He that dies, pays all debts.= _Tempest_, iii. 2. 50
=He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch.= _Gael._
=He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.= _Tillotson._
=He that does what he can, does what he ought.= _Pr._
=He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you.= _Pr._
=He that doeth evil hateth the light.= _Jesus._ 5
=He that doeth truth cometh to the light.= _St. John._
=He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that doth the ravens feed, / Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, / Be comfort to my age.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=He that eats longest lives longest.= _Pr._
=He that endureth is not overcome.= _Pr._ 10
=He that, ever following her (Duty's) commands, / On with toil of heart and knees and hands, / Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won / His path upward, and prevail'd, / Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, / Are close upon the shining tablelands / To which our God Himself is moon and sun.= _Tennyson._
=He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.= _Fuller._
=He that feareth is not made perfect in love.= _St. John._
=He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day.= _Goldsmith._
=He that filches from me my good name / Robs= 15 =me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that flees not will be fled from.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge / May chance to catch a fall.= _Old song._
=He that gets gear= (wealth) =before he gets wit, is but a short time master o' it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that gets patience, and the blessing which /= 20 =Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains.= _George Herbert._
=He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord.= _Pr._
=He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.= _Pr._
=He that goes softly goes safely.= _Pr._
=He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast.= _Pr._
=He that has a head of wax should not walk in= 25 =the sun.= _Pr._
=He that has a head will not want a hat.= _It. Pr._
=He that has a wife has a master.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the lave= (rest) =better for 't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has an ill wife likes to eat butter= (but her, _i.e._ without her). _Sc. Pr._
=He that has been taught only by himself has= 30 =had a fool for a master.= _Ben Jonson._
=He that has just enough can soundly sleep; / The o'ercome only fashes fowk to keep.= _Allan Ramsay._
=He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.= _Milton._
=He that has lost his faith, what staff has he left?= _Bacon._
=He that has muckle would aye hae mair.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has no head needs no hat.= _Sp. Pr._ 35
=He that has no sense at thirty will never have any.= _Pr._
=He that has no shame has no conscience.= _Pr._
=He that has siller in his purse canna want= (do without) =a head on his shoulders.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has to choose has trouble.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that hateth gifts shall live.= _Bible._ 40
=He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he hath need to be afraid of others' memory.= _Bacon._
=He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.= _Bacon._
=He that hath but gained the title of a jester,= 45 =let him assure himself the fool is not far off.= _Quarles._
=He that hath care of keeping days of payment is lord of another man's purse.= _Lord Burleigh._
=He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.= _Jesus._
=He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that hath knowledge spareth his words.= _Bible._
=He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.= 50 _Bible._
=He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.= _Bible._
=He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord.= _Bible._
=He that hath sense hath strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He that hears much and speaks not at all, / Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.= _Pr._
=He that high growth on cedars did bestow, /= 55 =Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.= _R. Southwell._
=He that hinders not a mischief is guilty of it.= _Pr._
=He that humbles himself shall be exalted.= _Pr._
=He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he that for convenience takes it.= _Butler._
=He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.= _Bible._
=He that invented the Maiden, first hanselled it=, 60 _i.e._, first put it to the proof. (_The Maiden was a kind of guillotine._) _Sc. Pr._
=He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men.= _Sen._
=He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living.= _Pr._
=He that is courteous at all, will be courteous to all.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that is discontented and troubled is tossed with divers suspicions; he is neither quiet himself, nor suffereth others to be quiet.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that is doing nothing is seldom without helpers.= _Pr._
=He that is down needs fear no fall; / He that= 5 =is low no pride.= _Bunyan._
=He that is down, the world cries "Down with him!"= _Pr._
=He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in the much.= _Jesus._
=He that is full of himself is very empty.= _Pr._
=He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.= 10 _Pr._
=He that is not against us is on our part.= _Jesus._
=He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich.= _Pr._
=He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.= _Whately._
=He that is not with me is against me.= _Jesus._
=He that is of a merry heart hath a continual= 15 =feast.= _Bible._
=He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 3.
=He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, / Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that is ready to slip is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.= 20 _Bible._
=He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.= _St. Paul._
=He that is surety for another, is never sure himself.= _Pr._
=He that is the inferior of nothing can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing.= _Carlyle._
=He that is tied with one slender string, such as one resolute struggle would break, is prisoner only to his own sloth; and who would pity his thraldom?= _Decay of Piety._
=He that is to-day a king, to-morrow shall die.= 25 _Ecclus._
=He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure won't mind to turn villain for the purchase.= _M. Aurelius._
=He that is well-ordered and disposed within himself careth not for the strange and perverse behaviour of men.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that keeks= (pries) =through a keyhole may see what will vex him.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.= _Bible._
=He that kills a man when he is drunk must be= 30 =hanged for it when he is sober.= _Pr._
=He that knoweth not that which he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is a god amongst men.= _Pythagoras._
=He that knows a little of the world will admire it enough to fall down and worship it; he that knows it most will most despise it.= _Colton._
=He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Arouse him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows is strong.= _Gael. Pr._ 35
=He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is stupid. Shun him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good. Teach him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.= _Sir H. Taylor._
=He that lies down with dogs will rise up with fleas.= _Pr._
=He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the= 40 =life of a sentinel, of a sentinel never relieved.= _Young._
=He that lives longest sees most.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that lives must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.= _Johnson._
=He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that lives with cripples learns to limp.= _Pr._
=He that lives with wolves will learn to howl.= 45 _Pr._
=He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.= _Izaak Walton._
=He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.= _Coleridge._
=He that loves God aright must not desire that God should love him in return=, _i.e._, love to God, as to man, should be entirely unselfish. _Spinoza._
=He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.= _Isaac Barrow._
=He that loveth danger shall perish therein.= 50 _Ecclus._
=He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.= _Jesus._
=He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?= _St. John._
=He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.= _Bible._
=He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.= _Bible._
=He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be= 55 =innocent.= _Bible._
=He that marries before he is wise will die before he thrive.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that marries for money sells his liberty.= _Pr._
=He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.= _Bible._
=He that needs five thousand pound to live, / Is full as poor as he that needs but five.= _George Herbert._
=He that never thinks can never be wise.= _Johnson._
=He that observeth the wind shall not sow;= 5 =and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.= _Bible._
=He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh holy late or never.= _Pr._
=He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.= _Bible._
=He that pities another minds himsel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors.= _Ecclus._
=He that promises too much means nothing.= _Pr._ 10
=He that purposes to be happy by the affection or acquaintance of the best, the greatest man alive, will always find his mind unsettled and perplexed.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that questioneth much will learn much.= _Bacon._
=He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.= _W. Godwin._
=He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.= _Bible._
=He that runs in the dark may well stumble.= 15 _Pr._
=He that runs may read.= _Pr._
=He that seeks others to beguile, / Is oft o'ertaken in his own wile.= _Pr._
=He that seeks to have many friends never has any.= _It. Pr._
=He that serves the altar should live by the altar.= _Pr._
=He that shuts his eyes against a small light= 20 =would not be brought to see that which he had no mind to see, let it be placed in never so clear a light and never so near him.= _Atterbury._
=He that sows in the highway loses his corn.= _Pr._
=He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow.= _Pr._
=He that spares the bad injures the good.= _Pr._
=He that spares the rod spoils the child.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the thing he should not / Must= 25 =often hear the thing he would not.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the truth will find himself in sufficiently dramatic situations.= _Prof. Wilson._
