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Title: Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
Author: Wood, James, Rev.
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DICTIONARY
OF
QUOTATIONS
DICTIONARY
OF
QUOTATIONS
From Ancient and Modern, English and
Foreign Sources
INCLUDING
PHRASES, MOTTOES, MAXIMS, PROVERBS, DEFINITIONS, APHORISMS,
AND SAYINGS OF WISE MEN, IN THEIR BEARING ON LIFE,
LITERATURE, SPECULATION, SCIENCE, ART,
RELIGION, AND MORALS
ESPECIALLY IN THE MODERN ASPECTS OF THEM
_SELECTED AND COMPILED BY THE_
REV. JAMES WOOD
EDITOR OF "NUTTALL'S STANDARD DICTIONARY"
"_Aphorisms are portable wisdom._"--W. R. ALGER
"_A proverb is much matter decocted into few words._"--FULLER
LONDON
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1893
PREFACE
The present "Book of Quotations" was undertaken in the belief that,
notwithstanding the many excellent compilations of the kind already in
existence, there was room for another that should glean its materials
from a wider area, and that should have more respect to the
requirements, both speculative and practical, of the times we live in.
The wide-spread materials at command had never yet been collected into a
single volume, and certain modern writings, fraught with a wisdom that
supremely deserves our regard, had hardly been quarried in at all.
The Editor has therefore studied to compile a more comprehensive
collection; embracing something of this wisdom, which naturally bears
more directly on the interests of the present day. To these interests
the Editor has all along had an eye, and he has been careful to collect,
from ancient sources as well as modern, sayings that seem to reveal an
insight into them, and bear pertinently upon them; they are such as are
specified on the title-page, and they are one and all more than passing
ones. The aphorisms which wise men have uttered on these vital topics
can never fail to deserve our regard, and they will prove edifying to
us, even should we, led by a higher wisdom, be inclined to say nay to
them. For, as it has been said, "The errors of a wise man are more
instructive than the truths of a fool. 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 has not deviated at all, little is laid
open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges."
The quotations collected in this book, (particularly those bearing on
the vital interests referred to,) are, it will be generally admitted,
the words of wise men; therefore the Editor has endeavoured to ascertain
and give the names of their authors, when not known. For, though the
truth and worth of the sayings are nowise dependent on their authorship,
it is well to know who those were that felt the burden they express,
and found relief in uttering them. What was of moment to them, may well
be of moment to others, and must be worthy of all regard and well
deserving of being laid to heart.
Except in the case of quotations from Shakespeare, the reader will
observe that the Editor has quoted only the names of the authors or the
books from which they are taken, and has not, as might be expected of
him, supplied either chapter or verse. The reason is, he did not think
it worth the labour and expense that would have been involved in doing
so, while the quotations given are for most part independent of the
context, and are perfectly intelligible in their own light. They are all
more or less of an aphoristic quality, and the meaning and application
are evident to any one who understands the subject of which they treat.
As for the other qualities of these quotations, they will be found to be
in general brief in expression and pointed in application, and not a few
of them winged as well as barbed. A great many are pregnant in meaning;
suggest more than they express; and are the coinage of minds of no
ordinary penetration and grasp of thought. While some of them are so
simple that a child might understand them, there are others that border
on regions in which the clearest-headed and surest-footed might stumble
and come to grief.
The collection might have been larger; the quarry of the literature of
the present century alone might have supplied materials for as big a
book. But the Editor's task was to produce a work that should embrace
gleanings from different fields of literature, and he could only
introduce from that of the present day as much as his limits allowed.
Yet, though the quantity given is no index of the quantity available,
the Editor hopes the reader will allow that his selection has not been
made in the dark, and that what he has given is of the true quality, as
well as enough in quantity for most readers to digest. If the quality be
good, the quantity is of little account, for what has been said of
Reason may be said of Wisdom which is its highest expression: "Whoso
hath any, hath access to the whole."
A word of explanation in regard to the Arrangement and the appended
Index:--
The Arrangement adopted may not at once commend itself, but it was found
to be the best; a topical one would have been too cumbersome, as, in
that case, it would have been frequently necessary to introduce the same
quotation under several different heads. The arrangement, it will be
seen, is alphabetical, and follows the order of the initial letters of
the initial word or words.
The Index, which is topical, was rendered necessary in consequence of
the arrangement followed, and, though a copious one, it only refers to
subjects of which there is anything of significance said. It does not
include mottoes, and rarely proverbs; for, apart from the difficulty of
indexing the latter, the attempt would almost have doubled the size of
the book, and rendered it altogether unwieldy. The Index, too, is
limited to subjects that are not in the alphabetical order in the body
of the book. Thus there was no need to index what is said on "Art," on
p. 18, on "Beauty," on p. 26, or on "Christianity," on pp. 42, 43, as
the reader will expect to find something concerning them where they
occur in the order adopted.
With these preliminary explanations the Editor leaves his book--the
pleasant labour of more than three years--in the hands of the public,
assured that they will judge of it by its own merits, and that they will
be generous enough to acquit him of having compiled either a superfluous
or an unserviceable work.
LONDON, 1893.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
USED IN THIS DICTIONARY.
_Amer._ American.
_Apul._ Apuleius.
_Arist._ Aristotle.
_Aul. Gell._ Aulus Gellius.
_Bret._ Breton.
_Cæs._ Cæsar.
_Catull._ Catullus.
_Cic._ Cicero.
_Claud._ Claudius, Claudian.
_Corn._ Corneille.
_Curt._ Curtius.
_Dan._ Danish.
_Dut._ Dutch.
_Ecclus._ Ecclesiasticus.
_Eurip._ Euripides.
_Fr._ French.
_Fris._ Frisian.
_Gael._ Gaelic.
_Ger._ German.
_Gr._ Greek.
_Heb._ Hebrew.
_Hom._ Homer.
_Hor._ Horace.
_It._ Italian.
_Jul._ Julius.
_Just._ Justinian.
_Juv._ Juvenal.
_L._ Law.
_Laber._ Labertius.
_La Font._ La Fontaine.
_La Roche._ La Rochefoucauld.
_Lat._ Latin.
_Liv._ Livy.
_Luc._ Lucan.
_Lucr._, _Lucret._ Lucretius.
_M._ Motto.
_Macrob._ Macrobius.
_Mart._ Martial.
_Mol._ Molière.
_Per._ Persius.
_Petron._ Petronius.
_Phæd._, _Phædr._ Phædrus.
_Plaut._ Plautus.
_Port._ Portuguese.
_Pr._ Proverb.
_Pub. Syr._ Publius Syrus.
_Quinct._ Quinctilian.
_Russ._ Russian.
_Sall._ Sallust.
_Sc._ Scotch.
_Schill._ Schiller.
_Sen._ Seneca.
_Sh._ Shakespeare.
_Soph._ Sophocles.
_Sp._ Spanish.
_Stat._ Statius.
_St. Aug._ St. Augustine.
_Sueton._ Suetonius.
_Swed._ Swedish.
_Tac._ Tacitus.
_Ter._ Terence.
_Tert._ Tertullian.
_Tibull._ Tibullus.
_Turk._ Turkish.
_Virg._ Virgil.
DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS.
A.
=A' are guid lasses, but where do a' the ill wives
come frae?= _Sc. Pr._
=A' are no freens that speak us fair.= _Sc. Pr._
=A aucun les biens viennent en dormant=--Good
things come to some while asleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia=--The
abuse of a thing is no argument against its
use. _L. Max._
=Ab actu ad posse valet illatio=--From what has 5
happened we may infer what may happen.
=A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse,
ending.= _Pr._
=A bad dog never sees the wolf.= _Pr._
=A bad thing is dear at any price.= _Pr._
=Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris=--As you
do to others, you may expect another to do to
you. _Laber._
=A barren sow was never good to pigs.= _Pr._ 10
=A bas=--Down! down with! _Fr._
=A beast that wants discourse of reason.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=A beau is everything of a woman but the sex,
and nothing of a man beside it.= _Fielding._
=A beau jeu beau retour=--One good turn deserves
another. _Fr. Pr._
=A beautiful form is better than a beautiful= 15
=face, and a beautiful behaviour than a beautiful
form.= _Emerson._
=A beautiful object doth so much attract the
sight of all men, that it is in no man's power
not to be pleased with it.= _Clarendon._
=A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul,
the "purgatory" of the purse, and the
"paradise" of the eyes.= _Fontenelle._
=A beggarly account of empty boxes.= _Rom.
and Jul._, v. 1.
=A beggar's purse is always empty.= _Pr._
=A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation,= 20
=has served me as the guide of my moral
and literary life. I have found it a capital
safely invested, and richly productive of interest.=
_Goethe._
=Abends wird der Faule fleissig=--Towards evening
the lazy man begins to be busy. _Ger. Pr._
=A beneficent person is like a fountain watering
the earth and spreading fertility.= _Epicurus._
=Aberrare a scopo=--To miss the mark.
=Abeunt studia in mores=--Pursuits assiduously
prosecuted become habits.
=Ab extra=--From without. 25
=Abgründe liegen im Gemüthe, die tiefer als die
Hölle sind=--There are abysses in the mind that
are deeper than hell. _Platen._
=Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret=--Nothing
deters a good man from what honour
requires of him. _Sen._
=A big head and little wit.= _Pr._
=Ab igne ignem=--Fire from fire.
=Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit=--He has left, gone 30
off, escaped, broken away. _Cic. of Catiline's
flight._
=Ability to discern that what is true is true,
and that what is false is false, is the characteristic
of intelligence.= _Swedenborg._
=Ab incunabilis=--From the cradle.
=Ab initio=--From the beginning.
=Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via=--The
way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one.
_Pr._
=Ab intra=--From within. 35
=Ab irato=--In a fit of passion.
=A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.=
_Pr._
=A bis et à blanc=--By fits and starts. _Fr._
=A bitter and perplex'd "What shall I do?" is
worse to man than worst necessity.= _Schiller._
=A black hen will lay a white egg.= _Pr._ 40
=A blind man should not judge of colours.= _Pr._
=A blockhead can find more faults than a wise
man can mend.= _Gael. Pr._
=A blue-stocking despises her duties as a
woman, and always begins by making herself
a man.= _Rousseau._
=Abnormis sapiens=--Wise without learning. _Hor._
=A bon chat bon rat=--A good rat to match a good 45
cat. Tit for tat. _Pr._
=A bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os=--A
good bone never falls to a good dog. _Fr. Pr._
=A bon droit=--Justly; according to reason. _Fr._
=A bon marché=--Cheap. _Fr._
=A book may be as great a thing as a battle.=
_Disraeli._
=A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.= 50
_Bovee._
=Ab origine=--From the beginning.
=About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.=
_Amiel._
=Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.= _Pope._
=Above all things reverence thyself.= _Pythagoras._
=Above the cloud with its shadow is the star
with its light.= _Victor Hugo._
=Ab ovo=--From the beginning (_lit._ from the egg).
=Ab ovo usque ad mala=--From the beginning to 5
the end (_lit._ from the egg to the apples).
=A bras ouverts=--With open arms. _Fr._
=A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps
close to truth.= _Arist._
=A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a
spectacle for the gods.= _Sen._
=A breath can make them, as a breath has
made.= _Goldsmith._
=Abrégé=--Abridgment. _Fr._ 10
=Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent,
passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and
lights up a fire.= _La Roche._
=Absence makes the heart grow fonder.= _Bayly._
=Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind
quite vacant is a mind distress'd.= _Cowper._
=Absens hæres non erit=--The absent one will not
be the heir. _Pr._
=Absent in body, but present in spirit.= _St._ 15
_Paul._
=Absit invidia=--Envy apart.
=Absit omen=--May the omen augur no evil.
=Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps
rarer.= _J. S. Mill._
=Absolute freedom is inhuman.= _Rahel._
=Absolute individualism is an absurdity.= _Amiel._ 20
=Absolute nothing is the aggregate of all the
contradictions of the world.= _Jonathan Edwards._
=Absque argento omnia vana=--Without money
all is vain.
=Abstineto a fabis=--Having nothing to do with
elections (_lit._ Abstain from beans, the ballot at
Athens having been by beans).
=Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum
regere nescit=--It is absurd that he should
govern others, who knows not how to govern
himself. _L. Max._
=Abundat dulcibus vitiis=--He abounds in charming 25
faults of style. _Quint._
=Ab uno ad omnes=--From one to all. _M._
=Ab uno disce omnes=--From a single instance you
may infer the whole.
=Ab urbe condita= (A.U.C.)--From the building of
the city, _i.e._, of Rome.
=A bureaucracy always tends to become a
pedantocracy.= _J. S. Mill._
=A burnt child dreads the fire.= _Pr._ 30
=Abusus non tollit usum=--Abuse is no argument
against use. _Pr._
=Academical years ought by rights to give
occupation to the whole mind. It is this
time which, well or ill employed, affects a
man's whole after-life.= _Goethe._
=A cader va chi troppo in alto sale=--He who
climbs too high is near a fall. _It. Pr._
=A capite ad calcem=--From head to heel.
=A careless master makes a negligent servant.= 35
_Pr._
=A carper will cavil at anything.= _Pr._
=A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.=
_Pr._
="A cat may look at a king," but can it= _see_ =a
king when it looks at him?= _Ruskin._
=A causa perduta parole assai=--Plenty of words
when the cause is lost. _It. Pr._
=Accasca in un punto quel che non accasca in= 40
=cento anni=--That may happen in a moment which
may not occur again in a hundred years. _It. Pr._
=Accedas ad curiam=--You may go to the court.
A writ to remove a case to a higher court. _L.
Term._
=Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur=--When
the house of your neighbour is on
fire, your own is in danger. _Pr._
=Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling
and truth.= _Rousseau._
=Acceptissima semper / Munera sunt, auctor
quæ pretiosa facit=--Those presents are always
the most acceptable which owe their value to the
giver. _Ovid._
=Accident ever varies; substance can never= 45
=suffer change or decay.= _Wm. Blake._
=Accidents rule men, not men accidents.= _Herodotus._
=Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quid quantaque
secum afferat. In primis valeas bene=--Now
learn what and how great benefits a moderate
diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy
good health. _Hor._
=Accipere quam facere præstat injuriam=--It is
better to receive than to do an injury. _Cic._
=Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat=--The
mind attracted by what is false has no relish for
better things. _Hor._
=Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo=--No 50
man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before
God. _L. Max._
=Accuse not Nature; she hath done her part; /
Do thou thine.= _Milton._
=Acer et vehemens bonus orator=--A good orator
is pointed and impassioned. _Cic._
=Acerrima proximorum odia=--The hatred of those
most closely connected with us is the bitterest.
_Tac._
=Acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est
sensus videndi=--The keenest of all our senses
is the sense of sight. _Cic._
=A certain degree of soul is indispensable to= 55
=save us the expense of salt.= _Ben Jonson._
=A certain tendency to insanity has always
attended the opening of the religious sense
in men, as if they had been "blasted with
excess of light."= _Emerson._
=A chacun selon sa capacité, à chaque capacité
selon ses œuvres=--Every one according
to his talent, and every talent according to its
works. _Fr. Pr._
=A chacun son fardeau pèse=--Every one thinks
his own burden heavy. _Fr. Pr._
=A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.=
_Byron._
=A chaque fou plaît sa marotte=--Every fool is 60
pleased with his own hobby. _Fr. Pr._
=A character is a completely-fashioned will.=
_Novalis._
=Ach! aus dem Glück entwickelt sich Schmerz=--Alas!
that from happiness there so often springs
pain. _Goethe._
=A cheerful life is what the Muses love; / A
soaring spirit is their prime delight.= _Wordsworth._
=Acheruntis pabulum=--Food for Acheron. _Plaut._
=Ach! es geschehen keine Wunder mehr=--Alas!
there are no more any miracles. _Schiller._
=A child is a Cupid become visible.= _Novalis._
=A child may have too much of its mother's
blessing.= _Pr._
=A chill air surrounds those who are down in= 5
=the world.= _George Eliot._
=A chip of the old block.=
=A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.=
_Hare._
=Ach! unsre Thaten selbst, so gut als unsre
Leiden / Sie hemmen unsers Lebens Gang=--We
are hampered, alas! in our course of life
quite as much by what we do as by what we
suffer. _Goethe._
=Ach! vielleicht indem wir hoffen / Hat uns
Unheil getroffen=--Ah! perhaps while we are
hoping, mischief has already overtaken us.
_Schiller._
=Ach wie glücklich sind die Todten!=--Ah! how 10
happy the dead are! _Schiller._
=Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln, wird so leicht
kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen=--Alas!
no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with
the wings of the spirit. _Goethe._
=A circulating library in a town is an ever-green
tree of diabolical knowledge.= _Sheridan._
=A circumnavigator of the globe is less influenced
by all the nations he has seen than
by his nurse.= _Jean Paul._
=A clear conscience is a sure card.= _Pr._
=A cock aye craws crousest (boldest) on his ain= 15
=midden-head.= _Sc. Pr._
=A cœur ouvert=--With open heart; with candour.
_Fr._
=A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible=--To a valiant
heart nothing is impossible. _Fr. Pr._
=A cold hand, a warm heart.= _Pr._
=A combination, and a form, indeed / Where
every god did seem to set his seal / To
give the world assurance of a man.= _Ham._,
iii. 4.
=A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o' want o'= 20
=sense.= _Sc. Pr._
=A compte=--In part payment (_lit._ on account).
_Fr._
=A confesseurs, médecins, avocats, la vérité ne
cèle de ton cas=--Do not conceal the truth from
confessors, doctors, and lawyers. _Fr. Pr._
=A conscience without God is a tribunal without
a judge.= _Lamartine._
=A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious
man in chance.= _Disraeli._
=A constant fidelity in small things is a great= 25
=and heroic virtue.= _Bonaventura._
=A constant friend is a thing hard and rare to
find.= _Plutarch._
=A contre cœur=--Against the grain. _Fr._
=A corps perdu=--With might and main. _Fr._
=A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=A courage to endure and to obey.= _Tennyson._ 30
=A couvert=--Under cover. _Fr._
=Acqua lontana non spegne fuoco vicino=--Water
afar won't quench a fire at hand. _It. Pr._
=A crafty knave needs no broker.= _Pr. quoted
in Hen. VI._
=A craw's nae whiter for being washed.= _Sc. Pr._
=A creation of importance can be produced only= 35
=when its author isolates himself; it is ever
a child of solitude.= _Goethe._
=Acribus initiis, incurioso fine=--Full of ardour at
the beginning, careless at the end. _Tac._
=A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is
often an extinguisher, and not seldom a
thief.= _Hare._
=A crowd is not company.= _Bacon._
=A crown / Golden in show, is but a wreath of
thorns.= _Milton._
=A crown is no cure for the headache.= _Pr._ 40
=A cruce salus=--Salvation from the cross. _M._
=A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand
oils the wheels as they run.= _Ouida._
=A crust of bread and liberty.= _Pope._
=Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta=--Outward
acts betray the secret intention. _L. Max._
=Act always so that the immediate motive of= 45
=thy will may become a universal rule for all
intelligent beings.= _Kant._
=Acti labores jucundi=--The remembrance of past
labours is pleasant.
=Action can be understood and again represented
by the spirit alone.= _Goethe._
=Action is but coarsened thought.= _Amiel._
=Action is the right outlet of emotion.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Actions speak louder than words.= _Pr._ 50
=Actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis=--His
lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years.
_Ovid._
=Activity is the presence, and character the
record, of function.= _Greenough._
=Actum est de republicâ=--It is all over with the
republic.
=Actum ne agas=--What has been done don't do
over again. _Cic._
=Actus Dei nemini facit injuriam=--The act of 55
God does wrong to no man. _L. Max._
=Actus legis nulli facit injuriam=--The act of the
law does wrong to no man. _L. Max._
=Actus me invito factus, non est meus actus=--An
act I do against my will is not my act. _L.
Max._
=Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea=--The
act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind
be guilty. _L. Max._
=Act well your part; there all the honour lies.=
_Pope._
=A cuspide corona=--From the spear a crown, _i.e._, 60
honour for military exploits. _M._
=A custom / More honoured in the breach than
the observance.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=Adam muss eine Eve haben, die er zeiht was
er gethan=--Adam must have an Eve, to blame
for what he has done. _Ger. Pr._
=Ad amussim=--Made exactly by rule.
=A danger foreseen is half avoided.= _Pr._
=Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human= 65
=nature.= _Emerson._
=Ad aperturam=--Wherever a book may be opened.
=Ad arbitrium=--At pleasure.
=Ad astra per ardua=--To the stars by steep paths.
_M._
=A Daniel come to judgment.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=Ad avizandum=--Into consideration. _Scots Law._ 70
=A day may sink or save a realm.= _Tennyson._
=A day of grace= (_Gunst_) =is as a day in harvest;
one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe.=
_Goethe._
=A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's
self.= _Dickens._
=Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet=--When a
disaster happens, every report confirming it obtains
ready credence.
=Ad captandum vulgus=--To catch the rabble.
=Addere legi justitiam decus=--It is to one's honour 5
to combine justice with law. _M._
=A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to
restitution.= _Junius._
=A deep meaning resides in old customs.=
_Schiller._
=A democracy is a state in which the government
rests directly with the majority of the
citizens.= _Ruskin._
=A Deo et rege=--From God and the king. _M._
=Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est=--So 10
much depends on habit in the tender years of
youth. _Virg._
=Ad eundem=--To the same degree. Said of a
graduate passing from one university to another.
=Ad extremum=--At last.
=Ad finem=--To the end.
=Ad Græcas kalendas=--At the Greek calends, _i.e._,
never.
=Ad gustum=--To one's taste. 15
=Adhibenda est in jocando moderatio=--Moderation
should be used in joking. _Cic._
=Ad hoc=--For this purpose.
=Ad hominem=--Personal (_lit._ to the man).
=Adhuc sub judice lis est=--The affair is not yet
decided.
=Adhuc tua messis in herba est=--Your crop is 20
still in grass. _Ovid._
=A die=--From that day.
=Adieu la voiture, adieu la boutique=--Adieu to
the carriage, adieu to the shop, _i.e._, to the business.
_Fr. Pr._
=Adieu, paniers! vendanges sont faites=--Farewell,
baskets! vintage is over. _Fr._
=Ad infinitum=--To infinity.
=Ad interim=--Meanwhile. 25
=Ad internecionem=--To extermination.
=A Dio spiacente ed a' nemici sui=--Hateful to
God and the enemies of God. _Dante._
=A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando=--Praying
to God and smiting with the hammer. _Sp. Pr._
=A discrétion=--Without any restriction (_lit._ at
discretion). _Fr._
=Ad libitum=--At pleasure. 30
=Ad majorem Dei gloriam=--To the greater glory
of God (_M. of the Jesuits_).
=Ad mala quisque animum referat sua=--Let each
recall his own woes. _Ovid._
=Admiration praises; love is dumb.= _Börne._
=Ad modum=--In the manner.
=Ad nauseam=--To disgust; sickening. 35
=Ad ogni santo la sua torcia=--To every saint his
own torch, _i.e._, his place of honour. _It. Pr._
=Ad ogni nocello suo nido è bello=--Every bird
thinks its own nest beautiful. _It. Pr._
=Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua=--Every
one thinks his own cross the hardest to bear.
_It. Pr._
=A dog's life=--hunger and ease.
=A dog winna yowl if you fell him wi' a bane.= 40
_Sc. Pr._
=Adolescentem verecundum esse decet=--A
young man ought to be modest. _Plaut._
=Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo=--A man
addicted to every lust.
=Adó sacan y non pon, presto llegan al hondon=--By
ever taking out and never putting in, one
soon reaches the bottom. _Sp. Pr._
=Ad patres=--Dead; to death (_lit._ to the fathers).
=A downright contradiction is equally mysterious= 45
=to wise men as to fools.= _Goethe._
=Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere=--To
throw the helve after the hatchet, _i.e._, to give up
in despair.
=Ad perniciem solet agi sinceritas=--Honesty is
often goaded to ruin. _Phædr._
=Ad pœnitendum properat, cito qui judicat=--He
who decides in haste repents in haste. _Pub. Syr._
=Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute
novi=--To the vulgar herd with your trappings;
for me, I know you both inside and out. _Pers._
=Ad quæstionem legis respondent judices, ad= 50
=quæstionem facti respondent juratores=--It
is the judge's business to answer to the question
of law, the jury's to answer to the question of
fact. _L._
=Ad quod damnum=--To what damage. _L._
=Ad referendum=--For further consideration.
=Ad rem=--To the point (_lit._ to the thing).
=A droit=--To the right. _Fr._
=A drop of honey catches more flies than a= 55
=hogshead of vinegar.= _Pr._
=A drop of water has all the properties of water,
but it cannot exhibit a storm.= _Emerson._
=A drowning man will catch at a straw.= _Pr._
=Adscriptus glebæ=--Attached to the soil.
=Adsit regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget
æquas=--Have a rule apportioning to each offence
its appropriate penalty. _Hor._
=Adstrictus necessitate=--Bound by necessity. _Cic._ 60
=Ad summum=--To the highest point.
=Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio=--One
is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm
before. _Pub. Syr._
=Ad unguem=--To a nicety (_lit._ to the nail).
=Ad unum omnes=--All to a (_lit._ one) man.
=A dur âne dur aiguillon=--A hard goad for a stubborn 65
ass. _Fr. Pr._
=Ad utrumque paratus=--Prepared for either case.
=Ad valorem=--According to the value.
=Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.=
_Hen. V._, iii. 6.
=Adversa virtute repello=--I repel adversity by
valour. _M._
=Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many= 70
=a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over
his lesson before her awful chair.= _Thackeray._
=Adversity's sweet milk--philosophy.= _Rom. and
Jul._, iii. 3.
=Adversus solem ne loquitor=--Speak not against
the sun, _i.e._, don't argue against what is sun-clear.
_Pr._
=Ad vitam aut culpam=--Till some misconduct be
proved (_lit._ for life or fault).
=Ad vivum=--To the life.
=A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he= 75
=has the giant's shoulders to mount on.= _Coleridge._
=Ægis fortissima virtus=--Virtue is the strongest
shield. _M._
=Ægrescit medendo=--The remedy is worse than
the disease (_lit._ the disorder increases with the
remedy).
=Ægri somnia vana=--The delusive dreams of a
sick man. _Hor._
=Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est=--While a sick
man has life, there is hope. _Pr._
=Ae half o' the world doesna ken how the ither= 5
=half lives.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ae man may tak' a horse to the water, but
twenty winna gar (make) him drink.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ae man's meat is anither man's poison.= _Sc. Pr._
=Æmulatio æmulationem parit=--Emulation begets
emulation. _Pr._
=Æmulus atque imitator studiorum ac laborum=--A
rival and imitator of his studies and labours.
_Cic._
=Aendern und bessern sind zwei=--To change, and 10
to change for the better, are two different things.
_Ger. Pr._
=Æquabiliter et diligenter=--By equity and diligence.
_M._
=Æquâ lege necessitas / Sortitur insignes et
imos=--Necessity apportions impartially to high
and low alike. _Hor._
=Æquam memento rebus in arduis / Servare
mentem, non secus in bonis / Ab insolenti
temperatam / Lætitiâ=--Be sure to preserve an
unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained
from immoderate joy in prosperity. _Hor._
=Æquam servare mentem=--To preserve an even
temper. _M._
=Æquanimiter=--With equanimity. _M._ 15
=Æqua tellus / Pauperi recluditur / Regumque
pueris=--The impartial earth opens alike for the
child of the pauper and of the king. _Hor._
=Æquo animo=--With an even or equable mind. _M._
=Æquum est / Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere
rursus=--It is fair that he who begs to be
forgiven should in turn forgive. _Hor._
=Ære perennius=--More enduring than brass. _Hor._
=Ærugo animi, rubigo ingenii=--Rust, _viz._, idleness, 20
of mind is the blight of genius, _i.e._, natural
capability of every kind.
=Æs debitorem leve, gravius inimicum facit=--A
slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier
one, your enemy. _Laber._
=Ætatem non tegunt tempora=--Our temples do
not conceal our age.
=Æternum inter se discordant=--They are eternally
at variance with each other. _Ter._
=Ævo rarissima nostro simplicitas=--Simplicity
a very rare thing now-a-days. _Ovid._
=A fact is a great thing: a sentence printed,= 25
=if not by God, then at least by the Devil.=
_Carlyle._
=A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it
is true, but as it is significant.= _Goethe._
=A facto ad jus non datur consequentia=--Inference
from the fact to the law is not legitimate.
_L. Max._
="A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is
as just a demand as governed men ever
made of governing; yet in what corner of
this planet was that ever realised?= _Carlyle._
=A fair face may hide a foul heart.= _Pr._
=A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.= 30
_Napoleon._
=A fault confessed is half redressed.= _Pr._
=A favour does not consist in the service done,
but in the spirit of the man who confers it.=
_Sen._
=A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.=
_Garrick._
=A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a
barren heath, driven round and round by an
evil spirit, while there extends on all sides
of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture.=
_Goethe._
="A few strong instincts and a few plain rules"= 35
=suffice us.= _Emerson, from Wordsworth._
=Affaire d'amour=--A love affair. _Fr._
=Affaire d'honneur=--An affair of honour; a duel.
_Fr._
=Affaire du cœur=--An affair of the heart. _Fr._
=Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.=
_Guicciardini._
=Affection lights a brighter flame / Than ever= 40
=blazed by art.= _Cowper._
=Affirmatim=--In the affirmative.
=Afflavit Deus et dissipantur=--God sent forth his
breath, and they are scattered. _Inscription on
medal struck to commemorate the destruction of
the Spanish Armada._
=Afflictions are blessings in disguise.= _Pr._
=A fiery soul, which, working out its way /
Fretted the pigmy body to decay.= _Dryden._
=A fin=--To the end. 45
=A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of
a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of
a fool.= _J. Roux._
=A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.=
_Victor Hugo._
=A flute lay side by side with Frederick the
Great's baton of command.= _Jean Paul._
=A fly is as untamable as a hyena.= _Emerson._
=A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.= _Japan. Pr._ 50
=A fond=--Thoroughly (_lit._ to the bottom).
=A fonte puro pura defluit aqua=--From a pure
spring pure water flows. _Pr._
=A fortiori=--With stronger reason.
=A fool always accuses other people; a partially
wise man, himself; a wholly wise man,
neither himself nor others.= _Herder._
=A fool always finds a greater fool to admire= 55
=him.= _Boileau._
=A fool and his money are soon parted.= _Pr._
=A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the
fool.= _Bulwer._
=A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a
knave, and always more incorrigible.= _Colton._
=A fool is wise in his own conceit.= _Pr._
=A fool knows more in his own house than a= 60
=wise man in another's.= _Pr._
=A fool may give a wise man counsel.= _Pr._
=A fool may make money, but it takes a wise
man to spend it.= _Pr._
=A fool may sometimes have talent, but he
never has judgment.= _La Roche._
=A fool may speer= (ask) =mair questions than a
wise man can answer.= _Sc. Pr._
=A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man= 65
=lays it to heart.= _Confucius._
=A fool's bolt is soon shot.= _Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark.= _Pr._
=A fool when he is silent is counted wise.= _Pr._
=A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment
and scandal, like a hack-horse setting
out to gallop.= _Chamfort._
=A fop is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool,
and his own foe.= _Lavater._
=A force de mal aller tout ira bien=--By dint of
going wrong all will go right. _Fr. Pr._
=A force de peindre le diable sur les murs, il
finit par apparaître en personne=--If you keep
painting the devil on the walls, he will by and
by appear to you in person. _Fr. Pr._
=A friend in court makes the process short.= _Pr._ 5
=A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.=
_Emerson._
=A friend is never known till needed.= _Pr._
=A friend loveth at all times.= _Bible._
=A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece
of Nature.= _Emerson._
=A friend's eye is a good looking-glass.= _Gael. Pr._ 10
=A friendship will be young at the end of a
century, a passion old at the end of three
months.= _Nigu._
=A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.=
_Pr._
=A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus=--A precipice
before, a wolf behind. _Pr._
=After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk
a mile.= _Pr._
=After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.= _Macb._, 15
iii. 2.
=After meat mustard=, _i.e._, too late.
=After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest
things in the world are diamonds and pearls.=
_La Bruyère._
=After-wit is everybody's wit.= _Pr._
=A full cup is hard to carry.= _Pr._
=A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=A gauche=--To the left. _Fr._
=Age does not make us childish, as people say;
it only finds us still true children.= _Goethe._
=Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.= _G. W.
Curtis._
=Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter
without a sun.= _Colton._
=A genius is one who is endowed with an excess= 25
=of nervous energy and sensibility.= _Schopenhauer._
=Agent de change=--A stockbroker. _Fr._
=A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.=
_Emerson._
=A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness
of nature.= _Ruskin._
=A gentleman that will speak more in a minute
than he will stand to in a month.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 4.
=Age quod agis=--Attend to (_lit._ do) what you are 30
doing.
=Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare
prudenter=--It is of more consequence to act
considerately than to think sagely. _Cic._
=Agiotage=--Stockbroking. _Fr._
=A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair
praise.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1.
=Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ=--I own I feel
traces of an old passion. _Virg._
=A God all mercy is a God unjust.= _Young._ 35
=A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet
distinctly, shows us what to hold by and
what to shun.= _Goethe._
=A gold key opens every door.= _Pr._
=A good bargain is a pick-purse.= _Pr._
=A good beginning makes a good ending.= _Pr._
=A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40
=master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up
on purpose to a life beyond life.= _Milton._
=A good friend is my nearest relation.= _Pr._
=A good horse should be seldom spurred.= _Pr._
=A good inclination is only the first rude
draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes
are from the will.= _South._
=A good king is a public servant.= _Ben Jonson._
=A good laugh is sunshine in a house.= _Thackeray._ 45
=A good law is one that holds, whether you
recognise it or not; a bad law is one that
cannot, however much you ordain it.= _Ruskin._
=A good man in his dark striving is, I should
say, conscious of the right way.= _Goethe._
=A good man shall be satisfied from himself.=
_Bible._
=A good marksman may miss.= _Pr._
=A good name is sooner lost than won.= _Pr._ 50
=A good presence is a letter of recommendation.=
_Pr._
=A good reader is nearly as rare as a good
writer.= _Willmott._
=A good rider on a good horse is as much
above himself and others as the world can
make him.= _Lord Herbert of Cherbury._
=A good road and a wise traveller are two
different things.= _Pr._
=A good solid bit of work lasts.= _George Eliot._ 55
=A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a
lion's heart, and a lady's hand.= _Pr._
=A good thought is a great boon.= _Bovee._
=A good wife and health are a man's best
wealth.= _Pr._
=A gorge déployée=--With full throat. _Fr._
=A government for protecting business and= 60
=bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls
by its own corruption to decay.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=A government may not waver; once it has
chosen its course, it must, without looking
to right or left, thenceforth go forward.=
_Bismarck._
=A grands frais=--At great expense. _Fr._
=A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace
of the soul.= _Chinese Pr._
=A great anguish may do the work of years,
and we may come out from that baptism of
fire with a soul full of new awe and new
pity.= _George Eliot._
=A great deal may and must be done which we= 65
=dare not acknowledge in words.= _Goethe._
=A great genius takes shape by contact with
another great genius, but less by assimilation
than by friction.= _Heine._
=A great licentiousness treads on the heels of
a reformation.= _Emerson._
=A great man is he who can call together the
most select company when it pleases him.=
_Landor._
=A great man is one who affects the mind of
his generation.= _Disraeli._
=A great man living for high ends is the= 70
=divinest thing that can be seen on earth.=
_G. S. Hillard._
=A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw
on his invention when his memory serves
him with a word as good.= _Emerson._
=A great master always appropriates what is
good in his predecessors, and it is this which
makes him great.= _Goethe._
=A great observer, and he looks / Quite through
the deeds of men.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=A great reputation is a great noise; the more
there is made, the farther off it is heard.=
_Napoleon._
=A great revolution is never the fault of the= 5
=people, but of the government.= _Goethe._
=A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.=
_Goethe._
=A great spirit errs as well as a little one,
the former because it knows no bounds, the
latter because it confounds its own horizon
with that of the universe.= _Goethe._
=A great thing can only be done by a great
man, and he does it without effort.= _Ruskin._
=A great thing is a great book, but greater than
all is the talk of a great man.= _Disraeli._
=A great writer does not reveal himself here= 10
=and there, but everywhere.= _Lowell._
=Agree, for the law is costly.= _Pr._
=A green winter makes a fat churchyard.= _Pr._
=A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates
a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses
fidelity; while the sparkling of a
dark eye is, like the ways of Providence,
always a riddle.= _Bodenstedt._
=A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.= _Pr._
=Agues come on horseback and go away on= 15
=foot.= _Pr._
=A guilty conscience needs no accuser.= _Pr._
=A hair of the dog that bit him.= _Pr._
=A haute voix=--Loudly; audibly. _Fr._
=A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a
hand to execute.= _Gibbon._
=A hedge between, keeps friendship green.= _Pr._ 20
=Ah! il n'y a plus d'enfants=--Ah! there are no
children now-a-days! _Mol._
=Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ... /
The course of true love never did run smooth.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Ah me! how sweet this world is to the dying!=
_Schiller._
=A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.= _Pr._
=A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse.= 25
_Rich. III._, v. 4.
=Ah! pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins
homme=--Though I am a religious man, I am
not therefore the less a man. _Mol._
=Ah! quam dulce est meminisse=--Ah! how sweet
it is to remember! _M._
=Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle
shapes / And with a virtuous visor hide
deep vice.= _Rich. III._, ii. 2.
=A hundred years cannot repair a moment's
loss of honour.= _Pr._
=A hungry belly has no ears.= _Pr._ 30
=Ah! vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo=--I have
lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing.
_Grotius._
=Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera=--Help yourself and
Heaven will help you. _Fr._
[Greek: Ai symphorai poiousi makrologous]--Misfortunes
make men talk loquaciously. _Appian._
[Greek: Aidôs olôlen]--Modesty has died out. _Theognis._
=Ainsi que son esprit, tout peuple a son langage=--Every 35
nation has its own language as
well as its own temperament. _Voltaire._
=Air de fête=--Looking festive. _Fr._
=Air distingué=--Distinguished looking. _Fr._
=Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.=
_Lavater._
=Aisé à dire est difficile à faire=--Easy to say is
hard to do. _Fr. Pr._
=A jest loses its point when he who makes it= 40
=is the first to laugh.= _Schiller._
=A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that
hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that
makes it.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=A Jove principium=--Beginning with Jove.
=A judge who cannot punish, associates himself
in the end with the criminal.= _Goethe._
=A judicious= (verständiger) =man is of much value
for himself, of little for the whole.= _Goethe._
=A king of shreds and patches.= _Ham._, iii. 4. 45
=A king's son is no nobler than his company.=
_Gael. Pr._
=A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.=
_Ham._, iv. 2.
=A l'abandon=--At random; little cared for. _Fr._
=A la belle étoile=--In the open air. _Fr._
=A la bonne heure=--Well-timed; very well. _Fr._ 50
=A l'abri=--Under shelter. _Fr._
=A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle=--By
candlelight a goat looks like a young lady.
_Fr. Pr._
=A la dérobée=--By stealth. _Fr._
=A la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard=--We
shall know in the end who ate the bacon. _Fr. Pr._
=A la française=--In the French fashion. _Fr._ 55
=A la lettre=--Literally. _Fr._
=A la mode=--According to the fashion. _Fr._
=A l'amour satisfait tout son charme est ôté=--When
love is satisfied all the charm of it is gone.
_Corneille._
=A la portée de tout le monde=--Within reach of
every one. _Fr._
=A la presse vont les fous=--Fools go in crowds. 60
_Fr. Pr._
=Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.=
_Sheridan._
=A last judgment is necessary, because fools
flourish.= _Wm. Blake._
=A last judgment is not for making bad men
better, but for hindering them from oppressing
the good.= _Wm. Blake._
=A latere=--From the side of (sc. the Pope).
=A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an= 65
=idle, is necessarily a demoralised population.=
_Draper._
=Albæ gallinæ filius=--The son of a white hen.
=Album calculum addere=--To give a white stone,
_i.e._, to vote for, by putting a white stone into an
urn, a black one indicating rejection.
=Al corral con ello=--Out of the window with it.
_Sp._
=Alea belli=--The hazard of war.
=Alea jacta est=--The die is cast. 70
=Alea judiciorum=--The hazard or uncertainty of
law.
=A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard.= _Pr._
=A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a
spring.= _W. R. Alger._
=Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente
de plata=--Make a bridge of silver for the flying
enemy. _Sp. Pr._
=Alere flammam=--To feed the flame.
=Ales volat propriis=--A bird flies to its own.
=Al fin se canta la Gloria=--Not till the end is the 5
Gloria chanted. _Sp. Pr._
=Al fresco=--In the open air. _It._
=Aliam excute quercum=--Go, shake some other
oak (of its fruit). _Pr._
=Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum=--Ruling men
is one thing, fiddling to them another. _Pr._
=A liar is always lavish of oaths.= _Corneille._
=A liar should have a good memory.= _Pr._ 10
=Alias=--Otherwise.
=Alia tentanda via est=--We must try another
way.
=Alibi=--Elsewhere.
=A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll
it, the bigger it becomes.= _Luther._
=A lie has no legs, but scandal has wings.= 15
_Pr._
=A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest
of lies.= _Tennyson._
=Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa
saliunt latus=--A hundred affairs of other people
leap through my head and at my side. _Hor._
=Aliena negotia curo / Excussus propriis=--I
attend to other people's affairs, baffled with my
own. _Hor._
=Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent=--That
which belongs to others pleases us most; that
which belongs to us pleases others more. _Pub.
Syr._
=Aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--We 20
are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of
others. _Hor._
=Aliena optimum frui insania=--It is best to profit
by the madness of other people. _Pr._
=Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra
sunt=--We keep the faults of others before our
eyes; our own behind our backs. _Sen._
=Alieni appetens, sui profusus=--Covetous of other
men's property, prodigal of his own. _Sall._
=Alieni temporis flores=--Flowers of other days.
=Alieno in loco haud stabile regnum est=--Sovereignty 25
over a foreign land is insecure. _Sen._
=Alieno more vivendum est mihi=--I must live
according to another's humour. _Ter._
=Alienos agros irrigas tuis sitientibus=--You
water the fields of others, while your own are
parched. _Pr._
=A lie should be trampled on and extinguished
wherever found.= _Carlyle._
=A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought
with outright / But a lie which is part a truth
is a harder matter to fight.= _Tennyson._
=A life that is worth writing at all is worth= 30
=writing minutely.= _Longfellow._
=A light heart lives long.= _Pr._
=Alii sementem faciunt, alii metentem=--Some do
the sowing, others the reaping.
=Aliis lætus, sapiens sibi=--Cheerful for others,
wise for himself. _Pr._
=A l'impossible nul n'est tenu=--No one can be
held bound to do what is impossible. _Fr. Pr._
=A l'improviste=--Unawares. _Fr._ 35
=Aliorum medicus, ipse ulceribus scates=--A
physician to others, while you yourself are full
of ulcers.
=Alio sub sole=--Under another sky (_lit._ sun).
=Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus=--Sometimes
even the good Homer nods. _Hor._
=Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa=--No
one may sit as judge in his own case. _L._
=Alis volat propriis=--He flies with his own wings. 40
_M._
=A little body often harbours a great soul.=
_Pr._
=A little fire is quickly trodden out; / Which
being suffered, rivers cannot quench.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 8.
=A little is better than none.= _Pr._
=A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink
deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.= _Pope._
=A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.= 45
_Pr._
=A little more than kin, and less than kind.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=A little neglect may breed great mischief.=
_Franklin._
=A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth
men's minds about to religion.= _Bacon._
=A little spark maks muckle wark.= _Sc. Pr._
=Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo=--Evil is nourished 50
and grows by concealment. _Virg._
=Aliud est celare, aliud tacere=--To conceal is one
thing, to say nothing is another. _L. Max._
=Aliud et idem=--Another and the same.
=Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes=--Boys
read books one way, men another, old
men another. _Ter._
=A living dog is better than a dead lion.= _Pr._
=Alle anderen Dinge müssen; der Mensch ist= 55
=das Wesen, welches will=--All other things
must; man is the only creature who wills.
_Schiller._
=Alle Frachten lichten, sagte der Schiffer, da
warf er seine Frau über Bord=--All freights
lighten, said the skipper, as he threw his wife
into the sea. _Ger. Pr._
=Allegans contraria non est audiendus=--No one
is to be heard whose evidence is contradictory.
_L. Max._
=Allen gehört, was du denkest; dein eigen
ist nur, was du fühlest=--What you think
belongs to all; only what you feel is your own.
_Schiller._
=Aller Anfang ist heiter; die Schwelle ist der
Platz der Erwartung=--Every beginning is
cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation.
_Goethe._
=Aller Anfang ist schwer, sprach der Dieb, und= 60
=stahl zuerst einen Amboss=--Every beginning
is difficult, said the thief, when he began by
stealing an anvil. _Ger. Pr._
=Alle Schuld rächt sich auf Erden=--Every offence
is avenged on earth. _Goethe._
=Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden;
man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal
zu denken=--Everything wise has already been
thought; one can only try and think it once
more. _Goethe._
=Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichniss=--Everything
transitory is only an allegory.
_Goethe._
=Alles wanket, wo der Glaube fehlt=--All is
unsteady (_lit._ wavers) where faith fails. _Ger.
Pr._
=Alles wäre gut, wär kein Aber dabei=--Everything
would be right if it were not for the "Buts."
_Ger. Pr._
=Alles, was ist, ist vernünftig=--Everything which
is, is agreeable to reason. _Hegel._
=Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden=--To
save all, we must risk all. _Schiller._
=All advantages are attended with disadvantages.= 5
_Hume._
=All are but parts of one stupendous whole /
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.=
_Pope._
=All argument will vanish before one touch of
Nature.= _Colman._
=All are not hunters that blow the horn.= _Pr._
=All are not saints that go to church.= _Pr._
=All are not soldiers that go to the wars.= 10
_Pr._
=All are not thieves that dogs bark at.= _Pr._
=All art is great, and good, and true, only so
far as it is distinctively the work of manhood
in its entire and highest sense.= _Ruskin._
=All balloons give up their gas in the pressure
of things, and collapse in a sufficiently
wretched manner erelong.= _Carlyle._
=All battle is misunderstanding.= _Goethe._
=All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior= 15
=steps that are of most difficult ascent and
most rarely taken.= _Goethe._
=All cats are grey in the dark.= _Pr._
=All censure of a man's self is oblique praise;
it is in order to show how much he can
spare.= _Johnson._
=All cruelty springs from weakness.= _Sen._
=All death in nature is birth.= _Fichte._
=All deep joy has something of awful in it.= 20
_Carlyle._
=All delights are vain; but that most vain /
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit
pain.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever
it be, is but new creation on a wider
scale.= _Carlyle._
=All disputation makes the mind deaf, and
when people are deaf I am dumb.= _Joubert._
[Greek: All' estin, entha chê dikê blabên pherei]--Sometimes
justice does harm. _Sophocles._
=All evil is as a nightmare; the instant you= 25
=begin to= _stir_ =under it, the evil is gone.= _Carlyle._
=All evils, when extreme, are the same.= _Corneille._
=All faults are properly shortcomings.= _Goethe._
=All faiths are to their own believers just / For
none believe because they will, but must.=
_Dryden._
=All feet tread not in one shoe.= _Pr._
=All flesh consorteth according to its kind, and= 30
=a man will cleave to his like.= _Ecclus._
=All forms of government are good, so far as
the wise and kind in them govern the unwise
and unkind.= _Ruskin._
=All good colour is in some degree pensive,
and the purest and most thoughtful minds
are those which love colour the most.=
_Ruskin._
=All good government must begin at home.=
_H. R. Haweis._
=All good has an end but the goodness of God.=
_Gael. Pr._
=All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps= 35
=flesh more now / Than flesh helps soul.=
_Browning._
=All good things go in threes.= _Ger. and Fr.
Pr._
=All governments are to some extent a treaty
with the Devil.= _Jacobi._
=All great art is the expression of man's delight
in God's work, not in his own.= _Ruskin._
=All great discoveries are made by men whose
feelings run ahead of their thinkings.= _C. H.
Parkhurst._
=All great peoples are conservative.= _Carlyle._ 40
=All great song has been sincere song.= _Ruskin._
=All healthy things are sweet-tempered.= _Emerson._
=All his geese are swans.= _Pr._
=All history is an inarticulate Bible.= _Carlyle._
=All immortal writers speak out of their hearts.= 45
_Ruskin._
=All imposture weakens confidence and chills
benevolence.= _Johnson._
=All inmost things are melodious, naturally
utter themselves in song.= _Carlyle._
=All is but toys.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=All is good that God sends us.= _Pr._
=All is influence except ourselves.= _Goethe._ 50
=All is not gold that glitters.= _Pr._
=All is not lost that's in peril.= _Pr._
=All live by seeming.= _Old Play._
=All living objects do by necessity form to
themselves a skin.= _Carlyle._
=Allmächtig ist doch das Gold; auch Mohren= 55
=kann's bleichen=--Gold is omnipotent; it can
make even the Moor white. _Schiller._
=All mankind love a lover.= _Emerson._
=All man's miseries go to prove his greatness.=
_Pascal._
=All martyrdoms looked mean when they were
suffered.= _Emerson._
=All measures of reformation are effective in
proportion to their timeliness.= _Ruskin._
=All men are bores except when we want them.= 60
_Holmes._
=All men are born sincere and die deceivers.=
_Vauvenargues._
=All men are fools, and with every effort they
differ only in the degree.= _Boileau._
=All men commend patience, though few be
willing to practise it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=All men have their price.= _Anon._
=All men honour love, because it looks up, and= 65
=not down.= _Emerson._
=All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's
eye, will work wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All men live by truth, and stand in need of
expression.= _Emerson._
=All men may dare what has by man been done.=
_Young._
=All men that are ruined are ruined on the side
of their natural propensities.= _Burke._
=All men think all men mortal but themselves.= 70
_Young._
=All men would be masters of others, and no
man is lord of himself.= _Goethe._
=All men who know not where to look for truth,
save in the narrow well of self, will find their
own image at the bottom and mistake it for
what they are seeking.= _Lowell._
=All minds quote. Old and new make up the
warp and woof of every moment.= _Emerson._
=All mischief comes from our inability to be
alone.= _La Bruyère._
=All money is but a divisible title-deed.= _Ruskin._ 5
=All my possessions for a moment of time!=
_Queen Elizabeth's last words._
=All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All
chance, direction which thou canst not see. /
All discord, harmony not understood; / All
partial evil, universal good.= _Pope._
=All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's
natural superiority.= _Emerson._
=All objects are as windows through which the
philosophic eye looks into infinitude.= _Carlyle._
=All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.= 10
_Sh._
[Greek: all' ou Zeus andressi noêmata panta teleutâ]--Zeus,
however, does not give effect to all the
schemes of man. _Hom._
[Greek: Allos egô]--Alter ego. _Zeno's definition of a
friend._
=All our evils are imaginary, except pain of
body and remorse of conscience.= _Rousseau._
=All our most honest striving prospers only in
unconscious moments.= _Goethe._
=All passions exaggerate; and they are passions= 15
=only because they do exaggerate.=
_Chamfort._
=All pleasure must be bought at the price of
pain.= _John Foster._
=All power appears only in transition.= _Novalis._
=All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately
on opinion.= _Hume._
=All power of fancy over reason is a degree of
insanity.= _Johnson._
=All promise outruns performance.= _Emerson._ 20
=All public disorder proceeds from want of
work.= _Courier._
=All speech, even the commonest, has something
of song in it.= _Carlyle._
=All strength lies within, not without.= _Jean Paul._
=All strong men love life.= _Heine._
=All strong souls are related.= _Schiller._ 25
=All's well that ends well.= _Pr._
=All talent, all intellect, is in the first place
moral.= _Carlyle._
=All that a man has he will give for right relations
with his mates.= _Emerson._
=All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do
worms infold.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 7.
=All that is best in the great poets of all countries= 30
=is not what is national in them, but
what is universal.= _Longfellow._
=All that is human must retrograde, if it do not
advance.= _Gibbon._
=All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature,
and appears to sleep until it is aroused and
summoned forth by contrast.= _Goethe._
=All that lives must die, / Passing through
nature to eternity.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=All that man does and brings to pass is the
vesture of a thought.= _Sartor Resartus._
=All that mankind has done, thought, gained,= 35
=or been, it is all lying in magic preservation
in the pages of books.= _Carlyle._
=All that tread the globe are but a handful to
the tribes that slumber in its bosom.= _Bryant._
=All the armed prophets have conquered, all
the unarmed have perished.= _Machiavelli._
=All the arts affecting culture= (_i.e._, =the fine arts=)
=have a certain common bond, and are connected
by a certain blood relationship with
each other.= _Cic._
=All the difference between the wise man and
the fool is, that the wise man keeps his
counsel, and the fool reveals it.= _Gael. Pr._
=All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest= 40
=ruin, are due to the concentration of man
upon himself, whether his heavenly interests
or his worldly interests, matters not.= _Ruskin._
=All the faults of the man I can pardon in the
player; no fault of the player can I pardon
in the man.= _Goethe._
=All the good of which humanity is capable is
comprised in obedience.= _J. S. Mill._
=All the great ages have been ages of belief.=
_Emerson._
=All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle.= _Pr._
=All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers= 45
=of opinions already printed, we may
term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who
arrogate not the merit of invention.= _Voltaire._
=All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten
this little hand.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of
women also, and in all of them a woman
is only a weaker man.= _Plato._
=All the thinking in the world does not bring
us to thought; we must be right by nature,
so that good thoughts may come.= _Goethe._
=All the wit in the world is not in one head.= _Pr._
=All the wit in the world is thrown away upon= 50
=the man who has none.= _Bruyère._
=All the world's a stage / And all the men and
women merely players.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=All things are double, one against another.
Good is set against evil, and life against
death.= _Ecclus._
=All things are for the sake of the good, and it
is the cause of everything beautiful.= _Plato._
=All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting.=
_Pr._
=All things are symbolical, and what we call= 55
=results are beginnings.= _Plato._
=All things happen by necessity; in Nature
there is neither good nor bad.= _Spinoza._
=All things that are / Are with more spirit
chased than enjoyed.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=All things that love the sun are out of doors.=
_Wordsworth._
=All this (in the daily press) does not concern
one in the least; one is neither the wiser
nor the better for knowing what the day
brings forth.= _Goethe._
=All true men are soldiers in the same army,= 60
=to do battle against the same enemy--the
empire of darkness and wrong.= _Carlyle._
=All truth is not to be told at all times.= _Pr._
=All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness
most punished, in itself.= _Bacon._
=All went as merry as a marriage-bell.= _Byron._
=All, were it only a withered leaf, works together
with all.= _Carlyle._
=All will be as God wills.= _Gael. Pr._
=All wise men are of the same religion, and= 5
=keep it to themselves.= _Lord Shaftesbury._
=All women are good=, _viz._, =for something or
nothing.= _Pr._
=All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.=
_Pr._
=Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein
wahres Unglück=--It is a real misfortune to
have too great delicacy of feeling. _C. J.
Weber._
=Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen=--If
the bow is overstrained, it breaks. _Schiller._
=Allzuviel ist nicht genug=--Too much is not 10
enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Alma mater=--A benign mother; applied to one's
university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.
=Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca
qualche cosa=--A mill and a woman are always
in want of something. _It. Pr._
=Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations
with other people.= _Schopenhauer._
=Almsgiving never made any man poor.= _Pr._
=A loan should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan=--By the work
one knows the workman. _La Font._
=A loisir=--At leisure. _Fr._
=Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej=--In
dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
_J. Arany._
=Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They
kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= _Gray._
=A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios=--The 20
mother of God appears to fools. _Sp. Pr._
=A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.= _Love's
L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Alte fert aquila=--The eagle bears me on high. _M._
=Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat=--He
carries a stone in one hand, and
shows bread in the other. _Pr._
=Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt=--They
tickle with one hand and smite with the other.
_Pr._
=Alter ego=--Another or second self. 25
=Alter idem=--Another exactly the same.
=Alter ipse amicus=--A friend is a second self. _Pr._
=Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest=--Let no
man be slave of another who can be his own
master. _M. of Paracelsus._
=Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas=--Let
me skim the water with one oar, and with
the other touch the sands, _i.e._, so as not to go
out of my depth.
=Alterum tantum=--As much more. 30
=Although men are accused of not knowing
their weakness, yet perhaps as few know
their strength.= _Swift._
=Although the last, not least.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur=--The
deepest rivers flow with the least noise.
_Curt._
=Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr
der Sinn=--Old is the Word, yet does the meaning
abide as high and true as ever. _Faust._
=Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo=--Learning 35
is my sole delight. _Petrarch._
=Always filling, never full.= _Cowper._
=Always have two strings to your bow.= _Pr._
=Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst
not become a whole thyself, connect thyself
with a whole as a ministering member.=
_Schiller._
=Always there is a black spot in our sunshine,
the shadow of ourselves.= _Carlyle._
=Always to distrust is an error, as well as always= 40
=to trust.= _Goethe._
=Always win fools first; they talk much, and
what they have once uttered they will stick
to.= _Helps._
=Amabilis insania=--A fine frenzy. _Hor._
=A machine is not a man or a work of art; it
is destructive of humanity and art.= _Wm.
Blake._
=A madness most discreet, / A choking gall
and a preserving sweet=, _i.e._, =Love is.= _Rom.
and Jul._, i. 1.
=A mad world, my masters.= _Middleton._ 45
=A main armée=--By force of arms. _Fr._
=Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo=--Love your
friend with all his faults. _It. Pr._
=A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.=
_Pr._
=A man belongs to his age and race, even when
he acts against them.= _Renan._
=A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient= 50
=for himself; yet were ten men, united in
love, capable of being and doing what ten
thousand singly would fail in.= _Carlyle._
=A man can be so changed by love as to be
unrecognisable as the same person.= _Ter._
=A man= _can_ =do no more than he can.= _Pr._
=A man can keep another's secret better than
his own; a woman, her own better than
another's.= _La Bruyère._
=A man canna wive and thrive the same year.=
_Sc. Pr._
=A man can never be too much on his guard= 55
=when he writes to the public, and never too
easy towards those with whom he converses.=
_D'Alembert._
=A man can receive nothing except it be given
him from heaven.= _John Baptist._
=A man cannot be in the seventeenth century
and the nineteenth at one and the same
moment.= _Carlyle's experience while editing
Cromwell's Letters._
=A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.=
_Pr._
=A man cannot whistle and drink at the same
time.= _Pr._
=A man dishonoured is worse than dead.= _Cervantes._ 60
=A man does not represent a fraction, but a
whole number; he is complete in himself.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man hears only what he understands.=
_Goethe._
=A man he was to all the country dear, / And
passing rich with forty pounds a year.= _Goldsmith._
=A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is
better out of it than in it.= _Gael. Pr._
=A man in debt is so far a slave.= _Emerson._ 65
=A man in the right, with God on his side, is in
the majority, though he be alone.= _Amer. Pr._
=A man is a fool or his own physician at forty.=
_Pr._
=A man is a golden impossibility.= _Emerson._
=A man is always nearest to his good when at
home, and farthest from it when away.= _J. G.
Holland._
=A man is king in his own house.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=A man is never happy till his vague striving
has itself marked out its proper limitation.=
_Goethe._
=A man is not born the second time, any more
than the first, without travail.= _Carlyle._
=A man is not as God, / But then most godlike
being most a man.= _Tennyson._
=A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits,
though six men cannot hold him; only he
that can walk under the heaviest weight
without staggering.= _Carlyle._
=A man is only a relative and a representative= 10
=nature.= _Emerson._
=A man is the façade of a temple wherein all
wisdom and all good abide.= _Emerson._
=A man is the prisoner of his power.= _Emerson._
=A man lives by believing something; not by
debating and arguing about many things.=
_Carlyle._
=A man may be proud of his house, and not ride
on the rigging (ridge) of it.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man may do what he likes with his own.= _Pr._ 15
=A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain.=
_Ham._, i. 5.
=A man may spit in his nieve and do little.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man may survive distress, but not disgrace.=
_Gael. Pr._
=A man / More sinn'd against than sinning.=
_King Lear_, iii. 2.
=A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive.= _Pr._ 20
=A man must become wise at his own expense.=
_Montaigne._
=A man must be healthy before he can be holy.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=A man must be well off who is irritated by
trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man must carry knowledge with him if he
would bring home knowledge.= _Johnson._
=A man must seek his happiness and inward= 25
=peace from objects which cannot be taken
away from him.= _W. von Humboldt._
=A man must take himself for better, for worse,
as his portion.= _Emerson._
=A man must thank his defects, and stand in
some terror of his talents.= _Emerson._
=A man must verify or expel his doubts, and
convert them into certainty of Yes= _or_ =No.=
_Carlyle._
=A man must wait for the right moment.=
_Schopenhauer._
=A man never feels the want of what it never= 30
=occurs to him to ask for.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man never rises so high as when he knows
not whither he is going.= _Oliver Cromwell._
=A man of intellect without energy added to it
is a failure.= _Chamfort._
=A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with
one eye, and that eye in the back of his
head.= _Coleridge._
=A man of pleasure is a man of pains.= _Young._
=A man often pays dear for a small frugality.= 35
_Emerson._
=A man of the world must seem to be what he
wishes to be.= _La Bruyère._
=A man of wit would often be much embarrassed
without the company of fools.= _La Roche._
=A man only understands what is akin to some
things already in his mind.= _Amiel._
=A man places himself on a level with him
whom he praises.= _Goethe._
=A man protesting against error is on the way= 40
=towards uniting himself with all men that
believe in truth.= _Carlyle._
=A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not
one, but all mankind's epitome.= _Dryden._
=A man that is young in years may be old in
hours, if he have lost no time.= _Bacon._
=A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.=
_Johnson._
=A man who cannot gird himself into harness
will take no weight along these highways.=
_Carlyle._
=A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness,= 45
=and urges on his muse with the whip, will
have to pay to Nature the penalty of this
trespass.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man who does not know rigour cannot pity
either.= _Carlyle._
=A man who feels that his religion is a slavery
has not began to comprehend the real nature
of it.= _J. G. Holland._
=A man who has nothing to do is the devil's
playfellow.= _J. G. Holland._
=A man who is ignorant of foreign languages
is ignorant of his own.= _Goethe._
=A man who reads much becomes arrogant and= 50
=pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise,
sociable, and helpful.= _Lichtenberg._
=A man will love or hate solitude--that is,
his own society--according as he is himself
worthy or worthless.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man will not be observed in doing that which
he can do best.= _Emerson._
=A man with half a volition goes backwards
and forwards, and makes no way on the
smoothest road.= _Carlyle._
=A man with knowledge but without energy, is
a house furnished but not inhabited; a man
with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt
in but unfurnished.= _John Sterling._
=A man's a man for a' that.= _Burns._ 55
=A man's aye crousest in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._
=A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.= _Pr._
=A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie
close about his feet.= _Monckton Milnes._
=A man's fate is his own temper.= _Disraeli._
=A man's friends belong no more to him than= 60
=he to them.= _Schopenhauer._
=A man's gift makes room for him.= _Pr._
=A man's happiness consists infinitely more in
admiration of the faculties of others than in
confidence in his own.= _Ruskin._
=A man's house is his castle.= _Pr._
=A man's power is hooped in by a necessity,
which, by many experiments, he touches on
every side until he learns its arc.= _Emerson._
=A man's task is always light if his heart is= 65
=light.= _Lew Wallace._
=A man's virtue is to be measured not by his
extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct.=
_Pascal._
=A man's walking is a succession of falls.= _Pr._
=A man's wife is his blessing or his bane.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Amantes, amentes=--In love, in delirium. _Ter._
=Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est=--The 5
quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love.
_Ter._
=A man who cannot mind his own business is
not to be trusted with the king's.= _Saville._
=A ma puissance=--To my power. _M._
=Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur=--To be in
love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of
a god. _Faber._
[Greek: Hamartôlai ... en anthrôpoisin hepontai
thnêtois]--Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal
men. _Theognis._
=Ambigendi locus=--Reason for questioning or 10
doubt.
=Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces=--To scatter
ambiguous reports among the people. _Virg._
=Ambition is not a vice of little people.= _Montaigne._
=Ambition is the germ from which all growth
in nobleness proceeds.= _T. D. English._
=Ambos oder Hammer=--One must be either anvil
or hammer. _Ger. Pr._
=Ame damnée=--Mere tool, underling. _Fr._ 15
=Ame de boue=--Base, mean soul. _Fr._
=Amende honorable=--Satisfactory apology; reparation.
_Fr._
=A mensâ et thoro=--From bed and board; divorced.
=A menteur, menteur à demi=--To a liar, a liar
and a half, _i.e._, one be a match for him. _Fr._
=Amentium, haud amantium=--Of lunatics, not 20
lovers.
=A merchant shall hardly keep himself from
doing wrong.= _Ecclus._
=A merciful man is merciful to his beast.= _Bible._
=A mere madness to live like a wretch and die
rich.= _Burton._
=A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but
a broken spirit drieth the bones.= _Bible._
=A merveille=--To a wonder. _Fr._ 25
=Am Golde hängt doch Alles=--On gold, after all,
hangs everything. _Margaret in "Faust."_
=Amici, diem perdidi=--Friends, I have lost a day.
_Titus_ (at the close of a day on which he had done
good to no one).
=Amici probantur rebus adversis=--Friends are
proved by adversity. _Cic._
=Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum=--Unless you
bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your
own. _Pub. Syr._
=Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno=--Everybody's 30
friend is nobody's friend. _It. Pr._
=Amicorum esse communia omnia=--Friends'
goods are all common property. _Pr._
=Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum
scias=--Be on such terms with your friend
as if you knew he may one day become your
enemy. _Laber._
=Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum=--To
lose a friend is the greatest of losses. _Syr._
=Amicus animæ dimidium=--A friend the half of life.
=Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur=--A true 35
friend is seen when fortune wavers. _Ennius._
=Amicus curiæ=--A friend to the court, _i.e._, an uninterested
adviser in a case.
=Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus=--A
friend is one soul in two bodies. _Arist._
=Amicus humani generis=--A friend of the human
race.
=Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas=--Plato
is my friend, but truth is my divinity (_lit._ more
a friend).
=Amicus usque ad aras=--A friend to the very 40
altar, _i.e._, to the death.
=A mighty maze! but not without a plan.= _Pope._
=A millstone and a man's heart are kept constantly
revolving; where they have nothing
to grind, they grind and fray away their own
substance.= _Logan._
=A mirror is better than a whole gallery of
ancestral portraits.= _Menzel._
=A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the
man of ambition about the conquest of a
kingdom.= _Adam Smith._
=A miss is as good as a mile.= _Pr._ 45
="Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain
to be lost, so long as you put that question.=
_Carlyle._
=Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat=--He
loses repute who compares himself with unworthy
people. _Phædr._
=Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit=--He
who covets what is another's, deservedly
loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the
dog and the shadow.) _Phædr._
=Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden=--The
fattest soil brings forth the most weeds.
_Ger. Pr._
=A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself= 50
=of reason and traversing its work.= _Emerson._
=A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest
and last attainment of philosophy.= _R. D.
Hitchcock._
=A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's
experience.= _Holmes._
=A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an
aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by
tumults.= _Quarles._
=Among nations the head has alway preceded
the heart by centuries.= _Jean Paul._
=Among the blind the one-eyed is a king.= _Pr._ 55
=Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.=--Love is
quickly learned by a noble heart. _Dante._
=Amor a nullo amato amar perdona=--Love spares
no loved one from loving. _Dante._
=Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut,
ist betrogen=--Cupid is ever a rogue,
and whoever trusts him is deceived. _Goethe._
=Amore è di sospetti fabro=--Love is a forger of
suspicions. _It. Pr._
=Amore sitis uniti=--Be ye united in love. 60
=Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus=--Love
is most fruitful both of honey and gall. _Plaut._
=Amor et obœdientia=--Love and obedience. _M._
=Amor gignit amorem=--Love begets love.
=Amor omnibus idem=--Love is the same in all.
_Virg._
=Amor patriæ=--Love of one's country. 65
=Amor proximi=--Love for one's neighbour.
=Amor tutti eguaglia=--Love makes all equal. _It.
Pr._
=Amoto quæramus seria ludo=--Jesting aside, let
us give attention to serious business. _Hor._
=Amour avec loyaulté=--Love with loyalty. _M._
=Amour fait moult, argent fait tout=--Love can
do much, but money can do everything. _Fr. Pr._
=Amour propre=--Vanity; self-love. _Fr._
=A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only.= 5
_Plaut._
=Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur
urceus exit?=--A vase was begun; why from the
revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless
pitcher? _Hor._
=Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est /
Vivere bis vitâ posse priore frui=--The good
man extends the term of his life; it is to live twice,
to be able to enjoy one's former life. _Mar._
=Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're
Reben=--On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there
grow our vines! _Claudius._
=Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit=--On the noisy
loom of Time. _Goethe._
=Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe=--Office without 10
pay makes thieves. _Ger. Pr._
=A mucho hablar, mucho errar=--Talk much, err
much. _Sp. Pr._
=A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light.=
_Amiel._
=Anacharsis among the Scythians=--A wise man
among unwise.
=An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality
in Utopia.= _Macaulay._
=An acre of performance is worth a whole world= 15
=of promise.= _Howell._
=Analysis is not the business of the poet. His
office is to portray, not to dissect.= _Macaulay._
=Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once
it is ground into flour, no longer springs and
germinates.= _Amiel._
=An ambassador is an honest man sent to
lie abroad for the commonwealth.= _Sir H.
Wotten._
=An ambitious man is slave to everybody.= _Feijoó._
=A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon,= 20
=for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces
almost half a world.= _Goethe._
=An appeal to fear never finds an echo in
German hearts.= _Bismarck._
=An archer is known by his aim, not by his
arrows.= _Pr._
=An arc in the movement of a large intellect
does not differ sensibly from a straight line.=
_Holmes._
=An Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _Pr._
=An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly.= 25
_Frederick the Great_ (?).
=A narrow faith has much more energy than an
enlightened one.= _Amiel._
=An artist is a person who has submitted to
a law which it is painful to obey, that he
may bestow a delight which it is gracious
to bestow.= _Ruskin._
=An artist is only then truly praised by us when
we forget him in his work.= _Lessing._
=An artist must have his measuring tools, not
in the hand, but in the eye.= _Michael
Angelo._
=An artist should be fit for the best society, and= 30
=should keep out of it.= _Ruskin._
=An ass may bray a good while before he
shakes the stars down.= _George Eliot._
=A nation which labours, and takes care of the
fruits of labour, would be rich and happy,
though there were no gold in the universe.=
_Ruskin._
[Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]--The gods themselves
do not fight against necessity. _Gr. Pr._
=Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica=--Even
the sea, great though it be, grows calm. _It. Pr._
=Anch' io sono pittore=--I too am a painter. _Correggio_ 35
_before a picture of Raphael's._
=Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti=--Even
the frog would bite if it had teeth. _It. Pr._
=Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern
spiritualises the corporeal.= _Börne._
=Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial.=
_Schlegel._
=And better had they ne'er been born / Who read
to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._
=And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner= 40
=on the bounties of an hour?= _Young._
=And earthly power doth then show likest
God's, / When mercy seasons justice.= _Mer.
of Ven._, iv. 1.
=And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side.=
_Goldsmith._
=And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.=
_Milton._
=And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not
wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
="And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height,= 45
=disgusted.= _Young._
=An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus=--Every
one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if
he is good.
=And Mammon wins his way where seraphs
might despair.= _Byron._
=And much it grieved my heart to think /
What man has made of man.= _Wordsworth._
=And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth
make the fault worse by the excuse.= _King
John_, iv. 2.
=And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /= 50
=And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, /
And thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=And still they gazed, and still the wonder
grew, / That one small head could carry all
he knew.= _Goldsmith._
=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_, ii. 1.
=A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends;
the whole world is too narrow for two foes.=
_Pers. Pr._
[Greek: Anechou kai apechou]--Bear and forbear. _Epictetus._
=A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro=--Make 55
a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from
you. _It. Pr._
=An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.= _Pr._
=An epigram often flashes light into regions
where reason shines but dimly.= _Whipple._
[Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]--The
man who runs away will fight again.
=An error is the more dangerous in proportion
to the degree of truth which it contains.=
_Amiel._
=An evening red and morning grey, is a sure
sign of a fair day.= _Pr._
=A new broom sweeps clean.= _Pr._
=A new life begins when a man once sees with
his own eyes all that before he has but partially
read or heard of.= _Goethe._
=A new principle is an inexhaustible source of
new views.= _Vauvenargues._
=An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.= 5
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt=--The
beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end
cold. _Ger. Pr._
=Angels are bright still, though the brightest
fell.= _Macb._, iv. 3.
=Angels come to visit us, and we only know
them when they are gone.= _George Eliot._
=Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being
allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him.=
_Hen. VIII._, i. 2.
=Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.= _Fuller._ 10
=Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.= _Bible._
=Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger
when it comes, and the longer kept.= _Quarles._
=Anglicè=--In English.
=Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to
be born so.= _Isaak Walton._
=Anguis in herbâ=--A snake in the grass. 15
=An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously
has everywhere as much freedom
as he wants.= _Goethe._
=An honest man's the noblest work of God.=
_Pope._
=An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.=
_Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=An idle brain is the devil's workshop.= _Pr._
=An idler is a watch that wants both hands; /= 20
=As useless if it goes as if it stands.= _Cowper._
=An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short
horns.= _Sc. Pr._
=An ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._
=An ill workman quarrels with his tools.= _Pr._
=Animal implume bipes=--A two-legged animal
without feathers. _Plato's definition of man._
=Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful.= 25
_Jean Paul._
=Anima mundi=--The soul of the world.
=Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio=--Kind
words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit.
_Pr._
=Animo et fide=--By courage and faith. _M._
=Animo, non astutia=--By courage, not by craft. _M._
=Animum pictura pascit inani=--He feeds his soul 30
on the unreal picture. _Virg._
=Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat=--Rule
your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you,
it will lord it over you. _Hor._
=Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum=--A
patient mind is the best remedy
for trouble. _Plaut._
=Animus furandi=--The intention of stealing. _L._
=Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet=--The
mind of man can accomplish whatever it
resolves on.
=Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid=--The 35
mind of man is always longing to do
something. _Cic._
=Animus non deficit æquus=--Equanimity does
not fail us. _M._
=Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præterita
se totus imagine versat=--The mind
yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in
dreaming of the past. _Petron._
=An indifferent agreement is better than a good
verdict.= _Pr._
=An individual helps not; only he who unites
with many at the proper time.= _Goethe._
=An individual man is a fruit which it cost all= 40
=the foregoing ages to form and ripen.= _Emerson._
=An infant crying in the night, / An infant
crying for the light; / And with no language
but a cry.= _Tennyson._
=An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift
and inheritance of all truly great men.=
_Ruskin._
=An innocent man needs no eloquence; his
innocence is instead of it.= _Ben Jonson._
=An iron hand in a velvet glove.= _Charles V.,
said of a gentle compulsion._
=An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge;= 45
=it may be a development of the logical or
other handicraft faculty, but is no culture
of the soul of a man.= _Carlyle._
=An nescis longas regibus esse manus?=--Do you
not know that kings have long, _i.e._, far-grasping,
hands? _Ovid._
=An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur=
(_or_ =regatur orbis=)?--Do you not know with how
very little wisdom the world is governed? _Axel
Oxenstjerna to his son._
=An nichts Geliebtes muszt du dein Gemüt /
Also verpfänden, dass dich sein Verlust /
Untröstbar machte=--Never so set your heart
on what you love that its loss may render you
inconsolable. _Herder._
=Anno domini=--In the year of our Lord.
=Anno mundi=--In the year of the world. 50
=Annus mirabilis=--The year of wonders.
=A noble heart will frankly capitulate to reason.=
_Schiller._
=A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture
to a narrow circle. The world and his native
land must act on him.= _Goethe._
=An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but
they hold him.= _Pope._
=A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.= 55
_Heb. Pr._
=An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.=
_Pr._
=An old knave is no babe.= _Pr._
=An old man in a house is a good sign in a
house.= _Heb. Pr._
=An old warrior is never in haste to strike the
blow.= _Metastasio._
=An open confession is good for the soul.= _Pr._ 60
=An open door may tempt a saint.= _Pr._
=Another such victory and we are done.= _Pyrrhus
after his second victory over the Romans._
=An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a pound
of other peoples'.= _Sterne._
=An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of
sadness to serve God with.= _Fuller._
=An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of= 65
=wit.= _Pr._
=An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o'
clergy.= _Sc. Pr._
=An ounce of practice is worth a pound of
preaching.= _Pr._
=An quidquid stultius, quam quos singulos contemnas,
eos aliquid putare esse universos?=--Can
there be any greater folly than the respect
you pay to men collectively when you despise
them individually? _Cic._
[Greek: Anthrôpos ôn tout' isthi kai memnês' aei]--Being
a man, know and remember always that
thou art one. _Philemon Comicus._
[Greek: Anthrôpos physei zôon politikon]--Man is by
nature an animal meant for civic life. _Arist._
=Ante lucem=--Before daybreak.
=Ante meridiem=--Before noon. 5
=Ante omnia=--Before everything else.
=Antequam incipias, consulto; et ubi consulueris,
facto opus est=--Before you begin, consider
well; and when you have considered, act.
_Sall._
=Ante senectutem curavi, ut bene viverem; in
senectute, ut bene moriar=--Before old age, it
was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is
to die well. _Sen._
=Ante tubam tremor occupat artus=--We tremble
all over before the bugle sounds. _Virg._
=Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum=--Don't 10
celebrate your triumph before you have conquered.
=Anticipation forward points the view.= _Burns._
=Antiquâ homo virtute ac fide=--A man of antique
valour and fidelity. _M._
=Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi=--The ancient
time of the world was the youth of the world.
_Bacon._
=An unimaginative person can neither be reverent
nor kind.= _Ruskin._
=Anxiety is the poison of human life.= _Blair._ 15
=Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's
features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute
them.= _Thoreau._
=Any port in a storm.= _Sc. Pr._
=Any road will lead you to the end of the world.=
_Schiller._
=Anything for a quiet life.= _Pr._
="A pack of kinless loons;"= _said of Cromwell's_ 20
_judges by the Scotch_.
=Apage, Satana=--Begone, Satan!
=A patron is one who looks with unconcern on
a man struggling for life in the water, and
when he has reached the land encumbers
him with help.= _Johnson._
[Greek: Hapax legomenon]--A word that occurs only once
in an author or book.
=A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.=
_Pr._
=A pedant is a precocious old man.= _De Boufflers._ 25
=A penny hained (saved) is a penny gained.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Aperçu=--A sketch. _Fr._
=A perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn,
to comfort, and command.= _Wordsworth._
=Aperit præcordia liber=--Wine opens the seals of
the heart. _Hor._
=A perte de vue=--Beyond the range of vision. _Fr._ 30
=Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est
bona=--A woman when she is openly bad, is at
least honest.
=Aperto vivere voto=--To live with every wish
avowed. _Pers._
=A pet lamb makes a cross ram.= _Pr._
=Aphorisms are portable wisdom.= _W. R. Alger._
=Apio opus est=--There is need of parsley, _i.e._, 35
to strew on the grave, meaning that one is
dying.
=A pity that the eagle should be mew'd, / While
kites and buzzards prey at liberty.= _Rich.
III._, i. 1.
=A place for everything, and everything in its
place.= _Pr._
=A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man
up like a bladder.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 4.
=A plant often removed cannot thrive.= _Pr._
=A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.= 40
_Bacon._
[Greek: Aplêstos pithos]--A cask that cannot be filled
(being pierced at the bottom with holes.) _Pr._
=A plomb=--Perpendicularly; firmly. _Fr._
=A poem is the very image of life expressed in
its eternal truth.= _Schelling._
=A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness
and sings to cheer its own solitude with
sweet sounds.= _Shelley._
=A poet must be before his age, to be even with= 45
=posterity.= _Lowell._
=A poet must sing for his own people.= _Stedman._
=A poet on canvas is exactly the same species
of creature as a poet in song.= _Ruskin._
=A poison which acts not at once is not therefore
a less dangerous poison.= _Lessing._
=A position of eminence makes a great man
greater and a little man less.= _La Bruyère._
=Apothegms are, in history, the same as the= 50
=pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine.=
_Erasmus._
[Greek: 'Ap' echthrôn polla manthanousin hoi sophoi]--Wise
men learn many things from their enemies.
_Aristoph._
=A point=--To a point exactly. _Fr._
=Apollo himself confessed it was ecstasy to be
a man among men.= _Schiller._
=A posse ad esse=--From possibility to actuality.
=A posteriori=--From the effect to the cause; by 55
induction.
=Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless
they were bitter.= _Pr._
=A pound of care won't pay an ounce of debt.=
_Pr._
=Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto=--A few
are seen swimming here and there in the vast
abyss. _Virg._
=Appetitus rationi pareat=--Let reason govern
desire. _Cic._
=Applause is the spur of noble minds, the aim= 60
=and end of weak ones.= _Colton._
=Après la mort le médecin=--After death the
doctor. _Fr. Pr._
=Après la pluie, le beau temps=--After the rain,
fair weather. _Fr. Pr._
=Après nous le déluge=--After us the deluge!
_Mme. de Pompadour._
=A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose
was to him, / And it was nothing more.=
_Wordsworth._
=A prince can mak' a belted knight, / A marquis,= 65
=duke, and a' that; / But an honest
man's aboon his might, / Gude faith, he
maunna fa' that.= _Burns._
=A priori=--From the cause to the effect; by deduction.
=A progress of society on the one hand, a
decline of souls on the other.= _Amiel._
=A promise is a debt.= _Gael. Pr._
=A propensity to hope and joy is real riches;
one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= _Hume._
=A prophet is not without honour, save in his= 5
=own country, and in his own house.= _Jesus._
=A propos=--To the point; seasonably; in due time.
_Fr._
=A propos de bottes=--By-the-bye. _Fr._
=A proverb is good sense brought to a point.=
_John Morley._
=A proverb is much matter decocted into few
words.= _Fuller._
=Apt alliteration's artful aid.= _Churchill._ 10
=Apt to revolt, and willing to rebel, / And never
are contented when they're well.= _Defoe._
=A puñadas entran las buenas hadas=--Good
luck pushes its way (_lit._ gets on) by elbowing.
_Sp. Pr._
=A purpose you impart is no longer your own.=
_Goethe._
=A quatre épingles=--With four pins, _i.e._, done up
like a dandy. _Fr._
=Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda=--He 15
who has nothing to sell loses his market.
_Sp. Pr._
=A quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le
puede venir, que no sea de sufrir=--To him
who has a good wife no evil can come which he
cannot bear. _Sp. Pr._
=Aquilæ senectus=--The old age of the eagle. _Ter._
=Aquila non capit muscas=--An eagle does not
catch flies. _M._
=A qui veut rien n'est impossible=--Nothing is
impossible to one with a will. _Fr. Pr._
=A raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage=--Our 20
misfortunes are often lightened by relating
them. _Corneille._
=A ragged colt may make a good horse.= _Pr._
=Aranearum telas texere=--To weave spiders' webs,
_i.e._, a tissue of sophistry.
=Arbeit ist des Blutes Balsam: / Arbeit ist der
Tugend Quell=--Labour is balm to the blood:
labour is the source of virtue. _Herder._
=Arbiter bibendi=--The master of the feast (_lit._ the
judge of the drinking).
=Arbiter elegantiarum=--The arbitrator of elegances; 25
the master of the ceremonies.
=Arbiter formæ=--Judge of beauty.
=Arbitrary power is most easily established on
the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.=
_Washington._
=Arbore dejecta qui vult ligna colligit=--When
the tree is thrown down, any one that likes may
gather the wood. _Pr._
=Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet
baccam ipse nunquam=--The industrious
husbandman plants trees, not one berry of which
he will ever see. _Cic._
="Arcades ambo,"= _id est_, blackguards both. 30
_Byron._
=Arcana imperii=--State, or government, secrets.
[Greek: Archê andra deixei]--Office will prove the man.
=Architecture is petrified music.= _Schelling, De
Staël, Goethe._
=Architecture is the work of nations.= _Ruskin._
[Greek: Archôn oudeis hamartanei tote hotan archôn ê]--No 35
ruler can sin so long as he is a ruler.
=Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentis gaudet amantis=--Though
she is aflame herself, she delights in the
torments of her lover. _Juv._
=Ardentia verba=--Glowing words.
=Arde verde por seco, y pagan justos por pecadores=--Green
burns for dry, and just men smart
(_lit._ pay) for transgressors. _Sp. Pr._
=Ardua molimur: sed nulla nisi ardua virtus=--I
attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth
that is not of difficult achievement. _Ovid._
=A really great talent finds its happiness in= 40
=execution.= _Goethe._
=A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive.=
_Mallett._
=A rebours=--Reversed. _Fr._
=A reconciled friend is a double enemy.= _Pr._
=A reculons=--Backwards. _Fr._
=A re decedunt=--They wander from the point. 45
=A refusal is less than nothing.= _Platen._
=Arena sine calce=--Sand without cement, _i.e._,
speech unconnected. _Suet._
=Arenæ mandas semina=--You are sowing grain
in the sand. _Pr._
=A republic is properly a polity in which the
state, with its all, is at every man's service;
and every man, with his all, is at the state's
service.= _Ruskin._
=Ares, no ares, renta me pagues=--Plough or not 50
plough, you must pay rent all the same. _Sp.
Pr._
=A rez de chaussée=--Even with the ground.
_Fr._
=Argent comptant=--Ready money. _Fr._
=Argent comptant porte medicine=--Ready money
works great cures. _Fr. Pr._
=Argentum accepi, dote imperium vendidi=--I
have received money, and sold my authority for
her dowry. _Plaut._
=Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda=--You may model 55
any form you please out of damp clay. _Hor._
=Argument, as usually managed, is the worst
sort of conversation; as it is generally in
books the worst sort of reading.= _Swift._
=Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow,
which has great force though shot by a child.=
_Bacon._
=Argumentum ad crumenam=--An appeal to self-interest.
=Argumentum ad hominem=--An argument in refutation
drawn from an opponent's own principles
(_lit._ an argument to the man).
=Argumentum ad ignorantiam=--An argument 60
founded on the ignorance of an adversary.
=Argumentum ad invidiam=--An argument which
appeals to low passions.
=Argumentum ad judicium=--An appeal to common
sense.
=Argumentum ad misericordiam=--An appeal to
the mercy of your adversary.
=Argumentum ad populum=--An appeal to popular
prejudice.
=Argumentum ad verecundiam=--An appeal to 65
respect for some authority.
=Argumentum baculinum=--Club argument, _i.e._,
by physical force.
=Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _It. Pr._
=Argus-eyes=--Eyes ever wakeful and watchful.
=A righteous man regardeth the life of his
beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked
are cruel.= _Bible._
[Greek: Ariston metron]--A mean or middle course is
best. _Cleobulus._
[Greek: Ariston men hydôr]--Water is best. _Pindar._
=Aristocracy has three successive ages--of
superiorities, of privileges, and of vanities;
having passed out of the first, it degenerates
in the second, and dies away in the third.=
_Chateaubriand._
=Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis=--I 5
madly take to arms; but have not wit enough
to use them to any purpose. _Virg._
=Arma cerealia=--The arms of Ceres, _i.e._, implements
connected with the preparation of corn and
bread.
=Arm am Beutel, krank am Herzen=--Poor in
purse, sick at heart. _Goethe._
=Arma pacis fulcra=--Arms are the props of
peace. _M._
=Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat=--He
who refuses what is just, gives up everything to
an enemy in arms. _Luc._
=Arma, viri, ferte arma; vocat lux ultima victos, /= 10
=Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti=--Arms,
ye men, bring me arms! their last day
summons the vanquished. We shall never all die
unavenged this day. _Virg._
=Armé de foi hardi=--Bold from being armed with
faith. _M._
=Armes blanches=--Side arms. _Fr._
=Arm in Arm mit dir, / So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert
in die Schranken=--Arm in arm with
thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. _Schiller._
=Arms and the man I sing.= _Virg._
=Armuth des Geistes Gott erfreut, / Armuth,= 15
=und nicht Armseligkeit=--It is poverty of spirit
that God delights in--poverty, and not beggarliness.
_Claudius._
=Armuth ist der sechste Sinn=--Poverty is the
sixth sense. _Ger. Pr._
=Armuth ist die grösste Plage, / Reichtum ist
das höchste Gut=--Poverty is the greatest
calamity, riches the highest good. _Goethe._
=Armuth ist listig, sie fängt auch einen Fuchs=--Poverty
is crafty; it outwits (_lit._ catches) even
a fox. _Ger. Pr._
=Armuth und Hunger haben viel gelehrte
Jünger=--Poverty and hunger have many learned
disciples. _Ger. Pr._
=A rogue is a roundabout fool.= _Coleridge._ 20
=A rolling stone gathers no moss.= _Pr._
=A Rome comment à Rome=--At Rome do as
Rome does. _Fr. Pr._
=A royal heart is often hid under a tattered
coat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Arrectis auribus adsto=--I wait with listening
ears. _Virg._
=Arrière pensée=--A mental reservation. _Fr._ 25
=Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.= _Bion._
=Ars artium omnium conservatrix=--The art preservative
of all others, _viz._, printing.
=Ars est celare artem=--It is the perfection of art
to conceal art. _Ovid._
=Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri,
medium laborare, et finis mendicare=--It is an
art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood,
its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. _Applied
originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists._
=Ars longa, vita brevis=--Art is long, life is short. 30
=Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima=--The
fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and
that greatest of all. _Pr._
=Art does not represent things falsely, but
truly as they appear to mankind.= _Ruskin._
=Arte magistra=--By the aid of art. _Virg._
=Art is a jealous mistress.= _Emerson._
=Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our= 35
=hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like
muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches
to the grave.= _Longfellow._
=Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human
soul is nobler still.= _W. Winter._
=Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine
of life.= _Jean Paul._
=Art is simply a bringing into relief of the
obscure thought of Nature.= _Amiel._
=Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable.= _Goethe._
=Art is the path of the creator to his work.= 40
_Emerson._
=Art is the work of man under the guidance and
inspiration of a mightier power.= _Hare._
=Artists are of three classes: those who perceive
and pursue the good, and leave the
evil; those who perceive and pursue the
good and evil together, the whole thing as it
verily is; and those who perceive and pursue
the evil, and leave the good.= _Ruskin._
=Artium magister=--Master of arts.
=Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.= _Dryden._
=Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature= 45
=must produce a man.= _Hume._
=Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of
every breath of folly.= _Hazlitt._
=Art must not be a superficial talent, but must
begin further back in man.= _Emerson._
=Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches
her children to venerate the single eye.= _Willmott._
=Art not thou a man?= _Bible._
=Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a= 50
=deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this
account it unites so readily with religion.=
_Goethe._
=Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to
live for ever? Live in the whole that remains
when thou hast long been gone= (wenn
du lange dahin bist). _Schiller._
=A rude âne rude ânier=--A stubborn driver to a
stubborn ass. _Fr. Pr._
=A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, /
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the
argosy.= _Scott._
=A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.=
_Emerson._
=A saint abroad, a devil at home.= _Pr._ 55
=A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.= _Pope._
=As all men have some access to primary truth,
so all have some art or power of communication
in the head, but only in the artist does
it descend into the hand.= _Emerson._
=As a man makes his bed, so must he lie.= _Gael.
Pr._
=As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the
noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham
priest the falsest and basest.= _Carlyle._
=A satirical poet is the check of the layman on= 60
=bad priests.= _Dryden._
=As a tree falls, so shall it lie.= _Pr._
[Greek: asbestos gelôs]--Unquenchable, or Homeric,
laughter. _Hom._
=A scalded cat dreads cauld water.= _Sc. Pr._
=As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That
visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=A second Daniel.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if= 5
=I blab it, it is I that am prisoner.= _Arab Pr._
=A self-denial no less austere than the saint's
is demanded of the scholar.= _Emerson._
=As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.= _Milton._
=As every great evil, so every excessive power
wears itself out at last.= _Herder._
=As falls the dew on quenchless sands, / Blood
only serves to wash ambition's hands.= _Byron._
=As for discontentments, they are in the politic= 10
=body like humours in the natural, which are
apt to gather a preternatural heat and inflame.=
_Bacon._
=As formerly we suffered from wickedness, so
now we suffer from the laws.= _Tac._
=As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little
now and then, to be sure. But there's no
love lost between us.= _Goldsmith._
=As for talkers and futile persons, they are
commonly vain and credulous withal.= _Bacon._
=As from the wing no scar the sky retains, /
The parted wave no furrow from the keel;
So dies in human hearts the thought of
death.= _Young._
=As good be out of the world as out of the= 15
=fashion.= _Pr._
=As good almost kill a man as kill a good book;
who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
God's image; but he who destroys a good
book kills reason itself.= _Milton._
=As guid fish i' the sea as e'er came oot o't.= _Sc. Pr._
=As guid may haud (hold) the stirrup as he
that loups on.= _Sc. Pr._
=A's guid that God sends.= _Sc. Pr._
=As he alone is a good father who at table serves= 20
=his children first, so is he alone a good citizen
who, before all other outlays, discharges what
he owes to the state.= _Goethe._
=As he who has health is young, so he who
owes nothing is rich.= _Pr._
=A short cut is often a wrong cut.= _Dan. Pr._
=A sicht (sight) o' you is guid for sair een.= _Sc. Pr._
=A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation.=
_Sir Thomas Browne._
=As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted= 25
=ocean.= _Coleridge._
=A sight to dream of, not to tell.= _Coleridge._
=A silent man's words are not brought into
court.= _Dan. Pr._
=A sillerless (moneyless) man gangs fast through
the market.= _Sc. Pr._
=A silver key can open an iron lock.= _Pr._
=A simple child, / That lightly draws its breath, /= 30
=And feels its life in every limb, / What should
it know of death?= _Wordsworth._
=A simple maiden in her flower, / Is worth a
hundred coats of arms.= _Tennyson._
=A simple, manly character need never make
an apology.= _Emerson._
=As in a theatre, the eyes of men, / After a
well-graced actor leaves the stage, / Are
idly bent on him that enters next, / Thinking
his prattle to be tedious.= _Rich. II._, v. 2.
=A single grateful thought turned heavenwards
is the most perfect prayer.= _Lessing._
=A single moment may transform everything.= 35
_Wieland._
=A single word is often a concentrated poem,
a little grain of pure gold, capable of being
beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf.=
_Trench._
=Asinum sub fræno currere docere=--To teach
an ass to obey the rein, _i.e._, to labour in vain.
_Pr._
=Asinus ad lyram=--An ass at the lyre, _i.e._, one
unsusceptible of music.
=Asinus asino, et sus sui pulcher=--An ass is
beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. _Pr._
=Asinus in tegulis=--An ass on the house-tiles. 40
=Asinus inter simias=--An ass among apes, _i.e._, a
fool among people who make a fool of him. _Pr._
=Asinus in unguento=--An ass among perfumes,
_i.e._, things he cannot appreciate.
=As is the garden, such is the gardener.= _Heb.
Pr._
=As is the man, so is his God.= _Rückert, Goethe._
=A sip is the most that mortals are permitted= 45
=from any goblet of delight.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to
you.= _Jesus._
=Ask for the old paths, where is the good way,
and walk therein.= _Bible._
=Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.=
_Goldsmith._
=Ask why God made the gem so small, / And
why so huge the granite? / Because God
meant mankind should set / The higher value
on it.= _Burns._
=As long as any man exists, there is some need= 50
=of him.= _Emerson._
=As long lives a merry heart as a sad.= _Pr._
=As love without esteem is capricious and volatile,
esteem without love is languid and cold.=
_Swift._
=A slow fire makes sweet malt.= _Pr._
=A small man, if he stands too near a great,
may see single portions well, and, if he will
survey the whole, must stand too far off,
where his eyes do not reach the details.=
_Goethe._
=A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes= 55
=us collected.= _Jean Paul._
=A small unkindness is a great offence.= _Hannah
More._
=As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, /
Receives the lurking principle of death; /
The young disease, that must subdue at
length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens
with his strength.= _Pope._
=As many suffer from too much as too little.=
_Bovee._
=A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.=
_Dut. Pr._
=As merry as the day is long.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1. 60
=A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home.= _Tennyson._
=A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown.=
_Shakespeare._
=As much love, so much mind, or heart.= _Lat. Pr._
=As much virtue as there is, so much appears;
as much goodness as there is, so much reverence
it commands.= _Emerson._
=A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.= _Winter's
Tale_, iv. 2.
=A society of people will cursorily represent a
certain culture, though there is not a gentleman
or a lady in the group.= _Emerson._
=A soldier, / Seeking the bubble reputation /
Even in the cannon's mouth.= _As You Like
It_, ii. 7.
=A solis ortu usque ad occasum=--From where
the sun rises to where it sets.
=A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.= 5
_Henry Giles._
=A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
happier things.= _Tennyson._
=A sorrow shared is but half a trouble, / But a
joy that's shared is a joy made double.= _Pr._
=A' sottili cascano le brache=--The cloak sometimes
falls off a cunning man. _It. Pr._
=A soul without reflection, like a pile / Without
inhabitant, to ruin runs.= _Young._
=A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.= _Herrick._ 10
=A species is a succession of individuals which
perpetuates itself.= _Cuvier._
=Asperæ facetiæ ubi multum ex vero traxere,
acrem sui memoriam relinquunt=--Satire, when
it comes near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind
it. _Tac._
=Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum=--Nothing
is more offensive than a low-bred man
in a high station. _Claud._
=Aspettare e non venire, / Stare in letto e non
dormire, / Ben servire e non gradire, / Son
tre cose da morire=--To wait for what never
comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not
be advanced, are three things to die of. _It. Pr._
=A spirit may be known from only a single= 15
=thought.= _Swedenborg._
=As poor as Job.= _Merry Wives_, v. 5.
=A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.= _Pr._
=As proud go behind as before.= _Pr._
=A spur in the head is worth two in the heels.=
_Pr._
=As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion= 20
=unto reason.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Assai acqua passa per il molino, che il molinaio
non se n'accorge=--A good deal of water passes
by the mill which the miller takes no note of.
_It. Pr._
=Assai basta, e troppo guasta=--Enough is enough,
and too much spoils. _It. Pr._
=Assai ben balla, à chi fortuna suona=--He dances
well to whom fortune pipes. _It. Pr._
=Assai è ricco à chi non manca=--He is rich
enough who has no wants. _It. Pr._
=Assai guadagna chi vano sperar perde=--He 25
gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. _It.
Pr._
=Assai sa, chi non sa, se tacer sa=--He who knows
not, knows a good deal if he knows how to hold
his tongue. _It. Pr._
=Assez a qui se contente=--He has enough who is
content. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez dort qui rien ne fait=--He sleeps enough
who does nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez gagne qui malheur perd=--He gains
enough who gets rid of a sorrow. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez sait qui sait vivre et se taire=--He knows 30
enough who knows how to live and how to keep
his own counsel. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez tôt si assez bien=--Soon enough if well
enough. _Fr. Pr._
=Assez y a, si trop n'y a=--There is enough where
there is not too much. _Fr. Pr._
=Associate with the good, and you will be
esteemed one of them.= _Sp. Pr._
=As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, /
Swells from the vale, and midway leaves
the storm, / Though round its breast the
rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine
settles on its head.= _Goldsmith._
=As soon as a man is born he begins to die.= 35
_Ger. Pr._
=As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion
and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the
seeker.= _Emerson._
=As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops
before that object.= _Emerson._
=Assume a virtue, if you have it not.= _Ham._,
iii. 4.
=Assumpsit=--An action on a verbal promise. _L._
=Assurance is two-thirds of success.= _Gael. Pr._ 40
=A state is never greater than when all its
superfluous hands are employed in the service
of the public.= _Hume._
=A state of violence cannot be perpetual, or
disaster and ruin would be universal.= _Bp.
Burnet._
=A statesman requires rather a large converse
with men, and much intercourse in life, than
deep study of books.= _Burke._
=A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which
is a little cruel that it may be very kind.=
_Spenser._
=As the births of living creatures at first are= 45
=ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are
the births of time.= _Bacon._
=As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself,
so the first order of charity is to be sufficient
for thyself.= _Ruskin._
=As the fool thinks, the bell clinks.= _Pr._
=As the good man saith, so say we: / As the
good woman saith, so it must be.= _Pr._
=As the husband is, the wife is: / Thou art
mated with a clown, / And the grossness of
his nature / Will have weight to drag thee
down.= _Tennyson._
=As the man is, so is his strength.= _Bible._ 50
=As the old cock crows, the young one learns.=
_Pr._
=As there is no worldly gain without some loss,
so there is no worldly loss without some gain.=
_Quarles._
=As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, /
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.=
_Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
=As the youth lives in the future, so the man
lives with the past; no one knows rightly
how to live in the present.= _Grillparzer._
=As thy days, so shall thy strength be.= _Bible._ 55
=A still, small voice.= _Bible._
=A stitch in time saves nine.= _Pr._
=As to the value of conversions, God alone can
judge.= _Goethe._
=Astra castra, numen lumen=--The stars my camp,
the deity my light. _M._
=Astræa redux=--Return of the goddess of justice. 60
=A straight line is the shortest in morals as
well as in geometry.= _Rahel._
=A strange fish.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.
=Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus=--The
stars govern men, but God governs the stars.
=A strenuous soul hates cheap success.= _Emerson._
=A strong memory is generally joined to a weak
judgment.= _Montaigne._
=A strong soil that has produced weeds may
be made to produce wheat with far less
difficulty than it would cost to make it produce
nothing.= _Colton._
=Astronomy has revealed the great truth that= 5
=the whole universe is bound together by one
all-pervading influence.= _Leitch._
=A' Stuarts are no sib (related) to the king=
(the family name of the Scotch kings being
Stuart). _Sc. Pr._
=Astutior coccyge=--More crafty than the cuckoo
(who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). _Pr._
=A subject's faults a subject may proclaim, / A
monarch's errors are forbidden game.= _Cowper._
=A substitute shines brightly as a king, until a
king be by.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=A sudden thought strikes me, / Let us swear= 10
=an eternal friendship.= _Canning._
=A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted.=
_Eusebius._
=A surfeit of sweetest things.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
ii. 3.
=As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot
be gathered up again.= _Bible._
=As we advance in life, we learn the limits of
our abilities.= _Froude._
=As we are born to work, so others are born to= 15
=watch over us while working.= _Goldsmith._
=As weel be oot o' the world as oot o' the fashion.=
_Sc. Pr._
=As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms,
so good forms and orders corrupt into a number
of petty observances.= _Bacon._
=As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd
in numbers, for the numbers came.= _Pope._
=As you do to others, expect others to do to
you.= _Pr._
=As you make your bed you must lie on it.= _Pr._ 20
=As you sow you shall reap.= _Pr._
=A tale never loses in the telling.= _Pr._
=A talisman that shall turn base metal into
precious, Nature acknowledges not; but
a talisman to turn base souls into noble,
Nature has given us; and that is a "philosopher's
stone," but it is a stone which the
builders refuse.= _Ruskin._
=A tâtons=--Groping. _Fr._
=A tattler is worse than a thief.= _Pr._ 25
=A (man of) teachable mind will hang about a
wise man's neck.= _Bp. Patrick._
=At every trifle scorn to take offence; / That
always shows great pride or little sense.=
_Pope._
=At first one omits writing for a little while;
and then one stays a little while to consider
of excuses; and at last it grows desperate,
and one does not write at all.= _Swift._
[Greek: Athanatous men prôta theous, nomô hôs diakeitai
Tima]--Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods,
as prescribed by law. _Pythagoras._
=At the gates of the forest the surprised man= 30
=of the world is forced to leave his city estimates
of great and small, wise and foolish.=
_Emerson._
=Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart
of man.= _Bacon._
=Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy,
to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all
which may be guides to an outward moral
virtue, though religion were not; but superstition
dismounts all these, and erecteth an
absolute monarchy in the minds of men.=
_Bacon._
=A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf.=
_Pr._
=A thing is the bigger of being shared.= _Gael. Pr._
=A thing is what it is, only in and by means of= 35
=its limit.= _Hegel._
=A thing is worth what it= _can_ =do for you, not
what you choose to pay for it.= _Ruskin._
=A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; / Its loveliness
increases; it will never / Pass into
nothingness.= _Keats._
=A thing you don't want is dear at any price.= _Pr._
=A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince
of Darkness can have.= _Carlyle._
=A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, /= 40
=At every word a reputation dies.= _Pope._
=A thorn is a changed bud.= _T. Lynch._
=A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers
what others have thought proper to
forget, but he also forgets what others think
proper to remember.= _Colton._
=A thousand years scarce serve to form a state;
/ An hour may lay it in the dust.= _Byron._
=A thread will tie an honest man better than a
rope will do a rogue.= _Sc. Pr._
=A threatened blow is seldom given.= _Pr._ 45
=A threefold cord is not quickly broken.= _Bible._
=A thrill passes through all men at the reception
of a new truth, or at the performance
of a great action, which comes out of the
heart of nature.... By the necessity of our
constitution, a certain enthusiasm attends
the individual's consciousness of that Divine
presence.= _Emerson._
=At ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub
corpore=--Yet under this rude exterior lies concealed
a mighty genius. _Hor._
=At no age should a woman be allowed to
govern herself as she pleases.= _H. Mann._
=A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=A toom (empty) pantry maks a thriftless guid-wife.=
_Sc. Pr._
=A tort et à travers=--Without consideration; at
random. _Fr._
=A toute force=--With all one's force. _Fr._
=A toute seigneur tout honneur=--Let every one
have his due honour. _Fr. Pr._
=At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hic= 55
=est=--Yet it is a fine thing to be pointed at with
the finger and have it said, This is he! _Persius._
=Atque in rege tamen pater est=--And yet in the
king there is the father. _Ovid._
=Atqui vultus erat multa et præclara minantis=--And
yet you had the look of one that promised
(_lit._ threatened) many fine things. _Hor._
=A trade of barbarians.= _Napoleon on war._
=A tragic farce.= _Lille._
=A travelled man has leave to lie.= _Pr._ 60
=A traveller of taste at once perceives that the
wise are polite all the world over, but that
fools are only polite at home.= _Goldsmith._
=A tree is known by its fruit.= _Pr._
=Atria regum hominibus plena sunt, amicis
vacua=--The courts of kings are full of men,
empty of friends. _Sen._
=Atrocitatis mansuetudo est remedium=--Gentleness
is the antidote for cruelty. _Phædr._
=A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman
in the nation.= _Defoe._
=A true genius may be known by this sign, that
the dunces are all in confederacy against
him.= _Swift._
=A true man hates no one.= _Napoleon._ 5
=A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe
limits for its own exertions.= _Brougham._
=A truth / Looks freshest in the fashion of the
day.= _Tennyson._
=A truth to an age that has rejected and
trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a
sword.= _Henry George._
=At spes non fracta=--Yet hope is not broken. _M._
=Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen= 10
=despotism; as he that struggles tightens
those cords he does not succeed in breaking.=
_Colton._
=Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; /
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it
out.= _Herrick._
=Attendez à la nuit pour dire que le jour a été
beau=--Wait till night before saying that the
day has been fine. _Fr. Pr._
=Attention makes the genius; all learning,
fancy, and science depend on it.= _Willmott._
=At the sight of a= _man_ =we too say to ourselves,
Let us be= _men_. _Amiel._
=At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, / Knows= 15
=it at forty, and reforms his plan. / At fifty,
chides his infamous delay. / Pushes his prudent
purpose to resolve. / Resolves--and re-resolves;
then dies the same.= _Young._
=At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at
thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.=
_Grattan._
=A tu hijo, buen nombre y oficio=--To your son
a good name and a trade. _Sp. Pr._
=A tutti non si adatta una sola scarpa=--One
shoe does not fit every foot. _It. Pr._
=At vindictum bonum vita jucundius ipsa.
Nempe hoc indocti=--But revenge is a blessing
sweeter than life itself; so rude men feel. _Juv._
=At whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished= 20
=heads.= _Milton._
=Au bon droit=--By good right. _Fr._
=Au bout de son Latin=--At his wit's end (_lit._ at
the end of his Latin). _Fr._
=Au bout du compte=--After the close of the account;
after all. _Fr._
=Auch aus entwölkter Höhe / Kann der zündende
Donner schlagen; / Darum in deinen fröhlichen
Tagen / Fürchte des Unglücks tückische
Nähe=--Even out of a cloudless heaven
the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in
thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood
of misfortune. _Schiller._
=Auch Bücher haben ihr Erlebtes, das ihnen= 25
=nicht entzogen werden kann=--Even books
have their lifetime, of which no one can deprive
them. _Goethe._
=Auch das Schöne muss sterben=--Even what is
beautiful must die. _Schiller._
=Auch der Löwe muss sich vor der Mücke
wehren=--Even the lion has to defend itself
against flies. _Ger. Pr._
=Auch die Gerechtigkeit trägt eine Binde, /
Und schliesst die Augen jedem Blendwerk
zu=--Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts
her eyes on everything deceptive. _Goethe._
=Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt, / Hat auf
den Teufel sich erstreckt=--Culture, which has
licked all the world into shape, has reached even
the devil. _Goethe._
=Auch die Kunst ist Himmelsgabe, / Borgt sie= 30
=gleich von ird'scher Glut=--Art is a gift of
Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly
passion. _Schiller._
=Auch ein Haar hat seinen Schatten=--Even a
hair casts its shadow. _Ger. Pr._
=Auch für die rauhe Brust giebt's Augenblicke /
Wo dunkle Mächte Melodien wecken=--Even
the rude breast has moments in which dark
powers awaken melodies. _Körner._
=Auch ich war ein Jüngling mit lockigem
Haar, / An Mut und an Hoffnungen reich=--I
too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in
courage and in hopes. _Lortzing._
=Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren, / Und ward
daraus entführt vom neidischen Glücke. / Ist
hier der Rückweg? fragt' ich jede Brücke, /
Der Eingang hier? fragt' ich an allen Thoren=--I
too was born in Arcadia, and was lured away
by envious Fortune. "Is this the way back?"
asked I at every bridge-way; "This the entrance?"
asked I at every portal. _Rückert._
=Auch in der That ist Raum für Ueberlegung=--Even 35
in the moment of action there is room for
consideration. _Goethe._
=Auch was Geschriebenes forderst du, Pedant? /
Hast du noch keinen Mann, nicht Mannes-Wort
gekannt?=--Dost thou, O pedant, require
something written too? Hast thou never yet
known a man, not word of man? _Faust._
=Au courant=--Perfectly acquainted with. _Fr._
=Auctor pretiosa facit=--The giver makes the gift
valuable. _M._
=Aucto splendore resurgo=--I rise again with
access of splendour. _M._
=Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire=--No 40
path of flowers conducts to glory. _La
Font._
=Audacia pro muro habetur=--Daring is regarded
as a wall. _Sallust._
=Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid hæret=--Calumniate
boldly, always some of it sticks.
_Bacon._
=Audacter et sincere=--Boldly and heartily. _M._
=Audax ad omnia fœmina, quæ vel amat vel
odit=--A woman, when she either loves or hates,
will dare anything. _Pr._
=Audax omnia perpeti / Gens humana ruit per= 45
=vetitum et nefas=--Daring to face all hardships,
the human race dashes through every human
and divine restraint. _Hor._
=Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum, /
Si vis esse aliquis=--Dare to do something
worthy of transportation and imprisonment,
if you wish to be somebody. _Juv._
=Audendo magnus tegitur timor=--Great fear is
concealed under daring. _Lucan._
=Audentes Fortuna juvat=--Fortune favours the
brave. _Virg._
=Au dernier les os=--For the last the bones. _Fr.
Pr._
=Aude sapere=--Dare to be wise. 50
=Au désespoir=--In despair. _Fr._
=Audi alteram partem=--Hear the other party;
hear both sides. _L. Max._
=Audiatur et altera pars=--Let the other side also
have a hearing. _Sen._
=Audio sed taceo=--I hear, but say nothing. _M._
=Audita querela=--The complaint having been investigated.
_L._
=Auditque vocatus Apollo=--And Apollo hears 5
when invoked. _Virg._
=Audi, vide, tace, si vis vivere in pace=--Use your
ears and eyes, but hold your tongue, if you would
live in peace.
=Au fait=--Expert; skilful. _Fr._
=Auf dem Grund des Glaubenmeeres / Liegt die
Perle der Erkenntniss; Heil dem Taucher,
der sie findet=--At the bottom of the faith-sea
lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver
that finds it. _Bodenstedt._
=Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit=--On the mountains
is freedom. _Schiller._
=Auf die warnenden Symptome sieht kein= 10
=Mensch, auf die Schmeichelnden und Versprechenden
allein ist die Aufmerksamkeit
gerichtet=--To the warning word no man has
respect, only to the flattering and promising is
his attention directed. _Goethe._
=Auf Dinge, die nicht mehr zu ändern sind, /
Muss auch kein Blick zurück mehr fallen!
Was / Gethan ist, ist gethan und bleiht's=--On
things which are no more to be changed a backward
glance must be no longer cast! What is
done is done, and so remains. _Schiller._
=Auf ebnem Boden straucheln ist ein Scherz, /
Ein Fehltritt stürzt vom Gipfel dich herab=--To
stumble on a level surface is matter of jest;
by a false step on a height you are hurled to the
ground. _Goethe._
=Auferimur cultu: gemmis auroque teguntur /
Omnia; pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--Dress
deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything:
the girl herself is the least part of herself.
_Ovid._
=Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben=--Postponed
is not abandoned. _Ger. Pr._
=Aufklärung=--Illuminism. _Ger._ 15
=Au fond=--To the bottom. _Fr._
=Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch
zu sein aber nicht=--I can promise
to be candid, but not to be impartial.
_Goethe._
=Auf Teufel reimt der Zweifel nur; / Da bin ich
recht am Platze=--Only Zweifel (doubt) rhymes
to Teufel (devil); here am I quite at home. _The
Sceptic in "Faust."_
=Auf Wind und Meer gebautes Glück ist
schwankend=--The fortune is insecure that is
at the mercy of wind and wave. _Gutzkow._
=Augiæ cloacas purgare=--To cleanse the Augean 20
stables, _i.e._, achieve an arduous and disagreeable
work. _Sen._
=Augusto felicior, Trajano melior=--A more fortunate
man than Augustus, and a more excellent
than Trajan. _Eutrop._
=Aujourd'hui marié, demain marri=--To-day married,
to-morrow marred. _Fr. Pr._
=Aula regis=--The court of the king.
=Auld folk are twice bairns.= _Sc. Pr._
=Auld Nature swears the lovely dears, / Her= 25
=noblest work she classes, O; / Her 'prentice
han' she tried on man, / An' then she made
the lasses, O.= _Burns._
=Au nouveau tout est beau=--Everything is fine
that is new. _Fr. Pr._
=Au pis aller=--At the worst. _Fr._
=Au plaisir fort de Dieu=--By the all-powerful will
of God. _M._
=Aura popularis=--Popular favour (_lit._ breeze).
=Aurea mediocritas=--The golden mean. 30
=Aurea nunc vere sunt sæcula; plurimus auro /
Venit honos: auro conciliatur amor=--The age
we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men
attain to the highest honour, and win even love
itself. _Ovid._
=Aureo piscari hamo=--To fish with a golden hook.
=Au reste=--For the rest. _Fr._
=Au revoir=--Farewell till we meet again. _Fr._
=Auri sacra fames=--The accursed lust of gold. 35
_Virg._
=Auro loquente nihil pollet quævis ratio=--When
gold speaks, no reason the least avails. _Pr._
=Aurora musis amica=--Aurora is friendly to the
Muses. _Pr._
=Aus dem Gebet erwächst des Geistes Sieg=--It
is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.
_Schillerbuch._
=Aus dem Kleinsten setzt / Sich Grosses zusammen
zuletzt, / Und keins darf fehlen von
allen, / Wenn nicht das Ganze soll fallen=--Out
of the smallest a great is at length composed,
and none of all can fail, unless the whole
is fated to break up. _Rückert._
=Aus dem Leben heraus sind der Wege drei= 40
=dir geöffnet, / Zum Ideale führt einer, der
andre zum Tod=--Two ways are open for thee
out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other
to death. _Schiller._
=Aus der Jugendzeit, aus der Jugendzeit /
Klingt ein Lied mir immerdar, / O wie liegt
so weit, O wie liegt so weit, / Was mein
einst war=--Out of youth-time, out of youth-time
sounds a lay of mine ever; O how so far off lies,
how so far off lies, what once was mine! _Rückert._
=Aus der schlechtesten Hand kann Wahrheit
noch mächtig wirken; / Bei dem Schönen
allein macht das Gefäss den Gehalt=--Truth
may work mightily though in the hand of the
sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful
alone the casket constitutes the jewel (_lit._ the
vessel makes the content). _Schiller._
=Aus derselben Ackerkrume / Wächst das Unkraut
wie die Blume / Und das Unkraut
macht sich breit=--Out of the same garden-mould
grows the weed as the flower, and the weed
flaunts itself abroad. _Bodenstedt._
=A useful trade is a mine of gold.= _Pr._
=A useless life is an early death.= _Goethe._ 45
=Aus grauser Tiefe tritt das Höhe kühn hervor; /
Aus harter Hülle kämpft die Tugend sich
hervor; / Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der
höhern Naturen=--Out of a horrible depth the
height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell
virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the
birth (medium) of the higher natures. _Tiedge._
=Aus jedem Punkt im Kreis zur Mitte geht ein
Steg. / Vom fernsten Irrtum selbst zu Gott
zurück ein Weg=--There is a way from every
point in a circle to the centre; from the farthest
error there is a way back to God Himself.
_Rückert._
=Aus Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines Glück=--Out
of moderation a pure happiness springs.
_Goethe._
=Auspicium melioris ævi=--The pledge of happier
times. _M._
=Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait=--No sooner said than
done. _Fr._
=Aus ungelegten Eiern werden spät junge
Hühner=--Chickens are long in coming out of
unlaid eggs. _Ger. Pr._
=Ausus est vana contemnere=--He dared to scorn
vain fears.
=Aut amat, aut odit mulier; nil est tertium=--A 5
woman either loves or hates; there is no alternative.
_Pub. Syr._
=Autant chemine un homme en un jour qu'un
limaçon en cent ans=--A man travels as far in a
day as a snail in a hundred years. _Fr. Pr._
=Autant dépend chiche que large, et à la fin
plus davantage=--Niggard spends as much as
generous, and in the end a good deal more.
_Fr. Pr._
=Autant en emporte le vent=--All idle talk (_lit._
so much the wind carries away). _Fr. Pr._
=Autant pèche celui qui tient le sac que celui
qui met dedans=--He is as guilty who holds the
bag as he who puts in. _Fr. Pr._
=Autant vaut l'homme comme il s'estime=--A 10
man is rated by others as he rates himself. _Fr.
Pr._
=Aut bibat, aut abeat=--Either drink or go.
=Aut Cæsar aut nihil=--Either Cæsar or nobody.
_M. of Cæsar Borgia._
=Authority, not majority.= _Stahl._
=Authors alone, with more than savage rage, /
Unnatural war with brother authors wage.=
_Churchill._
=Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth,= 15
=or else nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Authors may be divided into falling stars,
planets, and fixed stars: the first have a
momentary effect; the second, a much
longer duration; and the third are unchangeable,
possess their own light, and
shine for all time.= _Schopenhauer._
=Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit=--The man
is either mad, or he is making verses. _Hor._
=Aut non tentaris, aut perfice=--Either don't
attempt it, or go through with it. _Ovid._
=Auto-da-fé=--An act of faith; a name applied to
certain proceedings of the Inquisition connected
with the burning of heretics.
[Greek: Autos epha]--He himself said it; _ipse dixit_. 20
=Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetæ=--Poets
wish either to profit or to please. _Hor._
=Autrefois acquis=--Acquitted before. _Fr._
=Aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportere=--A
man ought to be born either a king or a fool.
_Pr. in Sen._
=Autre temps, autres mœurs=--Other times, other
fashions. _Fr. Pr._
=Aut vincere aut mori=--Either to conquer or die. 25
=Aut virtus nomen inane est, / Aut decus et
pretium recte petit experiens vir=--Either
virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise
justly aims at honour and reward. _Hor._
=Aux armes=--To arms. _Fr._
=Aux grands maux les grands remèdes=--Desperate
maladies require desperate remedies. _Fr. Pr._
=Auxilium ab alto=--Help from above. _M._
=Auxilium meum a Domino=--My help cometh 30
from the Lord. _M._
=Avant propos=--Prefatory matter. _Fr._
=Avaler des couleuvres=--To put up with abuse
(_lit._ swallow snakes). _Fr._
=A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to
preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand
enemies.= _Scipio._
=Avancez=--Advance. _Fr._
=Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality.= 35
_Colton._
=Avarus, nisi cum moritur, nil recte facit=--A
miser does nothing right except when he dies.
_Pr._
=Avec un Si on mettrait Paris dans une bouteille=--With
an "if" one might put Paris in a
bottle. _Fr. Pr._
=A verbis ad verbera=--From words to blows.
=A verse may find him who a sermon flies, /
And turn delight into a sacrifice.= _George
Herbert._
=A very excellent piece of villany.= _Tit. Andron._, 40
ii. 3.
=A very good woman may make but a paltry
man.= _Pope._
=A veste logorata poco fede vien prestata=--A
shabby coat finds small credit. _It. Pr._
=A vinculo matrimonii=--From the bond or tie of
marriage.
=A virtuous name is the sole precious good for
which queens and peasants' wives must contest
together.= _Schiller._
=Avise la fin=--Consider the end. _Fr._ 45
=Avito viret honore=--He flourishes with inherited
honours. _M._
=Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.= _Gael.
Pr._
=A volonté=--At will. _Fr._
=A votre santé=--To your health. _Fr._
=A wee bush is better than nae bield (shelter).= 50
_Sc. Pr._
=A weel-bred dog gaes oot when he sees them
preparing to kick him oot.= _Sc. Pr._
=A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.=
_Montaigne._
=A well-cultivated mind is, so to say, made up
of all the minds of the centuries preceding.=
_Fontenelle._
=A well-governed appetite is a great part of
liberty.= _Sen._
=A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent= 55
=one.= _Carlyle._
=A wicked fellow is the most pious when he
takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety.=
_Johnson._
=A wilful man must have his way.= _Pr._
=A willing mind makes a light foot.= _Pr._
=A wise man gets learning frae them that hae
nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=A wise man is never less alone than when= 60
=alone.= _Pr._
=A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth strength.= _Bible._
=A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others.= _La
Bruyère._
=A wise man should have money in his head,
but not in his heart.= _Swift._
=A wise man will make more opportunities than
he finds.= _Bacon._
=A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, /
Is more than armies to the public weal.=
_Pope._
=A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a
good critic.= _Lowell._
=A wise writer does not reveal himself here
and there, but everywhere.= _Lowell._
=A witless heed (head) mak's weary feet.= _Sc. Pr._
=A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.= 5
_Pope._
=A wolf in sheep's clothing.= _Pr._
=A woman conceals what she does not know.=
_Pr._
=A woman has two smiles that an angel might
envy: the smile that accepts the lover before
the words are uttered, and the smile that
lights on the first-born baby, and assures it
of a mother's love.= _Haliburton._
=A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.=
_J. G. Holland._
=A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, /= 10
=Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.=
_Tam. of Sh._, v. 2.
=A woman's friendship borders more closely on
love than a man's.= _Coleridge._
=A woman's head is always influenced by her
heart; but a man's heart is always influenced
by his head.= _Lady Blessington._
=A woman sometimes scorns what best contents
her.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.=
_W. Irving._
=A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.= 15
_Pr._
=A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in
dark days.= _Goethe._
=A word once vulgarised can never be rehabilitated.=
_Lowell._
=A word sooner wounds than heals.= _Goethe._
=A word spoken in season, at the right moment,
is the mother of ages.= _Carlyle._
=A word spoken in due season, how good is it?= 20
_Bible._
=A work of real merit finds favour at last.= _A.
B. Alcott._
=A world all sincere, a believing world; the like
has been; the like will again be--cannot help
being.= _Carlyle._
=A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.=
_Emerson._
=A world this in which much is to be done, and
little to be known.= _Goethe._
=A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make= 25
=the best declaimer against sin.= _Lamb._
=A worthless man will always remain worthless,
and a little mind will not, by daily
intercourse with great minds, become an
inch greater.= _Goethe._
=A wounded spirit who can bear?= _Bible._
=A wound never heals so well that the scar
cannot be seen.= _Dan. Pr._
=A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.= _Dut. Pr._
=A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, / We= 30
=bid be quiet when we hear it cry; / But were
we burdened with like weight of pain, / As
much, or more, we should ourselves complain.=
_Com. of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; /
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iii. 1.
=Aye free, aff-han' your story tell, when wi' a
bosom crony; / But still keep something to
yoursel' / Ye scarcely tell to ony.= _Burns._
=Aye in a hurry, and aye ahint.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ay, every inch a king.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, /= 35
=Could ever hear by tale or history, / The
course of true love never did run smooth.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Aymez loyauté=--Love loyalty. _M._
=A young man idle, an old man needy.= _It. Pr._
=Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to
be one man picked out of two thousand.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
B.
=Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion;
wedded, an ass.= _Sp. Pr._
="Bad company," muttered the thief, as he= 40
=stepped to the gallows between the hangman
and a monk.= _Dut. Pr._
=Bad is by its very nature negative, and can
do nothing; whatsoever enables us to do
anything, is by its very nature good.= _Carlyle._
=Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.=
_Burke._
=Bad men excuse their faults; good men will
leave them.= _Ben Jonson._
=Bal abonné=--A subscription ball. _Fr._
=Bal champêtre=--A country ball. _Fr._ 45
=Ballon d'essai=--A balloon sent up to ascertain the
direction of the wind; any test of public feeling.
_Fr._
=Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.= 2
_Hen. VI._, i. 2.
=Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.= _Dryden._
=Barba bagnata è mezza rasa=--A beard well
lathered is half shaved. _It. Pr._
=Barbæ tenus sapientes=--Wise as far as the beard 50
goes. _Pr._
=Barbarism is no longer at our frontiers; it lives
side by side with us.= _Amiel._
=Barbarism is the non-appreciation of what is
excellent.= _Goethe._
=Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli=--I
am a barbarian here, for no one understands
what I say. _Ovid._
=Barbouillage=--Scribbling. _Fr._
=Barking dogs seldom bite.= _Pr._ 55
=Bas bleu=--A blue-stocking. _Fr._
=Base envy withers at another's joy, / And hates
that excellence it cannot reach.= _Thomson._
=Base in kind, and born to be a slave.= _Cowper._
=Base men, being in love, have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them.=
_Othello_, ii. 1.
=Base souls have no faith in great men.= _Rousseau._ 60
=Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a
reproach to old age.= _Arist._
=Bashfulness is but the passage from one
season of life to another.= _Bp. Hurd._
=Basis virtutum constantia=--Constancy is the
basis of all the virtues. _M._
=Battering the gates of heaven with storms of
prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Battle's magnificently stern array.= _Byron._
=Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy,
be still a man.= _Hume._
=Beard was never the true standard of brains.=
_Fuller._
=Bear one another's burdens.= _St. Paul._
=Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.= _Pr._ 5
=Be a sinner and sin manfully (fortiter), but
believe and rejoice in Christ more manfully
still.= _Luther to Melanchthon._
=Be as you would seem to be.= _Pr._
=Beatæ memoriæ=--Of blessed memory.
=Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum=--Blessed
are the one-eyed among those who are blind.
_Pr._
=Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, / Ut prisca= 10
=gens mortalium, / Paterna rura bobus exercet
suis, / Solutus omni fœnore=--Happy the
man who, remote from busy life, is content, like
the primitive race of mortals, to plough his
paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from
all borrowing and lending. _Hor._
=Beaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement=--A
retentive memory and little judgment. _Fr. Pr._
=Beau idéal=--Ideal excellence, or one's conception
of perfection in anything. _Fr._
=Beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._
=Beauté et folie sont souvent en compagnie=--Beauty
and folly go often together. _Fr. Pr._
=Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; /= 15
=Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul.= _Pope._
=Beautiful it is to understand and know that
a thought did never yet die; that as thou,
the originator thereof, hast gathered it and
created it from the whole past, so thou wilt
transmit to the whole future.= _Carlyle._
=Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost.= _Shakespeare._
=Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it
is itself the greatest distinction.= _Bovee._
=Beauty carries its dower in its face.= _Dan. Pr._
=Beauty depends more on the movement of the= 20
=face than the form of the features.= _Mrs.
Hall._
=Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, /
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. /
O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.=
_Love's L's. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Beauty draws us with a single hair.= _Pope._
=Beauty is a good letter of introduction.= _Ger. Pr._
=Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form,
the outline of which no definition holds.=
_Goethe._
=Beauty is an all-pervading presence.= _Channing._ 25
=Beauty is a patent of nobility.= _G. Schwab._
=Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to
corrupt and cannot last.= _Bacon._
=Beauty is a witch, / Against whose charms
faith melteth into blood.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not
utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.=
_Love's L's. Lost_, ii. 1.
=Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.= 30
_Shakespeare._
=Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest.=
_Goethe._
=Beauty is never a delusion.= _Hawthorne._
=Beauty is the flowering of virtue.= _Gr. Pr._
=Beauty is the highest principle and the highest
aim of art.= _Goethe._
=Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.= _Emerson._ 35
=Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.=
_Michael Angelo._
=Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all / Ye
know on earth, and all ye need to know.=
_Keats._
=Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both
holder and the beholder.= _Zimmermann._
=Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; /
Both most are valued where they best are
known.= _Lyttelton._
=Beauty lives with kindness.= _Two Gen. of_ 40
_Ver._, iv. 2.
=Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.=
_As You Like It_, i. 3.
=Beauty should be the dowry of every man and
woman.= _Emerson._
=Beauty stands / In the admiration only of
weak minds, / Led captive.= _Milton._
=Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.=
_Campbell._
=Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear.= 45
_Rom. and Jul._, i. 5.
=Beauty, when unadorned, adorned the most.=
_Thomson._
=Beauty without expression tires.= _Emerson._
=Beauty without grace is a violet without
smell.= _Pr._
=Beaux esprits=--Men of wit. _Fr._
=Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.= 50
_Spenser._
=Be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for
speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Be commonplace and cringing, and everything
is within your reach.= _Beaumarchais._
=Bedenkt, der Teufel der ist alt, / So werdet alt
ihn zu verstehen=--Consider, the devil is old;
therefore grow old to understand him. _Goethe._
=Be discreet in all things, and so render it
unnecessary to be mysterious about any.=
_Wellington._
=Be England what she will, / With all her faults= 55
=she is my country still.= _Churchill._
=Bees will not work except in darkness; thought
will not work except in silence; neither will
virtue work except in secrecy.= _Carlyle._
=Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;
in the full-blown flower there is no more; in
the leafless root there is no less.= _Emerson._
=Before every one stands an image (Bild) of
what he ought to be; so long as he is not
that, his peace is not complete.= _Rückert._
=Before honour is humility.= _Bible._
=Before man made us citizens, great Nature= 60
=made us men.= _Lowell._
=Before the curing of a strong disease, / Even in
the instant of repair and health, / The fit is
strongest; evils that take leave, / On their departure
most of all show evil.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Before the immense possibilities of man, all
mere experience, all past biography, however
spotless and sainted, shrinks away.=
_Emerson._
=Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space,
and Nature shrink away.= _Emerson._
=Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with
him.= _Pr._
=Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.=
3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.
=Beggars must not be choosers.= _Pr._
=Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Begnügt euch doch ein Mensch zu sein=--Let
it content thee that thou art a man. _Lessing._
=Begun is half done.= _Pr._ 5
=Behaupten ist nicht beweisen=--Assertion is no
proof. _Ger. Pr._
=Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows
his image.= _Goethe._
=Behind a frowning providence / God hides a
shining face.= _Cowper._
=Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing
forms, as clouds do afar off.= _Emerson._
=Behind every individual closes organisation;= 10
=before him opens liberty.= _Emerson._
=Behind every mountain lies a vale.= _Dut. Pr._
=Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.=
_St. James._
=Beholding heaven and feeling hell.= _Moore._
=Behold now is the accepted time.= _St. Paul._
=Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, /= 15
=Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.=
_Pope._
=Bei den meisten Menschen gründet sich der
Unglaube in einer Sache auf blinden Glauben
in einer andern=--With most men unbelief in
one thing is founded on blind belief in another.
_Lichtenberg._
=Bei Geldsachen hört die Gemütlichkeit auf=--When
money is in question, good day to friendly
feeling. _D. Hansemann._
=Beinahe bringt keine Mücke um=--Almost never
killed a fly. _Ger. Pr._
=Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not
to be alone.= _Auerbach._
=Being done, / There is no pause.= _Othello_, 20
v. 2.
=Being without well-being is a curse; and the
greater being, the greater curse.= _Bacon._
=Be in possession, and thou hast the right,
and sacred will the many guard it for thee.=
_Schiller._
=Be it never so humble, there's no place like
home.= _J. H. Payne._
=Bei wahrer Liebe ist Vertrauen=--With true
love there is trust. _Ph. Reger._
=Be just and fear not; / Let all the ends thou= 25
=aim'st at be thy country's, / Thy God's, and
truth's.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=Be just before you be generous.= _Pr._
=Beleidigst du einen Mönch, so knappen alle
Kuttenzipfel bis nach Rom=--Offend but one
monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as
far as Rome. _Ger. Pr._
=Bel esprit=--A person of genius; a brilliant mind.
_Fr._
=Belief and love,--a believing love, will relieve
us of a vast load of care.= _Emerson._
=Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of= 30
=the soul; unbelief, in denying them.= _Emerson._
=Believe not each accusing tongue, / As most
weak persons do; / But still believe that
story wrong / Which ought not to be true.=
_Sheridan._
=Believe not every spirit.= _St. John._
=Bella! horrida bella!=--War! horrid war! _Virg._
=Bella femmina che ride, vuol dire borsa che
piange=--The smiles of a pretty woman are the
tears of the purse. _It. Pr._
=Bella matronis detestata=--Wars detested by 35
mothers. _Hor._
=Belle, bonne, riche, et sage, est une femme
en quatre étages=--A woman who is beautiful,
good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. _Fr. Pr._
=Belle chose est tôt ravie=--A fine thing is soon
snapt up. _Fr. Pr._
=Bellet ein alter Hund, so soll man aufschauen=--When
an old dog barks, one must look out.
_Ger. Pr._
=Bellicæ virtutis præmium=--The reward of valour
in war. _M._
=Bellua multorum capitum=--The many-headed 40
monster, _i.e._, the mob.
=Bellum internecinum=--A war of extermination.
=Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax
quæsita videatur=--War should be so undertaken
that nothing but peace may seem to be
aimed at. _Cic._
=Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum=--War
ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. _Plin.
the Younger._
=Bellum omnium in omnes=--A war of all against all.
=Bellum, pax rursus=--A war, and again a peace. 45
_Ter._
[Greek: beltion thanein hapax ê dia bion tremein]--Better
die outright than be all one's life long in
terror. _Æsop._
=Bemerke, höre, schweige. Urteile wenig,
frage viel=--Take note of what you see, give
heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge
little, inquire much. _Platen._
=Be modest without diffidence, proud without
presumption.= _Goethe._
=Benchè la bugia sia veloce, la verità l'arriva=--Though
a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it.
_It. Pr._
=Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear.= 50
_T. Watts._
=Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the
pen is mightier than the sword.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's
shade, / Where heaves the turf in many a
mouldering heap, / Each in his narrow cell
for ever laid, / The rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep.= _Gray._
=Ben è cieco chi non vede il sole=--He is very
blind who does not see the sun. _It. Pr._
=Benedetto è quel male che vien solo=--Blessed
is the misfortune that comes alone. _It. Pr._
=Bene est cui Deus obtulit / Parca quod satis= 55
=est manu=--Well for him to whom God has given
enough with a sparing hand. _Hor._
=Benefacta male locata, malefacta arbitror=--Favours
injudiciously conferred I reckon evils.
_Cic._
=Benefacta sua verbis adornant=--They enhance
their favours by their words. _Plin._
=Beneficia dare qui nescit injuste petit=--He who
knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable
if he expects one. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficia plura recipit qui scit reddere=--He
receives most favours who knows how to return
them. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficium accipere libertatem vendere est=--To 60
accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. _Laber._
=Beneficium dignis ubi des, omnes obliges=--Where
you confer a benefit on those worthy of it,
you confer a favour on all. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficium invito non datur=--There is no conferring
a favour (involving obligation) on a man
against his will. _L. Max._
=Beneficus est qui non sua, sed alterius causa
benigne facit=--He is beneficent who acts
kindly, not for his own benefit, but for another's.
_Cic._
=Bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti
par erit=--To a well-deserving man God will
show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be
simply just. _Plaut._
=Bene merentibus=--To the well-deserving. _M._ 5
=Bene nummatum decorat Suedela Venusque=--The
goddesses of persuasion and of love adorn
the train of the well-moneyed man. _Hor._
=Bene orasse est bene studuisse=--To have prayed
well is to have striven well.
=Bene qui latuit, bene vixit=--Well has he lived
who has lived well in obscurity. _Ovid._
=Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic
of man.= _Mencues._
=Benigno numine=--By the favour of Providence. 10
_M._
=Benignus etiam dandi causam cogitat=--The
benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his
liberality. _Pr._
=Be no one like another, yet every one like the
Highest; to this end let each one be perfect
in himself.= _Goethe._
=Be not angry that you cannot make others
what you wish them to be, since you cannot
make yourself what you wish to be.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil
with good.= _St. Paul._
=Be not righteous overmuch.= _Bible._ 15
=Be not the first by whom the new is tried, /
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.= _Pope._
=Ben trovato=--Well invented. _It._
=Be our joy three-parts pain! Strive, and
hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account
the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!=
_Browning._
=Berretta in mano non fece mai danno=--Cap in
hand never harmed any one. _It. Pr._
=Bescheiden freue dich des Ruhms, / So bist du= 20
=wert des Heiligthums=--If thou modestly enjoy
thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the
holy. _Goethe._
=Bescheidenheit ist eine Zier, / Doch weiter
kommt man ohne ihr=--Modesty is an ornament,
yet people get on better without it. _Ger.
Pr._
=Beseht die Gönner in der Nähe! Halb sind
sie kalt, halb sind sie roh=--Look closely at
those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling,
half untaught. _Goethe._
=Besiegt von einem, ist besiegt von allen=--Overpowered
by one is overpowered by all.
_Schiller._
=Be silent, or say something better than silence.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in= 25
=changing him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Be sober, be vigilant.= _St. Peter._
=Besser ein Flick als ein Loch=--Better a patch
than a hole. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser ein magrer Vergleich als ein fetter
Prozess=--Better is a lean agreement than a fat
lawsuit. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser frei in der Fremde als Knecht daheim=--Better
free in a strange land than a slave at
home. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser freundlich versagen als unwillig gewähren=--Better 30
a friendly refusal than an unwilling
consent (_lit._ pledge). _Ger. Pr._
=Besser Rat kommt über Nacht=--Better counsel
comes over-night. _Lessing._
=Besser was als gar nichts=--Better something
than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser zweimal fragen dann einmal irre gehn=--Better
ask twice than go wrong once. _Ger.
Pr._
=Be still and have thy will.= _Tyndal._
=Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; /= 35
=Threaten the threatner, and outface the
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.
=Best men are moulded out of faults.= _Meas. for
Meas._, v. 1.
=Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.=
_Bible._
=Best time is present time.= _Pr._
=Be substantially great in thyself, and more
than thou appearest unto others.= _Sir Thomas
Browne._
=Be sure you can obey good laws before you= 40
=seek to alter bad ones.= _Ruskin._
=Be sure your sin will find you out.= _Bible._
=Be swift to hear, slow to speak.= _Pr._
=Bête noir=--An eyesore; a bugbear (_lit._ a black
beast). _Fr._
=Beter eens in den hemel dan tienmaal aan de
deur=--Better once in heaven than ten times at
the door. _Dut. Pr._
=Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last= 45
=mark of manhood.= _Carlyle._
=Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
thou shalt not escape calumny.= _Ham._,
iii. 1.
=Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, /
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe /
What thou hast said to me.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Be thou faithful unto death.= _St. John._
=Bêtise=--Folly; piece of folly. _Fr._
=Be to her virtues very kind; / Be to her faults= 50
=a little blind.= _Prior._
=Betrogene Betrüger=--The deceiver deceived.
_Lessing._
=Betrügen und betrogen werden, / Nichts ist
gewöhnlicher auf Erden=--Nothing is more
common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
_Seume._
=Betrug war Alles, Lug, und Schein=--All was
deception, a lie, and illusion. _Goethe._
=Bettelsack ist bodenlos=--The beggar's bag has
no bottom. _Ger. Pr._
=Better a blush in the face than a blot in the= 55
=heart.= _Cervantes._
=Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand
truths than have consecrated in its heart
a single lie.= _Ruskin._
=Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble
without one.= _Chinese Pr._
=Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.=
_Pr._
=Better a fremit freend than a freend fremit=,
_i.e._, a stranger for a friend than a friend turned
stranger. _Sc. Pr._
=Better a living dog than a dead lion.= _Pr._
=Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.=
_Pr._
=Better an end with terror than a terror without= 5
=end.= _Schill._
=Better a toom (empty) house than an ill tenant.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.= _Twelfth
Night_, i. 5.
=Better bairns greet (weep) than bearded men.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better be at the end o' a feast than the beginning
o' a fray.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better be a nettle in the side of your friend= 10
=than his echo.= _Emerson._
=Better be a poor fisherman than have to do
with the governing of men.= _Danton._
=Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether
insipid.= _Goethe._
=Better be idle than ill employed.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better bend than break.= _Pr._
=Better be persecuted than shunned.= _Ebers._ 15
=Better be poor than wicked.= _Pr._
=Better be unborn than untaught.= _Gael. Pr._
=Better buy than borrow.= _Pr._
=Better deny at once than promise long.= _Pr._
=Better far off, than--near, be ne'er the near'.= 20
_Rich. II._, v. 1.
=Better far to die in the old harness than to try
to put on another.= _J. G. Holland._
=Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay.= _Tennyson._
=Better go back than go wrong.= _Pr._
=Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better haud (hold on) wi' the hound than rin= 25
=wi' the hare.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better is an ass that carries us than a horse
that throws us.= _J. G. Holland._
=Better it is to be envied than pitied.= _Pr._
=Better keep the deil oot than hae to turn him
oot.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better keep weel than mak' weel.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better knot straws than do nothing.= _Gael. Pr._ 30
=Better lose a jest than a friend.= _Pr._
=Better mad with all the world than wise all
alone.= _Fr. Pr._
=Better my freen's think me fremit as fasheous=,
_i.e._, strange rather than troublesome. _Sc. Pr._
=Better never begin than never make an end.=
_Pr._
=Better not be at all / Than not be noble.= 35
_Tennyson._
=Better not read books in which you make the
acquaintance of the devil.= _Niebuhr._
=Better one-eyed than stone-blind.= _Pr._
=Better one living word than a hundred dead
ones.= _Ger. Pr._
=Better rue sit than rue flit=, _i.e._, regret remaining
than regret removing. _Sc. Pr._
=Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.= 40
_Pr._
=Better sit still than rise and fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better sma' fish than nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Better ten guilty escape than one innocent
man suffer.= _Pr._
=Better that people should laugh at one while= 45
=they instruct, than that they should praise
without benefiting.= _Goethe._
=Better the ill ken'd than the ill unken'd=, _i.e._,
the ill we know than the ill we don't know.
_Sc. Pr._
=Better the world know you as a sinner than
God as a hypocrite.= _Dan. Pr._
=Better to ask than go astray.= _Pr._
=Better to get wisdom than gold.= _Bible._
=Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, /= 50
=Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. /
The wise for cure on exercise depend; /
God never made his work for man to mend.=
_Dryden._
=Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.=
_Milton._
=Better to say "Here it is" than "Here it was."=
_Pr._
=Better understand the world than condemn it.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Better untaught than ill taught.= _Pr._
=Better wear out than rust out.= _Bishop Cumberland._ 55
=Better wear shoon (shoes) than sheets.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better wrong with the many than right with
the few.= _Port. Pr._
=Between a woman's "Yes" and "No" you
may insert the point of a needle.= _Ger. Pr._
=Between saying and doing there's a long road.=
_Pr._
=Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And= 60
=the first motion, all the interim is / Like a
phantasma or a hideous dream.= _Jul. Cæs._,
ii. 1.
=Between the deil and the deep sea.= _Sc. Pr._
=Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing
but life, which of all things is the frailest.=
_Pascal._
=Beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed
monster that doth mock / The meat it
feeds on.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Beware of a silent dog and still water.= _Pr._
=Beware of a silent man and a dog that does= 65
=not bark.= _Pr._
=Beware of a talent which you cannot hope to
cultivate to perfection.= _Goethe._
=Beware / Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being
in, / Bear 't that the opposed may beware
of thee.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Beware of false prophets.= _Jesus._
=Beware of "Had I wist."= _Pr._
=Beware of one who has nothing to lose.= _It._ 70
_Pr._
=Beware of too much good staying in your
hand.= _Emerson._
=Beware the fury of a patient man.= _Dryden._
=Beware when the great God lets loose a
thinker on this planet.= _Emerson._
=Be warned by thy good angel and not ensnared
by thy bad one.= _Bürger._
=Be wisely worldly; be not worldly wise.= 75
_Quarles._
=Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.= _Young._
=Be wise with speed; / A fool at forty is a fool
indeed.= _Young._
=Bewunderung verdient ein Wunder wohl, /
Doch scheint ein Weib kein echtes Weib
zu sein, / So bald es nur Bewunderung verdient=--What
is admirable justly calls forth our
admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true
woman who calls forth nothing else. _Platen._
=Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless
as doves.= _Jesus._
=Bezwingt des Herzens Bitterkeit. Es bringt /= 5
=Nicht gute Frucht, wenn Hass dem Hass
begegnet=--Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing
good comes of returning hatred for hatred.
_Schiller._
=Bibula charta=--Blotting-paper.
=Bien dire fait rire; bien faire fait taire=--Saying
well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent.
_Fr. Pr._
=Bien est larron qui larron dérobe=--He is a thief
with a witness who robs another. _Fr. Pr._
=Bien nourri et mal appris=--Well fed but ill
taught. _Fr. Pr._
=Bien perdu bien connu=--We know the worth of 10
a thing when we have lost it. _Fr._
=Bien predica quien bien vive=--He preaches well
who lives well. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien sabe el asno en cuya cara rabozna=--The
ass knows well in whose face he brays. _Sp.
Pr._
=Bien sabe el sabio que no sabe, el nescio piensa
que sabe=--The wise man knows well that he
does not know; the ignorant man thinks he
knows. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien sabe la vulpeja con quien trebeja=--The
fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.
_Sp. Pr._
=Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo=--Welcome, misfortune, 15
if thou comest alone. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien vient à mieux, et mieux à mal=--Good comes
to better and better to bad. _Fr. Pr._
=Big destinies of nations or of persons are not
founded= _gratis_ =in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with
her ghost.= _Colton._
=Big words seldom accompany good deeds.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Billet-doux=--A love-letter. _Fr._ 20
=Biography is the most universally pleasant,
the most universally profitable, of all reading.=
_Carlyle._
=Biography is the only true history.= _Carlyle._
=Birds of a feather flock together.= _Pr._
=Birds of prey do not flock together.= _Port. Pr._
=Birth is much, but breeding is more.= _Pr._ 25
=Bis dat qui cito dat=--He gives twice who gives
quickly. _L. Pr._
=Bis est gratum quod opus est, si ultro offeras=--That
help is doubly acceptable which you offer
spontaneously when we stand in need. _Pub.
Syr._
=Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit=--He dies
twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices.
_Pub. Syr._
=Bisogna amar l'amico con i suoi difetti=--We
must love our friend with all his defects. _It. Pr._
=Bis peccare in bello non licet=--It is not permitted 30
to blunder in war a second time. _Pr._
=Bist du Amboss, sei geduldig; bist du Hammer,
schlage hart=--Art thou anvil, be patient; art
thou hammer, strike hard. _Ger. Pr._
=Bist du ein Mensch? so fühle meine Noth=--Art
thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness.
_Margaret in "Faust."_
=Bist du mit dem Teufel du und du, / Und willst
dich vor der Flamme scheuen?=--Art thou on
familiar terms with the devil, and wilt thou shy
at the flame? _Goethe's "Faust."_
=Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria=--He conquers
twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers
(_i.e._, restrains) himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Bitin' and scartin' 's Scotch folk's wooing.= _Sc._ 35
_Pr._
=Black detraction will find faults where they are
not.= _Massinger._
=Blame is the lazy man's wages.= _Dan. Pr._
=Blame where you must, be candid where you
can, / And be each critic the good-natured
man.= _Goldsmith._
=Blanc-bec=--A greenhorn. _Fr._
=Blasen ist nicht flöten; ihr musst die Finger= 40
=bewegen=--To blow on the flute is not to play on
it; you must move the fingers as well. _Goethe._
=Blasphemy is wishing ill to anything, and its
outcome wishing ill to God; while Euphemy
is wishing well to everything, and its outcome
wishing well to--"Ah, wad ye tak' a
thocht, and men'."= _Ruskin._
=Blasted with excess of light.= _Gray._
=Bleib nicht allein, denn in der Wüste trat / Der
Satansengel selbst dem Herrn des Himmels=--Remain
not alone, for it was in the desert that
Satan came to the Lord of Heaven himself.
_Schiller._
=Bless, and curse not.= _St. Paul._
=Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet= 45
=have believed.= _Jesus._
=Blessed are they that hear the Word of God,
and keep it.= _Bible._
=Blessed be he who first invented sleep; it
covers a man all over like a cloak.= _Cervantes._
=Blessed be nothing.= _Pr._
=Blessed is he that considereth the poor.= _Bible._
=Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here= 50
=let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let
us learn to dwell.= _Carlyle._
=Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall
never be disappointed.= _Swift._
=Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound
of a rat-tat.= _Thackeray._
=Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.=
_St. James._
=Blessed is the voice that, amid dispiritment,
stupidity, and contradiction, proclaims to us,
Euge!= (_i.e._, Excellent! Bravo!). _Carlyle._
=Blessedness is a whole eternity older than= 55
=damnation.= _Jean Paul._
=Blessings are upon the head of the just.= _Bible._
=Blinder Eifer schadet nur=--Blind zeal only does
harm. _M. G. Lichtwer._
=Blinder Gaul geht geradezu=--A blind horse goes
right on. _Ger. Pr._
=Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harm--harm
everywhere, and harm always.= _Lichtner._
=Bloemen zijn geen vruchten=--Blossoms are not 60
fruits. _Dut. Pr._
=Blood is thicker than water.= _Pr._
=Blosse Intelligenz ohne correspondirende
Energie des Wollens ist ein blankes Schwert
in der Scheide, verächtlich, wenn es nie
und nimmer gezückt wird=--Mere intelligence
without corresponding energy of the will is a
polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if
it is never drawn forth. _Lindner._
=Blow, blow, thou winter wind, / Thou art not
so unkind / As man's ingratitude.= _As You
Like It_, ii. 7.
=Blow, wind! come, wrack! / At least we'll die
with harness on our back.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=Blue are the hills that are far from us.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Blunt edges rive hard knots.= _Troil. and Cress._, 5
i. 3.
=Blushes are badges of imperfection.= _Wycherley._
=Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft=--Blood is a
quite peculiar fluid. _Mephisto, in Faust._
=Boca de mel, coraçaõ de fel=--A tongue of honey,
a heart of gall. _Port. Pr._
=Boca que diz sim, diz naõ=--The mouth that can
say "Yea," can say "Nay." _Port. Pr._
=Bodily exercise profiteth little.= _St. Paul._ 10
=Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum=--You
would swear he was born in the foggy atmosphere
of the Bœotians. _Hor._
=Bois ont oreilles et champs œillets=--Woods have
ears and fields eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Bole com o rabo o caõ, naõ por ti, senaõ pelo
paõ=--The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for
your bread. _Port. Pr._
=Bon accord=--Good harmony. _M._
=Bonæ leges malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good 15
laws grow out of evil acts. _Macrob._
=Bona fide=--In good faith; in reality.
=Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero;
nec lætitia ulla minimo mœrore pensanda=--The
blessings of life do not equal its ills, even
when of equal number; nor can any pleasure,
however incense, compensate for even the slightest
pain. _Pliny._
=Bona nemini hora est, ut non alicui sit mala=--There
is no hour good for one man that is not
bad for another. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonarum rerum consuetudo est pessima=--Nothing
can be worse than being accustomed to
good things. _Pub. Syr._
=Bona vacantia=--Goods that have no owner. _L._ 20
=Bon avocat, mauvais voisin=--A good lawyer is a
bad neighbour. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon bourgeois=--A substantial citizen. _Fr._
=Bon chien chasse de race=--A good dog hunts
from pure instinct. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon diable=--A good-natured fellow. _Fr._
=Bon droit a besoin d'aide=--A good cause needs 25
help. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon gré, mal gré=--Whether willing or not. _Fr._
=Bon guet chasse maladventure=--A good lookout
drives ill-luck away. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne épée point querelleur=--A good swordsman
is not given to quarrel. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne est la maille que sauve le denier=--Good
is the farthing that saves the penny. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonhomie=--Good nature. _Fr._ 30
=Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere=--It
is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his
sheep, not to flay them. _Tiberius Cæsar, in
reference to taxation._
=Bonis avibus=--Under favourable auspices.
=Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis=--He does
injury to the good who spares the bad. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonis omnia bona=--All things are good to the
good. _M._
=Bonis quod benefit haud perit=--A kindness done 35
to good men is never thrown away. _Plaut._
=Bonis vel malis avibus=--Under good, or evil,
omens.
=Bon jour=--Good day. _Fr._
=Bon jour, bonne œuvre=--The better the day, the
better the deed. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon marché tire l'argent hors de la bourse=--A
good bargain is a pick-purse. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon mot=--A witticism or jest. _Fr._ 40
=Bon naturel=--Good nature or disposition. _Fr._
=Bonne=--A nurse. _Fr._
=Bonne bouche=--A delicate morsel. _Fr._
=Bonne et belle assez=--Good and handsome
enough. _Fr. M._
=Bonne journée fait qui de fol se délivre=--He 45
who rids himself of a fool does a good day's
work. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture
dorée=--A good name is worth more than a girdle
of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonnet rouge=--The cap of liberty. _Fr._
=Bonnie feathers mak' bonnie fowls.= _Sc. Pr._
=Bon poète, mauvais homme=--Good as a poet,
bad as a man. _Fr._
=Bon sang ne peut mentir=--Good blood disdains 50
to lie. _Fr. Pr._
=Bons et máos mantem cidade=--Good men and
bad make a city. _Port. Pr._
=Bons mots n'épargnent nuls=--Witticisms spare
nobody. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon soir=--Good evening. _Fr._
=Bon ton=--The height of fashion. _Fr._
=Bonum ego quam beatum me esse nimio dici= 55
=mavolo=--I would much rather be called good
than well off. _Plaut._
=Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo=--Well
if we see in the misfortune of another what
we should shun ourselves. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non
bonum est=--It is good to be moderately sane in
love; to be madly in love is not good. _Plaut._
=Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes=--That
supreme good at which we all aim. _Lucret._
=Bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali=--Good
courage in a bad affair is half of the evil
overcome. _Plaut._
=Bonus atque fidus / Judex honestum prætulit= 60
=utili=--A good and faithful judge ever prefers the
honourable to the expedient. _Hor._
=Bonus dux bonum reddit militem=--The good
general makes good soldiers. _L. Pr._
=Bonus vir semper tiro=--A good man is always a
learner.
=Bon vivant=--A good liver. _Fr._
=Bon voyage=--A pleasant journey or voyage. _Fr._
=Books are divisible into two classes, the books= 65
=of the hour and the books of all time.= _Ruskin._
=Books are embalmed minds.= _Bovee._
=Books are made from books.= _Voltaire._
=Books cannot always please, however good; /
Minds are not ever craving for their food.=
_Crabbe._
=Books generally do little else than give our
errors names.= _Goethe._
=Books, like friends, should be few and well
chosen.= _Joineriana._
=Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade
men.= _Carlyle._
=Books, we know, / Are a substantial world,
pure and good.= _Wordsworth._
=Boomen die men veel verplant gedijen zelden=--Trees 5
you transplant often, seldom thrive.
