M.
=Ma vie est un combat=--My life is a battle. _Voltaire._
=Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; / Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Mach' dich nicht zu hoch, die Thür ist niedrig=--Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. _Ger. Pr._
=Mach' es Wenigen recht: Vielen gefallen ist= 30 =schlimm=--Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. _Schiller._
=Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness.= _Ruskin._
=Macht, was ihr wollt; nur lasst mich ungeschoren=--Produce what ye like, only leave me unmolested (_lit._ unshorn). _Goethe._
=Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte=--Mighty in deeds, not in words. _Ger. Pr._
=Macies et nova febrium / Terris incubuit cohors=--A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. _Hor._
=Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra=--Go 35 on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. _Virg._
=Macte virtute=--Persevere in virtue; go on and prosper.
=Macte virtute diligentiaque esto=--Persevere in virtue and diligence. _Livy._
=Maculæ quas incuria fudit=--The blemishes, or errors, which carelessness has produced. _Hor._
=Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread.= _Pr._
=Mad dogs cannot live long.= _Pr._ 40
=Mad people think others mad.= _Pr._
=Madame fut douce envers la mort, comme elle l'était envers tout le monde=--She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. _Bossuet._
=Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.= _Sterne._
=Madness is the last stage of human debasement.= 45 =It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times!= _Napoleon._
=Madruga y verás, trabaja y habrás=--Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. _Sp. Pr._
=Magalia quondam=--Formerly humble huts stood here. _Virg._
=Magasins de nouveautés=--Linen-draper's, or fancy goods', shop. _Fr._
=Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit=--He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, _i.e._, has become young again. _Pr._
=Magis magni clerici non sunt magis sapientes=--The 50 greater scholars are not the wisest men. _Pr._
=Magister alius casus=--Misfortune is a second master. _Pliny the elder._
=Magister artis ingeniique largitor / Venter=--The belly (_i.e._, hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. _Pers._
=Magister dixit=--The master has said so.
=Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum=--A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. _Cic._
=Magistratus indicat virum=--Office shows the 5 man. _M._
=Magna Charta=--The Great Charter (obtained from King John in 1215).
=Magna civitas, magna solitudo=--A great city is a great desert. _Gr. and L. Pr._
=Magna comitante caterva=--A great crowd accompanying. _Virg._
=Magna est admiratio copiose sapienterque dicentis=--Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. _Cic._
=Magna est veritas et prævalebit=--Truth is 10 mighty, and will in the end prevail.
=Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet=--Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. _Cic._
=Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani, / Inque suo pretio ruga senilis erat=--Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. _Ovid._
=Magna servitus est magna fortuna=--A great fortune is a great slavery. _Sen._
=Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentientis senatus=--Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. _Cic._
=Magnæ felicitates multum caliginis mentibus= 15 =humanis objiciunt=--Great and sudden prosperity has a deadening (_lit._ densely darkening) effect on the human mind. _Sen._
=Magnæ fortunæ comes adest adulatio=--Adulation is ever the attendant on great wealth.
=Magnanimiter crucem sustine=--Bear up bravely under the cross. _M._
=Magnanimity is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause.= _La Roche._
=Magnanimity owes to prudence no account of its motives.= _Vauvenargues._
=Magnas inter opes inops=--Poor in the midst 20 of great wealth. _Hor._
=Magni animi est injurias despicere=--It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries. _Sen._
=Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia=--It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. _Sen._
=Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere=--It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. _Cic._
=Magni nominis umbra=--The shadow of a great name. _Lucan._
=Magni refert quibuscum vixeris=--It matters a 25 great deal with whom you live. _Pr._
=Magnificat=--The song of the Virgin Mary (_lit._ she magnifies). _Luke_, i. 44-45.
=Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent.= _Johnson._
=Magnis excidit ausis=--He failed in bold attempts. _Ovid._
=Magno conatu magnas nugas=--By great efforts to obtain great trifles. _Ter._
=Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis= 30 =placet=--That is guarded at great risk which is coveted by many. _Pub. Syr._
=Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumere=--I had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. _Hor., in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them._
=Magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum=--Never unworthy of his illustrious ancestors. _Virg._
=Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum=--It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.
=Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum=--I account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. _Hor._
=Magnum hoc vitium vino est, / Pedes captat= 35 =primum; luctator dolosus est=--This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. _Plaut._
=Magnum pauperies opprobrium jubet / Quidvis aut facere aut pati=--Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us do or suffer anything. _Hor._
=Magnum vectigal est parsimonia=--Thrift is a great revenue. _Cic._
=Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo=--The great cycle of the ages begins its round anew. _Virg._
=Magnus Alexander corpore parvus erat=--The great Alexander was small in stature. _Pr._
=Magnus animus remissius loquitur et securius=--The 40 talk of a great soul is at once more careless and confident than that of other men. _Sen._
=Magnus Apollo=--A great oracle.
=Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit=--A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. _Virg._
=Mãi aguçosa, filha preguiçosa=--A busy mother makes slothful daughters. _Port. Pr._
=Maidens' bairns and bachelors' wives are aye weel bred.= _Sc. Pr._
=Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with= 45 =glare, / And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= _Byron._
=Maidens should be mild and meek, / Swift to hear, and slow to speak.= _Pr._
=Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Maids should be seen and not heard.= _Pr._
=Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.= _Somerset Pr._
=Maids well summered, and warm kept, are like= 50 =flies at Bartholomew-tide--blind, though they have their eyes.= _Hen. V._, v. 2.
=Maintien le droit=--Maintain the right. _M._
=Mair by luck than gude guiding= (management). _Sc. Pr._
=Mais au moindre revers funeste / Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. _J. B. Rousseau._
=Mais de quoi sont composées les affaires du monde? Du bien d'autrui=--By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. _Béroalde Verville._
=Maison d'arrêt=--A jail, a prison. _Fr._
=Maison de force=--A house of correction. _Fr._
=Maître Jacques=--A handy fellow who is ready to 5 undertake all kinds of work. _Fr._
=Major e longinquo reverentia=--Respect is greater at a distance. _Tac._
=Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?=--The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? _Juv._
=Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus=--A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. _Cic._
=Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. _Tac., of the Emperor Galba._
=Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo=--A greater 10 succession of events presents itself to my muse. _Virg._
=Major sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere / Multaque ut eripiat, multo mihi plura relinquet. / Excessere metum mea jam bona=--I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. _Ov._
=Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu / ... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris=--Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. _Juv._
=Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. _Virg._
=Majori cedo=--I retire before my superior.
=Majority is applied to number, and superiority= 15 =to power.= _Johnson._
=Majus et minus non variant speciem=--Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.
=Make a crutch of your cross.= _Pr._
=Make a virtue of necessity.= _Burton._
=Make all sure, and keep all pure.= _Pr._
=Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there.= 20 _Quarles._
=Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain.= _Pr._
=Make good cheese, if you make little.= _Pr._
=Make haste slowly.= _Pr._ 25
=Make hay while the sun shines.= _Pr._
=Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good.= _Johnson._
=Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds.= _Tennyson._
=Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.= _Colton._
=Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad= 30 =soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half.= _Fenélon._
=Make not another's shoes by your own foot.= _Pr._
=Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.= _Pr._
=Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly, / That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby.= _George Herbert._
=Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.= _Pr._
=Make not two sorrows of one.= _Pr._ 35
=Make short the miles with talk and smiles.= _Pr._
=Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow.= _Dodsley._
=Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.= _Johnson._
=Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.= _Goethe._
=Make the night night, and the day day, and= 40 =you will have a pleasant time of it.= _Port. Pr._
=Make the plaster as large as the sore.= _Pr._
=Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows / Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness, / And, loving, utter faithfulness in love, / And uttermost obedience to the king.= _Tennyson._
=Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of Nature / Shake my fell purpose.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zero--at nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet.= _Carlyle._
=Make your educational laws strict, and your= 45 =criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age.= _Ruskin._
=Make your hay as best you may.= _Pr._
=Make your mark, but mind what your mark is.= _Pr._
=Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.= _Dan. Pr._
=Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.= _Carlyle._
=Make yourself necessary to the world and= 50 =mankind will give you bread.= _Emerson._
=Make yourselves necessary to somebody.= _Emerson._
=Mal à propos=--Ill-timed; unseasonable. _Fr._
=Mala causa silenda est=--'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. _Ovid._
=Mala fides=--Bad faith.
=Mala gallina, malum ovum=--Bad hen, bad egg. _Pr._
=Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam=--Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. _L._
=Mala mali malo mala contulit omnia mundo=--The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.
=Mala mens, malus animus=--Bad mind, bad 5 heart. _Ter._
=Mala merx hæc, et callida est=--She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. _Plaut._
=Mala ultro adsunt=--Misfortunes come unsought. _Pr._
=Maladie du pays=--Home-sickness. _Fr._
=Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus=--Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. _Stat._
=Male imperando summum imperium amittitur=--By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. _Pub. Syr._
=Male parta male dilabuntur=--Things ill gotten go ill. _Pr._
=Male partum male disperit=--Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. _Plaut._
=Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit=--A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.
=Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex=--Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. _Hor._
=Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant=--They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. _Pub. Syr._
=Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker.= _Mirabeau._
=Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione=--An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. _Quinct._
=Malesuada fames=--Hunger that tempts to evil. _Virg._
=Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle=--Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. _Fr. Pr._
=Mali principii malus finis=--Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (_lit._ a bad end of a bad beginning). _Ter._
=Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.= _Government of the Tongue._
=Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself.= _Montaigne._
=Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem=--I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. _Cic._
=Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium=--I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.
=Malis avibus=--With a bad omen (_lit._ with bad 25 birds). _Cic._
=Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere=--To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. _Plaut._
=Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. _Cic._
=Malo mihi male quam molliter esse=--I prefer being ill to being idle. _Sen._
=Malo mori quam fœdari=--I had rather die than be disgraced. _M._
=Malo nodo malus quærendus cuneus=--For a 30 hard knot a hard tool must be sought. _Pr._
=Malorum facinorum ministri quasi exprobrantes aspiciuntur=--Accomplices in evil
## actions are always regarded as reproaching the
deed. _Tac._
=Malum consilium consultori pessimum=--Bad advice is most pernicious to the adviser. _Ver. Flaccus._
=Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest=--That is bad counsel which cannot be changed. _Pub. Syr._
=Malum in se=--A thing evil in itself.
=Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum= 35 =fit robustius=--An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. _Cic._
=Malum prohibitum=--A crime because forbidden by law, such as smuggling. _L._
=Malum vas non frangitur=--A worthless vessel is seldom broken. _Pr._
=Malus bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus=--A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all. _Pub. Syr._
=Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem=--Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. _Cic._
=Malus usus est abolendus=--An evil custom should 40 be abolished. _L._
=Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.= _South._
=Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven.= _Milton._
=Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= _Byron._
=Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Man always worships something; always he= 45 =sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.= _Carlyle._
=Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--/ Else wherefore born?= _Tennyson._
=Man and man only can do the impossible; / ... He to the moment endurance can lend.= _Goethe._
=Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should.= _Schelling._
=Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.= _Amiel._
=Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he= 50 =only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower.= _Jean Paul._
=Man can dispense with much but not with men.= _Börne._
=Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath.= _R. W. Dixon._
=Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity.= _Ruskin._
=Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount.= _Jean Paul._
=Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit.= _Emerson._
=Man cannot choose his duties.= _George Eliot._
=Man cannot live without his formulas.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Man carries under his hat a private theatre,= 5 =wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity.= _Carlyle._
=Man consists in truth. If he exposes truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against conviction.= _Novalis._
=Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the day of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= _Sydney Smith._
=Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, and softens into age.= _H. Giles._
=Man darf nur sterben, um gelobt zu werden=--One has but to die to be praised. _Ger. Pr._
=Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.= 10 _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Man disputirt mehr über die Schaale, als über den Kern=--People dispute more about the shell than the kernel. _Ger. Pr._
=Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence; or rather, he never so submits himself: it is a higher sense which must be communicated to his nature, which only in some peculiarly favoured individuals unfolds itself spontaneously, who on this account too have of old been looked upon as saints and gods.= _Goethe._
=Man does not wish to be told the truth.= _Pascal._
=Man doth what he can, and God what He will.= _Pr._
=Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to= 15 =love.= _Tennyson._
=Man ever tends to reckon his own insight as final, and goes upon it as such.= _Carlyle._
=Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.= _Carlyle._
=Man findet tausend Gelehrte, bis man auf einen weisen Mann stösst=--We may come upon a thousand men of learning before we stumble upon a single wise man. _Klinger._
=Man for the field and woman for the hearth; / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart: / Man to command and woman to obey; / All else confusion.= _Tennyson._
=Man, forget not death, for death certainly forgets= 20 =not thee.= _Turkish Pr._
=Man gives up all pretension to the infinite while he feels here that neither with thought nor without it is he equal to the finite.= _Goethe._
=Man had not a hammer to begin, not a syllabled articulation; they had it all to make--and they have made it.= _Carlyle._
=Man has a brief flowering season and a long fading.= _Uhland._
=Man has a silent and solitary literature written by his heart upon the tables of stone in Nature; and next to God's finger, a man's heart writes the most memorable things.= _Ward Beecher._
=Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body;= 25 =nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies.= _Carlyle._
=Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help.= _Goethe._
=Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature.= _Carlyle._
=Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look.= _Carlyle._
=Man has not a greater enemy than himself.= _Petrarch._
=Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making= 30 =proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him.= _Goethe._
=Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.= _Sterne._
=Man has two and a half minutes here below--one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.= _Jean Paul._
=Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness.= _Colton._
=Man is a born owl.= _Carlyle._
=Man is a bundle of habits.= _Pr._ 35
=Man is a darkened being; he knows not whence he comes, nor whither he goes; he knows little of the world and least of himself.= _Goethe._
=Man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place.= _Lamartine._
=Man is a forked radish with head fantastically carved.= _Swift._
=Man is a forked straddling animal with bandy legs.= _Swift._
=Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder= 40 =and loves parade.= _P. J. Bailey._
=Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.= _Hazlitt._
=Man is a spirit, and bound by invisible bonds to all men.= _Carlyle._
=Man is a stream whose source is hidden.= _Emerson._
=Man is a substance clad in shadows.= _John_ 45 _Sterling._
=Man is a sun; his senses are the planets.= _Novalis._
=Man is a tool-using animal; ... without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.= _Carlyle._
=Man is actually here, not to ask questions but to do work; in this time, as in all times, it must be the heaviest evil for him if his faculty of action lie dormant, and only that of sceptical inquiry exert itself.= _Carlyle._
=Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.= _Burke._
=Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this.= _Adam Smith._
=Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.= _Schiller._
=Man is, and always was, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.= _Carlyle._
=Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.= _Saadi._
=Man is born not to solve the problems of the= 5 =universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.= _Goethe._
=Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.= _Bible._
=Man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and, in his manners, equal the majesty of the world.= _Emerson._
=Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a reed that thinks.= _Pascal._
=Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains.= _Schiller._
=Man is created to fight; he is perhaps best of= 10 =all definable as a born soldier; his life "a battle and a march" under the right generals.= _Carlyle._
=Man is emphatically a proselytising creature.= _Carlyle._
=Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him.= _Goethe._
=Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.= _Emerson._
=Man is fire and woman tow; the devil comes and sets them in a blaze.= _Pr._
=Man is first a spirit, bound by invisible bonds= 15 =to all men; and secondly, he wears clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact.= _Carlyle, the two main ideas emphasised in "Sartor."_
=Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not.= _Carlyle._
=Man is for ever the brother of man.= _Carlyle._
=Man is free as the bird is in its cage: he can move about within certain limits.= _Lavater._
=Man is God's image; but a poor man is / Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. / God reckons for him, counts the favour His.= _George Herbert._
=Man is greater than a world, than systems of= 20 =worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe.= _H. Giles._
=Man is his own star, and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man, / Commands all light, all influence, all fate; / Nothing to him falls early or too late.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should.= _Goethe._
=Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design.= _Renan._
=Man is made great or little by his own will.= _Schiller._
=Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue= 25 =of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees.= _Emerson._
=Man is man everywhere.= _Carlyle._
=Man is man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.= _Emerson._
=Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.= _Emerson._
=Man is more than constitutions.= _Whittier._
=Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is= 30 =his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter.= _Pascal._
=Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be.= _Disraeli._
=Man is not a piece of clay to be moulded, but a plant to be cultivated.= _Garve._
=Man is not as God, / But then most godlike, being most a man.= _Tennyson._
=Man is not born to be free, and for the noble there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he honours.= _Goethe._
=Man is not God, but hath God's end to serve, /= 35 =A master to obey, a course to take, / Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become.= _Browning._
=Man is not made to question, but adore.= _Young._
=Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.= _Disraeli._
=Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is.= _Amiel._
=Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.= _Carlyle._
=Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God,= 40 =and a scorpion to himself.= _Spurgeon._
=Man is one, and he hath one great heart.= _Bailey._
=Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.= _George Herbert._
=Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.= _Disraeli._
=Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is.= _Amiel._
=Man is physically as well as metaphysically a= 45 =thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.= _Emerson._
=Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders.= _Goldsmith._
=Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself.= _Carlyle._
=Man is, properly speaking, based upon Hope, he has no other possession but Hope; this world of his is emphatically the Place of Hope.= _Carlyle._
=Man is quite sufficiently saddened by his own passions and destiny, and need not make himself more so by the darkness of a barbaric past. He needs enlightening and cheering influences, and should therefore turn to those eras in art and literature during which remarkable men obtained perfect culture.= _Goethe._
=Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.= _Macaulay._
=Man is so prone to occupy himself with what is most common, the soul and the senses are so easily blunted to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that one ought by all means to preserve the capability of feeling it. We ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.= _Goethe._
=Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.= _Emerson._
=Man is the arch-machine of which all these= 5 =shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is=. _Emerson._
=Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy.= _Aaron Hill._
=Man is the dwarf of himself.= _Emerson._
=Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended.= _Agassiz._
=Man is the favourite= (_Günstling_) =of Nature, not in the sense that Nature has done everything for him, but that she has given him the power of doing everything for himself=. _Zachariae._
=Man is the higher sense of our planet, the= 10 =star which connects it with the upper world, the eye which it turns towards heaven=. _Novalis._
=Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.= _Theo. Parker._
=Man is the maker of expedients, but not of laws. In his solicitude as to his approaching lot, he has neither time nor desire to raise his eyes to the heavens to watch and record their phenomena; no leisure to look upon himself and consider what and where he is. In the imperious demand for a present support, he dare not venture on speculative attempts at ameliorating his state; he is doomed to be a helpless, isolated, spellbound savage, or, if not isolated, the companion of other savages as careworn as himself.= _Draper._
=Man is the merriest species of the creation.= _Addison._
=Man is the Messiah of Nature.= _Novalis._
=Man is the meter of all things; the hand is= 15 =the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms=. _Arist._
=Man is the Missionary of Order; he is the servant not of the devil and chaos, but of God and the universe.= _Carlyle._
=Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripened in our northern sky.= _Mrs. Barbauld._
=Man is the slave of beneficence.= _Arab. Pr._
=Man is the sum-total of all the animals.= _Oken._
=Man is the sun of the world; more than the= 20 =real sun. The fire of his wonderful heart is the only light and heat worth gauge or measure. Where he is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world=. _Ruskin._
=Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.= _Pliny._
=Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man.= _Emerson._
=Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.= _Emerson._
=Man is to man the sorest, surest ill.... / Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour; / And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire; / Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, / And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow.= _Young._
=Man is too near all kinds of beasts--a fawning= 25 =dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, a rapacious vulture=. _Cowley._
=Man ist nur eigentlich lebendig, wenn man sich des Wohlwollens Anderer freut=--A man is only truly alive when he enjoys the goodwill of others. _Goethe._
=Man, it's surely a pity that thou should'st sit yonder, with nothing but the eye of Omniscience to see thee, and thou with such gift to speak.= _James Carlyle to his son, when he first discovered this gift in him._
=Man kan geen loopend paard beslaan=--One cannot shoe a running-horse. _Dut. Pr._
=Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, / Zu denken, was sie wollen=--There is no hindering people from thinking what thoughts they like. _Schiller._
=Man kann ein klarer Denker ohne Gefühl=, 30 =aber kein starker, kühner Denker ohne dasselbe sein=--Without feeling one may be a clear thinker, but not a powerful and a bold. _Klinger._
=Man kann in wahrer Freiheit leben / Und doch nicht ungebunden sein=--One may enjoy true freedom, and yet be in chains. _Goethe._
=Man kann nicht stets das Fremde meiden, / Das Gute liegt uns oft so fern. / Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden, / Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern=--We cannot always avoid what is foreign; what is good often lies so far off. A true German cannot abide the French, and yet he will drink their wines with the most genuine relish. _Goethe._
=Man kann nicht wider sein Geshick=--There is no striving against one's fate. _Schiller._
=Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience.= _Wieland._
=Man kommt zu schaun, Man will am liebsten= 35 =sehn=--People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. _Goethe._
=Man lebt nur einmal in der Welt=--Only once is it given us to live in the world. _Goethe._
=Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported, lives;/ The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.= _Pope._
=Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them.= _Goldsmith._
=Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest.= _Carlyle._
=Man lives where he acts.= _Renan._
=Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present.= _Schiller._
=Man lobt den Künstler dann erst recht, wenn= 5 =man über sein Werk sein Lob vergisst=--We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. _Lessing._
=Man löst sich nicht allmählich von dem Leben!=--It is by no gradual process we detach ourselves from (lose our hold of) life. _Schiller._
=Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it.= _Ed._
=Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.= _Basta._
=Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.= _Emerson._
=Man mag Amphion sein und Fels und Wald= 10 =bewegen, / Deswegen kann man doch nicht Bauern widerlegen=--One may be a very Amphion and be able to move trees and rocks, and yet be unable to reduce peasants to reason. _Gellert._
=Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Man muss die Menschen nur mit dem Krämergewicht, keinesweges mit der Goldwage wiegen=--We must weigh men with merchant's scales, and by no means with the goldsmith's. _Goethe._
=Man muss handeln können, wie man will, um zu handeln, wie man soll=--We must be able to act as we would in order to act as we should. _Zachariæ._
=Man muss keinem Menschen trauen, der bei seinen Versicherungen die Hand auf's Herz legt=--We should trust no man who in his protestations lays his hand on his heart. _Lichtenberg._
=Man muss nicht reicher scheinen wollen, als= 15 =man ist=--We must not wish to appear richer than we are. _Lessing._
=Man muss seine Irrthümer theuer bezahlen, wenn man sie los werden will, und dann hat man noch von Glück zu sagen=--Men must pay dearly for their errors, if they would be free from them, and then they may regard it a happiness to do so. _Goethe._
=Man muss, will man ein Glück geniessen, / Die Freiheit zu behaupten wissen=--If we would enjoy what fortune gives us, we must know how to maintain our freedom. _Gellert._
=Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible, otherwise he would not search.= _Goethe._
=Man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure; critics all are ready made.= _Byron._
=Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic= 20 =he is.= _Goethe._
=Man, never so often deceived, still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.= _Emerson._
=Man, on the dubious waves of error tost.= _Cowper._
=Man only can create music, for nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= _T. T. Munger._
=Man only mars kind Nature's plan, / And turns the fierce pursuit on man.= _Scott._
=Man ought always to have something which= 25 =he prefers to life.= _Seume._
=Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.= _Browning._
=Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice.= _Arist._
=Man proposes, God disposes.= _Pr._
=Man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority; / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, / As make the angels weep.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Man reconciles himself to almost every event,= 30 =however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary that he rebels against.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Man rettet gern aus trüber Gegenwart / Sich in das heitere Gebiet der Kunst, / Und für die Kränkungen der Wirklichkeit / Sucht man sich Heilung in des Dichters Träumen=--We are fain to escape out of the distracted present into the untroubled sphere of art, and for the miseries of real life we seek healing in the dreams of the poet. _Uhland._
=Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont=--We bear with old people as we do with children. _Goethe._
=Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.= _Bible._
=Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own.= _Locke._
=Man should not be over-anxious for a subsistence,= 35 =for it is provided by the Creator. The infant no sooner droppeth from the womb than the breasts of the mother begin to stream.= _Hitopadesa._
=Man sieht sich, lernt sich kennen, / Liebt sich, muss sich trennen=--We greet each other, learn to know each other, love each other, and then--we part.
=Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen=--Votes ought to be weighed, not counted. _Schiller._
=Man soll kein Buch nach dem Titelblatt beurtheilen=--We should not judge of a book from the title-page. _Ger. Pr._
=Man soll nicht mehr Teufel rufen, als man bannen kann=--One should raise no more devils than one can lay. _Ger. Pr._
=Man spends his life in reasoning on the past,= 40 =complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.= _Rivarol._
=Man spricht selten von der Tugend, die man hat; aber desto öfter von der, die uns fehlt=--We seldom boast (_lit._ speak) of the virtue which we have, but oftener of that which we have not. _Lessing._
=Man spricht vergebens viel, nur zu versagen, / Der and're hört von allem nur das Nein!=--In vain we speak much only to refuse; the other, of all we say, hears only the "No!" _Goethe._
=Man spricht vom vielen Trinken stets, / Doch nie vom vielen Durste=--They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. _Scheffel._
=Man steigt den grünen Berg des Lebens hinauf, um oben auf dem Eisberge zu sterben=--We ascend the green mountain of life in order to die up there upon the glaciers. (?)
=Man steigt nicht ungestraft vom Göttermahle / Herunter in den Kreis der Sterblichen=--One does not descend from a banquet with the gods into a company of common mortals without suffering for it. _Grillparzer._
=Man supposes that he directs his life and= 5 =governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.= _Goethe._
=Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.= _Bible._
=Man, the aristocrat amongst the animals.= _Heine._
=Man, the little god of this world, is still ever of the same stamp, and is as whimsical as on the first day.= _Mephisto in Goethe._
=Man the peasant is a being of more marked national character than man the educated and refined.= _Ruskin._
=Man thee for the high endeavour, / Shun the= 10 =crowd's ignoble ease! / Fails the noble spirit never, / Wise to think and prompt to seize.= _Goethe._
=Man thereby= (by his fantasy as the organ of the godlike), =though based to all seeming on the small visible, does nevertheless extend down into the infinite deeps of the Invisible, of which Invisible, indeed, his life is properly the bodying forth.= _Carlyle._
=Man thinks he has an estate of reputation, and is glad to see one that will bring any of it home to him; it is no matter how dirty a bag it is conveyed to him in, or by how clownish a messenger, so the money is good.= _Steele._
=Man! / Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear.= _Byron._
=Man, though, as Swift has it, "a forked straddling animal with bandy legs," yet is also a spirit, and unutterable mystery of mysteries.= _Carlyle._
=Man unconnected is at home everywhere,= 15 =unless he may be said to be at home nowhere.= _Johnson._
=Man verändert sich oft und bessert sich selten=--People change often enough, but seldom for the better. _Ger. Pr._
=Man wants but little here below, / Nor wants that little long.= _Goldsmith._
=Man was created to work--not to speculate, or feel, or dream.= _Carlyle._
=Man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.= _Bacon._
=Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.= 20 _Lamb._
=Man, who lives to die, dies to live well, / So if he guide his ways by blamelessness / And earnest will to hinder not, but help, / All things both great and small which suffer life.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Man wird nie betrogen; man betrügt sich selbst=--We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. _Goethe._
=Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.= _A. de Musset._
=Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.= _Ward Beecher._
=Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, /= 25 =In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate; / In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply / To them we know not, and we know not why.= _Crabbe._
=Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose.= _Goethe._
=Man's best candle is his understanding.= _Pr._
=Man's body and his mind are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining--rumple the one, you rumple the other.= _Sterne._
=Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it.= _Addison._
=Man's extremity is God's opportunity.= _Pr._ 30
=Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.= _Addison._
=Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones.= _Jean Paul._
=Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality.= _Young._
=Man's gullability is not his worst blessing.= _Carlyle._
=Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry= 35 =still.= _Young._
=Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.= _Goethe._
=Man's history is little else than a narrative of designs that have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.= _Johnson._
=Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.= _Burns._
=Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbours.= _Farrar._
=Man's life and nature is as it was, and as it= 40 =will ever be.= _Carlyle._
=Man's life is a progress, and not a station.= _Emerson._
=Man's life is an appendix to his heart.= _South._
=Man's life is filed by his foe.= _Pr._
=Man's life is never anything but an ever-vanishing present.= _Schopenhauer._
=Man's life is not an affair of mere instinct, but= 45 =of steady self-control.= _Goethe._
=Man's life never was a sport to him; it was a stern reality--altogether a serious matter to be alive.= _Carlyle._
=Man's life now, as of old, is the genuine work of God; wherever there is a man, a God also is revealed, and all that is godlike; a whole epitome of the Infinite, with its meanings, lies enfolded in the life of every man.= _Carlyle._
=Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; / 'Tis woman's whole existence.= _Byron._
=Man's obligations do not tend toward the past. We know of nothing that binds us to what is behind: our duty lies ahead.= _C. Richet._
=Man's only true happiness is to live in Hope of something to be won by him, in Reverence of something to be worshipped by him, and in Love of something to be cherished by him, and cherished--for ever.= _Ruskin._
=Man's own heart must be ever given to gain that of another.= _Goldsmith._
=Man's own judgment is the proper rule and measure of his actions.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Man's philosophies are usually the "supplement= 5 =of his practice;" some ornamental logic-varnish, some outer skin of articulate intelligence, with which he strives to render his dumb instinctive doings presentable when they are done.= _Carlyle._
=Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Man's spiritual nature is essentially one and indivisible.= _Carlyle._
=Man's true, genuine estimate, / The grand criterion of his fate, / Is not--Art thou high or low? / Did thy fortune ebb or flow?= _Burns._
=Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite.= _Carlyle._
=Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of= 10 =falls.= _Carlyle._
=Man's word is God in man.= _Tennyson._
=Man's work lasts till set of sun; / Woman's work is never done.= _Pr._
=Manche gingen nach Licht und stürzten in tiefere Nacht nur; sicher im Dämmerschein wandelt die Kindheit dahin=--Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. _Schiller._
=Mancher wähnt sich frei, und siehet / Nicht die Bande, die ihn schnüren=--Many a one thinks himself free and sees not the bands that bind him. _Rückert._
=Mandamus=--We enjoin. A writ issuing from the 15 Queen's Bench, commanding certain things to be done. _L._
=Manebant vestigia morientis libertatis=--There still remained traces of expiring liberty. _Tac._
=Manège=--Riding-house; horsemanship. _Fr._
=Manet alta mente repostum, / Judicium Paridis spretæque injuria formæ=--Deep seated in her mind remains the judgment of Paris, and the wrong done to her slighted beauty. _Virg., of Juno's vengeance._
=Mange-tout=--A spendthrift (_lit._ eat-all). _Fr._
=Manhood begins joyfully and hopefully, not= 20 =when we have made a truce with necessity, or even surrendered to it, but only when we have reconciled ourselves to it, and learned to feel that in necessity we are free.= _Carlyle._
=Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Manibus pedibusque=--With hands and feet; with tooth and nail.
=Manibus victoria dextris=--Victory by my right hand. _M._
=Manifold is human strife, / Human passion, human pain; / Yet many blessings still are rife, / And many pleasures still remain.= _Goethe._
=Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.= 25 _Hawthorne._
=Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted.= _Burns._
=Mankind at large alway resemble frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused.= _Emerson._
="Mankind follow their several bell-wethers; and if you hold a stick before the wether, so that he is forced to vault in his passage, the whole flock will do the like when the stick is withdrawn; and the thousandth sheep will be seen vaulting impetuously over air, as the first did over an otherwise impassable barrier."= _Carlyle, quoting Jean Paul._
=Mankind in general agree in testifying their devotion, their gratitude, their friendship, or their love, by presenting whatever they hold dearest.= _Burns._
=Mankind is a science that defies definitions.= 30 _Burns._
=Mankind suffer to this hour, and will for long, as is like, because they do not know what to make of the fire of Prometheus. He dared to purloin from the gods and commit into the hands of ordinary men an element= (fire), =which, as the result has shown, only gods and their wise-hearted offspring can with safety handle.= _Ed._
=Mankind will never lack obstacles to give it trouble, and the pressure of necessity to develop its powers.= _Goethe._
=Manliana=--A Manlian, _i.e._, a harsh and severe sentence, such as that of Titus Manlius, who ordered his son to be scourged and beheaded for fighting contrary to orders.
=Männer richten nach Gründen; des Weibes Urteil ist seine Liebe; wo es nicht liebt, hat schon gerichtet das Weib=--Men judge on rational grounds; the woman's judgment is her love; where the woman does not love, she has judged. _Schiller._
=Manners are not idle, but the fruit / Of loyal= 35 =nature and of noble mind.= _Tennyson._
=Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend.= _Burke._
=Manners are stronger than laws.= _Pr._
=Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage.= _Emerson._
=Manners are the root, laws only the branches.= _Horace Mann._
=Manners are the shadows of virtues, the= 40 =momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect.= _Sydney Smith._
=Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.= _Horace Mann._
=Manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.= _Johnson._
=Manners make the man.= _M._
=Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.= _Chesterfield._
=Männliche, tüchtige Geister werden durch Erkennen eines Irrthums erhöht und gestärkt=--Sturdy manly souls are exalted and strengthened in the presence of (_lit._ by the knowledge of) an error. _Goethe._
[Greek: Mantis d' aristos hostis eikazei kalôs]--He is the best diviner who conjectures well. _Eurip._
=Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces=--Mantua bore me, Calabria carried me off, Naples holds me now. I sang of pastures, fields and heroes. _Virgil's epitaph._
=Mantua, væ! miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ=--Mantua, 5 alas! too near the unhappy Cremona. _Quoted by Dean Swift on seeing a lady sweep a violin off a table with her dress._
=Manu forti=--With a strong hand. _M._
=Manu scriptum=--Written by the hand.
=Manufacture is intelligible but trivial; creation is great and cannot be understood.= _Carlyle._
=Manum de tabula!=--Hand off the picture! _i.e._, leave off touching up.
=Manum non verterim, digitum non porrexerim=--I 10 would not turn my hand or stretch out my finger. _Cic._
=Manus e nubibus=--Hand from the clouds.
=Manus hæc inimica tyrannis=--This hand is hostile to tyrants. _M._
=Manus manum lavat=--One hand washes the other.
=Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.= _Pr._
=Many a dangerous temptation comes to us= 15 =in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.= _Henry._
=Many a discord betwixt man and man the returning seasons soften by degrees into sweetest harmony; but that which bridges over the greatest gap is Love, whose charm unites the earth with heaven above.= _Goethe._
=Many a father might say, ... "I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf."= _Spurgeon._
=Many a fine dish has nothing on it.= _Pr._
=Many a genius has been of slow growth. Oaks, that flourish for a thousand years, do not spring up into beauty like a reed.= _G. H. Lewis._
=Many a good cow hath a bad calf.= _Pr._ 20
=Many a good drop of broth may come out of an old pot.= _Pr._
=Many a good father hath but a bad son.= _Pr._
=Many a hand moulded by Nature to give elegance of form to a kid glove is "stinted of its fair proportion" by grubbing toil.= _S. Lover._
=Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it.= _Johnson._
=Many a man settleth more by an inch of his= 25 =will than by an ell of his thrift.= _Pr._
=Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.= _Hare._
=Many a meandering discourse one hears, in which the preacher aims at nothing, and--hits it.= _Whately._
=Many a one is good because he can do no mischief.= _Pr._
=Many a one labours for the day he will never live to see.= _Dan. Pr._
=Many a one threatens while he quakes for= 30 =fear.= _It. and Ger. Pr._
=Many a seeming farce played on the great stage of the world is in reality a tragedy, if we could but see into the heart of it.= _Anon._
=Many a true word is spoken in jest.= _Pr._
=Many a young damsel has been ruined by a fine copy of verses, which she would have laughed at if she had known it had been stolen from Mr. Waller.= _Lady Montagu._
=Many acquaintances, but few friends.= _Johnson._
=Many acres will not make a wiseacre.= _Pr._ 35
=Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it.= _Pr._
=Many an irksome noise, when a long way off, is heard as music.= _Thoreau._
=Many and many a heart of woman, who has not uttered a word during her whole life, has felt more truly and intensely than the poet that has sung most sweetly.= _Renan._
=Many are called but few chosen.= _Jesus._
=Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but= 40 =then it was catching flies.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Many are wise in jest but fools in earnest.= _Pr._
=Many arrive at second masters / Upon their first lord's neck.= _Tim. of Athens_, iv. 3.
=Many beat the sack, and mean the miller.= _Pr._
=Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.= _Colton._
=Many by-walks, many balks; many balks,= 45 =much stumbling.= _Latimer._
=Many can argue, not many converse.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.= _Pr._
=Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.
=Many can make bricks, but cannot build.= _Pr._
=Many causes that can plead well for themselves= 50 =in the courts of Westminster, have yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man no word to utter.= _Carlyle._
=Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.= _Bovee._
=Many commit sin and blame Satan.= _Pr._
=Many cooks spoil the broth.= _Pr._
=Many cut broad thongs out of other people's leather.= _Pr._
=Many deceive themselves, imagining to find= 55 =happiness in change.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Many estates are spent in the getting, / Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, / And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting.= _Pr._
=Many find fault without any end, / And yet do nothing at all to mend.= _Pr._
=Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.= _Jean Paul._
=Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well.= _Pr._
=Many go in quest of wool, and come back shorn.= _Ger. Pr._
=Many go out for clothes, and come home stript.= _Pr._
=Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.= _Philip Henry._
=Many hands make light work.= _Pr._ 5
=Many have been harmed by speech; through thinking, few or none.= _Lord Vaux._
=Many have been ruined by buying good penny-worths.= _Pr._
=Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great.= _Zimmermann._
=Many have come to port after a great storm.= _Pr._
=Many have genius, / But, wanting art, are for= 10 =ever dumb.= _Longfellow._
=Many have the talents which would make them poets if they had the genius; a few have the genius yet want the talents.= _J. Sterling._
=Many have too much, but none enough.= _Dan. Pr._
=Many hope that the tree may be felled who expect to gather chips by the fall.= _Fuller._
=Many indifferent things which men originally did from a motive of some sort, they continue to do from habit.= _J. S. Mill._
=Many kinds of books are permissible, but= 15 =there is one kind that is not permissible, the kind that has nothing in it=--_le genre ennuyeux_ (the kind that bore you). _Carlyle._
=Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.= _Pr._
=Many lick before they bite.= _Pr._
=Many littles make a mickle.= _Pr._
=Many are fain to praise what is right and do what is wrong.= _Dan. Pr._
=Many men and women spend their lives in= 20 =unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.= _J. G. Holland._
=Many men attain a knowledge of what is perfect, and of their own insufficiency, and go on doing things by halves to the end of their days.= _Goethe._
=Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand.= _Goethe._
=Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.= _Alex. Pope._
=Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved.= _Carlyle._
=Many men involve themselves deeper in temptations= 25 =by being too solicitous to decline them.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Many men love in themselves what they hate in others.= _Benzel Sternan._
=Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.= _Hare._
=Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet, and go whither He would have us.= _Ward Beecher._
=Many of sounding name from Jamblicus down= 30 =to Aubrey have wasted their time in devising imaginary remedies for non-existing diseases.= _Scott._
=Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before.= _Hare._
=Many old camels carry the skins of the young ones to the market.= _Pr._
=Many people are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than they are; and they always fear lest they should be taken for what they are not.= _Fénelon._
=Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment.= _Lichtenberg._
=Many people take no care of their money till= 35 =they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time.= _Goethe._
=Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.= _John Morley._
=Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.= _Longfellow._
=Many rendings need many mendings.= _Pr._
=Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered.= _Schopenhauer._
=Many see more with one eye than others with= 40 =two.= _Ger. Pr._
=Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.= _Bible._
=Many so spend their whole term, and in ever-new expectation, ever-new disappointment, shift from enterprise to enterprise, and from side to side, till at length, as exasperated striplings of threescore and ten, they shift into their last enterprise, that of getting buried.= _Carlyle._
=Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches and preferment; but they mean the riches and preferment possessed by other men.= _Colton._
=Many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Many talk like philosophers and live like fools.= 45 _Pr._
=Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.= _Jesus._
=Many there be that buy nothing with their money but repentance.= _Pr._
=Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken.= _Novalis._
=Many things difficult to design prove easy of performance.= _Johnson._
=Many things there are / That we may hope to= 50 =win with violence; / While others only can become our own / Through moderation and wise self-restraint. / Such is virtue; such is love.= _Goethe._
=Many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense.= _Bacon._
=Many ventures make a full freight.= _Pr._
=Many walk into the battle and are carried out of it.= _Fielding._
=Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.= _Bible._
=Many words hurt more than swords.= _Pr._ 5
=Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.= _Pr._
=Many would have been worse if their estates had been better.= _Pr._
=Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are really ill-mannered and coarse.= _La Roche._
=Mar not what, marred, cannot be mended.= _Pr._
=March dust is a thing / Worth ransom of a= 10 =king.= _Old saw._
=March winds and April showers.= _Pr._
=Marchand qui perd ne peut rire=--The dealer who loses is not the one to laugh. _Dandin._
=Marchandise de rencontre=--Second-hand goods. _Fr._
=Marchandise qui plait est à demie vendue=--Goods which please are half sold. _Fr. Pr._
=Mare apertum=--A sea open to commerce. 15
=Mare clausum=--A sea closed to commerce.
=Mare cœlo miscere=--To confound sea and sky.
=Mare ditat, rosa decorat=--The sea enriches, the rose adorns. _M._
=Mare quidem commune certo est omnibus=--The sea surely is common to all. _Plaut._
=Margarita e stercore=--A pearl from a dunghill. 20 _Pr._
=Maria montesque polliceri cœpit=--He began to promise seas and mountains. _Sall._
=Mariage de convenance=--A marriage from considerations of advantage. _Fr._
=Marie ton fils quand tu voudras, mais ta fille quand tu pourras=--Marry your son when you like, your daughter when you can. _Fr. Pr._
=Mark if his birth makes any difference, if to his words it adds one grain of sense.= _Dryden._
=Mark what another says; for many are /= 25 =Full of themselves, and answer their own notion. / Take all into thee; then with equal care / Balance each chain of reason, like a potion.= _George Herbert._
=Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, / Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? / Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, / Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos=--Licinus lies in a marble tomb, Cato in a humble one, Pompey in none. Who can believe that the gods exist? _Ans._--Heavy lies the stone on Licinus; Fame raises Cato on high; his glories, Pompey. We believe that the gods do exist.
=Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.= _Bovee._
=Marriage comes unawares, like a soot-drop.= _Irish Pr._
=Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.= _Congreve._
=Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in= 30 =Æsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.= _Selden._
=Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.= _Johnson._
=Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.= _Byron._
=Marriage is the feast where the grace is better than the dinner.= _Colton._
=Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy= 35 =or of conquest.= _George Eliot._
=Marriage with peace is the world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.= _Pr._
=Marriages are best of dissimilar material.= _Theo. Parker._
=Marriages are made in heaven.= _Pr._
=Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.= _Sydney Smith._
=Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.= 40 _Congreve._
=Marry above your match, and you get a master.= _Pr._
=Marry and grow tame.= _Sp. Pr._
=Marry for love and work for siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=Marry for love, but only love that which is lovely.= _Pr._
=Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard.= 45 _Pr._
=Mars gravior sub pace latet=--A more serious war lies concealed under a show of peace. _Claud._
=Martem accendere cantu=--To waken up the war-spirit by his note. _Virg._
=Mas vale buen amigo que pariente primo=--A good friend is better than a near relation. _Sp. Pr._
=Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.= _Emerson._
=Mässigkeit und klarer Himmel sind Apollo= 50 =und die Musen=--Moderation and a clear sky are Apollo and the Muses. _Goethe._
=Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house.= _Pr._
=Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf.= _Pr._
=Masters two / Will not do.= _Pr._
=Mastery passes often for egotism.= _Goethe._
=Match-makers often burn their fingers.= _Pr._ 55
=Mater artium necessitas=--Necessity is the mother of invention (_lit._ the arts).
=Mater familias=--The mother of a family.
=Materia medica=--Substances used in medicine; therapeutics.
=Materia prima=--The primary substance or substrate.
=Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything;= 60 =makes everything vulgar, and every truth false.= _Amiel._
=Materiem, qua sis ingeniosus, habes=--You have a subject on which to show your ingenuity. _Ovid._
=Materiem superabat opus=--The workmanship surpassed the material. _Ovid._
=Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence.= _Wm. Blake._
=Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.= _Goethe._
[Greek: mathousin audô, kou mathousi lêthomai]--I speak to experts; those who are not I ignore. _Æsch._
=Matinée=--A morning recital or performance. 5 _Fr._
=Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.= _Heine._
=Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth.= _Carlyle._
=Matter, were it never so despicable, is spirit, the manifestation of spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more?= _Carlyle._
=Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esse senex=--You must become an old man soon if you would be an old man long. _Pr. in Cic._
=Maulesel treiben viel Parlaren / Dass ihre= 10 =Voreltern Pferde waren=--Mules boast much that their ancestors were horses. _Ger. Pr._
=Mauvaise honte=--False shame. _Fr._
=Mauvaise langue=--A slanderous tongue. _Fr._
=Mauvais pas=--A scrape; a difficulty. _Fr._
=Mauvais sujet=--A bad or worthless fellow. _Fr._
=Mauvais ton=--Bad manners. _Fr._ 15
=Maxim or aphorism, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it, and that it is one of the main objects ... which men ought to seek in the reading of books.= _John Morley._
=Maxima debetur pueris reverentia=--The greatest respect is due to youth (_lit._ our boys). _Juv._
=Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes=--The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. _Cic._
=Maxima quæque domus servis est plena superbis=--Every great house is full of haughty servants. _Juv._
=Maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est,= 20 =voluptate dominante=--Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues must lie dormant. _Cic._
=Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct.= _Joubert._
=Maximum remedium iræ dilatio est!=--Deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. _Seneca._
=Maximus in minimis=--Very great in very little things.
=Maximus novator tempus=--Time is the greatest innovator. _Pr._
="May-be" is very well, but "must" is the= 25 =master.= _Pr._
=May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap, / Nor hunger but in plenty's lap.= _Burns._
=May never wicked fortune touzle= (tease) =him! / May never wicked man bamboozle him! / Until a pow as auld's Methusalem / He canty= (cheerily) =claw. / Then to the blessed New Jerusalem / Fleet wing awa'!= _Burns._
=May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into my mouth, become ever dearer and more luminous within me.= _Goethe._
=Me judice=--In my opinion or judgment.
=Me justum esse gratis oportet=--It is my duty 30 to show justice without recompense. _Sen._
[Greek: Mê kaka kerdainein; kaka kerdea is' atêsin]--Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses. _Hesiod._
[Greek: Mê kinei Kamarinan]--Don't stir Lake Camarina (otherwise pestilence).
=Me miseram, quod amor non est medicabilis herbis!=--Oh, unhappy me, that there should be no herbs to cure love!
=Me nemo ministro / Fur erit=--No one shall play the thief with my help. _Juv._
=Me non solum piget stultitiæ meæ, sed etiam= 35 =pudet=--I am not only annoyed at my folly, I am ashamed of it. _L._
=Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.= _Tempest_, i. 1.
=Me (they will kill) when they are mad, but you when they recover their reason.= _Phocion to Demosthenes, who had threatened him with death at the hands of his fellow-citizens._
=Mea virtute me involvo=--I wrap myself in my virtue. _Hor._
=Meal is finer than grain; women are finer than men.= _Gael. Pr._
=Meals and matins minish never.= _Pr._ 40
=Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.= _Randolph._
=Measure men around the heart.= _Pr._
=Measure not by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.= _Schiller._
=Measure three times before you cut once.= _Pr._
=Measure your cloth ten times; you can cut= 45 =it but once.= _Russ. Pr._
=Measures, not men, have always been my mark.= _Goldsmith._
=Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.= _Pr._
=Meat is devoured by the birds in the air, by the beasts in the fields, and by the fishes in the waters; so, in every situation, there is plenty.= _Hitopadesa._
=Meat is more than its carving, and truth is more than oratory.= _Pr._
=Mecum facile redeo in gratiam=--I easily recover 50 my good-will myself. _Phædr._
[Greek: mêden agan]--No excess. _Anon._
[Greek: Mêdena kakêgoreito mêdeis]--Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. _Plato._
=Medici, causa morbi inventa, curationem inventam putant=--Physicians, when they have found out the cause of a disease, consider they have found out the cure. _Cic._
=Medicines are not meant to feed on.= _Pr._
=Medio de fonte leporam / Surgit amari aliquid= 55 =quod in ipsis floribus angat=--From the midst of the very fountain of delight something bitter arises to vex us even amid the flowers themselves. _Lucret._
=Medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go most safely in the middle. _Ovid._
=Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout=--Be second-rate and fawning, and you may attain to anything. _Beaumarchais._
=Mediocria firma=--The middle station is the most secure. _M._
=Mediocribus esse poetis / Non Di, non homines, non concessere columnæ=--Mediocrity in poets is condemned by gods and men, and booksellers too. _Hor._
=Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.= _I. Disraeli._
=Mediocrity is not allowed to poets either by gods or men.= _Hor._
=Mediocrity of enjoyment only is allowed to= 5 =man.= _Blair._
=Meditation has taught all men in all ages that this world is after all but a show--a phenomenon or appearance, no real thing.= _Carlyle._
=Meditation is a busy search in the storehouse of phantasy for some ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some forms of words and action; in which search I find this is the best conclusion, that to meditate on the best is the best of meditations, and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions.= _A. Warwick._
=Meditation is the life of the soul; action, the soul of meditation; honour, the reward of
## action.= _Quarles._
=Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby in her long removes she discerneth God as if he were nearer at hand.= _Feltham._
=Medium tenuere beati!=--Happy they who 10 steadily pursue a middle course.
=Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.= _Ward Beecher._
=Meekness is not weakness.= _Pr._
=Meekness is the bridle of anger.= _Saying._
=Meekness is the cherish'd bent / Of all the truly great and all the innocent.= _Wordsworth._
[Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon]--A great book is a 15 great evil. _Callimachus._
=Meglio amici da lontano che nemici d'appresso=--Better be friends at a distance than enemies near each other. _It. Pr._
=Meglio solo che mal accompagnato=--Better alone than in bad company. _It. Pr._
=Meglio tardi che mai=--Better late than never. _It. Pr._
=Mehr Leute beten die aufgehende, als die untergehende Sonne an=--More people pay homage to the rising than to the setting sun. _Jean Paul._
=Mehr Licht!=--More light! _Goethe's last words._ (?) 20
=Meikle crack fills nae sack.= _Sc. Pr._
=Mein einz'ger Wunsch ist meiner Wünsche Ruhe=--My only wish is that my wishes should be at rest. _Rückert._
=Mein erst Gesetz ist, in der Welt / Die Frager zu vermeiden=--A first rule of mine is to avoid the inquiring class of people. _Goethe._
=Mein Herz gleicht ganz dem Meere, / Hat Sturm und Ebb' und Flut, / Und manche schöne Perle / In seiner Tiefe ruht=--My heart altogether resembles the sea; it has its storms, its ebbs and floods, and far down in its quiet depths rests many a shining pearl. _Heine._
=Mein Leben ist für Gold nicht feil=--My life is 25 not to be bartered away for gold. _Bürger._
=Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! / Es ist klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute=--Leipzig for me! It is quite a little Paris, and its people acquire an easy finished air (_lit._ it fashions its people). _Goethe._
=Mein Pathos brächte dich gewiss zum Lachen, / Hätt'st du dir nicht das Lachen abgewöhnt=--My pathos would surely provoke you to mirth, if you had not long ago forborne to smile. _Mephisto to the Lord, in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Mein Ruh' ist hin, / Mein Herz ist schwer; / Ich finde sie nimmer / Und nimmermehr=--My peace is gone; my heart is heavy; I shall find it (peace) never and nevermore. _Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Mein Sohn, nichts in der Welt ist unbedeutend. / Das erste aber und Hauptsächlichste / Bei allem ird'schen Ding ist Ort und Stunde=--My son, nothing in this world is without significance, but the first and most essential matter in every earthly thing is the place where and the hour when. _Schiller._
=Mein Wille ist rein, das weitere gebe ich der= 30 =Vorsehung anheim!=--My intention is pure; the rest I leave in the hands of Providence. _Frederick William II. of Prussia._
=Meine Herren, did you never hear of the man that vilified the sun because it would not light his cigar?= _Carlyle's challenge to certain canting pietistic depreciators of Goethe._
=Meine Zeit in Unruhe, meine Hoffnung in Gott!=--The time I live in is a time of turmoil; my hope is in God. _Frederick William III. of Prussia._
=Meiner Idee nach ist Energie die erste und einzige Tugend des Menschen=--In my regard energy is the first and only virtue of man. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Meines Lebens Wunsch ist stiller Friede=--The wish of my life is a tranquil peace. _Seume._
=Mel in ore, verba lactis, / Fel in corde, fraus in= 35 =factis=--Honey in his mouth, words of milk; gall in his heart, deceit in his deeds.
=Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever.= _Burton._
=Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life.= _Margaret Fuller._
=Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.= _Victor Hugo._
=Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and earth, like envy between man and man, and is an everlasting mist.= _Byron._
[Greek: Meletê to pan]--Practice is everything. _Periander._ 40
=Melior est conditio possidentis=--The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two. _L._
=Melior tutiorque est certa pax, quam sperata victoria=--A certain peace is better and safer than an expected victory. _L._
=Meliora sunt ea quæ natura, quam quæ arte perfecta sunt=--The things which are perfect by nature are better than those which are perfect by art. _Cic._
=Meliores priores=--The better first. _L._
=Melioribus auspiciis=--Under more favourable 45 auspices.
=Melius est pati semel, quam cavere semper=--It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. _Jul. Cæs._
=Melius est peccata cavere quam mortem fugere=--It is better to avoid sin than to fly from death. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Melius, pejus, prosit, obsit, nil vident nisi quod libuerit=--Better or worse, for good or for harm, they see nothing but what they please. _Ter._
=Mellitum venenum, blanda oratio=--A flattering speech is honied poison. _Pr._
=Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum; / Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum=--The wounded limb shrinks from even a gentle touch, and the unsubstantial shadow strikes the timid with alarm. _Ovid._
=Même quand l'oiseau marche, on sent qu'il a des ailes=--Even when a bird walks, we may see that it has wings. _Fr. Pr._
=Meminerunt omnia amantes=--Lovers remember 5 everything. _Ovid._
=Memini etiam quæ nolo: oblivisci non possum quæ volo=--I remember what I would not, and I cannot forget what I would. _Themistocles._
=Memor et fidelis=--Mindful and faithful. _M._
=Memorabilia=--Things to be remembered or recorded.
=Memorem immemorem facit, qui monet quod memor meminit=--He who reminds a man with a good memory of what he remembers, makes him forget. _Plaut._
=Memoria in æterna=--In eternal remembrance. 10 _M._
=Memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceas=--Your power of recollection will wax feeble unless you exercise it. _Cic._
=Memoriter=--By rote.
=Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.= _Rivarol._
=Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet / Your powers in happy harmony I find; / One oft recalls what I would fain forget, / And one blots out what I would bear in mind.= _Macedonius._
=Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the= 15 =mother of the Muses.= (?)
=Memory is like a purse: if it be over-full, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it.= _Fuller._
=Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.= _G. D. Prentice._
=Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought.= _Basile._
=Memory is the conservative faculty.= _Sir Wm. Hamilton._
=Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous= 20 =ally of invention.= _Colton._
=Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together.= _E. P. Hood._
=Memory= (_Erinnerung_) =is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven.= _Jean Paul._
=Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.= _Johnson._
=Memory is the scribe of the soul.= _Arist._
=Memory, of all things good remind us still: /= 25 =Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill.= _Macedonius._
=Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.= _Lactantius._
=Memory, the warder of the brain.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Men and communities in this world are often in the position of Arctic explorers, who are making great speed in a given direction, while the ice-floe beneath them is making greater speed in the opposite.= _John Burroughs._
=Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe.= _Jean Paul._
=Men and pyramids are not made to stand on= 30 =their head.= _G. K. Pfeffel._
=Men and women who "grill" over the petty annoyances incident to existence, and inseparable from it, go to ruin like a careworn cat.= _C. J. Dunphie._
=Men apt to promise are apt to forget.= _Pr._
=Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Men are as the time is.= _Lear_, v. 3.
=Men are at best only stewards, and they are= 35 =very select men indeed who are elected of heaven to this honour. The most want the necessary discrimination, and are in their place only when, like Athenian maidens, "bearers of the basket."= _Ed._
=Men are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain.= _Dryden._
=Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.= _Emerson._
=Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.= _Swift._
=Men are enlisted for the labour that kills; let them be enlisted for the labour that feeds; and let the captains of the latter be held as much gentlemen as the captains of the former.= _Ruskin._
=Men are eternally divided into the two classes= 40 =of poet (or believer, maker, and praiser), and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser).= _Ruskin._
=Men are everything, measures are comparatively nothing.= _Canning._
=Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.= _W. Penn._
=Men are happy in proportion as their range of vision, their sphere of action, and their points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed.= _Schopenhauer._
=Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.= _Bishop Butler._
=Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and= 45 =so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.= _Voltaire._
=Men are led by trifles.= _Napoleon._
=Men are less afraid of injuring one who awakens love than one who inspires fear.= _Machiavelli._
=Men are like flies--for men are insects too, / Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!--/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother.= _Edward Irwin._
=Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.= _Whately._
=Men are made by nature unequal: it is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.= _Froude._
=Men are men; the best sometimes forget.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.= _Pliny._
=Men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun= 5 ='em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail.= _George Eliot._
=Men are much in disposition and feelings according to the nature of the country which they inhabit.= _Polybius._
=Men are much more prone (the greater is the pity) both to speak and believe ill than well of their neighbours.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavouring to deceive others.= _La Roche._
=Men are never wise but returning from law.= _Pr._
=Men are not always what they seem to be.= 10 _Lessing._
=Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.= _Epictetus._
=Men are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves.= _Emerson._
=Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly fiddled on by the fingers of joy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Men are not so ungrateful as they are said to be. If they are often complained of, it generally happens that the benefactor claims more than he has given.= _Napoleon._
=Men are not to be measured by inches.= _Pr._ 15
=Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.= _Walpole._
=Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design.= _La Roche._
=Men are readier to forgive calumny than admonition= (_Ermahnung_). _Jean Paul._
=Men are respectable only as they respect.= _Emerson._
=Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and= 20 =good sense at the same time.= _Livy._
=Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.= _Johnson._
=Men are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake himself what he sees done by others, whether he has aptitude for it or not.= _Goethe._
=Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him.= _Carlyle._
=Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.= _Holmes._
=Men are the sport of circumstances, when= 25 =the circumstances seem the sport of men.= _Byron._
=Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.= _Carlyle._
=Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing.= _Pr._
=Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade / Of that which once was great is passed away.= _Wordsworth._
=Men are what their mothers made them.= _Emerson._
=Men are wiser than they know.= _Emerson._ 30
=Men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= _Tennyson._
=Men at some time are masters of their fate.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanities.= _La Bruyère._
=Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.= _Johnson._
=Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that= 35 =grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=Men can make an idol of the Bible.= _Ward Beecher._
=Men can see through a barn-door, they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on't.= _George Eliot._
=Men cannot be well educated without the Bible.= _Dr. Nott._
=Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._
=Men cannot live by lending money to each= 40 =other.= _Ruskin._
=Men cannot live isolated; we are all bound together, for mutual good or else for mutual misery, as living nerves in the same body. No highest man can disunite himself from any lowest.= _Carlyle._
=Men carry the head erect indeed, yet how mean and cringing are the thoughts within.= _Heine._
=Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.= _Emerson._
=Men chew not when they have no bread.= _Pr._
=Men commonly think according to their inclinations,= 45 =speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.= _Bacon._
=Men complain of not finding a place of repose. They are in the wrong; they have it for seeking. What they indeed should complain of is, that the heart is an enemy to that very repose they seek.= _Goldsmith._
=Men contemplate distinctions because they are stupefied with ignorance= (viz., of the substantial identity of things). _Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson._
=Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.= _Cowper._
=Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.= _Goethe._
=Men descend to meet.= _Emerson._
=Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius.= _Wordsworth._
=Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them: they don't live by trade but by work.= _Ruskin._
=Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.= _Pope._
=Men, elevated above all states, are now the= 5 =educators of states--dead men, for instance, like Plato.= _Jean Paul._
=Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.= _Bacon._
=Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them.= _Goethe._
=Men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth.= _Amiel._
=Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.= 10 _Jean Paul._
=Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.= _Johnson._
=Men have but too much cause to secure themselves from men.= _Goethe._
=Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead.= _Emerson._
=Men have many faults; / Poor women have but two; / There's nothing good they say, / And nothing right they do.= _Anon._
=Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.= 15 _Koran._
=Men in all ways are better than they seem.= _Emerson._
=Men in general experience a great joy in colour. The eye needs it as much as it does light. Let any one recall the refreshing sensation one experiences when on a gloomy day the sun shines out on a particular spot on the landscape, and makes the colours of it visible. That healing powers were ascribed to coloured precious stones may have arisen out of the deep feeling of this inexpressible pleasure.= _Goethe._
=Men in great place are thrice servants--servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.= _Bacon._
=Men, in spite of all their failings, best deserve our affections of all that exists.= _Goethe._
=Men learn behaviour, as they take diseases,= 20 =one of another.= _Emerson._
=Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves.= _Spurgeon._
=Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.= _Jean Paul._
=Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.= _Bovee._
=Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.= _Holmes._
=Men look to what people think of them;= 25 =women to what they say.= _Hippel._
=Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.= _Byron._
=Men love things best; women love persons best.= _Jean Paul._
=Men love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair-girdle.= _Ward Beecher._
=Men love us, or they need our love.= _Keble._ 30
=Men make the best friends.= _La Bruyère._
=Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.= _Young._
=Men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things.= _Tennyson._
=Men might live quiet and easy enough, if they would be careful not to give themselves trouble, and forbear meddling with what other people do and say, in which they are in no way concerned.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Men more easily renounce their interests than= 35 =their tastes.= _La Roche._
=Men must be taught as though you taught them not.= _Pope._
=Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither: / Ripeness is all.= _Lear_, v. 2.
=Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.= _Luther._
=Men must leave the ingle-nook, / And for a larger wisdom brook / Experience of a harder law, / And learn humility and awe.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Men must work, and women must weep, /= 40 =Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.= _Charles Kingsley._
=Men no longer wholly believe; in this age of blindness and scientific pride, no one is any longer seen bowing before his god on both his knees.= _Victor Hugo._
=Men no sooner find their appetites unanswered than they complain the times are injurious.= _Raleigh._
=Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.= _Bacon._
=Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.= _Steele._
=Men of few words are the best men.= _Henry_ 45 _V._, iii. 2.
=Men of genius are dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to the earth, is only a stone.= _Longfellow._
=Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.= _Coleridge._
=Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.= _Hazlitt._
=Men of genius have acuter feelings than common men; they are like the wind-harp, which answers to the breath that touches it, now low and sweet, now rising into wild swell or angry scream, as the strings are swept by some passing gust.= _Froude._
=Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.= _Emerson._
=Men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= _Emerson._
=Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it.= _Schiller._
=Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.= _Spectator._
=Men of great parts are often unfortunate in= 5 =the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.= _Swift._
=Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.= _Coleridge._
=Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.= _Milton._
=Men of science should leave controversy to the little world below them.= _Goldsmith._
=Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.= _Emerson._
=Men of sense often learn from their enemies.= 10 _Aristophanes._
=Men of the first quality learn nothing, and become wise; men of the second rank become sensible= (_klug_), =and learn long; men of the third sort remain stupid, and learn words.= _Rückert._
=Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.= _Addison._
=Men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them.= _Fielding._
=Men of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their powers.= _Goethe._
=Men only associate in parties by sacrificing= 15 =their opinions, or by having none worth sacrificing; and the effect of party government is always to develop hostilities and hypocrisies, and to extinguish ideas.= _Ruskin._
=Men only rightly know themselves as far as they have experimented on things.= _Emerson._
=Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness.= _Bacon._
=Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.= _Froude._
=Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils.= _Goethe._
=Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.= 20 _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.
=Men rate the virtues of the heart at almost nothing, while they idolise endowments of body and intellect.= _La Bruyère._
=Men rattle their chains to show that they are free.= _Pr._
=Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.= _Emerson._
=Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough seashore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.= _Ruskin._
=Men seek within the short span of life to= 25 =satisfy a thousand desires, each of which alone is insatiable.= _Goldsmith._
=Men seem to be led by their noses, but in reality it is by their ears.= _Carlyle._
=Men should be prized, not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of.= _Goldsmith._
=Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.= _Mme. Scudéri._
=Men should not be told of the faults which= 30 =they have mended.= _Johnson._
=Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.= _Goethe._
=Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; / But every woman is at heart a rake; / Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; / But every lady would be queen for life.= _Pope._
=Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak.= _La Roche._
=Men spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.= _Steele._
=Men still are what they always have been, a= 35 =medley= (_Gemisch_) =of strength and weakness, often obedient to reason, and oftener to passion; so have they come down the stream of time for six thousand years, and mostly in such shape as the moment has fashioned them.= _Seume._
=Men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.= _Burke._
=Men that hazard all / Do it in hope of fair advantages.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 7.
=Men that make / Envy and crooked malice nourishment / Dare bite the best.= _Hen. VIII._, v. 3.
=Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.= _Hare._
=Men think they are quarrelling with one= 40 =another, and both sides feel that they are in the wrong.= _Goethe._
=Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape their shadows.= _Froude, Carlyle._
=Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.= _Sterne._
=Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.= _Seneca._
=Men understand not what is among their hands; as calmness is the characteristic of strength, so the weightiest causes may be the most silent.= _Carlyle._
=Men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble, and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.= _Sir T. More._
=Men, who are knaves individually, are in the mass very honourable people.= _Montesquieu._
=Men who begin by losing their independence will end by losing their energy.= _Buckle._
=Men who, being always bred in affluence,= 5 =see the world only on one side, are surely improper judges of human nature.= _Goldsmith._
=Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service.= _Spurgeon._
=Men who form their judgment upon sense often err.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.= _Emerson._
=Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Men who their duties know, / But know their= 10 =rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.= _Sir W. Jones._
=Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner.= _Jacobi._
=Men will blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.= _Pr._
=Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.= _Hazlitt._
=Men will face powder and steel, because they cannot face public opinion.= _Chapin._
=Men will forget what we suffer, and not what= 15 =we do.= _Tennyson._
=Men will marry a fool that sings, sooner than one that has learned to scoff.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it--anything but live for it.= _Colton._
=Men work themselves into atheistical judgments by atheistical practice.= _Whichcote._
=Men would be angels, angels would be gods.= _Pope._
=Men would not live long in society, were they= 20 =not the mutual dupes of each other.= _La Roche._
=Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight.= _Pr._
=Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.= _Emerson._
=Men's best successes come after their disappointments.= _Ward Beecher._
=Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water.= _Henry VIII._, iv. 2.
=Men's hearts ought not to be set against one= 25 =another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing only.= _Carlyle._
=Men's ignorance makes the priest's pot boil.= _Fr. Pr._
=Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry music.= _George Eliot._
=Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, / Though great ones are their object.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=Men's prosperity is in their own hands, and no forms of government are, in themselves, of the least use.= _Ruskin._
=Men's souls 'twixt sorrow and love are cast.= 30 _O. M. Brown._
=Men's thoughts and opinions are, in a great degree, vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet.= _Lowell._
=Men's thoughts are much according to their inclinations; their discourses and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions.= _Bacon._
=Men's vows are women's traitors.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 4.
=Menace-moi de vivre et non pas de mourir=--Threaten me with life and not with death. _Fr._
=Ménage=--Housekeeping. _Fr._ 35
=Mendacem memorem esse oportet=--A liar ought to have a good memory. _Quinct._
=Mendaces, ebriosi, verbosi=--Liars, drunkards, and wordy people.
=Mendaci homini, ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus=--We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. _Cic._
=Mendici, mimi, balatrones, et hoc genus omne=--Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. _Hor._
=Mendico ne parentes quidem amici sunt=--To 40 a beggar not even his own parents show affection. _Pr._
=Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable.= _Pr._
=Mens æqua rebus in arduis=--Equanimity in arduous enterprises. _M._
=Mens agitat molem=--A mind moves or informs the mass. _Virg._
=Mens bona regnum possidet=--A good mind possesses a kingdom. _Pr._
=Mens conscia recti=--A mind conscious of rectitude. 45
=Mens cujusque est quisque=--The mind of the man is the man. _M._
=Mens immota manet; lachrymæ volvuntur inanes=--His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. _Virg._
=Mens interrita lethi=--A mind undaunted by death. _Ovid._
=Mens invicta manet=--The mind remains unsubdued.
=Mens peccat, non corpus, et unde consilium= 50 =abfuit culpa abest=--It is the mind that sins, not the body, and where there was no intention there is no criminality. _Liv._
=Mens sana in corpore sano=--A sound mind in a sound body. _Juv._
=Mens sine pondere ludit=--The mind is playful when unburdened.
=Mensa et toro=--From bed and board. _L._
=Menschenkenntniss ist Unglaube an Tugend und Redlichkeit=--A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. _C. J. Weber._
=Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen, / Aber= 55 =göttlich zu verzeihn=--To punish is merely human, but to forgive is divine. _P. von Winter._
=Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil=--A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. _Ovid._
=Mensuraque juris / Vis erat=--And might was the measure of right. _Lucan._
=Mental courage, infinitely rarer than valour, presupposes the most eminent qualities.= _Diderot._
=Mental pleasures never cloy: unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.= _Colton._
=Mental prayer= (_mentale Gebet_), =which includes and excludes all religions, and only in a few God-favoured men permeates the whole course of life, develops itself in most men as only a blazing, beatific feeling of the moment, immediately after the vanishing of which the man, thrown in upon himself unsatisfied and unoccupied, lapses back into the most utter and absolute weariness.= _Goethe._
=Mentally and bodily endowed men are the= 5 =most modest, while, on the other hand, all who have some peculiar mental defect think a great deal more of themselves.= _Goethe._
=Mentis gratissimus error=--A most delightful reverie of the mind. _Hor._
=Mentis penetralia=--The inmost recesses of the mind; the secrets of the heart.
=Menu=--Bill of fare. _Fr._
=Menus plaisirs=--Pocket-money. _Fr._
=Meo sum pauper in ære=--I am poor, but I am 10 not in debt. _Hor._
=Merces virtutis laus est=--Applause is the reward of virtue. _Pr._
=Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.= _Bible._
=Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.
=Mercy is above this sceptred sway, / It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God himself; / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; / Pardon= 15 =is still the nurse of second woe.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 1.
=Mercy, misericordia, does not in the least mean forgiveness of sins, but pity of sorrows.= _Ruskin._
=Mercy to him that shows it is the rule.= _Cowper._
=Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.= _Quarles._
=Mercy's gate opens to those who knock.= _Saying._
=Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward,= 20 =and merit without modesty insolent; but modest merit has a double claim to acceptance.= _T. Hughes._
=Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.= _Skobeleff._
=Mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.= _Burton._
=Mere pleasure ought not to be the prime motive of action.= _Johnson._
=Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is.= _Hazlitt._
=Mere wishes are bony fishes.= _Pr._ 25
=Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.= _Bacon._
=Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded.= _Napoleon._
=Merit in appearance is oftener rewarded than merit itself.= _La Roche._
=Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.= _Bovee._
=Merit lives from man to man.= _Tennyson._ 30
=Merry be the first, / And merry be the last, / And merry be the first of August.= _Pr._
=Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=Merx ultronea putret=--Proffered service stinks (_i.e._ is despised). _Pr._
=Mésalliance=--A marriage with one of inferior rank. _Pr._
=Messe tenus propria vive=--Live within your 35 means (_lit._ harvest).
[Greek: Metabolê pantôn glyky]--There is always a pleasure in variety. _Euripides._
=Metaphysicians and philosophers are, on the whole, the greatest troubles the world has got to deal with.... Busy metaphysicians are always entangling good and active people, and weaving cobwebs among the finest wheels of the world's business, and are, as much as possible, by all prudent persons, to be brushed out of their way.= _Ruskin._
=Metaphysics, with which physics cannot dispense, is that wisdom of thought which was before all physics, lives with it, and will endure after it.= _Goethe._
[Greek: Mête dikên dikasês, prin amphoin mythou akousês]--Don't pronounce sentence till you have heard the story of both parties. _Pr._
=Method is the very hinge of business.= _Hannah_ 40 _More._
=Method will teach you to win time.= _Goethe._
=Methods are the masters of masters.= _Talleyrand._
=Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Métier d'auteur, métier d'oseur=--The profession of author is a daring profession. _Fr._
=Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum= 45 =est=--It is meet that every man should measure himself by his own rule and standard. _Hor._
=Mettre les pieds dans le plat=--To put one's foot in it. _Fr. Pr._
=Metuenda corolla draconis=--The dragon's crest is to be feared.
=Meum et tuum=--Mine and thine.
=Meus mihi, suus cuique est carus=--Mine is dear to me, and dear is his own to every man. _Plaut._
=Mezzo termine=--A middle course. _It._ 50
=Micat inter omnes=--It shines amongst all, _i.e._, it outshines all. _Hor._
=Mich dräng'st den Grundtext aufzuschlagen, / Mit redlichem Gefühl einmal / Das heilige Original / In mein geliebtes Deutsch zu übertragen=--I must turn up the primitive text just to translate the sacred original with honest feeling into my dear German tongue. _Faust, in Goethe._
=Mich hat mein Glaube nicht betrogen!=--My faith has not betrayed me. _Schiller._
=Mich plagen keine Scrupel noch Zweifel, / Fürchte mich weder vor Hölle noch Teufel=--I am troubled by no scruples or doubts; I fear neither hell nor devil. _Faust, in Goethe._
=Mich schuf aus gröberm Stoffe die Natur, / Und zu der Erde zieht mich die Begierde=--Out of coarser clay has Nature created me, and I am drawn by lust to the dust. _Schiller._
=Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; / A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, / Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.= _J. H. Payne._
=Midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, / To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, / And roam along, the world's tired denizen, / With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; / ... This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!= _Byron._
=Mieux nourri qu'instruit=--Better fed than taught. _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux serra=--Better times are coming. _M._ 5
=Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue. _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis=--Better lose the wool than the sheep. _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux vaut un bon renom, que du bien plein la maison=--Better a good name than a house full of riches. _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux vaut un "Tiens" que deux "Tu l'auras"=--One "Take this" is better than two "You shall have it." _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux vaut une once de fortune qu'une livre= 10 =de sagesse=--An ounce of fortune is better than a pound of wisdom. _Fr. Pr._
=Mieux vaut voir un chien enragé, qu'un soleil chaud en Janvier=--Better see a mad dog than a hot sun in January.
=Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.= _Carlyle._
=Mightier far / Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway / Of magic, potent over sun and star, / Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, / And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast.= _Wordsworth._
=Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, / And sleep, how oft, on things that gentlest be.= _B. M. Procter._
=Mighty events turn on a straw; the crossing= 15 =of a brook decides the conquest of the world.= _Carlyle._
=Migravit ab aure voluptas / Omnis=--All pleasure has fled from the ear, (dumb show having taken the place of dialogue on the stage). _Hor._
=Mihi est propositum in taberna mori=--I purpose to end my days in an inn.
=Mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, / Porriget hora=--The hour will perhaps extend to me what it has denied to you. _Hor._
=Mihi istic nec seritur nec metitur=--There is neither sowing nor reaping in that affair for my benefit. _Plaut._
=Mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My 20 aim is to subject circumstances to me, and not myself to them. _Hor._
=Mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora=--For me the time passes slowly and joyously away. _Hor._
=Mildness governs more than anger.= _Pr._
=Militat omnis amans=--Every lover is engaged in a war. _Ovid._
=Militiæ species amor est=--Love is a kind of warfare. _Ovid._
=Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; /= 25 =Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno=--There are a thousand kinds of men, and different hues they give to things; each one follows his own inclination, nor do they all agree in their wishes. _Pers._
=Mille verisimili non fanno un vero=--A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. _It. Pr._
=Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, / Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus=--Though your threshing-floor should yield a hundred thousand bushels of corn, will your stomach therefore hold more than mine? _Hor._
=Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth / Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.= _Milton._
=Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus=--He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. _Coke._
=Mind and body are intimately related; if the= 30 =former is joyful, the latter feels free and well; and many an evil flies before cheerfulness.= _Goethe._
=Mind and body--that beauteous couple--exercise much and variously, but at home, at home, indoors, and about things indoors; for God is there too.= _Landor._
=Mind is stronger than matter; mind is the creator and shaper of matter; not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= _Carlyle._
=Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.= _Webster._
=Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.= _Rivarol._
=Mind not high things, but condescend to men= 35 =of low estate.= _St. Paul._
=Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.= _Bovee._
=Mind your P's and Q's.= _Pr._
=Mind your work, and God will find your wages.= _Pr._
=Minds are of celestial birth; / Make we then a heaven of earth.= _Montgomery._
=Minds that have nothing to confer / Find little= 40 =to perceive.= _Wordsworth._
=Minds that never rest are subject to many digressions.= _Joubert._
=Mind the corner where life's road turns.= _Pr._
=Mine honour my life is; both grow in one; / Take honour from me, and my life is done.= _Richard II._, i. 1.
=Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--Very little avails to break a bruised thing. _Ov._
=Minima de malis=--Of two evils choose the least. 45 _Pr._
=Minister flicken am Staate, / Die Richter flicken am Rate, / Die Pfarrer an dem Gewissen, / Die Aerzte an Händen und Füszen! O Jobsen! was flickest denn du? / Weit besser! Gerissene Schuh!=--Ministers cobble away at the state, judges at the law, parsons at the conscience, doctors at our hands and feet; what cobblest thou at, friend Jobson? Far better--shoes that have been torn. _Weisse._
=Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet=--A master who fears his servants is lower than a servant.
=Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards.= _John Burroughs._
=Minuentur atræ / Carmine curæ=--Black care will be soothed by song. _Hor._
=Minuit præsentia famam=--Acquaintanceship lessens fame. _Claud._
=Minus afficit sensus fatigatio quam cogitatio=--Bodily fatigue affects the mind less than intense thought. _Quinct._
=Minuti / Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas / Ultio=--Revenge is ever the delight of a stinted and weak and petty mind. _Juv._
=Minutiæ=--Trifles; minute details. 5
=Mir gäb' es keine gröss're Pein, / Wär' ich im Paradies allein=--There were for me no greater torment than to be in Paradise alone. _Goethe._
=Mir wird bei meinem kritischen Bestreben / Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang=--Often during my critical studies I fear as if I would lose both head and heart. _Wagner in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Mira quædam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio=--There is a certain wonderful sweetness and delight in gaining knowledge.
=Mirabile dictu!=--Wonderful to be told!
=Mirabile visu!=--Wonderful to behold! 10
=Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=Miracles do not serve to convert, but condemn.= _Pascal._
=Miramur ex intervallo fallentia=--We admire at a distance things which deceive us. _Pr._
=Miremur te non tua=--Let me have something to admire in yourself, not in what belongs to you. _Juv._
=Mirth is God's medicine.= _Ward Beecher._ 15
=Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.= _Addison._
=Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.= _Addison._
=Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem=--Mix a little folly with your serious thoughts. _Hor._
=Miscellaneous reading avoid.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Mischief, thou art afoot; / Take thou what= 20 =course thou wilt.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Mise en scène=--The getting up or putting in preparation for the stage. _Fr._
=Misera contribuens plebs!=--The poor tax-paying people. _Verböczy._
=Misera est magni custodia census=--The custody of a large fortune is a wretched business. _Juv._
=Misera est servitus ubi jus est aut vagum aut incognitum=--Obedience to the law is a hardship where the law is either unsettled or unknown. _L._
=Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness= 25 =is that unhappy pair who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.= _Johnson._
=Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari=--An unhappy peace may be profitably exchanged for war. _Tac._
=Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem=--Between bridge and stream the Lord's mercy may be found. _St. Augustine._
=Miseros prudentia prima relinquit=--Prudence is the first thing to forsake the wretched. _Ovid._
=Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret=--Most wretched is the lot of him who has not an enemy. _Pub. Syr._
=Miserum est aliorum incumbere famæ / Ne= 30 =collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis=--It is a wretched thing to lean for support on the reputation of others, lest the roof should fall in ruins when the pillars are withdrawn. _Juv._
=Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.
=Misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon= (war). _Burns._
=Misery doth part / The flux of company.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1.
=Misery is like love; to speak its language truly, the author must have felt it.= _Burns._
=Misery is trodden down by many, / And, being= 35 =low, never relieved by any.= _Shakespeare._
=Misery that I miss is a new mercy.= _Isaac Walton._
=Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.= _Mrs. L. M. Child._
=Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.= _Anna C. Mowatt._
=Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul.= _Goethe._
=Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.= 40 _Pr._
=Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Misfortunes never come single.= _Pr._
=Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened.= _Pr._
=Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, / To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 1.
=Misreckoning is no payment.= _Pr._ 45
=Mist of words, / Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge / The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less / Doubly.= _Bailey._
=Mistake not, man; the devil never sleeps.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Mistrust the man who finds everything good, and the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.= _Lavater._
=Misunderstanding brings lies to town.= _Pr._
=Misunderstanding goes on like a fallen stitch= 50 =in a stocking, which in the beginning might have been taken up with a needle.= _Goethe._
=Mit deinem Meister zu irren ist dein Gewinn=--To err with thy master is thy gain. _Goethe._
=Mit dem Genius steht die Natur im ewigen Bunde! / Was der eine verspricht, leistet die andre gewiss=--Nature stands in eternal league with genius; what the one promises the other as surely performs. _Schiller._
=Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel=--Doubt ever grows alongside of knowledge. _Goethe._
=Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens=--With stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain. _Schiller._
=Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen=--One should never venture to joke with ladies. _Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Mit fremdem Gut ist leicht ein Prasser sein=--It is easy to live riotously (be a rake) at another's expense. _Platen._
=Mit Kleinen thut man kleine Thaten, / Mit Grossen wird der Kleine gross=--With little people we do little deeds, with great people the little one becomes great. _Goethe._
=Mit seltsamen Geberden / Giebt man sich= 5 =viele Pein; / Kein Mensch will etwas werden, / Ein jeder will schon was sein=--We are easily disconcerted by strange manners; no man is willing to become anything, every one gives himself out as already something. _Goethe._
=Mit vier Strangschlägern zu fahren ist gefährlich, aber ich werde es versuchen=--It is risky to drive with four horses that kick over the traces, but I shall try. _Bismarck._
=Mit Worten lässt sich trefflich streiten / Mit Worten ein System bereiten, / An Worten lässt sich trefflich glauben, / Von einem Wort lässt sich kein Iota rauben=--With words disputes may be effectively carried on; with words a system may be built up; on words one may rest religious belief; from a word must not one iota be taken. _Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Mit Worten nicht, mit Thaten lasst mich danken=--Let me thank you with deeds, not with words. _Körner._
=Mitgefühl erweckt Vertrauen; / Und Vertrauen ist der Schlüssel / Der des Herzens Pforte öffnet=--Sympathy awakens confidence, and confidence is the key which unlocks the doors of the heart. _Bodenstedt._
=Mittagsschlaf ist ein brennend Licht am Tage=--Sleep 10 at midday is a candle burning in the daytime. _Hippel._
=Mitte hanc de pectore curam=--Dismiss these anxieties from your breast. _Virg._
=Mittimus=--We send. A writ for transferring records from one court to another; a precept committing an accused person to prison by a justice of the peace. _L._
=Mobilis et varia est ferme natura malorum=--Misfortunes generally are of a variable and changeable nature. _Juv._
=Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo=--It grows by moving, and gathers strength as it speeds on. _Virg., of Fame._
=Mobilium turba Quiritium=--A crowd of fickle 15 citizens. _Hor._
=Mock me not with the name of free, when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons.= _Carlyle._
=Mockery is the fume of little hearts.= _Tennyson._
=Moderari animo et orationi, cum sis iratus, non mediocris ingenii est=--To be able to temper your indignation and language when you are angry is evidence of a chastened disposition. _Cic._
=Moderata durant=--Things we use in moderation last long. _Sen._
=Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,= 20 =excessive grief the enemy to the living.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them.= _Pr._
=Moderation and judgment are, for most purposes, more than the flash and the glitter even of genius.= _J. Morley._
=Moderation is good, but moderation alone is no virtue= (_Tugend_). _Rückert._
=Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance.= _Colton._
=Moderation is the silken string running through= 25 =the pearl chain of all virtues.= _Thomas Fuller._
=Moderation is the virtue best adapted to the dawn of prosperity.= _Pitt._
=Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain we can no more manage our mobs.= _Ruskin._
=Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists.= _J. Sterling._
=Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink.= _Goethe._
=Modern Protestantism sees in the cross, not a= 30 =furca to which it is to be nailed, but a raft on which it, and all its valuable properties, are to be floated into Paradise.= _Ruskin._
=Modern revolution has nothing grand about it; it is merely the resolution of society into its component atoms.= _Froude._
=Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism. No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.= _Ruskin._
=Modest demeanour's the jewel of a'!= _Burns._
=Modest dogs miss much meat.= _Pr._
=Modest doubt is called / The beacon of the= 35 =wise, the tent that searches / To the bottom of the worst.= _Troil. and Cres._, ii. 2.
=Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.= _Chapin._
=Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beautiful is a hidden thing, and shrinks from its own power.= _Schiller._
=Modeste tamen et circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quæ non intelligunt=--We should, however, pronounce our opinions with modesty and circumspect judgment of such men, lest, as is the case with many, we should be found condemning what we do not understand. _Quinct._
=Modesty and presumption are moral things of so spiritual a nature, that they have little to do with the body.= _Goethe._
=Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised= 40 =by the women than liked.= _Sheridan._
=Modesty is a very good thing, but a man in this country may get on very well without it.= _M. on a banner in the Far West._
=Modesty is so pleased with other people's doings that she has no leisure to lament her own.= _Ruskin._
=Modesty is the beauty of women.= _Gael. Pr._
=Modesty is the colour of virtue.= _Diogenes._
=Modesty is the sweet song-bird which no open= 45 =cage-door can tempt to flight.= _Hafiz._
=Modesty is to merit what the shadows are to the figures on a picture; it imparts to it force and relief.= _La Bruyère._
=Modesty ruins all that bring it to court.= _Pr._
=Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.= _Goldsmith._
=Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever.= _Landor._
=Modo et forma=--In manner and form. 5
=Modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis=--He sets me down now at Thebes, now at Athens, _i.e._, the poet does so by his magic art. _Hor._
=Modo vir, modo femina=--Now as a man, now as a woman. _Ovid._
=Modus operandi=--The manner of operation.
=Mögt ihr Stück für Stück bewitzeln, / Doch das Ganze zieht euch an=--You may jeer at it bit by bit, yet the whole fascinates you. _Goethe._
=Moi, moi, dis je, et c'est assez=--I, I, say I, and 10 that is enough. _Corneille._
=Moins on pense plus on parle=--The less people think, the more they talk. _Fr._
=Moles and misers live in their graves.= _Pr._
=Molesta et importuna salutantium frequentia=--A troublesome and annoying crowd of visitors.
=Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis=--My tender heart is vulnerable by his (Cupid's) light arrows. _Ovid._
=Mollis educatio nervos omnes et mentis et= 15 =corporis frangit=--An effeminate education weakens all the powers both of mind and body. _Quinct._
=Mollissima corda / Humano generi dare se natura fatetur, / Quæ lachrymas dedit: hæc nostri pars optima sensus=--Nature confesses that she gives the tenderest of hearts to the human race when she gave them tears. This is the best part of our sensations. _Juv._
=Mollissima tempora fandi=--The most fitting moment for speaking, or addressing, one. _Hor._
=Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem=--The interest in the pursuit gently beguiling the severity of the toil. _Hor._
=Molliter ossa cubent=--Let his bones softly rest. _Ovid._
=Momento mare vertitur; / Eodem die ubi= 20 =luserunt, navigia sorbentur=--In a moment the sea is agitated, and on the same day ships are swallowed up where they lately sported gaily along.
=Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère=--My soul has a secret of its own, my life its mystery. _Arvers._
=Mon cœur aux dames, / Ma vie au roi, / A Dieu mon âme, / L'honneur pour moi=--My heart to the ladies, my life to the king, and my soul to God, but my honour is my own. _On a shield in the Royal Schloss, Berlin._
=Mon Dieu est ma roche=--My God is my rock. _M._
=Mon frère a mis son bonnet de travers=--My brother is cross (_lit._ has put on his cap the wrong way). _Fr. Pr._
=Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well,= 25 =but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.= _Fisher Ames._
=Monday is the key of the week.= _Gael. Pr._
=Monday religion is better than Sunday profession.= _Pr._
=Mone sale=--Advise with salt, _i.e._, with discretion. _M._
=Money answers everything, / Save a guilty conscience sting.= _Pr._
=Money begets money.= _Pr._ 30
=Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.= _Pr._
=Money calls, but does not stay: / It is round and rolls away.= _Pr._
=Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned.= _Kazlay._
=Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.= _Bouheurs._
=Money is human happiness in the abstract;= 35 =he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.= _Schopenhauer._
=Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances.= _Spurgeon._
=Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.= _Thoreau._
=Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.= _Fielding._
=Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.= _Heine._
=Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;= 40 =health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.= _Colton._
=Money is the ruin of many.= _Pr._
=Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.= _Pr._
=Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.= (?)
=Money makes the mare to go.= _Pr._
=Money masters all things.= _Pr._ 45
=Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Money often costs too much.= _Emerson._
=Money often unmakes the men who make it.= _Pr._
=Money refused loses its brightness.= _Pr._
=Money spent on the brain is never spent in= 50 =vain.= _Pr._
=Moniti, meliora sequamur=--Admonished, let us follow better counsels. _Virg._
=Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces.= _Dryden._
=Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe / Tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ=--I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. _Juv._
=Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum=--A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. _Virgil, of Polyphemus._
=Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum / A vitiis=--A 55 monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. _Juv._
=Mont de piété=--Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. _Fr._
=Montes auri pollicens=--Promising mountains of gold. _Ter._
=Montesquieu, with his cause-and-effect philosophy, is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity, in Heaven.= _Carlyle._
=Monuments, like men, submit to fate.= _Pope._
=Monuments themselves memorials need.= _Crabbe._
=Mony an honest man needs that hasna the= 5 =face to seek it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Mony ane speirs the gate= (inquires the way) =they ken fu' weel.= _Sc. Pr._
=Mony kinsfolk, but few freends.= _Sc. Pr._
=Moonlight is sculpture.= _Hawthorne._
=Moping melancholy.= _Milton._
=Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam=--All 10 delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. _Pub. Syr._
=Moral culture must begin with a change= (_Umwandlung_) =in the way of thinking, and with the founding of a character.= _Kant._
=Moral education begins in making the creature to be educated clean and obedient; and it is summed up when the creature has been made to do its work with delight, and thoroughly.= _Ruskin._
=Moral inability aggravates our guilt.= _Scott._
=Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.= _Hare._
=Moral qualities rule the world, but at short= 15 =distances the senses are despotic.= _Emerson._
=Morality is a curb, not a spur.= _Joubert._
=Morality is but the vestibule of religion.= _Chapin._
=Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourses.= _Immermann._
=Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'Tis a secret the genesis of either; but the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.= _Emerson._
=Morceau=--A morsel; a bit. _Fr._ 20
=Morceau d'ensemble=--Piece of music harmonised for several voices. _Fr._
=More are drowned in the beaker than in the sea.= _Ger. Pr._
=More are made good by exercitation than by nature.= _Democritus._
=More credit may be thrown down in a moment than can be built up in an age.= _Pr._
=More hearts pine away in secret anguish for= 25 =unkindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life.= _Young._
=More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.= _George Eliot._
=More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=More knave than fool.= _Marlowe._
=More light, more life, more love.= _Pr._
=More majorum=--After the manner of our ancestors. 30
=More matter with less art.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=More meat and less mustard.= _Pr._
=More pleased we are to see a river lead / His gentle streams along a flowery mead, / Than from high banks to hear loud torrents roar, / With foamy waters on a muddy shore.= _Dryden._
=More potatoes and fewer potations.= _Motto for Working-men._
=More servants wait on man / Than he'll take= 35 =notice of.= _George Herbert._
=More sinn'd against than sinning.= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=More springs up in the garden than the gardener sows there.= _Pr._
=More suo=--After his usual manner; as is his wont.
=More than all things, avoid fault-finding and a habit of criticism.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=More than kisses letters mingle souls.= _Donne._ 40
=More than we use is more than we want.= _Pr._
=More things are wrought by prayer / Than this world dreams of.= _Tennyson._
=More water glideth by the mill / Than wots the miller of.= _Tit. Andron._, ii. 1.
=Mores amici noveris, non oderis=--Know well, but take no offence at the manners of a friend. _Pr._
=Mores multorum vidit=--He saw the manners of 45 many men. _Hor. of Ulysses._
=Morgen können wir's nicht mehr, / Darum lasst uns heute leben!=--To-morrow is no longer in our power, therefore let us live to-day. _Schiller._
=Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute! / Sprechen immer träge Leute=--To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day, is the constant song of the idle. _C. F. Weisse._
=Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde=--The morning hour has gold in its mouth. _Gr. Pr._
=Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus=--Let us die, and rush into the thick of the fight. _Virg._
=Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque=--The 50 Roman commonwealth stands by its ancient manners and men. _Enn._
=Moribus et forma conciliandus amor=--Pleasing manners and a handsome figure conciliate love. _Ovid._
=Morituri morituros salutant=--The dying salute the dying.
=Morose thoughts one should never send to a distance.= _Goethe._
=Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.= _Landor._
=Mors et fugacem persequitur virum=--Death 55 pursues the man as he flees from it. _Hor._
=Mors ipsa refugit sæpe virum!=--Death itself often takes flight at the presence of a man. _Lucan._
=Mors janua vitæ=--Death is the gate of life.
=Mors laborum ac miseriarum quies est!=--Death is repose from all our toils and miseries. _Cic._
=Mors potius macula=--Death rather than disgrace. _M._
=Mors sola fatetur / Quantula sint hominum= 60 =corpuscula=--Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of us men. _Juv._
=Mors ultima linea rerum est=--Death is the farthest limit of our changing life. _Hor._
=Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias=--Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity. _Cic._
=Mortalia acta nunquam Deos fallunt=--The deeds of man never can be hid from the gods.
=Mortalia facta peribunt, / Nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax=--All man's works must perish; how much less shall the power and grace of language long survive! _Hor._
=Mortality is beset on every side with crosses, and exposed to suffering every moment.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Mortalium rerum misera beatitudo=--The miserable 5 bliss of all moral things. _Boëthius._
=Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta / Sede novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptæ=--Souls are immortal; and admitted, after quitting their first abode, into new homes, they live and dwell in them for ever. _Ovid._
=Mortem effugere nemo potest!=--No one can escape death.
=Mortuo leoni et lepores insultant=--Even hares insult a dead lion. _Pr._
=Mos pro lege=--Usage, or custom, for law. _L._
=Moses and Mahomet were not men of speculation,= 10 =but men of action; and it is the stress they laid upon the latter that has given them the power they wield over the destinies of mankind.= _Renan._
=Most authors steal their works, or buy.= _Pope._
=Most dangerous / Is that temptation that doth goad us on / To sin in loving virtue.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Most felt, least said.= _Pr._
=Most joyful let the poet be; / It is through him that all men see.= _W. E. Channing._
=Most men and most women are merely one= 15 =couple more.= _Emerson._
=Most men do not know what is in them till they receive the summons from their fellows; their hearts die within them, sleep settles upon them--the lethargy of the world's miasmata; there is nothing for which they are so thankful as for that cry, "Awake, thou that sleepest."= _Ruskin._
=Most men forget God all day, and ask Him to remember them at night.= (?)
=Most men I ask little from; I try to render them much, and to expect nothing in return, and I get very well out of the bargain.= _Fénelon._
=Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.= _Lowell._
=Most men never reach the glorious epoch, that= 20 =middle stage between despair and deification, in which the comprehensible appears to us common and insipid.= _Goethe._
=Most men of action incline to fatalism, and most men of thought believe in Providence.= _Balzac._
=Most men take no notice of what is plain, as if that were of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom.= _Sherlock._
=Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness.= _Johnson._
=Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?= _Bible._
=Most men write now as if they expected that= 25 =their works should live no more than a month.= _Lord Orford._
=Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.= _Emerson._
=Most of our evils come from our vices.= _Pr._
=Most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.= _South._
=Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances, to the elevation of mankind.= _Thoreau._
=Most of the mischief in the world would never= 30 =happen if men would only be content to sit still in their parlours.= _Pascal._
=Most people think now-a-days the only hopeful way of serving your neighbour is to make a profit out of him; whereas, in my opinion, the hopefulest way of serving him is to let him make a profit out of me.= _Ruskin._
=Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.= _Billings._
=Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.= _Knigge._
=Most potent, effectual for all work whatsoever, is wise planning, firm combining and commanding among men.= _Carlyle._
=Most powerful is he who has himself in his= 35 =power.= _Seneca._
=Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado.= _Lowell._
=Most strange that men should fear, / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=Most terrors are but spectral illusions.= _Helps._
=Most things have two handles, and a wise= 40 =man takes hold of the best.= _Pr._
=Most women have no characters at all.= _Pope._
=Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song.= _Shelley._
=Mot à mot=--Word for word.
=Mot à mot on fait les gros livres=--Word by word big books are made. _Fr. Pr._
=Mot d'ordre=--Watchword. _Fr._ 45
=Mot pour rire=--A jest. _Fr._
=Mother, a maiden is a tender thing, / And best by her that bore her understood.= _Tennyson._
=Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes.= _Pr._
=Mother's love is the cream of love.= _Pr._
=Mother's truth keeps constant youth.= _Pr._ 50
=Motives are better than actions.= _Bovee._
=Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us.= _Coleridge._
=Motley's the only wear.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Mots d'usage=--Phrases in common use. _Fr._
=Motu proprio=--Of his own accord. 55
=Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one.= _Cowper._
=Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men.= _Hare._
=Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning.= _Saying._
=Mourning tendeth to mending.= _Pr._
=Movet cornicula risum / Furtivis nudata coloribus=--The 5 crow, stript of its stolen colours, provokes our ridicule. _Hor._
=Moving accidents by flood and field.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief.= _Pr._
=Much bruit, little fruit.= _Pr._
=Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen.= _Pr._
=Much debating goes on about the good that= 10 =has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly.= _Goethe._
=Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none.= _Carlyle._
=Much food is in the tillage of the poor.= _Bible._
=Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice.= _Goethe._
=Much learning is a weariness of the flesh.= _Pr._
=Much learning shows how little mortals know;= 15 =much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.= _Young._
=Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born.= _Carlyle._
=Much meat, much disease.= _Pr._
=Much might be said on both sides.= _Addison._
=Much of the good or evil that befalls persons arises from the well or ill managing of their conversation.= _Judge Hale._
=Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of= 20 =conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity.= _Paley._
=Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy--by consulting the oracular dead.= _Hare._
=Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops.= _Ruskin._
=Much reading makes one haughty and pedantic; much observation= (_Sehen_) =makes one wise, sociable, and helpful.= _Lichtenberg._
=Much religion, but no goodness.= _Pr._
=Much rust needs a rough file.= _Pr._ 25
=Much there is that appears unequal in our life, yet the balance is soon and unexpectedly restored. In eternal alternation a weal counterbalances the woe, and swift sorrows our joys. Nothing is constant. Many an incongruity= (_Missverhältniss_) =as the days roll on, is gradually and imperceptibly dissolved in harmony. And ah! love knows how to reconcile the greatest discrepancy and unite earth with heaven.= _Goethe._
=Mucho sabe la zorra, pero mas el que la toma=--The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. _Sp. Pr._
=Mud chokes no eels.= _Pr._
=Mudar costumbre a par de muerte=--To change a custom is next to death. _Sp. Pr._
=Muddy spring, muddy stream.= _Pr._ 30
=Mugitus labyrinthi=--The bellowing of the labyrinth (a threadbare theme among weak poets). _Juv._
=Mules deliver great discourses because their ancestors were horses.= _Pr._
=Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, / In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua=--What a woman says to an ardent lover ought to be written on the winds and the swiftly flowing water. _Catull._
=Mulier profecto nata est ex ipsa mora=--Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. _Plaut._
=Mulier quæ sola cogitat male cogitat=--The 35 thoughts of a woman when alone tend to mischief. _Pr._
=Mulier recte olet ubi nihil olet=--A woman smells sweetest when she smells not at all. _Plaut._
=Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra=--Many things fall between the cup and the lip. _Laber._
=Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis ævi, / Retulit in melius=--Many a thing has time and the varying sway of changeful years altered for the better. _Virg._
=Multa docet fames=--Hunger (_i.e._, necessity) teaches us many things. _Pr._
=Multa fero ut placeam genus irritabile vatum=--Much 40 I endure to appease the irritable race of poets. _Hor._
=Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; / Multa recedentes adimunt=--The coming years bring with them many advantages; as they recede they take many away. _Hor._
=Multa gemens=--Groaning deeply. _Virg._
=Multa me docuit usus, magister egregius=--Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. _Pliny the younger._
=Multa novit vulpis, sed felis unam magnum=--The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. _Pr._
=Multa paucis=--Much in little. 45
=Multa petentibus / Desunt multa=--Those who crave much want much. _Hor._
=Multa quidem scripsi; sed quæ vitiosa putavi, / Emendaturis ignibus ipse dedi=--Much have I written; but what I considered faulty I myself committed to the correcting flames. _Ovid._
=Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque / Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, / Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi=--Many words now in disuse will revive, and many now in vogue will be forgotten, if usage wills it, in whose hands is the choice and the right to lay down the law of language. _Hor._
=Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt=--They ask many a sum on loan, but they are loath to repay. _Ovid._
=Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda=--Many 50 are the discomforts that gather round old age. _Hor._
=Multa tacere loquive paratas=--Ready to suppress much or speak much.
=Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit=--Much from early years has he suffered and done, sweating and chilled. _Hor._
=Multæ manus onus levius faciunt=--Many hands make light work. _Pr._
=Multæ regum aures et oculi=--Kings have many ears and eyes.
=Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una=--The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one.
=Multarum palmarum causidicus=--A pleader who has gained many causes.
=Multas amicitias silentium diremit=--Silence, or 5 neglect, dissolves many friendships. _Pr._
=Multi adorantur in ara qui cremantur in igne=--Many are worshipped at the altar who are burning in flames. _St. Augustine._
=Multi / Committunt eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--Many commit the same crimes with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villany, another wears a crown. _Juv._
=Multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri=--Many men bave passed through life like travellers in a strange land, without spiritual or moral culture, and given up to the lusts of appetite and indolence, whose bodies, contrary to their nature, were enslaved to indulgence, and their souls a burden. _Sall._
=Multi multa, nemo omnia novit=--Many know many things, no one everything. _Coke._
=Multi nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--Many 10 deem nothing right but what suits their own conceit. _Hor._
=Multi te oderint si teipsum ames=--Many will detest you if you spend all love on yourself.
=Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit / Nulli flebilior quam tibi=--He fell lamented by many good men, by none more lamented than by thee (Virgil). _Hor., of Quinctilius._
=Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam=--He who wrongs one threatens many. _Pub. Syr._
=Multis parasse divitias non finis miseriarum fuit, sed mutatio; non est in rebus vitium sed in animo=--The acquisition of riches has been to many, not the end of their miseries, but a change in them; the fault is not in the riches, but in the disposition. _Sen._
=Multis terribilis caveto multos=--If you are a 15 terror to many, then beware of many. _Auson._
=Multitudinem decem faciunt=--Ten constitute a crowd. _Coke._
=Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros=--Many more die of surfeit than of hunger.
=Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ / Permistus sonitus, bellaque matribus / Detestata=--The camp and the clang of the trumpet mingled with the clarion, and wars detested by mothers, have delights for many. _Hor._
=Multos in summa pericula misit / Venturi timor ipse mali=--The mere apprehension of coming evil has driven many into positions of great peril. _Pr._
=Multos ingratos invenimus, plures facimus=--We 20 find many men ungrateful; we make more. _Pr._
=Multos qui conflictari adversis videantur, beatos; ac plerosque, quanquam magnas per opes, miserrimos=--We may see many struggling against adversity who yet are happy; and more, although abounding in wealth, who are most wretched. _Tac._
=Multum abludit imago=--The picture is outrageously unlike. _Hor._
=Multum demissus homo=--A modest reserved man. _Hor._
=Multum in parvo=--Much in little.
=Multum, non multa=--Much, not many. _Pliny._ 25
=Multum sapit qui non diu desipit=--He is very wise who does not long persist in folly. _Pr._
=Mundæque parvo sub lare pauperum / Cœnæ, sine aulæis et ostro, / Sollicitam explicuere frontem=--A neat, simple meal under the humble roof of the poor, without hangings and purple, has smoothed the wrinkles of an anxious brow. _Hor._
=Munditiæ, et ornatus, et cultus hæc feminarum insignia sunt, his gaudent et gloriantur=--Neatness, ornament, and dress, are peculiar badges of women; in these they delight and glory. _Livy._
=Munditiis capimur=--We are captivated by neatness. _Ovid._
=Mundus est Dei viva statua!=--The world is the 30 living image of God. _T. Campanella._
=Mundus universus exercet histrionem=--All men practise the actor's art. _Petron._
=Mundus vult decipi; ergo decipiatur=--The world wishes to be deceived; therefore let it be deceived.
=Munera accipit frequens, remittit nunquam=--He often receives presents, but never gives any. _Plaut._
=Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque; / Placatur donis Jupiter ipse datis!=--Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and gods; Jupiter himself is won over and appeased by gifts. _Ovid._
=Munificence is not quantity, but quality.= 35 _Pascal._
=Munit hæc, et altera vincit=--This defends, and the other conquers. _M._
=Munus Apolline dignum=--A present worthy of Apollo. _Hor._
=Munus ornare verbis=--To enhance the value of a present by words. _Ter._
=Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Murder will out.= _Chaucer._ 40
=Muras æneus conscientia sana=--A sound conscience is a wall of brass. _M._
=Mus in pice=--A mouse in pitch; "a fly wading through tar."
=Mus non uni fidit antro=--The mouse does not trust to one hole only. _Plaut._
=Music fills up the present moment more decisively than anything else, whether it awakens thought or summons to action.= _Goethe._
=Music hath charms to soothe the savage= 45 =breast.= _Congreve._
=Music in the best sense has little need of novelty= (_Neuheit_); =on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces.= _Goethe._
=Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry.= _H. Giles._
=Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze that.= _Carlyle._
=Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony.= _James Usher._
=Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing.= _Mrs. Child._
=Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music.= _Jean Paul._
=Music is but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.= _Fuller._
=Music is our fourth great material want--first= 5 =food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.= _Bovee._
=Music is the art of the prophets, the only art which can calm the agitations of the soul.= _Luther._
=Music is the crystallisation of sound.= _Thoreau._
=Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.= _Beethoven._
=Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses.= _A. R. Parsons._
=Music is the only one of the fine arts in which= 10 =not only man, but all other animals, have a common property.= _Jean Paul._
=Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings.= _Addison._
=Music is the poor man's Parnassus.= _Emerson._
=Music is the true universal speech of mankind.= _Weber._
=Music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.= _Luther._
=Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence= 15 =over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement.= _Napoleon._
=Music of the spheres.= _Pericles_, v. 1.
=Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=Music, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find.= _Waller._
=Music stands in a much closer connection with= 20 =pure sensation than any of the other arts.= _Helmholtz._
=Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.= _Auerbach._
=Music, when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order; and also when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.= _Ruskin._
=Music will not cure the toothache.= _Pr._
=Music wraps us in melancholy, and elevates in joy.= _James Usher._
=Musik ist der Schlüssel vom weiblichen Herzen=--Music 25 is the key to the female heart. _Seume._
=Musik ist die wahre allgemeine Menschensprache=--Music is the true universal speech of mankind. _C. J. Weber._
=Muss ist eine harte Nuss=--Must is a hard nut to crack. _Ger. Pr._
=Müsset im Naturbetrachen / Immer eins wie alles achten; / Nichts ist drinnen, nichts ist draussen, / Denn was innen, das ist aussen. / So ergreifet ohne Säumness / Heilig öffentlich Geheimniss=--In the study of Nature you must ever regard one as all; nothing is inner, nothing is outer, for what is within that is without. Without hesitation, therefore, seize ye the holy mystery thus lying open to all. _Goethe._
=Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang=--Idleness is the beginning of all vices.
=Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet= 30 =kernel.= _Spurgeon._
="Must" is hard, but by "must" alone can man show what his inward condition is. Any one can live unrestrainedly.= _Goethe._
=Must not a great history be always an epic?= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Mutability is the badge of infirmity.= _Charron._
=Mutare vel timere sperno=--I disdain either to change or to fear. _M._
=Mutatis mutandis=--After making the necessary 35 changes. _L._
=Mutato nomine, de te / Fabula narratur=--Change but the name, the story's told of you. _Hor._
=Mutum est pictura poema=--A picture is a poem without words.
=My alms-people are to be the ablest bodied I can find, the ablest minded I can make, and every day will be a duty ... shall stand with tools at work, mattock or flail, axe or hammer.= _Ruskin_
=My ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood.= (?)
=My better half.= _Sir Philip Sidney._ 40
=My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs.= _Pr._
=My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of love are gone; / The worm, the canker, and the grief / Are mine alone.= _Byron._
="My family begins with me, yours ends with you."= _Iphicrates, when upbraided by a young aristocrat for his low birth._
=My fate cries out, / And makes each petty= 45 =artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth--the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth.= _Carlyle._
=My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.= _Lucrece._
="My hand," said Napoleon, "is immediately connected with my head," but the sacred courage is connected with the heart.= _Emerson._
=My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began, / So is it now I am a man; / So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die.= _Wordsworth._
=My heart is true as steel.= _Mid. N. Dream_, 50 ii. 2.
=My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow; / And many a beautiful pearl / Lies hid in its depths below.= _Heine._
=My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here.= _Burns._
=My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without.= _Kepler._
=My house is my castle.= _Pr._
=My house, my house, though thou art small, / Thou art to me the Escurial.= _Pr._
="My ideal of a society is one in which I would= 5 =be guillotined as a Conservative."= _Proudhon, to Prince Napoleon._
=My inheritance how wide and fair! / Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir.= _Goethe._
=My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.= _Emerson._
=My joy is death;--/ Death, at whose name I oft have been afeared, / Because I wish'd this world's eternity.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 4.
=My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.= _Fichte._
=My mind to me a kingdom is, / Such perfect joy= 10 =therein I find.= _Byrd._
=My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills my father feeds his flock.= _Home._
=My notions of life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest.= _Southey._
=My offence is rank; it smells to heaven.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
=My only books / Were woman's looks,--/ And folly's all they've taught me.= _Moore._
=My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in= 15 =strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it.= _Novalis._
=My pen was never dipped in gall.= _Crébillon._
=My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun.= _Emerson._
=My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=My purposes lie in the churchyard.= _Philip Henry._
=My rigour relents: I pardon something to the= 20 =spirit of liberty.= _Burke._
=My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him.= _Apoc._
=My son is my son till he have got him a wife, / But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.= _Pr._
=My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. / Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. / What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? / This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.= _Quarles._
=My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.= _Tennyson._
=My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow= 25 =leaf; / And that which should accompany old age, / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; /= =Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
=My yoke is easy and my burden light.= _Jesus._
=Myn leeren is spelen, myn spelen is leeren=--My learning is play, and my play is learning. _Van Alphen._
=Mysteries are due to secrecy.= _Bacon._
=Mysteries which must explain themselves are= 30 =not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up.= _Sterne._
=Mysterious to all thought, / A mother's prime of bliss, / When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.= _Keble._
=Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body.= _Colton._
=Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so.= _Carlyle._
=Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.= _Emerson._
=Mythology is not religion. It may rather be= 35 =regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.= _Hare._
N.