=He that spends his gear= (property) =before he gets it will hae little gude o't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that stands upon a slippery place / Makes nice of no vain hold to stay him up.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=He that steals a preen= (pin) =will steal a better thing.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that steals for others will be hanged for= 30 =himself.= _Pr._
=He that strikes with the sword shall perish by the sword.= _Pr._
=He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.= _Bacon._
=He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both.= _Locke._
=He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt it more by his example than he promotes it by his arguments.= _Atterbury._
=He that talks much errs much.= _Pr._ 35
=He that talks much lies much.= _Pr._
=He that tholes= (bears up) =o'ercomes.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.= _Bible._
=He that turns not from every sin, turns not aright from any one sin.= _Brooks._
=He that undervalues himself will undervalue= 40 =others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.= _Johnson._
=He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.= _Johnson._
=He that waits long at the ferry will get over some time.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that walketh uprightly walks surely.= _Bible._
=He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.= _Bible._
=He that wants good sense is unhappy in having= 45 =learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.= _Steele._
=He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.= _Sallust._
=He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed.= _Colton._
=He that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change.= _Pope._
=He that will have his son have a respect for= 50 =him must have a great reverence for his son.= _Locke._
=He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.= _Fuller._
=He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.= _St. Peter._
=He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot, is a fool; and he that dare not, is a slave.= _Sir W. Drummond._
=He that will not when he may, / When he will he shall have nay.= _Pr._
=He that will not work shall not eat.= _Pr._ 55
=He that will to Cupar, maun to Cupar=, _i.e._, he that will to jail, must to jail. _Sc. Pr._
=He that will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch.= _Flavel._
=He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.= _Bible._
=He that winna be counselled canna be helped.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that winna save a penny will ne'er hae= 60 =ony.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that won't plough at home won't plough abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year.= _Pr._
=He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation.= _Feltham._
=He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens.= _Pr._
=He that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory.= _Johnson._
=He that would live in peace and rest / Must hear, and see, and say the best.= _Pr._
=He that would reap well must sow well.= 5 _Pr._
=He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments depend upon, may as well undertake to count the sands or sun up infinity.= _South._
=He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low.= _Collier._
=He that would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.= _Goethe._
=He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.= _Burke._
=He that wrongs his friend / Wrongs himself= 10 =more, and ever bears about / A silent court of justice in his breast, / Himself the judge and jury, and himself / The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned.= _Tennyson._
=He the cross who longest bears / Finds his sorrow's bounds are set.= _Winkworth._
=He thinks no evil who means no evil.= _Gael. Pr._
=He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He thought as a sage though he felt as a man.= _J. Beattie._
=He thought he thought, and yet he did not= 15 =think, / But only echoed still the common talk, / As might an empty room.= _Walter C. Smith._
=He thought the World to him was known, / Whereas he only knew the Town; / In men this blunder still you find, / All think their little set--Mankind.= _Hannah More._
=He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, / And whistled as he went, for want of thought.= _Dryden._
=He wants wit that wants resolved will.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 6.
=He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.= 20 _Swift._
=He was a man, take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; / But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He was exhaled; his great Creator drew / His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.= _Dryden._
=He was my friend, faithful and just to me.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet= 25 =Swan of Avon.= _Ben Jonson._
=He was perfumed like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=He was scant o' news that told that his father was hanged.= _Sc. Pr._
=He was the Word that spake it; / He took the bread and brake it; / And what that Word did make it, / I do believe and take it.= _Dr. Donne._
=He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He wha eats but= (only) =ae dish seldom needs= 30 =the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who asks a favour for another has the confidence which a sense of justice inspires; while he who solicits for himself experiences all the embarrassment and shame of one appealing for mercy.= _La Bruyère._
=He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.= _Pr._
=He who begins with trusting every one will end with estimating every one a knave.= _Hebbel._
=He who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited it.= _Schopenhauer._
=He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to= 35 =duty approaches sublimity.= _Lavater._
=He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can conceal his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He who can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity or disgrace them by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.= _Colton._
=He who cannot bear foes deserves no friend.= _Schafer._
=He who cannot profit you as a friend may at any time injure you as an enemy.= _Gellert._
=He who carries his heart on his tongue runs= 40 =the risk of expectorating it.= _Saar._
=He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.= _Amiel._
=He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.= _Pr._
=He who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish, but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much.= _Goethe._
=He who combines every defect will be more likely to find favour in the world than the man who is possessed of every virtue.= _Fr. Pr._
=He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness= 45 =must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.= _Hazlitt._
=He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.= _Plato._
=He who conforms to the rule which the genius of the human understanding whispers secretly in the ear of every new-born being, viz., to test action by thought and thought by action, cannot err; and if he errs, he will soon find himself again in the right way.= _Goethe._
=He who considers too much will accomplish little.= _Schiller._
=He who deals with honey will sometimes be licking his fingers.= _Pr._
=He who despises mankind will never get the= 50 =best out of either others or himself.= _Tocqueville._
=He who did well in war just earns the right / To begin doing well in peace.= _Browning._
=He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled; he who does a mean deed, is by the action itself contracted.= _Emerson._
=He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.= _Hare._
=He who does me good teaches me to be good.= _Pr._
=He who does not advance falls backward.= 5 _Amiel._
=He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line.= _Goethe._
=He who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; he who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels.= _Goethe._
=He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.= _Goethe._
=He who does not lose his wits over certain= 10 =matters has none to lose.= _Lessing._
=He who does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks.= _Goethe._
=He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.= _Goethe._
=He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world to the extremities of the ocean.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day.= _Carlyle._
=He who enquires into a matter has often= 15 =found more at a glance than he wished to find.= _Lessing._
=He who entereth uncalled for, unquestioned speaketh much, and regardeth himself with satisfaction, to his prince appeareth one of a weak judgment.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions he draws from them or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.= _Bulwer._
=He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.= _Epictetus._
=He who fears not death fears not threats.= _Corneille._
=He who fears nothing is not less powerful than= 20 =he whom all fear.= _Schiller._
=He who feeds the ravens / Will give His children bread.= _Cowper._
=He who feels he is right is stronger than king's hosts; he who doubts he is not right has no strength whatever.= _Carlyle._
=He who finds a God in the physical world will also find one in the moral, which is History.= _Jean Paul._
=He who formeth a connection with an honest man from his love of truth, will not suffer thereby.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who gives up the smallest part of a secret= 25 =has the rest no longer in his power.= _Jean Paul._
=He who goes alone may start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.= _Thoreau._
=He who has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, / And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.= _Ali Ben Abu Saleb_
="He who has been born has been a first man," has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself.= _Carlyle._
=He who has been once very foolish will never= 30 =be very wise.= _Montaigne._
=He who has done enough for the welfare= (_den Besten_) =of his own time has lived for all times.= _Schiller._
=He who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.= _Joubert._
=He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves.= _Lichtenberg._
=He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.= _Boiste._
=He who has love in his heart has spurs in his= 35 =heels.= _Pr._
=He who has made no mistakes in war has never made war.= _Turenne._
=He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He who has no ear for poetry is a barbarian, be he who he may.= _Goethe._