_Dut. Pr._
=Borgen thut nur einmal wohl=--Borrowing does
well only once. _Ger. Pr._
=Born to excel and to command!= _Congreve._
=Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.= _Cic._
=Borrowing is not much better than begging;
just as lending on interest is not much better
than stealing.= _Lessing._
=Bos alienus subinde prospectat foras=--A strange 10
ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to
the door. _Pr._
=Böser Brunnen, da man Wasser muss eintragen=--It
is a bad well into which you must
pour water. _Ger. Pr._
=Böser Pfennig kommt immer wieder=--A bad
penny always comes back again. _Ger. Pr._
=Bos in lingua=--He has an ox on his tongue, _i.e._,
a bribe to keep silent, certain coins in Athens
being stamped with an ox. _Pr._
=Bos lassus fortius figit pedem=--The tired ox
plants his foot more firmly. _Pr._
=Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der= 15
=Glaube=--I hear the message indeed, but I want
the faith. _Goethe's "Faust."_
[Greek: bouleuou pro ergôn, hopôs mê môra pelêtai]--Before
the act consider, so that nothing foolish
may arise out of it. _Gr. Pr._
=Bought wit is best=, _i.e._, bought by experience.
_Pr._
=Boutez en avant=--Push forward. _Fr._
=Bowels of compassion.= _St. John._
=Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.= 20
_Pr._
=Brain is always to be bought, but passion
never comes to market.= _Lowell._
=Brave men are brave from the very first.= _Corneille._
=Bread at pleasure, / Drink by measure.=
_Pr._
=Bread is the staff of life.= _Swift._
=Breathes there the man with soul so dead, /= 25
=Who never to himself hath said, / "This is
my own, my native land?"= _Scott._
=Breathe his faults so quaintly, / That they may
seem the taints of liberty; / The flash and
outbreak of a fiery mind.= _Ham._, ii. 1.
=Breed is stronger than pasture.= _George Eliot._
=Brevet d'invention=--A patent. _Fr._
=Breveté=--Patented. _Fr._
=Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene= 30
=honesteque vivendum=--A short term on earth
is long enough for a good and honourable life.
_Cic._
=Brevi manu=--Offhand; summarily (_lit._ with a
short hand).
=Brevis a natura nobis vita data est: at memoria
bene redditæ vitæ est sempiterna=--A short
life has been given us by Nature, but the memory
of a well-spent one is eternal. _Cic._
=Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio=--When labouring
to be concise, I become obscure. _Hor._
=Brevis ipsa vita est, sed longior malis=--Life
itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
_Pub. Syr._
=Brevis voluptas mox doloris est parens=--Short-lived 35
pleasure is the parent of pain. _Pr._
=Brevity is the body and soul of wit.= _Jean
Paul._
=Brevity is the soul of wit.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Bric-à-brac=--Articles of vertu or curiosity. _Fr._
=Bricht ein Ring, so bricht die ganze Katte=--A
link broken, the whole chain broken. _Ger.
Pr._
=Brief as the lightning in the collied night, /= 40
=That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and
earth, / And ere a man hath power to say,
"Behold!" / The jaws of darkness do devour
it up.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Briefe gehören unter die wichtigsten Denkmäler
die der einzelne Mensch hinterlassen
kann=--Letters are among the most significant
memorials a man can leave behind him.
_Goethe._
=Briller par son absence=--To be conspicuous by
its absence. _Fr._
=Bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the
grave.= _Bible._
=Bring forth men-children only! / For thy undaunted
mettle should compose / Nothing
but males.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Broad thongs may be cut from other people's= 45
=leather.= _It. Pr._
=Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered),
but never sound.= _Sc. Pr._
=Brouille sera à la maison si la quenouille est
maîtresse=--There will be disagreement in the
house if the distaff holds the reins. _Fr. Pr._
=Brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts=--To burn
the candle at both ends. _Fr._
=Brute force holds communities together as an
iron nail, if a little rusted with age, binds
pieces of wood; but intelligence binds like
a screw, which must be gently turned, not
driven.= _Draper._
=Brutum fulmen=--A harmless thunderbolt. _L._ 50
=Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself.=
_Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Bûche tortue fait bon feu=--A crooked log makes
a good fire. _Fr. Pr._
=Buen siglo haya quien dijó bolta=--Blessings on
him that said, Right about face! _Sp. Pr._
=Buey viejo sulco derecho=--An old ox makes a 55
straight furrow. _Sp. Pr._
=Buffoonery is often want of wit.= _Bruyère._
=Bullies are generally cowards.= _Pr._
=Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni=--Don't
spur a willing horse. _It. Pr._
=Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos
en la plaza=--Play with the fool in the house
and he will play with you in the street. _Sp.
Pr._
=Burnt bairns dread the fire.= _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Business dispatched is business well done, but
business hurried is business ill done.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Busy readers are seldom good readers.= _Wieland._
=But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, /
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.=
_Goldsmith._
=But all was false and hollow; though his
tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make
the worse appear / The better reason, to
perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.=
_Milton._
=But by bad courses may be understood, / That
their events can never fall out good.= _Rich.
II._, ii. 1.
=But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, /
He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.=
_Chaucer._
=But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, / Than= 5
=that which, withering on the virgin thorn, /
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.=
_Mid. N's. Dream_, i. 1.
=But evil is wrought by want of thought / As
well as want of heart.= _Hood._
=But facts are chiels that winna ding, / An'
douna be disputed.= _Burns._
=But far more numerous was the herd of such /
Who think too little and who talk too much.=
_Dryden._
=But for women, our life would be without help
at the outset, without pleasure in its course,
and without consolation at the end.= _Jouy._
=But from the heart of Nature rolled / The burdens= 10
=of the Bible old.= _Emerson._
=But human bodies are sic fools, / For a' their
colleges and schools, / That, when nae real
ills perplex them, / They make enow themsels
to vex them.= _Burns._
=But hushed be every thought that springs /
From out the bitterness of things.= _Wordsworth._
=But I am constant as the northern star, / Of
whose true-fixed and resting quality, / There
is no fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For
daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.
=But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief= 15
=authority, / Most ignorant of what he's
most assured, / His glassy essence,--like
an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks
before high Heaven / As make the angels
weep.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=But men may construe things after their
fashion, clean from the purpose of the things
themselves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.
=But men must work, and women must weep, /
Though storms be sudden and waters deep, /
And the harbour bar be moaning.= _C. Kingsley._
=But mercy is above this sceptred sway; / It is
enthroned 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.
=But now our fates from unmomentous things /
May rise like rivers out of little springs.=
_Campbell._
=But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And= 20
=the sound of a voice that is still.= _Tennyson._
=But O what damned minutes tells he o'er, /
Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet
strongly loves?= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=But pleasures are like poppies spread, / You
seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like
the snowfall on the river, / A moment white--then
melts for ever.= _Burns._
=But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; /
Within that circle none durst walk but he.=
_Dryden._
=But shapes that come not at an earthly call, /
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.=
_Wordsworth._
=But souls that of His own good life partake, /= 25
=He loves as His own self; dear as His eye /
They are to Him; He'll never them forsake; /
When they shall die, then God Himself shall
die: / They live, they live in blest eternity.=
_H. More._
=But spite of all the criticising elves, / Those
that would make us feel, must feel themselves.=
_Churchill._
=But there are wanderers o'er eternity, / Whose
bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er
shall be.= _Byron._
=But there's nothing half so sweet in life / As
love's young dream.= _Moore._
=But thought's the slave of life, and life time's
fool; / And time, that takes survey of all
the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Henry IV._,
v. 4.
=But to see her was to love her--love but her,= 30
=and love for ever.= _Burns._
=But truths on which depend our main concern, /
That 'tis our shame and misery not
to learn, / Shine by the side of every path
we tread, / With such a lustre, he that runs
may read.= _Cowper._
=But war's a game which, were their subjects
wise, / Kings would not play at.= _Cowper._
=But were I Brutus, / And Brutus Antony,
there were an Antony / Would ruffle up your
spirits, and put a tongue / In every wound
of Cæsar, that should move / The stones of
Rome to rise and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=But what fate does, let fate answer for.=
_Sheridan._
=But whether on the scaffold high, / Or in the= 35
=battle's van, / The fittest place where man
can die / Is where he dies for man.= _M. J.
Barry._
=But who would force the soul, tilts with a
straw / Against a champion cased in adamant.=
_Wordsworth._
=But winter lingering chills the lap of May.=
_Goldsmith._
=But words are things, and a small drop of ink, /
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces /
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think.= _Byron._
=But wouldst thou know what's heaven? I'll
tell thee what: / Think what thou canst not
think, and heaven is that.= _Quarles._
=But yesterday the word of Cæsar might /= 40
=Have stood against the world; now lies he
there, / And none so poor to do him reverence.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Buying is cheaper than asking.= _Ger. Pr._
=Buy the truth, and sell it not.= _Bible._
=Buy what ye dinna want, an' ye'll sell what ye
canna spare.= _Sc. Pr._
=By-and-by is easily said.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=By any ballot-box, Jesus Christ goes just as= 45
=far as Judas Iscariot.= _Carlyle._
=By blood a king, in heart a clown.= _Tennyson._
=By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot
be avoided is overcome.= _Pr._
=By desiring little, a poor man makes himself
rich.= _Democritus._
=By dint of dining out, I run the risk of dying
by starvation at home.= _Rousseau._
=By doing nothing we learn to do ill.= _Pr._
=By education most have been misled.= _Dryden._
=By experience we find out a short way by a= 5
=long wandering.= _Roger Ascham._
=By nature man hates change; seldom will he
quit his old home till it has actually fallen
about his ears.= _Carlyle._
=By night an atheist half believes a God.=
_Young._
=By nothing do men more show what they are
than by their appreciation of what is and
what is not ridiculous.= _Goethe._
=By others' faults wise men correct their own.=
_Pr._
=By persisting in your path, though you forfeit= 10
=the little, you gain the great.= _Emerson._
=By pious heroic climbing of our own, not by
arguing with our poor neighbours, wandering
to right and left, do we at length reach
the sanctuary--the victorious summit, and
see with our own eyes.= _Carlyle._
=By pride cometh contention.= _Bible._
=By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped
to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.=
_Rabelais._
=By seeking and blundering we learn.= _Goethe._
=By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious= 15
=birds sing madrigals.= _Marlowe._
=By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
/ The sports of children satisfy the
child.= _Goldsmith._
=By strength of heart the sailor fights with
roaring seas.= _Wordsworth._
=By the long practice of caricature I have lost
the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face
but distorted.= _Hogarth to a lady who wished
to learn caricature._
=By three methods we may learn wisdom: first,
by reflection, which is the noblest; second,
by imitation, which is the easiest; and third,
by experience, which is the bitterest.= _Confucius._
=By time and counsel do the best we can: /= 20
=Th' event is never in the power of man.=
_Herrick._
C.
=Ca' (drive) a cow to the ha' (hall), and she'll
rin to the byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Cacoëthes carpendi=--An itch for fault-finding. 25
=Cacoëthes scribendi=--An itch for scribbling.
=Cacoëthes loquendi=--An itch for talking.
=Cada cousa a seu tempo=--Everything has its
time. _Port. Pr._
=Cada qual en seu officio=--Every one to his trade.
_Port. Pr._
=Cada qual hablé en lo que sabe=--Let every one
talk of what he understands. _Sp. Pr._
=Cada uno es hijo de sus obras=--Every one is
the son of his own works; _i.e._, is responsible for
his own acts. _Sp. Pr._
=Cadenti porrigo dextram=--I extend my right 30
hand to a falling man. _M._
=Cadit quæstio=--The question drops, _i.e._, the point
at issue needs no further discussion. _L._
=Cæca invidia est, nec quidquam aliud scit quam
detrectare virtutes=--Envy is blind, and can
only disparage the virtues of others. _Livy._
=Cæca regens vestigia filo=--Guiding blind steps
by a thread.
=Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam=--You
carry Cæsar and his fortunes; fear not, therefore.
_Cæsar to a pilot in a storm._
=Cæsar non supra grammaticos=--Cæsar has no 35
authority over the grammarians. _Pr._
=Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.= _Plut._
=Cæteris major qui melior=--He who is better than
others is greater. _M._
=Cahier des charges=--Conditions of a contract.
_Fr._
=Ça ira=--It shall go on (a French Revolution song).
_Ben. Franklin._
=Caisse d'amortissement=--Sinking fund. _Fr._ 40
=Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius=--The
mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
_Sen._
=Calamity is man's true touchstone=--_Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Call a spade a spade.=
=Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps= 45
=are all a clear Because to a clear Why.=
_Lavater._
=Callida junctura=--Skilful arrangement. _Hor._
=Call me what instrument you will, though you
fret me, you cannot play on me.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills
he suffers, has a child he loves.= _Southey,
Coleridge._
=Call not the devil; he will come fast enough
without.= _Dan. Pr._
=Call your opinions your creed, and you will= 50
=change it every week. Make your creed
simply and broadly out of the revelation of
God, and you may keep it to the end.= _P.
Brooks._
=Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. The
vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab their
wishes. A single spark of occasion discharges
the child of passions into a thousand
crackers of desire.= _Lavater._
=Calumnies are sparks which, if you do not
blow them, will go out of themselves.= _Boerhaave._
=Calumny is like the wasp which worries you;
which it were best not to try to get rid of,
unless you are sure of slaying it, for otherwise
it will return to the charge more furious
than ever.= _Chamfort._
=Calumny will sear / Virtue itself: these shrugs,
these hums and ha's.= _Winter's Tale_, ii. 1.
=Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit=--The 55
camel begging for horns was deprived
of his ears as well. _Pr._
=Campos ubi Troja fuit=--The fields where Troy
once stood. _Lucan._
=Campus Martius=--A place of military exercise
(_lit._ field of Mars).
=Canaille=--The rabble. _Fr._
=Canam mihi et Musis=--I will sing to myself and
the Muses, _i.e._, if no one else will listen. _Anon._
="Can" and "shall," well understood, mean the
same thing under this sun of ours.= _Carlyle._
=Can anybody remember when the times were
not hard and money not scarce? or when
sensible men, and the right sort of men, and
the right sort of women, were plentiful?=
_Emerson._
=Can ch' abbaia non morde=--A dog that barks
does not bite. _It. Pr._
=Can che morde non abbaia in vano=--A dog that
bites does not bark in vain. _It. Pr._
=Can despots compass aught that hails their= 5
=sway? / Or call with truth one span of earth
their own, / Save that wherein at last they
crumble bone by bone?= _Byron._
=Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras=--Wide-robed
peace becomes men, ferocious anger
only wild beasts. _Ovid._
=Candide et caute=--With candour and caution. _M._
=Candide et constanter=--With candour and constancy.
_M._
=Candide secure=--Honesty is the best policy. _M._
=Candidus in nauta turpis color: æquoris unda /= 10
=Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger=--A fair
complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to
be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays
of the sun. _Ovid._
="Can do" is easy (easily) carried aboot.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Candor dat viribus alas=--Candour gives wings to
strength. _M._
=Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.=
_Disraeli._
=Canes timidi vehementius latrant quam mordent=--Cowardly
dogs bark more violently than
they bite. _Q. Curt._
=Cane vecchio non abbaia indarno=--An old dog 15
does not bark for nothing. _It. Pr._
=Can I choose my king? I can choose my King
Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I
may with him; but he who is to be my ruler,
whose will is higher than my will, was chosen
for me in heaven.= _Carlyle._
=Canina facundia=--Dog (_i.e._, snarling) eloquence.
_Appius._
=Canis a non canendo=--Dog is called "canis," from
"non cano," not to sing. _Varro._
=Canis in præsepi=--The dog in the manger (that
would not let the ox eat the hay which he could
not eat himself).
=Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable= 20
=machines. I believe them to have been the
direct suggestion of the devil.= _Luther._
=Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to
its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can
honour's voice provoke the silent dust, /
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?=
_Gray._
=Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, /
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, /
Raze out the written troubles of the brain? /
And with some sweet oblivious antidote, /
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous
stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?= _Macb._,
v. 3.
=Can such things be, / And overcome us like
a summer's cloud, / Without our special
wonder?= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator=--The
penniless traveller will sing in presence of the
robber. _Juv._
=Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy,= 25
=doubt, be in religion, what we priests
term it, the greatest of sins?= _Bovee._
=Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leopard his spots?= _Bible._
=Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?=
_Nathanael._
=Cantilenam eandem canis=--You are always singing
the same tune, _i.e._, harping on one theme.
_Ter._
=Cant is properly a double-distilled lie, the
second power of a lie.= _Carlyle._
=Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolonging= 30
=of a real sentiment.= _Hazlitt._
=Can wealth give happiness? look around and
see, / What gay distress! what splendid
misery! / Whatever fortunes lavishly can
pour, / The mind annihilates and calls for
more.= _Young._
=Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten,
when their noblest and most enduring
works decay?= _Ausonius._
="Can you tell a plain man the plain road to
heaven?"--"Surely. Turn at once to the
right, then go straight forward."= _Bp. Wilberforce._
=Caõ que muito ladra, nunca bom para a caça=--A
dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
_Port. Pr._
=Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all= 35
=kinds of treason, raised to the second power,
woman is at once the delight and the terror
of man.= _Amiel._
=Capacity without education is deplorable, and
education without capacity is thrown away.=
_Saadi._
=Cap-à-pié=--From head to foot. _Fr._
=Capias=--A writ to order the seizure of a defendant's
person. _L._
=Capias ad respondendum=--You may take him to
answer your complaint. _L._
=Capias ad satisfaciendum=--You may take him 40
to satisfy your claim. _L._
=Capiat, qui capere possit=--Let him take who
can. _Pr._
=Capistrum maritale=--The matrimonial halter.
_Juv._
=Capitis nives=--The snowy locks of the head.
_Hor._
=Capo grasso, cervello magro=--Fat head, lean
brains. _It. Pr._
=Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can= 45
=befall man.= _Cervantes._
=Captivity, / That comes with honour, is true
liberty.= _Massinger._
=Captum te nidore suæ putat ille culinæ=--He
thinks he has caught you with the savoury smell
of his kitchen. _Juv._
=Caput artis est, decere quod facias=--The chief
thing in any art you may practise is that you do
only the one you are fit for. _Pr._
=Caput inter nubila condit=--(Fame) hides her
head amid the clouds. _Virg._
=Caput mortuum=--The worthless remains; a ninny. 50
=Caput mundi=--The head of the world, _i.e._, Rome,
both ancient and modern.
=Cara al mio cuor tu sei, / Ciò ch'è il sole agli
occhi miei=--Thou art as dear to my heart as the
sun to my eyes. _It. Pr._
=Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, / For
things that are not to be remedied.= 1 _Hen.
VI._, iii. 3.
=Care is taken that trees do not grow into the
sky.= _Goethe._
=Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
/ And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Care killed the cat.= _Pr._ 5
=Carelessness is worse than theft.= _Gael. Pr._
=Careless their merits or their faults to scan, /
His pity gave ere charity began.= _Goldsmith._
=Care's an enemy to life.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 3.
=Cares are often more difficult to throw off than
sorrows; the latter die with time, the former
grow with it.= _Jean Paul._
=Care that has enter'd once into the breast, /= 10
=Will have the whole possession ere it rest.=
_Ben Jonson._
=Caret=--It is wanting.
=Caret initio et fine=--It has neither beginning nor
end.
=Caret periculo, qui etiam cum est tutus cavet=--He
is not exposed to danger who, even when
in safety, is on his guard. _Pub. Syr._
=Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, / And
every grin, so merry, draws one out.= _Wolcot._
=Care will kill a cat, but ye canna live without= 15
=it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Carica volontario non carica=--A willing burden
is no burden. _It. Pr._
=Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit=--There
is no day, however glorious, but sets in
night. _Fr._
=Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--Man is dearer
to them (_i.e._, the gods) than to himself. _Juv._
=Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares;
sed omnes omnium caritates, patria
una complexa est=--Dear are our parents, dear
our children, our relatives, and our associates, but
all our affections for all these are embraced in
our affection for our native land. _Cic._
=Carmen perpetuum primaque origine mundi= 20
=ad tempora nostra=--A song for all ages, and
from the first origin of the world to our own
times. _Transposed from Ovid._
=Carmen triumphale=--A song of triumph.
=Carmina nil prosunt; nocuerunt carmina quondam=--My
rhymes are of no use; they once
wrought me harm. _Ovid._
=Carmina spreta exolescunt; si irascare, agnita
videntur=--Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually
die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you
will be thought to have deserved it. _Tac._
=Carmine di superi placantur, carmine Manes=--The
gods above and the gods below are alike
propitiated by song. _Hor._
=Carmine fit vivax virtus; expersque sepulcri,= 25
=notitiam seræ posteritatis habet=--By verse
virtue is made immortal; and, exempt from
burial, obtains the homage of remote posterity.
_Ovid._
=Carpet knights.= _Burton._
=Carpe diem=--Make a good use of the present.
_Hor._
=Carry on every enterprise as if all depended
on the success of it.= _Richelieu._
=Carte blanche=--Unlimited power to act (_lit._ blank
paper). _Fr._
=Car tel est votre plaisir=--For such is your pleasure. 30
_Fr._
=Casa hospidada, comida y denostada=--A house
which is filled with guests is both eaten up and
spoken ill of. _Sp. Pr._
=Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia, tu
mi sembri una badia=--Home, dear home, small
though thou be, thou art to me a palace. _It.
Pr._
=Casar, casar, e que do governo?=--Marry, marry,
and what of the management of the house? _Port.
Pr._
=Casar, casar, soa bem, e sabe mal=--Marrying
sounds well, but tastes ill. _Port. Pr._
=Cassis tutissima virtus=--Virtue is the safest 35
helmet. _M._
=Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat=--A
chaste wife acquires an influence over her husband
by obeying him. _Laber._
=Casta moribus et integra pudore=--Of chaste
morals and unblemished modesty. _Mart._
=Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.=
_Tennyson._
=Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living,
ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain
that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it
will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove,
perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a
thousand years.= _Carlyle._
=Cast him (a lucky fellow) into the Nile, and he= 40
=will come up with a fish in his mouth.= _Arab.
Pr._
=Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Castor gaudet equis, ovo prognatus eodem /
Pugnis=--Castor delights in horses; he that
sprung from the same egg, in boxing. _Hor._
=Castrant alios, ut libros suos, per se graciles,
alieno adipe suffarciant=--They castrate the
books of others, that they may stuff their own
naturally lean ones with their fat. _Jovius._
=Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt
find it after many days.= _Bible._
=Cast thy bread upon the waters; God will= 45
=know of it, if the fishes do not.= _Eastern
Pr._
=Casus belli=--A cause for war; originally, fortune
of war.
=Casus quem sæpe transit, aliquando invenit=--Misfortune
will some time or other overtake him
whom it has often passed by. _Pub. Syr._
=Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus.
/ Quo minimè credas gurgite, piscis erit=--There
is scope for chance everywhere; let your
hook be always hanging ready. In the eddies
where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
_Ovid._
=Catalogue raisonné=--A catalogue topically arranged.
_Fr._
=Catch as catch can.= _Antiochus Epiphanes._ 50
=Catching a Tartar=, _i.e._, an adversary too strong
for one.
=Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.=
_Pr._
=Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; /
Improve each moment as it flies; / Life's
a short summer--man a flower--/ He dies--alas!
how soon he dies!= _Johnson._
=Catholicism commonly softens, while Protestantism
strengthens, the character; but the
softness of the one often degenerates into
weakness, and the strength of the other into
hardness.= _Lecky._
=Cato contra mundum=--Cato against the world.
=Cato esse, quam videri, bonus malebat=--Cato
would rather be good than seem good. _Sallust._
=Cattiva è quella lana, che non si può tingere=--Bad
is the cloth that won't dye. _It. Pr._
=Cattivo è quel sacco che non si puo rappezzare=--Bad 5
is the sack that won't patch. _It. Pr._
=Cattle go blindfold to the common to crop the
wholesome herbs, but man learns to distinguish
what is wholesome (Heil) and what is
poisonous (Gift) only by experience.= _Rückert._
=Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas=--Puss
likes fish, but does not care to wet her
feet. _Pr._
=Causa causans=--The Cause of causes.
=Causa latet, vis est notissima=--The cause is
hidden, but the effect is evident enough. _Ovid._
=Causa sine qua non=--An indispensable condition. 10
=Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.=
_Emerson._
=Cause and effect, means and end, seed and
fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect
already blooms in the cause, the end preexists
in the means, the fruit in the seed.=
_Emerson._
=Cause célèbre=--A celebrated trial or action at
law. _Fr._
=Caute, non astute=--Cautiously, not craftily. _M._
=Caution is the parent of safety.= _Pr._ 15
=Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and
only credits what experience tells.= _Johnson._
=Cautis pericla prodesse aliorum solent=--Prudent
people are ever ready to profit from the
experiences of others. _Phædr._
=Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
/ Suspectos laqueos, et opertum miluus hamum=--For
the wary wolf dreads the pitfall, the
hawk the suspected snare, and the fish the concealed
hook. _Hor._
=Cavallo ingrassato tira calci=--A horse that is
grown fat kicks. _It. Pr._
=Cave ab homine unius libri=--Beware of a man of 20
one book. _Pr._
=Caveat actor=--Let the doer be on his guard.
_L._
=Caveat emptor=--Let the buyer be on his guard.
_L._
=Cave canem=--Beware of the dog.
=Cavendo tutus=--Safe by caution. _M._
=Cave paratus=--Be on guard while prepared. 25
_M._
=Caviare to the general.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, / But
leave,--oh! leave the light of hope behind! /
What though my winged hours of bliss have
been, / Like angel-visits, few and far between?=
_Campbell._
=Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, /
And study help for that which thou lament'st.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Cedant arma togæ=--Let the military yield to the
civil power (_lit._ to the gown). _Cic._
=Cedant carminibus reges, regumque triumphi=--Kings, 30
and the triumphs of kings, must yield
to the power of song. _Ovid._
=Cedat amor rebus; res age, tutus eris=--Let
love give way to business; give attention to
business, and you will be safe. _Ovid._
=Cede Deo=--Yield to God. _Virg._
=Cede nullis=--Yield to none. _M._
=Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis=--Yield
to your opponent; by so doing you will come off
victor in the end. _Ovid._
=Cedite, Romani scriptores; cedite, Graii=--Give 35
place, ye Roman writers; give place, ye Greeks
(ironically applied to a pretentious author).
_Prop._
=Cedunt grammatici; vincuntur rhetores; /
Turba tacet=--The grammarians give way; the
rhetoricians are beaten off; all the assemblage is
silent. _Juv._
=Cela fera comme un coup d'épée dans l'eau=--It
will be all lost labour (_lit._ like a sword-stroke
in the water). _Fr. Pr._
=Cela m'échauffe la bile=--That stirs up my bile.
_Fr._
=Cela n'est pas de mon ressort=--That is not in
my department, or line of things. _Fr._
=Cela saute aux yeux=--That is quite evident 40
(_lit._ leaps to the eyes). _Fr. Pr._
=Cela va sans dire=--That is a matter of course.
_Fr._
=Cela viendra=--That will come some day. _Fr._
=Celebrity is but the candle-light which will
show= _what_ =man, not in the least make him
a better or other man.= _Carlyle._
=Celebrity is the advantage of being known to
people whom we don't know, and who don't
know us.= _Chamfort._
=Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the= 45
=punishment of talent.= _Chamfort._
=Celer et audax=--Swift and daring. _M._
=Celer et fidelis=--Swift and faithful. _M._
=Celerity is never more admired / Than by the
negligent.= _Ant. & Cleop._, iii. 7.
=Celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres=--Lofty
towers fall with no ordinary crash. _Hor._
=Celui est homme de bien qui est homme de= 50
=biens=--He is a good man who is a man of goods.
_Fr. Pr._
=Celui-là est le mieux servi, qui n'a pas besoin
de mettre les mains des autres au bout de
ses bras=--He is best served who has no need
to put other people's hands at the end of his
arms. _Rousseau._
=Celui qui a grand sens sait beaucoup=--A man
of large intelligence knows a great deal. _Vauvenargues._
=Celui qui aime mieux ses trésors que ses amis,
mérite de n'être aimé de personne=--He who
loves his wealth better than his friends does not
deserve to be loved by any one. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui dévore la substance du pauvre, y
trouve à la fin un os qui l'étrangle=--He who
devours the substance of the poor will in the end
find a bone in it to choke him. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui est sur épaules d'un géant voit plus= 55
=loin que celui qui le porte=--He who is on the
shoulders of a giant sees farther than he does
who carries him. _Fr. Pr._
=Celui qui veut, celui-là peut=--The man who wills
is the man who can. _Fr._
=Ce ne sont pas les plus belles qui font les
grandes passions=--It is not the most beautiful
women that inspire the greatest passion. _Fr.
Pr._
=Ce n'est pas être bien aisé que de rire=--Laughing
is not always an index of a mind at ease.
_Fr._
=Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is
only the first step that is difficult (_lit._ costs).
_Fr._
=Censor morum=--Censor of morals and public conduct.
=Censure is the tax a man pays to the public
for being eminent.= _Swift._
=Cent ans n'est guère, mais jamais c'est beaucoup=--A 5
hundred years is not much, but "never"
is a long while. _Fr. Pr._
=Cento carri di pensieri, non pagaranno un'
oncia di debito=--A hundred cartloads of care
will not pay an ounce of debt. _It. Pr._
=Cent 'ore di malinconia non pagano un quattrino
di' debito=--A hundred hours of vexation
will not pay one farthing of debt. _It. Pr._
=Centum doctûm hominum consilia sola hæc
devincit dea / Fortuna=--This goddess, Fortune,
single-handed, frustrates the plans of a
hundred learned men. _Plaut._
=Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut=--What woman
wills, God wills. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qui fait qu'on n'est pas content de sa condition,= 10
=c'est l'idée chimérique qu'on forme
du bonheur d'autrui=--What makes us discontented
with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated
idea we have of the happiness of
others. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'il nous faut pour vaincre, c'est de
l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de
l'audace!=--In order to conquer, what we need
is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.
_Danton._
=Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profondeur, /
Ils vous le donnent en longueur=--What orators
want in depth, they make up to you in length.
_Montesquieu._
=Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le
chante=--What is not worth the trouble of being
said, may pass off very fairly when it is sung.
_Beaumarchais._
=Ce qui suffit ne fut jamais peu=--What is enough
was never a small quantity. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qui vient de la flûte, s'en retourne au tambour=--What 15
is earned by the fife goes back to
the drum; easily gotten, easily gone. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'on apprend au berceau dure jusqu'au
tombeau=--What is learned in the cradle lasts
till the grave. _Fr. Pr._
=Ce qu'on fait maintenant, on le dit; et la cause
en est bien excusable: on fait si peu de chose=--Whatever
we do now-a-days, we speak of; and
the reason is this: it is so very little we do.
_Fr._
=Cercato ho sempre solitaria vita / (Le rive il
sanno, e le campagne e i boschi)=--I have
always sought a solitary life. (The river-banks
and the open fields and the groves know it.)
=Ceremonies are different in every country;
but true politeness is everywhere the same.=
_Goldsmith._
=Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and= 20
=defence of manners.= _Chesterfield._
=Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep
fools at a distance.= _Steele._
=Ceremony keeps up all things; 'tis like a penny
glass to a rich spirit or some excellent water;
without it the water were spilt, the spirit
lost.= _Selden._
=Ceremony leads her bigots forth, / Prepared
to fight for shadows of no worth; / While
truths, on which eternal things depend, /
Find not, or hardly find, a single friend.=
_Cowper._
=Ceremony was but devised at first / To set a
gloss on faint deeds ... / But where there
is true friendship, there needs none.= _Timon
of Athens_, i. 2.
=Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper=--(Youth), 25
pliable as wax to vice, obstinate under
reproof. _Hor._
=Cernit omnia Deus vindex=--God as avenger sees
all things. _M._
=Certa amittimus dum incerta petimus=--We lose
things certain in pursuing things uncertain.
_Plaut._
=Certain defects are necessary to the existence
of the individual. It would be painful to us
if our old friends laid aside certain peculiarities.=
_Goethe._
=Certain it is that there is no kind of affection
so purely angelic as that of a father to a
daughter. In love to our wives there is
desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our
daughters there is something which there
are no words to express.= _Addison._
=Certe ignoratio futurorum malorum utilius est= 30
=quam scientia=--It is more advantageous not to
know than to know the evils that are coming
upon us. _Cic._
=Certiorari=--To order the record from an inferior
to a superior court. _L._
=Certum est quia impossibile est=--I am sure of
it because it is impossible. _Tert._
=Certum pete finem=--Aim at a definite end. _M._
=Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.=
_Byron._
=Ces discours sont fort beaux dans un livre=--All 35
that would be very fine in a book, _i.e._, in theory,
but not in practice. _Boileau._
=Ces malheureux rois / Dont on dit tant de mal,
ont du bon quelquefois=--Those unhappy kings,
of whom so much evil is said, have their good
qualities at times. _Andrieux._
=Ce sont les passions qui font et qui défont tout=--It
is the passions that do and that undo everything.
_Fontenelle._
=Ce sont toujours les aventuriers qui font de
grandes choses, et non pas les souverains
des grandes empires=--It is always adventurers
who do great things, not the sovereigns of great
empires. _Montesquieu._
=Cessante causa, cessat et effectus=--When the
cause is removed, the effect must cease also. _Coke._
=Cessio bonorum=--A surrender of all one's property 40
to creditors. _Scots Law._
=C'est-à-dire=--That is to say. _Fr._
=C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les
grands courages=--It is amid great perils we
see brave hearts. _Regnard._
=C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur=--It
is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
_La Font._
=C'est fait de lui=--It is all over with him. _Fr._
=C'est la grande formule moderne: Du travail,= 45
=toujours du travail, et encore du travail=--The
grand maxim now-a-days is: To work,
always to work, and still to work. _Gambetta._
=C'est là le diable=--There's the devil of it, _i.e._,
there lies the difficulty. _Fr._
=C'est la prospérité qui donne des amis, c'est
l'adversité qui les éprouve=--It is prosperity
that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
_Fr._
=C'est le chemin des passions qui m'a conduit
à la philosophie=--It is by my passions I have
been led to philosophy. _Rousseau._
=C'est le commencement de la fin=--It is the
beginning of the end. _Talleyrand on the Hundred
Days._
=C'est le crime qui fait honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It
is the crime, not the scaffold, which is
the disgrace. _Corneille._
=C'est le gesi paré des plumes du paon=--He is 5
the jay decked with the peacock's feathers. _Fr._
=C'est le ton qui fait la musique=--In music everything
depends on the tone. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est le valet du diable, il fait plus qu'on ne lui
ordonne=--He who does more than he is bid is
the devil's valet. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre
humain=--The human race is governed by its
imagination. _Napoleon._
=C'est partout comme chez nous=--It is everywhere
the same as among ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est peu que de courir; il faut partir à point=--It 10
is not enough to run, one must set out in time.
_Fr. Pr._
=C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute=--It is
worse than a crime; it is a blunder. _Fouché._
=C'est posséder les biens que de savoir s'en
passer=--To know how to dispense with things
is to possess them. _Regnard._
=C'est son cheval de bataille=--That is his forte
(_lit._ war-horse). _Fr._
=C'est trop aimer quand on en meurt=--It is loving
too much to die of loving. _Fr. Pr._
=C'est une autre chose=--That's another matter. 15
_Fr._
=C'est une grande folie de vouloir être sage
tout seul=--It is a great folly to wish to be wise
all alone. _La Roche._
=C'est une grande misère que de n'avoir pas
assez d'esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de
jugement pour se taire=--It is a great misfortune
not to have enough of ability to speak well,
nor sense enough to hold one's tongue. _La
Bruyère._
=C'est un zéro en chiffres=--He is a mere cipher. _Fr._
=Cet animal est très méchant: / Quand on
l'attaque, il se défend=--That animal is very
vicious; it defends itself if you attack it. _Fr._
=Ceteris paribus=--Other things being equal. 20
=Ceterum censeo=--But my decided opinion is.
_Cato._
=Cet homme va à bride abattue=--That man goes
at full speed (_lit._ with loose reins). _Fr. Pr._
=Ceux qui parlent beaucoup, ne disent jamais
rien=--Those who talk much never say anything
worth listening to. _Boileau._
=Ceux qui s'appliquent trop aux petites choses
deviennent ordinairement incapables des
grandes=--Those who occupy their minds too
much with small matters generally become incapable
of great. _La Roche._
=Chacun à sa marotte=--Every one to his hobby. 25
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun à son goût=--Every one to his taste. _Fr._
=Chacun à son métier, et les vaches seront bien
gardées=--Let every one mind his own business,
and the cows will be well cared for. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun cherche son semblable=--Like seeks like.
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun dit du bien de son cœur et personne
n'en ose dire de son esprit=--Every one speaks
well of his heart, but no one dares boast of his
wit. _La Roche._
=Chacun doit balayer devant sa propre porte=--Everybody 30
ought to sweep before his own door.
_Fr. Pr._
=Chacun en particulier peut tromper et être
trompé; personne n'a trompé tout le monde,
et tout le monde n'a trompé personne=--Individuals
may deceive and be deceived; no
one has deceived every one, and every one has
deceived no one. _Bonhours._
=Chacun n'est pas aise qui danse=--Not every one
who dances is happy. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun porte sa croix=--Every one bears his
cross. _Fr._
=Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous=--Every one
for himself and God for all. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun tire l'eau à son moulin=--Every one 35
draws the water to his own mill. _Fr. Pr._
=Chacun vaut son prix=--Every man has his value.
_Fr. Pr._
[Greek: Chalepa ta kala]--What is excellent is difficult.
=Chance corrects us of many faults that reason
would not know how to correct.= _La Roche._
=Chance generally favours the prudent.= _Joubert._
=Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those= 40
=particular cases which He does not choose
to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual.=
_Coleridge._
=Chance is the providence of adventurers.=
_Napoleon._
=Chance will not do the work: / Chance sends
the breeze, / But if the pilot slumber at the
helm, / The very wind that wafts us towards
the port / May dash us on the shelves.= _Scott._
=Chances, as they are now called, I regard as
guidances, and even, if rightly understood,
commands, which, as far as I have read
history, the best and sincerest men think
providential.= _Ruskin._
=Change is inevitable in a progressive country--is
constant.= _Disraeli._
=Change of fashions is the tax which industry= 45
=imposes on the vanity of the rich.= _Chamfort._
=Changes are lightsome, an' fules are fond o'
them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Change yourself, and your fortune will change
too.= _Port. Pr._
=Chansons-à-boire=--Drinking-songs. _Fr._
=Chapeau bas=--Hats off. _Fr._
=Chapelle ardente=--Place where a dead body lies 50
in state. _Fr._
=Chapter of accidents.= _Chesterfield._
=Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit, et ses
mœurs=--Every age has its pleasures, its style
of wit, and its peculiar manners. _Boileau._
=Chaque branche de nos connaissances passe
successivement par trois états théoretiques
différents: l'état théologique, ou fictif; l'état
métaphysique, ou abstrait; l'état scientifique,
ou positif=--Each department of knowledge
passes in succession through three different
theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious;
the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific,
or positive. _A. Comte._
=Chaque demain apporte son pain=--Every to-morrow
supplies its own loaf. _Fr. Pr._
=Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la
mort=--Each moment of life is one step nearer
death. _Corneille._
=Chaque médaille a son revers=--Every medal has
its reverse. _Fr. Pr._
=Chaque potier vante sa pot=--Every potter cracks
up his own vessel. _Fr. Pr._
=Char-à-bancs=--A pleasure car. _Fr._ 5
=Character gives splendour to youth, and awe
to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.= _Emerson._
=Character is a fact, and that is much in a
world of pretence and concession.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=Character is a perfectly educated will.= _Novalis._
=Character is a reserved force which acts
directly by presence and without means.=
_Emerson._
=Character is a thing that will take care of= 10
=itself.= _J. G. Holland._
=Character is centrality, the impossibility of
being displaced or overset.= _Emerson._
=Character is higher than intellect. Thinking
is the function; living is the functionary.=
_Emerson._
=Character is impulse reined down into steady
continuance.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Character is the result of a system of stereotyped
principles.= _Hume._
=Character is the spiritual body of the person,= 15
=and represents the individualisation of vital
experience, the conversion of unconscious
things into self-conscious men.= _Whipple._
=Character is victory organised.= _Napoleon._
=Character is what Nature has engraven on us;
can we then efface it?= _Voltaire._
=Characters are developed, and never change.=
_Disraeli._
=Character teaches over our head, above our
wills.= _Emerson._
=Character wants room; must not be crowded= 20
=on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses
got in the press of affairs or a few occasions.=
_Emerson._
=Charbonnier est maître chez soi=--A coalheaver's
house is his castle.
=Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! /
Were the last words of Marmion.= _Scott._
=Chargé d'affaires=--A subordinate diplomatist.
_Fr._
=Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end
there.= _Sc. Pr._
=Charity begins at home.= _Pr._ 25
=Charity draws down a blessing on the charitable.=
_Le Sage._
=Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards
itself poor.= _Ger. Pr._
=Charity is the scope of all God's commands.=
_St. Chrysostom._
=Charity is the temple of which justice is the
foundation, but you can't have the top without
the bottom.= _Ruskin._
=Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.= _St._ 30
_Peter._
=Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.=
_Cowley._
=Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul.= _Pope._
=Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface
and always glitter, easily produce vanity;
whereas other excellences, which lie deep
like gold and are discovered with difficulty,
leave their possessors modest and proud.=
_Jean Paul._
=Charta non erubescit=--A document does not
blush. _Pr._
=Chasse cousin=--Bad wine, _i.e._, such as was given 35
to poor relations to drive them off. _Fr._
=Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop=--Drive
out Nature, she is back on you in a trice. _Fr.
from Hor._
=Chaste as the icicle / That's curded by the
frost from purest snow, / And hangs on
Dian's temple.= _Coriolanus_, v. 3.
=Chastise the good, and he will grow better;
chastise the bad, and he will grow worse.=
_It. Pr._
=Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts,
that's the last of it.= _Pr._
=Chastity is the band that holds together the= 40
=sheaf of all holy affections and duties.=
_Vinet._
=Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes
only once.= _Ovid._
=Châteaux en Espagne.=--Castles in the air (_lit._
castles in Spain). _Fr._
=Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide=--A scalded cat
dreads cold water. _Fr. Pr._
=Cheapest is the dearest.= _Pr._
=Che dorme coi cani, si leva colle pulci=--Those 45
who sleep with dogs will rise up with fleas. _It.
Pr._
=Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy,
is disease.= _Haliburton._
=Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart
of a man in strong health as colour to his
cheek.= _Ruskin._
=Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health,
and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.=
_Addison._
=Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment.=
_Dr. Horne._
=Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything= 50
=but poison thrives.= _Jean Paul._
=Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms
of the inward man.= _Jean Paul._
=Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at mid-day,
and lead at night.= _Ger. Pr._
=Chef de cuisine=--A head-cook. _Fr._
=Chef-d'œuvre=--A masterpiece. _Fr._ 55
=Chemin de fer=--The iron way, the railway. _Fr._
=Che ne può la gatta se la massaia è matta=--How
can the cat help it if the maid is fool (enough
to leave things in her way)? _It. Pr._
=Che quegli è tra gli stolti bene abbasso, / Che
senza distinzion afferma o niega, / Così nell'
un, come nell' altro passo=--He who without
discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest
among the foolish ones, and this in either case,
_i.e._, in denying as well as affirming. _Dante._
=Chercher à connaître, c'est chercher à douter=--To
seek to know is to seek occasion to doubt.
_Fr._
=Che sarà, sarà=--What will be, will be. _M._ 60
=Chevalier d'industrie=--One who lives by persevering
fraud (_lit._ a knight of industry). _Fr._
=Chevaux de frise=--A defence of spikes against
cavalry. _Fr._
=Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.=
_As You Like It_, iv. 3.
=Chew the cud of politics.= _Swift._
=Chi altri giudica, sè condanna=--Whoso judges
others condemns himself. _It. Pr._
=Chi ama, crede=--He who loves, believes. _It. Pr._ 5
=Chi ama, qual chi muore / Non ha da gire al
ciel dal mondo altr' ale=--He who loves, as well
as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to
soar from earth to heaven. _Michael Angelo._
=Chi ama, teme=--He who loves, fears. _It. Pr._
=Chi asino è, e cervo esser si crede, al saltar
del fosso se n'avvede=--He who is an ass and
thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he
has to leap a ditch. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra ciò pagar non può, vende ciò che
non vuole=--He who buys what he cannot pay
for, sells what he fain would not. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra ha bisogno di cent occhi=--He who 10
buys requires an hundred eyes. _It. Pr._
=Chi compra terra, compra guerra=--Who buys
land, buys war. _It. Pr._
=Chi con l'occhio vede, di cuor crede=--Seeing is
believing (_lit._ he who sees with the eye believes
with the heart). _It. Pr._
=Chi da il suo inanzi morire s'apparecchia assai
patire=--He who gives of his wealth before dying,
prepares himself to suffer much. _It. Pr._
=Chi dinanzi mi pinge, di dietro mi tinge=--He
who paints me before, blackens me behind. _It.
Pr._
=Chi due padroni ha da servire, ad uno ha da= 15
=mentire=--Whoso serves two masters must lie to
one of them. _It. Pr._
=Chi é causa del suo mal, pianga se stesso=--He
who is the cause of his own misfortunes may
bewail them himself. _It. Pr._
=Chi edifica, sua borsa purifica=--He who builds
clears his purse. _It. Pr._
=Chien sur son fumier est hardi=--A dog is bold
on his own dunghill. _Fr. Pr._
=Chi erra nelle decine, erra nelle migliaja=--He
who errs in the tens, errs in the thousands. _It.
Pr._
=Chiesa libera in libero stato=--A free church in 20
a free state. _Cavour._
=Chi fa il conto senza l'oste, gli convien farlo
due volte=--He who reckons without his host
must reckon again. _It. Pr._
=Chi fa quel ch' e' può, non fa mal bene=--He who
does all he can do never does well. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha capo di cera non vada al sole=--Let not
him whose head is of wax walk in the sun. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha danari da buttar via, metta gli operaj,
e non vi stia=--He who has money to squander,
let him employ workmen and not stand by them.
_It. Pr._
=Chi ha denti, non ha pane; e chi ha pane, non= 25
=ha denti=--He who has teeth is without bread,
and he who has bread is without teeth. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha, è=--He who has, is.
=Chi ha l'amor nel petto, ha lo sprone a' fianchi=--He
who has love in his heart has spurs in his
sides. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha lingua in bocca, può andar per tutto=--He
who has a tongue in his head can travel all
the world over. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha paura del diavolo, non fa roba=--He who
has a dread of the devil does not grow rich. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha sanità è ricco, e non lo sa=--He who has 30
good health is rich, and does not know it. _It.
Pr._
=Chi ha sospetto, di rado è in difetto=--He who
suspects is seldom at fault. _It. Pr._
=Chi ha tempo, non aspetti tempo=--He who has
time, let him not wait for time.
=Childhood and youth see all the world in persons.=
_Emerson._
=Childhood has no forebodings; but then it is
soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.=
_George Eliot._
=Childhood is the sleep of reason.= _Rousseau._ 35
=Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than
a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.= _Mrs.
Child._
=Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble
fingers which the grasp of manhood cannot
retain, and which it is the pride of utmost
age to recover.= _Ruskin._
=Childhood shows the man, as morning shows
the day.= _Milton._
=Childhood, who like an April morn appears, /
Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with
fears.= _Churchill._
=Children always turn toward the light.= _Hare._ 40
=Children and chickens are always a-picking.=
_Pr._
=Children and drunk people speak the truth.=
_Pr._
=Children and fools speak the truth.= _Pr._
=Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain
joys.= _Dan. Pr._
=Children are the poor man's wealth.= _Dan. Pr._ 45
=Children are very nice observers, and they
will often perceive your slightest defects.=
_Fénélon._
=Children blessings seem, but torments are, /
When young, our folly, and when old, our
fear.= _Otway._
=Children generally hate to be idle; all the care
is then that their busy humour should be constantly
employed in something of use to them.=
_Locke._
=Children have more need of models than of
critics.= _Joubert._
=Children have scarcely any other fear than= 50
=that produced by strangeness.= _Jean Paul._
=Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a
scent, that they detect and hunt out everything--the
bad before all the rest.= _Goethe._
=Children of night, of indigestion bred.= _Churchill
of dreams._
=Children of wealth or want, to each is given /
One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.=
_Holmes._
=Children see in their parents the past, they
again in their children the future; and if we
find more love in parents for their children
than in children for their parents, this is sad
indeed, but natural. Who does not fondle
his hopes more than his recollections?= _Eötvös._
=Children should have their times of being off= 55
=duty, like soldiers.= _Ruskin._
=Children should laugh, but not mock; and
when they laugh, it should not be at the
weaknesses and the faults of others.= _Ruskin._
=Children suck the mother when they are young,
and the father when they are old.= _Pr._
=Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes
more bitter.= _Bacon._
=Children tell in the highway what they hear
by the fireside.= _Port. Pr._
=Children think not of what is past, nor what is
to come, but enjoy the present time, which
few of us do.= _La Bruyère._
=Chi lingua ha, a Roma va=--He who has a tongue 5
may go to Rome, _i.e._, may go anywhere. _It.
Pr._
=Chi nasce bella, nasce maritata=--She who is
born a beauty is born married. _It. Pr._
=Chi niente sa, di niente dubita=--He who knows
nothing, doubts nothing. _It. Pr._
=Chi non dà fine al pensare, non dà principio al
fare=--He who is never done with thinking never
gets the length of doing. _It. Pr._
=Chi non ha cuore, abbia gambe=--He who has
no courage should have legs (to run). _It Pr._
=Chi non ha, non è=--He who has not, is not. _It._ 10
_Pr._
=Chi non ha piaghe, se ne fa=--He who has no
worries makes himself some. _It. Pr._
=Chi non ha testa, abbia gambe=--He who has no
brains should have legs. _It. Pr._
=Chi non istima vien stimato=--To disregard is to
win regard. _It. Pr._
=Chi non puo fare come voglia, faccia come puo=--He
who cannot do as he would, must do as he
can. _It. Pr._
=Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere=--He that 15
knows not how to dissemble knows not how to
live. _It. Pr._
=Chi non vede il fondo, non passi l'acqua=--Who
sees not the bottom, let him not attempt to wade
the water. _It. Pr._
=Chi non vuol servir ad un sol signor, a molto
ha da servir=--He who will not serve one master
will have to serve many. _It. Pr._
=Chi offende, non perdona mai=--He who offends
you never forgives you. _It. Pr._
=Chi offende scrive nella rena, chi è offeso nel
marmo=--He who offends writes on sand; he
who is offended, on marble. _It. Pr._
=Chi parla semina, chi tace raccoglie=--Who 20
speaks, sows; who keeps silence, reaps. _It.
Pr._
=Chi piglia leone in assenza suol temer del topi
in presenza=--He who takes a lion far off will
shudder at a mole close by. _It. Pr._
=Chi più sa, meno crede=--Who knows most, believes
least. _It. Pr._
=Chi più sa, meno parla=--Who knows most, says
least. _It. Pr._
=Chi sa la strada, puo andar di trotto=--He who
knows the road can go at a trot. _It. Pr._
=Chi sa poco presto lo dice=--He who knows little 25
quickly tells it. _It. Pr._
=Chi serve al commune serve nessuno=--He who
serves the public serves no one. _It. Pr._
=Chi si affoga, s'attaccherebbe a' rasoj=--A drowning
man would catch at razors. _It. Pr._
=Chi si fa fango, il porco lo calpestra=--He who
makes himself dirt, the swine will tread on him.
_It. Pr._
=Chi si trova senz' amici, è come un corpo senz'
anima=--He who is without friends is like a body
without a soul. _It. Pr._
=Chi sta bene, non si muova=--Let him who is 30
well off remain where he is. _It. Pr._
=Chi tace confessa=--Silence is confession. _It.
Pr._
=Chi t'ha offeso non ti perdonera mai=--He who
has offended you will never forgive you. _It.
Pr._
=Chi troppo abbraccia nulla stringe=--He who
grasps at too much holds fast nothing. _It. Pr._
=Chi tutto vuole, tutto perde=--Covet all, lose all.
_It. Pr._
=Chivalry was founded invariably by knights= 35
=who were content all their lives with their
horse and armour and daily bread.= _Ruskin._
=Chi va piano, va sano, chi va sano va lontano=--He
who goes softly goes safely, and he who
goes safely goes far. _It. Pr._
=Chi va, vuole; chi manda, non se ha cura=--He
who goes himself, means it; he who sends another
does not care. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol dell' acqua chiara, vada alla fonte=--He
who wants the water pure must go to the
spring-head. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol esser mal servito tenga assai famiglia=--Let
him who would be ill served keep plenty
servants. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol il lavoro mal fatto, paghi innanzi= 40
=tratto=--If you wish your work ill done, pay
beforehand. _It. Pr._
=Chi vuol presto e ben, faccia da se=--He who
wishes a thing done quickly and well, must do
it himself. _It. Pr._
=Choose a good mother's daughter, though her
father were the devil.= _Gael. Pr._
=Choose always the way that seems the best,
however rough it may be. Custom will
render it easy and agreeable.= _Pythagoras._
=Choose an author as you choose a friend.= _Earl
of Roscommon._
=Choose thy speech.= _Gael. Pr._ 45
=Choose your wife as you wish your children
to be.= _Gael. Pr._
=Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure / Thrill
the deepest notes of woe.= _Burns._
=Chose perdue, chose connue=--A thing lost is
a thing known, _i.e._, valued. _Fr. Pr._
[Greek: Chôris to t' eipein polla kai ta kairia]--Volubility
of speech and pertinency are sometimes
very different things. _Sophocles._
=Christen haben keine Nachbarn=--Christians 50
have no neighbours. _Ger. Pr._
=Christianity has not yet penetrated into the
whole heart of Jesus.= _Amiel._
=Christianity appeals to the noblest feelings of
the human heart, and these are emotion and
imagination.= _Shorthouse._
=Christianity has a might of its own; it is raised
above all philosophy, and needs no support
therefrom.= _Goethe._
=Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and
sorrow triumphant.= _Chopin._
=Christianity is a religion that can make men= 55
=good, only if they are good already.= _Hegel._
=Christianity is salvation by the conversion of
the will; humanism by the enlightenment of
the mind.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the apotheosis of grief, the
marvellous transmutation of suffering into
triumph, the death of death and the defeat
of sin.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the practical demonstration
that holiness and pity, justice and mercy,
may meet together and become one in man
and in God.= _Amiel._
=Christianity is the root of all democracy, the
highest fact in the rights of men.= _Novalis._
=Christianity is the worship of sorrow.= _Goethe._
=Christianity's husk and shell / Threaten its
heart like a blight.= (_J. B._) _Selkirk_.
=Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour.= 5
=Modern society acknowledges no neighbour.=
_Disraeli._
=Christianity, which is always true to the heart,
knows no abstract virtues, but virtues resulting
from our wants, and useful to all.= _Chateaubriand._
=Christianity without the cross is nothing.= _W.
H. Thomson._
=Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded /
That all the apostles would have
done as they did.= _Byron._
=Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued
above all.= _St. Augustine._
=Christ left us not a system of logic, but a few= 10
=simple truths.= _B. R. Hayden._
=Christmas comes but once a year.= _Pr._
=Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about
doing good.= _Horace Mann._
=Christ's truth itself may yet be taught / With
something of the devil's spirit.= (_J. B._) _Selkirk_.
=Churches are not built on Christ's principles,
but on His tropes.= _Emerson._
=Ci-devant=--Former. _Fr._ 15
=Cieco è l'occhio, se l'animo è distratto=--The eye
sees nothing if the mind is distracted. _It. Pr._
=Ciencia es locura si buen senso no la cura=--Knowledge
is of little use if it is not under the
direction of good sense. _Sp. Pr._
=Ci-git=--Here lies. _Fr._
=Cineri gloria sera venit=--Glory comes too late
to one in the dust. _Mart._
=Ciò che Dio vuole, io voglio=--What God wills, I 20
will. _M._
=Ciò che si usa, non ha bisogno di scusa=--That
which is customary needs no excuse. _It. Pr._
=Circles are prais'd, not that abound / In
largeness, but th' exactly round; / So life
we praise, that does excel, / Not in much
time, but acting well.= _Waller._
=Circles in water as they wider flow, / The less
conspicuous in their progress grow, / And
when at last they trench upon the shore, /
Distinction ceases, and they're view'd no
more.= _Crabbe._
=Circles to square, and cubes to double, / Would
give a man excessive trouble.= _Prior._
=Circuitus verborum=--A roundabout story or expression. 25
=Circulus in probando=--Begging the question, or
taking for granted the point at issue (_lit._ a circle
in the proof).
=Circumstances are beyond the control of man,
but his conduct is in his own power.= _Disraeli._
=Circumstances are things round about; we are
in them, not under them.= _Landor._
=Circumstances form the character, but, like
petrifying matters, they harden while they
form.= _Landor._
=Circumstances? I make circumstances.= 30
_Napoleon._
=Cita mors ruit=--Death is a swift rider.
=Citharœdus / Ridetur chorda qui semper obberrat
eadem=--The harper who is always at
fault on the same string is derided. _Hor._
=Cities force growth, and make men talkative
and entertaining, but they make them artificial.=
_Emerson._
=Cities give not the human senses room enough.=
_Emerson._
=Cities have always been the fire-places= (_i.e._, 35
_foci_) =of civilisation, whence light and heat
radiated out into the dark, cold world.= _Theodore
Parker._
=Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur=--When
danger is despised, it arrives the sooner.
_Syr._
=Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That
gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.=
_1 Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the
few.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Civilisation depends on morality.= _Emerson._
=Civilisation is the result of highly complex= 40
=organisation.= _Emerson._
=Civilisation means the recession of passional
and material life, and the development of
social and moral life.= _Ward Beecher._
=Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large
towns vitiate the air.= _Amiel._
=Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.=
_M. Wortley Montagu._
=Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred
hands at the golden gate of the morning.=
_Newman Hall._
=Claqueur=--One hired to applaud. _Fr._ 45
=Clarior e tenebris=--The brighter from the obscurity.
_M._
=Clarum et venerabile nomen=--An illustrious and
honoured name.
=Classical quotation is the parole of literary
men all over the world.= _Johnson._
=Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das
Kranke=--The healthy is classical, the unhealthy
is romantic. _Goethe._
=Claude os, aperi oculos=--Keep thy mouth shut, 50
but thy eyes open.
=Claudite jam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt=--Close
up the sluices now, lads; the meadows
have drunk enough. _Virg._
=Clausum fregit=--He has broken through the enclosure,
_i.e._ committed a trespass. _L._
=Clay and clay differs in dignity, / Whose dust
is both alike.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Cleanliness is near of kin to godliness.= _Pr._
=Clear and bright it should be ever, / Flowing= 55
=like a crystal river; / Bright as light, and
clear as wind.= _Tennyson on the Mind._
=Clear conception leads naturally to clear and
correct expression.= _Boileau._
=Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem
so deep as they are; the turbid look the
most profound.= _Landor._
=Clear your mind of cant.= _Johnson._
=Clemency alone makes us equal with the gods.=
_Claudianus._
=Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in= 60
=the crown of majesty.= _W. Secker._
=Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient
for nothing.= _Amiel._
=Clever people will recognise and tolerate nothing
but cleverness.= _Amiel._
=Climbing is performed in the same posture as
creeping.= _Swift._
=Clocks will go as they are set; but man,
irregular man, is never constant, never certain.=
_Otway._
=Close sits my shirt, but closer sits my skin.= _Pr._ 5
=Clothes are for necessity; warm clothes, for
health; cleanly, for decency; lasting, for
thrift; and rich, for magnificence.= _Fuller._
=Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening
to make clothes-screens of us.= _Carlyle._
=Clothes make the man.= _Dut. Pr._
=Clouds are the veil behind which the face of
day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its
beauty.= _Jean Paul._
=Coal is a portable climate.= _Emerson._ 10
=Cobblers go to mass and pray that the cows may
die= (_i.e._, for the sake of their hides). _Port. Pr._
=Cobra buena fama, y échate á dormir=--Get a
good name, and go to sleep. _Sp. Pr._
=Cobre gana cobre que no huesos de hombre=--Money
(_lit._ copper) breeds money and not man's
bones. _Sp. Pr._
=Cœlitus mihi vires=--My strength is from heaven.
_M._
=Cœlo tegitur qui non habet urnam=--He who 15
has no urn to hold his bones is covered by the
vault of heaven. _Lucan._
=Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia=--We assail
heaven itself in our folly. _Hor._
=Cœlum non animum mutant qui trans mare
currunt=--Those who cross the sea change only
the climate, not their character. _Hor._
=Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark;
open the door, and it is off for ever.= _Haliburton._
=Cogenda mens est ut incipiat=--The mind must
be stimulated to make a beginning. _Sen._
=Cogi qui potest nescit mori=--He who can be 20
compelled knows not how to die. _Sen._
=Cogitatio nostra cœli munimenta perrumpit,
nec contenta est, id, quod ostenditur, scire=--Our
thoughts break through the muniments of
heaven, and are not satisfied with knowing what
is offered to sense observation. _Sen._
=Cogito, ergo sum=--I think, therefore I am. _Descartes._
=Cognovit actionem=--He has admitted the action.
_L._
=Coigne of vantage.= _Macb._, i. 6.
=Coin heaven's image / In stamps that are forbid.= 25
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.
=Cold hand, warm heart.= _Pr._
=Cold pudding settles one's love.= _Pr._
=Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in
men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter;
and chivalry is the essence of virtue.= _Lord
John Russell._
=Colonies don't cease to be colonies because
they are independent.= _Disraeli._
=Colour answers to feeling in man; shape, to= 30
=thought; motion, to will.= _John Sterling._
=Colour blindness, which may mistake drab for
scarlet, is better than total blindness, which
sees no distinction of colour at all.= _George
Eliot._
=Colour is the type of love. Hence it is especially
connected with the blossoming of the
earth, and with its fruits; also with the
spring and fall of the leaf, and with the
morning and evening of the day, in order
to show the waiting of love about the birth
and death of man.= _Ruskin._
=Colours are the smiles of Nature ... her
laughs, as in the flowers.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Colubram in sinu fovere=--To cherish a serpent in
one's bosom.
=Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely= 35
=as himself.= _Emerson._
=Combien de héros, glorieux, magnanimes, ont
vécu trop d'un jour=--How many famous and
high-souled heroes have lived a day too long!
_J. B. Rousseau._
=Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm
the world, did not those who have long
practised perfidy grow faithless to each
other.= _Johnson._
=Come, and trip it as you go, / On the light
fantastic toe.= _Milton._
=Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron,
all in black.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Come, cordial, not poison.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 1. 40
=Comedians are not actors; they are only
imitators of actors.= _Zimmermann._
=Come è duro calle=--How hard is the path. _Dante._
=Come, fair Repentance, daughter of the skies! /
Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; /
The weeping messenger of grace from
heaven.= _Browne._
=Come forth into the light of things, / Let
Nature be your teacher.= _Wordsworth._
=Come he slow or come he fast, / It is but= 45
=Death who comes at last.= _Scott._
=Come like shadows, so depart.= _Bowles._
=Come, my best friends, my books, and lead
me on.= _Cowley._
=Come one, come all! this rock shall fly / From
its firm base as soon as I.= _Scott._
=Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est=--A
pleasant companion on the road is as good as a
carriage. _Pub. Syr._
=Come the three corners of the world in arms, /= 50
=And we shall shock them. Nought shall
make us rue, / If England to itself do rest
but true.= _King John_, v. 7.
=Come, we burn daylight.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=Come what come may, / Time and the hour
runs through the roughest day.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Come what sorrow can, / It cannot countervail
th' exchange of joy / That one short
minute gives me in her sight.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 6.
=Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort
it will never obtain by making it an object.=
_Whipple._
=Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, /= 55
=Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and
grief.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Coming events cast their shadows before.=
_Campbell._
=Comitas inter gentes=--Courtesy between nations.
=Command large fields, but cultivate small
ones.= _Virg._
=Comme il faut=--As it should be. _Fr._
=Comme je fus=--As I was. _M._ 60
=Comme je trouve=--As I find it. _M._
=Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his
honesty, and he will receive you into his
bosom.= _Fielding._
=Commend me rather to him who goes wrong
in a way that is his own, than to him
who walks correctly in a way that is not.=
_Goethe._
=Commerce changes the fate and genius of
nations.= _T. Gray._
=Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious,
contingent, transitory, almost as
liable to change as the winds and waves that
waft it to our shores.= _Colton._
=Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the= 5
=signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining
ore and called it gold.= _Shelley._
=Commerce is a game of skill, which every one
cannot play, which few men can play well.=
_Emerson._
=Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune,
inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She
chooses her residence where she is least
expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance
is, in appearance, most firmly
settled.= _Johnson._
=Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.=
_Emerson._
=Committunt multi eadem diverso crimina fato, /
Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulerit, hic diadema=--How
different the fate of men who commit
the same crimes! For the same villany one
man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to
a throne.
=Common as light is love, / And its familiar= 10
=voice wearies not ever.= _Shelley._
=Common chances common men can bear.= _Coriolanus_,
iv. 1.
=Common distress is a great promoter both of
friendship and speculation.= _Swift._
=Common fame is seldom to blame.= _Pr._
=Commonly they use their feet for defence
whose tongue is their weapon.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Common men are apologies for men; they= 15
=bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix
reasons, and accumulate appearances, because
the substance is not.= _Emerson._
=Common-place people see no difference between
one man and another.= _Pascal._
=Common-sense is calculation applied to life.=
_Amiel._
=Common-sense is the average sensibility and
intelligence of men undisturbed by individual
peculiarities.= _W. R. Alger._
=Common-sense is the genius of humanity.=
_Goethe._
=Common-sense is the measure of the possible;= 20
=it is calculation applied to life.= _Amiel._
=Common souls pay with what they do; nobler
souls, with what they are.= _Emerson._
=Communautés commencent par bâtir leur
cuisine=--Communities begin with building their
kitchen. _Fr. Pr._
=Commune bonum=--A common good.
=Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio=--A
shipwreck (disaster) that is common is a
consolation to all. _Pr._
=Commune periculum concordiam parit=--A common 25
danger tends to concord. _L._
=Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia=--All
things are common among friends. _Ter._
=Communibus annis=--One year with another.
=Communi consensu=--By common consent.
=Communion is the law of growth, and homes
only thrive when they sustain relations with
each other.= _J. G. Holland._
=Communism is the exploitation of the strong= 30
=by the weak. In communism, inequality
springs from placing mediocrity on a level
with excellence.= _Proudhon._
=Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo=--As
the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. _Sp.
Pr._
=Compagnon de voyage=--A fellow-traveller. _Pr._
=Company, villanous company, has been the
spoil of me.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 3.
=Comparaison n'est pas raison=--Comparison is
no proof. _Fr. Pr._
=Compare her face with some that I shall= 35
=show, / And I will make thee think thy
swan a crow.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 2.
=Comparisons are odious.= _Burton._
=Comparisons are odorous.= _Much Ado_, iii. 5.
=Compassion to the offender who has grossly
violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to
the peaceable subject who has observed
them.= _Junius._
=Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Compendia dispendia=--Short cuts are roundabout 40
ways.
=Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda=--Vice
is summary in its procedure, virtue is
slow.
=Compesce mentem=--Restrain thy irritation. _Hor._
=Complaining never so loud, and with never so
much reason, is of no use.= _Emerson._
=Complaining profits little; stating of the truth
may profit.= _Carlyle._
=Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives,= 45
=and the sincerest part of our devotion.=
_Swift._
=Compliments are only lies in court clothes.=
_J. Sterling._
=Componitur orbis / Regis ad exemplum; nec
sic inflectere sensus / Humanos edicta
valent, quam vita regentis=--Manners are
fashioned after the example of the king, and
edicts have less effect on them than the life of
the ruler. _Claud._
=Compose thy mind, and prepare thy soul calmly
to obey; such offering will be more acceptable
to God than every other sacrifice.=
_Metastasio._
=Compositum miraculi causa=--A story trumped
up to astonish. _Tac._
=Compos mentis=--Of a sound mind. 50
=Compound for sins they are inclined to / By
damning those they have no mind to.= _Butler._
=Comprendre c'est pardonner=--To understand is
to pardon. _Mad. de Staël._
=Compte rendu=--Report, return. _Fr._
=Con agua pasada no muele molino=--The mill
grinds no corn with water that has passed. _Sp.
Pr._
=Con amore=--With love; earnestly. _It._
=Con arte e con inganno si vive mezzo l'anno;
con inganno si vive l'altra parte=--People live
with art and deception one half the year, and
with deception and art the other half. _It. Pr._
=Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor
think it disgraceful to be descended from
peasants; for when it is seen thou art not
thyself ashamed, no one will endeavour to
make thee so.= _Cervantes._
=Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.=
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop
him up.= _Ruskin._
=Concentration is the secret of strength in
politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the
management of human affairs.= _Emerson._
=Concio ad clerum=--An address to the clergy. 5
=Concordia discors=--A jarring or discordant concord.
_Ovid._
=Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ
dilabuntur=--With concord small things increase,
with discord the greatest go to ruin. _Sall._
=Concours=--A competition. _Fr._
=Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry--a
human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark
of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a
phantasm.= _Carlyle._
=Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! /= 10
=Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Condense some daily experience into a glowing
symbol, and an audience is electrified.=
_Emerson._
=Con dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te
conocerán=--With money you would not know
yourself; without it, no one would know you.
_Sp. Pr._
=Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, /
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.= _Pope._
=Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us
according to our sensibilities.= _Lew. Wallace._
=Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos=--With 15
the King and the Inquisition, hush! _Sp. Pr._
=Confessed faults are half mended.= _Sc. Pr._
=Confess yourself to Heaven; / Repent what's
past; avoid what is to come; / And do not
spread the compost on the weeds, / To make
them ranker.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will
show you are wise to-day.= _Pr._
=Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to
its possessor. It bears him on in security,
either to meet no danger or to find matter
of glorious trial.= _Milton._
=Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight= 20
=evidence of a man's own.= _Montaigne._
=Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of
magnanimity.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an
aged bosom.= _Chatham._
=Confidence is a thing not to be produced by
compulsion. Men cannot be forced into
trust.= _D. Webster._
=Confido, conquiesco=--I trust, and am at rest. _M._
=Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.= _Pr._ 25
=Confrère=--A brother monk or associate. _Fr._
=Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. /
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope /
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole
thence / The life o' the building.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Confusion worse confounded.= _Milton._
=Congé d'élire=--A leave to elect. _Fr._
=Con poco cervello si governa il mondo=--The 30
world is governed with small wit. _It. Pr._
=Conquer we shall, but we must first contend; /
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the
end.= _Herrick._
=Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit=--The
mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies
of rumour. _Ovid._
=Conscience does make cowards of us all; / And
thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied
o'er with the pale cast of thought; / And
enterprises of great pith and moment, / With
this regard, their currents turn awry, / And
lose the name of action.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Conscience is but a word that cowards use, /
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; /
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords
our law.= _Rich. III._, v. 3.
=Conscience is our magnetic needle; / reason,= 35
=our chart.= _Joseph Cook._
=Conscience is the chamber of justice.= _Origen._
=Conscience is the compass of the unknown.=
_Joseph Cook._
=Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.= _Johnson._
=Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions,
of the body.= _Rousseau._
=Conscience is wiser than science.= _Lavater._ 40
=Conscientia mille testes=--Conscience is equal to
a thousand witnesses. _Pr._
=Con scienza=--With a knowledge of the subject. _It._
=Consecrated is the spot which a good man has
trodden.= _Goethe._
=Consecration is going out into the world where
God Almighty is, and using every power for
His glory.= _Ward Beecher._
=Conseil d'état=--Council of state. 45
=Consensus facit legem=--Consent makes the law.
_L._
=Consequitur quodcunque petit=--He attains to
whatever he aims at. _M._
=Conservatism is the pause on the last movement.=
_Emerson._
=Consideration, like an angel, came, / And
whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, /
Leaving his body as a paradise, / To envelop
and contain celestial spirits.= _Henry
V._, i. 1.
=Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;= 50
=they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet
I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his
glory was not arrayed like one of these.=
_Jesus._
=Consilio et animis=--By counsel and courage. _M._
=Conspicuous by its absence.= _Lord John Russell._
=Constans et fidelitate=--Constant and with faithfulness.
_M._
=Constant attention wears the active mind, /
Blots out her powers, and leaves a blank
behind.= _Churchill._
=Constantia et virtute=--By constancy and virtue. 55
_M._
=Constantly choose rather to want less than to
have more.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Constant occupation prevents temptation.= _It.
Pr._
=Constant thought will overflow in words unconsciously.=
_Byron._
=Consuetudinis magna vis est=--The force of habit
is great. _Cic._
=Consuetudo est altera lex=--Custom is a second 60
law. _L._
=Consuetudo est secunda natura=--Custom is a
second nature. _St. Aug._
=Consuetudo pro lege servatur=--Custom is observed
as law. _L._
=Consult duty, not events.= _Landor._
=Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?...
I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon than
such a Roman.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Contas na maõ, e o demonio no coraçaõ=--Rosary 5
in the hand, and the devil in the heart. _Port. Pr._
=Contemni est gravius stultitiæ quam percuti=--To
be despised is more galling to a foolish man
than to be whipped.
=Contemporaries appreciate the man rather
than his merit; posterity will regard the
merit rather than the man.= _Colton._
=Contempt is a dangerous element to sport in; a
deadly one, if we habitually live in it.= _Carlyle._
=Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it
seizes one part of a character, corrupts all
the rest by degrees.= _Johnson._
=Contempt is the only way to triumph over= 10
=calumny.= _Mde. de Maintenon._
=Contented wi' little, an' cantie (cheerily happy)
wi' mair.= _Burns._
=Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may
view, / The learn'd reflect on what before
they knew.= _Pope._
=Contention is a hydra's head; the more they
strive, the more they may.= _Burton._
=Contention, like a horse / Full of high feeding,
madly hath broken loose, / And bears
all down before him.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Contentions fierce, / Ardent, and dire, spring= 15
=from no petty cause.= _Scott._
=Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling
victory.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Content is better than riches.= _Pr._
=Content is the true philosopher's stone.= _Pr._
=Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant,
has great delight and little trouble.= _Epictetus._
=Contentment consisteth not in adding more= 20
=fuel, but in taking away some fire.= _Fuller._
=Contentment is natural wealth.= _Socrates._
=Contentment will make a cottage look as fair
as a palace.= _W. Secker._
=Contentment without money is the philosopher's
stone.= _Lichtwer._
=Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.=
_Heywood._
=Content thyself to be obscurely good; / When= 25
=vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, /
The post of honour is a private station.=
_Addison._
=Content with poverty, my soul I arm; / And
virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.=
_Dryden after Hor._
=Contesa vecchia tosto si fa nuova=--An old feud
is easily renewed. _It. Pr._
=Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant=--All
were at once silent and listened intent. _Virg._
=Continued eloquence wearies.= _Pascal._
=Contra bonos mores=--Against good morals. 30
=Contra malum mortis, non est medicamen in
hortis=--Against the evil of death there is no
remedy in the garden.
=Contraria contrariis curantur=--Contraries are
cured by contraries.
=Contrast increases the splendour of beauty,
but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its
attractiveness, but diminishes its power.=
_Ruskin._
=Contrat social=--The social compact, specially
Rousseau's theory thereof.
=Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; /= 35
=Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis=--Don't
contend with words against wordy
people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few.
_Cato._
=Contredire, c'est quelquefois frapper à une
porte, pour savoir s'il y a quelqu'un dans
la maison=--To contradict sometimes means to
knock at the door in order to know whether
there is any one in the house. _Fr. Pr._
=Contre fortune bon cœur=--Against change of
fortune set a bold heart. _Fr. Pr._
=Contre les rebelles, c'est cruauté que d'estre
humain et humanité d'estre cruel=--Against
rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity
to be cruel. _Corneille Muis._
=Contre-temps=--A mischance. _Fr._
=Contrivances of the time / For sowing broadcast= 40
=the seeds of crime.= _Longfellow._
=Contumeliam si dicis, audies=--If you utter abuse,
you must expect to receive it. _Plaut._
=Conversation enriches the understanding; but
solitude is the school of genius.= _Gibbon._
=Conversation in society is found to be on a
platform so low as to exclude science, the
saint, and the poet.= _Emerson._
=Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a
surrender to persons.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Conversation is an art in which a man has all= 45
=mankind for competitors.= _Emerson._
=Conversation is a traffic; and if you enter into
it without some stock of knowledge to balance
the account perpetually, the trade drops
at once.= _Sterne._
=Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to
the assembly in our own garb and speech,
and with the energy of health to select what
is ours and reject what is not.= _Emerson._
=Converse with a mind that is grandly simple,
and literature looks like word-catching.=
_Emerson._
=Conversion--a grand epoch for a man; properly
the one epoch; the turning-point which
guides upwards, or guides downwards, him
and his activities for evermore.= _Carlyle._
=Conversion is the awakening of a soul to see= 50
=into the awful= _truth_ =of things; to see that
Time and its shows all rest on Eternity,
and this poor earth of ours is the threshold
either of heaven or hell.= _Carlyle._
=Convey a libel in a frown, / And wink a reputation
down.= _Swift._
=Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to
the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to
rebound back again.= _Quarles._
=Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless
till it convert itself into conduct.= _Carlyle._
=Copia verborum=--Superabundance of words.
=Coraçaõ determinado, naõ soffre conselho=--He 55
brooks no advice whose mind is made up. _Port.
Pr._
=Coram domino rege=--Before our lord the king.
=Coram nobis=--Before the court.
=Coram non judice=--Before one who is not a judge.
=Corbies (crows) and clergy are kittle shot (hard
to hit).= _Sc. Pr._
=Corbies dinna pick oot corbies' een=, _i.e._, harm
each other. _Sc. Pr._
=Cordon bleu=--A skilful cook (_lit._ a blue ribbon).
_Fr._
=Cordon sanitaire=--A guard to prevent a disease
spreading. _Fr._
=Corn is gleaned with wind, and the soul with= 5
=chastening.= _Geo. Herbert._
=Cor nobile, cor immobile=--A noble heart is an
immovable heart.
=Coronat virtus cultores suos=--Virtue crowns her
votaries. _M._
=Corpo ben feito naõ ha mester capa=--A body
that is well made needs no cloak. _Port. Pr._
=Corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur=--All
bodies are slow in growth, rapid in decay.
_Tac._
=Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be= 10
=outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have
no souls.= _Coke._
=Corporations have neither bodies to be punished
nor souls to be damned.= _Thurlow._
=Corporis et fortunæ bonorum, ut initium, finis
est. Omnia orta occidunt, et aucta senescunt=--The
blessings of health and fortune, as
they have a beginning, must also have an end.
Everything rises but to fall, and grows but to
decay. _Sall._
=Corpo satollo non crede all' affamato=--A satisfied
appetite does not believe in hunger. _It. Pr._
=Corps d'armée=--A military force. _Fr._
=Corps diplomatique=--The diplomatic body. _Fr._ 15
=Corpus Christi=--Festival in honour of the Eucharist
or body of Christ.
=Corpus delicti=--The body of the offence. _L._
=Corpus sine pectore=--A body without a soul.
_Hor._
=Correct counting keeps good friends.= _Gael. Pr._
=Correction does much, but encouragement does= 20
=more.= _Goethe._
=Correction is good, administered in time.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Corre lontano chi non torna mai=--He runs a
long way who never turns. _It. Pr._
=Corrigenda=--Corrections to be made.
=Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.=
_Garrick._
=Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once= 25
=set a rolling it must increase.= _Colton._
=Corruptions can only be expiated by the blood
of the just ascending to heaven by the steps
of the scaffold.= _De Tocqueville._
=Corruptio optimi pessima=--The corruption of the
best is the worst. _Anon._
=Corruptissima in republica plurimæ leges=--In
a state in which corruption abounds laws are
very numerous. _Tac._
=Cor unum, via una=--One heart, one way. _M._
=Corvées=--Forced labour, formerly exacted of the 30
peasantry in France. _Fr._
=Cosa ben fatta è fatta due volte=--A thing well
done is twice done. _It. Pr._
=Cosa fatta, capo ha=--A thing which is done has
a head, _i.e._, it is never done till completed. _It.
Pr._
=Cosa mala nunca muere=--A bad thing never dies.
_Sp. Pr._
=Così fan tutti=--So do they all. _It._
=Cos ingeniorum=--A whetstone to their wit. 35
=Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But
not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; /
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=Costumbre hace ley=--Custom becomes law. _Sp.
Pr._
=Could everything be done twice, it would be
done better.= _Ger. Pr._
=Could great men thunder / As Jove himself
does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; / For every
pelting, petty officer / Would use his heaven
for thunder; nothing but thunder.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 2.
=Could we forbear dispute and practise love, /= 40
=We should agree as angels do above.=
_Waller._
=Could you see every man's career in life, you
would find a woman clogging him ... or
cheering him and goading him.= _Thackeray._
=Couleur de rose=--A flattering representation.
_Fr._
=Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it
once winged.= _Ouida._
=Count the world not an inn but an hospital;
and a place not to live in, but to die in.=
_Colton._
=Countries are well cultivated, not as they= 45
=are fertile, but as they are free.= _Montesquieu._
=Coup de grace=--The finishing stroke. _Fr._
=Coup de main=--A bold effort; a surprise.
=Coup de pied=--A kick. _Fr._
=Coup de soleil=--Stroke of the sun. _Fr._
=Coup d'essai=--First attempt. _Fr._ 50
=Coup d'état=--A sudden stroke of policy. _Fr._
=Coup de théâtre=--Theatrical effect. _Fr._
=Coup d'œil=--A glance of the eye; a prospect.
=Courage against misfortune, and reason
against passion.= _Pr._
=Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal= 55
=of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy
cannot imitate.= _Goethe._
=Courage consists in equality to the problem
before us.= _Emerson._
=Courage consists not in blindly overlooking
danger, but in meeting it with the eyes
open.= _Jean Paul._
=Courage consists not in hazarding without
fear, but being resolutely minded in a just
cause.= _Plutarch._
=Courage! even sorrows, when once they are
vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.=
_Salis._
=Courage is generosity of the highest order,= 60
=for the brave are prodigal of the most precious
things.= _Colton._
=Courage is on all hands considered an essential
of high character.= _Froude._
=Courage is the wisdom of manhood; foolhardiness,
the folly of youth.= _Pr._
=Courage mounteth with occasion.= _King John_,
ii. 1.
=Courage never to submit or yield.= _Milton._
=Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs= 65
=of genius.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of
woman.= _Emerson._
=Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree
of circulation of the blood in the arteries.=
_Emerson._
=Courage sans peur=--Courage without fear. _Fr._
=Courage, sir, / That makes man or woman
look their goodliest.= _Tennyson._
=Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly
the mark of a gentleman or a lady;
but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive.=
_Ruskin._
=Courtesy costs nothing.= _Pr._ 5
=Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it
not.= _Sc. Pr._
=Courtesy is often sooner found in lowly sheds
with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls
and courts of princes, where it first was
named.= _Milton._
=Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you
come in her presence.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=Courtesy never broke one's crown.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil= 10
=churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle
around the breast of a base clown.= _Scott._
=Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions,
not so pointed as to alarm, nor so
vague as not to be understood.= _Sterne._
=Coûte qu'il coûte=--Let it cost what it may.
_Fr._
=Cover yourself with honey and the flies will
fasten on you.= _Pr._
=Covetous men need money least, yet most
affect it; and prodigals, who need it most,
do least regard it.= _Theod. Parker._
=Covetousness bursts the bag.= _Pr._ 15
=Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not
confined to money, but greedy of honour and
feeding on selfishness.= _Chamfort._
=Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude
and anxiety.= _B. Franklin._
=Covetousness is rich, while modesty goes
barefoot.= _Phædrus._
=Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once
taken root, never leaves a man but with his
life.= _T. Hughes._
=Covetousness often starves other vices.= _Sc._ 20
_Pr._
=Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose,
and lessens the use to all purposes.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Covetousness, which is idolatry.= _St. Paul._
=Coward dogs / Most spend their mouths when
what they seem to threaten / Runs far before
them.= _Henry V._, ii. 4.
=Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.=
_Epictetus._
=Cowards are cruel, but the brave / Love mercy,= 25
=and delight to save.= _Gay._
=Cowards die many times before their deaths; /
The valiant never taste of death but once. /
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should
fear; / Seeing that death, a necessary end, /
Will come when it will come.= _Jul. Cæsar_,
ii. 2.
=Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome
by those who nobly dare.= _Queen Elizabeth._
=Cowards father cowards, and base things sire
base; / Nature hath meal and bran, contempt
and grace.= _Cymb._, iv. 2.
=Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod.=
_G. Herbert._
=Crabbed age and youth / Cannot live together.= 30
_Shakespeare._
=Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice
in the character.= _Sanial Dubay._
=Craft maun hae claes (clothes), but truth gaes
naked.= _Sc. Pr._
=Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire
them; and wise men use them; for they
teach not their own use; but that is wisdom
without them, and above them won by observation.=
_Bacon._
=Craignez honte=--Fear shame. _M._
=Craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux=--Fear 35
the worst from an enraged author. _Fr._
=Crambe repetita=--Cabbage repeated (kills). _Juv._
=Cras credemus, hodie nihil=--To-morrow we will
believe, but not to-day. _Pr._
=Crea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos=--Breed
up a crow and he will peck out your eyes. _Sp.
Pr._
=Creaking waggons are long in passing.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Created half to rise and half to fall, / Great= 40
=lord of all things, yet a prey to all; / Sole
judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; / The
glory, jest, and riddle of the world.= _Pope._
=Creation is great, and cannot be understood.=
_Carlyle._
=Creation lies before us like a glorious rainbow;
but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden
from us.= _Jean Paul._
=Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.=
_Goldsmith._
=Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse /
Of life stood still, and Nature made a
pause, / An awful pause, prophetic of her
end.= _Young._
=Credat Judæus Apella=--Apella, the Jew, may 45
believe that; I cannot. _Hor._
=Crede quod est quod vis=--Believe that that is
which you wish to be. _Ovid._
=Crede quod habes, et habes=--Believe that you
have it, and you have it.
=Credit keeps the crown o' the causey=, _i.e._, is
not afraid to show its face. _Sc. Pr._
=Creditors have better memories than debtors.=
_Pr._
=Credo, quia absurdum=--I believe it because it is 50
absurd. _Tert._
=Credula res amor est=--Love is a credulous affection.
_Ovid._
=Credula vitam / Spes fovet, et fore cras semper
ait melius=--Credulous hope cherishes life, and
ever whispers to us that to-morrow will be better.
_Tibull._
=Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable
from eminently truthful characters.=
_Tuckerman._
=Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced
virtue.= _Johnson._
=Creep before you gang (walk).= _Sc. Pr._ 55
=Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, / Majorumque
fames=--Care accompanies increasing
wealth, and a craving for still greater riches.
_Hor._
=Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia
crescit=--The love of money increases as wealth
increases. _Juv._
=Crescit occulto velut arbor ævo=--It grows as a
tree with a hidden life. _Hor._
=Crescit sub pondere virtus=--Virtue thrives under
oppression. _M._
=Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota=--Let not a
day so fair be without its white mark. _Hor._
=Creta an carbone notandi?=--Are they to be
marked with chalk or charcoal? _Hor._
=Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.= 5
=Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected,
ripens within the flower of the pleasure that
concealed it.= _Emerson._
=Crime cannot be hindered by punishment, but
only by letting no man grow up a criminal.=
_Ruskin._
=Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.= _Racine._
=Crimen læsæ majestatis=--Crime of high treason.
=Crimen quos inquinat, æquat=--Crime puts those
on an equal footing whom it defiles.
=Crimes generally punish themselves.= _Goldsmith._ 10
=Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices
almost always too little.= _Hare._
=Crimina qui cernunt aliorum, non sua cernunt, /
Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi=--Those who
see the faults of others, but not their own, are
wise for others and fools for themselves. _Pr._
=Crimine ab uno / Disce omnes=--From the base
character of one learn what they all are. _Virg._
=Cripples are aye better schemers than walkers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn= 15
=and propagate the best that is known and
thought in the world.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring,
as it does, more health than wit,
more labour than capacity, more practice
than genius.= _La Bruyère._
=Criticism is like champagne, nothing more
execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if
good.= _Colton._
=Criticism is not construction; it is observation.=
_G. W. Curtis._
=Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy.
The life of the imagination, as of the
body, disappears when we pursue it.= _Willmott._
=Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars= 20
=and blossoms together.= _Jean Paul._
=Criticism should be written for the public, not
the artist.= _Wm. Winter._
=Critics all are ready made.= _Byron._
=Critics are men who have failed in literature
and art.= _Disraeli._
=Critics are sentinels in the grand army of
letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers
and reviews to challenge every new
author.= _Longfellow._
=Critics must excuse me if I compare them to= 25
=certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing
vines, originally taught the great advantage
of pruning them.= _Shenstone._
=Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.=
_Pr._
=Crows do not pick out crows' eyes.= _Pr._
=Cruci dum spiro fido=--Whilst I breathe I trust in
the cross. _M._
=Crudelem medicum intemperans æger facit=--A
disorderly patient makes a harsh physician.
_Pub. Syr._
=Crudelis ubique / Luctus, ubique pavor, et= 30
=plurima mortis imago=--Everywhere is heart-rending
wail, everywhere consternation, and
death in a thousand shapes. _Virg._
=Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.=
_Thomson._
=Cruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy;
avaricious, of generosity; proud, of humility,--in
others.= _Colton._
=Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest
price.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it
is the cure of sufferings.= _Landor._
=Crux criticorum=--The puzzle of critics. 35
=Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas=--It
is torture to fear what you cannot overcome.
_Ausonius._
=Crux medicorum=--The puzzle of physicians.
=Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=Cucullus non facit monachum=--The cowl does
not make the monk. _Pr._
=Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your= 40
=dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=Cui bono?=--Whom does it benefit?
=Cuidar muitas cousas, fazer huma=--Think of
many things, do only one. _Port. Pr._
=Cuidar naõ he saber=--Thinking is not knowing.
_Port. Pr._
=Cui lecta potenter erit res / Nec facundia
deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo=--He who has
chosen a theme suited to his powers will never
be at a loss for felicitous language or lucid arrangement.
_Hor._
=Cuilibet in arte sua perito credendum est=--Every 45
man is to be trusted in his own art. _Pr._
=Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media=--Where
the end is lawful the means are also lawful. _A
Jesuit maxim._
=Cui malo?=--Whom does it harm?
=Cui mens divinior atque os / Magna sonaturum
des nominis hujus honorem=--To him whose
soul is more than ordinarily divine, and who
has the gift of uttering lofty thoughts, you may
justly concede the honourable title of poet.
_Hor._
=Cui non conveniat sua res, ut calceus olim, /
Si pede major erit, subvertet, si minor, uret=--As
a shoe, when too large, is apt to trip
one, and when too small, to pinch the feet; so
is it with him whose fortune does not suit him.
_Hor._
=Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors=--When 50
a man envies another's lot, it is
natural he should be discontented with his
own. _Hor._
=Cui placet, obliviscitur; cui dolet, meminit=--Acts
of kindness are soon forgotten, but the
memory of an offence remains. _Pr._
=Cui prodest scelus, is fecit=--He has committed
the crime who profits by it. _Sen._
=Cuique suum=--His own to every one. _Pr._
=Cui serpe mozzica, lucenta teme=--Whom a serpent
has bitten fears a lizard. _It. Pr._
=Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum=--He 55
who owns the soil owns everything above it to
the very sky. _L._
=Cujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator=--A
finished pretender and dissembler. _Sall._
=Cujusvis hominis est errare: nullius nisi insipientis
in errore perseverare=--Every one is
liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in
error. _Cic._
=Cujus vita fulgor, ejus verba tonitrua=--His
words are thunderbolts whose life is as lightning.
_Mediæval Pr._
=Cujus vulturis hoc erit cadaver?=--To what
harpy's will shall this carcass fall? _Mart._
=Cul de sac=--A street, a lane or passage, that has
no outlet. _Fr._
=Culpam pœna premit comes=--Punishment follows 5
hard upon crime as an attendant. _Hor._
=Cultivated labour drives out brute labour.=
_Emerson._
=Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind,
but the pleasure-grounds also.= _Whately._
=Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food
to the body.= _Cic._
=Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as
the end, degrades everything else, as health
and bodily life, into means.= _Emerson._
=Culture enables us to express ourselves.= 10
_Hamerton._
=Culture implies all which gives the mind possession
of its own powers.= _Emerson._
=Culture inverts the vulgar views of nature,
and brings the mind to call that apparent
which it uses to call real, and that real which
it uses to call visionary.= _Emerson._
=Culture is a study of perfection.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Culture is the passion for sweetness and light,
and (what is more) the passion for making
them prevail.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Culture (is the process by which a man) becomes= 15
=all that he was created capable of
being, resisting all impediments, casting off
all foreign, especially all noxious, adhesions,
and showing himself at length in his own
shape and stature, be these what they may.=
_Carlyle._
=Culture merely for culture's sake can never
be anything but a sapless root, capable of
producing at best a shrivelled branch.= _J.
W. Cross._
=Culture must not omit the arming of the man.=
_Emerson._
=Culture of the thinking, the dispositions= (_Gesinnungen_),
=and the morals is the only education
that deserves the name, not mere
instruction.= _Herder._
=Cum grano salis=--With a grain of salt, _i.e._, with
some allowance.
=Cum privilegio=--With privilege. 20
=Cunctando restituit rem=--He restored the cause
(of Rome) by delay. _Said of Fabius, surnamed
therefore Cunctator._
=Cuncti adsint, meritæque expectent præmia
palmæ=--Let all attend, and expect the rewards
due to well-earned laurels. _Virg._
=Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus=--All
hailing him as saviour and deliverer.
=Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects,
and discovering other people's weaknesses.=
_Hazlitt._
=Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.= _W. G._ 25
_Alger._
=Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity,
absolute and utter.= _Ruskin._
=Cunning is to wisdom as an ape to a man.=
_William Penn._
=Cunning leads to knavery; 'tis but a step, and
that a very slippery, from the one to the
other. Lying only makes the difference; add
that to cunning, and it is knavery.= _La
Bruyère._
=Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of
over-reaching, accompanied with enjoyment
and a sense of superiority.= _Ruskin._
=Cunning surpasses strength.= _Ger. Pr._ 30
=Cupias non placuisse nimis=--Do not aim at too
much popularity. _Mart._
=Cupid is a knavish lad, / Thus to make poor
females mad.= _Mid. N. Dream_, iii. 2.
=Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's
plumes.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior
est=--The desire of rule is the most ardent of all
the affections of the mind. _Tac._
=Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules'= 35
=club.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent=--Light
troubles are loud-voiced, deeper ones are dumb.
_Sen._
=Cura facit canos=--Care brings grey hairs. _Pr._
=Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere, coluntur=--The
pious-hearted are cared for by the gods, and they
who reverence them are reverenced. _Ovid._
=Cura ut valeas=--Take care that you keep well.
_Cic._
=Curiosa felicitas=--Studied felicity of thought or 40
of style.
=Curiosis fabricavit inferos=--He fashioned hell
for the inquisitive. _St. Augustine._
=Curiosity is a desire to know why and how;
such as is in no living creature but man.=
_Hobbes._
=Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.=
_Emerson._
=Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.=
_Victor Hugo._
=Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.= 45
=Knock, therefore, at the door before you
enter on your neighbour's privacy; and remember
that there is no difference between
entering into his house and looking into it.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.=
_Fuller._
=Curiosus nemo est, quin idem sit malevolus=--Nobody
is inquisitive about you who does not
also bear you ill-will. _Plaut._
=Curious to think how, for every man, any the
truest fact is modelled by the nature of the
man.= _Carlyle._
=Currente calamo=--With a running pen.
=Cursed be the social ties that warp us from= 50
=the living truth.= _Tennyson._
=Curse on all laws but those which love has
made.= _Pope._
=Curses always recoil on the head of him who
imprecates them. If you put a chain around
the neck of a slave, the other end fastens
itself around your own.= _Emerson._
=Curses are like chickens; they always return
home.= _Pr._
=Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour,
breath, / Which the poor heart would fain
deny, but dare not.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=Curst be the man, the poorest wretch in life, /
The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife, / Who
has no will but by her high permission; / Who
has not sixpence but in her possession; /
Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; /
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than
hell. / Were such the wife had fallen to my
part, / I'd break her spirit or I'd break her
heart.= _Burns._
=Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, /
That tends to make one worthy man my
foe, / Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, /
Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear.=
_Pope._
=Curs'd merchandise, where life is sold, / And
avarice consents to starve for gold.= _Rowe
from Lucan._
=Custom does often reason overrule, / And only
serves for reason to the fool.= _Rochester._
=Custom doth make dotards of us all.= _Carlyle._ 5
=Custom forms us all; / Our thoughts, our
morals, our most fixed belief, / Are consequences
of our place of birth.= _A. Hill._
=Custom is the law of one set of fools, and
fashion of another; but the two often clash,
for precedent is the legislator of the one and
novelty of the other.= _Colton._
=Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol
of fools.= _Pr._
=Custom may lead a man into many errors, but
it justifies none.= _Fielding._
=Custom reconciles to everything.= _Burke._ 10
=Custos morum=--The guardian of morality.
=Custos regni=--The guardian of the realm.
=Custos rotulorum=--The keeper of the rolls.
=Cutis vulpina consuenda est cum cute leonis=--The
fox's skin must be sewed to that of the lion.
_L. Pr._
=Cut men's throats with whisperings.= _Ben_ 15
_Jonson._
=Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, /
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd; / No
reckoning made, but sent to my account /
With all my imperfections on my head.=
_Ham._, i. 5.
=Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus,
with thy hand.= _Buddha._
=Cutting honest throats by whispers.= _Scott._
=Cut your coat according to your cloth.= _Pr._
D.
=Daar niets goeds in is, gaat niets goeds nit=--Where 20
no good is in, no good comes out. _Dut.
Pr._
=Daar 't een mensch wee doet, daar heeft hij
de hand=--A man lays his hand where he feels
the pain. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar twee kijven hebben ze beiden schuld=--When
two quarrel both are to blame. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar zijn meer dieven als er opgehangen
worden=--There are more thieves than are hanged.
_Dut. Pr._
=Dabit Deus his quoque finem=--God will put an
end to these calamities also. _Virg._
=Da capo=--From the beginning. _It._ 25
=D'accord=--Agreed; in tune. _Fr._
=Da chi mi fido, / Guardi mi Dio. / Da chi non mi
fido, / Mi guarderò io=--From him I trust may
God keep me; from him I do not trust I will
keep myself. _It. Pr._
=Dachtet ihr, der Löwe schliefe, weil er nicht
brüllte?=--Did you think the lion was sleeping
because it did not roar? _Schiller._
=Da die Götter menschlicher noch waren, /
Waren Menschen göttlicher=--When the gods
were more human, men were more divine.
_Schiller._
=Dádivas quebrantan peñas=--Gifts dissolve rocks. 30
_Sp. Pr._
=Da du Welt nicht kannst entsagen, / Erobre
dir sie mit Gewalt=--Where thou canst not renounce
the world, subdue it under thee by force.
_Platen._
=Dafür bin ich ein Mann, dass sich aushalte in
dem was ich begonnen, dass ich einstehe
mit Leib und Leben für das Trachten meines
Geistes=--For this end am I a man, that I should
persevere steadfastly in what I have began, and
answer with my life for the aspiration of my
spirit. _Laube._
=Daily life is more instructive than the most
effective book.= _Goethe._
[Greek: daitos eïsês]--An equal diet. _Hom._
[Greek: Dakry' adakrya]--Tearless tears. _Eurip._ 35
=Dal detto al fatto v'è un gran tratto=--From
saying to doing is a long stride. _It. Pr._
=Da locum melioribus=--Make way for your betters.
_Ter._
=Dame donde me asiente, que yo me haré donde
me acueste=--Give where I may sit down, and
I will make where I may lie down. _Sp. Pr._
=Dames quêteuses=--Ladies who collect for the
poor. _Fr._
=Dämmerung ist Menschenlos in jeder Beziehung=--Twilight 40
(of dawn) is the lot of man
in every relation. _Feuchtersleben._
=Damna minus consueta movent=--Losses we are
accustomed to, affect us little. _Juv._
=Damnant quod non intelligunt=--They condemn
what they do not understand. _Quinct._
=Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering,
/ Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring.=
_Dryden._
=Damnosa hæreditas=--An inheritance which entails
loss. _L._
=Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?=--What is 45
there that corroding time does not impair?
_Hor._
=Damnum absque injuria=--Loss without injustice.
_L._
=Damnum appellandum est cum mala fama
lucrum=--Gain at the expense of credit must be
set down as loss. _Pr._
=Damn with faint praise, assent with civil
leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest
to sneer. / Willing to wound, and yet afraid
to strike; / Just hint a fault, and hesitate
dislike.= _Pope._
=Danari fanno danari=--Money breeds money.
_It. Pr._
=Dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.= 50
_Hen. VIII._, v. 2.
=Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, / On
Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be filed.=
_Spenser._
=Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very
agreeable men.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Danger for danger's sake is senseless.= _Victor
Hugo._
=Danger is the very basis of superstition. It
produces a searching after help supernaturally
when human means are no longer supposed
to be available.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Danger levels man and brute, / And all are
fellows in their need.= _Byron._
=Danger past, God forgotten.= _Pr._ 5
=Dannosa è il dono che toglie la libertà=--Injurious
is the gift that takes away our liberty.
_It. Pr._
=Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous
trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous
déplait pas=--In the misfortune of our best
friends we find always something which does
not displease us. _La Roche._
=Dans la morale, comme l'art, dire n'est rien,
faire est tout=--In morals as in art, talking is
nothing, doing is all. _Renan._
=Dans l'art d'intéresser consiste l'art d'écrire=--The
art of writing consists in the art of interesting.
_Fr._
=Dans le nombre de quarante ne fait-il pas un= 10
=zéro?=--In the number forty is there not bound to
be a cipher? _Fr._
=Dans les conseils d'un état, il ne faut pas tant
regarder ce qu'on doit faire, que ce qu'on
peut faire=--In the councils of a state, the question
is not so much what ought to be done, as
what can be done. _Fr._
=Dante was very bad company, and was never
invited to dinner.= _Emerson._
=Dante, who loved well because he hated, /
Hated wickedness that hinders loving.=
_Browning._
=Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus=--Wealth
now-a-days goes all to the rich. _Mart._
=Dapes inemptæ=--Dainties unbought, _i.e._, home 15
produce. _Hor._
=Dapibus supremi / Grata testudo Jovis=--The
shell (lyre) a welcome accompaniment at the
banquets of sovereign Jove. _Hor._
=Dare pondus idonea fumo=--Fit only to give importance
to trifles (_lit._ give weight to smoke).
_Pr._
=Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; / A
fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.=
_George Herbert._
=Daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, / Like
scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.=
_Butler._
=Darkness visible.= _Milton._ 20
=Darkness which may be felt.= _Bible._
=Dark night, that from the eye his function
takes, / The ear more quick of apprehension
makes.= _Mid. N. Dream_, iii. 2.
=Dark with excessive bright.= _Milton._
=Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, / Und
neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen=--The old
falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms
out of the ruins. _Schiller._
=Das Alter der göttlichen Phantasie / Es= 25
=ist verschwunden, es kehret nie=--The age
of divine fantasy is gone, never to return.
_Schiller._
=Das Alter wägt, die Jugend wagt=--Age considers,
youth ventures. _Raupach._
=Das arme Herz, hienieden / Von manchem
Sturm bewegt, / Erlangt den wahren Frieden,
/ Nur, wo es nicht mehr schlägt=--The
poor heart, agitated on earth by many a storm,
attains true peace only when it ceases to beat.
_Salis-Seewis._
=Das Auge des Herrn schafft mehr als seine
beiden Hände=--The master's eye does more than
both his hands. _Ger. Pr._
=Das begreife ein andrer als ich!=--Let another
try to understand that; I cannot. _A. Lortzing._
=Das Beste, was wir von der Geschichte haben,= 30
=ist der Enthusiasmus, den sie erregt=--The
best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm
which it excites. _Goethe._
=Das Edle zu erkennen ist Gewinnst / Der
nimmer uns entrissen werden kann=--The
ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain
which no one can ever take from us. _Goethe._
=Das einfach Schöne soll der Kenner schätzen; /
Verziertes aber spricht der Menge zu=--The
connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what
is simply beautiful, but the common run of people
are satisfied with ornament. _Goethe._
=Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert
wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe=--The first and last
thing which is required of genius is love of truth.
_Goethe._
=Das Geeinte zu entzweien, das Entzweite zu
einigen, ist das Leben der Natur=--Dividing
the united, uniting the divided, is the life of
Nature. _Goethe._
=Das Geheimniss ist für die Glücklichen=--Mystery 35
is for the favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Das Genie erfindet, der Witz findet bloss=--Genius
invents, wit merely finds. _Weber._
=Das Gesetz ist der Freund des Schwachen=--Law
is the protector of the weak. _Schiller._
=Das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben=--Only
law can give us freedom. _Goethe._
=Das Gewebe dieser Welt ist aus Nothwendigkeit
und Zufall gebildet; die Vernunft
des Menschen stellt sich zwischen beide,
und weiss sie zu beherrschen=--The web of this
world is woven out of necessity and contingency;
the reason of man places itself between the two,
and knows how to control them. _Goethe._
=Das glaub' ich=--That is exactly my opinion. 40
_Ger. Pr._
=Das Glück deiner Tage / Wäge nicht mit
der Goldwage. / Wirst du die Krämerwage
nehmen, / So wirst du dich schämen und dich
bequemen=--Weigh not the happiness of thy days
with goldsmith's scales. Shouldst thou take the
merchant's, thou shalt feel ashamed and adapt
thyself. _Goethe._
=Das Glück giebt Vielen zu viel, aber Keinem
genug=--Fortune gives to many too much, but
to no one enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Das glücklichste Wort es wird verhöhnt, /
Wenn der Hörer ein Schiefohr ist=--The happiest
word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted
ear. _Goethe._
=Das grosse unzerstörbare Wunder ist der
Menschenglaube an Wunder=--The great indestructible
miracle is man's faith in miracle. _Jean
Paul._
=Das Grösste, was dem Menschen begegnen= 45
=kann, ist es wohl, in der eigenen Sache die
allgemeine zu vertheitigen=--The noblest function,
I should say, that can fall to man is to
vindicate all men's interests in vindicating his
own. _Ranke._
=Das hat die Freude mit dem Schmerz gemein, /
Dass sie die Menschen der Vernunft beraubt=--Joy
has this in common with pain, that it
bereaves man of reason. _Platen._
=Das Heiligste, die Pflicht, ist leider das,
was wir am öftersten in uns bekämpfen und
meistens wider Willen thun=--Duty, alas!
which is the most sacred instinct in our nature,
is that which we most frequently struggle with
in ourselves, and generally do against our will.
_R. Gutzkow._
=Das Herz gleicht dem Mühlsteine der Mehl
gibt, wenn man Korn aufshüttet, aber sich
selbst zerreibt, wenn man es unterlasst=--The
heart is like a millstone, which yields meal if
you supply it with grain, but frets itself away if
you neglect to do so. _Weber._
=Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den
Mann=--It is his heart, and not his opinion, that
is an honour to a man. _Schiller._
=Das höchste Glück ist das, welches unsere= 5
=Mängel verbessert und unsere Fehler ausgleicht=--The
best fortune that can fall to a man
is that which corrects his defects and makes up
for his failings. _Goethe._
=Das Hohngelächter der Hölle=--The scoffing
laughter of Hell. _Lessing._
=Das Ideal in der Kunst, Grösse in Ruhe darzustellen,
sei das Ideal auf dem Throne=--Let
the ideal in art, the representation of
majesty in repose, be the ideal on the throne.
_Jean Paul._
=Das ist die wahre Liebe, die immer und immer
sich gleich bleibt, / Wenn man ihr alles
gewährt, wenn man ihr alles versagt=--That
is true love which is ever the same (_lit._ equal
to itself), whether everything is conceded to it
or everything denied. _Goethe._
=Das Jahrhundert / Ist meinem Ideal nicht
reif. Ich lebe / Ein Bürge derer, welche
kommen werden=--The century is not ripe for
my ideal; I live as an earnest of those that are
to come. _Schiller._
=Das Kind mit dem Bade verschütten=--To throw 10
away the child with the bath, _i.e._, the good with
the bad. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Kleine in einen grossen Sinne behandeln,
ist Hoheit des Geistes; das Kleine für gross
und wichtig halten, ist Pedantismus=--To
treat the little in a large sense is elevation of
spirit; to treat the little as great and important
is pedantry. _Feuchersleben._
=Das Leben dünkt ein ew'ger Frühling mir=--Life
seems to me an eternal spring. _Lortzing._
=Das Leben eines Staates ist, wie ein Strom, in
fortgehender Bewegung; wenn der Strom
steht, so wird er Eis oder Sumpf=--The life of
a state, like a stream, lies in its onward movement;
if the stream stagnates, it is because it is frozen or
a marsh. _J. v. Müller._
=Das Leben gehört den Lebendigen an, und wer
lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein=--Life
belongs to the living, and he who lives must be
prepared for changes. _Goethe._
=Das Leben heisst Streben=--Life is a striving. 15
_Ger. Pr._
=Das Leben ist die Liebe / Und des Lebens
Leben Geist=--Life is love, and the life of life,
spirit. _Goethe._
=Das Leben ist nur ein Moment, der Tod ist
auch nur einer=--Life is but a moment, death
also is but another. _Schiller._
=Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns / Und
andern strenge sein=--Life teaches us to be less
severe both with ourselves and others. _Goethe._
=Das Nächste das Liebste=--The nearest is the
dearest. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Nächste steht oft unergreifbar fern=--What 20
is nearest is often unattainably far off. _Goethe._
=Da spatium tenuemque moram; male cuncta,
ministrat / Impetus=--Allow time and slight
delay; haste and violence ruin everything. _Stat._
=Das Publikum, das ist ein Mann / Der alles
weiss und gar nichts kann=--The public is a
personage who knows everything and can do
nothing. _L. Roberts._
=Das Recht hat eine wächserne Nase=--Justice
has a nose of wax. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Reich der Dichtung ist das Reich der
Wahrheit / Schliesst auf das Heiligthum, es
werde Licht=--The kingdom of poetry is the
kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there
is light. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Das Schicksal ist ein vornehmer aber theurer= 25
=Hofmeister=--Fate is a distinguished but expensive
pedagogue. _Goethe._
=Das schönste Glück des denkenden Menschen
ist, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und
das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren=--The
fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man
is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully
to adore the unsearchable. _Goethe._
=Das schwere Herz wird nicht durch Worte
leicht=--Words bring no relief to a saddened
heart. _Schiller._
=Das Schwerste in allen Werken der Kunst ist
dass dasjenige, was sehr ausgearbeitet worden,
nicht ausgearbeitet scheine=--The most
difficult thing in all works of art is to make that
which has been most highly elaborated appear
as if it had not been elaborated at all. _Winkelmann._
=Das Siegel der Wahrheit ist Einfachheit=--The
seal of truth is simplicity. _Boerhave._
=Das sind die Weisen, / Die durch Irrtum zur= 30
=Wahrheit reisen; / Die bei dem Irrtum
verharren, / Das sind die Narren=--Those are
wise who through error press on to truth; those are
fools who hold fast by error. _Rückert._
=Das Sprichwort sagt: Ein eigner Herd, / Ein
braves Weib sind Gold und Perlen wert=--A
proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a
good wife are worth gold and pearls. _Goethe._
=Das Talent arbeitet, das Genie schafft=--Talent
works, genius creates. _Schumann._
=Das Unglück kann die Weisheit nicht, Doch
Weisheit kann das Unglück tragen=--Misfortune
cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can
endure misfortune. _Bodenstedt._
=Das Universum ist ein Gedanke Gottes=--The
universe is a thought of God. _Schiller._
=Das Unvermeidliche mit Würde trage=--Bear 35
the inevitable with dignity. _Streckfuss._
=Das Vaterland der Gedanken ist das Herz: an
dieser Quelle muss schöpfen, wer frisch
trinken will=--The native soil of our thoughts
is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must
draw from this spring. _Börne._
=Das Verhängte muss geschehen, / Das
Gefürchte muss nahn=--The fated must happen;
the feared must draw near. _Schiller._
=Das Volk ist frei; seht an, wie wohl's ihm geht!=--The
people are free, and see how well they
enjoy it. _Mephisto, in "Faust."_
=Das Volk schätzt Stärke vor allem=--The people
rate strength before everything. _Goethe._
=Das Vortreffliche ist unergründlich, man mag
damit anfangen was man will=--What is excellent
cannot be fathomed, probe it as and where
we will. _Goethe._
=Das Wahre ist gottähnlich; es erscheint nicht
unmittelbar, wir müssen es ans seinen Manifestationen
errathen=--Truth is like God; it
reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out
of its manifestations. _Goethe._
=Das Warum wird offenbar, / Wann die Toten
aufersteh'n=--We shall know the wherefore when
the dead rise again. _Müllner._
=Das was mir wichtig scheint, hältst du für= 5
=Kleinigkeiten; / Das was mich ärgert hat
bei dir nichts zu bedeuten=--What is to me
important you regard as a trifle, and what puts
me out has with you no significance. _Goethe._
=Das Weib sieht tief, der Mann sieht weit.
Dem Manne ist die Welt das Herz, dem
Weibe ist das Herz die Welt=--The woman's
vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching.
With the man the world is his heart, with the
woman her heart is her world. _Grabbe._
=Das Wenige verschwindet leicht dem Blick, /
Der vorwärts sieht, wie viel noch übrig bleibt=--The
little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him
who looks before him and sees how much still
remains to be done. _Goethe._
=Das Werk lobt den Meister=--The work praises
the artist. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Wort ist frei, die That ist stumm, der
Gehorsam blind=--The word is free, action
dumb, obedience blind. _Schiller._
=Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind=--Miracle 10
is the pet child of faith. _Goethe._
=Data fata secutus=--Following what is decreed
by fate. _M._
=Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi=--God gives
the vicious ox short horns. _Pr._
=Dà tempo al tempo=--Give time to time. _It.
Pr._
=Date obolum Belisario=--Give a mite to Belisarius!
=Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores /= 15
=Sed Moses sacco cogitar ire pedes=--Galen
gives wealth, Justinian honours, but Moses must
go afoot with a beggar's wallet.
=Dat inania verba, / Dat sine mente sonum=--He
utters empty words; he utters sound without
meaning. _Virg._
=Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas=--He
pardons the ravens, but visits with censure
the doves. _Juv._
=Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered
with flies.= _Pr._
=Dauer im Wechsel=--Persistence in change.
_Goethe._
=Da veniam lacrymis=--Forgive these tears. 20
=Da ventura a tu hijo, y echa lo en el mar=--Give
your son luck and then throw him into the
sea. _Sp. Pr._
=Davus sum, non Œdipus=--I am a plain man, and
no Œdipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx).
_Ter._
=Dawted dochters mak' dawly wives=, _i.e._ petted
daughters make slovenly wives. _Sc. Pr._
=Day follows the murkiest night; and when
the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.=
_Schiller._
=Day is driven on by day, and the new moons= 25
=hasten to their wane.= _Smart, from Hor._
=Daylight will come, though the cock does not
crow.= _Dan. Pr._
=Days should speak, and multitude of years
should teach wisdom.= _Bible._
=De adel der ziel is meer waardig dan de adel
des geslachts=--Nobility of soul is more honourable
than nobility by birth. _Dut. Pr._
=Dead men open living men's eyes.= _Sp. Pr._
=Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.= 30
_Byron._
=De alieno largitor, et sui restrictor=--Lavish of
what is another's, tenacious of his own. _Cic._
=Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot
colts, being raged, do rage the more.= _Rich.
II._, ii. 1.
=Deal so plainly with man and woman as to
constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy
all hope of trifling with you.= _Emerson._
=Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.= _Port. Pr._
=Dear son of memory, great heir of fame.= 35
_Milton on Shakespeare._
=Death and life are in the power of the tongue.=
_Bible._
=Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle
stands in the grave.= _Bp. Hall._
=Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable
lamp of life.= _Coleridge._
=Death comes equally to us all, and makes us= 40
=all equal when it comes.= _Donne._
=Death finds us 'mid our playthings--snatches
us, / As a cross nurse might do a wayward
child. / From all our toys and baubles.= _Old
Play._
=Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.=
_Jean Paul._
=Death is a black camel that kneels at every
man's door.= _Turk. Pr._
=Death is a commingling of eternity with time;
in the death of a good man eternity is seen
looking through time.= _Goethe._
=Death is a fearful thing.= _Meas. for Meas._, 45
iii. 1.
=Death is a friend of ours, and he who is not
ready to entertain him is not at home.=
_Bacon._
=Death is but another phasis of life, which also
is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to
heaven and hell.= _Carlyle._
=Death is but a word to us. Our own experience
alone can teach us the real meaning of the
word.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Death is but what the haughty brave, / The
weak must bear, the wretch must crave.=
_Byron._
=Death is sure / To those that stay and those= 50
=that roam.= _Tennyson._
=Death is the only physician, the shadow of his
valley the only journeying that will cure us
of age and the gathering fatigue of years.=
_George Eliot._
=Death is the quiet haven of us all.= _Wordsworth._
=Death is the tyrant of the imagination.= _Barry
Cornwall._
=Death is the wish of some, the relief of many,
and the end of all.= _Sen._
=Death joins us to the great majority; / 'Tis to
be borne to Platos and to Cæsars; / 'Tis to
be great for ever; / 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition,
then, to die.= _Young._
=Death lays his icy hand on kings.= _Shirley._
=Death levels all distinctions.=
=Death lies on her, like an untimely frost, / Upon
the sweetest flower of all the field.= _Rom. and
Jul._, iv. 5.
=Death may expiate faults, but it does not= 5
=repair them.= _Napoleon._
=Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the
gate of envy after it.= _Sterne, after Bacon._
=Death pays all debts.= _Pr._
=Death puts an end to all rivalship and competition.
The dead can boast no advantage
over us, nor can we triumph over them.=
_Hazlitt._
=Death rides in every passing breeze, / He lurks
in every flower.= _Heber._
=Death's but a path that must be trod, / If= 10
=man would ever pass to God.= _Parnell._
=Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow
would meet.= _Byron._
=Death, so called, is a thing which makes men
weep, / And yet a third of life is passed in
sleep.= _Byron._
=Death stands behind the young man's back,
before the old man's face.= _T. Adams._
=Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the
world.= _Young._
=Death will have his day.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2. 15
=De auditu=--By hearsay.
=Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine;
the former angular, the latter circular and
radiant of the underlying unity.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=De beste zaak heeft nog een goed' advocaat
noodig=--The best cause has need of a good
pleader. _Dut. Pr._
=Debetis velle quæ velimus=--You ought to wish
as we wish. _Plaut._
=De bonne grâce=--With good grace; willingly. 20
_Fr._
=De bonne lutte=--By fair means. _Fr._
=De bon vouloir servir le roy=--To serve the king
with good-will. _M._
=Debt is the worst kind of poverty.= _Pr._
=Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the
bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons,
its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw
is the pitiless grave.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Debts make the cheeks black.= _Arab. Pr._ 25
=De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans=--Anxious
about the shoe, but careless about the
foot. _L. Pr._
=Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences
they may for a time promise or produce, are,
in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.=
_Johnson._
=Deceit is a game played only by small minds.=
_Corneille._
=Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the
one which is the most strictly observed.= _La
Roche._
=Deceptio visus=--Optical illusion. 30
=Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere
nec subjicere serviliter=--We ought to allow
the affections of the mind to be neither too much
elated nor abjectly depressed. _Cic._
=Decet imperatorem stantem mori=--An emperor
ought to die at his post (_lit._ standing). _Vespasian._
=Decet patriam nobis cariorem esse quam nosmetipsos=--Our
country ought to be dearer to
us than ourselves. _Cic._
=Decet verecundum esse adolescentem=--It becomes
a young man to be modest. _Plaut._
=Decies repetita placebit=--Ten times repeated, it 35
will still please. _Hor._
=Decipimur specie recti=--We are deceived by the
semblance of rectitude. _Hor._
=Decipit / Frons prima multos=--First appearances
deceive many.
=Decision and perseverance are the noblest
qualities of man.= _Goethe._
=Declaring the end from the beginning, and
from the ancient times the things that are not
yet done.= _Bible._
=Decori decus addit avito=--He adds honour to 40
the honour of his ancestors. _M._
=Decorum ab honesto non potest separari=--Propriety
cannot be sundered from what is honourable.
_Cic._
=De court plaisir, long repentir=--A short pleasure,
a long penance. _Fr._
=Decrevi=--I have decreed. _M._
=Decus et tutamen=--An honour and defence.
_M._
=Dedecet philosophum abjicere animum=--It does 45
not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. _Cic._
=De die in diem=--From day to day.
=Dedimus potestatem=--We have given power. _L._
=Dediscit animus sero quod didicit diu=--The
mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long
learning. _Sen._
=Deeds survive the doers.= _Horace Mann._
=Deep calleth unto deep.= _Bible._ 50
=Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate
its thought in a thing.= _Emerson._
=Deep in the frozen regions of the north, / A
goddess violated brought thee forth, / Immortal
liberty.= _Smollett._
=Deep on his front engraven / Deliberation sat,
and public care.= _Milton._
=Deep subtle wits, / In truth, are master spirits
in the world.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep 55
silence.= _Alfieri._
=Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.=
_Milton._
=De ezels dragen de haver, en de paarden eten
die=--Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them.
_Dut. Pr._
=De facto=--In point of fact.
=Defeat is a school in which truth always grows
strong.= _Ward Beecher._
=Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but 60
the first step to something better.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine
perception.= _Emerson._
=Defectio virium adolescentiæ vitiis efficitur
sæpius quam senectutis=--Loss of strength is
more frequently due to the faults of youth than
of old age. _Cic._
=Defendit numerus junctæque umbone phalanges=--Their
numbers protect them and their
compact array. _Juv._
=Defend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries
so airy, from the toil / Of dropping
buckets into empty wells, / And growing
old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself
from my enemies.= _Maréchal Villars._
=Deference is the most complicate, the most
indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.=
_Shenstone._
=Defer no time; / Delays have dangerous ends.=
1 _Henry VI._, iii. 2.
=Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /= 5
=Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. / If
thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If
well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.=
_George Herbert._
=Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, / To-morrow's
sun to thee may never rise.= _Congreve._
=Deficiunt vires=--Ability is wanting.
=Defienda me Dios de my=--God defend me from
myself. _Sp. Pr._
=Definition of words has been commonly called
a mere exercise of grammarians; but when
we come to consider the innumerable evils
men have inflicted on each other from mistaking
the meaning of words, the exercise of
definition certainly begins to assume rather a
more dignified aspect.= _Sydney Smith._
=Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time /= 10
=Into this breathing world, scarce half made
up, / And that so lamely and unfashionable, /
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.=
_Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake
mankind by heart and soul, and make
itself the equal, ay, the superior of the rest.=
_Byron._
=De fumo in flammam=--Out of the frying-pan into
the fire. _Pr._
=Dégagé=--Free and unrestrained. _Fr._
=De gaieté de cœur=--In gaiety of heart; sportively;
wantonly. _Fr._
=Degeneres animos timor arguit=--Fear is proof 15
of a low-born soul. _Virg._
=Degli uomini si può dire questo generalmente
che sieno ingrate, volubili simulatori, fuggitori
pericoli, cupidi di guadagno=--Of mankind
we may say in general that they are ungrateful,
fickle, hypocritical, intent on a whole skin and
greedy of gain. _Machiavelli._
=Degrees infinite of lustre there must always
be, but the weakest among us has a gift,
however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar
to him, and which, worthily used, will be a
gift also to his race for ever.= _Ruskin._
=De gustibus non disputandum=--There is no disputing
about tastes.
=De hambre a nadie vi morir, de mucho comer a
cien mil=--I never saw a man die of hunger, but
thousands die of overfeeding. _Sp. Pr._
=De haute lutte=--By main force. _Fr._ 20
=De hoc multi multa, omnes aliquid, nemo satis=--Of
this many have said many things, all something,
no one enough.
=Dei gratia=--By the grace of God.
=Dei jussu non unquam credita Teneris=--Fated
she (_i.e._, Cassandra) never to be believed by her
Trojan countrymen. _Virg._
=Deil stick pride, for my dog deed o'd.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Deil tak' the hin'most! on they drive, / Till= 25
=a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve / Are bent
like drums, / And auld guid man maist like
to rive / "Bethankit" hums.= _Burns._
=Dein Auge kann die Welt trüb' oder hell dir
machen; / Wie du sie ansiehst, wird sie weinen
oder lachen=--Thy eye can make the world dark
or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will
weep or laugh. _Rückert._
=De industria=--Purposely.
=De integro=--Over again; anew.
[Greek: Dei pherein ta tôn theôn]--We must bear what the
gods lay on us.
=Dei plena sunt omnia=--All things are full of God. 30
_Cic._
=Déjeûner à la fourchette=--A meat breakfast.
_Fr._
=De jure=--By right.
=De kleine dieven hangt men, de groote laat
men loopen=--We hang little thieves and let
great ones off. _Dut. Pr._
=Del agua mansa me libre Dios; que de la recia
me guardaré yo=--From smooth water God
guard me; from rough, I can guard myself.
_Sp. Pr._
=De lana caprina=--About goat's wool, _i.e._, a worthless 35
matter.
=Delay has always been injurious to those who
are ready.= _Lucan._
=Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.= _J.
Ford._
=Delay of justice is injustice.= _Landor._
=Delectando pariterque monendo=--By pleasing
as well as instructing. _Hor._
=Delenda est Carthago=--Carthage must be destroyed. 40
_Cato Major._
=Del giudizio, ognun ne vende=--Of judgment
every one has some to sell. _It. Pr._
=Deliberando sæpe perit occasio=--An opportunity
is often lost through deliberation. _Pub. Syr._
=Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est
semel=--We must take time for deliberation,
where we have to determine once for all. _Pub.
Syr._
=Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon
the traitor.= _Junius._
=Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;= 45
=and yield with graciousness or oppose with
firmness.= _Colton._
=Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum=--While Rome
deliberates, Saguntum perishes. _Pr._
=Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to
the beauty.= _Degerando._
=Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy
of passion; it enlarges the sphere both
of our happiness and misery, and makes us
sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which
escape the rest of mankind.= _Hume._
=Deliciæ illepidæ atque inelegantes=--Unmannerly
and inelegant pleasures. _Catull._
=Deligas tantum quem diligas=--Choose only him 50
whom you love.
=Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, /
To teach the young idea how to shoot.=
_Thomson._
=Deliramenta doctrinæ=--The crazy absurdities of
learned men. _L._
=Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi=--Whatsoever
devilry kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper.
_Hor._
=Deliriums are dreams not rounded with a sleep.=
_Jean Paul._
=Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free
the oppressed and crush the oppressor.=
_Bryant._
=Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza=--You
can't judge of a tree by its bark. _It. Pr._
=De loin c'est quelque chose, et de près ce n'est
rien=--At a distance it is something, at hand
nothing. _La Fontaine._
=Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum=--He 5
paints a porpoise in the woods, a boar amidst
the waves. _Hor._
=De lunatico inquirendo=--To inquire into a man's
state of mind.
=Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief
the less because they are universal.=
_Burke._
=Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of
delusion are but for a day.= _Macaulay._
=Delusions are as necessary to our happiness
as realities.= _Bovee._
=Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest= 10
=part of mankind, and a heated imagination
the power by which their actions are incited.
The world in the eye of a philosopher may
be said to be a large madhouse.= _Mackenzie._
=Del vero s'adira l'uomo=--It is the truth that
irritates a man. _It. Pr._
=De mal en pis=--From bad to worse. _Fr._
=De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres=--A
third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly
acquired. _Juv._
=Demean thyself more warily in thy study than
in the street. If thy public actions have a
hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand.=
_Quarles._
=De medietate linguæ=--Of a moiety of languages, 15
_i.e._, foreign jurymen. _L._
=Dem Esel träumet von Disteln=--When the ass
dreams, it is of thistles. _Ger. Pr._
=Dem Glücklichen schlägt keine Stunde=--When
a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike.
_Ger. Pr._
=Dem harten Muss bequemt sich Will' und
Grille=--To hard necessity one's will and fancy
(must) conform. _Goethe._
=Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen,
drängt Stoff sich an=--Matter presses
heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. _Goethe,
in "Faust."_
=Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird= 20
=selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen=--Even a
wise man will attach himself to the dog when he
is well bred. _Goethe._
=De minimis non curat lex=--The law takes no
notice of trifles. _L._
=Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer
lieber als ein Engel=--A man is ever dearer to
man than an angel. _Lessing._
=Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes
them.= _W. H. Seward._
=Democracy has done a wrong to everything
that is not first-rate.= _Amiel._
=Democracy is always the work of kings.= 25
=Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise
the land they are cast upon.= _Landor._
=Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling
business, and gives in the long-run
a net result of zero.= _Carlyle._
=Democracy is the healthful life-blood which
circulates through the veins and arteries,
which supports the system, but which ought
never to appear externally, and as the
mere blood itself.= _Coleridge._
=Democracy is the most powerful solvent of
military organisation. The latter is founded
on discipline; the former on the negation of
discipline.= _Renan._
=De monte alto=--From a lofty mountain. _M._
=De mortuis nil nisi bonum= (or =bene=)--Let nothing 30
be said of the dead but what is favourable.
=De motu proprio=--From the suggestion of one's
own mind; spontaneously.
=Dem thätigen Menschen kommt es darauf an,
dass er das Rechte thue; ob das Rechte
geschehe, soll ihn nicht kümmern=--With the
man of action the chief concern is that he do
the right thing; the success of that ought not to
trouble him. _Goethe._
=Den Bösen sind sie los; die Bösen sind geblieben=--They
are rid of the Wicked One, (but)
the wicked are still there. _Goethe._
=De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti=--From
nothing is nothing, and nothing can be
reduced to nothing.
=Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All 35
men do not admire and love the same things.
_Hor._
=Den Irrthum zu bekennen, schändet nicht=--It
is no disgrace to acknowledge an error. _R.
Gutzkov._
=Denken und Thun, Thun und Denken, das ist
die Summe aller Weisheit von jeher anerkannt,
von jeher geübt, nicht eingesehen
von einem jeden=--To think and act, to act and
think, this is the sum of all the wisdom that has
from the first been acknowledged and practised,
though not understood by every one, _i.e._, (as
added) the one must continually act and react
on the other, like exhaling and inhaling, must
correspond as question and answer. _Goethe._
=Denke nur niemand, dass man auf ihn als den
Heiland gewartet habe=--Let no one imagine
that he is the man the world has been waiting for
as its deliverer. _Goethe._
=Den leeren Schlauch bläst der Wind auf, / Den
leeren Kopf der Dünkel=--The empty bag is
blown up with wind, the empty head with self-conceit.
_Claudius._
=Den Mantel nach dem Winde kehren=--To trim 40
one's sails (_lit._ to turn one's cloak) to the wind.
_Ger. Pr._
=Den Menschen Liebe, den Göttern Ehrfurcht=--To
men, affection; to gods, reverence. _Grillparzer._
=Denn geschwätzig sind die Zeiten, / Und sie
sind auch wieder stumm=--For the times are
babbly, and then again the times are dumb.
_Goethe._
=De non apparentibus, et non existentibus,
eadem est ratio=--Things which do not appear
are to be treated as the same as those which do
not exist. _Coke._
=De novo=--Anew.
=Den Profit som kom seent, er bedre end aldeles= 45
=ingen=--The profit which comes late is better than
none at all. _E. H. Vessel._
=Den rechten Weg wirst nie vermissen, /
Handle nur nach Gefühl und Gewissen=--Wilt
thou never miss the right way, thou hast
only to act according to thy feeling and conscience.
_Goethe._
=Den schlecten Mann muss man verachten /
Der nie bedacht was er vollbringt=--We
must spurn him as a worthless man who never
applies his brains to what he is working at.
_Schiller._
=Dens theonina=--A calumniating disposition (_lit._
tooth).
=Deo adjuvante non timendum=--God assisting,
there is nothing to be feared.
=Deoch an doris=--The parting cup. _Gael._
=Deo dante nil nocet invidia, et non dante, nil= 5
=proficit labor=--When God gives, envy injures
us not; when He does not give, labour avails
not.
=Deo date=--Give unto God. _M._
=Deo duce, ferro comitante=--God my guide, my
sword my companion. _M._
=Deo duce, fortuna comitante=--God for guide,
fortune for companion. _M._
=Deo ducente=--God guiding. _M._
=Deo favente=--With God's favour. 10
=Deo fidelis et regi=--Faithful to God and the
king. _M._
=Deo gratias=--Thanks to God.
=Deo honor et gloria=--To God the honour and
glory. _M._
=Deo ignoto=--To the unknown God.
=Deo juvante=--With God's help. 15
=De omnibus rebus, et quibusdam aliis=--About
everything, and certain things else.
=De omni re scibile et quibusdam aliis=--On
everything knowable and some other matters.
=Deo, non fortuna=--From God, not fortune. _M._
=Deo, optimo maximo=--To God, the best and
greatest. _M._
=Deo, patriæ, amicis=--For God, country, and 20
friends. _M._
=Deo, regi, patriæ=--To God, king, and country.
_M._
=Deo, regi, vicino=--For God, king, and our neighbour.
_M._
=Deo, republicæ, amicis=--To God, the state, and
friends. _M._
=Deorum cibus est=--A feast fit for the gods.
=De oui et non vient toute question=--All disputation 25
comes out of "Yes" and "No." _Fr. Pr._
=Deo volente=--With God's will.
=Depart from the highway and transplant thyself
in some enclosed ground; for it is hard
for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep
her fruit till it be ripe.= _St. Chrysostom._
=De paupertate tacentes / Plus poscente ferent=--Those
who say nothing of their poverty fare
better than those who beg. _Hor._
=De' peccati de' signori fanno penitenza i poveri=--The
poor do penance for the sins of the rich.
_It. Pr._
=Dependence goes somewhat against the grain= 30
=of a generous mind; and it is no wonder,
considering the unreasonable advantage
which is often taken of the inequality of
fortune.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity,
and a greater incitement to tenderness and
pity than any other motive whatsoever.=
_Addison._
=Depend upon it, if a man talks of his misfortunes,
there is something in them that is not
disagreeable to him.= _Johnson._
=De pilo=, _or_ =de filo, pendet=--It hangs by a hair. _Pr._
=De pis en pis=--From worse to worse. _Fr._
=De plano=--With ease. 35
=De præscientia Dei=--Of the foreknowledge of God.
=Deprendi miserum est=--To be caught is a
wretched experience.
=Depressus extollor=--Having been depressed, I
am exalted. _M._
=De profundis=--Out of the depths.
=De propaganda fide=--For propagating the Catholic 40
faith.
=De publico est elatus=--He was buried at the
public expense. _Livy._
=Der Ausgang giebt den Thaten ihre Titel=--It
is the issue that gives to deeds their title. _Goethe._
=Der beste Prediger ist die Zeit=--Time is the
best preacher. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Böse hat nicht nur die Guten, sondern auch
die Bösen gegen sich=--The bad man has not
only the good, but also the evil opposed to him.
_Bischer._
=Der brave Mann denkt an sich selbst zuletzt=--The 45
brave man thinks of himself last of all.
_Schiller._
=Der civilisierte Wilde ist der schlimmste aller
Wilden=--The civilised savage is the worst of all
savages. _C. J. Weber._
=Der den Augenblick ergreift / Das ist der rechte
Mann=--He who seizes the moment is the right
man. _Goethe._
=Der Dichter steht auf einer höhern Warte /
Als auf den Zinnen der Partei=--The poet
stands on a higher watch-tower than the pinnacle
of party. _Freiligrath._
=Der echte Geist schwingt sich empor / Und
rafft die Zeit sich nach=--The genuine spirit
soars upward, and snatches the time away after
it. _Uhland._
=Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam=--The 50
abandonment of what is for the common
good is a crime against nature. _Cic._
=Der Erde Paradies und Hölle / Liegt in dem
Worte "Weib"=--Heaven and Hell on earth lie
in the word "woman." _Seume._
=Der Fluss bleibt trüb, der nicht durch einen See
gegangen, / Das Herz unsauber, das nicht
durch ein Weh gegangen=--The river remains
troubled that has not passed through a lake, the
heart unpurified that has not passed through a
woe. _Rückert._
=Der Frauen Zungen ja nimmer ruhn=--Women's
tongues never rest. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Der Friede ist immer die letzte Absicht des
Krieges=--Peace is ever the final aim of war.
_Wieland._
=Der Fuchs ändert den Pelz und behält den= 55
=Schalk=--The fox changes his skin but keeps his
knavery. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Fürst ist nichts, als der erste Diener des
Staates=--The prince is nothing but the first servant
of the state. _Frederick the Great._
=Der Geist, aus dem wir handeln, ist das
Höchste=--The spirit from which we act is the
principal (_lit._ the highest) matter. _Goethe._
=Der Geist der Medicin ist leicht zu fassen; / Ihr
durchstudiert die gross' und kleine Welt, /
Um es am Ende gehn zu lassen, / Wie's Gott
gefällt=--The spirit of medicine is easy to master;
you study through the great and the little worlds,
to let it go in the end as God pleases. _Mephisto,
in "Faust."_
=Der Geist, der stets verneint=--The spirit that
constantly denies, that says everlastingly "No."
_Goethe's "Mephistopheles."_
=Der Geist ist immer autochthone=--Spirit is
always indigenous, _i.e._, always native to the soil
out of which it springs. _Goethe._
=Der geringste Mensch kann complet sein,
wenn er sich innerhalb der Gränzen seiner
Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten bewegt=--The
humblest mortal may attain completeness if he
confine his activities within the limits of his
capability and skill. _Goethe._
=Der Glaube ist der rechte, der, dass er der
rechte bleibt, nicht gezwungen ist einen
andern irrgläubig zu finden=--That faith is the
orthodox which, that it may remain such, is
under no necessity of finding another heterodox.
_Börne._
=Der Gott, der mir im Busen wohnt, / Kann= 5
=tief mein Innerstes erregen; der über allen
meinen Kräften thront, er kann nach aussen
nichts bewegen=--The God who dwells in my
breast can stir my inmost soul to its depths; he
who sits as sovereign over all my powers has no
control over things beyond. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind=--The
greatest man remains always a man-child,
or son of man. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Schritt ist der aus der Thür=--The
greatest step is that out of the door. _Ger.
Pr._
=Der gute Mann braucht überall viel Boden=--The
good man needs always large room. _Lessing._
=Der gute Wille ist in der Moral alles; aber in
der Kunst ist er nichts: da gilt, wie schon das
Wort andeutet, allein Können=--Goodwill is
everything in morals, but in art it is nothing: in
it, as the word indicates, only ability counts for
aught. _Schopenhauer._
=Der Hahn schliesst die Augen, wann er krähet,= 10
=weil er es auswendig kann=--The cock shuts
his eyes when he crows, because he has it by
heart. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos, es hat
niemand Gewissen, als der Betrachtende=--The
man who acts merely is always without
conscience; no one has conscience but the man
who reflects. _Goethe._
=Der hat die Macht, an den die Menge glaubt=--He
has the power whom the majority believe
in. _Raupach._
=Der hat nie das Glück gekostet, der's in Ruh
geniessen will=--He has never tasted happiness
who will enjoy it in peace. _Th. Körner._
=Der Hauptfehler des Menschen bleibt, dass er
so viele kleine hat=--Man's chief fault is ever
that he has so many small ones. _Jean Paul._
=Der Himmel giebt die Gunst des Augenblicks; /= 15
=Wer schnell sie fasst, wird Meister des
Geschicks=--Heaven gives the grace needed for
the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes
master of his fate. _Raupach._
=Der Himmel kann ersetzen / Was er entzogen hat=--What
Heaven has taken away, Heaven can
make good. _Rückert._
=Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter
Prophet=--The historian is a prophet with his
face turned backwards. _F. v. Schlegel._
=Der höchste Stolz und der höchste Kleinmuth
ist die höchste Unkenntniss seiner selbst=--Extreme
pride and extreme dejection are alike
extreme ignorance of one's self. _Spinoza._
=Der höchste Vorwurf der Kunst für denkende
Menschen ist der Mensch=--The highest subject
of art for thinking men is man. _Winkelmann._
=Deridet, sed non derideor=--He laughs, but I am 20
not laughed at.
=Der Irrthum ist recht gut, so lange wir jung
sind; man muss ihn nur nicht mit ins Alter
schleppen=--Error is very well so long as we are
young, but we must not drag it with us into old
age. _Goethe._
=Der ist edel, / Welcher edel fühlt und handelt=--He
is noble who feels and acts nobly.
_Heine._
=Der Jugend Führer sei das Alter; beiden sei /
Nur wenn sie als Verbundne wandeln, Glück
versichert=--Be age the guide of youth; both
will be happy only if they go hand in hand (_lit._
as confederates) together. _Goethe._
=Der Jüngling kämpft, damit der Greis geniesse=--The
youth fights that the old man may enjoy.
_Goethe._
=Der kann nicht klagen über harten Spruch,= 25
=den man zum Meister seines Schicksals
macht=--He cannot complain of a hard sentence
who is made master of his own fate.
_Schiller._
=Der kleine Gott der Welt bleibt stets von
gleichem Schlag / Und ist so wunderlich, als
wie am ersten Tag=--The little god of the
world (_i.e._, man) continues ever of the same
stamp, and is as odd as on the first day.
_Goethe._
=Der Krieg ist die stärkende Eisenkur der
Menschheit=--War is the strengthening iron
cure of humanity. _Jean Paul._
=Der Künstler muss mit Feuer entwerfen und
mit Phlegma ausführen=--The artist must invent
(_lit._ sketch) with ardour and execute with
coolness. _Winkelmann._
=Der Lebende hat Recht=--The living has right
on his side. _Schiller._
=Der Mann, der das Wenn und das Aber= 30
=erdacht / Hat sicher aus Häckerling Gold
schon gemacht=--The man who invented "if"
and "but" must surely have converted chopt
straw into gold. _G. A. Bürger._
=Der Mann muss hinaus ins feindliche Leben=--A
man must go forth to face life with its enmities.
_Schiller._
=Der Mensch begreift niemals wie anthropomorphisch
er ist=--Man never comprehends how
anthropomorphic his conceptions are. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt=--Man proposes,
God disposes. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Menschenkenner steht überall an seinem
Platze=--He who knows man is everywhere in
his place. _Klinger._
=Der Mensch erfährt, er sei auch wer er mag, /= 35
=Ein letztes Glück und einen letzten Tag=--No
man, be he who he may, but experiences a last
happiness and a last day. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch hat nur allzusehr Ursache, sich
vor dem Menschen zu schützen=--Man has
only too much reason to guard himself from man.
_Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschöpf
und wer der vorderste ist, führt die Herde=--Man
is an imitative being, and the foremost leads
the flock. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist entwickelt, nicht erschaffen=--Man
has been developed, not created. _Oken._
=Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei, / Und
würd' er in Ketten geboren!=--Man has been
created free, is free, even were he born in chains.
_Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist frei wie der Vogel im Käfig;
er kann sich innerhalb gewisser Grenzen bewegen=--Man
is free as the bird in the cage:
he has powers of motion within certain limits.
_Lavater._
=Der Mensch ist im Grunde ein wildes, entsetzliches
Thier=--Man is at bottom a savage animal
and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added)
he still is when emancipated from all control.
_Schopenhauer._
=Der Mensch ist nicht bloss ein denkendes,
er ist zugleich ein empfindendes Wesen.
Er ist ein Ganzes, eine Einheit vielfacher,
innig verbundner Kräfte, und zu diesem
Ganzen muss das Kunstwerk reden=--Man
is not merely a thinking, he is at the same
time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity
of manifold, internally connected powers, and
to this whole must the work of art speak.
_Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist nicht geboren frei zu sein /= 5
=Und für den Edeln ist kein schöner Glück /
Als einem Fürst, den er ehrt, zu dienen=--Man
is not born to be free; and for the
noble soul there is no fairer fortune than to
serve a prince whom he regards with honour.
_Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist selbst sein Gott, sein Beruf ist:
Handeln=--Man is a god to himself, and his calling
is to act. _Tiedge._
=Der Mensch ist, was er isst=--Man is what he
eats. _L. Feuerbach._
=Der Mensch liebt nur einmal=--Man loves only
once. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren,
dass das Unbegreifliche begreiflich sei; er
würde sonst nicht forschen=--Man must hold
fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is
comprehensible; otherwise he would not search.
_Goethe._
=Der Mensch muss ein Höheres, ein Göttliches= 10
=anerkennen--ob in sich oder über sich, gleichviel=--Man
must acknowledge a higher, a divine--whether
in himself or over himself, no matter.
_Hamerling._
=Der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht=--Let
not man tempt the gods. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch war immer Mensch, voll Unvollkommenheit=--Man
has ever been man, full of
imperfection. _J. P. Uz._
=Der Mensch, wo ist er her? / Zu schlecht
für einen Gott, zu gut für's Ungefähr=--Man,
whence is he? Too bad to be the work
of a god, too good for the work of chance.
_Lessing._
=Der Muth der Wahrheit ist die erste Bedingung
des philosophischen Studiums=--The
courage of truth is the first qualification for
philosophic study. _Hegel._
=Dernier ressort=--A last resource. _Fr._ 15
=Der Pfaff liebt seine Herde, doch die Lämmlein
mehr als die Widder=--The priest loves
his flock, but the lambs more than the rams.
_Ger. Pr._
=Der preise glücklich sein, der von / Den Göttern
dieser Welt entfernt lebt=--Let him count
himself happy who lives remote from the gods of
this world. _Goethe._
=Der Rathgeber eines Höheren handelt klüglich,
wenn er sein geistiges Uebergewicht
verbirgt, wie das Weib seine Schönheit
verhüllt um des Sieges desto gewisser zu
sein=--The adviser of a superior acts wisely if he
conceals his spiritual superiority, as the woman
veils her beauty in order to be the more certain
of conquering. _Zachariae._
=Derrière la croix souvent se tient le diable=--Behind
the cross the devil often lurks. _Fr.
Pr._
=Der Ring macht Ehen, / Und Ringe sind's, die= 20
=eine Kette machen=--The ring makes marriage,
and rings make a chain. _Schiller._
=Der Rose süsser Duft genügt, / Man braucht
sie nicht zu brechen / Und wer sich mit dem
Duft begnügt / Den wird ihr Dorn nicht
stechen=--The sweet scent of the rose suffices;
one needs not break it off, and he who is satisfied
therewith will not be stung by the thorn.
_Bodenstedt._
=Der Schein regiert die Welt, und die Gerechtigkeit
ist nur auf der Bühne=--Appearance
rules the world, and we see justice only on the
stage. _Schiller._
=Der Schein, was ist er, dem das Wesen fehlt? /
Das Wesen wär' es, wenn es nicht erschiene?=--The
appearance, what is it without the reality?
And what were the reality without the appearance?
(the clothes, as "Sartor" has it, without
the man, or the man without the clothes). _Goethe._
=Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der höheren
Naturen=--Pain is the birth of higher natures.
_Tiedge._
=Der Sinn erweitert, aber lähmt; die That= 25
=belebt, aber beschränkt=--Thought expands,
but lames; action animates, but narrows.
_Goethe._
=Der Stärkste hat Recht=--The right is with the
strongest. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Stein im Sumpf / Macht keine Ringe=--You
can make no rings if you throw a stone into a
marsh. _Goethe._
=Der Tod entbindet von erzwungnen Pflichten=--Death
releases from enforced duties. _Schiller._
=Der Umgang mit Frauen ist das Element guter
Sitten=--The society of women is the nursery of
good manners. _Goethe._
=Der Verständige findet fast alles lächerlich,= 30
=der Vernünftige fast nichts=--The man of analytic,
or critical, intellect finds something ridiculous
in almost everything; the man of synthetic,
or constructive, intellect, in almost nothing.
_Goethe._
=Der Vortrag macht des Redners Glück=--It is
delivery that makes the orator's success. _Goethe._
=Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu' ist lang=--The
illusion is brief, the remorse is long. _Schiller._
=Der Weg der Ordnung, ging er auch durch
Krümmen, / Er ist kein Umweg=--The path
which good order prescribes is the direct one,
even though it has windings. _Schiller._
=Der Weise hat die Ohren lang, die Zunge
kurz=--The wise man has long ears and a short
tongue. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Weise kann des Mächtigen Gunst entbehren,= 35
=/ Doch nicht der Mächtige des Weisen
Lehren=--The wise man can dispense with the
favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man
with the wisdom of the wise. _Bodenstedt._
=Der Wille ist des Werkes Seele=--What we will
is the soul of what we do. _Ger. Pr._
=Der wird stets das Beste missen / Wer nicht
borgt, was andre wissen=--He will always
lack what is best who does not give credit to
what others know. _Rückert._
=Der Witz ist die Freiheit des Sklaven=--The
witty sally is the freedom of the slave. _Ruge._
=Der Zug des Herzens ist des Schicksals Stimme=--In
the drawing of the heart is the oracle of
fate. _Schiller._
=Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a
step in choosing thy friend.= _The Talmud._
=Description is always a bore, both to the describer= 5
=and the describee.= _Disraeli._
=Deserted, at his utmost need, / By those his
former bounty fed, / On the bare earth exposed
be lies, / With not a friend to close his
eyes.= _Dryden._
=Desiderantem quod satis est, neque / Tumultuosum
sollicitat mare, / Non verberatæ
grandine vineæ / Fundusque mendax=--A
storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing
farm, cause no anxiety to him who is
content with enough. _Hor._
=Desideratum=--A thing desired, but regretfully
wanting.
=Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando=--Cease
to hope that the decrees of the gods can
bend to prayer. _Virg._
=Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne=--A 10
beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating
in a fish. _Hor._
=Désir de Dieu et désir de l'homme sont deux=--What
God wishes and man wishes are two different
things. _Fr. Pr._
=Desires are the pulse of the soul.= _Manton._
=Des Lebens Mühe / Lehrt uns allein des
Lebens Güter schätzen=--The labour of life
alone teaches us to value the good things of
life. _Goethe._
=Des Mannes Mutter ist der Frau Teufel=--The
husband's mother is the wife's devil. _Ger. Pr._
=Des Menschen Engel ist die Zeit=--Time is 15
man's angel. _Schiller._
=Des Menschens Leben ist / Ein kurzes Blühen
und ein langes Welken=--The life of man is a
short blossoming and a long withering. _Uhland._
=Despair defies even despotism; there is that
in my heart would make its way through
hosts with levelled spears.= _Byron._
=Despair is like froward children, who, when
you take away one of their playthings, throw
the rest into the fire for madness.= _Charron._
=Despair is the only genuine atheism.= _Jean
Paul._
=Despair takes heart when there's no hope to= 20
=speed; / The coward then takes arms and
does the deed.= _Herrick._
=Despair--the last dignity of the wretched.=
_H. Giles._
=Despatch is the soul of business.= _Chesterfield._
=Desperate diseases need desperate remedies.=
_Pr._
=Despise anxiety and wishing, the past and the
future.= _Jean Paul._
=Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything;= 25
=for there is no man that has not his
hour, nor is there anything that has not its
place.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Despise not the discoveries of the wise, but
acquaint thyself with their proverbs, for of
them thou shalt learn instruction.= _Ecclus._
=Despise your enemy and you will soon be
beaten.= _Port. Pr._
=Despite his titles, power, and pelf, / The wretch
concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit
fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go
down / To the vile dust, from whence he
sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.=
_Scott._
=Despondency comes readily enough to the
most sanguine.= _Emerson._
=Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, / Weak= 30
=and unmanly, loosens every power.= _Thomson._
=Despotism is a legitimate mode of government
in dealing with barbarians, provided the end
be their improvement, and the means justified
by actually effecting that end.= _J. S.
Mill._
=Despotism is essential in most enterprises; I
am told they do not tolerate "freedom of
debate" on board a seventy-four.= _Carlyle._
=Despotism is often the effort of Nature to cure
herself from a worse disease.= _Robert, Lord
Lytton._
=Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the
effigy and ensigns of freedom.= _Landor._
=Despotismus ist der schwarze Punkt in aller= 35
=Menschen Herzen=--Despotism is the black
spot in the hearts of all men. _C. J. Weber._
=Desque nací lloré, y cada dia nace porqué=--I
wept as soon as I was born, and every day
explains why. _Sp. Pr._
=Des Rats bedarf die Seele nicht, die Rechtes
will=--The soul which wills what is right needs
no counsel. _Platen._
=Destiny is our will, and will is nature.=
_Disraeli._
=Destitutus ventis remos adhibe=--The wind failing,
ply the oars.
=Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain! / The= 40
=creature's at his dirty work again.= _Pope._
=Des Uebels Quelle findest du nicht aus, und
aufgefunden fliesst sie ewig fort=--The well-spring
of evil thou canst not discover, and even
if discovered, it flows on continually. _Goethe._
=Desunt cætera=--The remainder is wanting.
=Desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Poverty
is in want of many things, avarice of everything.
_L. Pr._
=Des Zornes Ende ist der Reue Anfang=--The
end of anger is the beginning of repentance.
_Bodenstedt._
=Deteriores omnes sumus licentia=--We are all 45
the worse for the license. _Ter._
=Determined, dared, and done.= _Smart._
=Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to
another's pain.= _Cowper._
=De tijd is aan God en ons=--Time is God's and
ours. _Dut. Pr._
=Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus=--He
who needs pardon should readily grant it. _Sen._
=Detour=--A circuitous march. _Fr._ 50
=De tout s'avise à qui pain faut=--A man in want
of bread is ready for anything. _Fr. Pr._
=Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not /
To wound the fame of princes, if it find / But
any blemish in their lives to work on.= _Massinger._
=De trop=--Too much, or too many; out of place.
_Fr._
=Detur aliquando otium quiesque fessis=--Leisure
and repose should at times be given to the weary.
_Sen._
=Detur digniori=--Let it be given to the most
worthy. _M._
=Detur pulchriori=--Let it be given to the fairest.
_The inscription on the golden apple of discord._
=Deum cole, regem serva=--Worship God, preserve
the king. _M._
=Deum colit, qui novit=--He who knows God worships 5
Him. _Sen._
=Deus avertat=--God forbid.
=Deus ex machina=--A mechanical instead of a
rational or spiritual explanation (_lit._ a god
mechanically introduced).
=Deus hæc fortasse benigna / Reducet in sedem
vice=--God will perhaps by a gracious change
restore these things to a stable condition. _Hor._
=Deus id vult=--God wills it. _War-cry of the Crusaders
before Jerusalem._
=Deus major columna=--God is the greater support. 10
_M._
=Deus mihi providebit=--God will provide for me.
_M._
=Deus omnibus quod sat est suppeditat=--God
supplies enough to all. _M._
=Deus vult=--It is God's will.
=Deux hommes se rencontrent bien, mais jamais
deux montagnes=--Two men may meet, but
never two mountains. _Fr._
=Deux yeux voient plus clair qu'un=--A ghost 15
was never seen by two pair of eyes (_lit._ two eyes
see more clearly than one). _Fr._
=Devil take the hindmost.= _Beaumont and
Fletcher._
=Devine si tu peux, et choisis si tu l'oses=--Solve
the riddle if you can, and choose if you dare.
_Corneille._
=Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole
volumes in folio.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=De vive voix=--Verbally. _Fr._
=Devote each day to the object then in time,= 20
=and every evening will find something done.=
_Goethe._
=Devotion in distress is born, but vanishes in
happiness.= _Dryden._
=Devotion, when it does not lie under the check
of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm
(fanaticism).= _Addison._
=De waarheid is eene dochter van den tijd=--Truth
is a daughter of Time. _Dut. Pr._
=Dewdrops are the gems of morning, but the
tears of mournful eve.= _Coleridge._
=De wereld wil betrogen zijn=--The world likes 25
to be deceived. _Dut. Pr._
=Dexterity or experience no master can communicate
to his disciple.= _Goethe._
=Dextras dare=--To give right hands to each other.
=Dextro tempore=--At a lucky moment. _Hor._
=Diamonds cut diamonds.= _Ford._
=Di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli /= 30
=Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis=--The
gods be praised for having made me of
a poor and humble mind, with a desire to speak
but seldom and briefly. _Hor._
=Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc / Indictum ore
alio=--I will utter something striking, something
fresh, something as yet unsung by another's
lips. _Hor._
=Dicenda tacenda locutus=--Saying things that
should be, and things that should not be, said.