=N'aboyez pas à la lune=--Do not cry out to no purpose (_lit._ don't bark at the moon). _Fr. Pr._
=N'est on jamais tyran qu'avec un diadème?=--Is a man never a tyrant except he wear a crown? _Chénier._
=N'importe=--No matter. _Fr._
=N'oubliez=--Do not forget. _M._
=Naboth was right to hold on to his home.= 40 =There were garnered memories that all the wealth of Ahab could not buy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano=--More grows in the garden than the gardener ever sowed there. _Sp. Pr._
=Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht=--We are not going to Canossa (where Henry IV. humbled himself before the Pope). _Bismarck._
=Nach Ehre geizt die Jugend; / Lass dich den Ehrgeiz nicht verführen=--Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. _Schiller._
=Nach Freiheit strebt der Mann, das Weib nach Sitte=--The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. _Goethe._
=Nach Golde drängt, / Am Golde hängt, / Doch= 45 =alles. Ach, wir Armen!=--Yet after gold every one presses, on gold everything hangs. Alas! we poor ones. _Goethe._
=Nach Gottes Wesenheit ist gar nicht dein Beruf zu forschen; forsche du nach Wesen, die er schuf=--Thou art not required to search into the nature of God, but into the nature of the beings which he has created. _Rückert._
=Nacheifern ist beneiden=--To emulate is to envy. _Lessing._
=Nachgeben stillt allen Krieg=--Yielding stills all war. _Ger. Pr._
=Nacht muss es sein, wo Friedlands Sterne strahlen=--It must be night where Friedland's stars shine. _Schiller._
=Næ amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam / Immune est facinus=--Verily, it is a thankless office to censure a friend for a fault when he deserves it. _Plaut._
=Nae butter 'll stick to my bread,= _i.e._, no good fortune ever comes my way. _Sc. Pr._
=Nae freen' like the penny.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae fules like auld fules.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can be happy without a friend, nor= 5 =be sure of him till he's unhappy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can live at peace unless his neighbours let him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can mak' his ain hap= (destiny). _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man can tether time or tide.= _Burns._
=Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae man has a tack= (lease) =o' his life.= _Sc._ 10 _Pr._
=Nae man is wise at a' times, nor wise on a' things.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nae treasures nor pleasures / Could mak' us happy lang, / The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang.= _Burns._
=Nae wonder ye're auld like; ilka thing fashes= (bothers) =ye.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is a man's truly but what he cometh by duly.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is got without pains but an ill name.= 15 _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is got without pains except dirt and long nails.= _Sc. Pr._
=Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nager entre deux eaux=--To waver between two
## parties. _Fr._
=Naiv muss jedes wahre Genie sein, oder es ist keines=--Every true genius must be natural, or it is none. _Schiller._
=Naked truth is out of place before the eyes of= 20 =the profane vulgar; it can only make its appearance thickly veiled.= _Schopenhauer._
=Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open.= _Bacon._
=Nam de mille fabæ modiis dum surripis unum, / Damnum est, non facinus mihi pacto lenius isto=--If from a thousand bushels of beans you steal one, my loss, it is true, is in this case less, but not your villany. _Hor._
=Nam dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so quickly too. _Juv._
=Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor=--I regard that man as lost who has lost his sense of shame. _Plaut._
=Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cerimoniisque= 25 =retinendis, sapientis est=--For it is the part of a wise man to protect the institutions of his forefathers by retaining the sacred rites and ceremonies.
=Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, / Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit=--Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. _Hor._
=Nam nunc mores nihil faciunt quod licet, nisi quod lubet=--Nowadays it is the fashion to make nothing of what is proper, but only what is pleasant. _Plaut._
=Nam pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt Di. / Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--The gods will give what is most suitable rather than what is most pleasing; man is dearer to them than he is to himself. _Juv._
=Nam quæ inscitia est adversum stimulum calces=--It is the height of folly to kick against the pricks (_lit._ the goad). _Ter._
=Nam quum magna malæ superest audacia= 30 =causæ, / Creditur a multis fiducia=--When great impudence comes to the help of a bad cause, it is taken by many for honest confidence. _Juv._
=Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum / Facti crimen habet=--He who secretly meditates a crime has all the guilt of the deed. _Juv._
=Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet!=--Your property is in peril surely if your neighbour's house is on fire! _Hor._
=Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimus ille est, / Qui minimis urgetur=--No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest. _Hor._
=Namen nennen dich nicht! Dich bilden Griffel und Pinsel sterblicher Künstler nicht nach!=--Names do not name thee! Graver and pencil of mortal artist can give no idea of thee! _Ueltzen._
=Names alter, things never alter.= _Wm. Blake._ 35
=Nane are so weel but they hope to be better.= _Sc. Pr._
=Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the Absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.= _Goethe._
=Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.= _Goethe._
=Narrative is linear, but Action, having breadth and depth as well as length, is solid.= _Carlyle._
=Narratur et prisci Catonis / Sæpe mero caluisse= 40 =virtus=--It is said that the virtue even of the elder Cato was often warmed by wine. _Hor._
=Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet=--We are born but to die (_lit._ die in being born), and our end hangs on to our beginning. _Manilius._
=Nascimur poetæ, fimus oratores=--We are born poets, we become orators. _Cic._
=Natales grate numeras? ignoscis amicis? / Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta?=--Do you count your birthdays thankfully? forgive your friends? grow gentler and better with advancing age? _Hor._
=Natio comœda est=--The nation is composed of actors. _Juv._
=National character varies as it fades under invasion= 45 =or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself.= _Ruskin._ (?)
=National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius.= _Tuckermann._
=National suffering is, if thou wilt understand the words, verily a judgment of God; it has ever been preceded by national crime.= _Carlyle._
=Nations and empires flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turn obey.= _Dryden, after Ovid._
=Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.= _Jean Paul._
=Nations are only transitional forms of humanity; they must undergo obliteration, as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series. There is no more an immortality for them than there is an immobility for an embryo or any one of the manifold forms passed through in its progress of development.= _Draper._
=Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed through a predestined growth, and die. One comes to its end at an early period and in an untimely way; another, not until it has gained maturity. One is cut off by feebleness in its infancy, another is destroyed by civil disease, another commits political suicide, another lingers in old age. But for every one there is an orderly way of progress to its final term, whatever that term may be.= _Draper._
=Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, / Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden=--Nature and art seem to shun each other, and have met (_lit._ found each other) ere one is aware. _Goethe._
=Natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti=--Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we but knew how to use her gifts. _Claud._
=Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa=--Nature 5 fashioned him, and then broke the mould. _Ariost._
=Natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari, et quasi quodam divino spiritu afflari=--To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. _Cic._
=Natura naturans=--Nature formative.
=Natura naturata=--Nature passive; nature formed.
=Natura nihil agit frustra=--Nature does nothing in vain.
=Natura non facit saltus=--Nature makes no 10 leaps.
=Natura, quam te colimus inviti quoque=--O Nature, how we bow to thee even against our will. _Sen._
=Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.= _Bacon._
=Natural abilities can almost make up for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation for want of natural abilities.= _Schopenhauer._
=Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.= _Bishop Butler._
=Natural objects always did and do weaken,= 15 =deaden, and obliterate imagination in me.= _Wm. Blake._
=Natural selection is the principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved.= _Darwin._
=Naturalia non sunt turpia=--Natural things are without shame.
=Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret=--Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will every time come rushing back. _Hor._
=Nature abhors a vacuum.= _Pr._
=Nature admits no lie.= _Carlyle._ 20
=Nature acts towards us like an Oriental potentate with Mamelukes under him, whom he employs for some mysterious purpose, but to whom he never shows himself in person.= _Renan._
=Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.= _Carlyle._
=Nature alone is permanent.= _Longfellow._
=Nature alone knows what she means.= _Goethe._
=Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages= 25 =to show what she is.= _Boileau._
=Nature always speaks of spirit.= _Emerson._
=Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.= _Emerson._
=Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life.= _Goethe._
=Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.= _Emerson._
=Nature and Heaven command you, at your= 30 =peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man.= _Ruskin._
=Nature and love cannot be concealed.= _Ger. Pr._
=Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; / God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.= _Pope._
=Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented.= _Pope._
=Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty= 35 =breaks in everywhere.= _Emerson._
=Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences.= _Goethe._
=Nature counts nothing that she meets with base, / But lives and loves in every place.= _Tennyson._
=Nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Nature does more than supply materials; she also supplies powers.= _J. S. Mill._
=Nature does not cocker us; we are children,= 40 =not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favour, after severe, universal laws.= _Emerson._
=Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates.= _Emerson._
=Nature does not make all great men, more than all other men, in the self-same mould.= _Carlyle._
=Nature draws with greater force than seven oxen.= _Ger. Pr._
=Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.= _Sen._
=Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration.= _Carlyle._
=Nature forces on our heart a Creator; history, a Providence.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord.= _Goethe._
=Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights.= _Goethe._
=Nature glories in death more than in life. The= 5 =month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nature goes her own way; and all that to us seems an exception, is really according to order.= _Goethe._
=Nature had made occupation a necessity; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure.= _Capelle._
=Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself.= _Goethe._
=Nature has lent us tears--the cry of suffering= 10 =when the man at last can bear it no longer.= _Goethe._
=Nature has made man's breast no windows / To publish what he does within doors, / Nor what dark secrets there inhabit, / Unless his own rash folly blab it.= _Butler._
=Nature has made provision for all her children; the meanest is not hindered in its existence even by that of the most excellent.= _Goethe._
=Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best.= _Goethe._
=Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone.= _Auerbach._
=Nature has planted passions in the heart of= 15 =man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life.= _Fox._
=Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making.= _Addison._
=Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. / Some that will evermore peep through their eyes / And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; / And other of such vinegar aspect / That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, / Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
=Nature hath made nothing so base but can / Read some instruction to the wisest man.= _Aleyn._
=Nature here shows art, / That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.= _Mid. N. Dream_, ii. 8.
=Nature holds an immense uncollected debt= 20 =over every man's head.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nature in women is so nearly allied to art.= _Goethe._
=Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of her confine.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Nature is a friend to truth.= _Young._
=Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure.= _Emerson._
=Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always= 25 =and never the same.= _Emerson._
=Nature is a Sibyl, who testifies beforehand to what has been determined from all eternity, and was not to be realised till late in time.= _Goethe._
=Nature is a vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes.= _Emerson._
=Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining.= _Lowell._
=Nature is always lavish, even prodigal.= _Goethe._
=Nature is always like herself.= _Linnæus._ 30
=Nature is always mysterious.= _Ward._
=Nature is always right, and most profoundly so= (_am gründlichsten_) =just there where we least comprehend her.= _Goethe._
=Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.= _Novalis._
=Nature is avariciously frugal; in matter it allows no atom to elude her grasp; in mind no thought or feeling to perish. It gathers up the fragments that nothing be lost.= _Dr. Thomas._
=Nature is beyond all teaching.= _Pr._ 35
=Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.= _Cowper._
=Nature is commanded by obeying her.= _Bacon._
=Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing.= _Matthew Henry._
=Nature is despotic, and will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons.= _Emerson._
=Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old= 40 =head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.= _Emerson._
=Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the lawgiver is before the law-receiver.= _Emerson._
=Nature is good, but she is not the best.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate.= _Goethe._
=Nature is just towards men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.= _Montesquieu._
=Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest= 45 =way to her ends.= _Emerson._
=Nature is not an Aggregate but a Whole.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is not fixed, but fluid; spirit alters, moulds, makes it.= _Emerson._
=Nature is rich; those two eggs you ate to breakfast this morning might, if hatched, have peopled the world with poultry.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished.= _Bacon._
=Nature is still the grand agent in making= 50 =poets.= _Carlyle._
=Nature is the art of God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Nature is the best posture-master.= _Emerson._
=Nature is the immense shadow of man.= _Emerson._
=Nature is the living, visible garment of God.= _Goethe._
=Nature is the only book that teems with meaning on every page.= _Goethe._
=Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.= _Emerson._
=Nature knows no equality; her sovereign= 5 =law is subordination and dependence.= _Vauvenargues._
=Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.= _Goethe._
=Nature listening stood whilst Shakespeare play'd, / And wonder'd at the work herself had made.= _Churchill._
=Nature made every fop to plague his brother, / Just as one beauty mortifies another.= _Pope._
=Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.= _Alexander Smith._
=Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece,= 10 =but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine.= _Lessing._
=Nature must obey necessity.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws.= _Goethe._
=Nature needs little, fancy= (_Wahn_) =much.= _Gr. Pr._
=Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her.= _Wordsworth._
=Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little= 15 =by little, she achieves her work.= _Emerson._
=Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation.= _Sterne._
=Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.= _Emerson._
=Nature owns no man who is not a martyr withal.= _Carlyle._
=Nature passes nurture.= _Pr._
=Nature respects race and not hybrids.= _Knox._ 20
=Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained.= _Jean Paul._
=Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds as to kings.= _Burns._
=Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.= _Emerson._
=Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art.= _Arist._
=Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom= 25 =which cannot help itself.= _Emerson._
=Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor.= _Pr._
=Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.= _Cor._
=Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find.= _Emerson._
=Nature trips us up when we strut.= _Emerson._
=Nature understands no jesting; she is always= 30 =true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.= _Goethe._
="Nature veils God," but what I see of Him in nature is not veiled.= _Goethe._
=Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.= _Carlyle._
=Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents generalising, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.= _Emerson._
=Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble.= _John Lily._
=Nature without learning is like a blind man;= 35 =learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.= _Plutarch._
=Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them.= _Goethe, after Spinoza._
=Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all.= _Emerson._
=Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century.= _Emerson._
=Nature's above art.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= 40 _Duke of Buckingham._
=Nature's shadows are ever varying.= _Wm. Blake._
=Nature's tears are Reason's merriment.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action till they have passed the meridian of their years.= _Bacon._
=Natürlicher Verstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber keine Bildung den natürlichen Verstand=--Natural intelligence may make up almost every step in culture, but no culture make up for natural intelligence. _Schopenhauer._
=Natus nemo=--Not a born soul. _Plaut._ 45
=Natus sum; esuriebam, quærebam; nunc repletas requiesco=--I was born; I felt hungry, and sought for food; now that I am satiated, I lay me down to rest.
=Naufragium in portu facere=--To make shipwreck in port. _Quinct._
=Nay! evermore, / All things and thoughts, both new and old, are writ / Upon the unchanging human heart and soul.= _Lewis Morris._
=Nay, let us seek at home to find / Fit harvest for the brooding mind, / And find, since thus the world grows fair, / Duty and pleasure everywhere.= _Lewis Morris._
=Nay, that's past praying for.= 1 _Henry IV._, 50 ii. 4.
=Nay, then, farewell! / I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, / And, from that full meridian of my glory, / I haste now to my setting: I shall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the evening, / And no man see me more.= _Wolsey, in Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Ne Æsopum quidem trivit=--He is a backward pupil (_lit._ he has not yet thumbed Æsop).
=Ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito=--Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. _Virg._
=Ne depugnes in alieno negotio=--Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. _Pr._
=Ne exeat regno=--Let him not go out of the kingdom. (A writ to prevent a person leaving the country). _L._
=Ne faut-il que délibérer? / La cour en conseillers= 5 =foisonne: / Est-il besoin d'exécuter? / L'on ne rencontre personne=--Is a matter to be discussed? the council chamber is full of advisers. Is there something to be done? the chamber is empty. _La Font._
=Ne forçons point notre talent; / Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce=--Let us not force our faculty; we shall in that case do nothing to good effect. _La Font._
=Ne fronti crede=--Trust not to appearances.
=Ne Hercules quidem contra duos=--Not even Hercules could contend against two at once.
=Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet=--Not even Jupiter can please everybody. _Pr._
=Ne nimium=--Not too much. _M._ 10
=Ne obliviscaris=--Do not forget. _M._
=Ne plus ultra=--What cannot be surpassed; perfection (_lit._ no more beyond).
=Né pour la digestion=--Born merely to consume good things. _La Bruyère._
=Ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat=--See that the commonwealth suffer no detriment.
=Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non= 15 =audeat=--Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true. _Cic._
=Ne quid nimis=--Let there be no excess. _M._
=Ne sutor supra crepidam=--Let the cobbler stick to his last. _Pliny._
=Ne te longis ambagibus ultra / Quam satis est morer=--To make a long story short (_lit._ not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). _Hor._
=Ne te quæsiveris extra=--Seek not thyself outside of thyself.
=Ne tempora perde precando=--Lose not the time 20 that offers itself by praying. _Ovid._
=Ne tentes, aut perfice=--Either attempt not, or go through with it. _M._
=Ne vile fano=--Bring nothing base to the temple. _M._
=Ne vile velis=--Incline to nothing vile. _M._
=Near and far do not belong to the eternal world, which is not of space and time.= _Carlyle._
=Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.= 25 _Pr._
=Nearer the kirk the farther frae grace.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.= _Ruskin._
=Neat, not gaudy.= _Charles Lamb._
=Nec aspera terrent=--Not even hardships deter us. _M._
=Nec caput nec pedes=--In confusion; neither 30 head nor tail. _Pr._
=Nec cui de te plusquam tibi credas=--Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. _Pr._
=Nec cupias, nec metuas=--Neither desire nor fear. _M._
=Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus=--Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. _Hor._
=Nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est=--The master should not be graced by the mansion, but the mansion by the master. _Cic._
=Nec est ad astra mollis e terris via=--The 35 way from the earth to the stars is no soft one. _Sen._
=Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo=--I neither have, nor want, nor care. _M._
=Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum=--There is no shame in having led a wild life, but in not breaking it off. _Hor._
=Nec male notus eques=--A knight of good repute. _M._
=Nec meus audet / Rem tentare pudor, quam vires ferre recusent=--My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. _Virg._
=Nec minor est virtus, quam quærere, parta= 40 =tueri: / Casus inest illic; hic erit artis opus=--It is no less merit to keep what you have got than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the other will be a work of art. _Ovid._
=Nec mora, nec requies=--Neither delay nor cessation. _Virg._
=Nec morti esse locum=--There is no room for death._ Ovid._
=Nec obolum habet unde restim emat=--He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. _Pr._
=Nec omnia, nec semper, nec ab omnibus=--Neither all, nor always, nor by all.
=Nec placida contentus quiete est=--Nor is he 45 contented with quiet repose. _M._
=Nec pluribus impar=--Not an unequal match for numbers. _M._
=Nec prece nec pretio=--Neither by entreaty nor by a bribe. _M._
=Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda; / Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest=--Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. _Ovid._
=Nec quærere nec spernere honorem=--Neither to seek nor to despise honours. _M._
=Nec regi nec populo, sed utrique=--Neither for 50 king nor for people, but for both. _M._
=Nec scire fas est omnia=--It is not permitted us to know all things. _Hor._
=Nec si non obstatur propterea etiam permittitur=--That an act is not prohibited, it does not follow that it is permitted. _Cic._
=Nec sibi, sed toti genitum se credere mundo=--To think that he was born not for himself alone, but for the whole world. _Lucan._
=Nec soli cedit=--He yields not even to the sun. _M._
=Nec temere nec timide=--Neither rashly nor 55 timidly. _M._
=Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit / Occurrat=--And let it not concern you what you may do, but what you ought to do. _Claud._
=Nec timeo, nec sperno=--I neither fear nor despise. _M._
=Nec Veneris pharetris macer est, aut lampade fervet: / Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote sagittæ=--He is not made thin by Venus' quiver, nor does he burn with her torch; it is from this that his fires are fed, from her dowry the arrows come. _Juv._
=Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus / Interpres=--Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. _Hor._
=Nec vidisse semel satis est, juvat usque morari, / Et conferre gradum, et veniendi discere causas=--Nor is it enough to have once seen him; they are delighted to linger near him, and to keep step with him, and to learn the reason of his coming. _Virg._
=Nec vultu destrue dicta tuo=--Do not discredit your words by your looks. _Ovid._
=Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is= 5 =better than he that leadeth his life without a guide.= _Ecclus._
=Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris=--You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. _Petronius._
=Necesse est ut multos timeat, quem multi timent=--He whom many fear must necessarily fear many. _Syr._
=Necessità 'l c' induce, e non diletto=--Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. _Dante._
=Necessitas non habet legem=--Necessity has no law.
=Necessity does everything well.= _Emerson._ 10
=Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.= _Goethe._
=Necessity is the mistress of the arts.= _Pr._
=Necessity is the mother of invention.= _Pr._
=Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.= _William Pitt._
=Necessity makes even cowards brave.= _Pr._ 15
=Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich.= _Tac._
=Necessity unites hearts.= _Ger. Pr._
=Necessity urges desperate measures.= _Cervantes._
=Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan=--He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. _Sp. Pr._
=Need mak's an auld wife trot.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Needles and pins, needles and pins! / When a man marries his trouble begins.= _Pr._
=Needs must when the devil drives.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er grudge and carp, / Though fortune use you hard and sharp.= _Burns._
=Ne'er let your gear owergang ye=, _i.e._, never let your wealth get the better of you. _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er linger, ne'er o'erhasty be, / For time= 25 =moves on with measured foot.= _Goethe._
=Ne'er put a sword in a wud man's= (a madman's) =hand.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er tak' a wife till ye ken what to do wi' her.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ne'er the rose without the thorn.= _Herrick._
=Ne'er trust muckle to an auld enemy or a new freend.= _Sc. Pr._
=Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires=--A fire, 30 if neglected, always gathers in strength. _Hor._
=Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.= _Feltham._
=Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed omnino dissoluti=--To be careless of what others think of us, not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly abandoned character. _Cic._
=Nehmt die Gottheit auf in euren Willen, / Und sie steigt von ihrem Weltenthron=--Take the divine up into your will, and she descends from her world-throne. _Schiller._
=Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt so selten=--Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. _Goethe._
=Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude= 35 =zu geniessen, teuflisch=--To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. _Schopenhauer._
=Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it.= _Lord Burleigh._
=Neither crow nor croak.= _Pr._
=Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state.= _Johnson._
=Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder / Shall= 40 =wholly do away, I ween, / The marks of that which once hath been.= _Coleridge._
=Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood.= _Serv. Pr._
=Neither lead nor drive.= _Pr._
=Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own.= _Johnson._
=Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them.= _Ruskin._
=Neither praise nor blame is the object of true= 45 =criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award--these are the true aims and duties of criticism.= _Simms._
=Neither rhyme nor reason.= _Shakespeare._
=Neither seek nor shun the fight.= _Gael. Pr._
=Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.= _Sp. Pr._
=Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without tools.= _Pr._
=Neither woman nor man, nor any kind of creature= 50 =in the universe, was born for the exclusive, or even the chief, purpose of falling in love or being fallen in love with.... Except the zoophytes and coral insects of the Pacific Ocean, I am acquainted with no creature with whom it is the one or grand object.= _Carlyle._
=Neither women nor linen by candlelight.= _Pr._
[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]--A dead man doesn't bite. _Plutarch._
=Nem. con.=, abbrev. for =Nemine contradicente=--Nobody opposing.
=Nem. diss.=, abbrev. for =Nemine dissentiente=--Same as above.
=Nemesis checks, with cubit-rule and bridle, /= 55 =Immoderate deeds, and boastings rash and idle.= _ Anon._
=Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the gods.= _George Eliot._
=Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus est=--No one testifying to his own baseness ought to be heard. _L._
=Nemo dat quod non habet=--Nobody can give what he does not legally possess. _L._
=Nemo debet bis puniri pro uno delicto=--No man shall be twice punished for the same offence. _L._
=Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa=--No one shall be molested twice for one and the same cause. _L._
=Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa=--No 5 one ought to be judge in his own cause. _L._
=Nemo doctus mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse=--No sensible man ever charged one with inconstancy who had merely changed his opinion. _Cic._
=Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putat posse vivere=--There is no man so old as not to think he may live a year longer. _Cic._
=Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem=--No man can sue at law upon his own fraud. _L._
=Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam moriendi=--No man can ever obtain from the Pope a dispensation from death. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est=--No 10 one is so poor in life as he was when he was at birth.
=Nemo læditur nisi a seipso=--No man is harmed but by himself. _Pr._
=Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor=--No bad man is happy, least of all a seducer. _Juv._
=Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit=--No astronomer will be held a genius until he is condemned. _Juv._
=Nemo me impune lacessit=--No one provokes me with impunity. _M. of Scotland._
=Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit=--No man 15 is wise at all moments.
=Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligeantiæ debitum ejurare possit=--No one can cast off his native country or abjure his allegiance to his sovereign. _L._
=Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam=--No one can change what he proposes to enact to the damage of another. _L._
=Nemo potest nudo vestimenta detrahere=--You cannot strip a garment off a naked man. _Pr._
=Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam=--No one can play a feigned part long. _Sen._
=Nemo præsumitur alienam posteritatem suæ= 20 =prætulisse=--No one is presumed to have preferred another's offspring to his own. _L._
=Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto=--No one must be punished for the fault of another. _L._
=Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat: quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivat, ut diu nulli=--No one concerns himself with how well he should live, only how long: while none can count upon living long, all have the chance of living well. _Sen._
=Nemo repente fuit turpissimus=--No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. _Juv._
=Nemo sibi nascitur=--No one is born for himself. _Pr._
=Nemo solus sapit=--No man is wise by himself. 25 _Plaut._
=Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare=--No one is held bound to criminate himself. _L._
=Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit=--There never was a great man who had not some divine inspiration. _Cic._
[Greek: Nêpioi, oud' isasin hosô pleon hêmisy pantos]--Fools, they don't even know how much half is more than the whole. _Hesiod, from Pittacus._
=Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam=--It is by no means enough to spend all our care on a single object. _Hor._
=Neque culpa neque lauda teipsum=--Neither 30 blame nor praise yourself.
=Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit=--When a woman has once lost her chastity, she will shrink from nothing. _Tac._
=Neque mala vel bona quæ vulgus putet=--Things are not to be judged either good or bad merely because the public think so. _Tac._
=Neque opinione sed natura constitutum est jus=--Not in opinion, but in nature is law founded. _Cic._
=Neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt=--The quiet of nations cannot be maintained without arms, nor can arms be maintained without pay, nor pay without taxation. _Tac._
=Neque semper arcum / Tendit Apollo=--Apollo does not always keep his bow bent. _Hor._
=Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit=--He is wise to no purpose who is not wise for himself. _Pr._
=Nervus rerum=--The sinews of things.
=Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futuræ, / Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis=--Man knows not the lot appointed him, and he cannot keep within bounds when elated by prosperity. _Virg._
=Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos / Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui=--I know not by what sweet charm our native soil attracts us to it, and does not suffer us ever to forget it. _Ovid._
=Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti=--Elated 40 beyond usual by some unaccountable delight. _Virg._
=Nescire autem quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est ætas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superioribus contexitur?=--To be unacquainted with events which took place before you were born, is to be always a child; for where is human life if the memory fails to connect past events with others before? _Cic._
=Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem=--You little know what a frightful thing it is to go to law. _Plaut._
=Nescit vox missa reverti=--A word once uttered can never be recalled. _Hor._
=Nessun maggior dolore / Che ricordarsi del tempo felice / Nella miseria=--There is no greater woe than the recollection in the midst of misery of happy days bygone. _Dante._
=Nessuno nasce maestro=--No one is born a 45 master. _It. Pr._
=Neu Regiment bringt neue Menschen auf, / Und früheres Verdienst veraltet schnell=--A new administration of affairs raises up new men, and qualifications formerly of service become soon antiquated. _Schiller._
=Neutral men are the devil's allies.= _Chapin._
=Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles again.= _Bret Harte._
=Never anger / Made good guard for itself.= _Ant. and Cleo._, iv. 1.
=Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=Never ask a favour of a man until he has had his dinner.= _Punch._
=Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe.= _Leighton._
=Never bray at an ass.= _Pr._ 5
=Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.= _Pr._
=Never buy a pig in a poke.= _Pr._
=Never by reflection, only by doing what it lies on him to do, is self-knowledge possible to any man.= _Goethe._
=Never cackle till your egg is laid.= _Pr._
=Never confuse a myth with a lie.... The= 10 =thoughts of all the greatest and wisest men hitherto have been expressed through mythology.= _Ruskin._
=Never deal in mistakes; they aye bring mischances.= _Scott._
=Never deceive a friend.= _Hipparchus._
=Never desire to appear clever and make a show of your talents before men. Be honest, loving, kindly, and sympathetic in all you say and do. Cleverness will flow from you naturally if you have it, and applause will come to you unsought from those who know what to applaud; but the applause of fools is to be shunned.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Never despise the day of small things.= _Pr._
=Never disregard what your enemies say.= _B._ 15 _R. Haydon._
=Never do anything of the rectitude of which you have a doubt.= _Pliny._
=Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.= _It. Pr._
=Never do things by halves.= _Pr._
=Never durst poet touch a pen to write / Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; / O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, / And plant in tyrants mild humility.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Never elated when one man's oppress'd; /= 20 =Never dejected while anothers bless'd.= _Pope._
=Never fall out with your bread and butter.= _Pr._
=Never find fault with the absent.= _Pr._
=Never fish in troubled waters.= _Pr._
=Never forget St. Paul's sentence, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." This is the steam of the social machine; but the steam requires regulation; it is regulated by intelligence and moderation.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Never fry a fish till it's caught.= _Pr._ 25
=Never give up the ship.= _Pr._
=Never grudge a penny for a pennyworth.= _Pr._
=Never grumble nor mumble.= _Pr._
=Never hang a man twice for one offence.= _Pr._
=Never have an idle hour, or an idle pound.= _Pr._ 30
=Never hold a candle to the devil.= _Pr._
=Never indulge the notion that you have any absolute right to choose the sphere or the circumstances in which you are to put forth your powers of social action.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Never is a lang term.= _Sc. Pr._
=Never is a long day.= _Pr._
=Never king dropped out of the clouds.= _Power._ 35
=Never lean on a broken staff.= _Pr._
=Never leave a certainty for an uncertainty.= _Pr._
=Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Never let any one see the bottom of your purse or your mind.= _It. Pr._
=Never let Fortune be thy mistress, nor Misfortune= 40 =thy maid.= _Bodenstedt._
=Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so.= _Fénelon._
=Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine.= _Ballou._
=Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Never look for a knot in a bulrush.= _Pr._
=Never look for birds of this year in the nests= 45 =of the last.= _Cervantes._
=Never make a jest of any Scripture expressions.= _Judge Hale._
=Never meet trouble half way.= _Pr._
=Never mind the future: be what you ought to be; the rest is God's affair.= _Amiel._
=Never mind who was your grandfather. What are you?= _Pr._
=Never morning wore / To evening, but some= 50 =heart did break.= _Tennyson._
=Never neglect small matters and expenses.= _It. Pr._
=Never offer to teach fish to swim.= _Pr._
=Never preach beyond your experience.= _Pr._
=Never put your arm out farther than you can draw it back again.= _Scott._
=Never put your hand into a wasp's nest.= _Pr._ 55
=Never read borrowed books. To be without books of your own is the abyss of penury. Don't endure it. And when you have to buy them, you'll think whether they're worth reading; which you had better, on all accounts.= _Ruskin to a young boy._
=Never repeat old grievances.= _Pr._
=Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most common, with a person who is not well-bred, and possessed of sense to comprehend it.= _La Bruyère._
=Never say die! / Up, man, and try!= _Pr._
=Never say of another what you would not have= 60 =him hear.= _Pr._
=Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be, / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly.= _Wm. Blake._
=Never shirk the hardest work.= _Pr._
=Never sigh, but send.= _Pr._
=Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens.= _Carlyle._
=Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat.= 65 _Pr._
=Never speak of love with scorn; / Such were direst treason; / Love was made for eve and morn, / And for every season.= _C. Kent._
=Never spur a willing horse.= _Pr._
=Never stint soap and water.= _Pr._
=Never swap horses while crossing a stream.= _Pr._
=Never talk half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in.= _Sydney Smith._
=Never tell in the parlour what you heard in the kitchen.= _Pr._
=Never tell your resolution before-hand.= _Wisdom._ 5
=Never that I could in searching find out, has man been, by time which devours much, deprived of any faculty whatsoever that he in any era was possessed of.= _Carlyle._
=Never throw a hen's egg at a sparrow.= _Pr._
=Never till now did young men, and almost children, take such a command in human affairs.= _Carlyle._
=Never title yet so mean could prove, / But there was eke a mind which did that title love.= _Shenstone._
=Never too old to turn; never too late to learn.= 10 _Pr._
=Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you.= _Pr._
=Never trust a wolf with the care of lambs.= _Pr._
=Never try to prove what nobody doubts.= _Pr._
=Never venture all in one bottom.= _Pr._
=Never was scraper= (miser) =brave man.= _Herbert._ 15
=Never waste pains on bad ground; let it remain rough. Though properly looked after and cared for, it will be of best service so.= _Ruskin._
=Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader.= _Joubert._
=Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.= _Richter._
=Never write what you dare not sign.= _Pr._
=Never yet created eye / Could see across eternity.= 20 _Keble._
=Never yet has it been our fortune to fall in with any man of genius whose conclusions did not correspond better with his premises, and not worse, than those of other men; whose genius, once understood, did not manifest itself in a deeper, fuller, truer view of all things human and divine, than the clearest of your so-called laudable "practical men" had claim to.= _Carlyle._
=Never yet, since the proud selfish race / Of men began to jar, did passion give, / Nor can it ever give, a right decision.= _Thomson._
=Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble talk.= _Tennyson._
=New acquests are more burden than strength.= _Bacon._
=New brooms sweep clean.= _Pr._ 25
=New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered only in a clear head over a glowing heart, as the richest wines grow over the volcanoes.= _F. Jacobs._
=New laws, new frauds.= _Pr._
=New lords, new laws.= _Pr._
=New-made honour doth forget men's names; / 'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For your conversion.= _King John_, i. 1.
=New presbyter is but old priest writ large.= 30 _Milton._
=New religion! We already, in our dim heads, know truths (of religion) by the thousand; and, yet in our dead hearts, we will not perform them by the ten, by the unit.= _Carlyle._
=New scenes impress new ideas, enrich the imagination, and enlarge the power of reason.= _Johnson._
=Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.= _Charles Lamb._
=Next in importance to the matter of books are their titles.= _Davies._
="Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as= 35 =a battle that has been won."= _Wellington, after Waterloo._
=Next to Christmas Day the most pleasant annual epoch in existence is the advent of the New Year.= _Dickens._
=Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.= _Thackeray._
=Next to nae wife, a gude wife is the best.= _Sc. Pr._
=Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.= _Bacon._
=Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility= 40 =of relinquishing it.= _Disraeli._
=Next to the consciousness of doing a good
## action, that of doing a civil one is the most
pleasing.= _Chesterfield._
=Next to the gods, of all man's possessions his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= _Plato._
=Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.= _Emerson._
=Next to the satisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honest man, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.= (?)
=Next to theology I give to music the highest= 45 =place and honour; and we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.= _Luther._
=Ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux=--Neither wealth nor greatness render us happy. _La Font._
=Ni l'un ni l'autre=--Neither the one nor the other. _Fr._
=Ni trop haut, ni trop bas; c'est le souverain style=--Neither too high nor too low, that is the sovereign rule.
=Nice distinctions are out of the question upon occasions like those of speech, which return every hour.= _Paley, upon lying._
=Nicht alle sind Diebe, die der Hund anbellt=--All 50 are not thieves whom the dog barks at. _Ger. Pr._
=Nicht alles Wünschenswerte ist erreichbar; nicht alles Erkennenswerte ist erkennbar=--Not everything that is desirable is attainable, and not everything that is worth knowing is knowable. _Goethe._
=Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz, / Die das Leben vergänglich zieren! / Wer besitzt, der lerne verlieren; / Wer im Glück ist, der lerne den Schmerz!=--Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain. _Schiller._
=Nicht der Besitz, nur das Enthüllen, / Das leise Finden nur ist süss=--Not the possession, only the unveiling and quietly finding out is sweet. _Tiedge._
=Nicht der ist auf der Welt verwaist, / Dessen Vater und Mutter gestorben, / Sondern der für Herz und Geist / Keine Lieb' und kein Wissen erworben=--Not he whose father and mother are dead is orphaned in the world, but he who has won for heart and mind no love and no knowledge. _Rückert._
=Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man / Mit Märchen ab=--It is not children merely that are put off with stories. _Lessing._
=Nicht draussen im Strudel verrauschender Lust / Erwarte, das Glück dir zu finden: / Die Seligkeit wohnt in der eigenen Brust, / Hier musst du sie ewig begründen!=--Think not to find thy happiness out there in the whirl of riotous pleasure. Thy blessedness dwells in thy own breast; here must thou for ever establish it. _Heine._
=Nicht grösseren Vortheil wüsst' ich zu nennen /= 5 =Als des Feindes Verdienst erkennen=--I know not a greater advantage than a due appreciation of the worth of an enemy. _Goethe._
=Nicht immer am besten erfahren ist, / Wer am ältesten an Jahren ist, / Und wer am meisten gelitten hat, / Nicht immer die besten Sitten hat!=--He who is oldest in years is not always the best experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best morals. _Bodenstedt._
=Nicht immer macht das Kleid den Mann=--Clothes do not always make the man. _Zachariæ._
=Nicht in die ferne Zeit verliere dich! / Den Augenblick ergreife, der ist dein=--Lose not thyself in a far-off time. Seize thou the moment that is thine. _Schiller._
=Nicht in kalten Marmorsteinen, / Nicht in Tempeln dumpf und tot, / In den frischen Eichenhainen / Webt und rauscht der deutsche Gott=--Not in cold marble stones, not in temples damp and dead, but in fresh oak-groves weaves and rustles the German God. _Uhland._
=Nicht jede Besserung ist Tugend=--Not every 10 improvement is virtue. _Gellert._
=Nicht Kunst and Wissenschaft allein, / Geduld will bei dem Werke sein=--Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. _Goethe._
=Nicht Rosen bloss, auch Dornen hat der Himmel=--Heaven has not only its roses, but also its thorns. _Schiller._
=Nicht so redlich wäre redlicher=--Not so honest were more honest. _Lessing._
=Nichts Abgeschmackters find' ich auf der Welt / Als einen Teufel, der verzweifelt=--I know nothing more mawkish than a devil who despairs. _Goethe._
=Nichts Böses thun ist gut; / Nichts Böses= 15 =wollen ist besser=--To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. _Claudius._
=Nichts führt zum Guten, was nicht natürlich ist=--Nothing leads to good that is not natural. _Schiller._
=Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art=--It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves. _Wieland._
=Nichts ist dem Menschen so schwer zu tragen, / Als eine Reihe von guten Tagen=--No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. _Müller._
=Nichts ist göttlich, als was vernünftig ist=--Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. _Kant._
=Nichts ist höher zu schätzen, als der Wert des= 20 =Tages=--Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. _Goethe._
=Nichts ist so elend als ein Mann, / Der alles will, und der nichts kann=--Nothing is so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing. _Claudius._
=Nichts stirbt, was wirklich gut und göttlich war=--Nothing that was really good and godlike dies. _Arndt._
=Nichts thun lehrt Uebel thun=--Doing nothing is a lesson in doing ill. _Ger. Pr._
=Nichtswürdig ist die Nation, die nicht / Ihr Alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre=--Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honour. _Schiller._
=Nick does not pretend to be a gentleman.= 25 _Arbuthnot._
=Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.= _Haliburton._
=Nie kommt das Unglück ohne sein Gefolge=--Misfortune never comes without his retinue. _Heine._
=Niemand ist frei, der nicht über sich selbst Herr ist=--No man is free who is not lord over himself. _Claudius._
=Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält ohne es zu sein=--No one is more a slave than he who considers himself free without being so. _Goethe._
=Niemand weiss, wie weit seine Kräfte gehen,= 30 =bis er sie versucht hat=--No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried them. _Goethe._
=Niggardliness is not good husbandry.= _Addison._
=Night is a good herdsman; she brings all creatures home.= _Gael. Pr._
=Night is the mither= (mother) =o' thoughts.= _Sc. Pr._
=Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind.= _Butler._
=Night! that great shadow and profile of the= 35 =day.= _Jean Paul._
=Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.
=Night's deepest gloom is but a calm, / That soothes the wearied mind; / The labour'd day's restoring balm, / The comfort of mankind.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Nightingales will not sing in a cage.= _Pr._
=Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet=--Nothing is void of God; His work everywhere is full of Himself. _Sen._
=Nihil ad rem= _or_ =versum=--Not to the purpose, or 40 point.
=Nihil agit qui diffidentem verbis solatur suis; / Is est amicus qui in re dubia re juvat, ubi re est opus=--He does nothing who seeks to console a desponding man with words; a friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. _Plaut._
=Nihil aliud necessarium ut sis miser, quam ut te miserum credas=--Nothing else is necessary to make you wretched than to fancy you are so.
=Nihil cum fidibus graculo=--Jackdaws have nothing to do with a lute. _Gell._
=Nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliqua parte prodesset=--He read no book which he did not make extracts from. He also used to say, "No book was so bad but good of some kind might be got out of it." _Pliny the Elder._
=Nihil eripit fortuna nisi quod et dedit=--Fortune takes nothing away but what she also gave. _Pub. Syr._
=Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--There is nothing that is blessed in every respect. _Hor._
=Nihil est annis velocius!=--Nothing is swifter than our years. _Ovid._
=Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris,= 5 =quam temporum varietates, fortunæque vicissitudines=--Nothing contributes more to the entertainment of a reader than the changes of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. _Cic._
=Nihil est quod credere de se / Non possit=--There is nothing that it (_i.e._, power, _potestas_) cannot believe itself capable of. _Juv._
=Nihil est quod Deus efficere non possit.=--There is nothing which the Deity cannot effect. _Cic._
=Nihil est tam utile, quod in transitu prosit=--Nothing is so useful as to be of profit after only a hasty study of it. _Sen._
=Nihil est tam volucre quam maledictum, nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur, nihil latius dissipatur=--Nothing is no swift as calumny, nothing more easily uttered, nothing more readily received, nothing more widely disseminated. _Cic._
=Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt=--Nothing is wanting 10 here except a song. _Virg._
=Nihil honestum esse potest, quod justitia vacat=--Nothing can be honourable where justice is absent. _Cic._
=Nihil largiundo gloriam adeptus est=--He acquired glory without bribery. _Sall._
=Nihil morosius hominum judiciis=--Nothing so peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. _Erasmus._
=Nihil potest rex nisi quod de jure potest=--The king can do nothing but what the law allows. _L._
=Nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum=--Nothing 15 which is inconvenient is lawful. _L._
=Nihil scire est vita jucundissima=--To know nothing at all is the happiest life. _Pr._
=Nihil scriptum miraculi causa=--Nothing is written here to excite wonder, or for effect. _Tac._
=Nihil simul inventum est et perfectum=--Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once. _Coke._
=Nihil tam absurdum dici potest ut non dicatur a philosopho=--There is nothing so absurd but it may be said by a philosopher. _Cic._
=Nihil tam firmum est, cui periculum non sit= 20 =etiam ab invalido=--Nothing is so steadfast as to be free of danger from even the weakest. _Quint. Curt._
=Nihil tam munitum est, quod non expugnari pecunia possit=--Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. _Cic._
=Nihil turpius est quam gravis ætate senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, præter ætatem=--There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. _Sen._
=Nihil unquam peccavit, nisi quod mortua est=--She never once sinned but when she died. _Inscription on a wife's tomb in Rome._
=Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum=--He considered nothing done so long as anything remained to be done. _Lucan, of Julius Cæsar._
="Nil admirari" is the motto which men of the= 25 =world always affect, thinking it vulgar to wonder or be enthusiastic.= _Sir Egerton Brydges._
=Nil admirari prope est res una, Numici, / Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum=--To wonder at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one and only thing which can make and keep men happy. _Hor._
=Nil æquale homini fuit illi=--There was no consistency in that man. _Hor._
=Nil agit exemplum litem quod lite resolvit=--An illustration which solves one difficulty by involving us in another settles nothing. _Hor._
=Nil consuetudine majus=--Nothing is more powerful than custom, or habit. _Ovid._
=Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto=--Naked 30 myself, I make for the camp of those who desire nothing. _Hor._
=Nil debet=--He owes nothing. _L._
=Nil desperandum=--There is no ground for despair.
=Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro=--Let us despair of nothing while Teucer is our leader and we under his auspices. _Hor._
=Nil dicit=--He says nothing, _i.e._, he has no defence to make. _L._
=Nil dictu fœdum visuque hæc limina tangat, /= 35 =Intra quæ puer est=--Let nothing filthy to be said or seen touch this threshold, within which there is a boy. _Juv._
=Nil dictum quod non dictum prius=--There can be nothing said now which has not been said before. _L._
=Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico=--As long as I have my senses, there is nothing I would prefer to an agreeable friend. _Hor._
=Nil erit ulterius quod nostris moribus addat / Posteritas; eadem cupient facientque minores: / Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--There will be nothing left for posterity to add to our manners; our descendants will wish for and do the same things as we do; every vice has reached its culminating point. _Juv._
=Nil feret ad manes divitis umbra suos=--The ghost of the rich man will carry nothing to the shades below. _Ovid._
=Nil fuit unquam sic impar sibi=--Never was such 40 an inconsistent creature seen before. _Hor._
=Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, / Quam quod ridiculos homines facit=--Unhappy poverty has nothing in it more galling than this, that it makes men ridiculous. _Juv._
=Nil homini certum est=--There is nothing assured to mortals. _Ovid._
=Nil me officit unquam, / Ditior hic, aut est quia doctior; est locus uni / Cuique suus=--It never the least annoys me that another is richer or more learned than I; every one has his own place assigned him. _Hor._
=Nil mortalibus arduum est=--Nothing is too arduous for mortals. _Hor._
=Nil nisi cruce=--No hope but in the cross. _M._ 45
=Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes=--Confessing that none like you has arisen before, none will ever arise. _Hor._
=Nil peccant oculi, si oculis animus imperet=--The eyes don't err if the mind governs them. _Pub. Syr._
=Nil proprium ducas quod mutari potest=--Never deem that your own which can be changed. _Pub. Syr._
=Nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--They deem nothing right except what seems good to themselves. _Hor._
=Nil sine magno / Vita labore dedit mortalibus=--Life has granted nothing to mankind save through great labour. _Hor._
=Nil sine te mei prosunt honores=--The honours 5 I obtain are nothing without thee. _Hor. to the Muse._
=Nil sole et sale utilius=--Nothing so useful as the sun and salt. _Pr._
=Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim=--Let the ear despise nothing, nor yet be too ready to believe. _Phæd._
=Nil tam difficile est quod non solertia vincat=--There is nothing so difficult but skill will surmount it. _Pr._
=Nil tam inæstimable est quam animi multitudinis=--Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. _Sen._
=Nil temere novandum=--Make no rash innovations. 10 _L._
=Nil unquam longum est, quod sine fine placet=--Nothing is ever long which never ceases to please.
=Nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat=--Too much pains may injure rather than improve your work. _Pr._
=Nimia est voluptas, si diu abfueris a domo / Domum si redieris, si tibi nulla est ægritudo animo obviam=--It is a very great pleasure if, on your return home after a long absence, you are not confronted with anything to vex you. _Plaut._
=Nimia illæc licentia / Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum=--This extreme licentiousness will assuredly develop into some dire disaster. _Ter._
=Nimia subtilitas in jure reprobatur, et talis= 15 =certitudo certitudinem confundit=--Too much subtlety in law is condemned, and such certainty destroys certainty. _L._
=Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod / Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem=--There are few, I say, to whom this fellow should appear insane, since by far the majority of people are infected with the same malady. _Hor._
=Nimis uncis / Naribus indulges=--You indulge in swearing (_lit._ upturned nostrils) too much.
=Nimium altercando veritas amittitur=--In too eager disputation the truth is lost sight of. _Pr._
=Nimium ne crede colori=--Trust not too much to appearances. _Virg._
=Nimius in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis= 20 =amantior=--Too fastidious as regards truth, and with a greater liking for exactness than beauty. _Quinct._
=Nimm alles leicht! das Träumen lass und Grübeln! / So bleibst du wohlbewahrt vor tausend Uebeln=--Take everything easily; leave off dreaming and brooding; then wilt thou be safe-shielded from a thousand ills. _Uhland._
=Nimm die Welt, wie sie ist, nicht wie sie seyn sollte=--Take the world as it is, not as it should be. _Ger. Pr._
=Nimm wahr die Zeit; sie eilet sich, / Und kommt nicht wieder ewiglich=--Take thou good note of time; it hurries past thee, and comes not back again for ever. _Claudius._
=Nine tailors cannot make a man.= _Pr._
=Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense,= 25 =and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.= _Disraeli._
=Nine-tenths of our critics have told us little more of Shakespeare than what honest Franz Horn says his neighbours used to tell of him, "he was a great spirit, and stept majestically along."= _Carlyle._
=Nine things to sight required are: / The power to see, the light, the visible thing, / Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; / Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring.= _Sir John Davies._
=Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same.= _Tennyson._
=Nineteen nay-says are half a grant.= _Allan_ 30 _Ramsay._
=Nisi caste, saltem caute=--If not chastely, at least cautiously.
=Nisi Dominus, frustra=--Unless the Lord be with us, all is vain. _M._
=Nisi prius=--Unless before. A judicial writ.
=Nisi utile est quod facias, stulta est gloria=--Unless what we do is useful, our glorying is vain. _Phæd._
=Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata=--We 35 are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. _Ovid._
=Nitor in adversum, nec me, qui cætera vincit / Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi=--I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. _Ovid._
="No," a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity.= _Johnson._
=No accidents are so unlucky that the prudent may not draw some advantage from them.= _La Roche._
=No affections and a great brain; these are the men to command the world.= _Disraeli._
=No age ever seemed the age of Romance to= 40 =itself.= _Carlyle._
=No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.= _Barton._
=No answer is also an answer.= _Pr._
=No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.= _Ruskin._
=No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.= _Charlotte Cushman._
=No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.= _Landor._
=No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness.= _Carlyle._
=No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons.= _Jean Paul._
=No author ever spared a brother; / Wits are= 5 =gamecocks to one another.= _Gay._
=No author is a man of genius to his publisher.= _Heine._
=No autumn fruit without spring blossoms.= _Pr._
=No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.
=No bees, no honey; / No work, no money.= _Pr._
=No belief of ours will change the facts or= 10 =reverse the laws of the spiritual universe; and it is our first business to discover the laws and to learn how the facts stand.= _Dr. Dale._
=No belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful.= _J. S. Mill._
=No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food.= _Dut. Pr._
=No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant.= _Young._
=No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again.= _Ruskin._
=No book that will not improve by repeated= 15 =readings deserves to be read at all.= _Carlyle._
=No book was ever written down by any but itself.= _Bentley._
=No ceremony that to great one 'longs, / Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, / The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe, / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges) as that of a professor of books.= _Emerson._
=No chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it.= _Carlyle._
=No character was ever rightly understood= 20 =until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy.= _Carlyle._
=No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful.= _Goldsmith._
=No cloth is too fine for moth to devour.= _Pr._
=No compound of this earthly ball / Is like another all in all.= _Tennyson._
=No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No conquest can ever become permanent= 25 =which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.= _Carlyle._
=No corn without chaff.= _Dut. Pr._
=No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling.= _Carlyle._
=No creature smarts so little as a fool.= _Pope._
=No crime is so great as daring to excel.= _Churchill._
=No cross, no crown.= _Quarles._ 30
=No diga la lengua par do pague la cabeza=--The tongue talks at the head's cost. _Sp. Pr._
=No distance breaks the tie of blood: / Brothers are brothers evermore; / Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood, / That magic may o'erpower.= _Keble._
=No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.= _Job, in Bible._
=No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter.= _Goethe._
=No dynamite will ever be invented that can= 35 =rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern.= _Ruskin._
=No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless.= _Carlyle._
=No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.= _C. Kingsley._
=No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.= _Lady Montagu._
=No errors are so mischievous as those of great men.= _Pr._
=No evil can touch him who looks on human= 40 =beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world.= _Goethe._
=No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained.= _W. Secker._
=No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late.= _Rückert._
=No evil is without its compensation.= _Sen._
=No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.= _Sen._
=No experiment is dangerous the result of which= 45 =we have the courage to meet.= _Goethe._
=No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man.= _Goethe._
=No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, / All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.= _Moore._
=No fact in nature but carries the whole sense of nature.= _Emerson._
=No falsehood can endure / Touch of celestial temper.= _Milton._
=No fathers or mothers think their own children= 50 =ugly.= _Cervantes._
=No fishing like fishing in the sea.= _Pr._
=No flattery, boy; an honest man can't live by 't; / It is a little sneaking art, which knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools withal.= _Otway._
=No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever.= _Pr._
=No fountain so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.= _Hawthorne._
=No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend.= 55 _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=No frost can freeze Providence.= _Pr._
=No gains without pains.= _Pr._
=No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes.= _Carlyle._
=No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart.= _Ruskin._
=No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one.= _Jean Paul._
=No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment.= _Carlyle._
=No good doctor ever takes physic.= _It. Pr._ 5
=No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.= _Ruskin._
=No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.= _It. Pr._
=No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left.= _Ruskin._
=No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.= _Ruskin._
=No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.= 10 _Corn. Nepos._
=No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.= _Ward Beecher._
=No grain of sand / But moves a bright and million-peopled land, / And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem.= _Blanchard._
=No grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his doings.= _Carlyle._
=No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest.= _Ruskin._
=No great intellectual thing was ever done= 15 =by great effort.= _Ruskin._
=No great man was ever other than a genuine man.= _Carlyle._
=No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it.= _Ruskin._
=No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.= _Ben Jonson._
=No greater men are now than ever were.= _Emerson._
=No greater misfortune can befall a man than= 20 =to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it.= _Goethe._
=No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.= _Pr._
=No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are past.= _Byron._
=No hay dulzura sin sudor=--No sweetness without sweat. _Sp. Pr._
=No hay tal razon como la del baston=--There is no argument like that of a stick. _Sp. Pr._
=No heart opens to sympathy without letting= 25 =in delicacy.= _J. M. Barrie._
=No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made.= _Cowper._
=No herb will cure love.= _Pr._
=No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she may give birth to one.= _Jean Paul._
=No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost.= _Carlyle._
=No horse so blind as the blind mare.= _Pr._ 30
=No house without mouse; no throne without thorn.= _Pr._
=No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look.= _Ruskin._
=No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.= _Ruskin._
=No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life.= _Renan._
=No intellectual images are without use.= _Johnson._ 35
=No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve.= _Carlyle._
="No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips.= _Scott._
=No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No hap so hard but may in time amend.= _Robert Southwell._
=No joy without alloy.= _Pr._
=No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and= 40 =changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge.= _Baxter._
=No labour is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.= _S. Hieron._
=No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature.= _Emerson._
=No leaf moves but as God wills it.= _Sp. Pr._
=No legacy is so rich as honesty.= _All's Well_, iii. 5.
=No lie you can speak or act, but it will come,= 45 =after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer: "No effects."= _Carlyle._
=No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.= _Longfellow._
=No longer pipe, no longer dance.= _Pr._
=No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons.= _Ruskin._
=No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds.= _Ruskin._
=No man at bottom means injustice; it is always= 50 =for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends.= _Carlyle._
=No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit.= _Macaulay._
=No man bathes twice in the same river.= _Heraclitus._
=No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it.= _Hitopadesa._
=No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.= _Johnson._
=No man can antedate his experience.= _Emerson._ 55
=No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.= _La Roche._
=No man can be a good poet without first being a good man.= _Ben Jonson._
=No man can be a poet / That is not a good cook, to know the palates / And several tastes of the time.= _Ben Jonson._
=No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._
=No man can be brave who considers pain to be= 5 =the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.= _Cic._
=No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.= _F. W. Robertson._
=No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him.= _Ed._
=No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light.= _Th. Körner._
=No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others.= _Ruskin._
=No man can buy anything in the market with= 10 =gentility.= _Lord Burleigh._
=No man can, for a length of time, be wholly wretched, if there is not a disharmony (a folly and wickedness) within himself; neither can the richest Crœsus, and never so eupeptic, be other than discontented, perplexed, unhappy, if he be a fool.= _Carlyle._
=No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.= _Kossuth._
=No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas.= _Pr._
=No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.= _Colton._
=No man can learn what he has not preparation= 15 =for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be.= _Emerson._
=No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him.= _Philips Brooks._
=No man can lose what he never had.= _Walton._
=No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.= _Pr._
=No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.= _Lowell._
=No man can quite emancipate himself from his= 20 =age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share.= _Emerson._
=No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.= _Noah Porter._
=No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked.= _Burns._
=No man can see over his own height.= _Pr._
=No man can serve two masters.= _Jesus._
=No man can thoroughly master more than one= 25 =art or science.= _Hazlitt._
=No man can transcend his own individuality.= _Schopenhauer._
=No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man ever became, or can become, largely= 30 =rich merely by labour and economy.= _Ruskin._
=No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.= _Fisher Ames._
=No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.= _Emerson._
=No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.= _Emerson._
=No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition.= _John Neale._
=No man flatters the woman he truly loves.= 35 _Tuckermann._
=No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him.= _Burke._
=No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced.= _Johnson._
=No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it.= _Emerson._
=No man has a right to say to his own generation, turning quite away from it, "Be damned."= _Carlyle to Emerson._
=No man has a worse friend than he brings= 40 =with him from home.= _Pr._
=No man has any data for estimating, far less right of judging, the results of a life of resolute self-denial, until he has had the courage to try it himself.= _Ruskin._
=No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind.= _Phillips Brooks._
=No man has worked, or can work, except religiously.= _Carlyle._
=No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity to whom adversity never happened.= (?)
=No man hath a velvet cross.= _Pr._ 45
=No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.
=No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.= _Jesus._
=No man is a good physician who has never been sick.= _Arab. Pr._
=No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.= _Prince de Condé, from Plutarch._
=No man is always wise except a fool.= _Pr._ 50
=No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.= _Lowell._
=No man is born wise or learned.= _Pr._
=No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.= _Capt. John Brown._
=No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty.= _Froude._
=No man is ever hurt but by himself.= _Diogenes._
=No man is ever paid for his real work, or should= 5 =ever expect or demand angrily to be paid; all work properly so called is an appeal from the seen to the unseen--a devout calling upon higher powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.= _Carlyle._
=No man is free who cannot command himself.= _Pythagoras._
=No man is good but as he wishes the good of others.= _Johnson._
=No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may.= _Carlyle._
=No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.= _Sen._
=No man is poor who does not think himself so.= 10 =But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.= _Emerson._
=No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.= _Haliburton._
=No man is so free as a beggar, and no man more solemnly a servant than an honest land-owner.= _Ruskin._
=No man is so happy as never to give offence.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man is so old but thinks he may live= 15 =another day.= _Pythagoras._
=No man is so sufficient as never to need assistance.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man is so tall that he need never stretch, nor so small that he need never stoop.= _Dan. Pr._
=No man is so worthy of envy as he that can be cheerful in want.= _Bp. Hall._
=No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.= _Ward Beecher._
=No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit= 20 =and wisdom are born with a man.= _Selden._
=No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.= _Pr._
=No man is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command.= _Pythagoras._
=No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power.= _Colton._
=No man is wise or safe but be that is honest.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=No man is without enemies.= _Arab. Pr._ 25
=No man is without his load of trouble.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No man lives so poor as he was born.= _Pr._
=No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour.= _Johnson._
=No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.= _Pr._
=No man needs money so much as he who= 30 =despises it.= _Jean Paul._
=No man needs to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.= _Thoreau._
=No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.= _Phillips Brooks._
=No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life.= _John Burroughs._
=No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent.= _Arist._
=No man regards an eruption upon the surface= 35 =when the noble parts are invaded, and he feels a mortification approaching to his heart.= _Junius._
="No man," said Pestalozzi, "in God's wide universe, is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone.= _Emerson._
=No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.= _Carlyle._
=No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life.= _Cic._
=No man should enter into alliance with his enemy, even with the tightest bonds of union. Water made ever so hot will still quench fire.= _Hitopadesa._
=No man should ever be ashamed to own he= 40 =has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.= _Pope._
=No man should ever display his bravery who is unprepared for battle; nor bear the marks of defiance, until he hath experienced the abilities of his enemy.= _Hitopadesa._
=No man should form an acquaintance, nor enter into any amusements, with one of an evil character. A piece of charcoal, if it be hot, burneth; and if it be cold, blackeneth the hand.= _Hitopadesa._
=No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.= _Channing._
=No man should strive to precede his fellows; for, should the work succeed, the booty is equal, and if it fail, the leader is punished.= _Hitopadesa._
=No man should think so highly of himself as= 45 =to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.= _Johnson._
=No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed.= _Johnson._
=No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.= _Goethe._
=No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics.= _Lamb._
=No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be.= _Old saying._
=No man was ever scolded out of his sins.= 50 _Cowper._
=No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.= _Lord Greville._
=No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.= _Monk._
=No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.= _Johnson, of Goldsmith._
=No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed.= _Carlyle._
=No man who does not choose, enter into and= 5 =walk in some narrow way of life, will ever have any moral character, any clearness of purpose, any wisdom of intelligence, or any tenderness or strength of heart.= _Ed._
=No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.= _Carlyle._
=No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others.= _Ruskin._
=No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.= _Hawthorne._
=No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man.= _Johnson._
=No man's pie is freed / From his ambitious= 10 =finger.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=No man's religion ever survives his morals.= _South._
=No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga=--Not the load, but the overload kills. _Sp. Pr._
=No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.= _Emerson._
=No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men.= _J. A. Langford._
=No might nor greatness in mortality / Can censure= 15 ='scape; back-wounding calumny / The whitest virtue strikes.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=No mill, no meal.= _Pr._
=No more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.= _Rich. III._, iii. 1.
=No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our enemies are also the enemies of God.= _Ruskin._
=No more of your titled acquaintances boast, / And in what lordly circles you've been: / An insect is still but an insect at most, / Though it crawl on the head of a queen.= _Burns._
=No more subtle master under heaven / Than= 20 =is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man.= _Tennyson._
=No morning can restore what we have forfeited.= _George Meredith._
=No mortal can both work and do good talking in Parliament or out of it; the feat is impossible as that of serving two hostile masters.= _Carlyle._
=No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.= _Carlyle._
=No mortal's endeavour or attainment will, in the smallest, content the as unendeavouring, unattaining young gentleman; but he could make it all infinitely better, were it worthy of him.= _Carlyle._
=No mother worthy of the name ever gave herself= 25 =thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.= _Beecher._
=No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.= _J. G. Holland._
=No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first.= _Ward Beecher._
=No nation can reform itself, as the English are now trying to do, by what their newspapers call "tremendous cheers." Reform is not joyous, but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men! Medea, when she made men young again, was wont to hew them in pieces with meat-axes; cast them into caldrons, and boil them for a length of time. How much handier could they have but done it by "tremendous cheers" alone!= _Carlyle._
=No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs.= _Pr._
=No news is good news.= _Pr._ 30
=No, no! I am but shadow of myself; / You are deceived, my substance is not here.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 3.
=No noble task was ever easy.= _Carlyle._
=No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.= _Carlyle._
=No, not even faith, or hope, or any other virtue, is accepted by God without charity and grace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No oath that binds to wrong can ever bind.= 35 _Dr. Walter Smith._
=No one can bake cakes for the whole world.= _Serv. Pr._
=No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.= _J. S. Mill._
=No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.= _Sen._
=No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself.= _Schopenhauer._
=No one can feel and exercise benevolence towards= 40 =another who is ill at ease with himself.= _Goethe._
=No one can find himself in himself or others; in fact, he has himself to spin, from the centre of which he exercises his influence.= _Goethe._
=No one can obtain what he does not bring with him.= _Goethe._
=No one can teach religion who has it not.= _Jean Paul._
=No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands.= _Ruskin._
=No one claims kindred with the poor.= _Pr._ 45
=No one easily arrives at the conclusion that reason and a brave will are given us that we may not only hold back from evil, but also from the extreme of good.= _Goethe._
=No one eats goldfish.= _Pr._
=No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving.= _It. Pr._
=No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them.= _Bulwer._
=No one ever teaches well who wants to teach,= 50 =or governs well who wants to govern.= _Plato._
=No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.= _Dan. Pr._
=No one gets into trouble without his own help.= _Dan. Pr._
=No one has ever learned fully to know himself.= _Goethe._
=No one has ever yet succeeded in deceiving the whole world, nor has the world ever combined to deceive any individual.= (?)
=No one has seen to-morrow.= _Port. Pr._ 5
=No one is a slave whose will is free.= _Tyrius Maximus._
=No one is by nature noble, respected of any one, nor a wretch. His own actions conduct him either to wretchedness or to the reverse.= _Hitopadesa._
=No one is free who is not master of himself.= _Claudius._
=No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.= _Jean Paul._
=No one is qualified to converse in public who is= 10 =not highly contented without such conversation.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.= _Dan. Pr._
=No one is so hardy as to say God is in his debt, that he owed him a nobler being, for existence must be antecedent to merit.= _Jeremy Collier._
=No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried.= _Goethe._
=No one knows the weight of another's burden.= 15 _Pr._
=No one knows what he is doing while he is
## acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are
always conscious.= _Goethe._
=No one knows when he is well off.= _Punch._
=No one knows where the shoe pinches but him who wears it.= _Pr._
=No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.= _Plato._
=No one likes to bell the cat.= _Pr._ 20
=No one shall look for effectual help to another; but each shall rest content with what help he can afford himself.= _Carlyle._
=No one will become anything, every one will already be something.= _Goethe._
=No one would respect thee in a beggar's coat. What is the respect paid to woollen cloth, not to thee?= _Jean Paul._
=No one would talk much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others.= _Goethe._
=No orator can measure in effect with him who= 25 =can give good nicknames.= _Emerson._
=No order or profession of men is so sacred, no place so remote or solitary, but that temptations and troubles will find them out and intrude upon them.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=No outward tyranny can reach the mind.= _Junius._
=No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve.= _Cervantes._
=No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.= _William Penn._
=No pains, no gains.= _Pr._ 30
=No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend.= _Ruskin._
=No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine.= _Hitopadesa._
=No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him.= _Ruskin._
=No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.= _Ruskin._
=No penny, no paternoster.= _Pr._ 35
=No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.= _Emerson._
=No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines.= _La Roche._
=No pillow so soft as God's promise.= _Saying._
=No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's laws are not.= _Carlyle._
=No place, no company, no age, no person is= 40 =temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted; let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.= _Spencer._
=No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.= _Emerson._
=No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing.= _Johnson._
=No prayer, no religion, or at least only a dumb and lame one.= _Carlyle._
=No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.= _Henry Giles._
=No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable= 45 =discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks, ... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence.= _Goethe._
=No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care.= _Wesley._
=No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect.= _Tam. the Shrew_, i. 1.
=No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission--while it lasts.= _Carlyle._
=No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground.= _Parnell._
=No really great man ever thought himself so.= 50 _Hazlitt._
=No receiver, no thief.= _Pr._
=No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius and soothe envy of conscious mediocrity.= _Macaulay._
=No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.= _Jean Paul._
=No revenge is more heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.= (?)
=No road is long with good company.= _Turk. Pr._
=No sadder proof can be given by man of his= 5 =own littleness than disbelief in great men.= _Carlyle._
=No safe wading in an unknown water.= _Pr._
=No sensible person ever made an apology.= _Emerson._
=No si puo volar senza ale=--He would fain fly, but he wants wings. _It. Pr._
=No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=No slave, to lazy ease resign'd, / E'er triumphed= 10 =over noble foes; / The monarch, Fortune, most is kind / To him who bravely dares oppose.= _Cervantes._
=No slave's vote is other than a nuisance, whensoever, or wheresoever, or in what manner soever, it is given.= _Carlyle._
=No smaller spirit can vanquish a greater.= _Goethe._
=No smoke, in any sense, but can become flame and radiance.= _Carlyle._
=No society can be upheld in happiness and honour without the sentiment of religion.= _Laplace._
=No sooner is a temple built to God, but the= 15 =devil builds a chapel close by.= _George Herbert._
=No soul to strong endeavour yoked for ever, / Works against the tide in vain.= _H. Kendall._
=No sound is dissonant which tells of life.= _Coleridge._
=No speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with!= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains / To tax our labours and excise our brains.= _Churchill._
=No stronger castle than a poor man's.= _Serv. Pr._ 20
=No surer does the Auldgarth bridge, that his father helped to build, carry the traveller over the turbulent water beneath it, than Carlyle's books convey the reader over chasms and confusions, where before there was no way, or only an inadequate one.= _John Burroughs._
=No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.= _Sir P. Sydney._
=No tale so good but may be spoiled in the telling.= _Pr._
=No teaching is spiritually profitable, that is of true vital avail, translateable into flesh and blood, unless with the teaching we imbibe the spirit that dictates it.= _Ed._
=No theatre for virtue is equal to the consciousness= 25 =of it.= _Cic._
=No theological absurdities so glaring that they have not sometimes been embraced by men of the greatest and most cultivated understanding. No religious precepts so rigorous that they have not been adopted by the most voluptuous and most abandoned of men.= _Hume._
=No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.= _Landor._
=No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just which is not founded on truth.= _Addison._
=No thought is contented. The better sort, / As thoughts of things divine, are intermixed / With scruples, and do set the word itself / Against the word.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.
=No trial is dangerous which there is courage= 30 =to meet.= _Goethe._
=No trouble, cross, or death / E'er shall silence faith and praise.= _Winkworth._
=No truly great man ever founded, wilfully intended founding, a sect.= _Carlyle._
=No two on earth in all things can agree; / All have some darling singularity.= _Churchill._
=No two virtues, whatever relation they claim, / Nor even two different shades of the same, / Though like as was ever twin-brother to brother, / Possessing the one shall imply you've the other.= _Burns._
=No useless coffin enclosed his breast, / Not in= 35 =sheet nor in shroud we wound him; / But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, / With his martial cloak around him.= _Rev. C. Wolfe._
=No vice goes alone.= _Pr._
=No victory worth having was ever won without cost.= _Ruskin._
=No violent extreme endures.= _Carlyle._
=No visor does become black villany / So well as soft and tender flattery.= _Pericles_, iv. 4.
=No weather's ill when the wind's still.= _Pr._ 40
=No weeping for shed milk.= _Pr._
=No whip cuts so sharply as the lash of conscience.= _Pr._
=No wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.= _Swift._
=No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest / Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.= _Cowper._
=No wind is of service to him who is bound for= 45 =nowhere.= _Fr. Pr._
=No wise combatant underrates his antagonist.= _Goethe._
=No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.= _Hazlitt._
=No wise man ever wished to be younger.= (?)
=No wise man should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractices in his house, his being cheated, or his having been disgraced.= _Hitopadesa._
=No woman can be handsome by the force of= 50 =features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.= _Hughes._
=No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family.= _Burnap._
=No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand.= _J. M. Barrie._
=No woman shall succeed in Salique land.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.
=No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained, it ceases to be a wonder.= _Leigh Hunt._
=No wonder lasts over three days.= _Pr._ 55
=No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.= _Goethe._
=No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken.= _Pr._
=No words suffice the secret soul to show, / For truth denies all eloquence to woe.= _Byron._
=No work, no recompense.= _Pr._
=No working world, any more than a fighting= 5 =world, can be led on without a noble chivalry of work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that--far nobler than any chivalry of fighting war.= _Carlyle._
=No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth.= _Carlyle._
=Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character=--Virtue, not pedigree, should characterise nobility. _M._
=Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination.= _Colton._
=Nobility of nature consists in doing good for the good's sake.= _Wm. v. Humboldt._
=Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without= 10 =a gem.= _Jane Porter._
=Nobis non licet esse tam disertis, / Qui Musas colimus severiores=--We who cultivate the graver Muse are not allowed to be diffuse. _Mart._
=Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things.= _Ruskin._
=Noble housekeepers need no doors.= _Pr._
=Noble spirits war not with the dead.= _Byron._
=Nobler is a limited command, / Given by the= 15 =love of all your native land, / Than a successive title, long and dark, / Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.= _Dryden._
=Noblesse oblige=--Rank imposes obligation. _M._
=Nobody calls himself rogue.= _Pr._
=Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him.= _Carlyle._
=Nobody can live by teaching any more than= 20 =by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it.= _Ruskin._
=Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.= _Locke._
=Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge.= _Ruskin._
=Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper.= _Spurgeon._
=Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.= _Goethe._
=Nobody will persist long in helping those who= 25 =will not help themselves.= _Johnson._
=Nobody will use other people's experience, nor has any of his own till it is too late to use it.= _Hawthorne._
=Nobody would be afraid if he could help it.= _Smollett._
=Noces de Gamache=--A very sumptuous repast. _Fr._
=Nocet empta dolore voluptas=--Pleasure purchased by pain is injurious. _Hor._
=Noch ist es Tag, da rühre sich der Mann, /= 30 =Die Nacht tritt ein, wo niemand wirken kann=--It is still day, in which to be up and doing; the night is setting in wherein no man can work. _Goethe._
=Noch lebt ein Gott, der meines Elends denkt!=--A God still lives who thinks of my misery. _Chamisso._
=Noch niemand entfloh dem verhängten Geschick=--No one has yet evaded the fate allotted to him. _Schiller._
=Noctemque diemque fatigat=--He wears out both night and day at his work. _Virg._
=Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna=--Let these be your studies by night and by day.
=Nodum in scirpo quæris=--You look for a knot in 35 a bulrush, _i.e._, are too scrupulous. _Pr._
=Noisome weeds that without profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.= _Rich. II._, iii. 4.
=Nolens volens=--Whether one will or no.
=Noli irritare leones=--Don't irritate lions. _M._
=Noli me tangere=--Touch me not.
=Nolle prosequi=--To be unwilling to prosecute. _L._ 40
=Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni=--I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. _Mart._
=Nolo episcopari=--I have no wish to be made a bishop. _Applied to an affected indifference to obtaining what one really desires._
=Nom de guerre=--An assumed name. _Fr._
=Nom de plume=--Assumed name of an author. _Fr._
=Nomen amicitia est; nomen inane fides=--Friendship 45 is but a name; fidelity but an empty name. _Ovid._
=Nomen atque omen=--A name and at the same time an omen. _Plaut._
[Greek: Nomiz' adelphous tous alêthinous philous]--Count true friends as brothers.
=Non adeo cecidi, quamvis abjectus, ut infra / Te quoque sim; inferius quo nihil esse potest=--Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. _Ovid._
=Non ætate verum ingenio adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom is not attained with years, but by ability. _Plaut._
=Non agitur de vectigalibus, non de sociorum= 50 =injuriis; libertas et anima nostra in dubio est=--It is not a question of our revenues, nor of the wrongs of our allies; our liberty and very lives are in peril. _Cic. in Sall._
=Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; / Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te=--I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee. _Mart._
=Non Angli, sed angeli=--Not Angles, but angels. _Gregory the Great, on seeing some captive British youths for sale in the slave-market at Rome._
=Non aqua, sed ruina=--Not with water, but with ruin.
=Non assumpsit=--He did not assume. _L._
=Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur= 55 =/ Majestas et amor=--Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. _Ovid._
=Non bene imperat, nisi qui paruerit imperio=--No one makes a good commander except he who has been trained to obey commands.
=Non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum=--The discordant seeds of things ill joined. _Ovid._
=Non c' è il peggior frutto di quello che non matura mai=--There is no crop worse than fruit that never ripens. _It. Pr._
=Non ci è fumo senza fuoco=--There is no smoke without fire. _It. Pr._
=Non compos mentis=--Not sound in mind.
=Non constat=--This does not appear. _L._ 5
=Non convivere, nec videre saltem, / Non audire licet; nec Urbe tota / Quisquam est tam prope, tam proculque nobis=--I may not live with him, nor even see him or hear him; in all the city there is no one so near me and so far away. _Mart._
=Non credo tempori=--I trust not to time. _M._
=Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum=--Not every man is gifted with a nose, _i.e._, has the power of keen discernment. _Mart._
=Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum=--It is not every man that can get to Corinth, _i.e._, rise in the world. _Hor._
=Non decipitur qui scit se decipi=--He is not 10 deceived who is knowingly deceived. _L._
=Non deerat voluntas, sed facultas=--Not the will, but the ability was wanting.
=Non deficit alter=--Another is not wanting. _Virg._
=Non destare il can che dorme=--Do not wake a sleeping dog. _It. Pr._
=Non è in alcun luogo chi è per tutto=--He is nowhere who is everywhere. _It. Pr._
=Non è si tristo cane che non meni la coda=--No 15 dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. _It. Pr._
=Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò=--He's no man who can't say "No." _It. Pr._
=Non è ver che sia la morte / Il peggior di tutti i mali; / E un sollievo pei mortali / Che non stanchi di soffrir=--Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. _Metastasio._
=Non eadem est ætas, non mens=--My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. _Hor._
=Non eadem ratio est, sentire et demere morbos: / Sensus inest cunctis; tollitur arte malum=--To be sensible of disease and remove it is not the same thing. The sense of it exists in all; by skill alone is disease removed. _Ovid._
=Non ebur neque aureum / Mea renidet in domo= 20 =lacunar=--In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold. _Hor._
=Non ego avarum / Cum te veto fieri, vappam jubeo ac nebulonem=--When I say, Be not a miser, I do not bid you become a worthless prodigal. _Hor._
=Non ego illam mihi dotem esse puto, quæ dos dicitur, / Sed pudicitiam, et pudorem, et sedatam cupidinem=--I do not deem that a dowry which is called a dowry, but chastity, modesty, and subdued desire. _Plaut._
=Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam; / Nec meus ullius crimina versus habet=--I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. _Ovid._
=Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo=--I do not at all reckon that every kind of gain is serviceable to a man. _Plaut._
=Non ego ventosæ venor suffragia plebis=--I do 25 not hunt after the suffrages of the fickle multitude. _Hor._
=Non enim gazæ neque consularis / Summovet lictor miseros tumultus / Mentis et curas laqueata circum / Tecta volantes=--For neither regal treasure, nor the consul's lictor, nor the cares that hover about fretted ceilings, can remove the unhappy tumults of the mind. _Hor._
=Non equidem invideo, miror magis=--In sooth I feel no envy, I am surprised rather. _Virg._
=Non equidem studeo, bullatis ut mihi nugis / Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo=--I do not study to swell my page with pompous trifles, suited only to give weight to smoke. _Pers._
=Non erat his locus=--This was out of place here. _Hor._
=Non esse cupidum pecunia est: non esse= 30 =emacem vectigal est=--Not to be covetous is money: not to be extravagant is an estate. _Cic._
=Non est ad astra mollis a terris via=--The road from the earth to the stars is not a soft one. _Sen._
=Non est bonum ludere cum Diis=--It is not good to trifle with the gods. _Pr._
=Non est de pastu omnium quæstio, sed de lana=--It is a matter not of feeding the sheep, but fleecing them (_lit._ of wool). _Pius II._
=Non est de sacco tanta farina tuo=--So much meal cannot have come from your own sack. _Pr._
=Non est ejusdem et multa et opportuna dicere=--The 35 same person will not both talk much and to the purpose. _Pr._
=Non est jocus esse malignum=--There is no joking where there is spite. _Hor._
=Non est nostri ingenii=--It is not within my range of ability. _Cic._
=Non est vivere, sed valere, vita=--Not to live, but to be healthy is life. _Mart._
=Non exercitus, neque thesauri, præsidia regni sunt, verum amici=--Neither armies nor treasures are the safeguards of a state, but friends. _Sall._
=Non fa buon mangiar cireggie con signori=--It 40 is not good to eat cherries with great persons. _It. Pr._
=Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem=--Not to educe smoke from splendour, but light from smoke. _M._
=Non generant aquilæ columbas=--Eagles do not beget doves. _M._
=Non giudicar la nave stando in terra=--Don't judge of the ship from the shore. _It. Pr._
=Non hæc sine numine=--These things are not without sanction of the Deity. _M._
=Non han speranza di morte=--They have not 45 hope to die. _Dante._
=Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit=--The present moment is not one to indulge in spectacles of this kind. _Virg._
=Non hominis culpa, sed ista loci=--It is not the fault of the man, but of the place. _Ovid._
=Non id quod magnum est pulchrum est, sed id quod pulchrum magnum=--Not that which is great is noble (_lit._ beautiful), but that which is noble is great.
=Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.= _See "Haud ignara."_
=Non illa colo calathisve Minervæ / Femineas= 50 =assueta manus=--Her woman's hands were not trained to the distaff or basket of (distaff-loving) Minerva. _Virg._
=Non immemor beneficii=--Not unmindful of kindness. _M._
=Non in caro nidore voluptas / Summa, sed in teipso est, tu pulmentaria quære / Sudando=--The pleasure (in eating) does not lie in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Seek the relish, therefore, from hard exercise. _Hor._
=Non intelligitur quando obrepit senectus=--We do not perceive old age, seeing it creeps on apace. _Cic._
=Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia=--Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. _Cic._
=Non la philosophie, mais le philosophisme causera des maux à la France=--Not the philosophy, but the philosophy of the philosophe will bring evils on France. _Voltaire in 1735._
=Non liquet=--It is not clear. _L._ 5
=Non magni pendis, quia contigit=--You do not value it highly because it has been your lot. _Hor._
=Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam=--I am not ashamed to confess myself ignorant of what I do not know. _Cic._
=Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit=--Not he who is wise in speech, but he who is wise in deeds is wise for me. _Greg. Agrigent._
=Non mihi si linguæ centum sint oraque centum, / Ferrea vox, omnes scelerum comprendere formas / Omnia pœnarum percurrere nomina possim=--Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, could I retail all the types of wickedness, and run over all the names of penal woe. _Virg._
=Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris hirudo=--A 10 leech that will not leave the skin until it is gorged with blood. _Hor._
=Non multa, sed multum=--Not many things, but much.
=Non nobis, Domine=--Not unto us, O Lord.
=Non nobis solum nati sumus=--We are born not for ourselves alone. _Cic._
=Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites=--It is not for me to settle such a dispute. _Virg._
=Non obstante veredicto=--The verdict notwithstanding. 15 _L._
=Non olet=--It has not a bad smell, _i.e._, money. _Suetonius._
=Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All men do not admire and love the same objects. _Hor._
=Non omnia possumus omnes=--We cannot all of us do everything. _Virg._
=Non omnibus dormio=--Not for all do I sleep. _Cic._
=Non omnis error stultitia est dicendus=--Not 20 every error is to be called folly.
=Non omnis moriar; multaque pars mei / Vitabit Libitinam=--I shall not wholly die; and a great part of me shall escape the grave. _Hor._
=Non opus est magnis placido lectore poetis; / Quamlibet invitum difficilemque tenent=--Great poets have no need of an indulgent reader; they hold captive every one however unwilling and hard to please he may be. _Ovid._
=Non placet quem scurræ laudant, manipulares mussitant=--I do not like the man whom the town gentry belaud, but of whom the people of his own class say nothing. _Plaut._
=Non posse bene geri rempublicam multorum imperiis=--Under the command of many, a commonwealth cannot be well conducted. _Corn. Nep._
=Non possidentem multa vocaveris / Recte= 25 =beatum. Rectius occupat / Nomen beati, qui Deorum / Muneribus sapienter uti, / Duramque callet pauperiem pati, / Pejusque leto flagitium timet=--You would not justly call him blessed who has great possessions; more justly does he claim the title who knows how to use wisely the gifts of the gods and to bear the hardships of poverty, and who fears disgrace worse than death. _Hor._
=Non possum ferre, Quirites, / Græcam urbem=--I cannot, Romans, endure a Grecian city, _i.e._, Greek or effeminate manners in stern old Rome. _Juv._
=Non potest severus esse in judicando, qui alios in se severos esse judices non vult=--He cannot be strict in judging who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. _Cic._
=Non progredi est regredi=--Not to advance is to go back. _Pr._
=Non pronuba Juno, / Non Hymenæus adest, non illi Gratia lecto; / Eumenides stravere torum=--No Juno, guardian of the marriage rites, no Hymenæus, no one of the Graces, stood by that nuptial couch. _Ovid._
=Non purgat peccata qui negat=--He who denies 30 his sins does not atone for them. _Pr._
=Non quam diu, sed quam bene vixeris refert=--Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. _Sen._
=Non qui soletur, non qui labentia tarde / Tempora narrando fallat, amicus adest=--There is no friend near to console me, none to beguile the weary hours with his talk. _Ovid._
=Non ragioniam di lor; ma guarda, e passa=--Talk not of them; one look, and then pass on. _Dante._
=Non revertar inultus=--I will not return unavenged. _M._
=Non satis est pulchra esse poëmata; dulcia= 35 =sunto, / Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto=--It is not enough that poems be beautiful; they must also be affecting, and move at will the hearer's soul. _Hor._
=Non scholæ, sed vitæ discimus=--We learn not at school, but in life. _Sen._
=Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit=--That man does not write whose verses no man reads. _Mart._
=Non semper erit æstas=--It will not always be summer. _Hesiod._
=Non semper erunt Saturnalia=--The carnival will not last for ever.
=Non sequitur=--It does not follow; an unwarranted 40 inference.
=Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit=--If it is ill now, it will not also be so hereafter. _Hor._
=Non sibi sed patriæ=--Not for himself, but for his country. _M._
=Non sine numine=--Not without the Divine approval _M._
=Non sum qualis eram=--I am not what I once was. _Hor._
=Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis / Tempus= 45 =eget=--The times require other aid and other defenders than those you bring. _Virg._
=Non tu corpus eras sine pectore. Di tibi formam, / Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque fruendi=--You were at no time ever a body without a soul. The gods have given you beauty, the gods have given you wealth, and the skill to enjoy it. _Horace to Tibullus._
=Non usitata, nec tenui ferar penna=--I shall be borne on no common, no feeble, wing. _Hor._
=Non uti libet, sed uti licet, sic vivamus=--We must live not as we like, but as we can. _Pr._
=Non v'è peggior ladro d'un cattivo libro=--There is no robber worse than a bad book. _It. Pr._
=Non vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit=--He has not lived ill whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. _Hor._
=Nonchalance=--Coolness; indifference. _Fr._ 5
=Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit=--The sun of all days has not yet set. _Pr._
=None acts a friend by a deputy, or can be familiar by proxy.= _South._
=None are all evil; quickening round his heart, / One softer feeling would not yet depart.= _Byron._
=None are fair but who are kind.= _Stanley._
=None are more unjust in their judgments of= 10 =others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.= _Spurgeon._
=None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.= _Stanislaus._
=None are so desolate but something dear, / Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd / A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.= _Byron._
=None are so fond of secrets as those who don't mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money--for the purpose of circulation.= (?)
=None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.= _Goethe._
=None are so seldom found alone, and are so= 15 =soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.= _Colton._
=None are so well shod but they may slip.= _Pr._
=None but a fool is always right.= _Hare._
=None but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.= _Goldsmith._
=None but a Goethe, at the sun of earthly happiness, can keep his Phœnix wings unsinged.= _Carlyle._
=None but an author knows an author's cares, /= 20 =Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.= _Cowper._
=None but himself can be his parallel.= _L. Theobald._
=None but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness.= _Mirabeau._
=None but the brave deserve the fair.= _Dryden._
=None can cure their harms by wailing them.= _Rich. III._, ii. 2.
=None can pray well but he who lives well.= _Pr._ 25
=None ever saw the pillars of the firmament; yet it is supported.= _Luther._
=None ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else.= _Sir W. Temple._
=None is so deaf as he who will not hear.= _Pr._
=None is so wasteful as the scraping dame; / She loseth three for one--her soul, rest, fame.= _George Herbert._
=None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains= 30 =the semblance of wealth.= _Spurgeon._
=None lie that would not steal.= _Gael. Pr._
=None more impatiently suffer injuries than those that are most forward in doing them.= (?)
=None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.= _Bacon._
=None of those who own the land own the landscape; only he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.= _Emerson._
=None of us can wrong the universe.= _Emerson._ 35
=None of you can tell where the shoe pinches me.= _Plutarch._
=None shun the light but criminals and evil spirits.= _Schiller._
=None so blind as they who will not see.= _Pr._
=None so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing.= _Claudius._
=None so wise but the advice of others may, at= 40 =some time or other, be useful and necessary for him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=None think the great unhappy but the great.= _Pr._
=None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair; / But love can hope where reason would despair.= _Lyttelton._
=Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=Nor by the wayside ruins let us mourn / Who have th' eternal towers for our appointed bourne.= _Keble._
=Nor can either thy own resentment of misfortunes= 45 =within, or the violence of any calamity without, give thee sufficient grounds, from the terrible face thy present circumstances wear, to pronounce that all hope of escape and better days are past.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nor deem the irrevocable past / As wholly wasted, wholly vain, / If, rising on its wrecks, at last / To something nobler we attain.= _Longfellow._
=Nor e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh!= _Keble._
=Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed / A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.= _T. Tickell._
=Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; / She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.= _Pope._
=Nor grieve to die when far from home; you'll= 50 =find / To Hades everywhere a favouring wind.= _Anon._
=Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than itself to know.= _Wm. Blake._
=Nor less I deem that there are powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feel this mind of ours / In a wide passiveness.= _Wordsworth._
=Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.= _Milton._
=Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.= _Landor._
=Nor sink those stars in empty night; / They= 55 =hide themselves in heaven's own light.= _Montgomery._
=Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem=--You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am. _Ter._
=Nos duo turba sumus=--We two are a multitude (_lit._ a crowd). _Deucalion to Pyrrha after the deluge, in Ovid._
=Nos hæc novimus esse nihil=--We know that these things are nothing--mere trifles. _Mart._
=Nos nostraque Deo=--Both we and ours are God's. _M._
=Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati=--We are a mere number (but ciphers), and born to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Nos patriæ fines et dulcia linquimus arva=--We leave the confines of our native country and our delightful plains. _Virg._
=Nos te, / Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam=--It is we, O Fortune, we that make thee a goddess. _Juv._
=Nosce tempus=--Know your time; make hay 5 while the sun shines. _Pr._
=Noscenda est mensura sui spectandaque rebus / In summis minimisque=--A man should know his own measure, and have regard to it in the smallest matters as well as the greatest. _Juv._
=Noscitur a sociis=--A man is known by the company he keeps; a word, by the context.
=Nosse omnia hæc salus est adolescentulis=--It is salutary for young men to know all these things. _Ter._
=Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo=--All wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. _Juv._
=Nostra nos sine comparatione delectant; nunquam= 10 =erit felix quem torquebit felicior=--What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. _Sen._
=Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corse to the rampart we hurried: / Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, / O'er the grave where our hero we buried.= _Rev. C. Wolfe._
=Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand, thousand sighs to save, / Lay me (what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er find my grave, / To weep there.= (?)
=Not a man, for being simply man, / Hath any honour, but honour for those honours / That are without him, as place, riches, favour, / Prizes of accident, as oft as merit.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Not a man of iron, but of live oak.= _Garfield._
=Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg,= 15 =can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise?= _Carlyle._
=Not a single shaft can hit / Till the God of love sees fit.= _Ryland._
=Not a vanity is given in vain.= _Pope._
=Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, / Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, / Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime.= _Byron._
=Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed king; / The breath of worldly men cannot depose / The deputy elected by the Lord.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=Not alone to know, but to act according to= 20 =thy knowledge, is thy destination.= _Fichte._
=Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy Ghost came from above.= _Longfellow, after Fuller._
=Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.= _Sydney Smith._
=Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= _Carlyle._
=Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull.= _Carlyle._
=Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,= 25 =saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land.= _Ruskin._
=Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way; / But to act that each to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day.= _Longfellow._
=Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes.= _Pr._
=Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem.= _Schopenhauer._
=Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I= 30 =here.= _Sophocles._
=Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.= _St. Paul._
=Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man.= _Cötvös._
=Not heaven itself upon the past has power; / But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.= _Dryden._
=Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden.= _Carlyle._
=Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty= 35 =and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride.= _Emerson._
=Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy.= _Goethe._
=Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God.= _Chapin._
=Not kings alone--the people too have their flatterers.= _Mirabeau._
=Not less in God's sight is the end of the day than the beginning.= _Gael. Pr._
=Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence.= 40 _George Eliot._
=Not lost, but gone before.= _Sen._
=Not many words are needed to refuse; by the refused the "no" alone is heard.= _Goethe._
=Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.= _Cymbeline._ (?)
=Not misgovernment, nor yet no government; only government will now serve.= _Carlyle._
=Not once or twice in our rough island-story, /= 45 =The path of duty was the way to glory: / He that walks it, only thirsting / For the right, and learns to deaden / Love of self, before his journey closes / He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy purples, which outredden / All voluptuous garden-roses.= _Tennyson._
=Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief; how much, in a generation or two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate?= _Carlyle._
=Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight to exercise.= _W. R. Greg._
=Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state, is not an avenue to enjoyment.= _W. R. Greg._
=Not one word of any book is readable by you, except so far as your mind is one with its author's; and not merely his words like your words, but his thoughts like your thoughts.= _Ruskin._
=Not only all common speech, but science, poetry itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right naming.= _Carlyle._
=Not only has the unseen world a reality, but= 5 =the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically, but literally and in scientific strictness, "a show."= _Carlyle._
=Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us; I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.= _Carlyle._
=Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of his old life, and transplant himself into a new soil and a foreign atmosphere.= _Ed._
=Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, rouses the flock to fly and follow.= _Chinese Pr._
=Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but= 10 =the hero's heart.= _Serv. Pr._
=Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather he who offers faithful service in small matters is most welcome to one who would achieve what is good and lasting.= _Goethe._
=Not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind.= _Carlyle._
=Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse may be braver than the doing of it.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Not to believe in God, but to acknowledge Him when and wheresoever He reveals Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man on earth.= _Goethe._
=Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn= 15 =it, were more / Than a walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.= _Tennyson._
=Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.= _Milton._
=Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.= _Cic._
=Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.= _Sen._
=Not to see the wood for the trees=, _i.e._, the whole for the details. _Ger. Pr._
=Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a= 20 =good and just opinion worth speaking; for every Parliament, as for every man, this latter is the point.= _Carlyle._
=Not to talk of thy doing, and become the envy of surrounding flunkeys, but to taste of the fruit of thy doings themselves, is thine.= _Carlyle._
=Not towards the impossibility, self-government of a multitude by a multitude; but towards some possibility, government by the wisest, does bewildered Europe now struggle.= _Carlyle._
=Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom.= _Carlyle._
=Not what the man knows, but what he wills, determines his worth or unworth, his strength or weakness, his happiness or misery.= _Lindner._
=Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh,= 25 =let thy grace supply.= _Merrick._
=Not when I rise above, only when I rise to, something, do I approve myself.= _Jacobi._
=Not where they dash ashore and break and moan are waters deadliest.= _A. Mary F. Robinson._
=Not without a shudder may a human hand clutch into the mysterious urn of destiny.= _Schiller._
=Note bene=--Note well.
=Notandi sunt tibi mores=--The manners of men 30 are to be carefully observed. _Hor._
=Note how the falcon starts at every sight, / New from his hood, but what a quiet eye / Cometh of freedom.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Noth bricht Eisen-=-Necessity breaks iron. _Ger. Pr._
=Noth kennt kein Gebot=--Necessity knows no law. _Ger. Pr._
=Noth lehrt beten=--Necessity teaches to pray. _Ger. Pr._
=Nothing altogether passes away without result.= 35 =We are here to leave that behind us which will never die.= _Goethe._
=Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip.= _Johnson._
=Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.= _Emerson._
=Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves.= _Schopenhauer._
=Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.= _Love's L. Lost_, ii. 1.
=Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye= 40 =of man.= _Arab. Pr._
=Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.= _Steele._
=Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.= _Ruskin._
=Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.= _Publius Syrus._
=Nothing can be hostile to religion which is= 45 =agreeable to justice.= _Gladstone._
=Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations.= _Sir J. Reynolds._
=Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a preponderance of the philosophical, or in philosophy than a preponderance of the political, spirit.= _Lecky._
=Nothing can be preserved but what is good.= _Emerson._
=Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised.= _Goethe._
=Nothing can be termed mine own but what I= 50 =make my own by using well.= _Middleton._
=Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.= _Emerson._
=Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it.= _It. Pr._
=Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing can need a lie; / A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.= _Herbert._
=Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a= 5 =minute's start.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Nothing can work me damage except myself.= _St. Bernard._
=Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.= _Tam. of the Shrew_, i. 2.
=Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.= _Pr._
=Nothing contributes so much to cheerfulness as health, or so little as riches.= _Schopenhauer._
=Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments= 10 =of civility.= _Cervantes._
=Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits like poverty and toil and suffering. It is the furnace heat that brings out the characters, the pressure that makes the strata perfect.= _John Burroughs._
=Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far and relaxed too much.= _Bacon._
=Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into time, and grows through all eternity.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.= _Joubert._
=Nothing done by man in the past has any= 15 =deeper sense than what he is doing now.= _Emerson._
=Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion.= _Bp. Hall._
=Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.= _Hume._
=Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot bear a rival in the throng.= _Young._
=Nothing exposes us more to madness than= 20 =distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common-sense than living in community of feeling with other people.= _Goethe._
=Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak / Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ... of one, whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe.= _Othello_, v. 2.
=Nothing for nothing.= _Pr._
=Nothing for nothing, and very little for a halfpenny.= _Pr._
=Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.= _Hazlitt._
=Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The= 25 =lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.= _Hare._
=Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost; / Every good deed nobly done will repay the cost.= (?)
=Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount the highest star; / He is in little all the sphere.= _George Herbert._
=Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing in haste save catching fleas.= _Dut. Pr._
=Nothing in his life / Became him like the= 30 =leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death / To throw away the dearest thing he owed, / As 'twere a careless trifle.= _Macbeth_, i. 4.
=Nothing in itself deformed or incongruous can give us any real satisfaction.= _Cervantes._
=Nothing in love can be premeditated; it is as a power divine, that thinks and feels within us, unswathed by our control.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, / Was e'er created solely for itself.= _Young._
=Nothing in the dealings of Heaven with Earth is so wonderful to me as the way in which the evil angels are allowed to spot, pervert, and bring to nothing, or to worse, the powers of the greatest men: so that Greece must be ruined, for all that Plato can say; Geneva, for all that Calvin can say; England, for all that Sir Thomas More and Bacon can say; and only Gounod's "Faust" to be the visible outcome to Europe of the school of Weimar.= _Ruskin._
=Nothing in the world is more haughty than a= 35 =man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.= _Baron Wessenberg._
=Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful to ourselves / In anything that's manly, than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to us / As it makes us to others.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve yourself to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is but what is not.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Nothing is cheap if you don't want it.= _Pr._
=Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind.= 40 _Shirley._
=Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it.= _Sir J. Reynolds._
=Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Nothing is easier than to clear debts by borrowing.= _Johnson._
=Nothing is endless but inanity.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is fair or good alone.= _Emerson._ 45
=Nothing is farther than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.= _Hare._
=Nothing is given so ungrudgingly as advice.= _La Roche._
=Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its core and its own general wants.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is good I see without respect.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Nothing is graceful that is not our own.= _Collier._
=Nothing is high because it is in a high place, and nothing low because it is in a low one.= _Dickens._
=Nothing is impossible to the man who can= 5 =will.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is insipid to the wise; / To thee insipid all but what is mad; / Joy season'd high and tasting strong of guilt.= _Young._
=Nothing is lasting that is feigned.= _Pr._
=Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it.= _Rousseau._
=Nothing is law that is not reason.= _Sir Powell._
=Nothing is more active than thought, for it= 10 =flies over the universe; nothing stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.= _Thales._
=Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Nothing is more certain than that great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= _Lowell._
=Nothing is more characteristic of a man than his behaviour towards fools.= _Amiel._
=Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.= _Johnson._
=Nothing is more common than to express exceeding= 15 =zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while at the same time we neglect the beginning at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by borrowing.= _Johnson._
=Nothing is more free than the imagination of man.= _Hume._
=Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an= 20 =old error.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is more natural than that we should grow giddy at a great sight which comes unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at once our littleness and our greatness. But there is not in the world any truer enjoyment than at the moment when we are thus made giddy for the first time.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is more ruinous for a man than when he is mighty enough in any part to right himself without right.= _Jacobi._
=Nothing is more significant of the philosophy of a man than the footing on which he stands with his body. The Cynic neglects it, the Sybarite makes profit out of it, the Trappist disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it.= _Lindner._
=Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.= _Hume._
=Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in= 25 =action.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.= _Hazlitt._
=Nothing is more vulgar than haste.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is more offensive to reason= (_widerwärtiger_) =than an appeal to the majority; it consists of a few powerful leaders, of rogues who accommodate themselves, of weaklings who assimilate themselves, and of the mass who follow confusedly, without in the least knowing what they would be at.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is new; we walk where others went; / There's no vice now but has its precedent.= _Herrick._
=Nothing is of any value in books excepting the= 30 =transcendental and extraordinary.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is old but the mind.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= _T. T. Munger._
=Nothing is permanently helpful to any race or condition of men but the spirit that is in their own hearts, kindled by the love of their native land.= _Ruskin._
=Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.= _Bacon._
=Nothing is poetry which does not transport;= 35 =the lyre is a winged instrument.= _Joubert._
=Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.= _Raleigh._
=Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole.= _Emerson._
=Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.= _Whipple._
=Nothing is safe from fault-finders.= _Pr._
=Nothing is secret that shall not be made= 40 =manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known.= _Jesus._
=Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable to the understanding as a lie.= _Locke._
=Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas.= _Sterne._
=Nothing is so conceivable= (_begreiflich_) =to the child, nothing seems to be so natural to him, as the marvellous or supernatural.= _Zachariä._
=Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.= 45 _La Fontaine._
=Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance.= _Thoreau._
=Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labour alone. Though labour always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labour alone will do little.= _Haydon._
=Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel.= _Landor._
=Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.= _Swift._
=Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening,= 50 =as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us.= _Dean Stanley._
=Nothing is so new as what has been long forgotten.= _Ger. Pr._
=Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the multitude.= _Leiz._
=Nothing is superficial to a deep observer. It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, / But an eternal now does always last.= _Cowley._
=Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity.= 5 =The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.= _Pascal._
=Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new and followed; yet we know / That what was worn some twenty years ago / Comes into grace again.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Nothing is to be preferred before justice.= _Socrates._
=Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.= _Hans Andersen._
=Nothing is true but what is simple.= _Goethe._
=Nothing is truly elegant but what unites use= 10 =with beauty.= _Goldsmith._
=Nothing leads to good which is not natural.= _Schiller._
=Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than to study household good, / And good works in her husband to promote.= _Milton._
=Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavour.= _Jean Paul._
=Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.= _Thoreau._
=Nothing marks the character of a young man= 15 =more than a failure.= _Anon._
=Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind than to find anomalies in conduct or character.= _Alex. Whitelaw._
=Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has in it something of "infinite sadness."= _Carlyle._
=Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves.= _Goethe._
=Nothing on earth is without significance, but= 20 =the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when.= _Schiller._
=Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.= _Hazlitt._
=Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists= 25 =by nature, but all things become so by habit.= _Epictetus._
=Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage.= _Spectator._
=Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible to him of true joy, but in the righteous love of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws and the glory of God, and in the daily use of the faculties of soul and body with which God has endowed him.= _Ruskin._
=Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.= _Amiel._
=Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.= _Schumann._
=Nothing seems important to me but so far as= 30 =it is connected with morals.= _Cecil._
=Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy, except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning.= _Byron._
=Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls.= _Mirabeau._
=Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing so much contents us as that which= 35 =confounds us.= _Goldsmith._
=Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.= _La Roche._
=Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie.= _Pr._
=Nothing stings so bitterly as loss of money.= _Pr._
=Nothing succeeds like success.= _Talleyrand._
=Nothing that has ever lived is lost; nothing is= 40 =useless; not a sigh, a joy, or a sorrow which has not served its purpose.= _Mme. Gasparin._
=Nothing that is violent is permanent.= _Pr._
=Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom--a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom--is a type of the life of this world.= _Ruskin._
=Nothing truly can be made mine own but what I make mine own by using well.= _Middleton._
=Nothing venture, nothing win.= _Pr._
=Nothing weighs lighter than a promise.= _Ger. Pr._ 45
=Nothing which is unjust can hope to continue in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Nothing will be mended by complaints.= _Johnson._
=Nothing's more dull and negligent / Than an old lazy government, / That knows no interest of state, / But such as serves a present strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, / Or break alike, with friends or foes.= _Butler._
=Notre défiance justifie la tromperie d'autrui=--Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. _La Roche._
=Notre vie est du vent tissu=--Our life is a web 50 woven of wind. (?)
=Notwithstanding this great proximity of man to himself, we still remain ignorant of many things concerning ourselves.= _Hale._
=Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned.= _Saying._
=Nought else there is / But that weird beat of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from Hellas.= _Lewis Morris._
=Nought is 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.
=Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change its nature.= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=Nought treads so silent as the foot of time.= _Young._
=Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours=--Brought up in the seraglio, I know all its sinuosities. _Racine._
=Nous avons changé tout cela=--We have changed 5 all that. _Molière._
=Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui=--We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others. _La Roche._
=Nous dansons sur un volcan=--We are dancing on a volcano. _M. de Salvandy, just prior to the July Revolution of 1830._
=Nous désirerions peu de choses avec ardeur, si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que nous désirons=--We should desire few things with eagerness if we well knew the worth of what we are striving for. _La Roche._
=Nous maintiendrons=--We will maintain. _M._
=Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont= 10 =les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu=--We listen to no instincts but such as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune till it comes. _La Fontaine._
=Nous ne savons ce que c'est que le bonheur ou le malheur absolu=--We do not know what absolute good or evil is. _Rousseau._
=Nous ne sommes hommes, et nous tenons les uns aux autres, que par la parole=--We are men, and associate together, solely in virtue of speech. (?)
=Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens que ceux qui sont de notre avis=--We seldom find any persons of good sense except those who are of our opinion. _La Roche._
=Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre=--We never live, but we hope to live. _Pascal._
=Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale,= 15 =nous ne sortirons que par la force=--We are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence. _Mirabeau to the Marquis de Brézé._
=Nous sommes mieux seul qu'avec un sot=--One had better be alone than with a fool. _Fr. Pr._
=Nous verrons, dit l'aveugle=--We shall see, as the blind man said. _Fr._
=Novacula in cotem=--He has met his match (_lit._ the razor against the whetstone). _Pr._
=Novels are tales of adventures which did not occur in God's creation, but only in the waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary remembrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished, chambers.= _Carlyle._
=Novels are the journal or record of manners;= 20 =and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.= _Emerson._
=Novels for most part instil into young minds false views of life.= _Schopenhauer._
=Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart.= _Burns._
=Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet=--I know this age, what its character is. _Plaut._
=Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis,= 25 =ubi nolis cupiunt ultro=--I know the nature of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they will. _Ter._
=Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole=--While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.
=Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum=--New, and unheard of till this day. _Cic._
=Novus homo=--A new man; a man risen from obscurity.
=Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every avenue is barred.= _Goethe._
=Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, /= 30 =And all beneath the sky! / May coward shame distain his name, / The wretch that dares not die.= _Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."_
=Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Now is now, and Yule's in winter.= _Sc. Pr._
="Now" is the watchword of the wise.= _Pr._
=Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, / Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How; / But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost / To dwell within thee--an eternal Now!= _Coleridge._
=Now join your hands, and with your hands= 35 =your hearts, / That no dissension hinder government.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 6.
=Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.= _Milton._
=Now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.= _Campbell._
=Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; / We are happy now, because God wills it.= _Lowell._
=Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;= 40 =/ Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, / And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=Now you have feathered your nest.= _Congreve._
=Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax.= _Spurgeon._
=Nowadays truth is news.= _Sc. Pr._
=Nowhere can a man get real root-room, and spread out his branches till they touch the morning and the evening, but in his own house.= _Ward Beecher._
=Nox atra cava circumvolat=--Black night envelopes them with her hollow shade. _Virg._
=Noxiæ pœna par esto=--Let the punishment be proportionate to the offence. _Cic._
=Nuda veritas=--Undisguised truth. _Hor._
=Nudum pactum=--A mere agreement. _L._
=Nugæ canoræ=--Melodious trifles; agreeable nonsense. 5 _Hor._
=Nugis addere pondus=--To add weight to trifles. _Hor._
=Nul n'aura de l'esprit, / Hors nous et nos amis=--No one shall have wit except ourselves and our friends. _Molière._
=Nul n'est content de sa fortune, ni mécontent de son esprit=--No one is content with his lot or discontented with his wit. _Mme. Deshoulières._
=Nulla ætas ad perdiscendum est=--There is no time of life past learning something. _St. Ambrose._
=Nulla dies sine linea=--Let no day pass without its 10 line. _Pr._
=Nulla falsa doctrina est, quæ non permisceat aliquid veritatis=--There is no false doctrine which contains not a mixture of truth.
=Nulla fere causa est, in qua non fœmina litem moverit=--There's hardly a strife in which a woman has not been a prime mover. _Juv._
=Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas / Impatiens consortis erit=--There is no faith among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague. _Lucan._
=Nulla pallescere culpa=--Not to grow pale at imputation of guilt. _M._
=Nulla placere diu, vel vivere carmina possunt /= 15 =Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus=--No poems written by water-drinkers can be long popular or live long. _Hor._
=Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio=--Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember.
=Nulla unquam de vita hominis cunctatio longa est=--No delay is too long when the life of a man is at stake. _Juv._
=Nulli jactantius mœrent, quam qui maxime lætantur=--None mourn so demonstratively as those who are in reality rejoicing most. _Tac._
=Nulli secundus=--Second to none.
=Nulli te facias nimis sodalem, / Gaudebis= 20 =minus et minus dolebis=--Be on too intimate terms with no one; if your joy be less, so will your grief. _Mart._
=Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, / Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes=--Bound to swear by the opinions of no master, I present myself a guest wherever the storm drives me. _Hor._
=Nullius boni sine socio jucunda possessio=--Without a friend to share it, no good we possess is truly enjoyable. _Sen._
=Nullius in verba=--At no man's dictation. _M._
=Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius=--Nothing is said now that has not been said before. _Ter._
=Nullum est malum majus, quam non posse= 25 =ferre malum=--There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to endure misfortune.
=Nullum est sine nomine saxum=--Not a stone but has a tale to tell. _Lucan._
=Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit=--No great genius is ever without some tincture of madness. _Sen._
=Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est=--No evil is great which is the last. _Corn. Nep._
=Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia=--Where there is prudence, a protecting divinity is not far away. _Pr._
=Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia; nos te /= 30 =Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cœloque locamus=--Thou hast no divine power, O Fortune, where there is prudence; it is we who make a goddess of thee, and place thee in heaven. _Juv._
=Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit=--There was nothing he touched that he did not adorn. _Epitaph by Johnson on Goldsmith._
=Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit=--No simile runs on all fours, _i.e._, holds in every respect. _Pr._
=Nullum tempus occurrit regi=--No lapse of time bars the rights of the crown. _L._
=Nullus argento color est, / Nisi temperato / Splendeat usu=--Money has no splendour of its own, unless it shines by temperate use. _Hor._
=Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua= 35 =propria=--No one can take advantage of wrong committed by himself. _L._
=Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat=--There is no sorrow which length of time will not diminish and soothe. _Cic._
=Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte prosit=--There is no book so bad that it may not be useful in some way or other. _Pliny._
=Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.= _Pope._
=Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect.= _Johnson._
=Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo=--Now, 40 Æneas, you have need of courage, now a resolute heart. _Virg._
=Nunc aut nunquam=--Now or never. _M._
=Nunc dimittis=--Now let me depart in peace. _See Luke_ i. 29.
=Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda tellus!=--Now let us drink; now let us beat the ground with merry foot. _Hor._
=Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis / Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem=--Now we suffer the evils of long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. _Juv._
=Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa=--Now, 45 all new, his slough cast off, and shining in youth. _Virg._
=Nunc vino pellite curas!=--Now drive off your cares with wine. _Hor._
=Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit=--Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. _Juv._
=Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat levem=--He will never be disagreeable to others who makes himself agreeable to his own relations. _Plaut._
=Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas=--An alliance with a powerful man is never safe. _Phædr._
=Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub= 50 =rege pio=--Liberty is never more enjoyable than under a pious king. _Claud._
=Nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis discitur=--That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. _Sen._
=Nunquam non paratus=--Never unprepared. _M._
=Nunquam retrorsum=--Never go back. _M._
=Nunquam se plus agere, quam nihil quum ageret; nunquam minus solum esse, quam quum solus esset=--He said he never had more to do than when he had nothing to do, and never was less alone than when alone. _Cic. quoting Scipio Africanus._
=Nunquam vir æquus dives evasit cito=--No just man ever became quickly rich. _Menander._
=Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.= _Bacon._
=Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth hervor=--Only out of perfected faculty does grace look forth. _Goethe._
=Nur das Gemeine / Verkennt man selten. Und= 5 =das Seltene / Vergisst man schwerlich=--Only what is common we rarely mistake, and what is rare we with difficulty forget. _Lessing._
=Nur das Leben hasst, der Tod versöhnt=--In life alone is hatred; in death is reconciliation. _Tiedge._
=Nur das zu thun, was alle wollen, / Ist das Geheimniss jeder Macht=--The secret of all power is only to do that which all would fain do. _Kinkel._
=Nur dem Fröhlichen blüht der Baum des Lebens, / Dem Unschuldigen rinnt der Born der Jugend / Auch noch im Alter=--Only for the cheerful does the tree of life blossom, for the innocent the well-spring of youth keeps still flowing even in old age. _Arndt._
=Nur dem vertrau' ich völlig, nur der imponirt nachhaltig, der über sich zu lächeln fähig ist=--I trust only him perfectly, only he makes a lasting impression on me, who is capable of laughing at himself. _Feuchtersleben._
=Nur der Freundschaft Harmonie / Mildert die= 10 =Beschwerden; / Ohne ihre Sympathie / Ist kein Glück auf Erden=--Nothing but the harmony of friendship soothes our sorrows; without its sympathy there is no happiness on earth. _Mozart._
=Nur der Glaube aller stärkt den Glauben, / Wo Tausende anbeten und verehren, / Da wird die Glut zur Flamme, und beflügelt / Schwingt sich der Geist in alle Himmel auf=--Only the faith of all strengthens faith; where thousands worship and reverence, there the glow becomes flame, and the spirit soar upwards on wings into all heavens. _Schiller._
=Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben, / Und das Wissen ist der Tod=--Only error is life, and knowledge is death. _Schiller._
=Nur der Irrthum ist unser Teil, und Wahn ist unsre Wissenschaft=--Only error is our portion, and illusion our knowledge. _Lessing._
=Nur der ist wahrhaft arm, der weder Geist noch Kraft hat=--Only he is truly poor who is without soul and without faculty. _Benzel-Sternan._
=Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, /= 15 =Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt=--Only the strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling surrenders. _Schiller._
=Nur die Hoffenden leben=--Only the hoping live. _Halm._
=Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden, / Brave freuen sich der That=--Only low-born fellows are modest; men of spirit rejoice over their feats. _Goethe._
=Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, / Was lieben heisst und glücklich sein=--A mother alone knows what it is to love and be happy. _Chamisso._
=Nur eine Schmach weiss ich auf dieser Erde. / Und die heisst: Unrecht thun=--Only one disgrace know I in this world, and that is doing wrong. _Grillparzer._
=Nur eine Weisheit führt zum Ziele, / Doch= 20 =ihrer Sprüche giebt es viele=--Only one wisdom leads to the goal, though the proverbs of it are many. _Bodenstedt._
=Nur Helios vermag's zu sagen, / Der alles Irdische bescheint=--Only Helios (the sun-god) can tell, he sheds light on every earthly thing. _Schiller._
=Nur immer zu! wir wollen es ergründen, / In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--Only let us still go on! we will yet fathom it. In thy nothing hope I to find the all. _Goethe._
=Nur in der eignen Kraft ruht das Schicksal jeder Nation=--Only in its own power rests the destiny of every nation. _Count v. Moltke, in_ 1880.
=Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche Vorschule=--The true preparatory school is only the school itself. _Goethe._
=Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst= 25 =die Palme, die den Sieger krönt=--Only in the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot forth which decks the brow of the victor. _Salis-Seewis._
=Nur in Träumen wohnt das Glück der Erde=--Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell. _Rückert._
=Nur Liebe darf der Liebe Blume brechen=--Only love may break the flower of love. _Schiller._
=Nur stets zu sprechen, ohne was zu sagen, / Das war von je der Redner grösste Gabe=--To but speak on without saying anything has ever been the greatest gift of the orator. _Platen._
=Nur vom Edeln kann das Edle stammen=--Only from the noble soul can what is noble come. _Schiller._
=Nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert=--It is 30 only by show of advantage that the world is governed. _Schiller._
=Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns=--People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. _Gutzkow._
=Nur wer die Last wirklich selbst trägt, kennt ihr Gewicht=--Only he who really bears the burden knows its weight. _Klinger._
=Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Weiss, was ich leide!=--Only he who knows what yearning is knows what I suffer. _Goethe._
=Nur wer sich recht des Lebens freut, / Trägt leichter, was es Schlimmes beut=--Only he who enjoys life aright finds it easier to bear the evils of it. _Bodenstedt._
=Nur wer vor Gott sich fühlet klein / Kann vor= 35 =den Menschen mächtig sein=--He only who feels himself little in the eye of God can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. _Arndt._
=Nur zwei Tugenden giebt's. O, wären sie immer vereinigt, / Immer die Güte auch gross, immer die Grösse auch gut!=--There are only two virtues, were they but always united: goodness always also great, and greatness always also good. _Schiller._
=Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._
=Nusquam tuta fides=--There is nowhere any true honour. _Virg._
=Nutrimentum spiritus=--Nourishment for the Spirit! _Inscription on the Royal Library at Berlin._
=Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!=--Fire is fed by the wind and extinguished by the wind: a gentle current feeds it, too strong a one puts it out! _Ovid._
=Nuts are given us, but we must crack them ourselves.= _Pr._
=Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
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=O banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.= _Jean Paul._
=O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen= 5 =Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst nicht unter Gottes Engeln=--O still pray for life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine thou canst not walk among the angels of God. _Rückert._
[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]--Life is short, art is long. _Gr._
=O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; / Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt=--O look not at what each comes short in; consider what each still retains. _Goethe._
[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]--What each one wishes that he also thinks. _Demosthenes._
=O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!=--Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is! _Statius._
=O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; /= 10 =Virtus post nummos=--O citizens, citizens, you must seek for money first, for virtue after cash. _Hor._
=O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum / Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora=--O Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak. _Juv._
=O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, / With saints dost bait thy hook.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!=--Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly. _Pers._
=O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt=--Oh, life has charms which we have never known. _Schiller._
=O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer= 15 =vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens=--Oh, life is a long, long sigh before emitting the breath. _Jean Paul._
=O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott=--Oh, that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples and converts as Ridicule is. _Grillparzer._
=O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe=--Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love. _Goethe._
=O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe=--Oh, that it remained for ever green, the fair season of early love. _Schiller._
=O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn.= _Wordsworth._
=O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig=--Oh, 20 how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. _Gutzkow._
=O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen Freund haben=--Oh, a ruler has no friend, and can have none. _Lessing._
=O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri / Difficiles=--How gracious the gods are in bestowing honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of them. _Lucan._
=O fallacem hominum spem=--How deceitful is the hope of men. _Cic._
=O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 4.
=O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori=--Oh, 25 beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom on thy cheeks. _Virg._
=O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. _Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles._
=O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, / Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus=--Oh, how happy the tillers of the ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance. _Virg._
=O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of popular applause; madness is in thee, and death; thy end is bedlam and the grave.= _Carlyle._
=O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. / Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen=--Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error! What one does not know is exactly what one should want to know, and what one knows is what one has no use for. _Faust, in Goethe._
=O God, that bread should be so dear, / And= 30 =flesh and blood so cheap!= _T. Hood._
=O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön=--O God! life is nevertheless beautiful. _Schiller._
=O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget=--O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. _Goethe._
=O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.= _Tennyson._
=O' guid advisement comes nae ill.= _Burns._
=O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were= 35 =perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein=--O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. _Rückert._
=O homines ad servitutem paratos!=--Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! _Tac._
=O how full of briars is this working-day world.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing!= _Sears._
=O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth--viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue--/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel=--Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. _Mephisto, in Goethe._
=O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!=--Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! _Schiller._
=O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier=--Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! _Victor Hugo._
=O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart=--Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! _Scheffel._
=O let my books be then the eloquence / And= 10 =dumb presagers of my speaking breast.= _Browning._
=O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept.= _King John_, iii. 1.
="O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!"= _Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution._
=O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.= _Bacon._
=O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play.= _Burns._
=O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough,= 15 =a weary road, / To wretches such as I!= _Burns_ (_Despondency_).
[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]--The Word became man, that we might become gods. _Athanasius._
=O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.
=O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; / I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, / For fear I surfeit.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per se ipsa defendit=--Oh, mighty force of truth that by itself so easily defends itself! _Cic._
=O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori=--Oh, 20 thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I pray, who am not so far gone. _Hor._
[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]--The man who has not been scourged is not educated. _Menander._
=O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / Shrunk to this little measure?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!=--Oh, that Jove would but give me back the years that are past! _Virg._
=O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!=--Oh, how wretched are the minds of men! oh, how blind their hearts! _Lucret._
=O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!=--O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! _Pseudo-Gallus._
=O most lame and impotent conclusion!= _Othello_, ii. 1.
=O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum=--Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. _Lucan._
=O my prophetic soul! mine uncle.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?= _Carlyle._
=O never / Shall sun that morrow see.= _Macb._, i. 5. 30
=O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum=--Too, too forgetful of thy kin. _Ovid._
=O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross=--Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. _Schiller._
=O noctes cœnæque deum!=--Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! _Hor._
=O passi graviora!=--Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! _Virg._
[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]--He who has many friends 35 has no friends. _Diogenes Laertius._
[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]--The aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. _Arist._
=O place and greatness, millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report / Run with these false and most contrarious quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes of wit / Make thee the father of their idle dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=O pudor! O pietas!=--O modesty! O piety! _Mart._
=O purblind race of miserable men! / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves, / By taking true for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how many, until we pass and reach / That other, where we see as we are seen!= _Tennyson._
=O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!=--Oh, 40 what a face and what a picture it would have been a subject for! _Juv._
=O quanta species cerebrum non habet!=--Oh, that such beauty should be devoid of brains! _Phædr._
=O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void there is in things! _Persius._
=O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to nought.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit / Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?=--Oh, country, when shall I see thee, and when shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of anxious life, now from the books of the ancients, now from sleep and idle hours? _Hor._
=O sancta damnatio!=--Oh, holy condemnation!
=O sancta simplicitas!=--Oh, holy simplicity! _John Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying up with a faggot to throw on the pile._
=O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses=--If you had only held your peace, you would have remained a philosopher. _Boëthius._
=O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from= 5 =pole to pole!= _Coleridge._
=O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? / Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, / And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.= _Pope._
=O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge / Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht=--Oh, speak not to me of the motley mob, at the very sight of which our spirit takes flight! _Goethe._
=O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!=--Oh, sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our mother-tongue in a foreign land! _Goethe._
=O tempora, O mores!=--Oh, the times! oh, the 10 manners! _Cic._
=O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour / Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! / How many then would cover that stand bare; / How many be commanded that command; / How much low peasantry would then be glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.
=O that way madness lies.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves!= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.
=O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom= 15 =and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!= _St. Paul._
=O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe.= _Jean Paul._
=O these deliberate fools, when they do choose / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O these naughty times / Put bars between the owners and their rights.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift=--Oh, fool, he seizes not the true moment in the moment who has what he loves before his eye, and still swerves from it. _Platen._
=O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity,= 20 =/ ... Thou carest not / How roughly men may woo thee, so they win!= _Tennyson._ (?)
=O thou who hast still a father and a mother, thank God for it in the day when thy soul is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom wherein to shed them.= _Jean Paul._
=O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch' göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich hinauf bis zu dir erheben=--O virtue, virtue, how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece are the souls that raise themselves up to thee! _Klopstock._
=O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And e'en devotion!= _Burns._
=O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du= 25 =mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein=--O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them. _Rückert._
=O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet=--Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines! _Schillerbuch._
=O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte=--"What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. _Ger. Pr._
=O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen, und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin und her=--Ah! what are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it, and it sways us up and down, hither and thither. _Goethe._
=O well for him whose will is strong! / He suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong.= _Tennyson._
=O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde= 30 =schlummert?=--Oh, who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? _Schiller._
=O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=O what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive.= _Scott._
=O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that bears it!= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults /= 35 =Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!= _Merry Wives_, iii. 4.
=O what men dare do! what men may do! / What men daily do, not knowing what they do!= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light of quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou.= _Scott._
=O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could only weep for and never help; and ye who, wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your blood,--yet a little while, and we shall all meet There, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more.= _Carlyle._
=O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill.= _Tennyson._
=Oaks fall when reeds stand.= _Pr._
=Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the= 5 =distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost.= _Cowper._
=Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen=--Easily may'st thou know whether it comes from the heart; for what comes from the heart goes straight to thine. _Körner._
=Obedience alone gives the right to command.= _Emerson._
=Obedience is better than sacrifice.= _Pr. from Bible._
=Obedience is our universal duty and destiny;= 10 =wherein whoso will not bend must break.= _Carlyle._
=Obedience is the bond of rule.= _Tennyson._
=Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance is her heavy lot; by severe service she must be purified; but she who has served here is great up yonder.= _Schiller._
=Obey something, and you will have a chance of finding out what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited friends.= _Ruskin._
=Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.= _King Lear_, iii. 4.
=Obiter cantare=--To sing as one goes along; to 15 sing by the way.
=Obiter dicta=--Remarks by the way; passing remarks.
=Obiter dictum=--A thing said in passing.
=Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.= _Chapin._
=Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.= _Johnson._
=Objects in pictures should be so arranged as= 20 =by their very position to tell their own story.= _Goethe._
=Oblatam occasionem tene=--Seize the opportunity that is offered.
=Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.= _Hobbes._
=Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.= _Carlyle._
=Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity.= _Rivarol._
=Oblivion is the second death, which great= 25 =minds dread more than the first.= _De Boufflers._
=Obreros a no ver dineros a perder=--Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. _Sp. Pr._
=Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium=--Let that power fall which has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained, and wrongfully administered. _Cic._
=Obscuris vera involvens=--Shrouding, or concealing, truth in obscurity or darkness. _Virg._
=Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style.= _Macaulay._
=Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape= 30 =temptations which would pierce their gossamer armour in contact with the world.= _Chamfort._
=Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.
=Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit=--Obsequiousness procures us friends; speaking the truth, enemies. _Ter._
=Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake all, and thou shalt find all."= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Observation is an old man's memory.= _Swift._ 35
=Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but inference always gallops, and if she stumbles, you are gone.= _Holmes._
=Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly.= _Montaigne._
=Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.= _Mme. Necker._
=Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing= 40 =itself into the place of the intellect.= _Schopenhauer._
=Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.= _Lavater._
=Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit=--I was astounded; my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck fast in my throat. _Virg._
=Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.= _Rivarol._
=Occasio facit furem=--Opportunity makes the thief. _Pr._
=Occasion reins the motions of the stirring= 45 =mind.= _Owen Feltham._
=Occasionem cognosce=--Know your opportunity.
=Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros=--Cabbage repeated is the death of the wretched masters. _Juv._
=Occupation is the scythe of Time.= _Napoleon._
=Occupet extremum scabies!=--Murrain take the 50 hindmost! _Hor._
=Ocean is a mighty harmonist.= _Wordsworth._
=Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent=--The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. _Cic._
=Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus=--It is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.
=Oculus domini saginat equum=--The master's eye makes the horse fat. _Pr._
=Oderint dum metuant=--Let them show hate, provided they fear. _Cic._
=Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, /= 5 =Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi=--Sad men dislike a gay spirit, and the jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. _Hor._
=Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore=--Good men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue. _Hor._
=Odi profanum vulgus et arceo=--I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. _Hor._
=Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio=--I hate boys of precocious talent. _Cic._
=Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace=--Listen, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace. _It. Pr._
=Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule. _Sen._
=Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis=--I hate the hawk because he always lives in arms. _Ovid._
=Odium theologicum=--Theological hatred; the animosity engendered by differences of theological opinion.
=Odora canum vis=--The sharp scent of the hounds. _Virg._
=O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share / With Christ His Father's throne, and wear / The world's imperial wreath.= _Keble._
=Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury.= _Thoreau._ 15
=Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we may indeed say he has everything from himself; but of an excellent one, never.= _Goethe._
=Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other people.= _John Selden._
=Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive for leave to be useful.= _Ruskin._ (?)
=Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self.= (?)
=Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that= 20 =on which one has not laughed.= _Chamfort._
=Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of telling tales one after another in great numbers is the least supportable.= _Steele._
=Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.= _Ruskin._
=Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest.= 25 =A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid friend!= _Canning._
=Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.= _Vauvenargues._
=Of all points of faith the being of a God is encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.= _John Newman._
=Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant= 30 =man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently or forcibly held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.= _Carlyle._
=Of all studies, study your present condition.= _Pr._
=Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,--the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!= _Sterne._
=Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that as the most odious which assumes the garb of mercy.= _Fox._
=Of all the great masters, there is not one who did not paint his own present world, plainly and truly.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps= 35 =there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.= _Colton._
=Of all the passions that possess mankind, / The love of novelty rules most the mind; / In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every folly home.= _Foote._
=Of all the possessions of a man, next to the gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= _Plato._
=Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the superstitions which infest the brains of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies, presentiments, and dreams, seems to me amongst the most pitiful and pernicious.= _Goethe._
=Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our= 40 =own affections are the fiercest lords.= _E. Stirling._
=Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.= _Goethe._
=Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most precious treasure; because of its incapacity to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be consumed.= _Hitopadesa._
=Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= _Duke of Buckingham._
=Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.= _Ben Jonson._
=Of big words and feathers many go to the= 45 =pound.= _Ger. Pr._
=Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands that we should lay it to heart and apply it.= _Goethe._
=Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes.= _Persian Pr._
=Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there.= _Carlyle._
=Of great men no one should speak but one who is as great as they, so as to be able to see all round them.= _Goethe._
=Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.= _Bacon._
=Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very rarely haste is speed.= _Dut. Pr._
=Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part?= _Johnson._
=Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre,= 5 =and it is not the inscribed column in their own land which is the record of their virtues, but the unwritten memory of them in the hearts and minds of all mankind.= _Thucydides._
=Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso it looks on with love.= _Carlyle._
=Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.= _Bible._
=Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest.= _Quarles._
=Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul.= _Hannah More._
=Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely= 10 =give the greatest delight.= _Epictetus._
=Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end.= _Johnson._
=Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows!= _Goethe._
=Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see.= _Carlyle._
=Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= _Spenser._
=Of the three requisitions of genius, the first= 15 =is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul.= _Whipple._
=Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes.= _It. Pr._
=Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of the Right never.= _Goethe._
=Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.= _Jesus._
=Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.= _Eastern Pr._
=Of two evils choose the least.= _Pr._ 20
=Of unwise admiration much may be hoped, for much good is really in it; but unwise contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes of it, for it is nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.= _It. Pr._
=Of what significance are the things you can forget?= _Thoreau._
=Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame ones, a flatterer.= _Bias._
=Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.= 25 _Rich. III._, iv. 3.
=Offenders never pardon.= _Pr._
=Offerir molto è spezie di negare=--Offering extravagantly is a kind of denial. _It. Pr._
=Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, / Whom man delights in, God delights in too.= _An old Minnesinger._
=Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem Munde=--A serviceable word often issues from worthless lips. _Schiller._
=Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen= 30 =Wahn=--Sick souls often suffer through conceits of their own creation. _G. Rossini._
=Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel=--Shooting often hits the mark. _Ger. Pr._
=Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann=--It is often wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. _Schiller._
=Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure, in height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin.= _Thomson._
=Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder=--Love often makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works wonders. _Bodenstedt._
=Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe=--There 35 is often a royal heart under a tattered coat. _Dan. Pr._
=Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool.= _Tennyson._
=Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high.= _Fuller._
=Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to ensnare too credulous hearts.= _Lewis Morris._
=Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem,= 40 =grounded on just and right.= _Milton._
=Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master.= _Lucillius._
=Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno=--Everything is of every year. _It. Pr._
=Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno=--Every weak man has always his tyrant. _It. Pr._
=Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso=--Every medal has its reverse. _It. Pr._
=Ogni monte ha la sua valle=--Every mountain 45 has its valley. _It. Pr._
=Ogni vero non è buono a dire=--Every truth is not good to be told. _It. Pr._
=Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono quel che tu sei=--Every one sees what you seem, few know what you are. _Machiavelli._
=Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace.= _Goethe._
=Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The summer comes with flower and bee,--/ Where is my brother gone?= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend--/= 50 =The kindest and the best! / Welcome the hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, / From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn!= _Burns._
=Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / May never reach me more.= _Cowper._
=Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. / ... Whatever they call him, what care I, / Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one / Who can rule and dare not lie!= _Tennyson._
=Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips!= _Goethe._
=Oh, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, / Doch Bessermachen schwierig=--Oh, criticising, good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis making better that's the difficulty. _Platen._
=Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone out! what is't remains / But duty, though the path be rough and trod / By bruised and bleeding feet?= _Lewis Morris._
=Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, /= 5 =Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong!= _Byron._
=Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art--/ An unseen seraph, we believe in thee.= _Byron._
=Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is never heard; / My lips are now forbid to speak / That once familiar word.= _T. H. Bayly._
=Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna estolle=--How our heart swells if only a breath of happiness breathe through it! _Tasso._
=Oh, that mine adversary had written a book.= _Job._
=Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of= 10 =holy purity of thought and deed, the path which august laws ordain--laws which in the highest heaven had their birth; ... The power of God is mighty in them, and doth not wax old.= _Sophocles._
=Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart of man, which contemplates only the present, and does not rather provide for the future.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing-- / A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.= _J. Pardoe._
=Oh, there is something in marriage like the veil of the temple of old, / That screened the Holy of Holies with blue and purple and gold; / Something that makes a chamber where none but the one may come, / A sacredness too, and a silence, where joy that is deepest is dumb.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd= 15 =place this naked foot on necks of monarchs.= _Walpole._
=Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! / Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, / Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face, and in this place / I scorn him yet again.= _Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."_
=Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._
=Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed= 20 =you / To temper man! We had been brutes without you.= _Burns._
=Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, / Is kindness counterfeiting absent love!= _Coleridge._
=Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad for every ane be better, / The laird, the tenant, and the cottar.= _Burns._
=Ohe! jam satis est=--Stay! that is enough. _Hor._
=Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der Funken will=--Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. _Herder._
=Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? /= 25 =Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?=--Without freedom, what wert thou, Greece? Without thee, Greece, what were the world? _W. Müller._
=Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung, nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen vor jeder Dunkelheit=--Without a deity there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope; only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety in every moment of darkness. _Jean Paul._
=Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast=--Unhasting, yet unresting. _Goethe's motto. Said originally of the sun._
=Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.
=Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen=--It is ill baking without meal and water. _Ger. Pr._
=Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit= 30 =das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben, / Und Thersites kommt zurück=--Gifts are dispensed without election, fortune without fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites comes back. _Schiller._
=Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde=--Where there's no knowledge there's no sin. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]--They who eat the fruit of the field. _Hom._
[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn paramythountai]--The unhappy derive comfort from the worse misfortunes of others. _Æsop._
[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]--The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. _Sophocles._
[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]--The majority of mankind are 35 bad. _Bias, one of the seven sages._
[Greek: hoi polloi]--The multitude; the masses.
[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]--As is the generation of leaves, such is that of men. _Hom._
=Oil, wine, and friends improve by age.= _It. Pr._
[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]--Alas! but why alas? We only suffer what other mortals do.
[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]--Where 40 there is no longer any wine there is no love. _Euripides._
[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]--What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. _Hippocrates._
=Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as is thought.= _Rahel._
=Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.= _Cic._
=Old age is a heavy burden.= _Pr._
=Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.= _La Roche._
=Old age is honourable.= _Pr._
=Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.= _Carlyle to his mother._
=Old age is sad= (_trübe_), =not because our joys, but because our hopes are cut short.= _Jean Paul._
=Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes= 5 =the rest that remains.= _R. Collyer._
=Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community.= _Bryant._
=Old age--the words are comparative, not positive.= _Anon._
=Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.= _Pr._
=Old age was naturally more honoured in times when people could not know much more than they had seen.= _Joubert._
=Old birds are hard to pluck.= _Pr._ 10
=Old birds are not caught with chaff.= _Pr._
=Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age.= _Holmes._
=Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.= _Izaak Walton._
=Old friends are best.= _King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes._
=Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome= 15 =air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were.= _Coleridge._
=Old head and young hand.= _Pr._
=Old head upon young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old heads will not suit young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended.= _C. Cibber._
=Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in= 20 =logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold.= _Carlyle._
=Old men are twice children.= _Pr._
=Old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, that of being judged by their peers.= _Goethe._
=Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.= _Capt. John Brown._
=Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning.= _Jean Paul._
=Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise= 25 =them if you wish to keep them in working order.= _John Adams._
=Old ovens are soon heated.= _Pr._
=Old oxen have stiff horns.= _Pr._
=Old shoes are easiest.= _Pr._
=Old signs do not deceive.= _Dan. Pr._
=Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine= 30 =to drink, and old friends to converse with.= _Alphonso of Castile._
=Old wounds soon bleed.= _Pr._
=Olet lucernam=--It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.
=Oleum adde camino=--Add fuel to the fire. _Hor._
=Oleum et operam perdidi=--I have lost both the oil and my pains. _Plaut._
=Olla male fervet=--It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. _Pr._
=Olim meminisse juvabit=--It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. _Virg._
=Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak.= _Carlyle._
=Omina sunt aliquid=--There is something in omens. _Ovid._
[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]--The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. _Æschylus._
=Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum=--Every 40
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of the agent. _L._
=Omne ævum curæ: cunctis sua displicet ætas=--Every age has its own care: each one thinks his own time of life disagreeable. _Auson._
=Omne animal seipsum diligit=--Every animal loves itself. _Cic._
=Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur=--Every vice of the mind involves a condemnation the more glaring, the higher the rank of the person who is guilty. _Juv._
=Omne capax movet urna nomen=--In the capacious urn of death every name is shaken. _Hor._
=Omne corpus mutabile est; ita efficitur ut= 45 =omne corpus mortale sit=--Every body is subject to change; hence it comes to pass that every body is subject to death. _Cic._
=Omne epigramma sit instar apis, aculeus illi, / Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui=--Every epigram should be like a bee: have a sting like it, honey, and a small body. _Mart._
=Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--Every vice ever stands on the brink of a precipice. _Juv._
=Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum fit plerumque robustius=--Every evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown old, it generally becomes more obstinate. _Cic._
=Omne nimium vertitur in vitium=--Every excess develops into a vice. _Pr._
=Omne scibile=--Everything knowable. 50
=Omne solum forti patria est=--To the brave man every land is his native land. _Ovid._
=Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci / Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo=--He gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. _Hor._
=Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum=--Believe that each day which shines on you is your last. _Hor._
=Omnem movere lapidem=--To leave no stone unturned. _Pr._
=Omnes amicos habere operosum est; satis est= 55 =inimicos non habere=--It is an arduous task to make all men your friends; it is enough to have no enemies. _Sen._
=Omnes composui=--I have laid them all at rest (in the grave). _Hor._
=Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium / Versatur urna serius, ocius, / Sors exitura, et nos in æternum / exsilium impositura cymbæ=--We are all driven to the same ferry; the lot of each is shaken in the urn, destined sooner or later to come forth, and place us in Charon's wherry for eternal exile. _Hor._
=Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. _Sall._
=Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur=--Our country alone comprehends all our affections for all. _Cic._
=Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundæ, magis sunt, nescio quomodo / Suspiciosi: ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; / Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi=--All those whose affairs are unprosperous are, somehow or other, extremely suspicious; they take every hint as an affront, and think the neglect with which they are treated is due to their humble position. _Ter._
=Omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari=--All wise people ought to confer and hold converse with each other. _Plaut._
=Omnes una manet nox, / Et calcanda semel via lethi=--One night awaits us all, and the path of death must once be trodden by us. _Hor._
=Omni ætati mors est communis=--Death is common 5 to every age. _Cic._
=Omnia bonos viros decent=--All things are becoming in good men. _Pr._
=Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit=--By application a docile shrewdness surmounts every difficulty. _Manilius._
=Omnia cum amico delibera, sed de te ipso prius=--Consult your friend on everything, but
## particularly on what affects yourself. _Sen._
=Omnia desuper=--All things come from above. _M._
=Omnia ejusdem farinæ=--All things are of the 10 same stuff, _lit._ grain. _Pr._
=Omnia fert ætas, animum quoque=--Age carries all away, and the powers of the mind too. _Virg._
=Omnia Græce! / Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine=--All things must be in Greek! when it is more shameful for our Romans to be ignorant of Latin. _Juv._
=Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt=--All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. _Tac._
=Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: / Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides=--All things will now come to pass which I used to think impossible; and there is nothing which we may not hope to see take place. _Ovid._
=Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt=--All 15 bad precedents have had their rise in good beginnings.
=Omnia mea mecum porto=--All that belongs to me I carry with me. _Bias._
=Omnia mutantur, nihil interit=--All things but change, nothing perishes. _Ovid._
=Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--All things change, and we ourselves change along with them. _Borbonius._
=Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta=--All things are not alike fit for all men. _Propert._
=Omnia orta occident=--All things that rise also 20 set. _Sall._
=Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta est=--We have lost everything, only life is left. _Ovid._
=Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes=--All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. _Ovid._
=Omnia præclara rara=--All excellent things are rare. _Cic._
=Omnia præsumuntur rite et solenniter esse acta=--All things are presumed to have been done duly and in the usual manner. _L._
=Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem= 25 =decet=--It becomes a wise man to try all methods before having recourse to arms. _Ter._
=Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet=--When a man descends from heavenly things to human, he will certainly both speak and feel more loftily and nobly on every theme. _Cic._
=Omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere ... et quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla erit=--Everything which is now regarded as very ancient was once new, and what we are defending to-day by precedent, will by and by be a precedent itself. _Tac._
=Omnia rerum principia parva sunt=--All beginnings are small. _Cic._
=Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio=--All things may be bought at Rome with money. _Juv._
=Omnia serviliter pro dominatione=--Servile in 30 all his actions for the sake of power. _Tac., of Otho._
=Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves=--Thou hast placed all things beneath our feet, both sheep and oxen. _Motto of the Butchers' Company._
=Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo; / Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt=--All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong of a sudden falls and sinks in ruins. _Ovid._
=Omnia tuta timens=--Distrusting everything that is perfectly safe. _Virg._
=Omnia venalia Romæ=--All things can be bought at Rome. _Pr._
=Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori=--Love 35 conquers all the world, let us too yield to love. _Virg._
=Omnibus bonis expedit rempublicam esse salvam=--It is for the interest of every good man that the commonwealth shall be safe. _Cic._
=Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos / Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant=--This is a general fault of all singers, that among their friends they never make up their minds to sing, however pressed; but when no one asks them, they will never leave off. _Hor._
=Omnibus hostes / Reddite nos populis, civile avertite bellum=--Commit us to hostility with every other nation, but avert from us civil war. _Lucan._
=Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque / Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota / Erroris nebula=--In all the lands which stretch from Gades even to the region of the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are able by removing the mist of error to distinguish between what is really good and what is widely diverse. _Juv._
=Omnibus modis, qui pauperes sunt homines,= 40 =miseri vivunt; / Præsertim quibus nec quæstus est, nec didicere artem ullam=--The poor live wretchedly in every way; especially those who have no means of livelihood and have learned no craft. _Plaut._
=Omnis ars imitatio est naturæ=--All art is an imitation of nature. _Sen._
=Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secum=--Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. _Pr._
=Omnis dolor aut est vehemens, aut levis; si levis, facile fertur, si vehemens, certe brevis futurus est=--All pain is either severe or slight; if slight, it is easily borne; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. _Cic._
=Omnis enim res / Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque pulchris / Divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille / Clarus erit, fortis, justus=--All things divine and human, as virtue, fame, and honour, defer to fair wealth, and he who has amassed it will be illustrious, brave, and just. _Hor._
=Omnis pœna corporalis, quamvis minima, major est omni pœna pecuniaria, quamvis maxima=--The slightest corporal punishment falls more heavily than the largest pecuniary penalty. _L._
=Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui=--All folly is 5 afflicted with a disdain of itself. _Sen._
=Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He would have been universally deemed fit for empire, if he had never reigned. _Said of Galba by Tacitus._
=Omnium horarum homo=--A man ready for whatever may chance. _Quinct._
=Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius=--Of all pursuits from which profit accrues, nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing more enjoyable, nothing more worthy of a free man. _Cic._
=Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est=--There are changes, mark ye, in all things. _Ter._
=On a beau prêcher à qui n'a cure de bien faire=--It 10 is no use preaching to him who has no wish to do well. _Fr. Pr._
=On a long journey even a straw is heavy.= _Pr._
=On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One has often need of one inferior to one's self. _La Fontaine._
=On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.= _Landor._
=On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère=--We always weaken everything which we exaggerate. _La Harpe._
=On aime bien à deviner les autres, mais l'on= 15 =aime pas à être deviné=--We like well to see through other people, but we do not like to be seen through ourselves. _La Roche._
=On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait=--We love without reason, and without reason we hate. _Regnard._
=On apprend en faillant=--One learns by failing. _Fr. Pr._
=On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre=--More flies are caught with honey than vinegar. _Fr. Pr._
=On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l'on boit goute à goute une vérité qui nous est amère=--We swallow at one draught the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. _Diderot._
=On commence par être dupe, / On finit par être= 20 =fripon=--People begin by being dupes, and end by being knaves. _Mme. Deshoulières, on gambling._
=On connaît les amis au besoin=--Friends are known in time of need. _Fr. Pr._
=On devient innocent quand on est malheureux=--We become innocent when we are unfortunate. _La Fontaine._
=On dit=--They say; a flying rumour or current report. _Fr._
=On dit de gueux qu'ils ne sont jamais dans leur chemins, parce qu'ils n'ont point de demeure fixe. Il en est de même de cause qui disputent, sans avoir des notions déterminées=--It is said of beggars that they are never on their way, for they have no fixed dwelling-place; it is the same with people who dispute without having definite ideas. _Fr._
=On dit, est souvent un grand menteur=--"They 25 say" is often a great liar. _Fr. Pr._
=On dit, et sans horreur je ne puis le redire=--It has been said, and I cannot without horror repeat it. _Racine._
=On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons=--They say God is always with the heaviest battalions. _Voltaire._
=On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être=--One ought to be happy without thinking too much of being so. _Fr. Pr._
=On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité=--Respect is due to the living; to the dead nothing but truth. _Motte._
=On donne des conseils, mais on ne donne point= 30 =la sagesse d'en profiter=--We may give advice, but not the sense to profit by it. _La Roche._
=On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born to die.= _Pope._
=On entre et on crie, / Et voilà la vie! / On crie et on sort, / Et voilà la mort!=--We come and cry, and that is life; we cry and go, and that is death. _Fr._
=On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime=--We are easily duped by those we love. _Molière._
=On est, quand on le veut, le maître de son sort=--A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. _Ferrier._
=On every stage the foes of peace attend /= 35 =Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.= _Johnson._
=On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; / In every rill a sweet instruction flows.= _Young._
=On fait souvent tort à la vérité par la manière dont on se sert pour la défendre=--We often injure the truth by our manner of defending it. _Fr._
=On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est=--People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. _Fr. Pr._
=On gagne peu de choses par habileté=--It is little that one gains by cleverness. (?)
=On God and godlike men we build our trust.= 40 _Tennyson._
=On his own saddle one rides safest.= _Pr._
=On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais=--Little earth is cast in the end upon the head, and there is no more of it for ever. _Pascal._
=On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but passion is the gale.= _Pope._
=On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday night.= _Pr._
=On n'a jamais bon marché de mauvaise marchandise=--Bad 45 ware is never cheap. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'a rien pour rien=--Nothing can be had for nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'aime plus comme on aimait jadis=--People no longer love as they used to do long ago. _Fr._
=On n'auroit guère de plaisir, si l'on ne se flattoit point=--A man should have little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter himself. _Fr._
=On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même=--A man is never so well served as by himself. _Etienne._
=On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux= 5 =qu'on se l'imagine=--People are never either so happy or so miserable as they imagine. _La Roche._
=On n'est jamais si riche que quand on déménage=--People are never so rich as when they are moving their stuff. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir=--We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have. _La Roche._
=On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens=--A man is never betrayed except by his friends. _Fr._
=On n'est souvent mécontent des autres que parce qu'on l'est de soi-même=--We are often dissatisfied with others because we are so with ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne considère pas assez les paroles comme= 10 =des faits=--We don't sufficiently consider that words are deeds. _Fr._
=On ne cherche point à prouver la lumière=--There is no need to prove the existence of light. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne doit pas juger du mérite d'un homme par ses grandes qualités, mais par l'usage qu'il en sait faire=--We should not judge of the merit of a man by his great gifts, but by the use he makes of them. _La Roche._
=On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils=--People are not so liberal with anything as with advice. _La Roche._
=On ne gouverne les hommes que en les servant; la règle est sans exception=--Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. _V. Cousin._
=On ne jette des pierres qu'à l'arbre chargé de= 15 =fruits=--People throw stones only at the tree which is loaded with fruit. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué=--Praise is generally given only that it may be returned. _La Roche._
=On ne lui fait pas prendre des vessies pour des lanternes=--You won't get him to take bladders for lanterns. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne méprise pas tous ceux qui ont des vices, mais on méprise tous ceux qui n'ont aucune vertu=--We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have no virtue. _La Roche._
=On ne perd les états que par timidité=--It is only through timidity that states are lost. _Voltaire._
=On ne peut contenter tout le monde et son= 20 =père=--There is no pleasing everybody and one's father. _La Fontaine._
=On ne peut faire qu'en faisant=--One can do only by doing. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne peut sonner les cloches et aller à la procession=--One cannot ring the bells and join the procession. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne prête qu'aux riches=--People lend only to the rich. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne ramène guère un traître par l'impunité, au lieu que par la punition l'on en rend mille autres sages=--No one ever reclaimed a traitor by letting him off, whereas punishment may keep thousands in the right way. (?)
=On ne réussit dans ce monde qu'à la pointe de= 25 =l'épée, et on meurt les armes à la main=--Success in life is won at the point of the sword, and we die with the weapon in our hands. (?)
=On ne sait pour qui on amasse=--We know not for whom we gather. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne se blame que pour être loué=--Persons only blame themselves in order to obtain praise. _La Roche._
=On ne sent bien que ses propres maux=--We feel only the evils that affect ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne trouve jamais l'expression d'un sentiment que l'on n'a pas; l'esprit grimace et le style aussi=--It is ever impossible to express a sentiment which we do not feel; the mind grimaces, and the style too. _Lamennais._
=On ne va jamais si loin que lorsqu'on ne sait= 30 =pas où l'on va=--One never goes so far as when he does not know where he is going. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne vaut dans ce monde que ce qu'on veut valoir=--A man's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts upon himself. _La Bruyère._
=On ne vit dans la mémoire du monde que par des travaux pour le monde=--One lives in the world's memory only by what he has done in the world's behalf. _Fr._
[Greek: hon hoi theoi philousin apothnêskei neos]--He whom the gods love dies young. _Menander._
=On pardonne aisément un tort que l'on partage=--We easily pardon an offence which we had part in. _Jouy._
=On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler=--People 35 speak little when vanity does not prompt them. _La Roche._
=On perd tout le temps qu'on peut mieux employer=--All the time is lost which might be better employed. (?)
=On peut attirer les cœurs par les qualités qu'on montre, mais on ne les fixe que par celles qu'on a=--People's affections may be attracted by the qualities which we affect, but they can only be won by those which we really possess. _Fr._
=On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire=--We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. _Le Sage._
=On peut dominer par la force, mais jamais par la seule adresse=--We may lord it by force, but never by adroitness alone. _Vauvenargues._
=On peut être plus fin qu'un autre, mais non= 40 =pas plus fin que tous les autres=--A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. _La Roche._
=On peut mépriser le monde, mais on ne peut pas s'en passer=--We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. _Fr. Pr._
=On prend le peuple par les oreilles, comme on fait un pot par les anses=--The public are to be caught by the ears, as one takes a pot by the handles. _Pr._
=On prend son bien où on le trouve=--One takes what is his own wherever he finds it. _Fr. Pr._
=On prend souvent l'indolence pour la patience=--Indolence is often taken for patience. _Fr. Pr._
=On Reason build Resolve! / That column of= 45 =true majesty in man.= _Young._
=On respecte un moulin, on vole une province!=--They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!
=On revient toujours à ses premiers amours=--We always come back to our first loves. _Etienne._
=On se heurte toujours où l'on a mal=--One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. _Fr. Pr._
=On se persuade mieux pour l'ordinaire par les raisons qu'on a trouvées soi-même, que par celles qui sont venues dans l'esprit des autres=--We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. _Pascal._
=On some men's bread butter will not stick.= _Pr._ 5
=On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine=--People speculate on everything, even on famine. _Armand Charlemagne._
=On termine de longs procès / Par un peu de guerre civile=--We end protracted law-suits by a little civil war.
=On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable.= _Carlyle._
=On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying.= _Emerson._
=On the day of the resurrection, those who= 10 =have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.= _Mahomet._
=On the field of foughten battle still, / Woe knows no limits save the victor's will.= _The Gaulliad._
=On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.= _Hafiz._
=On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm.= _Goethe._
=On the sea sail, on the land settle.= _Pr._
=On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have= 15 =expired.= Young.
=On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life.= _Börne._
=On this account is the Bible a book of eternally effective power, because, as long as the world lasts, no one will step forward and say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular; but we modestly say: In the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practicable= (_anwendbar_). _Goethe._
=On veut avoir ce qu'on n'a pas, / Et ce qu'on a cesse de de plaire=--We wish to have what we have not, and what we have ceases to please. _Monvel._
=On voit mourir et renaître les roses; il n'en est pas ainsi de nos beaux jours=--We see roses die and revive again; it is not so with our fine days. _Charleval._
=On wrong / Swift vengeance waits; and art= 20 =subdues the strong.= _Pope._
=Once a knave, always a knave.= _Pr._
=Once a man and twice a child.= _Pr._
=Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists.= _Goethe._
=Once is no custom.= _Pr._
=Once is no rule.= _Pr._ 25
=Once resolved, the trouble is over.= _It. Pr._
=Once sufficiently enforce the eighth commandment, the whole "rights of man" are well cared for; I know no better definition of the rights of man: "Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not be stolen from." What a society were that! Plato's Republic, More's Utopia mere emblems of it.= _Carlyle._
=Once thoroughly our own, knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, / In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.= _Lowell._
=Once true, still more twice true, in the life of= 30 =the spirit is always true.= _Ed._
=Ond Gierning har Vidne i Barmen=--There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom. _Dan. Pr._
=Ondt bliver aldrig godt för halv værre kommer=--Bad is never good till worse befall. _Dan. Pr._
=One abides not long on the summit of fortune.= _Pr._
=One, although not possessed of a mine of gold, may find the offspring of his own nature, that noble ardour, which hath for its object the accomplishment of the whole assemblage of virtues.= _Hitopadesa._
=One always has time enough if one will apply= 35 =it well.= _Goethe._
=One and God make a majority.= _Fred. Douglas._
=One anecdote is worth a volume of biography.= _Channing._
=One barking dog sets all the street a-barking.= _Pr._
=One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.= _Pr._
=One Bible I know, of whose plenary inspiration= 40 =doubt is not so much as possible; nay, with my own eyes I saw the God's hand writing it; whereof all other Bibles are but leaves, say, in picture-writing, to assist the weaker faculty.= _Carlyle._
=One born on the glebe comes by habit to belong to it; the two grow together, and the fairest ties are spun from the union.= _Goethe._
=One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one.= _Goethe._
=One can bear to be rebuked, but not to be laughed at.= _Molière._
=One can live in true freedom, and yet not be unbound.= _Goethe._
=One can live on little, but not on nothing.= 45 _Pr._
=One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance.= _Goethe._
=One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way.= _Le Sage._
=One cannot say that the rational is always beautiful; but the beautiful is always rational, or at least ought to be so.= _Goethe._
=One cannot speak the truth with false words.= _Goethe._
=One can't shoe a runaway horse.= _Dutch Pr._ 50
=One chick keeps a hen busy.= _Pr._
=One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.= _Pr._
=One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them.= _Richelieu._
=One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him.= _Goethe._
=One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation.= _Campbell._
=One crime is everything; two, nothing.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=One crow never pulls out another's eyes.= 5 _Pr._
=One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name.= _Scott._
=One does not love the heaven's lightning= (seen in a great man) =in the way of caresses altogether.= _Carlyle._
=One dog can drive a flock of sheep.= _Pr._
=One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy= 10 =turns the most blissful draught into poison.= _Schiller._
=One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few.= Pr.
=One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good.= _Pr._
=One eye of the master does more than both his hands.= _Pr._
=One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.= _Pr._
=One false move may lose the game.= _Pr._ 15
=One feels clearly that it is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man.= _Schiller._
=One finds human nature everywhere great and little, beautiful and ugly.... Go on bravely working.= _Goethe._
=One fire burns out another's burning; / One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.
=One fool makes many.= _Pr._
=One futile person, that maketh it his glory to= 20 =tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal.= _Bacon._
=One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.= _Auerbach._
=One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event, / To which the whole creation moves.= _Tennyson._
=One good deed dying tongueless / Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that.= _Winter's Tale_, i. 2.
=One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.= _Pr._
=One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.= 25 _Pr._
=One good turn deserves another.= _Pr._
=One good way I know of to find happiness is not by boring a hole to fit the plug.= _Billings._
=One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows.= _Pr._
=One hair of a woman draws more than a team of horses.=
=One half of the world knows not how the= 30 =other half lives.= _Rabelais._
=One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.= _Longfellow._
=One half the world laughs at the other.= _Fr. and Ger. Pr._
=One hand full of money is more persuasive than two full of truth.= _Dan. Pr._
=One hand washes another.= _Pr._
=One hard word brings on another.= _Pr._ 35
=One head cannot hold all wisdom.= _Pr._
=One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.= _Mahometan Pr._
=One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.= _Pr._
=One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of good, / Than all the sages can.= _Wordsworth._
=One is always making good use of one's time= 40 =when engaged with a subject that daily forces one to make advances in self-culture.= _Goethe._
=One is not a whit the happier when he attains what he has wished for.= _Goethe._
=One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music.= _Carlyle._
=One jeer seldom goeth forth but it bringeth back its equal.= _Pr._
=One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.= _Pr._
=One learns taciturnity best among those people= 45 =who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn.= _Jean Paul._
=One lie makes many.= _Pr._
=One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.= _Pr._
=One life--a little gleam of time between two eternities.= _Carlyle._
=One link broken, the whole chain is broken.= _Pr._
=One loss brings another.= _Pr._ 50
=One man is born to money, and another to the purse.= _Dan. Pr._
=One man makes a chair, and another man sits in it.= _Pr._
=One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink.= _Pr._
=One man may steal a horse more safely than another may look at him over a hedge.= _Pr._
=One man receives crucifixion as the reward of= 55 =his villainy; another a regal crown.= _Juv._
=One man that has a higher wisdom in him is not stronger than ten men, or than ten thousand, but than all men that have it not.= _Carlyle._
=One man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with.= _Johnson._
=One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.= _Emerson._
=One man's meat is another man's poison.= _Pr._
=One man's opinion is no man's opinion.= _Pr._ 60
=One may forsake a person to save a family; one may desert a whole family for the sake of a village; and sacrifice a village for the safety of the community; but for one's self one may abandon the whole world.= _Hitopadesa._
=One may give him a hundred instances from Holy Writ that he should not dispute; still, it is the character of a fool to make a disturbance without a cause.= _Hitopadesa._
=One may make the house a palace of sham, or he can make it a home--a refuge.= _Mark Twain._
=One may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser.= _Addison._
=One may see that with half an eye.= _Pr._
=One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.= 5 _Ham._, i. 5.
=One may summon his philosophy when he is beaten in battle, not till then.= _John Burroughs._
=One misfortune is the vigil of another.= _It. Pr._
=One monster there is in this world: the idle man.= _Carlyle._
=One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers.= _Manu._
=One murder made a villain; / Millions, a hero.= 10 _Bp. Porteous._
=One must be careful in announcing great happiness.= _Schopenhauer._
=One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=One must be something in order to do something.= _Goethe._
=One must believe in simplicity, in what is simple, in what is originally productive, if one wants to go the right way. This, however, is not granted to every one; we are born in an artificial state, and it is far easier to make it more artificial still than to return to what is simple.= _Goethe._
=One must have lived greatly whose record= 15 =would bear the full light of day from its beginning to its close.= _A. B. Alcott._
=One must not look a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=One must not swerve in one's self, not even a hair's breadth from the highest maxims of art and life; but in empiricism, in the movement of the day, I would rather allow what is mediocre to pass than mistake the good, or even find fault with it.= _Goethe._
=One must take a pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.= _Goethe._
=One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales.= _Goethe._
=One need only take a thing properly in hand= 20 =for it to be done.= _Goethe._
=One need only utter something that flatters indolence and conceit to be sure of plenty of adherents among commonplace people.= _Goethe._
=One never goes farther than when he does not know whither he is going.= _Goethe._
=One never needs his wit so much as when he argues with a fool.= _Chinese Pr._
=One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid.= _Swift._
=One of the chief misfortunes of honest people= 25 =is that they are cowardly.= _Voltaire._
=One of the most fatal sources of the prevailing misery and crime lies in the generally accepted quiet assumption that because things have long been wrong, it is impossible they should ever be right.= _Ruskin._
=One of the most singular gifts, or, if abused, most singular weaknesses, of the human mind, is its power of persuading itself to see whatever it chooses; a great gift if directed to the discernment of the things needful and pertinent to its own work and being; a great weakness if directed to the discovery of things profitless or discouraging.= _Ruskin._
=One of the noblest qualities in our nature is that we are able so easily to dispense with greater perfection.= _Vauvenargues._
=One of the old man's miseries is that he cannot easily find a companion able to partake with him of the past.= _Johnson._
=One of the sublimest things in the world is= 30 =plain truth.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. If it would only just look at a thing instead of thinking what it must be like, or do a thing instead of thinking it cannot be done, we should all get on far better.= _Ruskin._
=One of these days is none of these days.= _Pr._
=One on God's side is a majority.= _Wendell Phillips._
=One ought not to praise a great man unless he is as great as he.= _Goethe._
=One pair of heels is often worth two pair of= 35 =hands.= (?)
=One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask.= _Pr._
=One ploughs, another sows; / Who will reap, no one knows.= _Pr._
=One power rules another, but no power can cultivate another; in each endowment, and not elsewhere, lies the force that must complete it.= _Goethe._
=One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.= _Junius._
=One rarely sees how deeply one is in debt till= 40 =one comes to settle one's accounts.= _Goethe._
=One really gains nothing from such interests= (as occupy the newspapers). _Goethe._
=One religion after another fades away; but the religious sense, which created them all, can never become dead to humanity.= _Jean Paul._
=One says more, and with more heart, in an hour than is written in years.= _Goethe._
=One science only can one genius fit, / So vast is art, so narrow human wit.= _Pope._
=One scream of fear from a mother may resound= 45 =through the whole life of her daughter.= _Jean Paul._
=One sheep follows another.= _Pr._
=One should abandon that country wherein there is neither respect, nor employment, nor connections, nor the advancement of science.= _Hitopadesa._
=One should never ask anybody if one means to write anything.= _Goethe._
=One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptionable character, except among people of culture and wit.= _La Bruyère._
=One should never think of death. One should think of life: that is real piety.= _Disraeli._
=One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.= _Hitopadesa._
=One should not neglect from time to time to renew friendly relations by personal intercourse.= _Goethe._
=One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of heaven: / True Devils with no ear, they howl in tune / With nothing but the Devil!= _Tennyson._
=One sickly sheep infects the flock.= _Pr._ 5
=One sin opens the door to another.= _Pr._
=One single moment is decisive both of man's life and his whole future. However he may reflect, each resolution he forms is but the work of a moment; the prudent alone seize the right one.= _Goethe._
=One sinner destroyeth much good.= _Bible._
=One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people.= _L. Iselin._
=One soul may have a decided influence upon= 10 =another merely by means of its silent presence.= _Goethe._
=One soweth and another reapeth.= _Heb. Pr._
=One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.= _Paine._
=One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honourable life.= _L'Estrange._
=One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine.= _Young._
=One swallow does not make a summer.= _Pr._ 15
=One sword keeps another in the scabbard.= _Pr._
=One "Take this" is better than two "I will give you."= _Sp. Pr._
="One thing above all others," says Goethe, "I have never thought about thinking." What a thrift of thinking faculty there; thrift almost of itself equal to a fortune in these days.= _Carlyle._
=One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.= _J. G. Holland._
=One thing is needful.= _Jesus._ 20
=One thing there is which no child brings into the world with him; and yet it is on this one thing that all depends for making man in every point a man;--and that is Reverence= (_Ehrfurcht_). _Goethe._
=One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.= _Lowell._
=One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.= _Coleridge._
=One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.= _Thackeray._
=One to another cannot be a perfect physician.= 25 _George Herbert._
=One to-day is worth two to-morrows.= _Ben. Franklin._
=One tongue is sufficient for a woman.= _Milton, in reference to foreign languages._
=One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=One 'ud think, an' hear some folk talk, as the men war cute enough to count the corns in a bag o' wheat wi' only smelling at it.= _George Eliot._
=One who, either in conversation or in letters,= 30 =affects to shine and to sparkle always, will not please long.= _Blair._
=One who has nothing to admire, nothing to love, except his own poor self, may be reckoned a completed character; (but) he is in the minimum state of moral perfection--no more can be made of him.= _Carlyle._
=One who is master of ever so little art may be able, on a great occasion, to root up trees with as much ease as the current of a river the reeds and grass.= _Hitopadesa._
=One who is out of his own country is defeated by a very trifling enemy.= _Hitopadesa._
=One woe doth tread upon another's heel, / So fast they follow.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=One word with two meanings is the traitor's= 35 =shield and shaft.= _Caucasian Pr._
=One wrong step may give you a great fall.= _Pr._
=One's morning indolence is soon gone when one has once persuaded one's self to put a foot out of bed.= _Goethe._
=One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits.= _A. B. Alcott._
=One's too few, three's too many.= _Pr._
=Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to= 40 =speak or think without embracing both.= _Emerson._
=Only a Christ could have conceived a Christ.= _Joseph Parker._
=Only a great pride, that is, a great and reverential repose in one's own being, renders possible a noble humility.= _D. A. Wasson._
=Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives: / But when the whole world turns to coal, / Then chiefly lives.= _George Herbert._
=Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.= _Jean Paul._
=Only an artist can interpret the meaning of= 45 =life.= _Novalis._
=Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is, or should be, an inventor.= _Emerson._
=Only by joy and sorrow does a man know anything about himself and his destiny, learn what he ought to seek and what to shun.= _Goethe._
=Only by pride cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.= _Bible._
=Only great men have any business with great defects.= _La Roche._
=Only great souls know the grandeur there is= 50 =in charity.= _Bossuet._
=Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.= _Thoreau._
=Only he deserves freedom who has day by day to fight for it.= _Goethe._
=Only he helps who unites with many at the proper hour; a single individual helps not.= _Goethe._
=Only I discern / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.= _Browning._
=Only in complicated critical cases do men find= 55 =out what is within them.= _Goethe._
=Only in looking heavenward, take it in what sense you may, not in looking earthward, does what we call union, mutual love, society, begin to be possible.= _Carlyle._
=Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.= _Goethe._
=Only lofty character is worth describing at all.= _Ruskin._
=Only people who possess firmness can possess= 5 =true gentleness.= _La Roche._
=Only regard for law can give us freedom.= _Goethe._
=Only so far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life generally.= _Novalis._
=Only such persons interest us, Spartans, Romans, Saracens, English, Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves, and made man victorious.= _Emerson._
=Only suffering draws / The inner heart of song, and can elicit / The perfumes of the soul.= _Lewis Morris._
=Only that good profits which we can taste with= 10 =all doors open, and which serves all men.= _Emerson._
=Only that is poetry which purifies and mans me.= _Emerson._
=Only the actions of the just / Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.= _Shirley._
=Only the idle among the poor revolt against their state; the brave workers die passively, and give no sign.= _Ruskin._
=Only the man of worth can recognise worth in men.= _Carlyle._
=Only the person should give advice in a= 15 =matter where he himself will co-operate.= _Goethe._
=Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern.= _Ruskin._
=Only they who have hope live.= _Halm._
=Only those books come down which deserve to last.= _Emerson._
=Only those live who do good.= _Tolstoi._
=Only those who love with the heart can animate= 20 =the love of others.= _Abel Stephens._
=Only to the apt, the pure, and the true does Nature resign herself and reveal her secrets.= _Goethe._
=Only truth can be polished.= _Ruskin._
=Only what of the past was true will come back to us; that is the one asbestos that survives all fire.= _Carlyle._
=Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Onus probandi=--The burden of proving. 25
=Onus segni impone asello=--Lay the burden on the lazy ass. _Pr._
=Open not your door when the devil knocks.= _Pr._
=Open rebuke is better than secret love.= _Pr._
=Opera illius mea sunt=--His works are mine. _M._
=Operæ pretium est=--'Tis worth while; worth 30 attending to.
=Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum=--In a long work sleep must steal upon us. _Hor._
=Operosa parvus carmina fingo=--I, a little one, compose laborious songs. _Hor._
=Operose nihil agunt=--They toil at doing nothing. _Sen._
=Opes regum, corda subditorum=--The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects. _M._
[Greek: opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]--The 35 mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind small.
=Opiferque per orbem dicor=--I am known over the world as the helper. _M._
=Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance.= _Plato._
=Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.= _Pascal._
=Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=Opinion is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._ 40
=Opinion rules the world.= _Carlyle._
=Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts themselves alone are history.= _Wm. Blake._
=Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones.= _Colton._
=Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturæ judicia confirmat=--Time effaces the fabrications of opinion, but confirms the judgments of Nature. _Cic._
=Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.= 45 _Amer. Pr._
=Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable.= _Pr._
=Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind; if you meet her, seize her by the forelock, for Jove himself cannot catch her again if once let slip.= _Rabelais._
=Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.= _Disraeli._
=Opportunity makes desire.= _Dut. Pr._
=Opportunity makes us known to others, but= 50 =more to ourselves.= _La Roche._
=Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste.= _Shakespeare._
=Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.= _Schiller._
=Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, / A burden more than I can bear, / I sit me down and sigh; / O Life, thou art a galling load, / Along a rough and weary road, / To wretches such as I.= _Burns._
=Oppression is more easily borne than insult.= _Junius._
=Opprobrium medicorum=--The disgrace of physicians. 55 _Said of diseases that defy their skill, especially cancer._
=Optat ephippia bos piger; optat arare caballus=--The lazy ox covets the horse's trappings; the horse would fain plough. _Hor._
=Optics sharp it needs, I ween, / To see what is not to be seen.= _J. Trumbull._
=Optima quæque dies miseris mortalibus ævi / Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus, / Et labor; et duræ rapit inclementia mortis=--For wretched mortals each best day of life flies first; diseases soon steal on, and sad old age, and decay; and the cruelty of inexorable death snatches us away. _Virg._
=Optimi consiliarii mortui=--The best counsellors are the dead. _Pr._
=Optimum obsonium labor=--Labour is the best sauce. _Pr._
=Opum furiata cupido=--The frantic passion for wealth. _Ovid._
=Ora et labora=--Pray and work. _M._
=Oracles speak.= _Emerson._
=Oral delivery aims at persuasion, at making= 5 =the listener believe he is convinced. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.= _Goethe._
=Orando laborando=--By prayer and labour. _M._
=Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano=--We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. _Juv._
=Orate pro anima=--Pray for the soul of.
=Orationis summa virtus est perspicuitas=--The greatest virtue of speech is perspicuity. _Quinct._
=Orator improbus leges subvertit=--An evil-disposed 10 orator subverts the laws.
=Oratory is a warrior's eye flashing from under a philosopher's brow.= _Hare._
=Oratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must be kept doing.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Order all thy actions, so as readily and meekly to comply with the commands of thy superiors, the desires of thy equals, the requests of thy inferiors; so to do for all what thou lawfully mayest.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Order and quiet are good things when they can be had without the sacrifice of things that are better.= _Ward Beecher._
=Order is a great man's need, and his true well-being.= 15 _Amiel._
=Order is heaven's first law.= _Pope._
=Order is power.= _Amiel._
=Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.= _Southey._
=Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it.= _Carlyle._
=Order, thou eye of action.= _Aaron Hill._ 20
=Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it.= _Schopenhauer._
=Ore e sempre=--Now and always. _It._
=Ore tenus=--Merely from the mouth; oral.
=Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and, in general, will only be written by, a public of honourable citizens, loyal to their state and faithful to each other.= _Ruskin._
[Greek: orgê philountôn oligon ischyei chronon]--The 25 anger of lovers does not last long. _Menander._
=Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for and constantly quarrel with, as if any, observes Jean Paul, but our own could be expected to content us.= _Carlyle._
=Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.= _T. W. Higginson._
=Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.= _J. S. Mill._
=Originality provokes originality.= _Goethe._
=Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most= 30 =dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, / The seeming truth which cunning times put on / To entrap the wisest.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=Ornaments were invented by modesty.= _Joubert._
=Oro è che oro vale=--What is worth gold is gold. _It. Pr._
=Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another man's doxy.= _Warburton._
=Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.= _Huxley._
=Os, orare, vale, communio, mensa negatur=--Speech, 35 prayer, greeting, intercourse, and food are forbidden. _The sentence of excommunication._
=Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.= _Chapin._
=Otez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra=--Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat. _Fr. Pr._
=Othello's occupation's gone!= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalises all the muscles at once.= _Jean Paul._
=Other heights in other lives, God willing.= 40 _Browning._
=Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.= _Emerson._
=Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.= _Jesus._
=Others apart sat on a hill retired, / In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high / Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, / Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; / And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.= _Milton._
=Others, more aspiring than achieving, / Achieve all in suggestion, ... / More helpful by their infinite reaching forth / Than all completed thinking.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus=--Remove 45 the temptations of idleness, and Cupid's bow is useless. _Ovid._
=Otiosis nullus adsistit Deus=--No deity assists the idle. _Pr._
=Otium cum dignitate=--Leisure with dignity.
=Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura=--Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. _Sen._
[Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra]--It will not do for a counsellor to sleep all night. _Hom._
[Greek: Ou legein deinos, alla sigan adynatos]--Not 50 formidable as a speaker, but unable to hold his tongue. _Gr._ (?)
=Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?=--Where can a man be better than in the bosom of his family? _Marmontel Grétry._
=Où sont les neiges d'antan?=--Where is the snow of last year? _F. Villons._
[Greek: ou toi synechthein alla symphilein ephyn]--I am here not for mutual hatred, but for mutual affection. _Soph._
=Oublier d'éclairer sa lanterne=--To express one's self obscurely (_lit._ to forget to light one's lantern). _Fr._
=Oublier ne puis=--I can never forget. _M._ 55
[Greek: ouden ginetai ek tou mê ontos]--Nothing comes to be out of what is not. _Epicurus._
[Greek: ouden rhêma syn kerdei kakon]--No word that is profitable is bad. _Soph._
=Oui et Non sont bien courts à dire, mais avant que de les dire, il y faut penser long-temps=--"Yes" and "no" are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
[Greek: ouk agathon polykoiraniê; heis koiranos estô, / Heis basileus]--That there should be a multitude of rulers is not good; let one be lord, one be king. _Hom._
[Greek: ouk aischron ouden tôn anankaiôn brotois]--What is natural is never shameful. _Eurip._
[Greek: ouk estin meizôn basanos chronou oudenos ergou, / hos kai hypo sternois andros edeixe noon]--There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thought which lay hidden in his breast. _Simonides._
=Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, / Our= 5 =fatal shadows that walk by us still.= _Fletcher._
=Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.= _Emerson._
=Our affections are but tents of a night.= _Emerson._
=Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux.= _Rousseau._
=Our age is really up to nothing better than sweeping out the gutters--a scavenger age. Might it but do that well! It is the indispensable beginning of all.= _Carlyle._
=Our age knows nothing but reactions, and= 10 =leaps from one extreme to another.= _Niebuhr._
=Our ambiguous dissipating education awakens wishes when it should be animating tendencies; instead of forwarding our real capacities, it turns our efforts towards objects which are frequently discordant with the mind that aims at them.= _Goethe._
=Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.= _Sheridan._
=Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our acquaintance with it.= _Goldsmith._
=Our best history is still poetry.= _Emerson._
=Our best resolutions are frail when opposed= 15 =to our predominant inclinations.= _Scott._
=Our best thoughts come from others.= _Emerson._
=Our better mind / Is as a Sunday's garment, then put on / When we have nought to do; but at our work / We wear a worse for thrift.= _Crowe._
=Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.= _Wordsworth._
=Our books are false by being fragmentary; the sentences are "bon mots," and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature--or worse.= _Emerson._
=Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears= 20 =when diffused too widely.= _Goldsmith._
=Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of the resurrection.= _Holmes._
=Our charity indeed should be universal, and extend to all mankind; but it is by no means convenient that our friendships and familiarities should do so too.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.= _Goldsmith._
=Our chief experiences have been casual.= _Emerson._
=Our chief want in life is somebody who shall= 25 =make us do what we can.= _Emerson._
=Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe when there is a change from era to era.= _Carlyle._
=Our compell'd sins / Stand more for number than accompt.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.
=Our complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.= _Swift._
=Our content / Is our best having.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 3.
=Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow.= 30 _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=Our country is wherever we are well off.= _Milton._
=Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.= _George Eliot._
=Our decrees / Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead; / And liberty plucks justice by the nose, / The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all decorum.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 4.
=Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.= _George Eliot._
=Our deeds are like children born to us; they= 35 =live and act apart from our own will. Children may be strangled, but deeds never.= _George Eliot._
=Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.= _George Eliot._
=Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.= _Emerson._
=Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.= _Emerson._
=Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on the one side and striking on the other.= _Emerson._
=Our doubts are traitors, / And make us lose the= 40 =good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 5.
=Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our echoes roll from soul to soul, / And grow for ever and for ever.= _Tennyson._
=Our energies are actually cramped by over-anxiety for success, and by straining our mental faculties beyond due bounds.= _Montaigne._
=Our esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.= _Johnson._
=Our expense is almost all for conformity.= _Emerson._ 45
=Our experiences of life sway and bow us either with joy or sorrow. They plant everything about us with heart-seeds. Thus a house becomes sacred. Every room has a thousand memories.= _Ward Beecher._
=Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow--/ Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.= _Keble._
=Our fear commonly meets us at the door by which we think to run from it.= _Pr._
=Our feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset.= _Jean Paul._
=Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our flatterers are our worst enemies.= _Pr._
=Our friends see not our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.= _Addison._
=Our God is a household God, as well as a= 5 =heavenly one. He has an altar in every man's dwelling; let men look to it when they rend it lightly, and pour out its ashes.= _Ruskin._
=Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Our greatest, being also by nature our quietest, are perhaps those that remain unknown.= _Carlyle._
=Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.= _Goldsmith._
=Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.= _Rousseau._
=Our hand we open of our own free will, and the= 10 =good flies which we can never recall.= _Goethe._
=Our hap is lost, our hope but sad despair.= 3 _Hen._, ii. 3.
=Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.= _Duchess de Praslin._
=Our happiness should not be laid on a too broad foundation.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our hearts, frequently warmed by the contact of those whom we wish to resemble, will undoubtedly catch something of their way of thinking; and we shall receive in our own bosoms some radiation at least of their fire and splendour.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Our heavenward progress is something like= 15 =that of the Jerusalem pilgrims of old, who for three steps forward took one backward.= _Jean Paul._
=Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.= _Emerson._
=Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.= _Tennyson._
=Our hopes are but our memories reversed.= (?)
=Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as we can read them.= _Froude._
=Our humanity were a poor thing but for the= 20 =divinity that stirs within us.= _Bacon._
=Our ideals are our better selves.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our ideas, like pictures, are made out of lights and shadows.= _Joubert._
=Our life contains a thousand springs, / And dies if one be gone; / Strange that a harp of thousand strings / Should keep in tune so long.= _Watts._
=Our life is compassed round with necessity; yet is the meaning of life itself no other than freedom, than voluntary force.= _Carlyle._
=Our life is no dream, but it may and will perhaps= 25 =become one.= _Novalis._
=Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws of war, named "fair competition," and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.= _Carlyle._
=Our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it.= _Emerson._
=Our life should feed the springs of fame / With a perennial wave, / As ocean feeds the bubbling founts / Which find in it their grave.= _Thoreau._
=Our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom He gives nothing else.= _Luther._
=Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,= 30 =not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.= _Luther._
=Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence.= _George Eliot._
=Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to discover and appropriate what is good wherever we come upon it.= _Goethe._
=Our memories are independent of our wills.= _Sheridan._
=Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good.= _Johnson._
=Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation= 35 =of excellence.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest in those moments when we are most driven back upon ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Our most exalted feelings are not meant to be the common food of daily life. Contentment is more satisfying than exhilaration; and contentment means simply the sum of small and quiet pleasures.= _Ward Beecher._
=Our narrow ken / Reaches too far, when all that we behold / Is but the havoc of wide-wasting Time, / Or what he soon shall spoil.= _Crowe._
=Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word "desire" (the craving for something not possessed) implies that our present felicity is not complete.= _Hobbes._
=Our natures are like oil; compound us with= 40 =anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament. Nor is there a paradise planted till the children appear in the foreground to animate and complete the picture.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.= _Coleridge._
=Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.= _Sterne._
=Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us weaker ever after.= _Pope._
=Our passions are true phœnixes; when the= 45 =old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway from its ashes.= _Goethe._
=Our path of glory / By many a cloud is darken'd and unblest.= _Keble._
=Our patience will achieve more than our force.= _Burke._
=Our peasant= (Burns) =showed himself among us, "a soul like an Æolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody."= _Carlyle._
=Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protracting our greatest pleasure.= _Goldsmith._
=Our pleasures travel by express; our pains by parliamentary.= _F. G. Trafford._
=Our poetry of the eighteenth century was prose; our prose of the seventeenth, poetry.= _Hare._
=Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.= _Emerson._
=Our present time is indeed a criticising and a critical time, hovering between the wish and the inability to believe.= _Jean Paul._
=Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality,= 5 =for if we can only admire this thing or that, we may be sure that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.= _Ruskin._
=Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor.= _Tam. of the Shrew_, iv. 3.
=Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no purpose, but only to fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.= _Sir William Temple._
=Our relation to things outside of ourselves forms, and at the same time robs us of, our existence, and yet we have to do our best to adapt ourselves to circumstances; for to isolate one's self is also not advisable.= _Goethe._
=Our relations are far too artificial and complicated, our nutriment and mode of life are without their proper nature, and our social intercourse is without proper love and goodwill. Every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true.= _Goethe._
=Our relations are ours by lot, our friends by= 10 =election.= _Delille._
=Our religion assumes the negative form of rejection. Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false; and the religion is an abolishing criticism.= _Emerson._
=Our religion is meant to root out our vices, but it covers, nourishes, and excites them.= _Montaigne._
=Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we ascribe to heaven.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Our sacrifices are rarely of an active kind; we, as it were, abandon what we give away. It is not from resolution, but despair, that we renounce our property.= _Goethe._
=Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions.= 15 _Wendell Phillips._
=Our senses will not admit of anything extreme: too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us.= _Pascal._
=Our social forms are very far from truth and equity.= _Emerson._
=Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach.= _Jean Paul._
=Our souls much farther than our eyes can see.= _Drayton._
=Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation= 20 =of Nature's grandeur before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.= _Heine._
=Our spiritual maladies are but of opinion; we are but fettered by chains of our own forging, and which ourselves also can rend asunder.= _Carlyle._
=Our spontaneous action is always the best.= _Emerson._
=Our stomach for good fortune is bottomless, but the entrance to it is narrow.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our strength lies in our weakness= (_i.e._, limitedness). _Hazlitt._
=Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat,= 25 =or we boil at different degrees.= _Emerson._
=Our thinking is a pious reception.= _Emerson._
=Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.= _George Eliot._
=Our thoughts take wildest flight / Even at the moment when they should array themselves in pensive order.= _Byron._
=Our time is fixed, and all our days are numbered; / How long, how short, we know not: this we know, / Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, / Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.= _Blair._
=Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to= 30 =what we ought to do, the distrust of the value of what we do, and the distrust that the necessity which we all at last believe in is fair and beneficial.= _Emerson._
=Our valours are our best gods.= _Fletcher._
=Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied; / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died.= _T. Hood._
=Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.= _Vauvenargues._
=Our virtues depend on our failings as their= 35 =root, and the latter send forth as strong and manifold branches underground as the former do in the open light.= _Goethe._
=Our / Virtues lie in the interpretation of the time.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 7.
=Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.= _All's Well_, iv. 3.
=Our whole existence is passed into words, and words, by means of tongue and ears, pass so easily into the soul.= _Jean Paul._
=Our whole life is but a chamber which we are frescoing with colours, that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards when finished and dry.= _Ward Beecher._
=Our whole terrestrial being is based on Time= 40 =and built of Time; it is wholly a movement, a Time-impulse; Time is the author of it, the material of it.= _Carlyle._
=Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown; / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Our work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter. We are now human creatures, and must, at our peril, do human, that is to say, affectionate, honest, and earnest work.= _Ruskin._
=Our works are presentiments of our capabilities.= _Goethe._
=Our works decay and disappear, / God's frailest works abide, and look / Down on the ruins we toil to rear.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.= _Balzac._
=Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, / And still a new to-morrow does come on. / We by to-morrow draw out all our store, / Till the exhausted well can yield no more.= _Cowley._
=Our young men are terribly alike.= _Alexander Smith._
=Ourselves are easily provided for; it is nothing but the circumstantials of human life that cost so much.= _Pope._
=Out at sea, the universe has dwindled to a= 5 =little circle of crumpled water, that journeys with you day after day, and to which you seem bound by some enchantment.= _Burroughs._
=Out of debt, out of danger.= _Pr._
=Out of difficulties grow miracles.= _La Bruyère._
=Out of Evil comes Good; and no Good that is possible but shall one day be real.= _Carlyle._
=Out of my stony griefs / Bethel I'll raise.= _Adams._
=Out of Plato come all things that are still= 10 =written and debated about among men of thought.= _Emerson._
=Out of sight out of mind.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.= _Jesus._
=Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out of the strong cometh forth sweetness.= _Samson's riddle._
=Out of the frying-pan into the fire.= _Pr._
=Out of the suffering comes the serious mind;= 15 =out of the salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith.= _Ruskin._
=Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 3.
=Out upon the tempest of anger, the acrimonious gall of fretful impatience, the sullen frost of lowring resentment, or the corroding poison of withered envy! They eat up the immortal part of a man!... like traitor Iscariot, betray their lord and master.= _Burns._
[Greek: oute ti tôn anthrôpinôn axion on megalês spoudês]--Nothing in the affairs of mankind is worth serious anxiety. _Plato._
=Outward judgment often fails, inward justice never.= _Theo. Parker._
=Outward religion originates by society; society= 20 =becomes possible by religion.= _Carlyle._
=Ouvrage de longue haleine=--A long-winded or tedious business. _Fr._
=Over the events of life we may have a control, but none whatever over the law of its progress.= _Draper._
=Over the Time thou hast no power; solely over one man therein hast thou a quite absolute, uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make honest.= _Carlyle._
=Over there it will not be otherwise than it is here.= _Goethe._
=Overcome evil with good.= _St. Paul._ 25
=Overdone is worse than underdone.= _Pr._
=Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to sustain.= _Goldsmith._
=Owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.= _St. Paul._
=Oysters are not good in a month that hath not an R in it.= _Pr._
P.
=Pabulum Acherontis=--Food for Acheron, _i.e._, on 30 the verge of the grave. _Plaut._
=Pace tanti viri=--If so great a man will forgive me.
=Pacem hominibus habe, bellum cum vitiis=--Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.
=Pacta conventa=--Conditions agreed upon.
=Pacte de famille=--A family compact. _Fr._
=Pactum non pactum est; non pactum pactum= 35 =est; quod vobis lubet=--A bargain is not a bargain, no bargain is a bargain, as it pleases you. _Plaut._
=Paga lo que debes, sabrás lo que tienes=--Pay what you owe, and what you have you'll know. _It. Pr._
="Pagan self-assertion" is one of the elements of human worth as well as "Christian self-denial."= _J. S. Mill._
=Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and torpid.= _J. Sterling._
=Pain is less subject than pleasure to capricious expression.= _Johnson._
=Pain is so uneasy a sentiment that very little= 40 =of it is enough to corrupt every enjoyment.= _Rogers._
=Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other.= _Hallam._
=Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation.= _Schopenhauer._
=Pain past is pleasure.= _Pr._
=Pain pays the income of each precious thing.= _Shakespeare._
=Painful for man is rebellious independence= 45 =when it has become inevitable; only in loving companionship with his fellows does he feel safe; only in reverently bowing down before the Higher does he feel himself exalted.= _Carlyle._
=Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all other pleasures are.= _Dryden._
=Paint costs nothing.= _Dut. Pr._
="Paint me as I am."= (?)
=Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses.= _Dryden._
=Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence= 50 =as by sight and feeling and invention.= _Hamerton._
=Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.= _Simonides._
=Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.= _Coleridge._
=Palabra de boca, piedra de honda=--A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling. _Sp. Pr._
=Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta=--A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. _Sp. Pr._
=Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est=--For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture.
=Palinodiam canere=--To recant.
=Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, / Regumque turres=--Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings. _Hor._
=Palma non sine pulvere=--The palm, but not 5 without a struggle. _M._
=Palma virtuti=--The palm to virtue. _M._
=Palmam qui meruit ferat=--Let him bear the palm that deserves it. _M._
=Panem et circenses=--Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in). _Juv._
=Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash / If I find not the thought / Which the writer can think.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Par bene comparatum=--A pair well matched. 10
=Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance=--By right of conquest and by right of birth. _Henry IV. of France._
=Par excellence=--Pre-eminently. _Fr._
=Par l'écoulement du temps=--By the lapse of time. _Fr._
=Par le droit du plus fort=--By the right of the strongest. _Pr._
=Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux= 15 =mêmes fins=--The same means do not always lead to the same ends. _La Roche._
=Par ma foi! l'âge ne sert de guère / Quand on n'a pas cela=--By my faith, age serves but little if one has not that (brains). _Molière._
=Par manière d'acquit=--For form's sake. _Fr._
=Par negotiis, neque supra=--Equal to, and not above, his business. _Tac._
=Par nobile fratrum=--A precious pair of brothers. _Hor._
=Par pari referto=--Give him back tit for tat. _Ter._ 20
=Par signe de mépris=--In token of contempt. _Fr._
=Par ternis suppar=--The two are equal to the three. _M._
=Par trop débattre la vérité se perd=--The truth is sacrificed by too much disputation. _Fr. Pr._
=Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, / Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa vie=--We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. _Molière._
=Paradise is always where love dwells.= _Jean_ 25 _Paul._
=Paradise is for those who control their anger.= _Koran._
=Paradise is under the shadow of our swords.= _Mahomet._
=Parasiticam cœnam quærit=--He seeks the meal of a parasite or hanger-on.
=Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris=--Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins. _Ovid._
=Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis=--To spare persons, 30 to condemn crimes. _Mart._
=Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--To spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. _Virg._
=Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes=--Forbear to lay the guilt of the few upon the many. _Ovid._
=Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro; nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare cursus / Cogor relictos=--A niggard and unfrequent worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the course I had deserted. _Hor._
=Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.= _Arab. Pr._
=Parents are commonly more careful to bestow= 35 =wit on their children than virtue, the art of speaking well than of doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern.= _Fuller._
=Parents' blessings can neither be drowned in water nor consumed in fire.= _Pr._
=Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.= _Johnson._
=Pares cum paribus ut est in veteri proverbio facillime congregantur=--As in the old proverb, "Like associates most naturally with like." _Cic._
=Parfois, élus maudits de la fureur suprême, / ... Ces envoyés du ciel sont apparus au monde / Comme s'ils venaient de l'enfer=--Sometimes these ambassadors of heaven, the accursed elect of the wrath of heaven, appear in the world as though they came from hell. _Victor Hugo._
=Pari passu=--With equal steps or pace; neck and 40 neck.
=Pari ratione=--By parity of reason.
=Paritur pax bello=--Peace is produced by war. _Corn. Nep._
=Parlez du loup et vous en verrez la queue=--Speak of the wolf and you will see his tail; speak of the devil and he will appear. _Fr. Pr._
=Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous regarde comme un homme de mérite=--Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man of merit. _Fr._
=Parliamentary government is government by= 45 =speaking.= _Macaulay._
=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges=--To refuse graciously is to confer a favour. _Pub. Syr._
=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges=--To refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. _Pub. Syr._
=Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia=--A portion of mankind glory consistently in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. _Hor._
=Pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--The girl herself is the least part of herself. _Ovid._
=Pars minima sui=--The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.
=Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit=--It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. _Sen._
=Parsimonia est magnum vectigal=--Thrift is a great revenue. _Cic._
=Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.= _Henry Home._
=Parta tueri=--Defend what you have won. _M._
=Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté, rien de l'autre=--A Montgomery division: everything on one side and nothing on the other. _Fr. Pr._
=Parthis mendacior=--More mendacious than the Parthians. _Hor._
=Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.= _Bovee._
=Particeps criminis=--A partaker in a crime; an accessory either before or after the fact.
=Parties do not consider; they only feel.= _Ranke._ 5
=Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps away, / The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone, and all is gray.= _Byron._
=Parting is worse than death; it is death of love.= _Dryden._
=Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than falling in with a truth.= _Börne._
=Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus=--Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. _Hor._
=Party honesty is party expediency.= _G. Cleveland._ 10
=Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few.= _Pope._
=Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried.= _Bernardine de St. Pierre._
=Parva leves capiunt animos=--Little minds are caught with trifles. _Ovid._
=Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt=--These are small things; but it was by not despising these small things that our forefathers made the commonwealth so great. _Livy._
=Parvis componere magna=--To compare great 15 things with small. _Virg._
=Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris / Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--The ant, for instance, is a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not ignorant or improvident of the future. _Hor._
=Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium=--A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.
=Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus=--A slight pledge of no small friendship. _M._
=Parvum parva decent=--Him that is little little things become. _Hor._
=Pas à pas on va bien loin=--Step by step one goes 20 very far. _Fr._
=Pas un pouce de notre territoire, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!=--Not an inch of our territory, not a stone of our fortresses! _Jules Favre in_ 1870, _to the demand of Germany._
=Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit; / Tunc suus, ex merito, quemque tuetur honos=--Envy feeds upon the living, after death it rests; then the honour a man deserves protects him. _Ovid._
[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]--Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. _Critias._
=Pass no rash censure upon other people's words or actions.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Passato il pericolo gabbato il santo=--When the 25 danger is passed the saint is cheated. _It. Pr._
=Passe avant=--Pass ahead. _M._
=Passe par tout=--A master-key; a pass-key.
=Passez-moi la rhubarbe et je vous passerai le séné=--Pass you me the rhubarb, and I will pass you the senna, _i.e._, shut your eyes to my faults, and I will to yours. _Molière._
=Passion depraves, but also ennobles.= _Lamartine._
=Passion drives the man, passions the woman;= 30 =him a stream, her the winds.= _Jean Paul._
=Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.= _South._
=Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, art, would be useless.= _Balzac._
=Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence.= _Bovee._
=Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.= _Jean Paul._
=Passion makes the will lord of the reason.= 35 _Shakespeare._ (?)
=Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockhead ingenious.= _Thomson._
=Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.= _Emerson._
=Passionate people are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things in the wrong way.= _Plato._
=Passions are likened best to floods and streams; / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=Passions are the gales of life.= _Pope._ 40
=Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest powers.= _Goethe._
=Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.= _Wm. Penn._
=Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by what is false within.= _George Meredith._
=Past and to come seem best, things present= 45 =worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning.= _Thomas Fuller._
=Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit.= _Pr._
=Patch grief with proverbs.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=Pater familias=--The father of a family.
=Pater noster=--Our father; the Lord's prayer. 50
=Pater patriæ=--The father of his country.
[Greek: pathêmata--mathêmata]--We learn from the things we suffer. _Æsop._
=Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties.= _Clarissa._
=Patience, and shuffle the cards.= _Cervantes._
=Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus= 55 =que force ni que rage=--Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. _La Fontaine._
=Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before.= _Addison._
=Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.= _Disraeli._
=Patience is a plaister for all sores.= _Pr._
=Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.= _Pub. Syr._
=Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last.= _Pr._
=Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.= _Rousseau._
=Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper.= _Helps._
=Patience is genius.= _Buffon._
=Patience is good for poltroons.= 3 _Hen. VI._, 5 i. 1.
=Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.= _Saying._
=Patience is the art of hoping.= _Vauvenargues._
=Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms.= _Bp. Hopkins._
=Patience is the key of content.= _Mahomet._
=Patience is the key of Paradise.= _Turk. Pr._ 10
=Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength.= _Colton._
=Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass.= _Pr._
=Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large.= _Sydney Smith._
=Patience passe science=--Patience surpasses knowledge. _M._
=Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she= 15 =pause; / They can be meek that have no other cause.= _Com. of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Patience wears out stones.= _Gael. Pr._
=Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.= _Lowell._
=Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Patient waiters are no losers.= _Pr._
=Patientia læsa fit furor=--Patience abused becomes 20 fury.
=Patientia vinces=--You will conquer by patience. _M._
=Patiently add farthing to farthing.= _Goldsmith._
=Patitur qui vincit=--He suffers who conquers. _M._
=Patria cara, carior libertas=--Dear is my country, but liberty is dearer. _M._
=Patria quis exul / Se quoque fugit?=--What 25 fugitive from his country can also fly from himself? _Hor._
=Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior=--The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire in a foreign one. _Pr._
=Patriæ infelici fidelis=--Faithful to my unhappy country. _M._
=Patriæ pietatis imago=--The image of his filial affection. _Virg._
=Patriæ solum omnibus carum est=--The soil of their native land is dear to the hearts of all men. _Cic._
=Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering= 30 =as on mutual success.= _Disraeli._
=Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of filial love.= _D. D. Field._
=Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.= _Johnson._
=Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue.= _Bolingbroke._
[Greek: patris gar esti pas', hin' an prattê tis eu]--One's 35 country is wherever things go well with him. _Aristophanes._
=Patroclus is dead, who was better by far than thou.= _Hom._
=Patronage, that is, pecuniary or other economic furtherance, has been pronounced to be twice cursed, cursing him that gives and him that takes.= _Carlyle._
=Pauca Catonis verba, sed a pleno venientia pectore veri=--The words of Cato were few, but they came from a heart full of truth. _Lucan._
=Pauca verba=--Few words.
=Pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque= 40 =illis multum diversa=--Few men can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. _Juv._
=Paucis carior est fides quam pecunia=--To few is good faith more than valuable money. _Sall., of his own times._
=Paul Pry is on the spy.= _Pr._
=Paullatim=--By degrees. _M._
=Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ / Celata virtus=--Worth that is hidden differs little from buried sloth. _Hor._
=Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetit usus. /= 45 =Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil / Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus=--That man is not poor who has a sufficiency for all his wants. If it is well with your stomach, your lungs, and your feet, the wealth of kings can add no more. _Hor._
=Pauper sum, fateor, patior; quod Di dant fero=--I am poor, I admit; I put up with it. What the gods give I bear with. _Plaut._
=Pauper ubique jacet=--Everywhere the poor man is despised. _Ovid._
=Pauperism is our social sin grown manifest.= _Carlyle._
=Pauperism is the general leakage through every joint of the ship that is rotten.= _Carlyle._
=Paupertas est, non quæ pauca possidet, sed= 50 =quæ multa non possidet=--Poverty is not possessing few things, but lacking many things. _Sen._
=Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe=--Poverty is shunned and treated as criminal throughout the world. _Lucan._
=Paupertatis pudor et fuga=--The shame and the bugbear of poverty. _Hor._
=Pauperum solatio=--For the solace of the poor. _M._
=Pauvres gens, je les plains; car on a pour les fous / Plus de pitié que de courroux=--Poor people, I pity them; for one always entertains for fools more pity than anger. _Boileau, on disappointed authors._
=Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at= 55 =pœnam semper ob oculos versari putant qui peccarunt=--The innocent are free from fear; but the guilty have always the dread of punishment before their eyes.
=Pax Cererem nutrit, pacis alumna Ceres=--Peace is the nurse of Ceres; Ceres is the nursling of Peace. _Ovid._
=Pax in bello=--Peace in war. _M._
=Pax paritur bello=--Peace is produced by war. _Corn. Nep._
=Pax vobiscum=--Peace be with you.
=Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.= _S._ 60 _Randolph of Roanoke._
=Pay beforehand if you would have your work ill done.= _Pr._
=Pay good wages, or your servants will pay themselves.= _Pr._
=Pay not before thy work be done; if thou dost, it will never be well done, and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence.= _Franklin._
=Pay the reckoning over-night, and you won't be troubled in the morning.= _Pr._
=Pay well when you are served well.= _Pr._ 5
=Pay what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know.= _Pr._
=Pay without fail, / Down on the nail.= _Pr._
=Pazza è chi non sa da che parte vien il vento=--He is a senseless fellow who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. _It. Pr._
=Peace hath her victories, / No less renown'd than war.= _Milton._
=Peace is liberty in tranquility.= _Cic._ 10
=Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.= _Schiller._
=Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace.= _Thomson._
=Peace is the masterpiece of reason.= _J. Müller._
=Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold.= _Ruskin._
=Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most= 15 =valuable.= _Smallridge._
=Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.= _Port. Pr._
=Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned.= _Goethe._
=Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet=--He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. _Hor._
=Peccare licet nemini=--No one has leave to sin. _Cic._
=Peccavi=--I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20 acknowledge one's error.
=Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné=--A sin confessed is half forgiven. _Fr. Pr._
=Pectus est quod disertos facit=--It is the heart which inspires eloquence. _Quinct._
=Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum est lucrum=--To despise money on proper occasions is sometimes a very great gain. _Ter._
=Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens=--You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.
=Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere=--Pedantry 25 quite necessarily presupposes vacancy. _Rahel._
=Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.= _Colton._
=Pedantry is properly overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to.= _Swift._
=Pedibus timor addidit alas=--Fear gave wings to his feet.
=Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon.= _Jean Paul._
=Pegasus im Joche=--Pegasus in harness. _Schiller._ 30
=Peggior della morte è il turpe riposo=--Worse than death is shameful repose. _Niccolo Tommaseo._
=Peine forte et dure=--Heavy and severe punishment (specially that of putting heavy weights on prisoners who refused to plead).
=Pelt all dogs that bark, and you will need many stones.= _Pr._
[Greek: pêm' epi pêmati]--Evil on the top of evil.
=Pence well-spent are better than pence ill-spared.= 35 _Pr._
=Pendente lite=--While the suit is pending.
=Pendre la crémaillère=--To give a house-warming. _Fr._
=Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.= _La Roche._
=Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos=--The Britons, quite sundered from all the world. _Virg._
=Penny goes after penny, / Till Peter hasn't= 40 =any.= _Pr._
=Penny wise is often pound foolish.= _Pr._
=Pense ce que tu veux, dis ce que tu dois=--Think what you like, say what you ought. _Fr. Pr._
=Pense moult, parle peu, écris moins=--Think much, speak little, write less. _Fr. Pr._
=Penser, vivre, et mourir en roi=--To think, live, and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._
=Pensez à bien=--Think of good. _M._ 45
=People abuse freedom only where they have asserted it, not where it has been given them.= _Börne._
=People are always expecting to get peace in heaven; but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever of making peace they can be blest for must be on the earth here.= _Ruskin._
=People are only accustomed to revolve around themselves.= _Goethe._
=People are rendered sociable by their inability to endure their own society.= _Schiller._
=People are wise for the past day in the evening,= 50 =but never wise enough for the coming one.= _Rückert._
=People, crushed by laws, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less.= _Burke._
=People dispute a great deal about the good that is done and the harm by disseminating the Bible= (_Bibelverbreitung_). =To me this is clear: the Bible will do harm if, as hitherto, it is used dogmatically and interpreted fancifully, and it will do good if it is treated feelingly and applied didactically.= _Goethe._
=People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.= _Mackenzie._
=People do not lack strength; they lack will.= _Victor Hugo._
=People do not mind their faults being spread= 55 =out before them, but they become impatient if called upon to give them up.= _Goethe._
=People in adversity should preserve laudable customs.= _Clarissa._
=People (in authority) are accustomed merely to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to bid, to further, and to reward. They let things go along till some mischief happens; then they fly into a rage, and lay about them.= _Goethe._
=People love to have all rash actions done in a hurry.= _Goldsmith._
=People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.= _Goethe._
=People must begin before they attempt to finish or improve.= _Wm. Blake._
=People seem to think themselves in some= 5 =ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them; and yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts.= _Anne J. Thackeray._
=People should never sit talking till they don't know what to talk about.= _Saying._
=People that are like-minded= (_Gleichgesinnten_) =can never for any length be disunited= (_entzweien_); =they always come together again; whereas those that are not like-minded= (_Widergesinnten_) =try in vain to maintain harmony; the essential discord between them will be sure to break out some day.= _Goethe._
=People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.= _J. Collier._
=People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.= _Holmes._
=People that will crowd about bonfires may=, 10 =sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all.= _Carlyle._
=People throw stones only at trees which have fruit on them.= _Pr._
=People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.= _Sterne._
=People who are too sharp cut their own fingers.= _Pr._
=People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious and affectionate.= _George Eliot._
=People who do not know how to laugh are always= 15 =pompous and self-conceited.= _Thackeray._
=People who have little to do are great talkers. The less they think the more they talk, and so women talk more than men. A nation where women determine the fashion is always talkative.= _Montesquieu._
=People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent.= _Holmes._
=People who live in glass houses should never throw stones.= _Pr._
=People who never have any time are those who do least.= _Lichtenberg._ (?)
=People will not look forward to posterity who= 20 =never look backward to their ancestors.= _Burke._
=People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean silence.= _Goethe._
=People would do well if they would keep piety, which is so essential and lovable in life, distinct from art, where, owing to its very simplicity and dignity, it checks their energy, allowing only the very highest mind freedom to unite with, if not actually to master, it.= _Goethe._
=Per accidens=--By accident, _i.e._, not following from the nature of the thing, but from some accidental circumstance.
=Per acuta belli=--Through the perils of war. _M._
=Per angusta ad augusta=--Through hardship to 25 triumph. _M._
=Per annum=--By the year; yearly.
=Per ardua liberi=--Free through difficulty. _M._
=Per aspera ad astra=--over rough paths to the stars. _M._
=Per contra=--On the other hand.
=Per Deum et ferrum obtinui=--I have obtained 30 it by God and my sword. _M._
=Per fas et nefas=--By right ways and by wrong.
=Per il suo contrario=--By its opposite. _M._
=Per incuriam=--Through carelessness.
=Per mare per terram=--By sea and land. _M._
=Per obitum=--Through the death of. 35
=Per quod servitium amisit=--For loss of his or her services. _L._
=Per saltam=--By a leap; by passing over the intermediate steps.
=Per undas et ignes fluctuat nec mergitur=--Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. _M. of Paris._
=Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum=--Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. _Virg._
=Per vias rectas=--By direct ways. _M._ 40
=Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas; / Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit. / Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem=--Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. _Phædr._
=Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est; / Nec retinent patulæ commissa fideliter aures=--Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. _Hor._
=Perdidit arma, locum virtutis deseruit, qui / Semper in augenda festinat et obruitur re=--He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. _Hor._
=Perdis, et in damno gratia nulla tuo=--You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. _Ovid._
=Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant=--Let 45 our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. _Gr. and Lat. Pr., quoted by Cicero to condemn it._
=Pereunt et imputantur=--They (hours) pass, and are placed to our account. _Mart._
=Perfect existence can only be where spirit and body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual body.= (?)
=Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself.= _Goethe._
=Perfect light / Would dazzle, not illuminate, the sight; / From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven.= _Lord Houghton._
=Perfect love canna be without equality.= _Sc. Pr._
=Perfect love casteth out fear.= _St. John._
=Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.= _J. G. Holland._
=Perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to= 5 =comfort, and command; / And yet a spirit still, and bright / With something of an angel light.= _Wordsworth._
=Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.= _Chateaubriand._
=Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot.= _J. C. Weber._
=Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises.= _Goethe._
=Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim=--Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. _Ovid._
=Perfer et obdura; multo graviora tulisti=--Bear 10 and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. _Ovid._
=Perfervidum ingenium Scotorum=--The very ardent temper of the Scots.
=Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen=--Faithless, but, though faithless, still dear. _Tibull._
=Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis componere=--You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. _Hor._
="Perhaps" hinders folks from lying.= _Pr._
=Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to= 15 =denote the manners of the gentleman.= _Hazlitt._
=Perhaps the early grave / Which men weep over may be meant to save.= _Byron._
=Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ / Tractas, et incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso=--The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. _Hor._
=Periculosum est credere et non credere; / Ergo exploranda est veritas, multam prius / Quam stulta prave judicet sententia=--It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. _Phædr._
=Periculum in mora=--There is danger in delay.
=Perierunt tempora longi / Servitii=--My long 20 period of service has led to no advancement. _Juv._
=Perimus licitis=--We come to ruin by permitted things. _Pr._
=Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.= _Hannah More._
=Périsse l'univers pourvu que je me venge!=--Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! _Cyrano._
=Périssons en résistant!=--Let us die resisting! _Fr._
=Perituræ parcite chartæ=--Spare the paper which 25 is fated to perish. _Adapted from Juvenal._
=Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter=--Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. _Ovid._
=Perjurii pœna divina exitium, humana dedecus=--The punishment of perjury at the hands of the gods is perdition; at the hands of man, is disgrace. _One of the laws of the Twelve Tables._
=Perlen bedeuten Thränen=--Pearls mean tears. _Lessing._
=Permanence is what I advocate in all human relations; nomadism, continual change, is prohibitory of any good whatsoever.= _Carlyle._
=Permanence, perseverance, persistence in spite= 30 =of hindrances, discouragements, and "impossibilities:" it is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak; the civilised burgher from the nomadic savage--the species Man from the genus Ape.= _Carlyle._
=Permanence, persistence, is the first condition of all fruitfulness in the ways of men.= _Carlyle._
=Permissu superiorum=--By permission of the superiors.
=Permitte divis cætera=--Commit the rest to the gods. _Hor._
=Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid.= _Lady Montagu._
=Perpetuus nulli datur usus, et hæres / Hæredem= 35 =alterius, velut unda supervenit undam=--Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. _Hor._
=Persecution is a tribute the great must ever pay for pre-eminence.= _Goldsmith._
=Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; it is cruel because it is wrong.= _Whately._
=Persecution to persons in high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.= _Cardinal de Retz._
=Perseverance and audacity generally win.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=Perseverance and tact are the two great= 40 =qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.= _Disraeli._
=Perseverance, dear, my lord, / Keeps honour bright. To have done is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery.= _Troil. and Cres._, iii. 3.
=Perseverance is a Roman virtue that wins each godlike act, and plucks success even from the spear-proof crest of rugged danger.= _Harvard._
=Perseverance performs greater works than strength.= _Pr._
=Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when you rise from a failure to battle again.= _Anon._
=Perseverando=--By persevering. _M._ 45
=Perseverantia=--By perseverance. _M._
=Persevere and never fear.= _Pr._
=Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.= _Vauvenargues._
=Persist, persevere, and you will find most things attainable that are possible.= _Chesterfield._
=Personæ mutæ=--Mute characters in a play. 50
=Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest.= _C. Fox._
=Personal force never goes out of fashion.= (?)
=Personality is everything in art and poetry.= _Goethe._
=Persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul, wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.= _Emerson._
=Persons of fine manners make behaviour the first sign of force,--behaviour, and not performance, or talent, or, much less, wealth.= _Emerson._
=Persons who are very plausible and excessively= 5 =polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you "dear" the first time they see you.= _Spurgeon._
=Perspicuity is the offset of profound thoughts.= _Vauvenargues._
=Persuasion is better than force.= _Pr._
=Peter's in, Paul's out.= _Pr._
=Petit homme abat grand chêne=--A little man fells a tall oak. _Fr. Pr._
=Petit maître=--Fop; coxcomb. _Fr._ 10
=Petite étincelle luit en ténèbres=--A tiny spark shines in the dark. _Fr. Pr._
=Petites affiches=--Advertiser. _Fr._
=Petites maisons=--A madhouse. _Fr._
=Petitio principii=--Begging of the question in debate.
=Petitioners for admittance into favour must= 15 =not harass the condescension of their benefactor.= _Burns._
=Petits soins=--Little attentions. _Fr._
=Petty laws breed great crimes.= _Ouida._
=Peu d'hommes ont été admirés par leurs domestiques=--Few men have been looked up to by their domestics. _Montaigne._
=Peu de bien, peu de soin=--Little wealth, little care. _Fr. Pr._
=Peu de chose nous console, parceque peu de= 20 =chose nous afflige=--Little consoles us because little afflicts us. _Pascal._
=Peu de gens savent être vieux=--Few people know how to be old. _La Roche._
=Peu de gens sont assez sages pour préférer le blame qui leur est utile, à la louange qui les trahit=--Few people are wise enough to prefer censure which may be useful, to flattery which may betray them. _La Roche._
=Peu de moyens, beaucoup d'effet=--Simple means, great results. _Fr. Pr._
=Peu de philosophie mène à méspriser l'érudition; beaucoup de philosophie mène à l'estimer=--A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it, _Chamfort._
=Peu et bien=--Little but good. _Fr._ 25
=Peuples libres, souvenez-vous de cette maxime: on peut acquérir la liberté, mais on ne la retrouve jamais=--Free people, remember this rule: you may acquire liberty, but never regain it if you once lose it. _Rousseau._
=Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire.= _Carlyle._
[Greek: phantasmata theia, kai skiai tôn ontôn]--Divine phantasms and shadows of things that are. _Gr._
=Pharmaca das ægroto, aurum tibi porrigit æger, / Tu morbum curas illius, ille tuum=--You give medicine to a sick man, he hands you your fee; you cure his complaint, he cures yours. _To a doctor._
[Greek: pheideo tôn kteanôn]--Husband your resources. _Gr._ 30
[Greek: phêmê ge mentoi dêmothrous mega sthenei]--The voice of the people truly is great in power. _Æschylus._
=Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.= _Lamb._
="Philistine" must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.= _Heine._
=Philologists, who chase / A panting syllable through time and space, / Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark / To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.= _Cowper._
=Philosophers are only men in armour after all.= 35 _Dickens._
=Philosophers call God "the great unknown." "The great misknown" would be more correct.= _Joseph Roux._
=Philosophia simulari potest, eloquentia non potest=--Philosophy may be feigned, eloquence cannot. _Quinct._
=Philosophy and theology are become theorem, brain-web and shadow, wherein no earnest soul can find solidity for itself. Shadow, I say; yet shadow projected from an everlasting reality within ourselves. Quit the shadow, seek the reality.= _Carlyle to John Sterling._
=Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of.= _Goldsmith._
=Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can= 40 =procure for us God, freedom, immortality. Which, then, is more practical--philosophy or economy?= _Novalis._
=Philosophy does not regard pedigree; she did not receive Plato as a noble, but she made him so.= _Sen._
=Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not; whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.= _Carlyle._
=Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills, but present ills triumph over philosophy.= _La Roche._
=Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.= _Froude._
=Philosophy has given several plausible rules= 45 =for attaining peace and tranquillity, but they fall very much short of bringing men to it.= _Tillotson._
=Philosophy is a bully that talks very loud when the danger is at a distance; but the moment she is hard pressed by the enemy, she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the battle to be borne by her humbler but steadier comrade, Religion.= _Colton._
=Philosophy is a good horse in a stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.= _Goldsmith._
=Philosophy is an elegant thing, if any one modestly meddles with it; but, if he is conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts the man.= _Plato._
=Philosophy is but a continual battle against custom; an ever-renewed effort to transcend the sphere of blind custom, and so become transcendental.= _Carlyle._
=Philosophy is no more than the art of making ourselves happy; that is, of seeking pleasure in regularity, and reconciling what we owe to society with what is due to ourselves.= _Goldsmith._
=Philosophy is nothing but discretion.= _Selden._ 5
=Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.= _Novalis._
=Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.= _Simms._
=Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth; and the stern truths of philosophy are as fatal to the fictions of the one as the chilling testimonies of experience are to the hopes of the other.= _Colton._
=Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.= _Cic._
=Philosophy teaches us to do willingly and= 10 =from conviction what others do under compulsion.= _Arist._
=Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.= _Bacon._
=Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.= _Keats._
[Greek: phobou to gêras, ou gar erchetai monon]--Fear old age, for it does not come alone. _Gr. Pr._
=Phœnices primi, famæ si creditur, ausi / Mansuram= 15 =rudibus vocem signare figuris=--The Phœnicians, if rumour may be trusted, were the first who dared to write down the fleeting word in rude letters. _Lucan._
=Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.= _Addison._
=Physic is of little use to a temperate person, for a man's own observation on what he finds does him good or what hurts him, is the best physic to preserve health.= _Bacon._
=Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a man brave in another.= _Colton._
=Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.= _Lecky._
=Physician, heal thyself.= _Heb. Pr._ 20
=Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.= _Quarles._
=Pia fraus=--A pious fraud (either for good or evil).
=Pick out of mirth, like stones out of thy ground, / Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness.= _George Herbert._
=Pickpockets and beggars are the best practical physiognomists, without having read a line of Lavater, who, it is notorious, mistook a philosopher for a highwayman.= _Colton._
=Pictoribus atque poetis / Quidlibet audendi= 25 =semper fuit æqua potestas=--The power of daring anything their fancy suggests has always been conceded to the painter and the poet. _Hor._
=Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects, and please or displease but in memory.= _Bacon._
=Pie repone te=--Repose in pious confidence. _M._
=Pièce de position=--A heavy gun. _Fr._
=Pièce de résistance=--A solid joint. _Fr._
=Pièces de théâtre=--Plays. _Fr._ 30
=Piety is a kind of modesty. It makes us cast down our thoughts, just as modesty makes us cast down our eyes in presence of whatever is forbidden.= _Joubert._
=Piety is not a religion, although it is the soul of all religions.= _Joubert._
=Piety is only a means whereby, through purest inward peace, we may attain to highest culture.= _Quoted by Emerson from Goethe._
=Piety, like wisdom, consists in the discovery of the rules under which we are actually placed, and in faithfully obeying them.= _Froude._
=Piety, stretched beyond a certain point, is the= 35 =parent of impiety.= _Sydney Smith._
=Pigmæi gigantum humeris impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident=--Dwarfs on a giant's back see more than the giant himself. _Didacus Stella._
=Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps; / And pyramids are pyramids in vales.= _Young._
=Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.= _Pr._
=Pigs grunt about everything and nothing.= _Pr._
=Pigs when they fly go tail first.= _Pr._ 40
=Pikes are caught when little fish go by.= _R. Southwell._
=Pillen muss man schlingen, nicht kauen=--Pills must be swallowed, not chewed. _Ger. Pr._
=Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own?= _Carlyle._
=Pinguis venter non gignit sensum tenuem=--A fat paunch does not produce fine sense. _St. Jerome, from the Greek._
=Pis-aller=--A last shift. _Fr._ 45
=Pitch a lucky man into the Nile and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.= _Arab. Pr._
=Pitch thy behaviour low, thy projects high; / So shalt thou humble and magnanimous be.= _George Herbert._
=Pith's gude at a' play but threadin' o' needles.= _Sc. Pr._
=Pity and friendship are passions incompatible with each other.= _Goldsmith._
=Pity and need make all flesh kin. There is no= 50 =caste in blood / Which runneth of one hue; nor caste in tears, which trickle salt with all.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Pity him who has his choice, and chooses the worse.= _Gael. Pr._
=Pity is a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.= _Colton._
=Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity.= _Hobbes._
=Pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=Pity makes the world / Soft to the weak and= 55 =noble for the strong.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Pity only with new objects stays, / But with the tedious sight of woe decays.= _Dryden._
=Pity shapes not into syllogisms; / Nor can affection ape philosophy.= _Lewis Morris._
=Pity, the tenderest part of love.= _Yalden._
=Pity those whom Nature abuses, never those who abuse Nature.= _Sheridan._
=Pity weakness and ignorance, bear with the= 5 =dulness of understandings, or perverseness of tempers.= _Law._
=Più ombra che frutto fanno gli arberi grandi=--Large trees yield more shade than fruit. _It. Pr._
=Più sa il matto in casa sua che il savio in casa d'altri=--The fool knows more in his own house than a wise man does in another's. _It. Pr._
=Più vale il fumo di casa mia, che il fuoco dell'altrui=--The smoke of my own house is better than the fire of another's. _It. Pr._
=Place moral heroes in the field, and heroines will follow them as brides.= _Jean Paul._
=Placeat homini quidquid Deo placuit=--That 10 which has seemed good to God should seem good to man. _Sen._
=Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.= _Coleridge._
=Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.= _I. Disraeli._
=Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue.= _Pr._
=Plain dealing's a jewel, but they that use it die beggars.= _Pr._
=Plain living and high thinking.= _Wordsworth._ 15
=Plants are children of the earth; we are children of the ether. Our lungs are properly our root; we live when we breathe: we begin our life with breathing.= _Novalis._
=Plaster thick, / Some will stick.= _Pr._
=Plate sin with gold, / And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; / Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=Plato enim mihi unus est instar omnium=--Plato alone in my regard is worth them all. _Antimachus, in Cic._
=Plato's scheme was impossible even in his own= 20 =day, as Bacon's "New Atlantis" in his day, as Calvin's reform in his day, as Goethe's "Academe" in his. Out of the good there was in all these men, the world gathered what it could find of evil, made its useless Platonism out of Plato, its graceless Calvinism out of Calvin, determined Bacon to be the meanest of mankind, and of Goethe gathered only a luscious story of seduction, and daintily singable devilry.= _Ruskin._
=Plausibus ex ipsis populi, lætoque furore, / ingenium quodvis incaluisse potest=--At the applauses of the public, and at its transports of joy, every genius may grow warm. _Ovid._
=Plausus tunc arte carebat=--In those days applause was unaffected. _Ovid._
=Play not for gain, but sport.= _George Herbert._
=Play, that is, activity, not pleasures, will keep children cheerful.= _Jean Paul._
=Play the man.= _George Herbert._ 25
=Pleasant tastes depend, not on the things themselves, but their agreeableness to this or that particular palate.= _Locke._
=Pleasant words are as an honeycomb; sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.= _Bible._
=Pleas'd with a rattle, tickl'd with a straw.= _Pope._
=Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite,= 30 =are yet so contrived by nature as to be constant companions.= _Charron._
=Pleasure and revenge / Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice / Of any true decision.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 2.
=Pleasure and sympathy in things is all that is real and again produces reality; all else is empty and vain.= _Goethe._
=Pleasure can be supported by illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.= _Chamfort._
=Pleasure is a wanton trout; / An ye drink but deep ye'll find him out.= _Burns._
=Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a= 35 =business.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain, the enjoying of something I am in great trouble for till I get it.= _John Selden._
=Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.= _Plato._
=Pleasure is the reflex of unimpeded energy.= _Sir W. Hamilton._
=Pleasure itself is painful at bottom.= _Montaigne._
=Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.= 40 _Burke._
=Pleasure preconceived and preconcerted ends in disappointment; but disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.= _Johnson._
=Pleasure soon exhausts us, and itself also but endeavour never does.= _Jean Paul._
=Pleasure which cannot be obtained but by unreasonable and unsuitable expense, must always end in pain.= _Johnson._
=Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.= _Johnson._
=Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.= _Duganne._ 45
=Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowflake in the river, / A moment white, then melts for ever.= _Burns._
=Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; / There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground / But holds some joy of silence or of sound, / Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.= _Blanchard._
=Pleasures waste the spirits more than pains.= _Zimmermann._
=Pledges taken of faithless minds, / I hold them but as the idle winds / Heard and forgot.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards; hardness= 50 =ever of hardiness is mother.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 6.
=Plenty makes dainty.= _Sc. Pr._
[Greek: pleon hêmisy pantos]--The half (_i.e._ well used) is more than the whole (_i.e._ abused). _Hesiod._
=Plerique enim lacrimas fundunt ut ostendant; et toties siccos oculos habent, quoties spectator definit=--Many shed tears merely for show; and have their eyes quite dry whenever there is no one to observe them. _Sen._
=Plerumque modestus / Occupat obscuri speciem, taciturnus acerbi=--Usually the modest man passes for a reserved man, the silent for a sullen one. _Hor._
=Ploratur lacrymis amissa pecunia veris=--The loss of money is bewailed with unaffected tears. _Juv._
=Ploravere suis non respondere favorem / Speratum meritis=--They lamented that their merits did not meet with the gratitude they hoped for. _Hor._
=Plough deep while sluggards sleep.= _Franklin._
=Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.= 5 _Pr._
=Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.= _Goethe._
=Plura faciunt homines e consuetudine quam e ratione=--Men do more things from custom than from reason.