=He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.= _Klopstock._
=He who has no passions has no principle, nor= 40 =motive to act.= _Helvetius._
=He who has no vision of Eternity will never get a true hold of Time.= _Carlyle._
=He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first towards the laws, and next towards our elders.= _Plato._
=He who has not known poverty, sorrow, contradiction, and the rest, and learned from them the priceless lessons they have to teach, has missed a good opportunity of schooling.= _Carlyle._
=He who has not the weakness of friendship= 45 =has not the strength.= _Joubert._
=He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself.= _South._
=He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator.= _Goethe._
=He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short.= _Guicciardini._
=He who in any way shows us better than we= 50 =knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty--as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe?= _Carlyle._
=He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.= _Scott._
=He who, in opposition to his own happiness, delighteth in the accumulation of riches, carrieth burdens for others and is the vehicle of trouble.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.= _Plato._
=He who is a fool and knows it is not very far from being a wise man.= _J. B. (Selkirk)._
=He who is conscious of guilt cannot bear the= 5 =innocence of others: he tries to reduce other characters to his own level.= _C. Fox._
=He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another, merely because he tells more truth.= _Macaulay._
=He who is destitute of principles is governed, theoretically and practically, by whims.= _Jacobi._
=He who is firm in his will moulds the world to himself.= _Goethe._
=He who is good has no kind of envy.= _Plato._
=He who is in disgrace with the sovereign is= 10 =disrespected by all.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.= _Sir E. Brydges._
=He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.= _Rousseau._
=He who is moved to tears by every word of a priest is generally a weakling and a rascal when the feeling evaporates.= _Fr. v. Sallet._
=He who is not possessed of such a book as will dispel many doubts, point out hidden treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all things, is even an ignorant man.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is of no use to himself is of no use to= 15 =any one.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who is one with himself is everything.= _Auerbach._
=He who is only half instructed speaks much, and is always wrong; he who knows it wholly, is content with acting, and speaks seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=He who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom.= _Voltaire._
=He who is servant to= (_dient_) =the public is a poor animal= (_Thier_); =he torments himself, and nobody thanks him for it.= _Goethe._
=He who is suave with all= (_lieblich thun mit_ 20 _allen will_) =gets on with none: he pleases no one who tries to please thousands.= _Bodenstedt._
=He who is the master of all opinions never can be the bigot of any.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.= _Amiel._
=He who is weighty is willing to be weighed.= _Pr._
=He who is willing to work finds it hard to wait.= _Pr._
=He who knows himself well will very soon= 25 =learn to know all other men: it is all reflection= (_Zurückstrahlung_). _Lichtenberg._
=He who knows how to sunder jest and earnest is a wise man, and who by cheerful playfulness reinvigorates himself for strenuous diligence.= _Rückert._
=He who knows not the world, knows not his own place in it.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.= _Confucius._
=He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.= _Pr._
=He who laughs can commit no deadly sin.= 30 _Goethe's Mother._
=He who lays out for God lays up for himself.= _Pr._
=He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books.= _Saadi._
=He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow.= _Saadi._
=He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.= _Pr._
=He who lives, and strives, and suffers for others= 35 =dear to him, is to be envied; he who lives only for himself is poor.= _H. Lingg._
=He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose.= _Nevius._
=He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.= _Hazlitt._
=He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a friend loses more, who loses his spirits loses all.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.= _Emerson._
=He who loves not books before he comes to= 40 =thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterwards to understand them.= _Clarendon._
=He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He who makes claims= (_Ansprüche_), =shows by doing so that he has none to make.= _Seume._
=He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.= _Pr._
=He who makes religion his first object makes it his whole object.= _Ruskin._
=He who means to teach others may indeed= 45 =often suppress the best of what he knows, but he must not himself be half-instructed.= _Goethe._
=He who mistrusts humanity is quite as often deceived as he who trusts men.= _Jean Paul._
=He who mocks the infant's faith / Shall be mock'd in age and death.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who never in his life was foolish was never a wise man.= _Heine._
=He who obeys is almost always better than he who commands.= _Renan._
=He who offers God a second place offers Him= 50 =no place.= _Ruskin._
=He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.= _Holmes._
=He who overcomes his egoism rids himself of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.= _Cötvös._
=He who partakes in another's joys is more humane than he who partakes in his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He who parts with his property before his death may prepare himself for bitter experiences.= _Fr. Pr._
=He who pleased everybody died before he was born.= _Pr._
=He who praises everybody praises nobody.= 5 _Johnson._
=He who promises runs in debt.= _Talmud._
=He who reaches the goal receives the crown, and often he who deserves it goes without it.= _Goethe._
=He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit.= _Luther._
=He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy impotent patriots.= _Lavater._
=He who says, "I sought, yet I found not,"= 10 =be sure he lies; he who says, "I sought not and found," be sure he deceives; he who says, "I sought and found," him believe--he speaks true.= _Rückert._
=He who says what he likes must hear what he does not like.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself.= _Pr._
=He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.= _Goldsmith._
=He who seeks the truth should be of no country.= _Voltaire._
=He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth= 15 =a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He who sends mouths will send meat.= _Pr._
=He who serves God serves a good Master.= _Pr._
=He who serves the public serves a fickle master.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who serves under reason anticipates necessity.= _Herder._
=He who speaks sows; he who keeps silence= 20 =reaps.= _It. Pr._
=He who spends himself for all that is noble, and gains by nothing but what is just, will hardly be notably wealthy or distressfully poor.= _Plato._
=He who stays in the valley will never cross the mountain.= _Pr._
=He who steals an egg would steal an ox.= _Pr._
=He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.= _Claudian._
=He who tastes every man's broth often burns= 25 =his mouth.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.= _Pope._
=He who tells the failings of others to you will be ready to tell your failings to others.= _Turk. Pr._
=He who the sword of Heaven will bear / Should be as holy as severe.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=He who thinks for himself, and imitates rarely, is a free man.= _Klopstock._
=He who thinks his place below him will certainly= 30 =be below his place.= _Saville._
=He who thinks to save anything by his religion besides his soul will be a loser in the end.= _Bp. Barlow._
=He who thinks too much will accomplish little.= _Schiller._
=He who traces nothing of God in his own soul will never find God in the world of matter--mere circlings of force there of iron regulation, of universal death and merciless indifferency.= _Carlyle._
=He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.= _Emerson._
=He who trusts a secret to his servant makes= 35 =his own man his master.= _Dryden._
=He who waits for dead men's shoes may go barefoot.= _Pr._
=He who wants any help or prop, in addition to the internal evidences of its truth for his belief, never was and never will be a Christian.= _B. R. Haydon._
=He who wants everything must know many things, do many things to procure even a few; different from him whose indispensable knowledge is this only, that a finger will pull the bell!= _Carlyle._
=He who will be great must collect himself; only in restriction does the master show himself.= _Goethe._
=He who will deaden one half of his nature to= 40 =invigorate the other half will become at best a distorted prodigy.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=He who will do faithfully needs to believe firmly.= _Carlyle._
=He who will eat the nut must crack it.= _Frisian Pr._
=He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=He who will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.= _Solon._
=He who will work aright must not trouble= 45 =himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself.= _Goethe._
=He who wills all, wills in effect nothing, and brings it to nothing.= _Hegel._
=He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.= _Confucius._
=He who works with symbols merely is a pedant, a hypocrite, and a bungler.= _Goethe._
=He who would be everywhere will be nowhere.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who would bring home the wealth of the= 50 =Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would gather honey must brave the sting of the bees.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.= _Milton._
=He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees= 55 =a counterfeit.= _Dryden._
=He who would rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem.= _Milton, quoted by Carlyle._
=He whom God has gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=He whom God steers sails safely.= _Pr._
=He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is= 5 =unconquerable.= _Epictetus._
=He whom toil has braced or manly play, / As light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day.= _Thomson._
=He whose actions sink him even beneath the vulgar has no right to those distinctions which should be the reward only of merit.= _Goldsmith._