_Hor._
=Dicere quæ puduit, scribere jussit amor=--What
I was ashamed to say, love has ordered me to
write. _Ovid._
=Dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque
funera debet=--No one should be called
happy before he is dead and buried. _Ovid._
=Dicta fides sequitur=--The promise is no sooner 35
given than fulfilled. _Ovid._
=Dicta tibi est lex=--The conditions have been laid
before you. _Hor._
=Dictum de dicto=--A report founded on hearsay.
=Dictum factum=--No sooner said than done.
_Ter._
=Dictum sapienti sat est=--A word to a wise man
is enough. _Plaut. and Ter._
=Did charity prevail, the press would prove / A= 40
=vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.= _Cowper._
=Did I know that my heart was bound to temporal
possessions, I would throw the flaming
brand among them with my own hand.=
_Schiller._
="Did I not tell you that after thunder rain
would be sure to come on?"= _Socrates to
his friends when, after a volley of upbraidings,
Xantippe threw a jugful of water at his
head._
=Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, /
Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with
snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love
with words.= _Two Gen. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He
was all for love and a little for the bottle.=
_C. Dibden._
=Die Aemter sind Gottes; die Amtleute Teufels=--Places 45
are God's; place-holders are the devil's.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die alleinige Quelle des Rechts ist das gemeinsame
Bewusstsein des ganzen Volks;
der allgemeine Geist=--The only fountain of
justice is the common consciousness of the
whole people; the spirit common to all of them.
_Lasalle._
=Die Alten sind die einzigen Alten, die nie alt
werden=--The ancients (_i.e._, the Greeks and
Romans) are the only ancients that never grow
old. _C. J. Weber._
=Die Anmut macht unwiderstehlich=--Grace
makes its possessor irresistible. _Goethe._
=Die ärgsten Studenten werden die frömmsten
Prediger=--The worst-behaved students turn out
the most pious preachers. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Armen müssen tanzen wie die Reichen= 50
=pfeifen=--The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren
andern Leuten=--The eyes believe themselves,
the ears other people. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen sind weiter als der Bauch=--The
eyes are larger than the belly. _Ger. Pr._
=Die besten Freunde stehen im Beutel=--Our best
friends are in our purse. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Bewunderung preist, die Liebe ist stumm=--Admiration
praises, love is dumb. _Börne._
=Die Blumen zu pflegen, / Das Unkraut zu= 55
=tilgen, / Ist Sache des Gärtners=--The gardener's
business is to root out the weeds and
tend the flowers. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt
der Glaube=--I hear the message, but I lack the
faith. _Goethe._
=Die Damen geben sich und ihren Putz zum
besten / Und spielen ohne Gage mit=--The
ladies by their presence and finery contribute to
the treat and take part in the play without pay
from us. _The Theatre Manager in Goethe's
"Faust."_
=Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der
Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends
the wooer. _Seume._
=Die de wereld wel beziet, men zag nooit
schoonder niet=--Whoso considers the world
well must allow he has never seen a better.
_Dut. Pr._
=Die Dornen, die Disteln, sie stechen gar sehr,= 5
=doch stechen die Altjungfernzungen noch
mehr=--Thorns and thistles prick very sore, but
old maids' tongues sting much more. _C.
Geibel._
=Die een ander jaagt zit zelfs niet stil=--He who
chases another does not sit still himself. _Dut.
Pr._
=Die Ehe ist Himmel und Hölle=--Marriage is
heaven and hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Die eigentliche Religion bleibt ein Inneres, ja
Individuelles, denn sie hat ganz allein mit
dem Gewissen zu thun; dieses soll erregt,
soll beschwichtigt werden=--Religion, properly
so called, is ever an inward, nay, an individual
thing, for it has to do with nothing but the
conscience, which has now to be stirred up, now
to be soothed. _Goethe._
=Die Einsamkeit ist noth; doch sei nur nicht
gemein, / So kannst du überall in einer
Wüste sein=--Solitude is painful; only be not
vulgar, for then you may be in a desert everywhere.
_Angelus Silesius._
=Die Eintracht nur macht stark und gross, /= 10
=Die Zwietracht stürzet alles nieder=--Only
concord makes us strong and great; discord
overthrows everything. _Gellert._
=Die Erde wird durch Liebe frei; / Durch
Thaten wird sie gross=--Through love the earth
becomes free; through deeds, great. _Goethe._
=Die Erinnerung ist das einzige / Paradies,
aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden kann=--Remembrance
is the only paradise from which
we cannot be driven. _Jean Paul._
=Die Fabel ist der Liebe Heimatwelt, / Gern
wohnt sie unter Feen, Talismanen, / Glaubt
gern an Götter, weil sie göttlich ist=--Fable
is love's native world, is fain to dwell among
fairies and talismans, and to believe in gods,
being herself divine. _Schiller._
=Die Frauen sind das einzige Gefäss, was uns
Neuern noch geblieben ist, um unsere Idealität
hineinzugiessen=--Woman is the only vessel
which still remains to us moderns into which we
can pour our ideals. _Goethe._
=Die Frauen tragen ihre Beweise im Herzen,= 15
=die Männer im Kopfe=--Women carry their
logic in their hearts; men, in their heads.
_Kotzebue._
=Die Freiheit der Vernunft ist unser wahres
Leben=--The freedom of reason is our true life.
_Tiedge._
=Die Freiheit kann nicht untergehn, / So lange
Schmiede Eisen hämmern=--The sun of freedom
cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron.
_E. M. Arndt._
=Die Freude kennst du nicht, wenn du nur
Freuden kennest; / Dir fehlt das ganze
Licht, wenn du's in Strahlen trennest=--Joy
knowest thou not if thou knowest only joys; the
whole light is wanting to thee if thou breakest
it up into rays. _Rückert._
=Die Freudigkeit ist die Mutter aller Tugenden=--Joyousness
is the mother of all virtues. _Goethe._
=Die Gegenwart ist eine mächtige Göttin; Lern'= 20
=ihren Einfluss kennen=--The present is a potent
divinity; learn to acquaint thyself with her power.
_Goethe._
=Die Geheimnisse der Lebenspfade darf und
kann man nicht offenbaren; es gibt Steine
des Anstosses, über die ein jeder Wanderer
stolpern muss. Der Poet aber deutet auf
die Stelle hin=--The secrets of the way of life
may not and cannot be laid open; there are
stones of offence along the path over which every
wayfarer must stumble. The poet, or inspired
teacher, however, points to the spot. _Goethe._
=Die Geisterwelt ist nicht verschlossen; / Dein
Sinn ist zu, dein Herz ist todt=--The spirit-world
is not shut; thy sense is shut, thy heart is
dead. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine
grosse Fuge, in der die Stimmen der Völker
nach und nach zum Vorschein kommen=--The
history of the sciences is a great fugue, in
which the voices of the nations come one by one
into notice. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte des Menschen ist sein Charakter=--The
history of a man is in his character.
_Goethe._
=Die Gesetze der Moral sind auch die der= 25
=Kunst=--The laws of morals are also those of
art. _Schumann._
=Die Glocken sind die Artillerie der Geistlichkeit=--Bells
are the artillery of the Church.
_Joseph II._
=Die goldne Zeit, wohin ist sie geflohen? / Nach
der sich jedes Herz vergebens sehnt=--The
golden age, whither has it fled? after which
every heart sighs in vain. _Goethe._
=Die Götter brauchen manchen guten Mann /
Zu ihrem Dienst auf dieser weiten Erde. /
Sie haben noch auf dich gezählt=--The upper
powers need many a good man for their service
on this wide earth. They still reckon upon thee.
_Goethe._
=Die Götter sprechen nur durch unser Herz zu
uns=--The gods speak to us only through our
heart. _Goethe._
=Die grosse Moral--das Interesse, sagte Mirabeau,= 30
=tötet in der Regel die kleine--das
Gewissen=--The great moral teacher, interest,
as Mirabeau said, ordinarily slays conscience,
the less. _C. J. Weber._
=Die grössten Menschen hängen immer mit
ihrem Jahrhundert durch eine Schwachheit
zusammen=--It is always through a weakness
that the greatest men are connected with their
generation. _Goethe._
=Die grössten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo
wir sie nicht suchen=--The greatest difficulties
lie there where we are not seeking for them.
_Goethe._
=Die het in het vuur verloren heeft, moet het
in de asch zoeken=--What is lost in the fire must
be searched for in the ashes. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Hindus der Wüste geloben keine Fische
zu essen=--The Hindus of the desert take a vow
to eat no fish. _Goethe._
=Die höchste Naturschönheit ist das gottgleiche
Wesen: der Mensch=--The most
beautiful object in Nature is the godlike creature:
man. _Oken._
=Die höchste Weisheit ist, nicht weise stets zu
sein=--It is the highest wisdom not to be always
wise. _M. Opitz._
=Die Hölle selbst hat ihre Rechte?=--Has Hell
itself its rights? _Goethe._
=Die Ideale sind zerronnen, / Die einst das
trunkne Herz geschwellt=--The ideals are all
melted into air which once swelled the intoxicated
heart. _Schiller._
=Die Idee ist ewig und einzig.... Alles was= 5
=wir gewahr werden und wovon wir reden
können, sind nur Manifestationen der Idee=--The
idea is one and eternal.... Everything
we perceive, and of which we can speak, is only
a manifestation of the idea. _Goethe._
=Die Irrthümer des Menschen machen ihn
eigentlich liebenswürdig=--It is properly man's
mistakes, or errors, that make him lovable. _Goethe._
=Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich
überflüssig macht=--That government is best
which makes itself unnecessary. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Die Kinder sind mein liebster Zeitvertreib=--My
dearest pastime is with children. _Chamisso._
=Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen, hat ganze
Länder aufgefressen, und doch noch nie
sich übergessen=--The Church has a good
stomach, has swallowed up whole countries, and
yet has not overeaten herself. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Kirche ist's, die heilige, die hohe, / Die zu= 10
=dem Himmel uns die Leiter baut=--The Church,
the holy, the high, it is that rears for us the ladder
to heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Kleinen reden gar so gern von dem was
die Grossen thun=--Small people are so fond of
talking of what great people do. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Klugheit sich zur Führerin zu wählen /
Das ist es, was den Weisen macht=--It is the
choice of prudence for his guide that makes the
wise man. _Schiller._
=Die Kraft ist schwach, allein die Lust ist gross=--The
strength is weak, but the desire is great.
_Goethe._
=Die kranke Seele muss sich selber helfen=--The
sick soul must work its own cure (_lit._ help
itself). _Gutskow._
=Die Krankheit des Gemütes löset sich / In= 15
=Klagen und Vertrauen am leichtesten auf=--Mental
sickness finds relief most readily in complaints
and confidences. _Goethe._
=Die Kunst darf nie ein Kunststück werden=--Art
should never degenerate into artifice. _Ger._
=Die Kunst geht nach Brod=--Art goes a-begging.
_Ger. Pr._
=Die Kunst ist eine Vermittlerin des Unaussprechlichen=--Art
is a mediatrix of the unspeakable.
_Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaften sind Mängel oder Tugenden,
nur gesteigerte=--The passions are vices or
virtues, only exaggerated. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaft flieht, / Die Liebe muss bleiben;= 20
=/ Die Blume verblüht, / Die Frucht muss
treiben=--Passion takes flight, love must abide;
the flower fades, the fruit must ripen. _Schiller._
=Die letzte Wahl steht auch dem Schwächsten
offen; / Ein Sprung von dieser Brücke macht
mich frei=--The last choice of all is open even to
the weakest; a leap from this bridge sets me free.
_Schiller._
=Die Liebe hat kein Mass der Zeit; sie keimt /
Und blüht und reift in einer schönen Stunde=--Love
follows no measure of time; it buds and
blossoms and ripens in one happy hour. _Körner._
=Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis=--Love is the price
of love. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe macht zum Goldpalast die Hütte=--Love
converts the cottage into a palace of gold.
_Hölty._
=Die Lieb' umfasst des Weibes volles Leben, /= 25
=Sie ist ihr Kerker und ihr Himmelreich=--Love
embraces woman's whole life; it is her
prison and her kingdom of heaven. _Chamisso._
=Die Lust ist mächtiger als alle Furcht der
Strafe=--Pleasure is more powerful than all fear
of the penalty. _Goethe._
=Die Lust zu reden kommt zu rechter Stunde, /
Und wahrhaft fliesst das Wort aus Herz
und Munde=--The inclination to speak comes at
the right hour, and the word flows true from
heart and lip. _Goethe._
=Die Manifestationen der Idee als des Schönen,
ist eben so flüchtig, als die Manifestationen
des Erhabenen, des Geistreichen, des Lustigen,
des Lächerlichen. Dies ist die Ursache,
warum so schwer darüber zu reden ist=--The
manifestation of the idea as the beautiful is just
as fleeting as the manifestation of the sublime,
the witty, the gay, and the ludicrous. This is
the reason why it is so difficult to speak of it.
_Goethe._
=Die Meisterhaft gilt oft für Egoismus=--Mastery
passes often for egoism. _Goethe._
=Die Menge macht den Künstler irr' und scheu=--The 30
multitude is a distraction and scare to the
artist. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht
kennt, / Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald
verkennen=--Only he shrinks from men who does
not know them, and he who shuns them will
soon misknow them. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen kennen einander nicht leicht,
selbst mit dem besten Willen und Vorsatz;
nun tritt noch der böse Wille hinzu, der Alles
entstellt=--Men do not easily know one another,
even with the best will and intention; presently
ill-will comes forward, which disfigures all.
_Goethe._
=Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind=--Men
are blind all through life. _Goethe._
=Die Menschheit geben uns Vater und Mutter,
die Menschlichkeit aber gibt uns nur die
Erziehung=--Human nature we owe to father
and mother, but humanity to education alone.
_Weber._
=Die Milde ziemt dem Weibe, / Dem Manne= 35
=ziemt die Rache!=--Mercy becomes the woman;
avengement, the man. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Mode ist weiblichen Geschlechts, hat
folglich ihre Launen=--Mode is of the female sex,
and has consequently their whims. _C. J. Weber._
=Die monarchische Regierungsform ist die dem
Menschen natürliche=--Monarchy is the form
of government that is natural to mankind.
_Schopenhauer._
=Die Moral steckt in kurzen Sprüchen besser,
als in langen Reden und Predigten=--A moral
lesson is better expressed in short sayings than
in long discourse. _Immermann._
=Diem perdidi!=--I have lost a day! _Titus, on
finding that he had done no worthy action
during the day._
=Die Mütter geben uns von Geiste Wärme, und
die Väter Licht=--Our mothers give to our spirit
heat, our fathers light. _Jean Paul._
=Die Natur ist ein unendlich geteilter Gott=--Nature
is an infinitely divided God. _Schiller._
=Die Natur weiss allein, was sie will=--Nature
alone knows what she aims at. _Goethe._
=Die of a rose in aromatic pain.= _Pope._
=Die Phantasie ward auserkoren / Zu öffnen= 5
=uns die reiche Wunderwelt=--Fantasy was
appointed to open to us the rich realm of wonders.
_Tiedge._
=Die Rachegötter schaffen im Stillen=--The gods
of vengeance act in silence. _Schiller._
=Dies adimit ægritudinem=--Time cures our griefs.
_L. Pr._
=Die Schönheit ist das höchste Princip und der
höchste Zweck der Kunst=--Beauty is the
highest principle and the highest aim of art.
_Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ist vergänglich, die ihr doch /
Allein zu ehren scheint. Was übrig bleibt, /
Das reizt nicht mehr, und was nicht reizt,
ist tot=--Beauty is transitory, which yet you
seem alone to worship. What is left no longer
attracts, and what does not attract is dead.
_Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ruhrt, doch nur die Anmuth= 10
=sieget, / Und Unschuld nur behält den Preis=--Beauty
moves us, though only grace conquers
us, and innocence alone retains the prize.
_Seume._
=Die Schulden sind der nächste Erbe=--Debts
fall to the next heir. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Schwierigkeiten wachsen, je näher man
dem Ziele kommt=--Difficulties increase the
nearer we approach the goal. _Goethe._
=Dies datus=--A day given for appearing in court.
_L._
=Dies faustus=--A lucky day.
=Dies infaustus=--An unlucky day. 15
=Die Sinne trügen nicht, aber das Urteil trügt=--The
senses do not deceive, but the judgment
does. _Goethe._
=Dies iræ, dies illa, / Sæclum solvet in favilla /
Teste David cum Sibylla=--The day of wrath,
that day shall dissolve the world in ashes, as
David and the Sibyl say.
=Dies non=--A day when there is no court.
=Die Sorgen zu bannen, / (Das Unkraut des
Geistes), den Kummer zu scheuchen, / Die
Schmerzen zu lindern, / Ist Sache des Sängers=--To
banish cares (the wild crop of the
spirit), to chase away sorrow, to soothe pain, is
the business of the singer. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Sorg' um Künft'ges niemals frommt; Man= 20
=fühlt kein Uebel, bis es kommt. / Und wenn
man's fühlt, so hilft kein Rat; / Weisheit ist
immer zu früh und zu spat=--Concern for the
future boots not; we feel no evil till it comes.
And when we feel it, no counsel avails; wisdom
is always too early and too late. _Rückert._
=Dies religiosi=--Religious days; holidays.
=Die süssesten Trauben hängen am höchsten=--The
sweetest grapes hang highest. _Ger. Pr._
=Diet cures more than doctors.= _Pr._
=Die te veel onderneemt slaagt zelden=--He who
undertakes too much seldom succeeds. _Dut.
Pr._
=Die That allein beweist der Liebe Kraft=--The 25
act alone shows the power of love. _Goethe._
=Die Thätigkeit ist was den Menschen glücklich
macht; / Die, erst das Gute schaffend,
bald ein Uebel selbst / Durch göttlich wirkende
Gewalt in Gutes kehrt=--It is activity
which renders man happy, which, by simply producing
what is good, soon by a divinely working
power converts an evil itself into a good.
_Goethe._
=Die Todten reiten schnell!=--The dead ride fast!
_Bürger._
=Die treue Brust des braven Manns allein ist
ein sturmfester Dach in diesen Zeiten=--The
loyal heart of the good man is in these
times the only storm-proof place of shelter.
_Schiller._
=Die Tugend des Menschen, der nach dem
Geboten der Vernunft lebt, zeigt sich gleich
gross in Vermeidung, wie in Ueberwindung
der Gefahren=--The virtue of the man who lives
according to the commands of reason manifests
itself quite as much in avoiding as in overcoming
danger. _Spinoza._
=Die Tugend grosser Seelen ist Gerechtigkeit=--The 30
virtue of great souls is justice. _Platen._
=Die Tugend ist das höchste Gut, / Das Laster
Weh dem Menschen thut=--Virtue is man's
highest good, vice works him nought but woe.
_Goethe._
=Die Tugend ist nicht ein Wissen, sondern ein
Wollen=--Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing.
_Zachariae._
=Die Tugend ohne Lohn ist doppelt schön=--Virtue
unrewarded is doubly beautiful. _Seume._
=Dieu aide à trois sortes de personnes, aux
fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes=--God protects
three sorts of people, fools, children, and
drunkards. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu avec nous=--God with us. _M._ 35
=Dieu ayde=--God help me. _M._
=Dieu défend le droit=--God defends the right.
_M._
=Dieu donne le froid selon le drap=--God gives
the cold according to the cloth. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu et mon droit=--God and my right. _M._
=Dieu fit du repentir la vertu des mortels=--God 40
has made repentance the virtue of mortals. _Voltaire._
=Dieu garde la lune des loups=--God guards the
moon from the wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue=--God
measures the cold to the shorn lamb. _Fr.
Pr._
=Die unbegreiflich hohen Werke / Sind herrlich
wie am ersten Tag=--The incomprehensibly
high works are as glorious as on the first day.
_Goethe._
=Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une
affaire=--God keep us from a man who knows
only one subject. _Fr. Pr._
=Die Unschuld hat im Himmel einen Freund=--Innocence 45
has a friend in heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht jedermann's
Sache=--Immortality is not every man's business
or concern. _Goethe._
=Dieu pour la tranchée, qui contre?=--If God is
our defence, who is against us? _M._
=Dieu seul devine les sots=--God only understands
fools. _Fr. Pr._
=Die veel dienstboden heeft, die heeft veel
dieven=--He who has many servants has many
thieves. _Dut. Pr._
=Die vernünftige Welt ist als ein grosses
unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das
unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und
dadurch sich sogar über das Zufällige zum
Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be
regarded as a great immortal individuality, that
is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an
order which all must submit to), and thereby
makes itself lord and master of everything contingent
(or accidental). _Goethe._
=Die Vernunft ist auf das Werdende, der
Verstand auf das Gewordene angewiesen;
jene bekümmert sich nicht: wozu? dieser
fragt nicht: woher?=--Reason is directed to
what is a-doing or proceeding, understanding to
what is done or past; the former is not concerned
about the "whereto," the latter inquires
not about the "whence." _Goethe._
=Die Wacht am Rhein=--"The watch on the
Rhine." _A German national song._
=Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns,
sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten=--The
truth adjusts itself not to us, but we must
adjust ourselves to it. _Claudius._
=Die Wahrheit schwindet von der Erde / Auch= 5
=mit der Treu' ist es vorbei, / Die Hunde
wedeln noch und stinken / Wie sonst, doch
sind sie nicht mehr treu=--Truth is vanishing
from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by.
The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as
ever, but they are no longer faithful. _Heine._
=Die Wahrheit zu sagen ist nützlich dem, der
höret, schädlich dem der spricht=--Telling the
truth does good to him who hears, harm to him
who speaks. _Ger. Pr._
=Die wankelmüt'ge Menge, / Die jeder Wind
herumtreibt! Wehe dem, / Der auf dies
Rohr sich lehnet=--The fickle mob, how they
are driven round by every wind that blows!
Woe to him who leans on this reed! _Schiller._
=Die Weiber lieben die Stärke ohne sie nachzuahmen;
die Männer die Zartheit, ohne
sie zu erwiedern=--Women admire strength without
affecting it; men delicacy without returning
it. _Jean Paul._
=Die Weiber meiden nichts so sehr als das
Wörtchen Ja; wenigstens sagen sie es erst
nach dem Nein=--Women are shy of nothing so
much as the little word "Yes;" at least they say
it only after they have said "No." _Jean Paul._
=Die Weisen wägen ihre Worte mit der Goldwage=--The 10
wise weigh their words in the balance
of the goldsmith. _Ecclus._
=Die Weiseste merken höchstens nur wie das
Schicksal sie leitet, und sind es zufrieden=--The
wisest know at highest only how destiny is
leading them, and are therewith content. _Forster._
=Die Welt der Freiheit trägt der Mensch in
seinem Innern. / Und Tugend ist der Freiheit
Götterkind=--Man bears the world of freedom
in his heart, and virtue is freedom's divine
child. _Tiedge._
=Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht=--The
history of the world is the judgment of the world.
_Schiller._
=Die Welt ist dumm die Welt ist blind, / Wird
täglich abgeschmackter=--The world is stupid,
the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd.
_Heine._
=Die Welt ist ein Gefängniss=--The world is a 15
prison. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist voller Widerspruch=--The world
is full of contradiction. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist vollkommen überall, / Wo der
Mensch nicht hinkommt mit seiner Qual=--The
world is all perfect except where man comes
with his burden of woe. _Schiller._
=Die Worte sind gut, sie sind aber nicht das
Beste. Das Beste wird nicht deutlich durch
Worte=--Words are good, but are not the best.
The best is not to be understood by words. _Goethe._
=Die Zeiten der Vergangenheit / Sind uns ein
Buch mit sieben Siegeln; / Was Ihr den
Geist der Zeiten heisst / Das ist im Grund'
der Herrn eigner Geist, / In dem die Zeiten
sich bespiegeln=--The times that are past are a
book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit
of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the
gentry in which the times are mirrored. _Goethe,
in "Faust."_
=Die Zeit ist schlecht, doch giebt's noch grosse= 20
=Seelen!=--The times are bad, yet there are still
great souls. _Körner._
=Die Zukunft decket Schmerzen und Glücke=--The
future hides in it gladness and sorrow.
_Goethe._
=Different good, by art or nature given, / To
different nations, makes their blessings even.=
_Goldsmith._
=Different minds / Incline to different objects;
one pursues / The vast alone, the wonderful,
the wild; / Another sighs for harmony and
grace, / And gentlest beauty.= _Akenside._
=Different times different manners.= _It. Pr._
=Difficile est crimen non prodere vultu=--It is 25
difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance.
_Ovid._
=Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem=--It
is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished
passion. _Catull._
=Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri, qui
semper secunda fortuna sit usus=--It is difficult
for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted
good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue.
_Cic._
=Difficile est proprie communia dicere=--It is
difficult to handle a common theme with originality.
_Hor._
=Difficile est satiram non scribere=--It is difficult
not to indulge in (_lit._ to write) satire. _Juv._
=Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--It is 30
difficult to feign mirth when one is in a gloomy
mood. _Tibulle._
=Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina=--One
should be slow in listening to criminal
accusations. _Pub. Syr._
=Difficilia quæ pulchra=--The really good is of difficult
attainment. _L. Pr._
=Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus es idem; /
Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te=--Cross
but easy-minded, pleasant and sour together; I
can neither live with thee nor yet without thee.
_Mart._
=Difficilis in otio quies=--Tranquillity is difficult if
one has nothing to do.
=Difficilius est sarcire concordiam quam rumpere=--It 35
is more difficult to restore harmony
than sow dissension.
=Difficult to sweep the intricate foul chimneys
of law.= _Carlyle._
=Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.=
_Channing._
=Difficulties are things that show what men
are.= _Epictetus._
=Difficulties may surround our path, but if the
difficulties be not in ourselves, they may
generally be overcome.= _Jowett._
=Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does
the body.= _Sen._
=Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are
the allurements that act on the heart of
man. Kindle the inner genial life of him,
you have a flame that burns up all lower
considerations.= _Carlyle._
=Diffugiunt, cadis / Cum fæce siccatis, amici, /
Ferre jugum pariter dolosi=--When the wine-casks
are drained to the lees, our friends soon
disperse, too faithless to bear as well the yoke of
misfortune. _Hor._
=Diffused knowledge immortalises itself.= _Sir J._ 5
_Macintosh._
=Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they
continue long together.= _Ovid._
=Dignity consists not in possessing honours,
but in deserving them.= _Arist._
=Dignity is often a veil between us and the real
truth of things.= _Whipple._
=Dignity of position adds to dignity of character,
as well as dignity of carriage.= _Bovee._
=Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori=--The 10
Muse takes care that the man who is worthy
of honour does not die. _Hor._
=Digressions in a book are like foreign troops
in a state, which argue the nation to want a
heart and hands of its own; and often either
subdue the natives, or drive them into the
most unfruitful corners.= _Swift._
=Digressions incontestably are the sunshine;
they are the life, the soul of reading.= _Sterne._
=Dii laboribus omnia vendunt=--The gods sell all
things to hard labour. _Pr._
=Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and
lower degree.
=Dii majorum gentium=--The twelve gods of the 15
highest order.
=Dii penates=--Household gods.
=Di irati laneos pedes habent=--The gods when
angry have their feet covered with wool. _Pr._
=Dii rexque secundent=--May God and the king
favour us. _M._
=Diis aliter visum=--The gods have decreed otherwise.
_Virg._
=Diis proximus ille est / Quem ratio, non ira= 20
=movet=--He is nearest to the gods whom reason,
not passion, impels. _Claud._
=Dilationes in lege sunt odiosæ=--Delays in the
law are odious. _L._
=Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind
of amateur-search for truth, toying and
coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin,
the root of all imaginable sins.= _Carlyle._
=Dilexi justiciam et odi iniquitatem, propterea
morior in exilio=--I have loved justice and hated
injustice, therefore die I an exile. _Gregory VII.
on his death-bed._
=Diligence increases the fruits of labour.= _Hesiod._
=Diligence is the mother of good fortune.= _Cervantes._ 25
=Diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquæ
continentur=--Diligence, the one virtue that
embraces in it all the rest. _Cic._
=Diligent, that includes all virtues in it a student
can have.= _Carlyle, to the Students of
Edinburgh University._
=Diligent working makes an expert workman.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Diligitur nemo, nisi cui fortuna secunda est=--Only
he is loved who is the favourite of fortune.
_Ovid._
=Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet=--He who has 30
begun has half done. _Hor._
=Ding (knock) down the nests, and the rooks
will flee awa.= _Sc. Pr., used to justify the demolition
of the religious houses at the Reformation._
=Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good man
say that a curse was like a stone flung up to
the heavens, and maist like to return on his
head that sent it.= _Scott._
=Dinna gut your fish till you get them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna lift me before I fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna scald your ain mou' wi ither folk's kail= 35
=(broth).= _Sc. Pr._
=Di nos quasi pilas homines habent=--The gods
treat us mortals like so many balls to play with.
_Plaut._
=Diogenes has well said that the only way to
preserve one's liberty was being always
ready to die without pain.= _Goethe._
=Dios es el que sana, y el médico lleva la plata=--Though
God cures the patient, the doctor
pockets the fee. _Sp. Pr._
=Dios me dé contienda con quien me entienda=--God
grant me to argue with such as understand
me. _Sp. Pr._
=Di picciol uomo spesso grand' ombra=--A little 40
man often casts a long shadow. _It. Pr._
=Dira necessitas=--Cruel necessity. _Hor._
=Dirigo=--I direct. _M._
=Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the
wrong place.= _Palmerston._
=Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis=--He
pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into
round. _Hor._
=Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule=--Misfortune 45
was for thee a hard school. _Schiller._
=Disappointment is often the salt of life.= _Theodore
Parker._
=Disasters, do the best we can, / Will reach
both great and small; / And he is oft the
wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=Disce aut discede=--Learn or leave.
=Disce pati=--Learn to endure.
=Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,= 50
=/ Fortunam ex aliis=--Learn, my son,
valour and patient toil from me, good fortune
from others. _Virg._
=Disciplined inaction.= _Sir J. Macintosh._
=Discipulus est prioris posterior dies=--Each
succeeding day is the scholar of the preceding.
_Pub. Syr._
=Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos=--Warned
by me, learn justice, and not to despise
the gods. _Virg._
=Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius illud /
Quod quis deridet quam quod probat et
veneratur=--Each learns more readily, and retains
more willingly, what makes him laugh
than what he approves of and respects. _Hor._
=Discontent is like ink poured into water, which= 55
=fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It
casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it
more occupied about the evil which disquiets
it than about the means of removing it.=
_Feltham._
=Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is
infirmity of will.= _Emerson._
=Discontent makes us to lose what we have;
contentment gets us what we want. Fretting
never removed a cross nor procured
a comfort; quiet submission doth both.=
_Jacomb._
=Discontents are sometimes the better part of
our life.= _Feltham._
=Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.=
_Spenser._
=Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.= 5
_Fr. Pr._
=Discrepant facta cum dictis=--The facts don't
agree with the statements. _Cic._
=Discretion / And hard valour are the twins of
honour, / And, nursed together, make a
conqueror; / Divided, but a talker.= _Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a
guide to us in all the duties of life.= _La
Bruyère._
=Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of
life; the one preserves, the other sweetens
it.= _Bovee._
=Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,= 10
=and to speak agreeably to him with whom
we deal is more than to speak in good words
or in good order.= _Bacon._
=Discretion, the best part of valour.= _Beaumont
and Fletcher._
=Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye, /
Misprising what they look on.= _Much Ado_,
iii. 1.
=Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In
strange eruptions, and the teeming earth /
Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd /
By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within
her womb, which, for enlargement striving, /
Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples
down / Steeples and moss-grown towers.=
_Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate
appliance are relieved, / Or not at all.=
_Ham._, iv. 3.
=Diseur de bons mots=--A sayer of good things; 15
a would-be wit. _Fr._
=Diseuse de bonne aventure=--A mere fortune-teller.
_Fr._
=Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime
than in the punishment.= _Bacon._
=Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman,
woman rules us still.= _Moore._
=Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery,
thou art a bitter draught.= _Sterne._
=Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for= 20
=temporary advantages.= _Bovee._
=Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves
as well as others; honest men know
and confess them.= _Bovee._
=Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance
any day in the week, if there is anything
to be got by it.= _Dickens._
=Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain /
Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the
crime / Of cowards.= _C. Johnson._
=Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.=
=Disjecta membra=--Scattered remains. 25
=Disjecti membra poetæ=--Limbs of the dismembered
poet. _Hor._
=Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli=--Dash
the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of
wicked war. _Virg._
=Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your
flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they
make no battery.= _Shakespeare._
=Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the
broad way to ruin.= _D. Davies._
=Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an= 30
=antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a
soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face
of a housemaid is.= _Ruskin._
=Disorder is dissolution, death.= _Carlyle._
=Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes
everything.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Disponendo me, non mutando me=--By displacing,
not by changing me. _M._
=Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies=--The
itch for controversy is the scab of the Church.
_Wotton._
=Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, /= 35
=Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.=
_Garth._
=Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of
perfidy in old age.= _Blair._
=Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh
a strong wit and a strong heart to know
when to tell the truth and to do it.= _Bacon._
=Distance produces in idea the same effect as
in real perspective.= _Scott._
=Distance sometimes endears friendship, and
absence sweeteneth it.= _Howell._
=Distinction is an eminence that is attained but= 40
=too frequently at the expense of a fireside.=
_Simms._
=Distinction is the consequence, never the
object, of a great mind.= _W. Allston._
=Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan /
Puffing at all, winnows the light away.= _Troil.
and Cress._, i. 3.
=Distingué=--Distinguished; eminent; gentlemanlike.
_Fr._
=Distinguished talents are not necessarily connected
with discretion.= _Junius._
=Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the= 45
=dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.=
_Willmott._
=Distrahit animum librorum multitudo=--A multitude
of books distracts the mind. _Sen._
=Distrait=--Absent in mind. _Fr._
=Distressed valour challenges great respect,
even from enemies.= _Plutarch._
=Distringas=--You may distrain. _L._
=Distrust and darkness of a future state /= 50
=Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate, /
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To
be we know not what, we know not where.=
_Dryden._
=Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que
tu es=--Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you
what you are. _Brillat-Savarin._
=Ditissimus agris=--An extensive landed proprietor.
=Di tutte le arti maestro è amore=--Love is master
of all arts. _It. Pr._
=Diversité, c'est ma devise=--Variety, that is my
motto. _La Fontaine._
=Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis=--Rich 55
in lands, rich in money laid out at interest.
_Hor._
=Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres=--A
rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one.
_Pr._
=Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet
amplius=--He is rich who wishes no more than
he has. _Cic._
=Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who
wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so
at once. _Juv._
=Divide et impera=--Divide and govern.
=Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit= 5
=urbes=--Divine nature gave the fields,
man's invention built the cities. _Varro._
=Divination seems heightened to its highest
power in woman.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its
early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom
is heaven.= _Hervey._
=Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed
soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was
spoken: Let there be light. Even to the
greatest that has felt such a moment, is it
not miraculous and God-announcing; even
as, under simpler figures, to the humblest
and least?= _Carlyle._
=Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We
first distinguish, then pursue the right; /
Thy power the breast from every error
frees, / And weeds out all its vices by
degrees.= _Juv._
=Divine= _right_, =take it on the great scale, is found= 10
=to mean divine= _might_ =withal.= _Carlyle._
=Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, /
And draw the distant landscape as they
please.= _Dryden._
=Divinity should be empress, and philosophy
and other arts merely her servants.= _Luther._
=Divitiæ grandes homini sunt, vivere parce /
Æquo animo=--It is great wealth to a man to
live frugally with a contented mind. _Lucr._
=Divitiæ virum faciunt=--Riches make the man.
=Divitiarum et formæ gloria fluxa atque fragilis;= 15
=virtus clara æternaque habetur=--The glory of
wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue
is illustrious and everlasting. _Sall._
=Divitis servi maxime servi=--Servants to the rich
are the most abject.
=Divorce from this world is marriage with the
next.= _Talmud._
=Dla przyjaciela nowego / Nie opuszczaj starego!=--To
keep a new friend, never break with
the old. _Russ. Pr._
=Do as others do, and few will laugh at you.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Do as the bee does with the rose, take the= 20
=honey and leave the thorn.= _Amer. Pr._
=Do as the lassies do; say "No" and tak' it.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Dobrze to w kazdym znale['s]['c] przyjaciela!=--How
delightful to find a friend in every one.
_Brodzinski._
=Docendo discimus=--We learn by teaching.
=Dochters zijn broze waren=--Daughters are
fragile ware. _Dut. Pr._
=Doch werdet ihr nie Herz zu Herzen schaffen /= 25
=Wenn es auch nicht von Herzen geht=--Yet
will ye never bring heart to heart unless it goes
out of your own. _Goethe._
=Dociles imitandis / Turpibus ac pravis omnes
sumus=--We are all easily taught to imitate what
is base and depraved. _Juv._
=Docti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem=--The
learned understand the principles
of art, the unlearned feel the pleasure only.
_Quinct._
=Doctor Luther's shoes don't fit every village
priest.= _Ger. Pr._
=Doctor utriusque legis=--Doctor of both civil and
canon law.
=Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam / Rectique= 30
=cultus pectora roborant=--But instruction improves
the innate powers, and good discipline
strengthens the heart. _Hor._
=Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set
up and stuffed.= _Ward Beecher._
=Does Homer interest us now, because he wrote
of what passed beyond his native Greece,
and two centuries before he was born; or
because he wrote what passed in God's world,
which is the same after thirty centuries?=
_Carlyle._
=Do faita dicha, por demas es diligencia=--Diligence
is of no use where luck is wanting.
_Sp. Pr._
=Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite
sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar
ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning
in the sound.= _Gay._
=Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish= 35
=know it not, the Lord will.= _Turk. Pr._
=Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.=
_Pope._
=Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy
enemy to gain him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Dogs should not be taught to eat leather (so indispensable
for leashes and muzzles).= _Ger. Pr._
=Dogs that bark at a distance ne'er bite at hand.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Doing good is the only certainly happy action= 40
=of a man's life.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.=
_Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=Doing is the great thing; for if people resolutely
do what is right, they come in time
to like doing it.= _Ruskin._
=Doing leads more surely to saying than saying
to doing.= _Vinet._
=Doing nothing is doing ill.= _Pr._
=Dolce far niente=--Sweet idleness. _It._ 45
=Dolci cose a vedere, e dolci inganni=--Things
sweet to see, and sweet deceptions. _Ariosto._
=Dolendi modus, timendi non autem=--There is
a limit to grief, but not to fear. _Pliny._
=Doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas=--Fraud is not
fraud, unless craftily planned. _Plaut._
=Dolium volvitur=--An empty vessel rolls easily. _Pr._
=Dolori affici, sed resistere tamen=--To be affected 50
with grief, but still to resist it. _Pliny._
=Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?=--Who
inquires in an enemy whether it be stratagem or
valour? _Virg._
=Dolus versatur in generalibus=--Fraud deals in
generalities. _L._
=Domandar chi nacque prima, l'uovo o la gallina=--Ask
which was first produced, the egg or the
hen. _It. Pr._
=Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our
pursuits, and the common reward of all our
pains.= _Fielding._
=Domestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness= 55
=that has survived the Fall.= _Cowper._
=Domi manere convenit felicibus=--Those who are
happy at home should remain at home. _Pr._
=Domine, dirige nos=--Lord, direct us!
=Domini pudet, non servitutis=--I am ashamed of
my master, but not of my condition as a servant.
_Sen._
=Dominus illuminatio mea=--The Lord is my light.
_M._
=Dominus providebit=--The Lord will provide. _M._ 5
=Dominus videt plurimum in rebus suis=--The
master sees best in his own affairs. _Phæd._
=Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo=--The
Lord be with you, and with thy spirit.
=Domitæ naturæ=--Of a tame nature.
=Domus amica domus optima=--The house of a
friend is the best house.
=Domus et placens uxor=--Thy house and pleasing 10
wife.
=Domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium=--The
safest place of refuge for every man is his own
home. _Coke._
=Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ, et / Linque
severa=--Gladly enjoy the gifts of the present
hour, and banish serious thoughts. _Hor._
=Donatio mortis causa=--A gift made in prospect
of death. _L._
=Don de plaire=--The gift of pleasing. _Fr._
=Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos; /= 15
=Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris=--So
long as you are prosperous you will reckon
many friends; if fortune frowns on you, you
will be alone. _Ovid._
=Done to death by slanderous tongues.= _Much
Ado_, v. 3.
=Donna di finestra, uva di strada=--A woman at
the window is a bunch of grapes by the wayside.
_It. Pr._
=Donna è mobile come piume in vento=--Woman is
as changeable as a feather in the wind. _Verdi._
=Donner de si mauvaise grâce qu'on n'a pas
d'obligation=--To give so ungraciously as to do
away with any obligation. _Fr._
=Donner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable=--To 20
give one candle to God and another to the
devil. _Fr. Pr._
=Donnez, mais, si vous pouvez, épargnez au
pauvre, la honte de tendre la main=--Give,
but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of
holding out the hand. _Diderot._
=Dono dedit=--Gave as a gift.
=Do not allow your daughters to be taught
letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or
a St Francis of Assisi. The saints are in
heaven.= _Bp. Liguori._
=Do not ask if a man has been through college.
Ask if a college has been through him.=
_Chapin._
=Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show= 25
=me the steep and thorny way to heaven, /
Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, /
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, /
And recks not his own rede.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Do not flatter your benefactors.= _Buddhist Pr._
=Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose /
That you resolv'd to effect.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.
=Do not give dalliance / Too much the rein; the
strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the
blood. Be more abstemious, / Or else good
night your vow.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.= _Pr._
=Do not lose the present in vain perplexities= 30
=about the future. If fortune lours to-day,
she may smile to-morrow.= _Sir T. Martin._
=Do not refuse the employment which the
hour brings you for one more ambitious.=
_Emerson._
=Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Do not tell a friend anything that you would
conceal from an enemy.= _Ar. Pr._
=Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and
one as slight, and another as unintended.
Cast them all aside; it is better our hearts
should be swept clean of them.= _Ruskin._
=Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness;= 35
=but direct them to it by what amuses
their minds, so that you may be the better
able to discover with accuracy the peculiar
bent of the genius of each.= _Plato._
=Do not trouble yourself too much about the
light on your statue; the light of the public
square will test its value.= _Michael Angelo to
a young sculptor._
=Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher.
Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative
propositions. Nerve us with incessant
affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection,
nor bark against the bad, but chant the
beauty of the good.= _Emerson._
=Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.=
_Holmes._
=Don't budge, if you are at ease where you are.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative.= 40
_Dan. Pr._
=Don't dissipate your powers; strive constantly
to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can
do whatever it sees others doing, but it is
sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.=
_Goethe._
=Don terrible de la familiarité=--The terrible gift
of familiarity. _Mirabeau._
=Don't fly till your wings are fledged.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't hate; only pity and avoid those that
follow lies.= _Carlyle._
=Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear= 45
=it should get blunted.= _Cervantes._
=Don't quit the highway for a short cut.= _Port.
Pr._
=Don't reckon your chickens before they are
hatched.= _Pr._
=Don't throw away the old shoes till you've got
new ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Donum exitiale Minervæ=--The fatal gift to
Minerva, _i.e._, the wooden horse, by means of
which the Greeks took Troy. _Virg._
=Do on the hill as ye do in the ha'.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot, /
Thy heart will cheer thee when the pain's
forgot; / Do wrong for pleasure's sake, then
count thy gains, / The pleasure soon departs,
the sin remains.= _Bp. Shuttleworth._
=Dormit aliquando jus, moritur nunquam=--A
right is sometimes in abeyance, but never abolished.
_L._
=Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur=--The
law sleeps sometimes, but never dies.
_L._
=Dos d'âne=--Saddleback (_lit._ ass's back). _Fr._
=Dos est magna parentum / Virtus=--The virtue 55
of parents is a great dowry. _Hor._
=Dos est uxoria lites=--Strife is the dowry of a
wife. _Ovid._
[Greek: Dosis d' oligê te, philê te]--Gift both dainty and
dear. _Hom._
=Dos linajes solo hay en el mundo, el "tener"
y el "no tener"=--There are but two families
in the world, those who have, and those who
have not. _Cervantes._
[Greek: Dos moi pou stô kai tên gên kinêsô]--Give
me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
_Archimedes._
=Dost thou love life? Then do not squander= 5
=time, for that is the stuff life is made of.=
_B. Franklin._
=Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say
aye; / And I will take thy word. Yet if
thou swear'st, / Thou may'st prove false; at
lovers' perjuries / They say Jove laughs.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee
straight / Adonis painted by a running
brook; / And Cytherea all in sedges hid; /
Which seem to move and wanton with her
breath; / Even as the waving sedges play
with wind.= _Tam. the Shrew_, Ind. 2.
=Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
there are to be no more cakes and ale?=
_Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot
hope too much or dare too much.= _Emerson._
=Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every= 10
=duty which is bidden to wait returns with
seven fresh duties at its back.= _Kingsley._
=Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. Thy
second duty will already have become clearer.=
_Carlyle._
=Do thine own task, and be therewith content.=
_Goethe._
=Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the
meat in his youth that he cannot endure in
his age.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, /
Or wilt thou go ask the mole?= _William
Blake._
=Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know, /= 15
=Great men can do their greatest work no
better than just so.= _Goethe._
=Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn,
and caldron bubble.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=Double, double toil and trouble; that is the
life of all governors that really govern; not
the spoil of victory, only the glorious toil of
battle can be theirs.= _Carlyle._
=Double entendre=--A double meaning. _Fr._
=Double entente=--Double signification. _Fr._
=Doubting the reality of love leads to doubting= 20
=everything.= _Amiel._
=Doubting things go ill often hurts more / Than
to be sure they do.= _Cymbeline_, i. 7.
=Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient
inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Doubt is the abettor of tyranny.= _Amiel._
=Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass
before they can enter into the temple of
wisdom.= _Colton._
=Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being= 25
=cheated as to cheat.= _Butler._
=Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except
by action.= _Goethe._
=Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that
the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a
liar; / But never doubt I love.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Douceur=--A bribe. _Fr._
=Do ut des=--I give that you may give. _Maxim
of Bismarck._
=Doux yeux=--Tender glances. _Fr._ 30
=Dove bisognan rimedj, il sospirar non vale=--Where
remedies are needed, sighing is of no use.
_It. Pr._
=Dove è grand'amore, quivi è gran dolore=--Where
the love is great the pain is great. _It. Pr._
=Dove è il Papa, ivi è Roma=--Where the Pope is,
Rome is. _It. Pr._
=Dove è l'amore, là è l'occhio=--Where love is, there
the eye is. _It. Pr._
=Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna=--When 35
wine enters modesty goes. _It. Pr._
=Dove la voglia è pronta, le gambe son leggiere=--When
the will is prompt, the legs are light.
_It. Pr._
=Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt
a' men.= _Sc. Pr._
=Do we not all submit to death? The highest
sentence of the law, sentence of death, is
passed on all of us by the fact of birth; yet
we live patiently under it, patiently undergo
it when the hour comes.= _Carlyle._
=Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of
scorn, / The love of love.= _Tennyson, of the
poet._
=Do what he will, he cannot realise / Half he= 40
=conceives--the glorious vision flies; / Go
where he may, he cannot hope to find / The
truth, the beauty pictured in the mind.=
_Rogers._
=Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if
we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.=
_Emerson._
=Down, thou climbing sorrow; / Thy element's
below.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Downward to climb and backward to advance.=
_Pope._
=Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Do you think the porter and the cook have no= 45
=anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for
you?= _Emerson._
=Do you wish to find out the really sublime?
Repeat the Lord's Prayer.= _Napoleon._
=Dramatis personæ=--Characters represented.
=Draw thyself from thyself.= _Goethe._
=Dream after dream ensues, / And still they
dream that they shall still succeed / And still
are disappointed.= _Cowper._
=Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no= 50
=end to illusion.= _Emerson._
=Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. /
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic
wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed
things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of
kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser
fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable
soul run mad.= _Dryden._
=Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things,
a semi-deliverance from the human prison.=
_Amiel._
=Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and
legend, who sport on the earth in the night
season, and melt away with the first beams
of the sun.= _Dickens._
=Dreams are the children of an idle brain, /
Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which
are as thin of substance as the air, / And
more inconstant than the wind.= _Rom. and
Jul._, i. 4.
=Dreams, books, are each a world; and books,
we know, / Are a substantial world, both
pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils
strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and
our happiness will grow.= _Wordsworth._
=Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance
of the ambitious is merely the shadow
of a dream.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Dreams, in general, take their rise from those
incidents that have occurred during the day.=
_Herodotus._
=Dreams in their development have breath /= 5
=And tears and torture and the touch of joy; /
They leave a weight upon our waking
thoughts; / They take a weight from off
our waking toils; / They do divide our
being; they become a portion of ourselves
as of our time, / And look like heralds of
eternity.= _Byron._
=Dreigers vechten niet=--Those who threaten don't
fight. _Dut. Pr._
=Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of
mankind.= _Sir J. Barrington._
=Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor
in debt, nor his wife a widow.= _John Neal._
=Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing
without reading it.= _Port. Pr._
=Drink not the third glass, which thou canst= 10
=not tame / When once it is within thee; but
before, / May'st rule it as thou list; and pour
the shame, / Which it would pour on thee,
upon the floor.= _G. Herbert._
=Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will
pledge with mine; / Or leave a kiss but in
the cup, / And I'll not look for wine.= _Ben
Jonson._
=Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and
running waters out of thine own well.= _Bible._
=Drive a coach and six through an act of parliament.=
_Baron S. Rice._
=Drive a cow to the ha', and she'll run to the
byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Drive thy business, let not thy business drive= 15
=thee.= _Franklin._
=Droit d'aubaine=--The right of escheat; windfall. _Fr._
=Droit des gens=--Law of nations. _Fr._
=Droit et avant=--Right and forward. _Fr._
=Droit et loyal=--Right and loyal. _Fr._
=Drones hive not with me.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 5. 20
=Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.= _Bible._
=Drudgery and knowledge are of kin, / And
both descended from one parent sin.= _S. Butler._
=Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution
or of a bad memory;--of a constitution so
treacherously good than it never bends till
it breaks; or of a memory that recollects
the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets
the pains of getting sober.= _Colton._
=Drunkenness is voluntary madness.= _Sen._
[Greek: Dryos pesousês pas anêr xyleuetai]--When an 25
oak falls, every one gathers wood. _Men._
=Dry light is ever the best=, _i.e._, from one who, as
disinterested, can take a dispassionate view of a
matter. _Heraclitus._
=Dry shoes won't catch fish.= _Gael. Pr._
=Duabus sedere sellis=--To sit between two stools.
=Du bist am Ende was du bist=--Thou art in the
end what thou art. _Goethe._
=Dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus=--By way 30
of doubting we arrive at the truth. _Cic._
=Dubiam salutem qui dat afflictis, negat=--He
who offers to the wretched a dubious deliverance,
denies all hope. _Sen._
=Ducats are clipped, pennies are not.= _Ger.
Pr._
=Duce et auspice=--Under his guidance and
auspices. _M._
=Duces tecum=--You must bring with you (certain
documents). _L._
=Duce tempus eget=--The time calls for a leader. 35
_Lucan._
=Du choc des esprits jaillissent les étincelles=--When
great spirits clash, sparks fly about. _Fr.
Pr._
=Ducis ingenium, res / Adversæ nudare solent,
celare secundæ=--Disasters are wont to reveal
the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal
them. _Hor._
=Ducit amor patriæ=--The love of country leads
me. _M._
=Du côté de la barbe est la toute-puissance=--The
male alone has been appointed to bear rule.
_Molière._
=Ductor dubitantium=--A guide to those in doubt. 40
=Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt=--Fate
leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. _Sen.
from Cleanthes._
=Du fort au faible=--On an average (_lit._ from the
strong to the weak). _Fr._
=Du glaubst zu schieben und du wirst geschoben=--Thou
thinkest thou art shoving and thou art
shoved. _Goethe._
=Du gleichst dem Geist, den du begreifst / Nicht
mir=--Thou art like to the spirit which thou comprehendest,
not to me. _Goethe._
=Du hast das nicht, was andre haben, /= 45
=Und andern mangeln deine Gabe; / Aus
dieser Unvollkommenheit / Entspringt die
Geselligkeit=--Thou hast not what others
have, and others want what has been given
thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship.
_Gellert._
=Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles
nous contemplent=--From the height of these
pyramids forty centuries look down on us.
_Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=Dulce domum=--Sweet home. _A school song._
=Dulce est desipere in loco=--It is pleasant to play
the fool (_i.e._ relax) sometimes. _Hor._
=Dulce est miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It
is a comfort to the wretched to have companions
in misfortune.
=Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori=--It is 50
sweet and glorious to die for one's country. _Hor._
=Dulce periculum=--Sweet danger. _M._
=Dulce sodalitium=--A pleasant association of
friends.
=Dulcibus est verbis alliciendus amor=--Love is
to be won by affectionate words. _Pr._
=Dulcique animos novitate tenebo=--And I will
hold your mind captive with sweet novelty.
_Ovid._
=Dulcis amor patriæ, dulce videre suos=--Sweet 55
is the love of country, sweet to see one's kindred.
_Ovid._
=Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; /
Expertus metuit=--The cultivation of friendship
with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced,
but he who has experienced it dreads it. _Hor._
=Dull, conceited hashes, / Confuse their brains
in college classes; / They gang in stirks,
and come oot asses, / Plain truth to speak.=
_Burns._
=Dull not device by coldness and delay.= _Othello_,
ii. 3.
=Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Dumbie winna lee.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, / More
than quick words do move a woman's mind.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Dum deliberamus quando incipiendum incipere
jam serum est=--While we are deliberating to
begin, the time to begin is past. _Quinct._
=Dum fata fugimus, fata stulti incurrimus=--While
we flee from our fate, we like fools rush
on it. _Buchanan._
=Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc
illuc impellitur=--While the mind is in suspense,
a very little sways it one way or other. _Ter._
=Dum lego, assentior=--Whilst I read, I assent. 10
_Cic._
=Dum loquor, hora fugit=--While I am speaking,
time flies. _Ovid._
=Dummodo morata recte veniat, dotata est
satis=--Provided she come with virtuous principles,
a woman brings dowry enough. _Plaut._
=Dummodo sit dives, barbarus ipse placet=--If
he be only rich, a very barbarian pleases us.
_Ovid._
=Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi æstimo=--So
be I do not die for evil-doing, I care little for
dying. _Plaut._
=Du moment qu'on aime, on devient si doux=--From 15
the moment one falls in love, one becomes
sweet in the temper. _Marmontel._
=Dum se bene gesserit=--So long as his behaviour
is good. _L._
=Dum singuli pugnant, universi vincuntur=--While
they fight separately, the whole are conquered.
_Tacit._
=Dum spiro, spero=--While I breathe, I hope. _M._
=Dum tacent, clamant=--While silent, they cry
aloud, _i.e._, their silence bespeaks discontent.
_Cic._
=Du musst steigen oder sinken, / Du musst herrschen= 20
=und gewinnen, / Oder dienen und verlieren, /
Leiden oder triumphiren, / Amboss
oder Hammer sein=--Thou must mount up or
sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose,
suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer. _Goethe._
=Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores: /
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede=--While
your strength and years permit, you should endure
labour; bowed old age will soon come on
with silent foot. _Ovid._
=Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt=--While
fools shun one set of faults, they run into
the opposite one. _Hor._
=Dum vivimus, vivamus=--While we live, let us
live. _M._
=D'une vache perdue, c'est quelque chose de
recouvrer la queue=--When a cow is lost, it
is something to recover the tail. _Fr. Pr._
=Duo quum faciunt idem non est idem=--When 25
two do the same thing, it is not the same. _Ter._
=Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit=--He
who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.
_Pr._
=Dupes indeed are many; but of all dupes there
is none so fatally situated as he who lives in
undue terror of being duped.= _Carlyle._
=Durante beneplacito=--During good pleasure.
=Durante vita=--During life.
=Dura più incudine che il martello=--The anvil 30
lasts longer than the hammer. _It. Pr._
=Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Be
patient, and preserve yourself for better
times. _Virg._
=Durch Vernünfteln wird Poesie vertrieben /
Aber sie mag das Vernüftige lieben=--Poetry
loves what is true in reason, but is scared away
(dispersed) by subtlety in reasoning. _Goethe._
=Durum et durum non faciunt murum=--Hard
and hard (_i.e._, without mortar) do not make a
wall.
=Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid
corrigere est nefas=--'Tis hard! But that
which we are not permitted to correct is rendered
lighter by patience. _Hor._
=Durum telum necessitas=--Necessity is a hard 35
weapon. _Pr._
=Du sollst mit dem Tode zufrieden sein. / Warum
machst du dir das Leben zur Pein?=--Thou
shouldst make peace (_lit._ be content) with death.
Why then make thy life a torture to thee?
_Goethe._
=Dusting, darning, drudging, nothing is great
or small, / Nothing is mean or irksome: love
will hallow it all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Dust long outlasts the storied stone.= _Byron._
=Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.=
_Bible._
=Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas=--There 40
is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
_Napoleon._
=Dutchmen must have wide breeches.= _Fris.
Pr._
=Duties are but coldly performed which are but
philosophically fulfilled.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Duties are ours; events are God's.= _Cecil._
=Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is
content who to obey has learn'd.= _Sir E.
Brydges._
=Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify= 45
=the daughter's choice, / In that is due
obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her
alone.= _Moore._
=Duty, especially out of the domain of love,
is the veriest slavery in the world.= _J. G.
Holland._
=Duty has the virtue of making us feel the
reality of a positive world, while at the
same time it detaches us from it.= _Amiel._
=Duty is a power which rises with us in the
morning, and goes to bed with us in the
evening.= _Gladstone._
=Duty is the demand of the passing hour.=
_Goethe._
=Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few= 50
=terrors for a man with a great purpose.=
_Disraeli._
=Duty--the command of Heaven, the eldest voice
of God.= _Kingsley._
=Dux fœmina facti=--A woman the leader in the
deed. _Virg._
E.
=Each animal out of its habitat would starve.=
_Emerson._
=Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, /
Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.=
_Johnson._
=Each creature is only a modification of the
other; the likeness in them is more than the
difference, and their radical law is one and
the same.= _Emerson._
=Each creature seeks its perfection in another.=
_Luther._
=Each day still better other's happiness, / Until= 5
=the heavens, envying earth's good hap, /
Add an immortal title to your crown.= _Rich.
II._, i. 1.
=Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts
us to the next world, and the old man lives
among graves.= _Jean Paul._
=Each good thought or action moves / The dark
world nearer to the sun.= _Whittier._
=Each heart is a world. You find all within
yourself that you find without. The world
that surrounds you is the magic glass of the
world within you.= _Lavater._
=Each human heart can properly exhibit but
one love, if even one; the "first love, which
is infinite," can be followed by no second like
unto it.= _Carlyle._
=Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude= 10
=forefathers of the hamlet sleep.= _Gray._
=Each man begins the world afresh, and the
last man repeats the blunders of the first.=
_Amiel._
=Each man can learn something from his neighbour;
at least he can learn to have patience
with him--to live and let live.= _Kingsley._
=Each man has his fortune in his own hands,
as the artist has a piece of rude matter,
which he is to fashion into a certain shape.=
_Goethe._
=Each man has his own vocation; his talent is
his call. There is one direction in which all
space is open to him.= _Emerson._
=Each man sees over his own experience a= 15
=certain stain of error, whilst that of other
men looks fair and ideal.= _Emerson._
=Each man's chimney is his golden milestone,
is the central point from which he measures
every distance through the gateways of the
world around him.= _Longfellow._
=Each mind has its own method. A true man
never acquires after college rules.= _Emerson._
=Each must stand on his glass tripod, if he
would keep his electricity.= _Emerson._
=Each one of us here, let the world go how it
will, and be victorious or not victorious, has
he not a life of his own to lead?= _Carlyle._
=Each particle of matter is an immensity, each= 20
=leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable
compendium.= _Lavater._
=Each plant has its parasite, and each created
thing its lover and poet.= _Emerson._
=Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.=
_Sh._
=Each sin at heart is Deicide.= _Aubrey de Vere
(the younger)._
=Each substance of a grief hath twenty
shadows, / Which show like grief itself, but
are not so; / For sorrow's eye, glazed with
blinding tears, / Divides one thing entire to
many objects.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Each thing is a half, and suggests another thing= 25
=to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man,
woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in,
out; motion, rest; yea, nay.= _Emerson._
=Each thing lives according to its kind; the
heart by love, the intellect by truth, the
higher nature of man by intimate communion
with God.= _Chapin._
=Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in
time might make the worst man good.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Ea fama vagatur=--That report is in circulation.
=Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep that
always herd together.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Eamus quo ducit gula=--Let us go where our 30
appetite prompts us. _Virg._
=Early and provident fear is the mother of
safety.= _Burke._
=Early birds catch the worms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning
dew, / She sparkled, was exhaled, and went
to heaven.= _Young._
=Early master soon knave (servant).= _Sc. Pr._
=Early start makes easy stages.= _Amer. Pr._ 35
=Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy, and wise.= _Pr._
=Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed / Raw
Haste, half-sister to Delay.= _Tennyson._
=Earnest and sport go well together.= _Dan. Pr._
=Earnestness alone makes life eternity.= _Goethe._
=Earnestness in life, even when carried to an= 40
=extreme, is something very noble and great.=
_W. v. Humboldt._
=Earnestness is a quality as old as the heart of
man.= _G. Gilfillan._
=Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.=
_Pascal._
=Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance,
overcomes pain, strengthens weakness,
braves dangers, sustains hope, makes
light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of
weariness in overcoming them.= _Bovee._
=Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.=
_Bovee._
=Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand= 45
=sure.= _Browning._
=Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her
seat, / Sighing through all her work, gave
sign of woe / That all was lost.= _Milton._
=Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind
us of actions that have long preceded
our own, and its clustering tombstones loom
up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us
where so many human barks have struck
and gone down.= _Chapin._
=Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.=
_Moore._
=Earth hath nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.=
_Luther._
=Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle= 50
=her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.=
_Douglas Jerrold._
=Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that
springs to fall and blossoms but to die.=
_Kirke White._
=Earth, sea, man, are all in each.= _Dante
Gabriel Rossetti._
=Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in
sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.=
_Burial Service._
=Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to
man.= _Young._
=Earth with her thousand voices praises God.= 5
_Coleridge._
=Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every
common bush afire with God.= _Leigh._
=Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.=
_Lowell._
=Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Ea sola voluptas / Solamenque mali=--That was
his sole delight and solace in his woe. _Virg._
=East and west, home (hame) is best= _Eng. and_ 10
_Sc. Pr._
=Ea sub oculis posita negligimus; proximorum
incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--We disregard
the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent
to what is close at hand, we inquire after things
that are far away. _Pliny._
=Easy-crying widows take new husbands
soonest; there's nothing like wet weather
for transplanting.= _Holmes._
=Easy writing's curst hard reading.= _Sheridan._
=Eat at your own table as you would eat at the
table of the king.= _Confucius._
=Eat at your pleasure, drink in measure.= _Pr._ 15
=Eating little and speaking little can never do
harm.= _Pr._
=Eating the bitter bread of banishment.= _Rich.
II._, iii. 1.
=Eat in measure and defy the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Eat-weel's drink-weel's brither.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Eat what you like, but pocket nothing.= _Pr._
=Eau bénite de cour=--False promises (_lit._ holy
water of the court). _Fr._
=Eau sucrée=--Sugared water. _Fr._
[Greek: Heauton timôroumenos]--The self-tormentor.
_Menander._
=Ebbe il migliore / De' miei giorni la patria=--The 25
best of my days I devoted to my country. _It._
=E bello predicare il digiuno a corpo pieno=--It is
easy to preach fasting with a full belly. _It. Pr._
=Eben die ausgezeichnetsten Menschen bedürfen
der Religion am meisten, weil sie die
engen Grenzen unseres menschlichen Verstandes
am liebhaftesten empfinden=--It is
just the most eminent men that need religion
most, because they feel most keenly the narrow
limits of our human understanding. _Cötvös._
=Eben wo Begriffe fehlen, / Da stellt ein Wort
zur rechten Zeit sich ein=--It is just where ideas
fail that a word comes most opportunely to the
rescue. _Goethe._
=E buon comprare quando un altro vuol vendere=--It
is well to buy when another wishes to sell.
_It. Pr._
=Ecce homo=--Behold the man! _Pontius Pilate._ 30
=Ecce iterum Crispinus!=--Another Crispinus, by
Jove! (a profligate at the court of Domitian).
_Juv._
=Eccentricity has always abounded when and
where strength of character has abounded;
and the amount of eccentricity in a society
has been proportional to the amount of
genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to be
eccentric, marks the chief danger of the
time.= _J. S. Mill._
=Eccentricity is sometimes found connected
with genius, but it does not coalesce with
true wisdom.= _Jay._
=Ecce signum=--Here is the proof.
=Eccovi l'uom ch' è stato all'Inferno=--See, there's 35
the man that has been in hell. _It._ (_Said of
Dante by the people of Verona._)
=Echoes we: listen! / We cannot stay, / As
dewdrops glisten, / Then fade away.= _Shelley._
=Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.=
_Hawthorne._
[Greek: Echthros gar moi keinos, homôs Aïdao pylêsin, /
Hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de
bazei]--Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is
he who conceals one thing in his mind and utters
another. _Hom._
[Greek: Echthrôn adôra dôra]--An enemy's gifts are no
gifts. _Soph._
=Eclaircissement=--The clearing up of a thing. _Fr._ 40
=Eclat de rire=--A burst of laughter. _Fr._
=E cœlo descendit= [Greek: gnôthi seauton]--From heaven
came down the precept, "Know thyself." _Juv._
=Economy does not consist in the reckless reduction
of estimates; on the contrary, such a
course almost necessarily tends to increased
expenditure. There can be no economy
where there is no efficiency.= _Disraeli._
=Economy is an excellent lure to betray people
into expense.= _Zimmermann._
=Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so= 45
=hard to earn money as to spend it.= _Spurgeon._
=Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty,
and of ease, and the beauteous sister of
temperance, of cheerfulness, and health.=
_Johnson._
=Economy no more means saving money than
it means spending money. It means the administration
of a house, its stewardship;
spending or saving, that is, whether money
or time, or anything else, to the best possible
advantage.= _Ruskin._
=E contra=--On the other hand.
=E contrario=--On the contrary.
=Ecorcher l'anguille par la queue=--To begin at 50
the wrong end (_lit._ to skin an eel from the tail).
_Fr._
=Ecrasons l'infâme=--Let us crush the abomination,
_i.e._, superstition. _Voltaire._
=Edel ist, der edel thut=--Noble is that noble does.
_Ger. Pr._
=Edel macht das Gemüth, nicht das Geblüt=--It
is the mind, not the blood, that ennobles.
_Ger. Pr._
=Edel sei der Mensch / Hülfreich und gut / Denn
das allein / Unterscheidet ihn / Von allen
Wesen / Die wir kennen=--Be man noble, helpful,
and good; for that alone distinguishes him
from all the beings we know. _Goethe._
=Edition de luxe=--A splendid and expensive edition 55
of a book. _Fr._
=Editiones expurgatæ=--Editions with objectionable
passages eliminated.
=Editio princeps=--The original edition.
=Edo, ergo ego sum=--I eat, therefore I am.
_Monkish Pr._
=Educated persons should share their thoughts
with the uneducated, and take also a certain
part in their labours.= _Ruskin._
=Educate men without religion, and you make
them but clever devils.= _Wellington._
=Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment= 5
=which is at once best in quality and
infinite in quantity.= _H. Mann._
=Education begins its work with the first breath
of the child.= _Jean Paul._
=Education begins the gentleman, but reading,
good company, and reflection must finish
him.= _Locke._
=Education commences at the mother's knee,
and every word spoken within the hearing
of little children tends towards the formation
of character.= _H. Ballou._
=Education does not mean teaching people to
know what they do not know; it means
teaching them to behave as they do not
behave.= _Ruskin._
=Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness= 10
=of illustration, quickness, vigour, fancy,
words, images, and illustrations; it decorates
every common thing, and gives the power of
trifling without being undignified and absurd.=
_Sydney Smith._
=Education, however indispensable in a cultivated
age, produces nothing on the side of
genius. Where education ends, genius often
begins.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Education is a better safeguard of liberty than
a standing army.= _E. Everett._
=Education is generally the worse in proportion
to the wealth and grandeur of the parents.=
_D. Swift._
=Education is only like good culture; it changes
the size, but not the sort.= _Ward Beecher._
=Education is only second to nature.= _H. Bushnell._ 15
=Education is our only political safety. Outside
of this ark all is deluge.= _H. Mann._
=Education is the apprenticeship of life.= _Willmott._
=Education is the constraining and directing of
youth towards that right reason which the
law affirms, and which the experience of the
best of our elders has sanctioned as truly
great.= _Plato._
=Education is the only interest worthy the deep,
controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.=
_Wendell Phillips._
=Education is the leading human souls to what= 20
=is best, and making what is best of them.
The training which makes men happiest in
themselves also makes them most serviceable
to others.= _Ruskin._
=Education may work wonders as well in warping
the genius of individuals as in seconding
it.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Education of youth is not a bow for every man
to shoot in that counts himself a teacher,
but will require sinews almost equal to those
which Homer gave Ulysses.= _Milton._
=Education ought, as a first principle, to stimulate
the will to activity.= _Zachariae._
=Education should be as broad as man.= _Emerson._
[Greek: Ê hêkista ê hêdista]--Either the least or the 25
pleasantest.
=Een diamant van eene dochter wordt een glas
van eene vrouw=--A diamond of a daughter
becomes a glass of a wife. _Dut. Pr._
=Een dief maakt gelegenheid=--A thief makes opportunity.
_Dut. Pr._
=E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, /
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.=
_Gray._
=Een hond aan een been kent geene vrienden=--A
dog with a bone knows no friends. _Dut.
Pr._
=Een kleine pot wordt haast heet=--A little pot 30
becomes soon hot. _Dut. Pr._
=Eenmaal is geen gewoonte=--Once is no custom.
_Dut. Pr._
=Een once geduld is meer dan een pond verstand=--One
ounce of patience is worth more than
a pound of brains. _Dut. Pr._
=E'en though vanquished he could argue still.=
_Goldsmith._
[Greek: hê eudaimonia tôn autarchôn esti]--Happiness is
theirs who are sufficient for themselves. _Arist._
=Effloresco=--I flourish. _M._ 35
=Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum=--Riches,
the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
_Ovid._
=Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be
uniformly joyous,--a spirit all sunshine,--graceful
from very gladness,--beautiful because
bright.= _Carlyle._
=Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum
quemque consequitur=--Whoso despises
death escapes it, while it overtakes him
who is afraid of it. _Curt._
=E flamma cibum petere=--To live by desperate
means (_lit._ to seek food from the flames). _Pr._
=Efter en god Avler kommer en god Oder=--After 40
an earner comes a waster. _Dan. Pr._
=Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound.=
_Spenser._
=E fungis nati homines=--Upstarts (_lit._ men born
of mushrooms).
=Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to
be understood of the two.= _Sheridan._
[Greek: hê gar physis bebaion, ou ta chrêmata]--It is
only the character of a man, not his wealth, that
is stable. _Arist._
=Egen Arne er Guld værd=--A hearth of one's own 45
is worth gold. _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs and oaths are easily broken.= _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a
year, but a friend of thirty years is best.=
_It. Pr._
[Greek: Engya; para d' atê]--Be security, and mischief
is nigh. _Thales._
=Egli ha fatto il male, ed io mi porto la pena=--He
has done the mischief, and I pay the penalty.
_It. Pr._
=Egli vende l'uccello in su la frasca=--He sells the 50
bird on the branch. _It. Pr._
=Egli venderebbe sino alla sua parte del sole=--He
would sell even his share in the sun. _It. Pr._
[Greek: Hê glôss' omômoch', hê de phrên anômotos]--My
tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn.
_Eurip._
=Ego apros occido, alter fruitur pulpamento=--I
kill the boars, another enjoys their flesh. _Pr._
=Ego de caseo loquor, tu de creta respondes=--While
I talk to you of cheese, you talk to me of
chalk. _Erasmus._
=Ego ero post principia=--I will get out of harm's
way (_lit._ I will keep behind the first rank). _Ter._
=Ego et rex meus=--I and my king. _Cardinal
Wolsey._
=Ego hoc feci=--That was my doing.
=Egoism is the source and summary of all faults= 5
=and miseries whatsoever.= _Carlyle._
=Ego meorum solus sum meus=--I am myself the
only friend I have. _Ter._
=Ego nec studium sine divite vena, / Nec rude
quid prosit video ingenium=--I see not what
good can come from study without a rich vein of
genius, or from genius untrained by art. _Hor._
=Ego primam tollo, nominor quoniam Leo=--I
carry off the first share because my name is Lion.
_Phædr. in the fable of the lion a-hunting with
weaker companions._
=Ego, si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero
dives=--If I keep my good character, I shall be
rich enough. _Plaut._
=Ego spem pretio non emo=--I do not purchase 10
hope with money, _i.e._, I do not spend my resources
upon vain hopes. _Ter._
=Ego sum, ergo omnia sunt=--I am, and therefore
all things are.
=Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam=--I
am king of the Romans, and above grammar.
_The Emperor Sigismund at the Council of
Constance._
=Egotism erects its centre in itself; love places
it out of itself in the axis of the universal
whole.= _Schiller._
=Egotism is the tongue of vanity.= _Chamfort._
=Egotists are the pest of society.= _Emerson._ 15
=Egotists cannot converse; they talk to themselves
only.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Egregii mortalem, altique silenti=--A being of
extraordinary and profound silence. _Hor._
=Eher schätzet man das Gute / Nicht, als bis
man es verlor=--We do not learn to value our
blessings till we have lost them. _Herder._
=Ehestand, Wehestand=--State of wedlock, state of
sorrow. _Ger. Pr._
=Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, / Labuntur= 20
=anni, nec pietas moram / Rugis et instanti
senectæ / Afferet, indomitæque morti=--Alas!
Posthumus, our years glide fleetly away, nor can
piety stay wrinkles and advancing age and unvanquished
death. _Hor._
=Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia causis!=--Alas!
what trifling causes often wreck the
vastest enterprises. _Claud._
=Ehren und Leben / Kann Niemand zurück geben=--No
man can give back honour and life. _Ger. Pr._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie flechten und weben /
Himmlische Rosen ins irdische Leben=--Honour
to the women! they plait and weave
roses of heaven for the life of earth. _Schiller._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie stricken und weben /
Wollene Strümpfe fürs frostige Leben=--Honour
to the women! they knit and weave
worsted stockings for our frosty life. _Volkswitz._
=Ehrlich währt am längsten=--Honesty lasts 25
longest. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ei de theon anêr tis elpetai lathemen / Erdôn,
hamartanei]--If any man hopes that his deeds will
pass unobserved by the Deity, he is mistaken.
_Pindar._
=Eident (diligent) youth makes easy age.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer
sucht was Leiden schafft=--Jealousy is a passion
which seeks with zeal what yields only
misery. _Schleiermacher._
=Eigenliebe macht die Augen trübe=--Self-love
clouds the eyes. _Ger. Pr._
="Ei ist Ei," sagte der Küster, aber er nahm= 30
=das Gans Ei=--"An egg is an egg," said the
sexton, but he took the goose-egg. _Ger. Pr._
=Eild and poortith are ill to thole=, _i.e._, age and
poverty are hard to bear. _Sc. Pr._
=Eild should hae honour=, _i.e._, old people should.
_Sc. Pr._
=Eile mit Weile=--Haste with leisure. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein alter Fuchs läuft nicht zum zweiten Mal
in's Garn=--An old fox does not run into the snare
a second time. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Arzt darf auch dem Feind sich nicht= 35
=entziehen=--A physician may not turn his back
even on an enemy. _Gutzkow._
=Ein Augenblick, gelebt im Paradiese, / Wird
nicht zu theuer mit dem Tod gebüsst=--A
moment lived in paradise is not purchased too
dearly at the ransom of death. _Schiller._
=Einbildungskraft wird nur durch Kunst, besonders
durch Poesie geregelt. Es ist nichts
fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne
Geschmack=--Power of imagination is regulated
only by art, especially by poetry. There is
nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty
without taste. _Goethe._
=Einbläsereien sind der Teufels Redekunst=--Insinuations
are the devil's rhetoric. _Goethe._
=Ein Diadem erkämpfen ist gross; es wegwerfen
ist göttlich=--To gain a crown by fighting
for it is great; to reject it is divine. _Schiller._
=Ein Ding ist nicht bös, wenn man es gut= 40
=versteht=--A thing is not bad if we understand
it well. _Ger. Pr._
=Eine Bresche ist jeder Tag, / Die viele
Menschen erstürmen; / Wer da auch fallen
mag, / Die Todten sich niemals thürmen=--Every
day is a rampart breach which many men
are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming
of the slain. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort /
Der Frauen weit geführt=--A noble man is led
a long way by a good word from women. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an /
Und weiss sie fest zu halten=--A noble man
attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them
fast. _Goethe._
=Ein edles Beispiel macht die schweren Thaten
leicht=--A noble example makes difficult enterprises
easy. _Goethe._
=Eine grosse Epoche hat das Jahrhundert= 45
=geboren; / Aber der grosse Moment findet
ein kleines Geschlecht=--The century has given
birth to a great epoch, but it is a small race the
great moment appeals to. _Schiller._
=Eine Hälfte der Welt verlacht die andere=--One
half of the world laughs at the other half.
_Ger. Pr._
=Eine Handvoll Gewalt ist besser als Sackvoll
Recht=--A handful of might is better than a
sackful of right. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein eigen Herd, ein braves Weib, sind Gold
und Perlen werth=--A hearth of one's own and
a good wife are as good as gold and pearls.
_Ger. Pr._
=Einen Wahn verlieren macht weiser als eine
Wahrheit finden=--Getting rid of a delusion
makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.
_Börne._
=Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen=--One
can speak and seven can sing. _Ger. Pr._
=Einer neuen Wahrheit nichts ist schädlicher
als ein alter Irrtum=--Nothing is more harmful
to a new truth than an old error. _Goethe._
=Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert=--A
rose broken ere the storm stripped its
petals. _Lessing._
=Eine schöne Menschenseele finden / Ist Gewinn=--It 5
is a true gain to find a beautiful human soul.
_Herder._
=Ein Esel schimpft den andern Langohr=--One
ass nicknames another Longears. _Ger. Pr._
=Eines schickt sich nicht für Alle! / Sehe jeder
wie er's treibe, / Sehe jeder wo er bleibe, /
Und wer steht, dass er nicht falle=--One thing
does not suit every one; let each man see how he
gets on, where his limits are; and let him that
standeth take heed lest he fall. _Goethe._
=Ein Feind ist zu viel, und hundert Freunde
sind zu wenig=--One foe is too many, a hundred
friends are too few. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein fester Blick, ein hoher Mut, / Die sind zu
allen Zeiten gut=--A steady eye and a lofty mind
are at all times good. _Bechstein._
=Ein geistreich aufgeschlossenes Wort / Wirkt= 10
=auf die Ewigkeit.=--The influence of a spiritually
elucidated (or embodied) word is eternal. _Goethe._
=Eingestandene Uebereilung ist oft lehrreicher,
als kalte überdachte Unfehlbarkeit=--A confessed
precipitancy is often more instructive than
a coldly considered certainty. _Lessing._
=Ein Gift, welches nicht gleich wirkt, ist darum
kein minder gefährliches Gift=--A poison which
does not take immediate effect is therefore none
the less a dangerous poison. _Lessing._
=Ein Gott ist, ein heiliger Wille lebt, / Wie
auch der menschliche wanke; / Hoch über
der Zeit und dem Raume webt / Lebendig
der höchste Gedanke=--A god is, a holy will
lives, however man's will may waver; high over
all time and space the highest thought weaves
itself everywhere into life's web. _Schiller._
=Ein grosser Fehler; dass man sich mehr dünkt
als man ist, und sich weniger schätzt, als
man werth ist=--It is a great mistake for people
to think themselves more than they are, and
to value themselves less than they are worth.
_Goethe._
=Ein Herz das sich mit Sorgen quält / Hat= 15
=selten frohe Stunden=--A heart which tortures
itself with care has seldom hours of gladness.
_Old Ger. Song._
=Ein jeder ist sich selbst der grösste Feind=--Every
one is his own greatest enemy. _Schefer._
=Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt=--Though
every one lives it (life), it is not to many
that it is known. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder lernet nur, was er lernen kann; /
Doch der den Augenblick ergreift, / Das ist
der rechte Mann=--Each one learns only what
he can; yet he who seizes the passing moment
is the proper man. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder Wechsel schreckt den Glücklichen=--Every
change is a cause of uneasiness to the
favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Ein Komödiant könnt' einen Pfarren lehren=--A 20
playactor might instruct a parson. _Goethe._
=Ein Kranz ist gar viel leichter binden / Als
ihm ein würdig Haupt zu finden=--It is very
much easier to bind a wreath than to find a head
worthy to wear it. _Goethe._
=Ein langes Hoffen ist süsser, als ein kurzes
Ueberraschen=--A long hope is sweeter than a
short surprise. _Jean Paul._
=Ein leerer Sack steht nicht aufrecht=--An empty
sack does not stand upright. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein mächtiger Vermittler ist der Tod=--Death
is a powerful reconciler. _Schiller._
=Einmal gerettet, ist's für tausend Male=--To 25
be saved once is to be saved a thousand times.
_Goethe._
=Ein Mann der recht zu wirken denkt / Muss
auf das beste Werkzeug halten=--A man who
intends to work rightly must select the most
effective instrument. _Goethe._
=Ein Mann, ein Wort; ein Wort, ein Mann=--A
man, a word; a word, a man. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch
ohne Wille=--A man without understanding is
also a man without will or purpose. _Feuerbach._
=Ein Mühlstein wird nicht moosig=--A millstone
does not become covered with moss. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein niedrer Sinn ist stolz im Glück, im Leid= 30
=bescheiden; / Bescheiden ist im Glück ein
edler, stolz im Leiden=--A vulgar mind is proud
in prosperity and humble in adversity; a noble
mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity.
_Rückert._
=Ein "Nimm hin" ist besser als zehn "Helf
Gott"=--One "Take this" is better than ten of
"God help you." _Ger. Pr._
=Ein offenes Herz zeigt eine offene Stirn=--An
open brow shows an open heart. _Schiller._
=Ein Pfennig mit Recht ist besser denn tausend
mit Unrecht=--A penny by right is better than
a thousand by wrong. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Schauspiel für Götter, / Zwei Liebende
zu sehn!=--To witness two lovers is a spectacle
for gods. _Goethe._
=Ein Theil bin ich von jener Kraft, / Die stets= 35
=das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft=--I
am a part of that power which continually wills
the evil and continually creates the good. _Mephistopheles,
in "Faust."_
=Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen=--A
degree is the first thing necessary to bespeak
confidence in your profession. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Ein Tropfen Hass, der in dem Freudenbecher /
Zurückbleibt, macht den Segensdrank zum
Gifte=--A drop of hate that is left in the cup of
joy converts the blissful draught into poison.
_Schiller._
=Ein unterrichtetes Volk lässt sich leicht regieren=--An
educated people can be easily
governed. _Frederick the Great._
=Ein üppig lastervolles Leben büsst sich / In
Mangel und Erniedrigung allem=--Only in
want and degradation can a life of sensual profligacy
be atoned for. _Schiller._
=Ein Vater ernährt eher zehn Kinder, denn zehn= 40
=Kinder einen Vater=--One father supports ten
children sooner than ten children one father.
_Ger. Pr._
=Ein Vergnügen erwarten ist auch ein Vergnügen=--To
look forward to a pleasure is also a
pleasure. _Lessing._
=Ein Volk ohne Gesetze gleicht einem Menschen
ohne Grundsätze=--A people without laws is like
a man without principles. _Zachariæ._
=Ein vollkommener Widerspruch / Bleibt gleich
geheimnissvoll für Kluge wie für Thoren=--A
flat contradiction is ever equally mysterious to
wise folks as to fools. _Goethe._
=Ein Wahn der mich beglückt, / Ist eine Wahrheit
wert die mich zu Boden drückt=--An
illusion which gladdens me is worth a truth which
saddens me (_lit._ presses me to the ground).
_Wieland._
=Ein wandernd Leben / Gefällt der freien Dichterbrust=--A
wandering life delights the free
heart of the poet. _Arion._
=Ein wenig zu spät ist viel zu spät=--A little too
late is much too late. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fallen=--A little word can 5
slay him. _Luther, of the Pope._
=Ein Wort nimmt sich, ein Leben nie zurück=--A
word may be recalled, a life never. _Schiller._
[Greek: Eis anêr oudeis anêr]--One man is no man.
_Gr. Pr._
=Either sex alone is half itself.= _Tennyson._
=Eith (quickly) learned, soon forgotten.= _Sc. Pr._
[Greek: Ei ti agathon theleis, para seautou labe]--If 10
you would have anything good, seek for it
from yourself. _Arrian._
=Ejusdem farinæ=--Of the same kidney (_lit._ meal).
=Ejusdem generis=--Of the same kind.
=El agujero llama al ladron=--The hole tempts the
thief. _Sp. Pr._
=El amor verdadero no sufre cosa encubierta=--True
love suffers no concealment. _Sp. Pr._
=Elati animi comprimendi sunt=--Minds which are 15
too much elated ought to be kept in check.
=El corazon manda las carnes=--The heart bears
up the body. _Sp. Pr._
=El corazon no es traidor=--The heart is no traitor.
_Sp. Pr._
=El dar es honor, y el pedir dolor=--To give is
honour; to lose, grief. _Sp. Pr._
=El diablo saba mucho, porque es viejo=--The
devil knows a great deal, for he is old. _Sp.
Pr._
=El dia que te casas, ó te matas ó te sanas=--The 20
day you marry, it is either kill or cure. _Sp.
Pr._
=El Dorado=--A region of unimagined wealth fabled
at one time to exist in S. America; a dreamland
of wealth. _Sp._
=Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman,
dignity is proper to noblemen, and majesty
to kings.= _Hazlitt._
=Elegit=--He has chosen. A writ empowering a
creditor to hold lands for payment of a debt. _L._
=Elephants endors'd with towers.= _Milton._
=Elève le corbeau, il te crèvera les yeux=--Bring 25
up a raven, he will pick out your eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Elige eum cujus tibi placuit et vita et oratio=--Make
choice of him who recommends himself to
you by his life as well as address. _Sen._
=Elk het zijne is niet te veel=--Every one his
own is not too much. _Dut. Pr._
=Ell and tell is gude merchandise=, _i.e._, ready
money is. _Sc. Pr._
=Elle a trop de vertus pour n'être pas chrétienne=--She
has too many virtues not to be a Christian.
_Corn._
=Elle n'en fit point la petite bouche=--She did not 30
mince matters (_lit._ make a small mouth about
it). _Fr. Pr._
=Elle riait du bout des dents=--She gave a forced
laugh (_lit._ laughed with the end of her teeth).
_Fr. Pr._
=El malo siempre piensa engaño=--The bad man
always suspects some knavish intention. _Sp.
Pr._
=El mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae=--The
evil which issues from thy mouth falls into
thy bosom. _Sp. Pr._
=El mal que no tiene cura es locura=--Folly is
the one evil for which there is no remedy. _Sp.
Pr._
=Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and= 35
=sentiments to the subject in debate.= _Cic._
=Eloignement=--Estrangement. _Fr._
=Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little
room for reason or reflection, but addresses
itself entirely to the fancy or the affections,
captivates the willing hearers, and subdues
their understanding.= _Hume._
=Eloquence is a pictorial representation of
thought.= _Pascal._
=Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the
speaker.= _Wm. Pitt._
=Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to= 40
=feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens
as it burns.= _Tac._
=Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the
highest personal energy.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When
the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is
also clear.= _Disraeli._
=Eloquence is the language of nature, and
cannot be learned in the schools.= _Colton._
=Eloquence is the painting of thought; and
thus those who, after having painted it, still
add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait.=
_Pascal._
=Eloquence is the poetry of prose.= _Bryant._ 45
=Eloquence is the power to translate a truth
into language perfectly intelligible to the
person to whom you speak.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is to the sublime as a whole to its
part.= _La Bruyère._
=Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest
narrative.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence shows the power and possibility of
man.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.= 50
_Milton._
=Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should
start from the head of the orator, as Pallas
from the brain of Jove, completely armed
and equipped.= _Colton._
=El pan comido, la compañia deshecha=--The
bread eaten, the company dispersed. _Sp. Pr._
=El pie del dueño estierco para la heredad=--The
foot of the owner is manure for the farm. _Sp. Pr._
=El que trabaja, y madra, hila oro=--He that
labours and perseveres spins gold. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey va hasta do poede, y no hasta do quiere=--The 55
king goes as far as he may, not as far as
he would. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey y la patria=--For king and country. _Sp._
=El rio pasado, el santo olvidádo=--The river
(danger) past, the saint (delivery) forgotten. _Sp.
Pr._
=El sabio muda consejo, el necio no=--The wise
man changes his mind, the fool never. _Sp. Pr._
=El secreto á voces=--An open secret. _Calderon._
=El tiempo cura el enfermo, que ne el unguento=--It
is time and not medicine that cures the disease.
_Sp. Pr._
=Elucet maxime animi excellentia magnitudoque
in despiciendis opibus=--Excellence and
greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed
in contempt of riches.
=El villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde
quiera=--The clown in his own country, the gentleman
where he pleases. _Sp. Pr._
=Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, / Brought
from a pensive through a happy place.=
_Wordsworth._
=E mala cosa esser cattivo, ma è peggiore esser= 5
=conosciuto=--It is a bad thing to be a knave, but
worse to be found out. _It. Pr._
=Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse
est: / Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--Buy
not what you want, but what you need;
what you don't want is dear at a cent. _Cato._
=Embarras de richesses=--An encumbrance of
wealth. _D'Allainval._
=Embonpoint=--Plumpness or fulness of body.
_Fr._
=E meglio aver oggi un uovo, che dimani una
gallina=--Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.
_It. Pr._
=E meglio cader dalla finestra che dal tetto=--It 10
is better to fall from the window than the
roof. _It. Pr._
=E meglio dare che non aver a dare=--Better give
than not have to give. _It. Pr._
=E meglio domandar che errare=--Better ask than
lose your way. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse fortunato che savio=--'Tis better
to be born fortunate than wise. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse uccel di bosco che di gabbia=--Better
to be a bird in the wood than one in the
cage. _It. Pr._
=E meglio il cuor felice che la borsa=--Better the 15
heart happy than the purse (full). _It. Pr._
=E meglio lasciare che mancare=--Better leave
than lack. _It. Pr._
=E meglio perder la sella che il cavallo=--Better
lose the saddle than the horse. _It. Pr._
=E meglio sdrucciolare col piè che con la lingua=--Better
slip with the foot than the tongue.
_It. Pr._
=E meglio senza cibo restar che senz' onore=--Better
be without food than without honour.
_It. Pr._
=E meglio una volta che mai=--Better once than 20
never. _It. Pr._
=E meglio un buon amico che cento parente=--One
true friend is better than a hundred relations.
_It. Pr._
[Greek: hê men gar sophia ouden theôrei ex hôn estai
eudaimôn anthrôpos]--Wisdom never contemplates
what will make a happy man. _Arist._
=Emere malo quam rogare=--I had rather buy
than beg.
=Emerge from unnatural solitude, look abroad
for wholesome sympathy, bestow and receive.=
_Dickens._
=Emeritus=--One retired from active official duties. 25
=Emerson tells us to hitch our waggon to a star;
and the star is without doubt a good steed,
when once fairly caught and harnessed, but
it takes an astronomer to catch it.= _J.
Borroughs._
=Emerson wants Emersonian epigrams from
Carlyle, and Carlyle wants Carlylean thunder
from Emerson. The thing which a man's
nature calls him to do, what else is so well
worth his doing?= _John Borroughs._
=Eminent positions are like the summits of
rocks; only eagles and reptiles can get
there.= _Mme. Necker._
=Eminent stations make great men greater and
little men less.= _La Bruyère._
=Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil curo=--I 30
would not die, but care not to be dead.
_Cæs._
=Emotion is always new.= _Victor Hugo._
=Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought
is steeped, that which lends to thought its
tone or temperature, that to which thought is
often indebted for half its power.= _H. R.
Haweis._
=Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music;
and emotion quite as often precedes as
follows thought.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading
on to thought or action, is the element of
madness.= _John Sterling._
[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô pyri]--When I 35
am dead the earth will be mingled with fire.
_Anon._
=Empfindliche Ohren sind, bei Mädchen so
gut als bei Pferden, gute Gesundheitszeichen=--In
maidens as well as in horses, sensitive
ears are signs of good health. _Jean Paul._
=Empires and nations flourish and decay, / By
turns command, and in their turns obey.=
_Ovid._
=Empires are only sandhills in the hour-glass
of Time; they crumble spontaneously by the
process of their own growth.= _Draper._
=Empires flourish till they become commercial,
and then they are scattered abroad to the
four winds.= _Wm. Blake._
=Empirical sciences prosecuted simply for their= 40
=own sake, and without a philosophic tendency,
resemble a face without eyes.= _Schopenhauer._
=Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.=
_Johnson._
=Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.=
_D. Webster._
=Employment is enjoyment.= _Pr._
=Employment is Nature's physician, and is
essential to human happiness.= _Galen._
=Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain= 45
=leisure, and, since you are not sure of a
minute, throw not away an hour.= _Ben.
Franklin._
[Greek: Empodizei ton logon ho phobos]--Fear hampers
speech. _Demades._
=Empressement=--Ardour; warmth. _Fr._
=Empta dolore docet experientia=--Experience
bought with pain teaches effectually. _Pr._
=Empty vessels make the most noise.= _Pr._
=Emulation admires and strives to imitate great= 50
=actions; envy is only moved to malice.=
_Balzac._
=Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively
nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred
racer before he starts.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi=--Out of
much chaff I have gathered little grain. _Pr._
=Emunctæ naris=--Of nice discernment (_lit._ scent).
_Hor._
[Greek: Hena ... alla leonta]--One, but a lion. _Æsop._
=En ami=--As a friend. _Fr._
=En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent
nous embarrasse=--A third person is often an
annoyance to us in love as in friendship. _Fr._
=En arrière=--In the rear. _Fr._ 5
=En attendant=--In the meantime. _Fr._
=En avant=--Forward; on. _Fr._
=En badinant=--In jest. _Fr._
=En beau=--In a favourable light. _Fr._
=En bloc=--In a lump. _Fr._ 10
=En boca cerrada no entra mosca=--Flies don't
enter a shut mouth. _Sp. Pr._
=En bon train=--In a fair way. _Fr._
=En buste=--Half-length. _Fr._
=En cada tierra su uso=--Every country has its
own custom. _Sp. Pr._
=Encouragement after censure is as the sun= 15
=after a shower.= _Goethe._
=En cuéros=--Naked. _Sp._
=Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove
the existence of God, were like taking out a
candle to look for the sun.= _Carlyle, after
Kant._
=Endeavour not to settle too many habits at
once, lest by variety you confound them,
and so perfect none.= _Locke._
=En dernier ressort=--As a last resource. _Fr._
=En déshabille=--In an undress. _Fr._ 20
=En Dieu est ma fiance=--In God is my trust. _M._
=En Dieu est tout=--All depends on God. _M._
=Endurance is nobler than strength, and
patience than beauty.= _Ruskin._
=Endurance is the crowning quality, and
patience all the passion, of great hearts.=
_Lowell._
=En échelon=--Like steps. _Fr._ 25
=En effet=--In fact; substantially. _Fr._
=Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg=--Alone in counsel, alone
in sorrow. _Dan. Pr._
=En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar
redes=--It is in vain to cast nets in a river where
there are no fish. _Sp. Pr._
=En émoi=--In a flutter or ferment. _Fr._
=Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more= 30
=good may always be made of an energetic
nature than of an indolent and impassive one.=
_J. S. Mill._
=Energy will do anything that can be done in
this world; no talents, no circumstances, no
opportunities will make a two-legged animal
a man without it.= _Goethe._
[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]--In great
acts it is not our strength but our good fortune
that has triumphed. _Pindar._
=En famille=--In a domestic state. _Fr._
=Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait=--A child
spoiled by the world which he spoiled. _Said of
Voltaire._
=Enfants de famille=--Children of the family. _Fr._ 35
=Enfants perdus=--The forlorn hope (_lit._ lost
children). _Fr._
=Enfants terribles=--Dreadful children; precocious
youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance
of their more conservative seniors. _Fr._
=Enfant trouvé=--A foundling. _Fr._
=Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie=--To shut up
the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound
or a disease. _Fr. Pr._
=En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier=--Foxes 40
come to the furrier's in the end. _Fr. Pr._
=Enflamed with the study of learning and the
admiration of virtue; stirred up with high
hopes of living to be brave men and worthy
patriots, dear to God, and famous to all
ages.= _Milton._
=En foule=--In a crowd. _Fr._
=England expects this day that every man
shall do his duty.= _Nelson, his signal at
Trafalgar._
=England is a domestic country: here home
is revered and the hearth sacred.= _Disraeli._
=England is a paradise for women and a hell= 45
=for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and
a hell for women.= _Burton._
=England is safe if true within itself.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 1.
=English speech, the sea that receives tributaries
from every region under heaven.=
_Emerson._
=En grace affié=--On grace depend. _Fr._
=En grande tenue=--In full dress. _Fr._
=En habiles gens=--Like able men. _Fr._ 50
=Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not
the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self
to slavery by them that is.= _Carlyle._
=Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us;
effort, never.= _Jean Paul._
=Enjoyment stops when indolence begins.= _Pollock._
=Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends
them, and the evils bear patiently and
sweetly. For this day only is ours; we
are dead to yesterday and we are not born
to to-morrow.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly= 55
=dispense with what thou hast not. Every
condition has its own joys and sorrows.=
_Gellert._
=Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires
if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ
not is an oppressive burden; what the
moment brings forth, that only can it profit
by.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy when you can, and endure when you
must.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for
more.= _Sp. Pr._
=Enjoy your own life without comparing it with
that of another.= _Condorcet._
=En la cour du roi chacun y est pour soi=--In the 60
court of the king it is every one for himself. _Fr.
Pr._
=Enlarge not thy destiny; endeavour not to do
more than is given thee in charge.= _Gr. Oracle._
=En la rose je fleuris=--In the rose I flourish. _M._
=En mariage, comme ailleurs, contentement
passe richesse=--In marriage, as in other states,
contentment is better than riches. _Molière._
=En masse=--In a body. _Fr._
=En mauvaise odeur=--In bad repute. _Fr._ 65
=Ennemi ne s'endort=--An enemy does not go to
sleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ennui has perhaps made more gamblers than
avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and
perhaps as many suicides as despair.= _Colton._
=Ennui is a growth of English root, though
nameless in our language.= _Byron._
=Ennui is a word which the French invented,
though of all nations in Europe they know
the least of it.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui is our greatest enemy.= _Justus Möser._
=Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit
means of gratifying the desire.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its= 5
=light.= _Emerson._
=Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous
vices.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Enough is as good as a feast.= _Pr._
=Enough is better than too much.= _Pr._
=Enough is great riches.= _Dan. Pr._
=Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's= 10
=lives.= _Brothers Mayhew._
=Enough--no foreign foe could quell / Thy soul,
till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement
paved the way / To villain bonds and despot
sway.= _Byron._
=Enough requires too much; too much craves
more.= _Quarles._
=En papillote.=--In curl-papers. _Fr._
=En parole je vis=--I live by the word. _Fr._
=En passant=--By the way. _Fr._ 15
=En pension=--Board at a pension. _Fr._
=En petit champ croît bien bon blé=--Very good
corn grows in a little field. _Fr. Pr._
=En peu d'heure Dieu labeure=--God works in
moments, _i.e._, His work is soon done. _Fr._
=En plein jour=--In open day. _Fr._
=En potence=--In the form of a gallows. _Fr._ 20
=En présence=--In sight of each other. _Fr._
=En queue=--Behind.
=Enquire not what is in another man's pot.=
_Pr._
=En rapport=--In relation; in connection. _Fr._
=En règle=--According to rules. _Fr._ 25
=En resumé=--Upon the whole. _Fr._
=En revanche=--In revenge; to return; to make
amends. _Fr._
=En route=--On the way. _Fr._
=En salvo está el que repica=--He is in safe
quarters who sounds the alarm. _Sp. Pr._
=Ense et aratro=--With sword and plough. _M._ 30
=En suite=--In company. _Fr._
=En suivant la vérité=--In following the truth. _Fr._
=Entente cordiale=--A good or cordial understanding.
_Fr._
=Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.= _Longfellow._
=Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in= 35
=the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of
renown.= _Dr. Chalmers._
=Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and
interest to what has no immediate action on
our comfort in this world.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and
fuses all into one happy and harmonious
unity of feeling and sentiment.= _A. B.
Alcott._
=Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled;
mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical,
and passing in a moment from tears
to laughter.= _John Sterling._
=Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and
truth accomplishes no victories without it.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the= 40
=passing from the human to the divine.= _Emerson._
=Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be
measured by the horse-power of the understanding.=
_Emerson._
=Entienda primero, y habla postrero=--Hear first
and speak afterwards. _Sp. Pr._
=Entire affection hateth nicer hands.= _Spenser._
=Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry.=
_Leigh Hunt._
[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]--The 45
happiest life consists in knowing nothing. _Soph._
=Entourage=--Surroundings. _Fr._
=En toute chose il faut considérer la fin=--In
everything we must consider the end. _Fr._
=Entre chien et loup=--In the dusk (_lit._ between
dog and wolf). _Fr._
=Entre deux vins=--To be half-seas over; to be
mellow. _Fr._
=Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du= 50
=tout à sa partie=--Wit is to talent as a whole to
a part. _La Bruyère._
=Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence
de la cause à son effet=--Between good
sense and good taste, there is the same difference
as that between cause and effect. _La Bruyère._
=Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont
souvent les plus petits=--Of our enemies, the
smallest are often the most to be dreaded. _La
Fontaine._
=Entre nous=--Between ourselves. _Fr._
=Entzwei und gebiete=--Divide and rule. _Ger. Pr._
=Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein'= 55
=und leite, Bessrer Hort=--Divide and rule, an
excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.
=En vérité=--In truth.
=En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il
n'est pas pur=--Love, in fact, can never be deep
unless it is pure.
=En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage=--As
men grow old they become both foolisher
and wiser. _Fr. Pr._
=En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder=--One
who is willing to help does not wait till he is
asked. _Dan. Pr._
=Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture= 60
=of the love of justice in it. We are more angry
at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.=
_Hazlitt._
=Envy does not enter an empty house.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison
with the misery of others.= _Johnson._
=Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness
of another's prosperity, like the scorpion
confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself
to death.= _Colton._
=Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and
shame, that nobody ever had the confidence
to own it.= _Rochester._
=Envy is ignorance.= _Emerson._ 65
=Envy is littleness of soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.= _La
Roche._
=Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.= _Epictetus._
=Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring
of egotism.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the
stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing
but the fire of divine love can purge it from
the soul.= _H. Ballou._
=Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the
fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it
singles out the fattest deer in the flock.=
_J. Beaumont._
=Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means
an ill ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But,
like a shadow, proves the substance true.=
_Pope._
=Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus=--To cure all 5
by the same ointment.
=Eo instanti=--At that instant.
=Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur=--He
shone the brighter that he was not seen.
_Tac._
[Greek: Epea pteroenta]--Winged words. _Hom._
=Epicuri de grege porcus=--A pig of the flock of
Epicurus.
[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10
dynôntai]--In general men do wrong whenever
circumstances enable them. _Arist._
=E pluribus unum=--One of many.
="Eppur si muove"=--Yet it moves. _Galileo, after
he had been forced to swear that the earth stood
still._
=Equality= (Gleichheit) =is always the firmest bond
of love.= _Lessing._
=Equality= (_i.e._, in essential nature) =is the sacred
law of humanity.= _Schiller._
=Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte=--A better 15
horseman than Bellerophon himself. _Hor._
=Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi=--Horses
and poets should be fed, not pampered. _Charles
IX. of France._
=Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have
a measure ... (but) equity is according to
the conscience of him who is chancellor, and,
as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.=
_Selden._
=Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity.=
_Scott._
=Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying
is the whole way to hell.= _W. Penn._
=Equo frænato est auris in ore=--The ear of the 20
bridled horse is in the mouth. _Hor._
=Equo ne credite, Teucri=--Trust not the horse,
Trojans. _Virg._
=Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium
mandata interpretari, quam exsequi=--They
attended to their regulations, but still as
if they would rather debate about the commands
of their superiors than obey them. _Tacit._
=Erase que se era=--What has been has been. _Sp.
Pr._
=Erasmus laid the egg= (_i.e._, of the Reformation),
=and Luther hatched it.=
=Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann= 25
=das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, /
Dieser hochgelobet!--Amen!=--He, the only
Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of
His hundred names this one the most exalted.
Amen. _Goethe._
=Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death
came with friendly care, / The opening bud
to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom
there.= _Coleridge._
=Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is
not, we should be sure that we know what
he is.= _Carlyle._
=Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen
Brei=--He goes round it like a cat round hot
broth. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]--Labour is no disgrace.
_Hesiod._
=Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin=--Experience 30
is ever life's mistress. _Goethe._
=Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als
Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan=--Duty
fulfilled ever entails a sense of further
obligation, because one feels he has never done
enough to satisfy himself. _Goethe._
=Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört=--He
has not yet heard the voice of Nature.
_Schiller._
=Eripe te moræ=--Tear thyself from all that detains
thee. _Hor._
=Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic
age=--Tear away thy neck from the base yoke.
Come, say, I am free; I am free. _Hor._
=Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem=--Medicine 35
sometimes destroys health, sometimes
restores it. _Ovid._
="Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"=--He
snatched the lightning from heaven and
the sceptre from tyrants. (_On the bust of
Franklin._)
=Eris mihi magnus Apollo=--You shall be my
great Apollo. _Virg._
=Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich
ziemt=--What pleases us is permitted us; what
is seemly is permitted us. _Goethe._
=Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit
dem Leben aus=--Earnest activity always reconciles
us with life in the end. _Jean Paul._
=Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. /= 40
=Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen
Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle
Urne=--Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not
without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into
the mysterious urn of fate. _Schiller._
=Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst=--Life
is earnest; art is serene. _Schiller._
=Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn
sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt=--Thou
hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee
direct out of thine own soul. _Goethe._
=Errantem in viam reducito=--Lead back the wanderer
into the right way.
=Errare humanum est=--It is human to err.
=Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera= 45
=sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than
think right with those men. _Cic._
=Errata=--Errors in print.
=Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher
sein=--Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust.
_Goethe._
=Erring is not cheating.= _Ger. Pr._
=Error cannot be defended but by error.= _Bp.
Jewel._
=Error is always more busy than ignorance.= 50
=Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may
write, but error is a scribbled one from which
we must first erase.= _Colton._
=Error is always talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Error is but opinion in the making.= _Milton._
=Error is but the shadow of truth.= _Stillingfleet._
=Error is created; truth is eternal.= _Wm. Blake._
=Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great
depths.= _Goethe._
=Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth
that it blends with it as imperceptibly as
the colours of the rainbow fade into each
other.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Error is worse than ignorance.= _Bailey._
=Error never leaves us, yet a higher need= 5
=always draws the striving spirit gently on
to truth.= _Goethe._
=Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason
is left free to combat it.= _Jefferson._
=Errors like straws upon the surface flow; /
He who would search for pearls must dive
below.= _Dryden._
=Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means
of the portion of truth which it contains.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal
of truth mingled with them; ... from pure
extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood,
the world never has sustained, and
never can sustain, any mischief.= _Sydney
Smith._
=Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther= 10
=to go before she can arrive at truth than
ignorance.= _Colton._
=Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und
sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?=--Blushing
makes even the ugly beautiful, and
should it not make beauty still more beautiful?
_Lessing._
=Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe=--Selection
saved is trouble saved. _Platin._
=Er steckt seine Nase in Alles=--He thrusts his
nose into everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst
seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe=--Only
since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved
knew I that I lived. _Körner._
=Erst wägen, dann wagen=--First weigh, then 15
venture. _M. von Moltke._
=Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. /
Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz=--We must
bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will
bear injustice. _Schiller._
=Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high
and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis
rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed,
but can stoop when she finds it convenient,
and seize her prey.= _Bacon._
=Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn
gewisser zu erschüttern=--He desires a large
circle in order with greater certainty to move it
deeply. _Goethe._
=Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei
Liebende zu unterhalten=--Any trifle is enough
to entertain two lovers. _Goethe._
=Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein= 20
=Character in dem Strom der Welt=--A talent
is formed in retirement, a character in the current
of the world. _Goethe._
=Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und
wenig bedeuten die Worte=--Only life forms
the man, and words signify little. _Goethe._
=Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love
simple ones as you would native roses on
your cheek.= _Hare._
=Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del
ageno=--Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil
of yourself as well as your neighbour. _Sp. Pr._
=E se finxit velut araneus=--He spun from himself
like a spider.
=Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen=--Asses 25
sing abominably, because they pitch
their notes at too high a key. _Ger. Pr._
=Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine
ewige Krankheit fort=--Laws and rights descend
like an inveterate inherited disease. _Goethe._
=Es findet jeder seinen Meister=--Every one finds
his master. _Ger. Pr._
=Es geht an=--It is a beginning. _Ger._
=Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist
der Liebe verwandt.=--There is a courtesy of
the heart which is allied to love; out of it there
springs the most obliging courtesy of external
behaviour. _Goethe._
=Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie= 30
=es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt=--There
is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses.
_Börne._
=Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer
immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der
Mannspersonen=--There are certain things in
which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred
eyes of the male. _Lessing._
=Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die
Gedanken der Weisen=--There is no other revelation
than the thoughts of the wise among men.
_Schopenhauer._
=Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch,
wer's finden kann=--There is no law but has in
it a hole for him who can find it. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit
weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein
Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher
Augen=--There are men the eloquence of whose
tongues surpasses that of women, but no man
possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. _Weber._
=Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen=--There are 35
more thieves than gallows. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer
Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus.
Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner
Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil
gezogen=--There are men who brood on
the failings of their friends, but nothing comes
of it. I have always had respect to the merits
of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing
so. _Goethe._
=Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was
sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie
verschmähen=--There are natures which are
good by what they attain, and others that are
so by what they disdain. _H. Grimm._
=Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann
vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben=--There is
only one religion, but there may be divers forms
of belief. _Kant._
=Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht=--Every
one hears only what he understands. _Goethe._
=Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt=--Man is 40
liable to err as long as he strives. _Goethe._
=Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der
Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für
gering halten=--It is better to do the smallest
thing in the world than to regard half an hour
as a small thing. _Goethe._
=Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom
Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden=--It
is ordained in the counsel of God that we must
all part from the dearest we possess. _Feuchtersleben._
=Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes
patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige
Gemüth das seinige hofft=--It is the
welfare of the whole from which every patriotic,
and even every selfish, soul expects its own.
_Gentz._
=Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut=--It
is the spirit which builds for itself the body.
_Schiller._
=Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben
anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen=--It is more
kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it.
_Wieland._
=Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen.
Uebel entgegenzugehen=--It shows sense and
courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil.
_Goethe._
=Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die= 5
=Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg
sucht=--It is not good when he who carries the
torch has at the same time also the way to
seek. _Cölvös._
=Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber,
dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein
Vaterland kämpfe=--It is not a necessity that I
should live, but it is that I should do my duty
and fight for my fatherland. _Frederick the
Great._ (?)
=Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst=--It
is dreary for a man to be able to worship
nothing but himself. _Hebbel._
=Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht
sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile,
am Guten hat man zu tragen und
am Bösen zu schleppen=--It is difficult to be
square with the moment; the indifferent one
is a bore to us (_lit._ causes us _ennui_); with the
good we have to bear and with the bad to drag.
_Goethe._
=Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden=--It
is so difficult to avoid the wrong way.
_Goethe._
=Es ist unköniglich zu weinen--ach, / Und= 10
=hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich=--To weep
is unworthy of a king--alas! and not to weep
now is unworthy of a father. _Schiller._
=Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held=--Hero
likes best to fight with hero. _Körner._
=Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden
fehlen=--The best heart may go wrong in dark
hours. _Goethe._
=Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter
dem wechselnden Mond=--Sure it cannot
always be so here under the changing moon.
_Kotzebue._
=Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal
zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man
eines hat=--It is of no avail for a man to have a
great destiny if he does not know that he has one.
_Rahel._
=Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, /= 15
=Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein=--There
are situations in life when it is wisdom
not to be too wise. _Schiller._
=Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen=--There
live gods who take vengeance on pride.
_Schiller._
=Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen,
/ Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu
ziehn=--The world is fain to obscure what is
brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is
exalted. _Schiller._
=Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte
man die Sachen zweimal verrichten=--Everything
could be beautifully adjusted if matters
could be a second time arranged. _Goethe._
=Es muss auch solche Käuze geben=--There
must needs be such fellows in the world too.
_Goethe._
[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]--The fountain 20
of wisdom flows through books. _Gr. Pr._
=Espérance en Dieu=--Hope in God. _M._
=Espionage=--The spy system. _Fr._
=Esprit borné=--Narrow mind. _Fr._
=Esprit de corps=--Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate
body. _Fr._
=Esprit de parti=--Party spirit. _Fr._ 25
=Esprit fort=--A free-thinker. _Fr._
=Esprit juste=--Sound mind. _Fr._
=Esprit vif=--Ready wit. _Fr._
=Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde=--No
happiness ever comes to maturity under the
moon. _Schiller._
=Essayez=--Try. _M._ 30
=Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse
remotum est=--It is easy to be good, when all
that prevents it is far removed. _Ovid._
=Esse quam videri=--To be rather than to seem.
[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]--A
day will come when the sacred Ilium shall
be no more. _Hom._
=Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang
des Liebes Zauber walten=--The wrinkles of
every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of
love is unbroken. _Schiller._
=Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten=--All 35
are not free who mock their chains. _Ger.
Pr._
=Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen,
als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that
chase away the mice as those that catch them.
_Ger. Pr._
=Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel
sieht=--That is not in the mirror which you see
in the mirror. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das
er nicht mag eine Seele lieben=--It stands
written on his forehead that he cannot love a
single soul. _Goethe, of Mephistopheles._
=Establish thou the work of our hands upon
us; yea, the work of our hands establish
thou it.= _Bible._
=Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare=--It 40
is some alleviation of an incurable disease to
speak of it to others. _Ovid._
=Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis /
Temporibus dubiisque rectus=--You
possess a mind both sagacious in the management
of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous
and perilous times. _Hor._
=Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque=--Thou
hast a man's soul, cultured manners
and power of expression, and fidelity. _Hor., of
a gentleman._
=Est assez riche qui ne doit rien=--He is rich
enough who owes nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor=--Covetousness
is rich, while modesty is poor. _Phædr._
=Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45
is so good that no man can be better.
_Hor._
=Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia=--There
is need of conciseness that the thought may run
on. _Hor._
=Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum
videri=--True happiness consists in being considered
deserving of it. _Pliny._
=Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo=--There
is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us
all aglow. _Ovid._
=Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli=--There
is a god within us, and we hold commerce
with the sky. _Ovid._
=Esteem a man of many words and many lies= 5
=much alike.= _Fuller._
=Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in
usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed
upon a chance action, and depends most on
success.= _G. A. Sala._
=Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine
deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens
contraria=--For law is nothing else but
right reason supported by the authority of the
gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting
the contrary. _Cic._
=Est egentissimus in sua re=--He is in very
straitened circumstances.
=Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur=--Regard
for the wretched is a duty, and deserving
of praise even in an enemy. _Ovid._
=Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere,= 10
=quam lucrum=--There are occasions when it is
certainly better to lose than to gain. _Plaut._
=Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium
rerum volunt, / Nec sunt=--There is a class of
men who wish to be first in everything, and are
not. _Ter._
=Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit
æquus=--It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere,
if only a well-regulated mind does not fail
you. _Hor._
=Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant
bonis=--'Tis the tendency of the wretched
to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate.
_Plaut._
=Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, /
Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum=--There
is a mean in all things; there are, in fine,
certain fixed limits, on either side of which what
is right and true cannot exist. _Hor._
=Est multi fabula plena joci=--It is a story full of 15
fun. _Ovid._
=Est natura hominum novitatis avida=--It is
the nature of man to hunt after novelty.
_Pliny._
=Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, /
Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus
ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides,
quodcunque moveris=--Has God a dwelling
other than earth and sea and air and heaven and
virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever
you see, wheresoever you go, there is
Jupiter. _Luc._
=Est nobis voluisse satis=--To have willed suffices
us. _Tibull._
=Esto perpetua=--Let it be perpetual.
=Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet= 20
=esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse,
velis=--Be what you are; let whoso will be what
others are. Don't be what you are not, but
resolutely be what you can.
=Esto quod esse videris=--Be what you seem
to be.
=Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis=--Be,
as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to
your friends. _Juv._
=Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He
is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as
such. _L._
=Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque
et videt=--There is certainly a God who
both hears and sees the things which we do.
_Plaut._
=Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia,= 25
=oblivisci suorum=--It is characteristic of folly to
discern the faults of others and forget its own.
_Cic._
=Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra=--You
may advance to a certain point, if it is not
permitted you to go farther. _Hor._
=Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis
egeriturque dolor=--There is a certain pleasure
in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated
by tears. _Ovid._
=Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum=--Novelty
is the dearest to us of all things. _Ovid._
=Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig
Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch
Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten
nachzujagen?=--Understanding and good sense
find utterance with little art; and when you have
seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt
for words? _Goethe._
=Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer= 30
=stirbt vor Durstes Noth=--A thousand will drink
themselves to death ere one die under stress of
thirst. _Ger. Pr._
=Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando
aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo
dicenda sunt omnia=--There is a time when
nothing may be said, a time when something
may, but no time when all things may. _A
Monkish Adage._
=Esurienti ne occurras=--Don't throw yourself in
the way of a hungry man.
=Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht
machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er
will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er
weiss nicht, was er soll=--One would what he
should, but he can't; one could what he should,
but he won't; one would and could, but he
knows not what he should. _Goethe._
=Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn
als hier=--Even _over there_ it will not be otherwise
than it is _here_, I ween. _Goethe._
[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]--Either this or upon this. (_The_ 35
_Spartan mother to her son on handing him his
shield._)
=E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The
horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
=Et cætera=--And the rest.
=Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux=--And
misfortune is the badge of innocence. _La
Font._
=Et credis cineres curare sepultos?=--And do you
think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves
with our affairs? _Virg._
=Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det= 40
=var godt=--He had a stupid head, but his heart
was good. _Swed. Pr._
=Et decus et pretium recti=--Both the ornament
and the reward of virtue. _M._
=E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit=--A great
man often steps forth from a humble cottage. _Pr._
=Eternal love made me.= _Dante._
=Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As
shallow streams run dimpling all the way.=
_Pope._
=Eternity, depending on an hour.= _Young._
=Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time
grow meaner and more hostile.= _Carlyle._
=Eternity of being and well-being simply for= 5
=being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging
to appetite alone, and which only
the struggle of mere animalism= (_Thierheit_),
=longing to be infinite gives rise to.= _Schiller._
=Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est=--Bravery
and endurance make a man a Roman. _Liv._
=Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat=--Money,
like a queen, confers both rank and
beauty. _Hor._
=Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, /
Vix ea nostra voco=--We can scarcely call birth
and ancestry and what we have not ourselves
done, our own. _Ovid._
=Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est=--Without
money both birth and virtue are as worthless
as seaweed. _Hor._
=Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise,= 10
=but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished
with all offensive and defensive weapons.=
_Fuller._
=Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.
=Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est=--When
we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. _Pub.
Syr._
=Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis
obliviscuntur=--Even savage animals, if you keep
them in confinement, forget their fierceness.
=Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri=--Even brave
men may be alarmed by a sudden event. _Tac._
=Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor=--Pain 15
makes even the innocent forswear themselves.
_Pub. Syr._
=Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit=--It
is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
_Pub. Syr._
=Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet=--Though
the wound is healed, a scar remains.
=Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima
exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory
is the last of all passions to be laid aside.
_Tac._
=Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, /
Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And
now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and
the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops.
_Virg._
=Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes= 20
=qui sont femmes=--And I know a great many
men who in this particular are women. _La
Font._
=Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie=--And
greedy Acheron lets not go his prey.
_Racine._
=Et le combat cessa faute de combattants=--And
the battle ceased for want of combatants.
_Corneille._
=Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours=--One
returns always to his first love. _Fr. Pr._
=Et mala sunt vicina bonis=--There are bad qualities
near akin to good. _Ovid._
=Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus=--And 25
take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil.
_Hor._
=Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, /
Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum=--My
bark, once shaken by the overpowering
storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where
it has been shattered. _Ovid._
=Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My
aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself,
not myself to them. _Hor._
=Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--A
very small degree of force will suffice to break a
vessel that is already cracked. _Ovid._
=Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ
amicitiæ=--To give counsel as well as take it, is
a feature of true friendship. _Cic._
=Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis=--The 30
children of our children, and those who shall be
born of them, _i.e._, our latest posterity.
=Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem,
si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta=--And
new and lately invented terms will be well received,
if they descend, with slight deviation,
from a Grecian source. _Hor._
=Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque
precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo=--I
am ashamed to be always begging and
begging the same things, and fear lest you should
conceive for me the disgust I merit. _Ovid._
=Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri
exitium conversa tulere=--And what each man
dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when
diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch.
_Virg._
=Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum
est=--He who is indolent should work,
and he who works should take repose. _Sen._
=Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse= 35
=volunt=--Even those who have no wish to kill
another would like to have the power. _Juv._
=Et quorum pars magna fui=--And in which I
played a prominent part. _Virg._
=Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une
des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un
grand roi=--The ability to enlist the services of
others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most
distinguishing qualities of a great monarch.
_Richelieu._
=Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état
où l'homme puisse tomber=--To be poor without
being free is the worst condition into which
man can sink. _Rousseau._
=Etre sur le qui vive=--To be on the alert. _Fr._
=Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde=--To be in 40
high standing (_lit._ on a great foot) in the world. _Fr._
=Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses /
L'espace d'un matin=--As rose she lived the life
of a rose for but the space of a morning. _Malherbe._
=Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus=--Money
is both blood and life to men. _Pr._
=Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum=--And
a word once uttered flies abroad never to be
recalled. _Hor._
=Et sequentia=, =Et seq.=--And what follows.
=Et sic de ceteris=--And so of the rest. 45
=Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.
="Et tu, Brute fili"=--And thou, son Brutus.
_Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators._
=Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire=--To
conquer without peril would be to conquer
without glory. _Corneille._
=Et vitam impendere vero=--Stake even life for
truth. _M._
=Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire=--And
that is exactly how history is written.
_Voltaire._
=Etwas ist besser als gar nichts=--Something is
better than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; /
Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck=--To
please you was my highest wish; to delight
you was my last aim. _Goethe._
[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]--While the fisher sleeps the 5
net takes. _Gr. Pr._
=Euge, poeta!=--Well done, poet! _Pers._
=Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures=--Listen
to him who has four ears, _i.e._, who is readier to
hear than to speak. _Pr._
[Greek: Eurêka]--I have found it. _Archimedes when he
found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's
golden crown._
=Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The
fall of empires and the fate of kings.= _Burns._
[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]--Success is befriended by 10
many people. _Gr. Pr._
[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê
tapeinou]--Be not uplifted in prosperity nor
downcast in adversity. _Cleobulus._
=E' va più d'un asino al mercato=--There is more
than one ass goes to the market. _It. Pr._
=Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the
intimate of equivocation.= _Balzac._
=Evasions are the common subterfuge of the
hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when
called upon to assist.= _Lavater._
=Even a fly has its spleen.= _It. Pr._ 15
=Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is
counted wise.= _Bible._
=Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.= _It. Pr._
=Even a haggis could charge down-hill.= _Scott._
=Even a hair casts a shadow.= _Pr._
=Even a horse, though he has four feet, will= 20
=stumble.= _Pr._
=Even among the apostles there was a Judas.=
_It. Pr._
=Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.=
_Balzac._
=Even by means of our sorrows we belong to
the eternal plan.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Even foxes are outwitted and caught.= _It.
Pr._
=Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful= 25
=thing; God only helps when men can help
no more.= _Schiller._
=Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems
an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Even in social life, it is persistency which
attracts confidence, more than talents and
accomplishments.= _Whipple._
=Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting
us to overleap the necessary steps in
their development, whereby we are for the
most part led past the goal into boundless
error.= _Goethe._
=Even so my sun one early morn did shine, /
With all triumphant splendour on my brow; /
But out, alack! it was but one hour mine.=
_Sh._
=Even success needs its consolations.= _George_ 30
_Eliot._
=Even that fish may be caught which resists
most stoutly against it.= _Dan. Pr._
=Even the just man has need of help.= _It. Pr._
=Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes
of the spirit of the age in which it was
written.= _Goethe._
=Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish
that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave
my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's
sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could
make, / Or sing a sang at least.= _Burns at
the plough._
=Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever= 35
=in the canopy of heaven= (_Himmelszelt_). =A
holy will rules there; the world does not serve
blind chance.= _F. K. Weber._
=Even though vanquished, he could argue still.=
_Goldsmith._
=Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, /
That fate is thine--no distant date; / Stern
Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on
thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's
weight / Shall be thy doom.= _Burns._
=Events are only the shells of ideas; and often
it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised
in a moment by the stroke of a pen or
the point of a bayonet.= _Chapin._
=Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God
pleases.= _Cowper._
=Eventus stultorum magister est=--Only the event 40
teaches fools. _Liv._
=Even weak men when united are powerful.=
_Schiller._
=Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque
de bois=--Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop
of wood, staff of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the
thing he feels commanded to do.= _Carlyle._
=Ever charming, ever new, / When will the
landscape tire the view?= _John Dyer._
=Ever learning, and never able to come to the= 45
=knowledge of the truth.= _St. Paul._
=Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.=
_Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only
in free effort can any blessedness be imagined
for us.= _Carlyle._
=Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly
entitled king=, _i.e._, =the man who= _kens_ =and= _can_.
_Carlyle._
=Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the
majority.= _Casimir Delavigne._
=Ever take it for granted that man collectively= 50
=wishes that which is right; but take care
never to think so of one!= _Schiller._
=Every absurdity has a champion to defend it;
for error is talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Every action is measured by the depth of the
sentiment from which it proceeds.= _Emerson._
=Every advantage has its tax, but there is none
on the good of virtue; that is the incoming
of God himself, or absolute existence.= _Emerson._
=Every age regards the dawning of new light
as the destroying fire of morality; while that
very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds
itself raised one degree of light above the
preceding.= _Jean Paul._
=Every attempt to crush an insurrection with
means inadequate to the end foments instead
of suppressing it.= _C. Fox._
=Every author, in some degree, portrays himself
in his works, be it even against his
will.= _Goethe._
=Every base occupation makes one sharp in its
practice and dull in every other.= _Sir P.
Sidney._
=Every bean has its black.= _Pr._
=Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is= 5
=the place of expectation.= _Goethe._
=Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.=
_Novalis._
=Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite.=
_Jean Paul._
=Everybody is wise after the event.= _Pr._
=Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion
caricatured; yet with many, contempt of
fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility
to religion.= _Whipple._
=Everybody knows that government never began= 10
=anything. It is the whole world that
thinks and governs.= _W. Phillips._
=Everybody likes and respects self-made men.
It is a great deal better to be made in that
way than not to be made at all.= _Holmes._
=Everybody says it, and what everybody says
must be true.= _J. F. Cooper._
=Everybody's business in the social system is
to be agreeable.= _Dickens._
=Everybody's business is nobody's.= _Pr._
=Everybody's friend is nobody's.= _Pr._ 15
=Every book is good to read which sets the
reader in a working mood.= _Emerson._
=Every book is written with a constant secret
reference to the few intelligent persons whom
the writer believes to exist in the million.=
_Emerson._
=Every brave life out of the past does not
appear to us so brave as it really was, for
the forms of terror with which it wrestled
are now overthrown.= _Jean Paul._
=Every brave man is a man of his word.= _Corneille._
=Every brave youth is in training to ride and= 20
=rule his dragon.= _Emerson._
=Every bullet has its billet.= _Pr._
=Every Calvary has its Olivet.= _H. Giles._
=Every capability, however slight, is born with
us; there is no vague general capability in
man.= _Goethe._
=Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and
every genius is to a certain extent a child.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Every cloud engenders not a storm.= 3 _Hen._ 25
_VI._, v. 3.
=Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth
love, itself is love.= _Tennyson._
=Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.=
_Pr._
=Every conceivable society may well be figured
as properly and wholly a Church, in one or
other of these three predicaments: an audibly
preaching and prophesying Church, which is
the best; a Church that struggles to preach
and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost
come; a Church gone dumb with old
age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to
dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=Every cottage should have its porch, its oven,
and its tank.= _Disraeli._
=Every couple is not a pair.= _Pr._ 30
=Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every creature can bear well-being except
man.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration
its own avenging angel.= _Schiller._
=Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.=
_Pr._
=Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.= 35
_Arab. Pr._
=Every day is the best day in the year. No
man has learned anything rightly until he
knows that every day is Doomsday.= _Emerson._
=Every day should be spent by us as if it were
to be our last.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every department of knowledge passes successively
through three stages: the theological,
or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract;
and the scientific, or positive.= _Comte._
=Every desire bears its death in its very gratification.=
_W. Irving._
=Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,= 40
=when he was chill, was harmless, but when
warmth gave him strength, exerted it in
poison.= _Johnson._
=Every dog must have his day.= _Swift._
=Every door may be shut but death's door.= _Pr._
=Every established religion was once a heresy.=
_Buckle._
=Every event that a man would master must
be mounted on the run, and no man ever
caught the reins of a thought except as it
galloped past him.= _Holmes._
=Every evil to which we do not succumb is a= 45
=benefactor; we gain the strength of the
temptation we resist.= _Emerson._
=Every excess causes a defect; every deficit,
an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every
evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver
of pleasure has an equal penalty put
on its abuse.= _Emerson._
=Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals,
that has a sensual and selfish aim,
will fail.= _Emerson._
=Every faculty is conserved and increased by
its appropriate exercise.= _Epictetus._
=Every fancy that we would substitute for a
reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the
whole, not only false, but every way less
beautiful and excellent than that which we
sacrifice to it.= _J. Sterling._
=Every flood has its ebb.= _Dut. Pr._ 50
=Every fool thinks himself clever enough.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Every fool will be meddling.= _Bible._
=Every foot will tread on him who is in the
mud.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that
which delivers us over to perfect command
of ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Every form of human life is romantic.= _T. W. 55
Higginson._
=Every fresh acquirement is another remedy=
=against affliction and time.= _Willmott._
=Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower
also: he attracts and follows.= _Jean
Paul._
=Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the herd.= _Thoreau._
=Every generous action loves the public view,
yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness
of it.= _Cic._
=Every genius has most power in his own language,
and every heart in its own religion.=
_Jean Paul._
=Every genius is defended from approach by
quantities of unavailableness.= _Emerson._
=Every genuine work of art has as much reason= 5
=for being as the earth and the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every gift which is given, even though it be
small, is in reality great if it be given with
affection.= _Pindar._
=Every good act is charity. A man's true
wealth hereafter is the good that he does
in this world to his fellows.= _Mahomet._
=Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above.= _St. James._
=Every good gift comes from God.= _Pr._
=Every good picture is the best of sermons= 10
=and lectures: the sense informs the soul.=
_Sydney Smith._
=Every good writer has much idiom; it is the
life and spirit of language.= _Landor._
=Every great and commanding movement in
the annals of the world is the triumph of
enthusiasm.= _Emerson._
=Every great and original writer, in proportion
as he is great or original, must himself create
the taste by which he is to be relished.=
_Wordsworth._
=Every great book is an action, and every great
action is a book.= _Luther._
=Every great genius has a special vocation,= 15
=and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer
needed.= _Goethe._
=Every great man is unique.= _Emerson._
=Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity.
All men are captivated by immediate advantages;
great minds alone are excited by the
prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity,
but in its suggestions unlimited and
infinite.= _Longfellow._
=Every great reform which has been effected
has consisted, not in doing something new,
but in undoing something old.= _Buckle._
=Every great writer is a writer of history, let= 20
=him treat on almost what subject he may.
He carries with him for thousands of years
a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only
his own effigy were there, it would be
greatly more than a fragment of his century.=
_Landor._
=Every healthy effort is directed from the inward
to the outward world.= _Goethe._
=Every heart knows its own bitterness.= _Pr._
=Every hero becomes a bore at last.= _Emerson._
=Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt
of some external good; but it finds
its own success at last, and then the prudent
also extol.= _Emerson._
=Every honest miller has a golden thumb.= 25
_Pr._
=Every hour has its end.= _Scott._
=Every house is builded by some man; but he
that built all things is God.= _St. Paul._
=Every human being is intended to have a
character of his own, to be what no other is,
to do what no other can.= _Channing._
=Every human feeling is greater and larger
than the exciting cause--a proof, I think,
that man is designed for a higher state of
existence.= _Coleridge._
=Every idea must have a visible unfolding.= 30
_Victor Hugo._
=Every idle word that men shall speak, they
shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.=
_Jesus._
=Every inch a king.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every individual colour makes on men an impression
of its own, and thereby reveals its
nature to the eye as well as the mind.= _Goethe._
=Every individual nature has its own beauty.= 35
_Emerson._
=Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient
is a devil.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen
us for some greater labour that is to succeed.=
_Fichte._
=Every knave is a thorough knave, and a
thorough knave is a knave throughout.= _Bp.
Berkeley._
=Every light has its shadow.= _Pr._
=Every little fish expects to become a whale.= 40
_Dan. Pr._
=Every little helps.= _Pr._
=Every little helps, as the sow said when she
snapt at a gnat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every loving woman is a priestess of the past.=
_Amiel._
=Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of
a second person, hypocrisy begins.= _Emerson._
=Every man as an individual is secondary to= 45
=what he is as a worker for the progress of
his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to
him.= _Stedman._
=Every man can build a chapel in his breast,
himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice,
and the earth he treads on the altar.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man can guide an ill wife but him that
has her.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Every man carries within him a potential madman.=
_Carlyle._
=Every man deems that he has precisely the= 50
=trials and temptations which are the hardest
to bear; but they are so because they are
the very ones he needs.= _Jean Paul._
=Every man desires to live long, but no man
would be old.= _Swift._
=Every man feels instinctively that all the
beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less
than a single lovely action.= _Lowell._
=Every man has a bag hanging before him in
which he puts his neighbour's faults, and
another behind him in which he stows his
own.= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.
=Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs,
if he only knew it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every man has at times in his mind the ideal= 55
=of what he should be, but is not. In all men
that really seek to improve, it is better than
the actual character.= _Theo. Parker._
=Every man hath business and desire, / Such as
it is.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.=
_Timon of Athens_, iii. 1.
=Every man has his lot, and the wide world
before him.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man has his own style, just as he has
his own nose.= _Lessing._
=Every man has his weak side.= _Pr._ 5
=Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered
character. Happy is he who acts the
Columbus to his own soul.= _Sir J. Stephens._
=Every man has just as much vanity as he
wants understanding.= _Pope._
=Every man hath a good and a bad angel
attending on him in particular all his life
long.= _Burton._
=Every man, however good he may be, has a
still better man dwelling in him which is
properly himself, but to whom nevertheless
he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior
and less unstable being that we should attach
ourselves, not to the changeable every-day
man.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his= 10
=faults.= _Emerson._
=Every man is an impossibility until he is born;
everything impossible till we see it a success.=
_Emerson._
=Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.=
_Emerson._
=Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.=
_Johnson._
=Every man is exceptional.= _Emerson._
=Every man is his own greatest dupe.= _A. B._ 15
_Alcott._
=Every man is not so much a workman in the
world as he is a suggestion of that he should
be. Men walk as prophecies of the next
age.= _Emerson._
=Every man is the architect of his own fortune.=
_Sallust._
=Every man must carry his own sack to the
mill.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man must in a measure be alone in the
world. No heart was ever cast in the same
mould as that which we bear within us.=
_Berne._
=Every man of sound brain whom you meet= 20
=knows something worth knowing better than
yourself.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man ought to have his opportunity to
conquer the world for himself.= _Emerson._
=Every man rejoices twice when he has a
partner of his joy.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man seeks the truth, but God only
knows who has found it.= _Chesterfield._
=Every man shall bear his own burden.= _St. Paul._
=Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a= 25
=right answer.= _Bible._
=Every man should study conciseness in speaking;
it is a sign of ignorance not to know
that long speeches, though they may please
the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.=
_Feltham._
=Every man stamps his value on himself. The
price we challenge for ourselves is given us.=
_Schiller._
=Every man takes care that his neighbour
shall not cheat him.= _Emerson._
=Every man acts truly so long as he acts his
nature, or some way makes good the faculties
in himself.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Every man turns his dreams into realities as= 30
=far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth,
but as fire to falsehood.= _La Fontaine._
=Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves
steadfastly grows unconsciously into
a genius.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man who strikes blows for power, for
influence, for institutions, for the right, must
be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.=
_J. G. Holland._
=Every man who would do anything well must
come to us from a higher ground.= _Emerson._
=Every man willingly gives value to the praise
which he receives, and considers the sentence
passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment.=
_Johnson._
=Every man, within that inconsiderable figure= 35
=of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom
and reflex of the All; and, though to the
eye but some six standard feet in size,
reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable,
fading into the regions of immensity
and eternity.= _Carlyle._
=Every man without passions has within him
no principle of action nor motive to act.=
_Helvetius._
=Every man's blind in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's destiny is in his own hands.=
_Sydney Smith._
=Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances
of his wisdom.= _J. Sterling._
=Every man's life lies within the present.= _Marcus_ 40
_Antoninus._
=Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd
the Tarve= (a Douglas Castle) =fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus.=
_Sir Thomas Browne._
=Every man's powers have relation to some
kind of work, and wherever he finds that
kind of work which he can do best, he finds
that by which he can best build up or make
his manhood.= _J. G. Holland._
=Every man's reason is every man's oracle.=
_Bolingbroke._
=Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite= 45
=value, for it is the representative of a whole
eternity.= _Goethe._
=Every moment instructs, and every object, for
wisdom is infused into every form. It has
been poured into us as blood; it convulsed
us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure.= _Emerson._
=Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a
new labour to a tired digestion.= _South._
=Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would
still wish, at banquets, to be master of some
seat or other wherein to overtop this or that
plucked goose of the neighbourhood.= _Carlyle._
=Every movement in the skies or upon the earth
proclaims to us that the universe is under
government.= _Draper._
=Every natural action is graceful.= _Emerson._ 50
=Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual
fact.= _Emerson._
=Every newly discovered truth judges the world,
separates the good from the evil, and calls
on faithful souls to make sure their election.=
_Julia W. Howe._
=Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely
in a minority of one.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever
be, a crown of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven
for ever in the work of the world.=
_Ruskin._
=Every noble work is at first impossible.= _Carlyle._
=Every novel is a debtor to Homer.= _Emerson._ 5
=Every offence is not a hate at first.= _Mer. of
Ven._, iv. 1.
=Every one believes in his youth that the world
really began with him, and that all merely
exists for his sake.= _Goethe._
=Every one bows to the bush that bields=
(protects) =him=, _i.e._, pays court to him that does
so. _Sc. Pr._
=Every one can master a grief but he that has
it.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=Every one complains of his memory, no one of= 10
=his judgment.= _La Roche._
=Every one draws the water to his own mill.= _Pr._
=Every one excels in something in which another
fails.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every one fault seeming monstrous till his
fellow-fault came to match it.= _As You Like
It_, iii. 2.
=Every one finds sin sweet and repentance
bitter.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every one for himself and God for us all.= _Pr._ 15
=Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is
mine. Happy is he who has no other.= _Saying
of Pittacus._
=Every one is a preacher under the gallows.=
_Dut. Pr._
=Every one is as God made him, and often a
great deal worse.= _Cervantes._
=Every one is his own worst enemy.= _Schefer._
=Every one is judge of what a man seems, no= 20
=one of what a man is.= _Schiller._
=Every one is poorer in proportion as he has
more wants, and counts not what he has,
but wishes only what he has not.= _Manlius._
=Every one is well or ill at ease according as
he finds himself.= _Montaigne._
=Every one knows best where his shoe pinches
him.= _Pr._
=Every one knows better than he practises, and
recognises a better law than he obeys.=
_Froude._
=Every one knows good counsel except him who= 25
=needs it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Every one of us believes in his heart, or would
like to have others believe, that he is something
which he is not.= _Thackeray._
=Every one of us shall give account of himself
to God.= _Bible._
=Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Every one regards his duty as a troublesome
master from whom he would like to be free.=
_La Roche._
=Every one should sweep before his own door.= 30
_Pr._
=Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries
as he has the luck.= _Port. Pr._
=Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh
it shall be opened.= _Jesus._
=Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.=
_St. John._
=Every one that is of the truth heareth my
voice.= _Jesus._
=Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest.= 35
_Pr._
=Every one who is able to administer what he
has, has enough.= _Goethe._
=Every one would be wise; no one will become
so.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Every one would rather believe than exercise
his own judgment.= _Sen._
=Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.=
_Emerson._
=Every other master is known by what he= 40
=utters; the master of style commends himself
to me by what he wisely passes over in
silence.= _Schiller._
=Every painter ought to paint what he himself
loves.= _Ruskin._
=Every passion gives a particular cast to the
countenance, and is apt to discover itself in
some feature or other.= _Addison._
=Every people has its prophet.= _Arab. Pr._
=Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices.
Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the
past and condemn the present?= _Montaigne._
=Every period of life has its peculiar temptations= 45
=and dangers.= _J. Hawes._
=Every period of life is obliged to borrow its
happiness from the time to come.= _Johnson._
=Every person who manages another is a hypocrite.=
_Thackeray._
=Every petition to God is a precept to man.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Every place is safe to him who lives with
justice.= _Epictetus._
=Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of= 50
=activity.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every poet, be his outward lot what it may,
finds himself born in the midst of prose; he
has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction
of an actual world into the freedom
and infinitude of an ideal.= _Carlyle._
=Every power of both heaven and earth is
friendly to a noble and courageous activity.=
_J. Burroughs._
=Every production of genius must be the production
of enthusiasm.= _Disraeli._
=Every race has its own habitat.= _Knox._
=Every reader reads himself out of the book= 55
=that he reads.= _Goethe._
=Every real master of speaking or writing uses
his personality as he would any other serviceable
material.= _Holmes._
=Every real need is appeased and every vice
stimulated by satisfaction.= _Amiel._
=Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice,
not so much in knowing anything
clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely
more which it cannot know.= _Ruskin._
=Every rose has its thorn.= _Pr._
=Every scripture is to be interpreted by the= 60
=same spirit which gave it forth.= _Quoted by
Emerson._
=Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly
uses it; when it fails them, they cry out
it is matter of faith, and above reason.=
_Locke._
=Every shadow points to the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every ship is a romantic object except that
we sail in.= _Emerson._
=Every shoe fits not every foot.= _Pr._
=Every shot does not bring down a bird.= _Dut.
Pr._
=Every soo (sow) to its ain trough.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every species of activity is met by a negation.= 5
_Goethe._
=Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond
its house a world, and beyond its world a
heaven.= _Emerson._
=Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards
the house confines the spirit.= _Emerson._
=Every step of life shows how much caution is
required.= _Goethe._
=Every step of progress which the world has
made has been from scaffold to scaffold and
from stake to stake.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom= 10
=where is the Christian?= _Emerson._
=Every style formed elaborately on any model
must be affected and strait-laced.= _Whipple._
=Every subject's duty is the king's, but every
subject's soul is his own.= _Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous
springs up a pearl.= _Matthew Henry._
=Everything a man parts with is the cost of
something. Everything he receives is the
compensation of something.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything calls for interest, only it must be= 15
=an interest divested of self-interest and sincere.=
_Desjardins._
=Everything comes if a man will only wait.=
_Disraeli._
=Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man
without judgment.= _Stanislaus._
=Everything good in a man thrives best when
properly recognised.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything good in man leans on what is
higher.= _Emerson._
=Everything good is on the highway.= _Emerson._ 20
=Everything great is not always good, but all
good things are great.= _Demosthenes._
=Everything holy is before what is unholy;
guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse;
angels, but not fallen ones, were
created.= _Jean Paul._
=Everything in life, to be of value, must have a
sequence.= _Goethe._
=Everything in nature contains all the powers
of nature. Everything is made of one hidden
stuff.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature goes by law, and not by= 25
=luck.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature has a positive and a
negative pole.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds
its solution in man, who solves it in some
way with God, and so completes the circle
of creation.= _T. T. Munger._
=Everything in the world can be borne except
a long succession of beautiful days.= _Goethe._
=Everything in this world depends upon will.=
_Disraeli._
=Everything in this world is a tangled yarn;= 30
=we taste nothing in its purity; we do not
remain two moments in the same state.=
_Rousseau._
=Everything is as you take it.= _Pr._
=Everything is beautiful, seen from the point
of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as
experience.= _Emerson._
=Everything is good as it comes from the hands
of the Creator; everything degenerates in
the hands of man.= _Rousseau._
=Everything is mere opinion.= _M. Aurelius._
=Everything is sold to skill and labour.= _Hume._ 35
=Everything is sweetened by risk.= _A. Smith._
=Everything is what it is, and not another
thing.= _Bishop Butler._
=Everything is worth the money that can be
got for it.= _Pub. Syr._
=Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection.=
_Goethe._
=Everything rises but to fall, and increases but= 40
=to decay.= _Sall._
=Everything runs to excess; every good quality
is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the
danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes
each man's peculiarity to superabound.=
_Emerson._
=Everything springs into being and passes
away according to law, yet how fluctuating
is the lot that presides over the life which is
to us so priceless.= _Goethe._
=Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation
has an unstable foundation.= _Sen._
=Everything that happens, happens of necessity.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Everything that happens in this world is part= 45
=of a great plan of God running through all
time.= _Ward Beecher._
=Everything that happens to us leaves some
trace behind it, and everything insensibly
contributes to make us what we are.=
_Goethe._
=Everything that is exquisite hides itself.= _J.
Roux._
=Everything that is popular deserves the attention
of the philosopher; although it may not
be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises
the people.= _Emerson._
=Everything that looks to the future elevates
human nature; for never is life so low as
when occupied with the present.= _Landor._
=Everything that tends to emancipate us from= 50
=external restraint without adding to our own
power of self-government is mischievous.=
_Goethe._
=Everything unnatural is imperfect.= _Napoleon._
=Everything useful to the life of man arises
from the ground, but few things arise in
that condition which is requisite to render
them useful.= _Hume._
=Every thought that arises in the mind, in its
rising aims to pass out of the mind into
act; just as every plant, in the moment
of generation, struggles up to the light.=
_Emerson._
=Every thought was once a poem.= _Emerson._ (?)
=Every thought which genius and piety throw= 55
=into the world alters the world.= _Emerson._
=Every time a man smiles, much more when he
laughs, it adds something to his fragment of
life.= _Sterne._
=Every time you forgive a man you weaken
him and strengthen yourself.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes
sickness.= _Goethe._
=Every traveller has a home of his own, and he
learns to appreciate it the more from his
wandering.= _Dickens._
=Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit
is hewn down and cast into the fire.= _Jesus._
=Every true man's apparel fits your thief.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iv. 2.
=Every tub must stand on its own bottom.= _Pr._
=Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have= 5
=become untrue to my resolutions.= _Jean Paul._
=Every unpunished murder takes away something
from the security of every man's life.=
_Dan. Webster._
=Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates
itself by descent, and by purity
of birth the entire system of the human body
and soul may be gradually elevated, or by
recklessness of birth degraded, until there
shall be as much difference between the well-bred
and ill-bred human creature (whatever
pains be taken with their education) as between
a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel
cur.= _Ruskin._
=Every violation of truth is a stab at the health
of society.= _Emerson._
=Every wanton and causeless restraint of the
will of the subject, whether practised by a
monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly,
is a degree of tyranny.= _Blackstone._
=Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in= 10
=my brother, because he has shut his own
temple doors, and recites fables merely of
his brother's or his brother's brother's God.=
_Emerson._
=Everywhere in life the true question is, not
what we gain, but what we do; so also in
intellectual matters it is not what we receive,
but what we are made to give, that
chiefly contents and profits us.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the formed world is the only
habitable one.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the human soul stands between
a hemisphere of light and another of darkness;
on the confines of two everlasting,
hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.=
_Carlyle._
=Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself
off to advantage, and nowhere honestly
endeavours to make himself subservient to
the whole.= _Goethe._
=Every white will have its black, / And every= 15
=sweet its sour.= _T. Percy._
=Every why hath a wherefore.= _Com. of Errors_,
ii. 2.
=Every wise woman buildeth her house, but
the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.=
_Bible._
=Every word was once a poem.= _Emerson._
=Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different
threads, and late and soon / Spins,
toiling out his own cocoon.= _Tennyson._
=Every youth, from the king's son downwards,= 20
=should learn to do something finely and
thoroughly with his hand.= _Ruskin._
=E vestigio=--Instantly.
=Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow
and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet
not hostile, only opposed.= _Carlyle._
=Evil, be thou my good.= _Milton._
=Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by
inches.= _Pr._
=Evil communications corrupt good manners.= 25
_Pr._
=Evil events from evil causes spring.= _Aristophanes._
=Evil is a far more cunning and persevering
propagandist than good, for it has no inward
strength, and is driven to seek countenance
and sympathy.= _Lowell._
=Evil is generally committed under the hope of
some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom
obtains.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it
is like cold, which is the privation of heat.
All evil is so much death or nonentity.=
_Emerson._
=Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well= 30
=as want of heart.= _T. Hood._
=Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, /
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop.=
_Trench._
=Evil men understand not judgment, but they
that seek the Lord understand all things.=
_Bible._
=Evil news rides post, while good news bates.=
_Milton._
=Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.= _J.
Roux._
=Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while= 35
=man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can
give it, is precisely the dark, disordered
material out of which man's freewill has to
create an edifice of order and good. Ever
must pain urge us to labour; and only
in free effort can any blessedness be imagined
for us.= _Carlyle._
=Evils can never pass away; for there must
always remain something which is antagonistic
to good.= _Plato._
=Evils that take leave, / On their departure
most of all show evil.= _King John_,
iii. 4.
=Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis=--To
fly from the town into the country, as though
from bonds. _Cic._
=Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter
schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst
du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben=--To
continue eternally young is, as poets write,
the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to
it, thou must die young. _Rückert._
=Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente=--To be eternal 40
at every moment. _Schleiermacher._
=Ex abrupto=--Without preparation.
=Ex abundante cautela=--From excessive precaution.
_L._
=Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum=--There is no
arguing from the _abuse_ of a thing against the
_use_ of it. _L._
=Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem=--The
abuse of a thing is no argument for its
discontinuance. _L._
=Exact justice is commonly more merciful in= 45
=the long run than pity, for it tends to foster
in men those stronger qualities which make
them good citizens.= _Lowell._
=Ex æquo=--By right.
=Ex æquo et bono=--In justice and equity.
=Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood.=
_H. Ballou._
=Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add
legs.= _Chinese Pr._
=Examine the religious principles which have,
in fact, prevailed in the world. You will
scarcely be persuaded that they are anything
but sick men's dreams.= _Hume._
=Examine your soul and its emotions, and
thoughts will be to you so many glorious
revelations of the Godhead.= _Nourisson._
=Example acquires tenfold authority when it
speaks from the grave.= _W. Phillips._
=Example has more followers than reason.=
_Bovee._
=Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp= 5
=gets through, the gnat sticks.= _La Fontaine._
=Example is more efficacious than precept.=
_Johnson._
=Example is more forcible than precept. People
look at me six days in the week, to see what
I mean on the seventh.= _Cecil._
=Example is the school of mankind, and they
will learn at no other.= _Burke._
=Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely
cultivated, are not lights kindled for a
moment; they live on here in their good
deeds, and in their venerated memories.=
_Gladstone._
=Examples would indeed be excellent things,= 10
=were not people so modest that none will set
them, and so vain that none will follow them.=
_Hare._
=Ex animo=--From the soul; heartily.
=Ex aperto=--Openly.
=Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus=--An ass is known
by his ears. _Pr._
=Ex cathedra=--From the chair; with authority.
=Excellence is never granted to man but as the= 15
=reward of labour.= _Sir Jos. Reynolds._
=Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, /
But I do love thee! and when I love thee
not, / Chaos is come again.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Excelsior=--Still higher.
=Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground
and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit.= _Jesus._
=Except by mastership and servantship, there
is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny
and slavery.= _Carlyle._
=Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is= 20
=no music in the nightingale.= _Two Gent. of
Ver._, iii. 1.
=Except in knowing what it has to do and how
to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle
of its destiny.= _Ed._
=Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is
freedom not so much as conceivable.= _Carlyle._
=Except pain of body and remorse of conscience,
all our evils are imaginary.= _Rousseau._
=Except the Lord build the house, they labour
in vain that build it; except the Lord keep
the city, the watchman waketh in vain.=
_Bible._
=Except ye be converted and become as little= 25
=children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom
of heaven.= _Jesus._
=Exceptio probat regulam=--The exception proves
the rule.
=Exceptis excipiendis=--The requisite exceptions
being made.
=Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus=--Except
that you were not with me, in other
respects I was happy.
=Excerpta=--Extracts. _L._
=Excess generally causes reaction, and produces= 30
=a change in the opposite direction,
whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals,
or in governments.= _Plato._
=Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very
trimming of the vain world would clothe all
the naked ones.= _Wm. Penn._
=Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.=
_Marlowe._
=Excessit ex ephebis=--He has come to the age of
manhood. _Ter._
=Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its
opposite. Most men become useless to him
who is unwilling to risk being deceived.=
_Vauvenargues._
=Excitari, non hebescere=--To be spirited, not 35
sluggish. _M._
=Exclusa opes omnes=--All hope is gone. _Plaut._
=Ex commodo=--Leisurely.
=Ex concesso=--Admittedly.
=Ex confesso=--Confessedly.
=Ex curia=--Out of court. 40
=Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault
worse by the excuse.= _King John_, iv. 2.
=Ex debito justitiæ=--From what is due to justice;
from a regard to justice.
=Ex delicto=--From the crime.
=Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia=--Rights
are forfeited by disuse. _L._
=Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur= 45
=esse solemniter acta=--Everything established
for a length of time is presumed to have been
done in due form. _L._
=Exeat=--Let him depart.
=Exegi monumentum ære perennius=--I have
reared a memorial of myself more durable than
brass. _Hor._
=Exempli gratia=--By way of example.
=Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus=--We live
more by example than reason.
=Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine= 50
=parva=--Each man is the copy of his God in
small. _Manil._
Exercise is labour without weariness. _Johnson._
=Exercise the muscles well, but spare the
nerves always.= _Schopenhauer._
=Exercitatio optimus est magister=--Practice is
the best master. _Pr._
=Exercitatio potest omnia=--Perseverance conquers
all difficulties.
=Exeunt omnes=--All retire. 55
=Ex facie=--Evidently.
=Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi=--Friends
are to be estimated from deeds, not words.
_Liv._
=Ex facto jus oritur=--The law arisen out of the
fact, _i.e._, it cannot till then be put in force.
_L._
=Ex fide fortis=--Strong from faith. _M._
=Ex fumo dare lucem=--To give light from smoke. 60
_M._
=Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit,
quoties voluit fortuna jocari=--As oft as Fortune
is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a
humble station to the imposing summit of things.
_Juv._
=Ex hypothesi=--Hypothetically.
=Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, /
Ut si quis cera vultum facit=--Require him as
with his thumb to mould their youthful morals,
just as one fashions a face with plastic wax.
_Juv._
=Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus=--Few
in number, yet their valour ardent for war.
_Virg._
=Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse=--It is but a
small matter to be good in the eye of the law
only. _Sen._
=Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were,
a circumscribed habitation; but not to those
who look upon the whole globe as one city.=
_Cic._
=Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant /= 5
=Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem=--They
exchange their home and sweet
thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun
another home. _Virg._
=Ex improviso=--Unexpectedly.
=Ex industria=--Purposely.
=Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum=--Think
that you may make a friend of an enemy.
_Sen._
=Ex integro=--Anew; afresh.
=Ex intervallo=--At some distance. 10
=Existence is not to be measured by mere duration.=
_Caird._
=Exitio est avidium mare nautis=--The greedy
sea is destruction to the sailors. _Hor._
=Ex malis eligere minima=--Of evils to choose the
least. _Cic._
=Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt=--From
bad manners good laws have sprung.
_Coke._
=Ex mero motu=--Of one's own free will. 15
=Ex nihilo nihil fit=--Nothing produces nothing.
=Ex officio=--By virtue of his office.
=Ex opere operato=--By the external act.
=Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor=--An
avenger shall arise out of my bones. _Virg._
=Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus=--Our 20
leisure gives us more to do than our
business.
=Ex parte=--One-sided.
=Ex pede Herculem=--We judge of the size of the
statue of Hercules by the foot.
=Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou
thyself doest such too often.= _Jean Paul._
=Expediency is the science of exigencies.=
_Kossuth._
=Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses.= 25
_Theophrastus._
=Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at
an infinite rate.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Experience converts us to ourselves when
books fail us.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Experience is a text to which reflection and
knowledge supply the commentary.= _Schopenhauer._
=Experience is by industry achieved, / And
perfected by swift course of time.= _Two Gent.
of Ver._, i. 3.
="Experience is the best teacher," only the= 30
=school-fees are heavy.= _Hegel._ (?)
=Experience is the grand spiritual doctor.=
_Carlyle._
=Experience is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._
=Experience is the only genuine knowledge.=
_Goethe._
=Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will
learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it
is true we may give advice, but we cannot
give conduct.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Experience makes even fools wise.= _Pr._ 35
=Experience makes us see a wonderful difference
between devotion and goodness.=
_Pascal._
=Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages,
but teaches as no other.= _Carlyle._
=Experience teaches us again and again that
there is nothing men have less command
over than their tongues.= _Spinoza._
=Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole
help in need.= (?)
=Experience that is bought is good, if not too= 40
=dear.= _Pr._
=Experience to most men is like the stern-lights
of a ship, which illumine only the
track it has passed.= _Coleridge._
=Experientia docet=--Experience teaches. _Pr._
=Experimentum crucis=--A decisive experiment.
=Expert men can execute, but learned men are
more fit to judge and censure.= _Bacon._
=Experto credite=--Believe one who has had experience. 45
_Virg._
=Expertus metuit=--He who has had experience is
afraid. _Hor._
=Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates=--Riches
are coveted to minister to our pleasures.
=Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro /
Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo=--Adversity
tries men, and virtue struggles after
fame, regardless of the adverse heights. _Sil.
Ital._
=Ex post facto=--After the event. _L._
=Expression alone can invest beauty with= 50
=supreme and lasting command over the eye.=
_Fuseli._
=Expressio unius est exclusio alterius=--The
naming of one man is the exclusion of another. _L._
=Ex professo=--As one who knows; professedly.
=Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius=--A Mercury
is not to be made out of any log. _Pr._
=Ex scintilla incendium=--From a spark a conflagration.
_Pr._
=Ex tempore=--Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55
=Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges
solid strength for feeble splendour.=
_Johnson._
=External manners of lament / Are merely
shadows to the unseen grief / That swells
with silence in the tortured soul.= _Rich. II._,
iv. 1.
=Extinctus amabilis idem=--He will be beloved
when he is dead (who was envied when he was
living). _Hor._
=Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle
of every science, as the strangled snakes
beside that of Hercules.= _Huxley._
=Extra ecclesiam nulla salus=--Outside the Church 60
there is no safety.
=Extra lutum pedes habes=--You have got your
feet out of the mud. _Pr._
=Extra muros=--Beyond the walls.
=Extra telorum jactum=--Beyond bow-shot.
=Extrema gaudii luctus occupat=--Grief treads on
the confines of gladness. _Pr._
=Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita
est=--The finishing hand has not yet been
put to his works.
=Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.=
=Extremes beget extremes.= _Pr._
=Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt,= 5
=/ Thy throne had still been thine, or
never been.= _Byron._
=Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In
man they join to some mysterious use.=
_Pope._
=Extremes meet.= _Pr._
=Extremes, though contrary, have the like
effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme
cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well
as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour
tempts chastity as much as too much license.=
_Chapman._
=Extremis malis extrema remedia=--Extreme
remedies for extreme evils. _Pr._
=Extremity is the trier of spirits.= _Coriol._ iv. 1. 10
=Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti,
/ In quascunque voces artes, haud
tarda sequentur=--They lay aside their rustic
ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance
apace into whatever arts you may initiate them.
_Virg._
=Ex umbra in solem=--Out of the shade into the
sunshine. _Pr._
=Ex ungue leonem=--The lion may be known by
his claw.
=Ex uno disce omnes=--From one judge of all.
=Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non= 15
=tanquam ex domo=--I depart from life as from
an inn, not as from a home. _Cic._
=Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum=--From
the faults of another a wise man will correct his
own. _Laber._
=Ex vitulo bos fit=--From a calf an ox grows
up.
=Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere=--To construe
men's characters by their looks.
=Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the
things which God hath prepared for them
that love him.= _St. Paul._
=Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, /= 20
=And catch the manners living as they rise.=
_Pope._
=Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes
or microscopes.= _Emerson._
=Eyes bright, with many tears behind them.=
_Carlyle, on his Wife._
=Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but
fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity.=
_Tennyson._
=Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern
/ The population of a dewdrop.= _J.
Montgomery._
=Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful,= 25
=whatever they be.= _Joubert._
=Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter
of introduction; they ask no leave of age or
rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches,
neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor
sex, but intrude and come again, and go
through and through you in a moment of
time.= _Emerson._
=Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them
to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness
does the earth.= _Sen._
=Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev
it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no
furder / Than my Testyment for that.=
_Lowell._
F.
=Fa bene, e non guardare a chi=--Do good, no
matter to whom. _It. Pr._
=Faber suæ fortunæ=--The maker of his own fortune. 30
_Sall._
=Fabricando fabri fimus=--We become workmen by
working. _Pr._
=Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe=--You
are the talk, though you don't know it, of the
whole town. _Ovid._
=Faces are as legible as books, only they are
read in much less time, and are much less
likely to deceive us.= _Lavater._
=Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand,
there frequently proves to be no gold
in the coffer.= _F. G. Trafford._
=Faces are but a gallery of portraits.= _Bacon._ 35
=Faces which have charmed us the most escape
us the soonest.= _Scott._
=Fac et excusa=--Do it and so justify yourself.
_Pr._
=Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria
est=--It is long before men in power forget
the jest they have been the subject of. _Tac._
=Fach=--Department. _Ger._
=Facienda=--Things to be done. 40
=Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen;
qualem decet esse sororum=--The features were
not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite
different, but such as we would expect in sisters.
_Ovid._
=Facies tua computat annos=--Your face records
your age. _Juv._
=Facile est imperium in bonis=--It is easy to rule
over the good. _Plaut._
=Facile est inventis addere=--It is easy to add to
or improve on what has been already invented.
_Pr._
=Facile largiri de alieno=--It is easy to be generous 45
with what is another's. _Pr._
=Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia /
Ægrotis damus=--We can all, when we are
well, easily give good advice to the sick. _Ter._
=Facile princeps=--The admitted chief; with ease
at the top.
=Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque
dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare
gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc
opus, hic labor est=--The descent to hell is
easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis
stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape
to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil.
_Virg._
=Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas=--It
is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity
than to acquire it in the first instance. _Laber._
=Facilius sit Nili caput invenire=--It would be 50
easier to discover the source of the Nile. _Old
Pr._
=Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento
pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium=--The
poor man who enters into partnership
with a rich makes a risky venture. _Plaut._
=Facinus majoris abollæ=--A crime of a very deep
dye (_lit._ one committed by a man who wears the
garb of a philosopher). _Juv._
=Facinus quos inquinat æquat=--Those whom guilt
stains it equals, _i.e._, it puts on even terms. _Lucan._
=Facit indignatio versum=--Indignation gives inspiration
to verse.
=Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus= 5
=inveniat occupatum=--Keep doing something,
so that the devil may always find you occupied.
_St. Jerome._
=Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant=--They
are so knowing that they know nothing.
_Ter._
=Façon de parler=--A manner of speaking. _Fr._
=Facsimile=--An engraved resemblance of a man's
handwriting; an exact copy of anything (_lit._ do
the like).
=Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur=--I
am about to sing of facts; but some will
say I have invented them. _Ovid._
=Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant=--His actions 10
do not harmonise with his words. _Cic._
=Facta, non verba=--Deeds, not words.
=Fact is better than fiction, if only we could
get it pure.= _Emerson._
=Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most
dangerous principles.= _Junius._
=Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa
be disputed.= _Burns._
=Facts are stubborn things.= _Le Sage._ 15
=Facts are to the mind the same thing as food
to the body.= _Burke._
=Facts--historical facts, still more biographical--are
sacred hierograms, for which the fewest
have the key.= _Carlyle._
=Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio
scitis abesse meo=--Forgive what I have done,
since you know all evil intention was far from
me. _Ovid._
=Factotum=--A man of all work (_lit._ do everything).
=Factum abiit; monumenta manent=--The event 20
is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still
with us. _Ovid._
=Factum est=--It is done. _M._
=Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest=--It
is done and cannot be undone. _Plaut._
=Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre=--Father
and mother are kind, but God is kinder.
_Dan. Pr._
=Fæx populi=--The dregs of the people.
=Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt=--Beauty 25
without virtue is a rose without scent. _Dan. Pr._
=Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen
zu Fertigkeiten werden=--Capacities are presupposed:
they are meant to develop into capabilities,
or skilled dexterities. _Goethe._
=Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones
to success.= _Haliburton._
=Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet
I may not; / I may, although I care not, for
pleasure when I play not.= _Raleigh._
="Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall."=
_Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen
Elizabeth added_, "If thy heart fail thee, then
why climb at all?"
=Fainéant=--Do nothing. _Fr._ 30
=Faint heart never won fair lady.= _Pr._
=Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few
and short.= _S. Rutherford._
=Fair and softly goes far in a day.= _Pr._
=Fair enough, if good enough.= _Pr._
=Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars= (makes) =folk= 35
=speak as they think.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain
o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye
tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; /
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's
my airm.= _Burns to a Haggis._
=Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Fair folk are aye fusionless= (pithless). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.= _Pr._
=Fair maidens wear nae purses= (the lads always 40
paying their share). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair play's a jewel.= _Pr._
=Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, /
And beauty draws us with a single hair.=
_Pope._
=Fair words butter no parsnips.= _Pr._
=Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu=--To put a
good face on the matter. _Fr._
=Faire le chien couchant=--To play the spaniel; to 45
cringe. _Fr._
=Faire le diable à quatre=--To play the devil or
deuce. _Fr._
=Faire le pendant=--To be the fellow. _Fr._
=Faire mon devoir=--To do my duty. _Fr._
=Faire patte de velours=--To coax (_lit._ make a
velvet paw). _Fr._
=Faire prose sans le savoir=--To speak prose 50
without knowing it. _Molière._
=Faire sans dire=--To act without talking. _Fr._
=Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre=--To
make one hole in order to stop another. _Fr.
Pr._
=Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If
better thou belong not to the dawn.= _Milton._
=Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra=--Do
your duty, come what may. _Fr. Pr._
=Fait accompli=--A thing already done. _Fr._ 55
=Faith affirms many things respecting which
the senses are silent; but nothing that they
deny.= _Pascal._
=Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser
fact in favour of a greater. A little mind
often sees the unbelief, without seeing the
belief, of large ones.= _Holmes._
=Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.=
_Stedman._
=Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, /
To break the shock blind Nature cannot
shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the
farther shore.= _Young._
=Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the= 60
=next.= _Young._
=Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but
is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good
works.= _Cranmer._
=Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To
save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.=
_Moore._
=Faith has given man an inward willingness, a
world of strength wherewith to front a world
of difficulty.= _Carlyle._
=Faith in a better than that which appears is
no less required by art than religion.= _John
Sterling._
=Faith is generally strongest in those whose
character may be called weakest.= _Mme. de
Staël._
=Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent
deeps at the Divine command, not
knowing what we shall take.= _Faber._
=Faith is like love; it does not admit of being
forced.= _Schopenhauer._
=Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.= 5
_Channing._
=Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some
spiritual hero.= _Carlyle._
=Faith is necessary to victory.= _Hazlitt._
=Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Faith is nothing more than obedience.= _Voltaire._
=Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.= 10
_Young._
=Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all
knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Faith is our largest manufacturer of good
works, and wherever her furnaces are blown
out, morality suffers.= _Birrell._
=Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere
life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry
into the deep mysteries of God.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Faith is taking God at His word.= _Evans._
=Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts= 15
=for all good to God.= _Luther._
=Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that
it creates anything in the Divine Eternal
Being, but that it creates that Being in us.=
_Luther._
=Faith is the heroism of intellect.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Faith is the soul of religion, and works the
body.= _Colton._
=Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm.=
_Holmes._
=Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes= 20
=its own forms.= _Emerson._
=Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And
looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities,
/ And cries--"It shall be done."=
_C. Wesley._
=Faith opens a way for the understanding;
unbelief closes it.= _St. Augustine._
=Faith without works is like a bird without
wings.= _J. Beaumont._
=Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its
life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow
beneath the rod, / When the day is dark
and the burden sore.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Faiths that are different in their roots, /= 25
=Where the will is right and the heart is
sound, / Are much the same in their fruits.=
_J. B. Selkirk._
=Faithful are the wounds of a friend.= _Bible._
=Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful
only he.= _Milton._
=Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest
things.= _Confucius._
=Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem=--Speak
little and well; they will take you for
somebody. _Port. Pr._
=Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit=--One falsehood 30
begets another (_lit._ thrusts aside another). _Ter._
=Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by
taking words for things.= _Locke._
=Fallentis semita vitæ=--The pathway of deceptive
or unnoticed life. _Hor._
=Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, /
Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum=--For
vice deceives under an appearance and
shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner
and severe in countenance and dress. _Juv._
=Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit /
Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat /
Quam sub rege pio=--Whoso thinks it slavery
to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken.
Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king.
_Claud._
=Falls have their risings, wanings have their= 35
=primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for
better times.= _Quarles._
=Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen=--False
is the race of men. _Schiller._
=False as dicers' oaths.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=False by degrees and exquisitely wrong.= _Canning._
=False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=False folk should hae mony witnesses.= _Sc._ 40
_Pr._
=False freends are waur than bitter enemies.=
_Sc. Pr._
=False friends are like our shadow, close to us
while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving
us the instant we cross into the shade.=
_Bovee._
=False glory is the rock of vanity.= _La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity.=
_La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood.= 45
_Chamfort._
=False shame is the parent of many crimes.=
_Fox._
=Falsehood and death are synonymous.= _Bancroft._
=Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that
a wise man should not trust himself too near
the precipice.= (?)
=Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.=
_H. Ballou._
=Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult.= _George_ 50
_Eliot._
=Falsehood is folly.= _Hom._
=Falsehood is never so successful as when she
baits her hook with truth.= _Colton._
=Falsehood is our one enemy in this world.=
_Carlyle._
=Falsehood is so much the more commendable,
by how much more it resembles truth, and
is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful
and possible.= _Cervantes._
=Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks= 55
=her father's tongue.= _Dan. Pr._
=Falsehood is the essence of all sin.= _Carlyle._
=Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected
when administered alone; but when
blended with wholesome ingredients may be
swallowed unperceived.= _Whately._
=Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the
more in proportion as air and light are excluded.=
_Whately._
=Falso damnati crimine mortis=--Condemned to
die on a false charge. _Virg._
=Falsum in uno, falsum in omni=--False in one
thing, false in everything.
=Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret /
Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum=--Undeserved
honour delights, and lying calumny
alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood
and needs to be reformed. _Hor._
=Fama clamosa=--A current scandal.
=Fama crescit eundo=--Rumour grows as it goes. 5
_Virg._
=Fama nihil est celerius=--Nothing circulates more
swiftly than scandal. _Livy._
=Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari
possint=--The loss of reputation is greater than
can be possibly estimated. _Livy._
=Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur=--It is
not easy to repair a damaged character. _Pr._
=Famam extendere factis.=--To extend one's fame
by valiant feats. _Virg._
=Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are= 10
=always linked together.= _Swift._
=Fame at its best is but a poor compensation
for all the ills of existence.= _Mrs.
Oliphant._
=Fame comes only when deserved, and then it
is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.=
_Longfellow._
=Fame is a fancied life in others' breath.=
_Pope._
=Fame is an undertaker that pays but little
attention to the living, but bedizens the dead,
furnishes out their funerals, and follows them
to the grave.= _Colton._
=Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts.= 15
_Mackenzie._
=Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at
one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor.
To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.=
_Johnson._
=Fame is but the breath of the people, and that
often unwholesome.= _Pr._
=Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.=
_Milton._
=Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under
canopies.= _Dante._
=Fame is the advantage of being known by= 20
=people of whom you yourself know nothing,
and for whom you care as little.= _Stanislaus._
=Fame is the breath of popular applause.= _Herrick._
=Fame is the perfume of noble deeds.= _Socrates._
=Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth
raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) /
To scorn delights and live laborious days.=
_Milton._
=Fame may be compared to a scold; the best
way to silence her is to let her alone, and she
will at last be out of breath in blowing her
own trumpet.= _Fuller._
=Fame only reflects the estimate in which a= 25
=man is held in comparison with others.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Fame sometimes hath created something of
nothing.= _Fuller._
=Fame usually comes to those who are thinking
about something else; very rarely to those
who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us
be a celebrated individual."= _Holmes._
=Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of
merit, but only a probability of such: it is an
accident, not a property, of a man; like
light, it can give little or nothing, but at
most may show what is given; often it is
but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the
vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour,
the brightness and manifold glance
of the diamond to pebbles of no value.=
_Carlyle._
=Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to
serve mankind, / Should have small rest or
pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to
the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love
of one to one.= _Tennyson._
=Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt=--Hunger 30
and delay stir up one's bile (_lit._ in the
nostrils). _Pr._
=Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies=--Famine,
pestilence, and war are the destruction
of a people.
=Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere=--It
is common to man to pardon all his own
faults.
=Familiarity breeds contempt.= _Pr._
=Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the
laws of civility which libertinism has introduced
into society under the notion of ease.=
_La Roche._
=Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.= 35
_George Eliot._
=Famine hath a sharp and meagre face.=
_Dryden._
=Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco=--Make me a
prophet, and I will make you rich. _It. Pr._
=Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind
indeed, but heats without purifying.= _Warburton._
=Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression
of the ideas relating to the future world
as disqualifies for the duties of this.= _R.
Hall._
=Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is= 40
=to fever and rage to anger.= _Voltaire._
=Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.=
_Gibbon._
=Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire
of an o'erheated mind.= _Cowper._
=Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched
for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call.=
_Sterne._
=Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence.=
_Landor._
=Fancy kills and fancy cures.= _Sc. Pr._ 45
=Fancy requires much, necessity but little.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain,
which plays highest by diminishing the
aperture.= _Goldsmith._
=Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe,
the past and the future, while reality is confined
to the present.= _Jean Paul._
=Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience
drives it.= _Fuller._
=Fancy surpasses beauty.= _Pr._ 50
=Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows
not where to stop.= _Whately._
=Fanfaronnade=--Boasting. _Fr._
=Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How
hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! /
Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy
sway, / And those are punished most who
most obey.= _Prior._
=Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble
descent; and reason, of civic= (_bürgerlichen_)
=origin.= _Feuerbach._
=Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate
of man.= _Carlyle._
=Far ahint maun follow the faster.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers.= _Sc._ 5
_Pr._
=Far better it is to know everything of a little
than a little of everything.= _Pickering._
=Far frae court, far frae care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket
on the hearth.= _Milton._
=Far from home is near to harm.= _Fris. Pr._
=Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, /= 10
=Their sober wishes never learned to stray; /
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life /
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.=
_Gray._
=Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes /
Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, /
And other ammunitions of despair, / Were
ever able to despatch by fear.= _Butler._
=Far niente=--A do-nothing.
=Far-off cows have long horns.= _Gael. Pr._
=Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until
ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still
have a care, / They may prove waur than
I am.= _Burns._
=Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and= 15
=sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods
to me appear; / And one to me are shame
and fear.= _Emerson._
=Fare, fac=--Speak, do.
=Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever
fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving,
never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.=
_Byron._
=Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye
tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht--I
dinna ken--/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae
to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake.=
_Burns._
=Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! /
This is the state of man: to-day he puts
forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow
blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours
thick upon him: / The third day comes a
frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks,
good easy man, full surely / His greatness
is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he
falls, as I do.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Farewell! God knows when we shall meet= 20
=again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills
through my veins, / That almost freezes up
the heat of life.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 3.
=Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever
dwells; hail, horror, hail!= _Milton._
=Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! /
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars /
That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! /
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill
trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing
fife, / The royal banner, and all
quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance
of glorious war!= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, /
Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days
been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no
more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no
more.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Fari quæ sentiat=--To speak what he thinks. _M._
=Farmers are the founders of civilisation.= 25
_Daniel Webster._
=Farrago libelli=--The medley of that book of mine.
_Juv._
=Fas est et ab hoste doceri=--It is right to derive
instruction even from an enemy. _Ovid._
=Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.=
_G. Darley._
=Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their
knavery and folly to excuse.= _Churchill._
=Fashion begins and ends in two things it= 30
=abhors most--singularity and vulgarity.=
_Hazlitt._
=Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard
to judge between the temporary and the
lasting.= _Stedman._
=Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.= _J. G. Holland._
=Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the
ostentation of riches.= _Locke._
=Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity,
and afraid to be overtaken by it.
It is a sign that the two things are not far
asunder.= _Hazlitt._
=Fashion is the great governor of the world.= 35
_Fielding._
=Fashion is the science of appearances, and it
inspires one with the desire to seem rather
than to be.= _Locke._
=Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without
diminishing her grace and efficiency.= _Tuckerman._
=Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.=
_Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=Fast and loose.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fast bind, fast find.= _Pr._ 40
=Faster than his tongue / Did make offence,
his eye did heal it up.= _As You Like It_, iii. 5.
=Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare=--Tasting
so many dishes shows a dainty stomach.
_Sen._
=Fasti et nefasti dies=--Lucky and unlucky days.
=Fat hens are aye ill layers.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty= 45
=bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt
quite the wits.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fata obstant=--The fates oppose it.
=Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt=--Fate
leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.
=Fate follows and limits power; power attends
and antagonises fate; we must respect fate
as natural history, but there is more than
natural history.= _Emerson._
=Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses.=
_Schiller._
=Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor.= 50
_Goethe._
=Fate is character.= _W. Winter._
=Fate is ever better than design.= _Thos. Doubleday._
=Fate is known to us as limitations.= _Emerson._
=Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a
former state of existence.= _Hindu saying._
=Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the
wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of
the bad.= _W. R. Alger._
=Fate is unpenetrated causes.= _Emerson._
=Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.=
_Pr._
=Fate made me what I am, may make me
nothing; / But either that or nothing must
I be; / I will not live degraded.= _Byron._
=Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found= 5
=oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns
in the storm with angry brow, / But in the
sunshine strikes the blow.= _Cowper._
=Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit=--He who
shuns a trial confesses his guilt. _L._
=Father of all! in every age, / In every clime
adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, /
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.= _Pope._
=Fathers alone a father's heart can know, /
What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow /
When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds,
/ They wage the war, but 'tis the
father bleeds.= _Young._
=Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; /
And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.=
_George Herbert._
=Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children= 10
=blind; / But fathers that wear bags /
Do make their children kind.= _King Lear_,
ii. 4.
=Fathers their children and themselves abuse /
That wealth a husband for their daughters
choose.= _Shirley._
=Fatigatis humus cubile est=--To the weary the
bare ground is a bed. _Curt._
=Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia=--As soon as
a law is made its evasion is found out. _It. Pr._
=Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth=--Sloth
is the key to poverty. _Ger. Pr._
=Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und= 15
=Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes=--Sluggishness
is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness
of spirit. _Seume._
=Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.=
_Tennyson._
=Faults are beauties in lover's eyes.= _Theocritus._
=Faults are thick when love is thin.= _Pr._
=Faute de grives le diable mange des merles=--For
want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds.
_Fr. Pr._
=Faux pas=--A false step. _Fr._ 20
=Favete linguis=--Favour with words of good omen
(_lit._ by your tongues). _Ovid._
=Favourable chance is the god of all men who
follow their own devices instead of obeying
a law they believe in.= _George Eliot._
=Favour and gifts disturb justice.= _Dan. Pr._
=Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but
a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall
be praised.= _Bible._
=Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are= 25
=generally fatal to friendship.= _Hor. Smith._
=Favours unused are favours abused.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fax mentis honestæ gloria=--Glory is the torch
of an honourable mind. _M._
=Fax mentis incendium gloriæ=--The flame of
glory is the torch of the mind. _M._
=Fay ce que voudras=--Do as you please. _M._
=Fear always springs from ignorance.= _Emerson._ 30
=Fear and sorrow are the true characters and
inseparable companions of most melancholy.=
_Burton._
=Fear can keep a man out of danger, but
courage only can support him in it.= _Pr._
=Fear God and keep his commandments; for
this is the whole duty of man.= _Bible._
=Fear God; honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Fear guards the vineyard.= _It. Pr._ 35
=Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude.=
_Goldsmith._
=Fear has many eyes.= _Cervantes._
=Fear hath torment.= _St. John._
=Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and
the herald of all revolutions. It has boded,
and mowed, and gibbered for ages over
government and property.= _Emerson._
=Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour,= 40
=at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of
himself.= _Peacham._
=Fear is far more painful to cowardice than
death to true courage.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the underminer of all determinations;
and necessity, the victorious rebel of all
laws.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that
loveth is willing.= _Longfellow._
=Fear is worse than fighting.= _Gael. Pr._
=Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or= 45
=the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand
on the brink of that mighty river / Whose
waves they have tainted with death.= _Shelley._
=Fear not the confusion= (_Verwirrung_) =outside
of thee, but that within thee; strive after
unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive
after repose, but through the equipoise,
not through the stagnation= (_Stillstand_), =of
thy activity.= _Schiller._
=Fear not the future; weep not for the past.=
_Shelley._
=Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no
god dare wrong a worm.= _Emerson._
=Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's
never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.=
_Quarles._
=Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.= _Milton._ 50
=Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes
not thought to cease.= _Lord Vaux._
=Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and
sometimes nails them to the ground and
fetters them from moving.= _Montaigne._
=Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; /
If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is
valour too.= _Ben Jonson._
=Fear's a fine spur.= _Samuel Lover._
=Fear's a large promiser; who subject live /= 55
=To that base passion, know not what they
give.= _Dryden._
=Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.=
_Johnson._
=Fearfully and wonderfully made.= _Bible._
=Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.=
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.
=Feasting makes no friendship.= _Pr._
=Feast-won, fast-lost.= _Tim. of Athens_, ii. 2. 60
=Feather by feather the goose is plucked.= _Pr._
=Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec
requiescat in te=--Thou hast made us for Thee,
and the heart knows no rest until it rests in
Thee. _St. Augustine._
=Fecit=--He did it.
=Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?=--Whom
have not flowing cups made eloquent?
_Hor._
=Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti=--Faith
and innocence are only to be
found in little children. _Dante._
=Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong
time.= _Cardinal de Reiz._
=Feebleness is sometimes the best security.= 5
_Pr._
=Feed a cold and starve a fever.= _Pr._
=Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth
make thee parcel-devil in damnation.= _George
Herbert._
=Feeling comes before reflection.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Feeling should be stirred only when it can be
sent to labour for worthy ends.= _Brooke._
=Feelings are always purest and most glowing= 10
=in the hour of meeting and farewell; like
the glaciers, which are transparent and
rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but
throughout the day grey and cold.= _Jean
Paul._
=Feelings are like chemicals; the more you
analyse them, the worse they smell.= _Kingsley._
=Feelings come and go like light troops following
the victory of the present; but principles,
like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and
stand fast.= _Jean Paul._
=Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last
longer the later they are delayed.= _Jean
Paul._
=Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn
der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich
nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern
gern verzeihn=--Shouldst thou fail, let it not
trouble thee, for failure (_lit._ defect) leads to love.
If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou
wilt never forgive others. _Goethe._
=Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt;= 15
=Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst=--Hostile is
the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one
loves himself alone. _Schiller._
=Felices errore suo=--Happy in their error.
_Lucan._
=Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet
copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, /
Suprema citius solvet amor die=--Thrice happy
they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken
link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired
by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last
day. _Hor._
=Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ=--Prosperity is the
nurse of hasty temper. _Pr._
=Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit=--He
is happily wise who is wise at the expense of
another. _M._
=Felicity lies much in fancy.= _Pr._ 20
=Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.=
_Whipple._
=Felix, heu nimium felix=--Happy, alas! too happy!
_Virg._
=Felix qui nihil debet=--Happy is he who owes
nothing.
=Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas=--Happy
he who has succeeded in learning the
causes of things. _Virg._
=Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet=--Happy 25
he who dares courageously to defend
what he loves. _Ovid._
=Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than
storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.=
_Hannah More._
=Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more /
Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.=
_Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.=
_Burke._
=Felo de se=--A suicide. _L._
=Female friendships are of rapid growth.= 30
_Disraeli._
=Feme covert=--A married woman. _L._
=Feme sole=--An unmarried woman. _L._
=Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur
venin=--Women, money, and wine have their
blessing and their bane. _Fr. Pr._
=Femme de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Femme de charge=--A housekeeper. _Fr._ 35
=Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand
elle veut=--A woman laughs when she can, and
weeps when she likes. _Fr. Pr._
=Feræ naturæ=--Of a wild nature.
=Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt=--Men
in general are fain to believe that which
they wish to be true. _Cæs._
=Feriis caret necessitas=--Necessity knows no
holiday.
=Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur=--How 40
often it happens that men fall into the very evils
they are striving to avoid. _Liv._
=Ferme modèle=--A model farm. _Fr._
=Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze;
unter ihnen Handlungen=--Principles develop
themselves far from men; conduct develops among
them. _Jean Paul._
=Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu=--By
constant use an iron ring is consumed. _Ovid._
=Ferro, non gladio=--By iron, not by my sword.
_M._
=Fervet olla, vivit amicitia=--As long as the pot 45
boils, friendship lasts. _Pr._
=Fervet opus=--The work goes on with spirit. _Virg._
=Festina lente=--Hasten slowly. _Pr._
=Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; /
Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit=--It
is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he
is wise who does everything in its proper time.
_Ovid._
=Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus=--Nothing
is safer than despatch in civil quarrels.
_Tac._
=Festinatio tarda est=--Haste is tardy. _Pr._ 50
=Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your
mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments
will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion
and bearing. It will wave superior there,
as if used to a more refined and polished
circle. It has a salute and response to all
your enthusiasm and heroism.= _Thoreau._
=Fête champêtre=--A rural feast. _Fr._
=Fêtes des mœurs=--Feasts of morals. _Fr._
=Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft=--A fat kitchen,
a lean legacy. _Ger. Pr._
=Feu de joie=--Firing of guns in token of joy. 55
_Fr._
=Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.=
_Pr._
=Few are open to conviction, but the majority
of men to persuasion.= _Goethe._
=Few, few shall part where many meet; The
snow shall be their winding-sheet, / And
every turf beneath their feet / Shall be a
soldier's sepulchre.= _Campbell._
=Few have all they need, none all they wish.=
_R. Southwell._
=Few have borne unconsciously the spell of
loveliness.= _Whittier._
=Few have the gift of discerning when to have
done.= _Swift._
=Few have wealth, but all must have a home.= 5
_Emerson._
=Few love to hear the sins they love to act.=
_Pericles_, i. 1.
=Few may play with the devil and win.= _Pr._
=Few men are much worth loving in whom
there is not something well worth laughing
at.= _Hair._
=Few men have been admired by their domestics.=
_Montaigne._
=Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or= 10
=best.= _Byron._
=Few men have any next; they live from hand
to mouth without plan, and are ever at the
end of their line.= _Emerson._
=Few men have imagination enough for the
truth of reality.= _Goethe._
=Few men have virtue to withstand the highest
bidder.= _Washington._
=Few minds wear out; more rust out.= _Bovee._
=Few mortals are so insensible that their affections= 15
=cannot be gained by mildness, their
confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn
or neglect.= _Zimmermann._
=Few of the many wise apothegms which have
been uttered, from the time of the seven
sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard,
have prevented a single foolish action.=
_Macaulay._
=Few people know how to be old.= _La Roche._
=Few persons have courage to appear as good
as they really are.= _Hair._
=Few spirits are made better by the pain
and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims
become eminent saints.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair= 20
=looks.= _Pr._
=Few things are impossible to diligence and
skill.= _Johnson._
=Few things are impracticable in themselves;
and it is from want of application rather
than want of means that men fail of success.=
_La Roche._
=Few things are more unpleasant than the
transaction of business with men who are
above knowing or caring what they have
to do.= _Johnson._
=Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que
estou rezando=--Spinner, spin quietly, so as not
to disturb me; I am praying. _Port. Pr._
=Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda=--Trust in God 25
upon good security. _Sp. Pr._
=Fiat experimentum in corpore vili=--Let the
experiment be made on some worthless body.
=Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus=--Let justice be
done, and the world perish. _Pr._
=Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum=--Let justice be done,
though the heavens should fall in. _Pr._
=Fiat lux=--Let there be light.
=Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the= 30
=deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in
ignorance of the vanity of absent ones.=
_Pascal._
=Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris=--Fictions
meant to please should have as much
resemblance as possible to truth. _Hor._
=Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands
of the good.= _Mme. Necker._
=Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful,
and imagination cold and barren.= _Burke._
=Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he
is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect,
of the nature of lying; and has ever an,
in some degree, unsatisfactory character.=
_Carlyle._
=Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis=--Be it remembered 35
that we are amusing you with tales of
fiction. _Phædr._
=Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio=--To
trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self
is better. _It. Pr._
=Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era
meglio=--Trust was a good man, Trust not was a
better. _It. Pr._
=Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur=--If
good faith be abolished, all human society
is dissolved. _Livy._
=Fide et amore=--By faith and love. _M._
=Fide et fiducia=--By faith and confidence. _M._ 40
=Fide et fortitudine=--By faith and fortitude.
_M._
=Fide et literis=--By faith and learning. _M._
=Fide, non armis=--By good faith, not by arms.
_M._
=Fidei coticula crux=--The cross is the touchstone
of faith. _M._
=Fidei defensor=--Defender of the faith. 45
=Fideli certa merces=--The faithful are certain of
their reward. _M._
=Fidelis ad urnam=--Faithful to death (_lit._ the
ashes-urn). _M._
=Fidelis et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fidélité est de Dieu=--Fidelity is of God. _M._
=Fideliter et constanter=--Faithfully and firmly. 50
_M._
=Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable;
yet, without faculty, without
light, they will not do the work.= _Carlyle._
=Fidelity is the sister of justice.= _Hor._
=Fidelity purchased with money, money can
destroy.= _Sen._
=Fidelius rident tiguria=--The laughter of the
cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of
the court. _Pr._
=Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest=--He 55
who loses his honour has nothing else he can
lose. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet relicuo?=--Who
loses his good name, with what can he support
himself in future? _Pub. Syr._
=Fides facit fidem=--Confidence awakens confidence.
_Pr._
=Fides probata coronat=--Approved faith confers a
crown. _M._
=Fides Punica=--Punic faith; treachery.
=Fides servanda est=--Faith must be kept. _Plaut._ 60
=Fides sit penes auctorem=--Credit this to the
author.
=Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit=--Honour,
like life, when once it is lost, is never
recovered. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidus Achates=--A faithful companion (of Æneas).
_Virg._
=Fidus et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fie! fie! how wayward is this foolish love, /
That like a testy babe will scratch the
nurse, / And presently, all humbled, kiss
the rod.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fiel pero desdichado=--True though unfortunate. 5
_Sp._
=Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, /
In ranks and squadrons, and right form of
war, / Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.=
_Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Fieri facias=--See it be done. _A writ empowering
a sheriff to levy the amount of a debt or
damages._
=Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not,
through dark fortune and through bright,
the cause thou fightest for, so far as it is
true, is very sure of victory.= _Carlyle._
=Fight the good fight.= _St. Paul._
=Filii non plus possessionum quam morborum= 10
=hæredes sumus=--We sons are heirs no less to
diseases than to estates.
=Filius nullius=--The son of no one; a bastard.
_L._
=Filius terræ=--A son of the earth; one low-born.
=Fille de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Fille de joie=--A woman of pleasure; a prostitute.
_Fr._
=Fin contre fin=--Diamond cut diamond. _Fr._ 15
=Fin de siècle=--Up to date. _Fr._
=Find earth where grows no weed, and you
may find a heart where no error grows.=
_Knowles._
=Find employment for the body, and the mind
will find enjoyment for itself.= _Pr._
=Find fault, when you must find fault, in private,
if possible, and some time after the offence,
rather than at the time.= _Sydney Smith._
=Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it= 20
=in living movement, in progress faster or
slower; the phœnix soars aloft, hovers with
outstretched wings, filling earth with her
music; or, as now, she sinks, and with
spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame,
that she may soar the higher and sing the
clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Find out men's wants and will, / And meet
them there. All worldly joys go less / To
the one joy of doing kindnesses.= _Herbert._
=Finding your able man, and getting him invested
with the symbols of ability, is the
business, well or ill accomplished, of all
social procedure whatsoever in this world.=
_Carlyle._
=Fine art is that in which the hand, the head,
and the heart of man go together; the head
inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to
both heart and head.= _Ruskin._
=Fine by defect and delicately weak.= _Pope._
=Fine by degrees and beautifully less.= _Prior._ 25
=Fine feathers make fine birds.= _Pr._
=Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are
in the situation of the extreme feathers of a
peacock's tail--dragging in the mud.= _John
Foster._
=Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
None are truly great without this ornament.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Fine manners need the support of fine manners
in others.= _Emerson._
=Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so= 30
=useful as common sense.= _Pope._
=Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves /
Or fools, that use them when they want
good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or
ornament.= _Otway._
=Fine words without deeds go not far.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Finem respice=--Have regard to the end.
=Finge datos currus, quid agas?=--Suppose the
chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what
would you do? _Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid._
=Fingers were made before forks, and hands= 35
=before knives.= _Swift._
=Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos,
Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus=--Any
untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor,
barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you
in sickness. _Pr._
=Finis coronat opus=--The end crowns the work,
_i.e._, first enables us to determine its merits.
_Pr._
=Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction
in comparison with the tongue of
the babbler.= _Steele._
=Fire and water are good servants but bad
masters.= _Pr._
=Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.= 40
_Ger. Pr._
=Fire is the best of servants; but what a
master!= _Carlyle._
=Fire maks an auld wife nimble.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.= _Two
Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Firmior quo paratior=--The stronger the better 45
prepared. _M._
=Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion,
is a character I would wish to possess. I
have always despised the whining yelp of
complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve.=
_Burns._
=First assay / To stuff thy mind with solid
bravery; / Then march on gallant: get substantial
worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and
will set it forth.= _George Herbert._
=First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and
then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the
mote out of thy brother's eye.= _Jesus._
=First catch your hare.= _Mrs. Glass's advice to
the housewife._
=First come, first served.= _Pr._ 50
=First deserve and then desire.= _Sc. Pr._
=First flower of the earth and first gem of the
sea.= _Moore._
=First keep thyself in peace, and then thou
shalt be able to keep peace among others.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=First must the dead letter of religion own
itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if
the living spirit of religion, freed from its
charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of
heaven, and with new healing under its
wings.= _Carlyle._
=First resolutions are not always the wisest,
but they are usually the most honest.=
_Lessing._
=First worship God; he that forgets to pray /
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good
day.= _T. Randolph._
=Fishes live in the sea, ... as men do on
land--the great ones eat up the little ones.=
_Pericles_, ii. 1.
=Fit cito per multas præda petita manus=--The
spoil that is sought by many hands quickly
accumulates. _Ovid._
=Fit erranti medicina confessio=--Confession is as 5
healing medicine to him who has erred.
=Fit fabricando faber=--A smith becomes a smith
by working at the forge. _Pr._
=Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus=--In
the master there is the servant, and
in the servant the master (_lit._ in masterhood
is servanthood, in servanthood masterhood).
_Cic._
=Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus=--In
times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
=Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the
foot.= _Port. Pr._
=Fit words are fine, but often fine words are= 10
=not fit.= _Pr._
=Five great intellectual professions have hitherto
existed in every civilised nation: the
soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach
it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the
lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the
merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty
of all these men is, on due occasion, to die
for it.= _Ruskin._
=Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to
me as five minutes in the next millennium.=
_Emerson._
=Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis
nowhere to be found, or everywhere.= _Pope._
=Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To
draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.= _Pope._
=Flagrante bello=--During the war. 15
=Flagrante delicto=--In the very act.
=Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar /
In one bright flame, and then return no more.=
_Dryden._
=Flamma fumo est proxima=--Where there is
smoke there is fire (_lit._ flame is very close to
smoke). _Plaut._
=Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear
willingly before the great.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch= 20
=behind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes.=
_South._
=Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors.=
_Raleigh._
=Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets
enmity.= _Pr._
=Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the
giver, and adulation is not of more service
to the people than to kings.= _Burke._
=Flattery is a base coin, to which only our= 25
=vanity gives currency.= _La Roche._
=Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; / The
thing the which is flattered, but a spark, /
To which that blast gives heat and stronger
glowing; / Whereas reproof, obedient and
in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for
they may err.= _Pericles_, i. 2.
=Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship.=
_Disraeli._
=Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well
assimilated to those cordials which hurt the
constitution while they exhilarate the spirits.=
_Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Flattery labours under the odious charge of
servility.= _Tac._
=Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing= 30
=is kicked out of doors.= _Pr._
=Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's
door.= _Walcot._
=Flebile ludibrium=--A "tragic farce;" a farce to
weep at.
=Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe=--He
shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk
of the whole town. _Hor._
=Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo=--If
I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up
Acheron. _Virg._
=Flecti, non frangi=--To bend, not to break. _M._ 35
=Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the
decay of the body.= _Cato._
=Flee you ne'er so fast, your fortune will be at
your tail.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against
his will.= _Gael. Pr._
=Flet victus, victor interiit=--The conquered one
weeps, the conqueror is ruined.
=Fleur d'eau=--Level with the water. _Fr._ 40
=Fleur de terre=--Level with the land. _Fr._
=Fleurs-de-lis=--Lilies. _Fr._
=Fleying= (frightening) =a bird is no the way to
catch it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flies are easier caught with honey than
vinegar.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the= 45
=angels; how can man, then, / The image of
his Maker, hope to win by it?= _Hen. VIII._,
iii. 2.
=Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart
cannot; no, not by the strongest and noblest
flame.= _South._
=Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant=--As
bees sip of everything in the flowery meads.
_Lucret._
=Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not
to be ground.= _Goethe._
=Flowers and fruits are always fit presents--flowers,
because they are a proud assertion
that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities
of man.= _Emerson._
=Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of= 50
=Nature, by which she indicates how much
she loves us.= _Goethe._
=Flowers are the pledges of fruit.= _Dan. Pr._
=Flowers are the sweetest things God ever
made and forgot to put a soul into.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a
fragrance as before a storm.= _Jean Paul._
=Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious
discourses are like the blue and red flowers
in corn, pleasing to those who come only
for amusement, but prejudicial to him who
would reap profit from it.= _Pope._
=Fluctus in simpulo exitare=--To raise a tempest 55
in a teapot. _Cic._
=Fluvius cum mari certas=--You but a river, and
contending with the ocean. _Pr._
=Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly /
By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. /
If these take up thy day, the sun will cry /
Against thee; for his light was only lent.=
_George Herbert._
=Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu=--Bad in the beginning,
bad in the end. _Livy._
=Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo
risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit
amico=--He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of
hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he
raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he
would spare. _Hor._
=Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata
volent rapidis ludibria ventis=--Only commit
not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about
dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. _Virg._
=Folk canna help a' their kin= (relatives). _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always
the luck to be out o' the road when there's
anything to be done.= _George Eliot._
=Folks must put up with their own kin as they
put up with their own noses.= _George Eliot._
=Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse=--It
is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor.
_Fr. Pr._
=Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it= 10
=will follow thee.= _Pr._
=Follow the copy though it fly out of the
window.= _Printer's saying._
=Follow the customs or fly the country.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go
to the devil.= _Carlyle._
=Follow the river, and you will get to the sea.=
_Pr._
=Follow the road, and you will come to an inn.= 15
_Port. Pr._
=Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar
many.= _It. Pr._
=Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant
appears.= _Butler._
=Folly ends where genuine hope begins.= _Cowper._
=Folly is its own burden.= _Sen._
=Folly is the most incurable of maladies.= 20
_Sp. Pr._
=Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells,
and growing old with drawing nothing up.=
_Cowper._
=Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.= _Byron._
=Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from
building churches.= _Randolph._
=Fond gaillard=--A basis of joy or gaiety. _Fr._
=Fons et origo mali=--The source and origin of the 25
mischief.
=Fons malorum=--The origin of evil.
=Fons omnium viventium=--The fountain of all
living things.
=Fontes ipsi sitiunt=--Even the fountains complain
of thirst. _Pr._
=Food can only be got out of the ground, or the
air, or the sea.= _Ruskin._
=Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; /= 30
=Though life's a gift no worth receivin', /
When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; /
But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill
scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee.= _Burns, on
Scotch drink._
=Food for powder.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iv. 2.
=Fool before all is he who does not instantly
seize the right moment; who has what he
loves before his eyes, and yet swerves=
(_schweift_) =aside.= _Platen._
=Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try,
a glorious life or grave.= _George Herbert._
=Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, /
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.=
_Dryden._
=Fool of fortune.= _King Lear_, iv. 6. 35
=Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the
wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice.=
_Persian saying._
=Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which
perishes in the twisting.= _Emerson._
=Foolish people are a hundred times more
averse to meet with wise people than wise
people are to meet with foolish.= _Saadi._
=Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.= 40
_Pr._
=Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of
their betters.= _Swift._
=Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men
o' sittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools are aye seeing ferlies= (wonderful things).
_Sc. Pr._
=Fools are known by looking wise.= _Butler._
=Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.= 45
_Byron._
=Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know
their time.= _Pr._
=Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act
more wisely.= _Langbern._
=Fools for arguments use wagers.= _Butler._
=Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And= 50
=men, once ignorant, are slaves.= _Pope._
=Fools grow of themselves without sowing or
planting.= _Rus. Pr._
=Fools grow without watering.= _Pr._
=Fools invent fashions and wise men follow
them.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise
men much from fools.= _Dut. Pr._
=Fools make a mock at sin.= _Bible._ 55
=Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. /
Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For
envy is a kind of praise.= _Gay._
=Fools measure actions after they are done by
the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules
of reason and right.= _Bp. Hale._
=Fools need no passport.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fools ravel and wise men redd= (unravel). _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to
make their follies known.= _Gay._
=Fools with bookish knowledge are children
with edged weapons; they hurt themselves
and put others in pain.= _Zimmermann._
=Footpaths give a private, human touch to
the landscape that roads do not. They are
sacred to the human foot. They have the
sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the
way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive
times.= _John Burroughs._
=Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb,
always a coxcomb.= _Johnson._
=For age, long age! / Nought else divides us
from the fresh young days / Which men call
ancient.= _Lewis Morris._
=For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor.=
_Carlyle._
=For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth
up again.= _Bible._
=For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies= 5
=the same with none.= _Hudibras._
=For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing
but to name his tools.= _Butler._
=For all he did he had a reason, / For all he
said, a word in season; / And ready ever
was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote.=
_Butler._
=For all men live and judge amiss / Whose
talents do not jump with his.= _Butler._
=For all right judgment of any man or thing
it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good
qualities before pronouncing on his bad.=
_Carlyle._
=For all their luxury was doing good.= _L._ 10
_Garth._
=For an honest man half his wits are enough;
for a knave, the whole are too little.= _It.
Pr._
=For an orator delivery is everything.= _Goethe._
=For a republic you must have men.= _Amiel._
=For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with
his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel
state of ours, / The rabble are the
supreme powers.= _Butler._
=For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and= 15
=fro by the waves, so the man who is careless
and forsaketh his purpose is many ways
tempted.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure,
and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's
stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.=
_Burns._
=For a tint= (lost) =thing carena.= _Sc. Pr._
=For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit
with too much as they that starve with
nothing.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever
hear by tale or history, / The course of true
love never did run smooth.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
i. 1.
=For a web begun God sends thread.= _Fr. and_ 20
_It. Pr._
=For behaviour, men learn it, as they take
diseases, one of another.= _Bacon._
=For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, /
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.=
_Congreve._
=For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are
they all, all honourable men.= _Jul. Cæs._,
iii. 2.
=For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog
is as sorrowful a type as you will easily
find.= _Ruskin._
=For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For= 25
=softness she and sweet attractive grace; /
He for God only, she for God in him, / His
fair large front and eye sublime declared.=
_Milton._
=For cowards the road of desertion should be
left open; they will carry over to the enemy
nothing but their fears.= _Bovee._
=For dear to gods and men is sacred song.=
_Pope._
=For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls
still further from its former shore.= _Home._
=For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That
one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or
hedge aside from the direct forthright, /
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by,
And leave you hindmost.= _Troil. and Cres._
iii. 3.
=For ever and a day.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1. 30
=For ever is not a category that can establish
itself in this world of time.= _Carlyle._
=For every dawn that breaks brings a new
world, / And every budding bosom a new
life.= _Lewis Morris._
=For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.=
_Emerson._
=For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred
enemies.= _Sterne._
=For everything you have missed, you have= 35
=gained something else; and for everything
you gain, you lose something.= _Emerson._
=For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, /
And twins e'en from the birth are misery
and man.= _Pope._
=For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That
from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the
life of heaven above / Springs from the earth
below.= _Emerson._
=For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks= (seats,
benches). _Sc. Pr._
=For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.=
_Pope._
=For forms of government let fools contest; /= 40
=Whate'er is best administered is best.=
_Pope._
=For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd
by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft,
is ever won.= _Byron._
=For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs
wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; /
And then God knows what mischief may
arise / When love links two young people
in one fetter.= _Byron._
=For gold the merchant ploughs the main, /
The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory
is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth
is honour.= _Burns._
=For good and evil must in our actions meet; /
Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.=
_Donne._
=For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= 45
_Shakespeare._
=For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.= _Mrs.
Browning._
=For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, /
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.=
_Shakespeare._
=For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the
size of pots of ale.= _Butler._
=For he is but a bastard to the time / That
doth not smack of observation.= _King John_,
i. 1.
=For he lives twice who can at once employ /= 50
=The present well and e'en the past enjoy.=
_Pope._
=For he that fights and runs away / May live
to fight another day; / But he who is in
battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again.=
_Goldsmith._
=For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor
pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out
of the skies / Ere freedom out of man.=
_Emerson._
=For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an
autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by
reaping.= _Ant. and Cleop._, v. 2.
=For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught
lyre / None but the noblest passions
to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted
thought, / One line which, dying, he could
wish to blot.= _Littleton on Thomson._
=For hope is but the dream of those that wake.=
_Prior._
=For I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, 5
ii. 1.
=For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet
all perils very constantly.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 1.
=For I say this is death, and the sole death, /
When a man's loss comes to him from his
gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge
ignorance, / And lack of love from love made
manifest.= _Browning._
=For it so falls out, / That what we have we
prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it,
but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we
rack the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, /
And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the
thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a
pleasant eye.= _N. P. Willis._
=For just experience tells, in every soil, / That= 10
=those that think must govern those that toil.=
_Goldsmith._
=For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, /
Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And
strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And
purity a folly.= _Lewis Morris._
=For knowledge is a steep which few may
climb, / While duty is a path which all may
tread.= _Lewis Morris._
=For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our
other healthful members ev'n to that sense /
Of pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._,
i. 3.
=For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering= 15
=unction to your soul / That not your trespass
but my madness speaks.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be /
Than other men's, and in dear love's delight /
See more than any other eyes can see.=
_Spenser._
=For man's well-being faith is properly the one
thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise
weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and
the cross; and without it, worldlings puke
up their sick existence by suicide in the
midst of luxury.= _Carlyle._
=For man there is but one misfortune, when
some idea lays hold of him which exerts no
influence upon his active life, or still more,
which withdraws him from it.= _Goethe._
=For men are brought to worse diseases / By
taking physic than diseases, / And therefore
commonly recover / As soon as doctors give
them over.= _Butler._
=For men at most differ as heaven and earth, /= 20
=But women, worst and best, as heaven and
hell.= _Tennyson._
=For men cherish love, for gods reverence.=
_Grillparzer._
=For men may come and men may go, / But I
go on for ever.= _Tennyson._
=For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; /
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.=
_Pope._
=For murder, though it hath no tongue, will
speak / With most miraculous organ.= _Ham._,
ii. 2.
=For my means, I'll husband them so well, /= 25
=They shall go far with little.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=For my name and memory I leave to men's
charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and
to the next ages.= _Bacon._
=For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, /
But to the earth some special good doth
give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd
from that fair use, / Revolts from true
birth, stumbling on abuse.= _Rom. and Jul._,
ii. 3.
=For now we see through a glass darkly, but
then face to face.= _St. Paul._
=For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer
cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my
duck.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The= 30
=saddest were these: "It might have been."=
_Whittier._
=For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst
kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath
been in prosperite, / And it remember when
it passéd is.= _Chaucer._
=For of the soul the body form doth take, / For
soul is form, and doth the body make.=
_Spenser._
=For one man who can stand prosperity, there
are a hundred that will stand adversity.=
_Carlyle._
=For one person who can think, there are at
least a hundred who can observe. An accurate
observer is, no doubt, rare; but an
accurate thinker is far rarer.= _Buckle._
=For one rich man that is content there are a= 35
=hundred who are not.= _Pr._
=For one word a man is often deemed wise, and
for one word he is often deemed foolish.=
_Confucius._
=For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow
parading pageant, with all the gravity of
grandeur, moves in review; a single coat,
or a single footman, answers all the purposes
of the most indolent refinement as
well; and those who have twenty, may be
said to keep one for their own pleasure, and
the other nineteen merely for ours.= _Goldsmith._
=For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but
tyrants use it cruelly.= _Timon of Athens_,
iii. 5.
=For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils
gathering near; / My greatest grief is that
I leave / Nothing that claims a tear.=
_Byron._
=For poems to have beauty of style is not= 40
=enough; they must have pathos also, and
lead at will the hearer's soul.= _Hor._
=For present grief there is always a remedy.
However much thou sufferest, hope. The
greatest happiness of man is hope.= _Leopold
Schefer._
=For rarely do we meet in one combined /
A beauteous body and a virtuous mind.=
_Juv._
=For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but
out there flew a trope.= _Butler._
=For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With
which, like ships, they steer their courses.=
_Butler._
=For right is right, since God is God, / And
right the day must win; / To doubt would
be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin.= _F.
W. Faber._
=For sacred even to gods is misery.= _Pope._
=For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle= 5
=hands to do.= _Watts._
=For slander lives upon successión, / For ever
housed where it gets possessión.= _Comedy of
Errors_, iii. 1.
=For solitude sometimes is best society, / And
short retirement urges sweet return.= _Milton._
=For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=For suffering and enduring there is no remedy
but striving and doing.= _Carlyle._
=For that fine madness still he did retain /= 10
=Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.=
_Drayton._
=For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted
that of Instinct; and we call everything
instinct which we find in ourselves,
and for which we cannot trace any rational
foundation.= _J. S. Mill._
=For the bow cannot possibly stand always
bent, nor can human nature or human frailty
subsist without some lawful recreation.=
_Cervantes._
=For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for
the seller one is enough.= _It. Pr._
=For thee the family of man has no use; it
rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered
limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so.=
_Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the
"Centre of Indifference, through which whoso
travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive
must necessarily pass."_
=For the fashion of this world passeth away.= 15
_St. Paul._
=For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but
to flout the ruins grey.= _Scott._
=For the greatest crime of man is that he was
born.= _Calderon._
=For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is
still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the
highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to
speak less paradoxically, in the one thing
which he does rightly, he sees the likeness
of all that is done rightly.= _Goethe._
=For the rain it raineth every day.= _Lear_,
iii. 2.
=For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's= 20
=nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the
hoose / When oor guidman's awa'.= _W. J.
Mickle._
=For there was never yet philosopher / That
could endure the toothache patiently.= _Much
Ado_, v. 1.
=For the sake of one good action a hundred
evil actions should be condoned.= _Chinese Pr._
=For the son of man there is no noble crown,
well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown
of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=For the true the price is paid before you enjoy
it; for the false, after you enjoy it.= _John
Foster._
=For the world was built in order, / And the= 25
=atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and
the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them
and the moon.= _Emerson._
=For they can conquer who believe they can.=
_Dryden._
=For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That
whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere
it comes to light, / In every cranny but the
right.= _Cowper._
=For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: /
And as the sun breaks through the darkest
clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest
habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
=For to him that is joined to all the living there
is hope: for a living dog is better than a
dead lion.= _Bible._
=For to see and eek for to be seye.= _Chaucer._ 30
=For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As
to be loved needs only to be seen.= _Dryden._
=For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a
pearl for carnal swine.= _Butler._
=For use almost can change the stamp of
Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw
him out / With wondrous potency.= _Ham._,
iii. 4.
=For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth
rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; /
Nothing we see but means our good, / As
our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole
is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet
of pleasure.= _George Herbert._
=For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man,= 35
=for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why
shouldst not thou?= _Jean Paul._
=For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; /
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.=
_Pope._
=For want of a block a man will stumble at a
straw.= _Swift._
=For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want
of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want
of a horse the rider was lost.= _Ben. Franklin._
=For wealth is all things that conduce / To
man's destruction or his use; / A standard
both to buy and sell / All things from heaven
down to hell.= _Butler._
=For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, /= 40
=But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, /
That rise and fall, that swell and are no
more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an
hour.= _Young._
=For what are they all in their high conceit, /
When man in the bush with God may meet?=
_Emerson._
=For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to
get, / And what thou hast, forgetst.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iii. 1.
=For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis
interest still resolves the doubt.= _Butler._
=For where is any author in the world / Teaches
such beauty as a woman's eye?= _Love's L.
Lost_, iv. 3.
=For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, /= 45
=And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, /
And while a spring-tide coming lights
the earth, / And while a child, and while a
flower is born, / And while one wrong cries
for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still
the world is young.= _Lewis Morris._
=For whom ill is fated, him it will strike.= _Gael.
Pr._
=For whom the heart of man shuts out, /
Straightway the heart of God takes in, /
And fences them all round about / With
silence 'mid the world's loud din.= _Lowell._
=For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This
pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left
the warm precincts of the cheerful day, /
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?=
_Gray._
=For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this
intellectual being, / Those thoughts that
wander through eternity; / To perish rather,
swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of
uncreated night?= _Milton._
=For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no
man regards it.= 1 _Henry IV._, i. 2.
=For youth no less becomes / The light and= 5
=careless livery that it wears, / Than settled
age his sables and his weeds, / Importing
health and graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Forbearance is not acquittance.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Forbidden fruit is sweetest.= _Pr._
=Force and right rule everything in this world;= 10
=force till right is ready.= _Joubert._ (?)
=Force can never annul right.= _Berryer._
=Force is no argument.= _John Bright._
=Forced love does not last.= _Dut. Pr._
=Forced prayers are no gude for the soul.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Force n'a pas droit=--Might knows no right. 15
_Fr. Pr._
=Force rules the world, and not opinion, but
opinion is that which makes use of force.=
_Pascal._
=Force without forecast is of little avail.= _Pr._
=Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but
still more necessary in distrusting.= _Cötvös._
=Forewarned, forearmed.= _Cervantes._
=Forget the hours of thy distress, but never= 20
=forget what they taught thee.= _Gessner._
=Forget thyself to marble.= _Milton._
=Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.=
_Pr._
=Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self,
around these everything turns.= _Auerbach._
=Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness
is the sign of a gentle nature, but
revenge the sign of a savage nature.= _Epictetus._
=Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not= 25
=ointment to the wound of an oppressor.=
_Saadi._
=Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.=
_Schiller._
=Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But
they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.=
_Dryden._
=Forgiveness is not forgotten.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forgotten pains, when follow gains.= _Sc. Pr._
=Forma bonum fragile est=--Beauty is a fragile 30
good. _Ovid._
=Forma viros neglecta decet=--Neglect of appearance
becomes men. _Ovid._
=Formerly it was the fashion to preach the
natural; now it is the ideal.= _Schlegel._
=Formerly the richest countries were those in
which Nature was most bountiful; now the
richest countries are those in which man is
most active.= _Buckle._
=Formerly when great fortunes were only made
in war, war was business; but now when
great fortunes are only made by business,
business is war.= _Bovee._
=Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone,= 35
=quam leonum cervo=--An army of stags would
be more formidable commanded by a lion, than
one of lions commanded by a stag. _Pr._
=Formosa facies muta commendatio est=--A handsome
face is a mute recommendation. _Pub. Syr._
=Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi
facie multos cognovi optimos=--I have often
found good-looking people to be very base, and I
have known many ugly people most estimable.
_Phæd._
=Forms which grow round a substance will be
true, good; forms which are consciously put
round a substance, bad.= _Carlyle._
=Formulas are the very skin and muscular
tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed
indispensable thing, so long as they have
vitality withal, and are a living skin and
tissue to him.= _Carlyle._
=Forsake not God till you find a better maister.= 40
_Sc. Pr._
=Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate,
et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Perhaps it
will be a delight to us some day to recall these
misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve
yourselves for better times. _Virg._
=Forsan miseros meliora sequentur=--Perhaps a
better fortune awaits the unhappy. _Virg._
=Fors et virtus miscentur in unum=--Fortune and
valour are blended into one. _Virg._
=Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce=--Strong is vinegar
from sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Forte et fidele=--Strong and loyal. _M._ 45
=Fortem facit vicina libertas senem=--The approach
of liberty makes even an old man brave.
_Sen._
=Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, /
Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter
munera ponat / Naturæ=--Pray for a strong soul
free from the fear of death, which regards the
final period of life among the gifts of Nature.
_Juv._
=Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in
juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec
imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ
columbam=--Brave men are generated by brave
and good: there is in steers and in horses the
virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle
beget the unwarlike dove. _Hor._
=Forte scutum salus ducum=--The safety of leaders
is a strong shield. _M._
=Fortes fortuna adjuvat=--Fortune assists the 50
brave. _Ter._
=Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo
assequendi simus=--Let us be resolute in prosecuting
our purpose and mild in the manner of
attaining it. _Aquaviva._
=Forti et fideli nihil difficile=--To the brave and
true nothing is difficult. _M._
=Fortify courage with the true rampart of
patience.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is
an impregnable fortress.= _Epictetus._
=Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam
hominis=--The disposition of the law is stronger
and more potent than that of man. _L._
=Fortis cadere, cedere non potest=--A brave man
may fall, but cannot yield. _M._
=Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari
in rebus asperis=--It shows a brave and resolute
spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
_Cic._
=Fortis sub forte fatiscet=--A brave man will
yield to a brave. _M._
=Fortiter et recte=--Courageously and honourably. 5
_M._
=Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari
non potest=--By bravely enduring it, an evil
which cannot be avoided is overcome. _Pr._
=Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter=--Boldly, faithfully,
successfully. _M._
=Fortiter geret crucem=--He will bravely support
the cross. _M._
=Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo=--Vigorous and
resolute in deed, gentle in manner.
=Fortitude is the guard and support of the= 10
=other virtues.= _Locke._
=Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the
armour of the will, and the fort of reason.=
_Bacon._
=Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers;
temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures;
prudence in the choice between good
and evil; justice in awarding to every one
his due.= _Cic._
=Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like
a river, swells the higher for having its
course stopped.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Fortitudini=--For bravery. _M._
=Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum=--Certain 15
fortuitous concourse of atoms. _Cic._
=Fortunæ cætera mando=--I commit the rest to
fortune. _Ovid._
=Fortunæ filius=--A child or favourite of fortune.
_Hor._
=Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer=--An
honour to his elevated station, upright and brave.
_Claud._
=Fortuna favet fatuis=--Fortune favours fools.
_Pr._
=Fortuna favet fortibus=--Fortune favours the 20
brave. _Pr._
=Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus=--A
great fortune is a great slavery to its owner.
_Pub. Syr._
=Fortunam debet quisque manere suam=--Every
one ought to live within his means. _Ovid._
=Fortuna meliores sequitur=--Fortune befriends
the better man. _Sall._
=Fortuna miserrima tuta est=--A very poor fortune
is safe. _Ovid._
=Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis=--To 25
many fortune gives too much, to none enough.
_Mart._
=Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit=--Fortune
makes a fool of him whom she favours
too much. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna non mutat genus=--Fortune does not
change nature. _Hor._
=Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel=--Fortune
is not content to do one an ill turn only
once. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest=--Fortune
may bereave us of wealth, but not of
courage. _Sen._
=Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes= 30
=efficit=--Fortune in brief moments
works great changes in our affairs.
=Fortuna sequatur=--Let fortune follow. _M._
=Fortunato omne solum patria est=--To a favourite
of fortune every land is his country.
=Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes=--Happy
the man who knows the rural gods.
_Virg._
=Fortunatus' purse=--A purse which supplies you
with all you wish.
=Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur=--Fortune 35
is like glass; while she shines she is
broken. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered.=
_Cymbeline_, iv. 3.
=Fortune can take from us nothing but what
she gave.= _Pr._
=Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks
them.= _Mme. Riccoboni._
=Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb
says, but forethought much more.= _Cic._
=Fortune has rarely condescended to be the= 40
=companion of genius.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Fortune hath something of the nature of a
woman, who, if she be too closely wooed,
goes commonly the farther off.= _Charles V._
=Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men;
it only shows men just as they are.= _Billings._
=Fortune is like the market, where many times,
if you can stay a little, the price will fall.=
_Bacon._
=Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give
us anything.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Fortune is not content to do a man one ill= 45
=turn.= _Bacon._
=Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of
the brave.= _Lowell._
=Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.= _Churchill._
=Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her
darling.= _Bacon._
=Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool
does not invite her in.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in= 50
=the lineaments of nature.= _As You Like It_,
i. 2.
=Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or
punishment, or recompense, or foresight.=
_Voltaire._
=Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and
he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day
at the bottom.= _Sp. Pr._
=Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great
world spin for ever down the ringing grooves
of change.= _Tennyson._
=Forwardness spoils manners.= _Gael. Pr._
=Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou= 55
=callest new flowers to birth.= _Schiller._
=Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; /
But gold that's put to use, more gold begets.=
_Shakespeare._
=Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth
o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft.= _Sc. Pr._
=Four eyes see more than two.= _Pr._
=Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared
than a thousand bayonets.= _Napoleon._
=Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air
have nests; but the Son of Man hath not
where to lay his head.= _Jesus._
=Foy est tout=--Faith is everything. _M._
=Foy pour devoir=--Faith for duty. _Old Fr._
=Frae saving comes having.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet
solido=--Trying to fix her tooth in some tender
part, / Envy will strike against the solid. _Hor._
=Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos=--The
friar who begs for God begs for two. _Sp. Pr._
=Frailty, thy name is woman.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, /
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens
life.= _Tam. of Sh._, Ind. 2.
=Frangas, non flectes=--You may break, but you 10
will not bend me.
=Frappe fort=--Strike hard. _M._
=Fraternité ou la Mort=--Fraternity or death.
_The watchword of the first French Revolution.
Fr._
=Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne
Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet
das richtende Wort=--Women, judge ye not the
individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces
judgment is above the man. _Schiller._
=Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es
sei wahr oder erlogen=--Truly or falsely,
women and maidens must be praised. _Ger. Pr._
=Fraus est celare fraudem=--It is a fraud to conceal 15
fraud. _L._
=Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht=--Madame
and the moon shine with borrowed
light. _Ger. Pr._
=Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of
virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of
the will.= _Epictetus._
=Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak'
aff your dram.= _Burns._
=Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise
anything above us, but in respecting something
which is above us.= _Goethe._
=Freedom exists only with power.= _Schiller._ 20
=Freedom has a thousand charms to show, /
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.=
_Cowper._
=Freedom is a new religion--the religion of our
time.= _Heine._
=Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.=
_C. A. Bartol._
=Freedom is only granted us that obedience
may be more perfect.= _Ruskin._
=Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the= 25
=beautiful only blooms in song.= _Schiller._
=Freedom is the eternal youth of nations.= _Gen.
Foy._
=Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths
hammer iron.= _C. M. Arndt._
=Free governments have committed more flagrant
acts of tyranny than the most perfect
despotic governments which we have ever
known.= _Burke._
=Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal
within the compass of a guinea.= _W. Irving._
=Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna= 30
=be screwed ower tight.= _Sc. Pr._
=Freethinkers are generally those who never
think at all.= _Sterne._
=Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in
action the world hampers us enough.= _Goethe._
=Freie Kirche im freien Staat=--A free Church in
a free State. _Cavour._
=Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns
in der Tugend begegnete=--Not till we are old
is it that we learn to know (_lit._ experience) what
we met with when young. _Goethe._
=Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen= 35
=Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet,
der legt mich in die Gruft=--Freely must I
think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in
me, and he who robs me of these three entombs
me. _Chamisso._
=Freits= (prognostications) =follow those who look
to them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad
und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht
führt oder die Grösse dazu=--To be free from
blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade,
for only imbecility or greatness leads to it.
_Schiller._
=Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste
Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne
Liebe?=--Voluntary dependence is the noblest
condition we can be in; and how were that
possible without love? _Goethe._
=Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als
die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns
dem Herzen so nah=--We never love the child
of another so much as our own; for this reason
error, which is our own child, is so near to our
heart. _Goethe._
=Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald= 40
=den Wind verloren=--Another's horse and our
own spurs soon outstrip the wind. _Ger. Pr._
=Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo=--A
golden bit, no better a horse. _It. Pr._
=Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic
of folly and ill-manners.= _Chesterfield._
=Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new
reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at
harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a
milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb
he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and
anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away
again.= _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as
if thy life were just begun.= _Goethe._
=Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither= 45
=be thou envious at the wicked; for there
shall be no reward to the evil man; the
candle of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._
=Fretting cares make grey hairs.= _Pr._
=Freude hat mir Gott gegeben=--God has to me
given joy. _Schiller._
=Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben=--Joy
must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. _Goethe._
=Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, /
Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn=--Friendship
is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a
slender cane to promenade with. _Chamisso._
=Friar Modest never was prior.= _It. Pr._ 50
=Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not
lost a friend? / There is no union here of
hearts / That finds not here an end.= _J.
Montgomery._
=Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged,
all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well
names her; how she feeds the sparrow on
the housetop, much more her darling, man?=
_Carlyle._
=Friend, however thou camest by this book, I
will assure thee thou wert least in my
thoughts when I writ it.= _Bunyan._
="Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!"
"No, but you have let me look at them, and
that is all the use you can make of them
yourself; moreover, you have the trouble
of watching them, and that is an employment
I do not much desire."= _Goldsmith._
=Friends and acquaintances are the surest
passports to fortune.= _Schopenhauer._
=Friends are lost by calling often and calling
seldom.= _Gael. Pr._
=Friends are ourselves.= _Donne._ 5
=Friends are rare, for the good reason that men
are not common.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being
more ourselves than we are, and we complement
our affections in theirs.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way
places.= _Pr._
=Friends may meet, / But mountains never
greet.= _Pr._
=Friends reveal to each other most clearly= 10
=exactly that upon which they are silent.=
_Goethe._
=Friends should associate friends in grief and
woe.= _Tit. Andron._, v. 3.
=Friends should be weighed, not told.= _Coleridge._
=Friends show me what I can do; foes teach
me what I should do.= _Schiller._
=Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and
fables.= _Emerson._
=Friends will be much apart. They will respect= 15
=more each other's privacy than their communion,
for therein is the fulfilment of our
high aims and the conclusion of our arguments....
The hours my friend devotes
to me were snatched from a higher society.=
_Thoreau._
=Friendship can originate and acquire permanence
only practically= (pracktisch). =Liking=
(Neigung), =and even love, contribute nothing
to friendship. True, active, productive friendship
consists in this, that we keep the same
pace= (gleichen Schritt) =in life, that my friend
approves of my aims, as I of his, and that
thus we go on steadfastly= (unverrückt) =together,
whatever may be the difference
otherwise between our ways of thinking and
living.= _Goethe._
=Friendship canna stand a' on ae side.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that
term, no longer exists; except in the cases
of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in
reality no longer expected or recognised as
a virtue among men.= _Carlyle._
=Friendship is a plant which one must water
often.= _Ger. Pr._
=Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed= 20
=by heat, or violence, or accident, may as
well be broken at once; it never can be
trusted after.= _Landor._
=Friendship is but a name.= _Napoleon._
=Friendship is communion.= _Arist._
=Friendship is constant in all other things, /
Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore,
all hearts in love use their own tongues; /
Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust
no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.=
_Cic._
=Friendship is like a debt of honour; the= 25
=moment it is talked of, it loses its real name,
and assumes the more ungrateful form of
obligation.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Friendship is love with understanding.= _Ger.
Pr._
=Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.=
_Hare._
=Friendship is love without its wings.= _Byron._
=Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.=
_Joanna Baillie._
=Friendship is one soul in two bodies.= _Porphyry._ 30
=Friendship is stronger than kindred.= _Pub.
Syr._
=Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality;
the reality always remains far apart from
the ideal.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friendship is the marriage of the soul.= _Voltaire._
=Friendship is the shadow of the evening,= 35
=which strengthens with the setting sun of
life.= _La Fontaine._
=Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind
cankered with ambition or the lust of power
and grandeur.= _Junius._
=Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless
to one you stint the flame.= _Gay._
=Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful.= _H.
Giles._
=Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.= _Emerson._
=Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.= 40
_Pr._
=Friendship often ends in love; but love in
friendship--never.= _Colton._
=Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies
and respects, and not crushed into
corners.= _Emerson._
=Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened
by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases
by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual,
the soul is reformed by the habit of it.=
_Montaigne._
=Friendships are discovered rather than made.=
_Mrs. Stowe._
=Friendship's as it's kept.= _Gael. Pr._ 45
=Friendship's full of dregs.= _Timon of Athens_,
i. 2.
=Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate
in disgust.= _Goldsmith._
=Friendship's the privilege / Of private men.=
_N. Tate._
=Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship
new is neither strong nor pure.= _Young._
=Friendships which are born in misfortune are= 50
=more firm and lasting than those which are
formed in happiness.= _D'Urfey._
=Frigidam aquam effundere=--To throw cold
water on a business.
=Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen=--Boldly ventured
is half done (won). _Ger. Pr._
=From a bad paymaster get what you can.=
_Pr._
=From a closed door the devil turns away.=
_Port. Pr._
=From camp to camp, through the foul womb
of night, / The hum of either army stilly
sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost
receive / The secret whispers of each other's
watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their
paly flames / Each battle sees the other's
umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in
high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the
night's dull ear, and from the tents / The
armourers, accomplishing the knights, /
With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give
dreadful note of preparation.= _Hen. V._, iv.
(_chorus_).
=From every moral death there is a new birth; /
in this wondrous course of his, man may
indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand
still.= _Carlyle._
=From every spot on earth we are equally near
heaven and the infinite.= _Amiel._
=From grave to gay, from lively to severe.=
_Pope._
=From great folks great favours are to be= 5
=expected.= _Cervantes._
=From hand to mouth will never make a worthy
man.= _Gael. Pr._
=From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking
repentance.= _Pr._
=From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand
rills their mazy progress take.= _Gray._
=From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a
ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken,
and persuading; / Lofty and sour to
them that loved him not, / But to those men
who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to
add greater honours to his age / Than man
could give; he died fearing God.= _Hen.
VIII._, iv. 2.
=From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only= 10
=wretched are the wise.= _Prior._
=From kings and priests and statesmen war
arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered
woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement.=
_Shelley._
=From labour health, from health contentment
springs.= _Beattie._
=From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, /
The place is dignified by the doer's
deed.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=From obedience and submission spring all
other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.=
_Montaigne._
=From our ancestors come our names, from our= 15
=virtues our honours.= _Pr._
=From out the throng and stress of lies, / From
out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of
comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part
that dies.= _Lewis Morris._
=From pillar to post=--originally from whipping-post
to pillory, _i.e._ from bad to worse. _Pr._
=From saying "No," however cleverly, no good
can come.= _Goethe._
=From seeming evil still educing good.= _Thomson._
=From servants hasting to be gods.= _Pollock._ 20
=From small beginnings come great things.=
_Dut. Pr._
=From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And
he knows most who latest is undone; / An
honest man will take a knave's advice, /
But idiots only will be cozened twice.=
_Dryden._
=From the beginning and to the end of time,
Love reads without letters and counts
without arithmetic.= _Ruskin._
=From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues
the deadliest hate.= _Socrates._
=From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we= 25
=tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end.=
_Johnson._
="From the height of these pyramids forty centuries
look down on you."= _Napoleon to his
troops in Egypt._
=From the lowest depth there is a path to the
loftiest height.= _Carlyle._
=From the low prayer of want and plaint of
woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! /
Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah!
what were man should heaven refuse to
hear!= _Beattie._
=From the same flower the bee extracts honey
and the wasp gall.= _It. Pr._
=From the summit of power men no longer turn= 30
=their eyes upward, but begin to look about
them.= _Lowell._
=From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and
more divine / The fair ideal of the race,
than comes / From glittering gains of learning.=
_Lewis Morris._
=From time to time in history men are born a
whole age too soon.= _Emerson._
=From within or from behind, a light shines
through us upon things, and makes us
aware that we are nothing, but the light
is all.= _Emerson._
=From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: /
They sparkle still the right Promethean
fire; / They are the books, the arts, the
academes, / That show, contain, and nourish
all the world; / Else none at all in aught
proves excellent.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The= 35
=grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at
the claims of long descent.= _Tennyson._
=Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des
Adels Schild=--The words pious, prudent, wise,
and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield
of a noble. _Ger. Pr._
=Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander=--Good
people dwell far apart. _Ger. Pr._
=Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein
Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe
zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen=--Piety is
not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture
through the purest peace of mind. _Goethe._
=Fronti nulla fides=--There is no trusting external
appearances (_lit._ features). _Juv._
=Frost and fraud both end in foul.= _Pr._ 40
=Frost is God's plough.= _Fuller._
=Fructu non foliis arborem æstima=--Judge of a
tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. _Phæd._
=Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower
orders of mankind are true ambition. These
afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to
preferment.= _Goldsmith._
=Frugality is an estate.= _Pr._
=Frugality is founded on the principle that all= 45
=riches have limits.= _Burke._
=Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with
it.= _Wm. Penn._
=Frugality may be termed the daughter of
prudence, the sister of temperance, and the
parent of liberty.= _Johnson._
=Fruges consumere nati=--Born merely to consume
the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe=--Early marriage,
long love. _Ger. Pr._
=Fruit is seed.= _Pr._
=Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per
pauciora=--It is vain to do by many agencies what
may be done by few.
=Frustra Herculi=--In vain to speak against Hercules. 5
_Pr._
=Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet=--He
labours in vain who studies to please everybody.
_Pr._
=Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis
auriga, neque audit currus habenas=--In vain
as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne
along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not
the curb. _Virg._
=Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio
pravus detorseris=--In vain do you avoid one
fault if you perversely turn aside into another.
_Hor._
=Fugam fecit=--He has taken to flight. _L._
=Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges= 10
=et regum vita præcurrere amicos=--Shun grandeur;
under a poor roof you may surpass even
kings and the friends of kings in your life. _Hor._
=Fugere est triumphus=--Flight (_i.e._, from temptation)
is a triumph. _Pr._
=Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit=--The
wag runs away and leaves me with the knife
at my throat, _i.e._, to be sacrificed. _Hor._
=Fugit irreparabile tempus=--Time flies, never to
be repaired. _Virg._
=Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen
weggetrieben--/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell
wirst du sie wieder lieben=--Shouldst thou
feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred,
do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them
revive in thee. _B. Paoli._
=Fuimus=--We have been. _M._ 15
=Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria
Teucrorum=--We Trojans are no more; Ilium is
no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. _Virg._
=Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis
secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere
vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri,
leges incidere ligno=--This of old was accounted
wisdom, to separate public from private property,
things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant
concubinage, to ordain laws for married
people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets.
_Hor._
=Fuit Ilium=--Troy was.
=Fules are aye fond o' flittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non= 20
=minus ignotos generosis=--Glory draws all
bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born
alike. _Hor._
=Full little knowest thou that hast not tried /
What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To
lose good days that might be better spent, /
To waste long nights in pensive discontent.=
_Spenser._
=Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying
its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of
sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless
sorrow.= _Eliza Cook._
=Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The
dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full
many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And
waste its sweetness on the desert air.= _Gray._
=Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks
hearts where grief has little left to learn; /
And many a withering thought lies hid, not
lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears
them most.= _Byron._
=Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.= 25
_Macb._, v. 5.
=Full oft have letters caused the writers / To
curse the day they were inditers.= _Butler._
=Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As
You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both
grace and will to pick the vicious quitch /
Of blood and custom wholly out of him, /
And make all clean, and plant himself afresh.=
_Tennyson._
=Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For
once that Peter was respected.= _Wordsworth._
=Full vessels give the least sound.= _Pr._ 30
=Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.=
_Chaucer._
=Fully to possess and rule an object, one must
first study it for its own sake.= _Goethe._
=Fumos vendere=--To sell smoke. _Mart._
=Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ=--The
smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. _Juv._
=Functus officio=--Having discharged his duties 35
and resigned.
=Fundamentum est justitiæ fides=--The foundation
of justice is good faith. _Cic._
=Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum
valet, exsors ipsa secandi=--I will discharge
the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge
to iron, though it cannot cut itself. _Hor._
=Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren
hat=--Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose.
_Goethe._
=Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff,
für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer
ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit=--For
the thinker the world is a thought; for the
wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for
the inquirer, truth. _L. Büchner._
=Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem= 40
=eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen
Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung
einer andern=--Only that is good for a nation
which issues from its own heart's core and its
own general wants, without apish imitation of
another; since (it is added) what may to one
people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment,
may perhaps prove a poison for another.
_Goethe._
=Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; /
Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus=--For
a dead one I am not at home; I am like the
cat with the mouse. _Goethe's Mephistopheles._
=Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für
diese Welt begräbt=--What is buried for this
world is not for ever dead. _K. v. Holtei._
=Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze=--There
are no laws for just men. _Ger. Pr._
=Furiosus absentis loco est=--A madman is treated
as one absent. _Coke._
=Furiosus furore suo punitur=--A madman is punished 45
by his own madness. _L._
=Furor arma ministrat=--Their rage finds them
arms. _Virg._
=Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia=--Patience, when
outraged often, is converted into rage. _Pr._
=Furor iraque mentem præcipitant=--Rage and
anger hurry on the mind. _Virg._
=Furor loquendi=--A rage for speaking.
=Furor poëticus=--The poet's frenzy.
=Furor scribendi=--A rage for writing.
=Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, /= 5
=Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der
Welt=--For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself;
that is the destiny and law of the world. _Schiller._
=Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und
wir haben ihn=--Prince Bismarck thinks he has
us, and we have him. _Socialist organ._
=Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren=--Princes
have long hands and many ears. _Ger. Pr._
=Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see
in you is worthy love, / Than this; that
nothing do I see in you / That should merit
hate.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth.= _Pr._
=Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no= 10
=prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine
walls.= _Schiller._
=Futurity is the great concern of mankind.=
_Burke._
=Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks
in time to come.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience
s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les
biens s'y dissipent=--Avoid lawsuits beyond all
things; they pervert conscience, impair your
health, and dissipate your property. _La Bruyère._
G.
=Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen=--Were
there no fools, there would be no wise men.
_Ger. Pr._
=Gaieté de cœur=--Gaiety of heart. _Fr._ 15
=Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths
of despair.= _Chapin._
=Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its
poison.= _Stanislaus._
=Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour
recreates and revives them.= _Johnson._
=Gaiety pleases more when we are assured
that it does not cover carelessness.= _Mme.
de Staël._
=Gain at the expense of reputation should be= 20
=called loss.= _Pub. Syr._
='Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of
oblivion.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Galea spes salutis=--Hope is the helmet of salvation.
_M._
=Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet=--After donning the
helmet it is too late to repent of war, _i.e._, after
enlistment. _Juv._
=Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere.=
_Mme. Necker._
=Gallicè=--In French. 25
=Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest=--The
cock is proudest on his own dunghill. _Pr._
=Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent
of prodigality.= _Colton._
=Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all
one thing; it is getting money without giving
an equivalent for it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing
up houses with their whole increase.= _Herbert._
[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]--He 30
who is about to marry is on the way to repentance.
_Gr. Pr._
=Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy
novices and gaping country squires, who
begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.=
_Cumberland._
=Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him
a knave.= _T. Hughes._
=Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as
a refuge from= _ennui_; =it is a mental dram, and
may succeed for a moment, but, like other
stimuli, it produces indirect debility.= _Colton._
=Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the
prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady
her modesty.= _Marchioness d'Alembert._
=Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand=--An 35
old man's sayings are rarely untrue. _Dan. Pr._
[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]--Marriage
is an evil men are eager to embrace.
_Men._
=Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the
laverock= (lark). _Sc. Pr._
=Garçon=--A boy; a waiter. _Fr._
=Garde à cheval=--Horse-guards; mounted guard.
_Fr._
=Garde à pied=--Foot-guards. _Fr._ 40
=Garde à vous=--Attention. _Fr._
=Garde-chasse=--Gamekeeper. _Fr._
=Garde du corps=--A bodyguard. _Fr._
=Garde-feu=--A fire-guard. _Fr._
=Garde-fou=--A hand-rail. _Fr._ 45
=Gardez=--Keep it. _Fr._
=Gardez bien=--Take care. _Fr._
=Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche=--Keep that
for a tit-bit. _Fr. Pr._
=Gardez la foi=--Guard the faith. _M._
=Garments that have once a rent in them are= 50
=subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses
that are once cracked are soon broken; such
is a good man's name once tainted with just
reproach.= _Bp. Hall._
=Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas=--He relates old
women's tales very apropos. _Hor._
=Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen;
/ Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man
die Bahn durchmessen=--Much we learn only
to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we
must traverse all the way to it. _Rückert._
=Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre=--A
cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken.
_Fr. Pr._
=Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle=--To
waste a candle to find a pin. _Fr. Pr._
=Gather gear by every wile that's justified by= 55
=honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor
for a train attendant; / But for the glorious
privilege of being independent.= _Burns._
=Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time
is still a-flying, / And this same flower that
smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying.=
_Herrick._
=Gathering gear= (wealth) =is pleasant pain.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Gathering her brows like gathering storm, /
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._
=Gato maullador nunca buen cazador=--A mewing
cat is never a good mouser. _Sp. Pr._
=Gaude, Maria Virgo=--Rejoice, Virgin Mary.
=Gaudeamus=--Let us have a joyful time.
=Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ=--His
delicate ears are delighted with a title. _Hor._
=Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine= 5
=campi=--He delights in horses, and dogs, and
the grass of the sunny plain. _Hor._
=Gaudet tentamine virtus=--Virtue rejoices in
being put to the test.
=Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina=--He rejoices at
having made his way by ruin. _Lucan, of Julius
Cæsar._
=Gave / His body to that pleasant country's
earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain
Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought
so long.= _Rich. II._, iv. 1.
=Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less
pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot
as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the
breast.= _Gray._
=Gear is easier gained than guided.= _Pr._ 10
=Geben ist Sache des Reichen=--Giving is the
business of the rich. _Goethe._
=Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht=--Roasted
pigeons don't fly through the air. _Dut.
Pr._
=Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?=--Do
pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth?
_Ger. Pr._
=Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von
hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit
gewinnen=--Make the most of time, it glides
away so fast; but order teaches you to gain
time. _Goethe._
=Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken=--If 15
your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give
it in pieces. _Goethe._
=Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei=--Thoughts
are toll-free, but not hell-free. _Ger.
Pr._
=Gedenke zu leben=--Think of living. _Goethe._
=Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben=--Poems
are painted window-panes, _i.e._, when
genuine, they transmit heaven's light through
a contracted medium coloured by human feeling
and fantasy. _Goethe._
=Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid=--Patience excels
learning. _Dut. Pr._
=Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast=--Love that is 20
forced does not last. _Dut. Pr._
=Geese are plucked as long as they have any
feathers.= _Dut. Pr._
=Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich
ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der
schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der
Mensch in seinem Wahn=--Dangerous it is to
rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the
most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion.
_Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen /
Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil
zurück=--It is dangerous to carry a murderous
weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer.
_Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen=--To
fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game.
_Goethe._
=Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen=--Lively 25
companionship shortens the miles. _Ger. Pr._
=Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch /
Umnebelnd Himmelsglut=--Feeling is all;
name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour.
_Goethe._
=Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es
kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe=--To countervail
the inequalities arising from the great
superiority of one over another there is no specific
but love. _Goethe._
=Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre
Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige
nicht achten=--Our adversaries think they confuse
us by repeating their own opinion and paying
no heed to ours. _Goethe._
=Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich
Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und
was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, /
Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und
mit Schrauben=--In broad daylight inscrutable,
Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from
her, and what she does not choose to reveal to
the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers
and screws. _Goethe._
=Geld beheert de wereld.=--Money rules the 30
world. _Dut. Pr._
=Geld ist der Mann=--Money makes (_lit._ is) the
man. _Ger. Pr._
=Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth=--Money
in the purse drives away melancholy.
_Ger. Pr._
=Gelegenheit macht den Dieb=--Opportunity
makes the thief. _Ger. Pr._
=Gelehrte Dummkopf=--A learned blockhead; dryasdust.
[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]--Ill-timed 35
laughter in men is a grievous evil.
_Men._
=Gemeen goed, geen goed=--Common goods, no
goods. _Dut. Pr._
=Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen=--The
chamois climb high, and yet are caught.
_Ger. Pr._
=General abstract truth is the most precious of
all blessings; without it man is blind; it is
the eye of reason.= _Rousseau._
=General infidelity is the hardest soil which
the propagators of a new religion can have
to work upon.= _Paley._
=General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour,= 40
=general dishonesty.= _Carlyle._
=General truths are seldom applied to particular
occasions.= _Johnson._
=Generally all warlike people are a little
idle, and love danger better than travail.=
_Bacon._
=Generally speaking, an author's style is a
faithful copy of his mind. If you would
write a lucid style, let there first be light in
your own mind; and if you would write a
grand style, you ought to have a grand
character.= _Goethe._
=Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind;
death and birth are the vesper and
the matin bells that summon mankind to
sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement.=
_Carlyle._
=Generosity during life is a very different thing= 45
=from generosity in the hour of death; one
proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,
the other from pride or fear.= _Horace
Mann._
=Generosity is catching: and if so many escape
it, it is somewhat for the same reason that
countrymen escape the small-pox--because
they meet with no one to give it to them.=
_Lord Greville._
=Generosity is the flower of justice.= _Hawthorne._
=Generosity is the part of the soul raised above
the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._
=Generosity should never exceed ability.= _Cic._
=Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.= 5
=A princely mind will undo a private family.=
_Fuller._
=Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.=
_Sir W. Davenant._
=Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn
du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische
das Vergnügen=--Enjoy if thou canst, endure if
thou must; / forget the pain and revive the
pleasure. _Goethe._
=Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain
set.= _Emerson._
=Genius always gives its best at first, prudence
at last.= _Lavater._
=Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes= 10
=them.= _Joubert._
=Genius believes its faintest presentiment
against the testimony of all history, for it
knows that facts are not ultimates, but that
a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.=
_Emerson._
=Genius borrows nobly.= _Emerson._
=Genius can never despise labour.= _Abel Stevens._
=Genius cannot escape the taint of its time
more than a child the influence of its begetting.=
_Ouida._
=Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere= 15
=of freedom.= _J. S. Mill._
=Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.=
_Emerson._
=Genius does not need a special language; it
newly uses whatever tongue it finds.= _Stedman._
=Genius does what it must, and talent does
what it can.= _Owen Meredith._
=Genius easily hews out its figure from the
block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life.=
_Willmott._
=Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the= 20
=greatest harm.= _Emerson._
=Genius ever stands with nature in solemn
union, and what the one foretells the other
will fulfil.= _Schiller._
=Genius finds its own road and carries its own
lamp.= _Willmott._
=Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow
it and break its stem.= _Holmes._
=Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an
orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric,
if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere
star-gazers must at last compose ourselves,
must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe
it and calculate its laws.= _Carlyle._
=Genius in poverty is never feared, because= 25
=Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one
instance, is forgetful in another.= _B. R.
Haydon._
=Genius invents fine manners, which the baron
and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the
advantage of a palace, better the instruction.
They stereotype the lesson they have learned
into a mode.= _Emerson._
=Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love.=
_Emerson._
=Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with
great advantages when the stock from which
it springs has been long under cultivation.=
_Holmes._
=Genius is always consistent when most audacious.=
_Stedman._
=Genius is always impatient of its harness; its= 30
=wild blood makes it hard to train.= _Holmes._
=Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.=
_Abel Stevens._
=Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of
genius by over-influence.= _Emerson._
=Genius is a nervous disease.= _De Tours._
=Genius is ever a secret to itself.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself.= 35
_Schiller._
=Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like
unconscious beauty, without any intention
to please.= _I. M. Wise._
=Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing
vitality which floods and fertilises a continent
or a hemisphere of being; which
makes a nature many-sided and whole, while
most men remain partial and fragmentary.=
_H. W. Mabie._
=Genius is lonely without the surrounding
presence of a people to inspire it.= _T. W.
Higginson._
=Genius is mainly an affair of energy.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Genius is not a single power, but a combination= 40
=of great powers. It reasons, but it is not
reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment;
imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels
deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It
is neither, because it is all.= _Whipple._
=Genius is nothing but a great capacity for
patience.= _Buffon._
=Genius is nothing but labour and diligence.=
_Hogarth._
=Genius is nothing more than our common faculties
refined to a greater intensity.= _Haydon._
=Genius is nothing more than the effort of the
idea to assume a definite form.= _Fichte._
=Genius is nourished from within and without.= 45
_Willmott._
=Genius is only as rich as it is generous.=
_Thoreau._
=Genius is religious.= _Emerson._
=Genius is that in whose power a man is.=
_Lowell._
=Genius is that power of man which by its deeds
and actions gives laws and rules; and it
does not, as used to be thought, manifest
itself only by over-stepping existing laws,
breaking established rules, and declaring
itself above all restraint.= _Goethe._
=Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the= 50
=miner who works and brings it out.= _Lady
Blessington._
=Genius is the power of carrying the feelings
of childhood into the powers of manhood.=
_Coleridge._
=Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking
trouble first of all.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is the very eye of intellect and the
wing of thought; it is always in advance of
its time, and is the pioneer for the generation
which it precedes.= _Simms._
=Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is
to the precious stones. It sends forth its
own light, whereas other stones only reflect
borrowed light.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genius loci=--The presiding genius of the place.
=Genius makes its observations in shorthand;
talent writes them out at length.= _Bovee._
=Genius may at times want the spur, but it
stands as often in need of the curb.= _Longinus._
=Genius melts many ages into one.... A work= 5
=of genius is but the newspaper of a century,
or perchance of a hundred centuries.= _Hawthorne._
=Genius must be born, and never can be
taught.= _Dryden._
=Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune,
and especially a large one.= _La Bruyère._
=Genius only commands recognition when it
has created the taste which is to appreciate
it.= _Froude._
=Genius only leaves behind it the monuments
of its strength.= _Hazlitt._
=Genius should be the child of genius, and every= 10
=child should be inspired.= _Emerson._
=Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves
its large truths a riddle to the dull.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Genius unexerted is no more genius than a
bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.= _Beecher._
=Genius will reconcile men to much.= _Carlyle._
=Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to
the last.= _Emerson._
=Gens d'armes=--Armed police. _Fr._ 15
=Gens de bureau=--Officials in a government office.
_Fr._
=Gens de condition=--People of rank. _Fr._
=Gens d'église=--Churchmen. _Fr._
=Gens de guerre=--Soldiers. _Fr._
=Gens de langues=--Linguists. _Fr._ 20
=Gens de lettres=--Literary people. _Fr._
=Gens de lois=--Lawyers. _Fr._
=Gens de même famille=--Birds of a feather. _Fr._
=Gens de peu=--The lower classes. _Fr._
=Gens togata=--The nation with the toga, _i.e._, the 25
Roman.
=Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches.=
_Lord Burleigh._
=Gentility without ability is waur= (worse) =than
plain begging.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our
existence, move without wearying, warm
without consuming, and are the badges of
true strength.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the
most powerful words. They are more convincing,
more compelling, more prevailing.=
_W. Gladden._
=Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual= 30
=meaning, is a man of pure race.= _Ruskin._
=Gentleman is a term which does not apply to
any station, but to the mind and the feelings
in every station.= _Talfourd._
=Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense
humanity.= _Ruskin._
=Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part
of their duty or privilege to live on other
people's toil; that there is no degradation
in the hardest manual or the humblest servile
labour, when it is honest.= _Ruskin._
="Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider
your verdict."= _Lord Tenterden's last words._
=Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in= 35
=our manners.= _Blair._
=Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.=
_Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes
a man.= _Tennyson._
=Gently comes the world to those / That are
cast in gentle mould.= _Tennyson._
=Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle
of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy
way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a
tear; for each man's need thou hadst a
shilling.= _Sterne's Uncle Toby._
=Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings= 40
=you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of
mettle, / And it soft as silk remains.= _Aaron
Hill._
=Genug ist über einer Sackvoll=--Enough excels
a sackful. _Ger. Pr._
=Genuine morality depends on no religion,
though every one sanctions it and thereby
guarantees to it its support.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather
than matter of opinion.= _Bovee._
=Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and
cementing principle.= _Burke._
=Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, /= 45
=Vix ea nostra voco=--Birth, ancestry, and what
we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call
our own. _Ovid._
=Genus humanum superavit=--He surpassed the
human race in natural ability. _Lucret._
=Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos /
Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur
avorum=--The race continues immortal, and
through many years the fortune of the house
stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of
grandsires. _Virg._
=Genus irritabile vatum=--The sensitive tribe of
poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]--Always
learning many things the older I grow. _Solon._
=Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe= 50
=mehr die weibliche Tugend=--Justice
is properly the virtue of the man, charity
of the woman. _Schopenhauer._
=Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem
Schwamme abwischen=--What is said is said;
there is no sponge that can wipe it out. _Ger. Pr._
=Germanicè=--In German.
=Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon=--Clever
people are always
the best Conversations-lexicon. _Goethe._
=Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als
eine Satire auf die Menschheit=--History is
properly nothing else but a satire on humanity.
_C. J. Weber._
=Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist=--Fear 55
makes the wolf bigger than he is. _Ger.
Pr._
=Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit
durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen=--Society
is the grandmother of humanity through
her daughters, the inventions. _C. J. Weber._
=Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth=--Law
is powerful; necessity is more so. _Goethe._
=Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche=--Lawless
power is the most frightful weakness.
_Herder._
=Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die
sehn sie wollen=--Ghosts visit only those who
look for them. _Holtei._
=Get a good name and go to sleep.= _Pr._
=Get money, honestly if you can, but get money.=
_Pr._
=Get once into the secret of any Christian act,
and you get practically into the secret of
Christianity itself.= _Ed._
=Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis,= 5
=and you may ride round the world.= _Sterne._
=Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; /
If not, by any means get wealth and place.=
_Pope._
=Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will
send the flax.= _Pr._
=Get thee to a nunnery!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is
not true / That thou hast gotten.= _Herbert._
=Get what ye can and keep what ye hae.= _Sc._ 10
_Pr._
=Get your enemies to read your works in order
to mend them, for your friend is so much
your second self that he will judge too like
you.= _Pope._
=Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude=--Joy shared
is joy doubled. _Goethe._
=Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit=--Power is
the most persuasive rhetoric. _Schiller._
=Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten=--Getting is
easier than keeping. _Ger. Pr._
=Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, /= 15
=Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut=--Accustom
thyself, since death ever threatens
thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever
life offers thee. _Bodenstedt._
=Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur
Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch
auch was denken lassen=--Men generally
believe, when they hear only words, that there
must be something in it. _Goethe._
=Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million
walking the earth openly at noontide; some
half-hundred have vanished from it, some
half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch
ticks once.= _Carlyle._
=Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new
strength every time he touched the earth;
so some brave minds gain fresh energy from
that which depresses and crushes others.=
_Murphy._
=Gibier de potence=--A gallows-bird. _Fr._
=Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an'= 20
=neither will do well.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a
louse.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel'=, _i.e._,
give him enough of his own way. _Sc. Pr._
=Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about
my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly
men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O.= _Burns._
=Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a'
the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge
through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, /
My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May
touch the heart.= _Burns._
=Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind= 25
=for siller.= _The cow to the piper who put her
off with piping to her._
=Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent.
per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, /
And I'm content.= _Burns._
=Gie your heart to God and your awms= (alms)
=to the poor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.= 30
_Sc. Pr._
=Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle
weiter=--When war falls out, the devil enlarges
hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz /
Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das
Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?=--What
nobler task is there for a noble heart than
to take up the defence of innocence and protect
the rights of the oppressed? _Schiller._
=Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond
vol aarde heeft=--Greed is never satisfied till its
mouth is filled with earth. _Dut. Pr._
=Giff-gaff maks gude friends=, _i.e._, mutual giving.
_Sc. Pr._
=Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to= 35
=man. Did a man foresee his life, and not
merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity
and free-will make and fabricate it into
a reality, he were no man, but some other
kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman.=
_Carlyle._
=Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple;
grace is like the temple that sanctifies the
gold.= _Burkett._
=Gifts are often losses.= _It. Pr._
=Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar
forms.= _Goethe._
=Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but
the heart gives that which neither silver nor
gold can buy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gifts make their way through stone walls.= 40
_Pr._
=Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart.=
_Mme. Fee._
=Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere
sentimus pariterque senescere mentem=--We
see that the mind is born with the body, that it
grows with it, and also ages with it. _Lucret._
=Gin= (if) =ye hadna been among the craws, ye
wadna hae been shot.= _Sc. Pr._
=Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio=--A young saint,
an old devil. _It. Pr._
=Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering= 45
=yet hoping all things.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Girls we love for what they are; young men
for what they promise to be.= _Goethe._
=Give a boy address and accomplishments, and
you give him the mastery of palaces and
fortunes where he goes.= _Emerson._
=Give a dog an ill name and hang him.= _Pr._
=Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the
thing done.= _Pr._
=Give alms, that thy children may not ask= 50
=them.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give a man luck and throw him into the sea.=
_Pr._
=Give ample room and verge enough.= _Gray._
=Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles.= _Dut.
Pr._
=Give, and it shall be given to you.= _Jesus._
=Give and spend, / And God will send.= _Pr._ 55
=Give and take.= _Pr._
=Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang
himself.= _Pr._
=Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the
shame of begging.= _Diderot._
=Give every flying minute / Something to keep
in store.= _Walker._
=Give every man his due.= _Pr._
=Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; /= 5
=Take each man's censure, but reserve thy
judgment.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give from below what ye get from above, /
Light for the heaven-light, love for its
love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Give God the margin of eternity to justify
Himself in.= _Haweis._
=Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.= _Pr._
=Give him a present! give him a halter.= _Mer.
of Ven._, ii. 2.
=Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of= 10
=bread, and liberty.= _Pope._
=Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes
simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing,
hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more
taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; /
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.=
_Ben Jonson._
=Give me but / Something whereunto I may
bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest
upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round.=
_Mrs. Hemans._
=Give me health and a day, and I will make the
pomp of emperors ridiculous.= _Emerson._
=Give me insight into to-day, and you may have
the antique and future worlds.... This idea
has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns,
Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe,
Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing
is blood-warm.= _Emerson._
=Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, /= 15
=Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And
he will make the face of heaven so fine /
That all the world will be in love with
night, / And pay no homage to the garish
sun.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave,
and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay,
in my heart of hearts.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, /
Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his
blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven,
thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save
me from the candid friend.= _Canning._
=Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes
burn and die.= _Mrs. Osgood._
=Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe,
and to utter freely, according to conscience,
above all other liberties.= _Milton._
=Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked= 20
=for it.= _Pr._
=Give not that which is holy to the dogs,
neither cast ye your pearls before swine.=
_Jesus._
=Give only so much to one that you may have to
give to another.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be
done.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Give pleasure to the few; to please many is
vain.= _Schiller._
=Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt.= _Fr._ 25
_Pr._ (?)
=Give sorrow words; the grief that does not
speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart,
and bids it break.= _Macbeth_, iv. 3.
=Give the devil his due.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Give the devil rope enough and he will hang
himself.= _Pr._
=Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his
due.= _Herbert._
=Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned= 30
=thought his act. / Be thou
familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The
friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, /
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of
steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment /
Of each new-hatch'd unfledged
comrade.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give to a gracious message / An host of
tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves
when they be felt.= _Ant. and Cleo._, ii. 5.
=Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him
that would borrow of thee turn not thou
away.= _Jesus._
=Give to the masses nothing to do, and they
will topple down thrones and cut throats;
give them the government here, and they
will make pulpits useless, and colleges an
impertinence.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of= 35
=self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason
give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman
let me live.= _Wordsworth._
=Give us the man who sings at his work! Be
his occupation what it may, he will be equal
to any of those who follow the same pursuit
in silent sullenness. He will do more in the
same time; he will do it better; he will
persevere longer.= _Carlyle._
=Give way to your betters.= _Pr._
=Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons
were as plenty as blackberries, I would give
no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, ii. 4.
=Give your tongue more holiday than your
hands or eyes.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Given a living man, there will be found clothes= 40
=for him; he will find himself clothes; but the
suit of clothes pretending that it is both
clothes and man--= _Carlyle._
=Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty
from their united action, is a problem that is
becoming to all men a palpably hopeless
one.= _Carlyle._
=Given the men a people choose, the people
itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness,
is given.= _Carlyle._
=Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter
shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly
sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd
canopy / To kings that fear their subjects'
treachery.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 5.
=Giving alms never lessens the purse.= _Sp. Pr._
=Giving away is the instrument for accumulated= 45
=treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution
of the waters deposited in the bowels
of a well.= _Hitopadesa._
=Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Gladiator in arena consilium capit=--The gladiator
is taking advice when he is already in the
lists. _Pr._
=Glänzendes Elend=--Shining misery. _Goethe._
=Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.= _Sc. Pr._
=Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir
Geduld gewöhnest an=--Assure yourself you
have accomplished no small feat if only you
have learned patience. _Goethe._
[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]--Owls to Athens.
=Glebæ ascriptus=--Attached to the soil. 5
=Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre
machen die besten Heirathspaare=--Like
blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest
wedded pair. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich
sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen?
Es sei jeder vollendet in sich=--Let no one be
like another, yet every one like the Highest.
How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in
himself. _Goethe._
=Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach
der Teufel zum Köhler=--Like will to like, as
the devil said to the charcoal-burner. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der
Liebe=--Equality is the firmest bond of love.
_Lessing._
=Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit=--Equality 10
is the holy law of humanity.
_Schiller._
=Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto=--Large
trees yield more shade than fruit. _It. Pr._
=Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo=--Friends
tie their purses with a spider's
thread. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica=--After
the modern stamp men, and after the
ancient, asses. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano=--Men
make the wealth and women
husband it. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le= 15
=donne quelli che mostrano=--Men are as old as
they feel, and women as they look. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno
che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere=--Men
shrink less from offending one who inspires
love than one who inspires fear. _Machiavelli._
=Gloria in excelsis Deo=--Glory to God in the
highest.
=Gloria vana florece, y no grana=--Glory which
is not real may flower, but will never fructify.
_Sp. Pr._
=Gloria virtutis umbra=--Glory is the shadow
(_i.e._, the attendant) of virtue.
=Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ= 20
=utilitatis causa=--A surrender of glory and fame
must be made for the public advantage. _Cic._
=Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet=--He who
despises glory will have true glory. _Livy._
=Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, /
But looked at near, have neither heat nor
light.= _Webster._
=Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the
admiration of fools, the idols of parasites,
and the slaves of their own vaunts.= _Bacon._
=Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; /
And gentle dulness ever loves a
joke.= _Pope._
=Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a= 25
=beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with
flowers and fruits.= _Vauvenargues._
=Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.= _Love's
L. Lost_, iv. 1.
=Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which
never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by
broad spreading, it disperse to naught.=
1 _Hen. VI._, i. 2.
=Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity;
the one lasts like mosaic, the other is
effaced like a crayon drawing.= _Boufflers._
=Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever
we associate with it, even though it be
death.= _Pascal._
=Glory is the fair child of peril.= _Smollett._ 30
=Glory is the unanimous praise of good men.=
_Cic._
=Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis
something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, /
Depending more upon the historian's style /
Than on the name a person leaves behind.=
_Byron._
=Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind;
censure stimulates and contracts--both to an
extreme.= _Shenstone._
=Glück auf dem Weg=--Good luck by the way.
_Ger. Pr._
=Glück macht Mut=--Luck inspires pluck. _Goethe._ 35
=Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb=--Fortune
and women have a liking for fools.
_Ger. Pr._
=Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des
Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner
Kinder Mitte=--Happy! happy call I him the
last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his
children. _Grillparzer._
=Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich
wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des
Lebens Ernst zu tragen=--Happy he who is
young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel
with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness.
_Puschkin._
=Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils
attendant on them; they make the carcass
smart as well as the pocket.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities= 40
=and the fountain of all our diseases. As a
lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil,
a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so
is the natural health of the body destroyed
by intemperate diet.= _Burton._
=Gluttony kills more than the sword.= _Pr._
=Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent,
and certainly more despicable, than avarice
itself.= _Johnson._
=Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The
man that mocks at it and sets it light.=
_Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, /
But eagles gazed upon by every eye.= _Shakespeare._
[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]--Know thyself. 45
=Go deep enough, there is music everywhere.=
_Carlyle._
=Go down the ladder when thou marriest a
wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.=
_Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck
wares for wares, and trudge from pole to
pole. / That men may say, when thou art
dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate
he left his son!"= _Dryden._
=Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should
I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide
enough to hold both thee and me.= _Uncle
Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as
he let it out by the window._
=Go to Jericho and let your beards grow.= _See_
2 _Sam._ x. 5.
=Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her
ways, and be wise.= _Bible._
=Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask
your heart what it doth know / That's like
my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural
guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound
a thought upon your tongue / Against my
brother's life.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Go where you may, you still find yourself in= 5
=a conditional world.= _Goethe._
=Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest
but in humble subjection to the government
of a superior.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Go, wondrous creature, mount where science
guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and
state the tides; / Instruct the planets in
what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and
regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom
how to rule, / Then drop into thyself
and be a fool.= _Pope._
=Go you and try a democracy in your own house.=
_Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted
a democracy._
=Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall
not chase my gloom away; / There's such a
charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I
could, be gay.= _Rogers._
=Gobe-mouches=--A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10
_Fr._
=God alone can properly bind up a bleeding
heart.= _J. Roux._
=God alone is true; God alone is great; alone
is God.= _Laboulaye._
=God answers sharp and sudden on some
prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have
prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a
gift in it.= _Mrs. Browning._
=God asks no man whether he will accept life.
That is not the choice. You must take it;
the only choice is how.= _Ward Beecher._
=God asks not what, but whence, thy work is:= 15
=from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to
prove the inmost root.= _Trench._
=God assists those who rise early in the morning.=
_Sp. Pr._
=God blesses still the generous thought, / And
still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth,
at His requiring taught, / He quickens into
deeds.= _Whittier._
=God blesses the seeking, not the finding.= _Ger. Pr._
=God builds His temple in the heart and on the
ruins of churches and religions.= _Emerson._
=God comes at last, when we think He is= 20
=farthest off.= _Pr._
=God comes in distress, and distress goes.=
_Gael. Pr._
=God comes to see us without bell.= _Pr._
=God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with
iron hands.= _Pr._
=God created man in his own image.= _Bible._
=God deals His wrath by weight, but His= 25
=mercy without weight.= _Pr._
=God deceiveth thee not.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God defend me from the man of one book.= _Pr._
=God desireth to make your burden light to you,
for man hath been created weak.= _Koran._
=God does not measure men by inches.= _Sc.
Pr._
=God does not pay every week, but He pays at= 30
=the end.= _Dut. Pr._
=God does not require us to live on credit; He
pays what we earn as we earn it, good or
evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice.=
_C. Mildmay._
=God does not smite with both hands.= _Sp. Pr._
=God does not weigh criminality in our scales.
God's measure is the heart of the offender,
a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the
other side may make the weight of error
kick the beam.= _Lowell._
=God does with His children as a master does
with his pupils; the more hopeful they are,
the more work He gives them to do.= _Plato._
=God enters by a private door into every individual.= 35
_Emerson._
=God estimates us not by the position we are
in, but by the way in which we fill it.= _T.
Edwards._
=God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those
feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill
weathers.= _Herbert._
=God gives all things to industry.= _Pr._
=God gives birds their food, but they must fly
for it.= _Dut. Pr._
=God gives every bird its nest, but does not= 40
=throw it into the nest.= _J. G. Holland._
=God gives his angels charge of those who
sleep, / But He Himself watches with those
who wake.= _Harriet E. H. King._
=God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the
good may be undisturbed.= _Saadi._
=God gives strength to bear a great deal, if
we only strive ourselves to endure.= _Hans
Andersen._
=God gives the will; necessity gives the law.=
_Dan. Pr._
=God gives us love. Something to love / He= 45
=lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness,
that on which it throve / Falls off, and
love is left alone.= _Tennyson._
=God giveth speech to all, song to the few.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge
avails you little.= _Sp. Pr._
=God hands gifts to some, whispers them to
others.= _W. R. Alger._
=God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest
wires.= _Bacon._
=God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His= 50
=own power, and to work out His ends within
these limits.= _Paley._
=God has commanded time to console the unhappy.=
_Joubert._
=God has connected the labour which is essential
to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures
which are healthiest for the heart; and while
He made the ground stubborn, He made
its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair.=
_Ruskin._
=God has delegated Himself to a million deputies.=
_Emerson._
=God has given a prophet to every people in its
own tongue.= _Arab Pr._
=God has given nuts to some who have no
teeth.= _Port. Pr._
=God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness
and laughter, and perfumes to enliven
the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm
his pained steps over the burning marl.=
_Sydney Smith._
=God has His little children out at nurse in
many a home.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a
great entail.= _Ruskin._
=God has made man to take pleasure in the use= 5
=of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish
creature is continually trying to live without
looking at anything, without thinking
about anything, and without doing anything.=
_Ruskin._
=God has made sunny spots in the heart; why
should we exclude the light from them?=
_Haliburton._
=God has not said all that thou hast said.= _Gael.
Pr._
=God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means
they may burst their way through errors to
truth, through faults to virtue, and through
sufferings to bliss.= _Engel._
=God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed
and crush the oppressor.= _Bryant._
=God hath given to man a short time here upon= 10
=earth, and yet upon this short time eternity
depends.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=God hath given you one face, and you make
yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and
you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures,
and make your wantonness your ignorance.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and
rough files for the polishing of His jewels.=
_Leighton._
=God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor,
Misery.= _Bryant._
=God help the children of dependence!= _Burns._
=God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.= 15
_Sc. Pr._
=God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg.=
_Sc. Pr._
=God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.=
_Dan. Pr._
=God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility
and genius, when a booby father presents
him with his booby son, and insists on lighting
up the rays of science in a fellow's head
whose skull is impervious and inaccessible
by any other way than a positive fracture
with a cudgel.= _Burns._
=God helps the strongest.= _Ger. and Dut. Pr._
=God helps those who help themselves.= _Pr._ 20
=God Himself cannot do without wise men.=
_Luther._
=God Himself cannot procure good for the
wicked.= _Welsh Triad._
=God is able to do more than man can understand.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a circle whose centre is everywhere,
and its circumference nowhere.= _St. Augustine._
=God is a creditor who has no bad debts.= _Ger._ 25
_Pr._
=God is a good worker, but He loves to be
helped.= _Basque Pr._
=God is alpha and omega in the great world;
endeavour to make Him so in the little world.=
_Quarles._
=God is always ready to strengthen those who
strive lawfully.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a shower to the heart burnt up with
grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears.=
_Joseph Roux._
=God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay= 30
=at the end of every week or month or year,
but He pays in the end.= _Anne of Austria._
=God is a= _tabula rasa_, =on which nothing more
stands written than what thou thyself hast
inscribed thereon.= _Luther._
=God is at once the great original I and Thou.=
_Jean Paul._
=God is better served in resisting a temptation
to evil than in many formal prayers.= _W.
Penn._
=God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is
good is of Him.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our= 35
=thanksgivings; and all good thought and
good action claim a natural alliance with
good cheer.= _Willmott._
=God is great, and we know Him not; neither
can the number of His years be searched
out.= _Bible._
=God is great in what is the greatest and the
smallest.= _Herder._
=God is greater than man.= _Bible._
=God is His own interpreter.= _Cowper._
=God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore= 40
=let thy words be few.= _Bible._
=God is in the generation of the righteous.=
_Bible._
=God is in the word "ought" and therefore it
outweighs all but God.= _Joseph Cook._
=God is kind to fou= (drunk) =folk and bairns.=
_Sc. Pr._
=God is light.= _St. John._
=God is love.= _St. John._ 45
=God is more delighted in adverbs than in
nouns=, _i.e._, not in what is done so much as how
it is done. _Heb. Pr._
=God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis
we cannot say that anything else is.= _Carlyle._
=God is not a man, that He should lie; neither
the son of man, that he should repent: hath
He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath
He spoken, and shall He not make it good?=
_Bible._
=God is not found by the tests that detect you
an acid or a salt.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in= 50
=His bounty that He has not wherewithal to
furnish forth two worlds.= _W. R. Greg._
=God is not to be known by marring His fair
works and blotting out the evidence of His
influences upon His creatures; not amidst
the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation,
but in solitary places, and out of the
glowing intelligences which He gave to men
of old.= _Ruskin._
=God is on the side of virtue; for whoever
dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever
deserves it dreads it.= _Colton._
=God is patient, because eternal.= _St. Augustine._
=God is spirit.= _Jesus._
=God made all the creatures, and gave them
our love and our fear, / To give sign we
and they are His children, one family here.=
_Browning._
=God is the great composer; men are only the
performers. Those grand pieces which are
played on earth were composed in heaven.=
_Balzac._
=God is the light which, never seen itself, makes
all things visible, and clothes itself in colours.
Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart
feels its warmth.= _Jean Paul._
=God is the number, the weight, and the measure
which makes the world harmonious and
eternal.= _Renan._
=God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person= 5
=acts His own creations.= _Browning._
=God is the reason of those who have no reason.=
_Renan._
=God is where He was.= _Pr._
=God is with every great reform that is necessary,
and it prospers.= _Goethe._
=God keep me from my friends; from my enemies
I will keep myself.= _It. Pr._
=God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor= 10
=am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty
times I rather would be / An atheist clean, /
Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for
a screen.= _Burns._
=God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov=--A good
king is better than an old law. _Dan. Pr._
=God loveth a cheerful giver.= _St. Paul._
=God made him, and therefore let him pass for
a man.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=God made man to go by motives, and he will
not go without them, any more than a boat
without steam or a balloon without gas.=
_Ward Beecher._
=God made man upright, but they have sought= 15
=out many inventions.= _Bible._
=God made me one man; love makes me no
more / Till labour come, and make my weakness
score.= _Herbert._
=God made the country; man made the town.=
_Cowper._
=God made the flowers to beautify / The earth
and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is
happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom
from a flower, / And wake his heart in
every hour / To pleasant gratitude.= _Wordsworth._
=God made us, and we admire ourselves.= _Sp.
Pr._
=God manifests Himself to men in all wise,= 20
=good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous
souls.= _Lavater._
=God may consent, but only for a time.= _Emerson._
=God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders
to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the
sea, / And rides upon the storm.= _Cowper._
=God must needs laugh outright, could such a
thing be, to see His wondrous manikins
here below.= _Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by
Carlyle._
=God narrows Himself to come near man, and
man narrows himself to come near God.=
_Ed._
=God never forsakes His own.= _Pr._ 25
=God never imposes a duty without giving the
time to do it.= _Ruskin._
=God never made His work for man to mend.=
_Dryden._
=God never meant that man should scale the
heavens / By strides of human wisdom....
He commands us in His Word / To seek
Him rather where His mercy shines.= _Cowper._
=God never pardons; the laws of the universe
are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense
of condemnation is but another word for
penitence, and penitence is already new
life.= _Wm. Smith._
=God never sends mouths but He sends meat.= 30
_Dan. Pr._
=God never shuts one door but He opens another.=
_Irish Pr._
=God offers to every man his choice between
truth and repose.= _Emerson._
=God often visits us, but most of the time we
are not at home.= _Joseph Roux._
=God only opened His hand to give flight
to a thought that He had held imprisoned from
eternity.= _J. G. Holland._
=God pardons like a mother, who kisses the= 35
=offence into everlasting forgetfulness.= _Ward
Beecher._
=God permits, but not for ever.= _Pr._
=God said, Let there be light; and there was
light.= _Bible._
=God save the fools, and don't let them run
out; for, without them, wise men couldn't
get a living.= _Amer. Pr._
=God save the mark.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=God send us some siller, for they're little= 40
=thought o' that want it.= _Sc. Pr._
=God send you mair sense and me mair siller.=
_Sc. Pr._
=God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the
meat.= _Tusser._
=God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.=
_It. Pr._
=God sends nothing but what can be borne.=
_It. Pr._
=God should be the object of all our desires,= 45
=the end of all our actions, the principle of all
our affections, and the governing power of
our whole souls.= _Massillon._
=God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a
lith in their neck.= _Boswell's father of Cromwell._
=God stays long, but strikes at last.= _Pr._
=God taketh an account of all things.= _Koran._
=God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.=
_Sterne._
=God the first garden made, and the first city= 50
=Cain.= _Cowley._
=God, through the voice of Nature, calls the
mass of men to be happy; He calls a few
among them to the grander task of being
severely but serenely sad.= _W. R. Greg._
=God trusts every one with the care of his own
soul.= _Sc. Pr._
=God will accept your first attempt, not as a
perfect work, but as a beginning.= _Ward
Beecher._
=God will not make Himself manifest to cowards.=
_Emerson._
=God will punish him who sees and him who is= 55
=seen.= _Eastern saying._
=God, when He makes the prophet, does not
unmake the man.= _Locke._
=God works in moments.= _Fr. Pr._
=God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone,
but on trees and flowers, and clouds and
stars.= _Luther._
=God's commandments are the iron door into
Himself. To keep them is to have it opened,
and His great heart of love revealed.= _S. W.
Duffield._
=God's creature is one. He makes man, not
men. His true creature is unitary and
infinite, revealing himself indeed in every
finite form, but compromised by none.= _Henry
James._
=God's free mercy streameth / Over all the= 5
=world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere
unfurled.= _How._
=God's goodness is the measure of His providence.=
_More._
=God's help is nearer than the door.= _Irish
Pr._
=God's in His heaven: / All's right with the
world!= _Browning._
=God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
/ Rests never on the track till it
reach / Delinquency.= _Browning._
=God's men are better than the devil's men, and= 10
=they ought to act as though they thought
they were.= _Ward Beecher._
=God's mill grinds slow but sure.= _George
Herbert._
=God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe.=
_Eastern saying._
=God's providence is on the side of clear heads.=
_Ward Beecher._
=God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or
His intellect, but His love.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen=--Let 15
God's waters run over God's fields. _Dut.
Pr._
=God's way of making worlds is to make them
make themselves.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash
away, / And punished him that put it in his
way.= _Pope._
="Godlike men love lightning;" godless men
love it not; shriek murder when they see it,
shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on
smoked spectacles.= _Carlyle._
=Godliness is profitable unto all things, having
promise of the life that now is, and of that
which is to come.= _St. Paul._
=Godliness with contentment is great gain.= _St._ 20
_Paul._
=Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications
of the flesh in order to help their
spirits in the Godward direction.= _John
Pulsford._
=Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund=--A
good handicraft rests on a golden foundation.
_Dan. Pr._
=Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren,
veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren;
ziel verloren, al verloren=--Money lost, nothing
lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more
lost; soul lost, all lost. _Dut. Pr._
=Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and
acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers
at witchcraft and the black art even while
employing them, and doubts most things,
nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.=
_Carlyle._
=Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling= 25
=at all; it is merely "being sent" to a
place, and very little different from becoming
a parcel.= _Ruskin._
=Going to ruin is silent work.= _Gael. Pr._
=Gold and diamonds are not riches.= _Ruskin._
=Gold beheert de wereld=--Gold rules the world.
_Dut. Pr._
=Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in
its own coin.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care= 30
=begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a
pain to have thee not.= _Palladas._
=Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more.=
_Young._
=Gold has wings which carry everywhere except
to heaven.= _Rus. Pr._
=Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding;
it dissipates every doubt and scruple
in an instant, accommodates itself to the
meanest capacities, silences the loud and
clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate
and inflexible.= _Addison._
=Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy
gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast
God's.= _Quarles._
=Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his= 35
=defects from the world.= _Feltham._
=Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns.= _Pr._
=Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege=--Gold
lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on
the highway. _Ger. Pr._
=Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and
hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts
bad hearts.= _Rivarol._
=Gold that is put to use more gold begets.= 40
_Sh._
=Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick /
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.=
_Herbert._
=Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more
murder in this loathsome world, / Than these
poor compounds that thou may'st not sell.=
_Sh._
=Gold's worth is gold.= _It. Pr._
=Golden chains are heavy, and love is best!=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers,= 45
=come to dust.= _Cymb._, iv. 2.
=Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in
the state, when men deem a mischievous
citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and
punish him with severer penalties.= _Cic._
=Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it.= _Ger.
Pr._
=Good actions done in secret are the most
worthy of honour.= _Pascal._
=Good actions give strength to ourselves and
inspire good actions in others.= _S. Smiles._
=Good advice can be given, a good name cannot= 50
=be given.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good advice / Is beyond all price.= _Pr._
=Good advice may be communicated, but not
good manners.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good ale needs no wisp= (of hay for advertisement).
_Sc. Pr._
=Good and bad men are less so than they seem.=
_Coleridge._
=Good and evil are names that signify our
appetites and aversions.= _Hobbes._
=Good and evil will grow up in this world together;
and they who complain in peace
of the insolence of the populace must remember
that their insolence in peace is
bravery in war.= _Johnson._
=Good and quickly seldom meet.= _Pr._
=Good as is discourse, silence is better, and
shames it.= _Emerson._
=Good bees never turn drones.= _Pr._ 5
=Good books, like good friends, are few and
chosen, the more select the more enjoyable.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Good bread needs baking.= _Pr. in Goethe._
=Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity
that is respected by the most petulant.=
_Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding,
only as it gracefully remembers
the rights of others, rather than gracefully
insists on its own.= _Carlyle._
=Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the= 10
=preference of others to ourselves in the little
daily occurrences of life.= _Chatham._
=Good-breeding is surface Christianity.= _Holmes._
=Good-breeding is the result of much good
sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial
for the sake of others.= _Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding shows itself most where to an
ordinary eye it appears least.= _Addison._
=Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.=
_Emerson._
=Good company and good discourse are the= 15
=very sinews of virtue.= _Izaak Walton._
=Good company upon the road is the shortest
cut.= _Pr._
=Good counsel is no better than bad counsel,
if it is not taken in time.= _Dan. Pr._
=Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the
giver's bosom.= _Goldsmith._
=Good counsels observed are chains to grace.=
_Fuller._
=Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes= 20
=than satisfies them. A draught of milk to
serpents only increases their venom.= _Hitopadesa._
=Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill
without wind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good counsellors lack no clients.= _Meas. for
Meas._, i. 2.
=Good courage breaks ill-luck.= _Pr._
=Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in
embers to make a fire next day.= _Sir T.
Overbury._
=Good discourse sinks differences and seeks= 25
=agreements.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health
on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Good example always brings forth good fruits.=
_S. Smiles._
=Good example is half a sermon.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours,
although there be nothing sweeter than ease.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Good gear goes in sma' book= (bulk). _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Good-humour and generosity carry the day
with the popular heart all the world over.=
_Alex. Smith._
=Good-humour may be said to be one of the
very best articles of dress one can wear in
society.= _Thackeray._
=Good hunters track closely.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good husbandry is good divinity.= _Pr._
=Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes= 35
=better.= _Emerson._
=Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering
labours come to nought.= _Southwell._
=Good is good, but better carrieth it.= _Pr._
=Good is never a something into which a man
can be borne, but always a something born
of the man, which he himself carries, and
which does not carry him.= _Ed._
=Good is not got without grief.= _Gael. Pr._
=Good is the delay that makes sure.= _Port._ 40
_Pr._
=Good judges are as rare as good authors.= _St.
Evremond._
=Good laws often proceed from bad manners.=
_Pr._
=Good leading makes good following.= _Dut.
Pr._
=Good luck comes by cuffing.= _Pr._
=Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright,= 45
=energetic character, and conscientious observance
of duty.= _Lowell._
=Good luck lies in odd numbers.= _Merry Wives_,
v. 1.
=Good management is better than a good income.=
_Port. Pr._
=Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.=
_Emerson._
=Good manners are part of good morals.=
_Whately._
=Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When= 50
=native virtues join the arts to please.= _Allan
Ramsay._
=Good manners is the art of making those
people easy with whom we converse. Whoever
makes the fewest persons uneasy is the
best bred in the company.= _Swift._
=Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.=
_Joubert._
=Good men are the stars, the planets of the
ages wherein they live, and illustrate the
times.= _Ben Jonson._
=Good mind, good find.= _Pr._
=Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, /= 55
=Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who
steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been
slave to thousands; / But he that filches from
me my good name, / Robs me of that which
not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.=
_Othello_, iii. 2.
=Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.=
_Pope._
=Good-nature and good sense must ever join; /
To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._
=Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation
than wit, and gives a certain air to the
countenance which is more amiable than
beauty.= _Addison._
=Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks.=
_Emerson._
=Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and,= 60
=like personal beauty, wins almost without
anything else.= _Hanway._
=Good-nature is the very air of a good mind,
the sign of a large and generous soul, and
the peculiar soil in which virtue flourishes.=
_Goodman._
=Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet
sorrow / That I will say good-night till it be
to-morrow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Good pastures make fat sheep.= _As You Like
It_, iii. 2.
=Good people live far apart.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good poetry is always personification, and= 5
=heightens every species of force by giving
it a human volition.= _Emerson._
=Good poets are the inspired interpreters of
the gods.= _Plato._
=Good qualities are the substantial riches of
the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets
them off to advantage.= _Locke._
=Good reasons must of force give place to
better.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Good right needs good help.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good-sense and good-nature are never separated,= 10
=though the ignorant world has thought
otherwise.= _Dryden._
=Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, /
And though no science, fairly worth the
seven.= _Pope._
=Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to
love.... It is to be all made of sighs and
tears.... It is to be all made of faith and
service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, /
All made of passion, and all made of wishes; /
All adoration, duty, and observance; / All
humbleness, all patience, and impatience; /
All purity, all trial, all observance.= _As You
Like It_, v. 2.
=Good sword has often been in poor scabbard.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Good take heed / Doth surely speed.= _Pr._
=Good taste cannot supply the place of genius= 15
=in literature, for the best proof of taste,
when there is no genius, would be not to
write at all.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Good taste comes more from the judgment
than from the mind.= _La Roche._
=Good taste is the flower of good sense.= _A.
Poincelot._
=Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that
is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.=
_Mme. Girardin._
=Good the more / Communicated more abundant
grows.= _Milton._
=Good things take time.= _Dut. Pr._ 20
=Good thoughts are no better than good dreams
unless they be executed.= _Emerson._
=Good to begin well, but better to end well.=
_Pr._
=Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels /
When the tired player shuffles off the
buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow
good / After a scolding from Carlyle or
Ruskin.= _Lowell._
=Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear
by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some
rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain /
And fall so hard, they bound and rise again.=
_Lord Lansdowne._
=Good ware makes a quick market.= _Pr._ 25
=Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing
in art; in art, capability alone is anything.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Good-will, like a good name, is got by many
actions and lost by one.= _Jeffrey._
=Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be
well used.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Good wine is its own recommendation.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good wine needs no brandy.= _Amer. Pr._ 30
=Good wine needs no bush=, _i.e._, advertisement.
_Pr._
=Good women grudge each other nothing, save
only clothes, husbands, and flax.= _Jean Paul._
=Good words and no deeds.= _Pr._
=Good words cool more than cold water.= _Pr._
=Good words cost nothing and are worth much.= 35
_Pr._
=Good words do more than hard speeches; as
the sunbeams, without any noise, will make
the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the
blustering winds could not do, but only make
him bind it closer to him.= _Leighton._
=Good works will never save you, but you will
never be saved without them.= _Pr._
=Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual
allegories.= _Emerson._
=Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be
a plain-spoken person, and a man of very
few words; tropes and figures are his aversion.=
_Addison._
=Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He= 40
=who imputes ill to them makes them none.=
_Euripides._
=Goodness consists not in the outward things
we do, but in the inward thing we are.=
_Chapin._
=Goodness is beauty in its best estate.= _Marlowe._
=Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere
to be found, if we will only look for it.= _P.
Desjardins._
=Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire.=
_Milton._
=Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.= _Pr._ 45
=Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the
dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it;
it proves nothing but the bad taste of the
smoker.= _George Eliot._
=Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht
mehr helfen=--God comes to our help only when
there is no more help for us in man. _Schiller._
=Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in
Grunde der Seele gelegen=--God is an unutterable
sigh planted in the depth of the soul. _Jean
Paul._
=Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts
weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf
geschrieben=--God is a blank tablet on which
nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast
thyself written thereupon. _Luther._
=Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum= 50
=macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen=--God
is mightier and wiser than we; therefore
he does with us according to his good pleasure.
_Goethe._
=Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter
hat=--God is everywhere except where
his vicar is. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottlob! wir haben das Original=--God be
praised, we have still the original. _Lessing._
=Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt
das Geld=--God cures us, and the doctor gets
the fee. _Ger. Pr._
=Gott mit uns=--God with us. _Ger._
=Gott müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden=--Ye
must seek and find God in the heart. _Jean
Paul._
=Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und
Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres
Geschlecht=--God created out of the clay the
knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles
even a humble race. _Bürger._
=Gott-trunkener Mensch=--A god-intoxicated man.
_Novalis, of Spinoza._
=Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer=--God never 5
forsakes the stout of heart. _Körner._
=Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön
ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein=--We cannot recompense
the gods; beautiful it is to be like them.
_Schiller._
=Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind=--God's friend,
priest's foe. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, /
Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht
im Friede seiner Hände=--God's is the east,
God's is the west; north region and south rests
in the peace of his hands. _Goethe._
=Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt
fein=--God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine.
_Ger. Pr._
=Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz= 10
=werden nur zu oft verwechselt=--Divine indifference
and brutish indifference are too often
confounded. _Feuchtersleben._
=Goutte à goutte=--Drop by drop. _Fr._
=Govern the lips as they were palace-doors,
the king within; / Tranquil and fair and
courteous be all words which from that presence
win.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Government and co-operation are in all things
the laws of life; anarchy and competition,
the laws of death.= _Ruskin._
=Government arrogates to itself that it alone
forms men.... Everybody knows that
Government never began anything. It is
the whole world that thinks and governs.=
_Wendell Phillips._
=Government began in tyranny and force, in= 15
=the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry
of the priest; and the ideas of justice and
humanity have been fighting their way like
a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness
of human nature.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government has been a fossil; it should be a
plant.= _Emerson._
=Government is a contrivance of human wisdom
to provide for human wants.= _Burke._
=Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts
and crutches. Our need of it shows
exactly how far we are still children. All
governing over-much kills the self-help and
energy of the governed.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government is a trust, and the officers of the
government are trustees; and both the trust
and the trustees are created for the benefit
of the people.= _H. Clay._
=Government is the greatest combination of= 20
=forces known to human society. It can
command more men and raise more money
than any and all other agencies combined.=
_D. D. Field._
=Government must always be a step ahead of
the popular movement= (_Bewegung_). _Count
Arnim._
=Government of the people, by the people and
for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.= _Abraham Lincoln._
=Government of the will is better than increase
of knowledge.= _Pr._
=Government should direct poor men what to
do.= _Emerson._
=Governments exist only for the good of the= 25
=people.= _Macaulay._
=Governments exist to protect the rights of
minorities.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Governments have their origin in the moral
identity of men.= _Emerson._
=Gowd= (gold) =gets in at ilka= (every) =gate except
heaven.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el= 30
=loco=--Enjoy your little while the fool is in search
of more. _Sp. Pr._
=Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, /
As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.=
_Cowper._
=Grace has been defined the outward expression
of the inward harmony of the soul.=
_Hazlitt._
=Grace in women has more effect than beauty.=
_Hazlitt._
=Grace is a light superior to Nature, which
should direct and preside over it.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure= 35
=and heavenly root; / But fairest in the
youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest
fruit.= _Cowper._
=Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners;
beauty in the nude and in forms.=
_Joubert._
=Grace is more beautiful than beauty.= _Emerson._
=Grace is the beauty of form under the influence
of freedom.= _Schiller._
=Grace is the proper relation of the acting
person to the action.= _Winckelmann._
=Grace is to the body what good sense is to the= 40
=mind.= _La Roche._
=Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth,
not to the mere signs and trappings of it,
which often only show where it ought to be,
not where it really is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, /
In every gesture dignity and love.= _Milton._
=Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease.=
_Rousseau._
=Gradatim=--Step by step; by degrees.
=Gradu diverso, via una=--By different steps but 45
the same way.
=Gradus ad Parnassum=--A help to the composition
of classic poetry.
=Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes /
Intulit agresti Latio=--Greece, conquered herself,
in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror,
and imported her arts into rusticated Latium.
_Hor._
=Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba
colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat;
As. docet astra=--Grammar speaks;
dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring
to our speech; music sings; arithmetic
reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches
us the stars.
=Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and
with high hand make them obey.= _Molière._
=Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes
/ Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus--omnia
novit=--Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician,
painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope
dancer, physician, magician--he knows everything.
_Juv._
=Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures
both a fever and lethargicness.= _Herbert._
=Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait=--He
has great need of a fool who makes himself
one. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures=--Great 5
wealth is not gotten in a few hours. _Fr._
=Grande parure=--Full dress. _Fr._
=Grandescunt aucta labore=--They grow with increase
of toil. _M._
=Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite,
that you often diminish the one as you increase
the other.= _Shenstone._
=Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay.= _Alex. Smith._
=Grand parleur, grand menteur=--Great talker, 10
great liar. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand venteur, petit faiseur=--Great boaster,
little doer. _Fr. Pr._
=Grant but memory to us, and we can lose
nothing by death.= _Whittier._
=Granted the ship comes into harbour with
shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is
blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and
all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy,
tell us first whether his voyage has been
round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the
Isle of Dogs.= _Carlyle._
=Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza=--Great
is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
_Sp. Pr._
=Grasp all, lose all.= _Pr._ 15
=Grass grows not on the highway.= _Pr._
=Gratia naturam vincit=--Grace overcomes Nature.
=Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--The
hour of happiness will come the more welcome
when it is not expected. _Hor._
=Gratiæ expectativæ=--Expected benefits.
=Gratia gratiam parit=--Kindness produces kindness. 20
_Pr._
=Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; /
Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali=--Thanks
to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort;
thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my
woes. _Ovid._
=Gratia placendi=--The satisfaction of pleasing.
=Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis=--Thanks
are justly due for things we have not
to pay for. _Ovid._
=Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--Even
virtue appears more lovely when enshrined
in a beautiful form. _Virg._
=Gratis=--For nothing. 25
=Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens=--Out
of breath for nothing, making much ado
about nothing. _Phæd._
=Gratis asseritur=--It is asserted but not proved.
=Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid,
but which none have a right to expect.=
_Rousseau._
=Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come.=
_Talleyrand._
=Gratitude is a species of justice.= _Johnson._ 30
=Gratitude is memory of the heart.= (?)
=Gratitude is never conferred but where there
have been previous endeavours to excite
it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits
wear a load till we have discharged the
obligation.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues.=
_Theodore Parker._
=Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs
from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth
none more fragrant.= _H. Ballou._
=Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude= 35
=the worst of vices.= _Pr._
=Gratitude is with most people only a strong
desire for greater benefits to come.= _La
Roche._
=Gratitude once refused can never after be
recovered.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude which consists in good wishes may
be said to be dead, as faith without good
works is dead.= _Cervantes._
=Gratis dictum=--Said to no purpose; irrelevant to
the question at issue.
=Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat;= 40
=ingratum semel=--A kindness is always delightful
to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at
the time of its receipt. _Sen._
=Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen=--Gray hairs
are churchyard flowers. _Ger. Pr._
=Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und
grün des Lebens goldner Baum=--Gray, dear
friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree.
_Goethe._
=Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas=--No
burden is really heavy to a man which necessity
lays on him.
=Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile,
quæ magnum domat populum=--The poverty
which oppresses a great people is a grievous and
intolerable evil.
=Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit=--His 45
exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a
grievous burden. _Sen._
=Grave senectus est hominibus pondus=--Old age
is a heavy burden to man.
=Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our
lives.= _S. W. Duffield._
=Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere=--More elegant
manners expelled this offensive style. _Hor._
=Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis=--Some
remedies are worse than the disease.
_Pub. Syr._
=Gravis ira regum semper=--The anger of kings 50
is always heavy. _Sen._
=Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis=--The
empire of custom is most mighty. _Pub.
Syr._
=Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body,
invented to cover the defects of the mind.=
_La Roche._
=Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the
world for more sense and knowledge than
a man is worth.= _Sterne._
=Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it
preserves it.= _Confucius._
=Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps= 55
=the mind steady.= _Fuller._
=Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.=
_Fielding._
=Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride.=
_Goldsmith._
=Gravity is twin brother to stupidity.= _Bovee._
=Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better,
but often worse, than what a French wit had
long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage
of the body to cover the defects of the
mind.= _Sterne._
=Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of
a soft moon, silvering over the evening of
life.= _Jean Paul._
=Gray is all theory, and green the while is the
golden tree of life.= _Goethe._
=Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing....= 5
=His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid
in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day
ere you find them; and when you have them,
they are not worth the search.= _Mer. of
Ven._, i. 1.
=Great actions crown themselves with lasting
bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's
praise.= _Heath._
=Great acts grow out of great occasions, and
great occasions spring from great principles,
working changes in society and tearing it
up by the roots.= _Hazlitt._
=Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
He who is endowed with it may perform
very good or very bad actions; all depends
upon the principles which direct him.=
_Napoleon._
=Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but
false art omits or changes all that is ugly.
Great art accepts Nature as she is, but
directs the eyes and thoughts to what is
most perfect in her; false art saves itself
the trouble of direction by removing or altering
whatever is objectionable.= _Ruskin._
=Great attention to what is said and sweetness= 10
=of speech, a great degree of kindness and
the appearance of awe, are always tokens
of a man's attachment.= _Hitopadesa._
=Great barkers are nae biters.= _Sc. Pr._
=Great boast, small roast.= _Pr._
=Great books are written for Christianity much
oftener than great deeds are done for it.=
_H. Mann._
=Great causes are never tried on their merits;
but the cause is reduced to particulars to
suit the size of the partisans, and the contention
is ever hottest on minor matters.=
_Emerson._
=Great countries are those that produce great= 15
=men.= _Disraeli._
=Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of
daring.= _Lucan._
=Great cry but little wool, as the devil said
when he shear'd his hogs.= _Pr._
=Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun
and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing
those that look on them.= _Tennyson._
=Great deeds immortal are--they cannot die, /
Unscathed by envious blight or withering
frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and
men partake / Still of their freshness, and
are strong thereby.= _Aytoun._
=Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.= 20
_Joseph Roux._
=Great edifices, like great mountains, are the
work of ages.= _Victor Hugo._
=Great endowments often announce themselves
in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.=
_Goethe._
=Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for
encouragement, for building up in manful
purposes and works, are the words of those
that in their day were men.= _Carlyle._
=Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but
the little eat away one's heart.= _Mrs. Carlyle._
=Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs= 25
=to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser
fleas, / And so ad infinitum.= _Lowell._
=Great folks have five hundred friends because
they have no occasion for them.= _Goldsmith._
=Great fools have great bells.= _Dut. Pr._
=Great genial power consists in being altogether
receptive.= _Emerson._
=Great geniuses have always the shortest
biographies.= _Emerson._
=Great gifts are for great men.= _Pr._ 30
=Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled
in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing
on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses
that would make me less forlorn.= _Wordsworth._
=Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its
hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition
glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.=
_H. Greeley._
=Great griefs medicine the less.= _Cymbeline_,
iv. 2.
=Great haste makes great waste.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Great honours are great burdens; but on= 35
=whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear
two loads.= _Ben Jonson._
=Great joy is only earned by great exertion.=
_Goethe._
=Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if
it were plate, and not less great the man to
whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.=
_Sen._
=Great is not great to the greater.= _Sir P.
Sidney._
=Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels
and tatters where that enters not.= _Carlyle._
=Great is song used to great ends.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer,
it is no follower; it never appeals from itself.=
_Emerson._
=Great is the strength of an individual soul
true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to
the redemption of a world.= _Mrs. Child._
=Great is truth, and mighty above all things.=
_Apocrypha._
=Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom.
It cannot be exaggerated; it is the
highest achievement of man.= _Carlyle._
=Great joy, especially after a sudden change= 45
=and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be
silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on
the tongue.= _Fielding._
=Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is
the most severe bridle of the tongue.= _Jeremy
Taylor._
=Great lies are as great as great truths, and
prevail constantly and day after day.=
_Thackeray._
=Great lords have great hands, but they do
not reach to heaven.= _Dan. Pr._
=Great Mammon!--greatest god below the
sky.= _Spenser._
=Great men are always of a nature originally
melancholy.= _Arist._
=Great men are among the best gifts which
God bestows upon a people.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Great men are like eagles, and build their
nest on some lofty solitude.= _Schopenhauer._
=Great men are more distinguished by range
and extent than by originality.= _Emerson._
=Great men are never sufficiently known but in= 5
=struggles.= _Burke._
=Great men are not always wise.= _Bible._
=Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks;
they are the summits of ranges.=
_T. W. Higginson._
=Great men are sincere.= _Emerson._
=Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark
pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as
heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of
what has been, prophetic tokens of what
may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities
of human nature.= _Carlyle._
=Great Men are the inspired (speaking and= 10
=acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations,
whereof a Chapter is completed from
epoch to epoch, and by some named History.=
_Carlyle._
=Great men are the modellers, patterns, and
in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the
general mass of men contrived to do and
attain.= _Carlyle._
=Great men are the true men, the men in whom
Nature has succeeded.= _Amiel._
=Great men are they who see that spiritual
is stronger than any material force, that
thoughts rule the world.= _Emerson._
=Great men do not content us. It is their solitude,
not their force, that makes them conspicuous.=
_Emerson._
=Great men do not play stage tricks with the= 15
=doctrines of life and death; only little men
do that.= _Ruskin._
=Great men essay enterprises because they
think them great, and fools because they
think them easy.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great men get more by obliging inferiors than
by disdaining them.= _South._
=Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers
of the terror of life, and have manned
themselves to face it.= _Emerson._
=Great men have their parasites.= _Sydney Smith._
=Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by= 20
=being near us; ordinary men gain much.=
_Landor._
=Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in
them, / But in the less, foul profanation.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders
of the whole world, in order to conceive their
great ideas or perform their great deeds; that
is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness
round about them. A hero cannot be a hero
unless in a heroic world.= _Hawthorne._
=Great men not only know their business, but
they usually know that they know it, and
are not only right in their main opinions,
but they usually know that they are right in
them.= _Ruskin._
=Great men oft die by vile Bezonians.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 1.
=Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune,= 25
=just as brave soldiers do at wars.= _Sen._
=Great men or men of great gifts you will
easily find, but symmetrical men never.=
_Emerson._
=Great men, said Themistocles, are like the
oaks, under the branches of which men are
happy in finding a refuge in the time of
storm and rain; but when they have to
pass a sunny day under them, they take
pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking
the branches.= _Goethe._
=Great men should drink with harness on their
throats.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 2.
=Great men should think of opportunity, and
not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble
and puzzled spirits.= _Disraeli._
=Great men stand like solitary towers in the= 30
=city of God, and secret passages running
deep beneath external Nature give their
thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences,
which strengthens and consoles
them, and of which the labourers on the surface
do not even dream.= _Longfellow._
=Great men, though far above us, are felt to be
our brothers; and their elevation shows us
what vast possibilities are wrapped up in
our common humanity. They beckon us up
the gleaming heights to whose summits they
have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of
this world's history.= _Moses Harvey._
=Great men too often have greater faults than
little men can find room for.= _Landor._
=Great men will always pay deference to
greater.= _Landor._
=Great minds erect their never-failing trophies
on the firm base of mercy.= _Massinger._
=Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous= 35
=applause without obtaining it, than
obtain without deserving it.= _Colton._
=Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in
doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects
of their favours / Are barren in return.=
_Rowe._
=Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All
other men are captivated by immediate advantages;
great minds are excited by the
prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Great names stand not alone for great deeds;
they stand also for great virtues, and, doing
them worship, we elevate ourselves.= _H.
Giles._
=Great part of human suffering has its root in
the nature of man, and not in that of his
institutions.= _Lowell._
=Great passions are incurable diseases; the= 40
=very remedies make them worse.= _Goethe._
=Great patriots must be men of great excellence;
this alone can secure to them lasting admiration.=
_H. Giles._
=Great people and champions are special gifts
of God, whom He gives and preserves; they
do their work and achieve great actions, not
with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy
cogitations, but by motion of God.= _Luther._
=Great pleasures are much less frequent than
great pains.= _Hume._
=Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow
results.= _Lowell._
=Great poets try to describe what all men see= 45
=and to express what all men feel; if they
cannot describe it, they let it alone.= _Ruskin._
=Great profits, great risks.= _Chinese Pr._
=Great results cannot be achieved at once;
and we must be satisfied to advance in life
as we walk, step by step.= _S. Smiles._
=Great revolutions, whatever may be their
causes, are not lightly commenced, and
are not concluded with precipitation.= _Disraeli._
=Great souls are always royally submissive,
reverent to what is over them; only small,
mean souls are otherwise.= _Carlyle._
=Great souls are not cast down by adversity.=
_Pr._
=Great souls are not those which have less= 5
=passion and more virtue than common souls,
but only those which have greater designs.=
_La Roche._
=Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do
storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon
them, and they thus form a shelter for the
plains around.= _Jean Paul._
=Great souls care only for what is great.=
_Amiel._
=Great souls endure in silence.= _Schiller._
=Great souls forgive not injuries till time has
put their enemies within their power, that
they may show forgiveness is their own.=
_Dryden._
=Great spirits and great business do keep out= 10
=this weak passion= (love). _Bacon._
=Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise
themselves.= _Goethe._
=Great talents have some admirers, but few
friends.= _Niebuhr._
=Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything
runs out of them.= _Pr._
=Great talkers are little doers.= _Pr._
=Great thieves hang little ones.= _Ger._ 15
=Great things are done when men and mountains
meet; / These are not done by jostling
in the street.= _Wm. Blake._
=Great things through greatest hazards are
achiev'd, / And then they shine.= _Beaumont._
=Great thoughts and a pure heart are the
things we should beg for ourselves from
God.= _Goethe._
=Great thoughts come from the heart.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, /= 20
=Like instincts, unawares.= _M. Milnes._
=Great thoughts reduced to practice become
great acts.= _Hazlitt._
=Great towns are but a large sort of prison to
the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to
beasts.= _Charron._
=Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of
every great achievement. Doth not water,
although ever so cool, moisten the earth?=
_Hitopadesa._
=Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are
principally remembered for the mischief they
have done.= _Bovee._
=Great wealth, great care.= _Dut. Pr._ 25
=Great wits are sure to madness near allied, /
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.=
_Dryden._
=Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both
serve to make our poverty our pride.= _Emerson._
=Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.=
_Leigh Hunt._
=Great works are performed, not by strength,
but by perseverance.= _Johnson._
=Great writers and orators are commonly economists= 30
=in the use of words.= _Whipple._
=Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends.= _Jesus._
=Greater than man, less than woman.= _Essex,
of Queen Elizabeth._
=Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.=
_Shakespeare._
=Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When
honour's at the stake.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Greatness and goodness are not means, but= 35
=ends.= _Coleridge._
=Greatness appeals to the future.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.=
_Landor._
=Greatness can only be rightly estimated when
minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness
is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can
its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind
unaccustomed to the affectionate watching
of what is least.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness doth not approach him who is for
ever looking down.= _Hitopadesa._
=Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby /= 40
=Thyself the worse, and so the distance
greater.= _Herbert._
=Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances,
has always been rare. It is
of elemental birth, and is independent alike
of its time and its circumstances.= _W.
Winter._
=Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to
excite love, interest, and admiration; and
the outward proof of greatness is that we
excite love, interest, and admiration.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Greatness is its own torment.= _Theodore Parker._
=Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth
Street, which fortune lends us for a day to
wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.=
_Fielding._
=Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable= 45
=thing, but the expression of the mind of a
God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour
as you will, everlasting difference is set
between one man's capacity and another's;
and this God-given supremacy is the priceless
thing, always just as rare in the world
at one time as another.... And nearly the
best thing that men can generally do is to
set themselves, not to the attainment, but
the discovery of this: learning to know
gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and
diamond from flint-sand, being for most of
us a more profitable employment than trying
to make diamonds of our own charcoal.=
_Ruskin._
=Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.=
_Napoleon._
=Greatness lies not in being strong, but in
the right using of strength. He is greatest
whose strength carries up the most hearts
by the attraction of his own.= _Ward Beecher._
=Greatness may be present in lives whose range
is very small.= _Phil. Brooks._
=Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting
small things, but by making small things
great under its influence. He who can take
no interest in what is small will take false
interest in what is great.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness, once and for ever, has done with
opinion.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must
fall out with men too; what the declined
is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of
others / As feel in his own fall.= _Troil. and
Cress._, iii. 3.
=Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if
prosperity carry a man never so little beyond
his poise, it overbears and dashes him
to pieces.= _Colton._
=Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, /
The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools.=
_Otway._
=Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a= 5
=blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom
from our high births they conclude / The
only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy
the golden mean.= _Massinger._
=Greediness bursts the bag.= _Pr._
=Greedy folk hae lang airms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Greedy misers rail at sordid misers.= _Helvetius._
=Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.=
_Emerson._
=Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it= 10
=makes a man's face as like a man's face as it
can.= _Ruskin._
=Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch
wenn du greifst, so stehe fest=--Attack not
thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand
fast. _M. Claudius._
=Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die
Gegenwart ist dein=--Quickly seize the moment:
only the present is thine. _Körner._
=Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit=--The
entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced
by one. _Juv._
=Grex venalium=--A venal pack. _Sueton._
=Grey hairs are wisdom--if you hold your= 15
=tongue; / Speak--and they are but hairs, as
in the young.= _Philo._
=Grief best is pleased with grief's society.=
_Shakespeare._
=Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an
empty hollowness, but weight.= _Rich. II._, i. 2.
=Grief divided is made lighter.= _Pr._
=Grief fills the room up of my absent child, /
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with
me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his
words, / Remembers me of all his gracious
parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with
his form: / Then have I reason to be fond
of grief.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Grief finds some ease by him that like doth= 20
=bear.= _Spenser._
=Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.=
_Bailey._
=Grief has its time.= _Johnson._
=Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than
happiness ever can, and common sufferings
are far stronger links than common joys.=
_Lamartine._
=Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity
of attention to the present, preserves
us from being lacerated and devoured by
sorrow for the past.= _Dr. Johnson._
=Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two= 25
=bear it lightly.= _W. Hauff._
=Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.=
_James Martineau._
=Grief is proud and makes his owner stout.=
_King John_, iii. 1.
=Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it
makes it greater; but the way to lessen
it is by a comparison with others' losses.=
_Wycherley._
=Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence
of grief the blunder of a life.= _Disraeli._
=Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true= 30
=fertiliser.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.=
_Philemon._
=Grief makes one hour ten.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable
to the development of intelligence, energy,
and virtue.= _Fearon._
=Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens
the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles
itself about the former, and makes the latter
either effeminate or frivolous.= _F. Schubert._
=Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable,= 35
=sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising,
making free.= _Aubrey de Vere (the younger)._
=Grief should be the instructor of the wise; /
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the
most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the
fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not
that of Life.= _Byron._
=Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure.=
_Congreve._
=Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement,
to inaction, and to meditation,
only makes restless spirits more restless.=
_Macaulay._
=Griefs assured are felt before they come.=
_Dryden._
=Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled= 40
=front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber,
/ To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.=
_Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Grind the faces of the poor.= _Bible._
=Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a
higher respect to wealth than to talent; for
wealth, although it is a far less efficient
source of power than talent, happens to be
far more intelligible.= _Colton._
=Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht
reich=--Great industry and little conscience make
one rich. _Ger. Pr._
=Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; /
Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen=--Great
is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies,
but greater is he who has gained them. _Seume._
=Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur= 45
=im Unglück zeigen=--One may show himself
great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad.
_Schiller._ (?)
=Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass=--Big
and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. _Ger. Pr._
=Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne
Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie
erst recht gefährlich=--Great passions are incurable
diseases; what might heal them is precisely
that which makes them so dangerous.
_Goethe._
=Grosse Seelen dulden still=--Great souls endure
in silence. _Schiller._
=Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken=--Great
people's servants think themselves of
no small consequence. _Ger. Pr._
=Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Grudge not one against another.= _St. James._
=Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza
danar quanto è brutto=--Watch him well, watch
him closely; the man without money, how worthless
he is! _It. Pr._
=Guardati da aceto di vin dolce=--Beware of the
vinegar of sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Guardati da chi non ha che perdere=--Beware of 5
him who has nothing to lose. _It. Pr._
=Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio
da peccati=--Keep yourself from opportunities,
and God will keep you from sins. _It. Pr._
=Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills
from within thy reason must prevent.=
_Dryden._
=Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are
heard in heaven.= _Young._
=Gude advice is ne'er out o' season.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude bairns are eith to lear=, _i.e._, easy to teach. 10
_Sc. Pr._
=Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Gude claes= (clothes) =open a' doors.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Gude foresight furthers the wark.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude wares mak' a quick market.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle=--To
God's council-chamber we have no key. _Dan.