=Plura sunt quæ nos terrent, quam quæ premunt; et sæpius opinione quam re laboramus=--There are more things to alarm than to harm us, and we suffer much oftener in apprehension than reality. _Sen._
=Plures adorant solem orientem quam occidentem=--More do homage to the rising sun than the setting one. _Pr._
=Plures crapula quam gladius=--Excess kills more 10 than the sword. _Pr._
=Plurima mortis imago=--Death in very many a form. _Virg._
=Plurima sont quæ / Non audent homines pertusa dicere læna=--There are very many things that men, when their cloaks have got holes in them, dare not say. _Juv._
=Pluris est oculatus testis unus quam auriti decem. / Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt=--One eye-witness is better than ten from mere hearsay. Hearers can only tell what they heard. Those who see, know exactly. _Plaut._
=Plus aloes quam mellis habet=--She has more of the aloe than the honey. _Juv._
=Plus dolet quam necesse est, qui ante dolet= 15 =quam necesse est=--He who grieves before it is necessary, grieves more than is necessary.
=Plus etenim fati valet hora benigni / Quam si nos Veneris commendet epistola Marti=--A moment of smiling fortune is of more avail (to a soldier) than if he were recommended to Mars by an epistle from Venus. _Juv._
=Plus fait douceur que violence=--Gentleness does more than violence. _La Fontaine._
=Plus impetus, majorem constantiam, penes miseros=--We find greater violence and more perseverance among the wretched. _Tac._
=Plus in amicitia valet similitudo morum quam affinitas=--Similarity of manners conduces more to friendship than relationship. _Corn. Nep._
=Plus in posse quam in actu=--More in possibility 20 than actuality.
=Plus je vis l'étranger, plus j'aimai ma patrie=--The more I saw of foreign countries, the more I loved my own. _De Belloy._
=Plus on approche des grands hommes, plus on trouve qu'ils sont hommes=--The nearer one approaches to great persons, the more one sees that they are but men. _La Bruyère._
=Plus on lui ôte, plus il est grand=--The more you take from him, the greater he is. _Quoted by Emerson._
=Plus ratio quam vis cæca valere solet=--Reason can generally effect more than blind force. _Gallus._
=Plus salis quam sumptus=--More taste than expense. 25 _Corn. Nep._
=Plus une pierre est jétée de haut, plus elle fait d'impression où elle tombe=--The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls. _Fr._ (?)
=Plus vetustis nam favet / Invidia mordax, quam bonis præsentibus=--Stinging envy is more merciful to good things that are old than such as are new. _Phædr._
=Plutarch warns young men that it is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it, instead of kindling a torch of their own.= _John Morley._
=Plutôt une défaite au Rhin que l'abandon du Pape!=--Rather a defeat on the Rhine than abandon the Pope. _Louis Napoleon, to the proposal to buy the allegiance of Italy against Germany by the sacrifice of Rome._
=Poco daño espanta, y mucho amansa=--A little 30 loss alarms one, a great loss tames one down. _Sp. Pr._
=Poem (a) is a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.= _Emerson._
=Poems that are great, books that are great, all of them, if you search the first foundation of their greatness, have been veridical, the truest they could get to be.= _Carlyle._
=Poesie ist tiefes Schmerzen, / Und es kommt das echte Lied / Einzig aus dem Menschenherzen / Das ein tiefes Leid durchglüht=--Poetry is deep pain, and the genuine song issues only from the human heart through which a deep sorrow glows. _Justin Kerner._
=Poesy is love's chosen apostle, and the very almoner of God. She is the home of the outcast, and the wealth of the needy.= _Lowell._
=Poesy is of so subtle a spirit, that in pouring= 35 =out of one language into another it will evaporate.= _Denham._
=Poeta nascitur, non fit=--A poet is born, not made. _L._
=Poetica surgit / Tempestas=--A storm is gathering in the poetic world. _Juv._
=Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.= _Plato._
=Poetry creates life.= _Fred. W. Robertson._
=Poetry has given me the habit of wishing to= 40 =discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.= _Coleridge._
=Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses a particle of it.= _Thoreau._
=Poetry incorporates those spirits which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; and sheds the perfume of those flowers which spring up but never bear any seed.= _Jean Paul._
=Poetry interprets in two ways: by expressing with magical felicity the physiognomy and movements of the outer world; and by expressing with inward conviction the ideas and laws of the inward.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men.= _Stedman._
=Poetry is always a personal interpretation of= 45 =life.= _H. W. Mabie._
=Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, and the hardest in which to reach true excellence.= _Stedman._
=Poetry is an attempt man makes to render his existence harmonious.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is faith.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is inestimable as a lonely faith, a lonely protest in the uproar of atheism.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is inspiration; has in it a certain spirituality= 5 =and divinity which no dissecting knife will discover; arises in the most secret and most sacred region of man's soul, as it were in our Holy of Holies; and as for external things, depends only on such as can operate in that region; among which it will be found that Acts of Parliament and the state of Smithfield Markets nowise play the chief parts.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is music in words, and music is poetry in sound; both excellent sauce, but they have lived and died poor that made them their meal.= _Fuller._
=Poetry is musical thought, thought of a mind that has penetrated into the inmost heart of a thing, detected the melody that lies hidden in it, ... the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.= _Carlyle._
=Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.= _Balzac._
=Poetry is right royal. It puts the individual for the species, the one above the infinite many.= _Hazlitt._
=Poetry is something to make us wiser and= 10 =better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.= _Lowell._
=Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.= _Burke._
=Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason.= _Johnson._
=Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.= _Wordsworth._
=Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.= _J. Roux._
=Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge--it= 15 =is as immortal as the heart of man.= _Wordsworth._
=Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.= _Hare._
=Poetry is the language of feeling.= _W. Winter._
=Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.= _Lamartine._
=Poetry is the music of the soul; and, above all, of great and feeling souls.= _Voltaire._
=Poetry is the offspring of the rarest beauty,= 20 =begot by imagination upon thought, and clad by taste and fancy in habiliments of grace.= _Simms._
=Poetry is the only verity, the expression of a sound mind speaking after the ideal, and not after the apparent.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is the perpetual endeavour to express the spirit of the thing; to pass the brute body, and search the life and reason which cause it to exist; to see that the object is always flowing away, whilst the spirit or necessity which causes it subsists.= _Emerson._
=Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.= _Shelley._
=Poetry is the utterance of truth,--deep, heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.= _Chapin._
=Poetry is the worst mask in the world behind= 25 =which folly and stupidity could attempt to hide their features.= _Bryant._
=Poetry itself is strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.= _J. Sterling._
=Poetry must first be good sense, though it is something better.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=Poetry ought to go straight to the heart, because it has come from the heart; and aim at the man in the citizen, and not the citizen in the man.= _Schiller._
=Poetry says more and in fewer words than prose.= _Voltaire._
=Poetry should be great and unobtrusive.= _Keats._ 30
=Poetry should be vital, either stirring our blood by its divine movements, or snatching our breath by its divine perfection.= _A. Birrell._
=Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.= _Holmes._
=Poetry was given to us to hide the little discords of life and to make man contented with the world and his condition.= _Goethe._
=Poetry, were it the rudest, so it be sincere, is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious, the utmost he can do for that end; it springs therefore from his whole feelings, opinions, activity, and takes its character from these. It may be called the music of the whole inner being.= _Carlyle._
=Poets and heroes are of the same race; the= 35 =latter do what the former conceive.= _Lamartine._
=Poets and painters ha'e leave to lee.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them.= _Bailey._
=Poets are liberating gods; they are free and make free.= _Emerson._
=Poets are natural sayers, sent into the world for the end of expression.= _Emerson._
=Poets are never young in one sense. Their= 40 =delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.= _Holmes._
=Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.= _Schiller._
=Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.= _Disraeli._
=Poets lose half the praise they should have got, / Could it be known what they discreetly blot.= _Waller._
=Poets of old date, being privileged with senses, had also enjoyed external Nature; but chiefly as we enjoy the crystal cup which holds good or bad liquor for us; that is to say, in silence, or with slight incidental commentary; never, as I compute, till after the "Sorrows of Werter" was there man found who would say: Come, let us make a description: Having drunk the liquor, Come, let us eat the glass.= _Carlyle._
=Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, the day's work.= _Emerson._
=Poets should turn philosophers in age, as Pope did. We are apt to grow chilly when we sit out our fire.= _Sterne._
=Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.= _Plato._
=Point d'argent, point de Suisse=--No money, no Swiss. _Fr. Pr._
=Policy sits above conscience.= _Timon of Athens_, 5 iii. 2.
=Polished steel will not shine in the dark; no more can reason, however refined, shine efficaciously but as it reflects the light of Divine truth shed from heaven.= _John Foster._
=Politeness is benevolence in small things.= (?)
=Politeness is real kindness kindly expressed.= _Witherspoon._
=Politeness is the flower of humanity.= _Joubert._
=Politeness is to goodness what words are to= 10 =thoughts.= _Joubert._
=Politeness makes a man appear outwardly as he should be within.= _La Bruyère._
=Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.= _Montesquieu._
=Politicians think that by stopping up the chimney they can stop its smoking. They try the experiment; they drive the smoke back, and there is more smoke than ever.= _Borne._
=Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.= _Emerson._
=Politics is the science of exigencies.= _Theodore_ 15 _Parker._
[Greek: polla metaxy pelei kylikos kai cheileos akrou]--Much may happen between the cup and the lip. _Gr._
[Greek: polla ta deina kouden anthrôpou deinoteron pelei]--Many dread powers exist, and no one more so than man. _Sophocles._
=Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa=--The solemnity associated with death awes us more than death itself.
[Greek: pompholox ho anthrôpos]--Man is an air-bubble. _Gr. Pr._
=Ponamus nimios gemitus; flagrantior æquo /= 20 =Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major=--Let us dismiss excessive laments; a man's grief should not be immoderate, nor greater than the wound received. _Juv._
=Ponderanda sunt testimonia, non numeranda=--Testimonies are to be weighed, not counted.
=Pone seram, cohibe; sed quis custodiet ipsos / Custodes? cauta est, et ab illis incipit uxor=--Fasten the bolt and restrain her; but who is to watch over the watchers themselves? The wife is cunning, and will begin with them. _Juv._
=Pons asinorum=--The asses' bridge. _The Fifth Proposition in the First Book of Euclid._
=Ponto nox incubat atra, / Intonuere poli et crebris micat ignibus æther=--Black night sits brooding on the deep; the heavens thunder, and the ether gleams with incessant flashes. _Virg._
=Poor and content is rich and rich enough; /= 25 =But riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him that ever fears he shall be poor.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Poor folk hae neither ony kindred nor ony freends.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folk seek meat for their stomachs, and rich folks stomachs for their meat.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folks are glad of porridge.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poor folks must say "Thank ye" for little.= _Pr._
=Poor folk's wisdom goes for little.= _Dut. Pr._ 30
=Poor in abundance, famished at a feast, man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality.= _Young._
=Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare.= _Thomson._
=Poor love is lost in men's capacious minds; / In women's it fills all the room it finds.= _John Crowne._
=Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.= _It. Pr._
=Poor men, when Yule is cold, / Must be content= 35 =to sit by little fires.= _Tennyson._
=Poor men's tables are soon placed.= _Pr._
=Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, / That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, / How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, / Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you / From seasons such as these? O I have ta'en / Too little care of this!= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=Poor tenant bodies, scant o' cash, / How they maun thole= (bear) =a factor's snash; / He'll stamp and threaten, curse and swear, / He'll apprehend them, poind their gear; / While they maun= (must) =stan', wi' aspect humble, / An' hear it a', and fear and tremble!= _Burns._
=Poor the raiment you may wear, / Scanty fare at best be thine; / Let the soul within be clothed / With a majesty divine.= _M. W. Wood._
=Poor though I am, despised, forgot, / Yet God,= 40 =my God, forgets me not; / And he is safe, and must succeed, / For whom the Lord vouchsafes to plead.= _Cowper._
=Poor, wandering, wayward man! Art thou not tired, and beaten with stripes, even as I am? Ever, whether thou bear the royal mantle or the beggar's gaberdine, art thou so weary, so heavy-laden; and thy bed of rest is but a grave.= _Carlyle._
=Poor when I have, poor when I haven't, poor will I ever be.= _Gael. Pr._
=Poortith= (poverty) =is better than pride.= _Sc. Pr._
=Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain.= _Goldsmith._
=Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.= 45 _Carlyle._
=Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.= _J. S. Mill._
=Popularity is a blaze of illumination, or alas! of conflagration, kindled round a man; showing what is in him; not putting the smallest item more into him; often abstracting much from him; conflagrating the poor man himself into ashes and "caput mortuum."= _Carlyle._
=Populus me sibilat; at mihi plaudo / Ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca=--The people hiss me; but I applaud myself at home as soon as I gaze upon the coins in my chest. _Hor., for the miser._
=Populus vult decipi; decipiatur=--The people wish to be deceived; then let them.
=Por mucho madrugar, no amanéce mas aina=--Early rising does not make the day dawn sooner. _Sp. Pr._
=Porcus Epicuri=-A pig of Epicurus.
=Porro unum est necessarium=--But one thing is needful. _M._
=Porte fermée, le diable s'en va=--The devil goes 5 away when he sees a shut door. _Fr. Pr._
=Portrait-painting may be to the painter what the practical knowledge of the world is to the poet, provided he considers it as a school by which he is to acquire the means of perfection in his art, and not as the object of that perfection.= _Burke._
=Portraiture is the basis and the touchstone of historic painting.= _Schlegel._
=Positive happiness is constitutional and incapable of increase; misery is artificial, and generally proceeds from our folly.= _Goldsmith._
=Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because whoever would obtrude his thoughts and reasons upon a multitude, win convince others the more as he appears convinced himself.= _Swift._
=Posse comitatus=--The power of the county, which 10 the sheriff has the power to raise in certain cases. _L._
=Possession is nine-tenths of the law.= _Pr._
=Possession of land implies the duty of living on it, and by it, if there is enough to live on; then ... if there is more land than enough for one's self, the duty of making it fruitful and beautiful for as many more as can live on it.= _Ruskin._
=Possunt quia posse videntur=--They are able because they look as if they were. _Virg._
=Post bellum auxilium=--Aid after the war is over.
=Post cineres gloria sera venit=--- Glory comes too 15 late after one is reduced to ashes. _Mart._
=Post epulas stabis vel passus mille meabis=--After eating, you should either stand or walk a mile. _Pr._
=Post equitem sedet atra cura=--Behind the horseman sits dark care. _Hor._
=Post hoc; ergo propter hoc=--After this; therefore on account of this. _A logical fallacy._
=Post mediam noctem visus quum somnia vera=--He appeared to me in vision after midnight, when dreams are true. _Hor._
=Post nubila Phœbus=--After clouds the sun. _M._
=Post prælia præmia=--After battle rewards. _M._
=Post tenebras lux=--After darkness light. _M._
=Post tot naufragia portum=--After so many shipwrecks we reach port. _M._
=Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.= _Colton._
=Postulata=--Things admitted; postulates. 25
=Pot! don't call the kettle black.= _Pr._
=Potatoes don't grow by the side of the pot.= _Pr._
=Potentissimus est, qui se habet in potestate=--He is the most powerful who has himself in his power. _Sen._
=Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet.= _Hesiod._
[Greek: pou stô]--Where I may stand, and plant my lever. 30 _Archimedes._
=Pound an almond, and the clear white colour will be altered into a dirty one, and the sweet taste into an oily one.= _Locke._
=Pour avoir du goût, il faut avoir de l'âme=--To have taste, one must have some soul. _Vauvenargues._
=Pour bien connaître un homme il faut avoir mangé un boisseau de sel avec lui=--To know a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour bien désirer=--To desire good. _M._
=Pour bien instruire, il ne faut pas dire tout ce= 35 =qu'on sait, mais seulement ce qui convient à ceux qu'on instruit=--To teach successfully we must not tell all we know, but only what is adapted to the pupil we are teaching. _La Harpe._
=Pour comble de bonheur=--As the height of happiness. _Fr._
=Pour connaître le prix de l'argent, il faut être obligé d'en emprunter=--To know the value of money, a man has only to borrow. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour connaître les autres, il faut se connaître soi-même=--To know other people one must know one's self. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour couper court=--To cut the matter short. _Fr._
=Pour dompter les anglais, / Il faut bâtir un= 40 =pont / Sur le Pas-de-Calais=--To conquer the English one must build a bridge over the Straits of Dover. _A French song._
=Pour encourager les autres=--To encourage the rest to go and do likewise. _Fr._
=Pour être assez bon, il faut l'être trop=--To be good enough, one must be too good. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour exécuter de grandes choses il faut vivre comme si on ne devait jamais mourir=--To achieve great things a man should so live as if he were never to die. _La Roche._
=Pour faire de l'esprit=--To play the wit. _Fr._
=Pour faire rire=--To excite laughter. _Fr._ 45
=Pour faire un bon ménage il faut que l'homme soit sourd et la femme aveugle=--To live happily together the husband must be deaf and the wife blind. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, / Obedient passions, and a will resigned; / For love, which scarce collective man can fill; / For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; / For faith, that, panting for a happier seat, / Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.= _Johnson._
=Pour grands que soient les rois, ils sont ce que nous sommes; / Ils peuvent se tromper comme les autres hommes=--However great kings may be, they are what we are; they may be deceived like other men. _Corn._
=Pour l'ordinaire la fortune nous vend bien chèrement, ce qu'on croit qu'elle nous donne=--Fortune usually sells us very dear what we fancy she is giving us. _Fr._
=Pour parvenir à bonne foy=--To succeed honourably. 50 _M._
=Pour qui ne les croit pas, il n'est pas de prodiges=--There are no miracles for those who have no faith in them. _Fr._
=Pour ranger le loup, il faut le marier=--To tame the wolf you must get him married. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour savoir quelles étoient véritablement les opinions des hommes, je devois plutôt prendre garde à ce qu'ils pratiquoient qu'à ce qu'ils disoient=--To know what men really think, I would pay regard rather to what they do than to what they say. _Descartes._
=Pour se faire valoir=--To make one's self of consequence.
=Pour s'établir dans le monde, on fait tout ce que l'on peut pour y paraître établi=--To establish himself in the world a man must do all he can to appear already established. _La Roche._
=Pour soutenir les droits que le ciel autorise, / Abîme tout plutôt; c'est l'esprit de l'église=--To maintain your rights granted by Heaven, let everything perish rather than yield; this is the spirit of the Church. _Boileau._
=Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis: /= 5 =On peut tout employer contre ses ennemis=--We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. _Richelieu._
=Pour un plaisir mille douleurs=--For a single pleasure a thousand pains. _Fr. Pr._
=Pour y parvenir=--To carry your point. _M._
=Povertà non ha parenti=--Poor people have no relations. _It. Pr._
=Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples.= _Ger. Pr._
=Poverty breeds strife.= _Pr._ 10
=Poverty breeds wealth, and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth to form the mould is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.= _Hare._
=Poverty consists in feeling poor.= _Emerson._
=Poverty demoralises.= _Emerson._
=Poverty ever comes at the call.= _Goldsmith._
=Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.= 15 _Pr._
=Poverty, incessant drudgery, and much worse evils, it has often been the lot of poets and wise men to strive with, and their glory to conquer.= _Carlyle._
=Poverty is but as the pain of piercing the ears of a maiden, and you hang jewels in the wound.= _Jean Paul._
=Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.= _Pub. Syr._
=Poverty is no crime and no credit.= _Pr._
=Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed= 20 =of it is.= _Pr._
=Poverty is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance. It is the care of a great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and everyday is lost in contriving for to-morrow.= _Johnson._
=Poverty is the mither= (mother) =o' a' arts.= _Sc. Pr._
=Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in supporting it.= _Jean Paul._
=Poverty is the reward of idleness.= _Dut. Pr._
=Poverty makes people satirical--soberly, sadly,= 25 =bitterly satirical.= _H. Friswell._
=Poverty of soul is irreparable.= _Montesquieu._
=Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry and casts resolution itself into despair.= _Addison._
=Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.= _Lucian._
=Poverty should engender an honest pride, that= 30 =it may not lead and tempt us to unworthy
## actions.= _Dickens._
=Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood.= _Heine._
=Poverty snatches the reins out of the hands of piety.= _Saadi._
=Poverty takes away so many means of doing good, and produces so much inability to resist evil, both natural and moral, that it is by all virtuous means to be avoided.= _Johnson._
=Poverty treads upon the heels of great and unexpected riches.= _La Bruyère._
=Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice= 35 =all things.= _Cowley._
=Power and permanence reside only in limitations.= _Grabbe._
=Power belongeth unto God.= _Bible._
=Power cannot have too gentle an expression.= _Jean Paul._
=Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.= _Sen._
=Power, in its quality and degree, is the= 40 =measure of manhood.= _J. G. Holland._
=Power is according to quality, not quantity. How much more are men than nations?= _Emerson._
=Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Power is no blessing in itself, but when it is employed to protect the innocent.= _Swift._
=Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome.= _Johnson._
=Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness= 45 =in itself has the aspect of strength.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanized automaton.= _Shelley._
=Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.= _Colton._
=Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring.= _Bacon._
=Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.= _Colton._
=Power's footstool is opinion, and his throne the= 50 =human heart.= _Sir Aubrey de Vere._
=Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Practically men have come to imagine that the laws of this universe, like the laws of constitutional countries, are decided by voting; that it is all a study of division-lists, and for the universe too depends a little on the activity of the whippers-in.= _Carlyle._
=Practice aims at what is immediate; speculation at what is remote. In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation, and ensure success, because, by limiting their range, they increase the tenacity with which they grasp events, while in speculative life the course is exactly the reverse, since in that department the greater the range the greater the command.= _Buckle._
=Practice in time becomes second nature.= _Anon._
=Practice is everything.= _Periander._
=Practice makes perfect.= _Pr._ 5
=Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule.= _Locke._
=Practise thrift, or else you'll drift.= _Pr._
=Præcedentibus insta=--Follow close on those who precede. _M._
=Præcepta ducunt, at exempla trahunt=--Precept guides, but example draws. _Pr._
=Præmia virtutis honores=--Honours are the rewards 10 of virtue. _M._
=Præsis ut prosis=--Be first, that you may be of service. _M._
=Præsto et persto=--I press on and persevere. _M._
=Praise a fool and you may make him useful.= _Dan. Pr._
=Praise a fool, and you water his folly.= _Pr._
=Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes= 15 =her at the grave. Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then.= _Lowell._
=Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.= _Steele._
=Praise God more, and blame neighbours less.= _Pr._
=Praise is indeed the consequence and encouragement of virtue; but it is sometimes so unseasonably applied as to become its bane and corruption too.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original motive of almost all our
## actions.= _Johnson._
=Praise is the tribute of men, but felicity the= 20 =gift of God.= _Bacon._
=Praise is virtue's shadow; who courts her doth more the handmaid than the dame admire.= _Heath._
=Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.= _Johnson._
=Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.= _Pr._
=Praise Peter, but don't find fault with Paul.= _Pr._
=Praise the bridge which carries you over.= _Pr._ 25
=Praise the hill, but keep below.= _Pr._
=Praise the sea, but keep on land.= _George Herbert._
=Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.= _Pope._
[Greek: praos tous logous, oxys ta pragmata]--Mild in speech, keen in action. _Himerius._
=Pray devoutly, / And hammer stoutly.= _Pr._ 30
=Pray to God, but keep the hammer going.= _Pr._
=Pray to God, sailor, but pull for the shore.= _Pr._
=Prayer and practice is good rhyme.= _Sc. Pr._
=Prayer and provender never hinder a journey.= _Pr._
=Prayer is a groan.= _St. Jerome._ 35
=Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereto.= _Luther._
=Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.= _Bunyan._
=Prayer is a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite.= _Emerson._
=Prayer is a turning of one's soul, in heroic reverence, in infinite desire and endeavour, towards the Highest, the All-excellent, Supreme.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend._
=Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of= 40 =the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formulæ.... Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Prayer is the aspiration of our poor, struggling, heavy-laden soul towards its Eternal Father, and, with or without words, ought not to become impossible, nor need it ever. Loyal sons and subjects can approach the King's throne who have no "request" to make there except that they may continue loyal.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend._
=Prayer is the cable, at whose end appears / The anchor hope, ne'er slipp'd but in our fears.= _Quarles._
=Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, / The Christian's native air.= _James Montgomery._
=Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of Omnipotence.= _Martin Tupper._
=Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, / Uttered= 45 =or unexpressed, / The motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.= _J. Montgomery._
=Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven; and meditation the eye with which we see God.= _St. Ambrose._
=Prayer knocks till the door opens.= _Pr._
=Prayer, like Jonathan's bow, returns not empty.= _Gurnall._
=Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.= _Anon._
=Prayer must not come from the roof of the= 50 =mouth, but from the root of the heart.= _Pr._
=Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.= _Jean Paul._
=Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.= _Pr._
=Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. As a means to effect a private end, it is meanness and theft.= _Emerson._
=Prayers are but the body of the bird; desires are its angel's wings.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Praying's the end of preaching.= _George Herbert._ 55
=Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the sceptic.= _H. Ballou._
=Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.= _Emerson._
=Précepte commence, exemple achève=--Precept begins, example perfects. _Fr._
=Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.= _Sen._
=Preces armatæ=--Armed prayers, _i.e._, with arms to back them up.
=Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Precious ointments are put in small boxes.= _Pr._
=Predominant opinions are generally the= 5 =opinions of the generation that is vanishing.= _Disraeli._
=Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings grief but once, this for ever.= _Chilo._
=Prejudice is a prophet which prophesies only evil.= _Pr._
=Prejudice is the child of ignorance.= _Hazlitt._
=Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.= _Duchess d'Abrantes._
=Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is man's= 10 =absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere leads him by the nose: thus let but a rising of the sun, let but a creation of the world happen twice, and it ceases to be marvellous, to be noteworthy or noticeable.= _Carlyle._
=Prendre la clef des champs=--To run away (_lit._ take the key of the fields). _Fr. Pr._
=Prendre les choses au pis=--To regard matters in the most unfavourable light. _Fr._
=Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second=--Take a woman's first advice and not her second. _Fr. Pr._
=Prends moi tel que je suis=--Take me as I am. _M._
=Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.= 15 _Macb._, i. 3.
=Preserve the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all.= _Bacon._
=Pressure alone causes water to rise and directs it.= _Renan._
=Presumption is our natural and original disease.= _Montaigne._
=Presumptuousness, which audaciously strides over all the steps of gradual culture, affords little encouragement to hope for any masterpiece.= _Goethe._
=Prêt d'accomplir=--Ready to accomplish. _M._ 20
=Prêt pour mon pays=--Ready for my country. _M._
="Pretty Pussy" will not feed a cat.= _Pr._
=Prevention is better than cure.= _Pr._
=Pria Veneziani, poi Christiane=--Venetian first, Christian afterwards. _Ven. Pr._
=Pride adds to a man's stature; vanity only= 25 =puffs him out.= _Chamfort._
=Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.= _Sc. Pr._
=Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often live together.= _Pr._
=Pride feels no cold.= _Pr._
=Pride flows from want of reflection and ignorance of ourselves. Knowledge and humility come upon us together.= _Addison._
=Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty= 30 =spirit before a fall.= _Bible._
=Pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill-manners; without some one of these defects no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.= _Swift._
=Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden.= _Howell._
=Pride is lofty, calm, immovable; vanity is uncertain, capricious, and unjust.= _Chamfort._
=Pride is still aiming at the blest abodes; /= 35 =Men would be angels, angels would be gods; / Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, / Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.= _Pope._
=Pride is the source of a thousand virtues; vanity is that of nearly all vices and all perversities.= _Chamfort._
=Pride must suffer pain.= _Pr._
=Pride never leaves its master till he gets a fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.= _Lowell._
=Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.= _Pope._ 40
=Pride will have a fall; for pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.= _Pr._
=Pride with pride will not abide.= _Pr._
=Pride would never owe, nor self-love ever pay.= _La Roche._
=Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but bony bodies.= _Pr._
=Priestcraft is no better than witchcraft.= _Pr._ 45
=Priesthoods that do not teach, aristocracies that do not govern; the misery of that, and the misery of altering that, are written in Belshazzar fire-letters on the history of France.= _Carlyle._
=Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 2.
=Prima et maxima peccantium est pœna peccasse=--The first and greatest punishment of sinners is the conscience of sin. _Sen._
=Prima facie=--At first sight or view of a case.
=Primo avulso non deficit alter / aureus=--The first 50 being wrenched away, another of gold succeeds. _Virg._
=Primum mobile=--The primary motive power.
=Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor=--It was fear that first suggested the existence of the gods. _Statius._
=Primus inter pares=--The first among equals.
=Primus sapientiæ gradus est falsa intelligere=--The first step towards wisdom is to distinguish what is false.
=Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, /= 55 ="An honest man's the noblest work of God."= _Burns._
=Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; / A breath can make them, as a breath has made.= _Goldsmith._
=Principes mortales, rempublicam æternam=--Princes are mortal, the republic is eternal. _Tac._
=Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est=--To have earned the goodwill of the great is not the least of merits. _Hor._
=Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur, / Cum mala per longas convaluere moras=--Resist the first beginnings; a cure is attempted too late when through long delay the malady has waxed strong. _Ovid._
=Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos=--It is the greatest merit of a prince to know those his subjects. _Mart._
=Principle is a passion for truth.= (?)
=Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.= _Disraeli._
=Prisoners of hope.= _Bible._
=Pristinæ virtutis memores=--Mindful of ancient 5 valour. _M._
=Priusquam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est=--Before you begin, consider; but having considered, use despatch. _Sall._
=Private affection bereaves us easily of a right judgment.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.= _Junius._
=Private judgment with the accent on "private" is self-will; but with the accent on "judgment," it is freedom, free-will.= _J. Hutchison Stirling._
=Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is= 10 =almost omnipotent.= _Ward Beecher._
=Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.= _Pr._
=Private self-regard must have been wholly subordinated to, if not entirely cast out by, a higher principle of action and a purer affection before a man can become either truly moral or religious.= _J. C. Sharp._
=Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat=--No bargain between individuals derogates from a law. _L._
=Privatus illis census erat brevis, / Commune magnum=--Their private property was small, the public revenue great. _Hor._
=Privilegium est quasi privata lex=--Privilege is 15 as it were private law. _L._
=Pro aris et focis=--For our altars and our hearths.
=Pro bono publico=--For the public good.
=Pro Christo et patria=--For Christ and country. _M._
=Pro confesso=--As confessed or admitted.
=Pro Deo et rege=--For God and king. _M._ 20
=Pro et con.=--For and against.
=Pro forma=--For form's sake.
=Pro hac vice=--For this turn; on this occasion.
=Pro libertate patriæ=--For the liberty of my country. _M._
=Pro patria et rege=--For king and country. _M._ 25
=Pro rata (parte)=--In proportion, proportionally.
=Pro re nata=--For circumstances that have arisen.
=Pro rege et patria=--For king and country. _M._
=Pro rege, lege, et grege=--For king, law, and people. _M._
=Pro tanto=--For so much. 30
=Pro tempore=--For the time.
=Pro virtute bellica=--For valour in war. _M._
=Pro virtute felix temeritas=--Instead of valour successful rashness. _Sen., of Alexander the Great._
=Probably imposture is of a sanative, anodyne nature, and man's gullibility not his worst blessing.= _Carlyle._
=Probably men were never born demigods in any= 35 =century, but precisely god-devils as we see; certain of whom do become a kind of demigods.= _Carlyle._
=Probatum est=--It has been settled.
=Probitas laudatur, et alget=--Integrity is praised and is left out in the cold. _Juv._
=Probitas verus honos=--Integrity is true honour. _M._
=Probitate et labore=--By honesty and labour. _M._
=Probity is as rarely in accord with interest as= 40 =reason is with passion.= _Saneal-Dubay._
=Probum non pœnitet=--The upright man has no regrets. _M._
=Procellæ quanto plus habent virium tanto minus temporis=--The more violent storms are, the sooner they are over. _Sen._
=Procrastination is the thief of time.= _Young._
=Procul a Jove, procul a fulmine.=--Far from Jove, far from his thunderbolts. _Pr._
=Procul O! procul este, profani=--Away, I pray 45 you; keep off, ye profane. _Virg._
=Prodesse quam conspici=--To be of service rather than to be conspicuous. _M._
=Prodigus et stultus donat quæ spernit et odit. / Hæc seges ingratos tulit, et feret omnibus annis=--The spendthrift and fool gives away what he despises and hates. This seed has ever borne, and will bear, an ungrateful brood. _Hor._
=Productions (of a certain artistic quality) are at present possible which are nought= (_Null_) =without being bad--nought, because there is nothing in them, and not bad, because a general form after some good model has hovered vaguely= (_vorschwebt_) =before the mind of the author.= _Goethe._
=Profaneness is a brutal vice; he who indulges in it is no gentleman.= _Chapin._
=Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing= 50 =and appreciating either diamonds in the rough state or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical laboratory has scales and weights, but neither crucible nor touchstone.= _Joubert._
=Proffered service stinks=, _i.e._, is not appreciated. _Pr._
=Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career.= _Emerson._
=Profound joy has more of severity than gaiety in it.= _Montaigne._
=Progress begins with the minority.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Progress is the law of life--man is not man as= 55 =yet.= _Browning._
=Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, / Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are; / Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.= _Browning._
=Progress--the stride of God.= _Victor Hugo._
=Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere potest in alieno=--No one is allowed to do on his own premises what may injure those of a neighbour. _L._
=Prolonged endurance tames the bold.= _Byron._
=Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir=--Promising 60 is giving, and hoping is fruition. _Delille._
=Promise is most given when the least is said.= _Chapman._
=Promises make debts, and debts make promises.= _Dut. Pr._
=Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.= _Owen Feltham._
=Proof of a God? A probable God! The smallest of finites struggling to prove to itself ... and include within itself, the Highest Infinite, in which, by hypothesis, it lives and moves and has its being! Man, reduced to wander about, in stooping posture, with painfully-constructed sulphur-match, and farthing rushlight, or smoky tar-link, searching for the sun.= _Carlyle._
=Prope ad summum, prope ad exitum=--Near the summit, near the end. _Pr._
=Propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= _Hume._
=Proper words in proper places make the true= 5 =definition of a style.= _Swift._
=Properly speaking, the land belongs to these two: to the Almighty God and to all His children of men that have ever worked well on it, or shall ever work well on it.= _Carlyle._
=Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working.= _Carlyle._
=Property has its duties as well as its rights.= _Drummond._
=Property, O brother? Of my body I have but a liferent.... But my soul, breathed into me by God, my Me, and what capability is there, I call that mine and not thine. I will keep that, and do what work I can with it; God has given it me; the devil shall not take it away.= _Carlyle._
=Property there is among us valuable to the= 10 =auctioneer; but the accumulated manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lies impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer can estimate?= _Carlyle._
=Prophecy, not poetry, is the thing wanted in these days. How can we sing and paint when we do not yet believe and see?= _Carlyle._
=Prophete rechts, Prophete links / Das Weltkind in der Mitten=--Prophets to right, prophets to left, the world-child between. _Goethe._
=Propositi tenax=--Tenacious of my purpose. _M._
=Propriæ telluris herum natura, neque illum, / Nec me, nec quemquam statuit. Nos expulit ille: / Illum aut nequities, aut vafri inscitia juris, / Postremo expellet certe vivacior hæres=--Nature has appointed neither him nor me, nor any one, lord of this land in perpetuity. That one has ejected us; either some villany or quirk at law, at any rate, an heir surviving him, will at last eject him. _Hor._
=Propriety of thought and propriety of diction= 15 =are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style.= _Macaulay._
=Proprio motu=--Of his own motion; spontaneously.
=Proprio vigore=--Of one's own strength.
=Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris=--It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged. _Tac._
=Proque sua causa quisque disertus erat=--Every one was eloquent in his own cause. _Ovid._
=Prose, words in their best order; poetry, the= 20 =best words in the best order.= _Coleridge._
=Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise.= _Pr._
=Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.= _Bacon._
=Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it= 25 =is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._
=Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.= _H. Ballou._
=Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.= _Pliny the Younger._
=Prosperum et felix scelus / Virtus vocatur=--Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. _Sen._
=Protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem=--Protection involves allegiance, and allegiance protection. _L._
=Protestantism is a revolt against false sovereigns;= 30 =the painful but indispensable first preparation for true sovereigns getting place among us.= _Carlyle._
=Proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.= _Emerson._
=Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.= _St. Paul._
=Proverbs are easily made in cold blood.= _Joe Willet._
=Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond-fields of the mind.= _W. R. Alger._
=Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long= 35 =experience.= _Cervantes._
=Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom.= _Joubert._
=Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.= _Dut. Pr._
=Proverbs are the wisdom of ages.= _Ger. Pr._
=Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.= _Pr._
=Proverbs cover the whole field of man as he is,= 40 =and life as it is, not of either as they ought to be.= _John Morley._
=Proverbs have been always dear to the true intellectual aristocracy of a nation.= _Trench._
=Proverbs have, not a few of them, come down to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely upon the waters of that great stream of time which has swallowed so much beneath its waves.= _Trench._
=Proverbs have pleased not one nation only, but many, so that they have made themselves a home in the most different lands.= _Trench._
=Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.= _Emerson._
=Proverbs please the people, and have pleased= 45 =them for ages.= _Trench._
=Proverbs possess so vigorous a principle of life, as to have maintained their ground, ever new and ever young, through all the centuries of a nation's existence.= _Trench._
=Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.= _I. Disraeli._
=Provide things honest in the sight of all men.= _St. Paul._
=Providence certainly does not favour individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the instruction and ennoblement of all.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.= _Lamartine._
=Providence gives the power, of which reason teaches the use.= _Johnson._
=Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end; and it is no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.= _Emerson._
=Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions--money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion--should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour.= _Erasmus._
=Providence has given to the French the empire= 5 =of the land; to the English, that of the sea; to the Germans, that of--the air.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Providence is but another name for natural law.= _Ward Beecher._
=Providence is my next-door neighbour.= _An Italian hermit._
=Providence is not counteracted by any means which Providence puts into our power.= _Johnson._
=Providence may change, but the promise must stand.= _Pr._
=Providence often puts a large potato in a little= 10 =pig's way.= _Pr._
=Providence provides for the provident.= _Pr._
=Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium=--I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober. _Val. Max._
=Proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--Uninquisitive of things near, we pursue those which are at a distance. _Pliny._
=Proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre=--A 15 fire is difficult to ward off when next house is in flames. _Ovid._
=Proximus ardet Ucalegon=--The house of your neighbour Ucalegon is on fire. _Virg._
=Proximus sum egomet mihi=--I am my own nearest of kin. _Ter._
=Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us to contrary pursuits. The one instructs us to be content with our station, and to find happiness in bounding every wish: the other impels us to superiority, and calls nothing happiness but rapture.= _Goldsmith._
=Prudence and love are not made for each other; as the love increases, prudence diminishes.= _La Roche._
=Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the= 20 =virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.= _Milton._
=Prudence is the virtue of the senses, the science of appearances, the outmost action of the inward life, God taking thought for oxen.= _Emerson._
=Prudens futuri temporis exitum / Caliginosa nocte premit Deus; / Ridetque, si mortalis ultra / Fas trepidat=--The Deity in His wisdom veils in the darkness of night the events of the future; and smiles if a mortal is unduly solicitous about what he is not permitted to know. _Hor._
=Prudens interrogatio quasi dimidium sapientiæ=--Prudent questioning is, as it were, the half of knowledge.
=Prudens qui patiens=--He is prudent who has 25 patience. _M._
=Prudens simplicitas=--A prudent simplicity. _M._
=Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limitation and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.= _Goethe._
=Prudentia et constantia=--By prudence and constancy. _M._
=Prudentis est mutare consilium; stultus sicut luna mutatur=--A prudent man may, on occasion, change his opinion, but a fool changes as often as the moon.
=Prüft das Geschick dich, weiss es wohl warum; /= 30 =Es wünschte dich enthaltsam! Folge stumm=--Destiny is proving thee; well knows she why: she meant thee to be abstinent! Follow thou dumb. _Goethe._
=Pshaw! what is this little dog-cage of an earth? what art thou that sittest whining there? Thou art still nothing, nobody; true, but who then is something, somebody?= _Carlyle._
=Public affairs ought to progress quickly or slowly, but the people have always too much action or too little. Sometimes with their hundred thousand arms they will overthrow everything, and sometimes with their hundred thousand feet they will crawl along like insects.= _Montesquieu._
=Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.= _Chapin._
=Public instruction should be the first object of government.= _Napoleon._
=Public opinion is a second conscience.= _W. R._ 35 _Alger._
=Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.= _Thoreau._
=Public opinion is democratic.= _J. G. Holland._
=Public opinion is the mixed result of the intellect of the community acting upon general feeling.= _Hazlitt._
=Publicum bonum privato est præferendum=--The public good must be preferred to private. _L._
=Publicum meritorum præmium=--The public reward 40 for public services. _M._
=Pulchre! bene! recte!=--Beautiful! good! correct! _Hor._
=Pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati=--We are but dust and shadows, born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Punctuality is the soul of business.= _Pr._
=Punishment follows hard upon crime.= _Pr._
=Punishment is justice for the unjust.= _St._ 45 _Augustine._
=Punishment is the last and the worst instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.= _Ruskin._
=Punishment of a miser--to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb.= _Hawthorne._
[Greek: pyr machaira mê skaleuein]--Don't stir fire with sword. _Pythagoras._
=Puras Deus non plenas adspicit manus=--God looks to clean hands, not to full ones. (?)
=Purchase the next world with this; thus shalt= 5 =thou win both.= _Arab. Pr._
=Pure enjoyment and true usefulness can only be reciprocal.= _Goethe._
=Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all.= _Jean Paul._
=Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.= _St. James._
=Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. They will not advance their minds to the standard, therefore they lower the standard to their minds.= _Colton._
=Puridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de= 10 =tres, de todos es=--A secret between two is God's secret; but a secret between three is all men's. _Sp. Pr._
=Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys Him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honour.= _Hare._
=Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Purpose barred, it follows, / Nothing is done to purpose.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 1.
=Purpose is what gives life a meaning.= _C. H._ 15 _Parkhurst._
=Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.= _Samuel Smiles._
=Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.= _Lord Brougham._
=Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.= _Ward Beecher._
=Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.= _Bible._
=Put a stout heart to a stey= (steep) =brae.= _Sc._ 20 _Pr._
=Put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Put a young healthy soul full of life under the teaching of the Graces, and the soul's body and workmanship will become transparent of the soul's self.= _Ed._
=Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes.= _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3.
=Put money in thy purse.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Put no trust in money; put your money in= 25 =trust.= _Amer. Pr._
=Put not all your crocks on one shelf.= _Sc. Pr._
=Put not all your eggs in one basket.= _Dut. Pr._
=Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men; for better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.= _Bible._
=Put the saddle on the right horse.= _Pr._
=Put your best foot foremost.= _Congreve._ 30
=Put your foot down where you mean to stand.= _Pr._
=Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach.= _Pr._
=Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly to your purse, and you'll take no harm.= _Pr._
=Put your own shoulder to the wheel.= _Pr._
=Put your trust in God, and keep your powder= 35 =dry.= _Cromwell._
=Putting out the natural eye of one's mind to see better with a telescope.= _Carlyle._
Q.
=Qu'est ce donc que l'aristocratie? L'aristocratie! je vais vous le dire: l'aristocratie, c'est la ligue, la coalition de ceux qui veulent consommer sans produire, vivre sans travailler, occuper toutes les places sans être en état de les remplir, envahir tous les honneurs sans les avoir mérités: voilà l'aristocratie!=--What, then, is the aristocracy? The aristocracy, I mean to tell you, is the league, the combination of those who are bent on consuming without producing, living without working, occupying all public posts without being able to fill them, and usurping all honours without having earned them--that is the aristocracy. _Gen. Foy._
=Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat. Rien! Que veut-il être? Tout=--What is the Third Estate? Nothing. What does it intend to be? Everything. _Abbé Sieyès._
=Qu'est-ce qu'un noble? Un homme qui s'est donné la peine de naître=--What is a nobleman? A man who has given himself the trouble of being born. _Beaumarchais._
=Qu'heureux est le mortel qui, du monde ignoré, /= 40 =Vit content de soi-même en un coin retiré!=--How happy the man who, unknown to the world, lives content with himself in some nook apart! _Boileau._
=Qu'il faut à chaque mois, / Du moins s'enyvre une fois=--We should get drunk at least once a month. _Old Fr. Pr._
=Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre=--Give me six lines written by the most honourable man alive, and I shall find matter therein to condemn him to the gallows. _Richelieu._
=Qu'on parle bien ou mal du fameux cardinal, / Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien; / Il m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, / Il m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien=--Let the world speak well or ill of the famous cardinal, neither in my prose or verse will I mention his name; he has done me too much kindness to speak ill of him, and too much injury to speak well. _Corn. of Richelieu._
=Qu'un joueur est heureux! sa poche est un trésor! / Sous ses heureuses mains le cuivre devient or=--How happy is a gambler! His pocket is a treasure-store; in his lucky hands copper turns into gold. _Regnard._
=Qu'une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille!=--What a long night that seems in which one is kept awake with pain. _Saurin._
=Qua vincit victos protegit ille manu=--With the same hand with which he conquers he protects the conquered. _Ovid._
=Quackery has no friend like gullibility.= _Pr._
=Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula= 5 =campum=--The hoof, in its four-footed galloping, shakes the crumbling plain. _An onomatopoetic line from Virgil._
=Quæ amissa salva=--Things which have been lost are safe. _M._
=Quæ e longinquo magis placent=--Things please the more the farther fetched. _Pr._
=Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt=--What were once vices are now the fashion of the day. _Sen._
=Quæ fuit durum pati / Meminisse dulce est=--What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. _Sen._
=Quæ infra nos nihil ad nos=--The things that are 10 below us are nothing to us. _Pr._
=Quæ lucis miseris tam dira cupido?=--How is it that the wretched have such an infatuated longing for life (_lit._ the light)? _Virg._
=Quæ peccamus juvenes ea luimus senes=--We pay when old for the excesses of our youth. _Pr._
=Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?=--What region of the earth is not full of the story of our calamities? _Virg._
=Quæ sint, quæ fuerint, quæ mox ventura trahantur=--What is, what has been, and what shall in time be. _Virg._
=Quæ supra nos nihil ad nos=--Things which are 15 above us are nothing to us. _Pr._
=Quæ sursum volo videre=--I desire to see the things which are above. _M._
=Quæ te dementia cepit?=--What madness has seized you? _Virg._
=Quæ virtus et quanta, boni, sit vivere parvo!=--How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! _Hor._
=Quæ volumus et credimus libenter, et quæ sentimus ipsi reliquos sentire putamus=--What we wish we readily believe, and what we think ourselves we imagine that others think also. _Cæs._
=Quæque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars= 20 =magna fui=--Unhappy scenes which I myself witnessed, and in which I acted a principal part. _Virg._
=Quære verum=--Seek the truth. _Pr._
=Quærenda pecunia primum, / Virtus post nummos=--Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. _Hor._
=Quærens quem devoret=--Seeking some one to devour. _M._
=Quæstio vexata=--A vexed, _i.e._, much debated, question.
=Quævis terra alit artificem=--Every land supports 25 the artisan. _Pr._
=Qualem commendes etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox / Incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem=--Study carefully the character of him you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame. _Hor._
=Quales sunt summi civitatis viri talis est civitas=--A community is as those who rule it. _Cic._
=Qualis avis, talis cantus; qualis vir, talis oratio=--As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.
=Qualis rex, talis grex=--Like king, like people. _Pr._
=Qualis sit animus, ipse animus nescit=--What 30 the soul is, the soul itself knows not. _Cic._
=Qualis vita, finis ita=--As a man's life is, so is the end. _M._
=Quality is better than quantity.= _Pr._
=Quam continuis et quantis longa senectus / Plena malis!=--How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. _Juv._
=Quam inique comparatum est, hi qui minus habent / Ut semper aliquid addant divitioribus!=--How unjust is the fate which ordains that those who have least should be always adding to the store of the more wealthy! _Ter._
=Quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia!=--What 35 a wonderful revenue lies in thrift! _Cic._
=Quam parva sapientia regatur=--Think with how little wisdom the world is governed.
=Quam prope ad crimen sine crimine!=--How near to guilt a man may approach without being guilty!
=Quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam!=--How rashly do we sanction a rule to tell against ourselves! _Hor._
=Quam veterrimus homini optimus est amicus=--A man's oldest friend is his best. _Plaut._
=Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici /= 40 =Laudo tamen=--Though distressed at the departure of my old friend, yet I commend him for going. _Juv._
=Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique=--When he to whom a man speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics. _Voltaire._
=Quand l'aveugle porte la bannière, mal pour ceux qui marchent derrière=--When the blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. _Fr. Pr._
=Quand le peuple est en mouvement, on ne comprend pas par où le calme peut en y rentrer; et quand il est paisible, on ne voit pas par où le calme peut en sortir=--When the people are in agitation, we do not understand how tranquility is to return; and when they are at peace, we do not see how tranquility can depart. _La Bruyère._
=Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied et cueillent le fruit; voilà le gouvernement despotique=--When the savages of Louisiana want fruit, they cut down the tree by the root to obtain it. Such is despotic government. _Montesquieu._
=Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons= 45 =que c'est nous qui les quittons=--When vices forsake us, we flatter ourselves that it is we who forsake them. _Fr._
=Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, / La vie est une opprobre, et la mort un devoir=--When one has lost everything and has no more any hope, it is a disgrace to live and a duty to die. _Voltaire._
=Quand on est jeune, on se soigne pour plaire, et quand on est vieille, on se soigne pour ne pas déplaire=--When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.
=Quand on est mort, c'est pour longtemps=--When one is dead, it is for a long while. _Fr. Pr._
=Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, / Il faut aimer ce que l'on a=--When we have not what we like, we must like what we have. _Fr._
=Quand on ne trouve pas son repos en soi-même, il est inutile de le chercher ailleurs=--When we do not find repose in ourselves, it is in vain to look for it elsewhere. _Fr._
=Quand on se fait aimer, on n'est pas inutile=--They 5 are a useful people who have learnt how to please. _Ratisbonne._
=Quand on se fait entendre on parle toujours bien=--We always speak well when we manage to be understood. _Molière._
=Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout étonné et ravi; car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme=--When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man. _Pascal._
=Quand sur une personne on prétend se régler / C'est par les beaux côtés qu'il lui faut ressembler=--When we aspire to imitate any one, it is after his fine qualities we must fashion ourselves. _Molière._
=Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison=--When all are wrong, every one is right. _La Chaussée._
=Quand une fois j'ai pris ma résolution, je vais= 10 =droit à mon but, et je renverse tout de ma soutane rouge=--When once I have taken my resolution, I go straight to my point, and overturn everything out of my way with my red cassock. _Fr._ (?)
=Quand une lecture vous élève l'esprit et qu'elle vous inspire des sentiments nobles et courageux, il est bon, et fait de main d'ouvrier=--When a work has an elevating effect on the mind, and inspires you with noble and courageous thoughts, it is good and is from the hand of a master. _La Bruyère._
=Quando Dios amanece, para todos amanece=--When God's light rises, it rises for all. _Sp. Pr._
=Quando el Español canta, ó rabia, ó no tiene blanca=--If a Spaniard sing, he's either mad or without money. _Sp. Pr._
=Quando i furbi vanno in processione, il diabolo porta la croce=--When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross. _It. Pr._
=Quando non c'è, perde la chiesa=--When there 15 is nothing, the church is a loser. _It. Pr._
=Quando ullum inveniet parem?=--When shall we find his like again? _Hor._
=Quando vierás tu casa quemar llegate á escalentar=--When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it. _Sp. Pr._
=Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus=--Even the worthy Homer nods sometimes. _Hor._
=Quanta est gula, quæ sibi totos / Ponit apros, animal propter convivia natum=--What a glutton is he who has whole boars served up for him, an animal created for banquets alone. _Juv._
=Quanti est sapere!=--What a grand thing it is to 20 be clever, or to have sense. _Ter._
=Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, / Più senta il bene e cosi la doglienza=--The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible of good and bad treatment. _Dante._
=Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno=--All the pleasure of the world is only a short dream. _Petrarch._
=Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, / A Dis plura feret=--The more a man denies himself, the more will he receive from the gods. _Hor._
=Quantum=--Proper quantity or allowance (_lit._ how much).
=Quantum est in rebus inane!=--What emptiness 25 there is in human affairs! _Pers._
=Quantum meruit=--As much as he deserved. _L._
=Quantum mutatus ab illo=--How greatly changed from what he was! _Virg._
=Quantum nobis nostrisque hæc fabula de Christo profuerit notum est=--Every one knows what a godsend this story about Christ has been to us and our order. _Pope Leo X._
=Quantum quisque sua nummorum servat in arca / Tantum habet et fidei=--The credit of every man is in proportion to the number of coins he keeps in his chest. _Juv._
=Quantum sufficit=--As much as is sufficient. 30
=Quarrelling with occasion.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 5.
=Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.= _La Roche._
=Qué es la vida? Un frenesi. / Qué es la vida? Una ilusión. / Una sombra, una ficcion, / Y el mayor bien es pequeño; / Que toda la vida es sueño, / Y los sueños, sueños son!=--What is life? A conceit of the fancy. What is life? An illusion, / a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest earthly possession insignificant; the whole of life nothing but a dream, and dreams are shadows. _Calderon._
=Que j'aime la hardiesse anglaise! que j'aime les gens qui disent ce qu'ils pensent=--How I like the boldness of the English; how I like the people who say what they think! _Voltaire._
=Que la Suisse soit libre, et que nos noms périssent!=--Let 35 Switzerland be free and our names perish! _Lemierre._
=Que les gens de l'esprit sont bêtes=--What silly people wits are! _Beaumarchais._
=Que mon nom soit flétri=--(So be the cause triumphs) let my name be blighted. _Fr._
=Que votre âme et vos mœurs peintes dans vos ouvrages=--Let your mind and manners be painted in your works. _Fr._
=Que vouliez-vous qu'il fit contre trois?--Qu'il mourut!=--What would you have him do with three against him. I would have him die. _Corn._ (?)
=Quel che fa il pazzo all' ultimo, lo fa il savio= 40 =alla prima=--The wise man does that at first which the fool must do at last. _It. Pr._
=Quelqu'éclatante que soit une action, elle ne doit passer pour grande lorsqu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand dessein=--An action should not be regarded as great, however brilliant it may be, if it is not the offspring of a great design. _La Roche._
=Quelque parti que je prenne je sais bien que je serai blâmé=--Whatever side I take, I know well that I shall be blamed. _Louis XIV._
=Quelque soin que l'on prenne de couvrir ses passions par des apparences de piété et l'honneur, elles paraissent toujours au travers de ces voiles=--Whatever care we take to conceal our passions by show of piety and honour, they always appear through these veils. _La Roche._
=Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands crimes=--Small crimes always precede great ones. _Racine._
=Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit=--Whom the gods love dies young, while his strength and senses and faculties are in their full vigour. _Plaut._
=Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius=--Him whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates. _Pr._
=Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens=--He 5 who repents of having sinned is almost innocent. _Sen._
=Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundæ, / Mutatæ quatient=--The man whom prosperity too much delights will be most shocked by reverses. _Hor._
=Quem te Deus esse jussit=--What God bade you be. _M._
=Quemcunque miserum videris, hominem scias=--Whenever you behold a fellow-creature in distress, remember that he is a man. _Sen._
=Questi non hanno speranza di morte=--These have not the hope to die. _Dante._
=Questioning is not the mode of conversation= 10 =among gentlemen.= _Johnson._
=Quey= (female) =calfs are dear veal.= _Sc. Pr._
=Qui a bruit de se lever matin peut dormir jusqu'à diner=--He who has a name for rising in the morning may sleep till midday. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui a nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem=--He who would eat the kernel must first crack the shell. _Plaut._
=Qui a vécu un seul jour a vécu un siècle=--He who has lived a single day has lived an age. _La Bruyère._
=Qui a vu la cour, a vu du monde, ce qu'il y a= 15 =de plus beau, le plus spécieux, et le plus orné; qui méprise la cour après l'avoir vu méprise le monde=--He who has seen the court has seen all this most beautiful, most specious, and best decorated in the world; and he who despises the court after having seen it despises the world. _La Bruyère._
=Qui aime bien, châtie bien=--Who loves well, chastises well. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui alterum incusat probri eum ipsum se intueri oportet=--He who accuses another of improper conduct ought to look to himself. _Plaut._
=Qui aura esté une fois bien fol ne sera nulle autre fois bien sage=--He who has once been very foolish will never be very wise. _Montaigne._
=Qui bene conjiciet, hunc vatem perhibeto optimum=--Hold him the best prophet who forms the best conjectures.
=Qui bene imperat, paruerit aliquando necesse= 20 =est=--He who is good at commanding must have some time been good at obeying. _Cic._
=Qui brille au second rang s'éclipse au premier=--He who shines in the second rank is eclipsed in the first. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui capit ille facit=--He who takes it to himself has done it. _Pr._
=Qui commence et ne parfait, sa peine perd=--He who begins and does not finish loses his pains. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui conducit=--He who leads. _M._
=Qui craindra la mort n'entreprendra rien sur= 25 =moi: qui méprisera la vie sera toujours maître de la mienne=--He who fears death will never take any advantage of me; but he who despises life will ever be master of mine. _Henry IV. of France._
=Qui craint de souffrir, souffre de crainte=--He who fears to suffer suffers from fear. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt=--Those who write books on despising fame inscribe their own name on the title-page.
=Qui dedit hoc hodie, cras, si volet, auferet=--He who has given to-day may, if he so please, take away to-morrow. _Hor._
=Qui est maître de sa soif est maître de sa santé=--He who has the mastery of his thirst has the mastery of his health. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui est plus esclave qu'un courtisan assidu si= 30 =ce n'est un courtisan plus assidu?=--Who is more of a slave than an assiduous courtier, unless it be another courtier who is more assiduous still? _La Bruyère._
=Qui facit per alium facit per se=--He who does a thing by another does it himself. _Coke._
=Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus, / Non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit=--He does not make gods who fashions sacred images of gold or marble: he makes them such who prays to them. _Mart._
=Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem / Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa / Contentus vivat; laudet diversa sequentes?=--How happens it, Mæcenas, that no one lives content with the lot which either reason has chosen for him or chance thrown in his way; but that he praises the fortune of those who follow other pursuits? _Hor._
=Qui genus jactat suum aliena laudat=--He who boasts of his descent boasts of what he owes to others. _Sen._
=Qui homo mature quæsivit pecuniam, / Nisi= 35 =eam mature parcit, mature esurit=--He who has acquired wealth in time, unless he saves it in time, will in time come to starvation. _Plaut._
=Qui invidet minor est=--He who envies another is his inferior. _M._
=Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat=--Who lies upon the ground cannot fall. _Alain de Lille._
=Qui jeune n'apprend, vieux ne saura=--He will not know when he is old who learns not when he is young.
=Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit=--He who enjoys his own right injures no man. _L._
=Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fragra, /= 40 =Frigidus, O pueri fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba=--Ye youths that pluck flowers and strawberries on the ground, flee hence; a cold clammy snake lurks in the grass. _Virg._
=Qui mange du pape, en meurt=--Who eats what comes from the pope dies of it.
=Qui medice vivit, misere vivit=--He who lives by medical prescription lives miserably. _Pr._
=Qui mentiri aut fallere insuevit patrem, / Tanto magis is audebit cæteros=--He who has made it a practice to lie to or deceive his father, the more daring will he be in deceiving others. _Ter._
=Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes=--He who saw the manners of many men and cities. _Hor., of Ulysses._
=Qui n'a, ne peut=--He who has not cannot. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son âge / De son âge a tout le malheur=--He who has not the spirit of his time has all the misery of it. _Voltaire._
=Qui n'a plus qu'un moment à vivre / N'a plus rien à dissimuler=--He who has only a moment to live has no more reason to dissemble. _Quinault._
=Qui n'a point d'amour n'a pas de beaux jours=--He who knows not love has no happy days. _Fr._
=Qui n'a point de sens à trente ans n'en aura= 5 =jamais=--He who has not sense at thirty will never have any. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui n'a rien, ne craint rien=--He who has nought fears nought. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces=--He who fears not death cares not for threats. _Corn._
=Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander=--Who knows not how to obey knows not how to command. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne sait pas, trouvera à apprendre=--He that does not know will find ways and means to learn. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui ne sait se borner, ne sut jamais écrire=--He 10 who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. _Boileau._
=Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare=--He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to rule. _Louis XI._
=Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere=--He who knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to live.
=Qui nil molitur inepte=--One who never makes any unsuccessful effort. _Hor._
=Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil=--Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing. _Sen._
=Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet=--If any man wish 15 to be idle, let him fall in love. _Ovid._
=Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit=--He who is not prepared to-day will be less ready to-morrow. _Ovid._
=Qui non laborat, non manducet=--If any does not work, he shall not eat. _Vulgate._
=Qui non moderabitur iræ / Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens=--He who does not restrain his anger will wish that undone which his irritation and temper prompted him to. _Hor._
=Qui non proficit, deficit=--He who does not advance loses ground. _Pr._
=Qui non prohibet quod prohibere potest assentire= 20 =videtur=--He who does not prevent what he can prevent is held to consent. _L._
=Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum, / Illuc unde negant redire quenquam=--Who now is travelling along the darksome walk to the spot from which, they say, no one ever returns. _Cat._
=Qui parcit virgæ odit filium=--He that spareth his rod hates the child. _M._
=Qui pardonne aisément invite à l'offenser=--He who easily forgives invites offences. _Corn._
=Qui patitur vincit=--He who endures conquers. _M._
=Qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius=--He that commits 25 an offence when drunk shall pay for it when he is sober. _L._
=Qui perd péche=--He who loses sins. _Pr._
=Qui pense=--He who thinks. _M._
=Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie=--He who can do what he pleases, commands when he entreats. _Corn._
=Qui porte épée porte paix=--He who bears the sword bears peace. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui prête à l'ami perd au double=--He who lends 30 money to a friend loses doubly. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui pro quo=--Who for whom; one instead of another.
=Qui proficit in literis et deficit in moribus, plus deficit quam proficit=--He who is proficient in learning and deficient in morals is more deficient than proficient. _Anon._
=Qui quæ vult dicit, quod non vult audiet=--He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like. _Ter._
=Qui recte vivendi prorogat horam / Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille / Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--He who postpones the hour for living aright is as one who waits like the clown till the river flow by; but it glides and will glide on to all time. _Hor._
=Qui rit Vendredi, Dimanche pleurera=--He who 35 laughs Friday will weep Sunday. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui s'excuse, s'accuse=--He who excuses himself accuses himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui sait dissimuler, sait régner=--He that knows how to dissemble knows how to reign. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui sait tout souffrir peut tout oser=--He who can bear all can dare all. _Vauvenargues._
=Qui se fait brebis, loup le mange=--Him who makes himself a sheep the wolf eats. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se ressemble, s'assemble=--Like associates 40 with like. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se sent galeux se gratte=--Let him who feels it resent it, or apply it (_lit._ let him scratch who feels the itch). _Fr. Pr._
=Qui se ultro morti offerant, facilius reperiuntur, quam qui dolorem patienter ferant=--It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than who will endure pain with patience. _Cæs._
=Qui semel aspexit quantum dimissa petitis / Præstant, mature redeat, repetatque relicta=--Let him who has once perceived how much what he has given up is better than what he has chosen, immediately return and resume what he has relinquished. _Hor._
=Qui sert bien son pays n'a pas besoin d'aieux=--He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. _Voltaire._
=Qui sibi amicus est, scito hunc amicum omnibus= 45 =esse=--He who is a friend to himself you may be sure he is a friend to all. _Sen._
=Qui spe aluntur, pendent, non vivunt=--Those who feed on hope, hang on, they do not live. _Pr._
=Qui stultis videri eruditi volunt stulti eruditis videntur=--They who wish to appear learned to fools will appear fools to learned men. _Quinct._
=Qui tacet consentire videtur=--He who is silent professes consent. _L._
=Qui terret plus ipse timet=--He who terrifies others is himself in continual fear. _Claud._
=Qui timide rogat, docet negare=--He who asks 50 timidly courts refusal. _Sen._
=Qui trop embrasse, mal étreint=--He who grasps too much grasps ill. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui uti scit, ei bona=--Good to him who knows how to use it. _Ter._
=Qui veut la fin, veut les moyens=--Who wills the end, wills the means. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut manger de noyeau, qu'il casse la noix=--He that would eat the kernel must break the shell. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut mourir ou vaincre est vaincu rarement=--He who is resolved to conquer or die is rarely conquered. _Corneille._
=Qui veut tener nette sa maison, / N'y mette ni femme, ni prêtre, ni pigeon=--Let him who would keep his home clean, house in it neither woman, priest, nor pigeon. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture=--He who has far to ride spares his horse. _Racine._
=Qui vit sans folie, n'est pas si sage qu'il croit=--He who lives without folly is not as wise as he thinks. _Fr. Pr._
=Qui vive?=--Who goes there? _Fr._ 5
=Qui vult decipi, decipiatur=--Let him be deceived who chooses to be deceived.
=Quick at meat, quick at work=, _i.e._ at that kind of work. _Sc. Pr._
=Quick removals are slow prosperings.= _Pr._
=Quick resentments are often fatal.= _Pr._
=Quick returns make rich merchants.= _Pr._ 10
=Quick sensibility is inseparable from a ready understanding.= _Addison._
=Quick steps are best over miry ground.= _Pr._
=Quick to borrow is always slow to pay.= _Pr._
=Quick to learn and wise to know.= _Burns._
=Quicken yourself up to duty by the remembrance= 15 =of your station, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Quicker by taking more time.= _Pr._
=Quiconque a beaucoup de témoins de sa mort, meurt toujours avec courage=--He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage. _Voltaire._
=Quiconque est loup, agisse en loup=--Whoever is a wolf acts as a wolf. _La Fontaine._
=Quiconque rougit est déjà coupable; la vraie innocence n'a honte de rien=--Whoever blushes confesses guilt; true innocence feels no shame. _Rousseau._
=Quiconque s'imagine la pouvoir mieux écrire,= 20 =ne l'entend pas=--Whoso fancies he can write it (the Life of Christ) better does not understand it. (?)
=Quicquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem=--Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, / Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli=--Whatever men are engaged in, their wishes and fear, anger, pleasures, joys, runnings to and fro, form the medley of my book. _Juv._
=Quicquid excessit modum / Pendet instabili loco=--Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability. _Sen._
=Quicunque turpi fraude semel innotuit, / Etiamsi verum dicit, amittit fidem=--Whoever has once been detected in a shameful fraud is not believed even if he speak the truth. _Phædr._
=Quid æternis minorem / Consiliis animum fatigas?=--Why 25 harass with eternal purposes a mind too weak to grasp them? _Hor._
=Quid brevi fortes jaculamur ævo / Multa? quid terras alio calentes / Sole mutamus?=--Why do we, whose life is so brief, aim at so many things? Why change we to lands warmed by another sun? _Hor._
=Quid cæco cum speculo?=--What has a blind man to do with a mirror?
=Quid clarius astris?=--What is brighter than the stars? _M._
=Quid crastina volveret ætas / Scire nefas homini=--It is not permitted to man to know what to-morrow may bring forth. _Stat._
=Quid datur a Divis felici optatius hora?=--What 30 thing more to be wished do the gods bestow than a happy hour? _Cat._
=Quid de quoque viro, et cui dicas, sæpe caveto=--Be ever on your guard what you say of any man, and to whom. _Hor._
=Quid deceat, quid non obliti=--Neglectful of what is seemly and what is not. _Hor._
=Quid dem? quid non dem? renuis tu quod jubet alter=--What shall I give? what withhold? you refuse what another demands. _Hor._
=Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?=--What will this promiser produce worthy of such boastful language? _Hor._
=Quid domini facient audent quum talia fures?=--What 35 would the masters do, when their knaves dare such things? _Virg._
=Quid enim ratione timemus / Aut cupimus?=--What do we fear or desire with reason? _Juv._
=Quid enim salvis infamia nummis?=--What matters infamy when the money is safe? _Juv._
=Quid est somnus gelidæ nisi mortis imago?=--What is sleep but the image of cold death? _Ovid._
=Quid est turpius quam senex vivere incipiens?=--What is more scandalous than an old man just beginning to live? _Sen._
=Quid faciunt pauci contra tot millia fortes?=--What 40 can a few brave men do against so many thousand? _Ovid._
=Quid furor est census corpore ferre suo!=--What madness it is to carry one's fortune on one's back! _Ovid._
=Quid leges sine moribus / Vanæ proficiunt=--What do idle laws avail without morals? _Hor._
=Quid me alta silentia cogis / Rumpere=--Why force me to break the deep silence? _Virg._
=Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit; / Spes jubet esse ratas; in prælia trudit inertem; / Sollicitis animis onus eximit; addocet artes=--What does not drink effect? it unlocks secrets; bids our hopes to be realised; urges the dastard to the fight; lifts the load from troubled minds; teaches accomplishments. _Hor._
=Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, / Auri sacra= 45 =fames?=--To what lust dost thou not drive mortal hearts, thou accursed lust for gold? _Virg._
=Quid nos dura refugimus / Ætas? Quid intactum nefasti / Liquimus?=--What have we, a hardened generation, shrunk from? What have we, in our impiety, left inviolate? _Hor._
=Quid nunc=--What now; a newsmonger.
=Quid obseratis auribus fundis preces?=--Why do you pour prayers into ears that are stopped? _Hor._
=Quid pro quo=--Equivalent; one thing instead of another.
=Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri,= 50 =pictosque ostendere vultus / Majorum?=--What boots it, Ponticus, to be accounted of a long line, and to display the painted busts of our ancestors? _Juv._
=Quid quisque vitet, nunquam homini satis / Cautum est in horas=--What he should shun from hour to hour man is never sufficiently on his guard. _Hor._
=Quid Romæ faciam? mentiri nescio=--What should I do at Rome? I know not how to lie. _Juv._
=Quid si nunc cœlum ruat?=--What if the sky should now fall? _Ter._
=Quid sit futurum cras fuge quærere, et / Quem sors dierum cunque dabit, lucro / Appone=--Shrink from asking what is to be to-morrow, and every day that fortune shall grant you set down as gain. _Hor._
=Quid te exempta juvat spinis de pluribus una?=--What 5 better are you if you pluck out but one of many thorns? _Hor._
=Quid tibi cum pelago? Terra contenta fuisses=--What have you to do with the sea? You should have been content with the land. _Ovid._
=Quid tristes querimoniæ / Si non supplicio culpa reciditur?=--What do sad complaints avail if the offence is not cut down by punishment? _Hor._
=Quid turpius quam sapientis vitam ex insipientis sermone pendere?=--What more discreditable than to estimate the life of a wise man from the talk of a fool?
=Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum=--My care and study is what is true and becoming, and in this I am wholly absorbed. _Hor._
=Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors=--What 10 the discordant concord of things means and can educe. _Hor._
=Quid vesper ferat, incertum est.=--Who knows what the evening may bring us? _Livy._
=Quidquid erit, superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est=--Our fate, whatever it be, is to be overcome by patience under it. _Virg._
=Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes=--Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts with them. _Virg._
=Quidquid præcipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta / Percipiant animi dociles, teneantque fideles / Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat=--Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. _Hor._
=Quien da la suyo antes de morir aparajese a= 15 =bien sufrir=--Who parts with his own before he dies, let him prepare for death. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien larga vida vive mucho mal vide=--To live long is to see much evil. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien mas sabe mas calla=--Who knows most says least. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien no va á carava, no sabe nada=--He who does not mix with the crowd knows nothing. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien se muda, Dios le ayuda=--God assists him who reforms himself. _Sp. Pr._
=Quien tiene arte, va por toda parte=--Who has 20 a trade may go anywhere. _Sp. Pr._
=Quiet continuity of life is the principle of human happiness.= _Lindner._
=Quieta non movere=--Don't stir things at rest.
=Quietly do the next thing that has to be done, and allow one thing to follow upon the other.= _Goethe._
=Quietness is best.= _Sc. Pr._
=Quin corpus onustum / Hesternis vitiis animum= 25 =quoque prægravat una, / Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ=--And the body, overcharged with yesterday's excess, weighs down the soul also along with it, and fastens to the ground a particle of the divine ether. _Hor._
=Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus / Tam cari capitis?=--What shame or measure can there be to our regret for one so dear? _Hor._
=Quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?=--For who would embrace virtue herself if you took away the reward? _Juv._
=Quis fallere possit amantem?=--Who can deceive a lover? _Virg._
=Quis nescit, primam esse historiæ legem, ne quid falsi dicere audeat? Deinde ne quid veri non audeat?=--Who does not know that it is the first law of history not to dare to say anything that is false, and the second not to dare to say anything that is not true? _Cic._
=Quis scit an adjiciant hodiernæ crastina summæ= 30 =/ Tempora Di superi?=--Who knows whether the gods above will add to-morrow's hours to the sum of to-day? _Hor._
=Quis separabit?=--Who shall separate? _M._
=Quisnam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus; / Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent; / Responsare cupidinibus, contemnere honores / Fortis, et in seipso totus teres atque rotundus=--Who then is free? He who is wisely lord of himself, whom neither poverty, nor death, nor bonds terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and despise honours, and is complete in himself, smooth and round like a globe. _Hor._
=Quisque suos patimur Manes=--The ghost of each of us undergoes (in the nether world) his own special punishment or purgation.
=Quit not certainty for hope.= _Pr._
=Quit the world, and the world forgets you.= 35 _Disraeli._
=Quit thyself manfully; banish impatience and distrust.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Quixadas sin barbas no merecen ser honradas=--Chins without beards deserve no honour. _Sp. Pr._
=Quo animo=--With what intention.
=Quo fata vocant=--Whither the Fates call. _M._
=Quo jure=--By what right. 40
=Quo jure quaque injuria=--Right or wrong. _Ter._
=Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?=--To what end have the gods given me fortune, if I may not use it? _Hor._
=Quo res cunque cadent, unum et commune periclum, / Una salus ambobus erit=--Whatever may be the issue, we have both one common peril and one safety. _Virg._
=Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem / Testa diu=--The jar will long retain the odour of the liquor with which, when new, it was once saturated. _Hor._
=Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?=--By 45 what noose shall I hold this Proteus who is ever changing his shape? _Hor._
=Quoad hoc=--So far (_lit._ as regards this).
=Quocirca vivite fortes / Fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus=--Wherefore live as brave men, and front adversity with stout hearts.
=Quocunque aspicio, nihil est nisi mortis imago=--Wherever I look I see nothing but some form of death. _Ovid._
=Quod avertat Deus!=--God forbid!
=Quod cito fit, cito perit=--What is done quickly does not last long.
=Quod commune cum alio est, desinit esse proprium=--What we share with another ceases to be our own. _Quinct._
=Quod decet honestum est et quod honestum est decet=--What is becoming is honourable, and what is honourable is becoming. _Cic._
=Quod eorum minimis mihi=--As to the least of 5 these, so to me. _M._
=Quod erat demonstrandum=--Which was to be proved.
=Quod erat faciendum=--Which was to be done.
=Quod est absurdum=--Which is absurd.
=Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: cœli / Scrutantur plagas=--What is at his feet no one looks at; they scan the tracks of heaven. _Enn._
=Quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi=--What is allowed 10 to Jupiter is not allowed to the ox.
=Quod medicorum est / Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri / Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim=--Doctors practise what belongs to doctors, workmen handle the tools they have been trained to, but all of us everywhere, trained and untrained, alike write verses. _Hor._
=Quod nimis miseri volunt, hoc facile credunt=--Whatever the wretched anxiously wish for, they are ready to believe. _Sen._
=Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--What you don't need is dear at a doit. _Cato._
=Quod non vetat lex, hoc vetat fieri pudor=--Modesty forbids what the law does not. _Sen._
=Quod nunc ratio est, impetus ante fuit=--What 15 is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. _Ovid._
=Quod potui perfeci=--What I could I have done. _M._
=Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet=--Let him who for his share has enough wish for nothing more. _Hor._
=Quod scripsi, scripsi=--What I have written, I have written.
=Quod semper, quod ubique, et quod ab omnibus=--What has been always, been everywhere, and been by all believed.
=Quot servi, tot hostes=--So many servants you 20 maintain, so many enemies.
=Quod sis esse velis, nihilque malis: / Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes=--Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, neither fear nor wish for your last day. _Mart._
=Quod sursum volo videre=--I wish to see that which is above. _M._
=Quod verum est, meum est=--What is true belongs to me (whoever said it). _Sen._
=Quod verum tutum=--What is true is safe. _M._
=Quod vide= (or =videas=)--Which see. 25
=Quondam his vicimus armis=--We formerly conquered with these arms. _M._
=Quot capitum vivunt, totidem studiorum=--There are as many thousands of different tastes of pursuits as there are individuals alive. _Hor._
=Quot cœlum stellas, tot habet tua Roma puellas=--There are as many girls in your Rome as there are stars in the sky. _Ovid._
=Quotation confesses inferiority.= _Emerson._
=Quotation, like much better things, has its= 30 =abuses. One may quote till one compiles.= _I. Disraeli_
=Quotations from profane authors, cold allusions, false pathetic, antitheses and hyperboles, are out of doors.= _La Bruyère._
=Quum Romæ fueris, Romano vivite more=--When you are at Rome live after the fashion at Rome. _Pr._
=Quum talis sis, utinam noster esses!=--How I wish you were one of us, since I find you so worthy! _L._
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=Racine passera comme le café=--Racine will go out of fashion like coffee. _Mme. de Sévigné._
=Rage avails less than courage.= _Fr. Pr._ 35
=Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb.= _Hannah More._
=Rage is mental imbecility.= _H. Ballou._
=Raggio d'asino non arriva al cielo=--The braying of an ass does not reach heaven. _It. Pr._
=Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.= _Lamb._
=Rail not in answer, but be calm, / For silence= 40 =yields a rapid balm; / Live it down!= _Dr. Henry Rink._
=Railing and praising were his usual themes; / And both, to show his judgment, in extremes; / So over-violent or over-civil, / That every man with him was god or devil.= _Dryden._
=Raillery is a mode of speaking in favour of one's wit against one's good nature.= _Montaigne._
=Raillery is sometimes more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but it is ridiculous to be angry at a jest.= _La Roche._
=Railway travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.= _Ruskin._
=Rainy days will surely come; / Take your= 45 =friend's umbrella home.= _Saying._
=Raise nae mair deils than ye're able to lay.= _Sc. Pr._
=Raison d'état=--A reason of state. _Pr._
=Raison d'être=--The reason for a thing's existence.
=Raisonner sur l'amour, c'est perdre la raison=--To reason about love is to lose reason. _Bouflers._
=Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth= 50 =to save a halfpenny.= _Lamb._
=Rami felicia poma ferentes=--Branches bearing beauteous fruit. _Ovid._
=Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.= _Ruffini._
=Rank is a great beautifier.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=Raphael wäre ein grosser Maler geworden,= 55 =selbst wenn er ohne Hände auf die Welt gekommen wäre=--Raphael would have been a great painter even if he had come into the world without hands. _Lessing._
=Rapiamus, amici, / Occasionem de die=--Let us, my friends, snatch our opportunity from the passing day. _Hor._
=Rapt with zeal, pathetic, bold, and strong, / Roll'd the full tide of eloquence along.= _Falconer._
=Rara avis in terris, nigroque similima cygno=--A bird rarely seen on earth, and very much resembling a black swan. _Juv._
=Rara est adeo concordia formæ / Atque pudicitiæ=--So rare is the union of beauty with modesty. _Juv._
=Rara fides pietasque viris qui castra sequuntur=--Faith and piety are rare among the men who follow the camp. _Lucan._
=Rara temporum felicitate, ubi sentire quæ= 5 =velis, et quæ sentias dicere licet=--Such was the happiness of the times, that you might think as you chose and speak as you thought. _Tac._
=Rare benevolence, the minister of God.= _Carlyle._
=Rari nantes in gurgite vasto=--Swimming one here and another there in the vast abyss. _Virg._
=Rari quippe boni; numero vix sunt totidem quot / Thebarum portæ, vel divitis ostia Nili=--Rare indeed are the good; in number they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the fertile Nile. _Juv._
=Rarity imparts a charm; thus early fruits and winter roses are most prized; thus coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while a door ever open tempts no suitor.= _Mart._
=Rarity / Of Christian charity / Under the sun.= 10 _T. Hood._
=Raro antecedentem scelestum / Deseruit pede pœna claudo=--Rarely does punishment, with halting foot, fail to overtake the criminal in his flight. _Hor._
=Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi=--They seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding their tongues. _Juv._
=Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa / Fortuna=--Common sense is generally rare in that position of life, _i.e._, in high rank. _Juv._
=Rascals are always sociable, and the test of a man's nobility is the small pleasure he has in others' society.= _Schiller._
=Rasch tritt der Tod den Menschen an, / Es ist= 15 =ihm keine Frist gegeben, / Es stürzt ihn mitten in der Bahn, / Es reisst ihn fort vom vollen Leben. / Bereitet oder nicht; zu gehen, / Er muss vor seinen Richter stehen=--Death of a sudden arrests his victim, man; there is no respite given; he falls upon him in midday, and tears him away when life is at the full. Ready to go or not, he must stand before his judge. _Schiller._
=Rashness is the faithful but unhappy parent of misfortune.= _Fuller._
=Rast' ich, so rost' ich=--Rest I, rust I. _Luther._
=Rast macht Rost=--Rest breeds rust. _Ger. Pr._
=Rathe Niemand ungebeten=--Advise no man unasked. _Ger. Pr._
=Rathen ist leichter denn helfen=--To advise is 20 easier than to help. _Ger. Pr._
=Rathen ist nicht zwingen=--To advise is not to compel. _Ger. Pr._
=Rather an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.= _Dan. Pr._
=Rather assume thy right in silence and= _de facto_, =than voice it with claims and challenges.= _Bacon._
=Rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Rather find what beauty is than anxiously inquire= 25 =what it is.= _Goethe._
=Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Rather let my head stoop to the block than these knees bow to any save to the God of heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Rather than be less, / Cared not to be at all.= _Milton._
=Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind.= _Johnson._
=Ratio decidendi=--The reason for deciding. 30
=Ratio et auctoritas, duo clarissima mundi lumina=--Reason and authority, the two brightest luminaries of the world. _Coke._
=Ratio et consilium propriæ ducis artes=--Thought and deliberation are the qualities proper to a general. _Tac._
=Ratio justifica=--The reason which justifies.
=Ratio quasi quædam lux lumenque vitæ=--Reason is, as it were, the guide and light of life. _Cic._
=Ratio suasoria=--The reason which persuades. 35
=Rauch ist alles irdsche Wesen; / Wie des Dampfes Säule weht, / Schwinden alle Erdengrössen, / Nur die Götter bleiben stät=--A vapour is all earthly existence; as a column of vapour it drifts along: vanish all earth's great ones; only the gods remain stable. _Schiller._
=Raum für alle hat die Erde=--The earth is wide enough for all. _Schiller._
=Raum, ihr Herrn, dem Flügelschlag / Einer freien Seele=--Room, gentlemen, for a free soul to clap its wings. _G. Herwegh._
=Raum ist in der kleinsten Hütte / Für ein glücklich liebend Paar=--There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. _Schiller._
=Ravish'd with the whistling of a name.= _Pope._ 40
=Rays must converge to a point in order to glow intensely.= _Blair._
=Re infecta=--The business being unfinished. _Cæs._
=Re ipsa repperi, / Facilitate nihil esse homini melius, neque clementia=--I have learned by experience that nothing is more advantageous to a man than complaisance and clemency of temper. _Ter._
=Re opitulandum non verbis=--We should assist by deeds, not in words. _Pr._
=Re secunda fortis, dubia fugax=--In prosperity 45 courageous, in danger timid. _Phæd._
=Read Homer once, and you can read no more, / For all books else appear so mean, so poor, / Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, / And Homer will be all the books you need.= _Buckingham._
=Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.= _Book of Common Prayer._
=Read my little fable: / He that runs may read. / Most can raise the flowers now, / For all have got the seed.= _Tennyson._
=Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself; if thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than deceitful sweetness.= _Quarles._
=Read not to contradict and confute, nor to= 50 =believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.= _Bacon._
=Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.= _Prof. Blackie, to young men._
=Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.= _Johnson._
=Reader, attend--whether thy soul / Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, / Or darkling grubs this earthly hole / In low pursuit; / Know, prudent, cautious self-control / Is wisdom's root.= _Burns._
=Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust, / Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must.= _Henry Marten._
=Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the= 5 =dewy grass at sunrise.= _Lowell._
=Reading furnishes us only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.= _Locke._
=Reading for the sense= (in Shakespeare's plays) =will best bring out the rhythm.= _Emerson._
=Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own.= _Schopenhauer._
=Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.= _Bacon._
=Reading without purpose is sauntering, not= 10 =exercise.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Real action is in silent moments.= _Emerson._
=Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow.= _Fénelon._
=Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit!= _H. Ballou._
=Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.= _Buckle._
=Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover= 15 =as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Real ugliness in either sex means always some kind of hardness of heart or vulgarity of education.= _Ruskin._
=Real worth floats not with people's fancies, no more than a rock in the sea rises and falls with the tide.= _Fuller._
=Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry.= _Chamfort._
=Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction; nay, it is in the right interpretation of reality and history that poetry consists.= _Carlyle._
=Reality is, no doubt, greater and more vital= 20 =to know, in so real a world and life, than any fiction; and the thoughts of God, which the facts are, are infinitely more precious than the fancies of men about them, or even according to them; yet is man's power of fancying, or fantasying, in harmony with the fact, the measure of his knowledge of it and vital relationship to it, and the divinely appointed means withal whereby the fact itself is brought home to our affections.= _Ed._
=Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of dreams.= _Goethe._
=Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.= _Washington._
=Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.= _Goethe._
=Reason can no more influence the will and operate as a motive, than the eyes, which show a man his road, can enable him to move from place to place, or than a ship provided with a compass can sail without a wind.= _Whately._
=Reason cannot show itself more reasonable= 25 =than to cease reasoning on things above reason.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Reason gains all men by compelling none.= _Aaron Hill._
=Reason has done, what it can do, when it discovers and draws up the law; to execute this law is reserved for him who feels the obligation of it, and has the due firmness of purpose.= _Schiller._
=Reason has only to do with the becoming, the living; but understanding with the become, the already fixed, that it may make use of it.= _Goethe._
=Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim--nay, blind--thou art in preventing them!= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it= 30 =makes; its usefulness takes the place of beauty.= _Joubert._
=Reason is a historian, but the passions are the actors.= _Rivarol._
=Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.= _Swift._
=Reason is directed to the process= (_das Werdende_), =understanding to the product= (_das Gewordene_). =The former is nowise concerned about the whither, or the latter about the whence.= _Goethe._
=Reason is like the sun, of which the light is constant, uniform, and lasting; fancy, a meteor of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion and delusive in its direction.= _Johnson._
=Reason is progressive; instinct, stationary.= 35 =Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee nor the house of the beaver.= _Colton._
=Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.= _Coke._
=Reason= (_Vernunft_) =is the only true despot.= _Rahel._
=Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.= _Warburton._
=Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering.= _Swift._
=Reason lies between bridle and spur.= _It. Pr._ 40
=Reason, looking upwards, and carried to the true above, realises a delight in wisdom, unknown to the other parts of our nature.= _Plato._
=Reason raise o'er instinct as you can; / In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.= _Pope._
=Reason requires culture to expand it. It resembles the fire concealed in the flint, which only shows itself when struck with the steel.= _Gordil._
=Reason serves when pressed, but honest instinct comes a volunteer.= _Pope._
=Reason should direct, and appetite obey.= _Cic._
=Reason teaches us to be silent; the heart teaches us to speak.= _Jean Paul._
=Reason's a staff for age when Nature's gone; / But youth is strong enough to walk alone.= _Dryden._
=Reason's glimmering ray / Was lent, not to= 5 =assure our doubtful way, / But guide us upward to a better day.= _Dryden._
=Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words,--health, peace, and competence.= _Pope._
=Reasonable, or sensible, people are always the best Conversation's Lexicon.= _Goethe._
=Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. Argument cannot do the work of instruction any more than blows can take the place of sunlight.= _Mildmay._
=Reasoning banishes reason.= _Molière._
=Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon,= 10 =but similitudes are the windows which give the best light.= _Fuller._
=Rebellentreue ist wankend=--Fidelity among rebels is unsteady. _Schiller._
=Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.= _Inscription on a cannon._
=Rebuke ought to have a grain more of salt than of sugar.= _Pr._
=Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.= _Pr._
=Rebus angustis animosus atque / Fortis appare;= 15 =sapienter idem / Contrahes vento nimium secundo / Turgida vela=--Wisely show yourself spirited and resolute when perils press you; likewise reef your sails when they swell too much by a favouring breeze. _Hor._
=Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; / Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest=--It is easy in misfortune to despise life; but he does bravely who can endure misery. _Mart._
=Rebus secundis etiam egregios duces insolescere=--In the hour of prosperity even the best generals are apt to be haughty and insolent. _Tac._
=Receive what cheer you may; / The night is long that never finds the day.= _Macb._, iv. 3.
=Receiving a new truth is adding a new sense.= _Liebig._
=Recepto / Dulce mihi furere est amico=--It is 20 delightful to indulge in extravagance on the return of a friend. _Hor._
=Rechauffé=--Heated again; stale. _Fr._
=Recherché=--Sought for; much esteemed.
=Recht geht vor Macht=--Right goes before might. _Count v. Schwerin._
=Recht stets behält das Schicksal, denn das Herz, / In uns ist sein gebietrischer Vollzieher=--Fate always carries its point, for the heart in us is its imperious executor. _Schiller._
[Greek: rechthen de te nêpios egnô]--What has happened 25 even the fool knows. _Homer._
=Recipiunt feminæ sustentacula a nobis=--Women receive supports from us. _Motto of the Pattenmakers' Company._
=Reckless youth makes ruefu' age.= _Sc. Pr._
=Reckon no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may overlook it.= _Confucius._
=Reckon what is in a man, not what is on him, if you would know whether he is rich or poor.= _Ward Beecher._
=Reckoners without their host must reckon= 30 =twice.= _Pr._
=Recommending secrecy where a dozen of people are acquainted with the circumstance to be concealed, is only putting the truth in masquerade, for the story will be circulated under twenty different shapes.= _Scott._
=Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.= _Confucius._
=Recompense to no man evil for evil.= _St. Paul._
=Recta actio non erit, nisi recta fuit voluntas, ab hac enim est actio. Rursus, voluntas non erit recta, nisi habitus animi rectus fuerit, ab hoc enim est voluntas=--An action will not be right unless the intention is right, for from it comes the action. Again, the intention will not be right unless the state of the mind has been right, for from it proceeds the intention. _Sen._
=Recte et suaviter=--Uprightly and mildly. _M._ 35
=Rectius vives, Licini, neque altum / Semper urgendo, neque, dum procellas / Cautus horrescis, nimium premendo / Littus iniquum=--You will live more prudently, Licinius, by neither always keeping out at sea, nor, while you warily shrink from storms, hugging too closely the treacherous shore. _Hor._
=Rectus in curia=--Upright in the court, _i.e._, having come out of it with clean hands. _L._
=Reculer pour mieux sauter=--To step back in order to leap better. _Fr._
=Red as a roost-cock.= _S. Devon Pr._
=Reddere personæ scit convenientia cuique=--He 40 knows how to assign to each character what it is proper for him to think and say. _Hor., of a dramatic poet._
=Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo / Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram / Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas=--The boy who just knows how to talk and treads the ground with firm foot, delights to play with his mates, is easily provoked and easily appeased, and changes every hour. _Hor._
=Rede wenig, rede wahr. Zehre wenig, zahle baar=--Speak little, speak true. Spend little, pay cash down. _Ger. Pr._
=Redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis=--May fortune revisit the wretched, and forsake the proud! _Hor._
=Reden ist Silber und Schweigen ist Gold=--Speech is silver and silence is gold. _Old Ger. Pr._
=Reden kommt von Natur, Schweigen vom= 45 =Verstande=--Speaking comes from nature, silence from discretion. _Ger. Pr._
=Redeunt Saturnia regna=--The golden age (_lit._ the reign of Saturn) is returning.
=Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, / Atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus=--The husbandman's toil returns in a circle, and the year rolls round in its former footsteps. _Virg._
=Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande=--Honesty prospers in every condition of life. _Schiller._
=Reductio ad absurdum=--A reduction of an adversary's conclusion to an absurdity.
=Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.= _Ward Beecher._
=Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.= _Johnson._
=Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.= _Dickens._
=Reflection dissolves reverie and burns her delicate wings.= _Amiel._
=Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative;= 5 =conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth.= _Emerson._
=Reform is not joyous but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men.= _Carlyle._
=Reform, like charity, must begin at home. Once well at home, how will it radiate outwards, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work; kindling ever new light by incalculable contagion; spreading, in geometric ratio, far and wide; doing good only, wherever it spreads, and not evil.= _Carlyle._
=Reformers= (_Reformatorische Geister_) =do not step into the arena amid a flourish of drums and trumpets; they must make their debut rather under the badge of the cross, and have been cradled at their birth in a manger; poverty and a humble pedigree is all their inheritance, and their childhood is never touched or shone upon by the glitter= (_Glanze_) =of the world.= _K. Fischer._
=Reforms are generally most unpopular where most needed.= _Martin._
=Refricare cicatricem=--To open a wound, or an 10 old sore, afresh.
=Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.= _Cato._
=Regard not much who is for thee or who against thee; but give all thy care to this, that God be with thee in everything thou doest.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Reges dicuntur multis urgere culullis, / Et torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborent, / An sit amicitia dignus=--Kings are said to press with many a cup, and test with wine the man whom they desire to try whether he is worthy of their friendship. _Hor._
=Regia, crede mihi, res est, succurrere lapsis=--It is a right kingly act, believe me, to succour the fallen. _Ovid._
=Regibus boni quam mali suspectiores sunt,= 15 =semperque his aliena virtus formidolosa est=--Good men are more suspected by kings than bad men; and virtue in other men is to them always a source of dread. _Sall._
=Régime=--Form of government. _Fr._
=Regium donum=--A royal gift.
=Regnare nolo, liber ut non sim mihi=--I would not be a king and forfeit my liberty. _Phædr._
=Regum æquabat opes animis; seraque revertens / Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat inemptis=--He equalled the wealth of kings in contentment of mind; and at night returning home, would load his board with unbought dainties. _Virg., of the husbandman._
=Reichen giebt man, Armen nimmt man=--We 20 give to the rich, we take from the poor. _Ger. Pr._
=Reine d'un jour=--Queen for a day. _Fr._
=Reipublicæ forma laudari facilius quam evenire, et si evenit, haud diuturna esse potest=--It is more easy to praise a republican form of government than to establish it; and when it is established, it cannot be of long duration. _Tac._
=Reisst den Menschen aus seinen Verhältnissen; und was er dann ist, nur das ist er=--Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is, that only is he. _Seume._
=Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ himself.= _Bovee._
=Rejoice in joyous things--nor overmuch / Let= 25 =grief thy bosom touch / Midst evil, and still bear in mind / How changeful are the ways of humankind.= _Archilochus._
=Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.= _Bible._
=Rejoice that you have still long to live before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.= _Goethe._
=Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.= _St. Paul._
=Relata refero=--I tell the story as it was told to me.
=Relegare bona religionibus=--To bequeath one's 30 property for religious purposes. _L._
=Relever des bagatelles=--To give importance to trifles.
=Relicta non bene parmula=--Having ingloriously left my shield behind. _Hor._
=Religentem esse oportet, religiosum nefas=--A man should be religious, not superstitious. _Quoted by Aul. Gell._
=Religion and education are not a match for evil without the grace of God.= _Haydon._
=Religion and morality, as they now stand,= 35 =compose a practical code of misery and servitude.... How would morality, dressed up in stiff stays and finery, start from her own disgusting image, should she look into the mirror of Nature!= _Shelley._
=Religion bids man prefer the endurance of a lesser evil before a greater, and nature itself does no less.= _South._
=Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, / And unawares morality expires.= _Pope._
=Religion cannot change, though we do.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Religion cannot rise above the state of the votary. Heaven always bears some proportion to earth.= _Emerson._
=Religion contains infinite sadness. If we are= 40 =to love God, he must be in distress= (_lit._, in need of help). _Novalis. See_ Matt., xxvii. 46.
=Religion des Kreuzes, nur du verknüpfest, in einem / Kranze der Demut und Kraft doppelte Palme zugleich=--Religion of the Cross! only thou unitest in one wreath together the twofold palm of humility and power. _Platen._
=Religion gives part of its reward in hand, the present comfort of having done our duty; and for the rest, it offers us the best security that heaven can give.= _Tillotson._
=Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, / Needs only to be seen to be admired.= _Cowper._
=Religion, if it be true, is central truth; and all knowledge which is not gathered round it, and quickened and illuminated by it, is hardly worth the name.= _Channing._
=Religion implies revelation.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Religion is a fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated.= _Joubert._
=Religion is a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its roots and practical in its fruits.= _Amiel._
=Religion is again here, for whoever will piously struggle upward, and sacredly, sorrowfully refuse to speak lies, which indeed will mostly mean refuse to speak at all on that topic.= _Carlyle._
=Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams= 5 =the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.= _Carlyle._
=Religion is as necessary to reason as reason to religion.= _Washington._
=Religion is life, philosophy is thought.... We need both thought and life, and we need that the two shall be in harmony.= _J. F. Clarke._
=Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy, but a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement.= _Joubert._
=Religion is not a dogma nor an emotion, but a service.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=Religion is not a doubt, but a certainty,--or= 10 =else a mockery and horror.= _Carlyle._
=Religion is not a method, but a life.= _Amiel._
=Religion is not an end, but a means.= _Goethe._
=Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.= _Goethe._
=Religion is nothing if it is not everything; if existence is not filled with it.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Religion is the basis of civil society.= _Burke._ 15
=Religion is the best armour in the world, but the worst cloak.= _Bunyan._
=Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy; on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.= _Landor._
=Religion is the highest humanity= (_Humanität_) =of man.= _Herder._
=Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilise, if unmixed with cant.= _Coleridge._
=Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude= 20 =can understand and adopt.= _Joubert._
=Religion is the spice which is meant to keep life from corruption.= _Bacon._
=Religion is universal, theology is exclusive; religion is humanitarian, theology is sectarian; religion unites mankind, theology divides it; religion is love--broad and all-comprising as God's love, theology preaches love and practises bigotry; religion looks to the moral worth of man, theology to his creed and denomination.= _M. Lilienthal._
=Religion lies more in walk than in talk.= _Pr._
=Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul.= _Colton._
=Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot= 25 =be grafted and keep its wild beauty.= _Emerson._
=Religion or worship is the attitude of those who see that, against all appearances, the nature of things works for truth and right for ever.= _Emerson._
=Religion, poetry, is not dead; it will never die. Its dwelling and birthplace is in the soul of man, and it is eternal as the being of man. In any point of space, in any section of time, let there be a living man; and there is an infinitude above him and beneath him, and an eternity encompasses him on this hand and on that; and tones of sphere-music and tidings from loftier worlds will flit round him, if he can but listen, and visit him with holy influences, even in the thickest press of trivialities or the din of busiest life.= _Carlyle._
=Religion presents few difficulties to the humble, many to the proud, innumerable ones to the vain.= _Hare._
=Religion primarily means obedience; bending to something or some one. To be bound, or in bonds, as apprentice; to be bound, or in bonds, by military oath; to be bound, or in bonds, as a servant of man; to be bound, or in bonds, under the yoke of God.= _Ruskin._
=Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science= 30 =only applies the meaning to the course of circumstances.= _Tolstoi._
=Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.= _Disraeli._
=Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible.= _Mark Hopkins._
=Religion would frame a just man; Christ would make a whole man. Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.= _Ward Beecher._
=Religionen sind Kinder der Unwissenheit, die ihre Mutter nicht lange überleben=--Religions are the children of ignorance, and they do not long outlive their mother. _Schopenhauer._
=Religions are not proved, are not established,= 35 =are not overthrown, by logic. They are, of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and inexplicable; they are of instinct, and not of reason.= _Lamartine._
=Religious contention is the devil's harvest.= _La Fontaine._
=Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to humility, humility to the fear of sin.= _Rabbi Pinhas-Ben-Jair._
=Rem acu tetigit=--He has hit the nail on the head (_lit._ touched it with a needle-point).
=Rem, facias rem, / Si possis recte, si non, quocunque modo rem=--A fortune, make a fortune, honestly if you can; if not, make it by any means. _Hor._
=Rem tu strenuus auge=--Labour assiduously to 40 increase your property. _Hor._
="Remain content in the station in which Providence has placed you," is on the whole a good maxim, but it is peculiarly for home use. That your neighbour should, or should not, remain content with his position is not your business; but it is very much your business to remain content with your own.= _Ruskin._
=Remark how many are better off than you are; consider how many are worse.= _Sen._
=Remember Atlas was weary.= _Fuller._
=Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.= _Bible._
=Remember, now, when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.= _Sheridan._
=Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish.= _Johnson._
=Remember that the time once yours can never be so again.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Remember that with every breath we draw, an ethereal stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows.= _Goethe._
=Remember that you are an actor in a drama= 5 =of such sort as the Author chooses. If short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should act a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another.= _Epictetus._
=Remember this: that your conscience is not a law--no; God and reason made the law, and has placed conscience within you to determine.= _Sterne._
=Remember thy prerogative is to govern, and not to serve, the things of this world.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Remember your failures are the seed of your most glorious successes. Despond if you must, but don't despair.= _Anon._
=Remembrance and reflection how allied! / What thin partitions sense from thought divide!= _Pope._
=Remembrance= (_Erinnerung_) =is the only Paradise= 10 =from which we cannot be driven.= _Jean Paul._
=Remembrance makes the poet; 'tis the past, / Lingering within him with a keener sense / Than is upon the thoughts of common men, / Of what has been, that fills the actual world / With unreal likenesses of lovely shapes, / That were and are not.= _L. E. Landon._
=Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, / Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.= _Goldsmith._
=Remis velisque=--With oars and sails; with tooth and nail. _Pr._
=Remis ventisque=--With oars and wind.
=Remorse is as the heart in which it grows: /= 15 =If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews / Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, / It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, / Weeps only tears of poison.= _Coleridge._
=Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.= _Cowper._
=Remote from man, with God he passed his days; / Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.= _Parnell._
=Remove not the ancient land-mark.= _Bible._
=Remove the cause, and the effect will cease.= 20 _Pr._
=Renascentur=--They will rise again. _M._
=Render to all their dues.= _St. Paul._
=Render to Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and to God the things that are God's.= _Jesus._
=Renounce, thou must= (_sollst_) =renounce! That is the song which sounds for ever in the ears of every one, which every hour sings to us hoarsely our whole life long.= _Goethe in "Faust."_
=Renovate animos=--Renew your courage. _M._ 25
=Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skilful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.= _Goethe._
=Rente viagère=--An annuity. _Fr._
=Rentes=--Funds bearing interest; stocks. _Fr._
=Rentier=--A fund-holder. _Fr._
=Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose= 30 =with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.= _Colton._
=Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.= _J. Sterling._
=Repentance costs very dear.= _Pr._
=Repentance hath a purifying power, and every tear is of a cleansing virtue; but these penitential clouds must be still kept dropping; one shower will not suffice; for repentance is not one single action, but a course.= _South._
=Repentance is accepted remorse.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Repentance is good, but innocence is better.= _Pr._ 35
=Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.= _Tempest_, iii. 3.
=Repentance is nothing else but a renunciation of our will, and a controlling of our fancies, which lead us which way they please.= _Montaigne._
=Repentance is the daughter of over-haste.= _M. Beer._
=Repentance is the May of the virtues.= _Chinese Pr._
=Repentance won't cure mischief.= _Gael. Pr._ 40
=Repente dives nemo factus est bonus=--No good man ever became suddenly rich. _Pub. Syr._
=Reperit Deus nocentem=--God finds out the guilty man.
=Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit.= _Colton._
=Réponse sans réplique=--An answer that does not admit of reply. _Fr._
=Report makes crows blacker than they are.= _Pr._ 45
=Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman--repose in energy. The Greek battle-pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.= _Emerson._
=Repose and happiness is what thou covetest, but these are only to be obtained by labour.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.= _Hazlitt._
=Repose is the cradle of power.= _J. G. Holland._
=Repose without stagnation is the state most= 50 =favourable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbation."= _Bovee._
=Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.= _H. Mann._
=Reproof never does a wise man harm.= _Pr._
=Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.= _S. Lover._
=Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.= _Solon._
=Republics end with luxury; monarchies, with poverty.= _Montesquieu._
=Reputation is an idle and false imposition, oft= 5 =got without merit, and lost without deserving; you have lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Reputation is commonly measured by the acre.= _Pr._
=Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.= _Lowell._
=Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.= _St. Evermond._
=Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and angels know of us.= _Thomas Paine._
=Reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have= 10 =lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Reputation serves to virtue as light does to a picture.= _Pr._
=Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine=--Grant them eternal rest, O Lord.
=Requiescat in pace=--Let him rest in peace.
=Rerum cognitio vera, e rebus ipsis est=--The true knowledge of things is from the things themselves. _Scaliger._
=Res amicos invenit=--Money finds friends. _Plaut._ 15
=Res angusta domi=--Straitened circumstances at home. _Juv._
=Res est blanda canor; discant cantare puellæ=--Singing is a charming accomplishment: let girls learn to sing. _Ovid._
=Res est ingeniosa dare=--To give requires good sense. _Ovid._
=Res est sacra miser=--A man overwhelmed by misfortune is a sacred object. _Sen._
=Res est solliciti plena timoris amor=--Love is 20 full of anxious fears. _Ovid._
=Res gestæ=--Exploits; transactions.
=Res in cardine est=--The affair is at a crisis (_lit._ on the hinge).
=Res judicata=--A case decided.
=Res nolunt diu male administrari=--Things refuse to be mismanaged long.
=Res rustica=--A rural affair. _Cic._ 25
=Res severa est verum gaudium=--True joy is an earnest thing.
=Res sunt humanæ flebile ludibrium=--Human affairs are a jest to be wept over.
=Resembles ocean into tempest wrought, / To waft a feather or to drown a fly.= _Young._
=Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.= _Johnson._
=Resentment, indeed, may remain, perhaps= 30 =cannot be quite extinguished in the noblest minds; but revenge never will harbour there.= _Pope._
=Resentment seems to have been given us by Nature for defence, and for defence only; it is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.= _Adam Smith._
=Reserve the master-blow.= _Pr._
=Resignation is putting God between one's self and one's grief.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.= _Lessing._
=Resist not evil.= _Jesus._ 35
=Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.= _St. James._
=Resistance ought never to be thought of but when an utter subversion of the laws of the realm threatens the whole frame of our constitution, and no redress can otherwise be hoped for. It therefore does, and ought for ever, to stand in the eye and letter of the law as the highest offence.= _Walpole._
=Resolution is independent of great age, but without it one lives a hundred years in vain.= _Chinese Pr._
=Resolution will sometimes relax, and diligence will sometimes be interrupted; but let no accidental surprise or deviation, whether short or long, dispose you to despondency.= _Johnson._
=Resolutions are well kept when they jump= 40 =with inclination.= _Goldsmith._
=Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire. / Exert that noblest privilege, alone / Here to mankind indulged; control desire: / Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne, / Speak the commanding word "I will!" and it is done.= _Thomson._
=Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.= _Dryden._
=Respect a man, he will do the more.= _Pr._
=Respect for one's parents is the highest of the duties of civil life.= _Chinese Pr._
=Respect for others is the first condition of= 45 ="savoir-vivre."= _Amiel._
=Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.= _Lord Greville._
=Respect the burden.= _Napoleon._
=Respect us human, and relieve us poor.= _Pope._
=Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.= _Pr._
=Respectable mediocrity offends nobody.= 50 _Brougham._
=Respice finem=--Look to the end.
=Respicere exemplar vitæ morumque jubebo / Doctum imitatorem, et veras hinc ducere voces=--I would recommend the learned imitator to study closely his model in life and manners, and thence to draw his expressions to the life. _Hor._
=Respondeat superior=--Let the principal answer. _L._
=Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.= _J. G. Holland._
=Rest and be thankful.= _Inscription on a wayside-seat._ 55
=Rest and success are fellows.= _Pr._
=Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Rest is for the dead.= _Carlyle._
=Rest is good after the work is done.= _Dan. Pr._
=Rest is the sweet sauce of labour.= _Plutarch._ 60
=Rest is won only by work.= _Pr._
=Rest not in an ovation, but in a triumph over thy passions.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Rest not upon scattered counsels, for they will rather distract and mislead than settle and direct.= _Bacon._
=Rest! rest! Shall I not have all eternity to rest in?= _Arnauld._
=Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth.= _Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=Restat iter cœlo: cœlo tentabimus ire; / Da veniam cœpto, Jupiter alte, meo=--There remains a way through the heavens; through the heavens we will attempt to go. High Jupiter, pardon my bold design. _Ovid, in the name of Dædalus when he escaped from the labyrinth on wings._
=Restore to God his due in tithe and time: /= 5 =A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate.= _George Herbert._
=Restraint and discipline, examples of virtue and of justice, these are what form the education of the world.= _Burke._
=Restraint and obstruction= (_la gêne_) =constitute the principle of movement.= _Renan._
=Résumé=--Recapitulation; summary. _Fr._
=Resurgam=--I shall rise again. _M._
=Retinens vestigia famæ=--Retracing the footsteps 10 of fame. _M._
=Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.= _Bible._
=Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.= _Simms._
=Revelation nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.= _Goethe._
=Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter erelong back on itself recoils.= _Milton._
=Revenge barketh only at the stars, and spite= 15 =spurns at that she cannot reach.= _Socrates._
=Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and the sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger envenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.= _Bp. Hall._
=Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.= _Ger. Pr._
=Revenge has no limits, for sin has none.= _Fr. Hebbel._
=Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.= _Colton._
="Revenge is a kind of wild justice." It is so,= 20 =but without this wild austere stock there would be no justice in the world.= _Burke._
=Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which, the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.= _Bacon._
=Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice.= _Johnson._
=Revenge is an inheritance of weak souls.= _Körner._
=Revenge is barren of itself; itself is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its satiety despair.= _Schiller._
=Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject= 25 =mind.= _Joubert._
=Revenge of a wrong only makes another wrong.= _Spurgeon._
=Revenons à nos moutons=--Let us come back to our subject (_lit._ sheep). _Pierre Blanchet._
=Reverence for human worth, earnest devout search for it, and encouragement of it, loyal furtherance and obedience to it, is the outcome and essence of all true religions, and was and ever will be.= _Carlyle._
=Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.= _Margaret Fuller._
=Reverence= (_Ehrfurcht_), =which no child brings= 30 =into the world along with him, is the one thing on which all depends for making a man in every point a man.= _Goethe._
=Reverie is the Sunday of thought.= _Amiel._
=Reverie, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bordered as by a natural frontier.= _Victor Hugo._
=Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.= _Coleridge._
=Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.= _Shelley._
=Revocate animos, mœstumque timorem / Mittite=--Resume 35 your courage, and cast off desponding fear. _Virg._
=Revolutions are like the most noxious dung-heaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.= _Napoleon._
=Revolutions are not made, they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Revolutions never go backward.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Rex datur propter regnum, non regnum propter regem. Potentia non est nisi ad bonum=--A king is given for the sake of the kingdom, not the kingdom for the sake of the king. His power is only for the public good. _L._
=Rex est major singulis, minor universis=--The 40 king is greater than each singly, but less than all unitedly. _Bracton._
=Rex est qui metuit nihil; / Rex est qui cupit nihil=--He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. _Sen._
=Rex non potest fallere nec falli=--The king cannot deceive or be deceived.
=Rex non potest peccare=--The king can do no wrong.