=He whose days are passed away without giving or enjoying, puffing like the bellows of a blacksmith, liveth but by breathing.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose goodness is part of himself is what is called a real man.= _Mencius._
=He whose sympathy goes lowest is the man= 10 =from whom kings have the most to fear.= _Emerson._
=He whose understanding can discern what is, and judge what should or should not be applied to prevent misfortune, never sinketh under difficulties.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose word and deed you cannot predict, who answers you without any supplication in his eye, who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly,--that man rules.= _Emerson._
=He whose work is on the highway will have many advisers.= _Sp. Pr._
=He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.= _Hazlitt._
=He will never set the Thames on fire.= _Pr._ 15
=He would fain fly, but wants wings.= _Pr._
=He works hard who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He wrought all kind of service with a noble ease / That graced the lowliest act in doing it.= _Tennyson._
=He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't perceive, / And he's a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.= _Wm. Blake._
=He's a man who dares to be / Firm for truth= 20 =when others flee.= _Pr._
=He's a silly body that's never missed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's a wise man wha can take care o' himsel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's armed without that's innocent within.= _Pope._
=He's idle that may be better employed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's looking for the blade o' corn in the stack= 25 =o' chaff.= _J. M. Barrie._
=He's most truly valiant / That can wisely suffer the worst that man / Can breathe; and make his wrongs his outsides: / To wear them like his raiment, carelessly, / And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, / To bring it into danger.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=He's only great who can himself command.= _Lansdowne._
=He's well worth= (deserving of) =sorrow that buys it with his ain siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's wise that's wise in time.= _Sc. Pr._
=Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.= _Com._ 30 _of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.= _Spectator._
=Health consists with temperance alone.= _Pope._
=Health is better than wealth.= _Pr._
=Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness--an open and noble temper.= _Emerson._
=Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness= 35 =gives us the energy which is the basis of health.= _Amiel._
=Health lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Health, longevity, beauty are other names for personal purity, and temperance is the regimen for all.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Healthy action is always a balance of forces; and all extremes are dangerous; the excess of a good thing being often more dangerous in its social consequences than the excess of what is radically bad.= _Prof. Blackie, to Young Men._
=Hear God, and God will hear you.= _Pr._
=Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That= 40 =summons thee to heaven or to hell.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Hear much and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in this world.= _Raleigh._
=Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear.= _Haliburton._
=Hear ye not the hum / Of mighty workings?= _Keats._
=Hearsay is half lies.= _Pr._
=Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the= 45 =softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.= _Jean Paul._
=Hearts are stronger than swords.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Hearts grow warmer the farther you go / Up to the North with its hills and snow.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Hearts may agree though heads differ.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hearts philanthropic at times have the trick / Of the old hearts of stone.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from= 50 =the grave of desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=Heat and darkness, and what these two may breed.= _Carlyle._
=Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.= _Dante._
=Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it doth singe yourself.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at all without them.= _James Martineau._
=Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair= 55 =maid= (Juliet); =now heaven hath all.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Heaven bestows / At home all riches that wise Nature needs.= _Cowley._
=Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, / Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike / As if we had them not.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 1.
=Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 3.
=Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, / All but the page prescribed--their present state.= _Pope._
=Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.= _Congreve._
=Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.= _Bp. Hall._
=Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge /= 5 =That no king can corrupt.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 1.
=Heaven is as near by sea as by land.= _Pr._
=Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy heart.= _Arndt._
=Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.= _Quarles._
=Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, / But most chastises those whom most He likes.= _Pomfret._
=Heaven lies about us in our infancy.= _Wordsworth._ 10
=Heaven never helps the man that will not act.= _Sophocles._
=Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.= _Corneille._
=Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools, but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable snares.= _Ruskin._
=Heaven's above all; and there be souls that= 15 =must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful wise, / Your few important days of trial here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise / Through endless states of being, still more near / To bliss approaching, and perfection clear.= _Thomson._
=Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that man of man should ever stand in need.= _Theocritus._
=Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with folly's breath.= _Quarles._
=Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.= _Daniel Webster._
=Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap= 20 =a thing were virtue!= _Thomson._
=Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself that hideous sight--a naked human heart.= _Young._
=Heav'n finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is for thee too high; be lowly wise.= _Milton._
=Heav'n is not always got by running.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated.= 25 _Quarles._
=Hebt mich das Glück, so bin ich froh, / Und sing in dulci jubilo; / Senkt sich das Rad und quetscht mich nieder, / So denk' ich: nun, es hebt sich wieder=--When Fortune lifts me up, then am I glad and sing in sweet exultation; when she sinks down and lays me prostrate, then I begin to think, Now it will rise again. _Goethe._
=Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troja fuisset? / Publica virtuti per mala facta via est=--Who would have known of Hector if Troy had been fortunate? A highway is open to virtue through the midst of misfortunes. _Ovid._
=Hectors Liebe stirbt im Lethe nicht=--Hector's love does not perish in the floods of Lethe. _Schiller._
=Hedges between keep friendship green.= _Pr._
=Hedgerows and Hercules-pillars, however perfect,= 30 =are to be reprobated as soon as they diminish the free world of a future man.= _Jean Paul._
=Heilig sei dir der Tag; doch schätze das Leben nicht höher / Als ein anderes Gut, und alle Güter sind trüglich=--Sacred be this day to thee, yet rate not life higher than another good, for all our good things are illusory. _Goethe._
=Hei mihi! difficile est imitari gaudia falsa! / Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--Ah me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not feel, hard to feign mirth when one's heart is sad. _Tib._
=Hei mihi! qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab illo / Hectore, qui redit, exuvias indutus Achilli=--Ah me, how sad he looked! how changed from that Hector who returned in triumph arrayed in the spoils of Achilles. _Virg._
=Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke / Nun, man kommt wohl eine Strecke=--Serene sense and pure aims, that means a long stride, I should say. _Goethe._
="Hélas! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles"=--"Alas, 35 how many young girls have I seen die of that!" _Victor Hugo._
=Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of men are never satisfied.= _Bible._
=Hell is on both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Hell is paved with good intentions.= _Johnson._
=Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.= _Modified from St. Chrysostom._
=Hell lies near, / Around us, as does heaven,= 40 =and in the world, / Which is our Hades, still the chequered souls, / Compact of good and ill--not all accurst, / Nor altogether blest--a few brief years / Travel the little journey of their lives, / They know not to what end.= _Lewis Morris._
=Helluo librorum=--A devourer of books.
=Help others and seek to avenge no injury.= _Fors._
=Help which is long on the road is no help.= _Pr._
=Help yourself and your friends will help you.= _Pr._
=Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy= 45 =thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy.= _Jean Paul._
=Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again.= _Colley Cibber._
=Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the shady place.= _Spenser._
=Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the light; / But oh! she dances such a way, / No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine a sight.= _Sir J. Suckling._
=Her own person, / It beggar'd all description.= _Ant. and Cleop._, ii. 2.
=Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.= _Bible._
=Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low--an excellent thing in woman.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And= 5 =many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness; / Here is all fulness, / Ye brave, to reward you. / Work and despair not.= _Goethe._
=Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.= _St. Paul._
=Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, / Controlment for controlment.= _King John_, i. 1.
=Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=Here I lay, and thus I bore my point.= 1 _Hen._ 10 _IV._, ii. 4-.
=Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.= _J. Montgomery._
=Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, / For here Johnny Pigeon had nane.= _Burns._
=Here lies one whose name was writ in water.= _Keat's epitaph._
=Here lies our sovereign lord the king, / Whose word no man relies on; / He never says a foolish thing, / Nor ever does a wise one.= _Rochester on Charles II.'s chamber-door._
=Here lieth one, believe it if you can, / Who,= 15 =though an attorney, was an honest man!= _Epitaph._
=Here, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done.= _Carlyle._
=Here or nowhere is America.= _Goethe._
=Here our souls / Though amply blest, / Can never find, although they seek, / A perfect rest.= _Procter._
=Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Here's a sigh for those who love me, / And a= 20 =smile for those who hate, / And whatever sky's above me, / Here's a heart for every fate.= _Byron._
=Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, / Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?= _Byron._
=Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.= _Plato._
=Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, / From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.= _Pope._
=Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.= _Emerson._
=Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul= 25 =over fear; fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation and death.... It is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.= _Amiel._
=Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.= _Hare._
=Heroism, the Divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.= _Carlyle._
=Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist, universally among mankind.= _Carlyle._
=Herradura que chacotea clavo le falta=--A clattering hoof means a nail gone. _Sp. Pr._
=Herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht=--Even 30 the most emancipated is not without a master. _Schiller._
=Herrschaft gewinn ich, Eigentum; / Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm=--Lordship, aye ownership, is my conquest; the deed is everything, the fame of it nothing. _Goethe._
=Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte meâ!=--Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! _Ovid._
=Heu nihil invitis fas quenquam fidere divis=--Alas! it is not permitted to any one to feel confident when the gods are adverse. _Virg._
=Heu pietas! Heu prisca fides=--Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! _Virg._
=Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere= 35 =vultu!=--Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! _Ovid._
=Heu! quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!=--Alas! how difficult is the custody of glory. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu! quam miserum est ab eo lædi, de quo non ausis queri=--Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit!=--Ah! with what a weight of destiny is this one slight plank freighted! _Ovid._
=Heu! totum triduum!=--What! three whole days of waiting! _Ter._
=Heureka=--I have found it out. _Gr._ 40
=Heureux commencement est la moitié de l'œuvre=--A work well begun is half done. _Fr. Pr._
=Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen=--To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. _Ger. Pr._
=Heute roth, Morgen todt=--- To-day red, to-morrow dead. _Ger. Pr._
=Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta / Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent=--These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. _Virg._
=Hiatus maxime deflendus=--A deficiency or blank 45 very much to be deplored.
=Hibernicis ipsis hibernior=--More Irish than the Irish themselves.
=Hic dies, vere mihi festus, atras / Eximet curas=--This day, for me a true holiday, shall banish gloomy cares. _Hor._
=Hic est aut nusquam quod quærimus=--Here or else nowhere is what we are aiming at. _Hor._
=Hic est mucro defensionis tuæ=--This is the point of your defence. _Cic._
=Hic et nunc=--Here and now. 50
=Hic et ubique=--Here and everywhere.
=Hic finis fandi=--Here let the conversation end.
=Hic funis nihil attraxit=--This bait has taken no fish; this scheme has not answered. _Pr._
=Hic gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, / Hic nemus, hic toto tecum consumerer ævo=--Here are cool springs, Lycoris, here velvet meads, here a grove; here with thee could I pass my whole life. _Virg._
=Hic hæret aqua!=--This is the difficulty (_lit._ here 5 the water (in the water-clock) stops).
=Hic jacet=--Here lies.
=Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas=--This is the spot where the way divides in two branches. _Virg._
=Hic murus aheneus esto, / Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa=--Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of no guilt, to turn pale at no charge brought against us. _Hor._
=Hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto=--This fellow is black; have a care of him, Roman. _Hor._
=Hic nigræ succus loliginis, hæc est / Ærugo= 10 =mera=--This is the very venom of dark detraction; this is pure malignity. _Hor._
=Hic patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--Here is a field open for talent, and here merit will have certain favour, and industry be graced with its due reward. _Claud._
=Hic Rhodos, hic salta=--Here is Rhodes; here leap.
=Hic rogo, non furor est ne moriare mori?=--I ask, is it not madness to die that you may not die? _Mart._
=Hic situs est Phaëton currus auriga paterni; / Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis=--Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of his father's car, which if he did not manage, still he perished in a great attempt. _Ovid._
=Hic transitus efficit magnum vitæ compendium=--This 15 change effects a great saving of time (_lit._ life).
=Hic ubi nunc urbs est, tum locus urbis erat=--Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. _Ovid._
=Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus æstas=--Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and summer in months in which summer is alien. _Virg._
=Hic victor cæstus artemque repono=--Here victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net. _Virg._
=Hic vigilans somniat=--He sleeps awake. _Plaut._
=Hic vivimus ambitiosa / Paupertate omnes=--We 20 all live here in a state of ostentatious poverty. _Juv._
=Hid jewels are but lost.= _Quarles._
=Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein=--Here am I a man, here may I be one. _Goethe._
=Hier ist die Zeit durch Thaten zu beweisen, / Dass Manneswürde nicht der Götterhöhe weicht=--Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. _Goethe._
=Hier ist keine Heimat--Jeder treibt / Sich an dem andern rasch und fremd vorüber, / Und fragt nicht nach seinem Schmerz=--Here is no home for a man: every one drives past another hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after his pain. _Schiller._
=Hier sitz' ich auf Rasen mit Veilchen bekränzt=--Here 25 sit I upon the sward wreathed with violets. _K. Schmidt._
=Hier stehe ich! Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir! Amen=--Here stand I. I cannot act otherwise. So help me God! _Luther at the Diet of Worms._
=Hier steht einer, der wird mich rächen=--Here stands one who will avenge me. _Frederick William of Prussia, pointing to his son._
=High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=High birth is an accident, not a virtue.= _Metastasio._
=High erected thoughts seated in the heart of= 30 =courtesy.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=High houses are usually empty in the upper storey.= _Ger. Pr._
=High is the head of the stag on the mountain crag.= _Gael. Pr._
=High station has to be resigned in order to be appreciated.= _Pascal._
=Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus=--Virtue may be gay, yet with dignity. _Statius._
=Hilft Gott uns nicht, kein Kaiser kann uns= 35 =helfen=--God helps us not; no emperor can. _Schiller._
=Hills peep o'er hills; and alps on alps arise.= _Pope._
=Hilo y aguja, media vestidura=--Needle and thread are half clothing. _Sp. Pr._
=Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, / Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, / Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends.= _Wordsworth._
=Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will eat.= _Arab. Pr._
=Hin ist die Zeit, da Bertha spann=--Gone is the 40 time when Queen Bertha span. _Ger. Pr._
=Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren=--Gone is gone! Lost is lost. _G. A. Bürger._
=Hinc illæ lachrymæ=--Hence these tears. _Virg._
=Hinc lucem et pocula sacra=--Hence light to us and sacred draughts. _M. of Cambridge University._
=Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum=--To them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to them the issue. _Hor._
=Hinc subitæ mortes atque intestata senectus=--Hence 45 (from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths and intestate old age. _Juv._
=Hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem=--Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. _Virg._
=Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile bellum=--Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many. _Lucan._
=Hinc venti dociles resono se carcere solvunt, / Et cantum accepta pro libertate rependunt=--Hence the obedient winds are loosed from their sounding prison, and repay the liberty they have received with a tune. _Of an organ._
=His bark is waur nor= (worse than) =his bite.= _Sc. Pr._
=His Christianity was muscular.= _Disraeli._ 50
=His failings lean'd to virtue's side.= _Goldsmith._
=His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.= _As You Like It_, iii. 4.