Pr._
=Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère=--Call
it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to
me. _Molière._
=Guerra al cuchillo=--War to the knife. _Sp._
=Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato=--War begun,
hell let loose. _It. Pr._
=Guerre à mort=--War to the death. _Fr._ 20
=Guerre à outrance=--War of extermination; war
to the uttermost. _Fr._
=Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!=--War
to the castles, peace to the cottages!
_Fr._
=Guessing is missing= (the point). _Dut. Pr._
=Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.= _Jane Porter._
=Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits= 25
=upon it.= _Congreve._
=Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, /
Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind /
With whips and stings.= _Rowe._
=Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour,
can never confer real happiness.=
_Scott._
=Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were
out of use.= _Othello_, v. 1.
=Guilty consciences make men cowards.= _Vanbrugh._
=Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge,= 30
=for it biteth first and barketh afterwards;
the bullet being at the mark before the
noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not
by way of warning, but of triumph.= _Fuller._
=Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby
at last is the Goliath powerless and the
David resistless; savage animalism is nothing,
inventive spiritualism is all.= _Carlyle._
=Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime
voluptarius=--The sense of taste is the most
exquisite of all. _Cic._
=Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen=--A
good conscience is a soft pillow. _Ger. Pr._
=Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren,
viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren=--Wealth
lost, something lost; honour lost,
much lost; courage lost, all lost. _Goethe._
=Güte bricht einem kein Bein=--Kindness breaks 35
no one's bones. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath kommt über Nacht=--Good counsel
comes over-night. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte
nicht=--Good advice may be given, but manners
not. _Turkish Pr._
=Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige
bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes
aus Schlechtem hervor=--Good out of good is
what every man of intellect can fashion, but it
takes genius to evoke good out of bad. _Schiller._
=Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem
Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's
nicht=--Good and evil come unexpected to man;
even if foretold, we believe it not. _Goethe._
=Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus= 40
=usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus
humo=--The drop hollows the stone, the ring
is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is
frayed away by the pressure of the earth. _Ovid._
=Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo=--The
drop hollows the stone not by force, but
by continually falling. _Pr._
=Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ=--A drop of
good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. _Pr._
H.
=Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen,
und du bist sein auf ewig=--Ha! let the devil
seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever.
_Lessing._
=Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein=--Ah! what a
pleasure it is to be a soldier. _Boieldieu._
=Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben=--I 45
have never occupied myself with trifles.
_Schiller._
="Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann=--"I have
had," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Habeas corpus=--A writ to deliver one from prison,
and show reason for his detention, with a view
to judge of its justice, _lit._ you may have the
body. _L._
=Habeas corpus ad prosequendum=--You may
bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution.
_L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad respondendum=--You may
bring up the body to make answer. _L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum=--You may 50
bring up the body to satisfy. _L. Writ._
=Habemus confitentem reum=--We have the confession
of the accused. _L._
=Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice
egestatem, privatim opulentiam=--We have
luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and
in private opulence. _Cato in Sall._
=Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali=--Under
the fair words of a bad man there lurks some
treachery. _Phaedr._
=Habent sua fata libelli=--Books have their destinies.
_Hor._
=Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi
sermonis aviditatem auxit=--I owe it to old
age, that my relish for conversation is so increased.
_Cic._
=Habere derelictui rem suam=--To neglect one's
affairs. _Aul. Gell._
=Habere et dispertire=--To have and to distribute.
=Habere facias possessionem=--You shall cause to
take possession. _L. Writ._
=Habere, non haberi=--To hold, not to be held. 5
=Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum,
quod contra singulos, utilitate publica
rependitur=--Every great example of punishment
has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong
to individuals is compensated by the promotion
of the public good. _Tac._
=Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi=--There
is in anger this evil, that it will not be
controlled. _Sen._
=Habet salem=--He has wit; he is a wag.
=Habit and imitation are the source of all working
and all apprenticeship, of all practice
and all learning, in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best= 10
=nightcap.= _Kincaid._
=Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.=
_St. Augustine._
=Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it
every day, and at last we cannot break it.=
_Horace Mann._
=Habit is a second nature, which destroys the
first.= _Pascal._
=Habit is necessary to give power.= _Hazlitt._
=Habit is ten times nature.= _Wellington._ 15
=Habit is the deepest law of human nature.=
_Carlyle._
=Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for
our past sins.= _George Eliot._
=Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking.=
_Lavater._
=Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads
us day by day.= _Lamartine._
=Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.= 20
_Pr._
=Habits= (of virtue) =are formed by acts of reason
in a persevering struggle through temptation.=
_Bernard Gilpin._
=Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even
after they are given up.= _Spurgeon._
=Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every
crime.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar=--Speaking
without thinking is shooting without taking
aim. _Sp. Pr._
=Hac mercede placet=--I accept the terms. 25
=Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa=--In
this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede.
_Inscription on Bede's tomb._
=Hac urget lupus, hac canis=--On one side a wolf
besets you, on the other a dog. _Hor._
=Hactenus=--Thus far.
=Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries,
the one might have been a sergeant and the
other an exciseman.= _Goldsmith._
=Had God meant me to be different, He would= 30
=have created me different.= _Goethe._
=Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal /
I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age /
Have left me naked to mine enemies.= _Hen.
VIII._, iii. 2.
=Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned
amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge
from the event.= _Euripides._
=Had not God made this world, and death
too, it were an insupportable place.= _Carlyle._
=Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would
long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible
of a definite formula, that formula
would long ago have been discovered.=
_Renan._
=Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.= 35
_Byron._
=Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we
never loved sae blindly, / Never met or
never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted!=
_Burns._
=Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala=--These trifles
will lead to serious mischief. _Hor._
=Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere
morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare
superbos=--These shall be thy arts, to lay down
the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to
subdue the proud. _Virg._
=Hae you gear= (goods), =or hae you nane, / Tine=
(lose) =heart, and a's gane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hæc a te non multum abludit imago=--This 40
picture bears no small resemblance to yourself.
_Hor._
=Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce
videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat
acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies
repetita placebit=--One (poem) courts the shade;
another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye,
chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one
pleases but once, the other will still please if ten
times repeated. _Hor._
=Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum=--Such
is the short sum of our evils. _Ovid._
=Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris;
ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis=--These
things I revolve by myself with compressed lips,
When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with
my writings. _Hor._
=Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque /
Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama
labori=--"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and
so your merits will never receive their due meed
of praise." _Hor._
=Hæc generi incrementa fides=--This fidelity will 45
bring new glory to our race. _M._
=Hæc olim meminisse juvabit=--It will be a joy
to us to recall this, some day. _Virg._
=Hæc omnia transeunt=--All these things pass
away. _M._
=Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea
possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non
utitur recte, mala=--These things are exactly
according to the disposition of him who possesses
them. To him who knows how to use them, they
are blessings; to him who does not use them
aright, they are evils. _Ter._
=Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque
rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati=--Be
this the first law established in friendship,
that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable,
nor ourselves do it when asked.
_Cic._
=Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris= 50
=erga te=--I have written this, not as having
abundance of leisure, but out of love for you.
_Cic._
=Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem
oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium
ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi,
non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum,
peregrinantur, rusticantur=--These studies are
the food of youth and the consolation of old age;
they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and
refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home
and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany
us at night, in our travels, and in our rural
retreats. _Cic._
=Hæc studia oblectant=--These studies are our
delight. _M._
=Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali=--These
things are at once the cause and food of this delicious
malady. _Ovid._
=Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit=--This
mode of living does not suit me. _Cic._
=Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est=--The 5
weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask.
_Pr._
=Hæreditas nunquam ascendit=--The right of inheritance
never lineally ascends. _L._
=Hæres jure repræsentationis=--An heir by right
of representation. _L._
=Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He
is the lawful heir whom marriage points
out as such. _L._
=Hæret lateri lethalis arundo=--The fatal shaft
sticks deep in her side. _Virg._
=Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh=--Half of 10
them are without heart, half without culture.
_Goethe._
=Half a house is half a hell.= _Ger. Pr._
=Half a loaf is better than no bread.= _Pr._
=Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.=
_Emerson._
=Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is
worth a cartload of recollection.= _Gray to
Palgrave._
=Half the ease of life oozes away through the= 15
=leaks of unpunctuality.= _Anon._
=Half the gossip of society would perish if the
books that are truly worth reading were
but read.= _George Dawson._
=Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are
ills because we hoard them.= _Barry Cornwall._
=Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this
one sophistical dilemma: if the people are
turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they
are quiet, they do not want liberty.= _Macaulay._
=Half-wits greet each other.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, /= 20
=Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch
klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, /
Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier=--If you
keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of
every thorough master will be of service to you;
but if you merely cling to human work, all that
you do will be but mannerism. _Geibel._
=Hanc personam induisti, agenda est=--You have
assumed this part, and you must act it out. _Sen._
=Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim=--We
both expect this privilege, and give it in return.
_Hor._
=Hands that the rod of empire might have
sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living
lyre.= _Gray._
=Handsome is that handsome does.= _Pr._
=Handsomeness is the more animal excellence,= 25
=beauty the more imaginative.= _Hare._
=Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand
im Vertrauen spricht=--Blaze not abroad to
others what any one confides to you in secret.
_Claudius._
=Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no
steal when he's auld.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hang constancy! you know too much of the
world to be constant, sure.= _Fielding._
=Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore
let's be merry.= _G. Wither._
=Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel=--Hang not 30
all on one nail. _Ger. Pr._
=Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.= _Mer.
of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Hannibal ad portas=--Hannibal is at the gates.
_Cic._
=Hap and mishap govern the world.= _Pr._
=Happiest they of human race, / To whom God
has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope,
to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; /
And better had they ne'er been born, / Who
read to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._
=Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from= 35
=lively to severe.= _Pope._
=Happiness consists in activity; it is a running
stream, and not a stagnant pool.= _J. M. Good._
=Happiness depends not on the things, but on
the taste.= _La Roche._
=Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is
not to be picked up in strangers' galleries.=
_Douglas Jerrold._
=Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever
it rolls, and we push it with our feet
when it stops.= _Goethe._
=Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality.= 40
_Schopenhauer._
=Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under
an agreeable delusion."= _Quoted by Sterne._
=Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality.=
_Voltaire._
=Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes
the hurricane, smooth as the water on
the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as
the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the
storm.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the mirage in the desert;
she tantalises us with a delusion that distance
creates and that contiguity destroys.=
_Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose= 45
=veil no mortal ever raised.= _Landor._
=Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in
fact, but it must amount to conviction, else
it is nothing.= _Chamfort._
=Happiness is neither within us nor without
us; it is the union of ourselves with God.=
_Pascal._
=Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God
through love.= _Amiel._
=Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance
from evil.= _Nicole._
=Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which= 50
=penetrates the soul, but which afterwards
gushes forth in springs of tears.= _M. de
Guérin._
=Happiness is unrepented pleasure.= _Socrates._
=Happiness lies first of all in health.= _G. W.
Curtis._
=Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit,
but a cloud in possession, deified by those
who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those
who can.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse.=
_A. Smith._
=Happiness springs not from a large fortune,
but temperate habits and simple wishes.
Riches increase not by increase of the supply
of want, but by decrease of the sense of it,--the
minimum of it being the maximum of
them.= _Ed._
=Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies
in the dance of life, impels us through all its
mazes and meanderings, but leads none of
us by the same route.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness travels incognita to keep a private= 5
=assignation with contentment, and to partake
of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs
in a cottage.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness, when unsought, is often found,
and when unexpected, often obtained; while
those who seek her the most diligently fail
the most, because they seek her where she
is not.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happy are they that hear their detractions,
and can put them to mending.= _Much Ado_,
ii. 3.
=Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite
space; once grown into a man, and the
boundless world will be too small to thee.=
_Schiller._
=Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind
in general, that they think neither of
the high nor the deep, of the true nor the
false, but only of what is suited to their own
conceptions.= _Goethe._
=Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun= 10
=brightens the ring of necessity into a ring
of duty.= _Carlyle._
=Happy he that can abandon everything by
which his conscience is defiled or burdened.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On
Fortune's cap we are not the very button.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm
that lies between his wishes and his powers.=
_Goethe._
=Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation
where Martha still complains of
Mary.= _S. Bern._
=Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst= 15
=of his children.= _Grillparzer._
=Happy is he that is happy in his children.=
_Pr._
=Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes
a puppet, who at length can play
with it, and amuse himself with what his
situation makes his duty.= _Goethe._
=Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of
talking nonsense to him before he is old
enough to know the sense of it.= _Hare._
=Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the
speaking man.= _Emerson._
=Happy is the man who can endure the highest= 20
=and the lowest fortune. He who has endured
such vicissitudes with equanimity has
deprived misfortune of its power.= _Sen._
=Happy is the man whose father went to the
devil.= _Pr._
=Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head
that wears a crown!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Happy men are full of the present, for its
bounty suffices them; and wise men also,
for its duties engage them. Our grand
business undoubtedly is not to see what
lies dimly at a distance, but to do what
lies clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame
is still an impassable celestial barrier, and
the sacred air-castles of hope have not
shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality,
and man by his nature is yet infinite and
free.= _Carlyle._
=Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted= 25
=as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, /
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, /
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize.=
_Browning._
=Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He
who can call to-day his own; / He who,
secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy
worst, for I have lived to-day.= _Dryden, after
Horace._
=Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a
morsel of bread without his being obliged to
thank any other for it than Heaven itself.=
_Cervantes._
=Happy the people whose annals are blank in
History's book.= _Montesquieu._
=Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not
still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou
hast, forgett'st.= _Meas. for Meas._ iii. 1.
=Happy who in his verse can gently steer, /= 30
=From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.=
_Dryden._
=Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the
minister's.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see
who can pound the longest.= _Wellington at
Waterloo._
=Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds
hard.= _Pr._
=Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and
there is no other.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Hardness ever of hardiness is mother.= _Cymbeline_, 35
iii. 6.
=Hardship is the native soil of manhood and
self-reliance.= _John Neal._
=Harm watch, harm catch.= _Pr._
=Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam
nie, / unmenschlich nie=--Virtue may be stern,
though never cruel, never inhuman. _Schiller._
=Harvests are Nature's bank dividends.= _Haliburton._
=Has any man, or any society of men, a truth= 40
=to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do;
they can nowise proceed at once and with
the mere natural organs, but must first call
a public meeting, appoint committees, issue
prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word,
construct or borrow machinery, wherewith
to speak it and do it. Without machinery
they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of
Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of
Lancashire.= _Carlyle._
=Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. /
Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat
ullum, / Facti crimen habet=--Such penalties
does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who
meditates any secret wickedness within himself
incurs the guilt of the deed. _Juv._
=Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit=--This punishment
a prating tongue brought on him. _Ovid._
=Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit=--The
event has verified these predictions. _Cic._
=Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. /
Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der
Hass sich auf ihn kehrt=--The upright must
suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth
of a man if hatred pursues him. _Gottfried von
Strassburg._
=Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann
wolle nie zu hoch hinaus=--Hast thou a secure
house in the valley? Then set not thy heart on a
higher beyond. _Förster._
=Haste and rashness are storms and tempests,= 5
=breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness
is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed
to the haven.= _Fuller._
=Haste is of the devil.= _Koran._
=Haste makes waste, and waste makes want,
and want makes strife between the gudeman
and the gudewife.= _Sc. Pr._
=Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops
itself.= _Sen._
=Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes
too late.= _Bovee._
=Hasty resolutions seldom speed well.= _Pr._ 10
=Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fängt man
die Freundschaft an=--After love friendship (_lit._
when we have lived through love we begin
friendship). _Heine._
=Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts
men down.= _Goethe._
=Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love
still more so.= _Goethe._
=Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage=--Leisurely,
and don't lose heart. _Fr._
=Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom= 15
=make thee a good gamester.= _Quarles._
=Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
fed with the same food, hurt with the
same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means, warmed and
cooled by the same winter and summer, as a
Christian is? If you prick us, do we not
bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if
you poison us, do we not die? and if you
wrong us, shall not we revenge?= _Mer. of
Venice_, iii. 1.
=Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time;
hatred ceases by love.= _Buddha._
=Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart
deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone
on all joys.= _Goethe._
=Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust;
there is but one step from envy to hate.=
_Goethe._
=Hatred is but an inverse love.= _Carlyle._ 20
=Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen
than love.= _Vauvenargues._
=Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish
deadly.= _George Eliot._
="Hätte ich gewusst," ist ein armer Mann=--"If
I had known," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Haud æquum facit, / Qui quod didicit, id dediscit=--He
does not do right who unlearns what
he has learnt. _Plaut._
=Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat= 25
=/ Res angusta domi=--Not easily do those
attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped
by domestic poverty. _Juv._
=Haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--Neither
ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. _Hor._
=Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco=--Not
unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have
learned to succour the wretched. _Virg._
=Haud passibus æquis=--With unequal steps.
_Virg._
=Haut et bon=--Great and good. _M._
=Haut goût=--High flavour. _Fr._ 30
=Have a care o' the main chance.= _Butler._
=Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at
home.= _Spurgeon._
=Have any deepest scientific individuals yet
dived down to the foundations of the universe
and gauged everything there? Did
the Maker take them into His counsel, that
they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible
All, and can say, This stands
marked therein, and no more than this?
Alas! not in any wise.= _Carlyle._
=Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a
love, that I am ready to die for? are the
first trial questions to itself of a true soul.=
_Ruskin._
=Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far /= 35
=To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth?=
_Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it?=
_Tennyson._
=Have more than thou showest; / Speak less
than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou
owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; /
Set less than thou throwest.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Have not all nations conceived their God as
omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a
universal Here, an everlasting Now?= _Carlyle._
=Have not thy cloak to make when it begins
to rain.= _Pr._
=Have the French for friends, but not for neighbours.= 40
_Pr._
=Have you found your life distasteful? / My
life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your
youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved
and hold complete. / Do your joys with age
diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain.
/ Must in death your daylight finish? /
My sun sets to rise again.= _Browning._
=Have you known how to compose your manners,
you have achieved a great deal more
than he who has composed books. Have
you known how to attain repose, you have
achieved more than he who has taken cities
and subdued empires.= _Montaigne._
=Have you not heard it said full oft, / A
woman's nay doth stand for nought?= _Shakespeare._
=Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?=
_Othello_, v. 2.
=Having food and raiment, let us be therewith= 45
=content.= _St. Paul._
=Having is having, come whence it may.= _Ger. Pr._
=Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but
of living.= _Ed._
=Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be
properly guarded and not in the least broken;
for being broken, it will not prosper.= _Hitopadesa._
=Having waste ground enough, / Shall we
desire to raze the sanctuary / And pitch our
evils there?= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca=--The
account is all right, but the money-bags are
empty. _Sp. Pr._
=He alone has energy that cannot be deprived
of it.= _Lavater._
=He alone is happy, and he is truly so, who can
say, "Welcome life, whatever it brings!
welcome death, whatever it is!"= _Bolingbroke._
=He alone is worthy of respect who knows
what is of use to himself and others, and
who labours to control his self-will.= _Goethe._
=He also that is slothful in his work is brother= 5
=to him that is a great waster.= _Bible._
=He always wins who sides with God.= _Faber._
=He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack
hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh
rich.= _Bible._
=He behoves to have meat enou' that sal stop
ilka man's mou'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He best restrains anger who remembers God's
eye is upon him.= _Plato._
=He buys very dear who begs.= _Port. Pr._ 10
=He by whom the geese were formed white,
parrots stained green, and peacocks painted
of various hues--even He will provide for
their support.= _Hitopadesa._
=He can ill run that canna gang= (walk). _Sc.
Pr._
=He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.= _Dut.
Pr._
=He cannot see the wood for the trees.= _Ger. Pr._
=He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his= 15
=pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he
could whistle them back.= _Goldsmith._
=He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth
children from play and old men from the
chimney-corner.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution.=
_Goethe._
=He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt
south and south-west side.= _Butler._
=He cries out before he is hurt.= _It. Pr._
=He dances well to whom fortune pipes.= _Pr._ 20
=He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings.=
_Sc. Pr._
=He does not deserve wine who drinks it as
water.= _Bodenstedt._
=He does nothing who endeavours to do more
than is allowed to humanity.= _Johnson._
=He doeth much that doeth a thing well.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=He doeth well that serveth the common= 25
=good rather than his own will.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a
Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under
his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves
dishonourable graves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He doubts nothing who knows nothing.= _Port.
Pr._
=He draweth out the thread of his verbosity
finer than the staple of his argument.= _Love's
L. Lost_, v. 1.
=He draws nothing well who thirsts not to
draw everything.= _Ruskin._
=He either fears his fate too much, / Or his= 30
=deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to
the touch / To win or lose it all.= _Marquis of
Montrose._
=He frieth in his own grease.= _Pr._
=He gave his honours to the world again, /
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in
peace.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He giveth His beloved sleep.= _Bible._
=He goeth back that continueth not.= _St. Augustine._
=He goeth better that creepeth in his way= 35
=than he that runneth out of his way.= _St.
Augustine._
=He had a face like a benediction.= _Cervantes._
=He had been eight years upon a project for extracting
sunbeams out of cucumbers, which
were to be put in phials hermetically sealed,
and let out to warm the air in raw inclement
seasons.= _Swift._
=He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared
to better his own kind, / Who first wrote
satire with no pity in it.= _Tennyson._
=He has a bee in his bonnet=, _i.e._, is hare-brained.
_Sc. Pr._
=He has a head, and so has a pin.= _Port._ 40
_Pr._
=He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword,
by the means whereof 'a breaks words and
keeps whole weapons.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.
=He has faut= (need) =o' a wife wha marries
mam's pet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He has hard work who has nothing to do.=
_Pr._
=He has no religion who has no humanity.=
_Arab. Pr._
=He has not learned the lesson of life who= 45
=does not every day surmount a fear.= _Emerson._
=He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=He has seen a wolf.= _Pr. of one who suddenly
curbs his tongue._
=He has verily touched our hearts as with a
live coal from the altar who in any way
brings home to our heart the noble doings,
feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother
man.= _Carlyle._
=He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him
still.= _Sc. Pr._
=He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his= 50
=tongue is the clapper; for what his heart
thinks his tongue speaks.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open
as day for melting charity.= 2 _Hen. IV._,
iv. 4.
=He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated.=
_St. Augustine._
=He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred
in a book.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.
=He honours God that imitates Him.= _Sir T.
Browne._
=He in whom there is much to be developed will= 55
=be later than others in acquiring true perceptions
of himself and the world.= _Goethe._
=He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to
fill another's.= _Sp. Pr._
=He is a fool who thinks by force or skill /
To turn the current of a woman's will.= _S.
Tuke._
=He is a great and a good man from whom the
needy, or those who come for protection, go
not away with disappointed hopes and discontented
countenances.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere
of thought, into which other men rise with
labour and difficulty: he has but to open his
eyes to see things in a true light and in large
relations, while they must make painful corrections,
and keep a vigilant eye on many
sources of error.= _Emerson._
=He is a happy man that hath a true friend at
his need, but he is more truly happy that
hath no need of his friend.= _Arthur Warwick._
=He is a hard man who is only just, and he a
sad man who is only wise.= _Voltaire._
=He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a
moment!= _Longfellow._
=He is a little man; let him go and work with= 5
=the women!= _Longfellow._
=He is a madman= (_Rasender_) =who does not embrace
and hold fast the good fortune which
a god= (_ein Gott_) =has given into his hand.=
_Schiller._
=He is a man who doth not suffer his members
and faculties to cause him uneasiness.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a minister who doth not behave with
insolence and pride.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke.=
_Pr._
=He is a strong man who can hold down his= 10
=opinion.= _Emerson._
=He is a true sage who learns from all the
world.= _Eastern Pr._
=He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an
excellent stomach.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He is a wise child that knows his own father.=
_Pr._
=He is a wise man who does not grieve for the
things which he has not, but rejoices for
those which he has.= _Epictetus._
=He is a wise man who knoweth that his words= 15
=should be suited to the occasion, his love to
the worthiness of the object, and his anger
according to his strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a wise man who knows what is wise.=
_Xenophon._
=He is a worthy person who is much respected
by good men.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is all there when the bell rings.= _Pr._
=He is an eloquent man who can speak of low
things acutely, and of great things with
dignity, and of moderate things with temper.=
_Cic._
=He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin= 20
=who will not do what he can, but is ambitious
to do what he cannot.= _Goethe._
=He is below himself who is not above an injury.=
_Quarles._
=He is best served who has no need to put the
hands of others at the end of his arms.= _Rousseau._
=He is but a bastard to the time / That doth
not smack of observation.= _King John_, i. 1.
=He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath
not the life of a man.= _Shakespeare._
=He is gentil that doth gentil dedes.= _Chaucer._ 25
=He is great who is what he is from nature, and
who never reminds us of others.= _Emerson._
=He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who
finds peace in his own home.= _Goethe._
=He is happy who is forsaken by his passions.=
_Hitopadesa._
=He is happy whose circumstances suit his
temper; but he is more excellent who can
suit his temper to any circumstances.= _Hare._
=He is just as truly running counter to God's= 30
=will by being intentionally wretched as by
intentionally doing wrong.= _W. R. Greg._
=He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune.=
_Hitopadesa._
=He is lifeless that is faultless.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that grinds at my mill.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that helps me, and not he that
pities me.= _Pr._
=He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants.= 35
_Dan. Pr._
=He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red
herring.= _Pr._
=He is no wise man that will quit a certainty
for an uncertainty.= _Johnson._
=He is noble who feels and acts nobly.= _Heine._
=He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn.=
_Dan. Pr._
=He is not a true man of science who does not= 40
=bring some sympathy to his studies, and
expect to learn something by behaviour as
well as application.= _Thoreau._
=He is not only idle who does nothing, but
he is idle who might be better employed.=
_Socrates._
=He is not the best carpenter who makes the
most chips.= _Pr._
=He is not yet born who can please everybody.=
_Dan. Pr._
=He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise
at all.= _Wordsworth._
=He is richest that has fewest wants.= _Pr._ 45
=He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress
no one observes.= _Trollope._
=He is the best gentleman that is the son of
his own deserts, and not the degenerated
heir of another's virtue.= _Victor Hugo._
=He is the free man whom the truth makes free, /
And all are slaves besides.= _Cowper._
=He is the greatest artist who has embodied
in the sum of his works the greatest number
of the greatest ideas.= _Ruskin._
=He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered= 50
=himself.= _Pr._
=He is the greatest whose strength carries up
the most hearts by the attraction of his own.=
_Ward Beecher._
=He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to
be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair
divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection
lies in him.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=He is the rich man in whom the people are
rich, and he is the poor man in whom the
people are poor; and how to give access
to the masterpieces of art and nature is the
problem of civilisation.= _Emerson._
=He is the rich man who can avail himself of
all men's faculties.= _Emerson._
=He is the world's master who despises it, its= 55
=slave who prizes it.= _It. Pr._
=He is truly great who is great in charity.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is
ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful
who does not return it; he, most of all, who
has forgotten it.= _Sen._
=He is well paid that is well satisfied.= _Mer. of
Ven._, iv. 1.
=He is wise that is wise to himself.= _Euripides._
=He is wise who can instruct us and assist
us in the business of daily virtuous living;
he who trains us to see old truth under
academic formularies may be wise or not, as
it chances, but we love to see wisdom in
unpretending forms, to recognise her royal
features under a week-day vesture.= _Carlyle._
=He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At
wakes and wassails, meetings, markets,
fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord
doth know, / Have not the grace to grace
it with such show.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=He is wrong who thinks that authority based= 5
=on force is more weighty and more lasting
than that which rests on kindness.= _Ter._
=He jests at scars that never felt a wound.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
then it was well with him: was not this to
know me? saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but
far mair wha kens when to haud= (hold) =his
tongue.= _Sc. Pr._
=He knew what's what, and that's as high / As
metaphysic wit can fly.= _Butler._
=He knocks boldly at the door who brings good= 10
=news.= _Pr._
=He knows best what good is that has endured
evil.= _Pr._
=He knows little who will tell his wife all he
knows.= _Fuller._
=He knows much who knows how to hold his
tongue.= _Pr._
=He knows not how to speak who cannot be
silent, still less how to act with vigour and
decision.= _Lavater._
=He knows not what love is that has no children.= 15
_Pr._
=He knows the water the best who has waded
through it.= _Pr._
=He knows very little of mankind who expects,
by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined
party-man.= _Lavater._
=He left a name at which the world grew pale, /
To point a moral or adorn a tale.= _Johnson._
=He lies there who never feared the face of man.=
_The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave._
=He life's war knows / Whom all his passions= 20
=follow as he goes.= _George Herbert._
=He little merits bliss who others can annoy.=
_Thomson._
=He lives twice who can at once employ / The
present well and e'en the past enjoy.= _Pope._
=He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are
dead beside; / For other source than God is
none / Whence life can be supplied.= _Cowper._
=He looks the whole world in the face, / For he
owes not any man.= _Longfellow._
=He loses his thanks who promises and delays.= 25
_Pr._
=He loves but lightly who his love can tell.=
_Petrarch._
=He makes no friend who never made a foe.=
_Tennyson._
=He= (your Father) =maketh His sun to rise on
the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain
on the just and on the unjust.= _Jesus._
=He maun lout= (stoop) =that has a laigh= (low)
=door.= _Sc. Pr._
=He may rate himself a happy man who lives= 30
=remote from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras
après ta harangue=--Hey! my friend, help me
out of my danger first; you can make your
speech afterwards. _La Fontaine._
=He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the
noblest, acts the best.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He must be a good shot who always hits the
mark.= _Dut. Pr._
=He must be a thorough fool who can learn
nothing from his own folly.= _Hare._
=He must cry loud who would frighten the devil.= 35
_Dan. Pr._
=He must needs go that the devil drives.= _Pr._
=He must stand high who would see his destiny
to the end.= _Dan. Pr._
=He must mingle with the world that desires to
be useful.= _Johnson._
=He needs a long spoon who eats out of the
same dish with the devil.= _Pr._
=He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper= 40
=light.= _Dryden._
=He ne'er made a gude darg= (day's work) =wha
gaed= (went) =grumbling about it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He never is crowned / With immortality, who
fears to follow / Where airy voices lead.=
_Keats._
=He never knew pain who never felt the pangs
of love.= _Platen._
=He never lees= (lies) =but when the holland's=
(holly's) =green=, _i.e._, always. _Sc. Pr._
=He never yet stood sure that stands secure.= 45
_Quarles._
=He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows
not the weight of it till he bears it.= _Corneille._
=He only employs his passion who can make
no use of his reason.= _Cic._
=He only is advancing in life whose heart is
getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose
brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering
into living peace.= _Ruskin._
=He only is an acute observer who can observe
minutely without being observed.= _Lavater._
=He only is exempt from failures who makes= 50
=no efforts.= _Whately._
=He only is great of heart who floods the world
with a great affection. He only is great of
mind who stirs the world with great thoughts.
He only is great of will who does something
to shape the world to a great career; and
he is greatest who does the most of all
these things, and does them best.= _R. D.
Hitchcock._
=He only is rich who owns the day.= _Emerson._
=He only who forgets to hoard has learned to
live.= _Keble._
=He ought to remember benefits on whom they
are conferred; he who confers them ought
not to mention them.= _Cic._
=He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he= 55
=tak's care no to wet his feet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He prayeth best who loveth best / All things,
both great and small; / For the dear Lord
who loveth us, / He made and loveth all.=
_Coleridge._
=He preaches well who lives well.= _Sp. Pr._
=He presents me with what is always an acceptable
gift who brings me news of a great
thought before unknown.= _Bovee._
=He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew
an angel down.= _Dryden._
=He raises not himself up whom God casts
down.= _Goethe._
=He reads much: / He is a great observer, and
he looks / Quite through the deeds of men:
he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony;
he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and
smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself,
and scorn'd his spirit / That could be
moved to smile at anything. / Such men as
he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they
behold a greater than themselves; / And
therefore are they very dangerous.= _Jul.
Cæs._, i. 2.
=He rideth easily enough whom the grace of= 5
=God carrieth.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He runs far who never turns.= _It. Pr._
=He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor
meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who
lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish
heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness.=
_Tennyson._
=He serves his party best who serves his country
best.= _R. B. Hayes._
=He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide
and define.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=He shone with the greater splendour because= 10
=he was not seen.= _Tac._
=He sins as much who holds the sack as he
who puts into it.= _Fr. Pr._
=He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake=, _i.e._,
is wide awake, though pretending not to see.
_Sc. Pr._
=He spends best that spares to spend again.=
_Pr._
=He submits himself to be seen through a
microscope who suffers himself to be caught
in a fit of passion.= _Lavater._
=He swallows the egg and gives away the shell= 15
=in alms.= _Ger. Pr._
=He that answereth a matter before he heareth
it, it is folly and shame unto him.= _Bible._
=He that aspires to be the head of a party will
find it more difficult to please his friends than
to perplex his foes. He must often act from
false reasons, which are weak, because he
dares not avow the true reasons, which are
strong.= _Colton._
=He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not,
and at forty has not, will never either be,
or know, or have.= _It. Pr._
=He that believeth shall not make haste.=
_Bible._
=He that blows the coals in quarrels he has= 20
=nothing to do with, has no right to complain
if the sparks fly in his face.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that
he has no virtue of his own.= _Charron._
=He that builds by the wayside has many
masters.= _Pr._
=He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice.=
_Pr._
=He that buys what he does not want, must
often sell what he does want.= _Pr._
=He that, by often arguing against his own= 25
=sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far
from believing them himself.= _Locke._
=He that by the plough would thrive, / Himself
must either hold or drive.= _Pr._
=He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth
his substance, he shall gather it for him that
will pity the poor.= _Bible._
=He that can be patient has his foe at his feet.=
_Dut. Pr._
=He that can be won with a feather will be lost
with a straw.= _Pr._
=He that can conceal his joys is greater than he= 30
=who can hide his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He that can define, he that can answer a
question so as to admit of no further answer,
is the best man.= _Emerson._
=He that can discriminate is the father of his
father.= _The Vedas._
=He that can endure / To follow with allegiance
a fall'n lord, / Does conquer him that did his
master conquer, / And earns a place i' the
story.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iii. 11.
=He that can heroically endure adversity will
bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul;
for the mind that cannot be dejected by the
former is not likely to be transported by the
latter.= _Fielding._
=He that can write a true book to persuade= 35
=England, is not he the bishop and archbishop,
the primate of England and of all
England?= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot be the servant of many will
never be master, true guide, and deliverer of
many.= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot
practise any considerable thing whatever.=
_Carlyle._
=He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person.=
_Pr._
=He that ceases to be a friend never was a
good one.= _Pr._
=He that claims, either in himself or for another,= 40
=the honours of perfection will surely injure
the reputation which he designs to assist.=
_Johnson._
=He that climbs the tall tree has won a right
to the fruit: / He that leaps the wide gulf
should prevail in his suit.= _Scott._
=He that comes unca'd= (uninvited) =sits unsair'd=
(unserved). _Sc. Pr._
=He that cometh to seek after knowledge with
a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to
find matter for his humour, but none for his
instruction.= _Bacon._
=He that complies against his will, / is of the
same opinion still.= _Butler._
=He that conquers himself conquers an enemy.= 45
_Gael. Pr._
=He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve.=
_Pr._
=He that defers his charity until he is dead is,
if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal
of another man's goods than his own.=
_Bacon._
=He that descends not to word it with a shrew
does worse than beat her.= _L'Estrange._
=He that deserves nothing should be content
with anything.= _Pr._
=He that dies, pays all debts.= _Tempest_, iii. 2. 50
=He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend
burns the golden thread that ties their hearts
together.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=He that does not knot his thread will lose his
first stitch.= _Gael._
=He that does not know those things which are
of use and necessity for him to know, is but
an ignorant man, whatever he may know
besides.= _Tillotson._
=He that does what he can, does what he ought.=
_Pr._
=He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive
you.= _Pr._
=He that doeth evil hateth the light.= _Jesus._ 5
=He that doeth truth cometh to the light.= _St.
John._
=He that doth not plough at home won't plough
abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that doth the ravens feed, / Yea, providently
caters for the sparrow, / Be comfort
to my age.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=He that eats longest lives longest.= _Pr._
=He that endureth is not overcome.= _Pr._ 10
=He that, ever following her (Duty's) commands,
/ On with toil of heart and knees and
hands, / Thro' the long gorge to the far light
has won / His path upward, and prevail'd, /
Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, /
Are close upon the shining tablelands / To
which our God Himself is moon and sun.=
_Tennyson._
=He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at
it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil;
yet some glory in that shame, counting the
stains of sin the best complexion of their
souls.= _Fuller._
=He that feareth is not made perfect in love.=
_St. John._
=He that fights and runs away / May live to
fight another day.= _Goldsmith._
=He that filches from me my good name / Robs= 15
=me of that which not enriches him, / And
makes me poor indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that finds something before it is lost will
die before he falls ill.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that flees not will be fled from.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge /
May chance to catch a fall.= _Old song._
=He that gets gear= (wealth) =before he gets wit,
is but a short time master o' it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that gets patience, and the blessing which /= 20
=Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his
pains.= _George Herbert._
=He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord.=
_Pr._
=He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.=
_Pr._
=He that goes softly goes safely.= _Pr._
=He that grasps at too much holds nothing
fast.= _Pr._
=He that has a head of wax should not walk in= 25
=the sun.= _Pr._
=He that has a head will not want a hat.= _It. Pr._
=He that has a wife has a master.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the
lave= (rest) =better for 't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has an ill wife likes to eat butter= (but
her, _i.e._ without her). _Sc. Pr._
=He that has been taught only by himself has= 30
=had a fool for a master.= _Ben Jonson._
=He that has just enough can soundly sleep; /
The o'ercome only fashes fowk to keep.=
_Allan Ramsay._
=He that has light within his own clear breast
may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.=
_Milton._
=He that has lost his faith, what staff has he
left?= _Bacon._
=He that has muckle would aye hae mair.=
_Sc. Pr._
=He that has no head needs no hat.= _Sp. Pr._ 35
=He that has no sense at thirty will never have
any.= _Pr._
=He that has no shame has no conscience.= _Pr._
=He that has siller in his purse canna want=
(do without) =a head on his shoulders.= _Sc.
Pr._
=He that has to choose has trouble.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that hateth gifts shall live.= _Bible._ 40
=He that hath a beard is more than a youth,
and he that hath no beard is less than a man.=
_Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh
others afraid of his wit, so he hath need to
be afraid of others' memory.= _Bacon._
=He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he
that hath a calling hath an office of profit
and honour.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that hath a wife and children hath given
hostages to fortune; for they are impediments
to great enterprises, either of virtue
or mischief.= _Bacon._
=He that hath but gained the title of a jester,= 45
=let him assure himself the fool is not far off.=
_Quarles._
=He that hath care of keeping days of payment
is lord of another man's purse.= _Lord
Burleigh._
=He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.=
_Jesus._
=He that hath gained an entire conquest over
himself will find no mighty difficulties to
subdue all other opposition.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=He that hath knowledge spareth his words.=
_Bible._
=He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.= 50
_Bible._
=He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like
a city that is broken down and without
walls.= _Bible._
=He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to
the Lord.= _Bible._
=He that hath sense hath strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He that hears much and speaks not at all, /
Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.=
_Pr._
=He that high growth on cedars did bestow, /= 55
=Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.=
_R. Southwell._
=He that hinders not a mischief is guilty of it.=
_Pr._
=He that humbles himself shall be exalted.= _Pr._
=He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he
that for convenience takes it.= _Butler._
=He that increaseth knowledge increaseth
sorrow.= _Bible._
=He that invented the Maiden, first hanselled it=, 60
_i.e._, first put it to the proof. (_The Maiden was
a kind of guillotine._) _Sc. Pr._
=He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all
men.= _Sen._
=He that is born of a hen must scrape for a
living.= _Pr._
=He that is courteous at all, will be courteous
to all.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that is discontented and troubled is tossed
with divers suspicions; he is neither quiet
himself, nor suffereth others to be quiet.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=He that is doing nothing is seldom without
helpers.= _Pr._
=He that is down needs fear no fall; / He that= 5
=is low no pride.= _Bunyan._
=He that is down, the world cries "Down with
him!"= _Pr._
=He that is embarked with the devil must sail
with him.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful also in much; and he that is unjust
in the least, is unjust also in the much.=
_Jesus._
=He that is full of himself is very empty.= _Pr._
=He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.= 10
_Pr._
=He that is not against us is on our part.=
_Jesus._
=He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at
thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will
never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich.=
_Pr._
=He that is not open to conviction is not qualified
for discussion.= _Whately._
=He that is not with me is against me.= _Jesus._
=He that is of a merry heart hath a continual= 15
=feast.= _Bible._
=He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his
own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
and whatever praises itself but in the
deed devours the deed in the praise.= _Troil.
and Cress._, ii. 3.
=He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, /
Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at
all.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that is ready to slip is as a lamp despised
in the thought of him that is at ease.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to anger is better than the
mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he
that taketh a city.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.= 20
_Bible._
=He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he
himself is judged of no man.= _St. Paul._
=He that is surety for another, is never sure
himself.= _Pr._
=He that is the inferior of nothing can be the
superior of nothing, the equal of nothing.=
_Carlyle._
=He that is tied with one slender string, such
as one resolute struggle would break, is
prisoner only to his own sloth; and who
would pity his thraldom?= _Decay of Piety._
=He that is to-day a king, to-morrow shall die.= 25
_Ecclus._
=He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure
won't mind to turn villain for the purchase.=
_M. Aurelius._
=He that is well-ordered and disposed within
himself careth not for the strange and perverse
behaviour of men.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that keeks= (pries) =through a keyhole may
see what will vex him.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.=
_Bible._
=He that kills a man when he is drunk must be= 30
=hanged for it when he is sober.= _Pr._
=He that knoweth not that which he ought to
know, is a brute beast among men; he that
knoweth no more than he hath need of, is
a man among brute beasts; and he that
knoweth all that may be known, is a god
amongst men.= _Pythagoras._
=He that knows a little of the world will admire
it enough to fall down and worship it; he
that knows it most will most despise it.=
_Colton._
=He that knows, and knows not that he knows,
is asleep. Arouse him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows, and knows that he knows, is
wise. Follow him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows is strong.= _Gael. Pr._ 35
=He that knows not, and knows not that he
knows not, is stupid. Shun him.= _Arabian
Pr._
=He that knows not, and knows that he knows
not, is good. Teach him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to
mend.= _Sir H. Taylor._
=He that lies down with dogs will rise up with
fleas.= _Pr._
=He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the= 40
=life of a sentinel, of a sentinel never relieved.=
_Young._
=He that lives longest sees most.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that lives must grow old; and he that
would rather grow old than die, has God
to thank for the infirmities of old age.=
_Johnson._
=He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=He that lives with cripples learns to limp.=
_Pr._
=He that lives with wolves will learn to howl.= 45
_Pr._
=He that loses his conscience has nothing left
that is worth keeping.= _Izaak Walton._
=He that loves Christianity better than truth
will soon love his own sect or party better
than Christianity.= _Coleridge._
=He that loves God aright must not desire that
God should love him in return=, _i.e._, love to God,
as to man, should be entirely unselfish. _Spinoza._
=He that loveth a book will never want a faithful
friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful
companion, an effectual comforter.= _Isaac
Barrow._
=He that loveth danger shall perish therein.= 50
_Ecclus._
=He that loveth father and mother more than
me is not worthy of me.= _Jesus._
=He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath
seen, how can he love God, whom he hath
not seen?= _St. John._
=He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.=
_Bible._
=He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied
with silver; nor he that loveth abundance
with increase.= _Bible._
=He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be= 55
=innocent.= _Bible._
=He that marries before he is wise will die
before he thrive.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that marries for money sells his liberty.=
_Pr._
=He that meddleth with strife belonging not to
him is like one that taketh a dog by the
ears.= _Bible._
=He that needs five thousand pound to live, /
Is full as poor as he that needs but five.=
_George Herbert._
=He that never thinks can never be wise.=
_Johnson._
=He that observeth the wind shall not sow;= 5
=and he that regardeth the clouds shall not
reap.= _Bible._
=He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh
holy late or never.= _Pr._
=He that oppresseth the poor to increase his
riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall
surely come to want.= _Bible._
=He that pities another minds himsel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that prieth in at her windows shall also
hearken at her doors.= _Ecclus._
=He that promises too much means nothing.= _Pr._ 10
=He that purposes to be happy by the affection
or acquaintance of the best, the greatest
man alive, will always find his mind unsettled
and perplexed.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that questioneth much will learn much.=
_Bacon._
=He that revels in a well-chosen library has
innumerable dishes, and all of admirable
flavour.= _W. Godwin._
=He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling
in the fear of God.= _Bible._
=He that runs in the dark may well stumble.= 15
_Pr._
=He that runs may read.= _Pr._
=He that seeks others to beguile, / Is oft o'ertaken
in his own wile.= _Pr._
=He that seeks to have many friends never has
any.= _It. Pr._
=He that serves the altar should live by the
altar.= _Pr._
=He that shuts his eyes against a small light= 20
=would not be brought to see that which he
had no mind to see, let it be placed in never
so clear a light and never so near him.=
_Atterbury._
=He that sows in the highway loses his corn.=
_Pr._
=He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow.= _Pr._
=He that spares the bad injures the good.= _Pr._
=He that spares the rod spoils the child.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the thing he should not / Must= 25
=often hear the thing he would not.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the truth will find himself in
sufficiently dramatic situations.= _Prof. Wilson._
=He that spends his gear= (property) =before he
gets it will hae little gude o't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that stands upon a slippery place / Makes
nice of no vain hold to stay him up.= _King
John_, iii. 4.
=He that steals a preen= (pin) =will steal a better
thing.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that steals for others will be hanged for= 30
=himself.= _Pr._
=He that strikes with the sword shall perish
by the sword.= _Pr._
=He that studieth revenge keepeth his own
wounds green.= _Bacon._
=He that takes away reason to make way
for revelation puts out the light of both.=
_Locke._
=He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt
it more by his example than he promotes
it by his arguments.= _Atterbury._
=He that talks much errs much.= _Pr._ 35
=He that talks much lies much.= _Pr._
=He that tholes= (bears up) =o'ercomes.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of
bread.= _Bible._
=He that turns not from every sin, turns not
aright from any one sin.= _Brooks._
=He that undervalues himself will undervalue= 40
=others, and he that undervalues others will
oppress them.= _Johnson._
=He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty
of all the crimes which ignorance produces.=
_Johnson._
=He that waits long at the ferry will get over
some time.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that walketh uprightly walks surely.=
_Bible._
=He that walketh with wise men shall be wise;
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.=
_Bible._
=He that wants good sense is unhappy in having= 45
=learning, for he has thereby only more ways
of exposing himself; and he that has sense
knows that learning is not knowledge, but
rather the art of using it.= _Steele._
=He that wants money, means, and content is
without three good friends.= _As You Like It_,
iii. 2.
=He that will be angry for anything will be
angry for nothing.= _Sallust._
=He that will believe only what he can fully
comprehend must have a very long head
or a very short creed.= _Colton._
=He that will carry nothing about him but gold
will be every day at a loss for readier change.=
_Pope._
=He that will have his son have a respect for= 50
=him must have a great reverence for his son.=
_Locke._
=He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves
to die a beggar by the bargain.= _Fuller._
=He that will love life and see good days, let
him refrain his tongue from evil, and his
lips that they speak no guile.= _St. Peter._
=He that will not reason is a bigot; he that
cannot, is a fool; and he that dare not, is
a slave.= _Sir W. Drummond._
=He that will not when he may, / When he will
he shall have nay.= _Pr._
=He that will not work shall not eat.= _Pr._ 55
=He that will to Cupar, maun to Cupar=, _i.e._, he
that will to jail, must to jail. _Sc. Pr._
=He that will watch Providence will never want
a Providence to watch.= _Flavel._
=He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.=
_Bible._
=He that winna be counselled canna be helped.=
_Sc. Pr._
=He that winna save a penny will ne'er hae= 60
=ony.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that won't plough at home won't plough
abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that would be rich in a year will be hanged
in half a year.= _Pr._
=He that would be singular in his apparel had
need of something superlative to balance
that affectation.= _Feltham._
=He that would have eggs must endure the
cackling of the hens.= _Pr._
=He that would have his virtue published is
not the servant of virtue, but of glory.=
_Johnson._
=He that would live in peace and rest / Must
hear, and see, and say the best.= _Pr._
=He that would reap well must sow well.= 5
_Pr._
=He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments
depend upon, may as well undertake
to count the sands or sun up infinity.=
_South._
=He that would relish success to purpose should
keep his passion cool and his expectation low.=
_Collier._
=He that would reproach an author for obscurity
should look into his own mind to see whether
it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest
writing is illegible.= _Goethe._
=He that wrestles with us strengthens our
nerves and sharpens our skill.= _Burke._
=He that wrongs his friend / Wrongs himself= 10
=more, and ever bears about / A silent court of
justice in his breast, / Himself the judge and
jury, and himself / The prisoner at the bar,
ever condemned.= _Tennyson._
=He the cross who longest bears / Finds his
sorrow's bounds are set.= _Winkworth._
=He thinks no evil who means no evil.= _Gael.
Pr._
=He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He thought as a sage though he felt as a man.=
_J. Beattie._
=He thought he thought, and yet he did not= 15
=think, / But only echoed still the common
talk, / As might an empty room.= _Walter
C. Smith._
=He thought the World to him was known, /
Whereas he only knew the Town; / In men
this blunder still you find, / All think their
little set--Mankind.= _Hannah More._
=He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is
guarded by poverty and guided by love.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, /
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.=
_Dryden._
=He wants wit that wants resolved will.= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, ii. 6.
=He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.= 20
_Swift._
=He was a man, take him for all in all, / I
shall not look upon his like again.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; /
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; /
Lofty and sour to them that loved
him not; / But to those men that sought
him, sweet as summer.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He was exhaled; his great Creator drew /
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.=
_Dryden._
=He was my friend, faithful and just to me.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet= 25
=Swan of Avon.= _Ben Jonson._
=He was perfumed like a milliner, / And 'twixt
his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box,
which ever and anon / He gave his
nose, and took 't away again.= 1 _Hen. IV._,
i. 3.
=He was scant o' news that told that his father
was hanged.= _Sc. Pr._
=He was the Word that spake it; / He took
the bread and brake it; / And what that
Word did make it, / I do believe and take
it.= _Dr. Donne._
=He wears his faith but as the fashion of his
hat.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He wha eats but= (only) =ae dish seldom needs= 30
=the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who asks a favour for another has the
confidence which a sense of justice inspires;
while he who solicits for himself experiences
all the embarrassment and shame of one
appealing for mercy.= _La Bruyère._
=He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.=
_Pr._
=He who begins with trusting every one will
end with estimating every one a knave.=
_Hebbel._
=He who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited
it.= _Schopenhauer._
=He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to= 35
=duty approaches sublimity.= _Lavater._
=He who can conceal his joys is greater than
he who can conceal his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He who can enjoy the intimacy of the great,
and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity
or disgrace them by servility, proves
that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature
as his companions are by rank.= _Colton._
=He who cannot bear foes deserves no friend.=
_Schafer._
=He who cannot profit you as a friend may at
any time injure you as an enemy.= _Gellert._
=He who carries his heart on his tongue runs= 40
=the risk of expectorating it.= _Saar._
=He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.=
_Amiel._
=He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.= _Pr._
=He who coldly lives to himself and his own
will may gratify many a wish, but he who
strives to guide others well must be able to
dispense with much.= _Goethe._
=He who combines every defect will be more
likely to find favour in the world than the
man who is possessed of every virtue.= _Fr.
Pr._
=He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness= 45
=must always have had a very low standard
of it in his mind.= _Hazlitt._
=He who commits injustice is ever made more
wretched than he who suffers it.= _Plato._
=He who conforms to the rule which the genius
of the human understanding whispers secretly
in the ear of every new-born being, viz., to
test action by thought and thought by action,
cannot err; and if he errs, he will soon find
himself again in the right way.= _Goethe._
=He who considers too much will accomplish
little.= _Schiller._
=He who deals with honey will sometimes be
licking his fingers.= _Pr._
=He who despises mankind will never get the= 50
=best out of either others or himself.= _Tocqueville._
=He who did well in war just earns the right /
To begin doing well in peace.= _Browning._
=He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled;
he who does a mean deed, is by the action
itself contracted.= _Emerson._
=He who does evil that good may come, pays
a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.=
_Hare._
=He who does me good teaches me to be good.=
_Pr._
=He who does not advance falls backward.= 5
_Amiel._
=He who does not expect a million of readers
should not write a line.= _Goethe._
=He who does not help us at the needful moment
never helps; he who does not counsel at the
needful moment never counsels.= _Goethe._
=He who does not imagine in stronger and
better lineaments, and in stronger and better
light than his perishing mortal eye can see,
does not imagine at all.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who does not know foreign languages
knows nothing of his own.= _Goethe._
=He who does not lose his wits over certain= 10
=matters has none to lose.= _Lessing._
=He who does not think too highly of himself
is more than he thinks.= _Goethe._
=He who does nothing for others does nothing
for himself.= _Goethe._
=He who doth not speak an unkind word to his
fellow-creatures is master of the whole world
to the extremities of the ocean.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who dwells in temporary semblances and
does not penetrate into the eternal substance,
will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day
or of any day.= _Carlyle._
=He who enquires into a matter has often= 15
=found more at a glance than he wished to
find.= _Lessing._
=He who entereth uncalled for, unquestioned
speaketh much, and regardeth himself with
satisfaction, to his prince appeareth one of
a weak judgment.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who esteems trifles for themselves is a
trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions
he draws from them or the advantage
to which they can be put, is a philosopher.=
_Bulwer._
=He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge
which is about God.= _Epictetus._
=He who fears not death fears not threats.=
_Corneille._
=He who fears nothing is not less powerful than= 20
=he whom all fear.= _Schiller._
=He who feeds the ravens / Will give His children
bread.= _Cowper._
=He who feels he is right is stronger than king's
hosts; he who doubts he is not right has no
strength whatever.= _Carlyle._
=He who finds a God in the physical world will
also find one in the moral, which is History.=
_Jean Paul._
=He who formeth a connection with an honest
man from his love of truth, will not suffer
thereby.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who gives up the smallest part of a secret= 25
=has the rest no longer in his power.= _Jean
Paul._
=He who goes alone may start to-day; but he
who travels with another must wait till that
other is ready.= _Thoreau._
=He who has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa
een.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who has a thousand friends has not a friend
to spare, / And he who has one enemy will
meet him everywhere.= _Ali Ben Abu Saleb_
="He who has been born has been a first man,"
has had lying before his young eyes, and as
yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world
as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the
eyes of Adam himself.= _Carlyle._
=He who has been once very foolish will never= 30
=be very wise.= _Montaigne._
=He who has done enough for the welfare= (_den
Besten_) =of his own time has lived for all times.=
_Schiller._
=He who has imagination without learning has
wings without feet.= _Joubert._
=He who has less than he desires should know
that he has more than he deserves.= _Lichtenberg._
=He who has lost confidence can lose nothing
more.= _Boiste._
=He who has love in his heart has spurs in his= 35
=heels.= _Pr._
=He who has made no mistakes in war has
never made war.= _Turenne._
=He who has most of heart knows most of
sorrow.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He who has no ear for poetry is a barbarian,
be he who he may.= _Goethe._
=He who has no opinion of his own, but depends
upon the opinion and taste of others, is a
slave.= _Klopstock._
=He who has no passions has no principle, nor= 40
=motive to act.= _Helvetius._
=He who has no vision of Eternity will never
get a true hold of Time.= _Carlyle._
=He who has no wish to be happier is the
happiest of men.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who has not been a servant cannot become
a praiseworthy master; it is meet that
we should plume ourselves rather on acting
the part of a servant properly than that of
the master, first towards the laws, and next
towards our elders.= _Plato._
=He who has not known poverty, sorrow, contradiction,
and the rest, and learned from
them the priceless lessons they have to teach,
has missed a good opportunity of schooling.=
_Carlyle._
=He who has not the weakness of friendship= 45
=has not the strength.= _Joubert._
=He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry
is like a potato; the only good belonging
to him is underground.= _Sir T.
Overbury._
=He who has published an injurious book sins
in his very grave, corrupts others while he
is rotting himself.= _South._
=He who has reason and good sense at his
command needs few of the arts of the orator.=
_Goethe._
=He who imitates what is evil always exceeds;
he who imitates what is good always falls
short.= _Guicciardini._
=He who in any way shows us better than we= 50
=knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful,
does he not show it us as an effluence of
the fountain of all beauty--as the handwriting,
made visible there, of the great
Maker of the universe?= _Carlyle._
=He who indulges his senses in any excesses
renders himself obnoxious to his own reason;
and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases
the man, and sets his two natures at variance.=
_Scott._
=He who, in opposition to his own happiness,
delighteth in the accumulation of riches,
carrieth burdens for others and is the vehicle
of trouble.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who intends to be a great man ought to
love neither himself nor his own things, but
only what is just, whether it happens to be
done by himself or by another.= _Plato._
=He who is a fool and knows it is not very far
from being a wise man.= _J. B. (Selkirk)._
=He who is conscious of guilt cannot bear the= 5
=innocence of others: he tries to reduce other
characters to his own level.= _C. Fox._
=He who is deficient in the art of selection may,
by showing nothing but the truth, produce
all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It
perpetually happens that one writer tells less
truth than another, merely because he tells
more truth.= _Macaulay._
=He who is destitute of principles is governed,
theoretically and practically, by whims.=
_Jacobi._
=He who is firm in his will moulds the world to
himself.= _Goethe._
=He who is good has no kind of envy.= _Plato._
=He who is in disgrace with the sovereign is= 10
=disrespected by all.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his
own resources, is a noble but a rare being.=
_Sir E. Brydges._
=He who is most slow in making a promise is
the most faithful in the performance of it.=
_Rousseau._
=He who is moved to tears by every word of a
priest is generally a weakling and a rascal
when the feeling evaporates.= _Fr. v. Sallet._
=He who is not possessed of such a book as
will dispel many doubts, point out hidden
treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all
things, is even an ignorant man.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is of no use to himself is of no use to= 15
=any one.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who is one with himself is everything.=
_Auerbach._
=He who is only half instructed speaks much,
and is always wrong; he who knows it
wholly, is content with acting, and speaks
seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=He who is only just is stern; he who is only
wise lives in gloom.= _Voltaire._
=He who is servant to= (_dient_) =the public is a
poor animal= (_Thier_); =he torments himself,
and nobody thanks him for it.= _Goethe._
=He who is suave with all= (_lieblich thun mit_ 20
_allen will_) =gets on with none: he pleases no
one who tries to please thousands.= _Bodenstedt._
=He who is the master of all opinions never can
be the bigot of any.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who is too much afraid of being duped
has lost the power of being magnanimous.=
_Amiel._
=He who is weighty is willing to be weighed.=
_Pr._
=He who is willing to work finds it hard to
wait.= _Pr._
=He who knows himself well will very soon= 25
=learn to know all other men: it is all reflection=
(_Zurückstrahlung_). _Lichtenberg._
=He who knows how to sunder jest and earnest
is a wise man, and who by cheerful playfulness
reinvigorates himself for strenuous
diligence.= _Rückert._
=He who knows not the world, knows not his
own place in it.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=He who knows right principles is not equal to
him who loves them.= _Confucius._
=He who laughs at crooked men should need
walk very straight.= _Pr._
=He who laughs can commit no deadly sin.= 30
_Goethe's Mother._
=He who lays out for God lays up for himself.=
_Pr._
=He who learns and makes no use of his learning
is a beast of burden with a load of books.=
_Saadi._
=He who learns the rules of wisdom without
conforming to them in his life, is like a man
who labours in his fields but does not sow.=
_Saadi._
=He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.= _Pr._
=He who lives, and strives, and suffers for others= 35
=dear to him, is to be envied; he who lives
only for himself is poor.= _H. Lingg._
=He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose.=
_Nevius._
=He who lives wisely to himself and his own
heart looks at the busy world through the
loopholes of retreat, and does not want to
mingle in the fray.= _Hazlitt._
=He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a
friend loses more, who loses his spirits loses
all.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres
reverence, and lives with God.= _Emerson._
=He who loves not books before he comes to= 40
=thirty years of age will hardly love them
enough afterwards to understand them.=
_Clarendon._
=He who loves with purity considers not the
gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=He who makes claims= (_Ansprüche_), =shows
by doing so that he has none to make.=
_Seume._
=He who makes constant complaint gets little
compassion.= _Pr._
=He who makes religion his first object makes
it his whole object.= _Ruskin._
=He who means to teach others may indeed= 45
=often suppress the best of what he knows,
but he must not himself be half-instructed.=
_Goethe._
=He who mistrusts humanity is quite as often
deceived as he who trusts men.= _Jean Paul._
=He who mocks the infant's faith / Shall be
mock'd in age and death.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who never in his life was foolish was never
a wise man.= _Heine._
=He who obeys is almost always better than
he who commands.= _Renan._
=He who offers God a second place offers Him= 50
=no place.= _Ruskin._
=He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.=
_Holmes._
=He who overcomes his egoism rids himself of
the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the
way to all true greatness and all true happiness.=
_Cötvös._
=He who partakes in another's joys is more
humane than he who partakes in his griefs.=
_Lavater._
=He who parts with his property before his
death may prepare himself for bitter experiences.=
_Fr. Pr._
=He who pleased everybody died before he was
born.= _Pr._
=He who praises everybody praises nobody.= 5
_Johnson._
=He who promises runs in debt.= _Talmud._
=He who reaches the goal receives the crown,
and often he who deserves it goes without it.=
_Goethe._
=He who receives a sacrament does not perform
a good work; he receives a benefit.=
_Luther._
=He who reforms himself has done more towards
reforming the public than a crowd of
noisy impotent patriots.= _Lavater._
=He who says, "I sought, yet I found not,"= 10
=be sure he lies; he who says, "I sought not
and found," be sure he deceives; he who
says, "I sought and found," him believe--he
speaks true.= _Rückert._
=He who says what he likes must hear what
he does not like.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long
be clean himself.= _Pr._
=He who seeks only for applause from without
has all his happiness in another's keeping.=
_Goldsmith._
=He who seeks the truth should be of no country.=
_Voltaire._
=He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth= 15
=a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=He who sends mouths will send meat.= _Pr._
=He who serves God serves a good Master.= _Pr._
=He who serves the public serves a fickle master.=
_Dut. Pr._
=He who serves under reason anticipates
necessity.= _Herder._
=He who speaks sows; he who keeps silence= 20
=reaps.= _It. Pr._
=He who spends himself for all that is noble,
and gains by nothing but what is just, will
hardly be notably wealthy or distressfully
poor.= _Plato._
=He who stays in the valley will never cross
the mountain.= _Pr._
=He who steals an egg would steal an ox.=
_Pr._
=He who strikes terror into others is himself in
continual fear.= _Claudian._
=He who tastes every man's broth often burns= 25
=his mouth.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a
task he undertakes, for he must be forced to
invent twenty more to maintain that one.=
_Pope._
=He who tells the failings of others to you will
be ready to tell your failings to others.=
_Turk. Pr._
=He who the sword of Heaven will bear / Should
be as holy as severe.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=He who thinks for himself, and imitates rarely,
is a free man.= _Klopstock._
=He who thinks his place below him will certainly= 30
=be below his place.= _Saville._
=He who thinks to save anything by his religion
besides his soul will be a loser in the
end.= _Bp. Barlow._
=He who thinks too much will accomplish little.=
_Schiller._
=He who traces nothing of God in his own soul
will never find God in the world of matter--mere
circlings of force there of iron regulation,
of universal death and merciless indifferency.=
_Carlyle._
=He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat
which he does not carry, travels away
from himself, and grows old even in youth
among old things.= _Emerson._
=He who trusts a secret to his servant makes= 35
=his own man his master.= _Dryden._
=He who waits for dead men's shoes may go
barefoot.= _Pr._
=He who wants any help or prop, in addition
to the internal evidences of its truth for his
belief, never was and never will be a Christian.=
_B. R. Haydon._
=He who wants everything must know many
things, do many things to procure even a
few; different from him whose indispensable
knowledge is this only, that a finger will
pull the bell!= _Carlyle._
=He who will be great must collect himself;
only in restriction does the master show
himself.= _Goethe._
=He who will deaden one half of his nature to= 40
=invigorate the other half will become at best
a distorted prodigy.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=He who will do faithfully needs to believe
firmly.= _Carlyle._
=He who will eat the nut must crack it.= _Frisian
Pr._
=He who will not be ruled by the rudder must
be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=He who will sell his fame will also sell the
public interest.= _Solon._
=He who will work aright must not trouble= 45
=himself about what is ill done, but only do
well himself.= _Goethe._
=He who wills all, wills in effect nothing, and
brings it to nothing.= _Hegel._
=He who wishes to secure the good of others
has already secured his own.= _Confucius._
=He who works with symbols merely is a
pedant, a hypocrite, and a bungler.= _Goethe._
=He who would be everywhere will be nowhere.=
_Dan. Pr._
=He who would bring home the wealth of the= 50
=Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies
with him.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who would climb the ladder must begin
at the bottom.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would gather honey must brave the
sting of the bees.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would gather roses must not fear
thorns.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would not be frustrate of his hope
to write well hereafter in laudable things
ought himself to be a true poem.= _Milton._
=He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees= 55
=a counterfeit.= _Dryden._
=He who would rule must hear and be deaf,
must see and be blind.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would write heroic poems must make
his whole life a heroic poem.= _Milton, quoted
by Carlyle._
=He whom God has gifted with a love of retirement
possesses, as it were, an extra sense.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=He whom God steers sails safely.= _Pr._
=He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is= 5
=unconquerable.= _Epictetus._
=He whom toil has braced or manly play, / As
light as air each limb, each thought as clear
as day.= _Thomson._
=He whose actions sink him even beneath the
vulgar has no right to those distinctions
which should be the reward only of merit.=
_Goldsmith._
=He whose days are passed away without giving
or enjoying, puffing like the bellows of a
blacksmith, liveth but by breathing.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose goodness is part of himself is what
is called a real man.= _Mencius._
=He whose sympathy goes lowest is the man= 10
=from whom kings have the most to fear.=
_Emerson._
=He whose understanding can discern what is,
and judge what should or should not be
applied to prevent misfortune, never sinketh
under difficulties.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose word and deed you cannot predict,
who answers you without any supplication
in his eye, who draws his determination
from within, and draws it instantly,--that
man rules.= _Emerson._
=He whose work is on the highway will have
many advisers.= _Sp. Pr._
=He will never have true friends who is afraid
of making enemies.= _Hazlitt._
=He will never set the Thames on fire.= _Pr._ 15
=He would fain fly, but wants wings.= _Pr._
=He works hard who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He wrought all kind of service with a noble
ease / That graced the lowliest act in doing
it.= _Tennyson._
=He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he
can't perceive, / And he's a fool who tries to
make such a blockhead believe.= _Wm. Blake._
=He's a man who dares to be / Firm for truth= 20
=when others flee.= _Pr._
=He's a silly body that's never missed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's a wise man wha can take care o' himsel'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=He's armed without that's innocent within.=
_Pope._
=He's idle that may be better employed.= _Sc.
Pr._
=He's looking for the blade o' corn in the stack= 25
=o' chaff.= _J. M. Barrie._
=He's most truly valiant / That can wisely suffer
the worst that man / Can breathe; and make
his wrongs his outsides: / To wear them like
his raiment, carelessly, / And ne'er prefer his
injuries to his heart, / To bring it into danger.=
_Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=He's only great who can himself command.=
_Lansdowne._
=He's well worth= (deserving of) =sorrow that buys
it with his ain siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's wise that's wise in time.= _Sc. Pr._
=Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.= _Com._ 30
_of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each
other.= _Spectator._
=Health consists with temperance alone.= _Pope._
=Health is better than wealth.= _Pr._
=Health is the condition of wisdom, and the
sign is cheerfulness--an open and noble
temper.= _Emerson._
=Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness= 35
=gives us the energy which is the basis
of health.= _Amiel._
=Health lies in labour, and there is no royal
road to it but through toil.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Health, longevity, beauty are other names
for personal purity, and temperance is the
regimen for all.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Healthy action is always a balance of forces;
and all extremes are dangerous; the excess
of a good thing being often more dangerous
in its social consequences than the excess of
what is radically bad.= _Prof. Blackie, to Young
Men._
=Hear God, and God will hear you.= _Pr._
=Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That= 40
=summons thee to heaven or to hell.= _Macb._,
ii. 1.
=Hear much and speak little; for the tongue
is the instrument of the greatest good and
the greatest evil that is done in this world.=
_Raleigh._
=Hear one side, and you will be in the dark;
hear both, and all will be clear.= _Haliburton._
=Hear ye not the hum / Of mighty workings?=
_Keats._
=Hearsay is half lies.= _Pr._
=Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the= 45
=softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent
downpour of rain.= _Jean Paul._
=Hearts are stronger than swords.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=Hearts grow warmer the farther you go /
Up to the North with its hills and snow.=
_Walter C. Smith._
=Hearts may agree though heads differ.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Hearts philanthropic at times have the trick /
Of the old hearts of stone.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from= 50
=the grave of desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=Heat and darkness, and what these two may
breed.= _Carlyle._
=Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty
from the eternal.= _Dante._
=Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That
it doth singe yourself.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Heaven and God are best discerned through
tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at
all without them.= _James Martineau._
=Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair= 55
=maid= (Juliet); =now heaven hath all.= _Rom.
and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Heaven bestows / At home all riches that wise
Nature needs.= _Cowley._
=Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, /
Not light them for themselves; for if our
virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all
alike / As if we had them not.= _Meas. for
Meas._, i. 1.
=Heaven finds means to kill your joys with
love.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 3.
=Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
fate, / All but the page prescribed--their
present state.= _Pope._
=Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, /
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.= _Congreve._
=Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more
eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly
affect it.= _Bp. Hall._
=Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge /= 5
=That no king can corrupt.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 1.
=Heaven is as near by sea as by land.= _Pr._
=Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy
heart.= _Arndt._
=Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is
dumb.= _Quarles._
=Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, /
But most chastises those whom most He
likes.= _Pomfret._
=Heaven lies about us in our infancy.= _Wordsworth._ 10
=Heaven never helps the man that will not act.=
_Sophocles._
=Heaven often regulates effects by their causes,
and pays the wicked what they have deserved.=
_Corneille._
=Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.= _A.
B. Alcott._
=Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful
to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools,
but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable
snares.= _Ruskin._
=Heaven's above all; and there be souls that= 15
=must be saved, and there be souls that must
not be saved.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful
wise, / Your few important days of trial
here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise /
Through endless states of being, still more
near / To bliss approaching, and perfection
clear.= _Thomson._
=Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that
man of man should ever stand in need.=
_Theocritus._
=Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with
folly's breath.= _Quarles._
=Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as
princes' palaces; they that enter there must
go upon their knees.= _Daniel Webster._
=Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap= 20
=a thing were virtue!= _Thomson._
=Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself
that hideous sight--a naked human
heart.= _Young._
=Heav'n finds an ear when sinners find a
tongue.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is for thee too high; be lowly wise.=
_Milton._
=Heav'n is not always got by running.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated.= 25
_Quarles._
=Hebt mich das Glück, so bin ich froh, / Und
sing in dulci jubilo; / Senkt sich das Rad
und quetscht mich nieder, / So denk' ich:
nun, es hebt sich wieder=--When Fortune lifts
me up, then am I glad and sing in sweet exultation;
when she sinks down and lays me prostrate,
then I begin to think, Now it will rise
again. _Goethe._
=Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troja fuisset? /
Publica virtuti per mala facta via est=--Who
would have known of Hector if Troy had been
fortunate? A highway is open to virtue through
the midst of misfortunes. _Ovid._
=Hectors Liebe stirbt im Lethe nicht=--Hector's
love does not perish in the floods of Lethe.
_Schiller._
=Hedges between keep friendship green.= _Pr._
=Hedgerows and Hercules-pillars, however perfect,= 30
=are to be reprobated as soon as they
diminish the free world of a future man.=
_Jean Paul._
=Heilig sei dir der Tag; doch schätze das
Leben nicht höher / Als ein anderes Gut,
und alle Güter sind trüglich=--Sacred be this
day to thee, yet rate not life higher than another
good, for all our good things are illusory.
_Goethe._
=Hei mihi! difficile est imitari gaudia falsa! /
Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--Ah
me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not
feel, hard to feign mirth when one's heart is sad.
_Tib._
=Hei mihi! qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab
illo / Hectore, qui redit, exuvias indutus
Achilli=--Ah me, how sad he looked! how
changed from that Hector who returned in
triumph arrayed in the spoils of Achilles. _Virg._
=Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke / Nun, man
kommt wohl eine Strecke=--Serene sense and
pure aims, that means a long stride, I should say.
_Goethe._
="Hélas! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles"=--"Alas, 35
how many young girls have I seen die
of that!" _Victor Hugo._
=Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes
of men are never satisfied.= _Bible._
=Hell is on both sides of the tomb, and a devil
may be respectable and wear good clothes.=
_C. H. Parkhurst._
=Hell is paved with good intentions.= _Johnson._
=Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.= _Modified
from St. Chrysostom._
=Hell lies near, / Around us, as does heaven,= 40
=and in the world, / Which is our Hades,
still the chequered souls, / Compact of good
and ill--not all accurst, / Nor altogether
blest--a few brief years / Travel the little
journey of their lives, / They know not to
what end.= _Lewis Morris._
=Helluo librorum=--A devourer of books.
=Help others and seek to avenge no injury.=
_Fors._
=Help which is long on the road is no help.=
_Pr._
=Help yourself and your friends will help you.=
_Pr._
=Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy= 45
=thousands at once, but cannot enclose even
two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the
embrace of love and sympathy.= _Jean Paul._
=Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here
in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's
himself again.= _Colley Cibber._
=Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven,
shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the
shady place.= _Spenser._
=Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little
mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the
light; / But oh! she dances such a way, /
No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine
a sight.= _Sir J. Suckling._
=Her own person, / It beggar'd all description.=
_Ant. and Cleop._, ii. 2.
=Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.=
_Bible._
=Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low--an
excellent thing in woman.= _King Lear_,
v. 3.
=Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And= 5
=many strokes, though with a little axe, /
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness;
/ Here is all fulness, / Ye brave,
to reward you. / Work and despair not.=
_Goethe._
=Here have we no continuing city, but we seek
one to come.= _St. Paul._
=Here have we war for war, and blood for
blood, / Controlment for controlment.= _King
John_, i. 1.
=Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne;
bid kings come bow to it.= _King John_,
iii. 1.
=Here I lay, and thus I bore my point.= 1 _Hen._ 10
_IV._, ii. 4-.
=Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him
I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent /
A day's march nearer home.= _J. Montgomery._
=Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his
religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To
some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, /
For here Johnny Pigeon had nane.= _Burns._
=Here lies one whose name was writ in water.=
_Keat's epitaph._
=Here lies our sovereign lord the king, / Whose
word no man relies on; / He never says a
foolish thing, / Nor ever does a wise one.=
_Rochester on Charles II.'s chamber-door._
=Here lieth one, believe it if you can, / Who,= 15
=though an attorney, was an honest man!=
_Epitaph._
=Here, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in
a foreign land, that understand not the plan
of the campaign, and have no need to understand
it, seeing well what is at our hand to
be done.= _Carlyle._
=Here or nowhere is America.= _Goethe._
=Here our souls / Though amply blest, / Can
never find, although they seek, / A perfect
rest.= _Procter._
=Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Here's a sigh for those who love me, / And a= 20
=smile for those who hate, / And whatever
sky's above me, / Here's a heart for every
fate.= _Byron._
=Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, / Who
would be free, themselves must strike the
blow?= _Byron._
=Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid
treasure to descendants.= _Plato._
=Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, /
From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.=
_Pope._
=Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse
of an individual's character.= _Emerson._
=Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul= 25
=over fear; fear of poverty, of suffering, of
calumny, of sickness, of isolation and death....
It is the dazzling and glorious concentration
of courage.= _Amiel._
=Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting
itself in action.= _Hare._
=Heroism, the Divine relation which, in all
times, unites a great man to other men.=
_Carlyle._
=Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for
ever exist, universally among mankind.= _Carlyle._
=Herradura que chacotea clavo le falta=--A
clattering hoof means a nail gone. _Sp. Pr._
=Herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht=--Even 30
the most emancipated is not without a master.
_Schiller._
=Herrschaft gewinn ich, Eigentum; / Die That
ist alles, nichts der Ruhm=--Lordship, aye
ownership, is my conquest; the deed is everything,
the fame of it nothing. _Goethe._
=Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte meâ!=--Alas!
how much better is your fate than mine!
_Ovid._
=Heu nihil invitis fas quenquam fidere divis=--Alas!
it is not permitted to any one to feel confident
when the gods are adverse. _Virg._
=Heu pietas! Heu prisca fides=--Alas! for piety!
Alas! for ancient faith! _Virg._
=Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere= 35
=vultu!=--Alas! how difficult it is not to betray
guilt by our looks! _Ovid._
=Heu! quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!=--Alas!
how difficult is the custody of glory.
_Pub. Syr._
=Heu! quam miserum est ab eo lædi, de quo
non ausis queri=--Alas! how galling is it to be
injured by one against whom you dare make no
complaint. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit!=--Ah!
with what a weight of destiny is this one slight
plank freighted! _Ovid._
=Heu! totum triduum!=--What! three whole days
of waiting! _Ter._
=Heureka=--I have found it out. _Gr._ 40
=Heureux commencement est la moitié de
l'œuvre=--A work well begun is half done. _Fr.
Pr._
=Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen=--To-day
must borrow nothing of to-morrow. _Ger.
Pr._
=Heute roth, Morgen todt=--- To-day red, to-morrow
dead. _Ger. Pr._
=Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina
tanta / Pulveris exigui jactu compressa
quiescent=--These passions of soul, these conflicts
so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by
the casting of a little dust. _Virg._
=Hiatus maxime deflendus=--A deficiency or blank 45
very much to be deplored.
=Hibernicis ipsis hibernior=--More Irish than the
Irish themselves.
=Hic dies, vere mihi festus, atras / Eximet curas=--This
day, for me a true holiday, shall banish
gloomy cares. _Hor._
=Hic est aut nusquam quod quærimus=--Here or
else nowhere is what we are aiming at. _Hor._
=Hic est mucro defensionis tuæ=--This is the point
of your defence. _Cic._
=Hic et nunc=--Here and now. 50
=Hic et ubique=--Here and everywhere.
=Hic finis fandi=--Here let the conversation end.
=Hic funis nihil attraxit=--This bait has taken no
fish; this scheme has not answered. _Pr._
=Hic gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, /
Hic nemus, hic toto tecum consumerer ævo=--Here
are cool springs, Lycoris, here velvet
meads, here a grove; here with thee could I
pass my whole life. _Virg._
=Hic hæret aqua!=--This is the difficulty (_lit._ here 5
the water (in the water-clock) stops).
=Hic jacet=--Here lies.
=Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas=--This
is the spot where the way divides in two
branches. _Virg._
=Hic murus aheneus esto, / Nil conscire sibi,
nulla pallescere culpa=--Be this our wall of
brass, to be conscious of no guilt, to turn pale
at no charge brought against us. _Hor._
=Hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto=--This
fellow is black; have a care of him, Roman.
_Hor._
=Hic nigræ succus loliginis, hæc est / Ærugo= 10
=mera=--This is the very venom of dark detraction;
this is pure malignity. _Hor._
=Hic patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti /
Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--Here
is a field open for talent, and here merit
will have certain favour, and industry be graced
with its due reward. _Claud._
=Hic Rhodos, hic salta=--Here is Rhodes; here
leap.
=Hic rogo, non furor est ne moriare mori?=--I
ask, is it not madness to die that you may not
die? _Mart._
=Hic situs est Phaëton currus auriga paterni; /
Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit
ausis=--Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of
his father's car, which if he did not manage,
still he perished in a great attempt. _Ovid._
=Hic transitus efficit magnum vitæ compendium=--This 15
change effects a great saving of time (_lit._
life).
=Hic ubi nunc urbs est, tum locus urbis erat=--Here,
where the city now stands, was at that
time nothing but its site. _Ovid._
=Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus
æstas=--Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and
summer in months in which summer is alien.
_Virg._
=Hic victor cæstus artemque repono=--Here
victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net.
_Virg._
=Hic vigilans somniat=--He sleeps awake. _Plaut._
=Hic vivimus ambitiosa / Paupertate omnes=--We 20
all live here in a state of ostentatious poverty.
_Juv._
=Hid jewels are but lost.= _Quarles._
=Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein=--Here
am I a man, here may I be one. _Goethe._
=Hier ist die Zeit durch Thaten zu beweisen, /
Dass Manneswürde nicht der Götterhöhe
weicht=--Now is the time to show by deeds
that the dignity of a man does not yield to the
sublimity of the gods. _Goethe._
=Hier ist keine Heimat--Jeder treibt / Sich an
dem andern rasch und fremd vorüber, / Und
fragt nicht nach seinem Schmerz=--Here is no
home for a man: every one drives past another
hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after
his pain. _Schiller._
=Hier sitz' ich auf Rasen mit Veilchen bekränzt=--Here 25
sit I upon the sward wreathed with violets.
_K. Schmidt._
=Hier stehe ich! Ich kann nicht anders. Gott
helfe mir! Amen=--Here stand I. I cannot
act otherwise. So help me God! _Luther at
the Diet of Worms._
=Hier steht einer, der wird mich rächen=--Here
stands one who will avenge me. _Frederick
William of Prussia, pointing to his son._
=High air-castles are cunningly built of words,
the words well-bedded in good logic mortar;
wherein, however, no knowledge will come
to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=High birth is an accident, not a virtue.= _Metastasio._
=High erected thoughts seated in the heart of= 30
=courtesy.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=High houses are usually empty in the upper
storey.= _Ger. Pr._
=High is the head of the stag on the mountain
crag.= _Gael. Pr._
=High station has to be resigned in order to be
appreciated.= _Pascal._
=Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus=--Virtue
may be gay, yet with dignity. _Statius._
=Hilft Gott uns nicht, kein Kaiser kann uns= 35
=helfen=--God helps us not; no emperor can.
_Schiller._
=Hills peep o'er hills; and alps on alps arise.=
_Pope._
=Hilo y aguja, media vestidura=--Needle and
thread are half clothing. _Sp. Pr._
=Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, /
Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, /
Whose means are fair and spotless as his
ends.= _Wordsworth._
=Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will
eat.= _Arab. Pr._
=Hin ist die Zeit, da Bertha spann=--Gone is the 40
time when Queen Bertha span. _Ger. Pr._
=Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren=--Gone is
gone! Lost is lost. _G. A. Bürger._
=Hinc illæ lachrymæ=--Hence these tears. _Virg._
=Hinc lucem et pocula sacra=--Hence light to us
and sacred draughts. _M. of Cambridge University._
=Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum=--To
them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to
them the issue. _Hor._
=Hinc subitæ mortes atque intestata senectus=--Hence 45
(from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths
and intestate old age. _Juv._
=Hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem=--Hence
the unhappy news is spread abroad
through the whole city. _Virg._
=Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore
fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile
bellum=--Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar)
arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken
credit, and war of advantage to many. _Lucan._
=Hinc venti dociles resono se carcere solvunt, /
Et cantum accepta pro libertate rependunt=--Hence
the obedient winds are loosed from their
sounding prison, and repay the liberty they have
received with a tune. _Of an organ._
=His bark is waur nor= (worse than) =his bite.=
_Sc. Pr._
=His Christianity was muscular.= _Disraeli._ 50
=His failings lean'd to virtue's side.= _Goldsmith._
=His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch
of holy bread.= _As You Like It_, iii. 4.
=His imagination resembled the wings of an
ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not
to soar.= _Macaulay._
=His lachrymis vitam damus, et miserescimus
ultro=--To these tears we grant him life, and
pity him besides. _Virg._
=His legibus solutis respublica stare non potest=--With
these laws repealed, the republic cannot
last. _Cic._
=His life was gentle, and the elements / So= 5
=mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, /
And say to all the world: This was a man!=
_Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=His nature is too noble for the world; / He
would not flatter Neptune for his trident, /
or Jove for his power to thunder.= _Coriolanus_,
iii. 2.
=His nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt=--Nowadays
those are rewarded who make right
appear wrong. _Ter._
=His opinion who does not see spiritual agency
in history is not worth any man's reading.=
_Wm. Blake._
=His own character is the arbiter of every one's
fortune.= _Pub. Syr._
=His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last, / For= 10
=violent fires soon outburn themselves.= _Rich.
II._, ii. 1.
=His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani
munere=--These offerings at least I would bestow
upon him, and discharge a duty though it
no longer avails. _Virg._
=His speech was like a tangled chain; / Nothing
impaired, but all disordered.= _Mid. Night's
Dream_, v. 1.
=His thoughts look through his words.= _Ben
Jonson._
=His time is for ever, everywhere his place.=
_Cowley._
=His tongue could make the worse appear the= 15
=better reason.= _Milton._
=His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make
the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex
and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._
=His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes
up the stair.= _W. J. Mickle._
=His wit invites you by his looks to come, /
But when you knock, it never is at home.=
_Cowper._
=His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat=--History, 20
however written, is always a pleasure to
us. _Pliny._
=Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise,
and is gifted with an eye and a soul.= _Carlyle._
=Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the
mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,
deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric,
able to contend.= _Bacon._
=History and experience prove that the most
passionate characters are the most fanatically
rigid in their feelings of duty, when
their passion has been trained to act in that
direction.= _J. S. Mill._
=History, as it lies at the root of all science, is
also the first distinct product of man's
spiritual nature, his earliest expression of
what may be called thought.= _Carlyle._
=History ensures for youth the understanding= 25
=of the ancients.= _Diodorus._
=History has only to do with what is true, and
what is only probable should be relegated
to the imaginary domain of romance and
poetical fiction.= (?)
=History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon
the memories of man.= _Shelley._
=History is always written= _ex post facto_.
=History is an impertinence and an injury,
if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue
or parable of my being and becoming.=
_Emerson._
=History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned= 30
=psalm and prophecy.= _Carlyle._
=History is but a fable agreed on.= _Napoleon._
=History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.=
_Garfield._
=History is indeed little more than the register
of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.=
_Gibbon._
=History is like sacred writing, for truth is
essential to it.= _Cervantes._
=History is made up of the bad actions of= 35
=extraordinary men. All the most noted
destroyers and deceivers of our species, all
the founders of arbitrary governments and
false religions, have been extraordinary men,
and nine-tenths of the calamities which have
befallen the human race had no other origin
than the union of high intelligence with low
desires.= _Macaulay._
=History is only a confused heap of facts.=
_Chesterfield._
=History is philosophy teaching by examples.=
_Quoted by Bolingbroke._
=History is properly nothing but a satire on
mankind.= _C. J. Weber._
=History is the true poetry.= _Carlyle._
=History shows that the majority of the men= 40
=who have done anything great have passed
their youth in seclusion.= _Heine._
=History teems with instances of truth put
down by persecution; if not suppressed for
ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.=
_J. S. Mill._
=Hitch your waggon to a star.= _Emerson._
=Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by
thought, and henceforth innumerable will be
wrought; whereof we, even in these days,
witness some.= _Carlyle._
=Hitherto doth love on fortune tend; / For who
not needs, shall never lack a friend; / And
who in want a hollow friend doth try, /
Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and= 45
=here shall thy proud waves be stayed.= _Bible._
=Hizonos Dios, y maravillámonos nos=--God made
us, and we admire ourselves. _Sp. Pr._
=Hobbes clearly proves that every creature /
Lives in a state of war by nature.= _Swift._
="Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are
serious or merry; whether ... learning
science or duty from a folio, or floating on
the Thames. Intentions must be gathered
from acts.= _Johnson._
=Hoc age=--Mind what you are about (_lit._ do this).
=Hoc erat in more majorum=--This was the custom 50
of our forefathers.
=Hoc erat in votis; modus agri non ita magnus; /
Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus juris aquæ fons, /
Et paulum silvæ super his foret=--This was
ever my chief prayer: a piece of ground not too
large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing
water near my house, and a little woodland besides.
_Hor._
=Hoc est quod palles? cur quis non prandeat,
hoc est?=--Is it for this you look so
pale? is this a reason why one should not dine?
_Pers._
=Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui=--To
be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.
_Martial._
=Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque
fluxit=--From this source the disaster
flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the
people. _Hor._
=Hoc genus omne=--All persons of that kind. 5
=Hoc Herculi Iovis satu edito' potuit fortasse
contingere, nobis non item=--This might perchance
happen to Hercules, of the seed royal of
Jove, but not to us. _Cic._
=Hoc loco=--In this place.
=Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisquis maxime
opus indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari=--It
is our prime duty to aid him first who most
stands in need of our assistance. _Cic._
=Hoc opus, hic labor est=--This is a work, this is
a toil. _Virg._
=Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium /= 10
=Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu=--It
is a father's duty to accustom his son to
act rightly of his own free-will rather than from
fear of the consequences. _Ter._
=Hoc pretium ob stultitiam fero=--This reward
I gain for my folly. _Ter._
=Hoc scito, nimio celerius / Venire quod molestum
est, quam id quod cupide petas=--Be sure
of this, that that which is disagreeable comes
more speedily than that which you eagerly desire.
_Plaut._
=Hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) you
will conquer. _M._
=Hoc virtutis opus=--This is virtue's work. _M._
=Hoc volo, hoc jubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas=--This 15
I wish, this I require: be my will instead
of reason. _Juv._
=Hodie mihi, cras tibi=--My turn to-day, yours
to-morrow.
=Hodie nihil, cras credo=--To-morrow I will trust,
not to-day. _Varro._
=Hodie vivendum amissa præteritorum cura=--Let
us live to-day, forgetting the cares that are
past. _An Epicurean maxim._
=Hoi polloi=--The multitude. _Gr._
=Hoist up the sail while gale doth last--/ Tide= 20
=and wind wait no man's pleasure! / Seek not
time when time is past--/ Sober speed is
wisdom's leisure!= _Southwell._
=Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when
heaven is raining gold.= _Eastern Pr._
=Hold the living dear and honour the dead.=
_Goethe._
=Hold their farthing candle to the sun.= _Young,
of critics._
=Hold thou the good; define it well.= _Tennyson._
=Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high /= 25
=Will brook the wind when lower tapers
die.= _Quarles._
=Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those
blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years
ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the
bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Holy men at their death have good inspirations.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=Hombre de barba=--A man of intelligence. _Sp._
=Hombre pobre todo es trazas=--A poor man is
all schemes. _Sp. Pr._
=Home, in one form or another, is the great= 30
=object of life.= _J. G. Holland._
=Home is heaven for beginners.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Home is home, be it never so homely.= _Pr._
=Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not
only from all injury, but from all terror,
doubt, and division.= _Ruskin._
=Home should be an oratorio of the memory,
singing to all our after life melodies and
harmonies of old-remembered joy.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Home, the nursery of the infinite.= _Channing._ 35
=Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 1.
=Homer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet
is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance,
if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller
and smaller, like a receding star. It needs
a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted
and artificially brought near us,
before we can so much as know that 'twas
a sun.... For all things, even celestial
luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors,
have their rise, their culmination, their decline.=
_Carlyle._
=Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius /
Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat=--Nothing
so unjust as your ignorant man, who
thinks nothing right but what he himself has
done. _Ter._
=Hominem non odi sed ejus vitia=--I do not hate
the man, but his vices. _Mart._
=Hominem pagina nostra sapit=--My pages concern 40
man. _Mart._
=Hominem quæro=--I am in quest of a man.
_Phædr. after Diogenes._
=Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt
quam salutem hominibus dando=--In nothing
do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving
health to men. _Cic._
=Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt:
longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax
per exempla=--Men trust their eyes rather than
their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious,
by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere=--By
doing nothing men learn to do ill. _Cato._
=Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam= 45
=in suo=--Men see better into other people's business
than their own. _Sen._
=Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam
ad virtutem=--Men are more prone to pleasure
than to virtue. _Cic._
=Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora=--The
more men have, the more they want.
_Justin._
=Homini necesse est mori=--Man must die. _Cic._
=Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis
absumpseres=--Trust no man till you have eaten
a peck of salt with him, _i.e._, known him so long
as you might have done so. _Pr._
=Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum=--Full of
men, vacant of friends. _Sen._
=Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare=--It
is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere
in error.
=Hominum sententia fallax=--The opinions of men
are fallible. _Ovid._
=Homme assailli à demi vaincu=--A man assailed
is half overpowered. _Fr._
=Homme chiche jamais riche=--A niggardly man 5
is always poor. _Fr. Pr._
=Homme d'affaires=--A business man. _Fr._
=Homme d'esprit=--A witty man. _Fr._
=Homme d'état=--A statesman. _Fr._
=Homme d'honneur=--A man of honour. _Fr._
=Homme instruit=--A learned or literary man. 10
_Fr._
=Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et
oculeus totus=--A man more clear-sighted for
business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all
over. _Apul._
=Homo antiqua virtute ac fide=--A man of the
old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. _Ter._
=Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et
anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab
omni materiæ concretione sejuncta=--Man is
composed of two parts, body and soul, of which
the one is corporeal, the other separated from all
combination with matter. _Cic._
=Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet=--A
learned man has always riches in himself.
_Phædr._
=Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur=--A 15
man when angry is beside himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur=--The
man who is earnest and diligent is prepared
for all things. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Homo homini aut deus aut lupus=--Man is to
man either a god or a wolf. _Erasmus._
=Homo is a common name to all men.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, ii. 1.
=Homo multarum literarum=--A man of many
letters, _i.e._, of extensive learning.
=Homo multi consilii et optimi=--A man always 20
ready to give his advice, and that the most
judicious.
=Homo nullius coloris=--A man of no party.
=Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, /
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; /
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit=--He
who kindly shows the way to one who has
gone astray, acts as though he had lighted
another's lamp from his own, which both gives
light to the other and continues to shine for
himself. _Cic._
=Homo solus aut deus aut demon=--Man alone is
either a god or a devil.
=Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto=--I
am a man, and I reckon nothing human
alien to me. _Ter._
=Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos=--A 25
man dies as often as he loses his relatives.
_Pub. Syr._
=Homo trium literarum=--A man of three letters,
_i.e._, FUR, "a thief." _Plaut._
=Homo unius libri=--A man of one book. _Thomas
Aquinas' definition of a learned man._
=Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito=--What
poor creatures we men are, when I think of it.
_Plaut._
=Honest labour bears a lovely face.= _T. Dekker._
=Honest men marry soon, wise men never.= _Sc._ 30
_Pr._
=Honesta mors turpi vita potior=--An honourable
death is better than an ignominious life.
_Tac._
=Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ=--Poverty
with honour is better than ill-gotten
wealth. _Pr._
=Honesta quædam scelera successus facit=--Success
makes some species of crimes honourable.
_Sen._
=Honesta quam splendida=--Honourable rather
than showy. _M._
=Honestum non est semper quod licet=--What is 35
lawful is not always honourable. _L._
=Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo
laudatur, laudabile est sua natura=--That
which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy
in its own nature, even though it should be
praised by no one. _Cic._
=Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that
is the last of it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Honesty is the best policy.= _Pr._
=Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich
man's pudding.= _Pr._
=Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be= 40
=an ill pennyworth.= _Sc. Pr._
=Honi soit qui mal y pense=--Evil be to him that
evil thinks. _Royal M. Fr._
=Honnêtes gens=--Upright people. _Fr._
=Honneur et patrie=--Honour and country. _M._
=Honor Deo=--Honour be to God. _M._
=Honor est præmium virtutis=--Honour is the 45
reward of virtue. _Cic._
=Honor fidelitatis præmium=--Honour is the reward
of fidelity. _M._
=Honor sequitur fugientem=--Honour follows him
who flies from her. _M._
=Honores mutant mores=--Honours change
manners.
=Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad
studia gloria=--Honours encourage the arts, for
all are incited towards studies by fame. _Cic._
=Honour a physician with the honour due unto= 50
=him for the uses which ye may have of him,
for the Lord hath created him.= _Ecclus._
=Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear
God. Honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.= _Pr._
=Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour
is a mere scutcheon.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=Honour is nobler than gold.= _Gael. Pr._
=Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail= 55
=behind which the virtues fight more securely.=
_G. H. Calvert._
=Honour is unstable, and seldom the same;
for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as
her food.= _Colton._
=Honour is venerable to us because it is no
ephemeris.= _Emerson._
=Honour to whom honour is due.= _St. Paul._
=Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where
one but goes abreast.= _Troil. and Cress._,
iii. 3.
=Honour won't patch.= _Gael. Pr._ 60
=Honourable= (_Ehrlich_) =is a word of high rank,
and implies much more than most people
attach to it.= _Arndt._
=Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give
an ideal and local value to a bit of base
metal; but gold and silver will pass all the
world over, without any other recommendation
than their own weight.= _Sterne._
=Honours to one in my situation are something
like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.=
_Goldsmith, of himself._
=Honour's the moral conscience of the great.=
_D'Avenant._
=Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait
pris=--Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in
by a fowl. _La Font._
=Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.= _Bible._ 5
=Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.= _Merry
Wives_, ii. 1.
=Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something
to grip.= _Pr._
=Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, /
And manage it against despairing thoughts.=
_Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe
friend. He'll do on a pinch for your
travelling companion, but he's not the man
for your banker.= _Amer. Pr._
=Hope is a waking man's dream.= _Pr._ 10
=Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps
the chief happiness which this world
affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses
must be expiated by pain; and expectations
improperly indulged must end in
disappointment.= _Johnson._
=Hope is not the man for your banker, though
he may do for your travelling companion.=
_Haliburton._
=Hope is the best part of our riches.= _Bovee._
=Hope is the only good which is common to all
men.= _Thales._
=Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection= 15
=is its golden tinge; but the latter
is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky
shades of twilight, and the bright blue day
which the former promises breaks indeed,
but in another world and with another sun.=
_Jean Paul._
=Hope never comes that comes to all.= _Milton._
=Hope never spread her golden wings but in
unfathomable seas.= _Emerson._
=Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles;
but do not feed them with attention, and they
will die imperceptibly away.= _Johnson._
=Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only
cheap and universal cure.= _Cowley._
=Hope springs eternal in the human breast; /= 20
=Man never is, but always to be, blest.= _Pope._
=Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.=
_Burns._
=Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.=
_Quoted by Swinburne._
=Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope
enjoyed.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing
things.= _Goethe._
=Hora e sempre=--Now and always. _M._ 25
=Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni,
nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur=--Hours
and days, months and years, pass away,
and time once past never returns. _Cic._
=Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria
læta=--In a moment of time comes sudden death
or joyful victory. _Hor._
=Horas non numero nisi serenas=--I mark no
hours but the shining ones. _Of a dial._
=Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; /
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes=--As ants
never bend their way to empty barns, so no
friend will visit departed wealth. _Ovid._
=Horresco referens=--I shudder as I relate. _Virg._ 30
=Horribile dictu=--Horrible to relate.
=Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent=--Everywhere
horror seizes the soul, and
the very silence is dreadful. _Virg._
=Horror vacui=--Abhorrence of a vacuum.
=Hors de combat=--Out of condition to fight.
_Fr._
=Hors de propos=--Not to the purpose. _Fr._ 35
=Hortus siccus=--A dry garden; a collection of
dried plants.
=Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur=--These
are encouraged by success; they
prevail because they think they can. _Virg._
=Hospice d'accouchement=--A maternity hospital.
_Fr._
=Hospice d'allaitement=--A foundling hospital.
_Fr._
=Hospitality must be for service, not for show,= 40
=or it pulls down the host.= _Emerson._
=Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum
datur=--The wife who is given in marriage to
a man against her will becomes his enemy.
_Plaut._
=Hostis honori invidia=--Envy is honour's foe. _M._
=Hôtel de ville=--A town-hall. _Fr._
=Hôtel Dieu=--The house of God; the name of an
hospital. _Fr._
=Household words.= _Hen. V._, iv. 3. 45
=Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without
a light.= _Pr._
=Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.=
_Bacon._
=How are riches the means of happiness? In
acquiring they create trouble, in their loss
they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause
of endless divisions amongst kindred!= _Hitopadesa._
=How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in
a world of life and of creation without end!=
_Jean Paul._
=How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, /= 50
=With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! /
Book of beginnings, story without end, /
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.=
_Longfellow._
=How beautiful to die of a broken heart on
paper! Quite another thing in practice!
Every window of your feeling, even of your
intellect, as it were begrimed,
so that no pure ray can enter;
a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone
soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of
disgust.= _Carlyle._
=How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness
through another man's eyes!= _As You Like
It_, v. 2.
=How blessed might poor mortals be in the
straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom
and fidelity to Heaven and one another were
adequately great.= _Carlyle, apropos to his life
at Craigenputtock._
=How blessings brighten as they take their
flight!= _Young._
=How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos
his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth,
and state, / Can never make them eerie.=
_Burns._
=How can a man be concealed? How can a
man be concealed?= _Confucius._
=How can he be godly who is not cleanly?=
_Pr._
=How can man love but what he yearns to
help?= _Browning._
=How can we expect a harvest of thought= 5
=who have not had a seed-time of character?=
_Thoreau._
=How can we learn to know ourselves? Never
by reflection, but only through action. Essay
to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once
what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=How charming is divine philosophy!= _Milton._
=How creatures of the human kind shut their
eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere
inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease
in the midst of wonders and terrors.= _Carlyle._
=How difficult it is to get men to believe that
any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.=
_B. R. Haydon._
=How dire is love when one is so tortured; and= 10
=yet lovers cannot exist without torturing
themselves.= _Goethe._
=How doth the little busy bee / Improve each
shining hour, / And gather honey all the
day / From every opening flower.= _Watts._
=How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To
rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As
though to breathe were life.= _Tennyson._
=How enormous appear the crimes we have
not committed!= _Mme. Necker._
=How far that little candle throws his beams! /
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.=
_Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How fast has brother followed / From sunshine= 15
=to the sunless land.= _Wordsworth._
=How few think justly of the thinking few; /
How many never think, who think they do!=
_Jane Taylor._
=How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and
destructive a vice is ambition, which, by
undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true
honour!= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How forcible are right words!= _Bible._
=How fortunate beyond all others is the man
who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is
not required to cast away his whole preceding
life!= _Goethe._
=How full of briers is this working-day world!= 20
_As You Like It_, i. 3.
=How glorious a character appears when it is
penetrated with mind and soul.= _Goethe._
=How good is man's life, the mere living! how
fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul,
and the senses for ever in joy!= _Browning._
=How happy could I be with either, / Were
t'other dear charmer away!= _Gay._
=How happy is he born or taught / That serveth
not another's will; / Whose armour is
his honest thought, / And simple truth his
utmost skill.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! /= 25
=The world forgetting, by the world forgot.=
_Pope._
=How happy is the prince who has counsellors
near him who can guard him against the
effects of his own angry passions; their
names shall be read in golden letters when
the history of his reign is perused.= _Scott._
=How happy should we be ... / If we from self
could rest, / And feel at heart that One
above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, /
Is working for the best!= _Anstice._
=How hard it is= (for the Byron, for the Burns),
=whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to
"take no counsel with flesh and blood," and
instead of living and writing for the day that
passes over them, live and write for the
eternity that rests and abides over them!=
_Carlyle._
=How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile,
and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the
blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love
again!= _Anon._
=How hardly shall they who have riches enter= 30
=into the kingdom of God!= _Jesus._
=How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester.=
2 _Hen. IV._, v. 5.
=How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates
itself, even among the weedy entanglements
of evil!= _Carlyle._
=How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom
of the All?= _Jean Paul._
=How is it possible to expect that mankind
will take advice, when they will not so much
as take warning.= _Swift._
=How little do the wantonly or idly officious= 35
=think what mischief they do by their malicious
insinuations, indirect impertinence, or
thoughtless babblings!= _Burns._
=How little is the promise of the child fulfilled
in the man.= _Ovid._
=How long halt ye between two opinions?=
_Bible._
=How long I have lived, how much lived in
vain! / How little of life's scanty span may
remain! / What aspects old Time in his
progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in
my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse,
till our summit is gain'd! / And downward,
how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd!=
_Burns._
=How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty
scene be acted over / In states unborn and
accents yet unknown!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=How many causes that can plead for themselves= 40
=in the courts of Westminster, and
yet in the general court of the universe
and free soul of man, have no word to utter!=
_Carlyle._
=How many cowards, whose hearts are all as
false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their
chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning
Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers
white as milk.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=How many honest words have suffered corruption
since Chaucer's days!= _Middleton._
=How many illustrious and noble heroes have
lived too long by a day!= _Rousseau._
=How many men live on the reputation of
the reputation they might have made!=
_Holmes._
=How many people make themselves abstract= 45
=to appear profound! The greatest part of
abstract terms are shadows that hide a
vacuum.= _Joubert._
=How many things by season season'd are /
To their right praise and true perfection!=
_Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=How many things, just and unjust, have no
higher sanction than custom!= _Ter._
=How much a dunce that has been sent to
roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept
at home!= _Cowper._
=How much better is it to get wisdom than
gold! and to get understanding rather to be
chosen than silver!= _Bible._
=How much better it is to weep at joy than to= 5
=joy at weeping!= _Much Ado_, i. 4.
=How much easier it is to be generous than
just!= _Junius._
=How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key
wherewith we decipher the whole man.=
_Carlyle._
=How much the wife is dearer than the bride!=
_Lyttelton._
=How narrow our souls become when absorbed
in any present good or ill! It is only the
thought of the future that makes them
great.= _Jean Paul._
=How noble is heroic insight without words in= 10
=comparison to the adroitest flow of words
without heroic insight!= _Carlyle._
=How noiseless is thought! No rolling of
drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable
tumult of baggage-waggons, attends
its movements; in what obscure and sequestered
places may the head be meditating
which is one day to be crowned with more
than imperial authority; for kings and emperors
will be among its ministering servants;
it will rule not over, but in all heads,
and bend the world to its will.= _Carlyle._
=How oft do they their silver bowers leave /
To come to succour us that succour want!=
_Spenser._
=How one is vexed with little things in this
life! The great evils one triumphs over
bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.=
_Mrs. Carlyle._
=How paint to the sensual eye what passes in
the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what
words, known to these profane times, speak
even afar-off of the unspeakable?= _Carlyle._
=How poor are they that have not patience! /= 15
=What wound did ever heal but by degrees?=
_Othello_, ii. 3.
=How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, /
How complicate, how wonderful is man!=
_Young._
=How prone to doubt, how cautious are the
wise!= _Pope, after Homer._
=How quick to know, but how slow to put in
practice, is the human creature!= _Goethe._
=How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When
gold becomes her object!= 2 _Hen. IV._,
iv. 4.
=How rarely reason guides the stubborn= 20
=choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts
the suppliant voice.= _Johnson._
=How ready some people are to admire in a
great man the exception rather than the
rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship
is like the idolatry of barbarous nations,
who can see the noonday splendour of the
sun without emotion, but who, when he is
in eclipse, come forward with hymns and
cymbals to adore him.= _Canning._
=How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But
none enquire if good he be or no.= _Herrick._
=How sad a path it is to climb and descend
another's stairs!= _Dante._
=How science dwindles, and how volumes
swell, / How commentators each dark passage
shun, / And hold their farthing candle to
the sun!= _Young._
=How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or= 25
=draw off from his veins the black drop which
he drew from his father's or his mother's
life?= _Emerson._
=How shall he give kindling in whose inward
man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out
to a dead grammatical cinder?= _Carlyle._
=How shall we know whether you are in earnest,
if the deed does not accompany the
word?= _Schiller._
=How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To
have a thankless child!= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=How small a part of time they share / That
are so wondrous sweet and fair!= _E. Waller._
=How small, of all that human hearts endure, /= 30
=That part which laws or kings can cause or
cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place
consigned, / Our own felicity we make or
find.= _Johnson._
=How should he be easy who makes other men's
cares his own?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How should thy virtue be above the shocks
and shakings of temptation, when even the
angels kept not their first estate, and man
in Paradise so soon fell from innocence?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by
night, / Like softest music to attending ears!=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=How soon "not now" becomes "never!"=
_Luther._
=How sour sweet music is, when time is broke= 35
=and no proportion kept! So is it in the
music of men's lives.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.
=How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose
to grace harmony!= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions
from a stranger's mouth!= _Goethe._
=How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this
bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds
of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness
and the night / Become the touches of sweet
harmony.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make
deeds ill done!= _King John_, iv. 2.
=How the world wags!= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 40
=How they gleam like spirits through the
shadows of innumerable eyes from their
thrones in the boundless depths of heaven!=
_Carlyle, on the stars._
=How use doth breed habit in a man!= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness
denied / To aught but virtue!= _Shelley._
=How we clutch at shadows= (in this dream-world)
=as if they were substances, and
sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most
awake!= _Carlyle._
=How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /= 45
=Seem to me all the uses of this world.=
_Ham._, i. 2.
=How well he's read, to reason against reading!=
_Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=How were friendship possible? In mutual
devotedness to the good and true, otherwise
impossible; except as armed neutrality
or hollow commercial league.= _Carlyle._
=How wonderful is Death, / Death and his
brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning
moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other,
rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's
wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both
so passing wonderful.= _Shelley._
=How wounding a spectacle is it to see those
who were by Christ designed for fishers of
men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly
wrangling about them too!= _Decay of
Piety._
=How wretched is the man that hangs on by
the favours of the great!= _Burns._
=Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble= 5
=to be good. / Kind hearts are more than
coronets, / And simple faith than Norman
blood.= _Tennyson._
=However, an old song, though to a proverb an
instance of insignificance, is generally the
only coin a poet has to pay with.= _Burns._
=However brilliant an action, it should not be
esteemed great unless the result of a great
motive.= _La Roche._
=However far a man goes, he must start from
his own door.= _Pr._
=However varied the forms of destiny, the
same element are always present.= _Schopenhauer._
=Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved= 10
=with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds
traverse the axis of the earth.= _Schiller._
=Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes,
vos ordine adite=--Come near me all in order,
and I will convince you that you are mad, every
one. _Hor._
=Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam
opinionem ingenii atque virtutis=--This I
think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune,
an overweening estimate of his own
genius and valour. _Nep., of Themistocles._
=Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia
fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque
ageret=--This man's genius was so versatile,
so equal to every pursuit, that you would
pronounce him to have been born for whatever
thing he was engaged on. _Livy, on the elder
Cato._
=Human action is a seed of circumstances= (_Verhängnissen_)
=scattered in the dark land of the
future and hopefully left to the powers that
rule human destiny.= _Schiller._
=Human beliefs, like all other natural growths,= 15
=elude the barriers of system.= _George Eliot._
=Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares
and poison in the provisions of life, and are
allured by their appetites to their destruction.=
_Swift._
=Human courage should rise to the height of
human calamity.= _Gen. Lee._
=Human creatures will not go quite accurately
together, any more than clocks will.=
_Carlyle._
=Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in
the flesh.= _Sen._
=Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the= 20
=exact summary of human worth.= _Carlyle._
=Human judgment is finite, and it ought always
to be charitable.= _W. Winter._
=Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.=
_Greville._
=Human life is a constant want, and ought to
be a constant prayer.= _S. Osgood._
=Human life is everywhere a state in which
much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.=
_Johnson._
=Human life is more governed by fortune than= 25
=by reason.= _Hume._
=Human nature in its fulness is necessarily
human; without love, it is inhuman; without
sense= (_nous_), =inhuman; without discipline,
inhuman.= _Ruskin._
=Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence,
but a spirit / Diffused through time
and space.= _Wordsworth._
=Human nature= (_Menschheit_) =we owe to father
and mother, but our humanity= (_Menschlichkeit_)
=we owe to education.= _Weber._
=Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback;
set it up on one side, and it tumbles
over on the other.= _Luther._
=Human society is made up of partialities.= 30
_Emerson._
=Humani nihil alienum=--Nothing that concerns
man is indifferent to me. _M._
=Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel=--Be humanity
evermore our goal. _Goethe._
=Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque
pœnas oppetit superbiæ=--He who does
not conform to courtesy generally pays the
penalty of his haughtiness. _Phædr._
=Humanity is about the same all the world
over.= _Donn Piatt._
=Humanity is better than gold.= _Goldsmith._ 35
=Humanity is constitutionally lazy.= _J. G. Holland._
=Humanity is great but men are small.=
_Börne._
=Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying
for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.=
_Jean Paul._
=Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured
of his sores will Dives be safe.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity= 40
=of a man.= _Adam Smith._
=Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere
est=--It is natural to love, and it is natural
also to forgive. _Plaut._
=Humanum est errare=--To err is human.
=Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity.=
_St. Augustine._
=Humbleness is always grace, always dignity.=
_Lowell._
=Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident=--The 45
humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
_Phædr._
=Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.=
_Collier._
=Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise,
and yet everybody is content to hear. The
master thinks it good doctrine for his servant,
the laity for the clergy, and the clergy
for the laity.= _Selden._
=Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding
good influence, that we can scarce purchase
it too dear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Humility is often a feigned submission which
we employ to supplant others.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the altar upon which God wishes
that we should offer Him His sacrifices.= _La
Roche._
=Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom.= _Jeremy
Collier._
=Humility is the only true wisdom by which we
prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes
of life.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Humility is the solid foundation of all the
virtues.= _Confucius._
=Humility, that low, sweet root / From which= 5
=all heavenly virtues shoot.= _Moore._
=Humour has justly been regarded as the
finest perfection of poetic genius. He who
wants it, be his other gifts what they may,
has only half a mind; an eye for what is
above him, not for what is about him or
below him.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting,
as it were, into our affections what is
below us, while sublimity draws down into
our affections what is above us.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is
not.= _Coleridge._
=Humour is of a genial quality and is closely
allied to pity.= _Henry Giles._
=Humour is properly the exponent of low= 10
=things; that which first renders them poetical
to the mind.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is the mistress of tears.= _Thackeray._
=Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine,
bathes its objects in a genial and
abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Hundreds of people can talk for one who can
think, but thousands can think for one who
can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy,
and religion all in one.= _Ruskin._
=Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy.= _Pr._
=Hunger is a good cook.= _Gael. Pr._ 15
=Hunger is the best sauce.= _Pr._
=Hunger will break through stone walls.= _Pr._
=Hungry bellies have no ears.= _Pr._
=Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.= _Wordsworth._
=Hunters generally know the most vulnerable= 20
=part of the beast they pursue by the care
which every animal takes to defend the side
which is weakest.= _Goldsmith._
=Hunting was the labour of savages in North
America, but the amusement of the gentlemen
of England.= _Johnson._
=Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios=--To
steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's
sake. _Sp. Pr._
=Husbands can earn money, but only wives can
save it.= _Pr._
=Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, /
That he might not beteem the winds of
heaven / Visit her face too roughly.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=Hypotheses non fingo=--I frame no hypotheses. 25
_Sir Isaac Newton._
[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]--Justice
is simple, truth easy. _Lycurgus._
=Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der
Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt=--Hypotheses
are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his
scholars to sleep. _Goethe._
=Hysteron proteron=--The last first, or the cart
before the horse. _Gr._
I.
=I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.=
_King Lear_, iii. 2.
=I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look= 30
=on't again I dare not.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be
sure that he is not a knave as well.= _Hazlitt._
=I am always as happy as I can be in meeting
a man in whose society feelings are developed
and thoughts defined.= _Goethe._
=I am always ill at ease when tumults arise
among the mob--people who have nothing
to lose.= _Goethe._
=I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way /
Among the thorns and dangers of the world.=
_King John_, iv. 3.
=I am as free as Nature first made man, / Ere= 35
=the base laws of servitude began, / When
wild in woods the noble savage ran.= _Dryden._
=I am black, but I am not the devil.= _Pr._
=I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in
brains.= _Johnson._
=I am but a gatherer and disposer of other
men's stuff.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose
true-fix'd and resting quality / There is no
fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=I am convinced that the Bible always becomes= 40
=more beautiful the better it is understood,
that is, the better we see that every word
which we apprehend in general and apply in
particular had a proper, peculiar, and immediately
individual reference to certain
circumstances, certain time and space relations=,
_i.e._, =had a specially direct bearing on
the spiritual life of the time in which it was
written.= _Goethe._
=I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and
a female pedant.= _Goldsmith._
=I am fortune's fool.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.
=I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible,
and that its activity will continue
through eternity. It 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._
=I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there
is none to dispute; / From the centre all
round to the sea, / I am lord of the fowl and
the brute.= _Cowper._
=I am more afraid of my own heart than of the= 45
=Pope and all his cardinals. I have within
me the great pope, self.= _Luther._
=I am neither so weak as to fear men, so proud
as to despise them, or so unhappy as to hate
them.= _Marmontel._
=I am never merry when I hear sweet music.=
_Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees;
it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But as you
know me all, a plain blunt man, / That loves
my friend.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! /= 50
=For then 'tis like I should forget myself.=
_King John_, iii. 4.
=I am not what I am.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1;
_Othello_, i. 1.
=I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, ii. 1.
="I am searching for a man."= _Diogenes, going
about Athens by day with a lit lantern._
=I am Sir Oracle, / And when I ope my lips, let
no dog bark.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion= 5
=will make a cloak.= _Sir W. Waller._
=I am very content with knowing, if only I
could know.= _Emerson._
=I am very fond of the company of ladies. I
like their beauty; I like their delicacy; I
like their vivacity; and I like their silence.=
_Johnson._
=I and time against any two.= _Philip of Spain._
=I augur better of a youth who is wandering on
a path of his own than of many who are
walking aright upon paths which are not
theirs.= _Goethe._
=I awoke one morning and found myself famous.= 10
_Byron._
=I believe in great men, but not in demigods.=
_Bovee._
=I believe more follies are committed out of
complaisance to the world than in following
our own inclinations.= _Lady Mary Montagu._
=I believe there are few persons who, if they
please to reflect on their past lives, will not
find that had they saved all those little sums
which they have spent unnecessarily they
might at present have been masters of a
competent fortune.= _Eustace Budgell._
=I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible
that you may be wrong.= _Cromwell._
=I bide my time.= _M._ 15
=I can but trust that good shall fall / At last--far
off--at last, to all.= _Tennyson._
="I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
"Why, so can I, or so can any man; but
will they come when you do call for them?"=
1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=I can count a stocking-top while a man 's
getting 's tongue ready; an' when he out
wi' his speech at last, there's little broth
to be made on't.= _George Eliot._
=I can teach you to command the devil, / And
I can teach you to shame the devil, / By
telling truth.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 1.
=I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe:= 20
=believe life; it teaches better than book and
orator.= _Goethe._
=I cannot call riches better than the baggage
of virtue.... It cannot be spared or left
behind, but it hindereth the march.= _Bacon._
=I cannot hide what I am; I must be sad when
I have cause, and smile at no man's jests;
eat when I have stomach, and wait for no
man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy,
and tend on no man's business; laugh when
I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.=
_Much Ado_, i. 3.
=I cannot love thee as I ought, / For love
reflects the thing beloved; / My words are
only words, and move / Upon the topmost
froth of thought.= _Tennyson._
=I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered
virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that
never sallies out and seeks her adversary,
but slinks out of the race where that immortal
garland is to be run for, not without
dust and heat.= _Milton._
=I cannot think of any character below the= 25
=flatterer, except he that envies him.= _Steele._
=I can't work for nothing, and find thread.=
_Pr._
=I care not though the cloth of state should
be / Not of rich Arras, but mean tapestry.=
_George Herbert._
=I charge thee, fling away ambition; / By that
sin fell the angels.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=I chatter, chatter, as I flow / To join the
brimming river, / For men may come and
men may go, / But I go on for ever.= _Tennyson._
=I contented myself with endeavouring to make= 30
=your home so easy that you might not be
in haste to leave it.= _Lady Montagu_ (_to her
daughter_).
=I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word /
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start
from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined
locks to part, / And each particular
hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the
fretful porcupine.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=I could have better spared a better man.=
1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=I could not but smile at a woman who makes
her own misfortunes and then deplores the
miseries of her situation.= _Goldsmith._
=I count life just a stuff / To try the soul's
strength on.= _Browning._
=I cuori fanciulli non vestone a bruno=--A child's 35
heart wears no weeds. _B. Zendrini._
=I danari del comune sono come l'acqua benedetta,
ognun ne piglia=--Public money is like
holy water; everybody helps himself to it.
_It. Pr._
=I dare do all that may become a man; / Who
dares do more, is none.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.=
_Burns._
=I, demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, / Ut
pueris placeas, et declamatio fias=--Go, madman,
and run over the savage Alps to please
schoolboys, and become the subject of declamation.
_Juv., of Hannibal._
=I desire no future that will break the ties of= 40
=the past.= _George Eliot._
=I die by the help of too many physicians.=
_Alexander the Great._
=I do but sing because I must, / And pipe but
as the linnets sing.= _Tennyson._
=I do know of these / That therefore only are
reputed wise / For saying nothing.= _Mer. of
Ven._, i. 1.
=I do know, / When the blood burns, how prodigal
the soul / Lends the tongue vows.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=I do not like "but yet," it does allay / The= 45
=good precedence; fie upon "but yet:" /
"But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth /
Some monstrous malefactor.= _Ant. and Cleop._,
ii. 5.
=I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.=
_Goldsmith._
=I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, / The reason why
I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full
well, / I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.=
=I do not need philosophy at all.= _Goethe._
=I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.=
_Falkland._
="I don't care," is a deadly snare.= _Pr._
=I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no
man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad
of other men's good, content with my harm.=
_As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=I esteem that wealth which is given to the
worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed;
the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not
whom.= _Hitopadesa._
=I fatti sono maschii, le parole femine=--Deeds
are masculine, words feminine. _It. Pr._
=I favoriti dei grandi oltre all' oro di regali,= 5
=e l'incenso delle lodi, tocca loro anche la
mirra della maldicenza=--The favourites of the
great, besides the gold of gifts and the incense
of flattery, must also partake of the myrrh of
calumny. _It. Pr._
=I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear
him who fears Him not.= _Saadi._
=I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk
of human kindness / To catch the nearest
way.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=I feel within me a peace above all earthly
dignities, a still and quiet conscience.= _Hen.
VIII._, iii. 2.
=I find nonsense singularly refreshing.= _Talleyrand._
=I for ever pass from hand to hand, / And each= 10
=possessor thinks me his own land. / All of
them think so, but they all are wrong; / To
none but Fortune only I belong.= _Anon., of
a field._
=I found Rome brick, I left it marble.= _Augustus
Cæsar._
=I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I
fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae
twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie
blue.= _Burns._
="I go at last out of this world, where the heart
must either petrify or break."= _Chamfort, at
his last moments._
=I go through my appointed daily stage, and
I care not for the curs who bark at me along
the road.= _Frederick the Great._
=I gran dolori sono muti=--Great griefs are dumb. 15
_It. Pr._
=I grieve that grief can teach me nothing,
nor carry me one step into real nature.=
_Emerson._
=I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give
to such men as do not belong to me and to
whom I do not belong; (but) there is a class
of persons to whom, by all spiritual affinity,
I am bought and sold; for them I will go
to prison if need be.= _Emerson._
=I guadagni mediocri empiono la borsa=--Moderate
profits fill the purse. _It. Pr._
=I had as lief not be, as live to be / In awe of
such a thing as I myself.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=I had better never see a book than be warped= 20
=by its attraction clean out of my own orbit
and made a satellite instead of a system.=
_Emerson._
=I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, /
Than such a Roman.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
="I had rather be first here than second in
Rome."= _Cæsar, in an insignificant townlet._
=I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among
seven (planets), revolving round the sun,
than the first among five (moons) revolving
round Saturn.= _Goethe._
=I had rather believe all the fables in the
legends, the Talmud, and the Koran, than
that this universal frame is without a mind.=
_Bacon._
=I had rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition= 25
=than in air rarified to nothing by the
air-pump of unbelief.= _Jean Paul._
=I had rather have a fool to make me merry
than experience to make me sad.= _As You
Like It_, iv. 1.
=I had rather people laugh at me while they
instruct me than praise me without benefiting
me.= _Goethe._
=I hae a penny to spend, / There--thanks to
naebody; / I hae naething to lend--/ I'll
borrow frae naebody.= _Burns._
=I hate a style that slides along like an eel,
and never rises to what one can call an
inequality.= _Shenstone._
=I hate bungling as I do sin, but particularly= 30
=bungling in politics, which leads to the misery
and ruin of many thousands and millions of
people.= _Goethe._
=I hate ingratitude more in a man / Than lying,
vainness, babbling, drunkenness, / Or any
taint of vice whose strong corruption / Inhabits
our frail blood.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.
=I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.= _Merry
Wives_, iii. 5.
=I have a very poor opinion of a man who
talks to men what women should not hear.=
_Richardson._
=I have all I have ever enjoyed.= _Bettine._
=I have always been a quarter of an hour= 35
=before my time, and it has made a man of
me.= _Nelson._
=I have always despised the whining yelp of
complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve.=
_Burns._
=I have always found that the road to a
woman's heart lies through her child.= _Judge
Haliburton._
=I have been reasoning all my life, and find
that all argument will vanish before one
touch of Nature.= _Colman._
=I have been tempted by opportunity, and
seconded by accident.= _Marmontel._
=I have been too much occupied with things= 40
=themselves to think either of their beginning
or their end.= _Goethe._
=I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts
of people.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I have ever held it as a maxim never to do
that through another which it was possible
for me to execute myself.= _Montesquieu._
=I have, God wot, a largë field to ear; / And
weakë the oxen in my plough.= _Chaucer._
=I have great hope of a wicked man, slender
hope of a mean one.= _Ward Beecher._
=I have known some men possessed of good= 45
=qualities which were very serviceable to
others, but useless to themselves; like a
sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform
the neighbours and passengers, but not the
owner within.= (?)
=I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith
to be content.= _St. Paul._
=I have little knowledge which I find not some
way useful to my highest ends.= _Baxter._
=I have lost the ring, but I have my finger still.=
_It. and Sp. Pr._
=I have never been able to conquer this ferocious
wild beast= (impatience). _Calvin._
=I have never seen a greater monster or miracle
in the world than myself.= _Montaigne._
=I have no idea of the courage that braves
Heaven.= _Burns._
=I have no notion of a truly great man that
could not be all sorts of men.= _Carlyle._
=I have no other but a woman's reason; / I= 5
=think him so because I think him so.= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, i. 2.
=I have no spur / To prick the sides of my
intent.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=I have no words, / My voice is in my sword.=
_Macb._, v. 7.
=I have saved the bird in my bosom=, _i.e._, kept
my secret. _Pr._
=I have seen some nations, like overloaded
asses, / Kick off their burdens, meaning the
higher classes.= _Byron._
=I have seldom known any one who deserted= 10
=truth in trifles that could be trusted in
matters of importance.= _Paley._
=I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will
stand the hazard of the die.= _Rich. III._,
v. 4.
=I have that within which passeth show; / These
but the trappings and the suits of woe.= _Ham._,
i. 2.
=I have this great commission, / From that
supernal judge that stirs good thoughts /
In any breast of strong authority, / To look
into the blots and stains of right.= _King
John_, ii. 1.
=I have thought some of Nature's journeymen
had made men, and not made them well;
they imitated humanity so abominably.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.= 15
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality,
that it is but a shadow's shadow.= _Ham._,
ii. 2.
=I hold every man a debtor to his profession.=
_Bacon._
=I hold it cowardice / To rest mistrustful where
a noble heart / Hath pawn'd an open hand
in sign of love.= 3 _Hen. VI._
=I hold it truth, with him who sings / To one
clear harp in divers tones, / That men may
rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves
to higher things.= _Tennyson._
=I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; /= 20
=A stage, where every man must play a part, /
And mine a sad one.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=I hope I don't intrude.= _Paul Pry._
=I humbly trust I should not change my
opinions and practice, though it rained
garters and coronets as the reward of
apostasy.= _Havelock._
=I jouk= (duck aside) =beneath misfortune's blows /
As well's I may; / Sworn foe to sorrow, care,
or prose, / I rhyme away.= _Burns._
=I know but of one solid objection to absolute
monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man
adequate to the office.= _Fielding._
=I know enough to hold my tongue, but not= 25
=to speak.= _Pr._
=I know no evil death can show, which life /
Has not already shown to those who live /
Embodied longest.= _Byron._
=I know no evil so great as the abuse of the
understanding and yet there is no one vice
more common.= _Steele._
=I know no judgment of the future but by the
past.= _Patrick Henry._
=I know nothing sublime which is not some
modification of power.= _Burke._
=I know only one thing sweeter than making a= 30
=book, and that is to project one.= _Jean
Paul._
=I know that dancin' 's nonsense; but if you
stick at everything because its nonsense,
you wonna go far in this life.= _George Eliot._
="I know that it is in me, and out it shall
come."= _Sheridan to his friends over their
disappointment at the failure of his maiden
speech._
=I know that my Redeemer liveth.= _Job, in the
Bible._
=I know that nothing is mine but the thought
that flows tranquilly out of my soul, and
every gracious= (_günstige_) =moment which a
loving Providence= (_Geschick_) =permits me thoroughly=
(_von Grund aus_) =to enjoy.= _Goethe._
=I labour, and you get the pearl.= _Talmud._ 35
=I let every one follow his own bent, that I may
be free to follow mine.= _Goethe._
=I like a good hater.= _Johnson._
=I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to
enjoy company as to shun myself.= _Johnson._
=I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of
that around me; and to me / High mountains
are a feeling.= _Byron._
=I look upon an able statesman out of business= 40
=like a huge whale, that will endeavour to
overturn the ship unless he has an empty
cask to play with.= _Steele._
=I love a hand that meets mine own with a
grasp that causes some sensation.= _Mrs.
Osgood._
=I love everything that's old--old friends, old
tunes, old manners, old books, old wine.=
_Goldsmith._
=I love God and little children.= _Jean Paul._
=I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.=
_Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.
=I love my friends well, but myself better.= 45
_Pr._
=I love sometimes to doubt, as well as to know.=
_Dante._
=I love / The name of honour more than I fear
death.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=I love to browse in a library.= _Johnson._
=I'll make assurance doubly sure, / And take a
bond of fate.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=I made all my generals out of mud.= _Napoleon._ 50
=I make the most of my enjoyments; and as for
my troubles, I pack them in as little compass
as I can for myself, and never let them annoy
others.= _Southey._
=I might have my hand full of truth, and open
only my little finger.= _Fontenelle._
=I mourn not those who lose their vital breath; /
But those who, living, live in fear of death.=
_Lucillus._
=I must be cruel, only to be kind.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
="I must sleep now."= _Byron's last words._ 55
=I must work the work of Him that sent me
while it is day; the night cometh when no
man can work.= _Jesus._
=I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure,
nor less alone than when alone.= _Scipio
Africanus._
=I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God
Almighty made 'em to match the men.=
_George Eliot._
=I'm not one of those who can see the cat i'
the dairy an' wonder what she's come after.=
_George Eliot._
=I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, / E'en to a
deil, / To skelp an' scaud= (scald) =puir dogs
like me, / An' hear us squeel.= _Burns._
=I never could believe that Providence had= 5
=sent a few men into the world ready booted
and spurred to ride, and millions ready
saddled and bridled to be ridden.= _Richard
Rumbold._
=I never could tread a single pleasure under
foot.= _Browning._
=I never heard tell of any clever man that came
of entirely stupid people.= _Carlyle._
=I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his
profession.= _Thackeray._
=I never knew any man grow poor by keeping
an orderly table.= _Lord Burleigh._
=I never knew any man in my life who could= 10
=not bear another's misfortunes perfectly as
a Christian.= _Pope._
=I never saw, heard, or read that the clergy
were beloved in any nation where Christianity
was the religion of the country.= _Swift._
=I never whisper'd a private affair / Within the
hearing of cat or mouse, / No, not to myself
in the closet alone, / But I heard it shouted
at once from the top of the house; / Everything
came to be known.= _Tennyson._
=I only look straight before me at each day as
it comes, and do what is nearest me, without
looking further afield.= _Goethe._
=I picciol cani trovano, ma i grandi hanno la
lepre=--The little dogs hunt out the hare, but
the big ones catch it. _It. Pr._
=I pick up favourite quotations and store them= 15
=in my mind as ready armour, offensive or
defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent
existence. Of these there is a very
favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee
firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of
life; to life itself, / With all its vain and
transient joys, sit loose."= _Burns._
=I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively
with the transitory in things and lose themselves
in the study of what is perishable,
since we are here for this very end that
we may make the perishable imperishable,
which we can do only after we have learned
how to appreciate both.= _Goethe._
=I pity the man who can travel from Dan to
Beersheba, and cry: 'Tis all barren.= _Swift._
=I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it.=
_Marmontel._
=I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.=
_Eliza Cook._
=I quote others only in order the better to= 20
=express myself.= _Montaigne._
=I renounce the friend who eats what is mine
with me, and what is his own by himself.=
_Port. Pr._
=I say beware of all enterprises that require
new clothes, and not rather a new wearer
of clothes.= _Thoreau._
=I say the acknowledgment of God in Christ, /
Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee / All
questions on the earth and out of it.= _Browning._
=I scorn the affectation of seeming modesty to
cover self-conceit.= Burns.
=I secundo omine=--Go, and may all good go with 25
you. _Hor._
=I see my way as birds their trackless way.=
_Browning._
=I see that sensible men and conscientious men
all over the world are of the one religion of
well-doing and daring.= _Emerson._
=I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat.=
_Plato, to the Cynic._
=I seek divine simplicity in him who handles
things divine.= _Cowper._
=I seek not to wax great by others' waning.= 30
2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 10.
="I shall go to-morrow," said the king. "You
shall wait for me," quoth the wind.= _Gael.
Pr._
=I shall light a candle of understanding in thine
heart which shall not be put out.= _Esdras._
=I shall perhaps tremble in my death-hour, but
before shall I never.= _Lessing._
=I should be glad were all the meadows on the
earth left in a wild state, if that were the
consequence of men's beginning to redeem
themselves.= _Thoreau._
=I stay here on my bond.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1. 35
=I stout and you stout, who will carry the dirt
out?= _Pr._
=I take it to be a principal rule of life not to
be too much addicted to any one thing.= _Ter._
=I talk of chalk and you of cheese.= _Pr._
=I think a lock and key a security at least
equal to the bosom of any friend whatever.=
_Burns._
=I think it is as scandalous for a woman not= 40
=to know how to use a needle as for a man
not to know how to use a sword.= _Lady
Montagu._
=I think nothing is to be hoped from you if this
bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter
to you than any other in this world.= _Thoreau._
=I think sculpture and painting have an effect
to teach us manners and abolish hurry.=
_Emerson._
=I think women have an instinct of dissimulation;
they know by nature how to disguise
their emotions far better than the most consummate
male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._
=I tremble for my country when I reflect that
God is just.= _T. Jefferson._
=I very much fear that our little terraqueous= 45
=globe is the lunatic asylum of the universe.=
_Voltaire._
=I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier
for't all my life.= _George Eliot._
=I've never any pity for conceited people, because
I think they carry their comfort about
with them.= _George Eliot._
=I've wandered east, I've wandered west, /
Through many a weary way; / But never,
never can forget / The love of life's young
day.= _Motherwell._
=I waive the quantum o' th sin, / The hazard
of concealing; / But oh! it hardens a' within, /
And petrifies the feeling.= _Burns._
=I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and
purpose not; since what I well intend, / I'll
do't before I speak.= _King Lear_, i. 1.
=I was not born for courts or great affairs; /
I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.=
_Pope._
=I was well, would be better, took physic and
died.= _Epitaph._
=I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.=
_Rich. II._, v. 5.
=I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan, /= 5
=And learn the future by the past of man.=
_Campbell._
=I were but little happy if I could say how much.=
_Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my
whole course of love.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising
as justice.= _W. Lloyd Garrison._
=I will chide no breather in the world but myself,
against whom I know most faults.= _As
You Like It_, iii. 2.
=I will divide my goods; / Call in the wretch= 10
=and slave: / None shall rule but the humble, /
And none but toil shall have.= _Emerson._
=I will get it from his purse or get it from his
skin.= _Pr._
=I will give thrice as much to any well-deserving
friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me,
I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, iii. 1.
=I will lay a stone at your door=, _i.e._, never forgive
you. _Pr._
=I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray
keep your doubts to yourself; I have plenty
of my own.= _Goethe._
=I will move the world.= _Archimedes._ 15
=I will speak daggers to her, but use none.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For
daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.
=I wish there were some cure, like the lover's
leap, for all heads of which some single idea
has obtained an unreasonable and irregular
possession.= _Johnson._
=I would applaud thee to the very echo, that
should applaud again.= _Macb._, v. 3.
=I would choose to have others for my acquaintance,= 20
=but Englishmen for my friends.= _Goldsmith._
=I would condone many things in one-and-twenty
now, that I dealt hardly with at
middle age. God Himself, I think, is very
willing to give one-and-twenty a second
chance.= _J. M. Barrie._
=I would desire for a friend the son who never
resisted the tears of his mother.= _Lacretelle._
=I would fain avoid men; we can give them no
help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves.=
_Goethe._
=I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and
safety.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.
=I would have been glad to have lived under= 25
=my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep,
rather than undertaken such a government
as this.= _Cromwell._
="I"= (self-love) =would have the world say "I," /
And all things perish so if she endure.= _Sir
Edwin Arnold._
=I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.=
1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=I would not enter on my list of friends ... the
man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.=
_Cowper._
=I would not for much that I had been born
richer.= _Jean Paul._
=I would rather be found suffering than doing= 30
=what is unjust.= _Phocion._
=I would rather be the author of one original
thought than conqueror of a hundred battles.=
_W. B. Clulow._
=I would rather make my name than inherit it.=
_Thackeray._
=Ibi omnis / Effusus labor=--By that (one negligence)
all his labour was lost. _Virg._
=Ibidem=--In the same place.
=Ibis, redibis non morieris in bello=--Thou shalt 35
go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in battle;
or, Thou shalt go, thou shalt not return, thou shalt
die in battle. _An ambiguous oracle, due to the
uncertain application of the adverb "non."_
=Ibit eo quo vis, qui zonam perdidit=--He who
has lost his purse (_lit._ girdle) will go wherever
you wish. _Hor._
=Iceland is the finest country on which the sun
shines.= _Iceland Pr._
=Ich bin des trocknen Tons nun satt, / Muss
wieder recht den Teufel spielen=--I am now
weary of this prosing style, and must again play
the devil properly. _Goethe, "Mephisto."_
=Ich bin ein Mensch gewesen, / Und das heisst
ein Kämpfer sein=--I have been a man, and that
is to be a fighter. _Goethe._
=Ich bin es müde, über Sklaven zu herrschen=--I 40
am tired of ruling over slaves. _Frederick the
Great._
=Ich bin zu alt, um nur zu spielen; / Zu jung,
um ohne Wunsch zu sein=--I am too old for
mere play; too young to be without a wish.
_Goethe, "Faust."_
=Ich denke so: / Was nicht zusammen kann /
Bestehen, ist am besten sich zu lösen=--In
my regard 'twere best throw that into the
pot which can no longer hold itself together.
_Schiller._
=Ich dien=--I serve. _Ger. M._
=Ich finde nicht die Spur, / Von einem Geist,
und alles ist Dressur=--I find no trace of
spirit here; it is all mere training. _Goethe,
"Faust."_
=Ich fühl' ein ganzes Heer in meiner Brust=--I 45
feel a whole host on my bosom. _Körner._
=Ich fühle Mut, mich in die Welt zu wagen /
Der Erde Weh, der Erde Glück zu tragen=--I
feel courage enough to cast myself into the
world, to bear earth's woe and weal. _Goethe._
=Ich glaube, dass alles was das Genie, als Genie
thut, unbewusst geschieht=--Everything that
genius, as genius, does, is in my regard done
unconsciously. _Goethe._
="Ich glaube an einen Gott." Das ist ein schönes
löbliches Wort; aber Gott anerkennen, wo
und wie er sich offenbare, das ist eigentlich
die Seligkeit auf Erden=--"I believe in a
God." That is a fine praiseworthy saying; but
to acknowledge God, where and as He reveals
Himself, that is properly our blessedness on this
earth. _Goethe._
=Ich habe es öfters rühmen hören, / Ein Komödiant
könnte einen Pfarrer lehren=--I have
often heard say that a player might teach a
parson. _Goethe, "Faust."_
=Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück; / Ich
habe gelebt und geliebet=--I have experienced
earthly happiness; I have lived and I have
loved. _Schiller._
=Ich habe gethan, was ich nicht lassen konnte=--I
have done what I could not get done.
_Schiller._
=Ich habe hier bloss ein Amt und keine Meinung=--I
hold here an office merely, and no opinion.
_Schiller._
=Ich habe nichts als Worte, und es ziemt / Dem
edlen Mann, der Frauen Wort zu achten=--I
have nothing but words, and it becomes
the noble man to respect a woman's word.
_Goethe._
=Ich heisse der reichste Mann in der getauften= 5
=Welt: Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat
nicht unter=--I pass for the richest man in the
baptized world; the sun never sets in my dominions.
_Philip II. of Spain's boast._
=Ich möcht mich gleich dem Teufel übergeben, /
Wenn ich nur selbst kein Teufel wär=--I
would give myself up at once to the devil if only
I were not a devil myself. _Goethe, Mephistopheles
in "Faust."_
=Ich muss, das ist die Schrank', in welcher
mich die Welt, / Von einer, die Natur von
andrer Seite hält=--I must--that is the barrier
within which the world confines me on the one
hand and Nature on the other. _Rückert._
=Ich schweige zu vielem still; denn ich mag die
Menschen nicht irre machen, und bin wohl
zufrieden, wenn sie sich freuen, da wo ich
mich ärgere=--I keep silent to a great extent, for
I don't choose to lead others into error, and am
well content if they are happy in matters about
which I vex myself. _Goethe._
=Ich setze die Souveränität fest wie einen
eisernen Felsen=--I plant the royal power firm
as a rock of iron. _Frederick William I. of
Prussia._
=Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, / Der in den= 10
=Zweigen wohnet / Das Lied, das aus der
Kehle dringt, / Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet=--I
sing but as the bird sings which dwells
among the branches; the lay which warbles
from the throat is a reward that richly recompences.
_Goethe._
=Ich stehe in Gottes Hand, und ruh' in Gottes
Schooss / Vor ihm fühl' ich mich klein, in ihm
fühl' ich mich gross=--I stand in God's hand
and rest in God's bosom; before Him I feel
little, in Him I feel great. _Rückert._
=Ich thue recht und scheue keinen Feind=--I
do the right and fear no foe. _Schiller._
=Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire=--Here
honour binds me, and I am minded to
satisfy her. _Corneille._
=Id arbitror / Adprime in vitâ esse utile, ne
quid nimis=--This I consider to be a valuable
principle in life, not to do anything in excess.
_Ter._
=Id cinerem, aut manes credis curare sepultos?=--Do 15
you think that ashes and buried spirits of
the departed care for such things? _Virg._
=Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes=--It
is a common calamity; we have all been
mad once. _Mantuanus._
=Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati=--That
only brings disgrace on a man which he
has deserved to suffer. _Phæd._
=Id est=--That is.
=Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet=--The
man is deserving of praise who does what it
becomes him to do, not what he is free to do.
_Sen._
=Id genus omne=--All persons of that description. 20
=Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque
maxime suum=--That best becomes a man which
is most peculiarly his own. _Cic._
=Id mutavit, quoniam me immutatum videt=--He
has changed his mind because he sees me unchanged.
_Ter._
=Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis
lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus=--This
is especially ruinous to us, that we shape
our lives not by the light of reason, but after
the fashion of others. _Sen._
=Ideals are the world's masters.= _J. G. Holland._
=Ideals can never be completely embodied in= 25
=practice; and yet ideals exist, and if they be
not approximated to at all, the whole matter
goes to wreck.= _Carlyle._
=Ideas must work through the brains and arms
of good and brave men, or they are no better
than dreams.= _Emerson._
=Ideas often flash across our minds more complete
than we could make them after much
labour.= _La Roche._
=Idem=--The same.
=Idem quod=--The same as.
=Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma= 30
=amicitia est=--To have the same likes and the
same dislikes is the sole basis of lasting friendship.
_Sall._
=Idle folks lack no excuses.= _Pr._
=Idle people have the least leisure.= _Pr._
=Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand
than kings and parliaments.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Idleness in the midst of unattempted tasks is
always proud.= _P. Brooks._
=Idleness is an appendix to nobility.= _Burton._ 35
=Idleness is many gathered miseries in one
name.= _Jean Paul._
=Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds and
the holiday of fools.= _Pr._
=Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of
body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness,
the step-mother of discipline, the chief author
of mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the
cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes,
and a great cause not only of melancholy,
but of many other diseases.= _Burton._
=Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the
world.= _Pr._
=Idleness is the root of all evil.= _Pr._ 40
=Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.=
_Anselm._
=Idleness rusts the mind.= _Pr._
=Idolatry is simply the substitution of an
"Eidolon," phantasm, or imagination of
good for that which is real and enduring,
from the highest Living Good which gives
life, to the lowest material good which
ministers to it.= _Ruskin._
=Idoneus homo=--A fit man.
=If a barrel-organ in a slum can but drown= 45
=a curse, let no Christian silence it.= _Prof.
Drummond._
=If a beard were all, the goat would be winner.=
_Dan. Pr._
=If a book come from the heart, it will contrive
to reach other hearts.= _Carlyle._
=If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.=
_Ruskin._
=If a cause be good, the most violent attack of
its enemies will not injure it so much as an
injudicious defence of it by its friends.= _Colton._
=If a dog has a man to back him, he will kill a
baboon.= _Wit and Wisdom from West Africa._
=If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.= _Pr._ 5
=If a God did not exist, it would be necessary to
invent one.= _Voltaire._
=If a great thing can be done at all, it can be
done easily; but it is in that kind of ease
with which a tree blossoms after long years
of gathered strength.= _Ruskin._
=If a house be divided against itself, that house
cannot stand.= _Jesus._
=If a man be born in a stable, that does not
make him a horse.= _Pr._
=If a man cannot be a Christian in the place= 10
=where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.=
_Ward Beecher._
=If a man could bequeath his virtues by will,
and settle his sense and learning upon his
heirs as certainly as he can his lands, a
noble descent would then indeed be a valuable
privilege.= _Anon._
=If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if
he deceives me twice, shame on me.= _Pr._
=If a man do not erect in this age his tomb ere
he dies, he will live no longer in monument
than the bell rings and the widow weeps.=
_Much Ado_, v. 2.
=If a man empties his purse into his head, no
man can take it from him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=If a man fear or reverence God, he must hate= 15
=covetousness; and if he fear or reverence
covetousness, he must hate God.= _Ruskin._
=If a man hath too mean an opinion of himself,
it will render him unserviceable both to God
and man.= _John Selden._
=If a man have freedom enough to live healthily
and work at his craft, he has enough; and
so much all can easily obtain.= _Goethe._
=If a man have not a friend, he may quit the
stage.= _Bacon._
=If a man is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.=
_Bovee._
=If a man knows the right way, he need not= 20
=trouble himself about wrong paths.= _Lessing._
=If a man makes himself a worm, he must not
complain when trodden on.= _Kant._
=If a man makes me keep my distance, the
comfort is he keeps his own at the same
time.= _Swift._
=If a man once fall, all will tread on him.= _Pr._
=If a man read little, he had need of much cunning
to seem to know that he doth not.= _Bacon._
=If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,= 25
=happiness follows him like a shadow that
never leaves him.= _Buddha._
=If a man wishes to become rich, he must appear
rich.= _Goldsmith._
=If a man with the material of enjoyment around
him and virtually within his reach walks
God's earth wilfully and obstinately with a
gloomy spirit, ... making misery his worship,
we feel assured he is contravening his
Maker's design in endowing him with life.=
_W. R. Greg._
=If a man would be alone, let him look at the
stars.= _Emerson._
=If a man wound you with injuries, meet him
with patience; hasty words rankle the
wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness
cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar.=
_J. Beaumont._
=If a man write a book, let him set down only= 30
=what he knows. I have guesses enough of
my own.= _Goethe._
=If a man s gaun doun the brae, ilka ane gi'es
him a jundie= (push). _Sc. Pr._
=If a noble soul is rendered tenfold beautifuller
by victory and prosperity, an ignoble one
is rendered tenfold and a hundredfold uglier,
pitifuller.= _Carlyle._
=If a people will not believe, it must obey.=
_Tocqueville._
=If a pig could give his mind to anything, he
wouldn't be a pig.= _Dickens._
=If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth= 35
=two.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=If ae sheep loup= (jump) =the dike, a the lave=
(rest) =will follow.= _Sc. Pr._
=If aged and life-weary men have called to
their neighbours: "Think of dying!" we
younger and life-loving men may well keep
encouraging and reminding one another
with the cheerful words: "Think of wandering!"=
_Goethe._
=If all be well within, ... the impertinent censures
of busy, envious men will make no very
deep impression.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If all dogs on this earth should bark, /
It will not matter if you do not hark.=
_Saying._
=If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast= 40
=into a public stock in order to be equally
distributed among the species, those who
now think themselves the most unhappy
would prefer the share they have already
to that which would fall to them by such
a division.= _Socrates._
=If all the world were falcons, what of that? /
The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But
he not less the eagle.= _Tennyson._
=If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport
would be as tedious as to work.= 1 _Hen. IV._,
i. 2.
=If all were rich, gold would be penniless.=
_Bailey._
=If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come
home a horse.= _Pr._
=If an ass kicks me, shall I strike him again?= 45
_Socrates._
=If an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle
to look out.= _Lichtenberg._
=If an idiot were to tell you the same story
every day for a year, you would end by
believing him.= _Burke._
=If any false step be made in the more momentous
concerns of life, the whole scheme of
ambitious designs is broken.= _Addison._
=If any man minister, let him do it as of the
ability which God giveth.= _St. Peter._
=If any man will come after me, let him deny= 50
=himself, and take up his cross and follow
me.= _Jesus._
=If any one tells you that a man has changed
his character, don't believe it.= _Mahomet._
=If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own
conscience and examine thy heart. If thou
art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not
guilty, it is a fair instruction.= _George Herbert._
=If any would not work, neither should he eat.=
_St. Paul._
=If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful,
ought it not to make the beautiful still more
beautiful?= _Lessing._
=If coals do not burn, they blacken.= _Pr._
=If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should= 5
=open our hearts wide to receive it, for it
never comes inopportunely.= _Schopenhauer._
=If children grew up according to early indications,
we should have nothing but geniuses.=
_Goethe._
=If cut= (in the costume) =betoken intellect and
talent, so does the colour betoken temper
and heart.= _Carlyle._
=If destructive criticism is injurious in anything,
it is in matters of religion, for here everything
depends upon faith, to which we
cannot return when we have once lost it.=
_Goethe._
=If each one does his duty as an individual,
and if each one works rightly in his own
vocation, it will be well with the whole.=
_Goethe._
=If ever a fool's advice is good, a prudent man= 10
=must carry it out.= _Lessing._
=If every fool wore a crown, we should all be
kings.= _Welsh Pr._
=If everybody knew what one says of the other,
there would not be four friends left in the
world.= _Pascal._
=If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct
thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.= _Epictetus._
=If fame is only to come after death, I am in no
hurry for it.= _Martial._
=If folly were a pain, there would be crying in= 15
=every house.= _Sp. Pr._
=If fortune favour you, be not elated; if she
frown, do not despond.= _Ausonius._
=If fortune give thee less than she has done, /
Then make less fire, and walk more in the
sun.= _Sir R. Baker._
=If fortune would make a man estimable, she
gives him virtues; if she would have him
esteemed, she gives him success.= _Joubert._
=If frequent failure convince you of that mediocrity
of nature which is incompatible with
great actions, submit wisely and cheerfully
to your lot.= _Sydney Smith._
=If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is= 20
=to darken the day, I will have none of it.=
_Thoreau._
=If fun is good, truth is still better, and love
most of all.= _Thackeray._
=If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in
the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or
great, / But never can be blest.= _Burns._
=If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in
a field arable would be the most noble and
ancient arms.= _Cowley._
=If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which
is the better man, the greater throw / May
turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So
is Alcides beaten by his page.= _Mer. of
Ven._, ii. 1.
=If honour calls, where'er she points the= 25
=way, / The sons of honour follow and obey.=
_Churchill._
=If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made
myself so merely by labour.= _Sir Isaac Newton._
=If I am master and you are master, who shall
drive the asses?= _Arab. Pr._
=If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not
worth the winning.= _Longfellow._
=If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the
right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my
heart to find the better way.= _Pope._
=If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if= 30
=I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art
there; if I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy
right hand shall hold me.= _Bible._
=If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should
be to myself more dear.= _Tennyson._
=If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call
good bad, I do a great deal of mischief.= _Goethe._
=If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will
feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 3.
=If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one
shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I
choose to carry on= (_treiben_) =earnest in jest, I
shall be always myself= (_immer derselbe bleiben_).
_Goethe._
=If I do lose thee= (life), =I do lose a thing / That= 35
=none but fools would keep; a breath thou
art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, /
That do this habitation, where thou keep'st /
Hourly inflict.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be
surgeon to my hurt.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 4.
=If I had read as much as other men, I would
have been as ignorant as they are.= _Hobbes._
=If I had wit enough to get out of this wood,
I have said enough to serve mine own turn.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, iii. 1.
=If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would
be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led
into the temple of truth= (_in der Wahrheit
Haus_), =I would not, with the help of God=
(_bei Gott_), =go out of it again.= _Goethe._
=If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.= _Ant. and_ 40
_Cleop._, iii. 4.
=If I love thee, what is that to thee?= _Goethe._
=If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, / By
Nature's law designed, / Why was an independent
wish / E'er planted in my mind?=
_Burns._
=If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a
bride / And hug it in my arms.= _Meas. for
Meas._, iii. 1.
=If I seek an interest of my own detached from
that of others, I seek an interest which is
chimerical, and can never have existence.=
_James Harris._
=If I should say nothing, I should say much= 45
=(much being included in my love); though
my love be such, that if I should say much,
I should yet say nothing, it being, as Cowley
says, equally impossible either to conceal or
to express it.= _Pope._
=If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight,
I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird,
with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.=
_Thoreau._
=If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind
of a good man, he doth not roll them under
his tongue as a sweet morsel.= _Matthew
Henry._
=If in the course of our life we see that done by
others for which we ourselves at one time
felt a vocation, and which we were, with
much else, compelled to relinquish, then the
noble feeling comes in, that only humanity
altogether is the true man, and that the individual
can only rejoice and be happy when
he has the heart= (_Muth_) =to feel himself in the
whole.= _Goethe._
=If in youth the universe is majestically unveiling,
and everywhere heaven revealing itself
on earth, nowhere to the young man
does this heaven on earth so immediately
reveal itself as in the young maiden.= _Carlyle._
="If" is the only peacemaker--much virtue in
"if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.
=If it be a bliss to enjoy the good, it is still= 5
=greater happiness to discern the better;
for in art the best only is good enough.=
_Goethe._
=If it be asked, What is the improper expectation
which it is dangerous to indulge, experience
will quickly answer that it is such
expectation as is dictated not by reason
but by desire--an expectation that requires
the common course of things to be changed,
and the general rules of action to be broken.=
_Johnson._
=If it be aught toward the general good, / Set
honour in one eye, and death i' the other, /
And I will look on both indifferently; / For,
let the gods so speed me, as I love / The
name of honour more than I fear death.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live
peaceably with all men.= _St. Paul._
=If it is a happiness to be nobly descended, it is
not less to have so much merit that nobody
inquires whether we are so or not.= _La
Bruyère._
=If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a= 10
=shade less disgraceful to have so much as
fought.= _Carlyle._
=If it rains--well! If it shines--well!= _Pr._
=If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere
well / It were done quickly ... that but
this blow / Might be the be all and the end
all here.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=If it were not for hope, the heart would break.=
_Pr._
=If it were not for respect to human opinions,
I would not open my window to see the Bay
of Naples for the first time, whilst I would
go five hundred leagues to talk with a man
of genius whom I had not seen.= _Mme. de
Staël._
=If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad.= 15
_Pr._
=If ladies be but young and fair, / They have
the gift to know it.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp
both with the press and they will yield the
sweetest oil.= _Jean Paul._
=If man had a higher idea of himself and his
destiny, he would neither call his business
amusement nor amuse himself instead of
transacting business.= _Goethe._
=If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is
a base and ignoble creature.= _Bacon._
=If men duly felt the greatness of God, they= 20
=would be dumb, and for very veneration
unwilling to name Him.= _Goethe._
=If money be not thy servant, it will be thy
master. The covetous man cannot so properly
be made to possess wealth as that it
may be said to possess him.= _Bacon._
=If money go before, all ways do lie open.=
_Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=If music be the food of love, play on; / Give
me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite
may sicken, and so die.= _Twelfth Night_,
i. 1.