=Rex nunquam moritur=--The king never dies. _L._
=Rex regnat, sed non gubernat=--The king reigns, 45 but does not govern. _Jan Zamoiski._
=Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.= _Plato._
=Rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in; it is the quackery of eloquence, and deals in nostrums, not in cures.= _Colton._
=Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at.= _Carlyle._
=Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Rich men are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.= _Burton._
=Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.= _Solon._
=Rich, not gaudy.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Rich the treasure, / Sweet the pleasure; /= 5 =Sweet is pleasure after pain.= _Dryden._
=Rich with the spoils of time.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Richard's himself again!= _Cibber._
=Richer than rubies, / Dearer than gold, / Woman, true woman, / Glad we behold!= _Old love-song._
=Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.= _Goethe._
=Riches and favour go before wisdom and art.= 10 _Dan. Pr._
=Riches are as a stronghold in the imagination of the rich man.= _Solomon._
=Riches are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions.= _Bacon._
=Riches are got wi' pain, kept wi' care, and tint= (lost) =wi' grief.= _Sc. Pr._
=Riches are like bad servants, whose shoes are made of running leather, and will never tarry long with one master.= _Brooks._
=Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities= 15 =to which mankind are liable.= _Cervantes._
=Riches are often abused, never refused.= _Dan. Pr._
=Riches breed care, poverty is safe.= _Dan. Pr._
=Riches bring cares.= _Pr._
=Riches come better after poverty than poverty after riches.= _Chinese Pr._
=Riches do not consist in having more gold and= 20 =silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours.= _Locke._
=Riches do not exhilarate us so much by their possession as they torment us with their loss.= _Gregory._
=Riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him that ever fears he shall be poor.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.= _Plutarch._
=Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich.= _Sc. Pr._
=Riches have wings.= _Pr._ 25
=Riches profit not in the day of wrath.= _Bible._
=Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it.= _Petrarch._
=Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God.= _Lew Wallace._
=Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.= _Feltham._
=Richt wrangs nae man.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Richter sollen zwei gleiche Ohren haben=--Judges should have two ears, both alike. _Ger. Pr._
=Ride si sapis=--Laugh, if you are wise. _Mart._
=Ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat?=--Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? _Hor._
=Ridere in stomacho=--To laugh inwardly, _i.e._, in one's sleeve.
=Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.= 35 _Addison._
=Ridet argento domus=--The house is smiling with silver. _Hor._
=Ridetur chorda qui semper oberrat eadem=--He is laughed at who is for ever harping away on the same string. _Hor._
=Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.= _Goldsmith._
=Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below.= _Carlyle._
=Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a= 40 =strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh.= _Tupper._
=Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble.= _Scott._
=Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly.= _Smollett._
=Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res=--Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. _Hor._
=Ridiculus æque nullus est, quam quando esurit=--No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. _Plaut._
=Rien de plus éloquent que l'argent comptant=--Nothing 45 is more eloquent than ready money. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien de plus hautain qu'un homme médiocre devenu puissant=--Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien n'a qui assez n'a=--Who has nothing has not enough. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien n'arrive pour rien=--Nothing happens for nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de la paraître=--Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. _La Roche._
=Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est= 50 =aimable=--Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. _Boileau._
=Rien n'est plus estimable que la civilité; mais rien de plus ridicule, et de plus à charge, que la cérémonie=--Nothing is more estimable then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or tiresome than ceremony. _Fr._
=Rien n'est plus rare que la véritable bonté; ceux même qui croient en avoir n'ont d'ordinaire que de la complaisance ou de la faiblesse=--Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. _La Roche._
=Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un indiscret ami; / Mieux vaudroit un sage ennemi=--Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.
=Rien ne déconcerte plus efficacement les desseins des pervers, que la tranquillité des grands cœurs=--Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. _Mirabeau._
=Rien ne m'est sûr que la chose incertaine=--There is nothing certain but the uncertain. _Fr._
=Rien ne manque à sa gloire; il manquait à la nôtre=--Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. _Inscription on the bust of Molière, which was placed in the Academy in_ 1773.
=Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret=--Nothing presses so heavy on us as a secret. _La Fontaine._
=Rien ne peut arrêter sa vigilante audace. / L'été n'a point de feux, l'hiver n'a point de glace=--Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. _Boileau of Louis XIV._
=Rien ne ressemble plus à un honnête homme= 5 =qu'un fripon=--Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien ne réussit mieux que le succès=--Nothing succeeds like success.
=Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, / Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours entière=--Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. _Boucher._
=Rien ne s'arrête pour nous=--Nothing anchors itself fast for us. _Pascal._
=Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point=--It's no use running; only setting out betimes. _La Fontaine._
=Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien=--A 10 colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. _Fr. Pr._
=Rien que s'entendre=--Nothing but good understanding. _Said of friendship._
=Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.= _T. Edwards._
=Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe.= _Emerson._
=Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom.= _Emerson._
=Right is right, since God is God.= _Faber._ 15
=Right wrongs no man.= _Pr._
=Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people.= _Bible._
=Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way.= _Bible._
=Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms.= _Emerson._
=Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without= 20 =great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.= _Schiller._
=Rinasce più gloriosa=--It rises more glorious than ever. _M._
=Riñen las comadres y dicense las verdades=--Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. _Sp. Pr._
=Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow!= _Tennyson._
=Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers= 25 =in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight.= _Jean Paul._
=Rira bien qui rira le dernier=--He laughs well who laughs the last. _Fr. Pr._
=Rire à gorge déployée=--To laugh immoderately. _Fr._
=Rire dans sa barbe=--To laugh in one's sleeve.
=Rise, Christopher! thou hast found thy King, and turn / Back to the earth, for I have need of thee. / Thou hast sustained the whole world, bearing me, / The Lord of earth and heaven.= _Lewis Morris._
=Rise up before the hoary head, and honour= 30 =the face of the old man.= _Bible._
=Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.= _Washington Irving._
=Rising to great place is by a winding stair.= _Bacon._
=Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est=--Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. _Cat._
=Risum teneatis, amici?=--Can you refrain from laughter, my friends? _Hor._
=Risus abundat in ore stultorum=--Laughter is 35 common in the mouth of fools.
=Rivalem patienter habe=--Bear patiently with a rival. _Ovid._
=Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go.= _Pascal._
=Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still.= _Christina Rossetti._
=Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable.= _Hitopadesa._
=Rivers need a spring.= _Pr._ 40
=Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are few.= _Carlyle._
=Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'.= _George Eliot._
=Rob not the poor, because he is poor.= _Bible._
=Robbing Peter to pay Paul.= _Pr._
=Robespierre à pied et à cheval=--Robespierre 45 on foot and on horseback, _i.e._, Robespierre and Napoleon. _Mme. de Staël._
=Rock of ages, cleft for me, / Let me hide myself in thee.= _Toplady._
=Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, / I lay me down in peace to sleep.= _Emma Willard._
=Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.= _Milton._
=Rogner les ailes à quelqu'un=--To clip one's wings. _Fr._
=Rogues are always found out in some way.= 50 =Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things.= _La Fontaine._
=Roi fainéant=--A do-nothing king. _Fr._
=Roland for an Oliver=, _i.e._, one audacity capped by a greater.
=Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin,--his control / Stops with the shore.= _Byron._
=Roma locuta est; causa finita est=--Rome has spoken; the case is at an end.
=Romæ rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem /= 55 =Tollis ad astra levis=--At Rome you pine unsettled for the country, in the country you laud the distant city to the skies. _Hor._
=Romæ Tibur amem, ventosus, Tibure Romam=--Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur. _Hor._
=Romance and novel paint beauty in colours more charming than Nature, and describe a happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!= _Goldsmith._
=Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.= _I. Disraeli._
=Romance is the poetry of literature.= _Mme. Necker._
=Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect.... The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the common-places of five.= _Willmott._
=Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is= 5 =always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but is poetry in memory.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque=--All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. _Tac._
=Rome= (room) =indeed, and room enough, / When there is in it but one only man.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Rome n'est plus dans Rome; elle est toute où je suis=--Rome is no longer in Rome; it is all where I am. _Corn._
=Rome was not built in one day.= _Heywood._
=Root away / The noisome weeds, which without= 10 =profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.= _Rich. II._, iii. 4.
=Rore vixit more cicadæ=--He lived upon dew like a grasshopper. _Pr._
=Roses fall, but the thorns remain.= _Dut. Pr._
=Roses fair on thorns do grow: / And they tell me even so / Sorrows into virtues grow.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Roses grow among thorns.= _Pr._
=Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; /= 15 =Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun.= _Shakespeare._
=Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Round numbers are always false.= _Johnson._
=Round the world, but never in it.= _Pr. of sailors._
=Rouge et noir=--A game of cards (_lit._ red and black). _See Nuttall._
=Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua=--Thy will be 20 done though the heavens should fall.
=Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Rudis indigestaque moles=--A rude and unarranged mass. _Ovid._
=Ruh kommt aus Unruh, und wieder Unruh aus Ruh=--Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again from rest. _Ger. Pr._
=Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht=--Peace is the first duty of a citizen. _Count Schulenburg-Kehnert after the battle of Jena._
=Rühre die Laute nicht, wenn ringums Trommeln= 25 =erschallen; / Führen Narren das Wort, schweiget der Weisere still=--Touch not the lute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. _Herder._
=Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom.= _Goldsmith._
=Ruins are mile-stones on the road of time.= _Chamfort._
=Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured.= _Julia W. Howe._
=Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; / Britons never shall be slaves.= _Thomson._
=Rule youth weel and age will rule itsel'.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.= _Mme. Dudevant._
=Rumour is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; / And of so easy and so plain a stop / That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, / The still-discordant wavering multitude, / Can play upon it.= 2 _Hen. IV._, Induc.
=Run here or there, thou wilt find no rest, but in humble subjection to the government of a superior.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Rus in urbe=--Country in town. _Mart._
=Ruse contre ruse=--Diamond cut diamond. _Fr._ 35
=Ruse de guerre=--A stratagem. _Fr._
=Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself.= _Dan. Pr._
=Rust wastes more than use.= _Fr. Pr._
=Rustica veritas=--Rustic veracity.
=Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille /= 40 =Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--The peasant waits until the river shall cease to flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for all time to come. _Hor._
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=S'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison=--To abstain so as to enjoy is the epicurism of reason. _Rousseau._
='S gibt kein schöner Leben als Studentenleben=--There is no more beautiful life than that of the student. _Fr. Albrecht._
=S'il est vrai, il peut être=--It may be, if it is true. _Fr. Pr._
=S'il fait beau, prends ton manteau; s'il pleut, prends-le si tu veux=--If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please. _Fr. Pr._
=S'il y a beaucoup d'art à savoir parler à propos,= 45 =il n'y en a pas moins à savoir se taire=--If it requires great tact to know how to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. _La Roche._
=S'il y avait un peuple de dieux, il se gouvernerait démocratiquement. Un gouvernement si parfait ne convient pas des hommes=--If there were a community of gods, the government would be democratic. A government so perfect is not suitable for men. _Rousseau._
='S ist nichts so schlimm, als man wohl denkt / Wenn man's nur recht erfasst und lenkt=--There is nothing so bad as we think it if only we would apprehend and guide it aright. _Friedrich-Flotow._
='S wird besser gehen! 's wird besser gehen! / Die Welt ist rund und muss sich drehen=--Things will mend! will mend! The world is round, and must needs spin round. _Wohlbrück-Marschner._
=Saat, dich säet der Herr dem grossen Tage der Ernte=--Seed, the Lord sows thee for the great day of harvest. _Klopstock._
=Saat, von Gott gesäet, dem Tage der Garben zu reifen=--Seed sown by God, to ripen against the day of the sheaf-binding. _Klopstock._
=Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life.= _S. W. Duffield._
=Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow.= _Pr._
=Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content.= 5 _Pr._
=Sacco pieno rizza l'orecchio=--A full sack pricks up (_lit._ erects) its ear. _It. Pr._
=Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is aiming neither at self nor comfort, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind.= _Emerson._
=Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself, in theological language, into the love of God.= _Froude._
=Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.= _Amiel._
=Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls,= 10 =has never been the law of societies.= _Amiel._
=Sacrificed his life to the delineating of life.= _Goethe, of Schiller._
=Sacrificio dell' intelletto=--Sacrifice of intellect. _Frederick the Great to D'Alembert._
=Sad natures are most tolerant of gaiety.= _Amiel._
=Sad souls are slain in merry company. / Grief best is pleased with grief's society; / True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed / When with like semblance it is sympathised.= _Shakespeare._
=Sad wise valour is the brave complexion /= 15 =That leads the van and swallows up the cities.= _George Herbert._
=Sad with the whole of pleasure.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Sadness and gladness succeed each other.= _Pr._
=Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, / Sae dauntingly gaed he; / He play'd a spring, and danced it round, / Beneath the gallows-tree.= _Burns._
=Säen ist nicht so beschwerlich als ernten=--Sowing is not so difficult as reaping. _Goethe._
=Sæpe decipimur specie recti=--We are often misled 20 by the appearance of truth. _Hor._
=Sæpe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia=--Wisdom is often found even under a shabby coat. _Pr._
=Sæpe Faunorum voces exauditæ, / Sæpe visæ formæ deorum=--Voices of Fauns are often heard, and shapes of gods often seen.
=Sæpe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos=--Quarrels often arise in marriages when the dowry is excessive. _Auson._
=Sæpe ingenia calamitate intercidunt=--Genius often goes to waste through misfortune. _Phæd._
=Sæpe nihil inimicus homini quam sibi ipse=--Often 25 a man is his own worst enemy. _Cic._
=Sæpe premente Deo, fert Deus alter opem=--Often when we are oppressed by one deity, another comes to our help.
=Sæpe stylum vertas, iterum quæ digna legi sint / Scripturus; neque, te ut miretur turba, labores / Contentus paucis lectoribus=--You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and labour not for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. _Hor._
=Sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent=--The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. _Plaut._
=Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet=--Often a silent countenance is expressive (_lit._ has a voice and speaks). _Ovid._
=Sæpe via obliqua præstat quam tendere recta=--It 30 is often better to go the circuitous way than the direct one.
=Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens / Pinus, et celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres, feriuntque summos / Fulmina montes=--The huge pine is more frequently shaken by the winds, high towers fall with a heavier crash, and it is the mountain-tops that the thunderbolts strike. _Hor._
=Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto cum lare fundus=--Stern poverty, and an ancestral piece of land with a dwelling to match. _Hor._
=Sævi inter se conveniunt ursi=--Even savage bears agree among themselves. _Juv._
=Sævis tranquillus in undis=--Calm in the raging waters. _M. of William I. of Orange._
=Safe bind, safe find.= _Pr._ 35
=Sag' eine Lüge, so hörst du die Wahrheit=--Tell a lie, you will then hear the truth. _Ger. Pr._
=Sahest du nie die Schönheit im Augenblicke des Leidens, / Niemals hast du die Schönheit gesehn. / Sahest du die Freude nie in einem schönen Gesichte, / Niemals hast du die Freude gesehn=--If thou hast never seen beauty in the moment of suffering, thou hast never seen beauty at all. If thou hast never seen joy in a beautiful countenance, thou hast never seen joy at all. _Schiller._
=Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel.= _Spurgeon._
=Saint cannot, if God will not.= _Fr. Pr._
=Saints are sad, because they behold sin (even= 40 =when they speculate) from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect.= _Emerson._
=Sal atticum=--Attic salt; wit.
=Sal sapit omnia=--Salt seasons everything. _M._
=Salle-à-manger=--A dining-room. _Fr._
=Salon=--A drawing-room; a picture gallery or exhibition. _Fr._
=Salt and bread make the cheeks red.= _Ger. Pr._ 45
=Salt is good, but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out.= _Jesus._
=Salt is white and pure; there is something holy in salt.= _Hawthorne._
=Salt spilt is never all gathered up.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Saltabat elegantius, quam necesse est probæ=--She danced more daintily than a virtuous woman should. _Sall., of Sempronia._
=Salus per Christum redemptorem=--Salvation 50 through Christ the Redeemer. _M._
=Salus populi suprema est lex=--The well-being of the people is the supreme law. _L._
=Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. / Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own, / And tumble up and down what thou find'st there.= _George Herbert._
=Salva conscientia=--Without compromise of conscience.
=Salva dignitate=--Without compromising one's dignity.
=Salva fide=--Without breaking one's word.
=Salve, magna parens=--Hail! thou great parent! _Virg._
=Salvo jure=--Saving the right.
=Salvo ordine=--Without dishonour to one's order.
=Salvo pudore=--With a proper regard to decency. 5
=Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.= _Petrarch._
=Sammle dich zu jeglichem Geschäfte, / Nie zersplittre deine Kräfte=--Gather thyself up for every task, never dissipate (_lit._ split up) thy powers. _Bodenstedt._
=Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he got it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Sanan llagas, y no malas palabras=--Wounds heal, but not ill words. _Sp. Pr._
=Sands form the mountains, moments make the= 10 =year.= _Young._
=Sane baro=--A baron indeed. _M._
=Sang-froid=--Indifference; apathy; coolness. _Fr._
=Sanno più un savio ed un matto che un savio solo=--A wise man and a fool know more than a wise man alone. _It. Pr._
=Sans changer=--Without changing. _Fr._
=Sans Dieu rien=--Nothing without God. _Fr._ 15
=Sans façon=--Without ceremony. _Fr._
=Sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. Ce toucher sûr par qui la lyre ne rend que le son qu'elle doit rendre, est encore plus rare que la faculté qui crée=--Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch by which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. _Chateaubriand._
=Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir=--Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure. _Fr._
=Sans peur et sans reproche=--Fearless and blameless. _Surname of the Chevalier Bayard._
=Sans phrase=--Without phrase; without amplification; 20 simply. _Fr._
=Sans Souci=--"No bother" here. _Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam._
=Sans tache=--Without stain. _M._
=Sanctio justa, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria=--A just decree, enforcing what is honourable and forbidding the contrary. _Bracton._
=Sanctum est vetus omne poema=--Every old poem is sacred. _Hor._
=Sic vos non vobis=--Thus do ye labour not for 25 yourselves. _Virg._
=Sanctum sanctorum=--Holy of holies; a study; a private room.
=Sanctus haberi / Justitiæque tenax, factis dictisque mereris? / Agnosco procerem=--If you deserve to be held a man without blame, and tenacious of justice both in word and deed, then I recognise in you the nobleman. _Juv._
=Sapere aude=--Dare to be wise. _M._
=Sapere isthac ætate oportet, qui sunt capite candido=--They who have grey heads are old enough to be wise. _Plaut._
=Sapiens dominabitur astris=--A wise man will 30 lord it over the stars. _Pr._
=Sapiens nihil facit invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus=--A wise man does nothing against his will, nothing with repining or under coercion. _Cic._
=Sapiens qui prospicit=--He is wise who looks ahead. _M._
=Sapientem pascere barbam=--To cultivate a philosophic beard. _Hor._
=Sapienti sat=--Enough for a wise man. _Plaut._
=Sapientissimus in septem=--The wisest of the 35 seven, viz., Thales. _Cic._
=Sapientum octavus=--The eighth of the wise men. _Hor._
=Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.= _Byron._
=Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil.= _Carlyle._
=Sarcasm poisons reproof.= _E. Wigglesworth._
=Sardonicus risus=--A sardonic laugh; a forced 40 ironical laugh.
=Sartor resartus=--The tailor patched.
=Sat cito si sat bene=--Quick enough, if well enough. _Cato._
=Sat pulchra, si sat bona=--Fair enough, if good enough.
=Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do.= _Watts._
=Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.= 45 _Pr._
=Satan himself is now transformed into an angel of light.= _St. Paul._
=Satan now is wiser than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor.= _Pope._
=Satan trembles when he sees / The weakest saint upon his knees.= _Cowper._
=Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety.= _Solon._
=Satire has a power of fascination that no other= 50 =written thing possesses.= _S. Lane-Poole._
=Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.= _Swift._
=Satire should, like a polished razor keen, / Wound with a touch that is scarcely seen.= _Lady M. Montagu._
=Satires run faster than panegyrics.= _Pr._
=Satis diu vel naturæ vel gloriæ=--Long enough for the demands both of nature or of glory.
=Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum=--Fine talk 55 enough, but little wisdom. _Sall._
=Satis est orare Jovem, quæ donat et aufert; / Det vitam, det opes, æquum mi animum ipse parabo=--It is enough to pray to Jove for those things which he gives and takes away; let him grant life, let him grant wealth; I myself will provide myself with a well-poised mind. _Hor._
=Satis quod sufficit=--Enough is as good as a feast (_lit._ what suffices is enough).
=Satis superque est=--Enough, and more than enough.
=Satis superque me benignitas tua / Ditavit=--Your bounty has enriched me enough, and more than enough. _Hor._
=Satis verborum=--Enough of words. 60
=Satis vixi; invictus enim morior=--I have lived enough; I die unvanquished. _Epaminondas in Corn. Nep._
=Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.= _Schopenhauer._
=Satius est recurrere, quam currere male=--It is better to run back than run on the wrong way. _Pr._
=Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.= _Pr._
=Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem / Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit=--The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and yet, forgetful of his former wound, he takes up arms again.
=Säume nicht, dich zu erdreisten, / Wenn die Menge zaudernd schweift; / Alles kann der Edle leisten / Der versteht und rasch ergreift=--If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike thou in swift with all boldness; the noble heart that understands and seizes quick hold of opportunity can achieve everything. _Goethe._
=Sauter du coq à l'âne!=--To change the subject 5 abruptly; to talk at cross purposes.
=Sauve qui peut=--Save himself who can.
=Save a man from his friends, and leave him to struggle with his enemies.= (?)
=Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll cut your throat.= _Pr._
=Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, / You heavenly guards.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Save something for a sore foot.= _Pr._ 10
=Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois=--To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. _Richelieu._
=Savoir-faire=--Skill; tact.
=Savoir-vivre=--Good breeding; good manners. _Fr._
=Savor= (desire) =no more than thee behoven shall, / Rede well thyself that other folks can rede, / And truth thee shalt deliver--'tis no drede.= _Chaucer._
=Say little and say well.= _Gael. Pr._ 15
=Say nay, and take it.= _Pr._
=Say no ill of the year till it be past.= _Pr._
=Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.= _Claudius._
=Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.= _Bible._
=Say not, / This with that lace will do well; /= 20 =But, This with my discretion will be brave.= _George Herbert._
=Say not to-morrow; the tongue's slightest slip / Nemesis watches, ere it pass the lip.= _Antiphilus._
=Say not, We will suffer, for that ye must; say rather, We will act, for that ye must not= (_i.e._, we are compelled to do the one, but not the other). _Jean Paul._
=Say nothing, and none can criticise thee.= _Spurgeon._
=Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you wilt be taken at your word.= _Joseph Roux._
=Say, O wise man, how thou hast come by such= 25 =knowledge? Because I never was ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.= _Herder._
="Say well" is good, but "Do well" is better.= _Pr._
=Say well or be still.= _Pr._
=Say, what is taste, but the internal pow'rs /
## Active and strong, and feelingly alive / To
each fine impulse?= _Akenside._
=Saying and doing are two different things.= _Pr._
=Scald not thy lips with another man's porridge.= 30 _Pr._
=Scandal breeds hatred, hatred begets divisions, division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.= _Quarles._
=Scandal ever improves by opposition.= _Goldsmith._
=Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innumerable streams, and it is extremely difficult to trace it to its source.= _Punch._
=Scandal will not rub out like dirt when it is= 35 =dry.= _Pr._
=Scandalum magnatum=--An offence against the nobility or a person in high station. _L._
=Scarcely anything is perfectly plain but what is also perfectly common.= _Carlyle._
=Scarcely love's utmost may in heaven be; / To hell it reacheth, so 'tis love at all.= _Louise S. Bevington._
=Scarcely one man in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.= _Fielding._
=Scarceness is what there is the biggest stock= 40 =of in the country.= _George Eliot._
=Scarceness o' victual 'ull keep; there's no need to be hasty wi' the cooking.= _George Eliot._
=Scatter with one hand, gather with two.= _Pr._
=Scelere velandum est scelus=--One crime has to be concealed by another. _Sen._
=Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith.= _Chapin._
=Scepticism is not an end but a beginning, is as= 45 =the decay of old ways of believing, the preparation afar off for new, wider, and better.= _Carlyle._
=Scepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores; but which he sees to be reverent only in their tendency and spirit.= _Emerson._
=Scepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.= _Emerson._
=Scepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, and spiritual paralysis.= _Carlyle._
=Scepticism, with its innumerable mischiefs, what is it but the sour fruit of a most blessed increase, that of knowledge; a fruit, too, that will not always continue sour.= (?)
=Scepticism writing about belief may have great= 50 =gifts; but it is really= _ultra vires_ =there. It is blindness laying down the laws of optics.= _Carlyle._
=Schadet ein Irrtum wohl? Nicht immer! aber das Irren / Immer schadet's. Wie sehr, sieht man am Ende des Wegs=--Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. _Goethe._
=Schall und Rauch umnebeln Himmels-Gluth=--Sound and smoke overclouding heaven's splendour. _Goethe._
=Schäme dich deines Handwerks nicht=--Think no shame of your craft. _Ger. Pr._
=Schwärmerei=--An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. _Ger._
=Scheiden, ach Scheiden, Scheiden thut weh!=--Parting, ah! parting; parting makes the heart ache. _Herloszsohn._
=Scherze nicht mit Ernst=--Jest not in earnest. _M._
=Schick dich in die Zeit=--Adapt yourself to the times. _Ger. Pr._
=Schicksal und eigene Schuld=--Fate and one's own deservings.
=Schlägt die Zeit dir manche Wunde, / Manche= 5 =Freude bringt ihr Lauf; / Aber eine sel'ge Stunde / Wiegt ein Jahr von Schmerzen auf=--If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. _Geibel._
=Schlägt dir die Hoffnung fehl, nie fehle dir das Hoffen! / Ein Thor ist zugethan, doch tausend sind dir offen=--Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. _Rückert._
=Schlagt ihn tot den Hund! Er ist Rezensent=--Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. _Goethe._
=Schlechtes sucht mit Gutem Streit=--Bad keeps up a strife with good. _Bodenstedt._
=Schliesst eure Herzen sorgfältiger, als eure Thore=--Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. _Goethe._
=Schmerz und Liebe ist des Menschen Teil /= 10 =Der dem Weltgeschick nicht feig entwichen, / Zieht er aus dem Busen sich den Pfeil, / Ist er für die Welt und Gott verblichen=--Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. _N. Lenau._
=Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance.= _Zimmermann._
=Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power.= _J. G. Holland._
=Schön ist der Friede! Ein lieblicher Knabe / Liegt er gelagert am ruhigen Bach.... / Aber der Krieg auch hat seine Ehre, / Der Beweger des Menschensgeschicks=--Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. _Schiller._
=Schön sind die Rosen eurer Jugend; / Allein die Zeit zerstöret sie. / Nur die Talente, nur die Tugend / Veralten nicht und sterben nie=--Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. _Pfeffel._
=Schöne Blumen stehen nicht lange am Wege=--Fair 15 flowers are not left standing long by the wayside. _Ger. Pr._
=Schönheit bändigt allen Zorn=--Beauty allays all angry feeling. _Goethe._
=Schrecklich blicket ein Gott, da wo Sterbliche weinen=--Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. _Goethe._
=Schuim is geen bier=--Froth is no beer. _Dut. Pr._
=Schweig, oder rede etwas, das ist besser denn Schweigen=--Be silent, or say something that is better than silence. _Ger. Pr._
=Schweigen ist das Heiligthum der Klugheit.= 20 =Es birgt nicht bloss Geheimnisse, sondern auch Fehler=--Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. It conceals not merely secrets, but blemishes. _Zachariä._
=Schweigen können zeugt von Kraft, schweigen wollen von Nachsicht, schweigen müssen vom Geist der Zeit=--To be able to be silent testifies of power, to will to be silent of indulgence, to be obliged to be silent of the spirit of the time. _C. J. Weber._
=Schwer ist es, aus dem Geschrei erhitzter Parteien die Stimme der Wahrheit zu unterscheiden=--It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated
## partisans. _Schiller._
=Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.= _Emerson._
=Science corrects the old creeds ... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses.= _Emerson._
=Science deals exclusively with things as they= 25 =are in themselves.= _Ruskin._
=Science dissects death.= _F. W. Robertson._
=Science does not know its debt to imagination.= _Emerson._
=Science falsely so called.= _St. Paul._
=Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong.= _Carlyle._
=Science has been seriously retarded by the= 30 =study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.= _Goethe._
=Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.= _Carlyle._
=Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.= _Holmes._
=Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Science is busy with the hither-end of= 35 =things, not the thither-end.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Science / Is but an exchange of ignorance for that / Which is another kind of ignorance.= _Byron._
=Science is for those who learn, poetry for those who know.= _J. Roux._
=Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense.= _Huxley._
=Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.= _Moses Harvey._
=Science is the knowledge of constant things,= 40 =not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.= _Ruskin._
=Science is the systematic classification of experience.= _G. H. Lewes._
=Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.= _Ruskin._
=Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive.= _Froude._
=Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified.= _Hare._
=Scientia nihil aliud est quam veritatis imago=--Science is but an image of the truth. _Bacon._
=Scientia popinæ=--The art of cookery.
=Scientia quæ est remota a justitia, calliditas= 5 =potius quam sapientia est appellanda=--Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. _Cic._
=Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.= _Disraeli._
=Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.= _Horace Mann._
=Scilicet expectes, ut tradet mater honestos / Atque alios mores, quam quos habet?=--Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. _Juv._
=Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus=--The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. _Virg._
=Scio cui credidi=--I know in whom I have believed. 10 _M._
=Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es=--I know it; you are constrained by your inclination. _Ter._
=Scire facias=--Cause it to be known. _L._
=Scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi=--To know the virtues of herbs and their use in healing. _Virg._
=Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter=--It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. _Pers._
=Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum= 15 =maxima pars eruditionis est=--To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.
=Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo=--All would like to know, but few to pay the price. _Juv._
=Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri=--They wish to know of the family secrets, and so to be feared. _Juv._
=Scit genius, natale comes qui temperet astrum=--The genius, our companion, who rules our natal star, knows. _Hor._
=Scoglio immoto contro le onde sta=--He stands like a rock unmoved against the waves. _M._
=Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree; /= 20 =Love is a present for a mighty king,--/ Much less make any one thine enemy. As guns destroy, so may a little sling.= _George Herbert._
=Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor.= _Saadi._
=Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn, / Is that a matter to make me fret? / That a calamity hard to be borne?= _Tennyson._
=Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, / Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, / Welcome to your gory bed, / Or to victory! / Now's the day and now's the hour; / See the front o' battle lour; / See approach proud Edward's power, / Chains and slavery.= _Burns._
=Scotsmen reckon ay frae an ill hour.= _Pr._
=Screw not the chord too sharply lest it snap.= 25 _Pr._
=Screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons=--Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. _Hor._
=Scribere scientes=--Knowing, or skilled, in writing. _M._
=Scribimus indocti doctique=--All of us, unlearned and learned, alike take to writing. _Hor._
=Scripture, like Nature, lays down no definitions.= 30 _Spinoza._
=Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of heart, are frequently the lot of the most excellent persons.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.= _Emerson._
=Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself.= _Ruskin._
=Sculpture, the tongue on the balance of expression.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=S'échauffer au dépens du bon Dieu=--To warm 35 one's self in the sun (_lit._ at the expense of the good god). _M._
=Se a ciascuno l'interno affanno / Si leggesse in fronte scritto, / Quanti mai che invidia fanno / Ci farebbero pietà!=--If the secret sorrows of every one could be read on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would become objects of pity! _It._
=Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, e' non c' è cosa che non si facesse=--If the young knew, and the old could, there is nothing which would not be done. _It. Pr._
=Se'l sol mi splende, non curo la luna=--If the sun shines on me, I care not for the moon. _It. Pr._
=Se la moglie pecca, non è il marito innocente=--If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. _It. Pr._
=Se laisser prendre aux apparences=--To let one's 40 self be imposed on by appearances. _Fr. Pr._
=Se moquer de la philosophie, c'est vraiment philosopher=--To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. _Pascal._
=Se non è vero, è ben trovato=--If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. _It. Pr._
=Se retirer dans un fromage de Hollande=--To retire into a Dutch cheese, _i.e._, to be contented. _La Fontaine._
=Se tu segui tua stella=--Follow thou thy own star. _Dante._
=Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with= 45 =Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.= _Holmes._
=Sea things that be / On the hot sand fainting long, / Revive with the kiss of the sea.= _Lewis Morris._
=Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.= _Swift._
=Search not to find what lies too deeply hid; / Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid.= _Denham._
=Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices.= _Fuller._
=Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found my own.= _As You Like It_, ii. 4.
=Second thoughts, they say, are best.= _Dryden._
=Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it.= _Goethe._
=Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves.= _Chamfort._
=Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.= _Jeremy_ 5 _Taylor._
=Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.= _Carlyle._
=Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.= _Quoted by Colton._
=Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies.= _Colton._
=Secret et hardi=--Secret and bold. _M._
=Secreta hæc murmura vulgi=--Those secret whisperings 10 of the populace. _Juv._
=Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam=--Advise your friends in private, praise them openly. _Pub. Syr._
=Secrets make a dungeon of the heart and a jailer of its owner.= _Amer. Pr._
=Secrets travel fast in Paris.= _Napoleon._
=Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Secundis dubiisque rectus=--Upright, whether in 15 prosperous or in critical circumstances. _M._
=Secundo amne defluit=--He floats with the stream.
=Secundum artem=--According to the rules of art.
=Secundum genera=--According to classes.
=Secundum usum=--According to usage or use.
=Security, / Is mortals' chiefest enemy.= _Macbeth_, 20 iii. 5.
=Security will produce danger.= _Johnson._
=Securus judicat orbis terrarum=--The world's judgment is unswayed by fear. _St. Augustine._
=Sed de me ut sileam=--But to say nothing of myself. _Ovid._
=Sed nisi peccassem, quid tu concedere posses? / Materiam veniæ sors tibi nostra dedit=--Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. _Ovid._
=Sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, /= 25 =Introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decora=--But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside. _Hor._
=Sed quum res hominum tanta caligine volvi / Adspicerem, lætosque diu florere nocentes, / Vexarique pios: rursus labefacta cadebat / Religio=--When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. _Claud._
=Sed tu / Ingenio verbis concipe plura meis?=--But do you of your own ingenuity take up more than my words? _Ovid._
=Sed vatem egregium cui non sit publica vena, / Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere, nec qui / Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta, / Hunc qualem nequeo monstrare, et sentio tantum, / Anxietate carens animus facit=--A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. _Juv._
=See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it.= _Carlyle._
=See how many things there are which a man= 30 =cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, "that a friend is another himself;" for that a friend is far more than himself.= _Bacon._
=See Naples, and then die.= _It. Pr._
=See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.= _Socrates._
=See that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way.= _St. Paul._
=See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it.= _All's Well_, ii. 1.
=See the conquering hero comes! / Sound the= 35 =trumpet, beat the drums!= _Dr. Thomas Morell._
=See this last and this hammer (said the poor cobbler); that last and this hammer are the two best friends I have in this world; nobody else will be my friend, because I want a friend.= _Goldsmith._
=See thou explain the infinite through the finite, and the unintelligible only through the intelligible, and not inversely.= _Bodenstedt._
=See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.= _Ward Beecher._
=See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 3.
=See, what is good lies by thy side.= _Goethe._ 40
=Seein's believin', but feelin's the naked truth.= _Sc. Pr._
=Seeing the root of the matter is found in me.= _Bible._
=Seek, and ye shall find.= _Jesus._
=Seek but provision of bread and wine, / ... Fools to flatter, and raiment fine, / ... And nothing of God shall e'er be thine.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge= 45 =the fatherless, plead for the widow.= _Bible._
=Seek not thyself without thyself to find.= _Dryden._
=Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd; / Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd; / Too busy man would find his sorrows more, / If future fortunes he should know before; / For by that knowledge of his destiny / He would not live at all, but always die.= _Dryden._
=Seek not to reform every one's dial by your own watch.= _Pr._
=Seek one good, one end, so zealously, that nothing else may come into competition or partnership with it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility or softness, which taketh an honest mind prisoner.= _Bacon._
=Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour.= _Pr._
=Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; / A woman's noblest station is retreat.= _Lyttelton._
=Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.= _Bacon._
=Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call= 5 =ye upon him while he is near.= _Bible._
=Seek your salve where you got your sore.= _Pr._
=Seekest thou great things? seek them not.= _Jeremiah._
=Seeking for a God there, and not here; everywhere outwardly in physical nature, and not inwardly in our own soul, where He alone is to be found by us, begins to get wearisome.= _Carlyle._
=Seeking nothing, he gains all; foregoing self, the universe grows "I."= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Seeking the bubble reputation, / Even in the= 10 =cannon's mouth.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Seele des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wasser! / Schicksal des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wind!=--Soul of man, how like art thou to water! Lot of man, how like art thou to wind! _Goethe._
=Seelenstärke ohne Seelengrösse bildet die bösartigen Charakters=--Strength of soul without greatness of soul goes but to form evil-disposed characters. _Weber._
=Seem I not as tender to him / As any mother? / Ay, but such a one / As all day long hath rated at her child, / And vext his day, but blesses him asleep.= _Tennyson._
=Seeming triumph o'er God's saints / Lasts but a little hour.= _Winkworth._
=Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not= 15 ="seems." / 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black. / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, / Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, / That can denote truly; these, indeed, seem, / For they are actions that a man can play: / But I have that within, which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.= _Bible._
=Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.= _Bible._
=Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.= _Bible._
=Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt=--Men 20 are not so readily sensible of benefits as of injuries.
=Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, / Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus=--What we learn merely through the ear makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. _Hor._
=Sehr leicht zerstreut der Zufall was er sammelt; / Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie festzuhalten=--What chance gathers she very easily scatters. A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. _Goethe._
=Sei gefühllos! / Ein leichtbewegtes Herz / Ist ein elend Gut / Auf der wankenden Erde=--Do not give way to feeling (_lit._ be unfeeling). A quickly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. _Goethe._
=Sei gut, und lass von dir die Menschen Böses sagen; / Wer eigne Schuld nicht trägt, kann leichter fremde tragen=--Be good, and let men say ill of thee; he who has no sin to bear of his own can more easily bear that of others. _Rückert._
=Sei im Besitze, und du wohnst im Recht, /= 25 =Und heilig wird's die Menge dir bewahren=--Be in possession and thou hast the right, and the many will preserve it for thee as sacred. _Schiller._
=Sei was du sein willst=--Be what you would be. _Ger. Pr._
=Sein Glaube ist so gross, dass, wenn er fällt, / Glaubt er: gefallen sei die ganze Welt=--His faith is so great that if it falls, he believes the whole world has fallen. _Bodenstedt._
=Sei hochbeseligt oder leide! / Das Herz bedarf ein zweites Herz. / Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude, / Geteilter Schmerz ist halber Schmerz.=--Be joyful or sorrowful, the heart needs a second heart. Joy shared is joy doubled; pain shared is pain divided. _Rückert._
=Selbst erfinden ist schön; doch glücklich von andern Gefundnes, / Fröhlich erkannt und geschätzt, nennst du das weniger dein?=--It is glorious to find out one's self, but call you that less yours which has been happily found out by others, and is with joy recognised and valued by you? _Goethe._
=Selbst gethan ist halb gethan=--What you do 30 yourself is half done. _Ger. Pr._
=Seldom contented, often in the wrong, / Hard to be pleased at all, and never long.= _Dryden._
=Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.= _Bp. Hall._
=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.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Seldom, in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.= _Goethe._
=Seldom is a life wholly wrecked but the cause= 35 =lies in some internal mal-arrangement, some want less of good fortune than of good guidance.= _Carlyle._
=Self-complacence over the concealed destroys its concealment.= _Goethe._
=Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness or a realisation of our duty and privilege as God's children.= _Phillips Brooks._
=Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.= _Johnson._
=Self-deception is one of the most deadly of all dangers.= _Saying._
=Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character,= 40 =and the loftiest kind thereof comes only of a religious stock.= _Theo. Parker._
=Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.= _Jane Taylor._
=Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.= _Bovee._
=Self-interest, that leprosy of the age, attacks us from infancy, and we are startled to observe little heads calculate before knowing how to reflect.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.= _Goethe._
=Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our= 5 =virtues.= _Goethe._
=Self-love is a balloon inflated with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.= _Voltaire._
=Self-love is not so vile a sin / As self-neglecting.= _Henry V._, ii. 4.
=Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.= _Voltaire._
=Self-love may be, and as a fact often is, the first impulse that drives a man to seek to become morally and religiously better.= _J. C. Sharp._
=Self loves itself best.= _Pr._ 10
=Self-murder! name it not; our island's shame!= _Blair._
=Self-respect, the corner-stone of all virtue.= _Sir John Herschel._
=Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, / These three alone lead life to sovereign power. / Yet not for power (power of herself / Would come uncall'd for), but to live by law, / Acting the law we live by without fear; / And, because right is right, to follow right, / Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.= _Tennyson._
=Self-trust is the essence of heroism.= _Emerson._
=Self-trust is the first secret of success.= _Emerson._ 15
=Self-will is so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.= _Cecil._
=Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.= _Ward Beecher._
=Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.= _Mme. Roland._
=Selig der, den er im Siegesglanze findet=--Happy he whom he (Death) finds in battle's splendour. _Goethe._
=Selig wer sich vor der Welt, / Ohne Hass= 20 =verschliesst, / Einen Freund am Busen hält / Und mit dem geniesst=--Happy he who without hatred shuts himself off from the world, holds a friend to his bosom, and enjoys life with him. _Goethe._
=Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor, and follow me.= _Jesus._
=Semel insanivimus omnes=--We have all been at some time mad.
=Semel malus, semper præsumitur esse malus=--Once bad is to be presumed always bad. _L._
=Semen est sanguis Christianorum=--The blood of us Christians is seed. _Tertullian._
=Semper ad eventum festinat=--He always hastens 25 to the goal, or issue. _M._
=Semper Augustus=--Always an enlarger of the empire. _Symmachus._
=Semper avarus eget; certum voto pete finem=--The avaricious man is ever in want; let your desire aim at a fixed limit. _Hor._
=Semper bonus homo tiro=--A good man is always green. _Mart._
=Semper eadem=--Always the same. _M._
=Semper eris pauper, si pauper es, Æmiliane=--If 30 you are poor, Emilian, you will always be poor. _Mart._
=Semper fidelis=--Always faithful. _M._
=Semper habet lites alternaque jurgia lectus, / In quo nupta jacet; minimum dormitur in illo=--The bed in which a wife lies is always the scene of quarrels and mutual recriminations; there is very little chance of sleep there. _Juv._
=Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudesque manebunt=--Thy honour, thy renown, and thy praises shall live for ever. _Virg._
=Semper idem=--Always the same. _M._
=Semper inops, quicunque cupit=--He who desires 35 more is always poor. _Claud._
=Semper paratus=--Always ready. _M._
=Semper tibi pendeat hamus; / Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit=--Have your hook always baited; in the pool where you least think it there will be a fish. _Ovid._
=Sempre il mal non vien per nuocere=--Misfortune does not always result in harm. _It. Pr._
=Send a fool to France, and he'll come a fool back.= _Sc. Pr._
=Send a fool to the market, and a fool he'll= 40 =return.= _Pr._
=Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.= _Pr._
=Send your charity abroad wrapt in blankets.= _Pr._
=Send your son to Ayr; if he did weel here, he'll do weel there.= _Sc. Pr._
=Senilis stultitia, quæ deliratio appellari solet, senum levium est, non omnium=--The foolishness of old age, which is termed dotage, does not characterise all who are old, but only those who are frivolous. _Cic._
=Seniores priores=--The elder men first. 45
=Sense can support herself handsomely, in most countries, for some eighteenpence a day; but for fantasy planets and solar systems will not suffice.= _Carlyle._
=Sense hides shame.= _Gael. Pr._
=Sense, shortness, and salt are the ingredients of a good proverb.= _Howell._
=Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.= _Colton._
=Sensitive ears are good signs of health in= 50 =girls as in horses.= _Jean Paul._
=Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of ourselves.= _Bovee._
=Sensuality is the grave of the soul.= _Channing._
=Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memory.= _Diderot._
=Sentiment has a kind of divine alchemy, rendering grief itself the source of tenderest thoughts and far-reaching desires, which the sufferer cherishes as sacred treasures.= _Talfourd._
=Sentiment is intellectualised emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.= _Lowell._
=Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy.= _Mme. Delazy._
=Sentimental literature, concerned with the analysis and description of emotion, headed by the poetry of Byron, is altogether of lower rank than the literature which merely describes what it saw.= _Ruskin._
=Sentimentalism is that state in which a man= 5 =speaks deep and true, not because he feels things strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and touching and fine to say them--things that he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.= _F. W. Robertson._
=Senza Cerere e Bacco, Venere e di ghiaccio=--Without bread and wine love is cold (_lit._ without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus is of ice). _It. Pr._
=Septem convivium, novem convitium=--Seven is a banquet, nine a brawl. _Pr._
=Septem horas dormisse sat est juvenique, senique=--Seven hours of sleep is enough both for old and young. _Pr._
=Sepulchri / Mitte supervacuos honores=--Discard the superfluous honours at the grave. _Hor._
=Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis=--And 10 he follows his father with unequal steps. _Virg._
=Sequor nec inferior=--I follow, but am not inferior. _M._
=Sera in fundo parsimonia=--Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. _Sen._
=Serenity, health, and affluence attend the desire of rising by labour.= _Goldsmith._
=Seriatim=--In order; according to rank; in due course.
=Series implexa causarum=--The complicated 15 series of causes; fate. _Sen._
=Serit arbores quæ alteri sæculo prosint=--He plants trees for the benefit of a future generation. _From Statius._
=Sermons in stones.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1.
=Sero clypeum post vulnera sumo=--I am too late in taking my shield after being wounded. _Pr._
=Sero sapiunt Phryges=--The Trojans became wise when too late. _Pr._
=Sero sed serio=--Late, but seriously. _M._ 20
=Sero venientibus ossa=--The bones for those who come late. _Pr._
=Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet=--Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon, _i.e._, unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. _Pr._
=Serpentum major concordia; parcit / Cognatis maculis similis fera. Quando leoni / Fortior eripuit vitam leo?=--There is greater concord among serpents than among men; a wild beast of a like kind spares kindred spots. When did a stronger lion deprive another of life? _Juv._
=Serum auxilium post prælium=--Help comes too late when the fight is over. _Pr._
=Serus in cœlum redeas diuque / Lætus intersis= 25 =populo=--May it be long before you return to the sky, and may you long move up and down gladly among your people. _Hor. to Augustus._
=Serva jugum=--Preserve the yoke. _M._
=Servabo fidem=--I will keep faith. _M._
=Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought / The better fight.= _Milton._
=Servants and houses should be suited to the situation. A gem should not be placed at the feet. The same is to be understood of an able man.= _Hitopadesa._
=Servata fides cineri=--Faithful to the memory of 30 my ancestors. _M._
=Serve the great; stick at no humiliation; grudge no office thou canst render; be the limb of their body, the breath of their mouth; compromise thy egotism.= _Emerson._
=Servetur ad imum / Qualis ab incepto processerit, et sibi constet=--Let the character be kept up to the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent. _Hor._
=Service is no inheritance.= _Fr. and It. Pr._
=Serviet æternum, quia parvo nescit uti=--He will be always a slave, because he knows not how to live upon little. _Hor._
=Servility and abjectness of humour is implicitly= 35 =involved in the charge of lying.= _Government of the Tongue._
=Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery.= _Pr._
=Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on servitude.= _Sen._
=Ses rides sur son front ont gravé ses exploits=--His furrows on his forehead testify to his exploits. _Corn._
=Sesquipedalia verba=--Words a cubit long. _Hor._
=Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to= 40 =the devil.= _Pr._
=Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.= _Burton._
=Set a stout heart to a stey= (steep) =brae.= _Sc. Pr._
=Set a thief to catch a thief.= _Pr._
=Set it down to thyself as well to create good precedents as to follow them.= _Bacon._
=Set not your loaf in till the oven's hot.= _Pr._ 45
=Set out so / As all the day thou mayst hold out to go.= _George Herbert._
=Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.= _St. Paul._
=Setz' dir Perrücken auf von Millionen Locken, / Setz' deinen Fuss auf ellenhohe Socken, / Du bleibst doch immer, was du bist=--Clap on thee wigs with curls without number, set thy foot in ell-high socks, thou remainest notwithstanding ever what thou art. _Goethe._
=Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, / Who living had no roof to shroud his head.= _Heywood._
=Seven Grecian cities vied for Homer dead, /= 50 =Through which the living Homer begged his bread.= _Leonidas._
=Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.= _Sir William Jones._
=Seven times tried that judgment is / That did never choose amiss.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Severæ Musa tragœdiæ=--The Muse of solemn tragedy. _Hor._
=Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate.= _Bacon._
=Sewing at once a double thread, / A shroud as= 55 =well as a shirt.= _Hood._
=Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus æquis: / Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duas. / Quod superest ultra, sacris largire Camenis=--Give six hours to sleep, as many to the study of law; four hours you shall pray, and two give to meals: what is over devote to the sacred Muses. _Coke._
=Sexu fœmina, ingenio vir=--In sex a woman, in natural ability a man. _Epitaph of Maria Theresa._
=Shadow owes its birth to light.= _Gay._
=Shadows fall on brightest hours.= _Procter._
=Shadows to-night / Have struck more terror= 5 =to the soul of Richard / Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.= _Rich. III._, v. 3.
=Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, / And look on death itself.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity as to suggest a wealth that beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, have no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock.= _Emerson._
=Shakespeare does not look at a thing merely, but into it, through it, so that he constructively comprehends it, can take it asunder and put it together again; the thing melts, as it were, into light under his eye, and anew creates itself before him.= _Carlyle._
=Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they imagine they are producing themselves.= _Goethe._
=Shakespeare is no sectarian; to all he deals= 10 =with equity and mercy; because he knows all, and his heart is wide enough for all. In his mind the world is a whole; he figures it as Providence governs it; and to him it is not strange that the sun should be caused to shine on the evil and the good, and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust.= _Carlyle._
=Shakespeare is the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of literature. I know not such power of vision, such faculty of thought in any other man, such calmness of depth; placid joyous strength; all things imaged in that great soul of his so true and clear, as in a tranquil unfathomable sea. A perfectly level mirror, that is to say withal, a man justly related to all things and men, a good man.= _Carlyle._
=Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.= _Emerson._
=Shakespeare must have seemed a dull man at times, he was so flashingly brilliant at others.= _Bovee._
=Shakespeare never permits a spirit to show itself but to men of the highest intellectual power.= _Ruskin._
=Shakespeare says we are creatures that look= 15 =before and after; the more surprising that we do not look round a little and see what is passing under our very eyes.= _Carlyle._
=Shakespeare stands alone. His want of erudition was a most happy and productive ignorance; it forced him back upon his own resources, which were exhaustless.= _Colton._
=Shakespeare, the finest human figure, as I apprehend, that Nature has hitherto seen fit to make out of our widely-diffused Teutonic clay. I find no human soul so beautiful, these fifteen hundred known years--our supreme modern European man.= _Carlyle._
=Shakespeare, the sage and seer of the human heart.= _H. Giles._
=Shakespeare was forbidden of heaven to have any plans.... Not for him the founding of institutions, the preaching of doctrines, or the repression of abuses. Neither he, nor the sun, did on any morning that they rose together, receive charge from their Maker concerning such things. They were both of them to shine on the evil and good; both to behold unoffendingly all that was upon the earth, to burn unappalled upon the spears of kings, and undisdaining upon the reeds of the river.= _Ruskin._
=Shakespeare= (it is true) =wrote perfect historical= 20 =plays on subjects belonging to the preceding centuries,= (but) =they are perfect plays just because there is no care about centuries in them, but a life which all men recognise for the human life of all time; ... a rogue in the fifteenth century being, at heart, what a rogue is in the nineteenth and was in the twelfth; and an honest or a knightly man being, in like manner, very similar to other such at any other time.= _Ruskin._
=Shall horses run upon the rock? Will one plough there with oxen?= _Bible._
=Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord, and shall we not receive evil?= _Bible._
=Shall we repine at a little misplaced charity, when an all-knowing, all-wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?= _Atterbury._
=Shall workmen just repeat the sin of kings and conquerors? / As the nations cease from battle, shall the classes rouse the fray, / And scatter wanton sorrow for a shilling more a day?= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances....= 25 =Strong men believe in cause and effect.= _Emerson._
=Shallow streams make most din.= _Pr._
=Shallow wits censure everything that is beyond their depth.= _Pr._
="Shalls" and "wills." Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Shame is a feeling of profanation.= _Novalis._
=Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks= 30 =in the web, it is wholly imperfect.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Shame is worse than death.= _Russ. Pr._
=Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.= _Sen._
=Shame of poverty is almost as bad as pride of wealth.= =Pr.=
=Shapes that come not at an earthly call / Will not depart when mortal voices bid.= _Wordsworth._
=Sharpness cuts slight things best; solid, nothing= 35 =cuts through but weight and strength; the same in the use of intellectuals.= _Sir W. Temple._
=She bears a duke's revenues on her back.= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 3.
=She= (Wisdom) =is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.= _Bible._
=She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.= _Hitopadesa._
=She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; she is a woman, therefore may be won.= _Tit. Andron._, ii. 1.
=She is a woman who can command herself.= _Hitopadesa._
=She is not worthy to be loved that hath not= 5 =some feeling of her own worthiness.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=She lived unknown, and few could know / When Lucy ceased to be; / But she is in her grave, and oh / The difference to me!= _Wordsworth._
=She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.= _Bible._
=She looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth.= _Swift._
=She loved me for the dangers I had passed, / And I loved her that she did pity them. / This only is the witchcraft I have used.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=She never told her love, / But let concealment,= 10 =like a worm i' the bud, / Feed on her damask cheek.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=She= (_i.e._, Nature) =only knows / How justly to proportion to the fault the punishment it merits.= _Shelley._
=She pined in thought, / And with a green and yellow melancholy. / She sat like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=She should be humble who would please, / And she must suffer who can love.= _Prior._
=She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living with her; she would infect to the north star.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=She that is ashamed to eat at table eats in= 15 =private.= _Pr._
=She that is born handsome is born married.= _Pr._
=She that rails ye into trembling / Only shows her fine dissembling; / But the fawner to abuse ye, / Thinks ye fools, and so will use ye.= _Dufrey._
=She that takes gifts herself she sells, / And she that gives them does nothing else.= _Pr._
=She that will not when she may, / When she will, she shall have nay.= _Murphy._
=She watches him as a cat would watch a= 20 =mouse.= _Swift._
=She wept to feel her life so desolate, / And wept still more because the world had made it / So desolate: yet was the world her all; / She loathed it, but she knew it was her all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.= _Goldsmith._
=She's all my fancy painted her; / She's lovely, she's divine.= _William Mee._
=She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd; / She's a woman, and therefore to be won.= 1 _Hen. VI._, v. 3.
=Sheathe thy impatience; throw cold water on= 25 =thy choler.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 3.
=Short allowance of victual, and plenty of nothing but Gospel!= _Longfellow._
=Short boughs, long vintage.= _Pr._
=Short lived is all rule but the rule of God.= _Gael. Pr._
=Short-lived wits do wither as they grow.= _Love's L. Lost_, ii. 1.
=Short prayers reach heaven.= _Pr._ 30
=Short reckonings make long friends.= _Pr._
=Short swallow-flights of song, that dip / Their wings in tears and skim away.= _Tennyson._
=Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to mind? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o' lang syne?= _Burns._
=Should envious tongues some malice frame, / To soil and tarnish your good name, / Live it down.= _Dr. Henry Rink._
=Should not the ruler have regard to the voice= 35 =of the people?= _Schiller._
=Should one suffer what is intolerable?= _Schiller._
=Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show you where his poetry is not poetry; or rather, I will show you in his poetry no poetry at all.= _Eliz. S. Shephard._
=Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted.= _Feltham._
=Show me the man you honour; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be, and would thank the gods, with your whole soul, for being if you could.= _Carlyle._
="Show some pity?" "I show it most of all= 40 =when I show justice."= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Show the dullest clodpole, show the haughtiest featherhead, that a soul higher than himself is actually here; were his knees stiffened into brass, he must down and worship.= _Carlyle._
=Shrine of the mighty! can it be / That this is all remains of thee?= _Byron._
=Shrouded in baleful vapours, the genius of Burns was never seen in clear, azure splendour, enlightening the world; but some beams from it did, by fits, pierce through; and tinted those clouds with rainbow and orient colours into a glory and stern grandeur which men silently gazed on with wonder and tears.= _Carlyle._
=Shun drugs and drinks which work the wit abuse: clear minds, clean bodies, need no Sôma juice.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Shut not thy purse-strings always against= 45 =painted distress.= _Lamb:._
=Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, nunquam dives=--If you live according to the dictates of Nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of men, you never will be rich. _Sen._
=Si antiquitatem spectes, est vetustissima; si dignitatem, est honoratissima; si jurisdictionem, est capacissima=--If you consider its antiquity, it is most ancient; if its dignity, it is most honourable; if its jurisdiction, it is most extensive. _Coke, of the English House of Commons._
=Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi: / Hospitis adventus, præsens sitis, atque futura, / Aut vini bonitas, aut quælibet altera causa=--If I remember right, there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, thirst to come, the goodness of the wine, or any other excuse you choose. _Père Sermond._
=Si cadere necesse est, occurrendum discrimini=--If we must fall, let us manfully face the danger. _Tac._
=Si caput dolet omnia, membra languent=--If the head aches, all the members of the body become languid. _Pr._
=Si ce n'est pas là Dieu, c'est du moins son cousin-german=--If that is not God, it is at least His cousin-german. _Mirabeau, of the rising sun as he lay on his death-bed._
=Si ce n'est toi, c'est ton frère=--If you did 5 not do it, it was your brother. _La Fontaine._
=Si claudo cohabites, subclaudicare disces=--If you live with a lame man you will learn to limp. _Pr._
=Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer=--If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. _Voltaire._
=Si fecisti, nega=; or =nega, quod fecisti=--If you did it, deny it. _An old Jesuit maxim._
=Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus=--If Democritus were on earth now, he would laugh. _Hor._
=Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; / Si fortuna= 10 =tonat, caveto mergi=--If fortune favours you, be not lifted up; if she fulminates, be not cast down. _Auson._
=Si fractus illabatur orbis, / Impavidum ferient ruinæ=--If the world should fall in wreck about him, the ruins would crush him undaunted. _Hor. of the upright man._
=Si genus humanum, et mortalia temnitis arma; / At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi=--If you despise the human race and mortal arms, yet expect that the gods will not be forgetful of right and wrong. _Virg._
=Si gravis brevis, si longus levis=--If severe, short; if long, light. _Pr._
=Si haces lo que estuviere de tu parte, / Pide al Cielo favor: ha de ayudarte=--Hast thou done what was thy duty, trust Providence; He leaves thee not. _Samaniego._
=Si j'avais la main pleine de vérités, je me garderais= 15 =bien de l'ouvrir=--If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it. _Fontenelle._
=Si j'avais le malheur d'être né prince=--If I had had the misfortune of being born a prince. _Rousseau, in the commencement of a letter to the Duke of Würtemberg, who had asked his advice about the education of his son._
=Si je puis=--If I can. _M._
=Si jeunesse savait! si vieillesse pouvait!=--If youth knew; if age could! _Pr._
=Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube=--If you sit in judgment, investigate; if you possess supreme power, sit in command. _Sen._
=Si l'adversité te trouve toujours sur tes= 20 =pieds, la prospérité ne te fait pas aller plus vite=--If adversity finds you always on foot, prosperity will not make you go faster. _Fr. Pr._
=Si la vie est misérable, elle est pénible à supporter; si elle est heureuse, il est horrible de la perdre. L'un revient à l'autre=--If our life is unhappy, it is painful to bear, and if it is happy, it is horrible to lose it. Thus, the one is pretty equal to the other. _La Bruyère._
=Si leonina pellis non satis est, assuenda vulpina=--If the lion's skin is not enough, we must sew on the fox's. _Pr._
=Si monumentum requiris, circumspice=--If you seek his monument, look around. _Inscription on St. Paul's, London, of Sir Christopher Wren._
=Si natura negat, facit indignatio versum=--If nature denies the power, indignation makes verses. _Juv._
=Si non errasset, fecerat ille minus=--If he had 25 not committed an error, his glory would have been less. _Mart._
=Si nous n'avions point de défauts, nous ne prendrions pas tant de plaisir à en remarquer dans les autres=--If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those of other people. _La Roche._
=Si nous ne nous flattions pas nous-mêmes, la flatterie des autres ne nous pourroit nuire=--If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others would not harm us. _Fr._
=Si parva licet componere magnis=--If I may be allowed to compare small things with great. _Virg._
=Si possis suaviter, si non quocunque modo=--Gently if you can; if not, by some means or other.
=Si qua voles apte nubere, nube pari=--If you 30 wish to marry suitably, marry your equal. _Ovid._
=Si quid novisti rectius istis, / Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum=--If you know anything better than these maxims, frankly impart them to me; if not, use these like me. _Hor._
=Si quis=--If any one, _i.e._, has objections to offer.
=Si, quoties homines peccant, sua fulmina mittat / Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit=--If, as oft as men sin, Jove were to hurl his thunderbolts, he would soon be without weapons to hurl. _Ovid._
=Si sit prudentia=--If you are but guided by prudence. _M. from Juv._
=Si tibi deficiant medici, medici tibi fiant / Hæc= 35 =tria; mens hilaris, requies, moderata diæta=--If you stand in need of medical advice, let these three things be your physician: a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet. _Schola Salern._
=Si tibi vis omnia subjicere, te subjice rationi=--If you wish to subject everything to yourself, subject yourself first to reason. _Sen._
=Si trovano più ladri que forche=--There are more thieves than gibbets. _It. Pr._
=Si veut le roi, si veut la loi=--So wills the king, so wills the law. _Fr. L._
=Si vis amari, ama=--If you wish to be loved, love. _Sen._
=Si vis me flere, dolendum est / Primum ipsi tibi=--If 40 you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself. _Hor._
=Si vis pacem, para bellum=--If you wish for peace, be ready for war.
=Sic ait, et dicto citius tumida æquora placat=--So speaks the god, and quicker than he speaks he smoothes the swelling seas. _Virg._
=Sic donec=--Thus until. _M._
=Sic erat in fatis=--So stood it in the decrees of fate. _Ovid._
=Sic fac omnia ... tanquam spectet aliquis=--Do everything as in the eye of another. _Sen._
=Sic itur ad astra=--This is the way to the stars. _Virg._
=Sic leve, sic parvum est, animum quod laudis avarum / Subruit ac reficit=--So light, so insignificant a thing is that which casts down or revives a soul that is greedy of praise. _Hor._
=Sic me servavit Apollo=--Thus was I served by 5 Apollo. _Hor._
=Sic omnia fatis / In pejus ruere et retro sublapsa referri=--Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde. _Virg._
=Sic præsentibus utaris voluptatibus, ut futuris non noceas=--So enjoy present pleasures as not to mar those to come. _Sen._
=Sic transit gloria mundi=--It is so the glory of the world passes away.
=Sic utere tuo ut alienum non lædas=--So use what is your own as not to injure what is another's. _L._
=Sic visum Veneri, cui placet impares / Formas,= 10 =atque animos sub juga ahenea / Sævo mittere cum joco=--Such is the will of Venus, whose pleasure it is in cruel sport to subject to her brazen yoke persons and tempers ill-matched. _Hor._
=Sich mitzutheilen ist Natur; Mitgetheiltes aufnehmen, wie es gegeben wird, ist Bildung=--It is characteristic to Nature to impart itself; to take up what is imparted as it is given is culture. _Goethe._
=Sich selbst bekämpfen ist der allerschwerste Krieg; / Sich selbst besiegen ist der allerschönste Sieg=--To maintain a conflict with one's self is the hardest of all wars; to overcome one's self is the noblest of all victories. _Logau._
=Sich selbst hat niemand ausgelernt=--No man ever yet completed his apprenticeship. _Goethe._
=Sich über das Höherstehende alles Urtheils zu enthalten, ist eine zu edle Eigenschaft, als das häufig sein könnte=--To refrain from all criticism of what ranks above us is too noble a virtue to be of every-day occurrence. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Sickness is catching; Oh, were favour so, /= 15 =Yours would I catch, sweet Hernia, ere I go; / My ear would catch your voice, my eye your eye, / My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Sicut ante=--As before.
=Sicut columba=--As a dove. _M._
=Sicut lilium=--As a lily. _M._
=Sie glauben mit einander zu streiten, / Und fühlen das Unrecht von beiden Seiten=--They think they are quarrelling with one another, and both sides feel they are in the wrong. _Goethe._
=Sie scheinen mir aus einem edeln Haus, / Sie= 20 =sehen stolz und zufrieden aus=--They appear to me of a noble family; they look proud and contented. _Goethe, Frosch in the witches' cellar in "Faust."_
=Sie sind voll Honig die Blumen; / Aber die Biene nur findet die Süssigkeit aus=--The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness. _Goethe._
=Sie streiten um ein Ei, und lassen die Henne fliegen=--They dispute about an egg, and let the hens fly away. _Ger. Pr._
=Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! / Men were deceivers ever; / One foot in sea and one on shore, / To one thing constant never.= _Percy._
=Sight before hearsay.= _Dan. Pr._
=Sight must be reinforced by insight before= 25 =souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.= _Whipple._
=Silence and discretion are specially becoming in a woman, and to remain quietly at home.= _Euripides._
=Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.= _Plutarch._
=Silence gives= (or =implies=) =consent.= _Pr._
=Silence is a friend that will never betray.= _Confucius._
=Silence is a solvent that destroys personality,= 30 =and gives us leave to be great and universal.= _Emerson._
=Silence is better than unmeaning words.= _Pythagoras._
=Silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time.= _Carlyle._
=Silence is more eloquent than words.= _Carlyle._
=Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.= _Cic._
=Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts= 35 =himself.= _La Roche._
=Silence is the chaste blossom of love.= _Heine._
=Silence is the consummate eloquence of sorrow.= _W. Winter._
=Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.= _Carlyle._
=Silence is the eternal duty of man. He won't get to any real understanding of what is complex, and what is more than any other pertinent to his interests, without maintaining silence.= _Carlyle._
=Silence is the mother of truth.= _Disraeli._ 40
=Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could say how much.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Silence is the sanctuary of discretion= (_Klugheit_). =It not only conceals secrets but also faults.= _Zachariä._
=Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.= _Bacon._
=Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly.= _Pr._
=Silence often expresses more powerfully than= 45 =speech the verdict and judgment of society.= _Disraeli._
=Silence, silence; and be distant, ye profane, with your jargonings and superficial babblements, when a man has anything to do.= _Carlyle._
=Silent leges inter arma=--Laws are silent in time of war. _Cic._
=Silent men, like still waters, are deep and dangerous.= _Pr._
=Silver from the living / Is gold in the giving: / Gold from the dying / Is but silver a-flying. / Gold and silver from the dead / Turn too often into lead.= _Fuller._
=Simel et simul=--Once and together.
=Simile gaudet simili=--Like loves like. _Pr._
=Similia similibus curantur=--Like things are cured by like.
=Simpering is but a lay-hypocrisy: / Give it a corner and the clue undoes.= _George Herbert._
=Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery= 5 =that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many.= _Lowell._
=Simple gratitude, untinctured with love, is all the return an ingenuous mind can bestow for former benefits. Love for love is all the reward we expect or desire.= _Goldsmith._
=Simplex sigillum veri=--Simplicity is the seal of truth. _M. of Boerhave._
=Simplicity in character, in manners, in style: in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.= _Longfellow._
=Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Simplicity is Nature's first step, and the last= 10 =of art.= _P. J. Bailey._
=Simplicity is, of all things, the hardest to be copied.= _Steele._
=Simplicity is the straightforwardness of a soul which refuses to reflect on itself or its deeds. Many are sincere without being simple; they do not wish to be taken for other than they are, but they are always afraid of being taken for what they are not.= _Fénelon._
=Sin every day takes out a patent for some new invention.= _Whipple._
=Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.= _Holmes._
=Sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth= 15 =but a sting in its tail.= _H. Ballou._
=Sin is not a monster to be mused on, but an impotence to be got rid of.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Sin is too dull to see beyond himself.= _Tennyson._
=Sin seen from the thought is a diminution or loss; seen from the conscience or will, it is a pravity or bad.= _Emerson._
=Since every Jack became a gentleman, / There's many a gentle person made a Jack.= _Rich. III._, i. 3.
=Since grief but aggravates thy loss, / Grieve= 20 =not for what is past.= _Percy._
=Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Since the invention of printing no state can now any longer be formed purely, slowly, and by degrees from itself.= _Jean Paul._
=Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.= _Goethe._
=Since trifles make the sum of human things, / And half our misery from our foibles springs.= _Hannah More._
=Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for= 25 =cheesecakes.= _Cervantes._
=Sincere wise speech= (even) =is but an imperfect corollary, and insignificant outer manifestation of sincere wise thought.= _Carlyle._
=Sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.= _Carlyle._
=Sincerity gives wings to power.= (?)
=Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being; and the pretence saps the very foundations of character.= _Lowell._
=Sincerity is the face of the soul, as dissimulation= 30 =is the mask.= _Daniel Dubay._
=Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.= _Kant._
=Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man.= _Confucius._
=Sincerity is true wisdom.= _Tillotson._
=Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.= _Spurgeon._
=Sine amicitia vitam esse nullam=--There is no 35 life without friendship. _Cic._
=Sine Cerere et Baccho, friget Venus=--Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus will starve to death, _i.e._, without sustenance and good cheer, love can't last. _Ter._
=Sine cortica natare=--To swim without bladders.
=Sine cura=--Without care, _i.e._, in receipt of a salary without a care or office.
=Sine die=--Without appointing a day.
=Sine invidia=--Without envy; from no invidious 40 feeling.
=Sine ira et studio=--Without aversion and without preference. _Tac._
=Sine nervis=--Without force; weak.
=Sine odio=--Without hatred.
=Sine prole=--Without offspring.
=Sine qua non=--An indispensable condition, _lit._ 45 without which not.
=Sine virtute esse amicitia nullo pacto potest=--There cannot possibly be friendship without virtue. _Sall._
=Singing should enchant.= _Joubert._
=Singula de nobis anni prædantur euntes=--The years as they pass bereave us first of one thing and then another. _Hor._
=Singula quid referam? nil non mortale tenemus, / Pectoris exceptis ingeniique bonis=--Why go I into details? we have nothing that is not perishable, except what our hearts and our intellects endow us with. _Ovid._
=Singularity shows something wrong in the= 50 =mind.= _Clarissa._
=Sink not in spirit: who aimeth at the sky / Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.= _George Herbert._
=Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.= _Ward Beecher._
=Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, / while resignation gently slopes the way.= _Goldsmith._
=Sins and debts are aye mair than we think them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Sint ut sunt, aut non sint=--Let them be as they 55 are, or not at all.
=Sir, a well-placed dash makes half the wit of our writers of modern humour.= _Goldsmith._
=Sir Fine-face, Sir Fair-hands; but see thou to it / That thine own fineness, Lancelot, some fine day / Undo thee not.= _Tennyson._
=Sir, he hath fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.
=Sire, je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse=--Your Majesty, I had no need of that hypothesis. _Laplace's answer to Napoleon, who had asked why in his "Méchanique Céleste" he had made no mention of God._
=Sirve a señor, y sabras que es dolor=--Serve a great lord, and you will know what sorrow is. _Sp. Pr._
=Siste, viator=--Stop, traveller. 5
=Sit in your own place, and no man can make you rise.= _Pr._
=Sit mihi quod nunc est, etiam minus; ut mihi vivam / Quod superest ævi, si quid superesse volunt Di=--May I continue to possess what I have now, or even less; so I may live the remainder of my days after my own plan, if the gods will that any should remain. _Hor._
=Sit piger ad pœnas princeps, ad præmia velox=--A prince should be slow to punish, prompt to reward. _Ovid._
=Sit sine labe decus=--Let my honour be without stain. _M._
=Sit tibi terra levis=--May earth lie light upon 10 thee.
=Sit tua cura sequi; me duce tutus eris=--Be it your care to follow; with me for your guide you will be safe. _Ovid._
=Sit venia verbis=--Pardon my words.
=Sive pium vis hoc, sive hoc muliebre vocari; / Confiteor misero molle cor esse mihi=--Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish, I confess that to my misfortune it is soft. _Ovid._
=Six feet of earth make all men equal.= _Pr._
=Six hours to sleep allot: to law be six addressed;= 15 =/ Pray four: feast two: the Muses claim the rest.= _ On the fly-leaf of an old lawbook from Coke. See_ =Sex horas, &c.=
[Greek: skias onar anthrôpoi]--Men are the dream of a shadow. _Pindar._
=Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.= _Epicurus._
=Skill is stronger than strength.= _Pr._
=Skill is the united force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation on manual labour.= _Ruskin._
=Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes= 20 =by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.= _Emerson._
=Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.= _Ruskin._
=Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alight sometimes, still goeth on.= _George Herbert._
=Slander and detraction can have no influence, can make no impression, upon the righteous Judge above. None to thy prejudice, but a sad and fatal one to their own.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Slander expires at a good woman's door.= _Dan. Pr._
=Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity,= 25 =both in the slanderer and the person who listens to it.= _St. Bernard._
=Slander lives upon succession; / For ever housed, where it once gets possession.= _Com. of Errors_, iii. 1.
=Slander, / Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue / Out-venoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath / Rides on the
## parting winds, and doth belie / All corners
of the world.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 4.
=Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; / ... A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.= _Shakespeare._
=Slanderers do not hurt me, because they do not hit me.= _Socrates._
=Slave or free is settled in heaven for a man.= 30 _Carlyle._
=Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, / But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.= _Pope._
=Slave to silver's but a slave to smoke.= _Quarles._
=Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.= _Burke._
=Slavery is an inherent inheritance of a large portion of the human race, to whom the more you give of their own free will, the more slaves they will make themselves.= _Ruskin._
=Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their= 35 =lungs / Receive our air, that moment they are free; / They touch our country, and their shackles fall.= _Cowper._
=Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, / Ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please.= _Spenser._
=Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, / Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.= _Pope's Homer._
=Sleep, gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness?= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Sleep hath its own world, / A boundary between the things misnamed / Death and Existence.= _Byron._
=Sleep is for the inhabitants of planets only; in= 40 =another time men will sleep and wake continually at once. The great part of our body, of our humanity, yet sleeps a deep sleep.= (?)
=Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.= _Cervantes._
=Sleep is the sole reviver= (_Labsal_) =of the afflicted.= _Platen._
=Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.= _Schopenhauer._
=Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.= _Emerson._
=Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep.= 45 _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, / It is a comforter.= _Tempest_, i. 1.
=Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, iii. 2.
=Sleep, the antechamber of the grave.= _Jean Paul._
=Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, / Morn of toil, nor night of waking.= _Scott._
=Slight not the smallest loss, whether it be / In love or honour; take account of all: / Shine like the sun in every corner: see / Whether thy stock of credit swell or fall.= _George Herbert._
=Slippery is the flagstone at the great house door.= _Gael. Pr._
=Sloth is the key to poverty.= _Pr._ 5
=Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour wears, while the used key is always bright.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.= _Cervantes._
=Sloth turneth the edge of wit, study sharpeneth the mind; a thing, be it never so easy, is hard to the idle; a thing, be it never so hard, is easy to wit well employed.= _John Lily._
=Slovenly (a) and negligent manner of writing= 10 =is a disobliging mark of want of respect.= _Blair._
=Slow and steady wins the race.= _Lloyd._
=Slow fire makes sweet malt.= _Pr._
=Slow-footed counsel is most sure to gain; / Rashness still brings repentance in her train.= _Lucian._
=Slow help is no help.= _Pr._
=Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.= _Johnson._ 15
=Slow to resolve, but in performance quick.= _Dryden._
=Slowly and sadly we laid him down, / From the field of his fame fresh and gory: / We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, / But we left him alone with his glory.= _Wolfe._
=Sma' fish are better than nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast.= _Com. of Errors_, iii. 1.
=Small curs are not regarded when they grin; /= 20 =But great men tremble when the lion roars.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=Small curses upon great occasions are but so much waste of our strength and soul's health to no manner of purpose; they are like sparrow-shot fired against a bastion.= _Sterne._
=Small debts are like small shot--they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound. Great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but of little danger.= _Johnson._
=Small draughts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger bring back to God.= _Bacon._
=Small faults indulged let in greater.= _Pr._
=Small have continued plodders ever won / Save= 25 =bare authority from others' books.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.= _Rich. III._, ii. 4.
=Small is it that thou canst trample the earth with its injuries under thy foot, as old Greek Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent.= _Carlyle._
=Small Latin and less Greek.= _Ben Jonson of Shakespeare's knowledge._
=Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what our county conventions often exhibit.= _Emerson._
=Small profits and quick returns.= _Pr._ 30
=Small rain lays great dust.= _Pr._
=Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.= _Wordsworth, to a child._
=Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands clean who would not touch the work but with gloves on.= _Carlyle._
=Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by circumstances, come to seem great, smallest of phenomena connected with them are treated as important, and must be sedulously scanned, and commented on with loud emphasis.= _Carlyle._
=Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon= 35 =says, "'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit."= _Sterne._
=Smile (Fortune), and we smile, the lords of many lands; / Frown, and we smile, the lords of our own hands; / For man is man and master of his fate.= _Tennyson._
=Smiles are the language of love.= _Hare._
=Smiles form the channel of a future tear.= _Byron._
=Smiles from reason flow, / To brute denied, and are of love the food.= _Milton._
=Smooth runs the water where the brook is= 40 =deep; / And in his simple show he harbours treason. / The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.= 2 _Henry VI._, iii. 1.
=Smooth waters run deep.= _Pr._
=Smooth words make smooth ways.= _Pr._
=Smuler ere og Bröd=--Even crumbs are bread. _Dan. Pr._
=Snarl if you please, but you shall snarl without.= _Dryden._
=Snatch from the ashes of your sires / The= 45 =embers of their former fires; / And he who in the strife expires / Will add to theirs a name of fear / That tyranny shall quake to hear, / And leave his sons a hope, a fame, / They too would rather die than shame.= _Byron._
=So behave that the odour of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.= _Thoreau._
=So careful of the type she seems, / So careless of the single life.= _Tennyson._
=So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,--/ The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.= _Gay._
=So dawning day has brought relief--/ Fareweel our night o' sorrow.= _Burns._
=So dress and so conduct yourself that persons= 50 =who have been in your company will not recollect what you had on.= _Rev. John Newton._
=So far as a man thinks he is free.= _Emerson._
=So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.= _Johnson._
=So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high-fantastical.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 1.
=So gieb mir auch die Zeiten wieder, / Da ich noch selbst im Werden war=--Then give me back the time when I myself was still a-growing. _Goethe._
=So, here hath been dawning / Another blue day; / Think wilt thou let it / Slip useless away. / Out of Eternity / This new day is born; / Into Eternity / At night doth return. / Behold it aforetime / No eye ever did: / So soon it for ever / From all eyes is hid. / Here hath been dawning, &c.= _Carlyle on To-day._
=So I do my part to others, let them think of me what they will or can.... If I should regard such things, it were in another's power to defeat my charity, and evil should be stronger than good. But difficulties are so far from cooling Christians that they whet them.= _George Herbert._
=So lang man lebt, sei man lebendig=--So long 5 as you live, be living. _Goethe._
=So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak to God, as if men heard you.= _Sen._
=So lonely 'twas, that God himself / Scarce seeméd there to be.= _Coleridge._
=So long as a man is capable of self-renewal he is a living being.= _Amiel._
=So long as any Ideal (any soul of truth) does, in never so confused a manner, exist and work within the Actual, it is a tolerable business. Not so when the Ideal has wholly departed, and the Actual owns to no soul of truth any longer.= _Carlyle._
=So long as the "Holy Place" in their souls= 10 =is left in possession of powerless opinions, men are practically without God in this world.= _Froude._
=So long as you live and work, you will not escape being misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once for all. Be silent.= _Goethe._
=So magnificent a thing is Will incarnated in a creature of like fashion with ourselves, that we run to witness all manifestations thereof.= _Carlyle._
=So many servants, so many enemies.= _Pr._
=So many slaves, so many enemies.= _Pr._
=So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him.= 15 _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=So much in the world depends upon getting what we want. Prosperity is to the human heart like a sunny south wall to a peach.= _Holme Lee._
=So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.= _Emerson._
=So much to do, / So little done, such things to be.= _Tennyson._
=So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," / The youth replies, "I can!"= _Emerson._
=So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der= 20 =Zeit / Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid=--'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the garment thou seest him by (_lit._ the living garment of the Deity). _Goethe._
=So soon as one's heart is tender it is weak. When it is beating so warmly against the breast, and the throat is, as it were, tied tightly, and one strives to press the tears from one's eyes and feels an incomprehensible joy as they begin to flow, then we are so weak that we are fettered by chains of flowers, not because they have become strong through any magic chain, but because we tremble lest we should tear them asunder.= _Goethe._
=So soon as people try honestly to see all they can of anything, they come to a point where a noble dimness begins. They see more than others; but the consequence of their seeing more is, that they feel they cannot see at all; and the more intense their perception, the more the crowd of things which they partly see will multiply upon them.= _Ruskin._
=So soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.= _Renan._
=So spiritual= (_geistig_) =is our whole daily life; all that we do springs out of mystery, spirit, invisible force; only like a little cloud-image, or Armida's palace, air-built, does the actual body itself forth from the great mystic deep.= _Carlyle._
=So stirbt ein Held, anbetungsvoll=--So dies a 25 hero to be worshipped. _Schiller._
=So study evermore is overshot; / While it doth study to have what it would, / It doth forget to do the thing it should; / And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, / 'Tis won as towns with fire,--so won, so lost.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=So sweetly she bade me adieu, / I thought that she bade me return.= _Shenstone._
=So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.= _Bible._
=So thou be above it, make the world serve thy purpose, but do not thou serve it.= _Goethe._
=So thou be good, slander doth but approve /= 30 =Thy worth the greater.= _Shakespeare._
=So to living or dead let the solemn bell call; / Sleeping or waking, time passes with all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=So turns the faithful needle to the pole, / Though mountains rise between and oceans roll.= _Darwin._
=So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet a union in
## partition; / Two lovely berries moulded on
one stem. / So with two seeming bodies, but one heart.= _Mid. N.'s. Dream_, iii. 2.
=So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long.= _Rich. III._, iii. 1.
=So wonderful is human nature, and its varied= 35 =ties / Are so involved and complicate, that none / May hope to keep his inward spirit pure, / And walk without perplexity through life.= _Goethe._
=So work the honey bees; / Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach / The art of order to a peopled kingdom.= _Henry V._, i. 2.
=Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.= _Fuller._
=Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weisst du zu leben=--So soon as you feel confidence in yourself, you know the art of life. _Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."_
=Sobriety, severity, and self-respect is the foundation of all true sociality.= _Thoreau._
=Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear with ourselves and others.= _Goethe._
=Social order without liberty makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world.= _Schiller._
=Societatis vinculum est ratio et oratio=--Reason and speech are the bond of society. _Cic._
=Society always consists, in greatest part, of= 5 =young and foolish persons.= _Emerson._
=Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.= _Emerson._
=Society develops wit, but contemplation alone forms genius.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Society does not in any age prevent a man from being what he can be.= _Carlyle._
=Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order.= _Emerson._
=Society does not love its unmaskers.= _Emerson._ 10
=Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.= _Emerson._
=Society has always a destructive influence upon an artist:--by its sympathy with his meanest powers; secondly, by its chilling want of understanding of his greatest; and, thirdly, by its vain occupation of his time and thoughts.= _Ruskin._
=Society has always under one or the other figure two authentic revelations, of a God and of a devil.= _Carlyle._
=Society has only one law, and that is custom.= _Hamerton._
=Society is a long series of uprising ridges,= 15 =which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.= _Emerson._
=Society is a republic. When an individual endeavours to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or calumny.= _Victor Hugo._
=Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places.= _Emerson._
=Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.... Its unity is only phenomenal.= _Emerson._
=Society is, and must be, based upon appearances,= 20 =and not upon the deepest realities.= _Hamerton._
=Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs.= _Emerson._
=Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.= _Chamfort._
=Society is divisible into two classes: shearers and shorn.= _Talleyrand._
=Society is ever under the imperious necessity of moving onward in legal forms, nor can such forms be evaded without the most serious disasters forthwith ensuing.= _Draper._
=Society is founded upon cloth.= _Carlyle._ 25
=Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them. They contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.= _Emerson._
=Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons, who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach.= _Emerson._
=Society is like the echoing hills; it gives back to the speaker his words, groan for groan, song for song.= _Dr. David Thomas._
=Society is no comfort to one not sociable.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Society is servile from want of will, and therefore= 30 =the world wants saviours and religions.= _Emerson._
=Society is the atmosphere of souls, and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or hurtful.= _ Bp. Hall._
=Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters the inventions.= _C. J. Weber._
=Society is the standing wonder of our existence; a true region of the supernatural; as it were, a second all-embracing life, wherein our first individual life becomes doubly and trebly alive, and whatever of infinitude was in us bodes itself forth, and becomes visible and active.= _Carlyle._
=Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates the laws.= _Solon._
=Society lives by faith, and develops by science.= 35 _Amiel._
=Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.= _Amiel._
=Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional.= _Emerson._
=Society wishes to be amused. I do not wish to be amused. I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred; the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.= _Emerson._
=Socius fidelis anchora tuta est=--A faithful companion is a sure anchor. _M._
=Socrates quidem quum rogaretur cujatem se= 40 =esse diceret, Mundanum, inquit. Totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur=--When Socrates was asked of what country he professed to be a citizen, he answered, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world. _Cic._
=Soft-heartedness, in times like these, / Shows softness in the upper storey.= _Lowell._
=Soft is the music that would charm for ever; / The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.= _Wordsworth._
=Soft=, or =fair=, =words butter no parsnips.= _Pr._
=Soft pity enters at an iron gate.= _Shakespeare._
=Soft words win hard hearts.= _Pr._ 45
="Softly! softly!" caught the monkey.= _Negro Pr._
=Sogno d'infermi=--A sick man's dream. _Petrarch._
=Soi-disant=--Self-styled. _Fr._
=Sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras=--The setting sun doubles the increasing shadows. _Virg._
=Sol occubuit; nox nulla secuta est=--The sun is set; no night has followed.
=Sola Deo salus=--Safety is from God alone. _M._
=Sola juvat virtus=--Virtue alone assists. _M._
=Sola nobilitas virtus=--Virtue is the only nobility. _M._
=Sola salus servire Deo=--The only safety is in 5 serving God.
=Sola virtus invicta=--Virtue alone is invincible. _M._
=Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It is some comfort to the wretched to have others to share in their woe.
=Soldats! si les cornettes vous manquent, vous trouverez toujours mon panache blanc au chemin de l'honneur et de la gloire=--Soldiers! if you don't hear the bugle-call, you will always see my white plume in the path of honour and glory! _Henry IV. at Ivry._
=Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.= _Lord Burleigh._
=Soldiers= (there are) =of the ploughshare as well= 10 =as of the sword.= _Ruskin._
=Soldiers! what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle, and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries. Those who love freedom and their country may follow me!= _Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers._ (That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. _Kossuth._)
="Solem præ jaculorum multitudine et sagittarum non videbis." "In umbra igitur pugnabimus"=--"You will not see the sun for the clouds of javelins and arrows." "We shall fight in the shade then." _Cic. The Persian to Leonidas at Thermopylæ, and Leonidas' answer._
=Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?=--Who dares call the sun a liar? _Virg._
=Soli Deo gloria=--To God alone be glory. _M._
=Soli Deo honor et gloria=--To God alone be 15 honour and glory. _M._
=Solicitude about the future never profits; we feel no evil till it comes; and when we feel it, no counsel= (_Rath_) =helps us; wisdom is always too early or too late.= _Rückert._
=Solid pudding against empty praise.= _Pope._
=Solitude can be well applied and sit right upon but very few persons. They must have knowledge of the world to see the follies of it, and virtue enough to despise all the vanity.= _Cowley._
=Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.= _Sydney Smith._
=Solitude dulls the thought, too much company= 20 =dissipates it.= (?)
=Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.= _Lowell._
=Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.= _Emerson._
=Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert.= _Thoreau._
=Solitude is often the best society.= _Pr._ 25
=Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.= (?)
=Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer.= _Ravignan._
=Solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return.= _Milton._
=Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings that will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who would inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily time-worn yoke of their opinions.= _Emerson._
=Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant=--They 30 make a solitude, and call it peace.
=Sollen dich die Dohlen nicht umschrein, / Musst du nicht Knopf auf dem Kirchthurm sein=--If jackdaws are not to scream around you, you must not be a ball on the church spire. _Goethe._
=Sollicitæ mentes speque metuque pavent=--Minds that are ill at ease are agitated both with hope and fear. _Ovid._
=Sollicitant alii remis freta cæca, ruuntque / In ferrum: penetrant aulas, et limina regum=--Some disturb unknown seas with oars, some rush upon the sword; some push their way into courts and the portals of kings. _Virg._
=Solo cedit, quicquid solo plantatur=--Whatever is planted in the soil goes with it. _L._
=Solo Deo salus=--Salvation from God alone. 35 _M._
=Solo e pensoso=--Alone and pensive. _Petrarch._
=Solvit ad diem=--He paid to the day. _L._
=Solvitur ambulando=--The problem is solved by walking, _i.e._, the theoretical puzzle by a practical test.
=Solvuntur risu tabulæ=--The case is dismissed amid laughter. _Hor._
[Greek: sômata polla trephein, kai dômata poll' 40 anegeirein / Atrapos eis peniên estin etoimotatê]--To feed many mouths and build many houses is the directest road to poverty. _Gr._
=Some are atheists only in fair weather.= (?)
=Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 5.
=Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?= _Colton._
=Some are so intent upon acquiring the superfluities of life that they sacrifice its necessaries in this foolish pursuit.= _Goldsmith._
=Some books are drenched sands, on which a= 45 =great soul's wealth lies in heaps, like a wrecked argosy.= _Alex. Smith._
=Some books are edifices to stand as they are built; some are hewn stones ready to form a part of future edifices; some are quarries from which stones are to be split for shaping and after use.= _Holmes._
=Some books are lees frae end to end, / And some big lees were never penn'd; / E'en ministers they hae been kenn'd, / In holy rapture, / A rousing whid at times to vend, / And nail't wi' Scripture.= _Burns._
=Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.= _Bacon._
=Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.= _Much Ado About Nothing_, iv. 1.
=Some dire misfortune to portend, / No enemy can match a friend.= _Swift._
=Some drink because they're wet, and some= 5 =because they're dry.= _Saying._
=Some evils are cured by contempt.= _Pr._
=Some falls are means the happier to rise.= _Shakespeare._
=Some faults are so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=Some folk's tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their inside.= _George Eliot._
=Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /= 10 =And think they grow immortal as they quote.= _Young._
=Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction.= _Ecclus._
=Some glances of real beauty may be seen in the faces of those who dwell in true meekness.= _Thoreau._
=Some grief shows much of love, / But much of grief shows still more want of wit.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.
=Some hae meat that canna eat, / And some would eat that want it; / But we hae meat and we can eat, / Sae let the Lord be thankit.= _Burns._
=Some have been thought brave because they= 15 =were afraid to run away.= _Pr._
=Some men are born anvils, some are born hammers.= (?)
=Some men are like nails, easily drawn; others are like rivets, not drawable at all.= _John Burroughs._
=Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.= _Pr._
=Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument going on, they think nothing is doing.= _Emerson._
=Some men demand rough treatment everywhere.= 20 _S. C. Hall._
=Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.= _Pr._
=Some men have just imagination enough to spoil their judgment.= (?)
=Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.= _Abd-el-Kader._
=Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled.= _Johnson._
=Some men will believe nothing but what they= 25 =can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend.= _St. Evermond._
=Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgement; and some men they follow after.= _St Paul._
=Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses.= _Swift._
=Some must be great.= _Cowper._
=Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.= _Goethe._
=Some of the most famous books are least= 30 =worth reading. Their fame was due to their doing something that needed in their day to be done. The work done, the virtue of the book expires.= _John Morley._
=Some of your griefs you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived; / But what torments of pain you endured / From evils that never arrived!= _Emerson, from the French._
=Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples.= _Pope._
=Some people are all quality; you would think they were made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good-nature or good manners.= _L'Estrange._
=Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half way to meet it.= _D. Jerrold._
=Some people carry their hearts in their heads;= 35 =very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.= _Hare._
=Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it.= _Lessing._
=Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing why, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools.= _Sterne._
=Some people will never learn anything, because they understand everything too soon.= (?)
=Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Some persons, instead of making a religion for= 40 =their God, are content to make a god of their religion.= _Helps._
=Some persons take reproof good-humouredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.= _Hare._
=Some philosophers seek to exalt man by display of his greatness, others to debase him by pointing to his miseries.= _Pascal._
=Some prayers, indeed, have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with richer lading at last.= _Gurnall._
=Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.= _L'Estrange._
=Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; /= 45 =Some run from brakes of vice and answer none, / And some condemnéd for a fault alone.= _Meas. for Measure._, ii. 1.
=Some slaves are scourged to their work by whips, others by restlessness and ambition.= _Ruskin._
=Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth place, gentle words. These things are never to be refused in good men's houses.= _Hitopadesa._
=Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm.= _Emerson._
=Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Some that speak no ill of any do no good to= 5 =any.= _Pr._
=Some there be that shadows kiss, / Such have but a shadow's bliss.= _Mer. of Venice_, ii. 9.
=Some to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, / Want as much more to turn it to its use.= _Pope._
=Some treasures are heavy with human tears, as an ill-stored harvest with untimely rain; and some gold is brighter in sunshine than in substance.= _Ruskin._
=Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen / That led calm Henry.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 6.
=Some village Hampden, that with dauntless= 10 =breast / The little tyrant of his fields withstood, / Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.= _Gray._
=Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity.= _Addison._
=Some wee short hours ayont the twal.= _Burns._
=Some work in the morning may trimly be done, / That all the day after may hardly be won.= _Tusser._
=Some would be thought to do great things who are but tools and instruments, like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ when he only blew the bellows.= (?)
=Something attempted, something done, / Has= 15 =earned a night's repose.= _Longfellow._
=Something between a hindrance and a help.= _Wordsworth._
=Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.= _Emerson._
=Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile. They only grin.= _Bovee._
=Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair= 20 =speechless messages.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
=Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath; they touch us with soft responsive hands; they look upon us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones.= _George Eliot._
=Sometimes the half is better than the whole, / And sometimes worse than none; the dubious soul / Suspects the secret there in what is hid, / And holds the rest but trash.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate / With lively joy the joys we cannot share.= _Coleridge._
=Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam=--The gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not humble dwellings and the shady bank. _Hor._
=Somnus est imago mortis=--Sleep is the image of 25 death. _Cic._
=Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle est la plus grande dans son genre=--Its kind is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its kind. (?).
=Sonder Falsch wie die Tauben! und ihr beleidiget keinen; / Aber klug wie die Schlangen und euch beleidiget keiner=--Innocent as doves, you will harm no one; but wise as serpents, no one will harm you. _Haug._
=Song is the heroic of speech.= _Carlyle_,
=Song is the tone of feeling.= _Hare._
=Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist= 30 =only when they sound.= _Landor._
=Soon enough, if well enough.= _Pr._
=Soon hot, soon cold.= _Pr._
=Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak.= _Fr. Pr._
=Soon ripe, soon rotten.= _Pr._
=Sooner earth / Might go round heaven, and= 35 =the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.= _Tennyson._
=Sooner or later the truth comes to light.= _Dut. Pr._
=Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, / Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he slew the slain.= _Dryden._
[Greek: sophên de misô; mê gar en g' emois domois / Eiê phronousa pleion ê gynaika chrên]--I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should. _Eurip._
=Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful of the evils that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart and eradicates every virtue.= _Fénelon._
=Sorex suo perit indicio=--The mouse perishes by 40 betraying himself. _Pr._
=Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, / Makes the night morning and the noontide night.= _Rich. III._
=Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, / Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.= _Titus Andron._, ii. 5.
=Sorrow has ever produced more melody than mirth.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow.= _Carlyle._
=Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not= 45 =heaven; / Showing, we would not spare heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in fear.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 3.
=Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's message within it too. All life is as death; and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all.= _Carlyle._
=Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.= _Bible._
=Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.= _Pr._
=Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life.= _Byron._
=Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity= 5 =will cleanse and brighten it.= _Johnson._
=Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set on ringing, with his own strength goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.= _Shakespeare._
=Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one, and knits anew / The rents which time has made.= _Lewis Morris._
=Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks) is the mother of gods.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness /= 10 =Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 1.
=Sorrow will pay no debt.= _Pr._
=Sorrows are like thunder-clouds--in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune.= _Goethe._
=Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.= _Tennyson._
=Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.= 15 _R. Pollok._
=Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas=--Thy lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no mortal may. _Ovid._
=Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.= 2 _Henry VI._, ii. 4.
=Sotto voce=--In an undertone. _It._
=Souffrir est la première chose qu'il doit apprendre, et celle qu'il aura le plus grand besoin de savoir=--To be able to endure is the first lesson which a child ought to learn, and the one which it will have the most need to know. _Rousseau._
=Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,= 20 =with whom revenge is virtue.= _Young._
=Souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur before they can first comprehend the greatness of man.= _Heine._
=Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.= _Goethe._
=Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory, they nourish the will.= _Joubert._
=Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! / To all the sensual world proclaim, / One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name.= _Scott._
=Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! /= 25 =Jehovah has triumph'd, His people are free.= _Moore._
=Sound trumpets!--let our bloody colours wave; / And either victory or else a grave.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Soupçon est d'amitié poison=--Suspicion is the poison of friendship. _Fr. Pr._
=Sour woe delights in fellowship, / And needly will be rank'd with other griefs.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Souvent la perfidie retourne sur son auteur=--Treachery often recoils on the head of its author. _Fr._
=Sow good works and you will reap gladness.= _Pr._ 30
=Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant / Sur des rameaux trop frêles, / Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant, / Sachant qu'il a des ailes=--Be as the bird perched for an instant on the too frail branch which she feels bending beneath, but sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. _Victor Hugo._
=Soyez ferme=--Be firm. _M._
=Soyons doux, si nous voulons être regrettés. La hauteur du génie et les qualités supérieures ne sont pleurées que des anges=--Let us be gentle if we would be regretted. The pride of genius and high talents are lamented only by angels. _Chateaubriand._
=Space is the statue of God.= _Joubert._
=Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare.= _Pr._ 35
=Spare the rod and spoil the child.= _Pr._
=Sparen ist grössere Kunst als erwerben=--Saving is a greater art than gaining. _Ger. Pr._
=Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen / In keeping ever to the golden mean.= _Lucian._
=Speak every man truth with his neighbour.= _St. Paul._
=Speak gently!--'tis a little thing, / Dropped= 40 =in the heart's deep well.= _Anon._
=Speak in such a manner between two enemies, that, should they afterwards become friends, you may not be put to the blush.= _Saadi._
=Speak little and to the purpose.= _Pr._
=Speak little, but speak the truth.= _Pr._
=Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of him for certain, and if you do know it, then ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?"= _Lavater._
=Speak not at all till you have somewhat to= 45 =speak; and care simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.= _Carlyle._
=Speak not peace to thyself when beset on every side with numerous and restless enemies.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Speak o' the deil and he'll appear.= _Sc. Pr._
=Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak / Of one who loved not wisely but too well.= _Othello_, v. 2.
=Speak that I may see thee.= _Addison._
=Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits= 50 =help you with unexpected furtherance; all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.= _Emerson._
=Speak the truth and shame the devil.= _Pr._
=Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.= _Bible._
=Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity.= _Judge Hale._
=Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing.= _Pr._
=Speak when you are spoken to, and come= 55 =when you are called for.= _Pr._
=Speak your sincerest, think your wisest; there is still a great gulf between you and the fact.= _Carlyle._
=Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.= _Ger. Pr._
=Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.= _Sir W. Raleigh._
=Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim.= _Pr._
=Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ=--The 5 ladies come to see, they come also to be seen. _Ovid._
=Spectemur agendo=--Let us be tried by our
## actions. _M._
=Spectres exist for those only who wish to see them.= _Holtei._
=Speculation should have free course and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listeth.= _Carlyle._
=Speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it.= _Carlyle._
=Speech has been given to man to disguise his= 10 =thought.= _Talleyrand._
=Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation.= _Horace Smith._
=Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.= _Rivarol._
=Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like tapestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together.= _Themistocles, quoted by Bacon._
=Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the beauteous images abroad, which else lie furled or clouded in the soul.= _Nathaniel Lee._
=Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to= 15 =convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.= _Emerson._
=Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.= _Cato._
=Speech is too often, not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling or suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.= _Carlyle._
=Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen.= _Bacon._
=Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.= _Carlyle._
=Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.= 20 _Pr._
=Spem gregis=--The hope of the flock. _Virg._
=Spem pretio non emo=--I do not give money for mere hopes. _Ter._
=Spend not on hopes.= _George Herbert._
=Sperat infestis, metuit secundis / Alteram sortem bene præparatum / Pectus=--A heart well prepared in adversity hopes for, and in prosperity fears, a change of fortune. _Hor._
=Sperate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Hope 25 on, and reserve yourselves for prosperous times. _Virg._
=Speravi=--I have hoped. _M._
=Speravimus ista / Dum fortuna fuit=--I hoped that once, while fortune was favourable. _Virg._
=Spero meliora=--I hope for better things. _M._
=Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat=--Good hope gives strength, good hope also confirms resolution; him who was on the point of death, I have seen revive by hope.
=Spes mea Christus=--Christ is my hope. _M._ 30
=Spes mea in Deo=--My hope is in God. _M._
=Spes sibi quisque=--Each man must hope in himself alone. _Virg._
=Spes tutissima cœlis=--The safest hope is in heaven. _M._
=Spesso chi troppo fa, poco fa=--Often he who does too much does little. _It. Pr._
=Spesso d'un gran male nasce un gran bene=--Out 35 of a great evil there springs a great good. _It. Pr._
=Spesso i doni sono danni=--Gifts are oftentimes losses. _It. Pr._
=Spesso la tardità ti toglie l'occasione et la celerità le forze=--Tardiness often robs us of opportunity, and too great despatch of our force. _Machiavelli._
=Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreation, for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce.= _Fuller._
=Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am praying.= _Port. Prov._
=Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man= (_Gott-getrunkener_ 40 _Mensch_). _Novalis._
=Spirit is the creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father.= _Emerson._
=Spirit of Nature! / The pure diffusion of thy essence throbs / Alike in every human heart. / Thou aye erectest there / Thy throne of power unappealable; / Thou art the judge beneath whose nod / Man's brief and frail authority / Is powerless as the wind / That passeth idly by. / Thine the tribunal which surpasseth / The show of human justice, / As God surpasseth man.= _Schelling._
=Spirit-power begins in directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.= _Ruskin._
=Spirits are not finely touch'd / But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence / But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines / Herself the glory of a creditor, / Both thanks and use.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 1.
=Spirits, when they please, / Can either sex= 45 =assume, or both.= _Milton._
=Spiritual music can only spring from discords set in unison; but for evil there were no good, as victory is only possible by battle.= _Carlyle._
=Spite of all the criticising elves, / Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.= _Burke._
=Spite of cormorant devouring Time, / The endeavour of this present breath may buy / That honour which will bate his scythe's keen edge, / And make us heirs of all eternity.= _Love's L.'s Lost_, i. 1.
=Splendida vitia=--Splendid vices. _Tertullian, of Pagan virtues._
=Splendide mendax=--Nobly false or disloyal. 50 _Hor._
=Spolia opima=--The richest of the spoil.
=Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.= _Emerson._
=Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden=--Speech is silvern, silence golden. _Swiss M._
=Sprich nicht von Zeit, sprich nicht von Raum, / Denn Raum und Zeit sind nur ein Traum, / Ein schwerer Traum, den nur vergisst, / Wer durch die Liebe glücklich ist=--Speak not of time, speak not of space, for space and time are but a dream, a heavy dream, which he who is happy in love only forgets. _Bodenstedt._
=Sprich vom Geheimniss nicht geheimnissvoll=--Speak not mysteriously of what is a mystery. _Goethe._
=St. Theresa right well defines the devil as an= 5 =unfortunate who knows not what it is to love.= _C. J. Weber._
=Stab at thee who will, / No stab the soul can kill.= _Raleigh._
=Stabat mater dolorosa / Juxta crucem lacrymosa / Qua pendebat Filius=--She stood a sorrow-stricken mother, weeping by the Cross where her son hung dying.
=Stabit quocunque jeceris=--It will stand, whichever way you throw it. _Legend on the three-legged crest of the Isle of Man._
=Stagnation is something more than death, it is corruption also.= _Simms._
=Stain= (blemish) =not thy innocence by too deep= 10 =resentment, nor take off from the brightness of thy crown by anger and impatience and eagerness to right thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Stand fast! to stand or fall, / Free in thine own arbitrament it stands.= _Milton._
=Stand not upon the order of your going, / But go at once.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
="Stand out of the sun."= _Diogenes to Alexander the Great, and which made Alexander remark, "If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."_
=Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.= _Bible._
=Stand up bravely to afflictions, and quit thyself= 15 =like a man.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.= _Bible._
=Standing on what too long we bore / With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We may discern--unseen before--/ A path to higher destinies.= _Longfellow._
=Stant cætera tigno=--The rest stand on a beam. _M._
=Stare super vias antiquas=--To stand upon the old ways.
=Stark est des Menschen Arm, wenn ihn Götter= 20 =stützen=--Strong is the arm of man if the gods uphold it. _Schiller._
=Stars look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent places, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!= _Carlyle._
=Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus / Omnibus est vitæ; sed famam extendere factis, / Hoc virtutis opus=--Each man has his appointed day; short and irreparable is the brief life of all; but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is manhood's work. _Virg._
=States are to be called happy and noble in so far as they settle rightly who is slave and who free.= _Carlyle._
=Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity, as sculptor clay, / To their own model.= _Tennyson._
=Statio bene fida carinis=--A safe harbourage for 25 ships. _M._
=Status quo ante bellum=--The state in which the belligerents stood before war began.
=Status quo=, or =Statu quo=, or =In statu quo=--The state in which a matter was.
=Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.= _Sir Amyas Paulet._
=Steady, durable good cannot be derived from an external cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. What then remains but the cause internal; in rectitude of conduct?= _James Harris._
=Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred= 30 =years ago, but it is put to better use.= _Emerson._
=Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische Hengste=--Hobby-horses are more expensive than Arab ones. _Ger. Pr._
=Steep and craggy is the path of the gods.= _Porphyry._
=Steep regions cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.= _Goethe._
=Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri?=--What do pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus, is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? _Juv._
=Step by step one goes far.= _Pr._ 35
=Steps vary as much as the human face.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in expounding and filling up, these are the two pinions on which history soars--or flutters and wabbles.= _Carlyle._
=Stern daughter of the voice of God.= _Wordsworth, of Duty._
=Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom.= _Burns._
=Stet=--Let it stand. 40
=Stet fortuna domus=--May the fortune of the house stand. _M._
=Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That=--Speech is always bolder than action. _Schiller._
=Stets liegt, wo das Banner der Wahrheit wallt, / Der Aberglaube im Hinterhalt=--Where the banner of truth waves unfurled, there you will always find superstition lying in ambush. _Platen._
=Stets zu spät kommt gute Kunde, / Schlechte Kunde zu frühe=--Good news comes always too late; bad, always too soon. _Bodenstedt._
=Steward or deputy may do well: but the lord= 45 =himself is obliged to stir in the administration of justice.= _Cervantes._
=Stiff (a) and laboured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation.... Sprightliness and wit are graceful in letters, just as they are in conversation.= _Blair._
=Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was everything by starts, and nothing long; / But in the course of one revolving moon / Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.= _Dryden._
=Still humanity grows dearer; / Being learned the more.= _Jean Ingelow._
=Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, / To silence envious tongues.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=Still people are dangerous.= _La Fontaine._
=Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.= _Johnson._
=Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live for ever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.= _Young._
=Still swine eat all the draff.= _Pr._
=Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us,= 5 =and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours, gaining heaven.= _Lewis Morris._
=Still the skies are opened as of old / To the entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter than of yore.= _Lewis Morris._
=Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew / That one small head could carry all he knew.= _Goldsmith._
=Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart, / And for His cradle and His throne / Chooseth the pure in heart.= _Keble._
=Still und bewegt=--Still and yet moved. _M. of Rahel._
=Still waters run deep.= _Pr._ 10
=Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And the bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.= _Cowper._
=Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least they must work their limbs or features.= _Holmes._
=Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt=--Die, Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. _Goethe._
=Stirb und werde! / Denn so lang du das nicht hast, / Bist du nur ein trüber Gast / Auf der dunkeln Erde=--Die and learn to live, for so far as thou hast not accomplished this, thou art but a darkened guest in a darkened world. _Goethe._
=Stirring spirits live alone: / Write on the= 15 =others, "Here lies such a one."= _George Herbert._
=Sto pro veritate=--I stand in the defence of truth. _M._
=Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.= _Bible._
=Stone masons collected the dome of St. Paul's, but Wren hung it in the air.= _Willmott._
=Stony limits cannot hold love out; / And what love can do, that dares love attempt.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Store of grain, O king! is the best of stores.= 20 =A gem cast into the mouth will not support life.= _Hitopadesa._
=Store Ord giöre sielden from Gierning=--Big words seldom accompany good deeds. _Dan. Pr._
=Storms make oaks take deeper root.= _Pr._
=Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it.= _Jesus._
=Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; / And from the dregs of life think to receive / What the first sprightly running could not give.= _Dryden._
=Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated= 25 =are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine!= _Longfellow._
=Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose, for your guinea.= _Carlyle._
=Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he came, / I hold can never be his part / Who owns a hospitable heart.= _Macedonius._
=Straws show which way the wind blows.= _Pr._
=Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Strength, instead of being the lusty child of= 30 =passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Strength needs support far more than weakness. A feather sustains itself long in the air.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.= _Pope._
=Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this keeps the reason unclouded by passion.= _Pythagoras._
=Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.= _Hare._
=Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque /= 35 =Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est=--Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to do; we seek to live aright by yachting and chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is here. _Hor._
=Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for growing limbs; but when the joints are knit, they are not helps, but burdens.= _Sir Francis Fane._
=Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.= _J. F. Boyes._
=Strictly speaking, the imagination is never governed; it is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is to it only as an instrument which it sounds, or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and sublimely if the wax be smooth and the strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they are stained and broken.= _Ruskin._
=Strike, but hear me.= _Themistocles to Eurybiades before battle of Salamis._
=Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! /= 40 =Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, / That make ungrateful man!= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.= 1 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Strike while the iron is hot.= _Pr._
=Striking manners are bad manners.= _Robert Hall._
=Strip the bishop of his apron, the counsellor of his gown, and the beadle of his cocked hat, what are they? Men, mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.= _Dickens._
=Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.= 45 _Tam. of the Shrew_, i. 2.
=Strive not against the stream.= _Ecclus._
=Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.= _Pr._
=Strong character curdles itself out of the scum into its own place and power or impotence.= _Ruskin._
=Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, gentle ones by permanence.= _Jean Paul._
=Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above commonsense.= _Locke._
=Strong feeling must create poetry.= _Moses_ 5 _Harvey._
=Strong folks have strong maladies.= _Ger. Pr._
=Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions and because they are strong. The passions may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only to enable them whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs.= _Simms._
=Strong reasons make strong actions.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom we that have not seen Thy face, / By faith, and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where we cannot prove.= _Tennyson._
=Stronger than steel / Is the sword of the= 10 =spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and subdueth.= _Longfellow._
=Strongest minds / Are often those of whom the noisy world / Hears least.= _Wordsworth._
=Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience.= _Bacon._
=Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.= _Bacon._
=Studiis et rebus honestis=--By honourable studies and occupations. _M._
=Studiis florentem ignobilis oti=--Indulging in the 15 studies of inglorious leisure. _Virg._
=Studio minuente laborem=--The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. _Ovid._
=Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace.= _Temple._
=Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age.= _Landor._
=Study of the Bible will keep any man from= 20 =being vulgar in style.= _Coleridge._
=Study the best and highest things that are, / But of thyself an humble thought retain.= _Sir J. Davis._
=Study the past if you would divine the future.= _Confucius._
=Study thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee.= _Dryden._
=Study to be quiet; contain yourself within your own business, and let the prying, censorious, the vain and the intriguing world follow their own devices.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Study to be what you wish to seem.= _John Bate._ 25
=Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro=--He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. _Juv._
=Stultus nisi quod ipse facit, nil rectum putat=--The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.