=His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.= _Macaulay._
=His lachrymis vitam damus, et miserescimus ultro=--To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. _Virg._
=His legibus solutis respublica stare non potest=--With these laws repealed, the republic cannot last. _Cic._
=His life was gentle, and the elements / So= 5 =mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, / And say to all the world: This was a man!= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=His nature is too noble for the world; / He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, / or Jove for his power to thunder.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 2.
=His nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt=--Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. _Ter._
=His opinion who does not see spiritual agency in history is not worth any man's reading.= _Wm. Blake._
=His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.= _Pub. Syr._
=His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last, / For= 10 =violent fires soon outburn themselves.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani munere=--These offerings at least I would bestow upon him, and discharge a duty though it no longer avails. _Virg._
=His speech was like a tangled chain; / Nothing impaired, but all disordered.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=His thoughts look through his words.= _Ben Jonson._
=His time is for ever, everywhere his place.= _Cowley._
=His tongue could make the worse appear the= 15 =better reason.= _Milton._
=His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._
=His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes up the stair.= _W. J. Mickle._
=His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home.= _Cowper._
=His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat=--History, 20 however written, is always a pleasure to us. _Pliny._
=Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.= _Carlyle._
=Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.= _Bacon._
=History and experience prove that the most passionate characters are the most fanatically rigid in their feelings of duty, when their passion has been trained to act in that direction.= _J. S. Mill._
=History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.= _Carlyle._
=History ensures for youth the understanding= 25 =of the ancients.= _Diodorus._
=History has only to do with what is true, and what is only probable should be relegated to the imaginary domain of romance and poetical fiction.= (?)
=History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.= _Shelley._
=History is always written= _ex post facto_.
=History is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.= _Emerson._
=History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned= 30 =psalm and prophecy.= _Carlyle._
=History is but a fable agreed on.= _Napoleon._
=History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.= _Garfield._
=History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.= _Gibbon._
=History is like sacred writing, for truth is essential to it.= _Cervantes._
=History is made up of the bad actions of= 35 =extraordinary men. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions, have been extraordinary men, and nine-tenths of the calamities which have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.= _Macaulay._
=History is only a confused heap of facts.= _Chesterfield._
=History is philosophy teaching by examples.= _Quoted by Bolingbroke._
=History is properly nothing but a satire on mankind.= _C. J. Weber._
=History is the true poetry.= _Carlyle._
=History shows that the majority of the men= 40 =who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.= _Heine._
=History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution; if not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.= _J. S. Mill._
=Hitch your waggon to a star.= _Emerson._
=Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by thought, and henceforth innumerable will be wrought; whereof we, even in these days, witness some.= _Carlyle._
=Hitherto doth love on fortune tend; / For who not needs, shall never lack a friend; / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, / Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and= 45 =here shall thy proud waves be stayed.= _Bible._
=Hizonos Dios, y maravillámonos nos=--God made us, and we admire ourselves. _Sp. Pr._
=Hobbes clearly proves that every creature / Lives in a state of war by nature.= _Swift._
="Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.= _Johnson._
=Hoc age=--Mind what you are about (_lit._ do this).
=Hoc erat in more majorum=--This was the custom 50 of our forefathers.
=Hoc erat in votis; modus agri non ita magnus; / Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus juris aquæ fons, / Et paulum silvæ super his foret=--This was ever my chief prayer: a piece of ground not too large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing water near my house, and a little woodland besides. _Hor._
=Hoc est quod palles? cur quis non prandeat, hoc est?=--Is it for this you look so pale? is this a reason why one should not dine? _Pers._
=Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui=--To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice. _Martial._
=Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque fluxit=--From this source the disaster flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the people. _Hor._
=Hoc genus omne=--All persons of that kind. 5
=Hoc Herculi Iovis satu edito' potuit fortasse contingere, nobis non item=--This might perchance happen to Hercules, of the seed royal of Jove, but not to us. _Cic._
=Hoc loco=--In this place.
=Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisquis maxime opus indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari=--It is our prime duty to aid him first who most stands in need of our assistance. _Cic._
=Hoc opus, hic labor est=--This is a work, this is a toil. _Virg._
=Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium /= 10 =Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu=--It is a father's duty to accustom his son to act rightly of his own free-will rather than from fear of the consequences. _Ter._
=Hoc pretium ob stultitiam fero=--This reward I gain for my folly. _Ter._
=Hoc scito, nimio celerius / Venire quod molestum est, quam id quod cupide petas=--Be sure of this, that that which is disagreeable comes more speedily than that which you eagerly desire. _Plaut._
=Hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) you will conquer. _M._
=Hoc virtutis opus=--This is virtue's work. _M._
=Hoc volo, hoc jubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas=--This 15 I wish, this I require: be my will instead of reason. _Juv._
=Hodie mihi, cras tibi=--My turn to-day, yours to-morrow.
=Hodie nihil, cras credo=--To-morrow I will trust, not to-day. _Varro._
=Hodie vivendum amissa præteritorum cura=--Let us live to-day, forgetting the cares that are past. _An Epicurean maxim._
=Hoi polloi=--The multitude. _Gr._
=Hoist up the sail while gale doth last--/ Tide= 20 =and wind wait no man's pleasure! / Seek not time when time is past--/ Sober speed is wisdom's leisure!= _Southwell._
=Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven is raining gold.= _Eastern Pr._
=Hold the living dear and honour the dead.= _Goethe._
=Hold their farthing candle to the sun.= _Young, of critics._
=Hold thou the good; define it well.= _Tennyson._
=Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high /= 25 =Will brook the wind when lower tapers die.= _Quarles._
=Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Holy men at their death have good inspirations.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=Hombre de barba=--A man of intelligence. _Sp._
=Hombre pobre todo es trazas=--A poor man is all schemes. _Sp. Pr._
=Home, in one form or another, is the great= 30 =object of life.= _J. G. Holland._
=Home is heaven for beginners.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Home is home, be it never so homely.= _Pr._
=Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.= _Ruskin._
=Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Home, the nursery of the infinite.= _Channing._ 35
=Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 1.
=Homer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance, if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller and smaller, like a receding star. It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that 'twas a sun.... For all things, even celestial luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline.= _Carlyle._
=Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius / Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat=--Nothing so unjust as your ignorant man, who thinks nothing right but what he himself has done. _Ter._
=Hominem non odi sed ejus vitia=--I do not hate the man, but his vices. _Mart._
=Hominem pagina nostra sapit=--My pages concern 40 man. _Mart._
=Hominem quæro=--I am in quest of a man. _Phædr. after Diogenes._
=Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando=--In nothing do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving health to men. _Cic._
=Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt: longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla=--Men trust their eyes rather than their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere=--By doing nothing men learn to do ill. _Cato._
=Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam= 45 =in suo=--Men see better into other people's business than their own. _Sen._
=Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem=--Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. _Cic._
=Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora=--The more men have, the more they want. _Justin._
=Homini necesse est mori=--Man must die. _Cic._
=Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis absumpseres=--Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, _i.e._, known him so long as you might have done so. _Pr._
=Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum=--Full of men, vacant of friends. _Sen._
=Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare=--It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.