=If my person be crooked, my verses shall be
straight.= _Pope._
=If Nature is one and a living indivisible= 25
=whole, much more is mankind, the image
that reflects and creates Nature, without
which Nature were not.= _Carlyle._
=If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets
till it be cast forth into circulation, much
more may new truth.= _Carlyle._
=If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest
are, "It might have been," / More sad are
these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought
to be."= _Bret Harte._
=If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect
from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved
to the lowest and grossest temptation.=
_Johnson._
=If one advances confidently in the direction of
his dreams, and endeavours to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with
a success unexpected in common hours.=
_Thoreau._
=If one age believes too much, it is but a natural= 30
=reaction that another age should believe
too little.= _Buckle._
=If one door shuts, another will open.= _Pr._
=If one sees one's fellow-creature following
damnable error, by continuing in which the
devil is sure to get him at last, are you to
let him go towards such consummation, or
are you not rather to use all means to save
him?= _Carlyle._
=If one were to think constantly of death, the
business of life would stand still.= _Johnson._
=If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur
at it? Is there not a better coming--nay,
come?= _Carlyle. See Matt._ v. 4.
=If people did not flatter one another, there= 35
=would be little society.= _Vauvenargues._
=If people take no care for the future, they will
soon have sorrow for the present.= _Chinese
Pr._
=If people were constant, it would surprise me.
For see, is not everything in the world subject
to change? Why then should our affections
continue?= _Goethe._
=If people would whistle more and argue less,
the world would be much happier and probably
just as wise.= _Book of Wisdom._
=If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of
sense is the father of them.= _La Bruyère._
=If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in= 40
=opulence.= _Rivarol._
=If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I
would give no man a reason upon compulsion.=
1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites;
they are the greatest dupes he has.= _Colton._
=If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom
she be?= _G. Wither._
=If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast
this jewel lies, / And they are fools who
roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; /
From our own selves our joys must flow, /
And that dear hut, our home.= _N. Cotton._
=If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming
there may be / A way to peace on earth by
woes of ours.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in= 5
=which all things are absorbed, action tends
directly backwards to diversity.= _Emerson._
=If that God give, the deil daurna reave= (bereave).
_Sc. Pr._
=If that thy fame with every toy be posed, /
'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies
make; / But the great soldier's honour was
composed / Of thicker stuff, which would
endure a shake.= _George Herbert._
=If the Almighty waited six thousand years
for a man to see what He has made, I may
well wait two hundred for others to see what
I have seen.= _Kepler. See Isa._ xxviii. 16 (_last
clause_).
=If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it
spoken, we moderns are building houses for
them.= _A. B. Alcott._
=If the beard were all, the goat might preach.= 10
_Dan. Pr._
=If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into
the ditch.= _Heb. Pr._
=If the cap fit, wear it.= _Pr._
=If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we
should all be straw, I reckon.= _George Eliot._
=If the counsel be good, no matter who gave
it.= _Pr._
=If the deil were dead, folk would do little for= 15
=God's sake.= _Sc. Pr._
=If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us
than to our fathers, he is as busy with us
as he was with them.= _Lowell._
=If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills,
the earth hides it.= _Sc. Pr._
=If the East loves infinity, the West delights in
boundaries.= _Emerson._
=If the eye were not of a sunny nature= (_sonnenhaft_),
=how could it see the sun? If God's own
power did not exist within us, how could the
godlike delight us?= _Goethe._
=If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough,= 20
=how can he live who drives a fast-trotting
mare?= _Pr._
=If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, /
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.=
_Gay._
=If the hungry lion= (invited to a feast of chickenweed)
=is to feast at all, it cannot be on the
chickenweed, but only on the chickens.= _Carlyle._
=If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at
the walls. It is when he is gone, and the
house is filled with grooms and gazers, that
we turn from the people to find relief in the
majestic men that are suggested by the
pictures and the architecture.= _Emerson._
="If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He
"will surely come" and heal thee.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,= 25
=Mahomet will go to the mountain.= _Mahomet._
=If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little
shorter, it would have changed the history
of the world.= _Pascal._
=If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its
roof still screens us; and with a father we
have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and
an obedience that makes us free.= _Carlyle._
=If the pills were pleasant, they would not be
gilded.= _Pr._
=If the poet have nothing to interpret and
reveal, it is better that he remain silent.=
_C. Fitzhugh._
=If the poor man cannot always get meat, the= 30
=rich man cannot always digest it.= _Henry
Giles._
=If the profession you have chosen has some
unexpected inconveniences, console yourself
by reflecting that no profession is without
them.= _Johnson._
=If the single man plant himself indomitably
on his instincts, and there abide, the huge
world will come round to him.= _Emerson._
=If the sun shines on me, what matters the
moon?= _Pr._
=If the sky fall, we shall catch larks.= _Pr._
=If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the= 35
=time.= _Turk. Pr._
=If the tongue had not been formed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.=
_Emerson._
=If the true did not possess an objective value,
human curiosity would have died out centuries
ago.= _Renan._
=If the weather don't happen to be good for
my work to-day, it's good for some other
man's, and will come round to me to-morrow.=
_Dickens._
=If the world were put into one scale and my
mother into the other, the world would kick
the beam.= _Lord Langdale._
=If the young knew, if the old could, there's= 40
=nothing but would be done.= _Pr._
=If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel
too.= _Tennyson._
=If there be light, then there is darkness; if
cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid;
if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest;
if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.=
_Pythagoras._
=If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no
victory; if no victory, no crown.= _Savanar._
=If there be not a religious element in the relations
of men, such relations are miserable
and doomed to ruin.= _Carlyle._
=If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy= 45
=the sun.= _Pr._
=If there were no falsehood in the world, there
would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry;
and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge,
no genius.= _Landor._
=If there were no fools, there would be no
knaves.= _Pr._
=If there were only one religion in the world,
it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic.=
_Frederick the Great._
=If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye
tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, /
And faith he'll prent it.= _Burns, of Capt. Grose._
=If they do these things in the green tree, what
shall be done in the dry?= _Jesus._
=If they hear not Moses and the Prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one
rose from the dead.= _Jesus._
=If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if
a servant, sometimes deaf.= _Fuller._
=If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an
ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou
bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, /
And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._,
iii. 1.
=If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own= 5
=ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou
knowest not thyself.= _Luther._
=If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man,
then here I disallow thee to be a competent
judge.= _Isaac Walton._
=If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That
thou canst speak at once, but husband it.=
_George Herbert._
=If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear
thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou canst let others alone in their matters,
they likewise will not hinder thee in thine.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou cast away one cross, without doubt= 10
=thou shalt find another, and that perhaps
more heavy.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving,
thou killest a bee; if thou givest to
other than such, thou preservest a drone.=
_Quarles._
=If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?=
_Bible._
=If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy
strength is small.= _Bible._
=If thou hast fear of those who command
thee, spare those who obey thee.= _Rabbi
Ben Azai._
=If thou hast run with the footmen, and they= 15
=have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend
with horses? and if in the land of peace,
wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee,
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of
Jordan?= _Bible._
=If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.=
_Isocrates._
=If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel
not at the matter; for He that is
higher than the highest regardeth; and
there be higher than they.= _Bible._
=If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the
true unhappiness is in doing it.= _Democrates._
=If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read
humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring
to win a character for learning.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in= 20
=holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may
prove / To a bright endless year.= _Keble._
=If thy estate be good, match near home and
at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly.=
_Lord Burleigh._
=If thy son can make ten pound his measure, /
Then all thou addest may be called his treasure.=
_George Herbert._
=If to do were as easy as to know what were
good to do, chapels had been churches and
poor men's cottages princes' palaces.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 2.
=If truth be with thy friend, be with them both.=
_George Herbert._
=If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture,= 25
=not the soil.= _Pope._
=If virtue keep court within, honour will attend
without.= _Pr._
=If we are not famous for goodness, we are
practically infamous.= _Spurgeon._
=If we are rich with the riches which we neither
give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches
which are buried in the caverns of the earth.=
_Hitopadesa._
=If we are told a man is religious, we still ask
what are his morals; but if we hear he has
honest morals, we seldom think of the other
question, whether he be religious.= _Shaftesbury._
=If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we= 30
=are great, we must thank fortune.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=If we bear what we must bear with murmuring
and grudging, we do but gall our
shoulders with the yoke, and render that
a heavy unprofitable load which might be
fruitful and glorious.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from
the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation
lose / The name of hardiness and policy.=
_Hen. V._, i. 2.
=If we cannot help committing errors, we must
build none.= _Goethe._
=If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us
at least live so as to deserve happiness.=
_Fichte._
=If we cast off one burden, we are immediately= 35
=pursued and oppressed by another.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=If we clear the metaphysical element out of
modern literature, we shall find its bulk
amazingly diminished, and the claims of
the remaining writers, or of those whom
we have thinned by this abstraction of their
straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted.=
_Ruskin._
=If we could have a little patience, we should
escape much mortification. Time takes away
as much as it gives.= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=If we could read the secret history of our
enemies, we should find in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all
hostility.= _Longfellow._
=If we do not find happiness in the present
moment, in what shall we find it?= _Goldsmith._
=If we do not now reckon a great man literally= 40
=divine, it is that our notions of the divine are
ever rising higher; not altogether that our
reverence for the divine, as manifested in our
like, is getting lower.= _Carlyle._
=If we do well here, we shall do well there.=
_J. Edwin._
=If we engage into a large acquaintance
and various familiarities, we set open our
gates to the invaders of most of our time.=
_Cowley._
=If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them
always occupied with the past and the future.=
_Pascal._
=If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what
will become of us when assaulted by greater?=
_Themas à Kempis._
=If we hope for what we are not likely to
possess, we act and think in vain, and make
life a greater dream and shadow than it
really is.= _Addison._
=If we live truly, we shall see truly.= _Emerson._
=If we love those we lose, can we altogether
lose those we love?= _Thackeray._
=If we reflect on the number of men we have
seen and know, and consider how little we
have been to them and they to us, what
must our feelings be?= (_wie wird uns da zu
Muthe_). =We meet with the man of genius=
(_Geistreich_) =without conversing with him,
with the scholar without learning from him,
with the traveller without gaining information
from him, the amiable man without
making ourselves agreeable to him. And
this, alas! happens not merely with passing
acquaintances; society and families conduct
themselves similarly towards their dearest
members, cities towards their worthiest
citizens, peoples towards their most excellent
princes, and nations towards their
most eminent men.= _Goethe._
=If we saw all the things that really surround= 5
=us, we should be imprisoned and unable to
move.= _Emerson._
=If we should all bring our misfortunes into one
place, most of us would be glad to take our
own home again rather than take a proportion
out of the common stock.= _Solon._
=If we shut Nature out at the door, she will
come in at the window.= _Sir R. L'Estrange._
=If we sit down sullen and inactive, in expectation
that God should do all, we shall find
ourselves miserably deceived.= _Rogers._
=If we will disbelieve everything because we
cannot certainly know all things, we shall
do much as wisely as he who would not use
his legs, but sit still and perish because he
had no wings.= _Locke._
=If we wish to do good to men, we must pity= 10
=and not despise them.= _Amiel._
=If we would amend the world, we should mend
ourselves and teach our children what they
should be.= _Wm. Penn._
=If we would endeavour like brave men to
stand in the battle, surely we should feel
the assistance from Heaven.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=If we would have a genuine torment, let us
wish for too much time.= _Goethe._
=If we would put ourselves in the place of other
people, the jealousy and dislike which we
often feel towards them would depart, and
if we put others in our place, our pride
and self-conceit would very much decrease.=
_Goethe._
=If what happens does not make us richer, we= 15
=must bid it welcome if it make us wiser.=
_Johnson._
=If "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is
need of much "wise oblivion" first.= _Carlyle._
=If within the sophisticated man there is not an
unsophisticated one, then he is but one of
the devil's angels.= _Thoreau._
=If women were humbler, men would be
honester.= _Vanbrugh._
=If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in
vain.= _Young._
=If ye believe a' ye hear, ye may eat a' ye see.= 20
_Sc. Pr._
=If ye gi'e a woman a' her will, / Guid faith,
she'll soon o'ergang ye.= _Burns._
=If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make
you carry the cow.= _Pr._
=If you anticipate your inheritance, you can at
last inherit nothing.= _Johnson._
=If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are
solitary, be not idle.= _Johnson._
=If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.= 25
_Pr._
=If you cannot drive the engine, you can clear
the road.= _Pr._
=If you cannot have the best, make the best of
what you have.= _Pr._
=If you cannot make a man think as you do,
make him do as you think.= _Amer. Pr._
=If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a
cake.= _Pr._
=If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open.= 30
_Dan. Pr._
=If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If
you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So
you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and
all the good business you have now, and
none of the bad.= _Ruskin._
=If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.=
_Pr._
=If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that
you are out of your reckoning, and instead
of the poet, are censuring your own caricature
of him.= _Emerson._
=If you desire faith, then you've faith enough.=
_Browning._
=If you desire to enjoy my light, you must supply= 35
=oil to my lamp.= _Pr._
=If you dinna see the bottom, don't wade= (_i.e._,
don't venture, if you can't see your way). _Sc. Pr._
=If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge
of that you are thought to know, you shall
be thought, another time, to know that you
know not.= _Bacon._
=If you do anything for the sake of the world,
it will take good care that you shall not do
it a second time.= _Goethe._
=If you do not err, you do not attain to understanding.=
_Goethe._
=If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you= 40
=had better get him to talk about it; for the
more men talk, the more likely they are to
do nothing else.= _Carlyle._
=If you don't do better to-day, you'll do worse
to-morrow.= _Pr._
=If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the
bell.= _Pr._
=If you eat, eat a portion; do not eat all.= _Wit
and Wisdom from West Africa._
=If you have a good seat, keep it.= _Pr._
=If you have a special weakness, do not expose= 45
=it by attempting to do things which will
bring it out.= _Spurgeon._
=If you have built castles in the air, your work
need not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them.=
_Thoreau._
=If you have lived one day, you have seen all.=
_Montaigne._
=If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=If you have time, don't wait for time.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=If you know how to spend less than you get,
you have the philosopher's stone.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie
upon thorns when old.= _Pr._
=If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear
as many hearse-like airs as carols.= _Bacon._
=If you live among men, the heart must either
break or turn to brass.= _Chamfort._
=If you make a law against dancing-masters= 5
=imitating the fine gentleman, you should
with as much reason enact, that no fine
gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master.=
_Goldsmith._
=If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of
honest men.= _Pr._
=If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will
squeak.= _Dut. Pr._
=If you put a chain around the neck of a slave,
the other end fastens itself around your
own.= _Pr._
=If you raise one ghost, you will have the
churchyard in motion.= _Pr._
=If you read the Bible with a predetermination to= 10
=pick out every text you approve of, on these
terms you will find it entirely intelligible and
wholly delightful; but if you read it with a
real purpose of trying to understand it, and
obey, and so read it all through steadily,
you will find it, out and out, the crabbedest
and most difficult book you ever tried.=
_Ruskin._
=If you resolve to do right, you will soon do
wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and
you will never do right.= _Ruskin._
=If you run after two hares, you will catch
neither.= _Pr._
=If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it.=
_Pr._
=If you seek warmth of affection from a similar
motive to that from which cats and dogs and
slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the
downward road.= _Thoreau._
=If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.= _Pr._ 15
=If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will
rise almost an atheist.= _Anon._
=If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will
make you feel shame.= _Gael. Pr._
=If you throw all your money into the sea, yet
count it before you let it go.= _Old saying._
=If you trust before you try, / You may repent
before you die.= _Pr._
=If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say= 20
=that he ate the frying-pan.= _Pr._
=If you want learning, you must work for it.=
_J. G. Holland._
=If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity
and to be universally dreaded, blurt
out the plain truth on all occasions.= _Anon._
=If you want to know a man, make a solitary
journey with him.= _Pr._
=If you want work done, go to the man who is
already fully occupied.= _Pr._
=If you were as eager to discover good as evil,= 25
=and had the same delight in spreading the
report of it; if good examples were made
public as the bad ones always are, do you
not think that the good would weigh down
the balance? But gratitude speaks so low,
and indignation so loudly, that you cannot
hear but the last.= _Marmontel._
=If you wish a wise answer, you must put a
rational question.= _Goethe._
=If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell
the simple truth.= _Rahel._
=If you would be a smith, begin with blowing
the fire.= _Pr._
=If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is
with words as with sunbeams, the more
they are condensed the deeper they burn.=
_Saxe._
=If you would be well served, you must serve= 30
=yourself.= _Pr._
=If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get
nearer his heart.= _J. M. Barrie._
=If you would create something, you must be
something.= _Goethe._
=If you would ensure a peaceful old age, be
careful of the acts of each day of your youth;
for with youth the deeds thereof are not to
be left behind.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=If you would eschew pain, eschew pleasure.=
_The Cynics._
=If you would have a faithful servant and one= 35
=you like, serve yourself.= _Ben. Franklin._
=If you would have it well done, you must do it
yourself; you must not leave it to others.=
_Pr._
=If you would know and not be known, live in a
city.= _Colton._
=If you would learn to write, it is the street
you must learn it in.= _Emerson._
=If you would love mankind, you should not
expect too much from them.= _Helvetius._
=If you would make Fortune your friend; when= 40
=people say money is to be got here and
money is to be got there, take no notice;
mind your own business; stay where you
are; and secure all you can get, without
stirring.= _Goldsmith._
=If you would rule the world quietly, you must
keep it amused.= _Anon._
=If you would slip into a round hole, you must
make a ball of yourself.= _George Eliot._
=If you would succeed, you must not be too
good.= _It. Pr._
=If you would understand an author, you must
understand his age.= _Goethe._
=If you would work any man, know his nature= 45
=and fashions, and so lead him.= _Bacon._
=If your mind and its affections be pure, and
sincere, and moderate, nothing shall have
the power to enslave you.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=If your wife is short, stoop to her.= _Pr._
=Ignavis semper feriæ sunt=--To the indolent
every day is a holiday. _Pr._
=Ignavissimus quisque, et, ut res docuit, in
periculo non ausurus, nimio verbis et lingua
ferox=--Every recreant, who, as experience has
proved, will fly in the hour of danger, is the
most boastful in his words and language afterwards.
_Tacit._
=Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent=--They 50
(the bees) drive from their hives the drones,
a lazy pack. _Virg._
=Ignem gladio scrutare modo=--Only stir the fire
with a sword! _Hor._
=Ignem ne gladio fodito=--Do not stir the fire with
a sword. _Pr._
=Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros=--Fire
tests gold; adversity strong men. _Sen._
=Ignis fatuus=--A deceiving light; a "Will-o'-the-wisp."
=Ignis sacer=--"St. Anthony's fire." _Pliny._
=Ignobile vulgus=--The base-born multitude.
=Ignoramus=--An ignorant person (_lit._ we are
ignorant).
=Ignorance is a heavy burden.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only deprived
of its charm.= _De Boufflers._
=Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.=
_Thucydides._
=Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the
wing wherewith we fly to heaven.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, iv. 7.
=Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.=
_Froude._
=Ignorance is the mother of devotion.= _Jeremy_ 10
_Taylor._
=Ignorance is the mother of impudence.= _Pr._
=Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night
without moon or star.= _Confucius._
=Ignorance is the primary source of all misery
and vice.= _Cousin._
=Ignorance is preferable to error.= _Jefferson._
=Ignorance never settles a question.= _Disraeli._ 15
=Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is
right.= _Punch._
=Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.= _Dryden._
=Ignorantia facti excusat=--Ignorance of the fact
excuses. _L._
=Ignorantia legis excusat neminem=--Ignorance
of the law excuses nobody. _L._
=Ignoratio elenchi=--Ignoring of the point at 20
issue.
=Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum,
maxime hominum vita vexatur=--Through
ignorance of the distinction between good and
bad, the life of men is greatly harassed. _Cic._
=Ignorent populi, si non in morte probaris, /
An scires adversa pati=--The world would not
know, if you did not prove by your death, that
you knew how to bear up against adverse circumstances.
_Lucan, of Pompey._
=Ignoscas aliis multa, nil tibi=--You should pardon
many things in others, nothing in yourself.
_Auson._
=Ignoti nulla cupido=--There is no desire for what
is unknown. _Pr._
=Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre / Flumina= 25
=gaudebat, studio minuente laborem=--He delighted
to wander over unknown regions, to visit
unknown rivers, the interest lessening the fatigue.
_Ovid._
=Ignotum argenti pondus et auri=--An untold
mass of silver and gold. _Virg._
=Ignotum per ignotius=--The unknown by the
still more unknown.
=Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug, / Ihr lernt
nichts mehr in alten Zeiten=--Ye children,
learn enough _now_, nothing more will you be
able to learn ere long. _Pfeffel._
=Ihr sagt es sei nichts als Glück / Zu siegen
ohne die Tacktick / Doch besser ohne Tacktick
siegen / Als mit derselben unterliegen=--You
say it is nothing but luck to gain a victory
without tactics, yet it is better to conquer
without them, than therewith to be beaten.
_Tyrolese Pr._
=Ihr sucht die Menschen zu benennen, /= 30
=und glaubt am Namen sie zu kennen; / Wer
tiefer sieht, gesteht sich frei, / Es ist das
Anonymes dabei=--Ye seek to name men, and
think that ye know them by name; he who sees
deeper will freely confess there is something in
them which there is no name for. _Goethe._
=Il a inventé l'histoire=--He has invented history.
_Mme. du Deffand, of Voltaire._
=Il a la mer à boire=--He has the sea to drink up,
_i.e._, has undertaken an impossible task. _Fr.
Pr._
=Il a la tête près du bonnet=--He is of a passionate
temper (_lit._ has his head near his cap). _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le diable au corps=--The deuce (_lit._ the
devil) is in him. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le verbe haut=--He assumes a high tone; he 35
has a loud voice. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a le vin mauvais=--He is quarrelsome over his
wine. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a les yeux à fleur de tête=--He has prominent
eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a mangé son pain blanc le premier=--He has
eaten the best first. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a plus que personne l'esprit que tout le
monde a=--He has more than any other the
mind which every one has. _Montesquieu._
=Il a travaillé pour le roi de Prusse=--He has 40
worked for the King of Prussia, _i.e._, laboured
in vain. _Fr. Pr._
=Il a vu le loup=--He has seen the world. _Fr. Pr._
=Il aboye à tout le monde=--He barks at everybody.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il arrive comme Mars en Carème=--He arrives
opportunely (_lit._ like March in Lent). _Fr. Pr._
=Il attend, que les alouettes lui tombent toutes
rôties=--He expects larks to rain down all ready
roasted. _Hans Sachs._
=Il buon mercato vuota la borsa=--Great bargains 45
empty the purse. _It. Pr._
=Il buono è buono, ma il meglio vince=--Good is
good, but better surpasses it. _It. Pr._
=Il can battuto dal bastone ha paura dell'
ombra=--The dog that has been beaten with a
stick is afraid of its shadow. _It. Pr._
=Il castigo puo differirsi ma non si toglie=--Punishment
may be tardy, but it is sure to overtake
the guilty. _It. Pr._
=Il conduit bien sa barque=--He manages his
affairs well. _Fr. Pr._
=Il connaît l'univers et ne se connaît pas=--He 50
knows everything and does not know himself.
_La Font._
=Il coûte peu à amasser beaucoup de richesse,
et beaucoup à en amasser peu=--It costs little
trouble to amass a great deal of wealth, but
great labour to amass a little. _Fr. Pr._
=Il diavolo tenta tutti, ma l'ozioso tenta il
diavolo=--The devil tempts all, but the idle man
tempts the devil. _It. Pr._
=Il donne des entrailles à tous les mots=--He
gives pathos to all his words. _Joubert, of
Rousseau._
=Il en est d'un homme qui aime, comme d'un
moineau, pris à la glu; plus il se débat, plus
il s'embarrasse=--It is with a man in love, as
with a sparrow caught in bird-lime; the more he
struggles, the more he is entangled. _Fr. Pr._
=Il en fait ses choux gras=--He feathers his nest 55
with it. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est aisé d'ajouter aux inventions des autres=--It
is easy to add to the inventions of others.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il est aisé d'aller à pied, quand on tient son
cheval par la bride=--It is easy to go afoot when
one leads one's horse by the bridle. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est aux anges=--He is supremely happy (_lit._
with the angels).
=Il est avis à vieille vache qu'elle ne fût oncques
veau=--The old cow persuades herself that she
never was a calf. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien aisé à ceux qui se portent bien de= 5
=donner des avis aux malades=--It is very easy
for those who are well to give advice to the sick.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien difficile de garder un trésor dont
tous les hommes ont la clef=--It is very difficult
to guard a treasure of which all men have the
key. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bien fou qui s'oublie=--He is a great fool
who forgets himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est bon d'être ferme par tempérament et
flexible par réflexion=--It is good to be firm by
temperament and pliable by reflexion. _Vauvenargues._
=Il est bon d'être habile, mais non pas de le
paraître=--It is good to be clever, but not to
show it. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est comme l'oiseau sur la branche=--He is 10
unsettled or wavering (_lit._ like a bird on a
branch). _Fr. Pr._
=Il est peu de distance de la roche Tarpéienne
au Capitole=--It is but a short way from the
Tarpeian rock to the Capitol. _Mirabeau._
=Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que
pour soi-même=--It is easier to be wise for others
than for ourselves. _La Roche._
=Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que
d'en être trompé=--It is more disgraceful to suspect
our friends than to be deceived by them.
_La Roche._
=Il est souvent plus court et plus utile de cadrer
aux autres que de faire que les autres
s'adjustent à nous=--It is often more easy and
more convenient to conform to others than to
make others conform to us. _La Bruyère._
=Il est temps d'être sage quand on a la barbe au= 15
=menton=--It is time to be wise when you have a
beard on your chin. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est tout prêché qui n'a cure de bien faire=--He
is past preaching to who does not care to do
well. _Fr. Pr._
=Il est trop difficile de penser noblement, quand
on ne pense que pour vivre=--It is too difficult
to think nobly when one thinks only to get
a livelihood. _Rousseau._
=Il faisoit de necessité vertu=--He made a virtue
of necessity. _Rabelais._
=Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui
l'obtint=--A financier was wanted, a dancing-master
got the post. _Beaumarchais._
=Il faut attendre le boiteux=--We must wait for 20
the lame. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut avaler bien de la fumée aux lampes
avant que de devenir bon orateur=--A man
must swallow a great deal of lamp-smoke before
he can be a good orator. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut avoir pitié des morts=--One must have
pity on the dead. _Victor Hugo._
=Il faut avoir une âme=--It is indispensable that
we should have a soul. _Tolstoi._
=Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir
la bonne fortune que la mauvaise=--It requires
greater moral strength to bear good fortune than
bad. _La Roche._
=Il faut en affrontant l'orage / Penser, vivre et= 25
=mourir en roi=--I must in face of the storm think,
live, and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._
=Il faut hurler avec les loups=--You must howl
if you are among wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut laver son linge sale en famille=--One's
filthy linen should be washed at home. _Fr.
Pr._
=Il faut payer de sa vie=--One must pay with his
life. _Fr. Pr._
=Il faut perdre un véron pour pêcher un saumon=--We
must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. _Fr.
Pr._
=Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée=--A 30
door must either be open or shut. _Brueys et
Palaprat._
=Il faut savoir s'ennuyer=--One must accustom
one's self to be bored. _Lady Bloomfield._
=Il faut sortir de la vie ainsi que d'un banquet, /
Remerciant son hôte, et faisant son paquet=--One
must quit life as one does a banquet,
thanking the host and packing up one's belongings.
_Voltaire._
=Il fuoco non s'estingue con fuoco=--Fire is not
extinguished by fire. _It. Pr._
=Il fut historien pour rester orateur=--He turned
historian that he might still play the orator.
=Il me faut du nouveau, n'en fût-il point au= 35
=monde=--I must have something new, even were
there none in the world. _La Fontaine._
=Il meglio è l'inimico del bene=--Better is an enemy
to well. _It. Pr._
=Il meurt connu de tous et ne se connaît pas=--He
dies known by all and does not know himself.
_Vauquelin des Yvetaux._
=Il mondo è di chi ha pazienza=--The world is his
who has patience. _It. Pr._
=Il mondo è fatto a scale; / Chi le scende, e chi
le sale=--The world is like a staircase; some
are going up and some going down. _It. Pr._
=Il mondo sta con tre cose: fare, disfare, e dare= 40
=ad intendere=--The world gets along with three
things: doing, undoing, and pretending. _It. Pr._
=Il monta sur ses grands chevaux=--He mounted
his high horse. _Fr. Pr._
=Il nage entre deux eaux=--He keeps fair with
both parties (_lit._ swims between two waters).
_Fr. Pr._
=Il n'a ni bouche ni éperon=--He has neither wit
nor go in him (_lit._ he has neither mouth nor
spur). _Fr._
=Il n'a pas inventé la poudre=--He was not the
inventor of gunpowder. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'a pas l'air, mais la chanson=--He has not 45
the tune, but the song. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes, d'avoir
de grands défauts=--It is only great men who
can afford to have great defects. _La Roche._
=Il n'attache pas ses chiens avec des saucisses=--He
does not chain his dogs together with
sausages. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'avait pas précisément des vices, mais il
était rongé d'une vermine de petits défauts,
dont on ne pouvait l'épurer=--He had not
vices exactly, but he was the prey to a swarm
of small faults of which there was no ridding
him. _Fr._
=Il n'est d'heureux que qui croit l'être=--Only he
is happy who thinks he is. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'est orgueil que de pauvre enrichi=--There
is no pride like that of a poor man who has
become rich. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'est pas d'homme nécessaire=--There is no
man but can be dispensed with. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'est pas échappé qui traîne son lien=--He is
not escaped who still drags his chains. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens=--There 5
is nothing useless to people of sense. _La
Fontaine._
=Il n'est sauce que d'appétit=--Hunger is the best
sauce. _Fr. Pr._
=Il ne fait rien, et nuit à qui veut faire=--He produces
nothing, and hinders those who would. _Fr._
=Il ne faut jamais se moquer des misérables, /
Car qui peut s'assurer d'être toujours heureux?=--We
must never laugh at the miserable,
for who can be sure of being always happy? _La
Fontaine._
=Il ne faut pas nous fâcher des choses passées=--We
should not trouble ourselves (_Sc._ fash)
about things that are past. _Napoleon._
=Il ne faut pas parler latin devant les Cordeliers=--It 10
doesn't do to talk Latin before the
Grey Friars. _Fr. Pr._
=Il ne faut pas voler avant que d'avoir des ailes=--One
must not fly before he develops wings.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la famille
d'un pendu=--Never speak of a rope in the
family of one who has been hanged. _Fr. Pr._
=Il ne sait plus de quel bois faire flèche=--He is
put to his last shift (_lit._ knows of no wood to
make his arrow). _Fr. Pr._
=Il ne sait sur quel pied danser=--He knows not on
which foot to dance (_i.e._ he is at his wit's end).
=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui a vieilli=--There 15
is nothing new but what has become antiquated.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié=--There
is nothing new but what is forgotten.
_Mdlle. Bertine._
=Il n'y a de sots si incommodes que ceux qui
ont de l'esprit=--There are no fools so unsufferable
as those who have wit. _La Roche._
=Il n'y a pas à dire=--There is no use saying anything;
the thing is settled. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a pas de cheval si bon qu'il ne bronche
pas=--There is no horse so sure-footed as never
to trip. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a pas de gens plus affairés que ceux qui= 20
=n'ont rien à faire=--There are no people so busy
as those who have nothing to do. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a pas de petit ennemi=--There is no such
thing as an insignificant enemy. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a peut-être point de vérité qui ne soit à
quelque esprit faux matière d'erreur=--There
is, perhaps, no truth that is not to some false
minds matter of error. _Vauvenargues._
=Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées=--There are no longer
any Pyrenees. _Louis XIV., on the departure of
the Duke of Anjou from Paris for Spain._
=Il n'y a point au monde un si pénible métier
que celui de se faire un grand nom. La vie
s'achève que l'on a à peine ébauché son
ouvrage=--There is not a more laborious undertaking
in the world than that of earning a great
name; life comes to a close before one has well
schemed out one's course. _La Bruyère._
=Il n'y a point de chemin trop long à qui marche= 25
=lentement et sans se presser, il n'y a point
d'avantages trop éloignés à qui s'y prépare
par la patience=--No road is too long for him
who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no
attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself
with patience to achieve it. _La Bruyère._
=Il n'y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle
que l'on exerce à l'ombre des lois et avec les
couleurs de la justice=--There is no crueller
tyranny than that which is perpetrated under
the shield of law and in the name of justice.
_Montesquieu._
=Il n'y a que la vérité qui blesse=--It is only the
truth that offends (_lit._ wounds). _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses=--There
is only the morning in all things. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is
only the first step which costs. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a que les honteux qui perdent=--It is only 30
the bashful who lose. _Fr. Pr._
=Il n'y a que les morts qui ne reviennent pas=--It
is only the dead who do not return.
_Barère._
=Il n'y a rien de si puissant qu'une république
où l'on observe les lois, non pas par crainte,
non pas par raison, mais par passion=--There
is no commonwealth so powerful as one in which
the laws are observed not from a principle of
fear or reason, but passion. _Montesquieu._
=Il n'y a rien que la crainte et l'espérance ne
persuadent aux hommes=--There is nothing
that fear and hope does not persuade men to do.
_Vauvenargues._
=Il paraît qu'on n'apprend pas à mourir en
tuant les autres=--It does not appear that
people learn how to die by taking away the lives
of others. _Chateaubriand._
=Il passa par la gloire, il passa par le crime, et il= 35
=n'est arrivé qu'au malheur=--He passed through
glory and through crime, and has landed only
in misfortune. _Said of Napoleon III._
=Il penseroso=--The pensive man. _It._
=Il plaît à tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire=--He
pleases all the world but cannot please
himself. _Boileau, of Molière._
=Il porte le deuil de sa blanchisseuse=--He wears
mourning for his laundress, _i.e._, his linen is dirty.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il riso fa buon sangue=--Laughter makes good
blood; puts one in good humour. _It. Pr._
=Il rit bien qui rit le dernier=--He laughs with 40
reason who laughs the last.
=Il sabio muda conscio, il nescio no=--A wise man
changes his mind, a fool never. _Sp. Pr._
=Il se fait entendre, à force de se faire écouter=--He
makes himself understood by compelling
people to listen to him. _Villemain._
=Il se faut entr'aider; c'est la loi de nature=--We
must assist one another; it is the law of Nature.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il sent le fagot=--He is suspected of heresy (_lit._
he smells of the faggot). _Fr._
=Il tacer non fu mai scritto=--Silence was never 45
written down. _It. Pr._
=Il tempo è un galant 'uomo=--Time is a fine lord
(or lady). _Mazarin._
=Il tempo buono viene una volta sola=--The good
time comes but once. _It. Pr._
=Il tempo è una lima sorda=--Time is a file that
emits no noise. _It. Pr._
=Il trouverait à tondre sur un œuf=--He would
skin a flint (_lit._ find something to shave on an
egg). _Fr. Pr._
=Il va du blanc au noir=--He runs to extremes
(_lit._ from white to black). _Fr. Pr._
=Il vaut mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à ses
saints=--It is better to deal with God than with
His saints. _Fr. Pr._
=Il vaut mieux être fou avec tous, que sage
tout seul=--Better to be mad with everybody,
than wise all alone. _Fr. Pr._
=Il vaut mieux être marteau qu'enclume=--It is 5
better to be hammer than anvil. _Fr. Pr._
=Il vaut mieux être singe perfectionné qu'un
Adam dégénéré=--Better a perfect ape than a
degenerate man. _Claparède._
=Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié=--It is better
to be envied than pitied. _Fr. Pr._
=Il vaut mieux tâcher d'oublier ses malheurs
que d'en parler=--It is better to try and forget
one's misfortunes than to speak of them. _Fr.
Pr._
=Il vero punge, e la bugia unge=--Truth stings
and falsehood salves over. _It. Pr._
=Il villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera=--The 10
clown in his own country, the gentleman
where he pleases. _Sp. Pr._
=Il volto sciolto, i pensieri stretti=--The countenance
open, the thoughts reserved. _It. Pr._
=Il y a anguille sous roche=--There is a snake in
the grass; a mystery in the affair. _Fr. Pr._
=Il y a bien des gens qu'on estime, parce qu'on
ne les connaît point=--Many people are esteemed
merely because they are not known. _Fr. Pr._
=Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que
d'amour=--There is more self-love than love in
jealousy. _La Roche._
=Il y a des gens à qui la vertu sied presque= 15
=aussi mal que le vice=--There are some men
on whom virtue sits almost as awkwardly as
vice. _Bouhours._
=Il y a des gens auxquels il faut trois cent ans
pour commencer voir une absurdité=--There
are people who take three hundred years before
they begin to see an absurdity. _Fr._ (?)
=Il y a des gens dégoûtants avec du mérite, et
d'autres qui plaisent avec des défauts=--There
are people who disgust us in spite of their merits,
and others who please us in spite of their faults.
_La Roche._
=Il y a des gens qui ressemblent aux vaudevilles,
qu'on ne chante qu'un certain temps=--Some
men are like the ballads that are sung
only for a certain time. _La Roche._
=Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges
qui médisent=--There are censures which are
commendations, and commendations which are
censures. _La Roche._
=Il y a des vérités qui ne sont pas pour tous= 20
=les hommes et pour tous les temps=--There
are truths which are not for every man and for
every occasion. _Fr._ (?)
=Il y a encore de quoi glaner=--There are still
other fields to glean from; the subject is not
exhausted. _Fr. Pr._
=Il y a fagots et fagots=--There is a difference
between one faggot and another. _Molière._
=Il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la
prose sans que j'en susse rien=--I have been
speaking prose forty years without knowing it.
_Molière._
=Il y a plus fous acheteurs que de fous vendeurs=--There
are more foolish buyers than foolish
sellers. _Fr. Pr._
=Il y a quelque chose dans les malheurs de nos= 25
=meilleurs amis qui ne nous déplaît pas=--There
is something in the misfortunes of our best friends
which does not displease us. _Fr. Pr._
=Il y a souvent de l'illusion, de la mode, du
caprice dans le jugement des hommes=--In
the judgments of people there is often little
more than self-deception, fashion, and whim.
_Voltaire._
=Il y a une espèce de honte d'être heureux à
la vue de certaines misères=--It is a kind of
shame to feel happy with certain miseries before
our eyes. _Fr._
=Il y en a peu qui gagnent à être approfondis=--Few
men rise in our esteem on a closer scrutiny.
_Fr. Pr._
=Il y va de la vie=--Life depends on it; it is a matter
of life or death.
=Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra=--Sin is 30
committed as well within the walls of Troy as
without, _i.e._, both sides were to blame. _Hor._
=Ilicet infandum cuncti contra omina bellum /
Contra fata deum, perverso numine poscunt=--Forthwith,
against the omens and against the
oracles of the gods, all to a man, under an adverse
influence, clamour for unholy war. _Virg._
=Ilka= (every) =blade o' grass keps= (catches) =it ain
drap o' dew.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ilka dog has his day.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing, / That,
in the merry months of spring, / Delighted
me to hear thee sing, / What comes o' thee? /
Where wilt thou cower thy chittering
wing, an' close thy e'e?= _Burns, "A Winter
Night."_
=Ill bairns are best heard at hame.= _Sc. Pr._ 35
=Ill begun, ill done.= _Dut. Pr._
=Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach
the small.= _Spenser._
=Ill comes upon war's back.= _Pr._
=Ill-doers are ill thinkers.= _Pr._
=Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, /= 40
=Where wealth accumulates and men decay.=
_Goldsmith._
=Ill fortune never crushes that man whom good
fortune deceived not.= _Ben Jonson._
=Ill got, ill spent.= _Pr._
=Ill-gotten wealth seldom descends to the third
generation.= _Pr._
=Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As
brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.=
_Dryden._
=Ill hearing mak's ill rehearsing.= _Sc. Pr._ 45
=Ill-humour is nothing more than an inward
feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction
with ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by
ounces.= _It. Pr._
=Ill news comes apace.= _Pr._
=Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.= _Sp. and Port.
Pr._
=Ill weeds grow apace.= _Pr._ 50
=Illa dolet vere quæ sine teste dolet=--She grieves
sincerely who grieves when unseen. _Mart._
=Illa est agricolæ messis iniqua suo=--That is
a harvest which ill repays its husbandman.
_Ovid._
=Illa laus est, magno in genere et in divitiis
maximis, / Liberos hominem educare, generi
monumentum et sibi=--It is a merit in a man
of high birth and large fortune to train up his
children so as to be a credit to his family and
himself. _Plaut._
=Illa placet tellus in qua res parva beatum /
Me facit, et tenues luxuriantur opes=--That
spot of earth has special charms for me, in
which a limited income produces happiness, and
moderate wealth abundance. _Mart._
=Illa victoria viam ad pacem patefecit=--By that
victory he opened the way to peace.
=Illæso lumine solem=--[To gaze] on the sun with
undazzled eye. _M._
=Illam, quicquid agit, quoque vestigia flectit, /= 5
=Componit furtim, subsequiturque decor=--In
whatever she does, wherever she turns, grace
steals into her movements and attends her steps.
_Tibull._
=Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--That
one man has found a cross the reward of
his guilt; this one, a diadem. _Juv._
=Ille igitur nunquam direxit brachia contra /
Torrentem; nec civis erat qui libera posset /
Verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere
vero=--He never exerted his arms against the
torrent, nor was he a citizen who would frankly
utter the sentiments of his mind, and stake his
life for the truth. _Juv._
=Ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur /
Ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit /
Irritat mulcet falsis terroribus implet / Ut
magus: et modo me Thebis, modo ponit
Athenis=--That man seems to me able to do
anything (_lit._ walk on the tight-rope) who, as
a poet, tenures my breast with fictions, can
rouse me, then soothe me, fill me with unreal
terrors like a magician, set me down either at
Thebes or Athens. _Hor._
=Ille potens sui / Lætusque degit, cui licet in
diem / Dixisse, Vixi: cras vel atra / Nube
polum pater occupato / Vel sole puro=--The
man lives master of himself and cheerful,
who can say day after day, "I have lived; to-morrow
let the Father above overspread the
sky either with cloud or with clear sunshine."
_Hor._
=Ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum, abit: unus= 10
=utrique / Error, sed variis illudit partibus=--One
wanders to the left, another to the right;
both are equally in error, but are seduced by
different delusions. _Hor._
=Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes / Angulus
ridet=--That nook of the world has charms for
me before all else. _Hor._
=Ille vir, haud magna cum re, sed plenus fidei=--He
is a man, not of large fortune, but full
of good faith.
=Illi inter sese multa vi brachia tollunt /
In numerum, versantque tenaci forcipe
massam=--They (the Cyclops), keeping time,
one by one raise their arms with mighty force,
and turn the iron lump with the biting tongs.
_Virg._
=Illi robur et æs triplex / Circa pectus erat, qui
fragilem truci / Commisit pelago ratem /
Primus=--That man had oak and triple brass
around his breast who first intrusted his frail
bark to the savage sea. _Hor._
=Illic apposito narrabis multa Lyæo=--There, 15
with the wine in front of you, you will tell
many a story. _Ovid._
=Illud amicitiæ sanctum ac venerabile nomen /
Nunc tibi pro vili sub pedibusque jacet=--The
sacred and venerable name of friendship
is now despised and trodden under foot. _Ovid._
=Illusion on a ground of truth is the secret of
the fine arts.= _Joubert._
=Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, / And
every conqueror creates a muse.= _Waller._
=Ils chantent, ils payeront=--Let them sing; they
will have the piper to pay. _Mazarin._
=Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié=--They have 30
learned nothing and forgotten nothing. _Talleyrand,
of the Bourbons._
=Ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume
de leur pays=--They (the English) are heavy-laden
in their amusements, according to the custom
of their country. _Froissart._
=Ils se ne servent de la pensée que pour autoriser
leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que
pour déguiser leurs pensées=--Men use thought
only to justify their unjust acts, and employ speech
only to disguise their thoughts. _Voltaire._
=Ils sont passés, ces jours de fête=--They are
gone, those festive days. _Grétry._
=Ils veulent être libres et ne savent pas être
justes=--They wish to be free and understand
not how to be just. _Abbé Sieyès._
=Im Alter erstaunt und bereut man nicht mehr=--In 25
old age one is astonished and repents no
more. _Goethe._
=Im Becher ersaufen mehr als im Meer=--More
are drowned in the wine-cup than in the sea.
_Ger. Pr._
=Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren resolut zu leben=--To
live resolutely in the whole, the good, the
true. _Goethe._
=Im Gedränge hier auf Erden / Kann nicht
jeder, was er will=--In the press of things on
earth here, not every one can do what he would.
_Goethe._
=Im Grabe ist Ruh!=--In the grave is rest! _Langhaufen,
Heine._
=Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege= 30
=und zehn in der Irre, gleich dem Ulysses=--Man,
like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and
ten in wandering. _Feuerbach._
=Im Leben ist nichts Gegenwart=--In life is
the present nothing, or there is no present.
_Goethe._
=Im Mangel, nicht im Ueberfluss / Keimt der
Genuss=--Enjoyment germinates not in abundance
but in want. _Herder._
=Im Schmerze wird die neue Zeit geboren=--In
pain is the new time born. _Chamisso._
=Im Unglück halte aus; / Im Glücke halte ein=--In
bad fortune hold out; in good, hold in.
_Ger. Pr._
=Im Wasser kannst du dein Antlitz sehn, / Im= 35
=Wein des andern Herz erspähn=--In water
thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou
canst see into the heart of another. _Pr._
=Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging
our reflections on them.= _Swift._
=Imagination is always the ruling and divine
power, and the rest of the man is only the
instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on
which it writes.= _Ruskin._
=Imagination is a mettled horse that will break
the rider's neck when a donkey would have
carried him to the end of his journey, slow
but sure.= _Southey._
=Imagination is but a poor matter when it has
to part company with understanding.= _Carlyle._
=Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.=
_Emerson._
=Imagination is Eternity.= _Wm. Blake._
=Imagination is the eye of the soul.= _Joubert._
=Imagination is the mightiest despot.= _Auerbach._ 5
=Imagination is too often accompanied with a
somewhat irregular logic.= _Disraeli._
=Imagination rules the world.= _Napoleon._
=Imitation is born with us, but what we ought
to imitate is not easily found.= _Goethe._
=Imitation is the sincerest flattery.= _Colton._
=Imitation is suicide.= _Emerson._ 10
=Immediate are the acts of God, more swift /
Than time or motion.= _Milton._
=Immer etwas Neues, selten etwas Gutes=--Always
something new, seldom anything good.
_Ger. Pr._
=Immer Neues spriesset / Eh' ein Mensch
geniesset / Mit Verstand das Alte=--Not till a
new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy
intelligently that which is old. _Rückert._
=Immer wird, nie ist=--Always a-being, never being.
_Schiller._
=Immer zu! Immer zu! / Ohne Rast und Ruh!=--Ever 15
onward! ever onward! without rest and
quiet. _Goethe._
=Immer zu misstrauen ist ein Irrthum wie
immer zu trauen=--Always to distrust is an
error, as well as always to trust. _Goethe._
=Immo id, quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum /
Nam neque quomodo a me amittam, invenio:
neque, uti retineam scio=--It is true they say
I have caught a wolf by the ears; for I know
not either how to get rid of him or keep him in
restraint. _Ter._
=Immodest words admit of no defence, / For
want of decency is want of sense.= _Roscommon._
=Immoritur studiis, et amore senescit habendi=--He
is killing himself with his efforts, and in
his greed of gain is becoming an old man.
_Hor._
=Immortale odium et nunquam sanabile vulnus=--A 20
deadly hatred, and a wound that can never
be healed. _Juv., on the effects of religious contention
between neighbours._
=Immortalia ne speres monet annus, et almum /
Quæ rapit hora diem=--The year in its course,
and the hour that speeds the kindly day, admonishes
you not to hope for immortal (_i.e._, permanent)
blessings. _Hor._
=Immortality will come to such as are fit for it;
and he who would be a great soul in future
must be a great soul now.= _Emerson._
=Imo pectore=--From the bottom of the heart.
=Impatience changeth smoke to flame.= _Erasmus._
=Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or= 25
=sorrow.= _Chapin._
=Impatience is the principal cause of most
of our irregularities and extravagances.=
_Sterne._
=Impatience waiteth on true sorrow.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, iii. 3.
=Impavidum ruinæ ferient=--The wreck of things
will strike him unmoved. _Hor._
=Impera parendo=--Command by obeying. _M._
=Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique=--Money 30
amassed is either our slave or our tyrant.
_Hor._
=Imperfection is in some sort essential to all
that we know of life. It is the sign of life in
a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress
and change.= _Ruskin._
=Imperfection means perfection hid, / Reserved
in part to grace the after-time.= _Browning._
=Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he
wait till he have brushed off entirely, he
will spin for ever on his axis, advancing
nowhither.= _Carlyle._
=Imperia dura tolle, quid virtus erit?=--Remove
severe restraint, and what will become of virtue?
_Sen._
=Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, /= 35
=Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=Imperium et libertas=--Empire and liberty. _Cic._
=Imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus
initio partum est=--Power is easily retained by
those arts by which it was at first acquired.
_Sall._
=Imperium in imperio=--A government within a
government.
=Impertinent and lavish talking is in itself a
very vicious habit.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Impetrare oportet, quia æquum postulas=--You 40
ought to obtain what you ask, as you only
ask what is fair. _Plaut._
=Implacabiles plerumque læsæ mulieres=--Women,
when offended, are generally implacable.
="Impossible" est un mot que je ne dis jamais=--"Impossible"
is a word which I never utter.
_Collin d'Hartevilles._
=Impossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it
be translated into this partially possible one,
"Know what thou canst work at."= _Carlyle._
=Impossible! Ne me dites jamais ce bête de
mot=--Impossible! Never name to me that
blockhead of a word. _Mirabeau, to his secretary,
Dumont._
="Impossible" n'est pas français=--"Impossible" 45
is not French. _Napoleon._
="Impossible," when Truth and Mercy and the
everlasting voice of Nature order, has no
place in the brave man's dictionary.= _Carlyle._
="Impossible!" who talks to me of impossibilities?=
_Chatham._
=Impotentia excusat legem=--Inability suspends
the action of law. _L._
=Impransus=--One who has not dined, or who can't
find a dinner.
=Imprimatur=--Let it be printed. 50
=Imprimis=--First of all.
=Imprimis venerare Deos=--Before all things reverence
the gods. _Virg._
=Improbæ / Crescunt divitiæ, tamen / Curtæ
nescio quid semper abest rei=--Riches increase
to an enormous extent, yet something is ever
wanting to our still imperfect fortune. _Hor._
=Improbe amor, quid non mortalia pectora
cogis?=--Cruel love! what is there to which
thou dost not drive mortal hearts? _Virg._
=Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui naufragium= 55
=iterum facit=--He who suffers shipwreck twice
is unjust if he throws the blame on Neptune.
_Pub. Syr._
=Improbis aliena virtus semper formidolosa est=--To
wicked men the virtue of others is always
matter of dread. _Sall._
=Impromptu=--Off-hand; without premeditation.
=Improvement is Nature.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Imprudent expression in conversation may be
forgotten and pass away; but when we take
the pen into our hand, we must remember
that= _litera scripta manet_. _Blair._
=Impudence is no virtue, yet able to beggar= 5
=them all.= _Sir T. Osborne._
=Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat=--Impunity
always tempts to still worse crimes.
_Coke._
=In a boundless universe / Is boundless better,
boundless worse.= _Tennyson._
=In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.= _Pr._
=In a commercial nation impostors are abroad
in all professions.= _Wm. Blake._
=In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise= 10
=behaviour in a storm commends the wisdom
of the pilot.= _Quarles._
=In a free country there is much complaining
but little suffering; under a despotism, much
suffering but little complaining.= _Giles' Proverbs._
=In a good lord there must first be a good
animal, at least to the extent of yielding the
incomparable advantage of animal spirits.=
_Emerson._
=In a great soul everything is great.= _Pascal._
=In a healthy state of the organism all wounds
have a tendency to heal.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=In a lawsuit nothing is certain but the expense.= 15
_A. Butler._
=In a leopard the spots are not observed.= _Herbert's
Coll._
=In a lottery, where there is (at the lowest computation)
ten thousand blanks to one prize,
it is the most prudent choice not to venture.=
_Lady Montagu._
=In a man's letters his soul lies naked; his
letters are only the mirror of his breast.=
_Johnson._
=In a matter of life and death don't trust even
your mother; she might mistake a black
bean= (used in voting) =for a white one.= _Alcibiades._
=In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the= 20
=more a man expands, the larger his aims.=
_Schiller._
=In a noble race, levity without virtue is seldom
found. In a mine of rubies, when shall we
find pieces of glass?= _Hitopadesa._
=In a poem there should be not only the poetry
of images, but also the poetry of ideas.=
_Joubert._
=In a symbol there is concealment and yet
revelation, silence and speech acting together,
some embodiment and revelation of
the infinite, made to blend itself with the
finite, to stand visible, and, as it were,
attainable there.= _Carlyle._
=In a thousand pounds of law there is not an
ounce of love.= _Pr._
=In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful= 25
=making others suffer for us, did nobleness
ever lie.= _Carlyle._
=In acta=--In the very act.
=In action, a great heart is the chief qualification;
in work, a great head.= _Schopenhauer._
=In æquali jure melior est conditio possidentis=--Where
the right is equal, the claim of the party
in possession is the best. _L._
=In æternum=--For ever.
=In all battles, if you await the issue, each= 30
=fighter has prospered according to his right.
His right and his might, at the close of the
account, were the same.= _Carlyle._
=In all faiths there is something true / ...
Something that keeps the Unseen in view, /
... And notes His gifts with the worship
due.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=In all human action, those faculties will be
strong which are used.= _Emerson._
=In all human narrative, it is the battle only,
and not the victory, that can be dwelt on
with advantage.= _Carlyle._
=In all literary history there is no such figure
as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life
and works, such loyalty to ideas, such
sublime irrecognition of the unessential.=
_Lowell._
=In all matters prefer the less evil to the= 35
=greater, and solace yourself under any ill
with the reflection that it might be worse.=
_Spurgeon._
=In all provinces there are artists and artisans;
men who labour mechanically in a department,
without eye for the whole, not feeling
that there is a whole; and men who inform
and ennoble the humblest department with
an idea of the whole, and habitually know
that only in the whole is the partial to be
truly discerned.= _Carlyle._
=In all science error precedes the truth, and it
is better it should go first than last.= _Horace
Walpole._
=In all situations= (out of Tophet) =there is a duty,
and our highest blessedness lies in doing it.=
_Carlyle._
=In all straits the good behave themselves with
meekness and patience.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=In all things that live there are certain irregularities= 40
=and deficiencies, which are not only
signs of life, but sources of beauty.= _Ruskin._
=In all things, to serve from the lowest station
upwards is necessary.= _Goethe._
=In all times it is only individuals that have
advanced science, not the age.= _Goethe._
=In all true work, were it but true hand-labour,
there is something of divineness.= _Carlyle._
=In all vital action the manifest purpose and
effort of Nature is, that we should be unconscious
of it.... Nature so meant it with
us; it is so we are made.= _Carlyle._
=In allem andern lass dich lenken / Nur nicht= 45
=im Fühlen und im Denken=--In everything else
let thyself be led, only not in feeling and in
thinking. _v. Sallet._
=In alms regard thy means and others' merit. /
Think Heaven a better bargain than to
give / Only thy single market-money for it.=
_George Herbert._
=In ambiguo=--In doubt.
=In America you can get tea, and coffee, and
meat every day. But the only true America
is that country where you are at liberty to
pursue such a mode of life as may enable
you to do without these.= _Thoreau._
=In an aristocratical institution like England,
not trial by jury, but the dinner is the capital
institution. It is the mode of doing honour
to a stranger to invite him to eat, and has
been for many a hundred years.= _Emerson._
=In anima vili=--On a subject of little worth.
=In annulo Dei figuram ne gestato=--Wear not
the image of the Deity in a ring, _i.e._, do not use
the name of God on frivolous occasions, or in
vain. _Pr._
=In any controversy, the instant we feel angry
we have already ceased striving for truth
and begun striving for ourselves.= _Goethe._
=In aqua scribis=--You are writing on water. _Pr._ 5
=In arena ædificas=--You are building on sand.
_Pr._
=In arguing, be calm; for fierceness makes /
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.= _George
Herbert._
=In argument with men, a woman ever / Goes
by the worse, whatever be her cause.=
_Milton._
=In art and in deeds, only that is properly
achieved which, like Minerva, springs full-grown
and armed from the head of the
inventor.= _Goethe._
=In art, to express the infinite one should suggest= 10
=infinitely more than is expressed.=
_Goethe._
=In articulo mortis=--At the point of death.
=In audaces non est audacia tuta=--Daring is
not safe against daring men. _Ovid._
=In beato omnia beata=--With the fortunate everything
is fortunate. _Hor._
=In bocca chiusa, non c' entran mosche=--Flies
can't enter into a mouth that is shut. _It. Pr._
=In books lies the soul of the whole past time;= 15
=the articulate audible voice of the past, when
the body and material substance of it has
altogether vanished like a dream.= _Carlyle._
=In breathing there are two kinds of blessings=
(_Gnaden_): =inhaling the air and exhaling= (_lit._
discharging) =it; the former is oppressive, the
latter refreshing; so strangely is life mingled.
Thank God when He lays a burden on thee,
and thank Him when He takes it off.= _Goethe._
=In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, / Viel Irrtum
und ein Fünkchen Wahrheit, / So wird
der beste Trank gebraut, / Der alle Welt erquickt
und auferbaut=--With little clearness
(light) in motley metaphors, much falsehood and
a spark of truth, is the genuine draught prepared
with which every one is refreshed and edified.
_Goethe._
=In buying horses and taking a wife, shut
your eyes and commend yourself to God.=
_It. Pr._
=In caducum parietem inclinare=--To lean against
a falling wall. _Pr._
=In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est=--Even to 20
smile at the unfortunate is to do them an injury.
_Pub. Syr._
=In capite=--In chief.
=In casu extremæ necessitatis omnia sunt communia=--In
a case of extreme emergency all
things are common. _L._
=In Catholic countries religion and liberty exclude
each other; in Protestant ones they
accept each other.= _Amiel._
=In cauda venenum=--Poison lurks in the tail; or,
there is a sting in the tail. _Pr._
=In causa facili, cuivis licet esse diserto=--In an 25
easy matter any man may be eloquent. _Ovid._
=In character, in manner, in style, in all things
the supreme excellence is simplicity.= _Longfellow._
=In cheerful souls there is no evil; wit shows a
disturbance of the equipoise.= _Novalis._
=In childhood be modest, in youth temperate,
in manhood just, and in old age prudent.=
_Socrates._
=In choosing friends, we should choose those
whose qualities are innate, and their virtues
virtues of the temperament.= _Amiel._
=In Christ the infinite itself has come down to= 30
=the level of the finite, and the finite has been
raised to the level of the infinite, and in His
single person the spirit of the universe stands
revealed.= _Ed._
=In civil broils the worst of men may rise to
honour.= _Plutarch._
=In clothes, cheap handsomeness doth bear the
bell.= _George Herbert._
=In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of
youth with which age should surround itself.=
_Joubert._
=In cœlo nunquam spectatum impune cometam=--A
comet is never seen in the sky without
indicating disaster. _Claud._
=In cœlo quies=--There is rest in heaven. 35
=In cœlum jacularis=--You are aiming at the
heavens; your anger is bootless.
=In commendam=--In trust or recommendation.
=In common things the law of sacrifice takes
the form of positive duty.= _Froude._
=In communism, inequality springs from placing
mediocrity on a level with excellence.=
_Proudhon._
=In composing a book, the last thing that one= 40
=learns is to know what to put first.= _Pascal._
=In constitutional states, liberty is a compensation
for heaviness of taxation; in despotic
ones, lightness of taxation is a compensation
for liberty.= _Montesquieu._
=In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts, he shall
end in certainties.= _Bacon._
=In conversation, boldness now bears sway.=
_George Herbert._
=In conversation, humour is more than wit, easiness
more than knowledge.= _Sir Wm. Temple._
=In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than= 45
=too little.= _Pr._
=In crucifixo gloria mea=--I glory in the Crucified.
=In cumulo=--In a heap.
=In curia=--In the court.
=In cute curanda plus æquo operata juventus=--Youth
unduly busy with pampering the outer
man. _Hor._
=In days of yore nothing was holy but the= 50
=beautiful.= _Schiller._
=In deep waters men find great pearls.= _Pr._
=In deinem Glauben ist dein Himmel, / In
deinem Herzen ist dein Glück=--In thy faith is
thy heaven, in thy heart thy happiness. _Arndt._
=In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--In
thy nothing hope I to find the all. _Goethe._
=In delay / We waste our lights in vain, like
lamps by day.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=In Deo spero=--In God I hope. _M._ 55
=In der jetzigen Zeit soll Niemand schweigen
oder nachgeben; man muss reden und sich
rühren, nicht um zu überwinden, sondern
sich auf seinem Posten zu erhalten; ob bei
der Majorität oder Minorität, ist ganz gleichgültig=--At
the present time no one should yield
or keep silence; every one must speak and bestir
himself, not in order to gain the upper hand,
but to keep his own position--whether with the
majority or the minority is quite indifferent.
_Goethe._
=In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug=--In art
the best is good enough. _Goethe._
=In der Noth allein / Bewähret sich der Adel
grosser Seele=--In difficulty alone does the
nobility of great souls prove itself. _Schiller._
=In dictione=--In the expression, or the form.
=In die Hölle kommt man mit grösserer Mühe,= 5
=als in den Himmel=--It's harder work getting
to hell than heaven. _Ger. Pr._
=In diem=--To some future day.
=In diem vivere=--To live from hand to mouth.
=In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On
half the nations, and with fear of change
perplexes monarchs.= _Milton._
=In diving to the bottom of pleasures we bring
up more gravel than pearls.= _Balzac._
=In doubtful matters courage may do much; in= 10
=desperate, patience.= _Pr._
=In dubiis=--In matters of doubt.
=In dubiis benigniora semper sunt præferenda=--In
cases of doubt we should always lean to
the side of mercy. _L._
=In dulci jubilo=--Now sing and be joyful. _Peter
of Dresden._
=In duty prompt, at every call, / He watch'd,
and wept, and felt, and prayed for all.= _Goldsmith._
=In dyeing the spiritual nature there are two= 15
=processes--first, the cleansing and wringing
out, which is the baptism with water; and
then the infusing of the blue and scarlet
colours, gentleness and justice, which is the
baptism with fire.= _Ruskin._
=In eadem re utilitas et turpitudo esse non
potest=--In the same thing usefulness and baseness
cannot coexist. _Cic._
=In eating, after nature is once satisfied, every
additional morsel brings stupidity and distempers
with it.= _Goldsmith._
=In eburna vagina, plumbeus gladius=--A leaden
sword in an ivory sheath. _Diogenes, of an empty
fop._
=In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art
are when the orator is lifted above himself;
when consciously he makes himself
the mere tongue of the occasion and the
hour, and says what cannot but be said.=
_Emerson._
=In equilibrio=--In equilibrium. 20
=In esse=--In actual being.
=In every age and clime we see / Two of a
trade can never agree.= _Gay._
=In every battle the eye is first conquered.=
_Tac._
=In every beginning think of the end.= _Pr._
=In every bone there is marrow, and within= 25
=every jacket there is a man.= _Saadi._
=In every change there will be many that suffer
real or imaginary grievances, and therefore
many will be dissatisfied.= _Johnson._
=In every child there lies a wonderful deep.=
_Schumann._
=In every country the sun rises in the morning.=
_Pr._
=In every creed there are two elements--the
Divine substance and the human form.
The form must change with the changing
thoughts of men; and even the substance
may come to shine with clearer light, and to
reveal unexpected glories, as God and man
come nearer together.= _R. W. Dale._
=In every department of life we thank God that= 30
=we are not like our fathers.= _Froude._
=In every department one must begin as a
child; throw a passionate interest over the
subject; take pleasure in the shell till one
has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.=
_Goethe._
=In every epoch of the world, the great event,
parent of all others, is it not the arrival of
a thinker in the world?= _Carlyle._
=In every fault there is folly.= _Pr._
=In every great epoch there is some one idea
at work which is more powerful than any
other, and which shapes the events of the
time and determines their ultimate issues.=
_Buckle._
=In every heart are sown the sparks that kindle= 35
=fiery war; occasion needs but fan them, and
they blaze.= _Cowper._
=In every landscape the point of astonishment
is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and
that is seen from the first hillock as well as
from the top of the Alleghanies.= _Emerson._
=In every life there is an upward and a downward
tendency= (_Trieb_); =he is to be praised
who remains steadfast in the mean between.=
_Rückert._
=In every man there is a certain feeling that he
has been what he is from all eternity, and
by no means became such in time.= _Schelling._
=In every parting there is an image of death.=
_George Eliot._
=In every phenomenon the beginning remains= 40
=always the most notable moment.= _Carlyle._
=In every rank, or great or small, / 'Tis industry
supports us all.= _Gray._
=In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not
a mere hearing one.= _Carlyle._
=In even the wisest soul lies a whole world
of internal madness, an authentic demon-empire;
out of which, indeed, his world
of wisdom has been creatively built together,
and now rests there, as on its dark
foundation does a habitable flowery earth-rind.=
_Carlyle._
=In every village there will arise a miscreant
to establish the most grinding tyranny by
calling himself the people.= _Sir R. Peel._
=In exalting the faculties of the soul we annihilate,= 45
=in a great degree, the delusion of the
senses.= _Aimé-Martin._
=In extenso=--In full.
=In extremis=--At the point of death.
=In failing circumstances no man can be relied
on to keep his integrity.= _Emerson._
=In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, /
But all mankind's concern is Charity.= _Pope._
=In faith everything depends on "that" you believe;= 50
=in knowledge everything depends on
"what" you know, as well as how much and
how well.= _Goethe._
=In fashionable circles general satire, which
attacks the fault rather than the person,
is unwelcome; while that which attacks
the person and spares the fault is always
acceptable.= _Jean Paul._
=In ferrum pro libertate ruebant=--They rushed
upon the sword in defence of their liberty. _M._
=In flagranti delicto=--In the act.
=In flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas=--You
add fire to fire, and water to the sea.
=In for a penny, in for a pound.= _Pr._ 5
=In forma pauperis=--As a pauper or poor man.
=In foro conscientiæ=--Before the tribunal of conscience.
=In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.= _Sp. Pr._
=In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem=--They
rush into the flames of passion; love is
the same in all. _Virg._
=In futuro=--In future; at a future time. 10
=In general, indulgence for those we know is
rarer than pity for those we know not.=
_Rivarol._
=In general, pride is at the bottom of all great
mistakes.= _Ruskin._
=In generalibus latet dolus=--In general assertions
some deception lurks.
=In giants we must kill pride and arrogance;
but our greatest foes, and whom we must
chiefly combat, are within.= _Cervantes._
=In Glück Vorsichtigkeit, in Unglück Geduld=--In 15
good fortune, prudence; in bad, patience.
_Ger. Pr._
=In good bearing beginneth worship.= _Hazlitt's
Coll._
=In good years, corn is hay; in ill years, straw
is corn.= _Hazlitt's Coll._
=In granting and in refusing, in joy and in
sorrow, in liking and in disliking, good men,
because of their own likeness, show mercy
unto all things which have life.= _Hitopadesa._
=In great states, children are always trying to
remain children, and the parents wanting
to make men and women of them. In vile
states, the children are always wanting to
be men and women, and the parents to keep
them children.= _Ruskin._
=In health, to be stirring shall profit thee best; /= 20
=in sickness, hate trouble, seek quiet and
rest.= _Thomas Tusser._
=In heaven ambition cannot dwell, / Nor avarice
in the vaults of hell.= _Southey._
=In heaven the angels are advancing continually
to the spring-time of their youth, so
that the oldest angel appears the youngest.=
_Swedenborg._
=In Heaven's sight the mere wish to pray is
prayer.= (?)
=In her eyes that never weep, lightnings are
laid asleep.= _A. Mary F. Robinson._
=In her first passion, woman loves her lover, /= 25
=In all the others, all she loves is love.= _Byron._
=In high life every one is polished and courteous,
but no one has the courage to be hearty and
true.= _Goethe._
=In Him we live and move and have our being.=
_St. Paul._
=In hoc signo spes mea=--In this sign is my hope.
_M._
=In hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) thou
shalt conquer. _M._
=In hoc statu=--In this state or condition. 30
=In hope to merit heaven by making earth a
hell.= _Byron._
=In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.=
_Carlyle._
=In illo viro, tantum robur corporis et animi fuit,
ut quocunque loco natus esset, fortunam sibi
facturus videretur=--In that man there was such
oaken strength of body and mind, that whatever
his rank by birth might have been, he gave promise
of attaining the highest place in the lists of
fortune. _Livy, of Cato the elder._
=In intercourse with people of superior station,
all that is required is not to be perfectly
natural, but always to keep within the line
of a certain conventional propriety.= _Goethe._
=In jedem Menschen ist etwas von allen Menschen=--In 35
every man there is something of all
men. _Lichtenberg._
=In judicando criminosa est celeritas=--In pronouncing
judgment, haste is criminal. _L._
=In just and equal measure all is weighed; /
One scale contains the sum of human weal, /
And one, the good man's heart.= _Shelley._
=In King Cambyses' vein.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon
oath.= _Johnson._
=In learning anything, its first principles alone= 40
=should be taught by constraint.= _Goethe._
=In letters, if anywhere, we look for the man,
not for the author.= _Blair._
=In life a friend may be often found and lost;
but an old friend never can be found, and
Nature has provided that he cannot easily
be lost.= _Johnson._
=In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=In life every situation may bring its own peculiar
pleasures.= _Goldsmith._
=In life there is no present.= _Byron._ 45
=In limine=--At the threshold or outset.
=In literature to-day there are plenty good
masons, but few good architects.= _Joubert._
=In loco parentis=--In the place of a parent.
=In long-drawn systole and long-drawn diastole
must the period of faith alternate with the
period of denial; must the vernal growth,
the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual
representations and creations, be followed
by and again follow the autumnal
decay, the winter dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=In love all is risk.= _Goethe._ 50
=In love we are all fools alike.= _Gay._
=In love we never think of moral qualities, and
scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament
and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.=
_Hazlitt._
=In loving thou dost well, in passion not, /
Wherein true love consists not.= _Milton._
=In magnis et voluisse sat est=--In great things
it is enough even to have willed. _Propertius._
=In maiden meditation, fancy-free.= _Mid. N.'s_ 55
_Dream_, ii. 1.
=In manners tranquillity is the supreme power.=
_Mme. de Maintenon._
=In marriage, as in other things, contentment
excels wealth.= _Molière._
=In matters of conscience, first thoughts are
best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts
are best.= _Robert Hall._
=In mediæval art, thought is the first thing,
execution the second; in modern art, execution
is the first thing and thought the second.=
_Ruskin._
=In mediæval art, truth is first, beauty second;
in modern art, beauty is first, truth second.=
_Ruskin._
=In medias res=--Into the midst of a thing at once.
=In medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go safest in
the middle or in a middle course. _Ovid._
=In medio virtus=--Virtue lies in the mean. _Pr._ 5
=In meinem Revier / Sind Gelehrten gewesen /
Ausser ihrem Brevier / Konnten sie keines
lesen=--In my domain there have been learned
men, but outside their breviary they could
read nothing. _Goethe._
=In meinem Staate kann jeder nach seiner
Façon selig werden=--In my dominions every
one may be happy in his own fashion. _Frederick
the Great._
=In melle sunt sitæ linguæ vestræ atque orationes,
/ Corda felle sunt lita atque aceto=--Your
tongues and your words are steeped in
honey, but your hearts in gall and vinegar.
_Plaut._
=In memoriam=--To the memory of.
=In men we various ruling passions find; / In= 10
=women, two almost divide the mind; / Those,
only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The love
of pleasure and the love of sway.= _Pope._
=In mercatura facienda multæ fallaciæ et quasi
præstigiæ exercentur=--In commerce many
deceptions, not to say juggleries, are practised.
=In misfortune, in error, and when the time
appointed for certain affairs is about to
elapse, a servant who hath his master's
welfare at heart ought to speak unasked.=
_Hitopadesa._
=In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies
peace.= _Bp. Heber._
=In modern England the ordinary habits of life
and modes of education produce great plainness
of mind in middle-aged women.= _Ruskin._
=In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing= 15
=is all.= _Renan._
=In morals good-will is everything, but in art
it is ability.= _Schopenhauer._
=In morals, what begins in fear usually ends
in wickedness; in religion, what begins in
fear usually ends in fanaticism.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=In much corn is some cockle.= _Pr._
=In much wisdom is much grief, and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.=
_Bible._
=In my Father's house are many mansions.= 20
_Jesus._
=In my virtue= (_Tugend_) =I wrap myself and sleep.=
_Platen._
=In Nature there's no blemish but the mind; /
None can be called deformed but the unkind.=
_Twelfth Night_, iii. 4.
=In Nature things move violently to their
places, and calmly in their place; so virtue
in ambition is violent, in authority settled
and calm.= _Bacon._
=In Nature we never see anything isolated,
but everything in connection with something
else which is before it, beside it, under
it, and over it.= _Goethe._
=In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in= 25
=omnibus charitas=--In essential matters, unity,
in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. _Melanthon._
=In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs
to a disappointed man.= _Bancroft._
=In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken
of in words--not in many words, I think, ever.=
_Carlyle._
=In nocte consilium=--In the night is counsel; take
a night to think over it; sleep upon it.
=In nomine=--In the name of.
=In nomine Domini incipit omne malum=--In the 30
name of the Lord every evil begins. _Mediæval
Pr._
=In nubibus=--In the clouds.
=In nuce Ilias=--An Iliad in a nutshell.
=In obscuro=--In obscurity.
=In old age nothing any longer astonishes us.=
_Goethe._
=In old times men used their powers of painting= 35
=to show the objects of faith; in later times
they used the objects of faith to show their
powers of painting.= _Ruskin._
=In omni re vincit imitationem veritas=--In
everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy.
_Cic._
=In omnia paratus=--Prepared for all emergencies.
_M._
=In omnibus quidem, maxime tamen in jure,
æquitas est=--In all things, but particularly in
law, regard is to be had to equity. _L._
=In one thing men of all ages are alike; they
have believed obstinately in themselves.=
_Jacobi._
=In oratory the will must predominate.= _Hare._ 40
=In order to do great things, it is necessary to
live as if one were never to die.= _Vauvenargues._
=In order to love mankind, we must not expect
too much of them.= _Helvetius._
=In order to manage an ungovernable beast,
he must be stinted in his provender.= _Queen
Elizabeth._
=In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the
very devil has been pulled down; you cannot
so much as believe in a devil.= _Carlyle._
=In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is= 45
=the aim.= _Emerson._
=In our judgment of human transactions the
law of optics is reversed; we see the most
indistinctly the objects which are close
around us.= _Whately._
=In our own breast, there or nowhere flows the
fountain of true pleasure.= _Wieland._
=In pace leones, in prælio cervi=--Brave as lions
in peace, timid as deer in war.
=In pain is a new time born.= _Chamisso._
=In pari materia=--In a similar matter. 50
=In partibus infidelium=--In unbelieving countries.
=In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man /
As modest stillness and humility; / But when
the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then
imitate the action of the tiger; / Stiffen the
sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair
Nature with hard-favour'd rage, / Then lend
the eye a terrible aspect; / Let it pry through
the portage of the head / Like the brass
cannons.= _Hen. V._, iii. 1.
=In peace, who is not wise?= _Hitopadesa._
=In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is
the head, but the woman the heart, with
which he cannot dispense.= _Rückert._
=In perpetuam rei memoriam=--In everlasting
remembrance of a thing.
=In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium=--We are
pouring our words into a perforated cask, _i.e._,
are throwing them away. _Plaut._
=In petto=--Within the breast; in reserve. _It._
=In pios usus=--For pious uses. 5
=In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy;
in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was
made for man.= _Macaulay._
=In pleno=--In full.
=In politics, as in life, we must above all things
wish only for the attainable.= _Heine._
=In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor
being raised, like a target, to a position to
be fired at.= _Bovee._
=In politics, what begins in fear usually ends= 10
=in folly.= _Coleridge._
=In pontificalibus=--In full canonicals.
=In portu quies=--Rest in port. _M._
=In posse=--Possibly; in possibility.
=In practical life, the wisest and soundest men
avoid speculation.= _Buckle._
=In præsenti=--At present. 15
=In pretio pretium est; dat census honores, /
Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet=--Worth
lies in wealth; wealth purchases honours,
friendships; the poor man everywhere is neglected.
_Ovid._
=In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; /
All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.=
_Pope._
=In principatu commutando, civium / Nil præter
domini nomen mutant pauperes=--In a change
of masters the poor change nothing except their
master's name. _Phædr._
=In private grieve, but with a careless scorn; /
In public seem to triumph, not to mourn.=
_Granville._
=In proportion as one simplifies his life, the= 20
=laws of the universe will appear less complex,
and solitude will not be solitude, nor
poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.=
_Thoreau._
=In propria persona=--In person.
=In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.=
_Dut. Pr._
=In prosperity no altars smoke.= _It. Pr._
=In puris naturalibus=--Stark naked.
=In quietness and in confidence shall be your= 25
=strength.= _Bible._
=In quite common things much depends on
choice and determination, but the highest
which falls to our lot comes from no man
knows whence.= _Goethe._
=In radiant, all-irradiating insight, a burning
interest, and the glorious, melodious, perennial
veracity that results from these two,
lies the soul of all worth in all speaking
men.= _Carlyle._
=In re=--In the matter of.
=In referenda gratia, debemus imitari agros
fertiles qui plus multo afferunt quam acceperunt=--In
repaying kindness, we ought to imitate
fertile lands, which give back much more than
they have received. _Cic._
=In regard to a book, the main point is what it= 30
=brings me, what it suggests to me.= _Goethe._
=In regard to virtue, each one finds certainty
by consulting his own heart.= _Renan._
=In religion as in friendship, they who profess
most are ever the least sincere.= _Sheridan._
=In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or
ceremony indifferent.= _Emerson._
=In religion / What damnéd error but some
sober brow / Will bless it and approve it
with a text?= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=In rerum natura=--In the nature of things. 35
=In resolving to do our work well, is the only
sound foundation of any religion whatsoever;
and by that resolution only, and what we
have done, and not by our belief, Christ will
judge us, as He has plainly told us He will.=
_Ruskin._
=In reverence is the chief joy and power of life.=
_Ruskin._
=In Rome the Ten Commandments consist of
the ten letters, Da pecuniam, Give money.=
_C. J. Weber._
=In sæcula sæculorum=--For ages and ages; for
ever and ever.
=In sanguine fœdus=--A covenant ratified in blood. 40
_M._
=In saying aye or no, the very safety of our
country and the sum of our well-being lies.=
_L'Estrange._
=In science read the newest works; in literature,
the oldest.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=In science the new is an advance; but in
morals, as contradicting our inner ideals
and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.=
_Jean Paul._
=In science we have to consider two things:
power and circumstance.= _Emerson._
=In se magna ruunt=--Great interests are apt to 45
clash with each other. _Lucan._
=In seipso totus, teres, atque rotundus=--Perfect
in himself, polished, and rounded. _Hor._
=In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.=
_Emerson._
=In serum rem trahere=--To protract the discussion,
or the sitting, to a late hour. _Livy._
=In service, care or coldness / Doth ratably thy
fortunes mar or make.= _George Herbert._
=In situ=--In its original position. 50
=In small proportion we just beauties see, /
And in short measures life may perfect be.=
_Ben Jonson._
=In so complex a thing as human nature, we
must consider it hard to find rules without
exceptions.= _George Eliot._
=In solitude the mind gains strength and learns
to lean upon itself.= _Sterne._
=In solo Deo salus=--Salvation in God alone. _M._
=In solo vivendi causa palato est=--To gratify the 55
palate is the sole object of their existence. _Juv._
=In some men a certain mediocrity of mind
helps to make them wise.= _La Bruyère._
=In some men there is a malignant passion to
destroy the works of genius, literature, and
freedom.= _Junius._
=In some sort, love is greater than God.= _Jacob
Böhme._
=In some things all, in all things none, are
crossed.= _R. Southwell._
=In spite of all his faults, there is no creature= 60
=worthier of affection than man.= _Goethe._
=In spite of all misfortunes, there is still enough
to satisfy one.= _Goethe._
=In spite of all the evil that is said of the unfortunates,
kings sometimes have their good
qualities too.= _The Miller of Sans Souci._
=In spite of seeming difference, men are all of
one pattern.= _Emerson._
=In statu quo=--In the state in which it was.
=In stinting wisdom, greatest wisdom lies.= _Sir_ 5
_Richard Baker._
=In such a world as this a man who is rich in
himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at
Christmastide, while without are the frost and
snow of a December night.= _Schopenhauer._
=In taking revenge, a man is but even with his
enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.=
_Not traceable._
=In tale or history your beggar is ever the
first antipode to your king.= _Lamb._
=In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria=--Slight is
the subject of my work, but not the glory. _Virg._
=In terrorem=--As a warning. 10
=In that fire-whirlwind= (of the burning of the
world-Phoenix), =creation and destruction proceed
together; ever as the ashes of the old
are blown out, do organic filaments of the
new mysteriously spin themselves; and amid
the rushing and waving of the whirlwind
element come tones of a melodious death-song,
which end not but in tones of a more
melodious birth-song.= _Carlyle._
=In the adversity of our best friends we always
find something that does not altogether displease
us.= _La Roche._
=In the balance, hero dust / Is vile as vulgar
clay: / Thou, mortality, art just / To all that
pass away.= _Byron._
=In the breast of every single man there
slumbers a frightful germ= (_Keim_) =of madness=
(_Wahnsinn_). _Feuchtersleben._
=In the career of nations no less than of men,= 15
=the error of their intellect and the hardening
of their hearts may be accurately measured
by their denial of spiritual power.= _Ruskin._
=In the catalogue ye go for men.= _Macb._, iii. 1.
=In the childhood of nations speaking was singing;
let this be repeated in the childhood of
the individual.= _Jean Paul._
=In the coldest flint there is hot fire.= _Pr._
=In the confidence of youth man imagines that
very much is under his control; in the disappointment
of old age, very little.= _Draper._
=In the darkest spot on earth / Some love is= 20
=found.= _Procter._
=In the degree in which you delight in the life
of any creature, you can see it; not otherwise.=
_Ruskin._
=In the denial of self is the beginning of all
that is truly generous and noble.= _Carlyle._
=In the destitution of the wild desert does our
young Ishmael acquire for himself the highest
of all possessions, that of self-help.= _Carlyle._
=In the divine commandment, "Thou shalt
not steal," if well understood, is comprised
the whole Hebrew decalogue, with Solon's
and Lycurgus's constitutions, Justinian's
pandects, the Code Napoleon, and all codes,
catechisms, divinities, moralities whatsoever
that man has devised (and enforced
with altar-fire and gallows-ropes) for his
social guidance.= _Carlyle._
=In the division of the inheritance, friendship= 25
=standeth still.= _Dut. Pr._
=In the dullest existence there is a sheen of
inspiration or of madness (thou partly hast it
in thy choice which of the two) that gleams
in from the circumambient eternity, and
colours with its own hues our little islet
of time.= _Carlyle._
=In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.=
_Goethe._
=In the end / Things will mend.= _Pr._
=In the end we retain from our studies only that
which we practically apply.= _Goethe._
=In the evening one may praise the day.= _Pr._ 30
=In the exact proportion in which men are bred
capable of warm affection, common-sense,
and self-command, and are educated to love,
to think, and to endure, they become noble,
live happily, die calmly, are remembered
with perpetual honour by their race, and
for the perpetual good of it.= _Ruskin._
=In the eye of the Supreme, dispositions hold
the place of actions.= _Blair._
=In the face of every human being his history
stands plainly written, his innermost nature
steps forth to the light; yet they are the
fewest who can read and understand.= _Bodenstedt._
=In the fact that hero-worship exists, has existed,
and will for ever exist universally among
mankind, mayest thou discern the cornerstone
of living rock, whereon all politics for
the remotest time may stand secure.= _Carlyle._
=In the family where the house-father rules= 35
=secure, there dwells the peace= (_Friede_) =which
thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the
wide world outside.= _Goethe._
=In the field none other can supply our place,
each must stand alone,--on himself must
rely.= _Schiller._
=In the fine arts, as in many other things, we
know well only what we have not learned.=
_Chamfort._
=In the fog of good and evil affections, it is
hard for man to walk forward in a straight
line.= _Emerson._
=In the godlike only has man strength and
freedom.= _Carlyle._
=In the good as well as in the evil of life, less= 40
=depends upon what befalls us than upon the
way in which we take it.= _Schopenhauer._
=In the great duel= (of opinion), =Nature herself
is umpire, and does no wrong.= _Carlyle._
=In the great hand of God I stand.= _Macb._,
ii. 3.
=In the grimmest rocky wildernesses of existence
there are blessed well-springs, there
is an everlasting guiding star.= _Carlyle._
=In the hands of genius the driest stick becomes
an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms
out in poetry.= _H. N. Hudson._
=In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness.= 45
_Pr._
=In the interchange of thought use no coin but
gold and silver.= _Joubert._
=In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.=
_Dut. Pr._
=In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for
a bright manhood, there is no such word as
fail.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=In the meanest hut there is a romance, if you
knew the hearts there.= _Varnhagen von Ense._
=In the midst of life we are in death.= _Burial
Service._
=In the midst of the sun is the light, in the
midst of the light is the truth, and in the
midst of the truth is the imperishable being.=
_The Vedas._
=In the mind, as in a field, though some things
may be sown and carefully brought up, yet
what springs naturally is the most pleasing.=
_Tac._
=In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the= 5
=heart.= _Ger. Pr._
=In the modesty of fearful duty / I read as much
as from the rattling tongue / Of saucy and
audacious eloquence.= _Mid. Night's Dream_,
v. 1.
=In the morning mountains; / In the evening
fountains.= _Herbert's Coll._
=In the morning of life, work; in the mid-day,
give counsel; in the evening, pray.= _Gr.
saying._
=In the morning sow thy seed, and in the
evening withhold not thine hand: for thou
knowest not whether shall prosper, either
this or that, or whether they both shall be
alike good.= _Bible._
=In the multitude of words there wanteth not= 10
=sin.= _Bible._
=In the ordinary concerns of life, moral energy
is more serviceable than brilliant parts;
while in the more important, these latter are
of little weight without it, evaporating only
in brief and barren flashes.= _Prescott._
=In the perishable petals of the flower there
resides more spirit and life than in the
lumpish granite boulder that has defied the
tear and wear of thousands of years.= _Feuerbach._
=In the place where the tree falleth, there it
shall lie.= _Bible._
=In the pursuit of intellectual pleasure lies every
virtue; of sensual, every vice.= _Goldsmith._
=In the religion of Christ, as in the philosophy= 15
=of Hegel, the negative principle is the creative,
or determinative, principle. Christianity
begins in No, subsists in No, and survives in
No, to the spirit of the world; this it at first
peremptorily spurns, and then calmly disregards
as of no account.= _Ed._
=In the same measure in which you wish to
receive, you must give. If you wish for a
whole heart, give a whole life.= _Rückert._
=In the smallest cottage there is room enough
for two lovers.= _Schiller._
=In the spiritual world, as in the astronomical,
it is the earth that turns and produces the
phenomena of the heavens.= _Carlyle._
=In the spiritual world there is properly no in
and no out.= _Jean Paul._
=In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace,= 20
=but everybody must govern; in art, nobody
will enjoy what has been produced, but
every one wants to reproduce on his own
account.= _Goethe._
=In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy
bread.= _Bible._
=In the true Utopia, man will rather harness
himself with his oxen to his plough, than
leave the devil to drive it.= _Ruskin._
=In the unhappy man forget the foe.= _Addison._
=In the utmost solitudes of Nature, the existence
of hell seems to me as legibly declared
by a thousand spiritual utterances as
that of heaven.= _Ruskin._
=In the way of righteousness is life; and in the= 25
=pathway thereof there is no death.= _Bible._
=In the wilderness of life there are springs and
palm-trees.= _S. Lover._
=In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.=
_Thoreau._
=In the works of many celebrated authors men
are mere personifications. We have not a
jealous man, but jealousy; not a traitor,
but perfidy; not a patriot, but patriotism.
The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was
so imaginative that personifications, when
he dealt with them, became men.= _Macaulay._
=In the world's opinion marriage, as in a play,
winds up everything; whereas it is, in
fact, the beginning of everything.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=In the world-strife now waging, the victory= 30
=cannot be by violence; and every conquest
under the Prince of War retards the standards
of the Prince of Peace.= _Ruskin._
=In the wreck of noble lives / Something immortal
still survives.= _Longfellow._
=In theatro ludus=--Like a scene at a play.
=In these days, whether we like it or not, the
power is with the tongue.= _Lord Salisbury._
=In these sick days, when the born of heaven
first descries himself in a world such as ours,
richer than usual in two things, in truths
grown obsolete, and trades grown obsolete--what
can the fool think but that it is all
a den of lies, wherein whoso will not speak
lies and act lies must stand idle and despair?=
_Carlyle._
=In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers= 35
=are our fortresses.= _Heine._
=In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is
sane who does not know how to be insane
on proper occasions.= _A. B. Alcott._
=In things that may have a double sense, it is
good to think the better was intended; so
shall we still both keep our friends and quietness.=
_Feltham._
=In this blunder still you find, / All think their
little set mankind.= _Hannah More._
=In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only
for God and angels to look on.= _Pythagoras._
=In this wild element of a life, man has to= 40
=struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-abased;
and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding
heart, he has to rise again, struggle
again, still onwards. That his struggle be
a faithful, unconquerable one--that is the
question of questions.= _Carlyle._
=In this world, full often our joys are only the
tender shadows which our sorrows cast.=
_Ward Beecher._
=In this world it is not what we take up, but
what we give up, that makes us rich.= _Ward
Beecher._
=In this world there is one godlike thing, the
essence from first to last of all of godlike in
it--the veneration done to human worth by
the hearts of men.= _Carlyle._
=In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.= _Schiller._
=In thy thriving still misdoubt some evil: / Lest= 45
=gaining gain on thee, and make thee dim /
To all things else.= _George Herbert._
=In time comes he whom God sends.= _Herbert's
Coll._
=In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.=
_Much Ado_, i. 1.
=In time we hate that which we often fear.=
_Ant. and Cleop._, i. 3.
=In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in
order to be a saviour.= _Mirabeau._
=In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed= 5
=until danger be near at hand; but when
we perceive that danger is near, we should
oppose it as if we were not afraid.= _Hitopadesa._
=In times of misfortune men's understandings
even are sullied.= _Hitopadesa._
=In times of necessity the words of the wise
are worthy to be observed.= _Hitopadesa._
=In too much disputing truth is lost.= _Fr. Pr._
=In totidem verbis=--In so many words.
=In toto=--In the whole; entirely. 10
=In toto et pars continetur=--In the whole the
part also is contained.
=In transitu=--In passing.
=In treachery it is not the fraud, but the
cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful.=
_Ruskin._
=In trinitate robur=--My strength lies in trinity (or
triunity). _M._
=In true marriage lies / Nor equal, nor unequal:= 15
=each fulfils / Defect in each, and always
thought in thought, / Purpose in purpose,
will in will, they grow, / The single pure and
perfect animal, / The two-cell'd heart beating,
with one full stroke, / Life.= _Tennyson._
=In turbas et discordias pessimo cuique plurima
vis=--In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst
men have the greatest power. _Tac._
=In unoquoque virorum bonorum habitat Deus=--God
has his dwelling within every good man.
_Sen._
=In usum Delphini=--For the use of the Dauphin.
=In utero=--In the womb.
=In utramvis dormire aurem=--To sleep on both 20
ears, _i.e._, soundly, as no longer needing to keep
awake. _Pr._
=In utraque fortuna paratus=--Prepared in any
change of fortune. _M._
=In utroque fidelis=--Faithful in both. _M._
=In vacuo=--In empty space.
=In vain do they talk of happiness who never
subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.=
_Horace Mann._
=In vain does the mill clack / If the miller his= 25
=hearing lack.= _Herbert's Coll._
=In veritate religionis confido=--I confide in the
truth of religion. _M._
=In veritate victoria=--Victory lies with the truth.
_M._
=In vino veritas=--There is truth in wine; that is,
the truth comes out under its influence.
=In vitium ducit culpæ fuga=--In flying from one
vice we are sometimes led into another. _Hor._
=In water you may see your own face; in wine= 30
=the heart of another.= _Pr._
=In well-regulated civil society there is scarcely
a more melancholy suffering to be undergone
than what is forced on us by the neighbourhood
of an incipient player on the flute or
violin.= _Goethe._
=In wenig Stunden / Hat Gott das Rechte
gefunden=--God takes but a short time to find
out the right. _Goethe._
=In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it
ends; and admiration fills up the interspace.=
_Coleridge._
=In wonder the spirits fly not as in fear, but
only settle.= _Bacon._
=In working well, if travail you sustain, / Into= 35
=the wind shall lightly pass the pain, / But of
the deed the glory shall remain.= _Nicholas
Grimwald._
=In works of labour or of skill, / I would be
busy too, / For Satan finds some mischief
still / For idle hands to do.= _Watts._
=In writing readily, it does not follow that you
write well; but in writing well, you must be
able to write readily.= _Quinct._
=In your own country your name, in other countries
your appearance.= _Heb. Pr._
=In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare.=
_Pope, after Homer._
=In youth it is too early, in old age it is too late= 40
=to marry.= _Diogenes._
=In youth, one has tears without grief; in age,
grief without tears.= _Jean Paul._
=Inactivity cannot be led to good.= _Hannah
More._
=Inanis verborum torrens=--An unmeaning torrent
of words. _Quinct._
=Incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso=--You
are treading on fire overlaid by treacherous
ashes. _Hor._
=Incedit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim=--He 45
falls into Scylla in struggling to escape
Charybdis. _Pr._
=Incendit omnem feminæ zelus domum=--The
jealousy of a woman sets a whole house in a
flame. _Pr._
=Incense is a tribute for gods only but a poison
for mortals.= _Goethe._
=Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis, /
Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus
et alter / Adsuitur pannus=--Oftentimes to lofty
beginnings and such as promise great things, one
or two purple patches are stitched on in order to
make a brilliant display. _Hor._
=Incerta hæc si tu postules / Ratione certa
facere, nihilo plus agas, / Quam si des
operam ut cum ratione insanias=--If you
require reason to make that certain which is
uncertain, you are simply attempting to go mad
by the rules of reason. _Ter._
=Incerta pro nullis habetur=--What is uncertain 50
is to be treated as non-extant. _L._
=Incerti sunt exitus belli=--The results of war are
uncertain. _Cic._
=Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet; itaque
in omni loco illam expecta=--It is uncertain in
what place death awaits you; be ready for it
therefore in every place. _Sen._
=Incessant scribbling is death to thought.= _Carlyle._
=Incessu patuit Dea=--By her gait the goddess
stood revealed. _Virg._
=Incidents ought not to govern policy; but= 55
=policy, incidents.= _Napoleon._
=Inclusio unius est exclusio alterius=--The mention
by name of the one implies the exclusion
of the other. _L._
=Incoctum generoso pectus honesto=--A heart
imbued with generous honour. _Pers._
=Inconsiderate persons do not think till they
they speak; or they speak, and then think.=
_Judge Hale._
=Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes
of circumstances, are often justifiable.= _Daniel
Webster._
=Increased means and increased leisure are the
two civilisers of men.= _Disraeli._
=Incrédules les plus crédules=--The incredulous 5
are the most credulous. _Pascal._
=Incudi reddere=--To return to the anvil, _i.e._, to
improve, or recast. _Hor._
=Inde datæ leges ne fortior omnia posset=--Laws
have been ordained to the end that the stronger
may not have everything their own way. _L._
=Inde iræ et lacrimæ=--Hence rage and tears.
_Juv._
=Indecision and delay are the parents of failure.=
_Canning._
=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust= 10
=rebellion, why parade it and everywhere
prescribe it.= _Carlyle._
=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion. Were
your superiors worthy to govern, and you
worthy to obey, reverence for them were
even your only possible freedom.= _Carlyle._
=Independence, like honour, is a rocky island
without a beach.= _Napoleon._
=Independence you had better cease to talk of,
for you are dependent not only on every act
of people whom you never heard of, who are
living round you, but on every past act of
what has been dust for a thousand years.=
_Ruskin._
=Index expurgatorius=--An expurgatory index.
=Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem /= 15
=Perpetuam: sævis inter se convenit ursis. /
Ast homini ferrum letale incude nefanda /
Produxisse parum est=--The Indian tigers
live in perpetual peace with each rabid tigress;
savage bears agree among themselves, but man
without remorse beats out the deadly sword on
the accursed anvil. _Juv._
=Indictum sit=--Be it unsaid.
=Indigestion is the devil--nay, 'tis the devil
and all. It besets a man in every one of
his senses.= _Burns._
=Indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit=--Things
unbecoming are to be held becoming
if the master does them. _Plaut._
=Indignant good sense is often the perfection
of absurdity.= _Thackeray._
=Indignante invidia florebit justus=--The just 20
man will prosper in spite of envy. _M._
=Indigne vivit per quem non vivit alter=--He by
whom another does not live does not deserve
to live.
=Indignor quidquam reprehendi, non quia
crasse / Compositum, illepideve putetur,
sed quia nuper=--I feel indignant when a work
is censured not as uncouth or rough, but as
new.
=Individuality is everywhere to be spared and
respected, as the root of everything good.=
_Jean Paul._
=Individuality is of far more account than
nationality.= _Schopenhauer._
=Individually man is a weak being, but strong= 25
=in union with others.= _Herder._
=Individuals may form communities, but it is
institutions alone can create a nation.= _Disraeli._
=Individuals must be modest, but modesty degrades
nations.= _Gioberti._
=Indocilis pauperiem pati=--One that cannot learn
to bear poverty. _Hor._
=Indocilis privata loqui=--Incapable of betraying
secrets. _Lucan._
=Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti=--Let 30
the ignorant learn, and the learned take
pleasure in refreshing their remembrance. _President
Hénault, after Pope._
=Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.=
_Rivarol._
=Indolence is the paralysis of the soul.= _Lavater._
=Indolence is the sleep of the mind.= _Vauvenargues._
=Industria floremus=--By industry we flourish. _M._
=Industriæ nil impossibile=--Nothing is impossible 35
to industry.
=Industry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality
her left.= _Pr._
=Industry is the parent of success.=
=Industry is the parent of virtue.=
=Industry need not wish.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Indutus virtute ab alto=--Anointed with virtue 40
from above.
=Inest et formicæ sua bilis=--Even the ant has its
bile.
=Inest sua gratia parvis=--Even little things have
a grace of their own.
=Inest virtus et mens interrita lethi=--He has
a valiant heart and a soul undaunted by death.
_Ovid._
=Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes
into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with
them to return to Paradise.= _Emerson._
=Infancy presents body and spirit in unity; the= 45
=body is all animated.= _Coleridge._
=Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem=--Indescribable,
O Queen, is the grief you bid me
renew. _Virg._
=Infecta pace=--Without effecting a peace. _Ter._
=Inferior poetry is an injury to the good, inasmuch
as it takes away the freshness of
rhymes, blunders upon and gives a wretched
commonality to good thoughts, and, in
general, adds to the weight of human
weariness in a most woeful and culpable
manner.= _Ruskin._
=Infidelity is not always built upon doubt, for
this is diffident; nor philosophy always upon
wisdom, for this is meek; but pride is neither.=
_Colton._
=Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.= 50
_Mme. de Girardin._
=Infinite is the help man can yield to man.=
_Carlyle._
=Infinite pity, yet also infinite rigour of law;
it is so Nature is made.= _Carlyle._
=Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep
away a mist; but, by ascending a little,
you may often overlook it altogether.=
_Helps._
=Inflatum plenumque Nerone propinquo=--Puffed
up and full of his relationship to Nero. _Juv._
=Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your= 55
=power, for he may afterwards become your
friend.= _Saadi._
=Influence is to be measured not by the extent
of surface it covers, but by its kind.= _Channing._
=Infra dignitatem=--Beneath one's dignity.
=Ingenii largitor venter=--The belly is the bestower
of genius.
=Ingeniis patuit campus, certusque merenti /
Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--The
field is open to talent and merit is sure of
its reward. The gifts with which industry is
crowned are her own. _Claud._
=Ingenio facies conciliante placet=--When the 5
disposition wins us, the features please. _Ovid._
=Ingenio non ætate adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom
is a birth of Nature, not of years.
=Ingenio stat sine morte decus=--The honour
accorded to genius is immortal. _Propert._
=Ingeniorum cos æmulatio=--Rivalry is the whetstone
of talent.
=Ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub corpore=--A
great intellect lies concealed under
that uncouth exterior. _Hor._
=Ingenium mala sæpe movent=--Misfortunes often 10
stir up genius. _Ovid._
=Ingenium res adversæ nudare solent, celare
secundæ=--As a rule, adversity reveals genius,
and prosperity conceals it. _Hor._
=Ingens telum necessitas=--Necessity is a powerful
weapon.
=Ingentes animos angusto in corpore versant=--They
have mighty souls at work within a stinted
body. _Virg._
=Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes / Emollit
mores, nec sinit esse feros=--A faithful study
of the liberal arts refines the manners and
corrects their harshness. _Ovid._
=Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis=--Ungrateful 15
country, thou shalt not have even my
bones. _Scipio._
=Ingratis servire nefas=--To serve the ungrateful
is an offence to the gods.
=Ingratitude and compassion never cohabit in
the same breast.= _South._
=Ingratitude drieth up wells, / And time bridges
fells.= _Wodroephe._
=Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the
man was never yet found who would acknowledge
himself guilty of it.= (?)
=Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More= 20
=hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, /
Than the sea-monster.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Ingratus est qui remotis testibus agit gratiam=--He
is an ungrateful man who is unwilling to
acknowledge his obligation before others. _Sen._
=Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet=--One
ungrateful man does an injury to all needy
people. _Pub. Syr._
=Inimicus et invidus vicinorum oculus=--An
enemy and an envious man is an eye over his
neighbour. _Pr._
=Iniqua nunquam regna perpetua manent=--Authority
founded on injustice is never of long
duration. _Sen._
=Iniquum est aliquem rei sui esse judicem=--It is 25
unjust that any one should be judge in his own
cause. _Coke._
=Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme,
et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our
official duties is characterised by greater vigour
and alacrity, but towards the end they flag.
_Tac._
=Initium est salutis, notitia peccati=--The first
step in a man's salvation is knowledge of his
sin. _Sen._
=Injuria absque damno=--Injury without loss.
=Injuriæ spretæ exolescunt, si irascaris agnitæ
videntur=--Injuries that are slighted and unnoticed
are soon forgotten; if you are angry,
they are seen to be acknowledged. _Pr._
=Injuriam qui facturus est jam facit=--He who is 30
bent on doing an injury has already done it.
_Sen._
=Injuriarum remedium est oblivio=--Oblivion is
the best remedy for injuries. _Pr._
=Injuries come only from the heart.= _Sterne._
=Injusta ab justis impetrare non decet; / Justa
autem ab injustis petere, insipientia est=--To
ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable
is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the
unreasonable is folly. _Plaut._
=Inmost things are all melodious, naturally
utter themselves in song. The meaning of
song goes deep.= _Carlyle._
=Innocence has a friend in heaven.= _Schiller._ 35
=Innocence is a flower which withers when
touched, and blooms not again though
watered with tears.= _Hooper._
=Inopem me copia fecit=--Plenty has made me
poor; wealth makes wit waver. _Ovid._
=Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter=--He
confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who
does so quickly. _Pub. Syr._
=Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit=--An
incapable man who attempts to imitate a capable
is sure to come to grief. _Phædr._
=Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores=--The 40
best manners are stained by the addition of
pride. _Claud._
=Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy as
drinking in a fever quenches the thirst.=
_Wycherley._
=Ins Innre der Natur / Dringt kein erschaffner
Geist. / Glückselig, wem sie nur / Die äussre
Schale weist=--No created spirit penetrates into
the inner secret of Nature. Happy he to whom
she shows but the outer shell. _Haller._
=Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui, /
Ultra quod satis est virtutem si petat ipsam=--Let
the wise man bear the name of fool, and
the just of unjust, if he pursue Virtue herself
beyond the proper bounds. _Hor._
=Insanire parat certa ratione modoque=--He is
preparing to act the madman with a certain
degree of reason and method. _Hor._
=Insanity is often the logic of an accurate= 45
=mind overtasked.= _Holmes._
=Insanus omnis furere credit cæteros=--Every
madman believes that all others are mad. _Syr._
=Insculpsit=--He engraved it.
=Inservi Deo et lætare=--Serve God and rejoice.
_M._
=Insipientis est dicere, Non putarem=--It is the
part of a fool to say, "I should not have thought
so."
=Insita hominibus natura violentiæ resistere=--It 50
is natural to man to resist oppression. _Tac._
=Insita mortalibus natura, propere sequi quæ
piget inchoare=--People are naturally ready
enough to follow in matters in which they are
disinclined to take the lead. _Tac._
=Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off.=
_Pr._
=Insouciance=--Indifference. _Fr._
=Insperata accidunt magis sæpe quam quæ
speres=--What you do not expect happens more
frequently than what you do. _Plaut._
=Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas
omnium / Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum
sibi=--I would have you to look into
the lives of all, as into a mirror, and draw from
others an example for yourself. _Ter._
=Inspiration must find answering inspiration.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Inspirations that we deem our own are our= 5
=divine foreshadowing and foreseeing of
things beyond our reason and control.=
_Longfellow._
=Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What
dangers thou canst make us scorn!= _Burns._
=Instar omnium=--Like all the others.
=Instead of the piteous and frightful figure
of Death, stepping whip to hand by the
peasant's side in the field, ... place there
a radiant angel, sowing with full hands the
blessed grain in the smoking furrow.= _George
Sand._
=Instead of watching the bird as it flies above
our heads, we chase his shadow along the
ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it,
we conclude it to be nothing.= _Hare._
=Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on= 10
=instinct.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.=
_John Sterling._
=Instruction does much, but encouragement
everything.= _Goethe._
=Intaminatis fulget honoribus=--He shines with
unspotted honours. _M._
=Integer vitæ scelerisque purus / Non eget
Mauris jaculis neque arcu=--The man of upright
life and free from crime has no need of
Moorish javelin or bow. _Hor._
=Integrity gains strength by use.= _Tillotson._ 15
=Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our
end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and
will hold out and last longest.= _Tillotson._
=Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.= _Johnson._
=Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks,
he is free.= _Emerson._
=Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic.=
_Amiel._
=Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it= 20
=is seeing and ascertaining.= _Carlyle._
=Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect
constructive.= _Emerson._
=Intellectual fairness is often only another name
for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind,
just as love of truth is sometimes a fine
phrase for temper.= _J. Morley._
=Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede
muscular activity.= _Emerson._
=Intelligabilia, non intellectum, fero=--I provide
you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.
=Intemperans adolescentia effetum corpus= 25
=tradet senectuti=--An incontinent youth will
transmit a worn-out bodily frame to old age.
_Cic._
=Intemperate wits will spare neither friend
nor foe, and make themselves the common
enemies of mankind.= _L'Estrange._
=Intense study of the Bible will keep any man
from being vulgar in point of style.= _Coleridge._
=Inter alia=--Among other matters.
=Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas=--Among
friends all things are common. _Cic._
=Inter arma leges silent=--In the midst of arms 30
the laws are silent. _Cic._
=Inter canem et lupum=--Between the dog and
the wolf; at the twilight.
=Inter cetera mala, hoc quoque habet stultitia
proprium, semper incipit vivere=--Among other
evils, folly has also this special characteristic, it
is always beginning to live. _Sen._
=Inter delicias semper aliquid sævi nos strangulat=--In
the midst of our enjoyments there is
always some wrong to torture us. _Pr._
=Inter Græcos græcissimus, inter Latinos
latinissimus=--In Greek he is the most accomplished
Grecian, and in Latin the most thorough
Latinist.
=Inter malleum et incudem=--Between the hammer 35
and the anvil.
=Inter nos=--Between ourselves.
=Inter nos sanctissima divitiarum / Majestas=--Among
us the most sacred majesty is that of
riches. _Juv._
=Inter pueros senex=--An old man among boys. _Pr._
=Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, /
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: /
Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--In
the midst of hope and care, in the midst of
fears and passions, believe each day that dawns
on you is your last; welcome will steal upon you
the hour that is not hoped for. _Hor._
=Inter sylvas Academi quærere verum=--Amid 40
the woods of Academus to seek for truth. _Hor._
=Inter utrumque tene=--Keep a mid course between
the two extremes. _Ovid._
=Inter vivos=--Among the living.
=Interdum lacrymæ pondera vocis habent=--Sometimes
tears have the weight of words.
_Ovid._
=Interdum stultus bene loquitur=--Sometimes a
fool speaks reasonably.
=Interdum vulgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat=--Sometimes 45
the common people judge aright;
at other times they err. _Hor._
=Interea gustus elementa per omnia quærunt, /
Nunquam animo pretiis obstantibus; interius
si / Attendas, magis illa juvant, quæ pluris
emuntur=--Meantime they search for relishes
through all the elements, with minds regardless
of expense; look at it closely, those things please
more which cost the higher price. _Juv._
=Interest blinds some people and enlightens
others.= _La Roche._
=Interest is the spur of the people, but glory
that of great souls.= _Rousseau._
=Interest reipublicæ ut quisque re sua bene
utatur=--It is for the interest of the state that
every one make a good use of his property.
=Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays= 50
=all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested.=
_La Roche._
=Interim fit aliquid=--- Something is going on meanwhile.
_Ter._
=Into a mouth shut flies fly not.= _Pr._
=Into contradicting / Be thou never led away; / When
with the ignorant they strive, / The
wise to folly fall away.= _Goethe._
=Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days
must be dark and dreary.= _Longfellow._
=Intolerabilius nihil est quam fœmina dives=--There
is nothing more insufferable than a rich
woman. _Juv._
=Intra muros=--Within the walls.
=Introite, nam et hic dii sunt=--Enter, for here too
are gods. _Heraclitus, from Arist._
=Intuition is the clear conception of the whole= 5
=at once. It seldom belongs to man to say
without presumption, "I came, I saw, I conquered."=
_Lavater._
=Intus et in cute novi hominem=--I know the man
inside and out. _Pers._
=Intus et in jecore ægro / Nascuntur domini=--Masters
spring up in our own breasts, and from
a morbid liver. _Pers._
=Intus si recte, ne labora=--If inwardly right, don't
worry.
=Intuta quæ indecora=--What is unbecoming is
unsafe. _Tac._
=Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete, / Sat= 10
=me lusistis, ludite nunc alios=--I have reached
the port; hope and fortune, farewell; you have
made sport enough of me; make sport of others
now. _Lines at the end of Le Sage's "Gil Blas."_
=Invent first, and then embellish.= _Johnson._
=Invention breeds invention.= _Emerson._
=Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment
of age.= _Swift._
=Inventions have all been invented over and
over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine,
of which all these shifts drawn from himself
are toy models.= _Emerson._
=Invia virtuti nulla est via=--No way is impassable 15
to virtue. _Ovid._
=Invidia gloriæ comes=--Envy is the attendant on
glory. _Ovid._
="Invidia," jealousy of your neighbour's good,
has been, since dust was first made flesh,
the curse of man; and "charitas," the
desire to do your neighbour grace, the one
source of all human glory, power and material
blessing.= _Ruskin._
=Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni / Tormentum
majus=--Sicilian tyrants invented nothing
that is a greater torment than envy. _Juv._
=Invidiam ferre aut fortis aut felix potest=--Only
the brave or the fortunate are able to endure
envy. _Pub. Syr._
=Invidiam placare paras, virtute relicta?=--Are 20
you trying to appease envy by the abandonment
of virtue?
=Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis=--The
envious man grows lean at the prosperity of
another. _Hor._
=Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, /
Nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, /
Si modo culturæ patientem commodet
aurem=--The envious, the passionate, the indolent,
the drunken, the lewd--none is so savage
that he cannot be tamed, if he only lend a patient
ear to culture. _Hor._
=Invisa nunquam imperia retinentur diu=--Hated
governments never hold out long. _Sen._
=Invisa potentia, atque miseranda vita eorum,
qui se metui quam amari malunt=--The power
is detested, and the life wretched, of those who
would rather be feared than loved. _Corn. Nep._
=Invita Minerva=--Without genius or the requisite 25
inspiration; against the will of Minerva.
=Invitat culpam qui peccatum præterit=--He who
overlooks one crime invites the commission of
another. _Pub. Syr._
=Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti=--He
who saves a man against his will, does the same
as if he killed him. _Hor._
=Invitum sequitur honos=--Honour follows him
unsolicited. _M._
=Inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and
thanksgiving to Providence under all its
dispensations.= _Addison._
=Ipsæ rursum concedite sylvæ=--Once again, ye 30
woods, adieu! _Virg._
=Ipse dixit=--He himself (viz. Pythagoras) said it.
Assertion without proof.
=Ipse docet quid agam: fas est et ab hoste
doceri=--He himself teaches me what to do; one
ought not to be above taking a lesson even from
an enemy. _Ovid._
=Ipse Jupiter, neque pluens omnibus placet,
neque abstinens=--Even Jupiter himself cannot
please all, whether he sends rain or fair weather.
_Pr._
=Ipse pavet; nec qua commissas flectat habenas, /
Nec scit qua sit iter; nec, si sciat, imperet
illis=--Scared himself, he knows neither
how to turn the reins intrusted to him, nor
which way to go; nor if he did, could he control
the horses. _Ovid, of Phaethon._
=Ipsissima verba=--The exact words. 35
=Ipso facto=--By the fact itself.
=Ipso jure=--By the law itself.
=Ir por lana, y volver trasquilado=--To go for
wool and come back shorn. _Sp. Pr._
=Ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui, nisi
paret, / Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce
catena=--Anger is a shortlived madness;
control thy temper, for unless it obeys, it commands
thee; restrain it with bit and chain. _Hor._
=Ira quæ tegitur nocet; / Professa perdunt= 40
=odia vindictæ locum=--Resentment which is
concealed is dangerous; hatred avowed loses
its opportunity of revenge. _Sen._
=Irarum tantos volvis sub pectore fluctus?=--Dost
thou roll such billows of wrath within your
breast? _Virg._
=Iratus cum ad se redit, sibi tum irascitur=--When
an angry man returns to himself, he is
angry with himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et Ancus=--It
still remains for you to go where Numa has
gone, and Ancus before you. _Hor._
=Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth
the countenance of his friend.= _Bible._
=Iron with often handling is worn to nothing.= 45
_Lyly's Euphues._
=Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a
compliment.= _Whipple._
=Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity.= _John
Weiss._
=Irremeabilis unda=--The river there is no recrossing;
the styx. _Hor._
=Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an
ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb,
but all the body is at once in a fit. The
irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles
all his actions.= _Feltham._
=Irritabis crabrones=--You will irritate the hornets. 50
_Plaut._
=Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate
heat instead of progress.= _George Eliot._
=Irrthum verlässt uns nie; doch ziehet ein höher
Bedürfniss immer den strebenden Geist leise
zur Wahrheit hinan=--Error never leaves us,
yet a higher need always draws the striving
spirit gently on to truth. _Goethe._
=Is a man one whit the better because he is
grown great in other men's esteem?= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Is any place so inaccessible that an ass laden
with gold cannot penetrate?= _Philip of Macedon
to a scout who pronounced a certain territory
impregnable._
=Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then
are earth's green robe and heavens light
vain.= _Pierpont._
=Is cadet ante senem, qui sapit ante diem=--He 5
will die before he is old who is prematurely wise.
_Pr._
=Is common opinion the standard of merit?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus
auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur=--Such
was the public temper, that some
few dared to perpetrate the vilest crimes, more
were fain to do so, and all looked passively on.
_Tac._
=Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill
is displayed? The shallowest understanding,
the rudest hand, is more equal to that
task.= _Burke._
=Is it not astonishing that the love of repose
keeps us in continual agitation?= _Stanislaus._
=Is it not strange that men should be so ready= 10
=to fight for religion and so reluctant to observe
its precepts?= _Lichtenberg._
=Is it not the same to whoso wears a shoe
as if the earth were thatched all over with
leather?= _Hitopadesa._
=Is it right to despair, and shall truth make
us sad?= _Renan._
=Is maxime divitiis utitur, qui minime divitiis
indiget=--He employs riches to the best purpose
who least needs them. _Sen._
=Is mihi demum vivere et frui anima videtur,
qui aliquo negotio intentus, præclari facinoris
aut artis bonæ famam quærit=--He alone
appears to me to live and to enjoy life, who,
being engaged in some business, seeks reputation
by some illustrious action or some useful
art. _Sall._
=Is mihi videtur amplissimus qui sua virtute in= 15
=altiorem locum pervenit=--He is in my regard
the most illustrious man who has risen by his
own virtues. _Cic._
=Is not belief the true God-announcing miracle?=
_Novalis._
=Is not cant the= _prima materia_ =of the devil, from
which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations
body themselves, from which no true
thing can come?= _Carlyle._
=Is not light greater than fire? It is the same
element in a state of purity.= _Carlyle._
=Is not marriage an open question when it is
alleged, from the beginning of the world, that
such as are in the institution wish to get out,
and such as are out wish to get in?= _Emerson._
=Is not shame the soil of all virtue, of all good= 20
=manners and good morals?= _Carlyle._
=Is ordo vitio careto, cæteris specimen esto=--Let
this class (viz. the nobility of Rome) be free
from vice and a pattern to the rest. _The Twelve
Tables._
=Is sapiens qui se ad casus accommodet omnes; /
Stultus pugnat in adversis ire natator aquis=--He
is a wise man who adapts himself to all
contingencies; the fool struggles like a swimmer
against the stream.
=Is that a wonder which happens in two hours;
and does it cease to be wonderful if happening
in two millions?= _Carlyle._
=Is the God present, felt in my own heart, a
thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute
out of me or dispute into me? To the "worship
of sorrow"= (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._
=Is the jay more precious than the lark because= 25
=his feathers are more beautiful?= _Tam. of
Shrew_, iv. 3.
=Is there anything of its own nature beautiful
or not beautiful? The beauty of a thing is
even that by which it shineth.= _Hitopadesa._
=Is there evil in a city, and the Lord hath not
done it?= _Bible._
=Is there for honest poverty / That hangs his
head, and a' that? / The coward slave we
pass him by, / We dare be poor for a' that.=
_Burns._
=Is there no God, then? but at best an absentee
God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath,
at the outside of His universe, and seeing it
go?= _Carlyle._
=Is there no stoning save with flint and rock?= 30
_Tennyson._
=Is there no way to bring home a wandering
sheep but by worrying him to death?=
_Thomas Fuller._
=Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The
handle toward my hand? Come, let me
clutch thee.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Is thy complexion sour? / Then keep such
company.= _Herbert._
=Is your trumpeter dead, that you are obliged
to praise yourself?= _Pr._
=Isaac's fond blessing may not fall on scorn, /= 35
=Nor Balaam's curse on love which God hath
blest.= _Keble._
=Island ez hinn besta haud sun solinn shinnar
uppà=--Iceland is the best land on which the
sun shines. _Icelandic Pr._
=Isolation is the sum-total of wretchedness to a
man.= _Carlyle._
=Ist's Gottes Werk, so wird's besteh'n / Ist's
Menschenwerk, wird's untergeh'n=--If it be
God's work, it will stand; if man's, it will
perish.
=Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis; /
Rugaque in antiqua fronte senilis erit=--That
comely face of thine will be marred by length of
years, and the wrinkle of age will one day scar
thine aged brow. _Ovid._
=Istæc in me cudetur faba=--I shall have to smart 40
for it (_lit._ that bean will hit me). _Ter._
=Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo
est / Videre, sed etiam illa quæ futura sunt /
Prospicere=--That is wisdom, not merely to see
what is immediately before one's eyes, but to
forecast what is going to happen. _Ter._
=Istuc est sapere, qui, ubicunque opus sit,
animum possis flectere=--You are a wise man if
you can easily direct your attention to whatever
may require it. _Ter._
=It= (love) =adds a precious seeing to the eye.=
_Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=It belongs to great men to have great defects.=
_Fr. Pr._
=It can do us no harm to look at what is extraordinary
with our own eyes.= _Goethe._
=It chanceth in an hour that cometh not in
seven years.= _Pr._
=It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear= 5
=them.= _Pr._
=It dawns no sooner for one's early rising.=
_Port. Pr._
=It exalteth a man from earthly things to
love those that are heavenly.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It happens as with cages, the birds without
despair to get in, and those within despair of
getting out.= _Montaigne._
=It happens to men of learning as to ears of
corn; they shoot up and raise their heads
high while they are empty; but when full
and swelled with grain, they begin to flag
and droop.= (?)
=It has been well said that our anxiety does= 10
=not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but
only empties to-day of its strength.= _Spurgeon._
=It is a bad trade that of censor; he is sure to
incur the hatred of those he censures, without
finding them improved by the correction.=
_Guy Patin._
=It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character,
that he thinks no evil of the object loved.=
_Longfellow._
=It is a beggarly conception to judge as if
poetry should always be capable of a prose
rendering.= _John Morley._
=It is a brave act of valour to contemn death;
but when life is more terrible than death, it
is then the truest valour to dare to live.= _Sir
T. Browne._
=It is a characteristic of true genius to disturb= 15
=all settled ideas.= _Goethe._
=It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order
to avoid pain.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is a common error to think that in politics
legislation is everything and administration
nothing.= _Macaulay._
=It is a common failing of old men to attribute
all wisdom to themselves.= _Fielding._
=It is a common law of Nature, which no time
will ever change, that superiors shall rule
their inferiors.= _Dionysius._
=It is a custom / More honoured in the breach= 20
=than the observance.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=It is a damnable audacity to bring forth that
torturing Cross, and the Holy One who
suffers on it, and to expose them to the light
of the sun, which hid its face when a reckless
world forced such a sight on it; to
take these mysterious secrets, in which
the divine depth of sorrow lies hid, and
play with them, fondle them, trick them
out, and rest not till the most reverend of
all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry.=
_Goethe._
=It is a delusion= (_Wahn_) =to suppose that adversity=
(_Unglück_) =makes man better. As well
believe that the rust makes the knife sharp,
dirt promotes purity, and mud clarifies the
stream.= _Bodenstedt._
="It is a devout imagination."= _The Regent
Murray's answer to John Knox's proposal to
conserve the property of the Church for the
spiritual benefit of the lieges._
=It is a fair and holy office to be a prophet of
Nature.= _Novalis._
=It is a fine thing to command, though it were= 25
=but a herd of cattle.= _Cervantes._
=It is a foul bird that dirties its own nest.= _Pr._
=It is a golden rule not to judge men according
to their opinions, but according to the effect
these opinions have on their character.=
_Lichtenberg._
=It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a
good wife that never grumbles.= _Pr._
=It is a good thing to stay away till one's company= 30
=is desired, but not so good to stay after
it is desired.= _Johnson._
=It is a grave offence to bind a Roman citizen,
a crime to flog him, almost the act of a
parricide to put him to death; what shall I
call crucifying him? Language worthy of
such an enormity it is impossible to find.=
_Cic._
=It is a great ease to have one in our own
shape a species below us, and who, without
being enlisted in our service, is by nature of
our retinue.= _Steele._
=It is a great journey to life's end.= _Pr._
=It is a great misfortune not to possess talent
enough to speak well, or sense enough to
hold one's tongue.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a great mistake to think that because= 35
=you have read a masterpiece once or twice
or ten times, therefore you have done with
it.... You ought to live with it and make
it part of your daily life.= _John Morley._
=It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner
for the outer man.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is a great pity when the man who should
be the head figure is a mere figure-head.=
_Spurgeon._
=It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's
own folly.= _Pr._
=It is a great shame to a man to have a poor
heart and a rich purse.= _Cato._
=It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, / But a= 40
=greater still to keep a sinful oath.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, v. 1.
=It is a great step in finesse to make people
under-estimate your acuteness.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.=
_Pr._
=It is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes
the human element in man.= _Schiller._
=It is a long lane that has no turning.= _Pr._
=It is a long way from granite to the oyster;= 45
=farther yet to Plato, and the preaching of
the immortality of the soul.= _Emerson._
=It is a low benefit to give me something; it is
a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat
of myself.= _Emerson._
=It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning.= _George
Eliot._
=It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your
own from another's.= _Emerson._
=It is a man's sincerity and depth of vision that
makes him a poet.= _Carlyle._
=It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a
pebble from my hand alters the centre of
gravity of the universe.= _Carlyle._
=It is a maxim of those who are esteemed perfect,
that abundance is the perverter of
reason.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is a mere and miserable solitude to want
true friends, without which the world is but
a wilderness.= _Bacon._
=It is a moral impossibility that any son or
daughter of Adam can stand on any ground
that mortal treads, and gainsay the healthy
tenure on which we hold our existence.=
_Dickens._
=It is a poor art that the artisan can't live by.= 5
_It. Pr._
=It is a poor heart that never rejoices.= _Pr._
=It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats.=
_Dan. Pr._
=It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.=
_Pr._
=It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.=
_George Herbert._
=It is a profound error to presume that everything= 10
=has been discovered; it is to take the
horizon which bounds the eye for the limit of
the world.= _Lemierre._
=It is a proof of mediocrity of intellect to be
addicted to relating stories.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a rare thing, except it be from a perfect
and entire friend, to have counsel given us,
but such as shall be bowed and crooked to
some ends which he hath that giveth it.=
_Bacon._
=It is a reproach to be the first gentleman
of one's race, but greater to be the last.=
_Pr._
=It is a sad house where the hen crows louder
than the cock.= _Pr._
=It is a shame for a man to desire honour because= 15
=of his ancestors, and not to deserve it
by his own virtue.= _St. Chrysostom._
=It is a sign that your reputation is small or
sinking if your own tongue must praise you.=
_Judge Hale._
=It is a sin against hospitality to open your
doors and shut up your countenance.= _Pr._
=It is a small virtue to keep silence on matters,
but a grave fault to speak of what should be
kept silent.= _Ovid._
=It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself.=
_Pr._
=It is a strange habit of wise humanity to speak= 20
=in enigmas only.= _Ruskin._
=It is a universal weakness of human nature to
have an inordinate faith in things unseen
and unknown, and to be affected unduly by
them.= _Cæsar._
=It is a very good world to live in, / To lend, or
to spend, or to give in; / But to beg, or to
borrow, or to get a man's own, / It is the
very worst world that ever was known.=
_Rochester._
=It is a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be
sociable.= _Schiller._
=It is a virtue in hermits to forgive their
enemies as well as their friends; but it is a
fault in princes to show clemency towards
those who are guilty.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is a wise father that knows his own child.= 25
_Mer. of Ven._, ii. 2.
=It is absurd to contend for any sense of words
in opposition to usage; for all senses are
founded upon usage, and upon nothing else.=
_Paley._
=It is advisable that a man should know at
least three things:--first, where he is;
secondly, where he is going; thirdly, what
he had best do under the circumstances.=
_Ruskin._
=It is all in my eye=, _i.e._, it is nowhere else. _Pr._
=It is allowed by the laws of war to deceive an
enemy by feints, false colours, spies, false
intelligence, or the like; but by no means in
treaties, truces, signals of capitulation or
surrender.= _Paley._
=It is always an ease, and sometimes a happiness,= 30
=to have nothing.= _Joseph Hall._
=It is always by adventurers that great deeds
are done, and not by the sovereigns of great
empires.=
=It is always good when a man has two irons
in the fire.= _F. Beaumont._
=It is always necessary to show some good
opinion of those whose good opinion we
solicit.= _Johnson._
=It is always term time in the court of conscience.=
_Pr._
=It is always the individual, not the age, that= 35
=stands up for the truth.= _Goethe._
=It is always vitally important to ourselves to
be scrupulously true.= _Spurgeon._
=It is an argument of great wisdom to do
nothing rashly, nor to be obstinate and
inflexible in our opinions.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous
spirit whom honour amends; for honour is,
or should be, the place of virtue.= _Bacon._
=It is an egregious error to go by the exception
instead of the rule.= _Pascal._
=It is an equal failing to trust everybody and= 40
=to trust nobody.= _Pr._
=It is an honour for a man to cease from strife.=
_Bible._
=It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb.= _Pr._
=It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._
=It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of
others as to invent.= _Emerson._
=It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.= 45
_Haweis._
=It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving
it, as it is difficult to deceive others
without their finding it out.= _La Roche._
=It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance,
as to discover knowledge.= (?)
=It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect
much on the nature of beings above him as
of beings beneath him.= _Ruskin._
=It is as much a part of true temperance to be
pleased with the little that we know and
the little that we can do as with the little
that we have.= _Ruskin._
=It is as much intemperance to weep too much= 50
=as to laugh too much.= _Pr._
=It is as natural for the old to be prejudiced as
for the young to be presumptuous; and in
the change of centuries each generation
has something to judge for itself.= _Ruskin._
=It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.= _J. F.
Boyes._
=It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.= _Bible._
=It is at least fatal to the philosophic pretension
of a line or stanza if, when it is fairly
reduced to prose, the prose discloses that
it is nonsense.= _John Morley._
=It is bad, having once known the right, / And
the impulse of nobleness prized, / To accept
the less worthy, and order the fight / For a
cause that is meaner, and walk by a light /
That you once had despised.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=It is beneath the dignity of a soul that has but
a grain of sense to make chance, and winds,
and waves the arbitrary disposers of happiness.=
_Lucas._
=It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next= 5
=place, to be quickly reconciled.= _Johnson._
=It is best to rise from life as from a banquet,
neither thirsty nor drunken.= _Arist._
=It is best to take half in hand and the rest by
and by.= _Pr._
=It is best to take with thankfulness and admiration
from each man what he has to give.=
_John Morley._
=It is better and kinder to flog a man to his
work than to leave him idle till he robs and
flog him afterwards.= _Ruskin._
=It is better for a young man to blush than to= 10
=turn pale.= _Cato._
=It is better for the man whom God helps than
for him who rises early.= _Cervantes._
=It is better living on a little than outliving a
great deal.= (?)
=It is better not to live at all than to live dishonoured.=
_Sophocles._
=It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up
according to God's original pattern, than to
be half a man, made after some other man's
pattern.= _J. G. Holland._
=It is better to be affected with a true penitent= 15
=sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve
the most difficult cases about it.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It is better to be lost than to be saved all
alone.= _Amiel._
=It is better to be nothing than a knave.= _M.
Antoninus._
=It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.=
_Fr. Pr._
=It is better to be the head o' the commonalty
than the tail o' the gentry.= _Sc. Pr._
=It is better to be wrong by rule than to be= 20
=wrong with nothing but the fitful caprice
of our disposition to impel us.= _Natalia in
"Wilhelm Meister."_
=It is better to cleanse ourselves of our sins
now, than to reserve them to be cleansed
at some future time.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is better to create than to be learned.
Creating is the essence of life.= _Niebuhr._
=It is better to die once than live always in fear
of death.= _Cæsar._
=It is better to do well than to say well.= _Pr._
=It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop= 25
=than with a brawling woman in a wide
house.= _Bible._
=It is better to fight for the good than to rail at
the ill.= _Tennyson._
=It is better to go to the house of mourning,
than to go to the house of feasting.= _Bible._
=It is better to have a lion at the head of an
army of sheep than a sheep at the head of
an army of lions.= _Defoe._
=It is better to have friends in our passage
through life than grateful dependants; and
as love is a more willing, so it is a more
lasting tribute than extorted obligation.=
_Goldsmith._
=It is better to have loved and lost than never= 30
=to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._
=It is better to have one's evil days when one is
young than when one is old.= _Carlyle._
=It is better to have to do with God than with
His saints.= _Fr. Pr._
=It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to hear the song of fools.=
_Bible._
=It is better to live by begging one's bread
than to gratify the mouth at the expense of
others.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is better to live in a haunted forest ... than= 35
=to live amongst relations after the loss
of wealth.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is better to live on the crust of your own
industry than on the fruits of other people's.=
_Cervantes._
=It is better to make friends than adversaries
of a conquered race.= _B. R. Haydon._
=It is better to trust the eye than the ear.=
_Ger. Pr._
=It is bitter fare eating one's own words.= _Dan.
Pr._
=It is but the outer hem of God's great mantle= 40
=our poor stars do gem.= _Ruskin._
=It is but vain to waste honey on those that
will be caught with gall.= _Quarles._
=It is by attempting to reach the top by a
single leap that so much misery is produced
in the world.= _Cobbett._
=It is by being conversant with the inventions
of others that we learn to invent, as by
reading the thoughts of others we learn to
think.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion
soars above this dull earth.= _Henry Giles._
=It is by his personal conduct that any man of= 45
=ordinary power will do the greatest amount
of good that is in him to do.= _Ruskin._
=It is by imitation, more than by precept, that
we learn anything.= _Burke._
=It is by presence of mind in untried circumstances
that the native metal of a man is
tested.= _Lowell._
=It is by study that we become contemporaries
of every age and citizens of the world.= (?)
=It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely
the moment I can convince another mind
thereof.= _Novalis._
=It is certain that either wise bearing or= 50
=ignorant carriage is caught as men take
diseases, one of another.= 2 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=It is character which builds an existence out
of circumstance. Our strength is measured
by our plastic power.= _Carlyle._
=It is cheap enough to say, "God help you."= _Pr._
=It is common to esteem most what is unknown.=
_Tac._
=It is commonly the imagination which is
wounded first, rather than the heart; it is
so much more sensitive.= _Thoreau._
=It is courage that conquers in war, and not
good weapons.= _Sp. Pr._
=It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect
for us before they permit us.= _Pythagoras._
=It is delightful, after wandering in the thick
darkness of metaphysics, to behold again
the fair face of Truth.= _Carlyle._
=It is delightful to transport one's self into the
spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has
thought before us, and to what a glorious
height we have at last reached.= _Goethe._
=It is difficult to act a part long, for where= 5
=truth is not at the bottom, nature will peep
out and betray itself one time or other.=
_South._
=It is difficult to descend with grace without
seeming to fall.= _Blair._
=It is difficult to do good without multiplying
the sources of evil.= _Ruskin._
=It is difficult to feel deep veneration and great
affection for one and the same person.= _La
Roche._
=It is difficult to know at what moment love
begins; it is less difficult to know that it
has begun.= _Longfellow._
=It is difficult to say whether irresolution renders= 10
=a man the more unhappy or the more despicable;
also whether it is productive of worse
consequences to make a bad resolution, or
none at all.= _La Bruyère._
=It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.=
_Dr. Sharpe._
=It is dreary= (_öde_) =to be able to respect nothing
but one's self.= _Fr. Hebbel._
=It is doubt= (_Zweifel_) =which turns good into bad.=
_Goethe._
=It is downright madness to contend where we
are sure to be worsted.= _L'Estrange._
=It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth,= 15
=than to hold in a witty saying that he is
burning to tell.= _Cic._
=It is easier not to begin to go wrong than it is
to turn back and do better after beginning.=
_President Garfield._
=It is easier to carry the world in one's thoughts
than on one's shoulders.= _A. B. Alcott._
=It is easier to know man in general than men
in particular.= _La Roche._
=It is easier to suppress the first desire than to
satisfy all that follow it.= _Ben. Franklin._
=It is easier to worship than to obey.= _Jean_ 20
_Paul._
=It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to
understand a good one.= _Montaigne._
=It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and
has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule
or censure the common ways of mankind.=
_Johnson._
=It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers;
but to act with wisdom, there's the
rub.= _Rivarole._
=It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion; easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the great man is he who in the
midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.=
_Emerson._
=It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's= 25
=property.= _Platen._
=It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity.=
_Abbott._
=It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult
to appreciate him.= _Vauvenargues._
=It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to
appease.= _Grillparzer._
=It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it
open.= _Chinese Pr._
=It is easy to screw one's self up into high and= 30
=ever higher altitudes of Transcendentalism,
and see nothing under one but the everlasting
snows of Himalaya, the earth shrinking into
a planet, and the indigo firmament sowing
itself with daylight stars; but whither does
it lead? One dreads always to inanity and
mere injuring of the lungs.= _Carlyle to Emerson._
=It is enough for thee to know what each day
wills; and what each day wills the day itself
will tell.= _Goethe._
=It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a
man shows what he is.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is exceedingly difficult for a man to be as
narrow as he could have been had he lived a
century ago.= _Whipple._
=It is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but
tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 2.
=It is falling in with their own mistaken ideas= 35
=that makes fools and beggars of the half of
mankind.= _Young._
=It is fancy, not the reason of things, that makes
us so uneasy.= _L'Estrange._
=It is far better to give work which is above the
men than to educate the men to be above
their work.= _Ruskin._
=It is far easier to make a great rush than to
plod steadily on through a long life.= _Spurgeon._
=It is far from universally true that to get a
thing you must aim at it. There are some
things which can only be gained by renouncing
them.= _Renan._
=It is far more difficult to be simple than to be= 40
=complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice
skill and ease exertion in the proper place,
than to expend both indiscriminately.= _Ruskin._
=It is folly to lay out money in the purchase
of repentance.= _Ben. Franklin._
=It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the
Pope.= _Pr._
=It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers
from a disappointed passion. Such
wounds always leave a scar.= _Longfellow._
=It is for the sake of him= (the virtuous man) =and
of those like him that the earth exists and
maintains itself in being.= _Renan._
=It is for truth that God created genius.= _Lamartine._ 45
=It is for want of application, rather than of
means, that men fail of success.= _La Roche._
=It is force and right that determine everything
in the world; force till right is ready.= _Joubert_ (?).
=It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's
life.= _Cic._
=It is from books that wise men derive consolation
in the troubles of life.= _Victor Hugo._
=It is from the difference we feel between the= 50
=finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy
that all the evils spring which torment humanity.=
_Rousseau._
=It is fruition, and not possession, that renders
us happy.= _Montaigne._
=It is generally a sign of a small mind to think
differently from great minds.= _Goethe._
=It is given us to live only once in the world.=
_Goethe._
=It is good for a man to be driven, were it by
never such harsh methods, into looking at
this great universe with his own eyes, for
himself and not for another, and trying to
adjust himself truly there.= _Carlyle._
=It is good that we sometimes be contradicted,= 5
=and that we always bear it well; for perfect
peace cannot be had in this world.= _Jeremy
Taylor._
=It is good to do nothing bad, but better to wish
nothing bad.= _M. Claudius._
=It is good to fear the worst; the best can save
itself.= _Pr._
=It is good to lend to God and the soil; they
pay good interest.= _Dan. Pr._
=It is good to rub and polish our brains against
that of others.= _Montaigne._
=It is great, it is manly, to disdain disguise.= 10
_Young._
=It is great prudence to gain as many friends
as we honestly can, especially when it may
be done at so easy a rate as a good word.=
_Judge Hale._
=It is hard even to the most miserable to die.=
_Pr._
=It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.=
_Pr._
=It is hard to be poor and honest.= _Pr._
=It is hard to carry a full cup.= _Pr._ 15
=It is hard to kick against the pricks.= _Pr._
=It is hard to maintain the truth, but much
harder to be maintained by it.= _South._
=It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.=
_Pr._
=It is hard to suffer wrong and pay for it too.=
_Pr._
=It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause;= 20
=for this may be done by one great or
wise action in an age; but to escape censure,
a man must pass his whole life without saying
or doing one ill or foolish thing.= (?)
=It is harder to marry a daughter well than to
bring her up well.= _Pr._
=It is harder to weave than to gather wool.=
_Spurgeon._
=It is harder work to resist vices and passions,
than to toil in bodily labours.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It is his excess of sensibility that distinguishes
man from other animals.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is his moral sentences on mankind or the= 25
=state that rank the prose writer among the
sages.= _John Morley._
=It is his restraint which is honourable to a
man, not his liberty.= _Ruskin._
=It is human nature to hate him whom you
have injured.= _Tac._
=It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and
where men care not to do a thing, they
shelter themselves under a persuasion that
it cannot be done.= _South._
=It is ill standing in dead men's shoes.= _Pr._
=It is ill to take out of the flesh what is bred in= 30
=the bone.= _Pr._
=It is impossible completely to understand what
we do not love.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=It is impossible for any man to form a right
judgment of his neighbour's sufferings.= _Addison._
=It is impossible that an ill-natured man can
have a public spirit; for how should he love
ten thousand men who never loved one?=
_Pope._
=It is impossible that anything so natural, so
necessary, and so universal as death should
ever have been designed by Providence as
an evil to mankind.= _Swift._
=It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless= 35
=one is first a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._
=It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.=
_Pascal._
=It is in great perils we see great acts of daring.=
_Regnard._
=It is in human nature soon to relax when not
impelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.=
_Goethe._
=It is in the politic as in the human constitution;
if the limbs grow too large for the body,
their size, instead of improving, will diminish,
the vigour of the whole.= _Goldsmith._
=It is in the soul of man, when reverence, love,= 40
=intelligence, magnanimity have been developed
there, that the Highest can disclose
itself face to face in sun-splendour,
independent of all cavils and jargonings;--there,
of a surety, and nowhere else.= _Carlyle._
=It is in the world that a man, devout or other,
has his life to lead, his work waiting to be
done.= _Carlyle._
=It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.=
_Bulwer._
=It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate,
if he be unfortunate in his marriage.=
_Dacier._
=It is incalculable what by arranging, commanding,
and regimenting you can make
of men.= _Carlyle._
=It is inconceivable how much wit it requires= 45
=to avoid being ridiculous.= _Chamfort._
=It is incredible how much the mind can do to
sustain the body.= _Goethe._
=It is indeed all twilight in this world, a trifle
more or less.= _Goethe._
=It is indeed only in old age that intellectual
men attain their sublime expression.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is infamy to die and not be missed.= _C.
Wilcox._
=It is invariably found that the contented man= 50
=is a weak man.= _John Wagstaffe._
=It is joy to think the best we can of human
kind.= _Wordsworth._
=It is just those who grope with the mole and
cling with the bat who are vainest of their
sight and of their wings.= _Ruskin._
=It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to
remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._
=It is madness to make fortune the mistress of
events, because in herself she is nothing,
but is ruled by prudence.= _Dryden._
=It is matter of the commonest remark how a= 55
=timid man who is in love will show courage,
or an indolent man will show diligence.=
_Matthew Arnold._
=It is meet / That noble minds keep ever with
their likes; / For who so firm that cannot be
seduced?= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=It is mere cowardice to take safety in negations.=
_George Eliot._
=It is mere Philistinism on the part of private
individuals to bestow too much interest on
matters that do not concern them.= _Goethe._
=It is more blessed to give than to receive.=
_Jesus._
=It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies= 5
=of the soul, to live a martyr than to die
one.= _H. Mann._
=It is more honourable to be raised to a throne
than be born to one; fortune bestows the
one, merit obtains the other.= _Petrarch._
=It is more important to discover a new source
of happiness on earth than a new planet in
the sky.= (?)
=It is more kindly to laugh at human life than
to grin at it.= _Wieland._
=It is more painful to do nothing than something.=
_Pr._
=It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening= 10
=into flame than flame sinking into smoke.=
_Johnson._
=It is much easier to be critical than to be
correct.= _Disraeli._
=It is much easier to bind on a wreath than to
find a head worthy to wear it.= _Goethe._
=It is much easier to recognise error than to
find truth; the former lies on the surface,
the latter rests in the depths.= _Goethe._
=It is much more easy to inspire a passion than
a faith.= _Simms._
=It is much safer to obey than to govern.= 15
_Thomas à Kempis._
=It is natural to a man to believe what he
wishes to be true, and to believe it because
be wishes it.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is natural to man to regard himself as the
final cause of creation.= _Goethe._
=It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then he
boasteth.= _Bible._
=It is never permitted to any one in heaven to
stand behind another and look at the back
of his head: for then the influx which is from
the Lord is disturbed.= _Swedenborg._
=It is never too late to mend.= _Pr._ 20
=It is never wise to slip the bonds of discipline.=
_Lew. Wallace._
=It is no man's business whether he has genius
or not: work he must, whatever he is, but
quietly and steadily; and the natural and
unforced results of such work will always be
the things that God meant him to do, and
will be his best.= _Ruskin._
=It is no mean happiness to be seated in the
mean.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=It is no more in our power to love always than
it was not to love.= _La Bruyère._
=It is no more possible to prevent thought from= 25
=reverting to an ideal than the sea from returning
to the shore.= _Joseph Cook._
=It is no small commendation to manage a little
well. He is a good waggoner that can turn
in a little room.= _Bp. Hall._
=It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted,
as, being down, to lie dejected.= _S. Chrysostom._
=It is no wonder man's religion has much suffering
in it; no wonder he needs a suffering
God.= _George Eliot._
=It is nobler to become great than to be born
great.= _Pr._
=It is nobler to convert souls than to conquer= 30
=kingdoms.= _Louis le Debonnaire._
=It is not a question how much a man knows,
but what use he can make of what he knows.=
_J. G. Holland._
=It is not advisable to reward where men have
the tenderness not to punish.= _L'Estrange._
=It is not always necessary that the true should
embody= (_verkörpere_) =itself; enough if it hovers
around spiritually and produce accordance=
(_Uebereinstimmung_) =in us; if it hover= (_wogt_)
=through the atmosphere in earnest friendly
tones like the sound of bells.= _Goethe._
=It is not an unhealthy= (_kränkelnde_) =moral
philosophy, but a sturdy morality that is
of any profit to us.= _Feuchtersleben._
=It is not because of his toils that I lament for= 35
=the poor; we must all toil, or steal, which
is worse; no faithful workman finds his task
a pastime.... But what I do mourn over is
that the lamp of his soul should go out; that
no ray of heavenly, or even earthly, knowledge
should visit him; but only in the haggard
darkness, like two spectres, Fear and
Indignation bear him company.= _Carlyle._
=It is not by shirking difficulties that we can
remove them or escape them.= _M. R. Greg._
=It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration;
his inspiration must be that of a cultured
spirit.= _Schiller._
=It is not enough to aim; you must hit.= _It.
Pr._
=It is not enough to know how to steal; one
must know also how to conceal.= _It. Pr._
=It is not enough to know, one must also apply;= 40
=it is not enough to will to do, one must also
do.= _Goethe._
=It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=It is not enough to take steps which may some
day lead to a goal; each step must be itself
a goal and a step likewise.= _Goethe._
=It is not every man that can afford to wear
a shabby coat.= _Colton._
=It is not everybody one would set to choose a
horse or a pig; how much less a member of
Parliament?= _Ruskin._
=It is not everybody who can bend the bow of= 45
=Ulysses, and most men only do themselves
a mischief by trying to bend it.= _John Morley._
=It is not fit to tell others anything but what
they can take up. A man understands
nothing but what is commensurate with
him.= _Goethe._
=It is not from masters, but from their equals,
that youths learn a knowledge of the world.=
_Goldsmith._
=It is not from nature, but from education and
habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.=
_Fielding._
=It is not given to the world to be contented.=
_Goethe._
=It is not good for man to be, especially to work,= 50
=alone.= _Goethe._
=It is not good to have an oar in every one's
boat.= _Camden._
=It is not good to meddle with divine mysteries.=
_Goethe._
=It is not good to pass by that we dislike, even
to gain that which we like; for the water
of life becometh mortal when mixed with a
poison.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is not he who gives abuse or blows who
affronts, but the view we take of these
things as insulting.= _Epictetus._
=It is not his own individual sins that the hero
atones for, but original sin=, _i.e._, the crime of
existence. _Schopenhauer._
=It is not history which educates the conscience;= 5
=it is conscience which educates
history.= _Amiel._
=It is not in man that walketh to direct his
steps.= _Bible._
=It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but
much juggling; for the world cannot be
governed without it.= _Selden._
=It is not lost that comes at last.= _Pr._
=It is not merely by virtue of the sunlight that
falls now, and the rain and dew which it
brings, that we continue here, but by virtue
of the sunlight of æons of past ages.= _John
Burroughs._
=It is not metre, but metre-making agreement= 10
=that makes a poem, a thought so passionate
and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or
an animal, it has an architect of its own,
and adorns nature with a new thing.= _Emerson._
=It is not poetry, but prose run mad.= _Pope._
=It is not possible to buy obedience with money.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not proper to place confidence in one who
cometh without any apparent cause.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is not propositions, not new dogmas and a
logical exposition of the world, that are our
first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish
the intellectual and moral sensibilities, those
fountains of right thought, and woo them to
stay and make their home with us.= _Emerson._
=It is not quite so easy to do good as those may= 15
=imagine who never try.= _Rd. Sharp._
=It is not so much our neighbour's interest as
our own that we love him.= _Bp. Wilson._
=It is not so much the being exempt from faults,
as the having overcome them, that is an
advantage to us.= _Swift._
=It is not strength, but art obtains the prize.=
_Pope._
=It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.=
_Pr._
=It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze= 20
=to say, as to other persons, "God help you,"
but only to make a low reverence.= _Gerbier._
=It is not the face which deceives; it is we who
deceive ourselves in reading in it what is not
there.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is not the fact that a man has riches which
keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but
the fact that riches have him.= _Dr. Caird._
=It is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness
which is chiefly dreadful in treachery.= _Ruskin._
=It is not the greatness of a man's means that
makes him independent, so much as the
smallness of his wants.= _Cobbett._
=It is not the insurrections of ignorance that= 25
=are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.=
_Lowell._
=It is not the knowledge, but the use which is
made of it that is productive of real benefit.=
_Scott._
=It is not the loss of heritage / That makes life
poor; It is that, stage by stage, / Some
leave us with a lessening faith in man, /
And less of love than when our life began.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=It is not the manner of noble minds to leave
anything half done.= _Wieland._
=It is not the number of facts he knows, but
how much of a fact he is himself, that proves
the man.= _Bovee._
=It is not the punishment, but the crime that is= 30
=the disgrace.= _Alfieri._
=It is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge
which determines the mind's dignity.=
_W. E. Channing._
=It is not the reading of many books that is
necessary to make a man wise and good,
but the well-reading of a few.= _R. Baxter._
=It is not the stamp on the coin that gives it
its value, though on the bank-note it is.=
_J. Burroughs._
=It is not the victory that constitutes the joy of
noble souls, but the combat.= _Montalembert._
=It is not thy works, which are all mortal,= 35
=infinitely little, ... but only the spirit thou
workest in, that can have worth or continuance.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but
men on their titles.= _Machiavelli._
=It is not to taste sweet things, but to do
noble and true things, and vindicate himself
under God's heaven as a God-made man,
that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is
divided, but the men; divided into mere
segments of men, broken into small fragments
and crumbs of life; so that all the
little piece of intelligence that is left in a
man is not enough to make a pin or a nail,
but exhausts itself in making the point of a
pin or the head of a nail.= _Ruskin._
=It is not want, but rather abundance that
creates avarice.= _Montaigne._
=It is not want of good fortune, want of happiness,= 40
=but want of wisdom that man has to
dread.= _Carlyle._
=It is not well to make great changes in old
age.= _Spurgeon._
=It is not what he has, nor even what he does,
which directly expresses the worth of a
man, but what he is.= _Amiel._
=It is not wisdom, but ignorance which teaches
men presumption.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=It is not with saying, "Honey, honey," that
sweetness comes into the mouth.= _Turk.
Pr._
=It is not work that kills men, it is worry.= 45
=It is not the revolution that destroys the
machinery, but the friction.= _Ward Beecher._
=It is of more importance to teach manners and
customs than to establish laws and tribunals.=
_Mirabeau._
=It is of no use running; to set out betimes is
the main point.= _La Fontaine._
=It is of some consequence for a man to forego
his own inclinations, even in matters of no
great importance.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is often because an author proceeds from
the thought to the expression, and the
reader from the expression to the thought,
that a clear writer is obscure.= _Speroni._
=It is often easier, as well as more advantageous,
to conform to the opinions of others
than to persuade them into ours.= _La
Bruyère._
=It is often even wise to reveal what cannot
long remain concealed.= _Schiller._
=It is one of the wretchednesses of the great= 5
=that they have no approved friends.= _Channing._
=It is one soul which animates all men.= _Emerson._
=It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to
fall.= _Shakespeare._
=It is one thing to see that a line is crooked,
and another thing to be able to draw a
straight one.= _Rd. Sharp._
=It is one thing to speak much, and another
to speak pertinently.= _Pr._
=It is only a part of art that can be taught; the= 10
=artist needs the whole.= _Goethe._
=It is only at the first encounter that a face
makes its full impression upon us.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only because they are not used to taste
of what is excellent that the generality of
people take delight in silly and insipid things,
provided they be new.= _Goethe._
=It is only by labour that thought can be made
healthy, and only by thought that labour
can be made happy.= _Ruskin._
=It is only by universals, and never by singulars,
that we can think.= _Dr. Hutchison Stirling._
=It is only God's business to make laws, and= 15
=the lawyer's to read and enforce them.=
_Ruskin._
=It is only in society that a man's powers can
have full play.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only in their misery that we recognise
the hand and finger of God leading good
men to good.= _Goethe._
=It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our
tears, and each weeps really for himself.=
_Heine._
=It is only men collectively that live the life of
man.= _Goethe._
=It is only necessary to grow old to become= 20
=indulgent. I see no fault committed that I
have not committed myself.= _Goethe._
=It is only on reality that any power of action
can be based.= _Emerson._
=It is only people who possess firmness that
can possess true gentleness.= _La Roche._
=It is only reason that teaches silence. The
heart teaches us to speak.= _Jean Paul._
=It is only rogues who feel the restraints of
law.= _J. S. Holland._
=It is only strict precision of thought that confers= 25
=facility of expression.= _Schiller._
=It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;
the infinite lies stretched in smiling
repose.= _Emerson._
=It is only time that possesses full reality, and
our existence lies in it exclusively.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only when a man is alone that he is really
free.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only when it is bent that the bow shows
its strength.= _Grillparzer._
=It is only with renunciation that life, strictly= 30
=speaking, can be said to begin.= _Goethe._
=It is our relation to circumstances that determines
their influence over us. The same
wind that carries one vessel into port may
blow another off shore.= _Bovee._
=It is petty expenses that empty the purse.=
_It. Pr._
=It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad
to live if there be none.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=It is possible to sin against charity, when we
do not sin against truth.= _Pr._
=It is precisely in accepting death as the end= 35
=of all and in laying down, on that sorrowful
condition, his life for his friends, that the
hero and patriot of all time has become the
glory and safety of his country.= _Ruskin._
=It is profound ignorance that inspires a degenerate
tone.= _La Bruyère._
=It is proof of a high culture to say the greatest
matters in the simplest way.= _Emerson._
=It is proper and beneficial sometimes to be left
to thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is prudent to be on the reserve even with
your best friend, when he betrays a too
eager curiosity to worm out your secret.=
_La Bruyère._
=It is rare indeed that there is not ample= 40
=occasion for grumbling.= _John Wagstaffe._
=It is religion that has formed the Bible, not the
Bible that has formed religion.= _R. D. C.