=Stulti sunt inumerabiles=--Fools are without number. _Erasmus._
=Stultitiam dissimulare non potes nisi taciturnitate=--No concealing folly save by silence.
=Stultitiam patiuntur opes=--Riches allow one to 30 be foolish. _Hor._
=Stultitiam simulare loco, sapientia summa est=--To affect folly on an occasion is consummate wisdom.
=Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat=--It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. _Hor._
=Stultum est timere quod vitari non potest=--It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. _Syr._
=Stultus es, rem actam agis=--You are a fool; you do what has been done already. _Plaut._
=Stultus labor est ineptiarum=--The labour is 35 foolish that is bestowed on trifles. _Mart._
=Stultus, qui, patre occiso, liberos relinquat=--He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. _Pr._
=Stultus semper incipit vivere=--The fool is always beginning to live. _Pr._
=Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich lehrten, vergiss nie=--Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. _Gesser._
=Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large.= _Browning._
=Stupid people and uneducated people do not= 40 =care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions.= _William Black._
=Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent.= _Schopenhauer._
=Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius.= _Wieland._
=Stupidity is without anxiety.= _Goethe._
=Sturm-und Drang-Periode=--The storm-and-stress period. A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.
=Style is the dress of thoughts.= _Chesterfield._ 45
=Style is the physiognomy of the mind.= _Schopenhauer._
=Style is what gives value and currency to thought.= _Amiel._
=Style may be defined, proper words in proper places.= _Swift._
=Stylo inverso=--With the back of the pen.
=Stylum vertere=--To change or correct the style. 50
=Sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido=--Each man makes his own dire passion a god. _Virg._
=Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio, / Colorque proprius=--Since each man has a way of his own of thinking, and a peculiar temper. _Phæd._
=Sua cuique vita obscura est=--Every man's life is dark to himself.
=Sua cuique voluptas=--Every man has his own liking.
=Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati=--Every 55 one ought to bear patiently with what is after his own example. _Phæd._
=Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis / E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem!=--How fascinating it is when on the great sea the winds have raised its waters into billows, to witness the perils of another from the land! _Lucretius._
=Suavis est laborum præteritorum memoria=--Sweet is the memory of past trouble. _Cic._
=Suaviter et fortiter=--Mildly and firmly. _M._
=Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re=--Gentle in manner, resolute in deed. _M._
="Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re,"--I do not know any one rule so unexceptionably useful and necessary in every part of life.= _Chesterfield._
=Sub cruce candida=--Under the pure white 5 cross. _M._
=Sub cruce salus=--Salvation under the cross. _M._
=Sub fine=--At the end.
=Sub hoc signo vinces=--Under this sign (the cross) thou shalt conquer. _M._
=Sub initio=--At the beginning.
=Sub Jove=--In the open air. 10
=Sub judice lis est=--The question is undecided.
=Sub pœna=--Under a penalty. _L._
=Sub reservatione Jacobæo=--With St. James's reservation; viz., if the Lord will.
=Sub rosa=--Under the rose; confidentially.
=Sub silentio=--In silence, _i.e._, without notice being 15 taken.
=Sub specie æternitatis=--In the form of eternity, _i.e._, as a particular manifestation of a universal law.
=Subdue fate, and exert human strength to the utmost of your power; and if, when pains have been taken, success attend not, in whom is the blame?= _Hitopadesa._
=Sublata causa tollitur effectus=--The cause removed, the effect is also. _L._
=Sublimer in this world know I nothing than a peasant saint, one that must toil outwardly for the lowest of man's wants, also toiling inwardly for the highest. Such a one will carry thee back to Nazareth itself.= _Carlyle._
=Sublimi feriam sidera vertice=--I shall strike the 20 stars with my uplifted head. _Hor._
=Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.= _Coleridge._
=Submitting to one wrong often brings on another.= _Pr._
=Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis=--You are known as a nice and experienced judge of things old. _Hor._
=Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.= _Oliver Cromwell._
=Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise, /= 25 =By simply meek.= _Milton._
=Succedaneum=--A substitute.
=Success (by laws of competition) signifies always so much victory over your neighbour as to obtain the direction of his work and take the profits of it. This is the real source of all great riches.= _Ruskin._
=Success consecrates the foulest crimes.= _Sen._
=Success? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not succeeded.= _Carlyle._
=Success in the majority of circumstances depends= 30 =on knowing how long it takes to succeed.= _Montesquieu._
=Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins.= _Sir C. Napier._
=Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.= _Ward Beecher._
=Success is sweet; the sweeter if long delayed, and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Success is the child of audacity.= _Disraeli._
=Success makes men look larger, if reflection= 35 =does not measure them.= _Joubert._
=Success makes success, as money makes money.= _Chamfort._
=Success often costs more than it is worth.= _E. Wigglesworth._
=Success tempts many to their ruin.= _Phædr._
=Success throws a veil over the evil deeds of men.= _Demosthenes._
=Success! to thee, as to a god, men bend the= 40 =knee.= _Æschylus._
=Successful love takes a load off our hearts and puts it on our shoulders.= _Bovee._
=Such a friend as speaketh kindly to a man's face, and behind his back defeateth his designs, is like a pot of poison with a surface of milk.= _Hitopadesa._
=Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have is wont but seldom, in all its parts, to meet in one man; but its different parts generally spring up in different persons.= _Plato._
=Such a plot must have a woman in it.= _Richardson._
=Such as are careless of themselves can hardly= 45 =be mindful of others.= _Thales._ (?)
=Such as are in the married state wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=Such as every one is inwardly, so he judgeth outwardly.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Such as we are made of, such we be.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 2.
=Such hath been--shall be--beneath the sun, / That many still must labour for the one.= _Byron._
=Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling= 50 =mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.= _Dickens._
=Such is the aspect of this shore; / 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! / So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, / We start, for soul is wanting there.= _Byron._
=Such only enjoy the country as are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude, and in that case solitude is prepared for them.= _Dryden._
=Such tricks hath strong imagination, / That, if it would but apprehend some joy, / It comprehends some bringer of that joy; / Or in the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=Such war of white and red within her cheeks.= _Tam. of the Shrew_, iv. 5.
=Suche die Wissenschaft als würdest ewig du= 55 =hier sein, / Tugend, als hielte der Tod dich schon am sträubenden Haar=--Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. _Herder._
=Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, / Sie zu befriedigen ist schwer=--Seek only to mystify men; to satisfy them is difficult. _Goethe, the theatre-manager in "Faust."_
=Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection.= _Johnson._
=Sudden love is the latest cured.= _La Bruyère._
=Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather.= _Hare._
=Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it.= _Carlyle._
=Suer sang et eau=--To toil and moil (_lit._ sweat 5 blood and water). _Fr. Phr._
=Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.= _Jesus._
=Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking.= _Sallet._
=Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious.= 10 _Ward Beecher._
=Suffering is part of the divine idea.= _Ward Beecher._
=Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men.= (?)
=Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of nature, or by chance or fate, does not, "ceteris paribus," seem so painful as suffering which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.= _Schopenhauer._
=Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness;= (uncertainty) / =Praise hath envie, and weal is blent o'er all.= _Chaucer._
=Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.= 15 _Temple._
=Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.= _Jesus._
=Sufficiently provided from within, he has need of little from without.= _Goethe of the poet._
=Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis=--A tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice. _Apropos of Alexander the Great._
=Suffundere malis hominis sanguinem, quam offundere=--Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. _Ter._
=Suggestio falsi=--Suggestion of what is false. 20
=Sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam=--Every man's fortune is shaped for him by his own manners. _Corn. Nep._
=Sui generis=--Of its own kind; of a kind of its own.
=Sui juris=--Of his own right. _L._
=Suis stat viribus=--He stands by his own strength. _M._
=Suit the action to the word, the word to the= 25 =action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Suivez raison=--Follow reason. _M._
=Sum quod eris, fui quod es=--I am what you will be, I was what you are.
=Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; / And in the morning what thou hast to do.= _George Herbert._
=Sume superbiam quæsitam meritis=--Assume the proud place your merits have won. _Hor._
=Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, æquam /= 30 =Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, / Quid valeant humeri=--Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. _Hor._
=Summa bona putas, aliena vivere quadra=--You think it the chief good to live on another's crumbs. _Juv._
=Summa petit livor=--Envy aims very high. _Ovid._
=Summa sequor fastigia rerum=--I will trace the principal heads of events. _Virg._
=Summa summarum=--All in all. _Plautus._
=Summæ opes inopia cupiditatum=--He is richest 35 who is poorest in his desires. _Sen._
=Summam nec metuas diem, nec optes=--Neither fear nor wish for your last day. _Mart._
=Summum bonum=--The chief good.
=Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, / Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas=--Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. _Juv._
=Summum jus sæpe summa injuria est=--The strictest justice is often grossest injustice. _Cic._
[Greek: syn d' ananka pan kalon]--Whatever is beautiful 40 is beautiful by an inner necessity. _Pindar._
=Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide / To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth.= _Keble._
=Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated to thought and reverence.= _Emerson._
=Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, / 'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late.= _George Herbert._
=Sunlight is painting.= _Hawthorne._
=Sunrise is often lovelier than noon.= _Carlyle._ 45
=Sunt bona mixta malis, sunt mala mixta bonis=--Good is mixed with evil, and evil with good.
=Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura / Quæ legis=--Of those which you read, some are good, some middling, and more are bad. _Mart., of books._
=Sunt delicta tamen, quibus ignovisse velimus=--There are some faults, however, which we are willing to pardon. _Hor._
=Sunt Jovis omnia plena=--All things are full of the Deity. _Virg._
=Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt=--Tears 50 are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. _Virg._
=Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant=--Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.
=Sunt superis sua jura=--Even the gods above are subject to law. _Ovid._
=Suo Marte=--By his own prowess. _Cic._
=Super subjectam materiam=--Upon the matter submitted. _L._
=Superbo è quel cavallo che non si vuol portar= 55 =la biada=--Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. _It. Pr._
=Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 2.
=Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study.= _J. S. Mill._
=Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side.= _Froude._
=Supersedeas=--You may supersede. _L._
=Superstition changes a man to a beast,= 5 =fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.= _La Harpe._
=Superstition is a misdirection of religious feeling.= _Whately._
=Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods.= _Cic._
=Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence.= _Lady Blessington._
=Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion.= _Junius._
=Superstition is in its death-lair; the last= 10 =agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more.= _Carlyle._
=Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety.= _Goethe._
=Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear.= _Carlyle._
=Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition allies itself to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of earthly desires we become superstitious, and by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest.= _Ruskin._
=Superstition is the only religion of which base= 15 =souls are capable.= _Joubert._
=Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious.= _Goethe._
=Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return.= _Carlyle._
=Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing.= _Bacon._
=Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive.= _Punch._
=Supple knees feed arrogance.= _Pr._ 20
=Suppose a neighbour should desire / To light a candle at your fire, / Would it deprive your flame of light / Because another profits by't.= _Lloyd._
=Suppressing love is but opposing the natural dictates of the heart.= _Goldsmith._
=Suppressio veri=--Suppression of what is true.
=Supra vires=--Beyond one's powers. _Hor._
=Supremum vale=--A last farewell. _Ovid._ 25
=Sur esperance=--In hope. _M._
=Surdo fabulam narras=--You tell your story to a deaf man.
=Sure as night follows day, / Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, / When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns.= _Young._
=Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unused.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Sure, of qualities demanding praise, / More go= 30 =to ruin fortunes, than to raise.= _Pope._
=Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil.= _Goldsmith._
=Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters.= _Hare._
=Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction.= _Johnson._
=Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return.= _Johnson._
=Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men= 35 =of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.= _Bible._
=Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere.= _Emerson._
=Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber.= _Goldsmith._
=Surely use alone / Makes money not a contemptible stone.= _George Herbert._
=Surement va qui n'a rien=--He who has nothing goes securely. _Fr. Pr._
=Surfeit has killed more than hunger.= _Pr._ 40
=Surfeit of the sweetest things / The deepest loathing to the stomach brings.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 3.
=Surfeits destroy more than the sword.= _J. Fletcher._
=Surgit post nubila Phœbus=--The sun rises after the clouds. _M._
=Sursum corda=--Lift up your hearts. _L._
=Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle=--Above all, 45 gentlemen, no zeal. _Talleyrand._
=Sus Minervam=--A pig teaching Minerva.
=Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe.= _Emerson._
=Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus, qui proximus destinaretur=--Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. _Tac._
=Suspendens omnia naso=--Sneering at everything. _Hor._
=Suspense is worse than disappointment.= _Burns._
=Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; / The thief doth fear each bush an officer.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 6.
=Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects.= _Byron._
=Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to= 5 =happiness.= _Johnson._
=Suspicion is the bane of friendship.= _Petrarch._
=Suspicion is very often a useless pain.= _Dr. Johnson._
=Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind.= _Bacon._
=Suspicions are nothing when a man is really= 10 =true, and every one should persevere in
## acting honestly, for all will be made right
in time.= _Hans Andersen._
=Süsser Wein giebt sauern Essig=--Sweet wine yields sour vinegar. _Ger. Pr._
=Sustine et abstine=--Bear and forbear. _M._
=Suum cuique=--To every man his due. _M._
=Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit=--Posterity will pay every one his due. _Tac._
=Suus cuique est mos=--Every one has his own 15 way of it. _Hor._
=Suus cuique mos=--Every man has his way. _Ter._
=Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est=--To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. _Cic._
=Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to an assertion you wish to make, but cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a mischief you wish to inflict.= _Ruskin._
=Sweep before your own door.= _Pr._
=Sweet are the uses of adversity, / Which like= 20 =the toad, ugly and venomous, / Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; / And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything.= _As You Like It._
=Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, / Most musical, most melancholy.= _Milton._
=Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste.= _Rich. III._, ii. 4.
=Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest birds.= _Milton._
=Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous form of things: / We murder to dissect.= _Wordsworth._
=Sweet is true love though given in vain, / And= 25 =sweet is death that puts an end to pain.= _Tennyson._
=Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.= _Tit. Andron._, i. 2.
=Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!= _Sterne._
=Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society.= _Disraeli._
=Sweet Swan of Avon.= _Ben Jonson of Shakespeare._
=Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance= 30 =made more sweet.= _Wordsworth._
=Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay / In kindness takes the kindness all away.= _Anon._
=Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day.= _Lyte._
=Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; / As drives the storm, at any door I knock, / And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke.= _Pope._
=Syllables govern the world.= _Coke._
=Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative= 35 =about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths.= _George Eliot._
=Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke.= _Dr. Parker._
=Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.= _Amiel._
=Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.= _Talfourd._
=Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the= 40 =rich there is consolation.= _Disraeli._
=Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion.= _F. H. Hedge._
=Syne as ye brew, ... / Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill.= _Burns._
T.
=Tabesne cadavera solvat, / An rogus, haud= 45 =refert=--It makes no difference whether corruption dissolve the carcase or the funeral pile. _Lucan._
=Tabula ex= _or_ =in naufragio=--A plank in a shipwreck; a last shift.
=Table d'hôte=--A common table for guests. _Fr._
=Tableau vivant=--A group in which statues or pictures are represented by living persons. _Fr._
=Tabula rasa=--A smooth or blank tablet; a blank surface.
=Tacent, satis laudant=--Their silence is praise 50 enough. _Ter._
=Tâche sans tache=--A task, or work, without a blemish. _M._
=Tacitæ magis et occultæ inimicitiæ sunt, quam indictæ et opertæ=--Enmities unavowed and concealed are more to be feared than when open and declared. _Cic._
=Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus=--The secret wound still lives in her heart. _Virg._
=Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents.= _Simms._
=Tadeln kann ein jeder Bauer; besser machen wird ihm sauer=--Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. _Ger. Pr._
=Tadeln können zwar die Thoren, / Aber klüger handeln nicht=--Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. _Langbein._
=Tædium vitæ=--Weariness of life; disgust with existence. _Gell._
=Tages Arbeit, Abends Gäste, / Saure Wochen,= 5 =frohe Feste, / Sei dein künftig Zauberwort=--Be work by day, guests at eve, weeks of toil, festive days of joy, the magic spell for thy future. _Goethe._
=Take a bird from a clean nest.= _Gael. Pr._
=Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer.= _Goldsmith._
=Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound.= _Pr._
=Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Take all that is given, whether wealth, / Or= 10 =love, or language; nothing comes amiss; / A good digestion turneth all to health.= _George Herbert._
=Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated.= _Dickens._
=Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves.= _Pr._
=Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity.= _Zimmermann._
=Take each man's censure, but reserve thy= 15 =judgment.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Take everything easy= (_leicht_); =leave off dreaming and brooding= (_Grübeln_), =and you will be ever well guarded from a thousand evils.= _Uhland._
=Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life.= _Bible._
=Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard, and his desire for knowledge ceases.= _Rousseau._
=Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.= _Jesus._
=Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine.= _Pr._ 20
=Take heed you find not that you do not seek.= _Pr._
=Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers.= _Ger. Pr._
=Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.= _Jesus._
=Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.= _Jesus._
=Take no thought for your life, what ye shall= 25 =eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.= _Jesus._
=Take not His name who made thy mouth in vain: / It gets thee nothing, and has no excuse.= _George Herbert._
=Take note, take note, O world, / To be direct and honest is not safe.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=Take the Muses' servants by the hand; / ... And where ye justly can commend, commend them; / And aiblins when they winna stand the test, / Wink hard, and say the folks hae done their best.= _Burns._
=Take the showers as they fall, / ... Enough= 30 =if at the end of all / A little garden blossom.= _Tennyson._
=Take this rule, ... The best-bred child hath the best portion.= _Pr. Herbert._
=Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's.= _Jesus._
=Take thought for thy body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone; and if they are dim, the whole world is beclouded.= _Goethe._
=Take time by the forelock.= _Thales._
=Take time in time, ere time be tint= (lost). _Sc. Pr._ 35
=Take time in turning a corner.= _Pr._
=Take up the torch and wave it wide, / The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom.= _Bonar._
=Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does.= _Gael. Pr._
=Taking, therefore, my opinion of the English from the virtues and vices practised among the vulgar, they at once present to a stranger all their faults, and keep their virtues up only for the inquiring of a philosopher.= _Goldsmith._
=Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, / Quale= 40 =sopor fessis=--Thy song is to us, O heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. _Virg._
=Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.= _Emerson._
=Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did.= _Carlyle._
=Talent forms itself in secret; character, in the great current of the world.= _Goethe._
=Talent has almost always this advantage= (_Vorsprung_) =over genius--that the former endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to waste= (_verpufft_). _Gutzkow._
=Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain.= _Whipple._ 45
=Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it.= _Montesquieu._
=Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.= _F. H. Hedge._
=Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles.= _W. P. Scargill._
=Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.= _Lowell._
=Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff=--Talent is form, 50 genius is substance. _Gutzkow._
=Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never.= _Coleridge._
=Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown.= _Young._
=Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.= _Rollin._
=Taliter qualiter=--Such as it is.
=Talk, except as the preparation for work, is= 5 =worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world.= _Carlyle._
=Talk of the devil and he'll appear.= _Pr._
=Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether.= _Carlyle._
=Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Talkers are no good doers.= _Rich. III._, i. 3.
=Talking is one of the fine arts.= _Holmes._ 10
=Talking is the disease of age.= _Ben Jonson._
=Talking of love is making it.= _Pr._
=Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel.= _Thoreau._
=Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet=--The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. _Pub. Syr._
=Tam diu discendum est, quum diu nescias, et,= 15 =si proverbio credimus, quam diu vivas=--You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. _Sen._
=Tam Marte quam Minerva=--As much by Mars as by Minerva; as much by courage as by wisdom. _Pr._
=Tam Marti quam Mercurio=--As much for Mars as for Mercury; as well qualified for war as for business.
=Tam felix utinam, quam pectore candidus, essem=--Oh, that I were as happy as I am clear in conscience. _Ovid._
=Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; / They had been fou for weeks thegither.= _Burns._
=Tamen me / Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur= 20 =usque / Invidia=--Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. _Hor._
=Tandem fit surculus arbor=--A twig in time becomes a tree. _M._
=Tandem poculum mœroris exhausit=--He has exhausted at last the cup of grief. _Cic._
[Greek: ta neura tou polemou]--The sinews of war. _Pr._
=Tangere ulcus=--To touch a sore; to renew one's grief. _Ter._
=Tanquam in speculo=--As in a mirror. 25
=Tanquam nobilis=--Noble by courtesy.
=Tanquam ungues digitosque suos=--As well as his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. _Pr._
=Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots?=--Can so much gall find access in devout souls? _Boileau._
=Tant mieux=--So much the better. _Fr._
=Tant pis=--So much the worse. _Fr._ 30
=Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se brise=--The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. _Fr._
=Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem=--Such a task it was to found the Roman race. _Virg._
=Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ?=--Can heavenly minds cherish such dire resentment? _Virg._
=Tanti eris aliis, quanti tibi fueris=--You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. _Cic._
=Tanto brevius omne tempus, quanto felicius=--The 35 happier the moments the shorter. _Pliny._
=Tanto buon, che val niente=--So good as to be good for nothing. _It. Pr._
=Tanto fortior, tanto felicior!=--The more pluck, the better luck!
=Tanto più di pregio reca all' opera l'umiltà dell' artista, quanto più aggiunge di valori al numero la nullità del zero=--The modesty of the artist adds as much to the merit of his work as does a cipher (of no value in itself) to the number to which it is joined. _Bernini._
=Tanto vale la Messa detta quanto la cantata=--A mass is as good said as sung. _It. Pr._
=Tantum quantum=--Just as much as. 40
=Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum=--Could such cruelties have been perpetrated in the name of religion? _Lucret. in reference to the sacrifice of Iphigenia._
=Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris=--Such is the power of order and arrangement: so much grace may be imparted to subjects from common life. _Hor._
=Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit=--Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.
=Tantus amor laudum, tantæ est victoria curæ=--Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. _Virg._
=Tapfer ist der Löwesieger, / Tapfer ist der= 45 =Weltbezwinger, / Tapfer wer sich selbst bezwang=--Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. _J. G. Herder._
=Tarda sit illa dies, et nostro serior ævo=--Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. _Ovid._
=Tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides=--Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude. _Ovid._
=Tarde, quæ credita lædunt, credimus=--We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. _Ovid._
=Tarde sed tute=--Slow but sure. _M._
=Tarde venientibus ossa=--To those who come late 50 the bones. _Pr._
=Tardiora sunt remedia quam mala=--Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases. _Tac._
=Tasks in hours of insight willed, / In hours of gloom must be fulfilled.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Taste can only be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent.= _Goethe._
=Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organisation of the soul.= _Sir J. Reynolds._
=Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment.= _Carlyle._
=Taste is the very maker of judgment.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Taste may change, but inclination never.= _La Roche._
[Greek: ta syka syka, tên skaphên de skaphên onomazôn]--Calling 5 a fig a fig, and a spade a spade. _Plut._
=Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit=--He who has carried the calf will be able by and by to carry the ox. _Pr._
=Te Deum laudamus=--We praise Thee, O God.
=Te digna sequere=--Follow what is worthy of thee. _M._
=Te, Fortuna, sequor: procul hinc jam fœdera sunto: / Credidimus fatis, utendum est judice bello=--Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. _Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Cæsar._
=Te hominem esse memento=--Remember thou 10 art a man.
=Te sine nil altum mens inchoat=--Without thee my mind originates nothing lofty. _Virg. to Mæcenas._
=Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault I see; / That mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me.= _Pope._
=Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.= _Scott._
=Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.= _Mahomet._
=Teaching has not a tithe of the efficacy of= 15 =training.= _Horace Mann._
=Teaching is of more importance than exhortation.= _Luther._
=Teaching others teacheth yourself.= _Pr._
=Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.= _Bovee._
=Tears are due to human misery.= _Virg._
=Tears are often to be found where there is= 20 =little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears.= _Johnson._
=Tears are the deluge of sin and the world's sacrifice.= _Gregory Nazianzen._
=Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command.= _Amiel._
=Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, / Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, / In looking on the happy autumn fields, / And thinking of the days that are no more.= _Tennyson._
=Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored.= _Jean Paul._
=Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are= 25 =pierced by sunbeams.= _H. Ballou._
=Tears such as angels weep.= _Milton._
=Tecum habita=--Live with yourself; keep within your means.
=Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home.= _Hitopadesa._
=Tel brille au second rang, qui s'éclipse au premier=--Some who are eclipsed in the first rank may shine in the second. _Voltaire._
=Tel coup de langue est pire qu'un coup de= 30 =lance=--Such a stroke with the tongue is worse than one with a lance. _Fr. Pr._
=Tel, en vous lisant, admire chaque trait, / Qui dans le fond de l'âme vous craint et vous hait=--Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. _Boileau._
=Tel excelle à rimer qui juge sottement=--Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. _Boileau._
=Tel maître, tel valet=--Like master, like man. _Fr. Pr._
=Tel père, tel fils=--Like father, like son. _Fr. Pr._
=Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et= 35 =vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et non pas qu'on vous loue=--Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. _Boileau._
=Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon.= _Bible._
="Tell me how you bear so blandly the assuming ways of wild young people?" Truly they would be unbearable if I had not also been unbearable myself as well.= _Goethe._
=Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / "Life is but an empty dream," / For the soul is dead that slumbers, / And things are not what they seem.= _Longfellow._
=Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are.= _Ruskin._
=Tell me where is fancy bred, / Or in the heart,= 40 =or in the head? / How begot, how nourishéd? / It is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become.= _Goethe._
=Tell the truth and shame the devil.= 1 _Henry IV._, iii. 1.
=Telum imbelle sine ictu=--A feeble dart thrown without effect. _Virg._
=Temeritas est florentis ætatis, prudentia senescentis=--Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. _Cic._
=Temper--a weapon that we hold by the blade.= 45 _J. M. Barrie._
=Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it.= (?)
=Temperament lies behind mood; back of the caprice of will lies the fate of character; back of both is the bias of family; back of that, the tyranny of race; still deeper, the power of climate, of soil, of geology, the whole physical and moral environment. Still we are free men only so far as we rise above these.= _John Burroughs._
=Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man.= _Rousseau._
=Temperance is a bridle of gold.= _Burton._
=Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace.= _Buddha._
=Temperance is the nurse of chastity.= _Wycherley._
=Tempi passati!=--Bygone times! _Joseph II. at sight of a picture representing a predecessor doing penance to the Pope._
=Templa quam dilecta!=--How lovely are thy temples! _M. of the Duke of Buckingham, whose family name is Temple._
=Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis;= 5 =/ Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies=--Time glides away, and we grow older through the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are restrained by no rein. _Ovid._
=Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--Times change, and we change with them. _Kaiser Lothar I._
=Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; / Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus=--A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. _Ovid._
=Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star.= _Byron._
=Tempus anima rei=--Time is the soul of business.
=Tempus edax rerum=--Time, the devourer of all 10 things. _Ovid._
=Tempus erit quo vos speculum vidisse pigebit=--The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. _Ovid._
=Tempus est quædam pars æternitatis=--Time is a certain fraction of eternity. _Cic._
=Tempus ferax, tempus edax rerum=--Time the producer, time the devourer of things.
=Tempus fugit=--Time flies.
=Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce= 15 =est=--It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields. _Ovid._
=Tempus omnia revelat=--Time reveals all things.
=Tempus rerum imperator=--Time is sovereign over all things. _M._
=Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.= _Pope._
[Greek: tên de malista gamein, hêtis sethen engythi naiei]--Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood. _Hesiod._
=Tenax et fidelis=--Steadfast and faithful. _M._ 20
=Tenax propositi=--Tenacious of his purpose. _M._
=Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance may be ranked among the surest symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects.= _Jeffrey._
=Tenderness is a virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=Tenderness is the repose of passion.= _Joubert._
=Tenebo=--I will hold. _M._ 25
=Teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. _Hor._
=Tenet insanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes=--An incurable itch for writing possesses many. _Juv._
=Tenez la bride haute à votre fils=--Keep a tight hand over your son (_lit._ hold the bridle high). _Fr. Pr._
=Tenir le haut du pavé=--To keep the best place (_lit._ the highest side of the pavement). _Fr. Pr._
=Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim /= 30 =Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per ora=--I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. _Virg._
=Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands.= _Pr._
=Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum, / Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago=--Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. _Virg._
=Teres atque rotundum=--Smooth-polished and rounded. _Hor._
=Terminus a quo=--The point from which anything starts.
=Terminus ad quem=--The point of destination. 35
=Terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glebæ=--An ancient land, powerful in arms and in the fertility of its soil. _Virg., of Italy._
=Terra firma=--Dry land, in contradistinction to sea.
=Terra incognita=--An unknown land or domain of things.
=Terra innanzi, e terra poi=--Earth originally, and earth finally. _It. Pr._
=Terra malos homines nunc educat, atque= 40 =pusillos=--The earth now supports many bad and weak men. _Juv._
=Terræ filius=--A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. _Pers._
=Terram cœlo miscent=--They mingle heaven and earth.
=Terrible penalty, with the ass-ears or without them, inevitable as death, written for ever in heaven, against all who, like Midas, misjudge the inner and the upper melodies, and prefer gold to goodness, desire to duty, falsehood to fact, wild nature to God, and a sensual piping Pan to a high-souled, wise-hearted, and spirit-breathing Apollo.= _Ed., apropos to the fable of Midas._
=Tertium quid=--A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.
=Tertium sal=--A third salt; a neutral salt; the 45 union of an acid and an alkali.
=Tertius e cœlo cecidit Cato=--A third Cato has come down from heaven. _Juv., in mockery._
[Greek: tês aretês hidrôta theoi proparoithen ethêkan]--The gods have placed sweat in front of virtue. _Hesiod._
=Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force of it depends upon the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child.= _Johnson._
=Tête-à-tête=--Face to face; a private conversation. _Fr._
=Tête d'armée!=--Head of the army! _Last words_ 50 _of Napoleon._
=Tête de fou ne blanchit jamais=--A fool's head never grows grey. _Pr._
=Teuer ist mir der Freund, doch auch den Feind kann ich nützen; / Zeigt mir der Freund, was ich kann, lehrt mich der Feind, was ich soll=--Dear is to me the friend, yet can I make even my very foe do me a friend's part. My friend shows me what I can do; my foe teaches me what I should do. _Schiller._
=That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving.= _Quarles._
=That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to come.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=That carries anger as the flint bears fire; / Who, much enforcèd, shows a hasty spark, / And straight is cold again.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.= _Lowell._
=That circle of beings, which dependence gathers round us, is almost ever unfriendly.= _Arliss._
=That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality.= (?)
=That cutting up, and parcelling, and labelling,= 5 =of the indivisible human soul into what are called "faculties," I have from of old eschewed, and even hated.= _Carlyle._
=That death's unnatural that kills for loving.= _Othello_, v. 2.
=That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime.= _Cic._
=That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together.= _Georg Ebers._
=That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless.= _Goldsmith._
=That gentleman who sells an acre of land,= 10 =sells an ounce of credit.= _Lord Burleigh._
=That golden key that opes the palace of eternity.= _Milton._
=That government is the best which makes government unnecessary.= _W. von Humboldt._
=That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called "time," rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not--this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it.= _Carlyle._
=That grief is light which is capable of counsel.= _Pr._
=That he is mad 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; /= 15 =And pity 'tis 'tis true.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=That in the captain's but a choleric word, / Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=That intention which fixes upon God as its only end will keep men steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the jest and scorn of fortune.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.= _Pub. Syr._
=That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine.= _Bovee._
=That is always best which gives me to myself.= 20 _Emerson._
=That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money.= _Pr._
=That is friendship which is not feigned.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is gold that is worth gold.= _Pr._
=That is indeed a twofold knowledge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security from the darkness, and its confidence from the light.= _Colton._
=That is not a council wherein there are no= 25 =sages.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is not a duty in which there is not virtue.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is not possible which is impossible.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is not virtue from which fear approacheth us.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express.= _Bacon._
=That is the best part of each writer which has= 30 =nothing private in it.= _Emerson._
=That is the briefest and sagest of maxims which bids us "meddle not."= _Colton._
=That is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.= _St. John._
=That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.= _Goethe._
=That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it.= _Goethe._
=That is well spoken that is well taken.= _Pr._ 35
=That last infirmity of noble minds.= _Milton._
=That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by reading.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=That life is long which answers life's great end.= _Young._
=That low vice curiosity.= _Byron._
=That man has advanced far in the study of= 40 =morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.= _Chamfort._
=That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.= _Ruskin._
=That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him.= _Bacon._
=That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice.= _Hitopadesa._
=That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.= _Johnson._
=That man lives twice that lives the first life= 45 =well.= _Herrick._
=That man may last, but never lives, / Who much receives but nothing gives; / Whom none can love, whom none can thank--/ Creation's blot, creation's blank.= _T. Gibbons._
=That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, / If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 1.
=That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=That Mirabeau understood how to act with others, and by others--this was his genius, this was his originality, this was his greatness.= _Goethe._
=That must be true which all men say.= _Pr._ 50
=That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another.= _Livy._
=That net that holds no great, takes little fish.= _R. Southwell._
=That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy.= _Carlyle._
=That one will not, another will.= _Pr._
=That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which= 5 =cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.= _Lowell._
=That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full.= _S. Hieron._
=That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice.= _Goldsmith._
=That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other--that is a sad riddle!= _Goethe._
=That State must sooner or later perish where the majority triumphs and unintelligence= (_Unverstand_) =decides.= _Schiller._
=That state of life is alone suitable to a man in= 10 =which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home.= _Goethe._
=That strain again! It had a dying fall: / Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Giving and stealing odour!= _Twelfth Night_, i. 1.
=That suit is best that best fits me.= _Pr._
=That that comes of a hen will scrape.= _Pr._
=That that is, is.= _As You Like It_, iv. 2.
=That the voice of the common people is the voice= 15 =of God, is as full of falsehood as commonness. For who sees not that those black-mouthed hounds, upon the mere scent of opinion, as freely spend their mouths in hunting counter, or, like Actæon's dogs, in chasing an innocent man to death, as if they followed the chase of truth itself, in a fresh scent?= _A. Warwick._
=That thee is sent receive in buxomness: / The wrestling of this world asketh a fall. / Here is no home, here is but wilderness. / Forth, pilgrim, forth--on, best out of thy stall. / Look up on high, and thank the God of all.= _Chaucer._
=That thought I regard as true which is fruitful to myself, which is connected with the rest of my thoughts, and at the same time helps me on. Now it is not only possible, but natural, that such a thought should not connect itself with the mind of another, nor help him on ... consequently he will regard it as false. Once we are thoroughly convinced of this, we shall never enter upon controversies.= _Goethe._
=That ugly treason of mistrust.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.= _Pascal._
=That very law which moulds a tear, / And bids= 20 =it trickle from its source; / That law preserves the earth a sphere, / And guides the planets in their course.= _Rogers._
=That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind is one of the most humiliating, but also one of the most unquestionable, facts in history.= _Lecky._
=That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel.= _Goldsmith._
=That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue.= _Johnson._
=That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding.= _Carlyle._
=That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In= 25 =living just as though no God there were.= _Browning._
=That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time / And drawing days out, that men stand upon.= _Julius Cæsar_, iii. 1.
=That we should find our national existence depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people, is a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on.= _Carlyle._
=That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh, / That hurts by easing.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts.= _Goethe._
=That which builds is better than that which is= 30 =built.= _Emerson._
=That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do.= _Ruskin._
=That which each man can do best, not but his Maker can teach him.= _Emerson._
=That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to.= _The Koran._
=That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been.= _Bible._
=That which I crave may everywhere be had, /= 35 =With me I bring the one thing needful--love.= _Goethe._
=That which in mean men we entitle patience, / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.= _Rich. II._, i. 2.
=That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature we call Spirit.= _Emerson._
=That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.= _Bible._
=That which is good to take is good to keep.= _Pr._
=That which is in the midst of fools is made= 40 =known.= _Bible._
=That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be.= _Saadi._
=That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters.= _Bacon._
=That which is possible is ever possible.= _Hitopadesa._
=That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God.= _Ruskin._
=That which makes men happy is activity= (_die Thätigkeit_), =which, first producing what is good, soon changes evil itself into good by power working in a god-like manner.= _Goethe._
=That which one least anticipates soonest= 5 =comes to pass.= _Pr._
=That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity.= _Jean Paul._
=That which proves too much proves nothing.= _Pr._
=That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin; a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy.= _Ruskin._
=That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.= _Emerson._
=That which the sun doth not now see will be= 10 =visible when the sun is out, and the stars are fallen from heaven.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=That which two will takes effect.= _Pr._
=That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds--His honour.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember.= _Pr._
=That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often.= _Emerson._
=That which we have we prize not to the= 15 =worth; / But being lacked and lost, why then we rake its value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=That which we may live without we need not much covet.= _Pr._
=That which will not be butter must be made into cheese.= _Pr._
=That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff.= _Pr._
=That woman is despicable who, having children, ever feels ennui.= _Jean Paul._
=That wretchedness which fate has rendered= 20 =voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most.= _Carlyle._
=That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle to tak ho'd on.= _Pr._
=That's my good that does me good.= _Pr._
=That's the best gown that goes up and down the house.= _Pr._
=That's the humour of it.= _Henry V._, ii. 1.
=That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly:= 25 =he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell him he's wise. But there's some men can do wi'out that--they think so much o' themselves a'ready--an' that's how it is there's old bachelors.= _George Eliot._
=The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear.= _Carlyle._
=The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing.= _Goethe._
=The absent party is still faulty.= _Pr._
=The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the= 30 =wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star--she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.= _Emerson._
=The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever.= _Sterne._
=The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The actual well seen is the ideal.= _Carlyle._
=The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent.= _Johnson._
=The affection of young ladies is of as rapid= 35 =growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.= _Thackeray._
=The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God.= _Tiedge._
=The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.= _Willmott._
=The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.= _Burke._
=The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep.= _Carlyle._
=The age of great men is going; the epoch of= 40 =the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning.= _Amiel._
=The age of miracles past! The age of miracles is for ever here.= _Carlyle._
=The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.= _Hume._
=The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light.= _James Martineau._
=The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man's selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it.= _J. C. Sharpe._
=The aim of education should be to teach us= 45 =rather how to think than what to think.= _Beattie._
=The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all.= _Auerbach._
=The aim of the legislator should be, not truth, but expediency.= _Buckle._
=The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint fancies of our childhood dear.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things of greater value.= _Schopenhauer._
=The all in all of faith is= _that_ =we believe; of= 50 =knowledge=, _what_ =we know, as well as how much and how well.= _Goethe._
=The almighty dollar.= _Washington Irving._
=The alpha and omega of Socialism is the transmutation of private competing capital into united collective capital.= _Schæffle._
=The amateur, however weak may be his efforts at imitation, need not be discouraged, ... for one advances to an idea the more surely and steadily the more accurately and precisely he considers individual objects. Only it will not do to measure one's self with artists; every one must go on in his own style.= _Goethe._
=The ambitious are ever followed by adulation, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery.= _Goldsmith._
=The amount of intellect necessary to please us= 5 =is a most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have ourselves.= _Helvetius._
=The ancient Spartan custom of killing weak-bodied children is not much crueller than that of propagating weak-minded ones.= _Jean Paul._
=The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.= _Ben. Franklin._
=The anger of a strong man can always bide its time.= _Ruskin._
=The animal is capable of enjoyment, only man is capable of serenity of mind and gladness of heart.= _Jean Paul._
=The animals look for man's intentions right= 10 =into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye.= _H. Powers._
=The apparel oft proclaims the man.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=The apprehension and representation of what is individual is the very life of art.= _Goethe._
=The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid.= _Carlyle._
=The archer who overshoots the mark misses,= 15 =as well as he that falls short of it.= _Pr._
=The argument all bare is of more worth / Than when it hath my added praise beside.= _Shakespeare._
=The army is a good book to open to study human life.= _Alfred de Vigny._
=The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal.= _Cervantes._
=The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.... It is the sneer in the satire or the ridicule that galls or wounds.= _W. Gladden._
=The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness= 20 =to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius.= _Palgrave._
=The art of living is like every other art; only the capacity is born with us; it must be learned and practised with incessant care.= _Goethe._
=The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.= _Vauvenargues._
=The art was his to break vexations with a ready jest.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily.= _Ruskin._
=The artist belongs to his work, not the work= 25 =to the artist.= _Novalis._
=The artist is the son of his age; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite.= _Schiller._
=The artist must conceive with warmth= (_mit Feuer_) =and execute with coolness.= _Winkelmann._
=The artist stands higher than the art, higher than the object: he uses art for his own purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.= _Goethe._
=The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart.= _Schumann._
=The arts of deceit and cunning do continually= 30 =grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them.= _Tillotson._
=The astonishing intellect that occupies itself in splitting hairs, and not in twisting some kind of cordage and effectual draught tackle to take the road with, is not to me the most astonishing of intellects. I want twisted cordage, steady pulling, and a peaceable bass tone of voice; not split hairs, hysterical spasmodics, and treble.= _Carlyle._
=The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest.= _Sydney Smith._
=The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe.= _Emerson._
=The attainment of a truer and truer aristocracy, or government again by the Best,--all that democracy ever meant lies there.= _Carlyle._
=The attempt, and not the deed, / Confounds us.= 35 _Macb._, ii. 2.
=The attraction of love is in an inverse proportion to the attraction of the Newtonian philosophy.= _Burns._
=The author is often obscure to readers because, as has been said, he proceeds from the thought to the expression, whereas they proceed from the expression to the thought.= _Chamfort._
=The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats, though unseen, among us.= _Shelley._
=The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.= _Swift._
=The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through= 40 =the centre of each and every town or city.= _Holmes._
=The back of one door is the face of another.= _Pr._
=The back-door robs the house.= _Pr._
=The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.= _Bible._
=The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.= _Saadi._
=The bad= (_böse_) =man has not only the good, but= 45 =also the bad against him.= _Bischer._
=The barrenest of mortals is the sentimentalist.= _Carlyle._
=The basest thought about man is that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest, that he has, or should have, no animal nature.= _Ruskin._
=The basis of good manners is self-reliance.= _Emerson._
=The battle of belief against unbelief is the never-ending battle.= _Carlyle._
=The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection.= _Fuller._
=The bearers of the thyrsus= (the symbol of the Bacchus inspiration) =are many, but the Bacchants= (the truly inspired) =are few.= _Gr. Pr._
=The bearing and the training of a child is= 5 =woman's wisdom.= _Tennyson._
=The beaten road is the safest.= _Pr._
=The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for its appearance, had been for ever concealed from us.= _Goethe._
=The beautiful is higher than the good; the beautiful includes in it the good.= _Goethe._
=The beautiful is like sunshine to the world; the beautiful lives for ever.= _Hans Andersen._
=The beautiful rests on the foundation of the= 10 =necessary.= _Emerson._
=The beggar is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind it.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is not expected to become bail or surety for any one.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is not required to put on court mourning.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is the only free man in the universe.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is the only man in the universe= 15 =who is not obliged to study appearances.= _Lamb._
=The beggar weareth all colours, fearing none.= _Lamb._
=The beggar's costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's.= _Lamb._
=The beginning, and very nearly the end, of bodily education for a girl, is to make sure that she can stand and sit upright; the ankle vertical, and firm as a marble shaft; the waist elastic as a reed, and as unfatiguable.= _Ruskin._
=The beginning of all good law, and nearly the end of it, is that every man shall do good work for his bread, and that every man shall have good bread for his work.= _Ruskin._
=The beginning of all temptations and wickedness= 20 =is the fickleness of our own minds and want of trust in God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The beginning of creation= (in man's soul as in Nature) =is light. Till the eye have vision, the whole members are in bonds.= _Carlyle._
=The beginning of inquiry is disease.= _Carlyle._
=The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with.= _Bible._
=The beginning of wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes= (_i.e._ symbols), =till they become transparent.= _Carlyle._
=The being whose strength exceeds its necessities= 25 =is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble.= _Rousseau._
=The bell strikes one. We take no note of time / But for its loss.= _Young._
=The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.= _Saadi._
=The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.= _Saadi._
=The benefactors of mankind are those who grumble to the best purpose. Grumbling has raised man from the condition of the gorilla to that of the judge on the bench of justice.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The benevolent heart will not solicit, but command= 30 =our reverence and applause.= _Arliss._
=The benevolent person is always by preference busy on the essentially bad.= _Carlyle._
=The best advice is, Follow good advice and hold old age in highest honour.= _Goethe._
=The best architecture is the expression of the mind of manhood by the hands of childhood.= _Ruskin._
=The best courages are but beams of the Almighty.= _Mrs. Hutchinson._
=The best effect of any book is that it excites= 35 =the reader to self-activity.= _Carlyle._
=The best fish swim near the bottom.= _Pr._
=The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.= _Sterne._
=The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and most men mistake the bad for the good.= _Gellert._
=The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.= _Goethe._
=The best independence is to have something to= 40 =do, and something that can be done, and done most perfectly in solitude.= _P. G. Hamerton._
=The best is best cheap.= _Pr._
=The best is but in season best.= _Allan Ramsay._
=The best is not to be explained by words.= _Goethe._
=The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley, / And lea'e us naught but grief and pain / For promised joy.= _Burns._
=The best loneliness is when no human eye has= 45 =rested on our face for a whole day.= _Auerbach._
=The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;/ He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.= _Pomfret._
=The best mirror is an old friend.= _Pr._
=The best of angels do not live in community, but by themselves.= _Swedenborg._
=The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonourable.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=The best of men/ That e'er wore earth about= 50 =him was a sufferer; / A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; / The first true gentleman that ever breathed.= _Decker._
=The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing.= _Pr._
=The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins.= _Holmes._
=The best path through life is the highway.= _Amiel._
=The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.= _Macaulay._
=The best preservative to keep the mind in= 55 =health is the faithful admonition of a friend.= _Bacon._
=The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both.= _Pr._
=The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love.= _Auerbach._
=The best son is not enough a son.= _Emerson._
=The best, the only correct actions are those which demand no explanation and no apology.= _Auerbach._
=The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=The best thing which we derive from history= 5 =is the enthusiasm which it raises in us.= _Goethe._
=The best things are worst to come by.= _Walker._
=The best use of money is to pay debts.= _Pr._
=The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine.= _Locke._
=The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself.= _Goldsmith._
=The best way to please one half of the world is= 10 =not to mind what the other half says.= _Goldsmith._
=The best work in the world is done on the quiet.= _Pr._
=The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all.= _Ruskin._
=The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public.= _Bacon._
=The betrayer is the murderer.= _Gael. Pr._
=The better a man is morally, the less conscious= 15 =he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings.= _Froude._
=The better day the better deed.= _Walker._
=The better I know men the more I admire dogs.= (?)
=The better part of valour is discretion.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered.= 20 _Butler._
=The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written.= _Sir William Jones._
=(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state of life, which so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or pain.= _Ruskin._
=The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.= _Heine._
=The Bible of a nation, the practically credited God's message to a nation, is, beyond all else, the authentic biography of its heroic souls. This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is.= _Carlyle._
=The Bible tells us what Christian graces are;= 25 =but it is in the struggle of life that we are to find them.= _Beecher._
=The biography of a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries.= _Willmott._
=The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.= _Landor._
=The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread.= _Newton._
=The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.= _Simons._
=The birth of a golden deer is impossible.= _Hitopadesa._ 30
=The bishop has set his foot in it=, _i.e._, the broth is singed. _Pr._ (The explanation of which, according to Grose, is: Whenever a bishop passed through a town or a village, all the inhabitants ran out to receive his blessing; this frequently caused the milk on the fire to be left till burnt.)
=The biter is often bit.= _Pr._
=The blanks as well as the prizes must be drawn in the cheating lottery of life.= _Le Sage._
=The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown.= _Smollett._
=The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out,= 35 =but it often dies in the socket.= _Johnson._
=The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.= _George Eliot._
=The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.= _Bible._
=The blind man bears the lame, and onward hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing eyes.= _Plato the Younger._
=The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.= _Carlyle._
=The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to= 40 =start a hare.= _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime.= _Burke._
=The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.= _Tertullian._
=The blue-bird carries the sky on his back.= _Thoreau._
=The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.= _Mrs. Browning._
=The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of= 45 =sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue.= _Fuller._
=The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.= _Bovee._
=The body of Christ is wherever human bodies are, and he who has any bitterness against his brother is always committing sacrilege.= _Ward Beecher._
=The book of Nature is the book of Fate.= _Emerson._
=The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head.= _Pope._
=The books which help you most are those which make you think the most.= _Theodore Parker._
=The borrower runs in his own debt.= _Emerson._
=The bough that is dead shall be cut away for the sake of the tree itself. Let the Conservatism that would preserve the tree, cut it away.= _Carlyle._
=The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed if he has but prudence.= _Goldsmith._
=The boy stands astonished; his impressions= 5 =guide him; he learns sportfully; seriousness steals on him by surprise.= _Goethe._
=The boy's story is the best that is ever told.= _Dickens._
=The boy's will is the wind's will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.= _Lapland Pr._
=The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red.= _Holmes._
=The brave man thinks of himself last of all.= 10 _Schiller._
=The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving are the daring.= _Bayard Taylor._
=The breach of custom / Is breach of all.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity.= _Ruskin._
=The British nation--and I include in it the Scottish nation--has produced a finer set of men than you will find it possible to get anywhere else in this world.= _Carlyle._
=The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet= 15 =will be the flower.= _Cowper._
=The buke o' May-bees is very braid.= _Sc. Pr._
=The burden one likes is cheerfully borne.= _Pr._
=The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear.= _Carlyle._
=The burst of new light, by its suddenness, always appears inimical to the unprepared heart.= _Jean Paul._
=The busiest of living agents are certain dead= 20 =men's thoughts.= _Bovee._
=The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ... but the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend.= _Bacon._
=The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer it has been trained in a darkened cage.= _Jean Paul._
=The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art.= _Jean Paul._
=The canker galls the infants of the spring /= 25 =Too oft before their buttons are disclosed, / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth / Contagious blastments are most imminent.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others.= _Goethe._
=The captive bands may chain the hands, / But love enslaves the man.= _Burns._
=The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows.= _John Burroughs._
=The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind.= _Hooker._
=The castle which Conservatism is set to defend= 30 =is the actual state of things, good and bad.= _Emerson._
=The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream.= _Pr._
=The cause which pleased the gods has in the end to please Cato also.= (?)
=The centuries are all lineal children of one another; and often, in the portrait of early grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic feature of the newest grandson will disclose itself, to mutual elucidation.= _Carlyle._
=The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.= _Emerson._
=The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's= 35 =self more cunning than others.= _Charron._
=The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken.= _Johnson._
=The champion true / Loves victory more when, dim in view, / He sees her glories gild afar / The dusky edge of stubborn war, / Than if th' untrodden bloodless field / The harvest of her laurels yield.= _Keble._
=The change of a man's self is a very laborious undertaking.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The character of a nation is not to be learned from its fine folks.= _Scott._
=The character of the person that commends= 40 =you is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.= (?)
=The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not unreasonable.= _Sir John Herschel._
=The characteristic mark of minds= (_Geister_) =of the first order is the directness= (_Unmittelbarkeit_) =of all their judgments. All that they bring forth= (_vorbringen_) =is the result of their own thinking.= _Schopenhauer._
=The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm.= _Epictetus._
=The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation: of Shakespeare, everything.= _Hazlitt._
=The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she= 45 =unmask her beauty to the moon.= _Ham._, i. 1.
=The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.= _Pr._
=The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man.= _J. G. Holland._
=The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.= _Sterne._
=The cheap swearer through his open sluice / Lets his soul run for nought.= _George Herbert._
=The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.= _Emerson._
=The chief glory of every people arises from its= 5 =authors.= _Johnson._
=The chief of all the curses of this unhappy age is the universal gabble of its fools, and of the flocks that follow them, rendering the quiet voices of the wise of all past time inaudible.= _Ruskin._
=The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.= _Lady Blessington._
=The chief value and virtue of money consists in its having power over human beings; a power which is attainable by other means than by money.= _Ruskin._
=The child is father of the man.= _Wordsworth._
=The child is not to be educated for the present,= 10 =but for the remote future, and often in opposition to the immediate future.= _Jean Paul._
=The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it, only disgraced.= _Ruskin._
=The child's murmuring is more and is less than words; there are no notes, and yet it is a song; there are no syllables, and yet it is language.... This poor stammering is a compound of what the child said when it was an angel, and of what it will say when it becomes a man.= _Victor Hugo._
=The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day.= _Milton._
=The children of others we never love so much as our own; error, our own child, is so near our heart.= _Goethe._
=The choicest thing this world has for a man is= 15 =affection.= _J. G. Holland._
=The Christian doctrine, that doctrine of Humility, in all senses godlike, and the parent of all godlike virtue, is not superior, or inferior, or equal to any doctrine of Socrates or Thales, being of a totally different nature; differing from these as a perfect ideal poem does from a correct computation in arithmetic.= _Carlyle._
=The Christian religion having once appeared, cannot again vanish; having once assumed its divine shape, can be subject to no dissolution.= _Goethe._
=The Christian religion is an inspiration and life--God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man.= _J. G. Holland._
=The Christian religion is especially remarkable, as it so decidedly lays claim to mere goodwill in man, to his essential temper, and values this independently of all culture and manifestation. It stands in opposition to science and art, and properly to enjoyment.= _Novalis._
=The Christian religion, often enough dismembered= 20 =and scattered abroad, will ever in the end again gather itself together at the foot of the cross.= _Goethe._
=The Christian religion, once here, cannot again pass away; in one or the other form, it will endure through all time. As in Scripture, so also in the heart of man, it is written, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it."= _Carlyle._
=The Christianity that cannot get on without a minimum of four thousand five hundred, will give place to something better that can.= _Carlyle._
=The Church is a mere organisation to help a man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source from whence those duties sprung.= _Ward Beecher._
=The Church is the working recognised union of those who by wise teaching guide the souls of men.= _Carlyle._
=The Church! Touching the earth with one= 25 =small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of the year one); springing out of one small seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher, ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad till it overshadow the whole visible heaven and earth, and no star can be seen but through it. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man. The world-tree of the nations for so long!= _Carlyle._
=The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, / As the Churches have killed their Christ.= _Tennyson._
=The circle of noble-minded people is the most precious of all that I have won.= _Goethe._
=The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us.= _Joseph Roux._
=The city is recruited from the country.= _Emerson._
=The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than= 30 =eat all the feast.= _George Herbert._
=The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses. He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated, hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries, law-codes; has memories and hopes, even for this earth, that reach over thousands of years.= _Carlyle._
=The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation.= _Ruskin._
=The civilised savage= (_Wilde_) =is the worst of all savages.= _C. J. Weber._
=The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly.= _Goethe._
=The clergy are at present divided into three= 35 =sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge.= _Huxley._
=The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=The cloud incense of the altar hides / The true form of the God who there abides.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The clouds never pass against the wind.= _Hitopadesa._
=The clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring from an eye / That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.= _Wordsworth._
=The clouds that wrap the setting sun / ... Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe? / To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love.= _Keble._
=The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond= 5 =or a spring-run, too insignificant to make any exceptions to.= _John Burroughs._
=The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day.= _Ham._, i. 1.
=The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructed what we ought to be.= (?)
=The combined arts appear to me like a family of sisters, of whom the greater part were inclined to good company, but one was light-headed, and desirous to appropriate and squander the whole goods and chattels of the household--the theatre is this wasteful sister.= _Goethe._
=The comic and the tragic lie close together, inseparable, like light and shadow.= _Socrates._
=The command "thou shalt" is in all circumstances= 10 =a hard one, unless it is softened down by the adjunct "for that which 'thou shalt' is just the same as that which rationally thou also willest."= _Lindner._
=The commencement of atonement is / The sense of its necessity.= _Byron._
=The common crowd but see the gloom / Of wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high.= _Byron._
=The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words.= _Swift._
=The common "keeping up appearances" of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.= _Ruskin._
=The company of fools may at first make us= 15 =smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy.= _Goldsmith._
=The complete poet must have a heart in his brain or a brain in his heart.= _George Darley._
=The complete spiritualisation of the animal element in nature is the task of our species.= _Amiel._
=The conceived is never food save to the mind that conceives.= _Schiller._
=The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.= _Burke._
=The condition of the great body of the people in= 20 =a country is the condition of the country itself.= _Carlyle._
=The condition of the most fascinated= (_bezaubertsten_) =enthusiast is to be preferred to him who, from sheer fear of error, dares in the end no longer to affirm or deny.= _Wieland._
=The conditions necessary for the arts of men are the best for their souls and bodies.= _Ruskin._
=The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.= _Goethe._
=The conflict of the old, the existent, and the persistent, with development, improvement, and transfigurment is always the same. Out of every arrangement arises at last pedantry; to get rid of this latter the former is destroyed, and some time must elapse before we become aware that order must be re-established.= _Goethe._
=The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the= 25 =liberty of man.= _Napoleon._
=The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest.= _Joseph Roux._
=The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art.= _Emerson._
=The conscious water saw its god and blushed.= _Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana._
=The consolation which is derived from truth,= 30 =if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive.= _Johnson._
=The contagion of crime is like that of the plague.= _Napoleon._
=The contingent facts of history can never become the proof of the truths of reason.= _Lessing._
=The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking.= _Dr. Andrew Combe._
=The core will come to the surface.= _Emerson._
=The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The= 35 =carcases that Time has made his prey.= _Crowe._
=The corpse is not the whole animal; there is still something that appertains to it, still a corner-stone, and in this case, as in every other, a very chief corner-stone--life, the spirit that makes everything beautiful.= _Goethe._
=The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep thyself.= _Pr._
=The country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has "made a step from which it cannot retrograde."= _Carlyle._
=The courage= (_Muth_) =of truth is the first condition of philosophic study.= _Hegel._
=The courage that dares only die is on the= 40 =whole no sublime affair.... The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.= _Carlyle._
=The course of nature is the art of God.= _Young._
=The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us; but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle= (of causes) =our little epicycle revolves on?= _Carlyle._
=The course of prayer who knows?= _Keble._
=The course of scoundrelism, any more than that of true love, never did run smooth.= _Carlyle._
=The course of true love never did run smooth.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=The court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere.= _La Bruyère._
=The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed of people very hard and very polished.= _La Bruyère._
=The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes are counted worst of all: / The golden mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit, and fears no fall.= _Old ballad._
=The court of the past differs from all living= 5 =aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else.= _Ruskin._
=The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them.= _Tillotson._
=The covetous man never has money, and the prodigal will have none shortly.= _Johnson._
=The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a knave of parts.= _Steele._
=The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.= _Lavater._
=The crafty man is always in danger; and= 10 =when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent, that he that runs may read them.= _Tillotson._
=The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.= _Emerson._
=The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age.= _Goethe._
=The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it.= _Chapin._
=The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense / Repairs itself by rest.= _Cymbeline_, ii. 2.
=The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the= 15 =humble.= _Cass._
=The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy; the upright man's perfection; the soul and body's health; the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of all good.= _Damascen._
=The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat.= _W. H. Thomson._
=The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended, and I think / The nightingale, if she should sing by day, / when every goose is cackling, would be thought / No better a musician than the wren.= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=The crowd ... if they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all Nature from her feet of clay, / Without the will to lift their eyes, and see / Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual fire / And touching other worlds.= _Tennyson._
=The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful= 20 =than that of the hardy.= _Lavater._
=The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart of God himself.= _Ed._
=The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air.= _Goethe._
=The cunning workman never doth refuse / The meanest tool that he may chance to use.= _George Herbert._
=The cup of life which God offers to our lips is not always sweet; ... but, sweet or bitter, it is ours to drink it without murmur or demur.= _W. R. Greg._
=The cups that cheer, but not inebriate.= _Cowper._ 25
=The cure for false theology is mother wit.= _Emerson._
=The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me.= _Gray._
=The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.= _Apocrypha._
=The curious unthrift makes his clothes too wide, / And spares himself, but would his tailor chide.= _George Herbert._
=The current that with gentle murmur glides, /= 30 =Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are. Pierce into the Time-element, glance into the Eternal.= _Carlyle._
=The cut= (of the vesture) =betokens intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart.= _Carlyle._
=The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one.= _Ward Beecher._
=The danger of dangers is illusion.= _Emerson._
=The danger past and God forgotten.= _Pr._ 35
=The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty, in form as untrue and broken as itself.= _Binney._
=The darkest day, live till to-morrow, will have passed away.= _Cowper._
=The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.= _Pr._
=The day is longer than the brae; we'll be at the top yet.= _Gael. Pr._
=The day of days ... is the day on which the= 40 =inward eye opens to the unity of things, to the omnipresence of law--sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best.= _Emerson._
=The day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.= _Dickens._
=The days are too short even for love, how can there ever be time for quarrelling?= _Mrs. Gatty._
=The dead do not need us; but for ever and for evermore we need them.= _Garfield._
=The dead letter of religion must own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise on us, new born of Heaven, and with new healing under its wings.= _Carlyle._
=The decline of literature indicates the decline= 45 =of the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.= _Goethe._
=The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it.= _Talmud._
=The deity works in the living, not in the dead; in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the fixed.= _Goethe._
=The delight of the destroyer and denier is no pure delight, and must soon pass away.= _Carlyle._
=The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat.= _Emerson._
=The demonic in music stands so high that no understanding can reach it, and an influence flows from it which masters all, and for which none can account.= _Goethe._
=The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject.= _Goethe._
=The dependant is timid.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.= _Carlyle._
=The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.= _Bible._
=The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.= _Bible._
=The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind.= _Fontanes._
=The desire of power in excess caused the= 10 =angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it.= _Bacon._
=The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the night for the morrow, / The devotion to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow.= _Shelley._
=The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.= _Bible._
=The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty.= _Goethe._
=The destruction of the poor is their poverty.= _Bible._
=The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! /= 15 =An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=The devil has a great advantage against us, inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.= _Luther._
=The devil has his elect.= _Carlyle._
=The devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they come once to a pinch, he leaves 'em in the lurch.= _L'Estrange._
=The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese.= 20 _Bishop Latimer._
=The devil is an ass.= _Pr._
=The devil is an unfortunate who knows not what it is to love.= _St. Theresa._
=The devil is God's ape.= _Luther._
=The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he crossed himself by it.= _Tim. of Athens_, iii. 3.
=The devil lurks behind the cross.= _Pr._ 25
=The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the door won't let him out.= _Pr._
=The devil taketh not lightly unto his working such as he findeth occupied in good works.= _St. Jerome._
=The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil.= _Arab. Pr._
=The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, / Beckoning his skill with opportunity.= _George Eliot._
=The devil was sick, the devil a monk would= 30 =be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.= _Rabelais._
=The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly, / Globing together in the common work.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods ... which all experience refutes. 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._
=The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious.= _Carlyle._
=The difference between the great celebrities and the unknown nobodies is this, the former failed and went at it again, the latter gave up in despair.= _Anon._
=The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as= 35 =to find a friend worth dying for.= _Henry Home._
=The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time.= _Schopenhauer._
=The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.= _Ben Jonson._
=The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound, violence for vigour, the indefinite for the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous.= _Schiller._
=The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.= _Jesus._
=The discovery of what is true, and the practice= 40 =of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.= _Voltaire._
=The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.= _Bible._
=The disease of the mind leading to fatalist ruin is the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not; it is their being his own interests which makes the regard of them mortal.= _Ruskin._
=The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine.= _J. S. Mill._
=The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith.= _Emerson._
=The dispute about religion and the practice of= 45 =it seldom go together.= _Young._
=The disputes of two of equal strength and fortune are worthy of attention; but not of two, the one great, the other humble.= _Hitopadesa._
=The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way to the understanding of it, as the dissection of a beast to the biography of it.= _Ruskin._
=The distances of nations are measured, not by seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions determined, not by dialects, but by enmities.= _Ruskin._
=The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all our gazing.= _Keble._
=The distant sounds of music, that catch new= 50 =sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn valley, are not more pleasing to the ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend.= _Goldsmith._
=The distinction between man and nature is, that man is a being becoming, and nature a being become.= _Rückert._
=The distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.= _Ruskin._
=The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price and be bought for it.= _Ruskin._
=The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy= 5 =of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and setting the foundations of the earth.= _Ruskin._
=The divine power of the love, of which we cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it reproduces every moment the grand qualities of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not either by day or by night, is ravished with its own work, wonders at its own stirring
## activity, finds the well-known always new,
because it is every moment begotten anew in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact the image of the beloved one cannot become old, for every moment is the hour of its birth.= _Goethe._
=The divine state, "par excellence," is silence and repose.= _Amiel._
=The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.= _Schopenhauer._
=The dog that fetches will carry.= _Pr._
=The dog that starts the hare is as good as the= 10 =one that catches it.= _Ger. Pr._
=The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man.= _Goldsmith._
=The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding, no one looks at--because the architect was not a man.= _Carlyle._
=The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.= _Byron._
=The donkey means one thing and the driver another.= _Pr._
=The doom of the old has long been pronounced= 15 =and irrevocable; the old has passed away; but, alas! the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations, and amid the sound of falling cities; and now there is darkness, and long watching till it be morning.= _Carlyle in_ 1831.
=The door must either be shut or it must be open. I must either be natural or unnatural.= _Goldsmith._
=The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.= _Bible._
=The dread of censure is the death of genius.= _Simms._
=The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the= 20 =madman is a dreamer in action.= _F. H. Hedge._
=The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness.= _Joubert._
=The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form.= _Bailey._
=The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest / All worldly right, save what he hath by beast.= _George Herbert._
=The dry light is ever the best.= _Heraclitus._
=The drying up a single tear has more / Of= 25 =honest fame than shedding seas of gore.= _Byron._
=The dullest John Bull cannot with perfect complacency adore himself, except under the figure of Britannia or the British Lion.= _Byron._
=The dust of controversy is but the falsehood flying off.= _Carlyle._
=The dwarf behind his steam-engine may remove mountains, but no dwarf will hew them down with the pickaxe; and he must be a Titan that hurls them abroad with his arms.= _Carlyle._
=The eagle suffers little birds to sing.= _Tit. Andron._, iv. 4.
=The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, /= 30 =And these are of them.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=The earth is our workshop. We may not curse it; we are bound to sanctify it.= _Mazzini._
=The earth is sown with pleasures, as the heavens are studded with stars, wherever the conditions of existence are unsophisticated.= _W. R. Greg._
=The earth must supply man with the necessaries of life before he has leisure or inclination to pursue more refined enjoyments.= _Goldsmith._
=The earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass= 35 =kettle.= _Pr._
=The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, / Comes dear'd by being lack'd.= _Ant. and Cleop._, i. 4.
=The echo of the nest-life, the voice of our modest, fairer, holier soul, is audible only in a sorrow-darkened bosom, as the nightingales warble when one veils their cage.= _Jean Paul._
=The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty; on the contrary, it strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.= _Goethe._
=The effect of righteousness= (shall be) =quietness and assurance for ever.= _Bible._
=The effect of violent animosities between= 40 =parties has always been an indifference to the general welfare and honour of the state.= _Macaulay._
=The efforts of him who contendeth with one stronger than himself are as feeble as the exertions of an insect's wings.= _Hitopadesa._
=The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect whosoever won't.= _Ward Beecher._
=The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.= _Dickens._
=The element of water moistens the earth, but blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.= _John Webster._
=The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.= _Bryant._
=The emphasis of facts and persons has nothing to do with time.= _Emerson._
=The empire of woman is an empire of softness,= 5 =of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.= _Rousseau._
=The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.= _Hen. V._, iv. 4.
=The end crowns all, / And that old common arbitrator, Time, / Will one day end it.= =Troil. and Cress.=, iv. 5.
=The end of all opposition is negation, and negation is nothing.= _Goethe._
=The end of all right education of a woman is to make her love her home better than any other place; that she should as seldom leave it as a queen her queendom; nor ever feel entirely at rest but within its threshold.= _Ruskin._
=The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.= 10 _Petrarch._
=The end of labour is to gain leisure.= _Arist._
=The end of man is an action, not a thought, though it were the noblest.= _Carlyle._
=The end of man is at no moment a pleasure, but a performance; and life always and only the continual fulfilment of a worthy purpose with a will.= _Ed._
=The end we aim at must be known before the way.= _Jean Paul._
=The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never= 15 =suffer him to get within us, but, upon the very first approach, draw up our forces and fight him without the gate.= _Thomas à Kempis._
="The English," says Bishop Sprat, "have too much bravery to be derided, and too much virtue and honour to mock others."= _Goldsmith._
=The ennobling difference between one man and another--between one animal and another--is precisely this, that one feels more than another.= _Ruskin._
=The entire grace, happiness, and virtue of= (a young man's) =life depend on his contentment in doing what he can dutifully, and in staying where he is peaceably.= _Ruskin._
=The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things.= _Ruskin._
=The entire system of things gets represented= 20 =in every particle.= _Emerson._
=The entire vitality of art depends upon its having for object either to state a true thing or adorn a serviceable one.= _Ruskin._
=The envied have a brilliant fate; / Pity is given where griefs are great.= _Palladas._
=The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbours.= _Socrates._
=The envious will die, but envy never.= _Molière._
=The errors of a great mind are more edifying= 25 =than the truths of a little.= _Börne._
=The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. For the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he have not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.= _Carlyle._
=The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool.= _Wm. Blake._
=The errors of woman spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true.= _Balzac._
=The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner.= _Bacon._
=The essence of a lie is in deception, not in= 30 =words.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of affectation is that it be assumed; the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the unhappy man persuades himself he has become a new creature of wonderful symmetry, though every movement betrays not symmetry, but dislocation.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of all government among good men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the production and recognition of human worth, and in the detection and extinction of human unworthiness.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making self the centre to which we subordinate all other beings and interests.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The essence of all religion that was, and that will be, is to make men free.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of= 35 =sensation.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of an aristocracy is to transfer the source of honour from the living to the dead, to make the merits of living men depend not so much upon their own character and actions as upon the actions and position of their ancestors.= _H. Lecky._
=The essence of aphorism is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.= _John Morley._
=The essence of faith lies in this, a deep sense and conviction that in what we do, though it were single-handed, with all men standing aloof, and even saying nay to it, we have God and all his universe at our back.= _Ed._
=The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.= _Emerson._
=The essence of greatness is the perception= 40 =that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.= _Emerson._
=The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of justice is mercy.= (?)
=The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.= _Confucius._
=The essence of poetry is will and passion.= _Hazlitt._
=The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.= _Froude._
=The essence of wealth consists in its authority over men; if= (therefore) =the apparent or nominal wealth fail in this power, it fails in essence; in fact, ceases to be wealth at all. And since the essence of wealth consists in power over men, will it not follow that the nobler and the more in number the persons are over whom it has power, the greater the wealth.= _Ruskin._
=The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole.= _Emerson._
=The essential thing for all creatures is to be= 5 =made to do right.= _Ruskin._
=The Eternal is no simulacrum; God is not only there, but here or nowhere,--in that life-breath of thine, in that act and thought of thine,--and thou wert wise to look to it.= _Carlyle._
=The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough.= _Carlyle._
=The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate.= _Burnet._
=The even and cheerful temper makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please.= _Addison._
=The even-flow of constant cheerfulness= 10 =strengthens; while great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both wreck the ship and end often in explosions.= _Ward Beecher._
=The evening brings a' hame.= _Sc. Pr._
=The evil that goeth out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom.= _Pr._
=The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interréd with their bones.= _Jul. Cæs._, viii. 2.
=The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.= _Pr._
=The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it= 15 =baes, will never answer a calf when it bleats.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=The exacting a grateful acknowledgment is demanding a debt by which the creditor is not advantaged and the debtor pays with reluctance.= _Goldsmith._
=The example of good men is visible philosophy.= _Pr._
=The excellent is rarely found, more rarely valued.= _Goethe._
=The exception proves the rule.= _Pr._
=The excesses of our youth are draughts upon= 20 =our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date.= _Colton._
=The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.= _Bible._
=The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.= _Emerson._
=The experience of suffering has been declared on the highest authority to be necessary to every poet who would touch the hearts of his fellow-creatures.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The express schoolmaster is not equal to much at present, while the unexpress, for good or for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow.= _Carlyle._
=The eye by which I see God is the same eye= 25 =by which he sees me.= _Scheffler._
=The eye is easily daunted.= _Emerson._
=The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.= _Bible._
=The eye is the best of artists.= _Emerson._
=The eye is the mirror of the soul.= _Pr._
=The eye is the only note-book of the true poet.= 30 _Lowell._
=The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.= _H. Powers._
=The eye--it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will.= _Wordsworth._
=The eye of a critic is often like a microscope, made so very fine and nice, that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing all at once the harmony.= (?)
=The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.= _Ben. Franklin._
=The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on= 35 =things: "He saw that they were very good."= _Emerson._
=The eye sees in all things what it brings with it the faculty of seeing.= _Goethe._
=The eye sees not itself, / But by reflection, by some other things.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.= _Bible._
=The eye that sees all things else sees not itself.= _Pr._
=The eyes being in the highest part, hold the= 40 =post of sentinels.= _Cic._
=The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.= _Ben. Franklin._
=The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.= _Bible._
=The face is the index of the mind.= _Pr._
=The face of man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue; for his face is the compendium of all he will ever say, as it is the one record of all he has thought and endeavoured.= _Schopenhauer._
=The faculty for remembering is not diminished= 45 =in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.= _Schopenhauer._
=The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.= _Buckle._
=The faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.= _Luther._
=The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues praise; such is the force of ill-will and ill-nature.= (?)
=The faint, exquisite music of a dream.= _Moore._
=The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to the fields at break of day, / And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, / Will ever after handsome be.= _Pr._
=The fair point of the line of beauty is the line of love. Strength and weakness stand on either side of it. Love is the point in which they unite.= _Goethe._
=The fairest action of our human life is scorning to avenge an injury.= _Lady E. Carew._
=The fairest tulip's not the sweetest flower.= 5 _Quarles._
=The faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or, still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayer-books only, what other thing remains credible?= _Carlyle._
=The faith of a hearer must be extremely perplexed who considers the speaker, or believes that the speaker considers himself as under no obligation to adhere to truth, but according to the particular importance of what he relates.= _Paley._
=The faith that stands on authority is not faith.= _Emerson._
=The faithful servant is a humble friend.= _Pr._
=The fall from the (Christian) faith, and all the= 10 =corruptions of its abortive practice, may be summed up briefly as the habitual contemplation of Christ's death instead of his life, and the substitution of his past suffering for our present duty.= _Ruskin._
=The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love.= _Pr._
=The family is the proper province for private women to shine in.= _Addison._
=The family virtues are indispensable to the proper continuance of a society.= _Renan._
=The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=The fashion of this world passeth away.= _St._ 15 _Paul._
=The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking, the man who cannot think and see?= _Carlyle._
=The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion."= _J. S. Mill._
=The fatal trait= (of the times) =is the divorce between religion and morality.= _Emerson._
=The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness.= _Hitopadesa._
=The fate of empires depends upon the education= 20 =of youth.= _Arist._
=The fated will happen.= _Gael. Pr._
=The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you.= _Dryden._
=The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.= _Bible Pr._
=The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him.= _Confucius._
=The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, / To= 25 =haud the wretch in order; / But when ye feel yer honour grip, / Let that be aye yer border.= _Burns._
=The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.= _Bible._
=The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life.= _Bible._
=The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.= _Bible._
=The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied.= _Bible._
=The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.= 30 _Carlyle._
=The feast of reason and the flow of soul.= _Pope._
=The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed.= _Jean Paul._
=The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape.= _Judge Haliburton._
=The fetters of the slave bind the hands only.= _Grillparzer._
=The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble= 35 =the gods.= _Socrates._
=The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre.= _Thoreau._
=The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star.= _Emerson._
=The finding of 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 the world.= _Carlyle._
=The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.= _Ruskin._
=The finest composition of human nature, as= 40 =well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable.= _Fielding._
=The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words.= _George Eliot._
=The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.= _Montaigne._
=The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.= _Pope._
=The finest nations in the world--the English and the American--are going all away into wind and tongue.= _Carlyle._
=The finest qualities of our nature, like the= 45 =bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling; yet we do not treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly.= _Thoreau._
=The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck.= _Pr._
=The fire that all things else consumeth clean / May hurt and heal.= _Sir Thomas Wyatt._
=The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me.= _Pr._
=The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.= _Amiel._
=The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.= _Bailey._
=The first approach to riches is security from poverty.= _Johnson._
=The first article that a young trader offers for= 5 =sale is his honesty.= _Pr._
=The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education is in the rule over our thoughts.= _Ruskin._
=The first breath / Is the beginning of death.= _Pr._
=The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit.= _Epictetus._
=The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work.= _Ruskin._
=The first condition of goodness is something to= 10 =love; the second, something to reverence.= _George Eliot._
=The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit.= _Bacon._
=The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest.= _Laboulaye._
=The first days of spring have less grace than the growing virtue of a young man.= _Vauvenargues._
=The first duty of a man is that of subduing fear; he must get rid of fear; he cannot act at all till then; his acts are slavish, not true.= _Carlyle._
=The first duty of every man in the world is to= 15 =find his true master, and, for his own good, submit to him; and to find his true inferior, and, for that inferior's good, conquer him.= _Ruskin._
=The first evil those suffer who are fain to talk is that they hear nothing.= _Plutarch._
=The first faults are theirs that commit them, / The second are theirs that permit them.= _Pr._
=The first forty years of life furnish the text, the remaining thirty the commentary.= _Schopenhauer._ (?)
=The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good-humour, and the fourth for mine enemies.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The first glass of a wine is the one which gives= 20 =us its true taste.= _Schopenhauer._
=The first great work / Is that yourself may to yourself be true.= _Roscommon._
=The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.= _Ward Beecher._
=The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humour, and the fourth wit.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The first lesson of life is one of vicarious suffering.= _Ward Beecher._
=The first lesson of literature, no less than of= 25 =life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke.= _Lowell._
="The first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like it.= _Carlyle._
=The first of the nine orders of knaves is he that tells his errand before he goes it.= _Pr._
=The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength.= _Emerson._
=The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.= _Lactantius._
=The first power of a nation consists in knowing= 30 =how to guide the plough; its second power consists in knowing how to wear the fetter.= _Ruskin._
=The first principle of all human economy--individual or political--is to live with as few wants as possible, and to waste nothing of what is given us to supply them.= _Ruskin._
=The first problem= (in life) =is to unite yourself with some one and with somewhat.= _Carlyle._
=The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others.= _B. R. Haydon._
=The first requisite, both in conversation and correspondence, is to attend to all the proper decorums which our own character and that of others demand.= _Blair._
=The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.= 35 _Antoine Bret._
=The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's, that of self-conceit.= _Carlyle._
=The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilised countries.= _Carlyle._
=The first step towards greatness is to be honest.= _Pr._
=The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his power or hesitation in speaking his opinions; but a right understanding of the relation between what he can say and do, and the rest of the world's sayings and doings.= _Ruskin._
=The first thing for acceptance of truth is to= 40 =unlearn human doctrines and become as a little child.= _General Gordon._
=The first thing in oratory, Demosthenes used to say, was action; the second, action; and the third, action.=
=The first use of education is to enable us to consult with the wisest and the greatest men on all points of earnest difficulty.= _Ruskin._
=The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.= _Emerson._
=The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third, live in it yourself.= _Pr._
=The fittest place where man can die / Is where= 45 =he dies for man.= _M. J. Barry._
=The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation= (of God) =that is, that was, or that can be. In that is the image of God painted; in that is the law of God written; in that is the promise of God revealed.= _Ruskin._
=The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless the deed go with it.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.= _John Burroughs._
=The flower is the proper object of the seed, not the seed of the flower.= _Ruskin._
=The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.= _Wordsworth._
=The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness.= _Matthew Henry._
=The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer.= _Lewis Morris._
=The follies of modern Liberalism are practically summed up in the denial or neglect of the quality and intrinsic value of things.= _Ruskin._
=The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for= 5 =a shadow.= _Tennyson._
=The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.= _Goldsmith._
=The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.= _As You Like It_, v. 1.
=The fool is always discovered if he stayeth too long; like the ass dressed in a tiger's skin, from his voice.= _Hitopadesa._
=The fool is in himself the object of pity till he is flattered.= _Steele._
=The fool needs company, the wise man solitude.= 10 _Rückert._
=The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.= _Lowell._
=The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land.= _Pr._
=The force of the guinea in your pocket depends on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's.= _Ruskin._
=The form of government can never be a matter of choice; it is almost always a matter of necessity.= _Joubert._
=The formation of his character ought to be= 15 =the chief aim of every man.= _Goethe._
=The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience.= _Dryden._
=The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied.= _Bacon._
=The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.= _Thoreau._
=The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit.= _Emerson._
=The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, /= 20 =That sacred stream, should never water weeds.= _Wall._
=The fox puts off all with a jest.= _L'Estrange._
=The fox thrives best when he is most curst.= _Pr._
=The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity.= _Carlyle._
=The free man is he who is loyal to the laws of this universe; who in his heart sees and knows that injustice cannot befall him here; that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity, evil is not possible here.= _Carlyle._
=The= (French) =Revolution was a revolt against lies, and against a betrayal of love.= _Ruskin._ 25
=The fresh air of the open country is the proper place to which we belong. It is as if the breath of God were there wafted immediately to men, and a divine power exerted its influence.= _Goethe._
=The fresh gaze of a child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable seer.= _Novalis._
=The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=The frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground, opening each clod and pulverising the whole.= _Fuller._
=The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding,= 30 =is not restrained only to such friends as are able to give counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not.= _Bacon._
=The fruit of life is experience, not happiness, and its fruition to accustom ourselves, and to be content, to exchange hope for insight.= _Schopenhauer._
=The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.= _St. James._
=The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always mellow.= _Quarles._
=The full moon brings fair weather.= _Pr._
=The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to= 35 =the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.= _Bible._
=The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe.= _Spurgeon._
=The future comes on slowly, the present flies like an arrow, the past stands for ever still.= _Schiller._
=The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.= _Napoleon._
=The future epic of the world rests not with those near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life.= _Carlyle._
=The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; /= 40 =We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides in it / Daunting us--onward; / But solemn before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us--/ Graves under us, silent.= _Goethe._
=The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.= _Sir Walter Raleigh._
=The game is not worth the candle.= _Corn._
=The gardener's business is to tend the flowers and root out the weeds.= _Bodenstedt._
=The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself.= _Hooker._
=The general tendency of things throughout= 45 =the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.= _J. S. Mill._
=The generality never suspect the devil even when he has them by the throat.= _Goethe._
=The generous, who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of Heaven.= _Lavater._
=The genius of light is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from afar.= _Emerson._
=The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.= _Bacon._
=The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known.= 50 _Spenser._
=The genuine use of gunpowder I hold to be that it makes all men alike tall.= _Carlyle._
=The germs of all things are in every heart.= _Amiel._
=The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.= _Bible._
=The gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous.= _Bible._
=The gift of prayer is not always in our power,= 5 =but in the eye of Heaven the very wish to pray is prayer.= _Lessing._
=The gift which is to be given should be given gratuitously.= _Hitopadesa._
=The gifted man is he who sees the essential point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage.= _Carlyle._
=The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The glory dies not, and the grief is past.= _Sir Egerton Brydges._
=The glory is not in never falling, but in rising= 10 =every time you fall.= _Bovee._
=The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.= _Baron de Grimm._
=The glory of children are their fathers.= _Bible._
=The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the problem, but in putting it.= _Renan._
=The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.= _Bible._
=The God of merely traditional believers is= 15 =the great Absentee of the universe.= _W. R. Alger._
=The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and pride.= _Luther._
=The God who dwells in my bosom can stir my heart to its depths.= _Goethe._
=The goddess Athene is armed with the Gorgon's head.= _Ed._
=The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.= _Wordsworth._
=The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices /= 20 =Make instruments to scourge us.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits.= _Carlyle._
=The gods are on the side of the strongest.= _Emerson._
=The gods are wont to save by human means.= _Goethe._
=The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each or good or bad reaps the due reward of his own actions. Parents' blessing, not their curse, is inherited.= _Goethe._
=The gods hearken to him who hearkens to= 25 =them.= _Homer._
=The gods in charity oft lend their strength to man.= _Schiller._
=The gods invariably make us pay dear for the great benefits they confer on us.= _Corn._
=The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men.= _Emerson._
=The gods sell all things at a fair price.= _Ancient Pr._
=The gods sell to us all the goods which they= 30 =give us.= _Epicharmus._
=The gods, when they appear to man, are commonly unrecognised by them.= _Goethe._
=The golden age hath passed away, / Only the good have power to bring it back.= _Goethe._
=The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed in the past no more than now. / And did it e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it now may be restored. Still meet congenial spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures in this beauteous world.= _Goethe._
=The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.= _George Eliot._
=The good are always ready to be the upholders= 35 =of the good in their misfortunes. Elephants even are wont to bear the burthens of elephants who have sunk in the mire.= _Hitopadesa._
=The good are better made by ill, / As odours crushed are sweeter still.= _Rogers._
=The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket.= _Wordsworth._
=The good-for-nothing is he who cannot command and cannot even obey.= _Goethe._
=The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good.= _Whittier._
=The good mother saith not, "Will you?" but= 40 =gives.= _Pr._
=The good nature of the dog is not discouraged, although it often brings upon him only rebuffs; the abusive treatment of man never offends him, because he loves man.= _Renan._
=The good need little water, but the base / Free from their guilt not ocean's self can lave.= _Pythian oracle._
=The good of other times let others state; / I think it lucky I was born so late.= _Sydney Smith._
=The good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can.= _Wordsworth._
=The good that passes by without returning,= 45 =leaves behind it an impression that may be compared to a void, and is felt like a want.= _Goethe._
=The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.= _Feuerbach._
=The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.= _Bacon, from Seneca._
=The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.= (?)
=The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment?= _Burns._
=The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to= 50 =lay where there are eggs already.= _Spurgeon._
=The gospel is at once the assigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength.= _Decay of Piety._
=The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.= _Emerson._
=The governing class, who should be working at an ark of deliverance for themselves and us while the hours still are, do nothing but complain, "We cannot get our hands kept rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning the planks.= _Carlyle._
=The government must always be a step in advance of the popular movement.= _Count Arnim-Boytzenburg._
=The government of England is a government of law.= _Junius._
=The gown is hers that wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it.= _Pr._
=The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give= 5 =place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding.= _Carlyle on the transition from the age of romance to that of science._
=The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo.= _Carlyle._
="The grapes are sour," said the fox when he could not reach them.= _Pr._
=The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive and sensible if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.= _Ward Beecher._
=The great agent of the march of the world is pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for development and is ill at ease in the process.= _Renan._
=The great and rich depend on those whom= 10 =their power or their wealth attaches to them.= _Rogers._
=The great art of ruling consists for most part in persuading the people to believe that whatever happens happens through us.= _Cötvös._
=The great artist is the slave of his ideal.= _Bovee._
=The great cause of revolutions is this: that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.= _Macaulay._
=The great distinction between mediæval art and modern is, that the former was brought into the service of religion and the latter is not.= _Ruskin._
=The great doers in history have always been= 15 =men of faith.= _Chapin._
=The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow-creature.= _Fredrika Bremer._
=The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement, not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more.= _Burke._
=The great event for the world is, now as always, the arrival in it of a new wise man.= _Carlyle._
=The great facts are the near ones.= _Emerson._
=The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation.= 20 _Sen._
=The great hope of society is individual character.= _Channing._
=The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances.= _Emerson._
=The great man does, in good truth, belong to his own age; nay, more so than any other man; being properly the synopsis and epitome of such age with its interests and influences; but belongs likewise to all ages, otherwise he is not great.= _Carlyle._
=The great man goes ahead of his time, the prudent= (_kluge_) =man goes with it, the crafty man makes his own out of it, and the blockhead sets himself against it.= _Bauernfeld._
=The great man has more of human nature than= 25 =other men organised in him.= _Theodore Parker._
=The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.= _Emerson._
=The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of judgment, and even memory.= _Schopenhauer._
=The great modern recipe is to work, still to work, and always to work.= _Gambetta._
=The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak.= _Thackeray._
=The great point is not to pull down, but to= 30 =build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy.= _Goethe._
=The great portion of labour is not skilled; the millions are and must be skilless, where strength alone is wanted.= _Carlyle._
=The great principle of all effort is to endeavour to do, not what is absolutely best, but what is easily within our power, and adapted to our temper and condition.= _Ruskin._
=The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed.= _George Eliot._
=The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time.= _Lavater._
=The great school for learning is the brain itself= 35 =of the learner.= _Carlyle._
=The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice.= _Carlyle._
=The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.= _J. G. Holland._
=The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future.= _Goldsmith._
=The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices.= _Carlyle._
=The great successes of the world have been= 40 =affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial.= _John Morley._
=The great thieves punish the little ones.= _Pr._
=The great thing, after all, is only Forwards.= _Goethe._
=The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly.= _Carlyle._
=The greater and more various any one's knowledge, the longer he takes to find out anything that may suddenly be asked him; because he is like a shopkeeper who has to get the article wanted from a large and multifarious store.= _Schopenhauer._
=The greater height sends down the deeper fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns worst of all.= _Quarles._
=The greater man the greater courtesy.= _Tennyson._
=The greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong.= _Plutarch._
=The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received at first with distrust.= _Schopenhauer._
=The greatest benefit which one friend can= 5 =confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues.= _Johnson._
=The greatest braggards are generally the greatest cowards.= _Rousseau._
=The greatest clerkes= (scholars) =ben not the wisest men.= _Chaucer._
=The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.= _Goethe._
=The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.= _Bovee._
=The greatest expense we can be at is that of= 10 =our time.= _Pr._
=The greatest felicity that felicity hath is to spread.= _Hooker._
=The greatest flood hath the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.= _Socrates._
=The greatest genius is the most indebted man.= _Emerson._
=The greatest happiness of the greatest number.= _Priestley._
=The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue= 15 =and the worst dogs, is quiet.= _Jean Paul._
=The greatest man in history was the poorest.= _Emerson._
=The greatest man is ever a son of man= (_Menschenkind_). _Goethe._
=The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest as much as the meanest does of him.= _Fuller._
=The greatest men even want much more of the sympathy which every honest fellow can give than that which the great only can impart.= _Thoreau._
=The greatest men of a nation are those whom= 20 =it puts to death.= _Renan._
=The greatest men of any age, those who become its leaders when there is a great march to be begun, are separated from the average intellects of their day by a distance which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of wonder.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest men, whether poets or historians, live entirely in their own age, and the greatest faults of their works are gathered out of their own age.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest men will be necessarily those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.= _James Harris._
=The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation.= _La Roche._
=The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able= 25 =to bear misfortune.= _Bias._
=The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.= _Goldsmith._
=The greatest of all economists are the fortifying virtues, which the wisest men of all time have arranged under the general heads of Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude, the spirit which persists and endures rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which stops and refuses rightly.= _Ruskin._
=The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law.= _L'Estrange._
=The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's own nature and act contrary to its innate moral principle.= _Sophocles._
=The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be= 30 =conscious of none.= _Carlyle._
=The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other advantage.= _Schopenhauer._
=The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.= _Jean Paul._
=The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.= _Napoleon._
=The greatest part of mankind labour under one delirium or another.= _Fielding._
=The greatest prayer is patience.= _Buddha._ 35
=The greatest skill is shown in disguising our skill.= _La Roche._
=The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men.= _Pr._
=The greatest star is that at the little end of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after, nor looked at.= _Theo. Parker._
=The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.= _Emerson._
=The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.= 40 _Malesherbes._
=The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men.= _Hare._
=The greatest vessel hath but its measure.= _Pr._
=The greatest virtues of men are only splendid sins.= _Augustine._ (?)
=The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients who never become old.= _Weber._
=The Greeks cared for man only, and for the= 45 =rest of the universe little or not at all; the moderns for the universe only, and man not at all.= _Ruskin._
=The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to lordship over nature; it was Christ who first taught us what that spirit is in itself.= _Ed._
=The grey mare is the better horse.= _Pr._
=The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.= _Macb._, iv. 3.
=The grief which all hearts share grows less for one.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The groundsel speaks not save what it heard= 50 =at the hinges.= _Pr._
=The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes.= (?)
=The habit and power of reading with reflection, comprehension, and memory all alert and awake, does not come at once to the natural man any more than many other sovereign virtues.= _John Morley._
=The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand a year.= _Johnson._
=The habit of lying, when once formed, is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest; like all habits, it spreads indeed of itself.= _Paley._
=The habit of party in England is not to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character.= _Lord John Russell._
=The hand of little employment hath the daintier= 5 =sense.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=The hand that gives, gathers.= _Pr._
=The Hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The happiest of men were he who, understanding his craft and working intelligently with his hands, and earning competence and freedom by the exercise of his wits, found time to live by the heart and by the brain, to understand his own work, and to love the work of God.= _Mme. George Sand._
=The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling.= _Coleridge._
=The happiness of man depends on no creed= 10 =and no book; it depends on the dominion of truth, which is the redeemer and saviour, the Messiah and the King of glory.= _Rabbi Wise._
=The happiness of the human race is one of the designs of God, but our own individual happiness must not be made our first or our direct aim.= _W. R. Greg._
=The happiness we owe to ourselves is greater than that which we owe to our surroundings.= _Metrodorus._
=The happy day will come when mind, heart and hands shall be alive together, and shall work in concert; when there shall be a harmony between God's munificence and man's delight in it.= _Mme. George Sand._
=The happy have whole days, and those they choose; / The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.= _Colley Cibber._
=The happy man is he who distinguishes the= 15 =boundary between desires and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground.= _Landor._
=The happy think a lifetime a short stage: / One night to the unhappy seems an age.= _Lucian._
=The hardest step is over the threshold.= _Pr._
=The hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other person would be, should we change conditions with him.= _Hor._
=The hare leaps out of the bush where we least look for her.= _Sp. Pr._
=The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers= 20 =are few.= _Jesus._
=The hatred which is grafted on extinguished friendship must bring forth the most deadly fruits.= _Lessing._
=The head cannot understand any work of art unless it be in company with the heart.= _Goethe._
=The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiments.= _Emerson._
=The head learns new things, but the heart for evermore practises old experiences.= _Ward Beecher._
=The head only reproduces what the heart= 25 =creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove.= _G. J. W. Melville._
=The health of a state consists simply in this, that in it those who are wisest shall also be strongest.= _Ruskin._
=The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick.= _Carlyle._
=The healthy man is the compliment of the seasons, and in winter summer is in his heart. There is the south!= _Thoreau._
=The healthy understanding is not the logical argumentative, but the intuitive; for the end of understanding is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe.= _Carlyle._
=The heart always sees before the head can= 30 =see.= _Carlyle._
=The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang.= _Burns._
=The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God.= _Burns._
=The heart can ne'er a transport know / That never feels a pain.= _Lyttelton._
=The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=The heart has its arguments with which the= 35 =understanding is not acquainted.= (?)
=The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.= _Hugo de Anima._
=The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?= _Bible._
=The heart is like a millstone, which gives meat if you supply it with corn, but frets itself if you don't.= _C. J. Weber._
=The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony.= _Saadi._
=The heart is like the sea, is subject to storms,= 40 =ebb-tide and flood, and in its depths is many a precious pearl.= _Heine._
=The heart is the best logician.= _Wendell Phillips._
=The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.= _Bible._
=The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.= _Bunyan._
=The heart must be divorced from its idols.= (?)
=The heart must glow before the tongue can= 45 =gild.= _W. R. Alger._
=The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.= _Jean Paul._
=The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.= _Pr._
=The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any.= _Confucius._
=The heart of childhood is all mirth.= _Keble._
=The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim.= _Goldsmith._
=The heart of man is the place the devils dwell= 5 =in.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.= _Bible._
=The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.= _Bible._
=The heart sees farther than the head.= _Pr._
=The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns.= _Moore._
=The heart that once truly loves never forgets.= 10 _Pr._
=The heart, unlike the fancy and the imagination, is not complex, and may be reached by the same weapons of thought in the most luxurious court of Christendom as in the tent of the Arab or the wigwam of the Cherokee.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it.= _Lewis Morris._
=The heart will break, yet brokenly live on.= _Byron._
=The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence.= _Macaulay._
=The heavenly powers never go out of their= 15 =road.= _Emerson._
=The heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest?= _Koran._
=The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture of the Eternal.= _Carlyle._
=The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.= _Bible._
=The heavenward path which a great man opens up for us and traverses generally, like the track of a ship through the water, closes behind him on his decease.= _Goethe._
=The heaviest head of corn hangs its head= 20 =lowest.= _Gael. Pr._
=The heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world.= _Wordsworth._
=The Hebrew Bible, is it not, before all things, true, as no other book ever was or will be?= _Carlyle._
=The height charms us, the steps to it do not; with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain.= _Goethe._
=The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.= _La Roche._
=The heights by great men reached and kept /= 25 =Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.= _Longfellow._
=The hell of these days is the infinite terror of Not getting on, especially of Not making money.= _Carlyle._
=The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a goose.= _Eastern Pr._
=The herd of people dread sound understanding more than anything; they ought to dread stupidity, if they knew what was really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant, they must have it pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay.= _Goethe._
=The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.= _Johnson._
=The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first= 30 =times, still feels and sees in us of the latest.= _Carlyle._
=The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions.= _Not traceable._
=The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis.= _Carlyle._
=The higher the culture, the more honourable the work.= _Roscher_
=The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity.= _Carlyle._
=The higher we rise, the more isolated we= 35 =become, and all elevations are cold.= _De Boufflers._
=The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man.= _Prof. Blackie._
=The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life.= _Schopenhauer._
=The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation.= _Carlyle._
=The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it.= _Chapin._
=The highest gift which we receive from God= 40 =and Nature is Life, the revolving movement, which knows neither pause nor rest, of the self-conscious being round itself. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it ever remains a mystery to us and others.= _Goethe._
=The highest happiness of us mortals is to execute what we consider right and good; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims.= _Goethe._
=The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone.= _Emerson._
=The highest in God's esteem are meanest in their own.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The highest joys spring from those possessions which are common to all, which we can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived of by others, to which kind Nature has given all an equal right--a right which she herself guards with silent omnipotence.= _Goethe._
=The highest liberty is in harmony with the eternal laws.= _H. Giles._
=The highest man of us is born brother to his contemporaries; struggle as he may, there is no escaping the family likeness.= _Carlyle._
=The highest melody dwells only in silence--the sphere melody, the melody of health.= _Carlyle._
=The Highest not merely has, but is, reason and understanding.= _Goethe._
=The highest political watchword is not Liberty,= 5 =Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but Service.= _A. H. Clough._
=The highest price a man can pay for a thing is to ask for it.= _Pr._
=The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.= _Goethe._
=The highest problem of literature is the writing of a Bible.= _Novalis._
=The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management.= _La Bruyère._
=The highest thing that art can do is to set= 10 =before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being. It has never done more than this, and it might not do less.= _Ruskin._
=The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity; of colder regions, temperance.= _Bovee._
=The highest wisdom is not to be always wise.= _M. Opiz._
=The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.= _Bible._
=The hind that would be mated by the lion / Must die for love.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=The historian is a prophet with his face directed= 15 =to the past.= _Fr. v. Schlegel._
=The history of a man is his character.= _Goethe._
=The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it, but we often treble the force.= _Sterne._
=The history of every man should be a Bible.= _Novalis._
=The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob.= _Emerson._
=The history of reforms is always identical; it= 20 =is the comparison of the idea with the fact.= _Emerson._
=The history of the Church is a history of the invisible as well as of the visible Church; which latter, if disjoined from the former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall.= _Carlyle._
=The history of the world is nothing but the history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling; operating in great things as in small, ... inculcating through all of them the great moral, that it is not good for a man to be contented with evils that he can remove.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.= _Bible._
=The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent.= _Eugene Lee-Hamilton._
=The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso= 25 =we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare.= _Lowell._
=The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the ba', / Has aye some cause to smile.= _Burns._
=The honest man does that from duty which the man of honour does for the sake of character.= (?)
=The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king o' men for a' that.= _Burns._
=The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance.= _Bacon._
=The horse is prepared against the day of battle:= 30 =but safety is of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another.= _Pr._
=The host should be indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to this place, besides, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach.= _Thoreau._
=The hottest love has the coldest end.= _Socrates._
=The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses.= _Carlyle._
=The hours should be instructed by the ages,= 35 =and the ages explained by the hours.= _Emerson._
=The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.= _Goldsmith._
=The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife.= _Hitopadesa._
=The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built.= _Pr._
=The household is the home of the man as well as of the child.= _Emerson._
=The human creature needs first of all to be= 40 =educated, not that he may speak, but that he may have something weighty and valuable to say.= _Carlyle._
=The human face is my landscape.= _Sir Joshua Reynolds._
=The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.= _W. R. Alger._
=The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns, and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away.= _Luther._
=The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room.= _Fredrika Bremer._
=The human mind cannot go beyond the gift= 45 =of God.= _Wm. Blake._
=The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.= _Zimmermann._
=The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it.= _Scott._
=The human mind will not be confined to any limits.= _Goethe._
=The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.= _Dante._
=The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.= _Epes Sargent._
=The human voice has an authority and an= 5 =insinuating property which writing lacks.= _Joubert._
=The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.= _St. Paul._
=The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath.= _Bishop Hall._
=The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it.= _Carlyle._
=The Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there in a very sorry way.= _Carlyle._
=The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never= 10 =located.= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose; from which it follows that no youth can be a master.= _Goethe._
=The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=The idle always have a mind to do something.= _Vauvenargues._
=The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.= _Ward Beecher._
=The ignorant peasant without fault is greater= 15 =than the philosopher with many.= _Goldsmith._
=The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to him who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller.= _Thoreau._
=The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic, ill-informed belief.= _Carlyle._
=The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, / And fear of bad is the best foil to good.= _Quarles._
=The image of God cut in ebony=, _i.e._, the negro. _Fuller._
=The imagination, give it the least license, dives= 20 =deeper and soars higher than Nature does.= _Thoreau._
=The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like not when she works on what has actually happened; the airy forms she creates are welcome as things of their own kind; but uniting with reality she produces often nothing but monsters, and seems to me, in such cases, to fly into direct variance with reason and common-sense.= _Goethe._
=The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.= _Bible._
=The imaginative power always purifies, the want of it therefore essentially defiles.= _Ruskin._
=The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.= _Emerson._
=The importunities and perplexities of business= 25 =are softness and luxury, compared with the incessant cravings of vacancy, and the unsatisfactory expedients of idleness.= _Johnson._
=The impressions of our childhood abide with us, even in their minutest traces.= _Goethe._
=The indignation which makes verses is, properly speaking, an inverted love; the love of some right, some worth, some goodness, belonging to ourselves or others, which has been injured, and which this tempestuous feeling issues forth to defend and revenge.= _Carlyle._
=The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.= _Chapin._
=The individual loves and hatreds, which sum up existence and life, are the brood of Eros; for hatred is only love in some form, crossed and thwarted, and always in nature so much hostility, so much affection of some kind is there.= _Ed._
=The individual soul should seek for an intimate= 30 =union with the soul of the universe.= _Novalis._
=The infant / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. / And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding through thy heart of hearts?= _Carlyle._
=The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.= _Voltaire._
=The influence which we exercise over other objects depends on the influence we have over ourselves.= _Cötvös._
=The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be= 35 =to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple.= _Mather._
=The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.= _Junius._
=The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.= _Goldsmith._
=The initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature, and submission to the laws of higher being.= _Ruskin._
=The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven.= _The Koran._
=The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow.= 40 _Cowper._
=The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.= _Bacon._
=The insolence of condescension.= _Burns._
=The insolence of office.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man understanding.= _Bible._
=The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men.= _Kossuth._
=The instruction merely clever men can give us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground.= _Goethe._
=The integrity of the upright shall guide them.= _Bible._
=The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience.= _Lowell._
=The intellect of the wise is like glass; it= 5 =admits the light of heaven and reflects it.= _Hare._
=The intellectual power, through words and things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous way.= _Wordsworth._
=The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.= _Emerson._
=The intolerant man is the real pedant.= _Jean Paul._
=The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.= _Emerson._
=The inventor of a spinning-jenny is pretty sure= 10 =of his reward in his own day; but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of a true religion, is nearly as sure of the contrary.= _Carlyle._
=The invisible world is near us; or rather it is here, in us and about us; were the fleshly coil removed from our soul, the glories of the unseen were even now around us; as the ancients fabled of the spheral music.= _Carlyle._
=The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.= _Mid. N. Dream_, v. 1.
=The irreligious poet is a monster.= _Burns._
=The= _is_ =of this moment is not the explanation of the= _is_ =of the next. Except in the idea of God there is no nexus between the two.= _Ed._
=The Israelitish people never was good for= 15 =much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers, prophets have a thousand times reproachfully declared; it possesses few virtues, and most of the faults of other nations; but in cohesion, steadfastness, valour, and when all this would not serve, in obstinate toughness, it has no match.= _Goethe._
=The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once.= _Lavater._
=The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.= _Addison._
=The jest which is expected is already destroyed.= _Johnson._
=The joy of a peaceful conscience is sown in tears.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The joys of parents are secret, and so are= 20 =their griefs and fears.= _Bacon._
=The judgment is like a pair of scales, and evidences like the weights; but the will holds the balance in its hand; and even a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases, to make the lighter scale appear the heavier.= _Whately._
=The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=The judgments of the understanding are properly of force but once, and that in the strictest cases, and become inaccurate in some degree when applied to any other.= _Goethe._
=The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.= _Bible._
=The justice, / In fair round belly with good= 25 =capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances; / And so he plays his part.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The keeping of bees is like the directing of sunbeams.= _Thoreau._
=The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys.= _Emerson._
=The kind fool, of all kinds of fools, is worst.= _Sir Richard Baker._
=The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.= _Carlyle._
=The king goes as far as he may, not as far as= 30 =he would.= _Sp. Pr._
=The king, like other people, has now and then shabby errands, and must have shabby fellows to do them.= _Scott._
=The king may gang the cadger's gate=, _i.e._, may one day need his help. _Sc. Pr._
=The king protecteth the people, and they support the greatness of their sovereign. But protection is better than greatness; for the one cannot exist without the other.= _Hitopadesa._
=The king's errand may come in at the cadger's gate.= _Pr._
=The king's favour is toward a wise servant.= 35 _Bible._
=The king's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and real interest are the same.= _Junius._
=The kings of modern thought are dumb.= _Matthew Arnold._
=The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.= _Bible._
=The kingdom of God does not lie in elegance of speech or fineness of parts, but in innocence of life and good works.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The knowledge of man is an evening knowledge,= 40 ="vespertina cognitio," but that of God is a morning knowledge, "matutina cognitio."= _Emerson, from the Schoolmen._
=The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity.= _Cervantes._
=The labour we delight in physics pain.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=The labourer is worthy of his hire.= _Jesus._
=The lake's silver dulls with driving clouds.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The lamp of genius burns quicker than the= 45 =lamp of life.= _Schiller._
=The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._
=The land is mother of us all; nourishes, shelters, gladdens, lovingly enriches us all; in how many ways, from our first wakening to our last sleep on her blessed mother-bosom, does she, as with blessed mother's arms, enfold us all!= _Carlyle._
=The land, properly speaking, belongs to these two: to the Almighty God; and to all his children of men that have ever worked well on it, or that shall ever work well on it.= _Carlyle._
=The language of truth is simple.= _Euripides._
=The largest soul of any country is altogether its own.= _Ruskin._
=The last act crowns the play.= _Quarles._
=The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.= _Jean Paul._
=The last drop makes the cup run over.= _Pr._
=The last ounce breaks the camel's back.= _Pr._ 5
=The last pale rim or sickle of the moon, which had once been full, now sinking in the dark seas.= _Carlyle by the bedside of his dying mother._
=The last perfection of our faculties is that their
## activity, without ceasing to be sure and
earnest, become sport.= _Schiller._
=The last stage of human perversion is when sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the indestructible interest we take in men's doings has become a joy over their faults and misfortunes.= _Carlyle._
=The last thing that we discover in writing a
## book is to know what to put at the beginning.=
_Pascal._
=The Latin word for a flatterer= (_assentator_) =implies= 10 =no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be bought too dear.= _Steele._
=The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.= _Swift._
=The law always limits every power which it bestows.= _Hume._
=The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature.= _Vauvenargues._
=The law has no eyes, the law has no hands, the law is nothing--nothing but a piece of paper, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter.= _Macaulay._
=The law is good if a man use it lawfully.= _St._ 15 _Paul._
=The law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.= _Bible._
=The law is past depth to those that, without heed, do plunge into it.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=The law is the friend of the weak.= _Schiller._
=The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give.= _Luther._
=The law of nature is the strictest expression= 20 =of necessity.= _Moleschott._
=The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears.= _Carlyle._
=The law of the wise is a fountain of life.= _Bible._
=The law often permits what honour prohibits.= _Saurin._
=The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.= _Thoreau._
=The law's made to take care o' raskils.= _George_ 25 _Eliot._
=The laws of morality are also those of art.= _Schumann._
=The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them.= _Longfellow._
=The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting.= _Draper._
=The laws undertake to punish only overt acts.= _Montesquieu._
=The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your= 30 =estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself.= _Brougham._
=The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.= _Carlyle._
=The lean and slippered pantaloon, / With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; / His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice / Turning again towards childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The learned understand the reason of the art, the unlearned feel the pleasure.= _Quinct._
=The legacy of heroes--the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.= _Disraeli._
=The legal and proper mercy of a king of= 35 =England may remit the punishment, but ought not to stop the trial.= _Junius._
=The lenient hand of time is daily and hourly either lightening the burden or making us insensible to the weight.= _Burns._
=The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him.= _Emerson._
=The less men think the more they talk.= _Montesquieu._
=The less routine the more of life.= _A. B. Alcott._
=The less the wise man pleases himself, the= 40 =more the world esteems him.= _Gellert._
=The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.= _Molière._
=The less we have to do with our sins the better.= _Emerson._
=The lessons of adversity are not always salutary; sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.= _St. Paul._
=The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by= 45 =liberal things shall he stand.= _Bible._
=The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.= _Bible._
=The liberty of writing letters with too careless a hand is apt to betray persons into imprudence in what they write.= _Blair._
=The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.= _Jesus._
=The life of a fool is worse than death.= _Apocrypha._
=The life of a man is tormented not by things,= 50 =but by opinions of things.= _Immermann._
=The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then languid and covered, at last advancing by the tumbling over and over of its frozen blocks.= _Ruskin._
=The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness,--earnestness of infinite battle against infinite labour.= _Carlyle._
=The life of an animal, until the hour of his death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations and depressions, in unions and separations.= _Hitopadesa._
=The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish.= _Renan._
=The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern.= _Carlyle._
=The life of man is a journey; a journey that= 5 =must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.= _Goldsmith._
=The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life; his teaching was a teaching for individuals.= _Goethe._
=The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest.= _Quoted by Carlyle._
=The life which renews a man springs ever from within.= _Goethe._
=The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer.= _Emerson._
=The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.= 10 _George Eliot._
=The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus--seen plainest when all around is dark.= _Crowell._
=The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.= _Jesus._
=The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.= _St. John._
=The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs.= _Bacon._
=The light (which you refuse to take in) returns= 15 =on you, condensed into lightning, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in.= _Carlyle._
=The lightning is the shorthand of the storm, / That tells of chaos.= _Eric Mackay._
=The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul and drove away its blots, as dead hands heal eruptions of the skin.= _Jean Paul._
=The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=The lion is not so fierce as painted.= _Fuller._
=The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools= 20 =die for want of wisdom.= _Bible._
=The litigant, unlike the goose, never gets trust= (trussed), =although he may be roasted and dished.= _John Willock._
=The little done vanishes from the sight of man who looks forward to what is still to do.= _Goethe._
=The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=The little man is still a man.= _Goethe._
=The little mind will not by daily intercourse= 25 =with great minds become one inch greater; but the noble man ... will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated natures, everyday make a visible approximation to similar greatness.= _Goethe._
=The little that a just man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.= _Bible._
=The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.= _Junius._
=The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same sort of things with the meanest, only from higher grounds and by higher paths.= _Jean Paul._
=The loftiest of our race are those who have= 30 =had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies.= _Henry Giles._
=The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming.= _Schopenhauer._
=The longer life the more offence, / The more offence the greater pain, / The greater pain the less defence, / The less defence the lesser gain.= _Sir T. Wyatt._
=The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.= _Johnson._
=The longer you read the Bible the more you will like it.= _Romaine._
=The longest day soon comes to an end.= _Pr._ 35
=The longest life is scarcely longer than the shortest, if we think of the eternity that encircles both.= _Carlyle._
=The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea.= _Emerson._
=The look of a king is itself a deed.= _Jean Paul._
=The loom of Fortune weaves the fine and coarsest web.= _R. Southwell._
=The loom of life never stops; and the pattern= 40 =which was weaving when the sun went down in the evening is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.= _Ward Beecher._
=The Lord bestoweth his blessings where he findeth the vessels empty.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him.= _Bible._
=The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him
## actions are weighed.= _Bible._
=The Lord will not suffer the soul of the= 45 =righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.= _Bible._
=The loss of territory, or of a wise and virtuous servant, is a great loss, ... for servants are not easily to be found.= _Hitopadesa._
=The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.= _Bible._
=The love of country produces good manners, and good manners also love of country. The less we satisfy our particular passions, the more we leave to our general.= _Montesquieu._
=The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many.= _Washington Allston._
=The love of God is broader than the measure= 50 =of man's mind.= _F. W. Faber._
=The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters.= _Hazlitt._
=The love of money is the root of all evil.= _St. Paul._
=The love season is the carnival of egoism, and it brings the touchstone to our natures.= _George Meredith._
=The lover has more senses and finer senses than others.= _Emerson._
=The lover, / Sighing like a furnace, with a= 5 =woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.= _W. R. Alger._
=The lower has oftentimes to be with sorrow sacrificed to the higher duties of the soul.= _Ed._
=The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.= _Ward Beecher._
=The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of imagination all compact.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=The lust of fame is the last that a wise man= 10 =shakes off.= _Tac._
=The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl.= _Emerson._
=The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.= _G. H. Lewes._
=The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold.= _Grillparzer._
=The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.= _Emerson._
=The majority have no other reason for their= 15 =opinions than that they are the fashion.= _Johnson._
=The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world.= _Goethe._
=The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.= _Goldsmith._
=The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household; but he cannot make it. That must rest with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.= _Helps._
=The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both.= _Jean Paul._
=The man is only half himself, the other half= 20 =is his expression.= _Emerson._
=The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man.= _Carlyle._
=The man of consequence and fashion shall richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand; while a poor fellow labours under a sense of gratitude, which, like copper coin, though it loads the bearer, is yet of small account in the currency and commerce of the world.= _Burns._
=The man of genius can be more easily misinstructed= (_verbildet_) =and driven far more violently into false courses than a man of ordinary capability.= _Goethe._
=The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, "I wish to be alone--good-bye--farewell!"= _Thoreau._
=The man of good common-sense may, if he= 25 =pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich.= _Eustace Budgell._
=The man of intellect at the top of affairs; this is the aim of all institutions and revolutions, if they have any.= _Carlyle._
=The man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff.= _Chamfort._
=The man of wisdom is the man of years.= _Young._
=The man should make the hour, not this the man.= _Tennyson._
=The man that blushes is not quite a brute.= 30 _Young._
=The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no such man be trusted.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=The man that makes a character makes foes.= _Young._
=The man that stands by himself, the universe stands also.= _Emerson._
=The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead.= _Bible._
=The man to whom the universe does not reveal= 35 =directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others--that man will scarcely learn it out of books; which generally do little more than give our errors names.= _Goethe._
=The man truly proud thinks honours below his merit, and scorns to boast.= _Swift._
=The man= (Napoleon) =was a divine missionary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon's throat, that great doctrine, "La carrière ouverte aux talens," "The tools to him that can handle them," which is our ultimate political evangel, wherein alone can liberty lie.= _Carlyle._
=The man who can be nothing but serious or nothing but merry is but half a man.= _Leigh Hunt._
=The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys is truly blest.= _Goldsmith._
=The man who cannot be a Christian in the= 40 =place where he is, cannot be a Christian anywhere.= _Ward Beecher._
=The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.= _Menander._
=The man who cannot enjoy his natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, but must wait and hope for their recognition by others, must expect to reap only disappointment and vexation.= _Goethe._
=The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his own whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.= _Carlyle._
=The man who cannot sometimes endure his own company must have a bad heart or a deficient intellect.= (?)