=Hominum sententia fallax=--The opinions of men are fallible. _Ovid._
=Homme assailli à demi vaincu=--A man assailed is half overpowered. _Fr._
=Homme chiche jamais riche=--A niggardly man 5 is always poor. _Fr. Pr._
=Homme d'affaires=--A business man. _Fr._
=Homme d'esprit=--A witty man. _Fr._
=Homme d'état=--A statesman. _Fr._
=Homme d'honneur=--A man of honour. _Fr._
=Homme instruit=--A learned or literary man. 10 _Fr._
=Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et oculeus totus=--A man more clear-sighted for business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all over. _Apul._
=Homo antiqua virtute ac fide=--A man of the old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. _Ter._
=Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab omni materiæ concretione sejuncta=--Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. _Cic._
=Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet=--A learned man has always riches in himself. _Phædr._
=Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur=--A 15 man when angry is beside himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur=--The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Homo homini aut deus aut lupus=--Man is to man either a god or a wolf. _Erasmus._
=Homo is a common name to all men.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 1.
=Homo multarum literarum=--A man of many letters, _i.e._, of extensive learning.
=Homo multi consilii et optimi=--A man always 20 ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.
=Homo nullius coloris=--A man of no party.
=Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, / Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; / Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit=--He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. _Cic._
=Homo solus aut deus aut demon=--Man alone is either a god or a devil.
=Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto=--I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. _Ter._
=Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos=--A 25 man dies as often as he loses his relatives. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo trium literarum=--A man of three letters, _i.e._, FUR, "a thief." _Plaut._
=Homo unius libri=--A man of one book. _Thomas Aquinas' definition of a learned man._
=Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito=--What poor creatures we men are, when I think of it. _Plaut._
=Honest labour bears a lovely face.= _T. Dekker._
=Honest men marry soon, wise men never.= _Sc._ 30 _Pr._
=Honesta mors turpi vita potior=--An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. _Tac._
=Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ=--Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. _Pr._
=Honesta quædam scelera successus facit=--Success makes some species of crimes honourable. _Sen._
=Honesta quam splendida=--Honourable rather than showy. _M._
=Honestum non est semper quod licet=--What is 35 lawful is not always honourable. _L._
=Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo laudatur, laudabile est sua natura=--That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. _Cic._
=Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Honesty is the best policy.= _Pr._
=Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding.= _Pr._
=Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be= 40 =an ill pennyworth.= _Sc. Pr._
=Honi soit qui mal y pense=--Evil be to him that evil thinks. _Royal M. Fr._
=Honnêtes gens=--Upright people. _Fr._
=Honneur et patrie=--Honour and country. _M._
=Honor Deo=--Honour be to God. _M._
=Honor est præmium virtutis=--Honour is the 45 reward of virtue. _Cic._
=Honor fidelitatis præmium=--Honour is the reward of fidelity. _M._
=Honor sequitur fugientem=--Honour follows him who flies from her. _M._
=Honores mutant mores=--Honours change manners.
=Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad studia gloria=--Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. _Cic._
=Honour a physician with the honour due unto= 50 =him for the uses which ye may have of him, for the Lord hath created him.= _Ecclus._
=Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.= _Pr._
=Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour is a mere scutcheon.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=Honour is nobler than gold.= _Gael. Pr._
=Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail= 55 =behind which the virtues fight more securely.= _G. H. Calvert._
=Honour is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.= _Colton._
=Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris.= _Emerson._
=Honour to whom honour is due.= _St. Paul._
=Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Honour won't patch.= _Gael. Pr._ 60
=Honourable= (_Ehrlich_) =is a word of high rank, and implies much more than most people attach to it.= _Arndt._
=Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight.= _Sterne._
=Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.= _Goldsmith, of himself._
=Honour's the moral conscience of the great.= _D'Avenant._
=Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris=--Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. _La Font._
=Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.= _Bible._ 5
=Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 1.
=Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip.= _Pr._
=Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker.= _Amer. Pr._
=Hope is a waking man's dream.= _Pr._ 10
=Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.= _Johnson._
=Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion.= _Haliburton._
=Hope is the best part of our riches.= _Bovee._
=Hope is the only good which is common to all men.= _Thales._
=Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection= 15 =is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun.= _Jean Paul._
=Hope never comes that comes to all.= _Milton._
=Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas.= _Emerson._
=Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away.= _Johnson._
=Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure.= _Cowley._
=Hope springs eternal in the human breast; /= 20 =Man never is, but always to be, blest.= _Pope._
=Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.= _Burns._
=Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.= _Quoted by Swinburne._
=Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope enjoyed.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing things.= _Goethe._
=Hora e sempre=--Now and always. _M._ 25
=Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni, nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur=--Hours and days, months and years, pass away, and time once past never returns. _Cic._
=Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta=--In a moment of time comes sudden death or joyful victory. _Hor._
=Horas non numero nisi serenas=--I mark no hours but the shining ones. _Of a dial._
=Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; / Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes=--As ants never bend their way to empty barns, so no friend will visit departed wealth. _Ovid._
=Horresco referens=--I shudder as I relate. _Virg._ 30
=Horribile dictu=--Horrible to relate.
=Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent=--Everywhere horror seizes the soul, and the very silence is dreadful. _Virg._
=Horror vacui=--Abhorrence of a vacuum.
=Hors de combat=--Out of condition to fight. _Fr._
=Hors de propos=--Not to the purpose. _Fr._ 35
=Hortus siccus=--A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.
=Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur=--These are encouraged by success; they prevail because they think they can. _Virg._
=Hospice d'accouchement=--A maternity hospital. _Fr._
=Hospice d'allaitement=--A foundling hospital. _Fr._
=Hospitality must be for service, not for show,= 40 =or it pulls down the host.= _Emerson._
=Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum datur=--The wife who is given in marriage to a man against her will becomes his enemy. _Plaut._
=Hostis honori invidia=--Envy is honour's foe. _M._
=Hôtel de ville=--A town-hall. _Fr._
=Hôtel Dieu=--The house of God; the name of an hospital. _Fr._
=Household words.= _Hen. V._, iv. 3. 45
=Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without a light.= _Pr._
=Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.= _Bacon._
=How are riches the means of happiness? In acquiring they create trouble, in their loss they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause of endless divisions amongst kindred!= _Hitopadesa._
=How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation without end!= _Jean Paul._
=How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, /= 50 =With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.= _Longfellow._
=How beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust.= _Carlyle._
=How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!= _As You Like It_, v. 2.
=How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great.= _Carlyle, apropos to his life at Craigenputtock._
=How blessings brighten as they take their flight!= _Young._
=How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth, and state, / Can never make them eerie.= _Burns._
=How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?= _Confucius._
=How can he be godly who is not cleanly?= _Pr._
=How can man love but what he yearns to help?= _Browning._
=How can we expect a harvest of thought= 5 =who have not had a seed-time of character?= _Thoreau._
=How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=How charming is divine philosophy!= _Milton._
=How creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors.= _Carlyle._
=How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.= _B. R. Haydon._
=How dire is love when one is so tortured; and= 10 =yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves.= _Goethe._
=How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower.= _Watts._
=How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As though to breathe were life.= _Tennyson._
=How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed!= _Mme. Necker._
=How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How fast has brother followed / From sunshine= 15 =to the sunless land.= _Wordsworth._
=How few think justly of the thinking few; / How many never think, who think they do!= _Jane Taylor._
=How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour!= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How forcible are right words!= _Bible._
=How fortunate beyond all others is the man who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to cast away his whole preceding life!= _Goethe._
=How full of briers is this working-day world!= 20 _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=How glorious a character appears when it is penetrated with mind and soul.= _Goethe._
=How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul, and the senses for ever in joy!= _Browning._
=How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away!= _Gay._
=How happy is he born or taught / That serveth not another's will; / Whose armour is his honest thought, / And simple truth his utmost skill.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! /= 25 =The world forgetting, by the world forgot.= _Pope._
=How happy is the prince who has counsellors near him who can guard him against the effects of his own angry passions; their names shall be read in golden letters when the history of his reign is perused.= _Scott._
=How happy should we be ... / If we from self could rest, / And feel at heart that One above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, / Is working for the best!= _Anstice._
=How hard it is= (for the Byron, for the Burns), =whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to "take no counsel with flesh and blood," and instead of living and writing for the day that passes over them, live and write for the eternity that rests and abides over them!= _Carlyle._
=How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again!= _Anon._
=How hardly shall they who have riches enter= 30 =into the kingdom of God!= _Jesus._
=How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester.= 2 _Hen. IV._, v. 5.