Levin._
=It is sad to have to live in a place where all
our activity must simmer within ourselves.=
_Goethe._
=It is sad to see how an extraordinary man
so often strangles himself, struggling in
vain with himself, his circumstances, and
his time, without once coming upon a green
branch.= _Goethe._
=It is said no man is a hero to his valet. The
reason is that it requires a hero to recognise
a hero. The valet, however, will probably
know well enough how to estimate his
equals.= _Goethe._
=It is so much easier to do what one has done= 45
=before than to do a new thing, that there is
a perpetual tendency to a set mode.= _Emerson._
=It is St. Christopher that carries Christ, not
Christ St. Christopher=, _i.e._, in this myth, it is
not Christ that bears the Church, but the Church
that bears Christ. _Ed._
=It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.=
_Pr._
=It is the ambiguous distracted training which
they are subject to that makes men uncertain;
it awakens wishes when it should
quicken tendencies.= _Goethe._
=It is the best sign of a great nature, that
it opens a foreground, and, like the breath
of morning landscapes, invites us onward.=
_Emerson._
=It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.= 50
_Emerson._
=It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, /
And that craves wary walking.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=It is the cause, not the death, that makes the
martyr.= _Napoleon._
=It is the common error of builders and parents
to follow some plan they think beautiful (and
perhaps is so) without considering that nothing
is beautiful which is displaced.= _Lady
Montagu._
=It is the common wonder of all men how, among
so many millions of faces, there should be
none alike.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=It is the company, and not the charge that
makes the feast.= _Pr._
=It is the condition of humanity to design what= 5
=never will be done, and to hope what never
will be attained.= _Johnson._
=It is the curse of kings to be attended / By
slaves, that take their humours for a warrant.=
_King John._
=It is the curse of talent, that, though it works
more surely and persistently than genius, it
reaches no goal; while genius, hovering for
long on the summit= (_Spitze_) =of the ideal, looks
round, smiling, far above.= _Schumann._
=It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment
to pursuit.= _Rivarole._
=It is the fate of a woman / Long to be patient
and silent, to wait like a ghost that is
speechless, / Till some questioning voice
dissolves the spell of its silence.= _Longfellow._
=It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to= 10
=begin to be appreciated by us only after they
are gone.= _Old Ger. saying._
=It is the first of all problems for a man to find
out what kind of work he is to do in this
universe.= _Carlyle._
=It is the first principle of economy to make
use of available vital power first, then the
inexpensive natural forces, and only at
last to have recourse to artificial power.=
_Ruskin._
=It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder
never harm'd head.= _Tennyson._
=It is the frog's own croak that betrays him.=
_Pr._
=It is the glistening and softly-spoken lie, ...= 15
=the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident
lie of the politician, the zealous lie of
the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend,
and the careless lie of each man to himself,
that cast the black mystery over humanity,
through which we thank any man
who pierces, as we would thank one who
had dug a well in the desert.= _Ruskin._
=It is the glorious doom of literature that the
evil perishes and the good remains.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=It is the great error of reformers and philanthropists
in our time to nibble at the consequences
of unjust power, instead of redressing
the injustice itself.= _J. S. Mill._
=It is the greatest invention man has ever made,
this of marking down the unseen thought that
is in him by written characters.= _Carlyle._
=It is the heart that makes the critic, not the
nose.= _Max Muller._
=It is the height of folly to throw up attempting= 20
=because you have failed. Failures are wonderful
elements in developing the character.=
_Anon._
=It is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth
man understanding.= _Job._
=It is the law of fate that we shall live in part
by our own efforts, but in the greater part
by the help of others; and that we shall also
die in part for our own faults, but in the
greater part for the faults of others.= _Ruskin._
=It is the life in literature that acts upon life.=
_J. G. Holland._
=It is the little rift within the lute / That by
and by will make the music mute, / And,
ever widening, slowly silence all.= _Tennyson._
=It is the lot of man to suffer.= _Disraeli._ 25
=It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as
trifles, and important matters as important.=
_Lessing._
=It is the master-wheel which makes the mill
go round.= _Pr._
=It is the monotony of his own nature that
makes solitude intolerable to a man.= _Schiller._
=It is the music in the ear that finds and interprets
the music of the orchestra.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=It is the nature of despair to blind us to all= 30
=means of safety.= _Fielding._
=It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they
will set an house on fire, an it were but to
roast their eggs.= _Bacon._
=It is the nature of parties to retain their
original enmities far more firmly than their
original principles.= _Macaulay._
=It is the office of the Church to teach, not to
train.= _Ward Beecher._
=It is the ordinary way of the world to keep
folly at the helm, and wisdom under the
hatches.= _Pr._
=It is the part of a good man to do great and= 35
=noble deeds, though he risks everything.=
_Plutarch._
=It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures,
but of a foolish one to be a slave to them.=
_Epictetus._
=It is the poet's function to keep before the
minds of the people not only the underlying
truths and beauties of all Nature, but the
high and pure ideal of humanity which all
should strive to attain.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=It is the possession of a great heart or a great
head, and not the mere fame of it, which
is of worth and conducive to happiness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=It is the power of thought which gives man
the mastery over Nature, the thoughts go
forth into the world.= _Hans Andersen._
=It is the privilege of every human work which= 40
=is well done, to invest the doer with a certain
haughtiness.= _Emerson._
=It is the privilege of genius that to it life
never grows common-place, as to the rest of
us.= _Lowell._
=It is the property of every hero to come back
to reality; to stand upon things, not shows
of things.= _Carlyle._
=It is the secret of the world that all things subsist,
and do not die, but only retire a little
from sight, and afterwards return again.=
_Emerson._
=It is the setting up of a claim to happiness
that ruins everything in the world.= _Merck
to Goethe._
=It is the strange fate of man that even in the= 45
=greatest evils the fear of worse continues to
haunt him.= _Goethe._
=It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the
palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it
is most burdened.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=It is the thought writ down we want, / Not its
effect, not likenesses of likenesses; / And
such descriptions are not, more than gloves /
Instead of hands to shake, enough for us.=
_J. Bailey._
=It is the treating of the common-place with the
feeling of the sublime that gives to art its
true power.= _J. F. Millet._
=It is the unseen and spiritual in man that
determines the outward and actual.= _Carlyle._
=It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves= 5
=what we are not that has strewn history
with so many broken purposes and lives left
in the rough.= _Lowell._
=It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning
that impartial justice is the truest
mercy.= _Goldsmith._
=It is the witness still of excellency / To put a
strange face on his own perfection.= _Much
Ado_, ii. 3.
=It is the work of a philosopher to be every
day subduing his passions and laying aside
his prejudices.= _Addison._
=It is through the feeling of wonder that men
philosophise.= _Arist._
=It is time enough to answer questions when= 10
=they are asked.= _Emerson._
=It is time enough to doff your hat when you
see the man.= _Dan. Pr._
=It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.=
_Pericles_, i. 2.
=It is to be doubted whether he will ever find
the way to heaven who desires to go thither
alone.= _Feltham._
=It is too late to husband when all is spent.=
_Pr._
=It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.= 15
_Pr._
=It is true greatness to have in one the
frailty of a man and the security of a god.=
_Sen._
=It is truth that makes a man angry.= _Pr._
=It is useless to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he was never reasoned into.=
_Swift._
=It is useless to deny with the tongue that
which man gives credence to with the heart.=
_Johnson._
=It is very easy to obey a noble ruler who convinces= 20
(_überzeugt_) =while he commands us.=
_Goethe._
=It is very good to be left alone with the truth
sometimes, to hear with all its sternness
what it will say to one.= _Carlyle._
=It is very little that we can ever know of the
ways of Providence or the laws of existence;
but that little is enough, and exactly enough.=
_Ruskin._
=It is war's prize to take all advantages, / And
ten to one is no impeach of valour.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, i. 4.
=It is we that are blind, not Fortune.= _Sir T.
Browne._
=It is well that there is no one without a fault,= 25
=for he would not have a friend in the world.
He would seem to belong to a different
species.= _Hazlitt._
=It is well to go for a light to another
man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it.=
_Plutarch._
=It is when the hour of conflict is over, that
history comes to a right understanding of
the strife, and is ready to exclaim: "Lo!
God is here, and we knew it not."= _Bancroft._
=It is wholesomer for the moral nature to be
restrained, even by arbitrary power, than to
be allowed to exercise arbitrary power.= _J.
S. Mill._
=It is wisdom alone that can recognise wisdom.=
_Carlyle._
=It is wise not to know a secret, and honest= 30
=not to reveal it.= _Pr._
=It is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion;
all those are displeased at it who are not
able to follow it.= _Warton._
=It is with diseases of the mind as with those of
the body; we are half dead before we understand
our disorders, and half cured when we
do.= _Colton._
=It is with history as it is with nature, as it is
with everything profound, past, present, or
future; the deeper we earnestly search into
them, the more difficult are the problems
that arise. He who does not fear these,
but boldly confronts them, will, with every
step or advance, feel himself both more
at his ease and more highly educated.=
_Goethe._
=It is with ideas as with pieces of money; those
of least value generally circulate the best.=
_Punch._
=It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd= 35
=bottles; the less they have in them
the more noise they make in pouring it out.=
_Swift._
=It is with our thoughts as with flowers. Those
whose expression is simple carry their seed
with them; those that are double, by their
richness and pomp charm the mind, but
produce nothing.= _Joubert._
=It is with words as with sunbeams; the more
they are condensed, the deeper they burn.=
_Southey._
=It makes a great difference to the force of
any sentence whether there be a man behind
it or no. In the learned journal, in
the influential newspaper, I discern no form;
only some irresponsible shadow; oftener
some moneyed corporation, or some dangler,
who hopes, in the mask and robes of his
paragraph, to pass for somebody.= _Emerson._
=It matters less to a man where he is born than
where he can live.= _Turk. Pr._
=It matters little whether a man be mathematically,= 40
=or philologically, or artistically cultivated,
so he be cultivated.= _Goethe._
=It matters not how a man dies, but how he
lives.= _Johnson._
=It matters not that a woman is well dressed
if her manners be bad; ill-breeding mars a
fine dress more than dirt.= _Plaut._
=It matters not whether our good-humour be
construed by others into insensibility, or
even idiotism; it is happiness to ourselves.=
_Goldsmith._
=It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, /
And see the great Achilles whom we knew.=
_Tennyson._
=It may indeed be that man is frightfully
threshed at times by public and domestic
ill-fortune, but the ruthless destiny, if it
smites the rich sheaves, only crumples the
straw; the grains feel nothing of it, and
bound merrily hither and thither on the
threshing-floor, unconcerned whether they
wander into the mill or the cornfield.= _Goethe._
=It must be bad indeed if a book has a more
demoralising effect than life itself.= _Goethe._
=It needs a man to perceive a man.= _A. B. Alcott._
=It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, /
That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; /
The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's
the chiefest warld's treasure!= _Burns._
=It never occurs to fools that merit and good= 5
=fortune are closely united.= _Goethe._
=It never rains but it pours.= _Pr._
=It never smokes but there's fire.= _Pr._
=It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters,
to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,
who for the most part are capable
of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and
noise.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=It oft falls out to have what we would have;
we speak not what we mean.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 4.
=It requires a great deal of boldness and a= 10
=great deal of caution to make a great fortune,
and when you have got it, it requires
ten times as much wit to keep it.= _Emerson._
=It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the
pill of poverty.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=It requires a long time to know any one.=
_Cervantes._
=It requires more than mere genius to be an
author.= _La Bruyère._
=It requires much courage not to be down-hearted
in the world.= _Goethe._
=It requires no preterhuman force of will in any= 15
=young man or woman ... to get at least
half an hour out of a solid busy day for good
and disinterested reading.= _John Morley._
=It seems a law of society to despise a man
who looks discontented because its requirements
have compelled him to part with all
he values in his life.= _Goethe._
=It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are
th' only ones as aren't wanted i' the other
world.= _George Eliot._
=It should not be suspected of a man, whose
life hath been spent in noble deeds, that his
reason is lost, when he is only involved in
trouble. A fire may be overturned, but its
flames will never descend.= _Hitopadesa._
=It so falls out, / That what we have we prize
not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but
being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack
the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=It takes a good many spadefuls of earth to= 20
=bury the truth.= _Ger. Pr._
=It takes a great deal of living to get a little
deal of learning.= _Ruskin._
=It takes a great man to make a good listener.=
_Helps._
=It takes much more penetration to discover a
fool than a clever man.= _Cato._
=It takes ten pounds of common-sense to carry
one pound of learning.= _Persian Pr._
=It was a stroke / Brought the stream from the= 25
=flinty rock.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=It was alway yet the trick of our English
nation, if they have a good thing, to make it
too common.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=It was always the aim of the artists as well
as the wise men of antiquity, to mean
much though they might say little.= _Winkelmann._
=It was for beauty that the world was made.=
_Quoted by Emerson._
=It was the nightingale, and not the lark /
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.=
_Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.
=It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard= 30
=the most useful as the most illustrious.=
_Sen._
=It were better to be of no church than bitter
for any.= _W. Penn._
=It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source
than one tear of a true and tender heart.=
_Byron._
=It were good for a man to have some anchorage
deeper than the quicksands of this
world; for these drift to and fro so as to
baffle all conjecture.= _Carlyle._
=It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did
not feel them.= _Mme. Necker._
=It will be all the same a hundred years hence.= 35
_Pr._
=It will be an ill web to bleach.= _Pr._
=It will have blood; they say, blood will have
blood; / Stones have been known to move,
and trees to speak.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the
bone.= _Ben Jonson._
=It would be better that we should not exist,
than that we should guiltily disappoint the
purposes of existence.= _Ruskin._
=It would be some advantage to live a primitive= 40
=and frontier life, though in the midst of an
outward civilisation, if only to learn what
are the gross necessaries of life, and what
methods have been taken to obtain them.=
_Thoreau._
=It's a gude heart that says nae ill, but a better
that thinks nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's a poor man that always counts his sheep.=
_Pr._
=It's a poor sport that's not worth the candle.=
_George Herbert._
=It's a sair field where a's slain.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's a small joke sets men laughing when they= 45
=sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe i' their
mouths.= _George Eliot._
=It's a weary warld, and naebody bides in't.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=It's all very well having a ready-made rich
man, but it may happen he'll be a ready-made
fool.= _George Eliot._
=It's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude.=
_Sc. Pr._
=It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee / To taste
the barrel.= _Burns._
=It's bad flesh that won't take salt; worse is= 50
=the body that won't take warning.= _Gael.
Pr._
=It's difficult to give sense to a fool.= _Gael.
Pr._
=It's dogged as does it.= _Pr._
=It's good sheltering under an old hedge.=
_Pr._
=It's hard sailing when there is no wind.=
_Pr._
=It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that
grew in the sapling.= _Gael._
=It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when
everybody's got boots on.= _George Eliot._
=It's harder work getting to hell than to heaven.= 5
_Ger. Pr._
=It's hardly in a body's power / To keep, at
times, frae being sour, / To see how things
are shared.= _Burns._
=It's height makes Grantham steeple stand
awry.= _Pr._
=It's ill livin' in a hen-roost for them as doesn't
like fleas.= _George Eliot._
=It's ill living where everybody knows everybody.=
_Pr._
=It's ill talking between a full man and a fasting.= 10
_Sc. Pr._
=It's ill wool that will take no dye.= _Pr._
=It's lang ere the devil dee by the dyke-side.=
_Sc. Pr._
=It's never too late to learn.= _Pr._
=It's no in titles nor in rank; / It's no in wealth
like London bank, / To purchase peace and
rest: / It's no in makin' muckle mair, / It's
no in books, it's no in lear, / To mak' us
truly blest.= _Burns._
=It's no tint= (lost) =that a friend gets.= _Sc._ 15
_Pr._
=It's no use filling your pocket full of money
if you have got a hole in the corner.= _George
Eliot._
=It's no use killing nettles to grow docks.=
_Pr._
=It's no use pumping a dry well.= _Pr._
=It's not "What has she?" but "What is
she?"= _Pr._
=It's poor eating where the flavour of the meat= 20
=lies in the cruets.= _George Eliot._
=It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly
bought.= _Gael. Pr._
=It's pride that puts this country down; /
Man, take thine old cloak about thee.= _Old
ballad._
=It's sin, and no poverty, that maks a man
miserable.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's them as take advantage that get advantage
i' this world, I think; folks have to
wait long enough before it's brought to 'em.=
_George Eliot._
=It's too late to cast anchor when the ship is= 25
=on the rocks.= _Pr._
=It's wiser being good than bad; / It's safer
being meek than fierce; / It's fitter being
sane than mad. / My own hope is, a sun
will pierce / The thickest cloud earth ever
stretch'd; / That after last returns the first, /
Though a wide compass round be fetch'd; /
That what began best can't end worst, /
Nor what God blessèd once prove accurst.=
_Browning._
=It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.=
_George Eliot._
=Ita lex scripta=--Thus the law is written.
=Ivory does not come from a rat's mouth.=
_Chinese Pr._
J.
=J'ai bonne cause=--I have good cause or reason. 30
_M._
=J'ai en toujours pour principe de ne faire jamais
par autrui ce que je pouvais faire par moi-même=--I
have ever held it as a maxim never
to do that through another which it was possible
for me to do myself. _Montesquieu._
=J'ai failli attendre=--I was all but kept waiting.
_Louis XIV., as his carriage drove up just at
the last moment._
=J'ai graissé la patte au concierge=--I have
tipped the door-keeper (_lit._ greased his paw).
_Fr. Pr._
=J'ai ris, me voilà désarmé=--I was set a-laughing,
and lo! I was at once disarmed. _Piron._
=J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le= 35
=monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage=--I
have always observed that to succeed in the
world a man must seem simple but be wise.
_Montesquieu._
=J'ai trouvé chaussure à mon pied=--I have found
a good berth (_lit._ shoes for my feet). _Fr. Pr._
=J'ai vécu=--I existed through it all (the Reign of
Terror). _Siéyès._
=J'ai voulu voir, j'ai vu=--I wish to see, and have
seen. _Racine._
=J'aime mieux ma mie=--I love my lass better.
_A French Old Song._
=J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon=--I 40
call a cat a cat, and Rolet a knave. _Boileau._
=J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer=--I
press my rival to my heart, but it is to
smother him. _Corneille._
=J'en passe et des meilleurs=--I pass by them,
and better than they. _Victor Hugo._
=J'étais poète, historien, / Et maintenant je ne
suis rien=--I was once a poet and a historian, and
now I am nothing. _Boudier, for his epitaph._
=J'étais pour Ovide à quinze ans, / Mais je
suis pour Horace à trente=--I was for Ovid
at fifteen, but I am for Horace at thirty.
_Ducerceau._
=J'évite d'être long, et je deviens obscur=--In 45
avoiding to be diffuse, I become obscure.
_Boileau, after Horace._
=J'y suis, et j'y reste=--Here I am, and here I remain.
_MacMahon in the trenches before the
Malakoff._
=Ja, das Gold ist nur Chimäre=--Yes, gold is but
a chimæra. _Scribe-Meyerbeer._
=Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!=--Yes,
war swallows up the best people! _Schiller._
=Ja, grosse Männer werden stets verfolgt, /
Und kommen immer in Verlegenheiten=--Yes,
great men are always subject to persecution,
and always getting into straits. _Schiller._
=Ja, so schätzt der Mensch das Leben, als= 50
=heiliges Kleinod, / Dass er jenen am meisten
verehrt, der es trotzig verschmähet=--Yes,
man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way
that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns
it. _Platen._
=Jacet ecce Tibullus, / Vix manet e toto parva
quod urna capit=--See, here Tibullus lies; of
all that he was there hardly remains enough to
fill a little urn. _Ovid._
=Jack at a pinch.= _Pr._
=Jack is as good as Jill.= _Pr._
=Jack-o'-both sides is, before long, trusted by
nobody, and abused by both parties.= _Pr._
=Jack of all trades and master of none.= _Pr._
=Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance.= _G._ 5
_Wither._
=Jack will never be a gentleman.= _Pr._
=Jack's as good as his master.= _Pr._
=Jacta alea est=--The die is cast. _Cæsar, when
he passed the Rubicon._
=Jactitatio=--A boasting. _Jactitation of marriage
is cognizable in the Ecclesiastical Courts.
L._
=Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum / Perstringis= 10
=aures; jam litui strepunt=--Even now
you stun our ears with the threatening murmur
of horns; already I hear the clarions sound.
_Hor._
=Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ / Moles relinquent=--Soon
will regal piles leave but few acres
to the plough. _Hor._
=Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete! /
Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios=--Now
I have gained the port, hope and fortune,
farewell! I have nothing more to do with you;
go now and make sport of others. _A Greek
epitaph._
=Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna=--Now
the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now
the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns.
_Virg._
=Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit, resecandaque
falce / Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis
humus=--New fields of corn wave where Troy
once stood, and the ground enriched with Trojan
blood is luxuriant with grain ready for the sickle.
_Ovid._
=Jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant=--Now 15
the high tops of the far-off villas send forth
their smoke. _Virg._
=Jamais abattu=--Never cast down. _M._
=Jamais arrière=--Never behind. _M._
=Jamais l'innocence et le mystère n'habitèrent
long tems ensemble=--Innocence and mystery
never dwelt any length of time together. _Fr._
=Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le
ventre plein=--The bagpipe never utters a word
till its belly is full. _Fr. Pr._
=Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage=--A big 20
nose never disfigured a handsome face, _i.e._, it is
disfigured already. _Fr. Pr._
=Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse; /
Nos plus heureux succès sont
mêlés de tristesse=--We never taste happiness
in perfection; our most fortunate successes are
mixed with sadness. _Corneille._
=Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans
Rome=--The Romans will never be conquered
except in Rome. _Fr._
=Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec
ignis, / Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere
vetustas=--And now I have completed what
neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the
sword, nor the corroding tooth of time will be
able to destroy. _Ovid._
=Januæ mentis=--Inlets of knowledge (_lit._ gates of
the mind).
=Januis clausis=--With closed doors. 25
=Jardin des plantes=--A botanical garden. _Fr._
=Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthazar
aurum. / Hæc quicum secum portet
tria nomina regum, / Solvitur a morbo,
Domini pietate, caduco=--Jasper brings myrrh,
Melchior frankincense, and Balthazar gold.
Whoever carries with him the names of these
three kings (the three kings of Cologne, the
Magi) will, by the grace of God, be exempt
from the falling sickness. _A Mediæval charm._
=Je allseitiger, je individueller=--The more universal
a man is, the greater he is as an individual.
_Mme. Varnhagen von Ense._
=Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme=--I know
everything except myself. _Old Fr._
=Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai pas d'autre= 30
=crainte=--I fear God, Abner, and have no other
fear. _Racine._
=Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre=--I am afraid
of the man of one book. _Thomas Aquinas._
=Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund=--The
fatter the flea, the leaner the dog. _Ger.
Pr._
=Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens=--I
enjoy works which surpass my own. _La
Harpe._
=Je laisse à penser la vie / Que firent ces deux
amis=--I leave you to imagine the festive time
these two friends (the town mouse and the
country mouse) had of it. _La Fontaine._
=Je le tiens=--I hold it. _M._ 35
=Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être;
tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée=--I am going
in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop,
the farce is played out. _Rabelais, on his deathbed._
=Je m'en vais voir le soleil pour la dernière fois!=--I
shall see the sun for the last time. _Rousseau's
last words._
=Je m'estonne fort pourquoy / La mort osa
songer a moy / Qui ne songeais jamais à
elle=--I wonder greatly why death should condescend
to think of me, who never thought of
her. _Regnier._
=Je maintiendrai le droit=--I will maintain the
right. _M._
=Je me fie en Dieu=--I put my trust in God. _M._ 40
=Je mehr der Brunnen gebraucht wird, desto
mehr giebt er Wasser=--The more the well is
used, the more water it gives. _Ger. Pr._
=Je mehr Gesetze, je weniger Recht=--The
more laws, the less justice. _Ger. Pr._
=Je mehr man das Ich versteckt, je mehr Welt
hat man=--The more we merge our I, the larger
is our world. _Hippel._
=Je mets en fait que, si tous les hommes savaient
ce qu'ils disent les uns des autres,
il n'y aurait pas quatre amis dans le monde=--I
lay it down as beyond dispute that if every
one knew what every one said of another, there
would not be four friends in the world. _Pascal._
=Je minder sich der Kluge selbst gefällt, / Um= 45
=desto mehr schätzt ihn die Welt=--The less
the sage pleases himself, the more the world
esteems him. _Gellert._
=Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque
je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte=--I
have made this (letter) a rather long one,
only because I had not the leisure to make it
shorter. _Pascal._
=Je n'ai mérité / Ni cet excès d'honneur ni cette
indignité=--I have deserved neither so much
honour nor such disgrace. _Corneille._
=Je n'ai point d'ennemis que ceux de l'état=--I
have no enemies whatever but those of the state.
_Richelieu to his confessor on his death-bed._
=Je n'oublierai jamais=--I will never forget. _M._
=Je ne change qu'en mourant=--I change only
when I die. _M._
=Je ne changerois pas mon répos pour tous les
trésors du monde=--I would not exchange my
leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.
=Je ne cherche qu'un=--I seek but one. _M._ 5
=Je ne connais que trois moyens d'exister dans
la société: être ou voleur, ou mendiant, ou
salarié=--I know only three means of subsisting
in society: by stealing, begging, or receiving
a salary. _Mirabeau, to the Clergy._
=Je ne puis pas me refondre=--I cannot change
my opinion or purpose (_lit._ recast myself). _Fr._
=Je ne sais quoi=--I know not what. _Fr._
=Je pense=--I think. _M._
=Je pense plus=--I think more. _M._ 10
=Je plie et ne romps pas=--I bend, but don't break.
_La Font._
=Je prends mon bien où je le trouve=--I take my
own where I find it. _Molière._
=Je sais à mon pot comment les autres bouillent=--I
can tell by my own pot how others boil.
_Fr. Pr._
=Je schöner die Wirthin, je schwerer die Zeche=--The
fairer the hostess the heavier the bill.
_Ger. Pr._
=Je sens qu'il y a un Dieu, et je ne sens pas= 15
=qu'il n'y en ait point; cela me suffit=--I feel
there is a God, and I don't feel there is none;
that is enough for me. _La Bruyère._
=Je suis assez semblable aux girouettes, qui ne
se fixent que quand elles sont rouillées=--I am
like enough to the weathercocks, which don't
veer only when they become rusty. _Voltaire._
=Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes! / Je suis
souris; vivent les rats=--I am a bird, see my
wing! I am a mouse; long live the rats. _La
Fontaine._
=Je suis prêt=--I am ready. _M._
=Je suis riche des biens dont je sais me passer=--I
am rich in the goods that I can do without.
_Vigée._
=Je t'aime d'autant plus que je t'estime moins=--I 20
love you all the more the less I esteem you.
_Collé Cocatrix._
=Je veux de bonne guerre=--I am for fairplay in
war. _M._
=Je veux le droit=--I mean to have my right. _M._
=Je veux que, le dimanche, chaque paysan ait
sa poule au pot=--It is my wish that every
peasant may have a fowl in his pot on Sundays.
_Henry IV. of France._
=Je vis en espoir=--I live in hope. _M._
=Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis désabusé=--I 25
see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.
_Corneille._
=Je voudrais voir un homme sobre, modéré.
chaste, équitable prononcer qu'il n'y-a point
de Dieu; il parlerait du moins sans intérêt;
mais cet homme ne se trouve point=--I should
like to see a man who is sober, moderate, chaste
and just assert that there is no God; he would
speak disinterestedly at least, but such a man is
not to be found. _La Bruyère._
=Je vous apprendrai à vivre=--I will teach you
better manners (_lit._ to live). _Fr. Pr._
=Je vous ferai voir de quel bois je me chauffe=--I
will let you see what metal I am made of (_lit._
with what wood I heat myself). _Fr. Pr._
=Je weniger die Worte, je besser Gebet=--The
fewer the words, the better the prayer. _Ger. Pr._
=Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, /= 30
=Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the
cannon's mouth.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.= _Byron._
=Jealousy / Hath in it an alchemic force to
fuse / Almost into one metal love and hate.=
_Tennyson._
=Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without
some share of it, the agreeable affection of
love has difficulty to subsist in its full force
and violence.= _Hume._
=Jealousy is always born with love, but it does
not always die with it.= _La Roche._
=Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals= 35
=thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
vehement flame.= _Bible._
=Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl.= _George
Meredith._
=Jealousy is often the helpmate of sweet love.=
_Kingsley._
=Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes
its awakener.= _F. Marion Crawford._
=Jealousy is the rage of a man.= _Bible._
=Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is= 40
=the brother of the angel.= _Weber._
=Jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster that
doth mock / The meat it feeds on.= _Othello_,
iii. 2.
=Jealousy lives upon doubts; it becomes madness
or ceases entirely as soon as we pass
from doubt to certainty.= _La Roche._
=Jean a étudié pour être bête=--John has been to
college to learn to be a fool. _Fr. Pr._
=Jean s'en alla comme il était venu=--John went
away as he came. _La Fontaine's epitaph, written
by himself._
=Jeddart justice: First hang a man, and syne= 45
(then) =try him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Jede grosse Zeit erfasst den ganzen Menschen=--Every
great epoch seizes possession of the
whole man. _Mommsen._
=Jede Macht, welche wir über andere Gegenstände
ausüben, hängt von der Macht ab, die
wir über uns selbst besitzen=--All the power
which we, in every case, exercise over other
objects depends on the power we have over
ourselves. _Cötvös._
=Jede That der Weltgeschichte / Zeugt auch
wieder eine That=--Every deed in the history of
the world begets another deed in turn. _Arnold
Schlönbach._
=Jede Unthat, / Trägt ihren eignen Racheengel
schon, / Die böse Hoffnung unter ihrem
Herzen=--Every evil deed already bears its own
avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of
it. _Schiller._
=Jedem das Seine ist nicht zu viel=--To no one is 50
his own too much. _Ger. Pr._
=Jedem redlichen Bemühn / Sel Beharrlichkeit
verliehn.=--Be perseverance vouchsafed to every
honest endeavour. _Goethe._
=Jeden anderen Meister erkennt man an dem,
was er ausspricht; was er weiss, verschweigt,
zeigt mir den Meister des Styls=--Every
other master may be known by what
he expresses; what he wisely suppresses reveals
to me the master of style. _Schiller._
=Jeder ausserordentliche Mensch hat eine
gewisse Sendung, die er zu vollführen berufen ist=--Every
man above the ordinary has a
certain mission which he is called to fulfil.
_Goethe._
=Jeder freut sich seiner Stelle, / Bietet dem Verächter
Trutz=--Every one is proud of his office,
and bids defiance to the scorner. _Schiller._
=Jeder gilt so viel als er hat=--Every one is worth
as much as he has. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder ist seiner Worte bester Ausleger=--Every
one is the best interpreter of his own words.
_Ger. Pr._
=Jeder Jüngling sehnt sich so zu lieben. / Jedes= 5
=Mädchen so geliebt zu sein: / Ach, der heiligste
von unsern Trieben / Warum quillt aus
ihm die grimme Pein?=--The youth longs so to
love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does
there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts
such agonising pain? _Goethe._
=Jeder Krämer lobt seine Ware=--Every dealer
cracks up his wares. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder Mensch muss nach seiner Weise denken:
denn er findet auf seinem Wege immer ein
Wahres, oder eine Art von Wahrem, die ihm
durchs Leben hilft; nur darf er sich nicht
gehen lassen; er muss sich controliren; der
blosse nackte Instinct geziemt nicht dem
Menschen=--Every man must think in his own
way; for on his own pathway he always finds
a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to
him in his life; only he must not follow his own
bent without restraint; he must control himself;
to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem
a man. _Goethe._
=Jeder Morgen ruft zu, das Gehörige zu thun,
und das Mögliche zu erwarten=--We are summoned
every morning to do what it requires of
us, and to expect what it may bring. _Goethe._
=Jeder muss der Natur seine Schuld bezahlen=--Every
one must pay his debt to Nature. _Ger.
Pr._
=Jeder muss ein Paar Narrenschuhe zerreissen,= 10
=zerreisst er nicht mehr=--Every one must wear
out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no
more. _Ger. Pr._
=Jeder, sieht man ihn einzeln, ist leidlich klug
und verständig; / Sind sie in corpori, gleich
wird euch ein Dummkopf daraus=--Every man,
as we see him singly, is tolerably wise and intelligent;
but see him in a corporate capacity, and
you think him a born blockhead and fool.
_Schiller._
=Jeder stirbt / Und sterben ist die grösste That
für jedem=--Every one dies, and for every one to
die is his greatest act. _L. Schefer._
=Jeder Tag hat seine Plage / Und die Nacht
hat ihre Lust=--Every day has its torment,
and the night has its pleasure. _Philina, in
Goethe._
=Jeder Weg zum rechten Zwecke / Ist auch
recht in jeder Strecke=--Every road to the right
end is also right in every stretch (step or turn) of
it. _Goethe._
=Jeder Zustand, ja jeder Augenblick, ist von= 15
=unendlichem Werth, denn er ist der Repräsentant
einer ganzen Ewigkeit=--Every condition,
nay, every moment, is of infinite value,
for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
_Goethe._
=Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Eigensinn=--Every
uttered (_lit._ outspoken) word rouses
our self-will. _Goethe._
=Jedes Weib will lieber schön als fromm sein=--Every
woman would rather be handsome than
pious. _Ger. Pr._
=Jedes Weibes / Fehler ist des Mannes Schuld=--The
husband is to blame for the fault of the wife
(in every case). _Herder._
=Jedwede Tugend / Ist fleckenrein bis auf den
Augenblick / Der Probe=--Every virtue is stainless
up to the moment of trial. _Schiller._
=Jedwede Zeit hat ihre Wehen=--Every time has 20
its sorrows. _Freiligrath._
=Jedweder ist des dunkeln Schicksals Knecht=--Every
one is dark fate's thrall. _Schillerbuch._
=Jeer not others upon any occasion.= _South._
=Jeerers must be content to taste of their own
broth.= _Pr._
=Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit=--The
hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. _Hor._
=Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.= _Bible._ 25
=Jess would have been an omnivorous reader
of books had it not been her conviction that
reading was idling.= _George Eliot._
=Jest not with the eye, nor religion.= _Pr._
=Jest so that it may not become earnest.= _Sp.
Pr._
=Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the
face with his tail.= _Pr._
=Jest with your equals.= _Dan. Pr._ 30
=Jesters do oft prove prophets.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=Jesting brings serious sorrows.= _Pr._
=Jesting lies bring serious sorrows.= _Pr._
=Jesting Pilate, asking, "What is truth?" had
not the smallest chance to ascertain it. He
could not have known it had a god shown it
to him.= _Carlyle._
=Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.= 35
=He saw with open eye the mystery
of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony,
ravished with its beauty, He lived in it, and
had His being there.= _Emerson._
=Jesus hominum salvator=--Jesus the Saviour of
men. _M._
=Jesus of Nazareth, and the life He lived and
the death He died;--through this, as through
a miraculous window, the heaven of Martyr
Heroism, the "divine depths of sorrow," of
noble labour, and the unspeakable silent expanses
of eternity, first in man's history disclose
themselves.= _Carlyle._
=Jesus of Nazareth was not poor, though He
had not where to lay His head.= (?)
=Jesus speaks always from within, and in a
degree that transcends all others. In that
is the miracle.= _Emerson._
=Jet d'eau=--A jet of water. _Fr._ 40
=Jeter le manche après la cognée=--To throw the
helve after the hatchet. _Fr. Pr._
=Jetzt giebt es keine Riesen mehr; Gewalt /
Ist für den Schwachen jederzeit ein Riese=--There
are no more any giants now; for the
weak, force is a giant at all times. _Schiller._
=Jeu d'enfant=--Child's play. _Fr._
=Jeu de hazard=--Game of chance. _Fr._
=Jeu de mains, jeu de vilain=--Horse-play, or 45
practical joking, is vulgar. _Fr._
=Jeu de mots=--Quibble; pun. _Fr._
=Jeu de theâtre=--Stage-trick; clap-trap. _Fr._
=Jeune chirurgien, vieux médécin=--A surgeon
(should be) young, a physician old. _Fr. Pr._
=Jeune, et dans l'âge heureux qui méconnait la
crainte=--Young, and at that happy age which
knows no fear. _Fr._
=Jeune, on conserve pour sa vieillesse; vieux,
on épargne pour la mort=--In youth men save
for old age; in old age, they hoard for death.
_La Bruyère._
=Jewels five words long, / That on the stretch'd
forefinger of all time / Sparkle for ever.=
_Tennyson._
=Jo ædlere Blod, jo mindre Hovmod=--The nobler
the blood, the less the pride. _Dan. Pr._
=Jo argere Skalk, je bedre Lykke=--The greater 5
knave, the better luck. _Dan. Pr._
=Jo mere af Lov, jo mindre af Ret=--The more by
law, the less by right. _Dan. Pr._
=Joan is as good as my lady in the dark.=
_Pr._
=John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife; / O'erjoy'd
was he to find / That, though on pleasure
she was bent, / She had a frugal mind.=
_Cowper._
=Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps
still rarer.= _Carlyle._
=Join hands with God to make a man to live.= 10
_George Herbert._
=Joindre les mains, c'est bien; les ouvrir, c'est
mieux=--To fold the hands (in prayer) is well;
to open them (in charity) is better. _Fr. Pr._
=Joke at your leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe
yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his
heels.= _Ar. Pr._
=Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen=--Young
twigs will bend, but not old trees.
_Dut. Pr._
=Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui=--Young 15
folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.
_Dut. Pr._
=Jouk and let the jaw= (or =jaup=) =gae by=, _i.e._, duck
and let the dash of dirty water pass over you.
_Sc. Pr._
=Jour de fête=--Holiday. _Fr._
=Jour de ma vie=--The day of my life. _M._
=Jour gras=--Flesh day. _Fr._
=Jour maigre=--Fish day. _Fr._ 20
=Journal pour rire=--Comic journal. _Fr._
=Journalists are like little dogs; whenever anything
stirs they immediately begin to bark.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Journeys end in lovers' meeting, / Every wise
man's son doth know.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Jove tonante cum populo agi non est fas=--When
Jove thunders there must be no parleying
with the people. _Cic._
=Jovis omnia plena=--All things are full of Jove, 25
_i.e._, of the deity. _Virg._
=Joy? a moon by fits reflected in a swamp or
watery bog.= _Wordsworth._
=Joy and grief are never far apart.= _Willmott._
=Joy and sorrow / Are to-day and to-morrow.=
_Pr._
=Joy descends gently upon us like the evening
dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.=
_Jean Paul._
=Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs= 30
=men of reason.= _Platen._
=Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarily
change as the subject changeth.= _S. Bern._
=Joy is a guest who generally comes uninvited.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds.= _Mme.
Deluzy._
=Joy is as a raiment fine, / Spun of magic
threads divine; / Which as you are in act to
don, / The wearer and the robe are gone.=
_Sophocles._
=Joy is buyable--by forsaking all that a man= 35
=hath.= _Ruskin._
=Joy is like the ague; one good day between
two bad ones.= _Dan. Pr._
=Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is
bread, and sorrow is medicine.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Joy is the best of wine.= _George Eliot._
=Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of
universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of
the great timepiece of the world; she it is
that loosens flowers from their buds, suns
from their firmaments, rolling spheres in
distant space not seen by the glass of the
astronomer.= _Schiller._
=Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.= 40
_Coleridge._
=Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow
alone can consecrate.= _Horace Greely._
=Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy.= _Goethe._
=Joy never feasts so high as when the first
course is of misery.= _Suckling._
=Joy ruled the day and love the night.= _Dryden._
=Joy shared is joy doubled.= _Goethe._ 45
=Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.= _Pr._
=Joy wholly from without is false, precarious
and short. Joy from within is like smelling
the rose on the tree; it is more sweet, and
fair, and lasting.= _Young._
=Joy's a subtle elf; / I think man's happiest
when he forgets himself.= _Cyril Tourneur._
=Joys are for the gods; / Man's common course
of nature is distress; / His joys are prodigies;
and like them too, / Portend approaching
ill. The wise man starts / And trembles
at the perils of a bliss.= _Young._
=Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.= 50
_Jean Paul._
=Joys carried too far change into sorrows.=
_Justin Bertuch._
=Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while
sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.= _Byron._
=Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.= _Pr._
=Joys, tender and true, / Yet all with wings.=
_Proctor._
=Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die.= _Prior._ 55
=Joyfulness= (_Freudigkeit_) =is the mother of all
virtues.= _Goethe._
=Jubilate Deo=--Be joyful in the Lord.
=Jucunda est memoria præteritorum malorum=--The
recollection of past miseries is pleasant.
_Cic._
=Jucunda et idonea dicere vitæ=--To describe
what is pleasant and suited for life. _Hor._
=Jucunda rerum vicissitudo=--A delightful change 60
of circumstances.
=Jucundi acti labores=--It is pleasant to think of
labours that are past. _Cic._
=Jucundum et carum sterilis facit uxor amicum=--A
wife who has no children makes (to her husband's
heirs) a dear and engaging friend. _Juv._
=Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur=--The
judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
_Pub. Syr._
=Judex non potest esse testis in propria causa=--A
judge cannot be a witness in his own cause.
_Coke._
=Judge before friendship, then confide till death, /
Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee.=
_Young._
=Judge me, ye powers; let fortune tempt or
frown, I am prepared; my honour is my
own.= _Lansdowne._
=Judge not according to the appearance, but= 5
=judge righteous judgment.= _Jesus._
=Judge not of men and things at first sight.= _Pr._
=Judge not, that ye be not judged.= _Jesus._
=Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, / But
trust Him for His grace.= _Cowper._
=Judge not the play before the play is done; /
Her plot has many changes; every day /
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns
the play.= _Quarles._
=Judge not the preacher.... Do not grudge /= 10
=To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. /
The worst speak something good; if all
want sense, / God takes a text and preacheth
patience.= _George Herbert._
=Judge of the pleasure of the heart by the
pleasure of the eye.= _Bacon._
=Judge thou me by what I am, / So shalt thou
find me fairest.= _Tennyson._
=Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity,
and thou wilt judge others with a judgment
of charity.= _Mason._
=Judges and senates have been bought for
gold; / Esteem and love were never to be
sold.= _Pope._
=Judges are but men, and are swayed, like other= 15
=men, by vehement prejudices.= _D. Dudley
Field._
=Judges ought to be more learned than witty,
more reverent than plausible, and more advised
than confident. Above all things, integrity
is their portion and proper virtue.=
_Bacon._
=Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed
some day or two, some century or
two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.=
_Carlyle._
=Judgment is forced upon us by experience.=
_Johnson._
=Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it
requires time and culture to mature it.= _H.
Ballou._
=Judgment is turned away backward, and justice= 20
=standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in
the street, and equity cannot enter.= _Bible._
=Judgment must sway the feelings and keep
them in their right place, or harm will be
done where good was intended.= _Spurgeon._
=Judgments are prepared for scorners, and
stripes for the back of fools.= _Bible._
=Judgments that are made on the wrong side
of the danger amount to no more than
an affectation of skill, without either credit
or effect.= _L'Estrange._
=Judicandum est legibus, non exemplis=--Judgment
should be given according to law and not
precedent. _L._
=Judicata res pro veritate accipitur=--A matter 25
that has been adjudged is received as true. _L._
=Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda
est / Externis virtus incomitata bonis=--In
your judgment virtue needs no reward, and is
to be sought for her own sake, unaccompanied
by external benefits. _Ovid._
=Judicia Dei sunt ita recondita ut quis illa
scrutari nullatenus possit=--The purposes of
God are so abstruse that no one can possibly
scrutinise them. _Cic._
=Judicio acri perpendere=--To weigh with a keen
judgment. _Lucret._
=Judicious persons will think all the less of us
because of the ill-judged praises of our silly
friends.= _Spurgeon._
=Judicis est innocentiæ subvenire=--It is the duty 30
of the judge to support innocence. _Cic._
=Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata=--It
is the judge's duty to decide in accordance
with what is alleged and proved. _L._
=Judicis est jus dicere non dare=--It is the judge's
duty to enunciate the law, not to make it. _L._
=Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum
quærere=--It is the judge's duty to inquire into
not only the facts, but the circumstances. _Ovid._
=Judicium a non suo judice datum nullius est
momenti=--Judgment given by a judge in a
matter outside his jurisdiction is of no legal
force. _L._
=Judicium Dei=--The judgment of God (as by 35
ordeal).
=Judicium parium aut leges terræ=--The judgment
of our peers or the laws of the land. _L._
=Judicium subtile videndis artibus=--A judgment
nice in discriminating works of art. _Hor._
=Jugez un homme par ses questions, plutôt que
par ses réponses=--Judge of a man by his questions
rather than his answers. _Fr._
=Jugulare mortuos=--To stab the dead; to slay
the slain. _Pr._
=Juncta juvant=--Trivial things when united aid 40
each other.
=Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes=--The
beauteous Graces linked hand in hand with the
nymphs. _Hor._
=Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler=--A young idler
makes an old beggar. _Ger. Pr._
=Junger Spieler, alter Bettler=--Young a gambler,
old a beggar. _Ger. Pr._
=Jungere dextras=--To join right hands; to shake
hands. _Virg._
=Jungere equos Titan velocibus imperat Horis=--Titan 45
commands the swift-flying Hours to
yoke the horses of the sun. _Ovid._
=Juniores ad labores=--The younger men for
labours, _i.e._, the heavier burdens.
=Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque
moveris=--Whatever you see, wherever you
turn, there is Jupiter (Deity). _Lucan._
=Jupiter in multos temeraria fulmina torquet, /
Qui pœnam culpa non meruere pati=--Jupiter
hurls his reckless thunderbolts against many
who have not guiltily deserved such punishment.
_Ovid._
=Jupiter tonans=--The thunderer Jove.
=Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis=--He 50
says that laws were not framed for him;
he claims everything by force of arms. _Hor._
=Jurado ha el vano de lo negro no hacer blanco=--The
bath has sworn not to wash the black
man white. _Sp. Pr._
=Jurare in verba magistri=--To swear by the
words of the master.
=Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero=--I have
sworn with my tongue, but I bear a mind unsworn.
_Cic._
=Jure divino=--By Divine right, or ordination of
heaven.
=Jure humano=--By human law, or the will of the
people.
=Jure, non dono=--By right, not by gift. _M._ 5
=Jure repræsentationis=--By right of representation.
_L._
=Jurgia præcipue vino stimulata caveto=--Above
all, avoid quarrels excited by wine. _Ovid._
=Juris utriusque doctor=--Doctor of both laws,
civil and canon.
=Juristen, böse Christen=--Jurists are bad Christians.
_Ger. Pr._
=Jus civile=--The civil or Roman law. 10
=Jus civile neque inflecti gratia, neque perfringi
potentia, neque adulterari pecunia debet=--The
law ought neither to be warped by favour,
nor broken through by power, nor corrupted by
money. _Cic._
=Jus commune=--The common or customary law.
=Jus devolutum=--A devolved right, specially of
a presbytery in Scotland to present to a benefice,
the patron having failed to do so. _L._
=Jus et norma loquendi=--The law and rule of
language.
=Jus gentium=--The law of nations, as the basis 15
of their international relations.
=Jus gladii=--The right of the sword.
=Jus in re=--A real right. _L._
=Jus omnium in omnia, et consequenter bellum
omnium in omnes=--The right of all to everything,
and therefore of all to make war on all.
_Hobbes._
=Jus mariti=--The right of a husband. _L._
=Jus postliminii=--The law of recovery of forfeited 20
rights. _L._
=Jus primogenituræ=--The right of primogeniture.
_L._
=Jus proprietatis=--The right of property. _L._
=Jus regium=--Royal right, or right of the Crown. _L._
=Jus sanguinis=--The right of consanguinity, or
blood. _L._
=Jus summum sæpe summa malitia est=--Extreme 25
law is often extreme wrong. _Ter._
=Jusqu'où les hommes ne se portent-ils point
par l'intérêt de la religion, dont ils sont si
peu persuadés, et qu'ils pratiquent si mal?=--To
what excesses are not men carried in the interest
of a religion of which they have little or
no faith, and which they so badly practise? _La
Bruyère._
=Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and
anger and complaining may be avoided.=
_Spurgeon._
=Just a path that is sure, / Thorny or not, /
And a heart honest and pure / Keeping the
path that is sure, / That be my lot.= _Dr. W.
Smith._
=Just and true are thy ways, thou King of
saints.= _Bible._
=Just are the ways of God, / And justifiable to= 30
=men; / Unless there be who think not God
at all.= _Milton._
=Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy
consume a man.= _St. Chrysostom._
=Just as "dirt is something in its wrong place,"
so social evils are mainly wrong applications
of right powers.= _H. Willett._
=Just as gymnastic exercise is necessary to
keep the body healthy, so is musical exercise
necessary to keep the soul healthy; the
proper nourishment of the intellect and passions
can no more take place without music
than the proper functions of the stomach and
the blood without exercise.= _Plato, interpreted
by Ruskin._
=Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown
to itself, which the steel alone can wake into
life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden
gems which prosperity or negligence would
cause for ever to lie hid.= _Billings._
=Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When= 35
=thought is speech, and speech is truth.=
_Scott._
=Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's
shearers' meat.= _Sc. Pr._
=Just hatred of scoundrels, fixed, irreconcilable,
inexorable enmity to the enemies of God;
this, and not love of them, is the backbone
of any religion whatsoever, let alone the
Christian.= _Carlyle._
=Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, /
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.=
_Cowper._
=Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of
the good, for the good man desires nothing
which a just law will interfere with.= _Froude._
=Just plain duty to know, / Irksome or not, /= 40
=And truer and better to grow / In doing the
duty I know, / That I have sought.= _Dr. W
Smith._
=Justa razon engañar el engañador=--It is fair to
cheat the cheater. _Sp. Pr._
=Justæ causæ facilis est defensio=--The defence
of a just cause is easy.
=Juste milieu=--Right medium. _M. of the government
of Louis Philippe._
=Justi ut sidera fulgent=--The just shine as the
stars. _M._
=Justice always is, whether we define or not.= 45
=Everything done, suffered, or proposed in
Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust;
either is accepted by the gods and
eternal facts, or is rejected by them.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and humanity have been fighting their
way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised
selfishness of human nature. God
has given manhood but one clue to success--utter
and exact justice.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Justice and judgment are the habitation of
God's throne.= _Bible._
=Justice and reverence are the everlasting
central law of this universe.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and truth alone are capable of being
"conserved" and preserved.= _Carlyle._
=Justice and truth are two points of such exquisite= 50
=delicacy, that our coarse and blunted
instruments will not touch them accurately.=
_Pascal._
=Justice consists in doing no injury to men;
decency in giving no offence.= _Cic._
=Justice consists mainly in the granting to every
human being due aid in the development of
such faculties as it possesses for action and
enjoyment, ... taking most pains with the
best material.= _Ruskin._
=Justice gives sentence many times / On one
man for another's crimes.= _Butler._
=Justice= (such as Giotto represents her) =has no
bandage about her eyes, and weighs not with
scales, but with her own hands; and weighs,
not merely the shares and remunerations of
men, but the worth of them; and finding
them worth this or that, gives them what
they deserve--death or honour.= _Ruskin._
=Justice is always violent to the party offending,
for every man is innocent in his own eyes.=
_Daniel Defoe._
=Justice is blind; he knows nobody.= _Dryden._
=Justice is conformity to what the Maker has= 5
=seen good to make.= _Carlyle._
=Justice is lame as well as blind among us.=
_Otway._
=Justice is love's order.= _J. M. Gibbon._
=Justice is not postponed. A perfect equality adjusts
its balance in all parts of life.= _Emerson._
=Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always
hungry for it.= _Chateaubriand._
=Justice is the first virtue of those who command,= 10
=and stops the complaints of those
who obey.= _Diderot._
=Justice is the freedom of those who are equal.
Injustice is the freedom of those who are unequal.=
_Jacobi._
=Justice is the great end of civil society.= _Dudley
Field._
=Justice is the keynote of the world, and all else
is ever out of tune.= _Theod. Parker._
=Justice is the whole secret of success in governments;
as absolutely essential to the training
of an infant as to the control of a mighty
nation.= _Simms._
=Justice is truth in action.= _Disraeli._ 15
=Justice, like lightning, ever shall appear, / To
few men's ruin, but to all men's fear.= _Swetnam._
=Justice may be furnished out of fire, as far as
her sword goes; and courage may be all
over a continual blaze.= _Addison._
=Justice must and will be done.= _Carlyle._
=Justice of thought and style, refinement in
manners, good breeding, and politeness of
every kind, can come only from the trial and
experience of what is best.= _Duncan._
=Justice pleaseth few in their own house.= _Pr._ 20
=Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.=
_Emerson._
=Justice, self-command, and true thought are
our salvation.= _Plato._
=Justice, the miracle-worker among men.= _John
Bright._
=Justice were cruel weakly to relent; / From
Mercy's self she got her sacred glaive: /
Grace be to those who can and will repent; /
But penance long and dreary to the slave.=
_Thomson._
=Justice, while she winks at crimes, / Stumbles= 25
=on innocence sometimes.= _Butler._
=Justice without power is inefficient; power
without justice is tyranny.= _Pascal._
=Justice without wisdom is impossible.= _Froude._
=Justicia, mas no por mi casa=--Justice by all
means, but not in my own house. _Sp. Pr._
=Justissimus unus / Et servantissimus æqui=--Just
and observant of what is right, as no other
is. _Virg._
=Justitia erga Deum religio dicitur; erga parentes= 30
=pietas=--The discharge of our duty
towards God is called religion; towards our
parents, piety. _Cic._
=Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus
suum cuique tribuendi=--Justice is the constant
and unswerving desire to render to every man
his own. _Just._
=Justitia est obtemperatio scriptis legibus=--Justice
is conformity to the written laws. _Cic._
=Justitia et pax=--Justice and peace. _M._
=Justitia nihil expetit præmii=--Justice seeks no
reward. _Cic._
=Justitia non novit patrem nec matrem, solum= 35
=veritatem spectat=--Justice knows neither father
nor mother; it regards the truth alone. _L._
=Justitia tanta vis est, ut ne illi quidem, qui
maleficio et scelere pascuntur, possint sine
ulla particula justitiæ vivere=--There is such
force in justice, that those even who live by
crime and wickedness cannot live without some
small portion of it among them. _Cic._
=Justitia virtutum regina=--Justice is the queen
of virtues. _M._
=Justitiæ partes sunt, non violare homines
verecundiæ non offendere=--It is the office of
justice to injure no man; of propriety, to offend
none. _Cic._
=Justitiæ soror fides=--Faith the sister of justice.
_M._
=Justitiæ tenax=--Tenacious of justice. _M._ 40
=Justum bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma
quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes=--War
is just to those to whom it is necessary; and
to take up arms is a sacred duty with those who
have no other hope left. _Livy._
=Justum et tenacem propositi virum, / Non
civium ardor prava jubentium, / Non vultus
instantis tyranni / Mente quatit solida=--Not
the rage of the citizens commanding wrongful
measures, not the aspect of the threatening
tyrant, can shake from his firm purpose the
man who is just and resolute. _Hor._
=Justus propositi tenax=--A just man steadfast to
his purpose. _Hor._
=Justus ut palma florebit=--The just shall flourish
as a palm tree. _M._
=Juvante Deo=--By the help of God. _M._ 45
=Juvenile vitium regere non posse impetum=--It
is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain
its own violence. _Sen._
K.
[Greek: Kadmeia nikê]--A Cadmæan victory, _i.e._, one in
which the conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.
[Greek: Kai touto toi t' andreion, hê promêthia]--And
forethought too is a manly virtue. _Euripides._
[Greek: Kairon gnôthi]--Know your opportunity. _Pittachus,
one of the seven sages of Greece._
[Greek: Kakon anankaion]--A necessary evil. 50
[Greek: Kakou korakos kakon ôon]--From a bad crow a
bad egg. _Pr._
=Kalendæ Græcæ=--Never (_lit._ the Greek Kalends).
=Kalte Hand, warmes Herz=--A cold hand, a
warm heart. _Ger. Pr._
=Kann auch der Sonne Kraft ein irrer Stern
entwallen? / Wie könnte denn ein Mensch
aus Gottes Liebe fallen?=--Can a planet wander
away even from the power of the sun? How
then can man fall out of the love of God?
_Rückert._
=Kann er mir mehr als seine Seele geben?=--Can
he give me more than his soul? _Lortzing._
=Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? /
Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen
Hand?=--Can I stamp armies out of the earth?
Does a field of corn grow on the palm of my
hand? _Schiller._
=Kannst dem Schicksal widerstehen, / Aber
manchmal giebt es Schläge; / Will's nicht
aus dem Wege gehen, / Ei! so geh' du aus
dem Wege.=--Thou canst withstand fate, but
many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of
thy way, why then, go thou out of its. _Goethe._
=Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine= 5
=That und dein Kunstwerk: / Mach' es
wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm=--If
thou canst not by thy act or thy art please
every one, be it thy endeavour to please a few; to
attempt to please many is naught. _Schiller._
=Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt
das Glück dir nimmer zu=--If thou canst not
renounce the world, the genius of happiness
never salutes thee. _Prutz._
=Kannst du nicht schön empfinden, dir bleibt
doch, vernünftig zu wollen, / Und als ein
Geist zu thun, was du als Mensch nicht
vermagst=--If thou canst not have fineness of
feelings, it is still open to thee to will what is
reasonable, and to do as a spirit what thou canst
not do as a man. _Goethe._
=Kartenspiel ist des Teufels Gebetsbuch=--A pack
of cards is the devil's prayer-book. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Kat' exochên]--By way of excellence; pre-eminently.
[Greek: Katopin heorês]--After the feast; too late. 10
[Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon
ameinôn]--Even Patroclus is dead, who was much
better than thou. _Hom._
=Kauf bedarf hundert Augen; Verkauf hat an
einem genug=--One who buys needs a hundred
eyes; one is enough for him who sells. _Ger. Pr._
=Kaufen ist wohlfeiler als Bitten=--Buying is
cheaper than asking. _Ger. Pr._
=Kaum ist ein Irrthum unterdrückt, so erhebt
sich wieder ein anderer, den man schon in
tiefe Vergessenheit begraben glaubte=--No
sooner is one error suppressed than another rises
up again which was believed to be buried in
eternal oblivion. _Oersted._
=Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student= 15
=from his book.= _Merry Wives_, iii. 1.
=Keep a thing seven years, and you find a use
for it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Keep all thy native good, and naturalise /
All foreign of that name; but scorn their
ill; / Embrace their activeness, not vanities.=
_George Herbert._
=Keep always in your mind that, with due submission
to Providence, a man of genius has
been seldom ruined but by himself.= _Johnson._
=Keep company with the humble, with the devout,
and with the virtuous; and confer with
them of things that edify.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Keep cool, and you command everybody.= _St._ 20
_Just._
=Keep good company, and you shall be of the
number.= _Pr._
=Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, /
Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up /
In countenance.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Keep my judgments and do them.= _Bible._
=Keep not standing fix'd and rooted; / Briskly
venture, briskly roam; / Head and hand,
where'er thou foot it, / And stout heart are
still at home. / In what land the sun does
visit, / Brisk are we, whate'er betide; / To
give space for wandering is it / That the
world was made so wide.= _Goethe._
=Keep oot o' his company wha cracks o' his= 25
=cheatery=, _i.e._, boasts of cunning. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep some till more come.= _Pr._
=Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the
feet warm, and a fig for the doctors.= _Pr._
=Keep the common road and you are safe.= _Pr._
=Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with
the wolf.= _Eastern Pr._
=Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that= 30
=lieth in thy bosom.= _Bible._
=Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the
truest conditions of communion with heaven.=
_Hawthorne._
=Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake
not the law of thy mother.= _Bible._
=Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of
God, and be more ready to hear than to
give the sacrifice of fools.= _Bible._
=Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.= _Bible._
=Keep thy mind always at its own disposal.= 35
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may
storm around thee. The more thou feelest
thyself to be a man, so much the more dost
thou resemble the gods.= _Goethe._
=Keep to companions of your own rank.= _Goldsmith._
=Keep to your subject close in all you say; /
Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray.=
_Dryden._
=Keep well while you are well.= _Pr._
=Keep what you want, cast what you can, and= 40
=expect nothing back once lost or once given.=
_Ruskin._
=Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of
the shot and danger of desire.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws=,
_i.e._, what you don't need yourselves for your own
friends. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie=
(cold stirabout), _i.e._, till you can use it to some
purpose. _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your eyes wide open before marriage;
half-shut afterwards.= _Amer. Pr._
=Keep your gab steeket= (mouth shut) =when ye= 45
=kenna= (know not) =your company.= _Sc. Pr._
=Keep your hurry in your fist.= _Irish Pr._
=Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate
in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately
inciting you to good activities;
giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier
health. And when the time comes for speaking
it you will speak it all the more concisely
and the more expressively; and if such a
time should never come, have you not already
acted it and uttered it as no words
can?= _Carlyle._
=Keep your mouth and keep your friend.= _Dan.
Pr._
=Keep your mouth shut and your een open.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.=
_Pr._
=Keeping from falling is better than helping
up.= _Pr._
=Kein Baum fällt auf den ersten Schlag=--No 5
tree falls at the first blow. _Ger. Pr._
=Kein Bündniss ist mit dem Gezücht der Schlangen=--No
covenant is to be made with the serpent's
brood. _Schiller._
=Kein Ding ist so schlecht, dass es nicht zu
etwas nützen sollte=--There's nothing so bad
as not to be of service for something. _Ger. Pr._
=Kein grosser Mann muss eines natürlichen
Todes sterben=--No great man is ordained to
die a natural death. _Goethe._
=Kein Kaiser hat dem Herzen vorzuschreiben=--No
emperor has power to dictate to the heart.
_Schiller._
=Kein kluger Streiter hält den Feind gering=--No 10
prudent antagonist thinks light of his
adversary. _Goethe._
=Kein Mann ist im Stande, den Werth eines
Weibes zu fühlen, das nicht sich zu ehren
weiss=--No man is able to feel the worth of a
woman who knows not how to respect herself.
_Goethe._
=Kein Mensch ergründet sein Verhängniss=--No
man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate.
_Bodenstedt._
=Kein Mensch kann so ganz Teufel sein, dass er /
Des Lichtes letzten Strahl in sich ersticke=--No
man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the
last ray of light in his soul. _Körner._
=Kein Mensch / Muss das Unmögliche erzwingen
wollen=--No man must seek to constrain
the impossible. _Goethe._
=Kein Mensch muss müssen=--No man is compelled 15
to be compelled (_lit._, must must). _Lessing._
=Kein schöner Ding ist wohl auf Erden / Als
Frauenlieb, wem sie mag werden=--There is
no finer thing, I ween, on earth than woman's
love to him who may be the object of it.
_Luther._
=Kein Schurke ist so dumm, dass er nicht einen
Grund für seine Niederträchtigkeit fände=--No
scoundrel is so stupid as not to find a reason
for his vile conduct. _Körner._
=Kein Wunder, dass wir uns Alle mehr oder
weniger im Mittelmässigen gefallen, weil
es uns in Ruhe lässt; es giebt das behagliche
Gefühl, als wenn man mit seines
Gleichen umginge=--No wonder we are all
more or less content with the ordinary, for it
leaves us undisturbed; we have the comfortable
feeling of having only to deal with our like.
_Goethe._
=Keine Gaukelkunst berückt / Das Flammenauge,
das ins Innere blickt=--By no juggler's
art can you beguile the eye of fire which glances
into the inner soul of things. _Schiller._
=Keine Kunst ist, Geister loszulassen; / Kunstgerecht= 20
=sie binden, ist die Kunst=--There is no
art in freeing spirits; to bind them by art is
art. _Rückert._
=Keine Probe ist gefährlich, zu der man Muth
hat=--No ordeal is hazardous which one has the
courage to face. _Goethe._
=Keinen Glauben hat die Liebe / Als den
Glauben an sich selber!=--Love has no faith
but faith in itself. _Bodenstedt._
=Keinen Reimer wird man finden, / Der sich
nicht den besten hielte, / Keinen Fiedler,
der nicht lieber / Eigne Melodien spielte=--You
will meet with no rhymer who does not
think himself the best, no fiddler who does not
prefer to play his own tunes. _Goethe._
=Keiner ist so klug, dass er nicht ein wenig
Narrheit übrig hätte=--No one is so wise as
not to have a little folly to spare. _Ger. Pr._
=Ken when to spend, and when to spare, and= 25
=when to buy, and you'll ne'er be bare.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Ken yoursel', and your neebours winna mistak'
you.= _Sc. Pr._
=Kennst du das herrliche Gift der unbefriedigten
Liebe? / Es versengt und erquickt, zehret
am Mark und erneut's=--Knowest thou the
lordly poison of disappointed love? It withers
up and quickens, consumes to the marrow and
renews. _Goethe._
=Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blüh'n?=--Know'st
thou the land where the lemon-trees
bloom? _Goethe._
=Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and
wickedness than all the other holes in this
world put together.= _Sterne._
=Ki sokat markol, keveset szorit=--He who 30
roves much takes firm root nowhere. _J. Arany._
=Kill, and thou shalt be killed, and they shall
kill him who kills thee.= _Sp. Pr._
=Kill no more than you can salt.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kin or no kin, evil to him who has nothing.=
_It. Pr._
=Kind hearts are more than coronets, and
simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
=Kind words are worth much and they cost= 35
=little.= _Pr._
=Kind words don't wear the tongue.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness
which rough and imperious usage
often produces in generous minds.= _Locke._
=Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish.=
_Pr._
=Kindliness decreases when money is in question.=
_Hausemann._
=Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For= 40
=noble souls in nature are allied.= _Dryden._
=Kindness canna aye lie on ae side o' the hoose.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft=
(bought). _Sc. Pr._
=Kindness has resistless charms; / All things
else but weakly move; / Fiercest anger it
disarms, / And clips the wings of flying love.=
_Rochester._
=Kindness, in act at least, is in our power, but
fondness is not.= _Johnson._
=Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the= 45
=sting of unkindness in another.= _Landor._
=Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
shall win my love.= _Tam. the Shrew_, iv. 2.
=Kindness is a good thing in itself.= _Johnson._
=Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man.=
_Pr._
=Kindness is the golden chain by which society
is bound together.= _Goethe._
=Kindness is virtue itself.= _Lamartine._ 50
=Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.= _As You
Like It_, iv. 3.
=Kindness out of season destroys authority.=
_Saadi._
=Kindness overcomes a' dislike.= _Sc. Pr._
=Kindness will creep whaur it canna gang.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.= 5
_Pr._
=Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse
and a disservice.= _Ennius._
=Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often
as kindred virtues.= _Bovee._
=Kings alone are no more than single men.=
_Pr._
=Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves,= 10
=find a common level in two places--at the
foot of the cross and in the grave.= _Colton._
=Kings are but the slaves of their position; they
dare not follow what their own hearts dictate.=
_Schiller._
=Kings are like stars; they rise and set; they
have / The worship of the world, but no repose.=
_Shelley._
=Kings are said to have long arms; but every
man should have long arms, and should
pluck his living, his instruments, his power,
and his knowing from the sun, moon, and
stars.= _Emerson._
=Kings are willing to be aided, but not surpassed.=
_Grattan._
=Kings' caff= (chaff) =is better than ither folk's= 15
=corn=, _i.e._, perquisites in his service are better
than the wages others give. _Sc. Pr._
=Kings' cheese gangs half awa' in parings=, _i.e._,
in the expense of collecting it. _Sc. Pr._
=Kings chiefly in this should imitate God; their
mercy should be above all their works.= _Wm.
Penn._
=Kings do with men as with pieces of money;
they give them what value they please, and
we are obliged to receive them at their current,
and not at their real value.= _La Roche._
=Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.=
_Dryden._
=Kings hae long lugs= (ears). _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Kings have long arms.= _Pr._
=Kings may be bless'd, but Tam was glorious, /
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.= _Burns._
=Kings ought to be kings in all things.= _Adrian._
=Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.=
_Herrick._
=Kings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which= 25
=time wears off, and mellows on to right.=
_Dryden._
=Kings who affect to be familiar with their
companions make use of men as they do of
oranges, which, when they have well sucked,
they throw away.= _Alva._
=Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects
are rebels from principle.= _Burke._
=Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes
told that the best way to become so is
to make themselves beloved by the people;
but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in
court.= _Rousseau._
=Kiss (a) from my mother made me a painter.=
_Ben. West._
=Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found= 30
=upon the ground, of no value themselves, but
precious as showing what a mine is near.=
_George Villiers._
=Kisses are pledges and incentives of love.=
_Cotton._
=Kisses are the messengers of love.= _Dan. Pr._
=Kissing goes by favour.= _Pr._
=Klein gewin brengt rijkdom in=--Small gains
bring riches in. _Dut. Pr._
=Kleine Diebe henkt man, grosse lässt man= 35
=laufen=--We hang little thieves, but we let big
ones off. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Diebe henkt man, vor grossen zieht
man den Hut ab=--We hang little thieves, and
doff our hats to big ones. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Feinde und kleine Wunden sind nicht zu
verachten=--Paltry enemies and trifling wounds
are not to be despised. _Ger. Pr._
=Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft=--Little
gifts keep friendship green. _Montesquieu._
=Kleiner Profit und oft, ist besser wie grosser
und selten=--Slender profits and often are better
than large ones and seldom. _Ger. Pr._
=Kluge Männer suchen wirthliche Frauen=--Prudent 40
men woo thrifty women--_Ger. Pr._
=Knave! because thou strikest as a knight; /
Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.=
_Tennyson._
=Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty
is firm and upright, and yields not.= _Collier._
=Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is
best in the long-run.= _Pr._
=Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.=
_Othello_, ii. 1.
=Knaves easily believe that others are like= 45
=themselves; they can hardly be deceived,
and they do not deceive others for any
length of time.= _La Bruyère._
=Knaves starve not in the land of fools.=
_Churchill._
=Knaves will thrive when honest plainness
knows not how to live.= _Shirley._
=Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stockings; quit
thy state; / All equal are within the church's
gate.= _George Herbert._
=Know ere thou hint, and then thou may'st
slack: / If thou hint ere thou know, then
it is too late.= _Pr._
=Know, fools only trade by the eye.= _Quarles._ 50
=Know from the bounteous heaven all riches
flow; / And what man gives, the gods by
man bestow.= _Pope._
=Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and
be strong.= _Longfellow._
=Know, Nature's children all divide her care; /
The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a
bear.= _Pope._
=Know of a truth that only the time-shadows
have perished or are perishable; that the
real being of whatever was, and whatever
is, and whatever will be, is even now and
for ever.= _Carlyle._
=Know that nothing can so foolish be / As= 55
=empty boldness.= _George Herbert._
=Know that the loudest roar of the million is
not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad
enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot
through with arrows, and your bones too
shall act as scarecrows.= _Carlyle._
=Know then this truth (enough for man to
know), / Virtue alone is happiness below.=
_Pope._
=Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; /
The proper study of mankind is man.= _Pope._
=Know thy thought--believe it--front heaven
and earth with it, in whatsoever words
nature and art have made readiest for thee.=
_Carlyle._
=Know thyself, for through thyself only thou
canst know God.= _Ruskin._
=Know whom to honour, and emulate, and= 5
=follow; know whom to dishonour and avoid,
and coerce under hatches, as a foul rebellious
thing--this is all the Law and all the
Prophets.= _Carlyle._
=Know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God?= _St. James._
=Know ye not who would be free themselves
must strike the blow? / By their right arms
the conquest must be wrought.= _Byron._
=Know ye the land where the cypress and
myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are
done in their clime; / Where the rage of
the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now
melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?=
_Byron._
=Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me /
From mine own library with volumes that /
I prize above my dukedom.= _Tempest_, i. 2.
=Knowing is seeing.= _Locke._ 10
=Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; /
Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; /
Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; /
Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings.=
_Carlyle, after Goethe._
=Knowledge advances by steps, and not by
leaps.= _Macaulay._
=Knowledge always desires increase; it is like
fire, which must first be kindled by some external
agent, but which will afterwards propagate
itself.= _Johnson._
=Knowledge and timber should not be much
used until they are seasoned.= _Holmes._
=Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, /= 15
=Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge
dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of
other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive
to their own.= _Cowper._
=Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not
virtuous.= _Plato._
=Knowledge being to be had only of visible
and certain truth, error is not a fault of
our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment,
giving assent to that which is not
true.= _Locke._
=Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only
a retention of what has been intrusted to
the memory.= _Montaigne._
=Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life
is perfected by death.= _E. B. Browning._
=Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.= _Tennyson._ 20
=Knowledge comes from experience alone.= _Carlyle._
=Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a
possession--a property entirely our own.=
_S. Smiles._
=Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; /
That makes some fools, this maketh none
but wise.= _Quarles._
=Knowledge exists to be imparted.= _Emerson._
=Knowledge has its penalties and pains as= 25
=well as its prizes.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and
she will stoop and lead you to the stars,
and witch you with her mysteries, till gold
is a forgotten dross, and power and fame
toys of an hour, and woman's careless love
light as the breath that breaks it.= _Willis._
=Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth
the common man, and puffeth up the
little man.= _Pr._
=Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not
in memorising.= _H. E. Holt._
=Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance;
and, as the humble stream to the ocean,
so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired
presence of the prince, whence fortune
floweth.= _Hitopadesa._
=Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth,= 30
= ... and of itself is riches.= _Saadi._
=Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in
advanced age; and if we do not plant it
when young, it will give us no shade when
we grow old.= _Chesterfield._
=Knowledge is as food, and needs no less /
Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In
measure what the mind may well contain, /
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns /
Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.=
_Milton._
=Knowledge is boundless; human capacity
limited.= _Chamfort._
=Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.=
_Bible._
=Knowledge is escape from one's self.= (?) 35
=Knowledge is essential to freedom.= _Channing._
=Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens,
inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our
path.= _M. Harvey._
=Knowledge is like current coin. A man may
have some right to be proud of possessing
it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of
it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it
may be received of all men as true, or earned
it fairly, being already assayed.= _Ruskin._
=Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.=
_Bacon._
=Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains= 40
=well prepared for it.= _Rousseau._
=Knowledge is no burden.= _Pr._
=Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle,
which comes to us whether we will
or no; but it must be sought before it can
be won; it is the product of great labour,
and therefore of great sacrifice.= _Buckle._
=Knowledge is not education, and can neither
make us happy nor rich.= _Ruskin._
=Knowledge is not happiness, and science but
an exchange of ignorance for that which
is another kind of ignorance.= _Byron._
=Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we= 45
=trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness;
let it grow.= _Tennyson._
=Knowledge is power.= _Bacon._
=Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so
much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows
no more.= _Cowper._
=Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly
and essentially raises one man above another.=
_Addison._
=Knowledge is the consequence of time, and
multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.=
_Jeremy Collier._
=Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby
he is usually differenced from the brute.=
_Swinnock._
=Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot
know.= _Emerson._
=Knowledge is the material with which genius
builds her fabrics.= _Bryant._
=Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom,= 5
=love itself.= _Hare._
=Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the
treasurer, of a wise man.= _Wm. Penn._
=Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but
discretion is the key to it, without which
it is useless. The practical part of wisdom
is the best.= _Feltham._
=Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another
only an excellent cow.= _Schiller._
=Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete
life.= _Amiel._
=Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for= 10
=pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman,
to acquire and gain for her master's
use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit,
and comfort.= _Bacon._
=Knowledge of my way is a good part of my
journey.= _A. Warwick._
=Knowledge of our duties is the most useful
part of philosophy.= _Whately._
=Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at
the price of moral purity.= _E. Wigglesworth._
=Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Knowledge produceth humility; from humility= 15
=proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness
riches are acquired; from riches religion,
and thence happiness.= _Hitopadesa._
=Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.=
_St. Paul._
=Knowledge shall vanish away.= _St. Paul._
=Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and
speculation is inferior to that which is useful,
and of all useful knowledge that is the
most so which consists in a due care and
just notion of ourselves.= _St. Bernard._
=Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to= 20
=heaven.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.
=Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, /
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; /
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, /
And froze the genial current of the soul.=
_Gray._
=Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide
her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws
the rider.= _Quarles._
=Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.=
_Hor._
=Knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.= _Johnson._
=Knowledge without justice ought to be called= 25
=cunning rather than wisdom.= _Plato._
=Knowledge without practice is like a glass
eye, all for show, and nothing for use.=
_Swinnock._
=Known unto God are all His works from the
beginning of the world.= _St. Paul._
=Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen,
/ Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was
edel ist, sich regen=--Accost whoever you may
meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble
will begin to stir in him. _J. Trojan._
=Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes
Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth
allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib=--I
look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity
of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue
to rule, through grace alone. _Schiller._
=Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist=--Sickly in body, 30
sickly in mind. _Ger. Pr._
=Krieg bis aufs Messer=--War to the knife. _Ger._
=Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, /
Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist
Friede=--War is unending between cunning and
mistrust; only between faith and trust is there
peace. _Schiller._
[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]--Wisdom
is better than even great valour. _Theognis._
[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]--Thought
beforehand is better than regret afterwards.
_Dionysius of Hal._
[Greek: Ktêma es aei]--A possession for ever. _Thucydides._ 35
[Greek: Kudos]--Fame; glory. _Gr._
=Kühl bis an's Herz hinan=--Cool to the very
heart. _Goethe._
[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]--Having dog's eyes. _Hom._
=Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese
hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen
gemacht=--Art is the right hand of Nature.
The latter has made only creatures, the former
has made men. _Schiller._
=Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist= 40
=die Pein=--Short is the rapture of love, but
eternal is the pain. _S. Rossini._
=Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!=--Short
is the pain and eternal the joy! _Schiller._
=Kyrie eleeison=--Lord, have mercy upon us.
=Kythe= (appear) =in your ain colours, that folk
may ken ye.= _Sc. Pr._
L.
=L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le
vent; / Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand=--Absence
is to love what wind is to a fire; it
quenches the small flame and quickens the large.
_Bussy._
=L'adresse surmonte la force=--Skill surpasses 45
strength. _Fr. Pr._
=L'adversité est sans doute un grand maître;
mais ce maître se fait payer cher ses leçons,
et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut
pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté=--Adversity is
without doubt a great teacher, but this teacher
makes us pay dear for his instructions, and often
the profit we derive from them is not worth the
price we are required to pay. _Rousseau._
=L'adversité fait l'homme, et le bonheur les
monstres=--Men are formed in adversity, monsters
in prosperity. _Fr._
=L'affaire s'achemine=--The affair is going
forward. _Fr._
=L'âge d'or était l'âge où l'or ne regnait pas=--The
golden age was the age in which gold did
not reign. _Lézay de Marnézia._
=L'âge d'or, qu'une aveugle tradition a placé
jusqu'ici dans le passé, est devant nous=--The
golden age, which a blind tradition has hitherto
placed behind us, is before us. _St. Simon._
=L'aigle d'une maison est un sot dans une
autre=--The eagle of one house is a fool in
another. _Gresset._
=L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, /
Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme=--That loving
time when one man said to another, "Let us be
brothers, or I will brain you." _Le Brun, of
French Revolution times._
=L'Allégorie habite un palais diaphane=--Allegory 5
dwells in a transparent palace. _Lemierre._
=L'Allegro=--The merry Muse.
=L'âme n'a pas de secret que la conduite ne
révèle=--The heart has no secret which our
conduct does not reveal. _Fr. Pr._
=L'âme qui n'a point de but établi, elle se perd;
c'est n'être en aucun bien, qu'être par tout=--The
soul which has no fixed purpose in life is
lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere. _Montaigne._
=L'ami du genre humain n'est point du tout
mon fait=--He who is the friend of every one
has no interest for me. _Molière._
=L'amitié est l'amour sans ailes=--Friendship is 10
love without wings, _i.e._, is steadfast. _Fr. Pr._
=L'amour apprend aux ânes à danser=--Love
teaches even asses to dance. _Fr. Pr._
=L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plus part des
hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice=--The
love of justice is, in the majority of mankind,
nothing else than the fear of suffering
injustice. _La Roche._
=L'amour est le roman du cœur, / Et le plaisir
en est l'histoire=--Love is the heart's romance,
pleasure is its history. _M. de Bièvre._
=L'amour est un vrai recommenceur=--Love is a
true renewer. _Bussy-Rabutin._
=L'amour est une passion qui vient souvent= 15
=sans savoir comment, et qui s'en va aussi de
même=--Love is a passion which comes often we
know not how, and which goes also in like
manner. _Fr._
=L'amour et la fumée ne peuvent se cacher=--Love
and smoke cannot be concealed. _Fr. Pr._
=L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les
flatteurs=--Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
_La Roche._
=L'amour-propre est un ballon gonflé de vent,
dont il sort des tempêtes quand on lui fait
une piqûre=--Self-love is a balloon blown up with
wind, from which tempests of passion issue as
soon as it is pricked into. _Voltaire._
=L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais=--Self-love
offended never forgives. _Vigée._
=L'amour soumet la terre, assujettit les cieux, /= 20
=Les rois sont à ses pieds, il gouverne les
dieux=--Love rules the earth, subjects the
heavens; kings are at his feet; he controls the
gods. _Corn._
=L'anglais a les préjugés de l'orgueil, et les
français ceux de la vanité=--The English are
predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
_Rousseau._
=L'anime triste di coloro / Che visser senza infamia,
e senza lodo=--The sad souls of those who
lived without blame and without praise. _Dante._
=L'animal delle lunghe orecchie, dopo aver
beveto dà calci al secchio=--The ass (_lit._
long-eared animal), after having drunk, gives
a kick to the bucket. _It. Pr._
=L'apparente facilité d'apprendre est cause de
la perte des enfants=--The apparent facility of
learning is a reason why children are lost.
_Rousseau._
=L'appétit vient en mangeant=--Appetite comes 25
with eating, _i.e._, the more one has, the more
one would have. _Rabelais._
=L'arbre de la liberté ne croît qu'arrosé par le
sang des tyrans=--The tree of liberty grows
only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
_Barere._
=L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso=--The bow
when overstrained will break. _It. Pr._
=L'argent est un bon passe-partout=--Money is
a good pass-key or passport. _Fr. Pr._
=L'argent est un bon serviteur et un méchant
maître=--Money is a good servant, but a bad
master. _Fr. Pr._
=L'art de vaincre est celui de mépriser la mort=--The 30
art of conquering is that of despising
death. _Mme. de Sivry._
=L'asino che ha fame mangia d'ogni strame=--The
ass that is hungry will eat any kind of
litter. _It. Pr._
=L'aspettar del malo è mal peggiore / Forse
che non parebbe il mal presente=--The anticipation
of evil is perhaps worse than the evil
is felt to be when it comes. _Tasso._
=L'atrocité des lois en empêche l'exécution=--The
severity of the laws prevents the execution
of them. _Montesquieu._
=L'avare est comme ces amans qu'un excès
d'amour empêche de jouir=--The miser is like
a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment
of it. _Fr._
=L'avenir=--The future. _Fr._ 35
=L'élévation est au merité, ce que la parure est
aux belles personnes=--Exalted station is to
merit what the ornament of dress is to handsome
persons. _Fr._
=L'éloquence a fleuri le plus à Rome lorsque les
affaires ont été en plus mauvais état=--Eloquence
flourished most in Rome when its affairs
were in the worst condition. _Montaigne._
="L'empire, c'est la paix"=--"The empire, that is
peace." _Napoleon III._
=L'empire des lettres=--The republic of letters. _Fr._
=L'ennui du beau, amène le goût du singulier=--When 40
we tire of the beautiful it induces a
taste for singularity. _Fr._
=L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité=--Ennui
was born one day of uniformity. _Lamotte-Houdard._
=L'enseigne fait la chalandise=--A good sign attracts
custom. _La Fontaine._
=L'esclave n'a qu'un maître; l'ambitieux en a
autant qu'il y a de gens utiles à sa fortune=--A
slave has but one master; the ambitious man
has as many as there are people who help him
to his fortune. _La Bruyère._
=L'espérance est le songe d'un homme éveillé=--Hope
is the dream of a man awake. _Fr. Pr._
=L'esprit a son ordre, qui est par principes et= 45
=démonstrations, le cœur en a un autre=--The
mind has its way of proceeding by principles
and demonstrations; the heart has a different
method. _Pascal._
=L'esprit de la conversation consiste bien moins
à en montrer beaucoup qu'à en faire trouver
aux autres=--Wit in conversation consists much
less in displaying much of it than in stimulating
it in others. _La Bruyère._
=L'esprit de la plupart des femmes sert plus à
fortifier leur folie que leur raison=--The wit
of most women goes more to strengthen their
folly than their reason. _La Roche._
=L'esprit de modération doit être celui du
législateur=--A legislator should be animated
by the spirit of moderation. _Montesquieu._
=L'esprit est le dieu des instants, le génie est
le dieu des âges=--Wit is the god of the moments,
but genius is the god of the ages. _Fr._
=L'esprit est toujours la dupe du cœur=--The 5
mind is always the dupe of the heart. _La Roche._
=L'esprit est une plante dont on ne sauroit
arrêter la végétation sans la faire périr=--Wit
is a plant of which you cannot arrest the
development without destroying it. _Fr. Pr._
=L'esprit qu'on veut avoir, gâte celui qu'on a=--The
wit which we strive to possess spoils that
which we naturally possess. _Gresset._
=L'esprit ressemble aux coquettes; ceux qui
courent après lui sont ceux qu'il favorise le
moins=--Wit is like a coquette; those who run
after it are the least favoured. _Fr._
="L'état, c'est moi"=--"The state, I am the
state." _Louis XIV._
=L'état doit avoir aussi des entrailles=--The state 10
as well as the individual ought to have a feeling
heart. _Cousin._
="L'Europe m'ennuie"=--"I am tired of Europe."
_Napoleon, when he took the field against
Russia._
=L'exactitude est la politesse des rois=--Punctuality
is the politeness of kings. _Max. of Louis
XVIII._
=L'excellence et la grandeur d'une âme brille
et éclate d'avantage dans le mépris de
richesse=--The excellence and greatness of a
soul are most conspicuously and strikingly displayed
in the contempt of riches. _Fr._
=L'expérience de beaucoup d'opinions donne à
l'esprit beaucoup de flexibilité, et l'affermit
dans celles qu'il croit les meilleures=--Acquaintance
with a wide range of opinion imparts to
the mind great flexibility, and confirms it in
those which it believes to be the best. _Fr._
=L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'essempio;= 15
=come per il contrario l'imitazione
del bene è sempre inferiore=--He who imitates
what is bad always goes beyond his model, while
he, on the contrary, who imitates what is good
always comes short of it. _Guicciardini._
=L'impromptu est justement la pierre de touche
de l'esprit=--Impromptu is precisely the touchstone
of wit. _Molière._
=L'habit ne fait point le moine=--It is not the
garb he wears that makes the monk. _Pascal._
=L'heure est à Dieu, l'espérance à tous=--The
hour appertains to God, hope to all. _Fr._
=L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et
des malheurs=--History is but a picture of
crimes and misfortunes. _Voltaire._
=L'homme absurde est celui qui ne change= 20
=jamais=--The absurd man is he who never
changes. _Barthélemy._
=L'homme est de glace aux vérités, / Il est de
feu pour les mensonges=--Man is as ice to what
is true, and as fire to falsehood. _La Fontaine._
=L'homme est sourd à ses maux tant qu'à ses
intérêts quand il s'agit de ses plaisirs=--Men
are regardless of their misfortunes as well as
their interests when either are in competition
with their pleasures. _Fr._
=L'homme est toujours l'enfant, et l'enfant
toujours l'homme=--The man is always the
child, and the child is always the man. _Fr._
=L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son
maître; / Et nul ne se connaît, tant qu'il n'a
pas souffert=--Man is an apprentice, pain is his
master; and none knows himself so long as he
has not suffered. _A. de Musset._
=L'homme n'est jamais moins misérable que= 25
=quand il paraît dépourvu de tout=--Man is
never less miserable than when he appears
destitute of everything. _Fr._
=L'homme n'est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur
veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête=--Man
is neither an angel nor a brute, but,
as the evil genius will have it, he who aspires
to be an angel degenerates into the brute.
_Pascal._
=L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de
la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant=--Man
is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a
reed that thinks. _Pascal._
=L'homme nécessaire=--The right man. _Fr._
=L'homme propose et Dieu dispose=--Man proposes
and God disposes. _Fr. Pr._
=L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il= 30
=peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plait=--The man who
is truly free wills only what he can, and does
only what pleases him. _Rousseau._
=L'honneur acquis est caution de celui qu'on
doit acquérir=--Honour acquired is an earnest of
that which is to follow. _La Roche._
=L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend
à la vertu=--Hypocrisy is the homage which
vice renders to virtue. _La Roche._
=L'imagination est la folle du logis=--Imagination
is the madcap of the brain (_lit._ the merryandrew
of the dwelling). _Malebranche._
=L'imagination galope, le jugement ne va que
le pas=--The imagination gallops, the judgment
merely walks. _Fr._
=L'impossibilité où nous sommes de prouver= 35
=que Dieu n'est pas, nous découvre son existence=--The
impossibility which we feel of proving
that there is not a God reveals to us His
existence. _Fr._
=L'incrédulité est une croyance, une religion
très exigeante, qui a ses dogmes, sa liturgie,
ses pratiques, ses rites ... son intolerance,
ses superstitions=--Incredulity is a belief, a
religion highly peremptory, which has its dogmas,
its liturgy, its practices, its rites, ... its
intolerance, and its superstitions. _Alphonse
Karr._
=L'incroyable=--The incredible; past belief.
=L'industrie des hommes s'épuise à briguer les
charges, il ne leur en reste plus pour en
remplir les devoirs=--The energies of men are
so exhausted in canvassing for places, that they
have none left to perform the duties which belong
to them. _Fr._
=L'influence féminine devient l'auxiliaire indispensable
de tout pouvoir spirituel, comme le
moyen âge l'a tant montré=--The influence of
woman proves to be the indispensable auxiliary
of all spiritual power, as the Middle Ages have so
abundantly testified. (?)
=L'ingegno, che spopola e che spalea / E l'asino
d'un pubblico insolente, / Che mai lo pasce
e sempre lo cavalca=--The genius which devastates
and destroys is the ass of the insolent public,
who always mount and ride it, but never feed it.
_Giuseppe Giusti._
=L'injustice à la fin produit l'indépendance=--Independence
in the end is the fruit of injustice.
_Voltaire._
=L'institut des Jésuites est une épée, dont la
poignée est à Rome et la pointe partout=--The
order of the Jesuits is a sword, the handle
of which is at Rome and the point everywhere.
_Dupin._
=L'Italia farà da se=--Italy will do it by herself.
_M. of the Italian Revolution of_ 1849.
=L'occasion fait le larron=--Opportunity makes 5
the thief. _Fr. Pr._
=L'on espère de vieillir et l'on craint la vieillesse;
c'est à dire l'on aime la vie et l'on fuit la mort=--We
hope to grow old, yet we dread old age;
that is to say, we love life and shrink from death.
_La Bruyère._
=L'on ne peut aller loin dans l'amitié, si l'on
n'est pas disposé à se pardonner, les uns
aux autres, les petits défauts=--Friendship
cannot go far if we are not disposed mutually to
forgive each other's venial faults. _La Bruyère._
=L'on ne vaut dans ce monde que ce que l'on
veut valoir=--We are valued in this world at the
rate at which we desire to be valued. _La Bruyère._
=L'on se repent rarement de parler peu, très
souvent de trop parler: maxime usée et
triviale que tout le monde sait, et que tout
le monde ne pratique pas=--We rarely repent
of having spoken too little, very often of having
spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and
trivial, and which every one knows, but which
every one does not practise. _La Bruyère._
=L'or est une chimère=--Gold is but a chimæra, or 10
fabulous monster. _S. Meyerbeer._
=L'orateur cherche par son discours un archevêché,
l'apôtre fait des conversions; il
mérite de trouver ce que l'autre cherche=--The
preacher aims by his eloquence at an archbishopric,
the apostle makes converts; he deserves
to get what the other aims at. _La
Bruyère._
=L'oreille est le chemin du cœur=--The ear is the
road to the heart. _Voltaire._
=L'orgueil ne veut pas devoir, et l'amour-propre
ne veut pas payer=--Pride wishes not to owe,
and self-love does not wish to pay. _La Roche._
=L'ozio é il padre di tutti i visi=--Idleness is the
parent of all the vices. _It. Pr._
=L'ultima che si perde è la speranza=--Hope is 15
the last thing we lose. _It. Pr._
=L'une des marques de la médiocrité d'esprit
est de toujours conter=--One of the marks of
a mediocrity of intellect is to be given to story-telling.
_La Bruyère._
=L'union fait la force=--Union is strength. _M._
=L'usage fréquent des finesses est toujours
l'effet d'une grande incapacité, et la marque
d'un petit esprit=--The frequent recourse to
finesse is always the effect of incapacity and the
mark of a small mind. _Fr._
=La beauté de l'esprit donne de l'admiration,
celle de l'âme donne de l'estime, et celle du
corps de l'amour=--The charms of wit excite
admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those
of the body love. _Fr._
=La beauté sans vertu est une fleur sans parfum=--Beauty 20
without virtue is a flower without
fragrance. _Fr. Pr._
=La biblioteca è l'nutrimento dell'anima=--Books
are nourishment to the mind. _It. Pr._
=La bonne fortune et la mauvaise sont nécessaire
à l'homme pour le rendre habile=--Good
fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in
order to develop his capability. _Fr._
=La bride sur le cou=--With loose reins; at full
speed. _Fr._
=La buena vida padre y madre olvida=--Prosperity
forgets father and mother. _Sp. Pr._
=La carrière des lettres est plus épineuse que= 25
=celle de la fortune. Si vous avez le malheur
d'être médiocre, voilà des remords pour la
vie; si vous réussissiez, voilà des ennemis;
vous marchez sur le bord d'un abîme entre le
mépris et la haine=--A literary career is a more
thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If
you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity,
you feel mortified for life; and if you are
successful, a host of enemies spring up against
you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an
abyss between contempt and hatred. _Voltaire._
=La carrière ouverte aux talents=--The course is
open to men of talent--the tools to the man that
can handle them (of which truth Napoleon has
been described as the great preacher). _Fr._
=La Charte sera désormais une vérité=--The
Charter shall be henceforward a reality. _Louis
Philippe._
=La clémence des princes n'est souvent qu'une
politique pour gagner l'affection des peuples=--The
clemency of princes is often only a political
manœuvre to gain the affections of their
subjects. _La Roche._
=La colpa seguira la parte offensa / In grido,
como suol=--Blame, as is wont, wreaks its rage
on those who suffer wrong. _Dante._
=La condition par excellence de la vie, de la= 30
=santé et de la force chez l'être organisé, est
l'action. C'est par l'action qu'il developpe
ses facultés, qu'il en augmente l'énergie, et
qu'il atteint la plénitude de sa destinée=--The
chief condition on which depends the life, health,
and vigour of an organised being is action. It is
by action that it develops its faculties, that it
increases its energy, and that it attains to the
fulfilment of its destiny. _Proudhon._
=La confiance fournit plus à la conversation
que l'esprit=--Confidence contributes more to
conversation than wit. _La Roche._
=La conscience est la voix de l'âme, les passions
sont la voix du corps=--Conscience is the voice
of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.
_Rousseau._
=La constance des sages n'est que l'art de
renfermer leur agitation dans leur cœur=--The
constancy of the wise is nothing but the art
of shutting up whatever might disturb them
within themselves. _La Roche._
=La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence
presque toujours par celle des principes=--The
decay of every government almost
always dates from the decay of the principles on
which it is founded. _Montesquieu._
=La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre;= 35
=je veux dire qu'elle est composée d'hommes
fort durs mais fort polis=--The court is like
an edifice built of marble; I mean, it is composed
of men very hard but very polished. _La
Bruyère._
=La cour ne rend pas content, elle empêche
qu'on ne le soit ailleurs=--The court does not
make a man happy, and it prevents him from
being so elsewhere. _La Bruyère._
=La crainte suit le crime, et c'est son châtiment=--Fear
haunts crime, and this is its punishment.
_Voltaire._
=La crédulité est plutôt une erreur qu'une faute,
et les plus de gens de bien en sont susceptibles=--Credulity
is rather an error than a fault, and
the worthiest people are most subject to it. _Fr._
=La criaillerie ordinaire fait qu'on s'y accoutume
et chacun la méprise=--By continually scolding
your inferiors, they at length become accustomed
to it, and despise your reproof. _Fr._
=La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile=--Criticism 5
is easy, and art is difficult. _Destouches._
=La décence est le teint naturel de la vertu, et
le fard du vice=--Decency is the natural complexion
of virtue and the deceptive guise of vice.
_Fr. Pr._
=La défense est un charme; on dit qu'elle
assaisonne les plaisirs, et surtout ceux que
l'amour nous donne=--Prohibition acts as a
charm; it is said to give a zest to pleasures,
especially to those which love imparts. _La
Fontaine._
=La diffidenza è la madre della sicurtà=--Diffidence
(caution) is the mother of safety. _It.
Pr._
=La dissimulation la plus innocente n'est jamais
sans inconvénient; criminel ou non, l'artifice
est toujours dangereux, et presque inévitablement
nuisible=--Dissimulation, even the
most innocent, is always embarrassing; whether
with evil intent or not, artifice is always dangerous,
and almost inevitably disgraceful. _La
Bruyère._
=La docte antiquité est toujours vénérable, / Je= 10
=ne la trouve pas cependant adorable=--To
the learning of antiquity I always pay due
veneration, but I do not therefore adore it as
sacred. _Boileau._
=La donna è mobile=--Woman is inconstant. _It._
=La durée de nos passions ne dépend pas plus de
nous que la durée de notre vie=--The duration
of our passions no more depends upon ourselves
than the duration of our lives. _La Roche._
=La faiblesse de l'ennemi fait notre propre force=--The
weakness of the enemy forms part of our
own strength. _Pr._
=La faim chasse le loup hors du bois=--Hunger
drives the wolf out of the wood. _Fr. Pr._
=La fama degli eroi spetta un quarto alla loro= 15
=audacia, due quarti alla sorte e l'altro
quarto ai loro delitti=--Great men owe a fourth
part of their fame to their daring, two-fourths to
fortune, and the remaining fourth to their crimes.
_U. Foscolo._
=La farina del Diavolo, va tutta in crusca=--The
devil's meal turns all to chaff. _Sp._
=La farine du diable s'en va moitié en son=--The
devil's meal goes half to bran. _Fr. Pr._
=La faveur met l'homme au-dessus de ses
égaux; et sa chute au-dessous=--Favour
exalts a man above his equals, and his fall
or disgrace beneath them. _La Bruyère._
=La femme est l'élément le plus moral de l'humanité=--Woman
is the element in humanity that
has the most moral power. (?).
=La feuille tombe à terre, ainsi tombe la beauté=--The 20
leaf falls to earth, so also does beauty.
=La finesse n'est ni une trop bonne ni une très
mauvaise qualité: elle flotte entre le vice
et la vertu; il n'y a point de rencontre où
elle ne puisse, et peut-être où elle ne doive
être suppléée par la prudence=--Finesse is
neither a very good nor yet a very bad quality.
It hovers between vice and virtue, and there are
few occasions in which it cannot be, and perhaps
ought not to be superseded by common prudence.
_La Bruyère._
=La fleur des pois=--The tip-top of fashion. _Fr._
=La force, proprement dite, c'est-ce qui régit
les actes, sans régler les volontés=--Force,
strictly speaking, is that which rules the actions
without regulating the will. (?)
=La fortune du pot=--Pot-luck. _Fr._
=La fortune passe partout=--The vicissitudes of 25
fortune are felt everywhere. _M._
=La fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne=--Fortune
sells what we think she gives. _Fr. Pr._
=La France est une monarchie absolue, tempérée
par des chansons=--France is an absolute
monarchy tempered by epigrams. _Quoted by
Chamfort._
=La France marche à la tête de la civilisation=--France
leads the van in the civilisation of the
world. _Guizot._
=La garde meurt et ne se rend pas=--The guard
dies but does not surrender. _Ascribed to Gen.
Cambronne at Waterloo._
=La générosité suit la belle naissance; / La= 30
=pitié l'accompagne et la reconnaissance=--Generosity
follows in the train of high birth;
pity and gratitude are attendants. _Corneille._
=La gola e'l sonno e l'oziose piume / Hanno del
mondo ogni vertù sbandita=--Lust, sleep, and
idleness have banished every virtue out of the
world. _Petrarch._
=La goutte de rosée à l'herbe suspendue, /
y réfléchit un ciel aussi vaste, aussi pur, /
Que l'immense océan dans ses plaines d'azur=--The
drop of dew which hangs suspended from the
grass-blade reflects a heaven as vast and pure as the
ocean does in its wide azure plains. _Lamartine._
=La grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux
rois=--Grammar, that knows how to lord it even
over kings. _Molière._
=La grande nation=--The great nation. _Napoleon
when General Bonaparte, of France._
=La grande sagesse de l'homme consiste à= 35
=connaître ses folies=--It is in the knowledge of
his follies that man shows his superior wisdom.
_Fr. Pr._
=La guerre ou l'amour=--War or love. _M._
=La jeunesse devrait être une caisse d'épargne=--Youth
ought to be a savings' bank. _Mme.
Swetchine._
=La jeunesse vit d'espérance, la vieillesse de
souvenir=--Youth lives on hope, old age on
memory. _Fr. Pr._
=La justice de nos jugements et de nos actions
n'est jamais que la rencontre heureuse de
notre intérêt avec l'intérêt public=--The justice
of our judgment and actions is never anything
but the happy coincidence of our private
with the public interest. _Helvetius._
=La justice et la vérité sont deux pointes si= 40
=subtiles, que nos instrumens sont trop
émoussés pour y toucher exactement=--Justice
and truth are two points so fine that our
instruments are too blunt to touch them exactly.
_Pascal._
=La langue des femmes est leur épée, et elles
ne la laissent pas rouiller=--The tongue of a
woman is her sword, which she seldom suffers to
rust. _Fr. Pr._
=La légalité nous tue=--Legality will be the death
of us. _M. Viennet._
=La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup,
qu'à donner à-propos=--Liberality consists
less in giving a great deal than in giving
seasonably. _La Bruyère._
=La libertad es la juventud eterna de las naciones=--Liberty
is the eternal youth of the nations.
_Gen. Foy._
=La liberté, convive aimable, / Met les deux= 5
=coudes sur la table=--Liberty, an amiable
guest, puts both her elbows upon the table, _i.e._,
is free and at her ease. _Voltaire._
=La liberté est ancienne; c'est le despotisme
qui est nouveau=--Liberty is of ancient date; it
is despotism that is new. _Fr._
=La lingua batte dove la dente duole=--The
tongue strikes where the tooth aches. _It. Pr._
=La loi ne saurait égaliser les hommes malgré
la nature=--The law cannot equalise men in
spite of nature. _Vauvenargues._
=La maladie sans maladie.=--The disease without
disease, _i.e._, hypochondria. _Fr._
=La manière de former les idées est ce qui donne= 10
=caractère à l'esprit humain=--It is the way in
which our ideas are formed that a character is
imparted to our minds. _Rousseau._
=La marque d'un mérite extraordinaire est de
voir que ceux qui l'envient le plus, sont contraints
de le louer=--The proof of superior merit
is to see how those who envy it most are constrained
to praise it. _Fr._
=La menzogna c'insegue anche sotterra=--Falsehood
follows us even into the grave. _Giuseppe
Nicolini._
=La mode est un tyran dont rien nous délivre, /
A son bizarre goût il faut s'accommoder=--Fashion
is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance;
all must conform to its whimsical
taste. _Fr._
=La modération des faibles est médiocrité=--The
moderation of the weak is mediocrity. _Vauvenargues._
=La moitié du monde prend plaisir à médire, et= 15
=l'autre moitié à croire les médisances=--One
half of the world takes delight in slander, and
the other half in believing it. _Fr. Pr._
=La moltiplicità delle leggi e dei medici in un
paese sono egualmente segni di malore di
quello=--A multiplicity of laws and a multiplicity
of physicians in any country are proofs alike of
its bad state. _It. Pr._
=La montagne est passée, nous irons mieux=--We
are over the hill; we shall go better now.
_Frederick the Great's last words._
=La moquerie est souvent indigence d'esprit=--Derision
is often poverty of wit. _La Bruyère._
=La morale trop austère se fait moins aimer
qu'elle ne se fait craindre; et qui veut qu'on
profite de ses leçons donne envie de les entendre=--Morality
when too austere makes itself
less loved than feared; and he who wishes others
to profit from its lessons should awaken a desire
to listen to them. _Fr._
=La mort est plus aisée à supporter sans y= 20
=penser, que la pensée de la mort sans péril=--Death
is more easy to bear when it comes without
thought of it, than the thought of it without the
risk of it. _Pascal._
=La mort ne surprend point le sage; / Il est
toujours prêt à partir, / S'étant su lui-même
avertir / Du temps où l'on se doit résoudre
à ce passage=--Death is no surprise to the wise
man; he is always ready to depart, having learnt
to anticipate the time when he must make up his
mind to take this last journey. _La Fontaine._
=La musique seule est d'une noble inutilité, et
c'est pour cela qu'elle nous émeut si profondément;
plus elle est loin de tout but, plus
elle se rapproche de cette source intime de
nos pensées que l'application à un objet
quelconque reserve dans son cours=--Music
alone is nobly non-utilitarian, and that is why
it moves us so profoundly; the further it is removed
from serving any purpose, the nearer it
approaches that inner spring of our thoughts
which the application to any object whatever
hampers in its course. _Mme. de Staël._
=La naissance n'est rien où la vertu n'est pas=--Birth
is nothing where virtue is not. _Molière._
=La nation en deuil=--The nation in mourning.
_Montalembert on Poland._
=La nation ne fait pas corps en France; elle= 25
=réside toute entière dans la personne du roy=--In
France the nation is not a corporate body;
it resides entirely in the person of the king.
_Louis XIV._
=La nature a donné deux garants de la chastité
des femmes, la pudeur et les remords; la
confession les prive de l'un, et l'absolution
de l'autre=--Nature has given two safeguards
for female chastity, modesty and remorse, but
confession deprives them of the one and absolution
of the other. _Fr._
=La nature aime les croisements=--Nature is
partial to cross-breedings. _Fourier._
=La nature est juste envers les hommes=--Nature
is just to men. _Montesquieu._
=La nature s'imite=--Nature imitates herself.
_Pascal._
=La nuit porte conseil=--The night brings good 30
counsel. _Fr. Pr._
=Là ou ailleurs=--There or elsewhere. _M._
=Là où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle
broute=--The goat must browse where it is
tethered. _Fr. Pr._
=La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins
ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout
le monde=--Sterling worth shows itself in doing
unseen what we would be capable of doing in the
eye of the world. _La Roche._
=La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser
sa pensée=--Speech has been given to
man to conceal his thought. _Voltaire._
=La passion déprave, mais elle élève aussi=--Passion 35
depraves, but it also elevates. _Lamartine._
=La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile
homme, et rend souvent habiles les plus sots=--Love
often makes a fool of the cleverest man,
and often gives cleverness to the most foolish.
_La Roche._
=La patience est amère, mais le fruit en est
doux=--Patience is bitter, but it yields sweet
fruit. _Rousseau._
=La patience est l'art d'espérer=--Patience is the
art of hoping. _Vauvenargues._
=La patience est le remède le plus sûre contre
les calomnies: le temps, tôt ou tard, découvre
la vérité=--Patience is the surest antidote
against calumny; time, sooner or later,
will disclose the truth. _Fr._
=La patrie veut être servie, et non pas dominée=--Our
country requires us to serve her, and not
to lord it over her. _Fr._
=La pauvreté n'est pas un péché, / Mieux vaut
cependant la cacher=--Poverty is not a sin;
but it is better to hide it. _Fr. Pr._
=La perfection marche lentement, il lui faut la
main du temps=--Perfection is attained by slow
degrees; she requires the hand of time. _Voltaire._
=La peur est un grand inventeur=--Fear is a
great inventor. _Fr. Pr._
=La philosophie non seulement dissipe nos inquiétudes,= 5
=mais elle nous arme contre tous
les coups de la fortune=--Philosophy not only
dissipates our anxieties, but it arms us against
the buffets of fortune. _Fr._
=La philosophie qui nous promet de nous rendre
heureux, trompe=--Philosophy, so far as she
promises us happiness, deceives us. _Fr._
=La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux
passés, et des maux à venir; mais les maux
présents triomphent d'elle=--Philosophy triumphs
easily enough over misfortunes that are
past and to come, but present misfortunes triumph
over her. _La Roche._
=La plupart des hommes, pour arriver à leurs
fins, sont plus capables d'un grand effort
que d'une longue persévérance=--To attain
their ends most people are more capable of a
great effort than of continued perseverance.
_La Bruyère._
=La plupart des peuples, ainsi que des hommes,
ne sont dociles que dans leur jeunesse; ils
deviennent incorrigibles en vieillisant=--Most
nations, as well as men, are impressible only in
their youth; they become incorrigible as they
grow old. _Rousseau._
=La plupart des troubles de ce monde sont= 10
=grammairiens=--The majority of the troubles in
this world are the fault of the grammarians.
_Montaigne._
=La plus belle victoire est de vaincre son cœur=--The
noblest victory is to conquer one's own
heart. _La Fontaine._
=La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure=--The
short folly is always the best. _Fr._
=La plus part des hommes emploient la première
partie de leur vie à rendre l'autre misérable=--The
generality of men expend the early part of
their lives in contributing to render the latter
part miserable. _La Bruyère._
=La plus part des hommes n'ont pas le courage
de corriger les autres, parcequ'ils n'ont pas
le courage de souffrir qu'on les corrige=--The
generality of mankind have not the courage to
correct others, because they have not themselves
the courage to bear correction.
=La poesia non muore=--Poetry does not die. 15
_B. Zendrini._
=La politesse est l'art de rendre à chacun sans
effort ce que lui est socialement dû=--Politeness
is the art of rendering spontaneously to
every one that which is his due as a member of
society. _Fr._
=La popularité c'est la gloire en gros sous=--Popularity
is glory in penny-pieces. _Victor
Hugo._
=La prière est un cri d'espérance=--Prayer is a
cry of hope. _A. de Musset._
=La propriété c'est le vol=--Property, that is
theft. _Proudhon._
=La propriété exclusive est un vol dans la= 20
=nature=--Exclusive ownership is a theft in
nature. _Fr._
=La prospérité fait peu d'amis=--Prosperity makes
few friends. _Vauvenargues._
=La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure=--The
argument of the strongest is always the
best, _i.e._, has most weight. _La Fontaine._
=La raison émancipée n'a pas nui à la cause de
Dieu; elle l'a servie=--The emancipation of
reason has not injured the cause of God; it has
promoted it. _V. Cousin._
=La raison seule peut faire des lois obligatoires
et durables=--Reason alone can render
laws binding and stable. _Mirabeau._
=La recherche de la paternité est interdite=--Investigation 25
of paternity is forbidden. _Code
Napoléon._
=La recherche du vrai, et la pratique du bien,
sont les deux objets les plus importants de
la philosophie=--The pursuit of what is true and
the practice of what is good are the two most
important objects of philosophy. _Voltaire._
=La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout
fardeau est fait pour être secoué=--Gratitude
is a burden, and every burden is made to be
shaken off. _Diderot._
=La réputation d'un homme est comme son
ombre, qui tantôt le suit, et tantôt le précède;
quelquefois elle est plus longue, et
quelquefois plus courte que lui=--A man's
reputation is like his shadow, which sometimes
follows, sometimes precedes him, and which is
occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he
is. _Fr._
=La roche Tarpéienne est près du Capitole=--The
Tarpeian rock is near the Capitol, _i.e._, the
place of execution is near the scene of triumph.
_Jouy-Spontini._
=La ruse est le talent des égoïstes, et ne peut= 30
=tromper que les sots que
prennent la turbulence
pour l'esprit, la gravité pour la prudence,
effronterie pour le talent, l'orgueil
pour la dignité.=--Cunning is the accomplishment
of the selfish, and can only impose upon
silly people, who take bluster for sense, gravity
for prudence, effrontery for talent, and pride for
dignity. _Mirabeau._
=La sage conduite roule sur deux pivots, le
passé et l'avenir=--Prudent conduct turns on
two pivots, the past and the future, _i.e._, on a
faithful memory and forethought. _La Bruyère._
=La sauce vaut mieux que le poisson=--The
sauce is better than the fish. _Fr. Pr._
=La science du gouvernement n'est qu'une
science de combinaisons, d'applications et
d'exceptions, selon le temps, les lieux, les circonstances=--The
science of government is only
a science of combinations, applications, and exceptions,
according to time, place, and circumstance.
_Rousseau._
=La seule vertu distingue les hommes, dès qu'ils
sont morts=--By their virtues alone are men distinguished
after they are dead. _L'Abbé de Choisy._
=La silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont= 35
=pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of the foolish.
_Bouhours._
=La speranza è l'ultima ch'abbandona l'infelice=--Hope
is the last to abandon the unhappy. _It. Pr._
=La tempérance et le travail sont les deux vrais
médicins de l'homme=--Temperance and labour
are the two real physicians of man. _Rousseau._
=La terre est couverte de gens qui ne méritent
pas qu'on leur parle=--The earth swarms with
people who are not worth talking to. _Voltaire._
=La verdad es hija de Dios=--Truth is the daughter
of God. _Sp. Pr._
=La verdad es sempre verde=--Truth is always
green. _Sp. Pr._
=La vérité est cachée au fond du puits=--Truth
is hidden at the bottom of a well. _Fr. Pr._
=La vérité ne fait pas autant de bien dans le= 5
=monde que ses apparences y font de mal=--Truth
does not produce so much good in the
world as the hypocritical profession of it does
mischief. _Fr._
=La vertu a des appas qui nous portent au
véritable bonheur=--Virtue has attractions
which lead us to true happiness. _Fr._
=La vertu dans l'indigence est comme un voyageur,
que le vent et la pluie contraignent de
s'envelopper de son manteau=--Virtue in want
is like a traveller who is compelled by the wind
and rain to wrap himself up in his cloak. _Fr.
Pr._
=La virtù è simile ai profumi, che rendono più
grato odore quando triturati=--Virtue is like
certain perfumes, which yield a more agreeable
odour from being rubbed. _It._
=La vertu est la seule noblesse=--Virtue is the
only true nobility. _M._
=La vertu est partout la même: c'est qu'elle= 10
=vient de Dieu, et le reste est des hommes=--Virtue
is everywhere the same; the reason is it
proceeds from God, and the rest is from men.
_Voltaire._
=La vertu fut toujours en minorité sur la terre=--Virtue
has ever been in the minority on earth.
_Robespierre._
=La vertu n'iroit pas si loin, si la vanité ne
lui tenait compagnie=--Virtue would not go so
far if vanity did not bear her company. _La
Roche._
=La vicinanza de' grandi sempre è pericolosa
ai picoli; sono grandi come il fuoco, che
brucia eziandio quei che vi gettano dell'
incenso se troppo vi si approsimino=--The
neighbourhood of the great is always dangerous
to the little. The great are to them as a
fire which scorches those who approach it too
nearly. _It._
=La vida es corta y la esperanza larga, / El
bien huye de mi y el mal se alarga=--Life is
short, yet hope endures; good flies off, but evil
ever lurks about. _Luis de Góngora._
=La vie des héros a enrichi l'histoire, et l'histoire= 15
=a embelli les actions des héros=--The
lives of heroes have enriched history, and history
has embellished the exploits of heroes.
_La Bruyère._
=La vieillesse nous attache plus de rides en
l'esprit qu'en visage=--Old age contracts more
wrinkles on the mind than the countenance.
_Montaigne._
=La ville est le séjour de profanes humains, les
dieux habitent la campagne=--Towns are the
dwelling-places of profane mortals; the gods inhabit
rural retreats. _Rousseau._
=La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine=--Force
is legitimate where gentleness avails
not. _Corneille._
=La volontà è tutto=--The will is everything. _It.
Pr._
=La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme,= 20
=c'est l'homme=--The real science and the real
study for man, is man himself. _Charron._
=Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--The
stream flows, and will go on flowing for
ever. _Hor._
=Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis ætas=--Time
glides on stealthily, and eludes us as it steals
past. _Ovid._
=Labor ipse voluptas=--Labour itself is a pleasure.
_M._
=Labor omnia vincit / Improbus, et duris urgens
in rebus egestas=--Persevering labour overcomes
all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the
pressure of things. _Virg._
=Laborare est orare=--Work is worship (_lit._ to 25
labour is to pray). _Monkish Pr._
=Labore=--By labour. _M._
=Labore et honore=--By labour and honour. _M._
=Labore vinces=--By labour you will conquer.
_M._
=Laborum dulce lenimen=--The sweet soother of
my toils. _Hor. to his lyre._
=Labour bestowed on nothing is fruitless.= _Hitopadesa._ 30
=Labour endears rest, and both together are
absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment
of human existence.= _Burns._
=Labour for labour's sake is against nature.=
_Locke._
=Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise
is labour used only while it produces
pleasure.= _Johnson._
=Labour is life. From the inmost heart of the= 35
=worker rises his God-given force--the sacred
celestial life-essence breathed into him by
Almighty God.= _Carlyle._
=Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness
to rust.= _Plato._
=Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the
end of art.= _Anon._
=Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the
philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus.=
_J. Johnson._
=Labour is the instituted means for the methodical
development of all our powers under
the direction and control of the will.= _J. G.
Holland._
=Labour is the Lethe of both past and present.= 40
_Jean Paul._
=Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward
of toil is when you confer blessings on
others; his high dignity confers honour on
the king; be ours the glory of our hands.=
_Schiller._
=Labour is the talisman that has raised man
from the condition of the savage.= _M'Culloch._
=Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, / The
protest of the weak against the strong.=
_Faber._
=Labour, if it were not necessary for the existence,
would be indispensable for the happiness,
of man.= _Johnson._
=Labour, like everything else that is good, is= 45
=its own reward.= _Whipple._
=Labour like this our want supplies, / And they
must stoop who mean to rise.= _Cowper._
=Labour of the hands, even when pursued to
the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the
worst form of idleness (for the mind); it has
a constant and imperishable moral.= _Thoreau._
=Labour past is pleasant.= _Pr._
=Labour to keep alive in your breast that little
spark of celestial fire--conscience.= _Washington._
=Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in
heaven.= _Carlyle._
=Labour with what zeal we will, / Something= 5
=still remains undone, / Something uncompleted
still / Waits the rising of the sun.=
_Longfellow._
=Lachen, Weinen, Lust und Schmerz / Sind
Geschwister-Kinder=--Laughing and weeping,
pleasure and pain, are cousins german. _Goethe._
=Lacrymæque decoræ, / Gratior et pulchro
veniens in corpore virtus=--His tears, that so
well become him, and a merit still more pleasing
that shows itself in his fair form. _Virg._
=Lactuca innatat acri / Post vinum stomacho=--Lettuce
after wine floats on the acrid stomach.
_Hor._
=Lad's love is lassie's delight, / And if lads
won't love, lassies will flite= (scold). _Craven._
=Lad's love's a busk of broom, hot awhile and= 10
=soon done.= _Pr._
=Lade nicht alles in ein Schiff=--Embark not your
all in one venture. _Ger. Pr._
=Ladies like variegated tulips show; / 'Tis to
their changes half their charms they owe.=
_Pope._
=Læso et invicto militi=--For our wounded but unconquered
soldiery. _Inscription on the Berlin
Invalidenhaus._
=Lætus in præsens animus, quod ultra est /
Oderit curare, et amara lento / Temperet
risu. Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--The
mind that is cheerfully contented with the present
will shrink from caring about anything beyond,
and will temper the bitters of life with an easy
smile. There is nothing that is blessed in every
respect. _Hor._
=Lætus sorte tua vives sapienter=--You will live 15
wisely if you live contented with your lot. _Pr._
=Lætus sum laudari a laudato viro=--I am pleased
to be praised by a man who is so praised as you
are. _Cic._
=Laisser dire le monde, et toujours bien faire,
c'est une maxime, qui étant bien observée
assure notre repos, et établit enfin notre
réputation=--To let the world talk, and always
to act correctly, is a maxim which, if well observed,
will secure our repose, and in the end
establish our reputation. _Fr._
=Laissez dire les sots, le savoir a son prix=--Let
ignorance talk, learning has its value. _La Fontaine._
=Laissez faire, laissez passer!=--Let it be! Let
it pass! _Gournay, Quesnay._
=Laissez faire--the "let alone" principle, is, in= 20
=all things which man has to do with, the
principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain
and total, if he lets his land alone--if he lets
his fellow-men alone--if he lets his own soul
alone.= _Ruskin._
=Laissez-leur prendre un pied chez vous, / Ils
en auront bientôt pris quatre=--Let them take
one foot in your house, and they will soon have
taken four (give them an inch and they will take
an ell). _La Fontaine._
=Lamenting becomes fools, and action wise
folk.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Lampoons and satires, that are written with
wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which
not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.=
_Addison._
=Land is the right basis of an aristocracy. No
true aristocracy but must possess the land.=
_Carlyle._
=Land of lost gods and godlike men.= _Byron of_ 25
_Greece._
=Land should be given to those who can use it,
and tools to those who can use them.= _Ruskin._
=Land was never lost for want of an heir.= _Pr._
=Lands intersected by a narrow firth / Abhor
each other. Mountains interposed / Make
enemies of nations, which had else, / Like
kindred drops, been mingled into one.= _Cowper._
=Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed; /
But honesty once pawned is ne'er
redeemed.= _Middleton._
=Lang ill, soon weel.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Lang syne, in Eden's bonny yaird, / When
youthfu' lovers first were pair'd, / And all the
soul of love they shared, / The raptured hour, /
Sweet on the fragrant flowery swaird, / In
shady bower, / Then you, ye auld sneck-drawing=
(latch-lifting) =dog, / Ye cam' to
Paradise incog, / And play'd on man a curséd
brogue, / (Black be your fa') / And gied the
infant warld a shog= (shake), / ='Maist ruin'd a'.=
_Burns to the Deil._
=Langage des halles=--Language of the fishmarket.
_Fr._
=Lange ist nicht ewig=--Long is not for ever.
_Ger. Pr._
=Lange Ueberlegungen zeigen gewöhnlich,
dass man den Punkt nicht im Auge hat,
von dem die Rede ist; übereilte Handlungen,
dass man ihn gar nicht kennt=--Long pondering
on a matter usually indicates that one has
not properly got his eye on the point at issue;
and too hasty action that he does not know it
at all. _Goethe._
=Langes Leben heisst viele überleben=--To live 35
long is to outlive many. _Goethe._
=Langeweile ist ein böses Kraut / Aber auch
eine Würze, die viel verdaut=--Ennui is an ill
weed, but also a condiment which digests a
good deal. _Goethe._
=Langh festjen is nin brae sperjen=--A long fast
saves no bread. _Fris. Pr._
=Langsam nur im Menschengeiste / Reift das
Saatkorn der Erkenntniss, / Doch die Blumen
wachsen schnell=--The seed-grain of knowledge
ripens but slowly in the spirit of man, yet
the flowers grow fast. _Bodenstedt._
=Language at its infancy is all poetry.= _Emerson._
=Language is always wise.= _Emerson._ 40
=Language is fossil poetry.= _Trench._
=Language is not only the vehicle of thought,
it is a great and efficient instrument in
thinking.= _Sir H. Davy._
=Language is only clear when it is sympathetic.=
_Ruskin._
=Language is properly the servant of thought,
but not unfrequently it becomes its master.=
_W. B. Clulow._
=Language is the armoury of the human mind,
and at once contains the trophies of its past,
and the weapons of its future, conquests.=
_Coleridge._
=Language is the dress of thought.= _Johnson._
=Language is the memory of the human race.
It is a thread or nerve of life running through
all the ages, connecting them into one common,
prolonged, and advancing existence.=
_Wm. Smith._
=Language most shows a man; speak that I
may see thee.= _Ben Jonson._
=Languages are more properly to be called= 5
=vehicles of learning than learning itself.... True
knowledge consists in knowing things,
not words.= _Lady Montagu._
=Languages are the barometers of national
thought and character.= _Hare._
=Languages are the pedigree of nations.= _Johnson._
=Lapidary inscriptions should be historical
rather than lyrical.= _Carlyle._
=Lapis philosophorum=--The philosopher's stone.
=Lapis qui volvitur algam non generat=--A rolling 10
stone gathers no moss. _Pr._
=Lapsus memoriæ=--A slip of the memory.
=Lares et penates=--Household gods.
=Large bodies are far more likely to err than
individuals. The passions are inflamed by
sympathy; the fear of punishment and the
sense of shame are diminished by partition.
Every day we see men do for their faction
what they would die rather than do for
themselves.= _Macaulay._
=Large charity doth never soil, but only whiten,
soft white hands.= _Lowell._
=Large fortunes are all founded either on occupation= 15
=of land, or usury, or taxation of labour.=
_Ruskin._
=Large fortunes cannot be made by the
work of any one man's hands or head.=
_Ruskin._
=Large masses of mankind, in every society
of our Europe, are no longer capable of
living at all by the things which have been.=
_Carlyle._
=Largitio fundum non habet=--Giving has no
bottom. _Pr._
=Las manos blancas no ofenden=--White hands
cannot harm one. _Sp. Pr._
=Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate=--Abandon 20
all hope, ye who enter here. _Dante._
=Lascivi soboles gregis=--The offspring of a wanton
herd. _Hor._
=Lass das Vergangne vergangen sein=--Let
what is past be past. _Goethe, Faust to Margaret
in the end._
=Lass deine Zunge nie das Amt des Schwertes
führen=--Never let thy tongue do the work of
the sword. (?)
=Lass dich nicht verblüffen=--Don't let yourself be
disconcerted. _Herder._
=Lass die Leute reden und die Hunde bellen=--Let 25
the people talk and the dogs bark. _Ger.
Pr._
=Lass die schwerste Pflicht dir die allerheiligste
Pflicht sein=--Let the most arduous
duty be the most sacred of all to thee. _Lavater._
=Lass die Winde stürmen auf des Lebens
Bahn, / Ob sie Wogen türmen gegen deinen
Kahn. / Schiffe ruhig weiter, wenn der
Mast auch bricht, / Gott ist dein Begleiter,
er vergisst dich nicht=--Let winds storm on
life's course, even though they swell over and
threaten thy skiff. Sail quietly on, even if the
mast gives way. God is thy convoy; He forgets
thee not. _Tiedge._
=Lass diesen Händedruck dir sagen / Was
unaussprechlich ist=--Let this pressure of the
hand reveal to thee what is unutterable. _Goethe,
Faust to Margarite._
=Lass ruhn, lass ruhn die Toten, / Du weckst
sie mit Klagen nicht auf=--Let them rest, let
thy dead ones rest, thou awakest them not with
thy wailing. _Chamisso._
=Lasses and glasses are brittle wares.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Lasst fahren hin das allzu Flüchtige! / Ihr
sucht bei ihm vergebens Rat! / In dem
Vergangnen lebt das Tüchtige / Verewigt
sich in schöner That=--Let the too transient
pass by; ye seek counsel in vain of it. Yet what
will avail you lives in the past, and lies immortalised
in what has been nobly done. _Goethe._
=Lasst uns hell denken, so werden wir feurig
lieben=--Let us think clearly, we shall love
ardently. _Schiller._
=Last come, worst served.=
=Last in bed, best heard.= _Pr._
=Last, not least.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1. _Lear_, i. 1. 35
=Last scene of all, ... / Is second childishness
and mere oblivion; / Sans teeth, sans eyes,
sans taste, sans everything.= _As You Like
It_, ii. 7.
=Late children are early orphans.= _Sp. Pr._
=Late fruit keeps well.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lateat scintillula forsan=--A small spark may
perhaps lurk unseen. _M._
=Laterem laves=--You may as well wash a clay 40
brick white. _Ter._
=Latet anguis in herba=--There is a snake in the
grass. _Virg._
[Greek: lathe biôsas]--Remain hidden in life. _Epicurus._
=Latitat=--He lurks; a writ of summons (Law).
=Latius regnes, avidum domando / Spiritum,
quam si Libyam remotis / Gadibus jungas,
et uterque Pœnus / Serviat uni=--By subduing
an avaricious spirit you will rule a wider empire
than if you united Lybia to the far-off Gades,
and the Carthaginian on both shores should be
subject to you alone. _Hor._
=Latrante uno, latrat statim et alter canis=--When 45
one dog barks, another straightway begins
to bark too. _Pr._
=Latrantem curatne alta Diana canem?=--Does
the high-stepping Diana care for the dog that
bays her? _Pr._
=Laudant quod non intelligunt=--They praise
what they don't understand.
=Laudari a viro laudato maxima est laus=--To
be commended by a man of high repute is the
greatest possible praise.
=Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces=--He
praises his wares who wishes to palm them
off upon others. _Hor._
=Laudato ingentia rura, / Exiguum colito=--Praise 50
a large estate, but cultivate a small one. _Virg._
=Laudator temporis acti=--The praiser of bygone
times. _Hor._
=Laudatur ab his, culpatur ab illis=--Some praise
him, others censure him. _Hor._
=Laudatus abunde, / Non fastiditus si tibi,
lector, ero=--Abundantly, reader, shall I be
praised if I do not cause thee disgust. _Ovid._
=Laudem virtutis necessitati damus=--We give
to necessity the praise of virtue. _Quinct._
=Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus=--He is convicted
of being a wine-bibber by his praises of wine. _Hor._
=Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego= 5
=clerum, / Defunctos ploro, pestem fugo, festa
decoro=--I praise the true God, I summon the
people, I call together the clergy, I bewail the
dead, I put to flight the plague, I celebrate festivals.
_Inscription on a church bell._
=Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit / Pennas,
resigno quæ dedit, et mea / Virtute me involvo
probamque / Pauperiem sine dote
quæro=--I praise her (Fortune) while she stays
with me; if she flaps her swift pinions, I resign
all she has given me, and wrap myself up in my
own virtue and pay my addresses to honest undowered
poverty. _Hor._
=Laugh and be fat.= _Ben Jonson._
=Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate
is what he makes it, nothing else.= _Anon._
=Laugh at leisure; ye may greet= (weep) =ere
nicht.= _Sc. Pr._
=Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs= 10
=least: / For wit is news only to ignorance. /
Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the
jest / Thy person share, and the conceit advance.=
_George Herbert._
=Laugh where we must, be candid where we
can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man.=
_Pope._
=Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of
day on all the paths of life; sorrow is
more confusing and distracting than so-called
giddiness.= _Jean Paul._
=Laughter almost ever cometh of things most
disproportioned to ourselves.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Laughter and tears are meant to turn the
wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;
one is wind-power, and the other water-power,
that is all.= _Holmes._
=Laughter, holding both his sides.= _Milton._ 15
=Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour
is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent
to derision.= _H. Giles._
=Laughter is one of the very privileges of
reason, being confined to the human species.=
_Leigh Hunt._
=Laughter is the cipher-key wherewith we
decipher the whole man.= _Carlyle._
=Laughter leaves us doubly serious shortly
after.= _Byron._
=Laughter makes good blood.= _It. Pr._ 20
=Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow
the brow.= _Feltham._
=Laus Deo=--Praise be to God. _M._
=Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet=--It
is doing what we ought to do, and not merely
doing what we may do, that is the ground of
praise.
=Laus in proprio ore sordescit=--Self-praise is
offensive. _Pr._
=Laus magna natis obsequi parentibus=--Great 25
praise is the meed of children who respect the
wishes of their parents. _Phaedr._
=Lavish promises lessen credit.= _Hor._
=Lavishness is not generosity.= _Pr._
=Law and equity are two things which God hath
joined, but which man hath put asunder.=
_Colton._
=Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.=
_Pr._
=Law has her seat in the bosom of God, her= 30
=voice in the harmony of the world.= _Hooker._
=Law is a bottomless pit; keep far from it.= _Pr._
=Law is a lottery.= _Pr._
=Law is not law if it violates the principles of
eternal justice.= _L. M. Child._
=Law is powerful, necessity more so.= _Goethe._
=Law it is which is without name, or colour, or= 35
=hands, or feet; which is smallest of the
least, and largest of the large; all, and
knowing all things; which hears without
ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet,
and seizes without hands.= _Emerson._
=Law licks up a'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Law-makers should not be law-breakers.= _Pr._
=Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day
when the old brazen age in sadness saw love
fly the world.= _Schiller._
=Law teaches us to know when we commit
injury and when we suffer it.= _Johnson._
=Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.= 40
_A, Hill._
=Lawless are they that make their wills their
law.= _Sh._
=Laws act after crimes have been committed;
prevention goes before them both.= _Zimmermann._
=Laws and rights are transmitted like an inveterate
hereditary disease.= _Goethe._
=Laws are generally found to be nets of such
texture as the little creep through, the great
break through, and the middle size are alone
entangled in.= _Shenstone._
=Laws are intended to guard against what= 45
=men may do, not to trust what they will do.=
_Junius._
=Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch
small flies, but let wasps and hornets break
through.= _Swift._
=Laws are like spider webs, small flies are
ta'en, / While greater flies break in and out
again.= _Braithwaite._
=Laws are not made for particular cases, but
for men in general.= _Johnson._
=Laws are not made like nets--to catch, but
like sea-marks--to guide.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Laws are not masters, but servants, and he= 50
=rules them who obeys them.= _Ward Beecher._
=Laws are not our life, only the house wherein
our life is led; nay, they are but the bare
walls of the house; all whose essential
furniture, the inventions and traditions and
daily habits that regulate and support our
existence, are the work not of Dracos and
Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of
Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of
philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the
long-forgotten train of artists and artisans,
who from the first have been jointly teaching
us how to think and how to act, how to rule
over spiritual and physical nature.= _Carlyle._
=Laws are the silent assessors of God.= _W. R.
Alger._
=Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.= _Louis
XIV._
=Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They
define every man's rights, and stand between
and defend the individual liberties of all.=
_J. G. Holland._
=Laws are usually most beneficial in operation
on the people who would have most strongly
objected to their enactment.= _Ruskin._
=Law's costly; tak' a pint and 'gree.= _Sc. Pr._
=Laws exist in vain for those who have not the
courage and the means to defend them.=
_Macaulay._
=Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the= 5
=law.= _Goldsmith._
=Laws, like cobwebs, catch flies, but let hornets
go free.= _Pr._
=Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking
themselves out in the orbs and the tides.=
_C. H. Parkhurst._
=Laws should be like death, which spares no
one.= _Montesquieu._
=Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.=
_Montesquieu._
=Laws were made for rogues.= _It. Pr._ 10
=Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on
the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of
God's creation, certain as life, certain as
death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey
them.= _Carlyle._
=Lawyers and painters can soon make black
white.= _Pr._
=Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.= _Pr._
=Lawyers are always more ready to get a man
into troubles than out of them.= _Goldsmith._
=Lawyers are needful to keep us out of law.= 15
_Pr._
=Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.= _Fr.
Pr._
=Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising
feuds and splitting cases.= _Butler._
=Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of
litigants.= _It. Pr._
=Lawyers will live as long as mine and thine
does.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lay by, like ants, a little store, / For summer= 20
=lasts not evermore.= _Pr._
=Lay by something for a rainy day.= _Pr._
=Lay not all the load on the lame horse.= _Pr._
=Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.=
_Ham._, iii. 4.
=Lay not thine heart open to every one, but
treat of thy affairs with the wise and such
as fear God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Lay the blame at the right door.= _Pr._ 25
=Lay the proud usurpers low! / Tyrants fall in
every foe! / Liberty's in every blow! / Forward!
let us die.= _Burns._
=Lay thy hand upon thy halfpenny twice before
thou partest with it.= _Pr._
=Lay up and lay out should go together.= _Pr._
=Lay up that you may lay out.= _Pr._
=Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because= 30
=he was poor, or every sluggard would
go there easily.= _Spurgeon._
=Laziness begins with cobwebs and ends with
iron chains.= _Pr._
=Laziness is nothing unless you carry it out.=
_Pr._
=Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon
overtakes him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Lazy as Ludlam's dog, that laid his head
against the wall to bark.= _Pr._
=Lazy folks ask for work with their lips, but= 35
=their hearts pray God that they may not
find it.= _Creole saying._
=Lazy folk's stomachs don't get tired.= _Uncle
Remus._
=Lazy is the hand that ploughs not.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Le beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._
=Le bestemmie fanno come le processioni;
ritornano donde partirono=--Curses are like
processions, they come back to whence they set
out. _It. Pr._
=Le bien ne se fait jamais mieux que lorsqu'il= 40
=opère lentement=--Good is never more effectually
done than when it is produced slowly.
_Fr. Pr._
=Le bon sens vulgaire est un mauvais juge
quand il s'agit des grandes choses=--Good
common-sense is a bad judge when it is a question
of high matters. _Renan._
=Le bon temps viendra=--The good time will
come. _M._
=Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vie ne consiste
pas à être sans passions, il consiste
à en être le maître=--The happiness of man
in this life does not consist in being devoid of
passions, but in mastering them. _Fr._
=Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent
s'écoule=--The happiness of the wicked passes
away like a brook. _Racine._
=Le bonheur des peuples dépend et de la félicité= 45
=dont ils jouissent au dedans et du respect
qu'ils inspirent au dehors=--The welfare of
nations depends at once on the happiness which
they enjoy at home and the respect which they
command abroad. _Helvetius._
=Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépendent
pas moins de leur humeur que de
la fortune=--The happiness and unhappiness of
men depend as much on their dispositions as on
fortune. _La Roche._
=Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée; il est très-difficile
de le trouver en nous, et impossible
de le trouver ailleurs=--Happiness is no easy
matter; it is very hard to find it within ourselves,
and impossible to find it elsewhere.
_Chamfort._
=Le bonheur ne peut être / Où la vertu n'est
pas=--Happiness cannot exist where virtue is not.
_Quinault._
=Le bonheur ou le malheur vont ordinairement
à ceux qui ont le plus de l'un ou de l'autre=--Good
fortune or bad generally falls to those who
have the greatest share of either. _La Roche._
=Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé=--Happiness 50
seems appointed to be shared.
_Racine._
=Le bruit est si fort, qu'on n'entend pas Dieu
tonner=--The noise (of things) is so deafening
that we cannot hear God when He thunders.
_Fr. Pr._
=Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le
sot, / L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et
ne dit mot=--Blustering is for the fop, whimpering
for the fool; the sensible man when deceived
goes off and says nothing. _Lanoue._
=Le chemin est long du projet à la close=--The
road is a long one from the projection of a thing
to its accomplishment. _Molière._
=Le ciel me prive d'une épouse qui ne m'a jamais
donné d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort=--Heaven
bereaves me of a spouse who never
caused me any other vexation than by her death.
_Louis XIV. of his wife._
=Le citoyen peut périr, et l'homme rester=--The
citizen may perish and man remain. _Montesquieu._
=Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connoit
pas=--The heart has its reasons, which
reason does not know. _Pascal._
=Le cœur de l'homme n'est jamais si inflexible
que son esprit=--The heart of man is never so
inflexible as his intellect. _Lamartine._
=Le cœur d'une femme est un vrai miroir qui= 5
=reçoit toutes sortes d'objets sans s'attacher
à aucun=--The heart of woman is a real mirror,
which reflects every object without attaching
itself to any. _Fr._
=Le congrès ne marche pas; il danse=--The Congress
does not advance; it dances. _The Prince
de Ligne of the Vienna Congress._
=Le conquérant est craint, le sage est estimé, /
Mais le bienfaiteur plait, et lui seul est aimé=--The
conqueror is held in awe, the sage is
esteemed, but it is the benevolent man who
wins our affections and is alone beloved. _Fr._
=Le conseil manque à l'âme, / Et le guide au
chemin=--The soul wants counsel, and the road
a guide. _Fr._
=Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires,
ou des personnes, est souvent la vérité=--The
converse of what is currently reported about
things and people is often the truth. _La Bruyère._
=Le contrat du gouvernement est tellement dissous= 10
=par despotisme que le despot n'est le
maître qu'aussi long temps qu'il est le plus
fort; et que si tôt qu'on peut l'expulser, il
n'a point à réclaimer contre la violence=--The
contract of government is so dissolved by despotism,
that the despot is master only so long as
he is the strongest, and that as soon as there is
power to expel him, he has no right to protest
against the violent proceeding. _Rousseau._
=Le corps politique, aussi bien que le corps de
l'homme, commence à mourir dès sa naissance,
et porte en lui-même les causes de
sa destruction=--The body politic, like the body
of man, begins to die as soon as it is born, and
bears within it the seeds of its own dissolution.
_Rousseau._
=Le cose non sono come sono, ma come si
vedono=--Things are not as they are, but as
they are regarded. _It. Pr._
=Le courage est souvent un effet de la peur=--Courage
is often an effect of fear. _Fr. Pr._
=Le coûte en ôte le goût=--The cost takes away
from the relish. _Fr. Pr._
=Le cri d'un peuple heureux est la seule éloquence= 15
=qui doit parler des rois=--The acclaim
of a happy people is the only eloquence which
ought to speak in the behalf of kings.
=Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It
is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold.
_Corneille._
=Le désespoir comble non seulement notre
misère, mais notre faiblesse=--Despair gives
the finishing blow not only to misery, but to
weakness. _Vauvenargues._
=Le désespoir redouble les forces=--Despair
doubles our powers. _Fr. Pr._
=Le despotisme tempéré par l'assassinat, c'est
notre Magna Charta=--Despotism tempered by
assassination is our Magna Charta. _A Russian
noble to Count Münster on the murder of the
Czar Paul._
=Le dessous des cartes=--The lower side of the 20
cards. _Fr._
=Le devoir, c'est l'âme intérieure, c'est la vie
de l'éducation=--Duty is the inner soul, the life
of education. _Michelet._
=Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur
métier est de la différer; quelques uns savent
leur devoir, et font leur métier=--The
duty of judges is to administer justice, but their
practice is to delay it; some of them know their
duty, but adhere to the practice. _La Bruyère._
=Le diable était beau quand il était jeune=--The
devil was handsome when he was young. _Fr. Pr._
=Le divorce est le sacrement de l'adultère=--Divorce
is the sacrament of adultery.
=Le doute s'introduit dans l'âme qui rêve, la foi= 25
=descend dans l'âme qui souffre=--Doubt insinuates
itself into a soul that is dreaming;
faith comes down into one that struggles and
suffers.
=Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en
guerre, / Et la femme qu'on aime aura toujours
raison=--Right is with the strongest in
love as in war, / And the woman we love will
always be right. _A. de Musset._
=Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort dans la
cendre=--The fire which seems extinguished often
slumbers in the ashes. _Corneille._
=Le génie c'est la patience=--Genius is just
patience. _Fr. Pr._
=Le génie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude
à la patience=--Genius is nothing else than
a sovereign capacity for patience. _Buffon._
=Le géologue est un nouveau genre d'antiquaire=--The 30
geologist is a new species of antiquarian.
(?)
=Le gouvernement représentatif est la justice
organisée, la raison vivante, la morale armée=--Representative
government is justice organised,
reason in living action, and morality armed.
_Royer Collard._
=Le grand art de la supériorité, c'est de saisir
les hommes par leur bon côté=--The great art
of superiority is getting hold of people by their
right side. _Mirabeau._
=Le grand monarque=--The grand monarch, Louis
XIV.
=Le grandeur et le discernement sont des choses
différentes, et l'amour pour la vertu, et pour
les vertueux une troisième chose=--High rank
and discernment are two different things, and
love for virtue and for virtuous people is a
third thing. _La Bruyère._
=Le hasard donne les pensées; le hazard les= 35
=ôte: point d'art pour conserver ni pour
acquérir=--Chance suggests thoughts; changes
deprive us of them: there is no rule for preserving
or acquiring them. _Pascal._
=Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence=--Chance
is a nickname for Providence. _Chamfort._
=Le jeu est le fils de l'avarice et le père du
désespoir=--Gambling is the son of avarice and
the father of despair. _Fr. Pr._
=Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle=--The game is
not worth the candle. _Fr. Pr._
=Le jour viendra=--The day will come. _M._
=Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros
s'évanouit=--The mask falls off, the man remains,
and the heroic vanishes. _J. B. Rousseau._
=Le mauvais métier que celui de censeur=--A
bad business that of censor. _Guy Patin._
=Le méchant n'est jamais comique=--A bad man
is never amusing. _De Maistre._
=Le médicin Tant-pis et le médicin Tant-mieux=--The
pessimist and the optimist (_lit._
Doctor So-much-the-worse and Doctor So-much-the-better).
_La Fontaine._
=Le mérité est souvent un obstacle à la fortune;= 5
=c'est qu'il produit toujours deux mauvais
effets, l'envie et la crainte=--Merit is often an
obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces
two bad effects, envy and fear. _Fr._
=Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien=--Better is the
enemy of well. _Fr. Pr._
=Le moindre grain de mil serait bien mieux
mon affaire=--The smallest grain of millet would
serve my needs better. _La Fontaine, "The
Cock and the Pearl."_
=Le moineau en la main vaut mieux que l'oie
qui vole=--A sparrow in the hand is worth a
goose on the wing. _Fr. Pr._
=Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose=--The
world, dear Agnes, is a queer concern. _Molière._
=Le monde est le livre des femmes=--The world 10
is the book of women. _Rousseau._
=Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut
pas voir / Doit se tenir tout seul et casser
son miroir=--The world is full of madmen, and
he who would not see one must keep himself
quite alone and break his looking-glass.
=Le monde paye d'ingratitude=--The world pays
with ingratitude. _Fr. Pr._
=Le monde savant=--The learned world. _Fr._
=Le mort est le dernier trait du tableau de la
vie=--Death is the finishing touch in the picture
of life. _Fr._
=Le mot de l'énigme=--The key to the riddle. _Fr._ 15
=Le moy est haïssable=--Egotism is hateful.
_Pascal._
=Le moyen le plus sûr de se consoler de tout
ce qui peut arriver, c'est de s'attendre toujours
au pire=--The surest way to console one's
self against whatever may happen is always to
expect the worst. _Fr._
=Le nombre des élus au Parnasse est complet=--The
list of the elect of Parnassus is made up. (?)
=Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit=--The
wise will always be few in number.
=Le parjure est une vertu, / Lorsque le serment= 20
=fut un crime=--Perjury is a virtue when the oath
was a crime. _Voltaire._
=Le pas=--Precedence in place or rank. _Fr._
=Le pays du mariage a cela de particulier,
que les étrangers ont envie de l'habiter,
et les habitans naturels voudroient en être
exilés=--The land of matrimony possesses this
peculiarity, that strangers to it would like to
dwell in it, and the natural inhabitants wish
to be exiled. _Montaigne._
=Le pédant et l'instituteur disent à peu près
les mêmes choses; mais le premier les dit
à tout propos: le second ne les dit que
quand il est sûr de leur effet=--The pedant and
the teacher say nearly the same things; but the
former on every occasion, the latter only when
he is sure of their effect. _Rousseau._
=Le petit monde=--The lower orders. _Fr._
=Le peuple anglais pense être libre; il ne l'est= 25
=que durant l'élection des membres du parlement=--The
English think they are free; they
are free only during the election of members of
Parliament. _Rousseau._
=Le peuple est le cœur du pays=--The people is
the heart of a country. _Lamartine._
=Le peuple ne comprend que ce qu'il sent. Les
seuls orateurs pour lui sont ceux qui l'émeuvent=--The
people understand only what they
feel; the only orators that can affect them are
those who move them. _Lamartine._
=Le plaisir le plus délicat est de faire celui
d'autrui=--The most exquisite pleasure consists
in promoting the pleasures of others. _La
Bruyère._
=Le plus âne des trois n'est pas celui qu'on
pense=--The greatest ass of the three is not the
one who seems so. _La Fontaine, "The Miller,
his Son, and his Ass."_
=Le plus dangereux ridicule des vieilles personnes= 30
=qui sont aimables, c'est d'oublier
qu'elles ne le sont plus=--For old people, however
estimable, to forget that they are no longer
estimable is to expose themselves to certain ridicule.
_La Roche._
=Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus
fidèle à tenir=--He who is slow in promising is always
the most faithful in performing. _Rousseau._
=Le plus sage est celui qui ne pense point l'être=--The
wisest man is he who does not think he
is so. _Boileau._
=Le plus semblable aux morts meurt le plus à
regret=--He who most resembles the dead dies
with most reluctance. _La Fontaine._
=Le plus véritable marque d'être né avec de
grandes qualités, c'est d'être né sans envie=--The
sure mark of being born with noble qualities
is being born without envy. _La Roche._
=Le premier écu est plus difficile à gagner que= 35
=le second million=--The first five shillings are
harder to win than the second million. _Fr. Pr._
=Le premier soupir de l'amour est le dernier
de la sagesse=--The first sigh of love is the last
of wisdom. _Charron._
=Le présent est gros de l'avenir=--The present
is big with coming events. _Leibnitz._
=Le présent est pour ceux qui jouissent, l'avenir
pour ceux qui souffrent=--The present is for those
who enjoy, the future for those who suffer. _Fr._
=Le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire
un public?=--The public! How many fools
must there be to make a public? _Chamfort._
=Le réel est étroit, le possible est immense=--The 40
real is limited, the possible is unlimited. _Lamartine._
=Le refus des louanges est souvent un désir
d'être loué deux fois=--The refusal of praise
often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.
=Le repos est une bonne chose, mais l'ennui est
son frère=--Repose is a good thing, but ennui is
his brother. _Voltaire._
=Le reste ne vaut pas l'honneur d'être nommé=--The
rest don't deserve to be mentioned. _Corneille._
=Le roi est mort; vive le roi!=--The king is dead;
long live the king! _The form of announcing the
death of a French king._
=Le roy et l'état=--The king and the state. _M._ 45
=Le roi le veut=--The king wills it. _The formula
of royal assent in France._
=Le roi régne et ne gouverne pas=--The king
reigns but does not govern. _Thiers at the accession
of Louis Philippe._
=Le roi s'avisera=--The king will consider it. _The
form of a royal veto in France._
=Le sage entend à demi-mot=--A hint suffices for
a wise man. _Fr. Pr._
=Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur
d'être ennuyé=--The wise man sometimes shuns
society from fear of being bored. _La Bruyère._
=Le sage songe avant que de parler à ce qu'il= 5
=doit dire; le fou parle, et ensuite songe à ce
qu'il a dit=--A wise man thinks before he speaks
what he ought to say; the fool speaks and
thinks afterwards what he has said. _Fr. Pr._
=Le savoir faire=--Knowing how to act; ability.
=Le savoir vivre=--Knowing how to live; good
manners.
=Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire=--The
secret of boring people is saying all that can be
said on a subject. _Voltaire._
=Le sens commun est le génie de l'humanité=--Common
sense is the genius of humanity. _Goethe._
=Le sentiment de la liberté est plus vif, plus il= 10
=y entre de malignité=--The passion for liberty
is the keener the greater the malignity associated
with it. _Fr._
=Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois=--The
silence of the people is a lesson to kings. _M. de
Beauvais._
=Le silence est l'esprit des sots, / Et l'une des
vertus du sage=--Silence is the wit of fools, and
one of the virtues of the wise man. _Bonnard._
=Le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas
sages=--Silence is the virtue of those who want
it. _Bouhours._
=Le silence est le parti le plus sûr pour celui
qui se défie de soi-même=--Silence is the safest
course for the man who is diffident of himself.
_La Roche._
=Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder= 15
=fixement=--Neither the sun nor death can be
looked at fixedly. _La Roche._
=Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis=--It
is to chance we owe our relatives, to choice
our friends. _Delille._
=Le style est l'homme même=--The style is the
man himself. _Buffon._
=Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire=--The superfluous,
a thing highly necessary. _Voltaire._
=Le temps est un grand maître, il régle bien les
choses=--Time is a great master; it regulates
things well. _Corneille._
=Le temps guérit les douleurs et les querelles,= 20
=parcequ'on change, on n'est plus la même personne=--Time
heals our griefs and wranglings,
because we change, and are no longer the
same. _Pascal._
=Le temps n'épargne pas ce qu'on fait sans lui=--Time
preserves nothing that has been done
without her, _i.e._, that has taken no time to do.
_Favolle._
=Le tout ensemble=--The whole together. _Fr._
=Le travail du corps délivre des peines de
l'esprit; et c'est ce qui rend les pauvres
heureux=--Bodily labour alleviates the pains of
the mind, and hence arises the happiness of the
poor. _La Roche._
=Le travail éloigne de nous trois grand maux,
l'ennui, le vice, et le besoin=--Labour relieves us
from three great evils, ennui, vice, and want. _Fr._
=Le trépas vient tout guérir; / Mais ne bougeons= 25
=d'où nous sommes: / Plutôt souffrir
que mourir, / C'est la devise des hommes=--Death
comes to cure everything, but let us not
stir from where we are. "Endure sooner than
die," is the proper device for man. _La Fontaine._
=Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde=--The
trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the
world. _Lemierre._
=Le vesciche galleggiano sopre aqua, mentre le
cose di peso vanno al fondo=--Bladders swim
on the surface of the water, while things of
weight sink to the bottom. _It. Pr._
=Le vivre et le couvert, que faut-il davantage?=--Life
and good fare, what more do we need?
_La Fontaine, "The Rat in Retreat."_
=Le vrai mérite ne dépend point du temps ni de
la mode=--True merit depends on neither time
nor mode. _Fr. Pr._
=Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire= 30
=plus fin que les autres=--The most sure way to
be imposed on is to think one's self cleverer than
other people. _La Roche._
=Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable=--The
true is not always verisimilar. _Fr. Pr._
=Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemble=--What
is true may sometimes seem unlike
truth. _Boileau._
=Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, /
Lead thou me on.= _Newman._
=Lead thine own captivity captive, and be
Cæsar within thyself.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Leal heart leed never.= _Sc. Pr._ 35
=Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.= _Pr._
=Lean not upon a broken reed, which will not
only let thee fall, but pierce thy arm too.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet
wind!= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=Learn a craft while you are young, that you
may not have to live by craft when you are
old.= _Pr._
=Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes,= 40
=or to envy the happiness of another.=
_Addison._
=Learn of the little nautilus to sail, / Spread
the thin oar and catch the driving gale.=
_Pope._
=Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto.=
_Burns._
=Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense
because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without
a purpose or a thought that has not been
better expressed before is a public nuisance,
only to be tolerated because it is good for
trade.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Learn the value of a man's words and expressions,
and you know him. Each man has a
measure of his own for everything; this he
offers you inadvertently in his words. He
who has a superlative for everything wants
a measure for the great or small.= _Lavater._
=Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a= 45
=more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn
to be discriminative in your reading; to read
faithfully, and with your best attention, all
kinds of things which you have a real interest
in--a real, not an imaginary--and
which you find to be really fit for what you
are engaged in.= _Carlyle to students._
=Learn to be pleased with everything; with
wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to
others; with poverty, for not having much
to care for; and with obscurity, for being
unenvied.= _Plutarch._
=Learn to creep before you leap.= _Pr._
=Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost
Zacharias forty weeks' silence.= _Fuller._
=Learn to labour and to wait.= _Longfellow._
=Learn to say before you sing.= _Pr._ 5
=Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to
you than to be able to read Latin.= _Spurgeon._
=Learn wisdom from the follies of others.= _Pr._
=Learn you a bad habit, an' ye'll ca'd a custom.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Learn young, learn fair; / Learn auld, learn
mair.= _Sc. Pr._
=Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.= 10
_Ger. Pr._
=Learned Theban.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=Learned without sense and venerably dull.=
_Churchill._
=Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er
entail'd from son to son.= _Gay._
=Learning hath gained most by those books by
which printers have lost.= _Fuller._
=Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost= 15
=childish; then its youth, when luxurious and
juvenile; then its strength of years, when
solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and
exhaust.= _Bacon._
=Learning is a companion on a journey to a
strange country.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to
wound its master if it is wielded by a feeble
hand, and by one not well acquainted with
its use.= _Montaigne._
=Learning is a livelihood.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to
others.= _Pr._
=Learning is a superior sight.= _Hitopadesa._ 20
=Learning is an addition beyond / Nobility of
birth; honour of blood, / Without the ornament
of knowledge, is / A glorious ignorance.=
_Shirley._
=Learning is better than hidden treasure.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is better worth than house or land.=
_Crabbe._
=Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; / And,
where we are, our learning likewise is.=
_Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but= 25
=we must fuse and blend them together, not
merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but
a thorough and perfect dye.= _Montaigne._
=Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the
height of enjoyment.= _Novalis._
=Learning is strength inexhaustible.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is the dictionary, but sense the
grammar, of science.= _Sterne._
=Learning is the source of renown, and the fountain
of victory in the senate.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning itself, received into a mind / By= 30
=nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves
but to lead philosophers astray, / Where
children would with ease discern the way.=
_Cowper._
=Learning, like money, may be of so base a
coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if
sterling, may require good management to
make it serve the purpose of sense and
happiness.= _Shenstone._
=Learning, like the lunar beam, affords light,
not heat.= _Young._
=Learning makes a man a fit companion for
himself.= _Pr._
=Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made
all the more a fool by it.= _Pr._
=Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it.= 35
=Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords
it.= _Ben Jonson._
=Learning once made popular is no longer
learning.= _Johnson._
=Learning passes for wisdom among them who
want both.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Learning puffeth men up; words are but
wind, and learning is nothing but words;
ergo, learning is nothing but wind.= _Swift._
=Learning to a man is a name superior to
beauty.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning to the inexperienced is a poison.= 40
_Hitopadesa._
=Learning without thought is labour lost.= _Pr._
=Least said is soonest mended.= _Pr._
=Leave a jest when it pleases you best.= _Pr._
=Leave a man to his passions, and you leave a
wild beast of a savage and capricious nature.=
_Burke._
=Leave a welcome behind you.= _Pr._ 45
=Leave all piggies' ears alone rather than
seize upon the wrong one.= _Spurgeon._
=Leave all things to a Father's will, / And
taste, before him lying still, / Even in affliction,
peace.= _Anstice._
=Leave all to God, / Forsaken one, and stay
thy tears!= _Winkworth._
=Leave Ben Lomond where it stands.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Leave her to heaven, / And to those thorns= 50
=that in her bosom lodge, / To prick and
sting her.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=Leave it if you cannot mend it.= _Pr._
=Leave not the meat to gnaw the bones, /
Nor break your teeth on worthless stones.=
_Pr._
=Leave off no clothes / Till you see a June
rose.= _Pr._
="Leave off your fooling and come down, sir."=
_Oliver Cromwell._
=Leave the court ere the court leave you.= 55
_Sc. Pr._
=Leave the great ones of the world to manage
their own concerns, and keep your eyes and
observations at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Leave this keen encounter of our wits, / And
fall somewhat into a slower method.= _Rich.