=The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he president of innumerable royal societies, and carried the whole "Méchanique Céleste" and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all laboratories and observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.= _Carlyle._
=The man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.= _Ruskin._
=The man who does not learn to live while he is= 5 =getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.= _J. G. Holland._
=The man who fears not death will start at no shadows.= _Gr. Pr._
=The man who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.= _Pr._
=The man who has no enemies has no following.= _Donn Piatt._
=The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato,--the only good belonging to him is underground.= _Sir Thomas Overbury._
=The man who in this world can keep the whiteness= 10 =of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.= _Alex. Smith._
=The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe.= _Goethe._
=The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.= _Amiel._
=The man who invented "Ifs" and "Buts" must have first made gold out of straw choppings.= _G. A. Bürger._
=The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.= _Cic._
=The man who is born with a talent which he= 15 =is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.= _Goethe._
=The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees.= _Whately._
=The man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.= _Goldsmith._
=The man who lives by hope will die by despair.= _It. Pr._
=The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.= _H. Martyn._
=The man who small things scorns will next, /= 20 =By things still smaller be perplexed.= _Goethe._
=The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, "The man who lives by hope will die by despair."= _Addison._
=The man who works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities.= _Emerson._
=The man who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.= _Schopenhauer._
=The man whom grown-up people love, children love still more.= _Jean Paul._
=The manifestation of one's own superiority= 25 =may render the purchase too dear, by being bought at the terrible price of our neighbour's dislike.= _Lover._
=The manners of the ill-mannered are never so odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they are to their own nearest kindred.= _P. G. Hamerton._
=The many still must labour for the one! It is Nature's doom.= _Byron._
=The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.= _Southey._
=The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has reached even the devil.= _Goethe._
=The march of the human mind is slow.= _Burke._ 30
=The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon.= _Emerson._
=The marks of attachment, even to a fault, are an accumulation of virtues.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mass of men consulted at hustings, upon any high matter whatsoever, is as ugly an exhibition of human study as the world sees.= _Carlyle._
=The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a man.= _Henry Mackenzie._
=The master-spirit who can rule the storm is= 35 =great; but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it.= _E. L. Magoon._
=The mastiff is quiet while curs are yelping.= _Pr._
=The material wealth of a country is the portion of its possessions which feeds and educates good men and women in it.= _Ruskin._
=The May of our life blooms once, and not again.= _Schiller._
=The mean of true valour lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.= _Cervantes._
=The means that Heaven yields must be embraced,= 40 =/ And not neglected.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.= _Emerson._
=The mechanical occupations of man, the watching any object, as it were, coming into existence by manual labour, is a very pleasant way of passing one's time, but our own activity is at the moment nil. It is almost the same as with smoking tobacco.= _Goethe._
=The meditative heart / Attends the warning of each day and hour, / And practises in secret every virtue.= _Goethe._
=The meek shall inherit the earth.= _Jesus._
=The memory of absent friends becomes dimmed, although not effaced by time. The distractions of our life, acquaintance with fresh objects, in short, every change in our condition, works upon our hearts as dust and smoke upon a painting, making the finely drawn lines quite imperceptible, whilst one does not know how it happens.= _Goethe._
=The memory of the just is blessed.= _Bible._
=The men I am afraid of are the men who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything.= _Bp. Shipley._
=The merchant who was at first busy in acquiring money ceases to grow richer from the time when he makes it his business only to count it.= _Johnson._
=The merciful shall obtain mercy.= _Jesus._ 5
=The mere existence and necessity of a philosophy is an evil.= _Carlyle._
=The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.= _Carlyle._
=The meteor flag of England, / Shall yet terrific burn, / Till danger's troubled night depart, / And the star of peace return.= _Campbell._
=The milder virtues subsist only in co-existence= 10 =with the severer, and the heart which pronounces a blessing on the poor and the merciful utters with the same breath sentence of excommunication against all who are proud-spirited and cruel-hearted.= _Ed._
=The mill will never grind with the water that is past.= _Pr._
=The mind becomes bankrupt under too large obligations. All additional benefits lessen every hope of future returns, and bar up every avenue that leads to tenderness.= _Goldsmith._
=The mind can make / Substance, and people planets of its own / With beings brighter than have been, and give / A breath to forms that can outlive all flesh.= _Byron._
=The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.= _Joubert._
=The mind content both crown and kingdom is.= 15 _Robert Greene._
=The mind goes antagonising on, and never prospers but by fits.= _Emerson._
=The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes, though they end as they begin by airy contemplation.= _Johnson._
=The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.= _Goldsmith._
=The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.= _Milton._
=The mind must not yield to the body.= _Goethe._ 20
=The mind of a fool is empty; and everything is empty where there is poverty.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mind of a good man doth not alter, even when he is in distress; the waters of the ocean are not to be heated by a torch of straw.= _Hitopadesa._
=The mind of man is no inert receptacle of knowledge, but absorbs and incorporates into its own constitution the ideas which it receives.= _H. Lecky._
=The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.= _Pascal._
=The mind profits by the wrecks of every= 25 =passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The mind that made the world is not one mind, but= _the_ =mind.= _Emerson._
=The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more the stronger light there is shed upon them.= _Moore._
=The mind's the standard of the man.= _Watts._
=The miracles which Christ and His disciples wrought were the scaffolding, not the building. The scaffolding is removed as soon as the building is finished.= _Lessing._
=The miser is as much in want of that which he= 30 =has as of that which he has not.= _Pub. Syr._
=The miser is niggardly in death; two glances he casts on his coffin and a thousand with dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures.= _Gellert._
=The miserable have no other medicine, / But only hope.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.= _Johnson._
=The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.= _Goethe._
=The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to= 35 =be analysed.= _Emerson._
=The mob has many heads, but no brains.= _Pr._
=The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.= _Colton._
=The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.= _Jane Porter._
=(The mob is) the scum that rises uppermost when the nation boils.= _Dryden._
=The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the= 40 =careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens.= _Goldsmith._
=The moment an ill can be patiently borne, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.= _Ward Beecher._
=The moment must be pregnant and sufficient to itself if it is to become a worthy segment of time and eternity.= _Goethe._
=The moment there is a bargain over the pottage the family relation is dissolved.= _Ruskin._
=The moment which is the cradle of the future is also the grave of the past.= _Grillparzer._
=The moon doth not withhold the light even from the cottage of a Chandala= (outcast). _Hitopadesa._
=The moon that shone in Paradise.= _Hans Andersen._
=The moral difference between a man and a beast is, that the one acts primarily for use, and the other for pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=The morality of a king is not to be measured= 5 =by vulgar rules. There are faults which do him honour, and virtues that disgrace him.= _Junius._
=The morality of girls is custom, not principle.= _Jean Paul._
=The morality of some people is in remnants--never enough to make a coat.= _Joubert._
=The more a man has in himself the less he will want from other people--the less, indeed, other people can be to him.= _Schopenhauer._
=The more a man lives, the more he suffers.= _Amiel._
=The more angels the more room.= _Swedenborg._ 10
=The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economise his time.= _Judge Hale._
=The more bustling the streets become, the more quietly one moves.= _Goethe._
=The more fair and crystal is the sky, / The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.= _Rich. II._, i. 1.
=The more generally persons are pleasing, the less profoundly do they please.= _H. Beyle._
=The more haste, the worse speed.= _Pr._ 15
=The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.= _Lavater._
=The more laws you accept, the fewer penalties you will have to endure, and the fewer punishments to enforce.= _Ruskin._
=The more men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge in excesses of any kind.= _Hume._
=The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon.= _Spurgeon._
=The more powerful the obstacle, the more= 20 =glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue.= _Molière._
=The more profound the thought, the more burdensome.= _Emerson._
=The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is.= _Anon._
=The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.= _Jean Paul._
=The more sinful a man feels himself, the more Christian he is.= _Novalis._
=The more the soul admires, the more it is= 25 =exalted.= _Mme. de Krudener._
=The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods.= _Goethe._
=The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.= _Hazlitt._
=The more we have read, the more we have learned, the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing.= _Voltaire._
=The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in a sandy desert.= _Coleridge._
=The more we work, the more we shall be= 30 =trodden down.= _Fr. Peasant Pr._
=The more weakness, the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie.= _Jean Paul._
=The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are.= _Disraeli._
=The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.= _Bible._
=The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.= _Emerson._
=The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a= 35 =clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.= _Bovee._
=The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness.= _Montaigne._
=The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.= _Rivarol._
=The most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.= _Tuckerman._
=The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation.= _Goethe._
=The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.= 40 _Thales._
=The most elevated sensation of music arises from a confused perception of ideal or visionary beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently perceivable to fire the imagination, but not clear enough to become an object of knowledge.= _James Usher._
=The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not preach a gospel, but keep describing how it should and might be preached; to awaken the sacred fire of faith, as by a sacred contagion, is not their endeavour, but, at most, to describe how faith shows and acts, and scientifically distinguish true faith from false.= _Carlyle in_ 1831.
=The most enthusiastic mystics were women.= _Jean Paul._
=The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness.= _Schopenhauer._
=The most finished man of the world is he who= 45 =is never irresolute and never in a hurry.= _Schopenhauer._
=The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life.= _Goethe._
=The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.= _Hazlitt._
=The most important moment in man's life is certainly not the last.= _Jean Paul._
=The most important part of education is right= 50 =training in the nursery.= _Plato._
=The most important period in the life of an individual is that of his development. Later on, commences his conflict with the world, and this is of interest only so far as anything grows out of it.= _Goethe._
=The most important thing is to learn to rule one's self.= _Goethe._
=The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.= _Goethe._
=The most objectionable people are the quibbling investigators and the crotchety theorists; their endeavours are petty and complicated, their hypotheses abstruse and strange.= _Goethe._
=The most part of all the misery and mischief,= 5 =of all that is denominated evil, in the world, arises from the face that men are too remiss to get a proper knowledge of their aims, and when they do know them, to work intensely in attaining them.= _Goethe._
=The most significant feature in the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a great man.= _Carlyle._
=The most sorrowful occurrence often, through the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable turn for our happiness; the succession of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined like sleep and waking, neither without the other, and one for the sake of the other.= _Goethe._
=The most unhappy and frail of all creatures is man, and yet he is the proudest.= _Montaigne._
=The most universal quality is diversity.= _Montaigne._
=The most virtuous of all men is he that contents= 10 =himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.= _Plato._
=The mother-grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.= _Ward Beecher._
=The mother of the useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.= _Schopenhauer._
=The mother's heart is always with her children.= _Pr._
=The mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.= _George Eliot._
=The motto of chivalry is also the motto of= 15 =wisdom; to serve all and love but one.= _Balzac._
=The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.= _Bible._
=The movement of sound, such as will reach the soul for the education of it in virtue, we call Music.= _Plato._
=The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great, that everything must soon be reduced to extracts.= _Voltaire._
=The multiplying villanies of natures / Do swarm upon him.= _Macb._, i. 2.
=The multitude have no habit of self-reliance= 20 =or original action.= _Emerson._
=The multitude is always in the wrong.= _Earl of Roscommon._
=The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.= _Cicero._
=The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain.= _Mallet._
=The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny.= _Pascal._
=The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us= 25 =in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances.= _Novalis._
=The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more.= _Wordsworth._
=The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.= _Chapin._
=The mystery of a person is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.= _Carlyle._
=The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: democracy is virtually there.= _Carlyle._
=The nation is worth nothing which does not= 30 =joyfully stake its all on its honour.= _Schiller._
=The native land of the poet's poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein is he like the eagle.= _Goethe._
=The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.= _Washington Irving._
=The natural qualities pass over all others and mount upon the head.= _Hitopadesa._
=The near explains the far.= _Emerson._
=The nearer the church the farther from God.= _Pr._ 35
=The nearer we approach the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions.= _Burke._
=The necessities of my heart always give the cold philosophisings the lie.= _Burns._
=The necessities of things are sterner stuff than the hopes of men.= _Disraeli._
=The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.= _S. Lover._
=The negation of will and desire is the only= 40 =road to deliverance.= _Schopenhauer._
=The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders--these are the masters of victory.= _Burke._
=The nerves, they are the man.= _Cabanis._
=The never-absent mop in one hand, and yet no effects of it visible anywhere.= _Thoreau._
=The new man is always in a new time, under new conditions; his course is the fac-simile of no prior one, but is by its nature original.= _Carlyle._
=The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a= 45 =battle won.= _Wellington._
=The night cometh, when no man can work.= _Jesus._
=The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.= _St. Paul._
=The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night.= _Emerson._
=The night is long that never finds the day.= _Macb._, iv. 2.
=The night shows stars and women in a better light.= _Byron._
=The nobility of life is work. We live in a working world. The lazy and idle man does not count in the plan of campaign. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Let that text be enough.= _Prof. Blackie, to young men._
=The noble character at certain moments may resign himself to his emotions; the well-bred, never.= _Goethe._
=The noble ones who have lived among us have not left us; they only truly came to us when they departed, and they were then first kissed by us into immortality.= _Ed._
=The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the= 5 =slower it is in attaining maturity.= _Schopenhauer._
=The nobler the virtue is, the more eager and generous resolution do thou express of attaining to it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The noblest charms of music, though real and affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be collected into a distinct idea. Harmony is always understood by the crowd, and almost always mistaken by musicians.= _James Usher._
=The noblest mind the best contentment hath.= _Spenser._
=The noblest vengeance is to forgive.= _Pr._
=The noblest works and foundations have proceeded= 10 =from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.= _Bacon._
=The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.= _Bible._
=The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy Land, / And beyond is the bosom of God.= _Lord Lytton._
=The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake.= _Fris. Pr._
=The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls.= _Carlyle._
=The object of all true policy and true economy= 15 =is, the utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground.= _Ruskin._
=The object of art is to crystallise emotion into thought and then to fix it in form.= _Delsarte._
=The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.= _Sydney Smith._
=The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written.= _John Morley._
=The object of the poet is, and must be, to "instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing this man and that man; only by pleasing man, by speaking to the pure nature of man, can any real "instruction," in this sense, be conveyed.= _Carlyle._
=The object of the politician is expediency,= 20 =and his duty is to adapt his measures to the often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating conception of the nation. The object, on the other hand, of the philosopher is truth, and his duty is to push every principle which he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences, regardless of the results that may follow.= _H. Lecky._
=The object of true religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply in the soul.= _Leibnitz._
=The obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness.= _Paley._
=The obscure is what transcends us, and what imposes itself upon us by transcending us.= _Renan._
=The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, / The stormy passion of its mighty heart.= _L. C. Moulton._
=The ocean may have bounds.= _Hitopadesa._ 25
=The offender never pardons.= _George Herbert._
=The old fox is caught at last.= _Pr._
=The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but the great blue dome that hangs over all is better than any Cologne one.= _Carlyle._
=The old never dies till this happen, till all the soul of good that was in it get itself transfused into the practical new.= _Carlyle._
=The old order changeth, yielding place to= 30 =new, / And God fulfils himself in many ways, / Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.= _Tennyson._
=The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while among us prose is invariably written for the eye alone.= _Niebuhr._
=The older we get the more we must limit ourselves, if we wish to be active.= _Goethe._
=The oldest, and indeed only true, order of nobility known under the stars, is that of just men and sons of God, in opposition to unjust men and sons of Belial, which latter indeed are second oldest, and yet a very unvenerable order.= _Carlyle._
=The oldest in years is not always the most experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best manners.= _Bodenstedt._
=The one enemy we have in this universe is= 35 =stupidity, darkness of mind; of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source.= _Carlyle._
=The one essential point= (in regard to a wrong) =is to know that it is wrong; how to get out of it you can decide afterwards at your leisure.= _Ruskin._
=The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.= _Arist._
=The one intolerable sort of slavery, over which the very gods weep, is the slavery of the strong to the weak; of the great and noble-minded to the small and mean; the slavery of wisdom to folly.= _Carlyle._
=The one prudence in life is concentration.= _Emerson._
=The one thing of value in the world is the= 40 =active soul.= _Emerson._
=The one unhappiness of a man is that he cannot work, that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled.= _Carlyle._
=The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.= _Mrs. Jamieson._
=The only disadvantage of an honest heart is its credulity.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=The only evolution of any really human interest, and worthy of any human regard, is the evolution that springs from resolution and the birth of freedom in the self-conscious soul.= _Ed._
=The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.= _George Eliot._
=The only faith that wears well, and holds its colour in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience.= _Lowell._
=The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.= _Locke._
=The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of this, or impede their efforts to obtain it.= _J. S. Mill._
=The only genuine Romance for grown persons= 5 =is Reality.= _Carlyle._
=The only gift is a portion of thyself.= _Emerson._
=The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work done.= _Carlyle._
=The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order.= _Burke._
=The only means of overcoming adversities is a fresh activity.= _Goethe._
=The only medicine which does women more= 10 =good than harm is dress.= _Jean Paul._
=The only ornament of old age is virtue.= _Amyot._
=The only poetry is history, could we tell it aright.= _Carlyle._
=The only point now is what a man weighs in the scale of humanity; all the rest is nought. A coat with a star, and a chariot with six horses, at all events, imposes on the rudest multitude only, and scarcely that.= _Goethe._
=The only progress which is really effective depends, not upon the bounty of Nature, but upon the energy of man.= _Buckle._
=The only satisfaction of the will is that it= 15 =encounters with no resistance.= _Schopenhauer._
=The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals.= _J. S. Mill._
=The only serious and formidable thing in Nature is will.= _Emerson._
=The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.= _Emerson._
=The only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions.= _Degerando._
=The only substance properly so called is the= 20 =soul.= _Amiel._
=The only teller of news is the poet.= _Emerson._
=The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.= _Emerson._
=The only true principle for humanity is justice.= _Amiel._
=The only true source of politeness is consideration.= _Simms._
=The only victory over love is flight.= _Napoleon._ 25
=The only way to have a friend is to be one.= _Emerson._
=The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones.= _Ruskin._
=The opinions of men are as many and as different as their persons; the greatest diligence and most prudent conduct can never please them all.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year.= _Voltaire._
=The ordinary man places life's happiness in= 30 =things external to him; his centre of gravity is not in himself.= _Schopenhauer._
=The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.= _Emerson._
=The outer passes away; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.= _Carlyle._
=The over-curious are not over-wise.= _Massinger._
=The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.= _Pr._
=The owl sees the sunshine and winks in its= 35 =nest.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=The ox lies still while the geese are hissing.= _Pr._
=The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison with that of repentance; for the one stands in presence of the vast open future, whilst the other has the irrevocable past closed behind it.= _Schopenhauer._
=The pain that any one actually feels is still of all others the worst.= _Locke._
=The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.= _Goldsmith._
=The pains of power are real, its pleasures are= 40 =imaginary.= _Colton._
=The painful warrior famousèd for fight, / After a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the books of honour razèd quite, / And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.= _Shakespeare._
=The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain.= _Ruskin._
=The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant.= _Brougham._
=The parcel of books, if they are well chosen, ... awakens within us the diviner mind, and rouses us to a consciousness of what is best in others and ourselves.= _John Morley._
=The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit= 45 =conferred, put the offender under an obligation; and thus direct advantage at once accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head.= _Goethe._
=The particular is the universal seen under special limitations.= _Goethe._
=The passions are only exaggerated vices or virtues.= _Goethe._
=The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade.= _La Roche._
=The passions, by grace of the supernal and also of the infernal powers (for both have a hand in it), can never fail us.= _Carlyle._
=The passions may be likened to blood horses,= 50 =that need training and the curb only to enable them when they carry to achieve most glorious triumphs.= _Simms._
=The passions of mankind are partly protective,
## partly beneficent, like the chaff and
grain of the corn; but none without their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend.= _Ruskin._
=The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies.= _Johnson._
=The past alone is eternal and unchangeable like death, and yet at the same time warm and joy-giving like life.= _W. von Humboldt._
=The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's.= _Jean Paul._
=The past at least is secure.= _Daniel Webster._
=The past is all holy to us; the dead are all= 5 =holy; even they that were base and wicked when alive.= _Carlyle._
=The past is an unfathomable depth, / Beyond the span of thought; 'tis an elapse / Which hath no mensuration, but hath been / For ever and for ever.= _H. Kirke White._
=The past is to us a book sealed with seven seals=, _i.e._, which no one need hope fully to open. _Goethe._
=The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze.= _Blair._
=The path of nature is indeed a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, they do not find themselves cramped therein.= _Lowell._
=The path of sorrow, and that path alone, /= 10 =Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.= _Cowper._
=The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.= _Bible._
=The path of things is silent.= _Emerson._
=The paths of glory lead but to the grave.= _Gray._
=The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances.= _Gibbon._
=The peace of heaven is theirs who lift their= 15 =swords / In such a just and charitable war.= _King John_, ii. 1.
=The peacemakers shall be called the children of God.= _Jesus._
=The peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means, are for ever unhappy.= _Hitopadesa._
=The pen is mightier than the sword.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.= _Bacon._
=The people have the right to murmur, but they= 20 =have also the right to be violent, and their silence is the lesson of kings.= _Jean de Beauvais._
=The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.= _Disraeli._
=The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.= _Hitopadesa._
=The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people.= _Heine._
=The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul only when all self-seeking is abandoned.= _John Burroughs._
=The perfection of art is to conceal art.= _Quinct._ 25
=The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.= _Burke._
=The perfection of spiritual virtue lies in being always all there, a whole man present in every movement and moment.= _Ed._
=The period of faith must alternate with the period of denial; the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations must be followed by, and again follow, the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=The persistent aspirations of the human race are to society what the compass is to the ship. It sees not the shore, but it guides to it.= _Lamartine._
=The person who in company should pretend= 30 =to be wiser than others, I am apt to regard as illiterate and ill-bred.= _Goldsmith._
=The person who is contented to be often obliged ought not to be obliged at all.= _Goldsmith._
=The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who were found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose.= _Goldsmith._
=The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions.= _Emerson._
=The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.= _Carlyle._
=The philosopher must station himself in the= 35 =middle.= _Goethe._
=The philosophy of grumbling is great, but not intricate ... the proof that there is something wrong, and that a sentient human being is aware of it.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The philosophy of one century is the common-sense of the next.= _Ward Beecher._
=The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul.= _Emerson._
=The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, / And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive and from her ashes rise.= _Cervantes._
=The pillow is a dumb sibyl.= _Gracian._ 40
=The pilot of the Galilean lake; / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / The golden opes, the iron shuts amain.= _Milton._
=The pious and just honouring of ourselves may be thought the radical moisture and fountain-head from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.= _Milton._
=The pious have always a more intimate connection with each other than the wicked, though externally the relationship may not always prosper as well.= _Goethe._
=The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods; and by men honoured and worshipped as divinities, when once they have by death stripped off for ever their week-day garments.= _Ed. after Ovid._
=The pitcher goes so often to the water that it= 45 =comes home broken at last.= _Pr._
=The place once trodden by a good man is hallowed. After a hundred years his word and actions ring in the ears of his descendants.= _Goethe._
=The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear.= _Lord Halifax._
=The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her, has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.= _Colton._
=The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.= _Ruskin._
=The pleasure of despising, at all times and in itself a dangerous luxury, is much safer after the toil of examining than before it.= _Carlyle._
=The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing.= _Le Sage._
=The pleasure-seeker is not the pleasure-finder;= 5 =those are the happiest men who think least about happiness.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The pleasure we feel in criticising robs us of that of being deeply moved by very beautiful things.= _La Bruyère._
=The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it, and it is full only as the obedience is entire.= _Theodore T. Murger._
=The pleasure which strikes the soul must be derived from the beauty and congruity it sees or conceives in those things which the sight or imagination lay before it.= _Cervantes._
=The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.= _Mme. de Lambert._
=The plenty of the poorest place is too great;= 10 =the harvest cannot be gathered.= _Emerson._
=The poet bestrides the clouds, the wise man looks up at them.= _Arliss._
=The poet can never have far to seek for a subject; for him the ideal world is not remote from the actual, but under it and within it; and he is a poet precisely because he can discern it there.= _Carlyle._
=The poet must believe in his poetry. The fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere.= _Emerson._
=The poet must find all within himself while he is left in the lurch by all without.= _Goethe._
=The poet must live wholly for himself, wholly= 15 =in the objects that delight him.= _Goethe._
=The poet should seize the particular, and he should, if there is anything sound in it, thus represent the universal.= _Goethe._
=The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them.= _Holmes._
=The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, / And, as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame.= _Lowell._
=The poetry of the ancients was that of possession,= 20 =ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation.= _Schlegel._
=The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have.= _John Morley._
=The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself.= _Nathaniel Lee._
=The poor are only they who feel poor.= _Emerson._
=The poor is hated even of his own neighbour.= _Bible._
=The poor man's budget is full of schemes.= 25 _Pr._
=The poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, / Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.= _Macb._, iv. 2.
=The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always.= _Jesus._
=The poorer life or the rich one are but the larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters in which we write the apophthegms and golden sayings of life.= _Carlyle._
=The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future.= _Carlyle._
=The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes,= 30 =and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all.= _Carlyle._
=The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter! all his force dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement.= _Chatham._
=The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were.= _Quarles._
=The popular man stands on our own level, or a hairsbreadth higher; and shows us a truth we can see without shifting our present intellectual position. The original man stands above us, and wishes to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level.= _Carlyle._
=The population of the world is a conditional population; not the best, but the best that could live now.= _Emerson._
=The post of honour is the post of difficulty,= 35 =the post of danger,--of death, if difficulty be not overcome.= _Carlyle._
=The power of every great people, as of every living tree, depends on its not effacing, but confirming and concluding the labours of its ancestors.= _Ruskin._
=The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.= _Hare._
=The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit.= (?)
=The power of observing life is rare, that of drawing lessons from it rarer, and that of condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence is rarest of all.= _John Morley._
=The power, whether of painter or poet, to describe= 40 =rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well, but either from actual sight or sight of faith.= _Ruskin._
=The practice of faith and obedience to some of our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which we learn the higher obedience to heaven; and it is not only needful to the prosperity of all noble united action, but essential to the happiness of all noble living spirits.= _Ruskin._
=The practice of submission to the authority of one whom one recognises as greater than one's self outweighs the chance of occasional mistake.= _Froude._
=The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.= _Gurnall._
=The precepts of philosophy effect not the least= 5 =benefit to one confirmed in fear.= _Hitopadesa._
=The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.= _Bible._
=The presence of the Eternal is a presence that articulates and imparts itself in time.= _Ed._
=The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched.= _Goethe._
=The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future.= _Carlyle._
=The present is the only reality and the only= 10 =certainty.= _Schopenhauer._
=The present moment is a potent divinity.= _Goethe._
=The present moment is our ain, / The neist we never saw.= _Burns._
=The present time is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden.= _Longfellow._
=The present time, youngest born of eternity, child and heir of all the past times with their good and evil, and parent of all the future, is ever a new era to the thinking man.= _Carlyle._
=The press beginneth to be an oppression of the= 15 =land.= _Fuller._
=The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper.= _Bryant._
=The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.= _Colton._
=The price of wisdom is above rubies.= _Bible._
=The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers.= _Ger. Pr._
=The primal condition of virtue is that it shall= 20 =not know of, or believe in, any blessed islands till it find them, it may be, in due time.= _Ruskin._
=The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.= _Wordsworth._
=The primary vocation of man is a life of activity.= _Goethe._
=The prince as actual ruler is always limited= (_beschränkt_) =by public opinion; but what is there to limit public opinion if it holds sovereign sway?= _Stahl._
=The principal part of faith is patience.= _George Macdonald._
=The principal point of greatness in any state= 25 =is to have a race of military men.= _Bacon._
=The prisoner is troubled that he cannot go whither he would, and he that is at large is troubled that he does not know whither to go.= _L'Estrange._
=The prisoner's allowance is bread and water, but I had only the latter.= _Jean Paul, in his days of poverty._
=The privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like.= _Marmontel._
=The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists= 30 =conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute.= _Plato._
=The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.= _La Bruyère._
=The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced.= _Johnson._
=The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty.= _Spurgeon._
=The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present.= _Macchiavelli._
=The Promised Land is the land where one is= 35 =not.= _Amiel._
=The promises of God are yea and amen.= _Hammond._
=The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course.= _Michael Angelo._
=The promissory lies of great men are known by shouldering, hugging, squeezing, smiling, and bowing.= _Arbuthnott._
=The proper confidant of a girl is her father. What she is not inclined to tell her father should be told to no one, and, in nine cases out of ten, not thought of by herself.= _Ruskin._
=The proper Epic of this world is no longer= 40 ="Arms and the man," much less "Shirt frills and the man;" no, it is now "Tools and the man;" that, henceforth to all time is now our Epic.= _Carlyle._
=The proper power of faith is to trust= _without_ =evidence, not= _with_ =evidence.= _Ruskin._
=The proper reward of the good workman is to be "chosen."= _Ruskin._
=The proper study of mankind is man.= _Pope._
=The proper task of literature lies in the domain of belief.= _Carlyle._
=The property of a man consists in= (_a_) =good= 45 =things=, (_b_) =goods which he has honestly got, and= (_c_) =goods he can skilfully use.= _Ruskin._
=The prophet is the revealer of what we are to do; the poet, of what we are to love. The former too has an eye on what we are to love; how else shall he know what we are to do?= _Carlyle._
=The prosperity of our neighbours in the end is our own, and the poverty of our neighbours becomes also in the end our own.= _Ruskin._
=The protection of God cannot without sacrilege be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.= _Kossuth._
=The proud man often is the mean.= _Tennyson._
=The proudest boast of the most aspiring philosopher= 50 =is no more than that he provides his little playfellows the greatest pastime with the greatest innocence.= _Goldsmith._
=The proverb says of the Genoese, that they have a sea without fish, lands without trees, and men without faith.= _Addison._
=The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilisation.= _J. G. Holland._
=The providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us, the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others.= _Bolingbroke._
=The prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.= _Fielding._
=The prudent man may direct a state, but it= 5 =is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The prudent part is to propose remedies for the present evils, and provisions against future events.= (?)
=The public have neither shame nor gratitude.= _Hazlitt._
=The public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating that motion is impossible.= _Carlyle._
=The public is a personality that knows everything and can do nothing.= (?)
=The public is the majority of a society.= _Johnson._ 10
=The public sense is in advance of private practice.= _Chapin._
=The public? The public is just a great baby.= _Dr. Chalmers._
=The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training.= _Horace Mann._
=The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.= _Voltaire._
=The punishment which the wise suffer, who= 15 =refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.= _Emerson._
=The pure in heart shall see God.= _Jesus._
=The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men.= _Jean Paul._
=The purest treasure mortal times afford / Is spotless reputation; that away, / Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.= _Rich. II._, i. 1.
=The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social.= _Carlyle._
=The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten= 20 =the names of their founders.= _Fuller._
=The quality of mercy is not strain'd; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown.= _Mer. of Venice_, iv. 1.
=The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner.= _Oxenstiern._
=The quantity of sorrow a man has, does it not mean withal the quantity of sympathy he has, the quantity of faculty and victory he shall have? Our sorrow is the inverted image of our nobleness.= _Carlyle._
=The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.= 1 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=The question is not at what door of fortune's= 25 =palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us?= _Burns._
=The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best.= _Montaigne._
=The question is this: is man an ape or angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels.= _Disraeli at a Church Conference in Oxford, Bp. Wilberforce in the chair._
=The question of education is for the modern world a question of life or death, a question on which depends the future.= _Renan._
=The question of questions (for men and nations) is--not how far they are from heaven, but whether they are going to it. (So in art) it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that you have to estimate, not the skill or the rudeness, but the tendency.= _Ruskin._
=The question of the purpose of things is completely= 30 =unscientific.= _Goethe._
=The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.= _Bible._
=The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.= _Scott._
=The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the shepherd's delight.= _Pr._
=The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=The ransom of a man's life are his riches.= 35 _Bible._
=The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen.= _Emerson._
=The readiness is all.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.= _Ward Beecher._
=The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers.= _G. H. Lewes._
=The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does= 40 =any good to the era, is the rat-catcher.= _Carlyle._
=The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible.= _Sydney Smith._
=The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.= _Macaulay._
=The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction.= _Ruskin._
=The really strong may bend, and be as strong as ever; it is the unsound that has only the seeming of strength, which breaks at last when it resists too long.= _Lever._
=The reason that there is such a general outcry= 45 =against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones.= _Steele._
=The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them.= _Montaigne._
=The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.= _Swift._
=The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms.= _F. Schlegel._
=The reason why we sometimes see that men of the greatest capacities are not rich, is either because they despise wealth in comparison of something else, or, at least, are not content to be getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, and at the same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications of life.= _Eustace Budgell._
=The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning.= _Carlyle._
=The regeneration of society is the regeneration= 5 =of the individual by education.= _Laboulaye._
=The regions of eternal happiness are provided for those women who love their husbands the same in a wilderness as in a city; be he a saint, or be he sinner.= _Hitopadesa._
=The relation of the taught to their teacher, of the loyal subject to his guiding king, is, under one shape or another, the vital element in human society.= _Carlyle._
=The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will.= _Landor._
=The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials, virtues, and devotions, is very practicable.= _Watts._
=The religion of one age is the literary entertainment= 10 =of the next.= _Emerson._
=The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.= _Emerson._
=The religions we call false were once true. They also were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times.= _Emerson._
=The religious passion is nearly always vividest where the art is weakest; and the technical skill only reaches its deliberate splendour when the ecstasy which gave it birth has passed away for ever.= _Ruskin._
=The reputation of a man is like his shadow--gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.= _Talleyrand._
=The reputation of a woman is as a crystal= 15 =mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it.= _Cervantes._
=The reputation of virtuous actions past, if not kept up with an access and fresh supply of new ones, is lost and soon forgotten.= _Denham._
=The resentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless insect to sting; it may get him crushed, but cannot defend him.= _Goldsmith._
=The rest is silence.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=The result= (of things) =is obvious, but the intention is never clear.= _Rückert._
=The revelation of thought takes man out of= 20 =servitude into freedom.= _Emerson._
=The reverence of a man's self is, next religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices.= _Bacon._
=The revolutionary outbreaks of the lower classes are the consequence of the injustice of the higher classes.= _Goethe._
=The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.= _George Eliot._
=The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.= _Bible._
=The rich are always advising the poor; but= 25 =the poor seldom venture to return the compliment.= _Helps._
=The rich are invited to marry by that fortune which they do not want, and the poor have no inducement but that beauty which they do not feel.= _Goldsmith._
=The rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, is the cry throughout the whole civilised world.= _Sillar._
=The rich devour the poor, the devil the rich, and so both are devoured.= _Dutch Pr._
=The rich man does not feel his wealth with any vividness.= _Goethe._
=The rich man is seldom in his own halls, because= 30 =it bores him to be there, and still he returns thither, because he is no better off outside.= _Schopenhauer._
=The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.= _Bible._
=The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.= _Bible._
=The richest minds need not large libraries.= _A. B. Alcott._
=The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.= _Emerson._
=The ridge once gained, the path so hard of= 35 =late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate= (to virtue). _Hesiod._
=The right divine of kings to govern wrong.= _Quoted by Pope._
=The right ear, that is fill'd with dust, / Hears little of the false or just.= _Tennyson._
=The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.= _Sheridan._
=The right law of education is that you take the most pains with the best material. Never waste pains on bad ground, but spare no labour on the good, or on what has in it the capacity of good.= _Ruskin._
=The right man in the right place.= _A. H._ 40 _Layard in the House of Commons._
=The righteous hath hope in his death.= _Bible._
=The righteous man falls oft, / Yet falls but soft; / There may be dirt to mire him, but no stones / To crush his bones.= _Quarles._
=The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them.= _Bible._
=The "rights" of men in any form are not worth discussing; the grand point is the "mights" of men--what portion of their "rights" they have a chance of getting sorted out and realised in this confused world.= _Carlyle._
=The riotous tumult of a laugh is the mob-law= 45 =of the features, and propriety the magistrate who reads the Riot Act.= _Holmes._
=The risings and sinkings of human affairs are like those of a ball which is thrown by the hand.= _Hitopadesa._
=The river has its cataract, / And yet the waters down below / Soon gather from the foam, compact, / And, just like those above it, flow.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The river remains troubled that has not gone through a lake; the heart is impure that has not gone through a sorrow.= _Rückert._
=The road's afore you, the sky's aboon you.= _Pr._
=The road to resolution lies by doubt.= _Quarles._
=The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.= _Pr._
=The road which runs without a bend / Is that= 5 =which hath a proper end.= _Goethe._
=The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested.= _Ruskin._
=The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than to receive, their salvation; and the reason that preaching is so commonly ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to work for God than to behold God working for them.= _Ruskin._
=The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=The rough material of fine writing is certainly= 10 =the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe that the workmanship is the united effort of pains, attention, and repeated trial.= _Burns._
=The rough seas that spare not any man.= _Pericles_, ii. 1.
=The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.= _Goethe._
=The rule of the footway is clear as the light, / And none can its reason withstand; / On each side of the way you must keep to the right, / And leave those you meet the left hand.= _Saying._
=The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The ruling passion, conquers reason still.= _Pope._
=The running waves of eager life end on the= 15 =motionless fixed strand of death.= _Alfred Austin._
=The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.= _Jesus._
=The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, / Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers heaven.= _Waller._
=The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination.= _Bible._
=The saddest external condition of affairs among men, is but evidence of a still sadder internal one.= _Carlyle._
=The safest and purest joys of human life rebuke= 20 =the violence of its passions; they are obtainable without anxiety and memorable without regret.= _Ruskin._
=The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=The safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on.= _Albert Smith, on tears._
=The salve of reformation they mightily call for, but where and what the sores are which need it, as they wot full little, so they think not greatly material to search.= _Hooker._
=The same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.= _Charron._
=The Satanic school.= _Southey._ 25
="The savans and the asses in the middle."= _Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge in Egypt._
=The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable.= _Chesterfield._
=The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.= _Addison._
=The schoolmaster is abroad.= _Brougham._
=The sea belongs to eternity, and not time,= 30 =and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever and ever.= _Holmes._
=The sea complains upon a thousand shores.= _Alex. Smith._
=The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.= _Saadi._
=The sea moans over dead men's bones.= _T. B. Aldrich._
=The sea that bares her bosom to the moon.= _Wordsworth._
=The sea tosses and foams to find its way up to= 35 =the cloud and wind.= _Emerson._
=The seal of truth is simplicity.= _Boerhaave._
=The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel aright.= _Hazlitt._
=The seat of law is the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the world.= _Hooker._
=The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.= _Bacon._
=The secret of education lies in respecting the= 40 =pupil.= _Emerson._
=The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.= _Adam Clarke._
=The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.= _Ruskin._
=The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop.= _Voltaire._
=The secret of man's being is still like the Sphinx's secret; a riddle that he cannot rede; and for ignorance of which he suffers death, the worst death--a spiritual.= _Carlyle._
=The secret of man's nature lies in his religion,= 45 =in what he really believes about the world and his own place in it.= _Froude._
=The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them.= _J. G. Holland._
=The secret of our existence is the connection between our sins and our sufferings.= (?)
=The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.= _Emerson._
=The secret of success is constancy to purpose.= _Disraeli._
=The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject.= _Voltaire._
=The secret things belong unto the Lord.= _Bible._
=The secrets of great folk are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel or better--but ance let them out, they will turn and rend you.= _Scott._
=The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.= _Emerson._
=The seed of knowledge ripens but slowly in the= 5 =mind, but the flowers grow quickly.= _Bodenstedt._
=The seeds of things are very small.= _George Eliot._
=The seers are wholly a greater race than the thinkers=; (yet) =a true thinker, who has a practical purpose in his thinking, and is sincere, as Plato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in some sort a seer, and must be always of infinite use in his generation.= _Ruskin._
=The self-same sun that shines upon his court / Hides not his visage from our cottage, but / Looks on alike.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 3.
=The sense of beauty never furthered the performance of a single duty.= _Ruskin._
=The sense of death is most in apprehension, /= 10 =And the poor beetle that we tread upon / In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant dies.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The sense of human dignity was the chief moral agent of antiquity, and the sense of sin of mediævalism.= _H. Lecky._
=The sense of the infinite nature of Duty is the central part of all with us; a ray as of Eternity and Immortality, immured in dusky many-coloured Time, and its births and deaths.= _Carlyle._
=The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.= _Goethe._
=The sentimental by and by will have to give place to the practical.= _Carlyle._
=The serenity that is not felt, it can be no= 15 =virtue to feign.= _Johnson._
=The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.= _South._
=The "seventeenth" century is worthless to us except precisely in so far as it can be made the "nineteenth."= _Carlyle._
=The severe and restrictive virtues are almost too costly for humanity.= _Burke._
=The severity of laws impedes their execution.= _Montesquieu._
=The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.= 20 _Mer. of Venice_, ii. 1.
=The sheep slips and is up again; the sow lies down and wallows.= _Saying._
=The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.= _Johnson._
=The ship that carries most sail is most buffeted by the winds and storms.= _John Burroughs._
=The short and simple annals of the poor.= _Gray._
=The shorter life, less count I find, / The less= 25 =account the sooner made, / The account soon made, the merrier mind, / The merrier mind doth thought evade.= _Sir T. Wyatt._
=The shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so.= _South._
=The shortest answer is doing.= _Pr._
=The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.= _Samuel Smiles._
=The showy lives its little hour; the true / To after times bears rapture ever new.= _Goethe._
=The shrine is that which thou dost venerate, /= 30 =And not the beast that bears it on his back.= _George Herbert._
=The sight of you is good for sore eyes.= _Swift._
=The sign of health is unconsciousness.= _Carlyle._
=The sign of the poet is that he announces what no man foretold.= _Emerson._
=The significance of life is doing something.= _Carlyle._
=The signs of the times.= _Jesus._ 35
=The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades when speaking fails.= _Winter's Tale_, ii. 2.
=The silence that is in the starry sky.= _Wordsworth._
=The silent heavens have goings-on; / The stars have tasks.= _Wordsworth._
=The simple believeth every word.= _Bible._
=The sin that practice burns into the blood, /= 40 =And not the one dark hour which brings remorse, / Will brand us, after, of whose fold we be.= _Tennyson._
=The single snowflake--who cares for it? But a whole day of snowflakes ... who does not care for that? Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.= (?)
=The slack sail shifts from side to side, / The boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, / Borne down, adrift, at random tost, / The oar breaks short, the rudder's lost.= _Gay._
=The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.= _Bible._
=The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=The slender vine twists around the sturdy= 45 =oak, for no other reason in the world but because it has not strength sufficient to support itself.= _Goldsmith._
=The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the "ne plus ultra" of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?= _Julia Kavanagh._
=The slow wheel turns, / The cycles round themselves and grow complete, / The world's year whitens to the harvest-tide, / And one word only am I= (Psyche) =sent to say ... / To all things living, and the word is "Love."= _Lewis Morris._
=The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.= _Bible._
=The sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone.= _Glanville._
=The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater= 50 =ennoble it.= _Bovee._
=The smallest annoyances disturb us most.= _Montaigne._
=The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fibre.= _Lew Wallace._
=The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; / And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood.= 3 _Henry VI._, ii. 2.
=The smoke of a man's own house is better than the fire of another's.= _Pr._
=The snail sees nothing but his own shell, and thinks it the grandest place in the world.= _Pr._
=The social, friendly, honest man, / Whate'er he be, / 'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, / And none but he.= _Burns._
=The society of women is the element of good= 5 =manners.= _Goethe._
=The soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain ... and the reason the world honours the soldier is because he holds his life at the service of the state.= _Ruskin._
=The soldier's ultimate and perennial office is to punish knaves and make idle persons work; the defence of his country against other countries, which is his office at present, will soon now be extinct.= _Ruskin._
=The sole terms on which the past can become ours are its subordination to the present.= _Emerson._
=The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.= _Jesus._
=The song that we hear with our ears is only= 10 =the song that is sung with our hearts.= _Ouida._
=The sorest tempest has the most sudden calm.= _Socrates._
=The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct.= _Euripides._
=The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty without deserving it.= _Ruskin._
=The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.= _Goethe._
=The soul is not where it lives, but where it= 15 =loves.= _Pr._
=The soul knows no persons.= _Emerson._
=The soul may be trusted to the end.= _Emerson._
=The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it.= _Amiel._
=The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only.= _Carlyle._
=The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God.= 20 _Ruskin._
=The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible.= _Longfellow._
=The soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; / But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view.= _Dryden._
=The soul, / The particle of God sent down to man, / Which doth in turn reveal the world and God.= _Lewis Morris._
=The soul, / Though made in time, survives for aye; / And, though it hath beginning, sees no end.= _Sir J. Davies._
=The soul's armour is never well set to the= 25 =heart unless a woman's hand has braced it.= _Ruskin._
=The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.= _Waller._
=The soul's emphasis is always right.= _Emerson._
=The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.= _Holmes._
=The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns.= _Carlyle._
=The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is= 30 =in kings' palaces.= _Bible._
=The spirit breatheth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is it with every one that is born of the spirit.= _Jesus._
=The spirit in which we act is the highest matter.= _Goethe._
=The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.= _Jesus of his disciples._
=The spirit is higher than nature.= _Hegel._
=The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity;= 35 =but a wounded spirit who can bear?= _Bible._
=The spirit of moderation should be the spirit of a lawgiver.= _Montesquieu._
=The spirit of poesy is the morning light, which makes the statue of Memnon sound.= _Novalis._
=The spirit only can teach.= _Emerson._
=The spirit was long ago liberated from the blind law of nature, and the task it is called to now is to unfold itself with freedom and clearness in the sunlight=, _i.e._, =in its own light now at length conscious of itself.= _Ed._
=The spiritual artist too is born blind, and does= 40 =not, like certain other creatures, receive sight in nine days, but far later--perhaps never.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual is ever the inner in a man becoming outer, the invisible becoming visible, the supernatural becoming natural, the infinite becoming finite, and the eternal veiling itself in the guise of time; never an emancipation from the flesh, but ever an incarnation in flesh.= _Ed._
=The spiritual is higher than the external; the spiritual cannot be externally authenticated.= _Hegel._
=The spiritual is the parent and first cause of the practical.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not his world to rule him.= _Ed._
=The spiritual problem which Christ resolved= 45 =was pretty much this--the derivation of that from within man which was conceived to be above man, by the reperception of the forgotten truth that it was in His own image God made man. He first opened up the well within.= _Ed._
=The spiritual universe is no more to be made out of a man's own head than the material universe or the moral universe.... No belief of ours will change the facts or reverse the laws of the spiritual universe.= _R. W. Dale._
=The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal, always determines the material.= _Carlyle._
=The spiritual world is not closed; it is thy sense that is: thy heart is dead.= _Goethe._
=The spring can be apprehended only while it is flowing.= _Goethe._
=The springing of a serpent is from the sun; the wisdom of the serpent, whence is that?= _Ruskin._
=The stars do not come to tell us it is night,= 5 =but to lay beams of light through it, and give the eye a path to walk in.= _Ward Beecher._
=The stars shall fade away, the sun himself / Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, / The wrecks of matter and the crash of worlds.= _Addison._
=The stars themselves are only bright by distance; go close, and all is earthy; but vapours illuminate there; from the breath and from the countenance of God comes light on worlds higher than they.= _Landor._
=The "State in danger" is a condition of things which we have witnessed a hundred times; and as for the Church, it has seldom been out of "danger" since we can remember it.= _Carlyle._
=The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.= _Emerson._
=The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician= 10 =is satisfied to drift.= _James Freeman Clarke._
=The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath.= _Whittier._
=The still, sad music of humanity.= _Wordsworth._
=The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to woo her; by shunning to win her; and proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she would turn and follow him.= _Arliss._
=The Stoic was a proud man, and not a humble, and he was content if he could only have his own soul for a prey. He did not see that the salvation of one man is impossible except in the salvation of other men, and that no man can save another unless he descend into that other's case, and be, as it were, in that other's stead.= _Ed._
=The stoical exemption which philosophy affects= 15 =to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast.= _Scott._
=The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.= _Swift._
=The stomach has no ears.= _Pr._
=The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you.= _Pr._
=The stone which the builders refused has become the head of the corner.= _Bible._
=The storm of sad mischance will turn into= 20 =something that is good, if we list to make it so.= _Taylor._
=The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner.= _Hitopadesa._
=The stranger's greeting thou shouldst aye return!= _Goethe._
=The strawberry grows under the nettle, / And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best / Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=The stream can never rise above the spring-head.= _Pr._
=The street is full of humiliations to the proud.= 25 _Emerson._
=The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.= _Ruskin._
=The strength of aquatic animals is the waters; of those who dwell in towns, a castle; of footsoldiers, their own ground; of princes, an obedient army.= _Hitopadesa._
=The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; / The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies; / Tune us the sitar neither low nor high.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=The string that jars / When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense, / With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers, / Swells into harmony and charms the hearers.= _Rowe._
=The stroke that comes transmitted through= 30 =a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying?= _Carlyle._
=The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness.= _Julia W. Howe._
=The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do.= _Carlyle._
=The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength.= _Carlyle._
=The strong must build stout cabins for the weak; / Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store; / For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak.= _Eugene Lee-Hamilton._
_The strong thing is the just thing: this thou_ 35 =wilt find throughout in our world;--as indeed was God and Truth the maker of it, or was Satan and Falsehood?= _Carlyle._
=The strong torrents, which in their own gladness fill the hills with hollow thunder and the vales with winding light, have yet their bounden charge of field to feed and barge to bear.= _Ruskin._
=The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather.= _Schopenhauer._
=The strongest castle, tower, and town, / The golden bullet beats it down.= _Shakespeare._
=The strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the blood.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=The student is to read history actively and= 40 =not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.= _Emerson._
=The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once.= _Montaigne._
=The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way.= _George Herbert._
=The style of an author 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._
=The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more.= _Blair._
=The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté.= _Goethe._
=The sublime is in a grain of dust.= _Landor._
=The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as= 5 =the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in nature--a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death--then utter the word "God" before the child. A great misfortune, a great blessing, a great crime, a noble action, are building-sites for a child's church.= _Jean Paul._
=The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously harass ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as possible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is.= _Goethe._
=The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius.= _Longinus._
=The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy.= _Victor Hugo._
=The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=The substance of a diligent man is precious.= 10 _Bible._
=The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience.= _Chaucer._
=The substantial wealth of a man consists in the earth he cultivates with its plants and animals, and in the rightly produced works of his own hands.= _Ruskin._
=The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and that of the ideas of the public.= _Chamfort._
=The suffering man ought really "to consume his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.= _Carlyle._
=The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my= 15 =merit is not sufficient.= _St. Augustine._
=The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light.= _Pr._
=The sun flings out impurities, gets balefully incrusted with spots; but it does not quench itself, and become no sun at all, but a mass of darkness.= _Carlyle._
=The sun! God's crest upon his azure shield, the heavens.= _Bailey._
=The sun is God.= _Turner on his deathbed._
=The sun may do its duty, though your grapes= 20 =are not ripe.= _Pr._
=The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before.= _Bacon._
=The sun-steeds of time, as if goaded by invisible spirits, bear onward the light car of our destiny, and nothing remains for us but, with calm self-possession, to grasp the reins, and now right, now left, to steer the wheels, here from the precipice, and there from the rock. Whither he is hasting, who knows? Does any one consider whence he came?= _Goethe._
=The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love!= _Rückert._
=The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time.= _Aikin._
=The superstition in which we have grown up= 25 =does not lose its hold over us even when we recognise it for such. Those who scoff at their fetters are not all free men.= _Lessing._
=The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity.= _Philarète Chasles._
=The surest sign of age is loneliness.= _A. B. Alcott._
=The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries.= _La Bruyère._
=The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.= _Sheridan._
=The surest way to have redress is to be earnest= 30 =in pursuit of it.= _Goldsmith._
=The surgeon practises on the orphan's head.= _Arab. Pr._
=The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.= _Emerson._
=The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar.= _Pr._
=The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.= _Bible._
=The sweets of love are washed with tears.= 35 _George Herbert._
=The sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness; right is an eternal ray.= _Victor Hugo._
=The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.= _I. Disraeli._
=The system of the world is entirely one; small things and great are alike part of one mighty whole.= _Ruskin._
=The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.= _Bible._
=The tallest trees are most in the power of the= 40 =winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.= _Wm. Penn._
=The tanager flies through the green foliage as if he would ignite the leaves.= _Thoreau._
=The teaching of art is the teaching of all things.= _Ruskin._
=The teachings of Heaven are given--by sad law--in so obscure, nay, often in so ironical a manner, that a blockhead necessarily reads them wrong.= _Ruskin._
=The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second.= _Jean Paul._
=The tears of penitents are the wine of angels.= 45 _St. Bernard._
=The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool.= _Swift._
=The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.= _Shaftesbury._
=The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.= (?)
=The tempest never rooteth up the grass, which is feeble, humble, and shooteth not up on high; but exerteth its power even to distress the lofty trees; for the great use not their might but upon the great.= _Hitopadesa._
=The temple of our purest thoughts is--silence!= 5 _Mrs. Hale._
=The tendency of laws should be rather to diminish the amount of evil than to produce an amount of happiness.= _Goethe._
=The tendency of party-spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.= _Whately._
=The tender flower that lifts its head, elate, / Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate, / Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form, / Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm.= _Burns._
=The tender heart o' leesome luve / The gowd and siller canna buy.= _Burns._
=The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.= 10 _Bible._
=The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons.= _Jane Taylor._
=The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman.= _G. W. Curtis._
=The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of to-day.= _Emerson._
=The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds!= _Goethe._
=The There is never Here.= _Schiller._ 15
=The thin edge of the wedge is to be feared.= _Pr._
=The thing a lie wants, and solicits from all men, is not a correct natural history of it, but the swiftest possible extinction of it, followed by entire silence about it.= _Carlyle._
=The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.= _Emerson._
=The thing men get to believe is the thing they will infallibly do.= _Carlyle._
=The thing that hath been, it is that which= 20 =shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done.= _Bible._
=The thing that is, what can be so wonderful? what, especially to us that are, can have such significance?= _Carlyle._
=The thing that matters most, both for happiness and for duty, is that we should strive habitually to live with wise thoughts and right feelings.= _J. Morley._
=The thing to be anxious about is not to be right with man, but with mankind.= _Prof. Drummond._
=The thing visible, nay, the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived of as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible, "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright"?= _Carlyle._
=The thing which is deepest rooted in Nature,= 25 =what we call truest, that, and not the other, will be found growing at last.= _Carlyle._
=The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence, and foolish thoughts; and the things which save us are justice, self-command, and true thought, which things dwell in the loving powers of the gods.= _Plato._
=The things that threatened me, / Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see / The face of Cæsar, they are vanished.= _Jul. Cæsar_, ii. 2.
=The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.= _Schlegel._
=The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of the new with the old.= _Carlyle._
=The third pays for all.= _Twelfth Night_, v. 1. 30
=The thirst for truth still remains with us, even when we have wilfully left the fountains of it.= _Ruskin._
=The thorny point / Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show / Of smooth civility.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=The thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws.= _Emerson._
=The thought is parent of the deed.= _Carlyle._
=The thought of foolishness is sin.= _Bible._ 35
=The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.= _Bible._
=The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.= _Bible._
=The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.= _Lapland Pr._
=The thoughts we have had, the pictures we have seen, can be again called back before the mind's eye and before the imagination; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce its pleasing emotions.= _Goethe._
=The thrall in person may be free in soul.= 40 _Tennyson._
=The throne is established by righteousness.= _Bible._
=The time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice.= _Whittier._
=The time has been / That when the brains were out the man should die, / And there an end.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=The time of breeding is the time of doing= 45 =children good; and not as many who think they have done fairly if they leave them a good portion after their decease.= _George Herbert._
=The time that bears no fruit deserves no name.= _Young._
=The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise.= _Emerson._
=The timid are in fear before danger, the cowardly in danger, and the courageous after danger.= _Jean Paul._
=The timing of things is a main point in the dispatch of all affairs.= _L'Estrange._
=The tired ocean crawls along the beach sobbing a wordless sorrow to the moon.= _William Falconer._
=The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life.= _Goethe._
=The tomb is the pedestal of greatness.= _Landor._
=The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly= 5 =evil, full of deadly poison.= _St. James._
=The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.= _Pr._
=The tongue is not of steel, but it cuts.= _Pr._
=The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.= _Juv._
=The tongue of the just is as choice silver.= _Bible._
=The tongue tells the thought of one man only,= 10 =whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to.= _Schopenhauer._
=The tongue's aye quick at saying "Na," / Though a' the while the heart be dumb.= _Gilfillan._
=The tongues of dying men / Enforce attention like deep harmony.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private.= _Montaigne._
=The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.= _Emerson._
=The total loss of reason is less deplorable than= 15 =the total depravation of it.= _Cowley._
=The training= (_Bildung_) =of the thinking, of the dispositions and the morals, is the only education that deserves the name.= _Herder._
=The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.= _Johnson._
=The traveller who goes round the world prepares himself to pass through all latitudes and to meet all changes.= _Ward Beecher._
=The traveller without observation is a bird without wings.= _Saadi._
=The treasures of heaven are not negations of= 20 =passion but realities of intellect, from which all passions emanate, uncurbed in their eternal glory.= _Wm. Blake._
=The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter.= _Hitopadesa._
=The tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all.= _Carlyle._
=The tree is no sooner down than every one runs for his hatchet.= _Pr._
=The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immortality.= _Sir H. Davy._
=The tree of knowledge is not that of life.= 25 _Byron._
=The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.= _Bertrand Barère._
=The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace.= _Arab. Pr._
=The tree which yieldeth both fruit and shade is highly to be esteemed: but if Providence, perchance, may have denied it fruit, by whom is its shade refused?= _Hitopadesa._
=The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.= _Butler._
=The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the= 30 =planet.= _Lemierre._
=The triumphs of delusion are but for a day.= _Macaulay._
=The trivial round, the common task, / Will furnish all we ought to ask. / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us daily nearer God.= _Keble._
=The true and the good will be reconciled when the two are wedded to each other in the beautiful.= _Rückert._
=The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them.= _Addison._
=The true beginning is oftenest unnoticed and= 35 =unnoticeable.= _Carlyle._
=The true "compulsory education" now needed is not catechism, but drill.= _Ruskin._
=The true cross of the Redeemer is the sin and sorrow of the world.= _George Eliot._
=The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.= _Arist._
=The true epic of our times is, not arms and the man, but tools and the man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.= _Carlyle._
=The true eye for talent presupposes the true= 40 =reverence for it.= _Carlyle._
=The true fire of heaven always comes from heaven direct.= _Ed._
=The true function of intellect is not that of talking, but of understanding and discerning with a view to performing.= _Carlyle._
=The true God's voice, voice of the Eternal, is in the heart of every man.= _Carlyle._
=The true good= (all of it) =and glory even of this world, not to speak of any that is to come, must be bought still, as it always has been, with our toil and with our tears. That is the final doctrine, the inevitable one, not of Christianity only, but of all heroic faith and heroic being.= _Ruskin._
=The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat= 45 =as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.= _Thoreau._
=The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of the events that are near him.= _Lowell._
=The true labourer is worthy of his hire, but, in the beginning and first choice of industry, his heart must not be the heart of an hireling.= _Ruskin._
=The true ladder of heaven has no steps.= _Jean Paul._
=The true liberty of a man consists in his finding out, or being forced to find out, the right path, and to walk therein.= _Carlyle._
=The true life of man is in society.= _Simms._ 50
=The true life of man, like God's, lies in the ungrudging imparting of himself to alike the worthy and unworthy without fear of forfeiture or claim of reward.= _Ed._
=The true literary man is the light of the world; the world's priest guiding it, like a sacred pillar of fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of time.= _Carlyle._
=The true mind of a nation, at any period, is always best ascertainable by examining that of its greatest men.= _Ruskin._
=The true original ground of all disquiet is within.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The true philosophical act is annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy; all requisites for being a disciple of philosophy point hither.= _Novalis._
=The true poet is even more than a finder or troubadour; he is a seer, a prophet, and an interpreter between the divine and the human.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker,= 5 =is still an Orpheus whose lyre tames the savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to fashion themselves into palaces and stately inhabited cities.= _Carlyle._
=The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music.= _Carlyle._
=The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life--life passed through the fire of thought.= _Emerson._
=The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master.= _Goethe._
=The true Shekinah is man.= _St. Chrysostom._
=The true strength of every human soul is to= 10 =be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach.= _Ruskin._
=The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.= _Johnson._
=The True that is identical with the Divine can never be directly known by us; we behold it only in reflexion= (_Abglanz_), =in example, in symbol, in individual and related phenomena; we perceive it as incomprehensible life, which yet we cannot renounce the wish to comprehend. This is true of all the phenomena of the conceivable world.= _Goethe._
=The true university of these days is a collection of books.= _Carlyle._
=The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write.= _Carlyle._
=The true veins of wealth are purple--not in= 15 =rock, but in flesh=--(and) =the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures.= _Ruskin._
=The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others.= _Mme. de Maintenon._
=The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength.= _Carlyle._
=The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.= _Burke._
=The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself.= _Guizot._
=The truth shall make you free.= _Jesus._ 20
=The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us.= _Gellert._
=The truth works sometimes from without as from within.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The truths of Nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety.= _Ruskin._
=The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it.= _George Emmons._
=The two foes of human happiness are pain and= 25 =ennui.= _Schopenhauer._
=The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.= _Johnson._
=The two most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.= _An Indian sage._
=The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.= _Thackeray._
=The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning and impudence.= _Carlyle._
=The ultimate rule= (in writing) =is: Learn so far= 30 =as possible to be intelligible and transparent--no notice taken of your style, but solely of what you express by it.= _Carlyle._
=The ultimate tendency of civilisation is towards barbarism.= _Hare._
=The unconscious is the alone complete.= _Goethe._
=The Understanding is indeed thy window, too clear thou canst not make it; but Fantasy is thy eye, with its colour-giving retina, healthy or diseased.= _Carlyle._
=The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=The unfortunate are loud and loquacious= 35 =in their complaints, but real happiness is content with its own silent enjoyment.= _Gibbon._
=The unhappy= (_malheureux_) =are always wrong: wrong in being so, wrong in saying so, wrong in needing help of others, wrong in not being able to help them.= _Mirabeau._
=The unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.= _Ruskin._
=The universe has three children, born at one time ... called cause, operation, and effect, or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son. These three are equal ... and each has the power of the others latent in him.= _Emerson._
=The universe is a thought of God.= _Schiller._
=The universe is an infinite sphere, the centre= 40 =of which is everywhere, and the circumference nowhere.= _Pascal after St. Augustus._
=The universe is but one vast symbol of God; nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a symbol of God; is not all that he does symbolical; a revelation to sense of the mystic god-given force that is in him; a "gospel of freedom," which he, the "Messias of Nature," preaches, as he can, by act and word?= _Carlyle._
=The universe is full of love, but also of inexorable sternness and severity.= _Carlyle._
=The universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres, but godlike, and my Father's.= _Carlyle._
=The universe is one great city, full of beloved ones, human and divine, by nature endeared to each other.= _Epictetus._
=The universe is that great egoist that decoys= 45 =us by the grossest bird-calls.= _Renan._
=The universe is the realised thought of God.= _Carlyle._
=The universe stands by him who stands by himself.= _Emerson._
=The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.= _St. Gregory._
=The unlearned man knoweth not what it is to descend into himself and call himself to account; nor the pleasure of that most pleasant life which consists in our daily feeling ourselves become better.= _Sir Walter Raleigh._
=The unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds Nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system.= _Goldsmith._
=The unpastured sea hungering for calm.= 5 _Shelley._
=The unworn spirit is strong; life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death.= _Carlyle._
=The upper classes and people of wealth suffer most from ennui.= _Schopenhauer._
=The Upper Crust=, _i.e._, the Upper Ten. _Amer._
=The Upper Ten=, _i.e._, the aristocracy; the upper circles (contracted from Upper Ten Thousand). _Amer._
=The upper current of society presents no certain= 10 =criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under-current flows.= _Macaulay._
=The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.= _Bible._
=The ups and downs of the world concern the beggar no longer.= _Lamb._
=The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the amusement of solitude, is to moderate the passions, and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life; and it may be preferable to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share.= _Lady Montagu._
=The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.= _Johnson._
=The useful encourages itself, for the multitude= 15 =produce it, and no one can dispense with it; but the beautiful must be encouraged, for few can set it forth, and many need it.= _Goethe._
=The useless men are those who never change with the years.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday.= _Bacon._
=The utmost point and acme of honour is not merely in doing no evil, but in thinking none.= _Ruskin._
=The uttered part of a man's life bears to the unuttered, unconscious part of it a small unknown proportion; he himself never knows it, much less do others.= _Carlyle._
=The valiant in himself, what can he suffer? /= 20 =Or what need he regard his single woes?= _Thomson._
=The valour of a just man is to conquer the flesh, to contradict his own will, ... to contemn the flatteries of prosperity, and inwardly to overcome the fears of adversity.= _S. Greg._
=The valour that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.= _Hegel._
=The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in your being able to bridle him, or, what is better, in his being able to bridle himself.= _Ruskin._
=The value of a thing is its life-giving power.= _Ruskin._
=The vanity of loving fine clothes and new= 25 =fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be.= _Sir Matthew Hale._
=The veneration we have for many things entirely proceeds from their being carefully concealed.= _Goldsmith._
=The very head and front of my offending / Hath this extent, no more.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=The very joy of a true man's heart is to admire, when he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.= _Carlyle._
=The very meanest things are made supreme / With innate ecstasy.= _Blanchard._
=The very nature of the dilettanti is that they= 30 =have no idea of the difficulties which lie in a subject, and always wish to undertake something for which they have no capacity.= _Goethe._
=The very pain of loving is all other joys before.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=The very society of joy redoubles it, so that, whilst it lights upon my friend, it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.= _South._
=The vessel that will not obey her helm will have to obey the rocks.= _Breton and Cornish Pr._
=The vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred.= _Emerson._
=The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us= 35 =within ourselves.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.= _Emerson._
="The victory of Miltiades does not suffer me to sleep."= _Themistocles, in reference to the battle of Marathon._
=The violets and the mayflowers are as the inscriptions or vignettes of spring. It always makes a pleasant impression on us when we open again at these pages of the book of life, its most charming chapter.= _Goethe._
=The virtue of great souls is justice= (_Gerechtigkeit_). _Platen._
=The virtue of justice consists in moderation,= 40 =as regulated by wisdom.= _Arist._
=The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.= _Renan._
=The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue.= _Bacon._
=The virtue of sex is the occasion of mutual teaching; the woman preaching love in the ears of justice, and the man justice in the ears of love.= _Amiel._
=The virtue of the man who lives according to the precepts of reason shows itself equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers.= _Spinoza._
=The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter.= _Hitopadesa._
=The virtuous man, from his justice and the affection he hath for mankind, is the dispeller of sorrow and pain.= _Hitopadesa._
=The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud; the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapour, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.= _Heraclitus._
=The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.= _Emerson._
=The vitality of man is great.= _Carlyle._ 5
=The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.= _Mme. de Staël._
=The voice of prophecies is like that of whispering-places; they who are near hear nothing, those at the first extremity will know all.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.= _Schiller._
=The voice of the people ought always to meet with attention, though it does not always claim obedience.= _Fox._
=The vulgar estimate themselves by what they= 10 =do; the noble by what they are.= _Schiller._
=The vulgar great are comprehended and adored, because they are in reality on the same moral plane with those who admire; but he who deserves the higher reverence must himself convert the worshipper.= _Lord Houghton._
=The vulgar keep no account of your hits, but of your misses.= _Pr._
=The wail of grief is more sympathetic than the shout of triumph.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward.= _Emerson._
=The want of belief is a defect which ought to= 15 =be concealed when it cannot be overcome.= _Swift._
=The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.= _Rousseau._
=The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply.= _Thoreau._
=The warl'ly race may riches chase, / And riches still may flee them; / And though at last they catch them fast, / Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them.= _Burns._
=The watchful mother tarries nigh, / Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye.= _Keble._
=The way in which we form our ideas gives= 20 =character to our minds.= _Rousseau._
=The way of the superior man is threefold--virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.= _Confucius._
=The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord.= _Bible._
=The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs.= _Montaigne._
=The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.= _Rev. N. Howe._
=The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our= 25 =passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigour to our moral nature.= _Ward Beecher._
=The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of.= _Cic._
=The way to be original is to be healthy.= _Lowell._
=The way to get rid of wretchedness is to despise it; to conquer the devil is to defy him; to gain heaven is to turn your back upon it, and be as unflinching as the gods themselves. Satan may be roasted in his own flames; Tophet may be exploded with its own sulphur.= _John Burroughs upon Carlyle's teaching._
=The way to heaven is set with briars and thorns; and they who arrive at the kingdom travel over craggy rocks and comfortless deserts.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The way to make thy son rich is to fill / His= 30 =mind with rest, before his trunk with riches.= _George Herbert._
=The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.= _Emerson._
=The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two words--industry and frugality.= _Franklin._
=The way to write quickly is to write well.= _Quinct._
=The way, truth, and life have been found in Christianity, and will not now be found outside of it.= _Matthew Arnold._
=The way's not easy where the prize is great.= 35 _Quarles._
=The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life; chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean better.= _Thoreau._
=The weakest goes to the wall.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.
=The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.= _G. Emmons._
=The wealth of a country is in its good men and women, and in nothing else.= _Ruskin._
=The wealth of a man is the number of things= 40 =which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.= _Carlyle._
=The wealth of both Indies seems in great part but an accessory to the command of the seas.= _Bacon._
=The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The wealth of the land / Comes from the forge and the smithy and mine, / From hammer and chisel, and wheel and band, / And the thinking brain and the skilful hand.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=The wealth we cannot wisely administer is an encumbrance.= _Goethe._
=The weariest and most loathéd worldly life, /= 45 =That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment / Can lay on nature, is a paradise / To what we fear of death.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=The wearisome is in permanence here.= _Carlyle at Linlathen, in Forfarshire._
=The weary night o' care and grief / May hae a joyful morrow.= _Burns._
=The web of this world is woven of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between them, and knows how to rule them both. It treats the necessary as the ground of its existence; the contingent it knows how to direct, lead, and utilise; and it is only while reason stands firm and steadfast that man deserves to be called the god of the earth. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth to incline to find something arbitrary in what is necessary, who would fain ascribe a kind of reason to the contingent, which it were even a religion to follow; what is that but to disown one's own understanding, and to give loose reins to one's inclinations? We imagine it piety to saunter along= (_hinschlendern_) =without consideration, and to allow ourselves to be determined by agreeable accidents, and finally give to the results of such a vacillating life the name of Divine guidance.= _Goethe._
=The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.= _All's Well_, iv. 3.
=The wedge will rend rocks; but its edge must be sharp and single; if it is double, the wedge is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing.= _Carlyle._
=The wheel is always in motion, and the spoke which is uppermost will soon be under; therefore mix trembling with all your joy.= _Philip Henry._
=The whole art of war consists in getting at= 5 =what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do.= _Duke of Wellington._
=The whole course of things goes to teach us faith.= _Emerson._
=The whole difference between a man of genius and other men ... is that the former remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power.= _Ruskin._
=The whole economy of nature is bent on expression.= _Emerson._
=The whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor.= _Emerson._
=The whole function of the artist in the world is= 10 =to be a seeing and a feeling creature; to be an instrument of such tenderness and sensitiveness that no shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying to the spirit which has been given him, shall either be left unrecorded, or fade from the book of record.= _Ruskin._
=The whole man to one thing at a time.= _Pr._
=The whole of chivalry and of heraldry is in courtesy.= _Emerson._
=The whole past is the possession of the present.= _Carlyle._
=The whole spiritual universe exists only in process--what Hegel calls "Der Process des Geistes"--the process of the spirit, that is to say, not as become, but as becoming; and if it once ceases to become, it ceases as such to be.= _Ed._
=The whole universe is at all moments saying= 15 ="Nay" to the Spirit of God, and God's Spirit is at all moments saying "Yea" to the stolid "Nay" of the universe, which would fain be let alone; but stubborn as the material looks and is, it has to obey, and does obey, the voice of God.= _Ed._
=The whole world is, properly speaking, a tragic= _embarras_. _Rahel._
=The whole world of truth and conscience is nothing without I.= _Jean Paul._
=The wide pasture is but separate spears of grass; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but isolated flowers.= _Ward Beecher._
=The wife can carry more out of the house in her apron than the man can bring in on a harvest-waggon.= _Rückert._
=The wife is the key of the house.= _Pr._ 20
=The wife that expects to have a good name / Is always at home as if she were lame; / And the mind that is honest, her chiefest delight, / Is still to be doing from morning till night.= _Sp. Pr._
=The will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions.= _Schopenhauer._
=The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it.= _Scott._
=The wind that has its nest in trees.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The winds and the waves are always on the= 25 =side of the ablest navigators.= _Gibbon._
=The winter of our discontent.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose.= _Ruskin._
=The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers.= _William Penn._
=The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary= 30 =minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct.= _Cic._
=The wise are polite all the world over, but fools are only polite at home.= _Goldsmith._
=The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error.= _Rückert._
=The wise grumbler ... is a public benefactor.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The wise have all ever said the same thing, and the fools, who are always in the majority, have always done just the opposite.= _Schopenhauer._
=The wise in heart shall be called the prudent.= 35 _Bible._
=The wise man always looks to the degree of his indulgences.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but the mighty cannot dispense with the teaching of the wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man does not grasp at what is far off in order to find what is near, and his hand does not grasp at the stars in order to kindle light.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth elevated and very honourable stations; whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth, acquireth the post of disgrace.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others.= _Jean Paul._
=The wise man had rather be envied for providence than pitied for prodigality.= _Socrates._
=The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.= _Ger. Pr._
=The wise man knows his master; always some= 5 =creature larger than himself, some law holier than himself.= _Ruskin._
=The wise man knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows.= _Sp. Pr._
=The wise man may strive to conquer, but he should never fight; because victory, it is observed, cannot be constant to both combatants.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man moveth with one foot, and standeth fast with the other. A man should not quit one place until he hath fixed upon another.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man must go to the foolish, else would his wisdom go for nought, since the foolish never come to the wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=The wise man often shuns society for fear of= 10 =being bored.= _La Bruyère._
=The wise man ought to despise glory, but not honour. Honour is but seldom where glory is, and glory almost more rarely still where honour is.= _Seume._
=The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair.= _Hitopadesa._
=The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself.= _L'Estrange._
=The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram.= _Whipple._
=The wise through excess of wisdom is made a= 15 =fool.= _Emerson._
=The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold.= _Ecclus._
=The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.= _Burke._
=The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind.= _Wordsworth._
=The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content.= _Foster._
=The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness= 20 =of a child.= _Emerson._
=The wisest, happiest of our kind are they / That ever walk content with Nature's way.= _Wordsworth._
=The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His secrets universally to the seeing eye and the hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness is nowhere wanting, only the sense to discern it, and the courage to be true to it.= _Ed._
=The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly lo'ed the lasses O.= _Burns._
=The wisest men are wise to the full in death.= _Ruskin._
=The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in= 25 =these days pass for a divine one; the word "inspiration" still lingers, but only in the shape of a poetic figure, from which the once earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has vanished without return.= _Carlyle._
=The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow.= _Carlyle._
=The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest.= _Carlyle._
=The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.= _Holmes._
=The wish was father to the thought.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=The wished-for comes too late.= _Pr._ 30
=The wishing-gate opens into nothing.= _Spurgeon._
=The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven out of good company.= _Sydney Smith._
=The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many.= _Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb._
=The wit one wants spoils what one has.= _Fr. Pr._
=The woman and the soldier who do not defend= 35 =the first pass will never defend the last.= _Fielding._
=The woman that deliberates is lost.= _Addison._
=The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink / Together.= _Tennyson._
=The womankind will not drill.= _Carlyle, Father Andreas in "Sartor."_
=The women are quick enough--they're quick enough. They know the rights of a story before they hear it, and can tell a man what his thoughts are before he knows 'em himself.= _George Eliot._
=The word is always bolder than the deed.= 40 _Schiller._
=The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.= _Bible._
=The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond--sometimes better.= _Dickens._
=The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook.= _Bible._
=The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.= _Bible._
=The words of men are like the leaves of trees;= 45 =when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit.= _Steiger._
=The words of the wise are as goads.= _Pr._
=The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.= _Jean Paul._
=The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth as a visible perennial well.= _Carlyle._
=The work of righteousness shall be peace.= _Bible._
=The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.= _Ruskin._
=The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically.= _Thoreau._
=The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die.= _Montgomery._
=The world cannot be governed without juggling.= 5 _Selden._
=The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.= _Goethe._
=The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The world does not progress so quickly as a man grows old.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The world exists by change, and but for that / All matter would to chaos back / To form a pillar for a sleeping god.= _Anon._
=The world exists for the education of each= 10 =man.= _Emerson._
=The world exists only by the strength of its silent virtue.= _Ruskin._
=The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, / Can never come over again.= _C. Kingsley._
=The world grows more majestic, but man grows less.= _Amiel._
=The world has no business with my life; the world will never know my life, if it should write and read a hundred biographies of me.= _Carlyle._
=The world has to obey him who thinks and= 15 =sees in the world.= _Carlyle._
=The world is a carcase, and they who gather round it are dogs.= _Eastern Pr._
=The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.= _Horace Walpole._
=The world is a grand book from which to become wiser.= _Goethe._
=The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.= _Thackeray._
=The world is a prison.= _Goethe._ 20
=The world is a thing that man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.= _Carlyle._
=The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.= _Disraeli._
=The world is all barren to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers.= _Sterne._
=The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb.= _Holmes._
=The world is an excellent judge in general,= 25 =but a very bad one in particular.= _Lord Greville._
=The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby, being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but the common copper.= _Carlyle._
=The world is as you take it.= _Pr._
=The world is but an allegory; the idea is more real than the fact.= _Amiel._
=The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things.= _Pascal._
=The world is everywhere perfect except where= 30 =man comes with his pain.= _Schiller._
=The world is fain to sully what is resplendent, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted.= _Schiller._
=The world is for him who has patience.= _It. Pr._
=The world is glorious to look at, but dreadful in reality; it is one thing as a drama to a spectator, quite another thing to the actors in the plot, for in it the will is thwarted at every turn.= _Schopenhauer._
=The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws.= _Channing._
=The world is governed too much.= (?) 35
=The world is not our peers, so we challenge the jury.= _Burns._
=The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 1.
=The world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better. Company is in itself better than solitude, and pleasure better than indolence.= _Johnson._
=The world is nothing but a wheel; in its whole periphery it is everywhere similar, but, nevertheless, it appears to us so strange, because we ourselves are carried round with it.= _Goethe._
=The world is nothing; the man is all.= _Emerson._ 40
=The world is only governed by self-interest.= _Schiller._
=The world is so busied with selfish pursuits, ambition, vanity, interest, or pleasure, that very few think it worth their while to make any observation on what passes around them, except where that observation is a sucker, or branch of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy.= _Burns._
=The world is still deceived with ornament. / In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, / But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil? In religion, / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours.= _Wordsworth._
=The world is undone by looking at things at a= 45 =distance.= _Sir Thomas More._
=The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome.= _Emerson._
=The world is wide enough for all to live and let live, and every one has an enemy in his own talent, who gives him quite enough to do. But no! one gifted man and one talented persecutes another ... and each seeks to make the other hateful.= _Goethe._
=The world is wider than any of us think.= _Carlyle._
=The world knows nothing of its greatest men.= _Sir Henry Taylor._
=The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it.= _Cecil._
=The world ... may overlook most of us; but "reverence thyself."= _Burns._
=The world never let a man bless it but it first= 5 =fought him.= _Ward Beecher._
=The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy of himself; this world is the multiplex "image of his own dream."= _Carlyle._
=The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy.= _Rousseau._
=The world of thought must remain apart from the world of action, for if they once coincided the problem of life would be solved, and the hope which we call heaven would be realised on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song."= _Lord Houghton._
=The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.= _Hawthorne._
=The world owes infinitely more to those who= 10 =have no history than to those who have; and the silent noble ones, who have enriched and exalted it by their mere presence, form a much grander and greater host than those do whose names stand emblazoned in written story, and are the loud boast of all.= _Ed._
=The world remains ever the same.= _Goethe._
=The world seldom offers us any choice between solitude on the one hand and vulgarity on the other.= _Schopenhauer._
=The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him.= _Emerson._
=The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare, the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg, the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration.= _Emerson._
=The world that surrounds you is the magic= 15 =glass of the world within you. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.= _Lavater._
=The world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians in their time; they would be Russians or Americans to-day.= _Emerson._
=The world truly exists only in the presence of man, acts only in the passion of man. The essence of light is in his eyes--the centre of force in his soul--the pertinence of action in his deeds.= _Ruskin._
=The world, which took but six days to make, is like to take six thousand to make out.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.= _Bacon._
=The world's a room of sickness, where each= 20 =heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest! / The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, / Is his who skills of comfort best.= _Keble._
=The world's a sea.= _Quarles._
=The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, / Though by a different path each goes astray.= _Buckingham._
=The world's battle-fields have been in the heart chiefly. More heroism has there been displayed in the household and in the closet, I think, than on the most memorable military battle-fields of history.= _Ward Beecher._
=The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.= _Holmes._
=The world's wealth is its original men; by= 25 =these and their works it is a world and not a waste; the memory and record of what Men it loves--this is the sum of its strength, its sacred "property for ever," whereby it upholds itself and steers forward, better or worse, through the yet undiscovered deep of Time.= _Carlyle._
=The worse the man, the better the soldier; if soldiers be not corrupt, they ought to be made so.= _Napoleon._
=The worse things are, the better they are.= _Pr._
=The worship of beauty apart from the soul becomes an idolatry enkindling desire instead of a reverence awakening devotion.= _Ed._
=The worst deluded are the self-deluded.= _Bovee._
=The worst education which teaches self-denial= 30 =is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.= _John Sterling._
=The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.= _Pope._
=The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel.= _Spurgeon._
=The worst superstition is to consider our own the most tolerable.= _Lessing._
=The worst wheel in the waggon creaks the loudest.= _Ger. Pr._
=The worst wild beast is called "Tyrant," and= 35 =the "Flatterer" the worst tame one.= _Lessing._
=The worth of a state, in the long-run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.= _J. S. Mill._
=The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.= _Pr._
=The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.= _St. James._
=The wretched have no friends.= _Dryden._
=The wretchedness which fate has rendered= 40 =voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most.= _Carlyle._
=The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=The writer of a book, is not he a preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places?= _Carlyle._
=The wronged side is always the safest.= _Sibbes._
=The young disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.= _Pope._
=The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative,= 45 =but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young.= _J. M. Barrie._
=The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them.= _Thoreau._
=The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth.= _Jean Paul._
=Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.= _Jesus of children._
=Their chief pleasure is being displeased.= 5 _Whipple._
=Their only labour was to kill the time, / And labour dire it is, and weary woe.= _Thomson._
=Their own will to all men, all their will to women.= _Gael. Pr._
=Their strength is to sit still.= _Bible._
=Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do or die.= _Tennyson._
=Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.= 10 _George Eliot._
=Then draw we nearer day by day, / Each to his brethren, all to God; / Let the world take us as she may, / We must not change our road.= _Keble._
=Then fare-ye-weel, auld Nickle Ben, / Oh wad ye tak' a thought and men', / Ye aiblins= (perhaps) =might--I dinna ken, / Still hae a stake;/ I'm wae to think upon yon den / E'en for your sake.= _Burns._
=Then gently scan your brother man, / Still gentler sister woman; / Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, / To step aside is human.= _Burns._
=Then in the strife the youth puts forth his powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself a man.= _Goethe._
=Then let us pray that come it may, / As come= 15 =it will for a' that, / That sense an' worth, o'er a' the earth, / May bear the gree and a' that.= _Burns._
=Then was I as a tree / Whose boughs did bend with fruit; but, in one night, / A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, / Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, / And left me bare to weather.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 3.
=Theology is anthropology.= _Feuerbach._
=Theoretical principles must sometimes be suffered to give way for the sake of practical advantages.= _Pitt._
=Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our philosophical times; ages of genius have passed away, and they left no other record than their works.= _I. Disraeli._
=Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience= 20 =only is tangible.= _H. Ballou._
=Theories which do not connect measures with men are not theories for this world.= _Charles Fox._
=Theory and practice always act upon one another. It is possible to construe from what we do what we think, and from what we think what we will do.= _Goethe._
=Theory in and by itself is of no use except in so far as it proves to us the connection= (_Zusammenhang_) =that subsists among the phenomena.= _Goethe._
[Greek: theos hê anaideia]--Impudence is a god.
=There are a thousand occasions for sorrow,= 25 =and a hundred for fear that day by day assail the fool; not so the wise man.= _Hitopadesa._
=There are always more tricks in a town than are talked of.= _Cervantes._
=There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observance of the material energies which operate in the external universe.= _Froude._
=There are attractions in modest diffidence above the force of words. A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=There are but three classes of men--the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.= _Lavater._
=There are but two ways of paying debt--increase= 30 =of industry in raising income; increase of thrift in laying it out.= _Carlyle._
=There are cases where little can be said and much must be done.= _Johnson._
=There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.= _La Bruyère._
=There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation.= _Goethe._
=There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze.= _Johnson._
=There are cloudy days for the mind as well as= 35 =for the world, and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.= _Beaumelle._
=There are depths in the soul which are deeper than hell.= _Platen._
=There are enough unhappy on this earth.= _Tennyson._
=There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are.= _Emerson._
=There are falsehoods which are not lies ... which is the case in parables, fables, &c.... In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth is violated, because none was given.= _Paley._
=There are few circumstances in which it is not= 40 =best either to hide all or to tell all.= _La Bruyère._
=There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion.= _Disraeli._
=There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power.= _Plato._
=There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult.= _Ségur._
=There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity.= _Johnson._
=There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.= _Ruskin._
=There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace.= _Cic._
=There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.= _Bovee._
=There are fewer students of man than of geometry.= _Pascal._
=There are forty men of wit for one of sense;= 5 =and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change.= (?)
=There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room.= _Fuller._
=There are in man, in the beginning / And at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves--childhood and age.= _Jean Paul._
=There are in the history of a man only three epochs, his birth, his life, and his death; he is not conscious of being born; he submits to die; and he forgets to live.= _La Bruyère._
=There are in this day, as in all days, around and in every man, voices from the gods, imperative to all, if obeyed by even none, which say audibly: Arise, thou son of Adam, son of Time, make this thing more divine, and that thing, and thyself of all things, and work, and sleep not; for the Night cometh wherein no man can work.= _Carlyle._
=There are in this loud stunning tide / Of= 10 =human care and crime, / With whom the melodies abide / Of th' everlasting chime; / Who carry music in their heart, / Through dusty lane and wrangling mart, / Plying their daily task with busier feet, / Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.= _Keble._
=There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul, to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.= _Chapin._
=There are many men who do not believe in evaporation. They get all they can, and keep all they get, and so are not fertilisers, but only stagnant, miasmatic pools.= _Ward Beecher._
=There are many religions, but there is only one morality.= _Ruskin._
=There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.= _Ward Beecher._
=There are many truths of which the full= 15 =meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home.= _J. S. Mill._
=There are men who, by long consulting their own inclination, have forgotten that others have a claim to the same deference.= (?)
=There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom.= _Goethe._
=There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye.= _C. Weber._
=There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion, / That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble / Drops some careless word, it overflows; and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.= _Longfellow._
=There are more fools than wise men, and even= 20 =in the wise men more folly than wisdom.= _Chamfort._
=There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.= _Cic._
=There are more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=There are more ways to the wood than one.= _Pr._
=There are nae fules like auld fules.= _Sc. Pr._ 25
=There are natures that are great by what they attain, and others by what they disdain.= _H. Grimm._
=There are no better masters than poverty and want.= _Dut. Pr._
=There are no chagrins so venomous as the chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening as the satieties of pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=There are no English lives worth reading except those of players, who by the nature of the case have bidden Respectability good-day.= _Carlyle._
=There are no fixtures in Nature. The universe= 30 =is fluid and volatile.= _Emerson._
=There are no grotesques in Nature.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.= _Ruskin._
=There are no obstructions more fatal to fortune than pride and resentment.= _Goldsmith._
=There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all.= _Shenstone._
=There are no proverbial sayings which are not= 35 =true.= _Cervantes._
=There are no real pleasures without real needs.= _Voltaire._
=There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 2.
=There are no troubles which have such a wasting and disastrous effect upon the mind as those which must not be told, but which cause the mind to be continually rolling and turning over upon itself in ceaseless convolutions and unrest.= _Ward Beecher._
=There are no twin souls in God's universe.= _J. G. Holland._
=There are none but men of strong passions= 40 =capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude.= _Mirabeau._
=There are none of the charges brought against Socialism which might not have been brought against Christianity itself.= _Cötvös._
=There are omens in the air, / And voices whispering Beware!--/ But never victor in the fight / Heeded the portents of fear and care.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=There are only three classes of people--those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him; and those who live without either seeking or finding him--the first, rational and happy; the second, unhappy and rational; the third, foolish and unhappy.= _Pascal._
=There are only two ways of rising in the world, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.= _La Bruyère._
=There are people who will help you to get your= 5 =basket on your head, because they want to see what's in it.= _Negro Pr._
=There are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of.= _La Roche._
=There are proselytes from atheism, but none from superstition.= _Junius._
=There are several who would, or at least pretend they would, bear much in their own business who will bear nothing at all.= _Kettlewell._
=There are shades in all good pictures, but there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate them.= _Dickens._
=There are single thoughts that contain the= 10 =essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.= _Joubert._
=There are soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword.= _Ruskin._
=There are some cases in which human nature and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger than the world and its philosophy.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humour, and others only when they are sad.= _Joubert._
=There are some people who give with the air= 15 =of refusal.= _Queen Christiana._
=There are some sorrows cannot be subjected / To man's construction, howsoe'er suspected.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.= _Chamfort._
=There are sorrows / Where of necessity the soul must be / Its own support.= _Schiller._
=There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers; but ere the pure and fresh buds can open, they are trodden in the dust of the earth, and lie soiled and crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.= _Jean Paul._
=There are things in this world to be laughed= 20 =at, as well as things to be admired; and his is no complete mind that cannot give to each sort his due.= _Carlyle._
=There are things that should be done, not spoken; that, till the doing of them is begun, cannot be spoken.= _Carlyle._
=There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.= _Fielding._
=There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.= _Thoreau._
=There are three classes of authors--those who write without thinking, those who think while writing, and those who think before writing.= _Schopenhauer._
=There are three difficulties in authorship--to= 25 =write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.= _Colton._
=There are three material things, not only useful, but essential, to life--pure air, water, and earth; and three immaterial that are equally essential--admiration, hope, and love.= _Ruskin._
=There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration.= _Pascal._
=There are three religions--the religion which depends on reverence for what is above us, denominated the ethnic; the religion which founds itself on reverence for what is around us, denominated the philosophical; the religion grounded on reverence for what is beneath us, which we name the Christian.= _Goethe._
=There are three things in this world which deserve no quarter--hypocrisy, pharisaism, and tyranny.= _F. Robertson._
=There are three things which cause perfection= 30 =in a man--nature, reason, use. Reason I call discipline; use, exercise. If any one of these branches want, certainly the tree of virtue must needs wither.= _John Lily._
=There are times when silence, if the preacher did but know, / Shall preach to better purpose than a sermon stale and flat.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=There are times when we are diverted out of errors, but could not be preached out of them.= _Stephen Montague._
=There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.= _A. B. Alcott._
=There are two, and only two, forms of possible gospel or "good message"--one, that men are saved by themselves doing what is right; and the other, that they are saved by believing that somebody also did right instead of them. The first of these gospels is eternally true and holy; the other eternally false, damnable, and damning.= _Ruskin._
=There are two kinds of genius. The first and= 35 =highest may be said to speak out of the eternal into the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.= _Lowell._
=There are two levers for moving men--interest and fear.= _Napoleon._
=There are two modes of establishing our reputation--to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter.= _Colton._
=There are two sides to every question.= _Pr._
=There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile.= _D'Alembert._
=There are two ways of attaining an important end--force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=There are unhappy times in the world's history, when he that is the least educated will chiefly have to say that he is the least perverted; and with the multitude of false eye-glasses, convex, concave, green, even yellow, has not lost the natural use of his eyes.= _Carlyle._
=There are very few moments in a man's existence= 5 =when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.= _Dickens._
=There are very few people in this world who get any good by either writing or reading.= _Ruskin._
=There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife.= _Pope._
=There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=There be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is piquant, and to the quick; that is a vein which would be bridled.= _Bacon._
=There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge,= 10 =none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.= _Emerson._
=There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes.= _All's Well_, ii. 5.
=There can be no profanity where there is no fane behind.= _Thoreau._
=There can be no shame in accepting orders from those who have themselves learned to obey.= _W. E. Forster._
=There can be no true aristocracy but must possess the land.= _Carlyle._
=There can come no harm of supposing every= 15 =other man better than yourself; but the supposing any man worse than yourself may be attended with very ill consequences.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=There coils a fear beneath the loveliest dream.= _T. Watts._
=There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man.= _St. Paul._
=There have been in all ages children of God and of man; the one born of the Spirit, and obeying it; the other born of the flesh, and obeying it.= _Ruskin._
=There in others' looks discover / What thy own life's course has been, / And thy deeds of years past over, / In thy fellow-men be seen.= _Goethe._
=There is a better thing than the great man= 20 =who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say.= _W. Winter._
=There is a black speck, say the Arabs, were it no bigger than a bean's eye, in every soul; which, once set a-working, will overcloud the whole man into darkness and quasi-madness, and hurry him balefully into night.= _Carlyle._
=There is a book, who runs may read, / Which heavenly truth imparts, / And all the love its scholars need, / Pure eyes and Christian hearts. / The works of God above, below, / Within us, and around, / Are pages in that book, to show / How God Himself is found.= _Keble._
=There is a budding morrow in midnight.= _Keats._
=There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.= _Ruskin._
=There is a Cato in every man; a severe censor= 25 =of his manners. And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of.= _Burton._
=There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity, acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour; but it is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.= _Washington Irving._
=There is a certain mien and motion of the body and all its parts, both in acting and speaking, which argues a man well within.= _Sterne._
=There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.= _Jean Paul._
=There is a country accent, not in speech only, but in thought, conduct, character, and manner of existing, which never forsakes a man.= _La Roche._
=There is a crack in everything God has made.= 30 _Emerson._
=There is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity.= _Carlyle._
=There is a different kind of knowledge good for every different creature, and the glory of the higher creatures is in ignorance of what is known to the lower.= _Ruskin._
=There is a flush of the body which is full of warmth and life, and another which will pass into putrefaction.= _Ruskin._
=There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage.= _Arist._
=There is a frightful interval between the seed= 35 =and the timber.= _Johnson._
=There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.= _Hare._
=There is a God within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.= _Ovid._
=There is a great deal of folly in talking unnecessarily of one's private affairs.= _Burns._
=There is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defence, which is always prudent and justifiable.= _Chesterfield._
=There is a great discovery still to be made in= 40 =literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.= _Carlyle._
=There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.= _St. Evremond._
=There is a higher law than the constitution.= _W. H. Seward._
=There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring the nature of the times deceased; / The which observed, a man may prophesy, / With a near aim of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life: which, in their seeds / And weak beginnings, lie intreasurèd.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=There is a kind of pride in which are included all the commandments of God, and a kind of vanity which contains the seven mortal sins.= _Chamfort._
=There is a life which taketh not its hues / From earth or earthly things; and so grows pure / And higher than the petty cares of men, / And is a blessed life and glorified.= _Lewis Morris._
=There is a living, literal communion of saints, wide as the world itself, and as the history of the world.= _Carlyle._
=There is a long and wearisome step between= 5 =admiration and imitation.= _Jean Paul._
=There is a lust in man no charm can tame, / Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame; / On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born and die.= _Harvey._
=There is a magic in a great name.= _S. Lover._
=There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts.= _Disraeli._
=There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.= (?)
=There is a measure of self-regard which is= 10 =right, wherein the individual self is identified with the universal self.= _J. C. Sharp._
=There is a mercy that is weakness, and even treason against the common good.= _George Eliot._
=There is a method in man's wickedness, / It grows by degrees.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=There is a nobler ambition than the getting of all California, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now.= _Carlyle._
=There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works.= _Carlyle._
=There is a period of life when our backward= 15 =movements are steps in advance.= _Rousseau._
=There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know.= _Cowper._
=There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not the man the less, / But Nature more.= _Byron._
=There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, which none but mad men know.= _Dryden._
=There is a power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication.= _Emerson._
=There is a probity of manners as well as of= 20 =conscience, and a true Christian will regard in a degree the conventionalities of society.= _De Boufflers._
=There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts--that is, the poet.= _Emerson._
=There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others,--men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=There is a remedy for everything but death.= _Cervantes._
=There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satisfaction for every soul.= _Emerson._
=There is a sacredness in tears. They are not= 25 =the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.= _Washington Irving._
=There is a skeleton in every house.= _Pr._
=Then is a snake in the grass.= _Pr._
=There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy.= _Fuller._
=There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=There is a spirit of resistance implanted by= 30 =the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.= _C. J. Fox._
=There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.= _Dickens._
=There is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack.= _Dibdin._
=There is a tendency in things to right themselves.= _Emerson._
=There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guarantee of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss.= _Emerson._
=There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which,= 35 =taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries; / On such a full sea are we now afloat; / And we must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=There is a time for all things.= _Pr._
=There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.= _Emerson._
=There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship.= _Burns._
=There is a time there for every purpose and for every work.= _Bible._
=There is a time wherein one man ruleth over= 40 =another to his own hurt.= _Bible._
=There is a true Church whenever one meets another helpfully, and that is the only holy or Mother Church which ever was or ever shall be.= _Ruskin._
=There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.= _Bible._
=There is a worth in honest ignorance; 'twere almost a pity to exchange for knowledge.= _Sterne._
=There is always life for a living one.= _Pr._
=There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.= _Emerson._
=There is always some levity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise and also to stray.= _Joubert._
=There is always the possibility of beauty= 5 =where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=There is an abasement because of glory, and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate.= _Ecclus._, xx. 11.
=There is an anger that is majestic as the frown of Jehovah's brow; it is the anger of truth and love.= _Ward Beecher._
=There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease.= _Washington Irving._
=There is a heroic innocence, as well a heroic courage.= (?)
=There is an insolence which none but those= 10 =who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.= _Fielding._
=There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer.= _Bacon._
=There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.= _St. Evremond._
=There is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; the thing which, here and now, it were wisest for him to do; whatsoever forwards him in that, were it even in the shape of blows and spurnings, is liberty; whatsoever hinders him, were it tremendous cheers and rivers of heavy wet, is slavery.= _Carlyle._
=There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth.= _Bacon._
=There is but one class of men to be trembled= 15 =at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see.= _Carlyle._
=There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it.= _Goethe._
=There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate.= _Bulwer._
=There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere.= _Johnson._
=There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.= _Novalis._
=There is but one thing without honour, smitten= 20 =with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be--insincerity, unbelief. He who believes nothing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all.= _Carlyle._
=There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts--fine breeding.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.= _Coriolanus_, v. 4.
=There is enjoyment even in sadness, and the same souvenirs which have produced long regrets may also soften them.= _De Boufflers._
=There is ever a certain languor attending the fulness of prosperity. When the heart has no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions, and the energy of the soul goes out, like a flame that has no more to devour.= _Young._
=There is evil in every human heart, which may= 25 =remain latent, perhaps through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to
## activity.= _Hawthorne._
=There is far less pleasure in doing a thing beautifully than in seeing it beautifully done.= _Ruskin._
=There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all its real progress in perfection.= _Degerando._
=There is forgiveness with God and Christ for the passing sin of the hot heart, but none for the eternal and inherent sin of the cold.= _Ruskin._
=There is genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the citizen, but which characterises the society.= _Emerson._
=There is great force hidden in a sweet command.= 30 _George Herbert._
=There is in human nature an essential, though somewhat mysterious, connection of love with fear.= _Henry Taylor._
=There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent.= _Bacon._
=There is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness!= _Carlyle._
=There is in nature an accessible and an inaccessible. Be careful to discriminate between the two. Be circumspect, and proceed with reverence.... It is always difficult to see where the one begins and the other leaves off. He who knows it, and is wise, will confine himself to the accessible.= _Goethe._
=There is in the heart of woman such a deep= 35 =well of love that no age can freeze it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will only take your share when it is set before you.= _Ruskin._
=There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=There is little wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent on one another.= _Dickens._
=There is more concern nowadays to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books about books than about any other subject. We do nothing but expound one another.= (?)
=There is more danger in a reserved and silent friend than in a noisy babbling enemy.= _L'Estrange._
=There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.= _Pr._
=There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest.= _Disraeli._
=There is music in all things, if men had ears.= 5 _Byron._
=There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing unless to live be to know Him by whom we live, and that He is not to be known amidst the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligence which He gave to men of old.= _Ruskin._
=There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of the web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.= _Emerson._
=There is never but one opportunity of a kind.= _Thoreau._
=There is no better counsellor than time.= _Pr._
=There is no better sign of a brave mind than a= 10 =hard hand.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 2.
=There is no better type of a perfectly free creature than the common house-fly.= _Ruskin._
=There is no bridge from one being to another, each is a self, each rests on itself, and wills only itself, knows only itself, understands only itself.= _Hamerling._
=There is no brotherhood possible, at any rate stable, between man and man but a brotherhood of labour.= _Ed._
=There is no cause why one man's nose is longer than another's, but because that God pleases to have it so.= _Sterne._
=There is no class of men so difficult to be= 15 =managed in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.= _Napoleon._
=There is no communion possible among men who believe only in hearsays.= _Carlyle._
=There is no contingency, and what to us seems only blind chance is an efflux from the depths of being.= _Schiller._
=There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.= _Southern._
=There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect.= _W. Winter._
=There is no darkness but ignorance.= _Twelfth_ 20 _Night_, iv. 2.
=There is no darkness unto the conscience, which can see without light.= _Sir T. Browne._
=There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=There is no defence against reproach but obscurity.= _Addison._
=There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.= _Emerson._
=There is no despair so absolute as that which= 25 =comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.= _George Eliot._
=There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man.= _Owen Feltham._
=There is no direr disaster in love than the death of imagination.= _George Meredith._
=There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion.= _Sherlock._
=There is no disputing against hobby-horses.= _Sterne._
=There is no education like adversity.= _Disraeli._ 30
=There is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning.= _Emerson._
=There is no end of settlements; there will never be an end; the best settlement is but a temporary
## partial one.= _Carlyle._
=There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man.= (?)
=There is no evil but is mingled with good.= _Guicciardini._
=There is no extremity of distress which of= 35 =itself ought to reduce a great nation to despair. It is not the disorder, but the physician ... which alone can make a whole people desperate.= _Junius._
=There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work.= _Spurgeon._
=There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.= _St. John._
=There is no fiercer hell than failure in a great object.= _Keats._
=There is no flock, however watched and tended, / But one dead lamb is there; / There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, / But has one vacant chair.= _Longfellow._
=There is no foolishest man but knows one and= 40 =the other thing more clearly than any the wisest man does.= _Carlyle._
=There is no gambling like politics.... Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.= _Disraeli._
=There is no genuine love for art without an ardent love for humanity.= _Fr. Horn._
=There is no Gethsemane without its angel.= _Rev. T. Binney._
=There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.= _Alexander Smith._
=There is no God but God, the living, the self-subsisting.= 45 _Koran._
=There is no going to heaven in a sedan.= _Pr._
=There is no good in arguing with the inevitable.= _Lowell._
=There is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire, which all smoke is capable of becoming.= _Carlyle._
=There is no great and no small / To the soul that maketh all; / And where it cometh, all things are; / And it cometh everywhere.= _Emerson._
=There is no great genius free from some tincture= 50 =of madness.= _Sen._
=There is no greater evil among men than a testament framed with injustice; where caprice hath guided the boon, or dishonesty refused what was due.= _Tupper._
=There is no greater fraud than a promise unfulfilled.= _Gael. Pr._
=There is no greater proof of human weakness than that which betrays itself in the boast of fortune and ancestry; these cannot ennoble us, but our conduct in life may ennoble or degrade them.= _Arliss._
=There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onset of things.= _Bacon._
=There is no grief like hate! no pains like passions!= 5 =no deceit like sense! Enter the path! far hath he gone whose foot treads down one fond offence.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=There is no grief that time will not soften.= _Pr._
=There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.= _Ruskin._
=There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; and there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.= _Carlyle._
=There is no jesting with edge tools.= _Pr._
=There is no joy without alloy.= _Pr._ 10
=There is no hiding of evil but not to do it.= _Gael. Pr._
=There is no index of character so sure as the voice.= _Disraeli._
=There is no legislation for liars and traitors; they cannot be prevented from the pit; the earth finally swallows them.... There is no law for these but gravitation.= _Ruskin._
=There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book than in being the first author of the thought.= _Bayle._
=There is no lie that many men will not believe;= 15 =there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.= _J. Sterling._
=There is no loss / In being small; great bulks but swell with dross. / Man is heaven's masterpiece; if it appear / More great, the value's less; if less, more dear.= _Quarles._
=There is no lustre= (_Glanz_) =without light; that is the first rule to which every author should pay regard.= _Cötvös._
=There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=There is no man on the streets whose biography I would not like to be acquainted with.= (?)