=How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!= _Carlyle._
=How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All?= _Jean Paul._
=How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning.= _Swift._
=How little do the wantonly or idly officious= 35 =think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings!= _Burns._
=How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.= _Ovid._
=How long halt ye between two opinions?= _Bible._
=How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd!= _Burns._
=How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=How many causes that can plead for themselves= 40 =in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter!= _Carlyle._
=How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!= _Middleton._
=How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day!= _Rousseau._
=How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!= _Holmes._
=How many people make themselves abstract= 45 =to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum.= _Joubert._
=How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection!= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom!= _Ter._
=How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!= _Cowper._
=How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!= _Bible._
=How much better it is to weep at joy than to= 5 =joy at weeping!= _Much Ado_, i. 4.
=How much easier it is to be generous than just!= _Junius._
=How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.= _Carlyle._
=How much the wife is dearer than the bride!= _Lyttelton._
=How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.= _Jean Paul._
=How noble is heroic insight without words in= 10 =comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight!= _Carlyle._
=How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will.= _Carlyle._
=How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want!= _Spenser._
=How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.= _Mrs. Carlyle._
=How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable?= _Carlyle._
=How poor are they that have not patience! /= 15 =What wound did ever heal but by degrees?= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful is man!= _Young._
=How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!= _Pope, after Homer._
=How quick to know, but how slow to put in practice, is the human creature!= _Goethe._
=How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=How rarely reason guides the stubborn= 20 =choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts the suppliant voice.= _Johnson._
=How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship is like the idolatry of barbarous nations, who can see the noonday splendour of the sun without emotion, but who, when he is in eclipse, come forward with hymns and cymbals to adore him.= _Canning._
=How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But none enquire if good he be or no.= _Herrick._
=How sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs!= _Dante._
=How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun!= _Young._
=How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or= 25 =draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?= _Emerson._
=How shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?= _Carlyle._
=How shall we know whether you are in earnest, if the deed does not accompany the word?= _Schiller._
=How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=How small a part of time they share / That are so wondrous sweet and fair!= _E. Waller._
=How small, of all that human hearts endure, /= 30 =That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.= _Johnson._
=How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How should thy virtue be above the shocks and shakings of temptation, when even the angels kept not their first estate, and man in Paradise so soon fell from innocence?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears!= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=How soon "not now" becomes "never!"= _Luther._
=How sour sweet music is, when time is broke= 35 =and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.
=How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose to grace harmony!= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from a stranger's mouth!= _Goethe._
=How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done!= _King John_, iv. 2.
=How the world wags!= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 40
=How they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven!= _Carlyle, on the stars._
=How use doth breed habit in a man!= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness denied / To aught but virtue!= _Shelley._
=How we clutch at shadows= (in this dream-world) =as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake!= _Carlyle._
=How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /= 45 =Seem to me all the uses of this world.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=How well he's read, to reason against reading!= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.= _Carlyle._
=How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful.= _Shelley._
=How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too!= _Decay of Piety._
=How wretched is the man that hangs on by the favours of the great!= _Burns._
=Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble= 5 =to be good. / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
=However, an old song, though to a proverb an instance of insignificance, is generally the only coin a poet has to pay with.= _Burns._
=However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.= _La Roche._
=However far a man goes, he must start from his own door.= _Pr._
=However varied the forms of destiny, the same element are always present.= _Schopenhauer._
=Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved= 10 =with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds traverse the axis of the earth.= _Schiller._
=Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite=--Come near me all in order, and I will convince you that you are mad, every one. _Hor._
=Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis=--This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour. _Nep., of Themistocles._
=Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque ageret=--This man's genius was so versatile, so equal to every pursuit, that you would pronounce him to have been born for whatever thing he was engaged on. _Livy, on the elder Cato._
=Human action is a seed of circumstances= (_Verhängnissen_) =scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny.= _Schiller._
=Human beliefs, like all other natural growths,= 15 =elude the barriers of system.= _George Eliot._
=Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.= _Swift._
=Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity.= _Gen. Lee._
=Human creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will.= _Carlyle._
=Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.= _Sen._
=Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the= 20 =exact summary of human worth.= _Carlyle._
=Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable.= _W. Winter._
=Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.= _Greville._
=Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer.= _S. Osgood._
=Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.= _Johnson._
=Human life is more governed by fortune than= 25 =by reason.= _Hume._
=Human nature in its fulness is necessarily human; without love, it is inhuman; without sense= (_nous_), =inhuman; without discipline, inhuman.= _Ruskin._
=Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence, but a spirit / Diffused through time and space.= _Wordsworth._
=Human nature= (_Menschheit_) =we owe to father and mother, but our humanity= (_Menschlichkeit_) =we owe to education.= _Weber._
=Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.= _Luther._
=Human society is made up of partialities.= 30 _Emerson._
=Humani nihil alienum=--Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. _M._
=Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel=--Be humanity evermore our goal. _Goethe._
=Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque pœnas oppetit superbiæ=--He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. _Phædr._
=Humanity is about the same all the world over.= _Donn Piatt._
=Humanity is better than gold.= _Goldsmith._ 35
=Humanity is constitutionally lazy.= _J. G. Holland._
=Humanity is great but men are small.= _Börne._
=Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.= _Jean Paul._
=Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured of his sores will Dives be safe.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity= 40 =of a man.= _Adam Smith._
=Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est=--It is natural to love, and it is natural also to forgive. _Plaut._
=Humanum est errare=--To err is human.
=Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity.= _St. Augustine._
=Humbleness is always grace, always dignity.= _Lowell._
=Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident=--The 45 humble are in danger when those in power disagree. _Phædr._
=Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.= _Collier._
=Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.= _Selden._
=Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.= _Confucius._
=Humility, that low, sweet root / From which= 5 =all heavenly virtues shoot.= _Moore._
=Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not.= _Coleridge._
=Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity.= _Henry Giles._
=Humour is properly the exponent of low= 10 =things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is the mistress of tears.= _Thackeray._
=Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.= _Ruskin._
=Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy.= _Pr._
=Hunger is a good cook.= _Gael. Pr._ 15
=Hunger is the best sauce.= _Pr._
=Hunger will break through stone walls.= _Pr._
=Hungry bellies have no ears.= _Pr._
=Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.= _Wordsworth._
=Hunters generally know the most vulnerable= 20 =part of the beast they pursue by the care which every animal takes to defend the side which is weakest.= _Goldsmith._
=Hunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.= _Johnson._
=Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios=--To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. _Sp. Pr._
=Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it.= _Pr._
=Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Hypotheses non fingo=--I frame no hypotheses. 25 _Sir Isaac Newton._
[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]--Justice is simple, truth easy. _Lycurgus._
=Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt=--Hypotheses are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep. _Goethe._
=Hysteron proteron=--The last first, or the cart before the horse. _Gr._