=There is no man so friendless but that he can= 20 =find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is no man so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own remorse.= _Sen._
=There is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war.= _Bible._
=There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less.= _Bacon._
=There is no man whom fortune does not visit= 25 =once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.= _Quoted by Montesquieu._
=There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.= _Aaron Hill._
=There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.= _Wellington._
=There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.= _Thoreau._
=There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty.= _Schlegel._
=There is no more welcome gift to men than a= 30 =new symbol.= _Emerson._
=There is no mortal extant, out of the depths of Bedlam, but lives all skinned, thatched, covered over with formulas; and is, as it were, held in from delirium and the inane by his formulas. These are the most beneficent and indispensable of human equipments; blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere discernible through it.= _Carlyle._
=There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.= _Lavater._
=There is no new thing under the sun.= _Bible._
=There is no object of desire the supreme vanity of which we do not recognise and confess when once we have embraced it.= _Renan._
=There is no object so foul that intense light= 35 =will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay.= _Emerson._
=There is no one the friend of another: there is no one the enemy of another: friends, as well as enemies, are created through our transactions.= _Hitopadesa._
=There is no one who does not exaggerate.= _Emerson._
=There is no ordinance obliging us to fight those who are stronger than ourselves. Such fighting, as it were, with an elephant, is the same as men's fighting against rocks.= _Hitopadesa._
=There is no other ghost save the ghost of our own childhood, the ghost of our own innocence, the ghost of our own airy belief.= _Dickens._
=There is no other revelation than the thoughts= 40 =of the wise.= _Schopenhauer._
=There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.= _Goethe._
=There is no part of the furniture of a man's mind which he has a greater right to exult in than that which he has hewn and fashioned for himself.= _Ruskin._
=There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire these planets, which roll, like ours, in different orbits round the same central sun; ... and whilst my soul is thus raised up to heaven, it imports me little what ground I tread upon.= _Bolingbroke._
=There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.= _Goethe._
=There is no peace in ambition; it is always gloomy, and often unreasonably so. The kindness of the king, the regards of the courtiers, the attachment of my domestics, and the fidelity of a large number of friends, make me happy no longer.= _Mme. de Pompadour._
=There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.= _Goethe._
=There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honour is safe.= _Stahl._
=There is no place like home.= _J. H. Payne._
=There is no place where earth's sorrows / Are= 5 =more felt than up in heaven; / There is no place where earth's failings / Have such kindly judgment given.= _F. W. Faber._
=There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is no pure malignity in nature.= _Emerson._
=There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom.= _Burke._
=There is no real life but cheerful life.= _Addison._
=There is no repose for the mind except in the= 10 =absolute.= _Amiel._
=There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.= _Amiel._
=There is no respect of persons with God.= _St. Paul._
=There is no returning from a= _dégout_ =given by satiety.= _Lady Montagu._
=There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart.= _Ecclus._
=There is no right faith in believing what is= 15 =true, unless we believe it because it is true.= _Whately._
=There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.= _La Bruyère._
=There is no royal road to geometry.= _Euclid._
=There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.= _E. Everett._
=There is no solemnity so deep, to a right thinking creature, as that of dawn.= _Ruskin._
=There is no solitude in nature.= _Schiller._ 20
=There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city. So many thousands, and not one friend.= _Boiste._
=There is no spirit without a body unless it be a ghost, and no body without a spirit unless it be a corpse.= _German lore._
=There is no sporting with a fellow-creature's happiness or misery.= _Burns._
=There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.= _Byron._
=There is no stronger test of a man's real= 25 =character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice.= _Plutarch._
=There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.= _Lord Bacon._
=There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.= _Stedman._
=There is no such thing as being agreeable without a thorough good-humour, a natural sweetness of temper, enlivened by cheerfulness.= _Lady Montagu._
=There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.= _Schiller._
=There is no such thing as Liberty in the universe:= 30 =there can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.= _Ruskin._
=There is no sure foundation set on blood; / No certain life achieved by others' death.= _King John_, iv. 2.
=There is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution.= _Tillotson._
=There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; / For I am armed so strong in honesty / That they pass by me as the idle wind / Which I respect not.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means.= _Emerson._
=There is no time so miserable, but a man may= 35 =be true.= _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3.
=There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth.= _Byron._
=There is no true action without will.= _Rousseau._
=There is no true love without jealousy.= _Pr._
=There is no vague general capability in men.= _Goethe._
=There is no vice or folly that requires so much= 40 =nicety and skill to manage as vanity.= _Swift._
=There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self.= _Anon._
=There is no vice so simple but assumes / Some mark of virtue in his outward parts.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=There is no venom like that of the tongue.= _Pr._
=There is no wealth but life--life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.= _Ruskin._
=There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that= 45 =is not patient doing.= _J. G. Holland._
=There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.= _Bible._
=There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded.= _Lowell._
=There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens.= _It. Pr._
=There is no worse joke than a true one.= _It. and Sp. Pr._
=There is none so blind as they that won't see.= 50 _Swift._
=There is none so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness.= _Thoreau._
=There is not a Red Indian hunting by Lake Winnipeg can quarrel with his squaw but the whole world must smart for it; will not the price of beaver rise?= _Carlyle._
=There is not any benefit so glorious in itself but it may be exceedingly sweetened and improved by the manner of conferring it. The virtue, I know, rests in the intent, but the beauty and ornament of an obligation lies in the manner of it.= _Sen._
=There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.= _Addison._
=There is not in national life any real epoch, because there is nothing in reality abrupt. Events, however great or sudden, are consequences of preparations long ago made.= _Draper._
=There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.= _L'Estrange._
=There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole= 5 =catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.= _Pr._
=There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.= _Pr._
=There is not yet any inventory of man's faculties.= _Emerson._
=There is nothing beyond the pleasure which the study of Nature produces. Her secrets are of unfathomable depth, but it is granted to us men to look into them more and more.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing born but has to die.= _Carlyle._ 10
=There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women.= _Romilly._
=There is nothing capricious in nature.= _Emerson._
=There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.= _Jesus._
=There is nothing divine but what is rational.= _Kant._
=There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking= 15 =makes it so.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=There is nothing exasperates people more than the display of superior ability or brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts.= _Johnson._
=There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.= _Jesus._
=There is nothing good or evil save in the will.= _Epictetus._
=There is nothing good or godlike in this world= 20 =but has in it something of "infinite sadness."= _Carlyle._
=There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.= _Longfellow._
=There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing in this world that will keep the devil out of one but hard labour.= _Carlyle._
=There is nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident than in politics.= _Disraeli._
=There is nothing innocent or good that dies= 25 =and is forgotten.= _Dickens._
=There is nothing insignificant, nothing!= _Coleridge._
=There is nothing lighter than vain praise.= _William Drummond._
=There is nothing like leather.= _Pr. A cobbler's advice in an emergency._
=There is nothing like the cold dead hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism, and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.= _Holmes._
=There is nothing little to the truly great in= 30 =spirit.= _Dickens._
=There is nothing more allied to the barbarous and savage character than sullenness, concealment, and reserve.= _Parke Godwin._
=There is nothing more characteristic than the shakes of the hand.= _Sydney Smith._
=There is nothing more charming than to see a mother with a child in her arms, and nothing more venerable than a mother among a number of her children.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more frightful than imagination= 35 =without taste.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more perennial in us than habit and imitation. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning.= _Carlyle._
=There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.= _J. G. Holland._
=There is nothing more terrible to a guilty heart than the eye of a respected friend.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=There is nothing new under the sun.= _Bible._ 40
=There is nothing of which men are so fond and so careless as life.= _La Bruyère._
=There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity.= _Melanchthon._
=There is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form, and nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=There is nothing on earth without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives us, and love we feel, help us to overcome obstruction, to pave our way, and to raise ourselves out of the narrow circle in which others sorrowfully torture themselves.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing really more monstrous in any= 45 =recorded savagery or absurdity of mankind than that governments should be able to get money for any folly they choose to commit, by selling to capitalists the right of taxing future generations to the end of time.= _Ruskin._
=There is nothing so agonising to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things that he has prepared for them that love him.= _Ruskin._
=There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange.= _Dan. Webster._
=There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands.= _Ruskin._
=There is nothing so secret but it comes to= 5 =light.= _Pr._
=There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object.= _Baron de Grimm._
=There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing to be found only once in the world.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing to which man is not related.= _Emerson._
=There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.= 10 _Ward Beecher._
=There is nothing without us that is not also within us.= _Goethe._
=There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them.= _Locke._
=There is often more true spiritual force in a proverb than in a philosophical system.= _Carlyle._
=There is / One great society alone on earth; / The noble living and the noble dead.= (?)
=There is one preacher who does preach with= 15 =effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things.= _Carlyle._
=There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just.= _Ruskin._
=There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man.= _Schopenhauer._
=There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.= _Lowell._
=There is only one true religion, but there may be many forms of belief.= _Kant._
=There is poetry and beauty in the common= 20 =lives about us, if we look at them with imaginative and sympathetic eye.= _J. Morley._
=There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication.= _Emerson._
=There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong.= _Carlyle._
=There is properly but one slavery in the world--the slavery of wisdom to folly.= _Carlyle._
=There is properly no history, only biography.= _Emerson._
=There is, properly speaking, no misfortune in= 25 =the world. Happiness and misfortune stand in continual balance. Every misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts forth with the greater force.= _Novalis._
=There is really something absurd about the Present; all that people think of is the sight, the touch of each other, and there they rest; but it never occurs to them to reflect upon what is to be gained from such moments.= _Goethe._
=There is safety in solitude.= _Saadi._
=There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure, but security enough to make fellowships accursed.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=There is scarcely a good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is sentiment in all women, and sentiment= 30 =gives delicacy to thought, and tact to manner. But sentiment with men is generally acquired, an offspring of the intellectual quality, not, as with the other sex, of the moral.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is so much of good among the worst, so much of evil in the best, such seeming partialities in providence, so many things to lessen and expand, yea, and with all man's boast, so little real freedom of his will, that to look a little lower than the surface, garb, or dialect, or fashion, thou shalt feebly pronounce for a saint, and faintly condemn for a sinner.= _Tupper._
=There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all.= _Lord Bolingbroke._
=There is some soul of goodness in things evil, / Would men observingly distil it out.= _Henry V._, iv. 1.
=There is some use in having two attorneys in one firm. Their movements resemble those of the man and woman in a Dutch babyhouse. When it is fair weather with the client, out comes the gentleman partner to fawn like a spaniel; when it is foul, forth bolts the operative brother to pin like a bull-dog.= _Scott._
=There is something behind the throne greater= 35 =than the king himself.= _Chatham._
=There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom.= _Goldsmith._
=There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow.= _Hawthorne._
=There is something not solid in the good that is done for us.= _Emerson._
=There is something of all men in every man.= 40 _Lichtenberg._
=There is something so moving in the very image of weeping beauty.= _Steele._
=There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... "Dear heart, be quiet;" we say; "you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart!" And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat.= _Goethe._
=There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel.= _Carlyle._
=There is still enough to satisfy one in spite of all misfortunes.= _Goethe._
=There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.= _J. Wolfe to Pitt._
=There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.= _Bible._
=There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth:= 5 =and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.= _Bible._
=There is very great necessity indeed of getting a little more silent than we are.= _Carlyle._
=There is work on God's wide earth for all men that he has made with hands and hearts.= _Carlyle._
=There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.= _Tennyson._
=There may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it.= _Ruskin._
=There may often be less vanity in following the= 10 =new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.= _Joubert._
=There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.= _Plato._
=There must be a man behind a book.= _Emerson._
=There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.= _Gutzkow._
=There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both.= _Ruskin._
=There must first be seducing men before= 15 =seduced women.= _Jean Paul._
=There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave / To tell us this.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul.= _Carlyle._
=There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial.= _Scott._
=There never was a bad man but had ability for good service.= _Burke._
=There never was a great man unless through= 20 =Divine inspiration.= _Cicero._
=There never was a literary age whose dominant taste was not sickly.= _Joubert._
=There never was a talent, even for real literature, but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind.= _Carlyle._
=There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.= _South._
=There never was any party, faction, or sect in which the most ignorant was not the most violent.= _Pope._
=There never was so great a thought labouring= 25 =in the breasts of men as now.= _Emerson._
=There occur cases in human life when it is wisdom not to be too wise.= _Schiller._
=There remaineth a rest to the people of God.= _Bible._
=There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.= _Swift._
=There shall no evil happen to the just.= _Bible._
=There the wicked cease from troubling, and= 30 =there the weary be at rest.= _Bible._
=There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.= _Bible._
=There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream. / It is not now as it has been of yore; / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night or day, / The things which I have seen, I now can see no more.= _Wordsworth._
=There was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world.= _Joubert._
=There was but one Moses to the thousands of Israel that entered Jordan.= _Ward Beecher._
=There was never a nation great until it came= 35 =to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.= _C. D. Warner._
=There was never good or ill but women had to do with it.= _Gaelic Pr._
=There was never yet philosopher / Who could endure the toothache patiently.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=There was sense in the sentences, but the sum-total was nonsense.= _Criticism of a young preacher's discourse._
=There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.= _Winter's Tale_, v. 2.
=There were no ill language if it were not ill= 40 =taken.= _Pr._
=There where thou art, there where thou remainest, accomplish what thou canst.= _Goethe._
=There will always be a government of force where men are selfish.= _Emerson._
=There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! / A man who is not afraid to say his say, / Though a whole town's against him.= _Longfellow._
=There's a courage which grows out of fear.= _Byron._
=There's a divinity that shapes our ends, /= 45 =Rough-hew them as we will.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=There's a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety: find it out and keep to it.= _Spurgeon._
=There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=There's a sweeter flower than e'er / Blush'd on the rosy spray, / A brighter star, a richer bloom, / Than e'er did western heaven illume / At close of summer day--/ 'Tis Love, the last best gift of Heaven.= _Keble._
=There's always life for the living.= _Pr._
=There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.= _Ant. and Cleop._, i. 1.
=There's folks as make bad butter, and trusten to the salt t' hide it.= _George Eliot._
=There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was in their boots.= _George Eliot._
=There's husbandry in heaven; / Their candles are all out.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=There's language in her eye, her cheeks, her= 5 =lip, / Nay, her foot speaks.= _Troil. and Cress._, iv. 5.
=There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.= _George Eliot._
=There's many a slip / 'Twixt the cup and the lip.= _Pr._
=There's mercy in every place, / And mercy, encouraging thought, / Gives even affliction a grace, / And reconciles man to his lot.= _Cowper._
=There's music in the sighing of a reed; / There's music in the gushing of a rill; / There's music in all things, if men had ears.= _Byron._
=There's nae sorrow there, John, / There's= 10 =neither cauld nor care, John, / The day is aye fair, / In the land o' the leal.= _Lady Nairne._
=There's no armour against fate.= _Shirley._
=There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face.= _Macb._, i. 4.
=There's no folk sic idiots as them that looks like geniuses.= _J. M. Barrie._
=There's no glory like his who saves his country.= _Tennyson._
=There's no grace in a benefit that sticks to the= 15 =fingers.= _Sen._
=There's no great banquet but some fares ill.= _George Herbert._
=There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.= _George Eliot._
=There's no seeing one's way through tears.= _Pr._
=There's no slipping up-hill again, and no standing still when once you've begun to slip down.= _George Eliot._
=There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an'= 20 =starin', an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; an' keepin' your face i' smilin' order, like a grocer o' market-day.= _George Eliot._
=There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.= _Byron._
=There's not a place where Rest can say, / I'll not have Labour here; / For Rest itself would pine away / If Labour were not near.= _Hall._
=There's not a string attuned to mirth / But has its chord in melancholy.= _Hood._
=There's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.= _Much Ado_, v. 2.
=There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, /= 25 =But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.= _George Eliot._
=There's nothing certain but uncertainty.= _Pr._
=There's nothing half so sweet in life / As love's young dream.= _Moore._
=There's nothing situate under heaven's eye, / But hath its bound in earth, in sea, in sky.= _Comedy of Errors_, ii. 1.
=There's none that can / Read God aright, unless= 30 =he first spell man.= _Quarles._
=There's small choice in rotten apples.= _Tam. of Shrew_, i. 1.
=There's something good in all weathers. If it don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's to-day, and will come round to me to-morrow.= _Dickens._
=There's such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=There's things it's best to put off kenning as long as we can.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 35
=These / Are but the varied God. The rolling year / Is full of thee.= _Thomson._
="These are my jewels."= _Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, when she presented her five sons to a lady who had paraded her ornaments before her._
=These cases, wherein happiness would be sinful, are just as much, but no more, the ordainments of Providence as those more common ones wherein happiness is natural and right.= _W. R. Greg._
=These fair tales, which we know so beautiful, / Show only finer than our lives to-day / Because their voice was clearer, and they found / A sacred bard to sing them.= _Lewis Morris._
=These limbs, whence had we them; this= 40 =stormy force; this life-blood with its burning passion? They are dust and shadow: a shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein through some moments or years, the divine essence is to be revealed in flesh.= _Carlyle._
=These little things are great to little men.= _Goldsmith._
=These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, / Wad move the very heart o' stanes.= _Burns._
=These violent delights have violent ends.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 2.
=They are but beggars that can count their= 45 =worth.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=They are dead even for this life who hope for no better.= _Lorenzo de Medici._
=They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=They are not a pipe for fortune's finger, / To sound what stop she please.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=They are not all free who scorn their chains.= _Lessing._
=They are not kings who sit on thrones, but= 50 =they who know how to govern.= _Emerson._
=They are not sages who do not declare men's duty.= _Hitopadesa._
=They are slaves who dare not be / In the right with two or three.= _Lowell._
=They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly."= _Saadi._
=They can conquer who believe they can.= _Virgil._
=They do most by books who could do much without them; and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself is the substantial man.= _Sir T. Browne._
=They ever do pretend / To have received a wrong who wrong intend.= _Daniel._
=They fool me to the top of my bent.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.= _Milton._
=They grew in beauty side by side, / They fill'd= 5 =one home with glee; / Their graves are sever'd far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=They govern the world, these sweet-lipped women, because beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.= _Holmes._
=They had the divine right of kings to settle, these unfortunate ancestors of ours; ... and they did, on hest of necessity, manage to settle it.= _Carlyle of the Puritans._
=They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 1.
=They have destroyed the beaten track to heaven; we are now compelled to make for ourselves ladders.= _Joubert._
=They laugh that win.= _Othello_, iv. 2. 10
=They lose it= (the world) =that do buy it with much care.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=They love least that let men know their love.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=They love most who are least valued.= _Pr._
=They love not poison that do poison need.= _Rich. II._, v. 6.
=They love us truly who correct us freely.= _Pr._ 15
=They most assume who know the least.= _Gay._
=They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.= _Pr._
=They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.= _Confucius._
=They never taste who always drink; / They always talk who never think.= _Prior._
=They only are wise who know that they know= 20 =nothing.= _Carlyle._
=They only babble that practise not reflection.= _Sheridan._
=They only should own who can administer.= _Emerson._
=They only who build on ideas build for eternity.= _Emerson._
=They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but bog--if we stop, we sink.= _Queen Elizabeth._
=They said that Love would die when Hope was= 25 =gone, / And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; / At last she sought out Memory, and they trod / The same old paths where Love had walk'd with Hope, / And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.= _Tennyson._
=They say best men are moulded out of faults, / And, for the most, become much more the better / For being a little bad.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=They say Doubt is weak, but yet, if life be in the doubt, / The living doubt is more than Faith that life did never know.= _Dr. W. Smith._
="They say so" is half a lie.= _Pr._
=They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness.= _Tennyson._
=They that are above have ends in everything.= 30 _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colours but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.= _Selden._
=They that are booted are not always ready.= _Pr._
=They that be whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.= _Jesus._
=They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.= _Bible._
=They that bear a noble mind, / Where they= 35 =want of riches find.= _Wither._
=They that by pleading clothes / Do fortunes seek, when worth and service fail, / Would have their tale believed for their oaths, / And are like empty vessels under sail.= _George Herbert._
=They that deny a God destroy man's nobility. For, certainly, man is of kin to the beasts, by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.= _Bacon._
=They that do change old love for new, / Pray gods, they change for worse.= _George Peele._
=They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing.= _Zimmermann._
=They that drive away time spur a free horse.= 40 _Robert Mason._
=They that govern the most make the least noise.= _Selden._
=They that hold by the Divine / Clasp too the Human in their faith.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=They that know one another salute afar off.= _Pr._
=They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.= _Fuller._
=They that mean to make no use of friends will= 45 =be at little trouble to gain them: and to be without friendship is to be without one of the first comforts of our present state.= _Johnson._
=They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.= _Bible._
=They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.= _Bible._
=They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.= _Richard III._, i. 3.
=They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.= _Bible._
=They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.= 50 _Bible._
=They that will crowd about bonfires may, sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all.= _Carlyle._
=They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie: I am not ague-proof.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=They well deserve to have / That know the strong'st and surest way to get.= _Richard II._, iii. 3.
=They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.= _St. John._
=They who accuse and blacken thee wrongfully are much the greatest sufferers by their own malice and injustice.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=They who but slowly pacèd are / By plodding on may travel far.= _Wither._
=They who contract absurd habits are such as have no fear.= _Johnson._
=They who crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.= _Buckle._
=They who do not feel the darkness will never= 5 =look for the light.= _Buckle._
=They who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing but their narrow selves.= _Herder._
=They who gratefully the gods adore, / Still find their joys increasing more and more.= _Theocritus._
=They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.= _Leigh Hunt._
=They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune, need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.= _Goldsmith._
=They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate= 10 =seldom come to heat themselves at the altar.= _South._
=They who oppose a Ministry have always a better field for ridicule and reproof than they who defend it.= _Goldsmith._
=They who place their affections on trifles at first for amusement, will find those trifles at last become their serious concern.= _Goldsmith._
=They who play with the devil's rattles will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.= _Fuller._
=They who pretend most to universal benevolence are either deceivers or dupes--men who desire to cover their private ill-nature by a pretended regard for all.= _Goldsmith._
=They who resign life rather than part with= 15 =liberty do only a prudent action; but those who lay it down for friends and country do a heroic one.= _Steele._
=They who resist indiscriminately all improvement as innovation, may find themselves compelled at last to submit to innovations although they are not improvements.= _Canning._
=They who seek only for faults see nothing else.= _Pr._
=They who sustain their cross shall likewise be sustained by it in return.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=They who travel in pursuit of wisdom walk only in a circle, and, after all their labour, at last return to their pristine ignorance.= _Goldsmith._
=They who want a farthing, and have no friend= 20 =that will lend them it, think farthings very good things.= _Goldsmith._
=They who want money when they come to borrow, will always want money when they should come to pay.= _Goldsmith._
=They who will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch.= (?)
=They whom truth and wisdom lead / Can gather honey from a weed.= _Cowper._
=Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks / In Vallombrosa.= _Milton._
=Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,= 25 =saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.= _Bible._
=Thine is the right, for thine the might.= _Tennyson._
=Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.= _Bible._
=Thine own worm be not: yet such jealousy, As hurts not others, but may make thee better, / Is a good spur.= _George Herbert._
=Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain / But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ... / Many affecting wit beyond their power, / Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.= _George Herbert._
=Things are graceful in a friend's mouth which= 30 =are blushing in a man's own.= _Bacon._
=Things are his property alone who knows how to use them.= _Xenophon._
=Things are long-lived, and God above appoints their term; yet when the brains of a thing have been out for three centuries and odd, one does wish it would be kind enough and die.= _Carlyle._
=Things are not so false always as they seem.= _Carlyle._
=Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.= _Cudworth._
=Things are what they are by nature, not by= 35 =will.= _Cudworth._
=Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward / To what they were before.= _Macb._, iv. 2.
=Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Things fasten upon thee only according as the degree of thy own love and inclination for them gives opportunity and advantage.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Things good, great Jove, asked or unasked,= 40 =supply: / Things evil, though we ask for them, deny.= _Anon._
=Things have their laws as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.= _Emerson._
=Things ill got had ever bad success.... I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Things may serve long, but not serve ever.= _All's Well_, ii. 2.
=Things more excellent than every image are expressed through images.= _Jamblichus._
=Things must turn when they can go no farther.= 45 _Spurgeon._
=Things refuse to be mismanaged long.= _Carlyle._
=Things seen are mightier than things heard.= _Tennyson._
=Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action.= _Goethe._
=Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste.= _Pr._
=Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done, is done.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.
=Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.= _Delaune._
=Think and thank God.= _Pr._ 5
=Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; / Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, / And trifles life.= _Young._
=Think not, dream not that thou livest, / If thy hand doth idly lie, / If thy soul for ever longing, / Yearn but for the by and bye.= _M. W. Wood._
=Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.= _Jesus._
=Think not thy fame at every twitch will break; / By great deeds show that thou canst little do; / And do them not; that shall thy wisdom be; / And change thy temperance into bravery.= _George Herbert._
=Think not thy own shadow longer than that of= 10 =others.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay.= _Johnson._
=Think of ease, but work on.= _George Herbert._
=Think of "living!" Thy life, wert thou the "pitifullest of all the sons of earth," is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with.= _Carlyle._
=Think of the hosts of worlds, and of the plagues in this world-mote--death puts an end to the whole.= _Carlyle._
=Think with awe on the slow, the quiet power= 15 =of time.= _Schiller._
=Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.= _Lessing._
=Think ye that God made the universe, and then let it run round his finger?= (_am Finger laufen liesse_). _Goethe._
=Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum / Of things for ever speaking, / That nothing of itself will come, / But we must still be seeking.= _Wordsworth._
=Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.= _Lavater._
=Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? /= 20 =It doth; but actions are our epochs.= _Byron._
=Thinking about sin, beyond what is indispensable for the firm effort to get rid of it, is waste of energy and waste of time.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Thinking is but an idle waste of thought; / For nought is everything, and everything is nought.= _Smith, "Rejected Addresses."_
=Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.= _Emerson._
=Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind.= _Pestalozzi._
=Thinking nurseth thinking.= _Sir P. Sidney._ 25
=This above all; to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=This bodes some strange eruption to our state.= _Ham._, i. 1.
=This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a citizen of those that are to come.= _Schiller._
="This comes of walking on the earth."= _The Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the ground. Sp. Pr._
=This communicating of a man's self to his= 30 =friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.= _Bacon._
=This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.= _Henry V._, v. 2.
=This day's propitious to be wise in.= _Burns._
=This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=This ever-renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.= _Emerson._
=This fell sergeant, death, / Is strict in his= 35 =arrest.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, / For freedom only deals the deadly blow: / Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade / For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.= _John Quincy Adams._
=This I think charity--to love God for himself, and our neighbour for God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=This is a great--properly the greatest--moment in a man's life, when, reconciling himself to necessity, he is able with clearness of purpose to say, "Let the will of the gods be done."= _Ed._
="This is a sharp medicine, but it cures all disorders."= _Raleigh of the axe of his executioner._
=This is faith; it is nothing more than obedience.= 40 _Voltaire._
=This is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.= _Montesquieu._
=This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.= _Carlyle._
=This is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance should arise in the commonwealth, but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.= _Milton._
=This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve.= _J. C. Sharp._
=This is the humour of it.= _Henry V._, ii. 1. 45
=This is the monstrosity in love--that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hopes; 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.
=This is the very coinage of your brain; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it engenders and must bring forth more evil.= _Schiller._
=This is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart.= _Harley._
=This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it.= _Browning._
=This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with= 5 =them.= _Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach._
=This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future--two eternities.= _Moore._
=This nothing's more than matter.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=This of old is sure, / That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure.= _Lewis Morris._
=This one fact the world hates--that the soul becomes.= _Emerson._
=This present is a ruinous and ruining world.= 10 _Carlyle._
=This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky bends over all.= _Coleridge._
=This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an air-image, our Me the only reality; and Nature, with its thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream," or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names it, "the living visible garment of God."= _Carlyle._
=This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but knew what to do with it.= _Emerson._
=This was a man.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=This was the most unkindest cut of all.= _Jul._ 15 _Cæs._, iii. 2.
=This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.
=This world belongs to the energetic.= _Emerson._
=This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle.= _Burns._
=This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven.= _Moore._
=This world is full of fools, and he who would= 20 =not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.= _Boileau._
=This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me!= (uncle Toby to the fly). _Sterne._
=This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.= _Johnson._
=Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.= _Dut. Pr._
=Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them.= _Tennyson._
=Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll /= 25 =Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul?= _Tennyson._
=Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness.= _Lear_, i. 1.
=Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy.= _Addison._
=Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose.= _L'Estrange._
=Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.= _Scott._
=Those faults conscience has not strength to= 30 =prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.= _Goldsmith._
=Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth.= _Shelley._
=Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light--are luminous, not sparkling.= _Longfellow._
=Those only are despicable who fear to be= 35 =despised.= _La Roche._
=Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.= _Hazlitt._
=Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.= _Goethe._
=Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt.= _Goethe._
=Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps.= _Hazlitt._
=Those persons who do most good are least= 40 =conscious of it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Those tender tears that humanise the soul.= _Thomson._
=Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them.= _Colton._
=Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.= _Bacon._
=Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.= _Bishop Hall._
=Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can= 45 =never do that's slain.= _Butler._
=Those that have loved longest love best.= _Johnson._
=Those that think must govern those that toil.= _Goldsmith._
=Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, / Begin with weak straws.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.
=Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.= _Tillotson._
=Those who are elevated enough in life to reason= 50 =and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear of the venal contagion of a court--these are a nation's strength!= _Burns._
=Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.= _Landor._
=Those who attempt to level never equalise; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.= _Burke._
=Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Those who can sit at home and gloat over their thousands in silent satisfaction are generally found to do it in plain clothes.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who carry much upon their clothes= 5 =are remarked for having but little in their pockets.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.= _Pr._
=Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.= _Arist._
=Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves.= _Hitopadesa._
=Those who give the first shock to a state are= 10 =naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters for another's net.= _Montaigne._
=Those who have even studied good books may still be fools.= _Hitopadesa._
=Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit.= _Cic._
=Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare.= _Pr._
=Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.= _La Bruyère._
=Those who only run after little things will not= 15 =go far.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Those who profess most are ever the least sincere.= _Sheridan._
=Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours.= _Arliss._
=Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness be not their portion.= _Froude._
=Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice or despise their judgment.= _Burns._
=Those who set their minds to deny things, and= 20 =are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only keep incessantly walking up and down before them in as composed a manner as possible.= _Goethe._
=Those who trust us educate us.= _George Eliot._
=Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.= _Churchill._
=Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires / The purest of thy flour, as well as of thy fires.= _Quarles._
=Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much= 25 =more ignorant of what is fit for thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Thou art in the end what thou art.= _Goethe._
=Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy.= _Carlyle._
=Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=Thou art thyself to all eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for= 30 =thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee.= _St. Augustine._
=Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky.= _F. W. Faber._
=Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.
=Thou hast not what others have, and others= 35 =have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability.= _Gellert._
=Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.= _John Selden._
=Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading.= _Fuller._
=Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence.= _Fuller._
=Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live= 40 =unto thyself.= _Sen._
=Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long.= _Goethe._
=Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound.= _King Lear_, i. 2.
=Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine= (Independence), =and worship here.= _Burns._
=Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer.= _Goethe._
="Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters= 45 =as legible as "Thou shalt not."= _Carlyle._
=Thou shalt look outward, not inward.= _Carlyle._
=Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.= _Bible._
=Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony, / Content thee with one simple strain, / ... Till thou art duly trained, and taught / The concord sweet of Love divine.= _Keble._
=Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed at.= _M. Arnold on Shakespeare._
=Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.
=Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it like a royal heart; let the price of it be nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense got all for it.= _Carlyle._
=Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil= 5 =were dead.= _Sc. Pr._
=Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom.= (?)
=Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him.= _Bible._
=Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God.= _Burns._
=Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.= _Quinct._
=Though an honourable title may be conveyed= 10 =to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred.= (?)
=Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full.= _Denham._
=Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power.= _M. W. Wood._
=Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw.= _Pr._
=Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him.= 15 _Bible._
=Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.= _John Wesley._
=Though justice be thy plea, consider this--/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation.= _Mer. of Venice_, iv. 1.
=Though last, not least.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=Though little fire grows great with little wind, / Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.= _Tam. of Shrew_, ii. 1.
=Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right= 20 =severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, / Ye'll find nae ither where.= _Burns._
=Though lost to sight, to memory dear.= _Anon._
=Though love cannot plant morals in the human breast, it cultivates them when there.= _Goldsmith._
=Though much is taken, much abides.= _Tennyson._
=Though old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best.= _Lowell._
=Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet= 25 =the qualifications and predispositions necessary for procuring and preserving it are the care of very few.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him poorest of his clan, / He's the noble--who advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man!= _C. Swain._
=Though stars in skies may disappear, / And angry tempests gather, / The happy hour may soon be near / That brings us pleasant weather.= _Burns._
=Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind.= _Pr._
=Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and justice fall not.= _J. Burroughs._
=Though the world exists for thought, thought= 30 =is daunted in presence of the world.= _Emerson._
=Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost.= _Thomas Tusser._
=Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience.= _Pr._
=Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.= _Milton._
=Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon= 35 =me.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures.= _Burns._
=Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you.= _Pr._
=Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ... The prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Thought discovered is the more possessed.= _Young._
=Thought disturbs the world, and thought of= 40 =God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, / And only life can comprehend its force, / Or guide it.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.= _Goethe._
=Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach / What unto themselves was taught.= _C. P. Cranch._
=Thought is free.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake.= _Amiel._
=Thought is silence.= _Sheridan._ 45
=Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.= _Emerson._
=Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.= _Emerson._
=Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.= _Hare._
=Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Thought once awakened does not again slumber.= _Carlyle._
=Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.= _Emerson._
=Thought, true labour of any kind, highest= 5 =virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself--that is thought.= _Carlyle._
=Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth.= _Carlyle._
=Thought works in silence, so does virtue.= _Carlyle._
=Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day.= _Ruskin._
=Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.= _Shakespeare._
=Thoughts are not always at our beck; we= 10 =must wait till they come.= _Schopenhauer._
=Thoughts= (are) =the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.= _Delaune._
=Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened.= _Emerson._
=Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.= _Young._
=Thoughts take up no room.= _Jeremy Collier._ 15
=Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.= _Gray._
=Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.= _Wordsworth._
=Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers.= _Milton._
=Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions.= _Goethe._
=Threaten the threatener, and outface the= 20 =brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.= _King John_, v. 1.
=Threatened folks live long.= _Pr._
=Three may keep a secret--if two of them are dead.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Three poets in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. / The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; / The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The force of Nature could no further go; / To make a third, she join'd the former two.= _Dryden._
=Three removes are as bad as a fire.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Three things drive a man out of doors--smoke,= 25 =a leaking roof, and a scolding wife.= _Pr._
=Three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory.= _Southey._
=Three thousand miles of ocean space are less impressive than three miles bounded by rugged mountain walls.= _John Burroughs._
=Three women and a goose make a market.= _It., Dut., and Dan. Pr._
=Thrice happy he who without rigour saves.= _Thomson._
=Thrice happy life that's from ambition free.= 30 _Allan Ramsay._
=Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 2.
=Thrift must begin with little savings.= _Pr._
=Thrifty be, but not covetous.= _George Herbert._
=Through certain humours or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.= _Lord Shaftesbury._
=Through every star, through every grass= 35 =blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.= _Carlyle._
=Through steep ascents, through strait and rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow path for the more easy road.= _Boscan._
=Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing.= _Carlyle of his father._
=Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.= _Thoreau._
=Through wisdom is an house builded; and by= 40 =understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.= _Bible._
=Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread.= _Pr._
=Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen=--In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. _Goethe._
=Thursday come, and the week's gone.= _Pr._
=Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;= 45 =/ Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.= _Congreve._
=Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.= _Twelfth Night_, iv. 2.
=Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.= 2 _Hen. IV._, ii. 2.
=Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 5.
=Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not= 50 =to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me.= _Milton._
=Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.= _Fichte._
=Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes / Still in thy heart, that he may see what's there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice.... / But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone.= _George Herbert._
=Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy own work.= _Pr._
=Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.= _Bible._
=Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human= 5 =kindness / To catch the nearest way.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.= _Bible._
=Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.= _Ben. Jonson._
=Thy secret is thy prisoner.= _Pr._
=Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.= _Wordsworth._
=Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord= 10 =of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky!= _Smollett._
=Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be humble and be just.= _Prior._
=Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven, whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never behold, but only with the spiritual.= _Carlyle._
=Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu=--I can see no danger to which you are exposed, other than that which threatens the destruction of us all. _Cic._
=Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you.= _Pr._ 15
=Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit and serve his need, / Deserves his load.= _George Herbert._
=Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.= _Mahomet._
=Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand=--Deeply and earnestly thoughtful men stand on an unfavourable footing with the public. _Goethe._
=Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön sagt was er dacht' und empfand=--To think deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many; only he who expresses beautifully what he has thought and felt is a poet. _Geibel._
=Tiens à la vérité=--Stick to the truth. _M._ 20
=Tiens à ta foy=--Hold to thy faith. _M._
=Tiers état=--The third estate; the commons. _Fr._
=Till the hand ... from reed or string / Draws out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That bring God nearer to a faithless world.= _Lewis Morris._
=Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety.= _Canning._
=Time and I against any two.= _Philip II._ 25
=Time and space are not God, but creations of God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so is it an everlasting Now.= _Carlyle._
=Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.= _Pr._
=Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing away / Are the world, and the ages, and we.= _Lord Lytton._
=Time brings roses.= _Pr._ 30
=Time conquers all, and we must time obey.= _Pope._
=Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion.= _Schiller._
=Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature.= _Cic._
=Time devours all things.= _Pr._
=Time dissipates to shining ether the solid= 35 =angularity of facts.= _Emerson._
=Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution.= _Hitopadesa._
=Time elaborately thrown away.= _Young._
=Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift.= _Börne._
=Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame.= _Carlyle._
=Time has only a relative existence.= _Carlyle._ 40
=Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast fetters eternal on him.= _Schiller._
=Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.= _Jean Paul._
=Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.= _Goethe._
=Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour many thousand grains of sand run out, so quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men.= _Schiller._
=Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I= 45 =drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.= _Thoreau._
=Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost the same moment.= _Amiel._
=Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity can give.= _Young._
=Time is generally the best doctor.= _Ovid._
=Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured, if one will really fill it up.= _Goethe._
=Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly= 50 =shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, / Grasps in the comer.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.= _Bacon._
=Time is money.= _Pr._
=Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it.= _Zimmermann._
=Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index.= _R. H. Busk._
=Time is the chrysalis of eternity.= _Jean Paul._
=Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time?= _Longfellow._
=Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.= _Colton._
=Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.= _Two_ 5 _Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Time is the stuff life is made of.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar.= _Hitopadesa._
=Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and= 10 =transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time.= _Carlyle._
=Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.= _Colton._
=Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny.= _W. H. Burleigh._
=Time trieth truth.= _Pr._
=Time was when a Christian used to apologise= 15 =for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Time wasted is existence; used, is life.= _Young._
=Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles.= _Hume._
=Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love; and in the hour of threatened separation its growth is manifested at once in radiant brightness.= _Jean Paul._
=Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.= _Euripides._
=Time works great changes.= _Pr._ 20
=Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; / Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.= _Byron._
=Time's best gift to us is serenity.= _Bovee._
=Time's noblest offspring is the last.= _Berkeley._
=Time's the king of men; / He's both their parent and he is their grave, / And gives them what he will, not what they crave.= _Pericles_, ii. 3.
=Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power= 25 =cannot change them, but Love may; / What cannot be, Love counts it done.= _Keble._
=Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better not do the deed, than weep it done.= _Prior._
=Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes=--I distrust the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. _Virg._
=Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds.= _Colton._
=Timet pudorem=--He fears shame. _M._
=Timidi mater non flet=--The mother of the coward 30 has no occasion to weep. _Pr._
=Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus=--The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. _Pub. Syr._
=Timor Domini fons vitæ=--The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. _M._
=Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! / He, like the world, his ready visit pays / Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.= _Young._
=Tirer le diable par la queue=--To be in great 35 straits (_lit._ to pull the devil by the tail).
=Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat=--To make a cat's paw of any one (_lit._ to take the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw). _La Fontaine._
=Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée=--Draw the curtain; the farce is played out. _Last words of Rabelais._
='Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
='Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man.= _Henry VIII._, v. 2.
='Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort.= _Pr._ 40
='Tis a good ill that comes alone.= _Pr._
='Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
='Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.= _Winter's Tale_, iii. 3.
='Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 6.
='Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity= 45 =makes the most poets.= _Farquhar._
='Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it.= _Rich. III._, iii. 2.
='Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one.= _The Witch of Edmonton._
='Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects.= _Goethe._
='Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books.= _Emerson._
='Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's= 50 =the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit.= _Swift._
='Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine.= 3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.
='Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.
='Tis better to cry over your goods than after them.= _Pr._
='Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._
='Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
='Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves.= _Blair._
='Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven--/ This is not easy.= _Wordsworth._
='Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
='Tis day still while the sun shines.= _Pr._ 5
='Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love.= _Rich. III._, ii. 1.
='Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue.= _Campbell._
='Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.= _Pope._
='Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.
='Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; /= 10 =Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.= _Suckling._
='Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole.= _Coleridge._
='Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking.= _Lowell._
='Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.= _Much Ado_, i. 3.
='Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent.= _Goethe._
='Tis life itself to love.= _Goethe._ 15
='Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth.= _Goethe._
='Tis little we can do for each other.= _Emerson._
='Tis long since death had the majority.= _Blair._
='Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater than the god.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 2.
='Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy,= 20 =that we think no place more agreeable than that where we are.= _Lady Montagu._
='Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
='Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the joint force and full result of all.= _Pope._
='Tis not always necessary that truth should be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the chime of bells, it vibrates through the air solemnly and kindly.= _Goethe._
='Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 1.
='Tis not enough when swarming faults are= 25 =writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit.= _Dryden._
='Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.= _Pope._
='Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it.= _Addison._
='Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may.= _Goethe._
='Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
='Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but= 30 =the excess.= _Selden._
='Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die.= _J. Montgomery._
='Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.= _Montaigne._
='Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.= _Browning._
='Tis not worth while quarrelling with the world, simply to afford it some amusement.= _Goethe._
='Tis now the very witching time of night, /= 35 =When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
='Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives Nature, only men collectively that live the life of man.= _Goethe._
='Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome.= _Goethe._
='Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the watchful eye; the back, without defence, must find its shield in man's fidelity.= _Schiller._
='Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
='Tis only strict precision of thought that confers= 40 =facility of expression.= _Schiller._
='Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes a true queen; wherever she appears, and by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty.= _Schiller._
='Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.= _Byron._
='Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition because some crosses have baulked your expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._
='Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness of whate'er on land is seen.= _Wordsworth._
='Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On= 45 =rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; / ... But mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the soul.= _Simonides._
='Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.
='Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn their bread, / And in us they survive.= _Thomson._
='Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first.= _Othello_, i. 1.
='Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / And intimates eternity to man.= _Addison._
='Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly= 50 =for a reflection of itself.= _Goethe._
='Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society.= _Emerson._
='Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great.= _Emerson._
='Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.= _Emerson._
='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.
='Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.= _Emerson._
='Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue= 5 =himself and blush.= _George Herbert._
='Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if the whole earth were thatched with leather.= _Persian Pr._
='Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings.= _Coleridge._
='Tis this= (religion), =my friend, that streaks our morning bright.= _Thomson._ (?)
='Tis too much proved that, with devotion's visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er / The devil himself.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
='Tis well for once to do everything one can do,= 10 =in order to have the merit of knowing one's self more intimately.= _Goethe._
='Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new.= (?)
='Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept employed.= _Schiller._
='Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own.= _Pope._
=Tit for tat is fair play.= _Pr._
=Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons= 15 =and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.= _Goldsmith._
=Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title.= _John Ford._
=Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal.= (?)
=Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis=--Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. _Suetonius._
=To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post.= _Hitopadesa._
=To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a= 20 =dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow.= _Schopenhauer._
=To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.= _Euripides._
=To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies.= _Auerbach._
=To a new truth nothing is more mischievous than an old error.= _Goethe._
=To a poet nothing can be useless.= _Johnson._
=To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say= 25 =he is brave towards God and a coward towards man.= _Montaigne._
=To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die.= _Vauvenargues._
=To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one another--this is really the highest enjoyment to which we ought to aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature, or of life.= _Goethe._
=To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.= _Goethe._
=To act with a purpose is what raises man above the brutes; to invent with a purpose, to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes genius from the petty artists who only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate.= _Lessing._
=To adhere to what is set down in them, and= 30 =appropriate to one's self what one can for moral strengthening and culture, is the only edifying purpose to which we can turn the Gospels.= _Goethe._
=To affect a quality is just to confess that you have not got it.= _Schopenhauer._
=To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk and we do little service.= _Goldsmith._
=To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth embittered with gall.= _Schopenhauer._
=To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.= _Emerson._
=To appear well-bred, a man must actually be= 35 =so.= _Goethe._
=To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.= _Goethe._
=To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.= _Diogenes._
=To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows.= _Junius._
=To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe pain is the business of the poet, or singer= (_Sänger_). _Bodenstedt._
=To be a good poet and painter genius is required,= 40 =and this cannot be communicated.= _Goethe._
=To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.= _William Penn._
=To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.= _Cowley._
=To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.= _Thoreau._
=To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.= _George Eliot._
=To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder.= _Goethe._
=To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance= (_Nachsicht_); =to be compelled to be silent shows the spirit of the time.= _Weber._
=To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.= _Junius._
=To be always lamenting and always complaining without raising and nerving one's self to resignation, is to lose at once both earth and heaven, and have nothing over but a watery sentimentalism.= _Schopenhauer._
=To be always thinking about your manners is= 5 =not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.= _Whately._
=To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of affection, the noblest and the best that a mortal can be.= _Wieland._
=To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves.= _Pope._
=To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.= _Wendell Phillips._
=To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius.= _Balzac._
=To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of= 10 =no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg.= _Hans Andersen._
=To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.= _Pr._
=To be borne seems to many ever more kingly than to bear; and a ship carried with the breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle than when it stands against it, victoriously braving it.= _Ed._
=To be disobedient through temptation is human sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience, fiendish sin. To be obedient for the sake of success in conduct is human virtue; to be obedient for the sake of obedience, angelic virtue.= _Ruskin._
=To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable.= _Lady Montagu._
=To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the= 15 =sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone.= _La Bruyère._
=To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.= _Hannah More._
=To be great is to be misunderstood.= _Emerson._
=To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes.= _Donn Piatt._
=To be guided in the right path by those who know better than they is the first "right of man," compared with which all other rights are as nothing.= _Carlyle._
=To be happy is not the purpose of our being,= 20 =but to deserve happiness.= _Fichte._
=To be happy means to be sufficient for one's self.= _Arist._
=To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.= _Johnson._
=To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good, ... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His that sent thee, the affliction will not be very grievous to be borne.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=To be in too great a hurry to discharge an= 25 =obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude.= _La Roche._
=To be introduced into a decent company, there is need of a dress cut according to the taste of the public to which one wishes to present one's self.= _Goethe._
=To be magnanimous--mighty of heart, mighty of mind--is to be great in life; to become this increasingly is to "advance in life."= _Ruskin._
=To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting, when his company is least wanted, shows no slight degree of sincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness of life.= _Amiel._
=To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into= 30 =the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of temper can bear.= _Goldsmith._
=To be once in doubt is once to be resolved.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=To be, or not to be, that is the question; / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, / And, by opposing, end them.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.= (?)
=To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.= _Goldsmith._
=To be prepared for war is one of the most= 35 =effectual means of preserving peace.= _Washington._
=To be provoked with every slanderous word argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard to God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.= _Emerson._
=To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.= _Holmes._
=To be spiritually minded is life and peace.= _Paul._
=To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus.= 40 _Macb._, iii. 1.
=To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity.= _Froude._
=To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride.= _Swift._
=To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it.= _Stanislaus._
=To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering.= _Milton._
=To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one= 45 =must be suffering.= _Heine._
=To be wise and love exceeds man's might.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some.= _Carlyle._
=To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man.= _A. Warwick._
=To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain.= _Coleridge._
=To be young is to be as one of the immortals.= _Hazlitt._
=To bear is to conquer our fate.= _Campbell._ 5
=To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it.= _Novalis._
=To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.= _Emerson._
=To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well.= _Goethe._
=To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a= 10 =fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions.= _Carlyle._
=To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day.= _Draper._
=To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few.= _Goldsmith._
=To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iv. 4.
=To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of.= _Swift._
=To carry on the feelings of childhood into the= 15 =powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent.= _Coleridge._
=To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.= _Sophocles._
=To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent.= _Burns._
=To circumstances and custom the law must yield.= _Dan. Pr._
=To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.= _Chinese Pr._
=To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.= 20 _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators.= _Ruskin._
=To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable.= _Goethe._
=To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory.= _Corneille._
=To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic school spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times.= _Carlyle._
=To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles= 25 =arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make their appearance. In this, I think Providence hath extended them farther than usual.= _Hitopadesa._
=To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.= _Hen. VIII._, v. 2.
=To-day comes only once, and never again returns.= _Schopenhauer._
=To-day is a king in disguise.= _Emerson._
=To-day is ours, we have it here, ... / To the gods belong to-morrow.= _Cowley._
=To-day must not borrow of to-morrow.= _Ger. Pr._ 30
=To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or more generally practised. As matters go, we need no man of polish to teach it; but rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom to show us its limits and teach us its reverse.= _Carlyle._
=To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of our epoch.= _Amiel._
=To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge of it.= _Colton._
=To die for truth is not to die for one's country but to die for the world.= _Jean Paul._
=To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where= 35 =billows never break nor tempests roar.= _S. Garth._
=To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To do as much good and as little evil as we can is the brief and intelligible principle that comprehends all subordinate maxims.= _R. Sharp._
=To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.= _Amiel._
=To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater= 40 =into the sea.= _Pr._
=To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness from him, for his heart was rich, / Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein / The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity.= _Tennyson._
=To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.= _Bible._
=To do no evil is good; to intend none is better.= _Claudius._
=To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds.= _Wieland._
=To do, one must be doing.= _Fr. Pr._ 45
=To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.= _Amiel._
=To doubt is to dip love in the mire.= _J. M. Barrie._
=To draw a long bow=, _i.e._, exaggerate. _Pr._
=To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.= _Johnson._
=To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls.= _Schopenhauer._
=To each nation its believed history is its Bible.= _Carlyle._
=To eat or drink too much, to play too much,= 5 =to work too much, or to grumble too much--all these are equally pernicious.= _John Wagstaffe._
=To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants.= _Lowell._
=To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State.= _Emerson._
=To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education.= _Jean Paul._
=To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend.= (?)
=To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with= 10 =fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.= _Pope._
=To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.= _Rousseau._
=To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth.= _Gracian._
=To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._
=To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me.= _Schiller at his training-school._
=To every deep there is a deeper still.= _Pr._ 15
=To everything there is a season.= _Bible._
=To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy.= _Chinese Pr._
=To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant.= _Hazlitt._
=To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold.= _Geibel._
=To fail at all is to fail utterly.= _Lowell._ 20
=To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory.= _Goethe._
=To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self.= _Goethe._
=To fight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=To fight with its neighbours never was, and is= 25 =now less than ever, the real trade of England.= _Carlyle._
=To fill the hour, that is happiness.= _Emerson._
=To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him.= _Schopenhauer._
=To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.= _Pascal._
=To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him.= _Goethe._
=To forget a wrong is the best revenge.= _It. Pr._ 30
=To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience.= _Schopenhauer._
=To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling.= _Goethe._
=To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away.= _Schopenhauer._
=To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well.= _Goethe._
=To gather riches do not hazard health; / For,= 35 =truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth.= _Sir Richard Baker._
=To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit.= _Brougham._
=To genius life never grows commonplace.= _Lowell._
=To get general ideas first and make particular observations last is to invert the process of education.= _Schopenhauer._
=To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=To give alms is nothing unless you give= 40 =thought also, and therefore it is written, not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "Blessed is he that considereth the poor."= _Ruskin._
=To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame.= _Goldsmith._
=To give the world more than it gives us, to love it more than it loves us, and never to make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful life and a happy departure.= _Bodenstedt._
=To give to the human mind a direction which it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits.= _Macaulay._
=To go back is easy, if we have missed our way on the road uphill; it is impossible only when the road is downhill.= _Froude._
=To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to= 45 =outrage humanity.= _Pascal._
=To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient.= _Koran._
=To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them.= _Disraeli._
=To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery.= _Goethe._
=To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two.= _Carlyle._
=To guard from error is not the instructor's= 50 =business; but to lead the erring pupil.= _Goethe._
=To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do.= _Carlyle._
=To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.= _Sterne._
=To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable.= _Schopenhauer._
=To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature.= _Lowell._
=To have ascertained what is ascertainable, and calmly to reverence what is not, is the fairest portion that can fall to a thinking man.= _Goethe._
=To have done anything by which you earned= 5 =money merely is to have been truly idle, or worse.= _Thoreau._
=To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery.= _Troil. and Cres._, iii. 3.
=To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow.= _Johnson._
=To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men.= _Lewis Morris._
=To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor= 10 =equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother,--man knows no sadder destiny.= _Carlyle._
=To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution.= _Johnson._
=To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth.= _Schopenhauer._
=To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.= _Swinburne._
=To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.= _William Penn._
=To have the fear of God before our eyes, and,= 15 =in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality.= _Sterne._
=To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it with can never suffice as a substitute for the ministry and service which the life itself is given us that we may fulfil. To find and work out this is man's only satisfaction and true reward.= _Ed._
=To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.= _Johnson._
=To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; / He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.= _Pope._
=To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.= _St. James._
=To his= (the host's) =imagination all things travel= 20 =save his sign-post and himself.= _Thoreau._
=To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen appears; / In social hours, who Christ would see / Must turn all tasks to charity.= _Keble._
=To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.= _Schopenhauer._
=To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.= _Johnson._
=To judge by the event is an error all abuse= 25 =and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity.= _Colton._
=To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just.= _Amiel._
=To keep the wolf from the door.= _Pr._
=To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us,--when we succeed, it betrays us.= _Colton._
=To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only to retain in the memory what is entrusted to it.= _Montaigne._
=To know evil of others and not speak it, is= 30 =sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others and not know it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil himself who speaks good of others upon knowledge, but he can never be good himself who speaks evil of others upon suspicion.= _Arthur Warwick._
=To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.= _Richelieu._
=To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.= _Amiel._
=To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.= _Amiel._
=To know how to wait is the great secret of success.= _De Maistre._
=To know life we must detach ourselves from= 35 =life.= _Feuerbach._
=To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=To know of some one here and there with whom we accord, who is living on with us even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.= _Goethe._
=To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know.= _Goldsmith._
=To know / That which before us lies in daily life, / Is the prime wisdom.= _Milton._
=To know the divine laws and inner harmonies= 40 =of this universe must always be the highest glory for a man; and not to know them always the highest disgrace for a man, however common it be.= _Carlyle._
=To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words.= _Descartes._
=To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays.= _Swift._
=To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, / Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.= _Coleridge._
=To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface.= _Carlyle._
=To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men.= _Ruskin._
=To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity.= _Johnson._
=To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 6.
=To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.= _Carlyle._
=To live by one man's will became the cause of= 5 =all men's misery.= _Hooker._
=To live happily only means to live tolerably.= _Schopenhauer._
=To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die.= _Campbell._
=To live is not to breathe; it is to act.= _Rousseau._
=To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph.= _Amiel._
=To live long is to outlive much.= _Goethe._ 10
=To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do.= _Goethe._
=To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme.= _Rivarol._
=To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.= _Sydney Smith._
=To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite.= _Jean Paul._
=To love early and marry late is to hear a lark= 15 =singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper.= _Jean Paul._
=To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others.= _Béranger._
=To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely.= _Thoreau._
=To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life.= _Burns._
=To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven.= _Ruskin._
=To make elaborate preparations for life is one= 20 =of the greatest and commonest of human follies.= _Schopenhauer._
=To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one.= _Goethe._
=To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God.= _Carlyle._
=To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius.= _Lowell._
=To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven.= _Watts._
=To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One= 25 =native charm, than all the gloss of art.= _Goldsmith._
=To me the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.= _Goethe._
=To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.= _Wordsworth._
=To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves.= _Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."_
=To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong--to myself, the action, and the author.= _Bp. Hall._
=To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To dusty death.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness.= _Young._
="To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day," lazy people always say.= _C. F. Weisse._
=To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.= _Cowley._
=To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In what far country does this morrow lie?= _Cowley._
=To most men experience is like the stern= 35 =lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.= _Coleridge._
=To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, / Is the next way to draw new mischief on.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven!= _Carlyle._
=To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth.= _Burns._
=To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener.= _Bodenstedt._
=To obey is the best grace of woman.= _Lewis_ 40 _Morris._
=To one thing at one time.= _Chancellor Thurlow._
=To open your windows be ever your care.= _Pr._
=To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.= _Schopenhauer._
=To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.= _Mahomet._
=To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless= 45 =excitement is strange but salutary. All go crossing and recrossing one another, and yet each finds his way and his object. In so great a crowd and bustle one feels himself perfectly calm and solitary.= _Goethe._
=To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.= _Washington._
=To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary.= _M. de Montlosier._
=To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, / For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly.= _Burns._
=To popular religion, the real kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy are only the kingdom of God figuratively.= _Matthew Arnold._
=To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench= 5 =it.= _Pr._
=To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reasons, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us.= _Johnson._
=To promise is already to give, to hope already to enjoy.= _Delille._
=To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God, is to prove or doubt the existence of existence.= _Jean Paul._
=To put the cart before the horse.= _Pr._
=To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as= 10 =well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the first step from barbarism to civilisation.= _Canning._
=To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.= _Burke._
=To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to recognise it in its high significance, and to go to work with it, requires a productive spirit, which is able to take a wide survey, and is a rare gift, only to be found in very superior natures.= _Goethe._
=To receive gifts is to lose liberty.= _Saadi._
=To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despotism just.= _Carlyle._
=To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise= 15 =man will undertake; and all but foolish men know that the only solid, though a far slower, reformation, is what each man begins and perfects on himself.= _Carlyle._
=To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; / Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.= _Milton._
=To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.= _William Austin._
=To remember one worthy thing, how many thousand unworthy must a man be able to forget!= _Carlyle._
=To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.= _Amiel._
=To require two things is the way to have them= 20 =both undone.= _Johnson._
=To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her.= _Jean Paul._
=To revenge is no valour, but to bear.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run away / From this world's ills, that at the very worst / Will soon blow o'er.= _Blair._
=To say of a man "He means well," is worth nothing except he does well.= _Plaut._
=To say that we have a clear conscience is to= 25 =utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we would have had no conscience.= _Carlyle._
=To scorn delights and live laborious days.= _Milton._
=To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavours after happiness.= _Schopenhauer._
=To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour.= _Wm. Blake._
=To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.= _Confucius._
=To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion--all= 30 =in one.= _Ruskin._
=To see her is to love her, / And love but her for ever.= _Burns._
=To see some small soul pirouetting throughout life on a single text, and judging all the world because it cannot find a partner, is not a Christian sight.= _Prof. Drummond._
=To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.= _J. M. Barrie._
=To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile.= _Buckle._
=To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle= 35 =without weaving.= _Pr._
=To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness, is work for a poet.= _Carlyle._
=To serve from the lowest station upwards= (_von unten hinauf_) =is in all things necessary.= _Goethe._
=To serve God and love him is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded with sorrow.= _W. R. Greg._
=To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules laid down.= _Carlyle._
=To shoot wide of the mark=, _i.e._, guess foolishly 40 when you don't know. _Pr._
=To show mercy is nothing--thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing--thou shalt be pure in heart also.= _Ruskin._
=To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's charm, / Then throw it idly by.= _Moore._
=To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.= _Crabbe._
=To simplify complications is, in all branches of knowledge, the first essential of success.= _Buckle._
=To sow is not so difficult as to reap.= _Goethe._ 45
=To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.= _Ger. Pr._
=To spend too much time in studies is sloth.= _Bacon._
=To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him.= _Sterne._
=To step aside is human.= _Burns._
=To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.= _Pr._ 50
=To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly.= _Goethe._
=To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it.= _Fisher Ames._
=To succeed in the world it is much more necessary to be able to diagnose a fool than a clever man.= _Cato._
=To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.= _Hare._
=To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought.= _Draper._
=To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it.= _Disraeli._
=To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.= _Johnson._
=To the capable man this world is not dumb.= 5 _Goethe._
=To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears.= _Goethe._
=To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma.= _Amiel._
=To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice.= _Goethe._
=To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile.= _Goethe._
=To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and= 10 =quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons.= _Carlyle._
=To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.= _Zoroaster._
=To the strictly just and virtuous person everything is annexed.= _Hitopadesa._
=To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required--intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it.= _Carlyle._
=To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of= 15 =a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice.= _Carlyle._
=To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful that are not distant. It is difficult for men to believe that the man, the mere man whom they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling at their side through the poor jostlings of existence, can be made of finer clay than themselves.= _Carlyle._
=To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.= _Carlyle._
=To the "Worship of sorrow"= (Goethe's definition of Christianity) =ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated? Is it not here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say whether it is of God!= _Carlyle._
=To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.= _I. Disraeli._
=To think aright is the sum of human duty.= 20 _Pascal._
=To think is to act.= _Emerson._
=To this burden women are born; they must obey their husbands, be they never such blockheads.= _Cervantes._
=To those by whom liberality is practised, the whole world is but as one family.= _Hitopadesa._
=To those that have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment.= _Johnson._
=To those to whom we owe affection, let us be= 25 =dumb until we are strong, though we should never be strong.= _Emerson._
=To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what was a blessing becometh an evil.= _Hitopadesa._
=To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.= _Hare._
=To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, / Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; / But, when the milder beams of mercy play, / He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away.= _Dryden._
=To toy with human hearts is more than human hearts will brook.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a= 30 =step further is destruction.= _Johnson._
=To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.= _Bacon._
=To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.= _Goethe._
=To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world.= _Goethe._
=To understand the serious side of things requires a matured faculty; the ridiculous is caught more easily.= _Froude._
=To understand things we must once have been= 35 =in them, and then have come out of them.= _Amiel._
=To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay, a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it, may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because the former rise abruptly, without abutement or environment; the latter rises gradually, carrying half a world along with it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens, the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine," disclose to the geographer that the "region of change" lies far below.= _Carlyle._
=To use books rightly is to go to them for help.= _Ruskin._
=To use studies too much for ornament is affectation.= _Bacon._
=To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.= _Ouida._
=To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome,= 40 =profitable, / As to rejoice at friends but newly found.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=To wed unequally is to suffer equally.= _Anon._
=To what base uses we may return, Horatio!= _Ham._, v. 1.
=To what excesses men go for a religion of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard.= _La Bruyère._
=To what they know best entice all neatly; / For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure.= _George Herbert._
=To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue?= _Hitopadesa._
=To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=To work without money, and be poor; to work without pleasure, and be chaste; to work according to orders, and be obedient.= _Rules of the Order of St. Francis._
=To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin= 5 =without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.= _Rousseau._
=To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out.= _Scott._
=To write prose, one must have something to say, but he who has nothing to say can still make verses.= _Goethe._
=To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.= _Buffon._
=To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship.= _Colton._
=To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled!= 10 =this is thy sting, O Death.= _Sir Noel Paton._
=To yourself be critic most severe.= _Dryden._
=Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.= _Emerson._
=Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle.= _Burns._
=Todte Hunde beissen nicht=--Dead dogs don't bite. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]--Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. _Plutarch._
=Toga virilis=--The manly robe.
[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]--What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)
[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]--Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)
=Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their crown and station, / We will vaunt our labour still.= _Mangan_
=Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray.= _Bonar._ 20
=Toils of empires pleasures are.= _Waller._
[Greek: to kalon]--The beautiful.
=Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.= _Burke._
=Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum=--Away with such jokes; there is no joking where there is malignity.
=Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis= 25 =natura remotis=--Take away the danger, remove restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth free. _Hor._
=Tombs are the clothes of the dead--a grave but a plain suit, and a rich monument one embroidered.= _Fuller._
[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]--All are wont to praise him who is no more. _Thucydides._
[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]--Speak not evil of the dead. _Chilon._
[Greek: to holon]--The whole.
=Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men;= 30 =too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance.= _St. Evremond._
=Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most part, the smallest of fractions to Shall.= _Carlyle._
=Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society.= _Chamfort._
=Too fair to worship, too divine to love.= _Milman._
=Too low they build who build beneath the stars.= _Young._
=Too many cooks spoil the broth.= _Pr._ 35
=Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.= _Lavater._
=Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.= _Burke._
=Too much is always bad; old proverbs call / Even too much honey nothing else than gall.= _Anon._
=Too much mercy is want of mercy.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Too much of a good thing.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Too much of one thing is good for nothing.= _Thales and Solon._
=Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little.= _Carlyle._
=Too much rest is rust.= _Scott._
=Too much rest itself becomes a pain.= _Homer._ 45
=Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime.= _Talleyrand._
=Too much wit / Makes the world rotten.= _Tennyson._
=Too surely, every setting day, / Some lost delight we mourn.= _Keble._
=Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=Tooth of time.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1. 50
=Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision.= _Ch. Pr._
[Greek: to prepon]--That which is becoming or decorous.
=Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera est facundia=--To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. _Juv._
=Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, / Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons of advancing foes / A stubborn breast oppose.= _Archilochus._
=Tot capita, tot sensus=--So many heads, so many 55 opinions. _Ter._
=Tot homines, quot sententiæ=--So many men, so many minds.
=Tot rami quot arbores=--So many branches, so many trees. _M._
=Tota in minimis existit natura=--The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. _Quoted by Emerson._
=Totidem verbis=--In so many words.
=Toties quoties=--As often, so often.
=Toto cœlo=--By the whole heavens; as wide as the poles asunder.
=Totus in toto, et totus in qualibet parte=--Whole 5 in the whole, and whole in every part. _Said of the human mind._
=Totus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All the world acts the player.
[Greek: tou aristeuein heneka]--In order to excel. _M._
=Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, / Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.= _Mrs. van Alstyne._
=Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.= _Bible._
=Toujours=--Always. _M._ 10
=Toujours en vedette=--Always on the lookout. _M. of Frederick the Great._
=Toujours perdrix=--Always partridges. _Fr._
="Toujours perdrix" is sickening.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Toujours prêt=--Always ready.
=Toujours propice=--Always propitious. _M._ 15
=Toujours tout droit, Dieu t'aidera!=--Always straightforward, and God will help you! _M._
=Tour d'adresse=--A trick of sleight of hand. _Fr._
=Tour de force=--A feat of strength or skill. _Fr._
=Tourner autour du pot=--To beat about the bush. _Fr._
=Tourner casaque=--To change sides; become a 20 turncoat. _Pr._
=Tous frais faits=--All charges paid. _Fr._
=Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux=--All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. _Voltaire._
=Tous les hommes sont foux, et malgré tous leurs soins, / Ne diffèrent entr'eux, que du plus ou du moins=--All men are fools, and notwithstanding all their care, they differ but in degree. _Boileau._
=Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau; / C'est bien prouvé par le déluge=--All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
=Tout-à-fait=--Quite. _Fr._ 25
=Tout bien ou rien=--All or nothing. _M._
=Tout chemin mène à Rome=--Every road leads to Rome.
=Tout d'en haut=--All from above. _M._
=Tout doit tendre au bon sens: mais pour y parvenir / Le chemin est glissant et pénible a tenir=--Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. _Boileau._
=Tout éloge imposteur blesse une âme sincère=--Praise 30 undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. _Boileau._
=Tout est contradiction chez nous: la France, à parler sérieusement, est le royaume de l'esprit et de la sottise, de l'industrie et de la paresse, de la philosophie et du fanatisme, de la gaieté et du pédantisme, des loix et des abus, de bon goût et de l'impertinence=--With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. _Voltaire._
=Tout est perdu fors l'honneur=--All is lost save our honour. _Francis I., after his defeat at Pavia._
=Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles=--All is for the best in the best possible of worlds. _Voltaire, in mockery of Leibnitz's optimism._
=Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au malin=--Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. _La Fontaine._
=Tout finit par des chansons=--Everything in the 35 end passes into song. _Beaumarchais._
=Tout flatteur vît au dépens de celui qui l'écoute=--Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. _La Fontaine._
=Tout notre mal vient de ne pouvoir être seul=--All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. _La Bruyère._
=Tout par raison=--Everything agreeable to reason. _Richelieu._
=Tout soldat français porte dans sa giberne le bâton de maréchal de France=--Every private in the French army carries a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack. _Napoleon._
=Tout va à qui n'a pas besoin=--Everything goes 40 to him who does not need it. _Fr. Pr._
=Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre=--Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. _Fr. Pr._
=Tout vient de Dieu=--Everything comes from God. _M._
=Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confié=--The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. _Fr._
=Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat=--Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful. _Louis XIV._
=Towards great persons use respective boldness: /= 45 =That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take / Nothing from thine.= _George Herbert._
=Towers are measured by their shadows.= _Chinese Pr._
=Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.= _Johnson._
=Traditions make up the reasonings of the simple, and serve to silence every inquiry.= _Goldsmith._
=Traduttori, traditori=--Translators, traitors. _It. Pr._
=Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving= 50 =too much importance to life and death.= _Chamfort._
=Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.= _Napoleon._
=Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem=--The very violence of their rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty were a waste of time. _Lucan._
=Trahit sua quemque voluptas=--Each man is led by his own liking. _Virg._
=Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.= _Bible._
=Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are= 55 =not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.= _Bovee._
=Tranquillity is better than jollity, and to appease pain than to invent pleasure.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Transeat in exemplum=--Let it stand as a precedent, or an example.
=Transitory is all human work, small in itself, contemptible; only the worker thereof and the spirit that dwelt in him is significant.= _Carlyle._
=Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel=--Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. _Lessing._
=Travel gives a character of experience to our= 5 =knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief.= _Tuckerman._
=Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience.= _Bacon._
=Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Travel teaches toleration.= _Disraeli._
=Travelling is a fool's paradise.= _Emerson._
=Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected= 10 =with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.= _Goethe._
=Tre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno=--If three know it, all know it. _It. Pr._
=Tre taceranno, se due vi non sono=--Three may keep counsel if two be away. _It. Pr._
=Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do.= _Dickens._
=Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? / Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.= _Sir J. Harrington._
=Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor= 15 =poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death.= _Bible._
=Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers.= _Plato._
=Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels=--Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. _Delille._
=Tria juncta in uno=--Three joined in one. _M._
=Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what,= 20 =alas! it too often does--unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical.= _Chapin._
=Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.= _Michael Angelo._
=Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life.= _Alex. Smith._
=Trifles themselves are elegant in him.= _Pope._ 25
=Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning.= _Schopenhauer._
=Trifling precautions will often prevent great mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist parries a mortal thrust.= _R. Sharp._
=Trinitas in Trinitate=--Trinity in Trinity. _M._
=Tristis eris, si solus eris=--You will be sad if you are alone. _Ovid._
=Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys, /= 30 =Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.= _Zimmermann._
=Trop de zèle gâte tout=--Too much zeal spoils all. _Fr. Pr._
=Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur=--Trojan or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to me. _Virg._
=Trotz alledem und alledem=--For 'a that and 'a that. _F. Freiligrath._
=Trouble is a thing that will come without our= 35 =call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.= _Bp. Patrick._
=Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.= _Ward Beecher._
=Truditur dies die, / Novæque pergunt interire lunæ=--Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. _Hor._
=True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture.= _Goethe._
=True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden.= _Hamerton._
=True bravery proposes a just end, measures= 40 =the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness.= _Francis la None._
=True blue will never stain.= _Pr._
=True comeliness, which nothing can impair, / Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare.= _Thomson._
=True coral needs no painter's brush.= _Pr._
=True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn.= _Massinger._
=True ease in writing comes from art, not= 45 =chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance.= _Pope._
=True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.= _La Roche._
=True eloquence scorns eloquence.= _Pascal._
=True fame is ever likened to our shade, / He sooneth misseth her, that most= (haste) =hath made / To overtake her; whoso takes his wing, / Regardless of her, she'll be following; / Her true proprietie she thus discovers, / Loves her contemners, and contemns her lovers.= _Sir T. Browne._
=True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger lies in his way.= _Locke._
=True fortitude of understanding consists in not= 50 =letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know.= _Emerson._
=True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possession of anything without a partner.= _Sen._
=True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.= _Thoreau._
=True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.= _Washington._
=True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.= _Colton._
=True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good.= _Goethe._
=True greatness is, first of all, a thing of the heart.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=True heroism consists in being superior to the= 5 =ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.= _Napoleon._
=True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.= _Richard III._, v. 2.
=True humility is contentment.= _Amiel._
=True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.= _Henry Giles._
=True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child.= _Carlyle._
=True humour springs not more from the head= 10 =than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It 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._
=True influence is latent influence.= _Renan._
=True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet.= _Sen._
=True joy is only hope put out of fear.= _Lord Brooke._
=True knowledge is of virtues only.= _Ruskin._
=True knowledge of any thing or any creature= 15 =is only of the good of it.= _Ruskin._
=True liberty is a positive force, regulated by law; false liberty is a negative force, a release from restraint.= _Philip Schaff._
=True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show.= _Suckling._
=True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.= _Amiel._
=True love is the parent of a noble humility.= _Channing._
=True love will creep, not having strength to= 20 =go.= _Quarles._
=True love works never for the loved one so, / Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth away.= _Browning._
=True love's the gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven.= _Scott._
=True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself, and does not complain. You may know it by that.= _Varnhagen von Ense._
=True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.= _Addison._
=True morality scorns morality; that is, the= 25 =morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules.= _Pascal._
=True music is intended for the ear alone; whoever sings it to me must be invisible.= _Goethe._
=True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth.= _Burton._
=True obedience is true liberty.= _Ward Beecher._
=True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.= _Amiel._
=True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting= 30 =our passions, not by obeying them.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=True religion is always mild, propitious, and humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels; but stoops to polish, succour, and redress, and builds her grandeur on the public good.= _James Miller._
=True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.= _Joubert._
=True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace, suffering and death, as things divine.= _Goethe, of the Christian religion._
=True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin.= _Thornton._
=True repentance is to cease from sin.= _St._ 35 _Ambrose._
=True sense and reason reach their aim / With little help from art or rule. / Be earnest! Then what need to seek / The words that best your meaning speak?= _Goethe._
=True, sharp, precise thought is preferable to a cloudy fancy; and a hundred acres of solid earth are far more valuable than a million acres of cloud and vapour.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=True singing is of the nature of worship; as indeed all true working may be said to be; whereof such singing is but the record, and fit melodious representation, to us.= _Carlyle._
=True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.= _W. R. Alger._
=True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading,= 40 =worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.= _Ruskin._
=True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.= _Cervantes._
=True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.= _Milton._
=True virtue's soul's always in all deeds all.= _Donne._
=True wit never made us laugh.= _Emerson._
=Truly great men are always simple-hearted.= 45 _Klinger._
=Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them.= _Ruskin._
=Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction.= _Lowell._
=Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief.= _Goethe._
=Trusse up thy packe, and trudge from me, to every little boy, / And tell them thus from me, their time most happy is, / If to theyr time they reason had, to know the truth of this.= _Chaucer._
=Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.= _Johnson._
=Trust begets truth.= _Pr._
=Trust, but not too much.= _Pr._ 5
=Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.= _Pr._
=Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.= _Lavater._
=Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform.= _Spurgeon._
=Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.= _Bible._
=Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and= 10 =lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.= _Bible._
=Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.= _Emerson._
=Trust me not at all or all in all.= _Tennyson._
=Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come / When they shall meet no object but may teach / Some acceptable lesson to their minds / Of human suffering or human joy. / For them shall all things speak of man.= _Wordsworth._
=Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.= _Emerson._
=Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; / Let the= 15 =dead past bury its dead. / Act, act in the living present; / Heart within, and God o'erhead!= _Longfellow._
=Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart.= _Lichtenberg._
=Trust not him that hath once broken faith.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 4.
=Trust not in him that seems a saint.= _Fuller._
=Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.= _ Carlyle._
=Trust not this hollow world; she's empty;= 20 =hark, she sounds.= _Quarles._
=Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, for villany is not without such rheum.= _King John_, iv. 3.
=Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.= _Sterne._
=Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.= _Emerson._
=Truth alone wounds.= _Napoleon._
=Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple= 25 =of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.= _Feltham._
=Truth and oil are ever above.= _Pr._
=Truth being weighed against a thousand Aswamedha sacrifices, was found to be of more consequence than the whole thousand offerings.= _Hitopadesa._
=Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited.= _Goethe._
=Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers.= _W. C. Bryant._
=Truth does not conform itself to us, but we= 30 =most conform ourselves to it.= _M. Claudius._
=Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer.= _Dean Alford._
=Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil.= _La Roche._
=Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there / Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere.= _George Herbert._
=Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne.= _Lowell._
=Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, /= 35 =And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.= _Goldsmith._
=Truth has a quiet breast.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange; but if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.= _Johnson._
=Truth hath always a fast bottom.= _Pr._
=Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 2.
="Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush= 40 =me for following her; no falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!"= _Carlyle._
=Truth in its own essence cannot be / But good.= _Byron._
=Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness.= _J. S. Mill._
=Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.= _Coleridge._
=Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne= 45 =in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.= _Bossuet._
=Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it.= _South._
=Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware.= _Tillotson._
=Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.= _Byron._
=Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.= _Milton._
=Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity.= _St. Evremond._
=Truth is God's daughter.= _Pr._
=Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing.= _Ruskin._
=Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire.= 5 _Lowell._
=Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength.= _Goethe._
=Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose.= _Goethe._
=Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow.= _Plato._
=Truth is the daughter of Time.= _Pr._
=Truth is the easiest part of all to play= (_das_ 10 _leichteste Spiel von allen_). =Present thyself as thou art= (_stelle dich selber dar_), =and thou runnest no risk of falling out of thy rôle.= _Rückert._
=Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.= _Chaucer._
=Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.= _Chapin._
=Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.= _Tillotson._
=Truth is to be costly to you--of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give.= _Ruskin._
=Truth is to be loved purely and solely because= 15 =it is true.= _Carlyle._
=Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions.= _Emerson._
=Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger?= _Holmes._
=Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.= _South._
=Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth= 20 =of which, alas! gives but little hope of release.= _Democritus._
=Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.= _Locke._
=Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem.= _Hafiz._
=Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.= _Landor._
=Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.= _Bovee._
=Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass= 25 =down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess.= _Richter._
=Truth loves open dealing.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 1.
=Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.= _Cervantes._
=Truth may languish, but can never perish.= _Pr._
=Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Truth may perhaps come to the price of a= 30 =pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.= _Bacon._
=Truth, or clothed or naked let it be.= _Tennyson._
=Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.= _Bp. Wilson._
=Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once.= _Draper._
=Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the thing trowed, the thing believed; and now, from this to the thing itself, what a new fatal deduction have we to suffer.= _Carlyle._
=Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere= 35 =at its first appearance.= _Locke._
=Truth seeks no corners.= _Pr._
=Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated.= _Belisarius._
=Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.= _Chapin._
=Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Truth will bear / Neither rude handling, nor= 40 =unfair / Evasion of its wards, and mocks / Whoever would falsely enter there.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out, when the lady brach may stand by the fire and stink.= _Lear_, i. 4.
=Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.= _Ward Beecher._
=Truths that wake, / To perish never.= _Wordsworth._
=Try and Trust will move mountains.= _Pr._
=Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ...= 45 =and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life.= _John Morley._
=Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you.= _Ward Beecher._
=Try to do your duty, and you at once know what is in you.= _Goethe._
=Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of each other.= _Johnson._
=Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Tu, Domine, gloria mea=--Thou, O Lord, art my 50 glory. _M._
=Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!=--Sleepest thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds! _Voltaire._
=Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito / Quam tua te fortuna sinet=--Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. _Virg._
=Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem tibi / Finem di dederint, Leuconoë=--Forbear to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for you may not know what the gods have appointed either for you or for me. _Hor._
=Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva=--You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, _i.e._, in default of the necessary inspiration. _Hor._
=Tu pol si sapis, quod scis nescis=--You, if you are wise, will not know what you do know. _Ter._
=Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, / Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum, / Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse libenter / Te dicas=--Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. _Hor._
=Tu quoque=--You too; you're another. 5
=Tu quoque, Brute!=--You too, Brutus!
=Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis=--You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. _Hor._
=Tu si animum vicisti, potius quam animus te, est quod gaudeas=--If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. _Plaut._
=Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias=--If you were in my place, you would think differently. _Terence._
=Tu vincula frange=--Break thy chains. _M._ 10
=Tua camicia non sappia il secreto=--Let not your shirt know your secret. _It. Pr._
=Tua res agitur=--It is a matter that concerns you.
=Tuebor=--I will protect. _M._
=Tui me miseret, mei piget=--I pity you and vex myself. _Ennius._
=Tunica propior pallio est=--My tunic is nearer 15 than my cloak. _Plaut._
=Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit / Damnatos=--The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. _Juv._
=Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; / With that wild wheel we go not up or down; / Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.= _Tennyson._
=Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter.= _Henry V._, i. 1.
=Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!=--It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! _Sen._
=Turpe est in patria peregrinari, et in eis rebus= 20 =quæ ad patriam pertinent hospitem esse=--It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. _Manutius._
=Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes=--It is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than not to admit him. _Ovid._
=Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah=--A most strong tower is the name of Jehovah. _M._
=Tuta petant alii. Fortuna miserrima tuta est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest=--Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. _Ovid._
=Tuta scelera esse possunt, non secura=--Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. _Sen._
=Tuta timens=--Fearing even safety. _Virg._ 25
=Tutte quanti=--Et cetera. _It._
=Tuum est=--It is thine. _M._
='Twas doing nothing was his curse--/ Is there a vice can plague us worse?= _Hannah More._
='Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Twenty people can gain money for one who= 30 =can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never "how much do they make," but "to what purpose do they spend."= _Ruskin._
='Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, / As sit and watch the sorrows of the world / In yonder caverns with the priests who pray.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, / In the thread of human life.= _Scott._
=Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour.= _Bible._
=Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.= _Pr._
=Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs= 35 =away with it.= _Pr._
=Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters.= _Stoddart._
=Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done.= _Carlyle._
=Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry?= _Pr._
=Two in distress make sorrow less.= _Pr._
=Two is company, but three is none.= _Pr._ 40
=Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth.= _Pr._
=Two may keep counsel, putting one away.= _Pr._
=Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.= _Emerson._
=Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, / One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.= _Lowell._
=Two men I honour, and no third. First, the= 45 =toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.... A second man I honour, and still more highly--him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of life.... These two in all their degrees I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.= _Carlyle._
=Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time.= _Sterne._
=Two of a trade seldom agree.= _Pr._
=Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range.= _Ruskin._
=Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other.= _L'Estrange._
=Two principles in human nature reign--/ Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.= _Pope._
=Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement.= _Lamartine._
=Two removals are as bad as a fire.= _Pr._
=Two sorts of writers possess genius; those= 5 =who think, and those who cause others to think.= _J. Roux._
=Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.= _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot.= _Pr._
=Two things I abhor: the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.= _Mahomet._
=Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.= _Kant._
=Two things, well considered, would prevent= 10 =many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.= _Colton._
=Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home.= _Wordsworth._
=Tyran, descends du trône, et fais place à ton maître=--Tyrant, come down from the throne, and give place to your master! _Corn._
=Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.= _Bentham._
=Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether the power be lodged in one or many.= _Canning._
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=Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Bis an dein= 15 =kühles Grab=--Be sure thou always practise fidelity and honesty till thou lie in thy cold grave. _L. H. Hölty._
=Über allen Gipfeln / Ist Ruh=--Over all heights is rest. _Goethe._
=Über die Berge mit Ungestüm=--Over the mountains by storm. _Kotzebue._
=Über vieles kann / Der Mensch zum Herrn sich machen, seinen Sinn / Bezwinget kaum die Not und lange Zeit=--Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. _Goethe._
=Überall bin ich zu Hause, / Überall bin ich bekannt=--Everywhere am I at home, everywhere am I known. _F. Hückstädt._
=Übereilung thut nicht gut; / Bedachtsamkeit= 20 =macht alle Dinge besser=--Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything. _Schiller._
=Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis / In statione sua, atque expectantibus illam / Quo jubeat manare modo=--With tears always in abundance, and always ready at their station, and awaiting her signal to flow as she bids them. _Juv., of a pettish woman._
=Uberrima fides=--The fullest confidence; implicit faith.
=Überzeugung soll mir niemand rauben / Wer's besser weiss, der mag es glauben=--No one shall deprive me of this conviction that a man's faith in a thing is not weaker, but stronger, the better he knows it. _Goethe._
=Ubi amici, ibi opes=--Where there are friends there is wealth. _Plaut._
=Ubi amor condimentum inerit cuivis placiturum= 25 =credo=--Where love enters to season a dish, I believe it will please any one. _Plaut._
=Ubi bene, ibi patria=--Where it is well with me, there is my country. _Pr._
=Ubi dolor, ibi digitus=--Where the pain is, there the finger will be. _Pr._
=Ubi homines sunt modi sunt=--Where men are there are manners.
=Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando præstat morte jungi quam vita distrahi=--Where there exists the greatest and most honourable love, it is sometimes better to be joined in death than separated in life. _Valerius Maximus._
=Ubi jus, ibi remedium=--Where there is a right 30 there is a remedy. _L._
=Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum=--Where the law is uncertain there is no law. _L._
=Ubi lapsus? Quid feci?=--Where have I made slip? What have I done? _M._
=Ubi major pars est, ibi est totum=--Where the greater part is, there the whole is. _L._
=Ubi mel, ibi apes=--Where there is honey to be found, there will be bees. _Plaut._
=Ubi sæva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare= 35 =nequit=--Where bitter indignation cannot lacerate my heart any more. _Swift's epitaph._
=Ubi summus imperator non adest ad exercitum, / Citius quod non facto 'st usus fit, quam quod facto 'st opus=--When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. _Plaut._
=Ubi supra=--Where above mentioned.
=Ubi timor adest, sapientia adesse nequit=--Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. _Lactantius._
=Ubi uber, ibi tuber=--There are no roses without thorns. _Pr._
=Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videtur=--Wherever 40 there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.
=Ubique=--Everywhere. _M._
=Ubique patriam reminisci=--I remember my country everywhere. _M._
=Übung macht den Meister=--Practice makes perfect (_lit._ the master). _Ger. Pr._
=Ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. If I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Ulcus tangere=--To touch a sore. _Ter._ 45
=Ulterius ne tende odiis=--Press no further with your hate. _Virg._
=Ultima ratio regum=--The last argument of kings. _Inscription on cannon._
=Ultima semper / Expectanda dies homini, dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet=--The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. _Ovid._
=Ultima Thule=--Remotest Thule. _Virg._
=Ultimatum=--A final proposition or condition.
=Ultimum moriens=--The last to die or disappear. 5
=Ultimus Romanorum=--The last of the Romans.
=Ultra posse nemo obligatur=--Nobody can be bound to do beyond what he is able to do. _L._
=Ultra vires=--Beyond the powers or rights possessed.
=Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern=--To know life, a man must separate himself from life. _Feuerbach._
=Um einen Mann zu schätzen, muss man ihn /= 10 =Zu prüfen wissen=--In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. _Goethe._
=Um Gut's zu thun, braucht's keiner Ueberlegung; / Der Zweifel ist's, der Gutes böse macht, / Bedenke nicht! gewähre wie du's fühlst=--To do good needs no consideration; it is doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do good as you feel. _Goethe._
=Un ángulo me basta entre mis lares, / Un libro y un amigo, un sueño breve, / Que no perturben deudas ni pesares=--Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. _Rioja._
=Un bienfait reproché tint toujours lieu d'offense=--To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. _Racine._
=Un bon ami vaut mieux que cent parents=--A good friend is worth more than a hundred relations. _Fr. Pr._
=Un bon ouvrier n'est jamais trop chèrement= 15 =payé=--The wages of a good workman are never too high. _Fr. Pr._
=Un clou chasse l'autre=--One nail drives out another. _Fr. Pr._
=Un corps débile affaiblit l'âme=--A feeble body weakens the mind. _Rousseau._
=Un des plus grands malheurs des honnêtes gens c'est qu'ils sont de lâches=--One of the greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that they are cowards. _Voltaire._
=Un Dieu, un roy=--One God, one king. _M._
=Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien=--A 20 dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. _Boileau._
=Un enfant en ouvrant les yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle=--A child, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and till death through life see only it. _Fr._
=Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important=--A simpleton often suggests a significant bit of advice. _Boileau._
=Un fou avise bien un sage=--A wise man may learn of a fool. _Fr. Pr._
=Un frère est un ami donné par la nature=--A brother is a friend provided by nature. _Legouvé père._
=Un gentilhomme qui vit mal est un monstre= 25 =dans la nature=--A nobleman who leads a degraded life is a monster in nature. _Molière._
=Un homme d'esprit seroit souvent bien embarrassé sans la compagnie des sots=--A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. _La Roche._
=Un homme toujours satisfait de lui-même, peu souvent l'est des autres; rarement on l'est de lui=--A man who is always well satisfied with himself seldom is so with others, and others rarely are with him. _La Roche._
=Un homme vous protège par ce qu'il vaut; une femme par ce que vous valez. Voilà pourquoi de ces deux empires, l'un est si odieux, l'autre si doux=--A man protects you by what he is worth; a woman by what you are worth. That is why the empire of the one is so odious, and the other so sweet. _Fr._
=Un livre est un ami qui ne trompe jamais=--A
## book is a friend that never deceives us. _Fr._
=Un menteur est toujours prodigue de serments=--A 30 liar is always lavish of oaths. _Corn._
=Un père est un banquier donné par la nature=--A father is a banker provided by nature. _Fr._
=Un peu d'encens brulé rajuste bien des choses=--A little incense offered puts many things to rights.
=Un peu de fiel gâte beaucoup de miel=--A little gall spoils a great deal of honey. _Fr. Pr._
=Un renard n'est pas pris deux fois à un piège=--A fox is not caught twice in the same trap. _Fr. Pr._
=Un sot n'a pas assez d'étoffe pour être bon=--A 35 fool has not stuff in him to turn out well. _La Roche._
=Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant=--A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant one. _Fr. Pr._
=Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire=--Every fool finds a greater to admire him. _Boileau._
=Un soupir, un regard, un mot de votre bouche, / Voilà l'ambition d'un cœur comme le mien=--A sigh, a look, a word from your lips, that is the ambition of a heart like mine. _Racine._
=Un souvenir heureux est peut-être sur terre / Plus vrai que le bonheur=--A happy recollection is perhaps in this world more real than the happiness it recalls. _Fr._ (?)
=Un "tiens" vaut mieux que deux "tu l'aura"=--One 40 "take this" is worth more than two "you-shall-have-it." _Fr. Pr._
=Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese=--A wise traveller never depreciates his own country. _Goldoni._
=Una dies aperit, conficit una dies=--In one day it opens its blossoms, in one day it decays. _Auson. of the rose._
=Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem=--The only safety for the conquered is to hope for no safety. _Virg._
=Una voce=--With one voice; unanimously.
=Unbedingte Thätigkeit, von welcher Art sie= 45 =sei, macht zuletzt bankerott=--Undisciplined
## activity in any line whatever ends at last in
failure. _Goethe._
=Unbidden guests / Are often welcomest when they are gone.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, / Tempting each other in the victor's mind, / Alternately proclaim him good and great, / And make the hero and the man complete.= _Addison._
=Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.= _Congreve._
=Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee.= _Mallet._
=Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery.= _Carlyle._
=Unconsciousness is one of the most important conditions of a good style in speaking or in writing.= _R. S. White._
=Und bin ich strafbar, weil ich menschlich= 5 =war? Ist Mitleid Sünde?=--And am I to suffer for it because I was born a man? Is pity a sin? _Schiller._
=Und da keiner wollte leiden, / Dass der andre für ihn zahle / Zahlte keiner von den beiden=--And as neither would allow the other to pay for him, neither paid at all. _Heine._
=Und der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht / Und begehre nimmer und nimmer zu schauen, / Was sie gnädig bedecken mit Nacht und Grauen=--And let not man tempt the gods, and let him never, never desire to behold what they have graciously hid under a veil of night and terror. _Schiller._
=Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle, / Die Sonne bleibt am Himmelszelt! / Es waltet dort ein heiliger Wille; / Nicht blindem Zufall dient die Welt=--And though the cloud veils his light, the sun is ever in the tent of heaven. There a holy will holds sway, to no blind chance is the world the servant. _Fr. Kind-Weber._
=Und scheint die Sonne noch so schön, / Am Ende muss sie untergehen=--And though the sun still shines so brightly, in the end it must go down. _Heine._
=Und vor der Wahrheit mächt'gem Siege /= 10 =Verschwindet jedes Werk der Lüge=--And before the mighty triumph of the truth, every work of lies will one day vanish. _Schiller._
=Und was kein Verstand der Verständigen sieht / Das übet in Einfalt ein kindisch Gemüt=--And what no intelligence of the intelligent sees, that is practised in simplicity by a childish mind. _Schiller._
=Und wenn die Welt voll Teufel wär' / Und wollt uns gar verschlingen / So fürchten wir uns nicht so sehr, / Es soll uns doch gelingen=--And were this all devils o'er, / And watching to devour us, / We lay it not to heart so sore, / Not they can overpower us. _Luther._
=Und wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht es dich an?=--And if I love thee, what is that to thee? _Goethe._
=Und wenn ihr euch nur selbst vertraut, / Vertrauen euch die andern Seelen=--And if ye only trust yourselves, other souls will trust you. _Goethe._
=Und wer mich nicht verstehen kann, / Der= 15 =lerne besser lesen=--And let him who cannot understand me learn to read better. _Goethe._
=Undank ist der Welt Lohn=--Ingratitude is the world's reward. _Ger. Pr._
=Unde fames homini vetitorum tanta ciborum est?=--Why does man hunger so much after forbidden fruit? _Ovid._
=Unde habeas quærit nemo; sed oportet habere=--Whence you have got your wealth, nobody inquires; but you must have it. _Juv._
=Unde / Ingenium par materiæ?=--Where can we find talent equal to the subject? _Juv._
=Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, /= 20 =Cum facias pejora senex?=--Whence can your authority and liberty as a parent come, when you, who are old, do worse things? _Juv._
=Under a despotic government there is no such thing as patriotic feeling, and its place is supplied in other ways, by private interest, public fame, and devotion to one's chief.= _La Bruyère._
=Under all sorrow there is the force of virtue; over all ruin, the restoring charity of God. To these alone we have to look; in these alone we may understand the past, and predict the future destiny of the ages.= _Ruskin._
=Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.= _Carlyle._
=Under fair words have a care of fraud.= _Port. Pr._
=Under sackcloth there is something else.= 25 _Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth and hell-fire eyes hacking one another's flesh, converting precious living bodies and priceless living souls into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip-manure.= _Carlyle._
=Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity.= _Ruskin._
=Under white ashes there often lurk glowing embers.= _Dan. Pr._
=Underground / Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, / Grossly familiar, side by side consume.= _Blair._
=Underneath this stone doth lie / As much= 30 =beauty as could die; / Which in life did harbour give / To more virtue than doth live.= _Jonson, on Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland._
=Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it.= _Bible._
=Understanding is the most important matter in everything.= _Hans Andersen._
=Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance.= _Quarles._
=Undertake no more than you can perform.= _Pr._
=Undipped people may be as good as dipped,= 35 =if their hearts are clean.= _Ruskin's rendering of the faith of St. Martin._
=Undique ad inferos tantundem viæ est=--Descend by what way you will, you come at last to the nether world. _Anaxagoras._
=Une faute niée est deux fois commise=--A fault denied is twice committed. _Fr. Pr._
=Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr, mais un salut ou un sourire nous les réconcilie=--A coldness or an incivility from such as are above us makes us hate them, but a salute or a smile quickly reconciles us to them.
=Une grande âme est au-dessus de l'injustice, de la douleur, de la moquerie; et elle seroit invulnérable si elle ne souffroit par la compassion=--A great soul is proof against injustice, pain, and mockery; and it would be invulnerable if it were not open to compassion.
=Une nation boutiquière=--A nation of shopkeepers. _B. Barrère, Napoleon, of England._
=Une once de vanité gâte un quintal de mérite=--An ounce of vanity spoils a hundredweight of merit. _Fr. Pr._
=Une seule foi, une seule langue, un seul cœur=--One faith, one tongue, one heart. _Fr. Pr._
=Une souris qui n'a qu'un trou est bientôt prise=--A mouse that has only one hole is soon taken. _Fr. Pr._
=Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.= 5 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Unendlich ist das Räthsel der Natur=--Endless is the riddle of Nature. _Körner._
=Unendlichkeit kann nur das Wesen ahnen / Das zur Unendlichkeit erkoren ist=--Only that being can surmise the infinite who is chosen for infinity. _Liedge._
=Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.= _Goldsmith._
=Unequal marriages are seldom happy ones.= _Pr._
=Unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.= 10 _Pope._
=Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.= _Tennyson._
=Unfortunate and imprudent are two words for the same thing.= _Fr. Pr._
=Unfortunately friends too often weigh one another in their hypochondriacal humours, and in an over-exacting spirit. One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales.= _Goethe._
=Unfortunately, it is more frequently the opinions expressed on things than the things themselves that divide men.= _Goethe._
=Ung je servirai=--One will I serve. _M._ 15
=Ung roy, ung foy, ung loy=--One king, one faith, one law. _M._
=Ungern entdeck' ich höheres Geheimniss=--It is with reluctance I ever unveil a higher mystery. _Goethe._
=Unguibus et rostro=--With nails and beak; with tooth and nail.
=Unguis in ulcere=--A nail in the wound. _Cic._
=Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother= 20 =has not made all mothers venerable.= _Jean Paul._
=Unhappy lot of man! Hardly has the mind attained maturity, when the body begins to pine away.= _Montesquieu._
=Unhappy state of kings! it is well the robe of majesty is gay, or who would put it on?= _Hannah More._
=Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; / And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will, / To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 6.
=Uniformity must tire at last, though it be uniformity of excellence. We love to expect, and when expectation is disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.= _Johnson._
=Uni æquus virtuti, atque ejus amicis=--Friendly 25 to virtue alone and to the friends of virtue. _Hor._
=Unica virtus necessaria=--Virtue is the only thing necessary.
=Union does everything when it is perfect; it satisfies desires, it simplifies needs, it foresees the wishes of the imagination; it is an aisle always open, and becomes a constant fortune.= _De Senancour._
=Union= (combination) =is best for men, either with their own tribe or with strangers; for even a grain of rice groweth not when divided from its husk.= _Hitopadesa._
=Union is strength.= _Pr._
=Unitate fortior=--Stronger by being united. _M_ 30
="United we stand, divided we fall," / It made and preserves us a nation.= _G. P. Morris._
=Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.= _Carlyle._
=Unity and morality belong to philosophy, not to poetry.= _Wm. Blake._
=Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty. Supreme beauty resides in God.= _Winckelmann._
=Uniforms are often masks.= _Wellington._ 35
=Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one.= _Jean Paul._
=Universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during
## action tires / The sinewy vigour of
the traveller.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Universal suffrage I will consult about the quality of New Orleans pork or the coarser kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character of men, I will if possible ask it no question.= _Carlyle._
=Universus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All the world practises the player's art.
=Unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow,= 40 =which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness, that is, suffering in the bosom of others.= _Bentham._
=Unkindness destroys love.= _Pr._
=Unkindness has no remedy at law; let its avoidance be with you a point of honour.= _Hosea Ballou._
=Unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.= _Byron._
=Unlawful desires are punished after the effect= 45 =of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Unlearn not what you have learned.= _Antisthenes._
=Unlearned men of books assume the care, / As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.= _Young._
=Unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and the bones.= _Ward Beecher._
=Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.= _Hamerton._
=Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring,= 50 =you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.= _Hare._
=Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!= _Daniel._
=Unless music exalt and purify, virtually it is not music at all.= _Ruskin._
=Unless quickened from above and from within, art has in it nothing beyond itself which is visible beauty.= _Dr. John Brown._
=Unless the people can be kept in total darkness, it is the wisest way for the advocates of truth to give them full light.= _Whately._
=Unless we are accustomed to them from early youth, splendid chambers and elegant furniture are for people who neither have nor can have any thoughts.= _Goethe._
=Unless we can cast off the prejudices of the man and become as children, docile and unperverted, we need never hope to enter the temple of philosophy.= _Sir Wm. Hamilton._
=Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.= _Epictetus._
=Unless we see our object, how shall we know= 5 =how to place or prize it in our understanding, our imagination, our affections?= _Carlyle._
=Unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=Unlike my subject now shall be my song; / It shall be witty, but it shan't be long.= _Chesterfield._
=Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.= _Colton._
=Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.= _Bacon._
=Unmingled good cannot be expected; but as= 10 =we may lawfully gather all the good within our reach, we may be allowed to lament over that which we lose.= _Johnson._
=Unmingled joys to no one here befall; / Who least, hath some; who most, hath never all.= _Coleridge._
=Unmöglich ist's, was Edle nicht vermögen=--That is impossible which noble souls are unable to do. _Goethe._
=Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds / To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=Unnumbered suppliants crowd preferment's gate, / Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; / Delusive fortune hears the incessant call, / They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall.= _Johnson._
=Uno avulso non deficit alter=--If one is torn away, 15 another takes its place. _M._
=Uno ictu=--At once (_lit._ at one blow).
=Uno impetu=--At once (_lit._ by one onset).
=Uno levanto la caza, y otro la mata=--One starts the game, and another carries it off. _Sp. Pr._
=Unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed in patent scales, or brought to market.= _J. Sterling._
=Unpublished nature will have its whole secret= 20 =told.= _Emerson._
=Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.= _Molière._
=Unreflective minds possess thoughts only as a jug does water, by containing them. In a disciplined mind knowledge exists like vital force in the physical frame, ready to be directed to tongue, or hand, or foot, hither, thither, anywhere, and for any use desired.= _Coley._
=Unseasonable mirth always turns to sorrow.= _Cervantes._
=Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls. When wrought in the earliest youth, they lie in the memory of age like the coral islands, green and sunny amidst the melancholy waste of ocean.= _Dr. Thomas._
=Unser Gefühl für Natur gleicht der Empfindung= 25 =des Kranken für die Gesundheit=--Our feeling for nature is like the sensation of an invalid for health. _Schiller._
=Unsociable tempers are contracted in solitude, which will in the end not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them nor ourselves better by flying from or quarrelling with them.= _Burke._
=Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.= _Bible._
=Unstained thoughts do seldom dream on evil; / Birds never limed no secret bushes fear.= _Shakespeare._
=Unstät treiben die Gedanken / Auf dem Meer der Leidenschaft=--Unsteady is the course of thought on the sea of passion. _Schiller._
=Unsterblich ist was einmal hat gelebt=--What 30 has once lived is immortal. _G. Kinkel._
=Unsterblich sein, das ist der Dichtkunst Los=--Immortality is the destiny of the poetic art. _Feuchtersleben._
=Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt=--Of all peoples the Greek has dreamt most enchantingly the dream of life. _Goethe._
=Unter mancherlei wunderlichen Albernheiten der Schulen kommt mir keine so vollkommen lächerlich vor, als der Streit über die Aechtheit alter Schriften, alter Werke. Ist es denn der Autor oder die Schrift die wir bewundern oder tadeln? es ist immer nur der Autor, den wir vor uns haben; was kümmern uns die Namen, wenn wir ein Geisteswerk auslegen?=--Among the manifold strange follies of the schools, I know no one so utterly ridiculous and absurd as the controversy about the authenticity of old writings, old works. Is it the author or the writing we admire or censure? It is always the author we have before us. What have we to do with names, when it is a work of the spirit we are interpreting? _Goethe._
=Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, / I laughed, and danced, and talked, and sung.= _Princess Amelia._
=Until men have learned industry, economy, and= 35 =self-control, they cannot be safely intrusted with wealth.= _Gladstone._
=Until you know as much about other people's affairs as they do themselves, it is not very safe to laugh at them or to find fault with them.= _W. E. Forster._
=Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he seemeth to have.= _Jesus._
=Unto him who works, and feels he works, / This same grand year= (the Golden Year) =is ever at the doors.= _Tennyson._
=Unto the pure all things are pure.= _St. Paul._
=Unto the youth should be shown the worth of= 40 =a noble and ripened age, and unto the old man, youth; that both may rejoice in the eternal circle, and life may in life be made perfect.= _Goethe._
=Untwine me from the mass / Of deeds which make up life, one deed / Power shall fall short in or exceed.= _Browning._
=Unum pro multis dabitur caput=--One will be sacrificed for many. _Virg._
=Unus et idem=--One and the same. _M._
=Unus Pellæo juveni non sufficit orbis; / Æstuat infelix angusto limite mundi=--One world is not enough for the youth of Pella; the unhappy man frets at the narrow limits of the world. _Juv. of Alexander the Great._
=Unus vir nullus vir=--One man is no man. _Pr._ 5
=Unvanquished Time, the conqueror of conquerors, and lord of desolation.= _Kirke White._
=Unverhofft kommt oft=--The unlooked-for often happens. _Ger. Pr._
=Unverzeihlich find' ich den Leichtsinn; doch liegt er im Menschen=--Levity I deem unpardonable, though it lies in the heart of man. _Goethe._
=Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.= _Scott._
=Unwilling service earns no thanks.= _Dan. Pr._ 10
=Unwise work, if it but persist, is everywhere struggling towards correction and restoration to health; for it is still in contact with Nature, and all Nature incessantly contradicts it, and will heal it or annihilate it; not so with unwise talk, which addresses itself, regardless of veridical Nature, to the universal suffrages; and can, if it be dexterous, find harbour there, till all the suffrages are bankrupt and gone to Houndsditch.= _Carlyle._
=Unworthy offspring brag most of their worthy descent.= _Dan. Pr._
=Uom, se' tu grande o vil? Muori, e il saprai=--Man, whether thou be great or vile, die, and it will be known. _Alfieri._
=Up and try.= _Wollaston._
=Up from unfeeling mould, / To seraphs burning= 15 =round the Almighty's throne, / Life rising still on life, in higher tone, / Perfection forms, and with perfection bliss.= _Thomson._
=Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, / Or surely you'll grow double. / Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks, / Why all this toil and trouble?= _Wordsworth._
=Upbraiding turns a benefit into an injury.= _Pr._
=Upon every occasion, be sure to make a conscience of what you do or say.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Upon the common course of life must our thoughts and our conversation be generally employed.= _Johnson._
=Upon the education of the people of this= 30 =country the fate of this country depends.= _Disraeli._
=Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper / Sprinkle cool patience.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place.= _Goethe._
=Urbem lateritiam invenit, marmoream reliquit=--He found a city of brick, and left it one of marble. _Suet. of the Rome of Cæsar Augustus._
=Urbem quam dicunt Romam, Melibœe, putavi, / Stultus ego, huic nostræ similem=--The city, Melibœus, which they call Rome, I foolishly imagined to be like this town of ours. _Virg._
=Urbem venalem et mature perituram, si emptorem= 25 =invenerit=--A city for sale and ripe for ruin, once it finds a purchaser. _Sall. of Rome._
=Urbes constituit ætas: hora dissolvit. Momento fit cinis, diu sylva=--It takes an age to build a city, but an hour involves it in ruin. A forest is long in growing, but in a moment it may be reduced to ashes. _Sen._
=Urbi et orbi=--For Rome (_lit._ the city) and the world.
=Urit enim fulgore suo, qui prægravat artes / Infra se positas: exstinctus amabitur idem=--He who depresses the merits of those beneath him blasts them by his very splendour; but when his light is extinguished, he will be admired. _Hor._
=Ursprünglich eignen Sinn lass dir nicht rauben! / Woran die Menge glaubt, ist leicht zu glauben=--Let no one conjure you out of your own native sense of things; what the multitude believe in is easy to believe. _Goethe._
=Urticæ proxima sæpe rosa est=--The nettle is 30 often next to the rose. _Ovid._
=Use almost can change the stamp of nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Use doth breed a habit in a man.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, v. 4.
=Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Use him= (the frog or bait) =as if you loved him.= _Isaak Walton._
=Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.= 35 _Roscommon._
=Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.= _Emerson._
=Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you: it is your murderer, and the murderer of the whole world. Use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used; kill it before it kills you; and though it bring you to the grave, it shall not be able to keep you there.= _Baxter._
=Use sometimes to be alone.= _George Herbert._
=Use the pen; there is no magic in it, but it keeps the mind from staggering about.= (?)
=Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort= 40 =to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Use it as the springtime which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life.= _Sir Walter Raleigh._
=Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first animate exertion, if dwelt upon too intently, will usurp the place of the stern reality; and noble objects will be contemplated, not for their own inherent worth, but on account of the day-dreams they engender. Thus hope, aided by imagination, makes one man a hero, another a somnambulist, and a third a lunatic; while it renders them all enthusiasts.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=Useful be where thou livest, that they may / Both want and wish thy pleasing presence still. / Kindness, good parts, great places, are the way / To compass this.= _George Herbert._
=Usefulness comes by labour, wit by ease.= _George Herbert._
=Usque ad aras=--To the very altars; to the last extremity.
=Usque ad nauseam=--Till one is utterly sick of it.
=Usque adeone mori miserum est?=--Is it then so 5 very dreadful to die? _Virg._
=Usque adeone / Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?=--Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?
=Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.= _Swift._
=Usury is a "concessum propter duritiam cordis"= (a concession on account of hardness of heart); =for, since there must be borrowing and lending, and men are so hard of heart as they will not lend freely, usury must be permitted.= _Bacon._
=Usus est tyrannus=--Custom is a tyrant. _Pr._
=Usus promptum facit=--Practice makes perfect. 10 _Pr._
=Ut ager, quamvis fertilis, sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest, sic sine doctrina animus=--As a field, however fertile, can yield no fruit without culture, so neither can the mind of man without education. _Sen._
=Ut canis e Nilo=--Like the dog by the Nile, _i.e._, drinking and running. _Pr._
=Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas=--The will is commendable, though the ability may be wanting. _Ovid._
=Ut homines sunt, ita morem geras; / Vita quam sit brevis, simul cogita=--As men are, so must you humour them. Think, at the same time, how short life is. _Plaut._
=Ut homo est, ita morem geras=--As a man is, so 15 must you humour him. _Ter._
=Ut infra=--As mentioned below.
=Ut metus ad omnes, pœna ad paucos perveniret=--That fear may reach all, punish but few. _L._
=Ut mos est=--As the custom is. _Juv._
=Ut pictura, poësis=--It fares with a poem as with a picture. _Hor._
=Ut placeas, debes immemor esse tui=--That you 20 may please others you must be forgetful of yourself. _Ovid._
=Ut plerique solent, naso suspendis adunco / Ignotos=--As is the way with most people, you turn up your nose at men of obscure origin. _Hor._
=Ut possedis=--As you now are; as you possess.
=Ut prosim=--That I may benefit others. _M._
=Ut quimus, quando ut volumus non licet=--As we can, when we cannot as we wish. _Ter._
=Ut quisque contemtissimus et ludibrio est, ita= 25 =solutæ linguæ est=--The more despicable and ridiculous a man is, the readier he is with his tongue. _Sen._
=Ut ridentibus arrident, ita flentibus adflent, / Humani vultus=--Human countenances, as they smile on those who smile, so they weep with those that weep. _Hor._
=Ut sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent!=--How often are men of the greatest genius lost in obscurity! _Plaut._
=Ut sementem feceris, ita et metes=--As you have sown so shall you also reap. _Cic._
=Ut sunt humana, nihil est perpetuum=--As human affairs go, nothing is everlasting. _Plaut._
=Ut sunt molles in calamitate mortalium animi!=--How 30 weak are the hearts of mortals under calamity! _Tac._
=Ut supra=--As mentioned above.
=Utendum est ætate; cito pede labitur ætas=--We must make use of time; time glides past at a rapid pace. _Ovid._
=Uterque bonus belli pacisque minister=--A good administrator equally in peace or in war. _Ovid._
=Utile dulci=--The useful with the agreeable.
=Utinam tam facile vera invenire possem, quam= 35 =falsa convincere!=--Would that I could as easily find out the true as I can detect the false. _Cic._
=Utopia=--An imaginary republic nowhere existing.
=Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad famam protulerat=--While other men have attained to fame by their industry, this man has by his indolence. _Tac._
=Utrum horum mavis accipe=--Take which you prefer.
=Utrumque vitium est, et omnibus credere et nulli=--It is equally an error to confide in all and in none. _Sen._
=Uttered out of time, or concealed in its season,= 40 =good savoureth of evil.= _Tupper._
=Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, / That the rude sea grew civil at her song, / And certain stars shot madly from their spheres / To hear the sea-maid's music.= _Mid. N. Dream_, ii. 2.
=Uxorem, Posthume, ducis? / Dic qua Tisiphone, quibus exagitare colubris=--Are you marrying a wife, Posthumous? By what Fury, say, by what snakes are you driven mad? _Juv._
=Uxori nubere nolo meæ=--I will not marry a wife to be my master. _Mart._