III._, i. 2.
=Leave to-morrow till to-morrow.= _Pr._
=Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor
expect to accelerate the births of the
eternal.= _Emerson._
=Leave well alone.= _Pr._ 60
=Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall
have no power to follow you.= _Mid. Night's
Dream_, ii. 2.
=Leaves enough, but few grapes.= _Pr._
=Leaves have their time to fall, / And flowers
to wither at the north wind's breath, / And
stars to set; but all, / Thou hast all seasons
for thine own, O death!= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Leaving for gleaner makes farmer no leaner.=
_Pr._
=Lebe, wie du, wenn du stirbst, / Wünschen
wirst, gelebt zu haben=--Live, as you will wish
to have lived when you come to die. _Gellert._
=Leben athme die bildende Kunst, / Geist fordr'
ich vom Dichter=--Let painting and sculpture
breathe life; it is spirit itself I require of the
poet. _Schiller._
=Leben heisst träumen: weise sein heisst= 5
=angenehm träumen=--To live is to dream, to
be wise is to dream agreeably. _Schiller._
=Leberide cæcior=--Blinder than a serpent's slough.
_Pr._
=Led by illusions romantic and subtle deceptions
of fancy, / Pleasure disguised as duty,
and love in the semblance of friendship.=
_Longfellow._
=Leeze me o' drink; it gies us mair / Than
either school or college; / It kindles wit, it
waukens lair= (learning), / =It pangs= (stuffs) =us
fu' o' knowledge.= _Burns._
=Legant prius et postea despeciant=--Let them
read first, and despise afterwards. _Lope de
Vega._
=Legatus a latere=--An extraordinary Papal ambassador. 10
=Lege totum si vis scire totum=--Read the whole
if you wish to know the whole.
=Legem brevem esse oportet quo facilius ab
imperitis teneatur=--A law ought to be short,
that it may be the more easily understood by
the unlearned. _Sen._
=Leges ad civium salutem, civitatumque incolumitatem
conditæ sunt=--Laws were framed for
the welfare of citizens and the security of states.
_Cic._
=Leges bonæ malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good
laws are begotten of bad morals. _Pr._
=Leges mori serviunt=--Laws are subordinate to 15
custom. _Plaut._
=Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant=--Later
statutes repeal prior contrary ones. _L._
=Leges sunt inventæ quæ cum omnibus semper
una atque eadem voce loquerentur=--Laws are
so devised that they may always speak with one
and the same voice to all. _Cic._
=Legimus ne legantur=--We read that others may
not read. _Lactantius._
=Legis constructio non facit injuriam=--The construction
of the law does injury to no man. _L._
=Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes= 20
=judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi
sumus, ut liberi esse possimus=--The magistrates
are the ministers of the laws, the judges
their interpreters; we are all, in short, servants
of the laws, that we may be free men. _Cic._
=Leib und Seele schmachten in hundert Banden,
die unzerreissbar sind, aber auch in hundert
andern, die ein einziger Entschluss zerreisst=--Body
and soul languish under a hundred entanglements
from which there is no deliverance,
but also in hundreds of others which a single
resolution can snap away. _Feuchtersleben._
=Leicht zu sättigen ist, und unersättlich, die
Liebe=--Love is at once easy to satisfy and
insatiable. _Rückert._
=Leichter trägt, was er trägt, / Wer Geduld
zur Bürde legt=--He bears what he bears more
lightly who adds patience to the burden. _Logau._
=Leisure and solitude are the best effect of
riches, because mother of thought. Both
are avoided by most rich men, who seek
company and business, which are signs of
their being weary of themselves.= _Sir W.
Temple._
=Leisure for men of business, and business for= 25
=men of leisure, would cure many complaints.=
_Mrs. Thrale._
=Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction
except in solitude.= _Zimmermann._
=Leisure is the reward of labour.= _Pr._
=Leisure is time for doing something useful;
this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the
lazy man never.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Lend, hoping for nothing again.= _Bible._
=Lend only what you can afford to lose.= 30
_Pr._
=Length of saying makes languor of hearing.=
_J. Roux._
=Lenior et melior fis, accedente senecta=--You
become milder and better as old age advances.
_Hor._
=Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum
est, / Quæ venit indigne pœna dolenda venit=--Whatever
you suffer deservedly should be
borne with resignation; the penalty that comes
upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just
complaint. _Ovid._
=Lenity is part of justice.= _Joubert._
=Lenity will operate with greater force, in some= 35
=instances, than rigour. It is, therefore, my
first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished
by it.= _G. Washington._
=Leonem larva terres=--You frighten a lion with
a mask. _Pr._
=Leonina societas=--Partnership with a lion.
=Leonum ora a magistris impune tractantur=--The
mouths of lions are with impunity handled
by their keepers. _Sen._
=Leporis vitam vivit=--He lives the life of a hare,
_i.e._, always full of fear. _Pr._
=Lern' entbehren, O Freund, / Beut Trotz dem= 40
=Schmerz und dem Tode, / Und kein Gott des
Olymps fühlet sich freier, als du=--Learn to
dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to
pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes
more freely than thou. _Bürger._
=Lerne vom Schlimmsten Gutes, und Schlimmes
nicht vom Besten=--Learn good from the worst,
and not bad from the best. _Lavater._
=Les affaires? c'est bien simple: c'est l'argent
des autres=--Business? That's easily defined:
it is other people's money. _Dumas fils._
=Les affaires font les hommes=--Business makes
men. _Fr._
=Les amertumes sont en morale ce que sont les
amers en médicine=--Afflictions are in morals
what bitters are in medicine. _Fr._
=Les âmes privilégiées rangent à l'égal des= 45
=souverains=--Privileged souls rank on a level
with princes. _Frederick the Great._
=Les amis, ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même=--Friends,
those relations that we make
ourselves.
=Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis=--My
friends' friends are my friends. _Fr. Pr._
=Les anglais s'amusent tristement=--The English
have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves.
_Sully._
=Les beaux esprits se rencontrent=--Great wits
draw together. _Fr. Pr._
=Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables=--The
acts that we conceal are regarded
with the highest esteem. _Pascal._
=Les biens mal acquis s'en vont à vau-l'eau=--Wealth
ill acquired soon goes (_lit._ goes with the
stream). _Fr. Pr._
=Les biens viennent, les biens s'en vont, /= 5
=Comme la fumée, comme toute chose=--Wealth
comes and goes like smoke, like everything.
_Bret. Pr._
=Les bras croisés=--Idle (_lit._ the arms folded). _Fr._
=Les cartes sont brouillées=--A fierce dissension
has arisen (_lit._ the cards are mixed).
=Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur
source=--Things are always best at their source.
_Pascal._
=Les cloches appellent à l'église, mais n'y entrent
pas=--The bells call to church, but they
do not enter. _Fr. Pr._
=Les consolations indiscrètes ne font qu'aigrir= 10
=les violentes afflictions=--Consolation indiscreetly
pressed only aggravates the poignancy
of the affliction. _Rousseau._
=Les délicats sont malheureux, / Rien ne saurait
les satisfaire=--The fastidious are unfortunate;
nothing satisfies them. _La Fontaine._
=Les enfants sont ce qu'on les fait=--Children are
what we make them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie=--The
envious will die, but envy never will.
_Molière._
=Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire
tout ce qui passe leur portée=--Men of limited
intelligence generally condemn everything that is
above their power of understanding. _La Roche._
=Les extrêmes se touchent=--Extremes meet. 15
_Mercier._
=Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière-pensée=--Women
have always some mental
reservation. _Destouches._
=Les femmes ont un instinct céleste pour le
malheur=--Women have a divine instinctive feeling
for misfortune. _Fr._
=Les femmes peuvent tout, parcequ'elles gouvernent
les personnes qui gouvernent tout=--Women
can accomplish everything, because they
govern those who govern everything. _Fr. Pr._
=Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures
ou pires que les hommes=--Women indulge
in extremes; they are always either better
or worse than men. _La Bruyère._
=Les gens qui ont peu d'affaires, sont de très= 20
=grands parleurs=--People who have little to do
are excessive talkers. _Fr._
=Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux=--Still
people are dangerous. _La Fontaine._
=Les girouettes qui sont placées le plus haut,
tournent le mieux=--Weathercocks placed on
the most elevated stations turn the most readily.
_Fr. Pr._
=Les grandes âmes ne sont pas celles qui ont
moins de passions et plus de vertus que les
âmes communes, mais celles seulement qui
ont de plus grands desseins=--Great souls are
not those who have fewer passions and more
virtues than common souls, but those only who
have greater designs. _La Roche._
=Les grands et les petits ont mêmes accidents,
et mêmes fâcheries et mêmes passions, mais
l'un est au haut de la roue et l'autre près
du centre, et ainsi moins agité par les mêmes
mouvements=--Great and little are subject to
the same mischances, worries, and passions, but
one is on the rim of the wheel and the other near
the centre, and so is less agitated by the same
movements. _Pascal._
=Les grands hommes ne se bornent jamais dans= 25
=leurs desseins=--Great men never limit themselves
to a circumscribed sphere of action. _Bouhours._
=Les grands hommes sont non-seulement populaires:
ils donnent la popularité à tout ce
qu'ils touchent=--Great men are not only popular
themselves; they give popularity to whatever
they touch. _Fournier._
=Les grands ne sont grands que parceque nous
sommes à genoux; relevons-nous!=--The great
are great only because we are on our knees. Let
us rise up. _Quoted by Prudhomme._
=Les grands noms abaissent, au lieu d'élever
ceux qui ne les savent pas soutenir=--High
titles lower, instead of raising, those who know
not how to support them. _La Roche._
=Les grands seigneurs ont des plaisirs, le peuple
a de la joie=--High people have pleasures, common
people have joy. _Montesquieu._
=Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres,= 30
=que le plus grand signe de mort dans un
homme malade, c'est la réconciliation=--The
passion of hatred is so long-lived and obstinate
a malady, that the surest prognostic of death in
a sick man is his desire for reconciliation. _La
Bruyère._
=Les hommes extrêmement heureux et les
hommes extrêmement malheureux, sont
également portés à la dureté=--Men extremely
happy and men extremely unhappy
are alike prone to become hard-hearted. _Montesquieu._
=Les hommes font les lois, les femmes font les
mœurs=--Men make the laws, women the manners.
_Guibert._
=Les hommes fripons en détail sont en gros de
très honnêtes gens=--Men who are knaves severally
are in the mass highly honourable people.
_Montesquieu._
=Les hommes ne sont justes qu'envers ceux
qu'ils aiment=--Men are just only to those they
love. _Fr._
=Les hommes sont cause que les femmes ne= 35
=s'aiment point=--It is on account of the men
that the women do not love each other. _La
Bruyère._
=Les hommes sont rares=--Men are rare. _Fr.
Pr._
=Les honneurs changent les mœurs=--Honours
change manners. _Fr. Pr._
=Les honneurs coutent à qui veut les posséder=--Honours
are dearly bought by whoever wishes
to possess them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les jeunes gens disent ce qu'ils font, les
vieillards ce qu'ils ont fait, et les sots ce
qu'ils ont envie de faire=--Young people talk of
what they are doing, old people of what they
have done, and fools of what they have a mind
to do. _Fr._
=Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas=--The 40
days follow, but are not like each other.
_Fr. Pr._
=Les magistrates, les rois n'ont aucune autorité
sur les âmes; et pourvu qu'on soit fidèle
aux lois de la société dans ce monde, ce
n'est point à eux de se mêler de ce qu'on
deviendra dans l'autre, où ils n'ont aucune
inspection=--Rulers have no authority over men's
souls; and provided we are faithful to the laws
of society in this world, it is no business of theirs
to concern themselves with what may become of
us in the next, over which they have no supervision.
_Rousseau._
=Les maladies viennent à cheval, retournent à
pied=--Diseases make their attack on horseback,
but retire on foot. _Fr._
=Les malheureux qui ont de l'esprit trouvent
des resources en eux-mêmes=--Men of genius
when under misfortune find resources within
themselves. _Bouhours._
=Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur=--Men
show what they are by their maxims.
_Vauvenargues._
=Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver= 5
=de l'habilité dans les bons=--Wicked men are
always surprised to discover ability in good men.
_Vauvenargues._
=Les médiocrités croient égaler le génie en dépassant
la raison=--Men of moderate abilities
think to rank as geniuses by outstripping reason.
_Lamartine._
=Les mœurs du prince contribuent autant à la
liberté que les lois=--The manners of the prince
conduce as much to liberty as the laws. _Montesquieu._
=Les mœurs se corrompent de jour en jour, et
on ne saurait plus distinguer les vrais d'avec
les faux amis=--Our manners are daily degenerating,
and we can no longer distinguish
true friends from false. _Fr._
=Les moissons, pour mûrir, ont besoin de rosée, /
Pour vivre et pour sentir, l'homme a besoin
des pleurs=--Harvests to ripen have need of dew;
man, to live and to feel, has need of tears. _A.
de Musset._
=Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est point la naissance, /= 10
=C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence=--All
men are equal; it is not birth, it is
virtue alone that makes the difference. _Voltaire._
=Les murailles= (or =murs=) =ont des oreilles=--Walls
have ears. _Fr. Pr._
=Les passions personelles se lassent et s'usent;
les passions publiques jamais=--Private passions
tire and exhaust themselves; public ones
never. _Lamartine._
=Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui
persuadent toujours=--The passions are the
only orators which always convince us. _La
Roche._
=Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les
voiles du vaisseau; elles le submergent
quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait
voguer=--The passions are the winds that fill
the sails of the ship; they sometimes sink it,
but without them it could not make any way.
_Voltaire._
=Les passions sont les vents qui font aller notre= 15
=vaisseau, et la raison est le pilote qui le
conduit; le vaisseau n'irait point sans les
vents, et se perdrait sans le pilote=--The passions
are the winds which propel our vessel; our
reason is the pilot that steers her; without winds
the vessel would not move; without pilot she
would be lost. _Fr._
=Les petits chagrins rendent tendre; les grands,
dur et farouche=--Slight troubles render us
tender; great ones make us hard and unfeeling.
_André Chénier._
=Les peuples une fois accoutumés à des maîtres
ne sont plus en état de s'en passer=--People
once accustomed to masters are no longer able to
dispense with them. _Rousseau._
=Les plaisirs sont amers si tôt qu'on en abuse=--Pleasures
become bitter as soon as they are
abused. _Fr. Pr._
=Les plus grands crimes ne coutent rien aux
ambitieux, quand il s'agit d'une couronne=--The
greatest crimes cause no remorse in an ambitious
man when a crown is at stake. _Fr._
=Les plus grands hommes d'une nation sont= 20
=ceux qu'elle met à mort=--The greatest men
of a nation are those whom it puts to death.
_Renan._
=Les plus malheureux osent pleurer le moins=--Those
who are most wretched dare least give
vent to their grief. _Fr._
=Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si
le tort n'était que d'un côté=--Quarrels would
not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
_La Roche._
=Les races se féminisent=--Races are becoming
effeminate. _Fr._
=Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies
par la pauvreté=--Luxury ruins republics;
poverty, monarchies. _Montesquieu._
=Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent=--Rivers 25
are moving roads. _Pascal._
=Les sophistes ont ébranlé l'autel, mais ce sont
les prêtres qui l'ont avili=--The sophists have
shaken the altar, but it is the priests that have
disgraced it. _Regnault de Waren._
=Les sots depuis Adam sont en majorité=--Ever
since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.
_Delavigne._
=Les talents sont distribués par la nature, sans
égard aux généalogies=--Talents go by nature,
not by birth. _Frederick the Great._
=Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités
prématuriées=--Utopias are often only premature
truths. _Lamartine._
=Les vérités sont des fruits qui ne doivent être= 30
=cueillis que bien mûrs=--Truths, like fruits, ought
not to be gathered until they are quite ripe, _i.e._,
till the time is ripe for them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les vers sont enfants de la lyre; / Il faut les
chanter, non les lire=--Verses are children of
the lyre; they must be sung, not read. _Fr._
=Les vertus se perdent dans l'intérêt comme
les fleuves se perdent dans la mer=--Our
virtues lose themselves in our interests, as the
rivers lose themselves in the ocean. _La Roche._
=Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes,
pour se consoler de n'être plus en
état de donner de mauvais exemples=--Old
men like to give good precepts, to make amends
for being no longer able to set bad examples. _La
Roche._
=Les vieilles coutumes sont les bonnes coutumes=--The
old customs are the good customs. _Bret.
Pr._
=Les vieux fous sont plus fous que les jeunes=--Old 35
fools are more foolish than young ones. _La
Roche._
=Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espèce humaine=--Towns
are the sink of our race. _Rousseau._
=Lèse-majesté=--High-treason. _Fr._
=Leser, wie gefall' ich dir? / Leser, wie gefällst
du mir?=--Reader, how please I thee? Reader,
how pleasest thou me? _M._
=Less in rising into lofty abstractions lies the
difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly
the complexities of what is at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.=
_Pr._
=Less of your honey and more of your honesty.= 5
_Pr._
=Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know.=
_Pr._
=Lessons of wisdom have never such power
over us as when they are wrought into the
heart through the groundwork of a story
which engages the passions.= _Sterne._
=Lessons of wisdom open to our view / In all
life's varied scenes of gay or gloomy hue.=
_De Bosch._
=Let a good pot have a good lid.= _Pr._
=Let a hoard always be made, but not too= 10
=great a hoard.= _Hitopadesa._
=Let a horse drink when he will, not what he
will.= _Pr._
=Let a man be a man, and a woman a woman.=
_Pr._
=Let a man be but born ten years sooner or
ten years later, his whole aspect and performance
shall be different.= _Goethe._
=Let a man believe in God, and not in names,
places, and persons.= _Emerson._
=Let a man do his work; the fruit of it is the= 15
=care of Another than he.= _Carlyle._
=Let a man overcome anger by love, let him
overcome evil by good; let him overcome
the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.=
_Buddha._
=Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his
wax taper.= _Dan. Pr._
=Let a woman once give you a task, and you
are hers, heart and soul; all your care and
trouble lend new charms to her for whose
sake they are taken.= _Jean Paul._
=Let ae deil ding= (beat) =anither.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let all things be done decently and in order.= 20
_St. Paul._
=Let anger's fire be slow to burn.= _Pr._
=Let another do what thou wouldst do.= _Pr._
=Let another man praise thee, and not thine
own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own
lips.= _Bible._
=Let another's shipwreck be your beacon.= _Pr._
=Let any man compare his present fortune= 25
=with the past, and he will probably find
himself, upon the whole, neither better nor
worse than formerly.= _Goldsmith._
=Let authors write for glory or reward; / Truth
is well paid when she is sung and heard.=
_Bp. Corbet._
=Let but the mirror be clear, this is the great
point; the picture must and will be genuine.=
_Carlyle._
=Let but the public mind once become thoroughly
corrupt, and all attempts to secure
property, liberty, or life by mere force of
laws written on parchment will be as vain
as putting up printed notices in an orchard
to keep off canker-worms.= _Hor. Mann._
=Let byganes be byganes, / Wha's huffed at
anither, / Dinna cloot the auld days / And the
new anes thegither; / Wi' the fauts and the
failings / O' past years be dune, / Wi a grip
o' fresh freen'ship / A New-Year begin.=
_M. W. Wood._
=Let charity be warm if the weather be cold.= 30
_Pr._
=Let dogs delight to bark and bite, / For God
hath made them so.= _Watts._
=Let each tailor mend his own coat.= _Pr._
=Let every bird sing its own note.= _Dan. Pr._
=Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust
no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Let every fox take care of his own brush.= 35
_Pr._
=Let every herring hang by its own tail.=
_Irish Pr._
=Let every man be fully persuaded in his own
mind.= _St. Paul._
=Let every man come to God in his own way.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Let every man do what he was made for.=
_Pr._
=Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.= 40
_Pr._
=Let every minute be a full life to thee.= _Jean
Paul._
=Let every one inquire of himself what he
loveth, and he shall resolve himself of
whence he is a citizen.= _S. Augustine._
=Let every one look to himself, and no one will
be lost.= _Dut. Pr._
=Let every tailor keep to his goose.= _Pr._
=Let every thought too, soldier-like, be= 45
=stripped, / And roughly looked over.= _P. J.
Bailey._
=Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; / What's he to
me or I to him?= _Churchill._
=Let fate do her worst; there are moments of
joy, / Bright dreams of the past, which she
cannot destroy; / Which come in the nighttime
of sorrow and care, / And bring back
the features that joy used to wear.= _Moore._
=Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, /
I have a soul that, like an ample shield, /
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.=
_Dryden._
=Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their
best; / Nae mair's required; let Heaven
mak' out the rest.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Let gleaners glean, though crops be lean.= 50
_Pr._
=Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on
peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil
thyself in trouble and differences by being
over-solicitous in thy own defence.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs
down a hill, lest it break thy neck with
following it; but the great one that goes
up the hill, let him draw thee after.= _Lear_,
ii. 4.
=Let grace our selfishness expel, / Our earthliness
refine.= _Gurney._
=Let her= (woman) =make herself her own, / To= 55
=give or keep, to live, and learn, and be, /
All that not harms distinctive womanhood.=
_Tennyson._
=Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The
cat will mew, and dog will have his day.=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; / So
may he cease to write, and learn to think.=
_Prior._
=Let him count himself happy who lives remote
from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Let him tak' his fling, and find oot his ain
wecht= (weight). _Sc. Pr._
=Let him that does not know you buy you.= 5
_Pr._
=Let him that earns eat.= _Pr._
=Let him that stole steal no more; but rather
let him labour, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have to
give to him that needeth.= _St. Paul._
=Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed
lest he fall.= _St. Paul._
=Let him who gives say nothing, and him who
receives speak.= _Port. Pr._
=Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or= 10
=uncertain light, and prays vehemently that
the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept
well to heart: "Do the duty which lies
nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a
duty! Thy second duty will already have
become clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Let him who has hold of the devil keep hold of
him; he is not likely to catch him a second
time in a hurry.= _Goethe._
=Let him who is reduced to beggary first try
every one and then his friend.= _It. Pr._
=Let him who is well off stay where he is.= _Pr._
=Let him who knows not how to pray go to sea.=
_Pr._
=Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow= 15
=of a debtor.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let him who would move and convince others
be first moved and convinced himself. Let a
man but speak forth with genuine earnestness
the thought, the emotion, the actual
condition of his own heart, and other men, so
strangely are we all knit together by the tie
of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.=
_Carlyle._
=Let him who would write heroic poems make
his life a heroic poem.= _Milton._
=Let ilka ane soop= (sweep) =before his ain door.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Let it be your first care not to be in any man's
debt.= _Johnson._
=Let it not be grievous to thee to humble and= 20
=submit thyself to the capricious humours
of men with whom thou conversest in this
world, but rather ... endure patiently
whatever they shall, but should not, do to
thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let it not be imagined that the life of a good
Christian must necessarily be a life of
melancholy and gloominess; for he only
resigns some pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely
greater.= _Pascal._
=Let John Bull beware of John Barleycorn.=
_Pr._
=Let justice guide your feet.= _Hipparchus._
=Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But
more of reverence in us dwell.= _Tennyson._
=Let man be noble, helpful, and good, for that= 25
=alone distinguishes him from every other
creature we know.= _Goethe._
=Let man's own sphere confine his view.=
_Beattie._
=Let May be oot= (out) =before you cast a cloot=
(a piece of clothing). _Sc. Pr._
=Let me be cruel, not unnatural; / I will speak
daggers to her, but use none. / My tongue
and soul in this be hypocrites.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let me die to the sounds of the delicious
music.= _Last words of Mirabeau._
=Let me have men about me that are fat; /= 30
=Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'
nights; / Yond' Cassius has a lean and
hungry look; / He thinks too much; such
men are dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Let me have no lying; it becomes none but
tradesmen.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 3.
=Let me keep from vice myself, and pity it in
others.= _Goldsmith._
=Let me make the ballads of a people, and I
care not who makes the laws.= _Quoted by
Fletcher of Saltoun._
=Let me play the fool; / With mirth and
laughter let old wrinkles come, / And let
my liver rather heat with wine / Than my
heart cool with mortifying groans.= _Mer. of
Ven._, i. 1.
=Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross= 35
=my prayers.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 1.
=Let me still take away the harms I fear, /
Not fear still to be taken.= _Lear_, i. 4.
=Let me tell the adventurous stranger, / In
our calmness lies our danger; / Like a river's
silent running, / Stillness shows our depth
and cunning.= _Durfey._
=Let me warn you very earnestly against
scruples.= _Johnson._
=Let men know that they are men, created by
God, responsible to God, who work in any
meanest moment of time what will last
through eternity.= _Carlyle's version of John
Knox's gospel to the Scotch._
=Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to= 40
=duty, if they will. You have time and eternity
to rejoice in.= _Theodore Parker._
=Let men see, let them know, a real man, who
lives as he was meant to live.= _M. Aurelius._
=Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, /
But still remember what the Lord hath
done.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Let never maiden think, however fair, / She is
not finer in new clothes than old.= _Tennyson._
=Let no complaisance, no gentleness of temper,
no weak desire of pleasing on your part, no
wheedling, coaxing, nor flattery on other
people's, make you recede one jot from any
point that reason and prudence have bid you
pursue.= _Chesterfield._
=Let no man be called happy before his death.= 45
_Solon._
=Let no man doubt the omnipotence of nature,
doubt the majesty of man's soul; let no lonely
unfriended son of genius despair. If he have
the will, the right will, then the power also
has not been denied him.= _Carlyle._
=Let no man measure by a scale of perfection
the meagre product of reality.= _Schiller._
=Let no man think he is loved by any man,
when he loves no man.= _Epictetus._
=Let no man trust the first false step of guilt;
it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent
in last perdition ends.= _Young._
=Let no man value at a little price a virtuous
woman's counsel.= _George Chapman._
=Let no mean spirit of revenge tempt you to
throw off your loyalty to your country, and
to prefer a vicious celebrity to obscurity
crowned with piety and virtue.= _Sydney
Smith._
=Let no one so conceive of himself as if he were
the Messiah the world was praying for.=
_Goethe._
=Let no one think that he can conquer the first
impressions of his youth.= _Goethe._
=Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy;= 5
=even love unreturned has its rainbow.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Let nobility and virtue keep company, for they
are nearest of kin.= _William Penn._
=Let none admire / That riches grow in hell;
that soil may best / Deserve the precious
bane.= _Milton._
=Let none henceforth seek needless cause
t' approve / The faith they owe; when
earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude
they then begin to fail.= _Milton._
=Let none presume / To wear an undeservéd
dignity.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast= 10
=himself as he that putteth it off.= _Bible._
=Let not man tempt the gods, or ever desire to
pry into what they graciously conceal under
a veil of darkness or terror.= _Schiller._
=Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.= _Bible._
=Let not mirth turn to mischief.= _Pr._
=Let not my bark in calm abide, / But win her
cheerless way against the chafing tide.=
_Keble._
=Let not one enemy be few, nor a thousand= 15
=friends many, in thy sight.= _Heb. Pr._
=Let not one look of fortune cast you down; /
She were not fortune if she did not frown; /
Such as do braveliest bear her scorns
awhile / Are those on whom at last she
most will smile.= _Orrery._
=Let not plenty make you dainty.= _Pr._
=Let not poverty part good company.= _Pr._
=Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed
and board; but let truth and love and honour
and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.= _Emerson._
=Let not the grass grow on the path of friendship.= 20
_American-Indian Pr._
=Let not the remembrance of thy former trials
discourage thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let not the sun go down upon your wrath=, _i.e._,
let it set with the sun, or, as Ruskin suggests, let
it never go down so long as the wrong is there.
_St. Paul._
=Let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything
before God: for God is in heaven, and thou
upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.=
_Bible._
=Let not thy left hand know what thy right
hand doeth.= _Jesus._
=Let not your money become your master.= _Pr._ 25
=Let not your mouth swallow you.= _Pr._
=Let not your sail be bigger than your boat.=
_Ben Jonson._
=Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory.=
_St. Paul._
=Let nothing in excess be done; with this let
all comply.= _Anon._
=Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey= 30
=mankind, from China to Peru; / Remark each
anxious toil, each eager strife, / And watch
the busy scenes of crowded life.= _Johnson._
=Let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other
healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of
pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is
always criminal.= _St. Evremond._
=Let present rapture, comfort, ease, / As heaven
shall bid them, come and go; / The secret
this of rest below.= _Keble._
=Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.=
_Chapman, Jonson, and Marston._
=Let prideful priests do battle about creeds, /= 35
=The Church is mine that does most Christ-like
deeds.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let prudence number o'er each sturdy son, /
Who life and wisdom at one race begun.=
_Burns._
=Let rumours be, when did not rumours fly?=
_Tennyson._
=Let sleeping dogs lie.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let still the woman take / An elder than herself;
so wears she to him, / So sways she
level in her husband's heart; / For, boy,
however we do praise ourselves, / Our fancies
are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing,
wavering, sooner lost and worn / Than
women's are.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Let such teach others who themselves excel, /= 40
=And censure freely who have written well.=
_Pope._
=Let that which is lost be for God.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let the angry person always have the quarrel
to himself.= _Rev. John Clark._
=Let the best horse leap the hedge first.= _Pr._
=Let the cobbler stick to his last.= _Pr._
=Let the dainty rose awhile / Her bashful fragrance= 45
=hide; / Rend not her silken veil too
soon, / But leave her, in her own soft noon, /
To flourish and abide.= _Keble._
=Let the dead bury their dead=, _i.e._, let the
spiritually dead bury the bodily dead. _Jesus._
=Let the devil catch you by a hair, and you are
his for ever.= _Lessing._
=Let the devil get into the church, and he will
soon be on the altar.= _Ger. Pr._
=Let the foibles of the great rest in peace.=
_Goldsmith._
=Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.= 50
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let the great book of the world be your
principal study.= _Chesterfield._
=Let the great world spin forever down the
ringing grooves of change.= _Tennyson._
=Let the matter be good, and let the manner
befit it.= _Spurgeon._
=Let the night come before we praise the day.= _Pr._
=Let the path be open to talent.= _Napoleon._ 55
_See La Carrière._
=Let the reader have seen before he attempts
to oversee.= _Carlyle._
=Let the road be rough and dreary, / And its
end far out of sight, / Foot it bravely!
strong or weary, / "Trust in God, and do
the right."= _Dr. Norman Macleod._
=Let the shoemaker stick to his last, the peasant
to his plough, and let the prince understand
how to rule.= _Goethe._
=Let the thing we do be what it will, it is the
principle upon which we do it that must
recommend it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let the tow= (rope) =gang wi' the bucket.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Let the world slide, let the world go; / A fig
for care, and a fig for woe! / If I can't pay,
why, I can owe, / And death makes equal
the high and low.= _Heywood._
=Let the world wag.= _Pr._
=Let the young people mind what the old people= 5
=say, / And where there is danger keep out
of the way.= _Pr._
=Let them call it mischief; / When it is past
and prosper'd it will be virtue.= _Ben Jonson._
=Let them obey that know not how to rule.=
2 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.
=Let there be thistles, there are grapes; / If
old things, there are new; / Ten thousand
broken lights and shapes, / Yet glimpses of
the true.= _Tennyson._
=Let thine eyes look right on.= _Bible._
=Let this be an example for the acquisition of= 10
=all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the
fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is
filled.= _Hitopadesa._
=Let those have night that love the night.=
_Quarles._
=Let those who believe in immortality enjoy
their belief in silence, and give themselves
no airs about it.= _Goethe._
=Let those who hope for brighter shores no
more, / Not mourn, but turning inland,
bravely seek / What hidden wealth redeems
the shapeless shore.= _Eugene Lee
Hamilton._
=Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's
gate / Open for thee, or both may come too
late.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and= 15
=the second will be what thou wilt.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway.=
_Twelfth Night_, iv. 1.
=Let thy great deeds force fate to change her
mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes
her kind.= _Dryden._
=Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where, /
And when, and how thy business may be
done, / Slackness breeds worms; but the
sure traveller, / Though he alights sometimes,
still goeth on.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy mind's sweetness have his operation /
Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.=
_George Herbert._
=Let thy words be few.= _Bible._ 20
=Let us a little permit Nature to take her own
way; she better understands her own affairs
than we.= _Montaigne._
=Let us approach our friend with an audacious
trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth,
impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.=
_Emerson._
=Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, /
Which He hath given for fence impregnable, /
And with these helps only defend ourselves; /
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.=
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Let us be content in work / To do the thing
we can, and not presume / To fret because
it's little.= _E. B. Browning._
=Let us be men with men, and always children= 25
=before God.= _Joubert._
=Let us be poised, and wise, and our own
to-day.= _Emerson._
=Let us be silent, for so are the gods.= _Emerson._
=Let us beware that our rest become not the
rest of stones, which, so long as they are
torrent-tossed and thunder-stricken, maintain
their majesty; but when the stream
is silent and the storm passed, suffer the
grass to cover them and the lichen to feed
upon them, and are ploughed down into
dust.= _Ruskin._
=Let us do the work of men while we bear the
form of them.= _Ruskin_
=Let us endeavour to see things as they are,= 30
=and then inquire whether we ought to complain.=
_Johnson._
=Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows
on our walls.= _Emerson._
=Let us fear the worst, but work with faith;
the best will always take care of itself.=
_Victor Hugo._
=Let us have faith that right makes might, and
in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we
understand it.= _Lincoln._
=Let us have the crisis; we shall either have
death or the cure.= _Carlyle._
=Let us know what to love, and we shall know= 35
=also what to reject; what to affirm, and we
shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous
to begin with denial and fatal to end
with it.= _Carlyle._
=Let us learn upon earth those things that can
call us to heaven.= _St. Jerome._
=Let us leave the question of origins to those
who busy themselves with insoluble problems,
and have nothing better to do.=
_Goethe._
=Let us make haste to live, since every day to
a wise man is a new life.= _Sen._
=Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led
by the course of human accidents. Where-ever
they lead us, on what coasts soever we
are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves
absolutely strangers.= _Bolingbroke._
=Let us not burden our remembrances with /= 40
=A heaviness that's gone.= _The Tempest_, v. 1.
=Let us not make imaginary evils when we
have so many real ones to encounter.= _Goldsmith._
=Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may
not fall too low.= _Schiller._
=Let us not throw away any of our days upon
useless resentment, or contend who shall
hold out longest in stubborn malignity.=
_Johnson._
=Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live
as those who never die.= _Burns._
=Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart= 45
=for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, /
Learn to labour and to wait.=
_Longfellow._
=Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what
we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves
loyal to truth and the sacred professions of
friendship.= _Longfellow._
=Let us try what esteem and kindness can
effect.= _Johnson._
=Let vain men pursue vanity; leave them to
their own methods.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning
die, / But leave us still our old nobility.=
_Lord J. Manners._
=Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected
merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of
that merit will richly repay it.= _Burns._
=Let whatever you are and whatever you do,
grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong
soil of reality.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let Whig and Tory stir their blood; / There
must be stormy weather; / But for some
true result of good, / All parties work together.=
_Tennyson._
=Let woman learn betimes to serve according= 5
=to her destination, for only by serving will
she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence
that belongs to her in the household.=
_Goethe._
=Let women spin, not preach.= _Pr._
=Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a
good use of the opportunities given you.=
_Prof. Blackie._
=Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness
of your manner, but let them feel, at
the same time, the steadiness of your just
resentment.= _Chesterfield._
=Let your literary compositions be kept from
the public eye for nine years at least.= _Hor._
=Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper,= 10
=look at the ceiling, bite your nails,
and otherwise dally with your purpose, and
you waste your time, scatter your thoughts,
and repress the nervous energy necessary
for your task.= _G. H. Lewes._
=Let your purse be your master.= _Pr._
=Let your reason with your choler question....
To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at
first.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments
be simply this; pray for the bad, pity
the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence
both the great and the small, as playing
each his part aptly in the divine symphony
of the universe.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned
with salt, that ye may know how to answer
every man.= _St. Paul._
=Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.= 15
_Pr._
=Let's live with that small pittance which we
have; / Who covets more is evermore a
slave.= _Herrick._
=Let's not unman each other--part at once; /
All farewells should be sudden when for
ever, / Else they make an eternity of
moments, / And clog the last sad sands of
life with tears.= _Byron._
=Let's take the instant by the forward top; /
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees /
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time /
Steals ere we can effect them.= _All's Well_,
v. 3.
=Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,
not to out-sport discretion.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Letters may be always made out of the books= 20
=of the morning or talk of the evening.=
_Johnson._
=Letters of mere compliment, congratulation,
or affected condolence, which have cost the
authors most labour in composing, never fail
of being the most disagreeable and insipid to
the readers.= _Blair._
=Letters that are warmly sealed are often
coldly opened.= _Jean Paul._
=Letters without virtue are like pearls in a
dunghill.= _Cervantes._
=Letting down buckets into empty wells, and
growing old with drawing nothing up.=
_Cowper._
=Lettres de cachet=--Warrants of imprisonment 25
under royal seal, liberally issued in France before
the Revolution.
=Leuk twice or ye loup ance=, _i.e._, look twice
before you leap once. _Sc. Pr._
=Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum=--A
small debt makes a man your debtor, a
large one your enemy. _Sen._
=Leve fit quod bene fertur onus=--The burden
which is cheerfully borne becomes light. _Ovid._
=Leve incommodum tolerandum est=--A slight
inconvenience must be endured. _M._
=Leve= (trust) =none better than thyself.= _Hazlitt's_ 30
_Poems._
=Level roads run out from music to every side.=
_Goethe._
=Leves homines futuri sunt improvidi=--Light-minded
men are improvident of the future. _Tac._
=Levia perpessi sumus, / Si flenda patimur=--Our
sufferings are light, if they are merely such
as we should weep for.
=Leviores sunt injuriæ, quæ repentino aliquo
motu accidunt, quam eæ quæ meditate præparata
inferuntur=--The injuries which befall
us unexpectedly are less severe than those which
we are deliberately anticipating. _Cic._
=Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest=--Grief 35
is light which can take advice. _Sen._
=Levis sit tibi terra=--May the earth lie light on
thee.
=Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful
defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old
age.= _La Roche._
=Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less
wise, than each of them appears.= _Colton._
=Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that
is good and virtuous.= _Sen._
=Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est= 40
=nefas=--Whatever cannot be amended becomes
easier to bear if we exercise patience. _Hor._
=Levius solet timere qui propius timet=--A man's
fears are lighter when the danger is near at hand.
_Sen._
=Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem=--Law is
sometimes according to equity. _L._
=Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum
quam publicum malum=--The law will sooner
tolerate a private loss than a public evil. _Coke._
=Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia=--The law
compels no one to do what is impossible. _L._
=Lex non scripta=--The common law. 45
=Lex prospicit non respicit=--The law is prospective,
not retrospective. _L._
=Lex scripta=--The statute law.
=Lex talionis=--The law of retaliation.
=Lex terræ=--The law of the land.
=Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori=--There 50
is a universal law which commands that
we shall be born and shall die. _Pub. Syr._
=Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine
the truth, but leave just so much standing
as is necessary to support the edifice.= _Jean
Paul._
=Liars are always ready to take oath.= _Alfieri._
=Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes
in the world.= _Epictetus._
=Liars ought to have good memories.= _Sidney._
=Libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt=--Men
are fain to believe what they wish. _Cæsar._
=Libera chiesa in libero stato=--A free church in 5
a free state. _Cavour._
=Libera Fortunæ mors est: capit omnia tellus /
Quæ genuit=--Death is not subject to fortune;
the earth contains everything which she ever
brought forth. _Luc._
=Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso=--Deliver me
from the evil man, from myself. _St. Augustine._
=Libera te metu mortis=--Deliver thyself from the
fear of death. _Sen._
=Liberality consists less in giving profusely
than in giving judiciously.= _La Bruyère._
=Liberality is not giving largely but wisely.= _Pr._ 10
=Libertas=--Liberty. _M._
=Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure
licet=--Liberty consists in the power of doing
what the law permits. _L._
=Libertas in legibus=--Liberty under the laws. _M._
=Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem=--Liberty,
which, though late, regarded me in my
helpless state. _Virg._
=Libertas sub rege pio=--Liberty under a pious 15
king. _M._
=Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda
loco=--In the spot where liberty has made her
last stand she was fated to be smitten. _Lucan._
=Liberté toute entière=--Liberty perfectly entire.
_M._
=Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm
of the nineteenth century. The very men
who would once have been conspicuous
saints are now conspicuous revolutionists,
for while their heroism and disinterestedness
are their own, the direction which these
qualities take is determined by the pressure
of the age.= _H. W. Lecky._
=Liberty comes with Christianity, because
Christianity develops and strengthens the
mass of men.= _Ward Beecher._
=Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome= 20
=restraint.= _Webster._
=Liberty has no actual rights which are not
grafted upon justice.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Liberty has no crueller enemy than license.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Liberty is a principle; its community is its
security; exclusiveness is its doom.= _Kossuth._
=Liberty is a slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is
made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment
and perfectness of man.= _Emerson._
=Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes= 25
=and its martyrs in almost every age.= _Chapin._
=Liberty is God's gift; liberties are the devil's.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Liberty is not idleness; it is an unconstrained
use of time. To be free is not to be doing
nothing; it is to be one's own master as to
what one ought to do or not to do.= _La
Bruyère._
=Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and
to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured
that men most commonly seek to oblige thee
only that they may engage thee to serve
them.= _Saadi._
=Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that
Heaven has bestowed on man, and captivity
is the greatest evil that can befall him.=
_Cervantes._
=Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political= 30
=growth, the result of free individual action,
energy, and independence.= _S. Smiles._
=Liberty is the right of doing whatever the
laws permit.= _Montesquieu._
=Liberty is to the collective body what health
is to every individual body. Without health
no pleasure can be tasted by man; without
liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by
society.= _Bolingbroke._
=Liberty is to the lowest rank of every nation
little more than the choice of working or
starving.= _Johnson._
=Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of
liberty as well as by the abuse of power.=
_Madison._
=Liberty must be a mighty thing, for by it= 35
=God punishes and rewards nations.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.=
_Burke._
=Liberty of thinking and expressing our
thoughts is always fatal to priestly power,
and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly
founded.= _Hume._
=Liberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates
us on the ground.= _Amiel._
=Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant
of rapid growth.= _Washington._
=Liberty will not descend to a people; a people= 40
=must raise themselves to liberty; it is a
blessing that must be earned before it can
be enjoyed.= _Colton._
=Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere
vastly more attractive to a noble soul than
good social order without it, than society
like a flock of sheep, or a machine working
like a watch. This mechanism makes of
man only a product; liberty makes him the
citizen of a better world.= _Schiller._
=Liberum arbitrium=--Free will.
=Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia effœtum
corpus tradit senectuti=--A sensual and
intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out
body. _Cic._
=Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit=--Unbridled
gratification produces unbridled desire.
_Pr._
=Libito fè licito=--What pleased her she made law. 45
_Dante._
=Libra justa justitiam servat=--A just balance preserves
justice.
=Libraries are as the shrines where all the
relics of saints full of true virtue, and that
without delusion and imposture, are preserved
and reposed.= _Bacon._
=Libraries are the wardrobes of literature,
whence men, properly informed, might bring
forth something for ornament, much for
curiosity, and more for use.= _J. Dyer._
=License they mean when they cry liberty.=
_Milton._
=Liceat concedere veris=--We are free to yield to 50
truth. _Hor._
=Licet superbus ambules pecunia, / Fortuna
non mutat genus=--Although you strut insolent
in your wealth, your fortune does not change
your low birth. _Hor._
=Licht und Geist, jenes im Phyischen, dieses
im Sittlichen herrschend, sind die höchsten
denkbaren untheilbaren Energien=--Light and
spirit, the one sovereign in the physical, the other
in the moral, are the highest conceivable indivisible
potences at work in the universe. _Goethe._
=Licuit, semperque licebit / Parcere personis,
dicere de vitiis=--It has ever been, and ever will
be, lawful to spare the individual but to censure
the vice.
=Lie not in the mire, and say, "God help!"=
_Pr._
=Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God.
Let mouth and heart be one; beat and
speak together, and make both felt in action.
It is for cowards to lie.= _George Herbert._
=Liebe bleibt die goldne Leiter / Darauf das= 5
=Herz zum Himmel steigt=--Love is ever the
golden ladder whereby the heart ascends to
heaven. _Geibel._
=Liebe ist die ältest-neuste / Einz'ge Weltbegebenheit=--Love
is the oldest-newest sole
world-event. _Rückert._
=Liebe kann nicht untergehen; / Was verwest,
muss auferstehen=--Love cannot perish; what
decays must come to life again. _J. G. Jacobi._
=Liebe kann viel, Geld kann alles=--Love cannot
do much; money everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung
liebt=--He alone knows what love is who loves
without hope. _Schiller._
=Liebe ohne Gegenliebe ist wie eine Frage= 10
=ohne Antwort=--Love unreciprocated is like a
question without an answer. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe schwärmet auf allen Wegen; / Treue
wohnt für sich allein; / Liebe kommt euch
rasch entgegen; / Aufgesucht will Treue
sein=--Love ranges about in all thoroughfares;
fidelity dwells by herself alone. Love comes to
meet you with quick footstep; fidelity will be
sought out. _Goethe._
=Liebe ward der Welt von Gott verliehen, /
Um zu Gott die Seele zu erziehen=--Love
was bestowed on the world by God, in order to
train the soul for God. _Rückert._
=Lieber Neid denn Mitleid=--Better envy than
pity. _Ger. Pr._
=Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of
judges can't tell where they are going to
burst and scatter confusion.= _Billings._
=Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion= 15
=brings on substance.= _Bacon._
=Lies are the ghosts of truths, the masks of
faces.= _J. Sterling._
=Lies have short legs.= _It. and Ger. Pr._
=Lies hunt in packs.= _Pr._
=Lies may be acted as well as spoken.= _Pr._
=Lies, mere show and sham, and hollow superficiality= 20
=of all kinds, which is at the best a
painted lie, avoid.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Lies need a great deal of killing.= _Pr._
=Lies that are half true are the worst of lies.=
_Pr._
=Life abounds in cares, in thorns, and woes;
many tears flow visibly, although many
more are unseen.= _Antoni Malazeski._
=Life admits not of delays.= _Johnson._
=Life alone can rekindle life.= _Amiel._ 25
=Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of
the boundless ocean of existence where it
comes upon soundings.= _Holmes._
=Life at the greatest and best is but a froward
child, that must be humoured and coaxed
a little till it falls asleep, and then all the
care is over.= _Goldsmith._
=Life belongs to the living, and he who lives
must be prepared for vicissitudes.= _Goethe._
=Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal
concessions.= _Johnson._
=Life every man holds dear; but the brave= 30
=man / Holds honour far more precious dear
than life.= _Troil. and Cress._, v. 3.
=Life everywhere will swallow a man, unless he
rise and try vigorously to swallow it.= _Carlyle._
=Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and
needs none.= (?)
=Life, full life, / Full-flowered, full-fruited,
reared from homely earth, / Rooted in duty,
... this is the prize / I hold most dear, more
precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or
of love.= _Lewis Morris._
=Life has been compared to a race, but the
allusion still improves, by observing that the
most swift are ever the least manageable,
the most apt to stray from the course.
Great abilities have always been less serviceable
to the possessors than moderate
ones.= _Goldsmith._
=Life has no memory.= _Emerson._ 35
=Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship.=
_Johnson._
=Life, however short, is made shorter by waste
of time; and its progress towards happiness,
though naturally slow, is made still slower
by unnecessary labour.= _Johnson._
=Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather
than a home; nature having given it us
more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than
as an abiding dwelling-place.= _Cato in
Cicero._
=Life in itself is neither good nor evil, but the
scene of good or evil, as you make it; and
if you have lived one day, you have lived all
days.= _Montaigne._
=Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has= 40
=its defeats as well as its victories.= _Donn
Piatt._
=Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but
valuable in proportion to what fortune, or
industry, or virtue has placed within it.=
_Landor._
=Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a
tragedy to him who feels.= _Horace Walpole._
=Life is a crucible, into which we are thrown
and tried. The actual weight and value
of a man are expressed in the spiritual
substance of the man; all else is dross.=
_Chapin._
=Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited
by passion. Rest is peculiar to the
spirit.= _Novalis._
=Life is a disease= (_Krankheit_), =sleep a palliative,= 45
=death the radical cure.= _C. J. Weber._
=Life is a dream and death an awakening.=
_Beaumelle._
=Life is a fairy scene: almost all that deserves
the name of enjoyment or pleasure is only
a charming delusion; and in comes repining
age, in all the gravity of hoary wisdom,
and wretchedly chases away the bewitching
phantom.= _Burns._
=Life is a fortress which neither you nor I
know anything about. Why throw obstacles
in the way of its defence? Its own
means are superior to all the apparatus of
your laboratories.= _Emerson._
=Life is a fragment, a moment between two
eternities, influenced by all that has preceded,
and to influence all that follows.=
_Channing._
=Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I
thought so once, but now I know it.= _Gay._
=Life is a kind of sleep; old men sleep longest,
nor begin to wake until they are to die.= _La
Bruyère._
=Life is a little gleam of time between two= 5
=eternities.= _Carlyle._
=Life is a long lesson in humility.= _J. M.
Barrie._
=Life is a moment between two eternities.=
_Channing._
=Life is a plant that grows out of death.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Life is a progress from want to want, not
from enjoyment to enjoyment.= _Johnson._
=Life is a quarantine for Paradise.= _C. J. Weber._ 10
=Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a
realm too fair to be.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is a scale of degrees. Between rank and
rank of our great men are wide intervals.=
_Emerson._
=Life is a search after power; and this is an
element with which the world is so saturated--there
is no chink or crevice in which
it is not lodged--that no honest seeking
goes unrewarded.= _Emerson._
=Life is a series of surprises, and would not
be worth taking or keeping if it were not.=
_Emerson._
=Life is a short day, but it is a working day.= 15
_Hannah More._
=Life is a shuttle.= _The Merry Wives_, v. 1.
=Life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say,
"Let there be an entrance opened for me
into realities; I have worn the fool's cap
too long."= _Emerson._
=Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have
lived if you have loved.= _A. de Musset._
=Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in
spring and blocks of ice in winter.= _Joseph
Roux._
=Life is a succession of lessons which must be= 20
=lived to be understood. All is riddle, and
the key to a riddle is another riddle.= _Emerson._
=Life is a voyage.= _Victor Hugo._
=Life is a warfare.= _Sen._
=Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the
frivolous think to throw him without taking
off their coats.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Life is act, and not to do is death.= _Lewis
Morris._
=Life is all a variorum; / We regard not how= 25
=it goes; / Let them cant about decorum /
Who have characters to lose. / A fig for
those by law protected! / Liberty's a glorious
feast; / Courts for cowards were
erected, / Churches built to please the
priest.= _Burns, "Jolly Beggars."_
=Life is an earnest business, and no man was
ever made great or good by a diet of broad
grins.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing
the dull ear of a drowsy man.= _King John_,
iii. 4.
=Life is as the current spark on the miner's
wheel of flints; while it spinneth there is
light; stop it, all is darkness.= _Tupper._
=Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the
abuse of it.= _Rousseau._
=Life is but a tissue of habits.= _Amiel._ 30
=Life is but another name for action; and he
who is without opportunity exists, but does
not live.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Life is but thought; so think I will that youth
and I are housemates still.= _S. T. Coleridge._
=Life is freedom--life in the direct ratio of its
amount.... The smallest candle fills a mile
with its rays, and the pupillæ of a man run
out to every star.= _Emerson._
=Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences,
the contributions of men who have perished
to add their point of light to our sky....
These road-makers on every hand enrich
us. We must extend the area of life and
multiply our relations. We are as much
gainers by finding a property in the old earth
as by acquiring a new planet.= _Emerson._
=Life is given us not to enjoy, but to overcome.= 35
_Schopenhauer._
=Life is half spent before we know what life is.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity
of death.= _Alex. Smith._
=Life is kindled only by life.= _Jean Paul._
=Life is like wine; he who would drink it pure
must not drain it to the dregs.= _Sir W.
Temple._
=Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or= 40
=duties, but of little things, in which smiles
and kindness, and small obligations given
habitually, are what win the heart and
secure comfort.= _Sir H. Davy._
=Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of
love also.... The hues of sunset make life
great; so the affections make some little
web of cottage and fireside populous, important.=
_Emerson._
=Life is movement.= _Arist._
=Life is no merrymaking.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Life is not as idle ore, / But iron dug from
central gloom, / And heated hot with burning
fears, / And dipt in baths of hissing
tears, / And battered with the shocks of
doom / To shape and use.= _Tennyson._
=Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.= 45
=Its chief good is for well-mixed people, who
can enjoy what they find without question.=
_Emerson._
=Life is not long, and too much of it must not
pass in idle deliberation how it shall be
spent.= _Johnson._
=Life is not long enough for art, not long
enough for friendship.= _Emerson._
=Life is not so short but there is always time
enough for courtesy.= _Emerson._
=Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly
ills the chief is guilt.= _Schiller._
=Life is not victory, but battle.= _ R. D. Hitchcock._ 50
=Life is poor when its old faiths are gone, /
Poorest when man can trust himself alone.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is probation, and this earth no goal, / But
starting-point of man.= _Browning._
=Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation
for life; a man is not completely born
till he has passed through death.= _Franklin._
=Life is ravelled almost ere we wot, / And with
our vexing / To disentangle it, we make the
knot / But more perplexing, / Embittering
our lot.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is real, life is earnest.= _Longfellow._
=Life is sacred; but there is something more= 5
=sacred still: woe to him who does not know
that withal.= _Carlyle._
=Life is so complicated a game, that the devices
of skill are liable to be defeated at every
turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as
the descent of thistle-down.= _George Eliot._
=Life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment
in death.= _Carlyle._
=Life is that which holds matter together.=
_Porphyry._
=Life is the art of being well deceived.= _Hazlitt._
=Life is the best thing we can possibly make of= 10
=it.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to
draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.=
_Lowell._
=Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison,
and its only deliverer is death. What we
call life is a journey to death, and what we
call death is a passport to life.= _Colton._
=Life is the transmigration of a soul / Through
various bodies, various states of being; /
New manners, passions, new pursuits in
each; / In nothing, save in consciousness,
the same.= _Montgomery._
=Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay;
death, of the spirit infinite, divine!= _Young._
=Life is to be considered happy, not in warding= 15
=off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and
this we should seek for by employment of
some kind or by reflection.= _Cic._
=Life is too much for most. So much of age, so
little of youth; living, for the most part, in
the moment, and dating existence by the
memory of its burdens.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Life is too short to waste / In critic peep or
cynic bark, / Quarrel or reprimand; / 'Twill
soon be dark.= _Emerson._
=Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a
sleep within a sleep.= _Emerson._
=Life just the stuff / To try the soul's strength
on, educe the man.= _Browning._
=Life lies before us as a huge quarry before= 20
=the architect; and he deserves not the name
of architect except when, out of this fortuitous
mass, he can combine, with the greatest
economy, fitness and durability, some form
the pattern of which originated in his own
soul.= _Goethe._
=Life lies most open in a closed eye.= _Quarles._
=Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, /
Stains the white radiance of eternity.=
_Shelley._
=Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys,
leading nowhere; the great art is to keep
out of them.= _Bovee._
=Life, like the water of the seas, freshens
only when it ascends towards heaven.= _Jean
Paul._
=Life may as properly be called an art as any= 25
=other, and the great incidents in it are no
more to be considered as mere accidents
than the severest members of a fine statue
or a noble poem.= _Fielding._
=Life must be lived on a higher plane. We
must go up to a higher platform, to which
we are always invited to ascend; there the
whole aspect of things changes.= _Emerson._
=Life only avails, not the having lived.= _Emerson._
=Life outweighs all things, if love lies within
it.= _Goethe._
=Life passes through us; we do not possess it.=
_Amiel._
=Life protracted is protracted woe, / Time= 30
=hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And
shuts up all the passages of joy.= _Johnson._
=Life sues the young like a new acquaintance....
To us, who are declined in years, life
appears like an old friend.= _Goldsmith._
=Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must
be always in progression: we must always
purpose to do more or better than in time
past.= _Johnson._
=Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable
than painful, otherwise we should not
feel pain so impatiently when it comes.=
_Leigh Hunt._
=Life was intended to be so adjusted that the
body should be the servant of the soul, and
always subordinate to the soul.= _J. G. Holland._
=Life was never a May-game for men; not play= 35
=at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews
sore and the heart sore.= _Carlyle._
=Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble,
unperverted natures, and may be such to
them, ought to be such to them.= _W. R.
Greg._
=Life wastes itself while we are preparing to
live.= _Emerson._
=Life, whether in this world or any other, is
the sum of our attainment, our experience,
our character. In what other world shall
we be more surely than we are here?=
_Chapin._
=Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And
hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the
prize of learning love, / How love might be,
hath been indeed, and is.= _Browning._
=Life without a freend is death wi' a witness.= 40
_Sc. Pr._
=Life without laughing is a dreary blank.=
_Thackeray._
=Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in
it.= _Pr._
=Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over.=
_George Eliot._
=Life's a tragedy.= _Raleigh._
=Life's a tumble-about thing of ups and downs.= 45
_Disraeli._
=Life's but a day at most.= _Burns._
=Life's but a means unto an end; that end /
Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.=
_Bailey._
=Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, /
That struts and frets his hour upon the
stage, / And then is heard no more! It is
a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and
fury, / Signifying nothing.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=Life's ebbing stream on either side / Shows at
each turn some mould'ring hope or joy, / The
man seems following still the funeral of the
boy.= _Keble._
=Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the
brim.= _Byron._
=Life's life ony gate= (at any rate). _Scott._
=Life's no resting, but a moving; / Let thy life
be deed on deed.= _Goethe._
=Light another's candle, but don't put out your= 5
=own.= _Pr._
=Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks
draw deep.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Light burdens carried far grow heavy.= _Fr.
and Ger. Pr._
=Light cares= (or =griefs=) =speak; great ones are
dumb.= _Sen._
=Light flashes in the gloomiest sky, / And
music in the dullest plain.= _Keble._
=Light gains make heavy purses, because they= 10
=come thick, whereas the great come but now
and then.= _Bacon._
=Light is, as it were, a divine humidity.= _Joubert._
=Light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than the light, because their
deeds were evil.= _St. John._
=Light is coming into the world; men love not
darkness; they do love light.= _Carlyle._
=Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness;
modesty more majestic than strength; and
there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a
child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than
in the strength of Antæus or the thunder-clouds
of Ætna.= _Ruskin._
=Light is light, though the blind man doesn't= 15
=see it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Light is no less favourable to merit than unfavourable
to imposture.= _H. Home._
=Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all
visible things.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness
for the upright in heart.= _Bible._
=Light is the burden love lays on; / Content
and love brings peace and joy, / What mair
hae queens upon a throne?= _Burns._
=Light is the symbol of truth.= _Lowell._ 20
=Light not your candle at both ends.= _Pr._
=Light, or, failing that, lightning--the world
can take its choice.= _Carlyle._
=Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.=
_Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Light suppers mak' lang life.= _Sc. Pr._
=Light that a man receiveth by counsel from= 25
=another is drier and purer than that which
cometh from his own understanding and
judgment, which is ever in his affections
and customs.= _Bacon._
=Light that makes things seen makes some
things invisible.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of
all living.= _Carlyle._
=Light without life is a candle in a tomb; /
Life without love is a garden without bloom.=
_Pr._
=Lightly come, lightly go.= _Pr._
=Lightning and thunder (heaven's artillery) /= 30
=As harbingers before th' Almighty fly: /
Those but proclaim His style, and disappear;
/ The stiller sounds succeed, and
God is there.= _Dryden._
=Like a great poet, Nature produces the
greatest results with the simplest means.
There are simply a sun, flowers, water,
and love.= _Heine._
=Like a large heart overflowing with an impotent
and vague love, the universe is ceaselessly
in the agony of transformation.= _Renan._
=Like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.= _Pr._
=Like a man do all things, not sneakingly.=
_George Herbert._
=Like a morning dream, life becomes more and= 35
=more bright the longer we live, and the
reason of everything appears more clear.=
_Jean Paul._
=Like a tailor's needle, say, "I go through."=
_Pr._
=Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our
hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots,
and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence
of which all other fires should go out.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=Like angels' visits, few and far between.=
_Campbell, from Blair._
=Like angels' visits, short and bright; / Mortality's
too weak to bear them long.= _J.
Norris._
=Like author, like book.= _Pr._ 40
=Like blude, like gude, like age, mak' the happy
marriage.= _Sc. Pr._
=Like coalesces in this world with unlike. The
strong and the weak, the contemplative and
the active, bind themselves together.= _Fr.
Robertson._
=Like cures like.= _Pr._
=Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or
squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still
climb and climb, with great labour and incessant
anxiety, but never reach the top.=
_Burton._
=Like doth quit like, and measure still for= 45
=measure.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Like draws to like, the world over.= _Pr._
=Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming,
and it becomes its full self when its
sounds and laws are used by intelligent man
for the production of harmony, and so made
the vehicle of emotion and thought.= _Theodore
T. Munger._
=Like father, like son.= _Pr._
=Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, /
Now green in youth, now withering on the
ground; / Another race the following spring
supplies; / They fall successive, and successive
rise.= _Pope's Homer._
=Like master, like man.= _Pr._ 50
=Like mighty rivers, with resistless force, / The
passions rage, obstructed in their course, /
Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore,
/ And drown those virtues which they
fed before.= _Pope._
=Like mistress, like maid.= _Pr._
=Like mother, like daughter.= _Pr._
=Like Niobe, all tears.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless= 55
=its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the
sun.= _Carlyle._
=Like our shadows / Our wishes lengthen as
our sun declines.= _Young._
=Like patience on a monument, / Smiling at
grief.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Like priest, like people.= _Pr._
=Like prince, like people.= _Pr._
=Like Scotsmen, aye wise ahint the hand=
(after the event). _Pr._
=Like talks best with like, laughs best with
like, works best with like, and enjoys best
with like; and it cannot help it.= _J. G. Holland._
=Like the air, the water, and everything else in= 5
=the world, the heart too rises the higher the
warmer it becomes.= _Cötvös._
=Like the dog in the manger, he will neither
eat himself nor let the horse eat.= _Pr._
=Like the hand which ends a dream, / Death,
with the might of his sunbeam, / Touches
the flesh and the soul awakes.= _Browning._
=Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.= _G.
Colman._
=Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely
rises higher.= _Pr._
=Limæ labor et mora=--The labour and tediousness 10
of polishing as with a file. _Hor._
=Limit your wants by your wealth.= _Pr._
=Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the
ring of necessity is always perched at the
top.= _Emerson._
=Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium=--An
evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind.
_Pub. Syr._
=Lingua mali pars pessima servi=--His tongue is 15
the worst part of a bad servant. _Juv._
=Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera=--Excels
in speech, but of a right hand slow to
war. _Virg._
=Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum, / Ferrea
vox=--It has a hundred tongues, a hundred
mouths, a voice of iron. _Virg., of Rumour._
=Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est=--To
restrain the tongue is not the least of the
virtues.
=Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor,
neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te,
præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum
sequetur=--Your estate, your home, and
your pleasing wife must be left, and of these
trees which you are rearing, not one shall
follow you, their short-lived owner, except the
hateful cypresses. _Hor._
=Lions are not frightened by cats.= _Pr._ 20
=Lions' skins are not to be had cheap.= _Pr._
=Lippen to= (trust) =me, but look to yoursel'.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Lips become compressed and drawn with
anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are
quenched of their fires by many tears.= _S.
Lover._
=Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door.=
_Delaune._
=Lis litem generat=--Strife genders strife. _Pr._ 25
=List geht über Gewalt-=-Cunning overcomes
strength. _Ger. Pr._
=List his discourse of war, and you shall hear /
A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn
him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian
Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his
garter.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Listeners never hear good of themselves.= _Sp.
Pr._
=Lite pendente=--During the lawsuit. 30
=Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit=--Strife
begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury.
_Pr._
=Litera canina=--The canine letter (the letter R).
=Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat=--The
letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. _Vulgate._
=Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit=--Written
testimony remains, but oral perishes.
=Literæ Bellerophontis=--A Bellerophon's letter, 35
_i.e._, a letter requesting that the bearer should be
dealt with in some summary way for an offence.
=Literæ humaniores=--Polite literature; arts in a
university.
=Literary history is the great morgue where all
seek the dead ones whom they love, and to
whom they are related.= _Heine._
=Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood.=
_Carlyle._
=Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena
where a tomb may be more easily found than
laurels; as a means of support, it is the very
chance of chances.= _H. Giles._
=Literature consists of all the books--and they= 40
=are not many--where moral truth and human
passion are touched with a certain largeness,
sanity, and attraction of form.= _John Morley._
=Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of
human nature's common and everlasting
sympathies.= _Lowell._
=Literature happens to be the only occupation
in which wages are not given in proportion
to the goodness of the work done.= _Froude._
=Literature has her quacks no less than medicine:
those who have erudition without
genius, and those who have volubility without
depth.= _Colton._
=Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly
amusing indolent, languid men.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is a fragment of a fragment, and= 45
=of this but little is extant.= _Goethe._
=Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch.=
_Scott._
=Literature is fast becoming all in all to us--our
church, our senate, our whole social
constitution.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is representative of intellect, which
is progressive; government is representative
of order, which is stationary.= _Buckle._
=Literature is so common a luxury that the
age has grown fastidious.= _Tuckerman._
=Literature is the thought of thinking souls.= 50
_Carlyle._
=Literature, like virtue, is its own reward.=
_Chesterfield._
=Literature positively has other aims than this
of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps
this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest
or true aim.= _Carlyle._
=Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms
the grand line of demarcation between the
human and the animal kingdoms.= _W. Godwin._
=Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when
ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine
duel with the whole world of darkness that
lies without one and within one;--rather a
hard fight at times.= _Carlyle._
=Litteræ non erubescunt=--A letter does not
blush. _Cic._
=Little and often fills the purse.= _Pr._
=Little bantams are great at crowing.= _Pr._
=Little boats must keep near shore.= _Pr._
=Little bodies have great souls.= _Pr._ 5
=Little by little the little bird builds its nest.=
_Pr._
=Little children, little sorrows; big children,
great sorrows.= _Pr._
=Little chips light great fires.= _Pr._
=Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, /
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven
above.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little dew-drops of celestial melody.= _Carlyle,_ 10
_of Burns' songs._
=Little do men perceive what solitude is, and
how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not
company, and faces are but a gallery of
pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal,
where there is no love.= _Bacon._
=Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble.=
_Lily._
=Little drops of water, little grains of sand, /
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant
land. / Thus the little minutes, humble
though they be, / Make the mighty ages
of eternity.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little enemies and little wounds must not be
despised.= _Pr._
=Little fishes should not spout like whales.= _Pr._ 15
=Little flower--if I could understand / What
you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should
know what God and man is.= _Tennyson._
=Little folks like to talk about great folks.= _Pr._
=Little gear, less care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are
silent.= _Pr._
=Little is done when every man is master.= _Pr._ 20
=Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread,
and never bring disgust; and great
ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then
with satiety.= _Jean Paul._
=Little kingdom is great household, and great
household little kingdom.= _Bacon._
=Little-minded people's thoughts move in such
small circles that five minutes' conversation
gives you an arc long enough to determine
their whole curve.= _Holmes._
=Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune,
but great minds rise above it.=
_Washington Irving._
=Little minds are too much wounded by little= 25
=things; great minds see all, and are not
even hurt.= _La Roche._
=Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest
soured.= _Pr._
=Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame=
(stomach). _Sc. Pr._
=Little of this great world can I speak, / More
than pertains to feats of broil and battle; /
And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause /
In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious
patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver /
Of my whole course of love.= _Othello_,
i. 3.
=Little ones are taught to be proud of their
clothes before they can put them on.= _Locke._
=Little opportunities should be improved.= 30
_Fenélon._
=Little pigeons can carry great messages.= _Pr._
=Little pigs eat great potatoes.= _Pr._
=Little pitchers have long ears=, _i.e._, children
have. _Pr._
=Little pot, / Don't get hot / On the spot.= _Pr._
=Little pots soon boil over.= _Ger. Pr._ 35
=Little souls on little shifts rely.= _Dryden._
=Little strokes fell great oaks.= _Pr._
=Little thieves have iron chains and great
thieves gold ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Little things blame not: Grace may on them
wait. / Cupid is little; but his godhead's
great.= _Anon._
=Little things please little minds.= _Pr._ 40
=Little troubles are great to little people.= _Pr._
=Little waves with their soft white hands efface
the footprints in the sands.= _Longfellow._
=Little wealth, little sorrow.= _Pr._
=Little wit in the head makes much work for
the feet.= _Pr._
=Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs= 45
=done to ourselves.= _Pr._
=Littore quot conchæ, tot sunt in amore dolores=--There
are as many pangs in love as shells on
the sea-shore. _Ovid._
=Littus ama, altum alii teneant=--Hug thou the
shore, let others stand out to sea. _Virg._
=Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great
deal of living to get a little deal of learning.=
_Ruskin._
=Live and let live.= _Pr._
=Live as long as you may, the first twenty= 50
=years are the longest half of your life.=
_Southey._
=Live for to-day! to-morrow's light, / Tomorrow's
cares shall bring to sight; / Go
sleep, like closing flowers, at night, / And
Heaven thy morn will bless.= _Keble._
=Live in to-day, but not for to-day.= _Pr._
=Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On
any human being rose or set.= _Marsden._
=Live not for yourself alone.= _Pr._
=Live not to eat, but eat to live.= _Pr._ 55
=Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow
round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves,
and make / The orb of Being wheel onward
steadfastly / Upon its path--the Lord of
Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good;
work on, live on.= _Lewis Morris._
=Live on what you have; live if you can on
less; do not borrow either for vanity or
pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and
the pleasure in regret.= _Johnson._
=Live only a moment at a time.= _Pr._
=Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the
grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still
depart / From death to death thro' life and
life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him,
who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite,
/ But this main miracle, that thou
art thou, / With power on thine own act and
on the world.= _Tennyson._
=Live to learn and learn to live.= _Pr._ 60
=Live upon trust, / And pay double you must.=
_Pr._
=Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon
nor live too long.= _Lady R. Russel._
=Live we how we can, yet die we must.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, v. 2.
=Live with a singer if you would learn to sing.= _Pr._
=Live with thy century, but be not its creature;
produce for thy contemporaries, however,
what they need, not what they applaud.=
_Schiller._
=Live with your friend as if he might become
your enemy.= _Pr._
=Lively feeling of situations, and power to
express them, make the poet.= _Goethe._
=Lives of great men all remind us, / We can= 5
=make our lives sublime; / And departing
leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of
time.= _Longfellow._
=Living religion grows not by the doctrines,
but by the narratives of the Bible.= _Jean
Paul._
=Living well is the best revenge.= _Pr._
=Lo ageno siempre pia por su dueño=--What is
another's always chirps for its master. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world.= _Jesus to His disciples._
=Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio= 10
=á la primeria=--What the fool does at length the
wise man does at the beginning. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un
rato=--A thing that may not happen in a year
may happen in two minutes. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind /
Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the
wind; / His soul proud science never taught
to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky
way; / Yet simple nature to his hope
has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a
humbler heaven.= _Pope._
=Loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._,
i. 3.
=Loans and debts make worries and frets.= _Pr._
=Loans should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.=
_Shakespeare._
=Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry.=
_Pr._
=Loci communes=--Topics.
=Lock the stable before you lose the steed.=
_Pr._
=Locking the stable door when the steed is= 20
=stolen.= _Pr._
=Loco citato=--In the place quoted.
=Locum tenens=--A deputy or substitute.
=Locus classicus=--A classical passage.
=Locus est et pluribus umbris=--There is room
for more introductions. _Hor._
=Locus in quo=--The place in which; the place previously 25
occupied.
=Locus penitentiæ=--Place for repentance.
=Locus sigili=--The place for the seal; pointed out
in documents by the letters L.S.
=Locus standi=--Standing in a case; position in an
argument.
=Lofty mountains are full of springs; great
hearts are full of tears.= _Joseph Roux._
=Logic works; metaphysic contemplates.= _Joubert._ 30
=Loin de la cour, loin du souci=--Far from court,
far from care. _Fr. Pr._
=Long customs are not easily broken; he that
attempts to change the course of his own
life very often labours in vain.= _Johnson._
=Long experience made him sage.= _Gay._
=Long lent is not given.= _Pr._
=Long talk makes short work.= _Pr._ 35
=Long talking begets short hearing, for people
go away.= _Jean Paul._
=Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages=--Long is
the story of her wrongs, tedious the details.
_Virg._
=Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum
/ Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia
vero=--It would take long to enumerate how great
an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated;
even the report itself came short of the truth.
_Ovid._
=Longe aberrat scopo=--He is wide of the mark;
has gone quite out of his sphere.
=Longe absit=--Far be it from me; God forbid. 40
=Longe mea discrepat istis / Et vox et ratio=--Both
my language and my sentiments differ
widely from theirs. _Hor._
=Longo sed proximus intervallo=--Next, with a
long interval between. _Virg._
=Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax
per exempla=--The road to learning by precept
is long, by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Look above you, and then look about you.= _Pr._
=Look, as I blow this feather from my face, / And= 45
=as the air blows it to me again / ... Commanded
always by the greater gust; / Such
is the lightness of you common men.= 3 _Henry
VI._, iii. 1.
=Look at home, father priest, mother priest;
your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility
than mine can be. Your priesthood
is from God's own hands.= _Ward Beecher._
=Look at paintings and fightings from a distance.=
_Pr._
=Look at the bright side of a failure as well as
the dark.= _Anon._
=Look at your own corn in May, / And you'll
come weeping away.= _Pr._
=Look before you leap.= _Pr._ 50
=Look before you, or you'll have to look behind
you.= _Pr._
=Look for squalls, but don't make them.= _Pr._
=Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid
with patines of bright gold; / There's not
the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But
in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring
to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of
Ven._, v. 1.
=Look how we can, or sad or merrily, / Interpretation
will misquote our looks.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, v. 2.
=Look in the glass when you with anger glow, /= 55
=And you'll confess you scarce yourself would
know.= _Ovid._
=Look in thy heart and write.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Look not a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Look not mournfully into the past--it comes
not back again; wisely improve the present--it
is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy
future without fear and with a manly heart.=
_Longfellow._
=Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. /
Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /
Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. / If
thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If
well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.=
_George Herbert._
=Look not to what is wanting in any one;
consider that rather which still remains to
him.= _Goethe._
=Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion.
If you find them at all, be assured
that they are but few degrees removed from
brutes.= _Hume._
=Look round the habitable world, how few /
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.=
_Dryden, after Juvenal._
=Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks
o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.=
_Ham._, i. 1.
=Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be= 5
=sore.= _Pr._
=Look to the players; ... / They are the abstract
and brief chroniclers of the times.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there.=
_George Herbert._
=Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=Look unto those they call unfortunate; / And,
closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise.=
_Young._
=Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole= 10
=of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy
the present without wishing, through haste,
to spring on to another.= _Jean Paul._
=Look within. Within is the fountain of good,
and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever
dig.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=Lookers-on see more than the players.= _Pr._
=Looking round on the noisy inanity of the
world, words with little meaning, actions
with little worth, one loves to reflect on the
great empire of silence. The noble silent
men, scattered here and there each in his
department, silently thinking, silently working;
whom no morning newspaper makes
mention of.= _Carlyle._
=Looking where others looked, and conversing
with the same things, we catch the charm
which lured them.= _Emerson._
=Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth.= 15
_Shakespeare._
=Loop'd and window'd raggedness.= _Lear_,
iii. 4.
=Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes
the heart.= _Pr._
=Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut docti=--We
should speak as the populace, think as the
learned. _Coke._
=Lord, help me through this warld o' care, / I'm
weary sick o't late and air; / Not but I hae
a richer share / Than mony ithers; / But
why should ae man better fare, / And a'
men brithers?= _Burns._
=Lord, keep my memory green!= _Dickens._ 20
=Lord of himself, that heritage of woe.= _Byron._
=Lord of himself, though not of lands; having
nothing yet hath all.= _Sir Henry Wotton_ (?).
=Lord 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._
=Lord of thy presence and no land beside.=
_King John_, i. 1.
=Lord, we know what we are, but know not= 25
=what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter
une expression simple, c'est la marque pour
la rejeter=--When a thought is too weak to
bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it
deserves rejection. _Vauvenargues._
=Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness,
and then, / Comes the wreck of all
you hope for in the wreck of noble men.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Lose thy fun rather than thy friend.= _Pr._
=Losing the bundles gathering the wisps.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Losses are comparative, only imagination= 30
=makes them of any moment.= _Pascal._
=Lost time is never found again.= _Pr._
=Lotis manibus=--With clean-washen hands.
=Loud clamour is always more or less insane.=
_Carlyle._
=Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who
are only pleased with silly things; for true
wit or good sense never excited a laugh
since the creation of the world.= _Chesterfield._
=Loudness is a foe to melody.= _Pr._ 35
=Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas,
c'est leur dire impunément des injures=--To
praise princes for virtues which they do not
possess, is to insult them with impunity. _La
Roche._
=Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; /
Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir=--Louis
(XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die;
had he known how to punish, he would have
known how to reign. _Tilly._
=Love abounds in honey and poison.= _Sp. Pr._
=Love accomplishes all things.= _Petrarch._
=Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be= 40
=able for thine enemy / Rather in power than
use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own
life's key; be checked for silence, / But
never tax'd for speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Love and death are the two great hinges on
which all human sympathies turn.= _B. R.
Haydon._
=Love and friendship exclude each other.= _Du
Cœur._
=Love and gratitude are seldom found in the
same breast without impairing each other
... we cannot command both together.=
_Goldsmith._
=Love and light winna hide.= _Sc. Pr._
=Love and lordship like not fellowship.= _Pr._ 45
=Love and poverty are hard to hide.= _Pr._
=Love and pride stock Bedlam.= _Pr._
=Love and religion are both stronger than
friendship.= _Disraeli._
=Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of
tea.= _Fielding._
=Love and the Soul, working together, might= 50
=go on producing Venuses without end, each
different, and all beautiful; but divorced
and separated, they may continue producing
indeed, yet no longer any being, or even
thing, truly godlike.= _Ed._
=Love and trust are the only mother-milk of
any man's soul.= _Ruskin._
=Love, and you shall be loved. All love is
mathematically just, as much as the two
sides of an algebraic equation.= _Emerson._
=Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.=
_Pr._
=Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating
draft.= _Ruffini._
=Love betters what is best, / Even here below,
but more in heaven above.= _Wordsworth._
=Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship
comes like dawning moonlight. Love
will obtain and possess; friendship makes
sacrifices but asks nothing.= _Geibel._
=Love can do much, but duty still more.=
_Goethe._
=Love can hope where reason would despair.= 5
_Lyttleton._
=Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only
price is love.= _Pr._
=Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its
bosom, without first suffering for it.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Love concedes in a moment what we can
hardly attain by effort after years of toil.=
_Goethe._
=Love converts the hut into a palace of gold.=
_Hölty._
=Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when= 10
=it has most reason to be gay, sighs are
the signs of its deepest joy, and silence
the expression of its yearning tenderness.=
_Bovee._
=Love delights to bring her best, / And where
love is, that offering evermore is blest.=
_Keble._
=Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters
it.= _Du Cœur._
=Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven
to earth come down.= _Toplady._
=Love does much, but money does more.= _Pr._
=Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's= 15
=door / Pours in the morning worshipper no
more.= _Johnson._
=Love ever flows downward.= _Quoted by Hare._
=Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, /
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment
flies.= _Pope._
=Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To
envious and calumniating time.= _Troil. and
Cress._, iii. 3.
=Love furthers knowledge.= _Pr._
=Love gives itself, and is not bought.= _Longfellow._ 20
=Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from
their books; / But love from love, toward
school with heavy looks.= _Rom. and Jul._,
ii. 2.
=Love has made its best interpreter a sigh.=
_Byron._
=Love has no age, as it is always renewing
itself.= _Pascal._
=Love has the tendency of pressing together
all the lights, all the rays emitted from the
beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy,
into one focus, and making of them one
radiant sun without spots.= _Goethe._
=Love hath a large mantle.= _Pr._ 25
=Love hides ugliness.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love in the heart is better than honey in the
mouth.= _Pr._
=Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant--a
harpy that devours everything.= _Swift._
=Love is a boy by poets spoiled.= _S. Butler._
=Love is a debt which inclination always pays,= 30
=obligation never.= _Pascal._
=Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is
no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so
tempted, and he had an excellent strength;
yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a
very good wit.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=Love is a personal debt.= _George Herbert._
=Love is a reality which is born in the fairy
region of romance.= _Talleyrand._
=Love is a secondary passion in those who love
most, a primary in those who love least. He
who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired
by honour in a higher; it never reaches
its plenitude of growth and perfection but in
the most exalted minds.= _Landor._
=Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within= 35
=his bosom glows.= _Pr._
=Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have
lived if you have loved.= _Alfred De Musset._
=Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; /
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers'
eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with
lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness
most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving
sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.
=Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross
to sink, but light and will aspire.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol
which itself hath made.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul.= 40
_Tupper._
=Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution.=
_Goldsmith._
=Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless
image; not one painted on paper, but the
living essence of the divine nature, which
beams full of all goodness.= _Luther._
=Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet.= _Pr._
=Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty= 45
=follies that themselves commit.= _Mer. of
Ven._, ii. 6.
=Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn
with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes,
because he does not see what he does not
like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the
universe is Love for finding what he seeks,
and only that.= _Emerson._
=Love is deemed the tenderest= (_zärteste_) =of our
affections, as even the blind and the deaf
know; but I know, what few believe, that
true friendship is more tender still.= _Platen._
=Love is eternally awake, never tired with
labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor
discouraged by fear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever
wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous
flowers and scenes Arcadian.= _Longfellow._
=Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as= 50
=fire is of light; and works also more in the
manner of fire.= _Carlyle._
=Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self.=
_Canon Liddon._
=Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton
as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by
the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full
of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, /
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To
every varied object in his glance.= _Love's
L. Lost_, v. 2.
=Love is incompatible with fear.= _Pub. Syr._
=Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever
burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven
returneth.= _Southey._
=Love is just another name for the inscrutable
presence by which the soul is connected with
humanity.= _Simms._
=Love is kin to duty.= _Lewis Morris._
=Love is life's end--an end, but never ending....= 5
=Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but
ever spending.... Love's life's reward,
rewarded in rewarding.= _Spenser._
=Love is like the painter, who, being to draw
the picture of a friend having a blemish in
one eye, would picture only the other side
of his face.= _South._
=Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.=
_Scott._
=Love is merely a madness.= _As You Like It_,
iii. 2.
=Love is mightier than indignation.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Love is more pleasing than marriage, because= 10
=romances are more amusing than history.=
_Chamfort._
=Love is neither bought nor sold.= _Pr._
=Love is never lasting which flames before it
burns.= _Feltham._
=Love is not a fire which can be confined within
the breast; everything betrays it; and its
fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the
more.= _Racine._
=Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it
many points in common therewith ... I call
it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the
Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning
again may be either true or false,
either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or
Insanity.= _Carlyle._
=Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which= 15
=shows us what is most worthy of regard.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration
finds.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In
high ambition or a thirst of greatness.= _Addison._
=Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn;
with each new being born or to be born.=
_Byron._
=Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and
reward.= _Emerson._
=Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men,= 20
=therefore they speak much of it; but one
syllable of woman's speech can dissolve
more of it than a man's heart can hold.=
_Holmes._
=Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot
quench love, neither can the floods drown
it.= _Bible._
=Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession.=
_Emerson._
=Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle,
strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering,
manly, and never seeking her own.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is the bond which never corrodes.= _Dr.
Parker._
=Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness= 25
=of the busy.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of
the gods, and the chiefest author and giver
of virtue in life and happiness after death.=
_Plato._
=Love is the greatest thing that God can give
us, and it is the greatest we can give God.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Love is the joining of two souls on their way
to God.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Love is the master-key that opens every ward
of the heart of man.= _J. H. Evans._
=Love is the most easy and agreeable, and= 30
=gratitude the most humiliating, affection of
the mind.= _Goldsmith._
=Love is the mother of love.= _Pr._
=Love is the occupation of an idle man, the
amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck
of a sovereign.= _Napoleon._
=Love is the only ink which does not fade.= _Dr.
Parker._
=Love is the only memory which strengthens
with time.= _Dr. Parker._
=Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its= 35
=end.= _Byron._
=Love knows nothing of labour.= _It. Pr._
=Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for
food, thou may'st for physic.= _Wm. Penn._
=Love laughs at locksmiths.= _Pr._
=Love lessens the woman's refinement and
strengthens the man's.= _Jean Paul._
=Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;= 40
=/ Love laps his wings on either side
the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of
sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to
the shrine of sound.= _Tennyson._
=Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow.=
_Pr._
=Love like a shadow flies when substance love
pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying
what pursues.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual
motion, and ceases to exist as soon as
it ceases to hope or fear.= _La Roche._
=Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than
hunger.= _Jean Paul._
=Love likes not shallow mirth.= _Dr. Walter_ 45
_Smith._
=Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid
painted blind.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, i. 1.
=Love makes labour light.= _J. G. Holland._
=Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.=
_W. R. Alger._
=Love makes time pass away, and time makes
love pass away.= _Fr. Pr._
=Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of= 50
=my song; / Love that is too hot and strong /
Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not
have thee cold, / Not too backward or too
bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth
not in haste.= _Old Ballad._
=Love me, love my dog.= _Pr._
=Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and
damps each joy he does not yield.= _Lady
Dacre._
=Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too
swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom.
and Jul._, ii. 6.
=Love must be as much a light as a flame.=
_Thoreau._
=Love must be taken by stratagem, not by
open force.= _Goldsmith._
=Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives,
like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
and trembles then lest it has done too little.=
_Hannah More._
=Love not pleasure; love God. This is the
everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is
solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it
is well with him.= _Carlyle._
=Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.=
_Bible._
=Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; /= 5
=God gave them to thee under lock and key.=
_George Herbert._
=Love of gain never made a painter, but it has
marred many.= _W. Allston._
=Love of glory can only create a great hero;
contempt of it creates a great man.= _Talleyrand._
=Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment;
and without love men cannot endure
to be together.= _Carlyle._
=Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come
and go for you, is a love, I should think, which
enters only into the minds of persons in a
very infantine state.= _Carlyle._
=Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere= 10
=to find and value what is good.=
_Goethe._
=Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: /
His motto--constancy, his creed--to part.=
_Byron._
=Love one human being with warmth and
purity, and thou wilt love the world. The
heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like
the sun in its course. From the drop on the
rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror,
which he fills and brightens.= _Jean Paul._
=Love one time layeth burdens, another time
giveth wings.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Love ought to raise a low heart and not
humble a high one.= _Ariosto._
=Love ower het= (hot) =soon cools.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Love prefers twilight to daylight.= _Holmes._
=Love reckons hours for months, and days for
years; and every little absence is an age.=
_Dryden._
=Love requires not so much proofs as expressions
of love.= _Jean Paul._
=Love rules his kingdom without a sword.= _Pr._
=Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, /= 20
=And men below and saints above; / For
love is heaven, and heaven is love.= _Scott._
=Love rules without a sword and binds without
a cord.= _Pr._
=Love rules without law.= _It. Pr._
=Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no
ear hears; and what never rose in the heart
of man love prepares for its object.= _Lavater._
=Love seldom haunts the breast where learning
lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.=
_Pope._
=Love should have some rest and pleasure in= 25
=himself, / Not ever be too curious for a
boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the
grain / Of him ye say ye love.= _Tennyson._
=Love should not be all on one side.= _Pr._
=Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities
of the human race.= _Helps._
=Love silence rather than speech in these tragic
days, when for very speaking the voice of
man has fallen inarticulate to man.= _Carlyle._
=Love sought is good, but given unsought is
better.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.
=Love strikes one hour--love. Those never= 30
=loved / Who dream that they loved once.=
_Elizabeth B. Browning._
=Love that can flow, and can admit increase, /
Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less.=
_Suckling._
=Love the good and forgive the bad.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of
eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; /
Strong love and proud ambition have no
bounds.= _Dryden._
=Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude.= 35
_Sc. Pr._
=Love thyself, and many will hate thee.= _Anon._
=Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a
resisting is a tyrant.= _Sidney._
=Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all
times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is
not the aim of any life. Do not think that your
life means a mere searching in gutters for
fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In
our life there is no meaning at all except the
work we have done.= _Carlyle._
=Love too late can never glow.= _Keble._
=Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all= 40
=the chords with might; / Smote the chord of
Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of
sight.= _Tennyson._
=Love-verses, writ without any real passion,
are the most nauseous of all conceits.= _Shenstone._
=Love waits for love, though the sun be set, /
And the stars come out, the dews are wet, /
And the night-winds moan.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a
tear!= _Tupper._
=Love, when founded in the heart, will show
itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies
of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition
of the passion only argues little understanding
or great insincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=Love which hath ends will have an end.= 45
_Dryden._
=Love, which is only an episode in the life of
a man, is the entire history of a woman's
life.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Love, which is the essence of God, is not for
levity, but for the total worth of man.= _Emerson._
=Love will creep where it cannot go.= _Pr._
=Love will find its way / Through paths where
wolves would fear to prey.= _Byron._
=Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope,= 50
=but not altogether without it.= _Scott._
=Love with men is not a sentiment, but an
idea.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Love without return is like a question without
an answer.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore
love is the fulfilling of the law.= _St. Paul._
=Love works a different way in different minds, /
The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.=
_Dryden._
=Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest.=
_Keble._
=Love your enemies, do good to them that
hate you, bless them that curse you, and
pray for them which despitefully use you
and persecute you.= _Jesus._
=Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the
fence.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered
leave your honour.= _Hen. VIII._,
i. 2.
=Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle.= 5
_Pr._
=Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten
times faster glide than the sun's beams /
Driving back shadows over lowering hills.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 5.
=Love's not love / When it is mingled with
regards that stand / Aloof from the entire
point.= _Lear_, i. 1.
=Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And
thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind.=
_Cowley._
=Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is
when love's honey has a dash of gall.= _Herrick._
=Love's plant must be watered with tears and= 10
=tended with care.= _Dan. Pr._
=Love's reasons without reason.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the
full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and
resorts to the pantomime of sighs and
glances.= _Bovee._
=Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.= _Dryden._
=Love's true function in the world is as the
regenerator and restorer of social life, the
reconciler and uniter of living men.= _Ed._
=Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar= 15
=as a king.= _Decker._
=Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of
laborious indigence than the fawning simper
of thriving adulation.= _Goldsmith._
=Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness;
it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in
a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker,
is a spiritual force.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
/ But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the
most.= _Thomson._
=Lovers and madmen have such seething
brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
/ More than cool reason ever comprehends.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=Lovers are as punctual as the sun.= _Goethe._ 20
=Lovers are never tired of each other; they
always speak of themselves.= _La Roche._
=Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come
before their time; / So much they spur their
expedition.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 1.
=Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.= _Pr._
=Lovers= (_Verliebte_) =see only each other in the
world, but they forget that the world sees
them.= _Platen._
=Lovers' time runs faster than the clock.= 25
_Pr._
=Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with
arrows, some with traps.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and
he who goes the lowest builds the safest.=
_Bailey._
=Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto
the climber-upward turns his face; / But
when he once attains the upmost round, /
He then unto the ladder turns his back, /
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
/ By which he did ascend.= _Jul. Cæs._,
ii. 1.
=Loyal à la mort=--Loyal to death. _M._
=Loyal en tout=--Loyal in all. _M._ 30
=Loyal je serai durant ma vie=--I will be loyal
during my life. _M._
=Loyauté m'oblige=--Loyalty binds me. _M._
=Loyauté n'a honte=--Loyalty feels no shame.
_M._
=Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus=--The footsteps of
fortune are slippery.
=Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est= 35
=trahendum=--A slip of the tongue ought not to
be rashly punished. _L._
[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]--When
the candle is taken away, every woman is alike.
_Gr. Pr._
=Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up.
Labour, with keen eyes and strong will,
will turn up something. Luck relies on
chance, labour on character.= _Cobden._
=Luck is everything in promotion.= _Cervantes._
=Luck is the idol of the idle.= _Pr._
=Luck, mere luck, may make even madness= 40
=wisdom.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those
who seek it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet=--The
smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds.
_Juv._
=Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator
metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui:
mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem
pati=--The merchant, dreading the south-west
wind wrestling with the Icarian waves,
praises retirement and the rural life of his native
town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark,
incapable of being taught to endure poverty.
_Hor._
=Ludere cum sacris=--To trifle with sacred things.
=Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et= 45
=certam præsens vix habet hora fidem=--The
divine power sports with human affairs so much
that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour.
_Ovid._
=Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque=--Weep, all ye
Venuses and Cupids. _Cat._
=Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, /
Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden
chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what
myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as
the other flies.= _Rogers._
=Lupo agnum eripere postulant=--They insist on
snatching the lamb from the wolf. _Plaut._
=Lupo ovem commisisti=--You have put the sheep
to the care of the wolf. _Ter._
=Lupus in fabula=--It is the wolf in the story; 50
talking of him, he appeared.
=Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)=--The wolf is
not scared by the number of the sheep. _Pr._
=Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem=--The wolf
changes his coat, but not his disposition. _Pr._
=Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus
abire tibi est=--Thou hast amused thyself
enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time
for thee to depart. _Hor._
=Lust--hard by fate.= _Milton._
=Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always
putteth the affections into a false gallop.=
_St. Ambrose._
=Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to
the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a
weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses,
and a mortal bane to all the body.= _Pliny._
=Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, /
What most we ought to fear; the headstrong
beast / Rushes along, impatient of
the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor
fears the rein.= _Rowe._
=Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better= 5
=or worse / Than the heart of the citizen
hissing in war on his own hearthstone?=
_Tennyson._
=Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen
Thaten=--Ambition and love are the wings to
great deeds. _Goethe._
=Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but
it is a desperate madness when opposed.=
_Bp. Hall._
=Lusus naturæ=--A freak of nature.
=Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Luther's words are half battles.= _Jean Paul._ 10
=Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Luxury
is in want of many things; avarice, of everything.
_Pub. Syr._
=Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; /
Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati=--The
feelings generally run riot in prosperity;
and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind
is no easy task. _Ovid._
=Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.=
_Sir G. Mackenzie._
=Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard
mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall
in her heart, and a sting in her tail.= _Victor
Hugo._
=Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread= 15
=to the poor; but if there were no luxury,
there would be no poor.= _H. Home._
=Lydius lapis=--A Lydian or test stone.
=Lying and stealing live next door to each
other.= _Pr._
=Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever
seriously addresses his discourse to another
tacitly promises to speak the truth, because
he knows the truth is expected.= _Paley._
=Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony,"
as Plutarch says, "that one first
despises God and then fears men."= _Montaigne._
=Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of= 20
=the force of truth.= _Hazlitt._
=Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord.=
_Bible._
=Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency,
and therefore criminal, though it produce
no particular or visible mischief to any
one.= _Paley._
=Lying pays no tax.= _Pr._
=Lying rides on debt's back.= _Pr._
=Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers= 25
=nous=--Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed
to ourselves. _La Fontaine._
=Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age,
as the songs of the nightingales in every
spring-time.= _Heine._
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.
O.
=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
act is to be judged of by the intention
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._
R.
=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._
S.
=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._
U.
=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._
V.
=Vache ne sait ce que vaut sa queue jusqu'à-ce-qu'elle
l'ait perdue=--The cow doesn't
know the worth of her tail until she has lost it.
_Fr. Pr._
=Vacuus cantat coram latrone viator=--The traveller 45
with an empty purse sings in the face of
the robber. _Juv._
=Vade in pace=--Go in peace.
=Vade mecum=--Go with me; a constant companion;
a manual.
=Vade retro!=--Avaunt!
=Væ victis!=--Woe (_i.e._, extermination) to the conquered!
=Vaillant et veillant=--Valiant and on the watch. _M._ 50
=Vain for the rude craftsman to attempt the
beautiful; only one diamond can polish
another.= _Goethe._
=Vain hope to make people happy by politics!=
_Carlyle._
=Vain is the help of man.= _Bible._
=Vain man would be wise, though man be born
like a wild ass's colt.= _Bible._
=Vain men delight in telling what honours have
been done them, what great company they
have kept, and the like; by which they
plainly confess that these honours were
more than their due.= _Swift._
=Vain people are loquacious; and proud, taciturn.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.=
_Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Vain to send the purblind or blind to the shore= 5
=of a Pactolus never so golden: these find
only gravel; the seer and finder alone picks
up golden grains there.= _Carlyle._
=Vain, very vain, my weary search to find / That
bliss which only centres in the mind.= _Goldsmith._
=Vainglory blossoms, but never bears.= _Pr._
=Val meglio piegarsi che rompersi=--Better submit
than be ruined. _It. Pr._
=Val più un asino vivo che un dottore morto=--A
living ass is better than a dead doctor. _It. Pr._
=Val più un' oncia di discrezione che una libra= 10
=di sapere=--An ounce of discretion is worth more
than a pound of knowledge. _It. Pr._
=Valeant mendacia vatum=--Away with the
fictions of poets! _Ovid._
=Valeat quantum valere potest=--Let it pass for
what it is worth.
=Valeat res ludicra, si me / Palma negata
macrum, donata reducit opimum=--Farewell
to the drama if the palm as it is granted or denied
makes me happy or miserable. _Hor._
=Valet anchora virtus=--Virtue is a sure anchor. _M._
=Valet ima summis / Mutare, et insignem attenuat= 15
=Deus, / Obscura promens=--The Deity
has power to supplant the highest by the lowest,
and he dims the lustre of the exalted by bringing
forth to the light things obscure. _Hor._
=Validius est naturæ testimonium quam doctrinæ
argumentum=--The testimony of nature
is weightier than the arguments of the learned.
_St. Ambrose._
=Valour consists in the power of self-recovery.=
_Emerson._
=Valour in distress challenges respect, even
from an enemy.= _Plutarch._
=Valour is the fountain of Pity too;--of Truth,
and all that is great and good in man.= _Carlyle._
=Valour is worth little without discretion.= _Pr._ 20
=Valour would cease to be a virtue if there
were no injustice.= _Agesilaus._
=Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores=--Idle
rumours were also added to well-founded
apprehensions. _Lucan._
=Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas=--Vanity
of vanities, all is vanity. _Vulgate._
=Vanity and coarse pride give gold; friendship
and love give flowers.= _Grillparzer._
=Vanity Fair.= _Bunyan._ 25
=Vanity, however artfully concealed or openly
displayed, always counteracts its own purposes.=
_Arliss._
=Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof
of an open nature. Eighty winters have not
frozen him up or taught him concealments.
In a young person it is simply allowable; we
do not expect him to be above it.= _Bovee._
=Vanity is a blue-bottle, which buzzes in the
window of the wise.= _Pr._
=Vanity is of a divisive, not a uniting nature.=
_Carlyle._
=Vanity is rather a mark of humility than pride.= 30
_Swift._
=Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that
the lowest drudge must boast and have his
admirers; and the philosophers themselves
desire the same.= _Pascal._
=Vanity is the food of fools.= _Swift._
=Vanity is the pride of Nature.= _Pr._
=Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of
spirit is too proud to be vain.= _Swift._
=Vare, Vare, redde mihi legiones meas!=--Varus, 35
give me back my legions! _Suet. Exclamation
of Augustus Cæsar on hearing of the slaughter
of his troops under Varus by Arminius._
=Variæ lectiones=--Various readings.
=Varietas delectat=--Variety is charming. _Phædrus._
=Variety alone gives joy; / The sweetest meats
the soonest cloy.= _Prior._
=Variety is the condition of harmony.= _J. F.
Clarke._
=Variety is the mother of enjoyment.= _Disraeli._ 40
=Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty;
and simplicity is essential to grandeur.=
_Shenstone._
=Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure
than uniformity of somethings.= _Jean Paul._
=Variety's the very spice of life, / That gives it
all its flavour.= _Cowper._
=Variorum notæ=--Notes of various authors.
=Varium et mutabile semper / Fœmina=--Woman 45
is ever changeable and capricious. _Virg._
=Vary and intermingle speech of the present
occasion with arguments, tales with reasons,
asking of questions with telling of opinions,
and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing
to tire, and, as we say now, to jade anything
too far.= _Bacon._
=Vast chain of being! / From Nature's chain
whatever link you strike / Tenth or ten
thousandth breaks the chain alike.= _Pope._
=Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, /
And falls on the other.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Vaux mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à ses
saints=--Better to have dealings with God than
his saints. _Fr. Pr._
=Vectigalia nervi sunt reipublicæ=--Taxes are the 50
sinews of the commonwealth. _Cic._
=Vedentem thus et odores=--Selling frankincense
and perfumes. _Hor., of worthless works fated
to wrap up parcels._
=Vedi Napoli, e poi muori=--See Naples and then
die. _It. Pr._
=Vehemens in utramque partem, aut largitate
nimia aut parsimonia=--Ready to rush to either
extreme of lavish liberality or niggardly parsimony.
_Ter._
=Veiosque habitante Camillo, / Illic Roma fuit=--When
Camillus dwelt at Veii, Rome was
there. _Lucan._
=Vel cæco appareat=--Even a blind man could 55
perceive it. _Pr._
=Vel capillus habet umbram suam=--Even a hair
has its shadow. _Pub. Syr._
=Velis et remis=--With sails and oars.
=Vellem nescire literas!=--I wish I never knew how
to read or write! _Nero on signing a death-warrant._
=Velocem tardus assequitur=--The slow overtakes
the swift. _Pr._
=Velocius ac citius nos / Corrumpunt vitiorum
exempla domestica, magnis / Cum subeant
animos auctoribus=--The examples of vice at
home more easily and more quickly corrupt us
than others, since they steal into our minds under
the highest authority. _Juv._
=Velox consilium sequitur pœnitentia=--Repentance
generally follows hasty counsels. _Pub.
Syr._
=Veluti in speculum=--As if in a mirror. 5
=Velvet paws hide sharp claws.= _Pr._
=Vendere fumos=--To sell smoke, or make empty
pledges.
=Vendetta boccon di Dio=--Revenge is a sweet
morsel for a god. _It. Pr._
=Veneering oft outshines the solid wood.= _Burns._
=Venerable to me is the hard hand--crooked,= 10
=coarse--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a
cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the
sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the
rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled,
with its rude intelligence; for it is the face
of a man living manlike.= _Carlyle._
=Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense,
saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=Vengeance has no foresight.= _Napoleon._
=Vengeance= (_Rache_) =has no limits, for sin has
none.= _F. Hebbel._
=Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord.= _St. Paul._
=Vengeance is wild justice.= _Pr._ 15
=Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and
torment the conscience.= _Schopenhauer._
=Veni, Creator Spiritus=--Come, Creator Spirit.
=Veni, vidi, vici=--I came, I saw, I conquered.
_Julius Cæsar's despatch, to a friend at Rome
on his defeat of Pharnaces._
=Venia necessitati datur=--Pardon is conceded to
necessity. _Cic._
=Venient annis / Sæcula seris, quibus Oceanus /= 20
=Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens / Pateat
tellus, Tiphysque novos / Detegat orbes;
nec sit terris / Ultima thule=--In later years
a time will come when Ocean shall relax his
bars, and a vast territory shall appear, and
Tiphys shall discover new worlds, and Thule
shall be no longer the remotest spot on earth.
_Sen. predicting the discovery of America._
=Venire facias=--Cause to come. (Writ of a sheriff
to summon a jury.) _L._
=Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus /
Dardaniæ=--The last day and inevitable hour
of Troy is come. _Virg._
=Vent au visage rend un homme sage=--Wind in
the face (_i.e._ adversity) makes a man wise. _Pr._
=Ventis secundis=--With a fair wind.
=Ventre à terre--At full speed; with all one's= 25
=might.= _Fr._
=Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles=--A hungry
belly has no ears. _Fr. Pr._
=Ventum ad supremum est=--A crisis has come;
we are at our last shift. _Virg._
=Ventum seminabant et turbinem metent=--They
were sowing the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind. _Vulgate._
=Venus, if men at sea you save, / And rescue
from the whirling wave, / Me too, a lover,
I implore, / Save from worse shipwreck here
on shore.= _Anon._
=Venus is beautiful, no doubt; but the artist= 30
=that created her is more beautiful still.= _Ed._
=Venus will not charm so much without her
attendant Graces, as they will without her.=
_Chesterfield._
=Ver non semper viret=--The spring does not
always flourish. _M._
=Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit=--Our natural
countenance comes back, the assumed mask falls
off. _Petron._
=Verachtung ist der wahre Tod=--The true death
is being treated with contempt. _Schiller._
=Verba dat omnis amans=--Every lover makes fair 35
speeches. _Ovid._
=Verba facit mortuo=--He talks to a dead man; he
wastes words. _Plaut._
=Verba ligant homines, taurorum cornua funes=--Words
bind men, cords the horns of bulls.
=Verba rebus aptare=--To fit words to things, _i.e._,
call a spade a spade.
=Verba volant, scripta manent=--What is spoken
flies, what is written remains.
=Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur=--Words 40
will not fail when the matter is well
considered. _Hor._
=Verbatim et literatim=--Word for word and letter
for letter.
=Verbi causa=, _or_ =gratia=--For example; for instance.
=Verbo tenus=--In name; as far as the words go.
=Verborum paupertas, imo egestas=--A poverty
of words, or rather an utter want of them. _Sen._
=Verbosa ac grandis epistola venit / A Capreis=--A 45
verbose and haughty epistle came from
Capreæ (the Emperor Tiberius's palace). _Juv._
=Verbum Dei manet in æternum=--The command
of God endures through eternity. _M._
=Verbum Domini manet in æternum=--The word
of the Lord endureth for ever. _Vulgate._
=Verbum sat sapienti=--A word is enough to a wise
man. _Pr._
=Verbunden werden auch die Schwachen
mächtig=--Even the weak become strong when
they are united. _Schiller._
=Vergebens dass ihr ringums wissenschaftlich= 50
=schweift, / Ein jeder lernt nur was er lernen
kann!=--In vain that ye go ranging round about
in your scientific, or learned, inquiries; each
one learns only what he can. _Mephisto, to the
scholar in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Vergieb soviel du kannst, und gieb soviel du
hast=--Forgive as much as thou canst, and give
as much as thou hast. _Rückert._
=Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born of water and the spirit= (of death,
that is, and of life), =he cannot enter the kingdom
of God.= _Jesus._
=Veritas, a quocunque dicitur, a Deo est=--Truth,
by whomsoever spoken, comes from God.
=Veritas et virtus vincunt=--Truth and virtue
conquer. _M._
=Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi=--Truth fears 55
nothing but concealment.
=Veritas non recipit magis ac minus=--Truth
admits not of greater and less. _Wilkins._
=Veritas odium parit=--The truth begets hatred.
=Veritas temporis filia=--Truth is the daughter of
Time.
=Veritas vel mendacio corrumpitur vel silentio=--Truth
is violated by falsehood or by silence.
_Ammian._
=Veritas victrix=--Truth the conqueror. _M._
=Veritas vincit=--Truth conquers. _M._
=Veritas visu et mora, falsa festinatione et= 5
=incertis valescunt=--Truth is established by inspection
and delay; falsehood thrives by haste
and uncertainty. _Tac._
=Veritatis simplex oratio est=--The language of
truth is simple, _i.e._, it needs not the ornament of
many words. _Sen._
=Vérité sans peur=--Truth without fear. _M._
=Verletzen ist leicht, heilen schwer=--To hurt is
easy, to heal is hard. _Ger. Pr._
=Vermögen sucht Vermögen=--Ability seeks
ability. _Ger. Pr._
=Vernunft und Wissenschaft, / Des Menschen= 10
=allerhöchste Kraft!=--Reason and knowledge,
the highest might of man! _Goethe._
=Versate diu, quid ferre recusent, / Quid valeant
humeri=--Weigh well what your shoulders can
and cannot bear. _Hor._
=Verschoben ist nicht aufgehoben=--To put off
is not to let off. _Ger. Pr._
=Verse itself is an absurdity except as an expression
of some higher movement of the
mind, or as an expedient to lift other minds
to the same ideal level.= _Lowell._
=Verstand ist mechanischer, Witz ist chemischer,
Genie organischer Geist=--Understanding
is a mechanically, wit a chemically, and
genius an organically, acting spirit. _Fr. Schlegel._
=Verstellung ist der offnen Seele fremd=--Dissimulation 15
is alien to the open soul. _Schiller._
=Verstellung, sagt man, sei ein grosses Laster, /
Doch von Verstellung leben wir=--Dissimulation
they say is very wicked, yet we live by
dissimulation. _Goethe._
=Vertere seria ludo=--To turn from grave to gay.
_Hor._
=Vertrauen erweckt Vertrauen=--Confidence
awakens confidence. _Friedrich August II. von
Sachsen._
=Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego
paucis / Offendar maculis=--But where many
beauties shine in a poem, I will not be offended
at a few blots. _Hor._
=Verus amicus est is qui est tanquam alter idem=--A 20
true friend is he who is, as it were, a second
self. _Cic._
=Verwelkt, entblättert, zertreten sogar / Von
rohen Schicksalsfüssen--/ Mein Freund,
das ist auf Erden das Los / Von allem
Schönen und Süssen=--To wither away, be disleaved,
be trodden to dust even by the rude feet
of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything
that is beautiful and sweet. _Heine._
=Very few enjoy money, because they can't
get enough.= _Amer. Pr._
=Very few men acquire wealth in such a
manner as to receive pleasure from it.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Very few men, properly speaking, live at present,
but are providing to live another time.=
_Not traceable._
=Very few people are good economists of their= 25
=fortune, and still fewer of their time.= _Chesterfield._
=Very fine pagoda if ye could get any sort of
god to put in it.= _Carlyle to Bunsen of Cologne
Cathedral._
=Very great benefactors to the rich, or those
whom they call people at their ease, are
your persons of no consequence.= _Steele._
=Very learned women are to be met with, just
as female warriors; but they are seldom or
never inventors.= _Voltaire._
=Very like a whale.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Verzeih dir nichts und den Andern viel=--Forgive 30
thyself nothing, others much. _Ger. Pr._
=Verzeihn ist leicht, allein vergessen schwer=--To
forgive is easy, but to forget hard. _Schiller._
=Verzeiht! Es ist ein gross Ergötzen / Sich in
den Geist der Zeiten zu versetzen, / Zu
schauen, wie vor uns ein weiser Mann
gedacht, / Und wie wir's dann zuletzt so
herrlich weit gebracht=--Pardon! It is a great
pleasure to transport one's self into the spirit of
the times, to see how a wise man thought before
us, and to what a glorious height we have at last
carried it. _Goethe, Wagner to Faust._
=Vestibulum domus ornamentum est=--The hall
is the ornament of a house, _i.e._, first impressions
have great weight. _Pr._
=Vestigia morientis libertatis=--The footprints of
expiring liberty. _Tac._
=Vestigia nulla retrorsum=--There is no stepping 35
backward.
=Vestigia terrent=--The footprints frighten me.
_Hor._
=Vestis virum facit=--The garment makes the
man. _Pr._
=Vetera extollimus, recentium incuriosi=--We
extol what is old, regardless of what is of modern
date. _Tac._
=Vetustas pro lege semper habetur=--Ancient
custom is always held as law. _L._
=Vi et armis=--By force and arms; by main 40
force.
=Via crucis, via lucis=--The way of the cross is the
way of light. _M._
=Via media=--A middle way or course; any middle
course. _M._
=Via trita est tutissima=--The beaten path is the
safest. _Coke._
=Via trita, via tuta=--The beaten path is the safe
path. _L._
=Viam qui nescit qua deveniat ad mare, / Eum= 45
=oportet amnem quærere comitem sibi=--He
who knows not his way straight to the sea
should choose the river for his guide. _Plaut._
=Viamque insiste domandi, / Dum faciles animi
juvenum, dum mobilis ætas=--Enter upon the
way of training while the spirits in youth are still
pliant, while they are at that period when the
mind is docile. _Virg._
=Vice=--In place of.
=Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, / As
to be hated needs but to be seen; / Yet seen
too often, familiar with her face, / We first
endure, then pity, then embrace.= _Pope._
=Vice is its own punishment.= _Pr._
=Vice is learned without a schoolmaster.= _Dan._ 50
_Pr._
=Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its
grossness.= _Burke._
=Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.=
_Hazlitt._
=Vice versa=--The terms being reversed; in reverse
order.
=Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither
man nor the proudest of his works, which
buries empires and cities in a common grave.=
_Gibbon._
=Vicisti Galilæe!=--Thou hast conquered, O Galilæan!
_Julian the Apostate on his deathbed,
apostrophising Christ._
=Victoria concordia crescit=--Victory is increased
by concord. _M._
=Victoriæ gloria merces=--Glory is the reward of 5
victory. _M._
=Victory belongs to the most persevering.=
_Napoleon._
=Victory or Westminster Abbey.= _Nelson at
Trafalgar._
=Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni=--The
conquering cause pleased the gods, the
conquered one Cato. _Lucan._
=Victrix fortunæ sapientia=--Wisdom overcomes
fortune. _Juv._
=Vide licet=--Namely; you may see. 10
=Vide ut supra=--See preceding statement.
=Video meliora proboque, / Deteriora sequor=--I
see and approve the better course, but I follow
the worse. _Ovid._
=Viel Klagen hör' ich oft erheben / Vom Hochmut,
den der Grosse übt. / Der Grossen
Hochmut wird sich geben, / Wenn unsre
Kriecherei sich giebt=--Much complaining I
often hear raised against the proud bearing of
the great. The pride of the great will disappear
as soon as we cease our cringing. _Körner._
=Viel Rettungsmittel bietest du? Was heisst'
es? / Die beste Rettung, Gegenwart des
Geistes=--Many a remedy offerest thou? What
is the worth of it? The best remedy (the sole
deliverance) is the presence of the spirit. _Goethe._
=Viele Freunde und wenige Nothhelfer=--Many 15
friends and few helpers in distress. _Ger. Pr._
=Vieles wünscht sich der Mensch, und doch
bedarf er nur wenig; / Denn die Tage sind
kurz, und beschränkt der Sterblichen Schicksal=--Much
wishes man for himself, and yet needs
he but little; for the days are short, and limited is
the fate of mortals. _Goethe._
=Vigilantibus=--To those that watch. _M._
=Vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subveniunt
jura=--The laws assist those who watch, not
those who sleep. _L._
=Vigor ætatis fluit ut flos veris=--The vigour of
manhood passes away like a spring flower.
=Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold, / And= 20
=envy base to bark at sleeping fame.= _Spenser._
=Vilius argentium est auro, virtutibus aurum=--Silver
is of less value than gold, gold than
virtue. _Hor._
=Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis=--You
know how to conquer, Hannibal, but you
know not how to profit by your victory. _Maharbal
in Livy._
=Vincit amor patriæ=--The love of our country
outweighs all other considerations. _Virg._
=Vincit omnia veritas=--Truth conquers all things.
_M._
=Vincit qui se vincit=--He is a conqueror who 25
conquers himself. _M._
=Vinegar given is better than honey bought.=
_Arab. Pr._
=Vino dentro, senno fuora=--When wine is in, wit
is out. _It. Pr._
=Vino diffugiunt mordaces curæ=--Corroding cares
are dispelled by wine. _After Horace._
=Violence does ever justice unjustly.= _Carlyle._
=Violence of sorrow is not at the first to be= 30
=striven withal; being, like a mighty beast,
sooner tamed with following than overthrown
by withstanding.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Violent combativeness for particular sects, as
Evangelical, Roman Catholic, High Church,
Broad Church, or the like, is merely a form
of party egoism, and a defiance of Christ,
not a confession of Him.= _Ruskin._
=Violent delights have violent ends, / And in
their triumph die, like fire and powder, /
Which, as they kiss, consume.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 6.
=Violent fires soon burn out.= _Pr._
=Violent mirth is the foam, and deep sadness
the subsidence, of a morbid fermentation.=
_Johnson._
=Violent passions are formed in solitude. In= 35
=the bustle of the world no object has time
to make a deep impression.= _Henry Home._
=Violenta nemo imperia continuit diu; /
Moderata durant=--No one ever held power
long by violence; it lasts only when wielded
with moderation. _Sen._
=Vir bonus est quis? / Qui consulta patrum,
qui leges juraque servat=--What man is to be
called good? He who obeys the decrees of the
fathers, he who respects the laws and justice.
_Hor._
=Vir sapiens forti melior=--A wise man is better
than a strong.
=Vires acquirit eundo=--She acquires strength as
she advances. _Virg., of Fame._
=Virescit vulnere virtus=--Virtue flourishes from 40
a wound. _M._
=Viret in æternum=--It flourishes for ever. _M._
=Virgilium vidi tantum=--Virgil I have only seen.
_Ovid._
=Viribus unitis=--With united strength. _M. of
Joseph I._
=Viris fortibus non opus est mœnibus=--Brave
men have no need of walls.
=Virtue alone can procure that independence= 45
=which is the end of human wishes.= _Petrarch._
=Virtue alone has majesty in death.= _Young._
=Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise
of government; laws alone carry themselves
into practice.= _Mencius._
=Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; / Her
monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.=
_Young._
=Virtue and goodness tend to make men powerful
in this world; but they who aim at the
power have not the virtue.= _Newman._
=Virtue does not consist in doing what will be= 50
=presently paid; it will be paid some day;
but the vital condition of it, as virtue, is
that it shall be content in its own deed, and
desirous rather that the pay of it, if any,
should be for others.= _Ruskin._
=Virtue, if it could only be beheld by our eyes,
would excite a marvellous love for wisdom.= (?)
=Virtue is an absolute Amen, uttered with reference
to the obscure ends that Providence
pursues through us.= _Renan._
=Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and
must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway
that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge,
on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary,
is ready to combat either in the ranks
of sin or under the banners of righteousness:
ready to forge cannon-balls or to print New
Testaments; to navigate a corsair's vessel
or a missionary ship.= _Horace Mann._
=Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil / Are
empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.=
_Twelfth Night_, iii. 4.
=Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.=
_Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=Virtue is choked with foul ambition.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, iii. 1.
=Virtue is free-will to choose the good, not= 5
=tool-usefulness to forge at the expedient.=
_Carlyle._
=Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it
the truest and highest pleasures; but they
who cultivate it for the pleasure's sake are
selfish, not religions, and will never have the
pleasure, because they never can have the
virtue.= _Newman._
=Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.=
_Bacon._
=Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant
where they are incensed or crushed.= _Bacon._
=Virtue is necessary to a republic.= _Montesquieu._
=Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing.= _Zachariä._ 10
=Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.= _C. H.
Parkhurst._
=Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature
of things, and the nature of things makes it
prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution
of being for seeming, and with sublime
propriety God is described as saying, I AM.=
_Emerson._
=Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.=
_Marlowe._
=Virtue is the health of the soul; it gives a
flavour to the smallest leaves of life.= _Joubert._
=Virtue is the queen of labourers.= _Pr._ 15
=Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding
manners.= _Bp. Middleton._
=Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And
vice sometime's by action dignified.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 3.
=Virtue, like a plant, will not grow unless its
root be hidden, buried from the eye of the
sun. Let the sun shine on it, nay, do but
look at it privily thyself, the root withers,
and no flower will glad thee.= _Carlyle._
=Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will
root when it can find an ingenuous nature
and a mind not averse to labour.= _Plutarch._
=Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole= 20
=man.= _Carlyle._
=Virtue may be stern, but never cruel, never inhuman.=
_Schiller._
=Virtue, not misery, is the appointed road to
heaven.= _W. R. Greg._
=Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged
rocks of poverty.= _Eugene Sue._
=Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree
perfumes the axe which strikes it.= _Saadi._
=Virtue repulsed, yet knows not to repine, /= 25
=But shall with unattainted honour shine.=
_Swift._
=Virtue should be considered as a part of taste,
and we should as much avoid deceit or
sinister meanings in discourse as we would
puns, bad language, or false grammar.= (?)
=Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches
as she does in purple and fine linen.= _Dickens._
=Virtue that goes unrewarded is doubly beautiful.=
_Seume._
=Virtue that wavers is not virtue.= _Milton._
=Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb,= 30
=commands respect.= _Schiller._
=Virtue, though in rags, will keep one warm.=
_Dryden, after Horace._
=Virtue, which breaks through all opposition /
And all temptations can remove, / Most
shines and most is acceptable above.= _Milton._
=Virtue which is according to the precepts of
reason, appears equally great in avoiding as
in overcoming dangers.= _Spinoza._
=Virtuous and vicious every man must be; / Few
in the extreme, but all in a degree.= _Pope._
=Virtus ariete fortior=--Virtue is stronger than a 35
battering-ram. _M._
=Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum=--Virtue
is the mean between two vices,
and equally removed from either. _Hor._
=Virtus est militis decus=--Valour is the soldier's
honour. _Livy._
=Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima /
Stultitia caruisse=--It is virtue to shun vice, and
the first step of wisdom is to be free from folly.
_Hor._
=Virtus hominem jungit Deo=--Virtue unites man
with God. _Cic._
=Virtus in actione consistit=--Virtue consists in 40
action. _M._
=Virtus in arduis=--Valour in difficulties.
=Virtus laudatur et alget=--Virtue is praised and
is left to freeze in the cold. _Juv._
=Virtus mille scuta=--Virtue is as good as a thousand
shields. _M._
=Virtus post nummos=--After money virtue.
_Hor._
=Virtus probata florebit=--Approved virtue will 45
flourish. _M._
=Virtus, recludens immeritis mori / Cœlum,
negata tentat iter via; / Cœtusque vulgares,
et udam / Spernit humum fugiente penna=--Virtue,
opening heaven to those who deserve not
to die, explores her way by a path to others
denied, and spurns with soaring wing the vulgar
crowds and the foggy earth. _Hor._
=Virtus repulsæ nescia sordidæ / Intaminatis
fulget honoribus; / Nec sumit aut ponit
secures / Arbitrio popularis auræ=--Virtue,
which knows no base repulse, shines with unsullied
honours, neither receives nor resigns the
fasces (_i.e._, badges of office) at the will of popular
caprice. _Hor._
=Virtus requiei nescia sordidæ=--Virtue which
knows no mean repose. _M._
=Virtus semper viridis=--Virtue is always flourishing
(_lit._ green). _M._
=Virtus sola nobilitat=--Virtue alone confers nobility. 50
_M._
=Virtus vincit invidiam=--Virtue subdues envy. _M._
=Virtute et opera=--By virtue and industry. _M._
=Virtute, non astutia=--By virtue, not by cunning.
_M._
=Virtute, non verbis=--By virtue, not by word. _M._
=Virtute quies=--In virtue there is tranquillity.
_M._
=Virtutem doctrina paret, naturane donet?=--Does
training produce virtue, or does nature bestow
it? _Hor._
=Virtutem incolumem odimus, / Sublatam ex
oculis quærimus invidi=--We in our envy hate
virtue when present, but seek after her when she
is removed out of our sight. _Hor._
=Virtuti nihil obstat et armis=--Nothing can withstand
valour and arms. _M._
=Virtuti non armis fido=--I trust to virtue, not to 5
arms. _M._
=Virtutibus obstat / Res angusta domi=--Straitened
domestic means obstruct the path to virtue.
_Juv._
=Virtutis avorum præmium=--The reward of the
valour of my forefathers. _M._
=Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam / Ignotos
fallit, notis est derisui=--A fellow who brags
of his prowess and is devoid of courage, imposes
on strangers but is the jest of those who know
him. _Phædrus._
=Virtutis fortuna comes=--Fortune is the companion
of valour. _M._
=Vis comica=--Comic power, or a talent for 10
comedy.
=Vis consili expers mole ruit sua / Vim temperatam
Di quoque provehunt / In majus;
idem odere vires / Omne nefas animo moventes=--Force,
without judgment, falls by its
own weight; moreover, the gods promote well-regulated
force to further advantage; but they
detest force that meditates every crime. _Hor._
=Vis inertiæ=--The inert property or resisting
power of matter.
=Vis unita fortior=--Power is strengthened by
union. _M._
=Vis viva=--The power residing in a body in virtue
of its motion.
=Visage fardé=--A painted, or dissembling, countenance. 15
_Fr._
=Visible ploughmen and hammermen there have
been, ever from Cain and Tubal Cain downwards;
but where does your accumulated
agricultural, metallurgic, and other manufacturing
skill lie warehoused?= _Carlyle._
=Vita brevis, ars longa=--Life is short, art is
long.
=Vita dum superest, bene est=--If only life remain,
I am content. _Mæcenas._
=Vita hominis sine literis mors est=--Life without
letters is death. _M._
=Vita est hominum quasi quum ludas tesseris=--The 20
life of man is like a game with dice. _Ter._
=Vita sine proposito vaga est=--A life without a
purpose is a rambling one. _Sen._
=Vitæ est avidus, quisquis non vult / Mundo
secum pereunte mori=--He is greedy of life who
is unwilling to die when the world around him is
perishing. _Sen._
=Vitæ philosophia dux, virtutis indagatrix=--O
philosophy, thou guide of life and discoverer of
virtue. _Cic._
=Vitæ post-scenia celant=--They conceal the secret
actions of their lives (_lit._ what goes on behind the
scenes). _Lucret._
=Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare= 25
=longam=--The short span of life forbids us to spin
out hope to any length. _Hor._
=Vitæ via virtus=--Virtue is the way of life. _M._
=Vital truth is in its very nature self-evident;
carries its witness within itself, and needs
only to be understood to be at once accepted
as true.= _Ed._
=Vitam impendere vero=--To devote one's life to
the truth. _Juv._
=Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia=--Fortune
rules this life, and not wisdom. _Cic._
=Vitanda est improba Siren / Desidia=--You must 30
avoid sloth, that wicked Syren. _Hor._
=Vitavi denique culpam, / Non laudem merui=--I
have, in brief, avoided what is censurable, not
merited what is commendable. _Hor._
=Vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt=--Vices
steal upon us under the name of virtues.
_Sen._
=Vitia otii negotio discutienda sunt=--The vice of
doing nothing is only to be shaken off by doing
something. _Sen._
=Vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimos ille / Qui
minimis urgetur=--No man is born without
faults; he is the best who is oppressed with
fewest. _Hor._
=Vitiosum est ubique, quod nimium est=--Too 35
much of anything is in every case a defect. _Sen._
=Vitium commune omnium est, / Quod nimium
ad rem in senecta attenti sumus=--It is a fault
common to us all, that in old age we become
too much attached to worldly interests. _Ter._
=Viva voce=--By the living voice.
=Vivat Rex= _or_ =Regina=--Long live the king or
queen.
=Vive la bagatelle!=--Success to trifling! _Fr._
=Vive la nation!=--Long live the nation! _Fr._ 40
=Vive ut vivas=--Live that you may live. _M._
=Vive, valeque=--Long life to you and farewell. _M._
=Vivent les gueux!=--Long live the beggars! _Fr._
=Vivere est cogitare=--Living is thinking. _Cic._
=Vivere militare est=--To live is to fight. _Sen._ 45
=Vivere sat vincere=--To conquer is to live enough.
_M._
=Vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis=--If you
know not how to live aright, quit the company of
those who do. _Hor._
=Vivida vis animi=--The strong force of genius.
_Lucret._
=Vivimus aliena fiducia=--We live by trusting one
another. _Pliny the elder._
=Vivit post funera virtus=--Virtue survives the 50
grave. _M._
=Vivite fortes, / Fortiaque adversis opponite
pectora rebus=--Live as brave men, and breast
adversity with stout hearts. _Hor._
=Vivitur exiguo melius: natura beatis / Omnibus
esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti=--Men
live best upon a little: nature has ordained all to
be happy, if they would but learn how to use her
gifts. _Claud._
=Vivitur parvo bene, cui paternum / Splendet in
mensa tenui salinum; / Nec leves somnos
timor aut cupido / Sordidus aufert=--He lives
well on little on whose frugal board the paternal
salt-cellar shines, and whose soft slumbers are
not disturbed by fear or the sordid passion for
gain. _Hor._
=Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui, / Quæ vos
ad cœlum fertis rumore secundo=--I live and
am a king, as soon as I have left those interests
of the city, which you exalt to the skies in such
laudation. _Hor._
=Vivre, c'est penser et sentir son âme=--To live
is to think, and feel one has a soul of his own.
_Fr._
=Vivre n'est pas respirer; c'est agir=--Living is
not breathing; it is acting. _Rousseau._
=Vivunt in Venerem frondes, etiam nemus omne
per altum / Felix arbor amat; nutant ad
mutua palmæ / Fœdera, populeo suspirat
populus ictu, / Et platani platanis, alnoque
assibilat alnus=--The leaves live to love, and
over the whole lofty grove each happy tree loves;
palm nods to palm in mutual pledge of love; the
poplar sighs for the poplar's embrace; plane
whispers to plane, and alder to alder. _Claud.,
in anticipation of the sexual system of Linnæus._
=Vix a te videor posse tenere manus=--I feel
hardly able to keep my hands off you. _Ovid._
=Vix decimus quisque est, qui ipse sese noverit=--Hardly 5
one man in ten knows himself.
_Plaut._
=Vix ea nostra voco=--I scarcely call these things
our own. _M._
=Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona / Multi; sed
omnes illacrymabiles / Urgentur, ignotique
longa / Nocte, carent quia vate sacro=--Many
brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all of
them, unwept and unknown, are o'erwhelmed in
endless night, because no sacred bard was there
to sing their praises. _Hor._
=Vixi dubius, anxius morior, nescio quo vado=--I
have lived in doubt, I die in anxiety, and I
know not whither I go. _Ascribed to a Pope of
Rome._
=Voce d'uno, voce di niuno=--Voice of one, voice
of none. _It. Pr._
=Vogue la galère!=--Come what may! _Fr._ 10
=Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz=--That is the sun of
Austerlitz. _Napoleon._
=Voilà une autre chose=--That's quite another
matter. _Fr._
=Voilà une femme qui a des lunes=--There is a
woman who is full of whims (_lit._ has moons).
_Fr. Pr._
=Volenti non fit injuria=--An injury cannot be done
to a consenting party, _i.e._, if he consents or connives,
he cannot complain. _L._
=Volez de vos propres ailes=--Do for yourself (_lit._ 15
fly with your own wings). _Fr. Pr._
=Voll, toll=--Full, foolish. _Ger. Pr._
=Voll Weisheit sind des Schicksals Fügungen=--Full
of wisdom are the ordinations of Fate.
_Schiller._
=Vollkommenheit ist die Norm des Himmels; /
Vollkommenes Wollen, die Norm des Menschen=--Perfection
is the rule of heaven; to will
the perfect, that of man. _Goethe._
=Volo non valeo=--I am willing but unable. _M._
=Volte face=--A change of front. _Fr._ 20
=Voluntas non potest cogi=--The will cannot be
forced.
=Voluptates commendat rarior usus=--Pleasures
are enhanced that are sparingly enjoyed. _Juv._
=Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, / Von
dem ist, leider! nie die Frage=--Of the
right that is born with us, of that unhappily
there is never a question. _Goethe, Mephisto in
"Faust."_
=Vom Sein zum Sein geht alles Leben über--/
Zum Nichtsein ist kein Schritt in der Natur=--All
life passes over from being to being. There
is no step in Nature into non-being. _Tiedge._
=Vom sichern Port lässt sich's gemächlich= 25
=rathen=--It is easy to give advice from a port of
safety. _Schiller._
=Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, / Des Lebens
ernstes Führen; / Von Mütterchen die Frohnatur, /
Und Lust zu fabulieren=--From my
father inherit I stature and the earnest conduct
of life; from motherkin my cheerful disposition
and pleasure in fanciful invention. _Goethe, of
himself._
=Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, /
Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet=--From
the power which constrains every
creature man frees himself by overcoming himself.
_Goethe._
=Von der Menschheit--du kannst von ihr nie
gross genug denken; / Wie du im Busen
sie trägst, prägst du in Thaten sie aus=--Of
humanity thou canst never think greatly enough;
as thou bearest it in thy bosom, thou imprintest
it in thy deeds. _Schiller._
=Vor dem Glauben / Gilt keine Stimme der
Natur=--In matters of faith the voice of nature
has no standing (before the Inquisition).
_Schiller._
=Vor dem Tode erschrickst du? Du wünchest= 30
=unsterblich zu leben! / Leb' im Ganzen!
Wenn du lange dahin bist, es bleibt=--Art
thou afraid of death? Thou wishest for immortality?
Live in the whole! When thou art long
gone, it remains. _Schiller._
=Vor Leiden kann nur Gott dich wahren, /
Unmuth magst du dir selber sparen=--From
suffering God alone can guard thee; from ill-humour
thou canst guard thyself. _Geibel._
=Vorwärts=--Forward. _M. of Blücher._
=Vorwärts musst du / Denn rückwärts kannst
du nun nicht mehr=--Forwards must thou, for
backwards canst thou now no more. _Schiller._
=Vos finesses sont cousues de fil blanc=--Your arts
are easily seen through (_lit._ sewed with white
thread). _Fr. Pr._
=Vota vita mea=--My life is devoted. _M._ 35
=Vote it as you please; there is a company of
poor men that will spend all their blood before
they see it settled so.= _Cromwell._
=Votes should be weighed, not counted.= _Schiller._
=Vouloir c'est pouvoir=--Where there's a will,
there's a way (_lit._ to will is to be able). _Fr.
Pr._
=Vous bridez le cheval par la queue=--You begin
at the wrong end (_lit._ bridle the horse by the
tail). _Fr. Pr._
=Vous êtes orfèvre, Monsieur Josse!=--You are a 40
goldsmith, Monsieur Josse! _i.e._, an interested
party. _Molière._
=Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, Monsieur?
Hélas! quelle triste vieillesse vous vous
préparez!=--Not play at whist, sir? Alas! what
a dreary old age you are preparing for yourself.
_Talleyrand._
=Vous prenez tout ce qu'il dit au pied de la
lettre=--You take everything he says literally.
_Fr. Pr._
=Vous voulez prendre la lune avec les dents=--You
attempt impossibilities (_lit._ wish to take the
moon with your teeth). _Fr. Pr._
=Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.=
_Pr._
=Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet=--The 45
word that is heard perishes, the letter that is
written remains.
=Vox clamantis in deserto=--The voice of one crying
in the wilderness. _Vulgate._
=Vox et præterea nihil=--A voice and nothing
more.
=Vox faucibus hæsit=--His voice stuck fast in his
throat.
=Vox is the God of this universe.= _Carlyle._
=Vox populi, vox Dei=--The voice of the people is 5
the voice of God.
=Vox tantum atque ossa supersunt. / Vox
manet=--The voice and bones are all that's left;
the voice remains. _Ovid._
=Voyez comme il brûle le pavé=--See how fast he
drives (_lit._, burns the pavement). _Fr. Pr._
=Vulgar opulence fills the street from wall to
wall of the houses, and begrudges all but
the gutter to everybody whose sleeve is a
little worn at the elbows.= _John Weiss._
=Vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart
and body, resulting from prolonged, and
especially from inherited conditions of "degeneracy,"
or literally "unracing;" gentlemanliness
being another name for intense
humanity. And vulgarity shows itself in
dulness of heart, not in rage or cruelty, but
in inability to feel or conceive noble character
or emotion. Dulness of bodily sense and
general stupidity are its material manifestations.=
_Ruskin._
=Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments= 10
=more than mud.= _Plautus._
=Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa,
æstimat=--The masses judge of few things by
the truth, of most things by opinion. _Cic._
=Vultus est index animi=--The countenance is the
index of the mind. _Pr._
W.
=Wachsamkeit ist die Tugend des Lasters=--Vigilance
is the virtue of vice. _C. J. Weber._
=Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the
stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering
winds of space; / Watch patient all your
days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray
of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need
of you--the purblind, slothful world!= _Lewis
Morris._
=Wage du zu irren und zu träumen: / Hoher= 15
=Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel=--Dare to
err and to dream; a deep meaning often lies in
the play of a child. _Schiller._
=Wages are no index of well-being to the working
man; without proper wages there can
be no well-being; but with them also there
may be none.= _Carlyle._
=Wahres und Gutes wird sich versöhnen, /
Wenn sich beide vermählen im Schönen=--True
and good will be reconciled when both are
wedded in the beautiful. _Rückert._
=Wahrheit gegen Freund und Feind=--Truth
in spite of friend and foe alike. _Schiller._
=Wahrheit immer wird, nie ist=--Truth always is
a-being, never is. _Schiller._
=Wahrheit wird wohl gedrückt, aber nicht= 20
=erstickt=--Truth may be smothered, but not
extinguished. _Ger. Pr._
=Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to
with thine eye; for there be many cunning
men that have secret heads and transparent
countenances.= _Burton._
=Waiting answers sometimes as well as working.=
_Mrs. Gatty._
=Walk not with the world where it is walking
wrong.= _Carlyle._
=Walk this world with no friend in it but God
and St. Edmund, and you will either fall
into the ditch or learn a good many things.=
_Carlyle._
=Wann? wie? und wo? das ist die leidige= 25
=Frage=--When? how? and where? That is
the vexing question. _Goethe._
=Want is the mother of industry.= _Pr._
=Want makes wit.= _Pr._
=Want maketh even servitude honourable.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Want o' wit is waur than want o' siller.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Want of care does us more damage than want= 30
=of knowledge.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Want of courage upon some occasions assumes
the appearance of ignorance, and betrays us
when we most want to excel.= _Goldsmith._
=Want of humility or self-denial is simply the
want of all religion, of all moral worth.=
_Carlyle._
=Want of prudence is too frequently the want
of virtue; nor is there on earth a more
powerful advocate for vice than poverty.=
_Goldsmith._
=Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no
less a proof of stupidity than depravity.=
_Johnson._
=Want supplieth itself of what is next.= _Bacon._ 35
=Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men
frown.= _Fuller._
=War disorganises, but it is to re-organise.=
_Emerson._
=War has its sweets, Hymen its alarms.= _La
Fontaine._
=War has no pity.= _Schiller._
=War is a game which, were their subjects= 40
=wise, kings should not play at.= _Cowper._
=War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that
is righteous, / Sweet is the smell of powder.=
_Longfellow._
=War its thousands slays, peace its ten thousands.=
_Beilby Porteous._
=War ought to be the only study of a prince.=
_Machiavelli._
=War suspends the rules of moral obligation,
and what is long suspended is in danger of
being totally abrogated.= _Burke._
=War--the trade of barbarians, and the art of= 45
=bringing the greatest physical force to bear
on a single point.= _Napoleon._
=War, with all its evils, is better than a peace
in which there is nothing to be seen but
usurpation and injustice.= _Pitt._
=Wäre der Geist nicht frei, dann wär' es ein
grosser Gedanke, / Dass ein Gedankenmonarch
über die Seele regiert=--Only if the
spirit of man were not free, would the thought
be a great one that there is a monarch of thought
who rules over our souls. _Platen._
=Warm fortunes are always sure of getting
good husbands.= _Goldsmith._
=Warm your body by healthful exercise, not
by cowering over a stove.= _Thoreau._
=Warm your spirit by performing independently
noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy
of your fellows, who are no better than
yourself.= _Thoreau._
=Warn them that are unruly, support the weak,
be patient toward all men.= _St. Paul._
=Wars should be undertaken in order that we
may live in peace without suffering wrong.=
_Cic._
=Was, and is, and will be, are but "is."= _Tennyson._ 5
=Was der Löwe nicht kann, das kann der Fuchs=--What
the lion cannot manage to do, the fox
can. _Ger. Pr._
=Was der Socialismus will, ist nicht Eigenthum
aufheben, sondern im Gegentheile individuelles
Eigenthum, auf die Arbeit gegründetes
Eigenthum erst einführen=--What Socialism
means is not to abolish property, but, on the contrary,
to establish individual property, property
founded on labour. _Lassalle._
=Was die Fürsten geigen, müssen die Unterthanen
tanzen=--Subjects must dance as princes
fiddle to them. _Ger. Pr._
=Was die heulende Tiefe da unten verhehle, /
Das erzählt keine lebende glückliche Seele=--What
the howling deep down there conceals,
no blessed living soul can tell. _Schiller._
=Was die innere Stimme spricht / Das läuschet= 10
=die hoffende Seele nicht=--By what the inner
voice speaks the trusting soul is never deceived.
_Schiller._
=Was die Natur versteckt, zieht Unsinn an das
Licht=--What Nature hides from our gaze, want
of sense and feeling drags to the light. _Lessing._
=Was die Sage erzählt / Mit Geschichte vermählt, /
Mit Phantasie im Verein, / Das lass
dir willkommen sein=--Let what legend relates,
wedded to history and in union with fantasy, be
welcome to thee. (?)
=Was du besitzest, kann ein Raub des Schicksals
sein; / Was du besassest, bleibt für alle
Zeiten dein=--What you possess is at the mercy
of fortune; what you possessed remains your own
for ever. _Lorm._
=Was du denkest, sei wahr; und wie du denkest,
so rede! / Wolle das Gute, so folgt Segen
und Freude der That=--Be what thou thinkest
true; and as thou thinkest, so speak. Will what
is good; then will follow blessing and joy from
the deed. _C. L. Fernow._
=Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, /= 15
=Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. / Was man
nicht nützt, ist eine schwere Last; / Nur was
der Augenblick erschafft, das kann er nützen=--What
thou hast inherited from thy sires, acquire
so as to posses it as thy own. What we use not
is a heavy burden; only what the moment produces
can the moment profit by. _Goethe._
=Was einmal sein muss, wird nie zu früh gethan=--What
must be can never be too quickly done.
_Rückert._
=Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? /
Was ever woman in this humour won?=
_Rich. III._, i. 2.
=Was geboren ist auf Erden / Muss zu Erd'
und Asche werden=--What is born on earth
must to earth and ashes return. _J. G. Jacobi._
=Was gelten soll, muss wirken und muss dienen=--To
be of any worth a thing must be productive
and serviceable. _Goethe._
=Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; /= 20
=Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren=--What
dazzles is produced for the moment; what
is genuine remains unlost to posterity. _Goethe._
=Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan=--What
God does is well done. _S. Rodigast._
=Was hab' ich mehr als meine Pflicht gethan? /
Ein guter Mann wird stets das Bessre
wählen=--What have I done more than my
duty? A good man will always select what is
better. _Schiller._
=Was Hände bauten, können Hände stürzen=--What
hands have built, hands can pull down.
_Schiller._
=Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr=--What
little Jack does not learn, big John
never will. _Ger. Pr._
=Was hilft es mir, dass ich geniesse? Wie= 25
=Träume fliehn die wärmsten Küsse, / Und
alle Freude wie ein Kuss=--What help is there
for me in enjoyment? As dreams vanish the
warmest kisses, and as such is all joy. _Goethe._
=Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem
rechten Weg ist?=--What boots running if one is
on the wrong road. _Ger. Pr._
=Was hilft's, wenn ihr ein Ganzes dargebracht? /
Das Publikum wird es euch doch zerpflücken=--What
boots it to present a whole? The public
will be sure to pull it to pieces for you. _Goethe._
=Was ich besitze, mag ich gern bewahren; der
Wechsel unterhält, doch nützt er kaum=--What
I possess I would like to keep; change
is entertaining, but is scarcely advantageous.
_Goethe._
=Was ich besitze, seh' ich wie im weiten, / Und
was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten=--What
I possess I see in the distance; and
what has vanished becomes for me actuality.
_Goethe._
=Was ich nicht loben kann, davon sprech' ich= 30
=nicht=--I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
_Goethe._
=Was im Leben uns verdriesst / Man im Bilde
gern geniesst=--What annoys us in life we enjoy
in a picture. _Goethe._
=Was in dem Herzen Anderer von uns lebt, /
Ist unser wahrestes und tiefstes Selbst=--What
of us lives in the heart of others is our
truest and deepest self. _Herder._
=Was ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des
Tages=--What is thy duty? To accept the
challenge of the passing day.
=Was ist der Tod? Nach einem Fieber / Ein
sanfter Schlaf, der uns erquickt! / Der Thor
erschreckt darüber, / Der Weise ist entzückt=--What
is death? A gentle sleep, which
refreshes us after a fever. The fool is frightened
at it; the wise man overjoyed. _Winter._
=Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe=--What 35
is a hero without love for man? _Lessing._
=Was ist noch schlimmer als das Uebel?
Wenn man es nicht zu ertragen weiss=--"What
is still worse than evil?" Inability to
bear it. _C. J. Weber._
=Was ist unser höchstes Gesetz? Unser
eigener Vortheil=--What is our highest good?
Our own advantage. _Goethe._
=Was lehr' ich dich vor allen Dingen? / Könntest
mich lehren von meiner Schatte zu
springen!=--What before all shall I teach you?
That you could teach me to jump off my shadow!
_Goethe._
=Was man einmal ist, das muss man ganz
sein=--What we are at any moment we should
be entirely. _Bodenstedt._
=Was man Gott opfern will, muss man nicht
vom Teufel einsegnen lassen=--We must not
let the devil consecrate what we mean for God.
_Ger. Pr._
=Was man in der Jugend wünscht, hat man im
Alter die Fülle=--What one wishes in youth one
has to the full when old. _Goethe, by way of
motto to the second part of his "Wahrheit und
Dichtung."_
=Was man nicht versteht, besitzt man nicht=--What
we don't understand we do not possess.
_Goethe._
=Was man sein will, sei man ganz=--What one 5
will be, let him entirely be. _W. F. Flotow._
=Was man zu heftig fühlt, fühlt man nicht allzulang=--Very
acute suffering does not last long.
_Goethe._
=Was Menschen säen, werden die Götter
eraten; / Gott spricht durch seine Welt,
der Mensch durch seine That=--What men sow
the gods will reap. God speaks through his
world, man through his deed. _Tiedge._
=Was mir ein Augenblick genommen, / Das
bringt kein Frühling mir zurück=--What a
moment has taken from me no spring brings
back to me. _Hoffmann._
=Was never evening yet / But seemed far
beautifuller than its day.= _Browning._
=Was nicht von innen keimt hervor, / Ist in= 10
=der Wurzel schwach=--What does not germinate
forth from within is weak at its root.
_Uhland._
=Was nicht zusammen kann bestehen, thut am
besten sich zu lösen=--What cannot exist together
had better separate. _Schiller._
=Was niemals unser war, entbehrt man leicht=--We
easily dispense with what we never had.
_Platen._
=Was nützt, ist nur ein Theil des Bedeutenden=--What
is useful forms but a part of the important.
_Goethe._
=Was soll der fürchten, der den Tod nicht
fürchtet?=--What shall he fear who does not
fear death? _Schiller._
=Was there ever, since the beginning of the= 15
=world, a universal vote given in favour of
the worthiest man or thing?= _Carlyle._
=Was there, is there, or will there be a great
intellect ever heard tell of without being
first a true and great heart to begin with?
Never.... Think it not, suspect it not.
Worse blasphemy I could not readily utter.=
_Carlyle to John Sterling._
=Was thy life given to thee / For making pretty
sentences, and play / Of dainty humour for
the mirthful heart / To be more merry, or to
serve thy kind, / Redressing wrong?= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine=--What
enthrals us all is the common. _Goethe._
=Was vergangen, kehrt nicht wieder; Aber
ging es leuchtend nieder, / Leuchtet's lange
noch zurück!=--What has gone by returns not
again, but if it went down shining, it reflects its
light for long. _Karl Förster._
=Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und= 20
=was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig=--What is
rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.
_Hegel._
=Was verschmerze nicht der Mensch?=--What
can man not put up with? _Schiller._
=Was wir als Schönheit hier empfunden, / Wird
einst als Wahrheit uns entgegengehn=--What
we have felt here as beauty will one day
confront us as truth. _Schiller._
=Waste not time by trampling upon thistles
because they have yielded us no figs. Here
are books, and we have brains to read them;
here is a whole Earth and a whole Heaven,
and we have eyes to look on them.= _Carlyle._
=Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.=
_Bible._
=Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of= 25
=life.= _Carlyle._
=Watched pot never boils.= _Pr._
=Watchman, what of the night?= _Bible._
=Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief
articles in my pharmacopœia.= _Napoleon._
=Water cannot rise above the level from which
it springs; no more can moral theories.= _J. C.
Sharp._
=Water, water everywhere, / And all the boards= 30
=did shrink, / Water, water everywhere, / Nor
any drop to drink.= _Coleridge._
=Waters that are deep do not babble as they
flow.= _Pr._
=We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Without war, no soldier; without enemies,
no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe
were not opaque.= _Emerson._
=We all bear the misfortunes of other people
with a heroic constancy.= _La Roche._
=We all complain of the shortness of time, and
yet have much more than we know what to
do with. Our lives are spent either in doing
nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the
purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought
to do; we are always complaining our days
are few, and acting as though there would
be no end of them.= _Sen._
=We all know a hundred whose coats are well= 35
=made, and a score who have excellent
manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let
us take a little scrap of paper and each
make out his list.= _Thackeray._
=We all know that the secret of breakdown
and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient
knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline
of the will.= _John Morley._
=We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody;
and the pleasure of pleasing ought
to be greatest, and at last always will be
greatest, when our endeavours are exerted
in consequence of our duty.= _Johnson._
=We always believe that God is like ourselves:
the indulgent affirm him indulgent; the
stern, terrible.= _Joubert._
=We always live prospectively, never retrospectively,
and there is no abiding moment.=
_Jacobi._
=We always take credit for the good, and attribute= 40
=the bad to fortune.= _La Fontaine._
=We are able easily to dispense with greater
perfection.= _Vauvenargues._
=We are all a kind of chameleons, taking our
hue, the hue of our moral character, from
those who are about us.= =Locke.=
=We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.=
_Spurgeon._
=We are all best affected to them who are of
the same opinion as ourselves.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=We are all born for love. It is the principle
of existence, and its only end.= _I. Disraeli._
=We are all collective beings, let us place ourselves
as we may; for how little have we,
and are we, that we can strictly call our
own property?= _Goethe._
=We are all frail; but esteem none more frail
than thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We are all richer for the measurement of a= 5
=degree of latitude on the earth's surface.=
_Emerson._
=We are all visionaries, and what we see is our
soul in things.= _Amiel._
=We are always complaining our days are few,
and acting as though there would be no end
of them.= _Addison._
=We are always looking into the future, but we
see only the past.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We are ancients of the earth / And in the
morning of the times.= _Tennyson._
=We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking= 10
=out of the way for occasions to exercise
great and rare virtues, and by stepping over
the ordinary ones that lie directly in the
road before us.= _Hannah More._
=We are apt to pick quarrels with the world
for every little foolery.= _L'Estrange._
=We are as liable to be corrupted by books as
by companions.= _Fielding._
=We are as much informed of a writer's genius
by what he selects as by what he originates.=
_Emerson._
=We are as turkeys driven, with a stick and
red clout, to market.= _Sterne._
=We are awkward for want of thought. The= 15
=inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive
at the extremities.= _Emerson._
=We are born with faculties and powers capable
almost of anything, such, at least, as might
carry us further than can easily be imagined;
but it is only the exercise of those
powers that gives us ability and skill in
anything, and leads us towards perfection.=
_Locke._
=We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich.=
_Pr._
=We are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days upon earth are a shadow.=
_Bible._
=We are children for the second time at twenty-one,
and again when we are grey and put
all our burden on the Lord.= _J. M. Barrie._
=We are come too late, by several thousand= 20
=years, to say anything new in morality.
The finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning
manners have been carried away
before our times, and nothing is left for us
but to glean after the ancients and the more
ingenious of the moderns.= _La Bruyère._
=We are content with personating happiness--to
feel it is an art beyond us.= _Mackenzie._
=We are contented because we are happy,
and not happy because we are contented.=
_Landor._
=We are created to seek truth; to possess it is
the prerogative of a higher power.= _Montaigne._
="We are creatures that look before and after,"
the more surprising that we do not look
round a little, and see what is passing under
our eyes.= _Carlyle._
=We are great philosophers to each other, but= 25
=not to ourselves.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=We are here for the express purpose of stamping
on things perishable an imperishable
worth.= _Goethe._
=We are in a series of which we do not know
the extremes, and believe that it has none.=
_Emerson._
=We are in great danger; / The greater therefore
should our courage be.= _Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=We are inclined to believe those whom we do
not know, because they have never deceived
us.= _Johnson._
=We are incompetent to solve the times....= 30
=We can only obey our own polarity.= _Emerson._
=We are instinctively more inclined to hope
than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves
towards light rather than darkness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=We are less convinced by what we hear than
by what we see.= _Herodotus._
=We are members of one great body. Nature
planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for
a social life. We must consider that we were
born for the good of the whole.= _Sen._
="We are men, my liege."--/ Ay, in the catalogue
ye go for men.= _Macb._, iii. 1.
=We are near awakening when we dream that= 35
=we dream.= _Novalis._
=We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.=
_Denham._
=We are never farther from what we wish than
when we fancy that we have what we wished
for.= _Goethe._
=We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities
we have as by those we affect to have.=
_La Roche._
=We are never more discontented with others
than when we are discontented with ourselves.=
_Amiel._
=We are never more like God than when we= 40
=are doing good.= _Calvin._
=We are never present with, but always beyond
ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still
pushing us on towards the future.= _Montaigne._
=We are never properly ourselves till another
thinks entirely as we do.= _Goethe._
=We are never so happy or so unhappy as we
imagine.= _La Roche._
=We are not called upon to judge ourselves. /
With circumspection to pursue his path, /
Is the immediate duty of a man.= _Goethe._
=We are not ignorant of his devices.= _St. Paul_ 45
_of the Evil One._
=We are not indebted to the reason of man for
any of the great achievements which are the
landmarks of human action and human progress.=
_Disraeli._
=We are not, indeed, satisfied with our own
opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they
are ratified and confirmed by suffrage of the
rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle
for ever; we endeavour to get men to come
to us when we do not go to them.= _Sir Joshua
Reynolds._
=We are not sent into this world to do anything
into which we cannot put our hearts. We
have certain work to do for our bread, and
that is to be done strenuously; other work
to do for our delight, and that is to be done
heartily; neither is to be done by halves or
shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth
this effort is not to be done at all.= _Ruskin._
=We are not strong by our power to penetrate,
but by our relatedness.= _Emerson._
=We are not to be astonished that the wise
walk more slowly in their road to virtue
than fools in their passage to vice; since
passion drags us along, while wisdom only
points out the way.= _Confucius._
=We are not to lead events, but to follow them.=
_Epictetus._
=We are not to quarrel with the water for= 5
=inundations and shipwrecks.= _L'Estrange._
=We are not troubled by the evanescence of
time, if the eternal is every moment present.=
_Goethe._
=We are often governed by people not only
weaker than ourselves, but even by those
whom we think so.= _Lord Greville._
=We are often prophets to others only because
we are our own historians.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We are only so far worthy of esteem as we
know how to appreciate.= _Goethe._
=We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through= 10
=our pretensions.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=We are ourselves / Our heaven and hell, the
joy, the penalty, / The yearning, the fruition.=
_Lewis Morris._
=We are pent, / Who sing to-day, by all the
garnered wealth / Of ages of past song.=
_Lewis Morris._
=We are reformers in spring and summer; in
autumn and winter we stand by the old;
reformers in the morning, conservers at
night.= _Emerson._
=We are rid of the Wicked One, but the wicked
are still with us.= _Goethe._
=We are ruined not by what we really want,= 15
=but by what we think we do.= _Colton._
=We are seldom sure that we sincerely meant
what we omitted to do.= _Johnson._
=We are slaves, / The greatest as the meanest--nothing
rests / Upon our will.... And
when we think we lead, we are most led.=
_Byron._
=We are such stuff / As dreams are made on;
and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.=
_Tempest_, iii. 3.
=We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with
ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such
contentions, triumphs are defeats.= _Colton._
=We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel= 20
=aright.= _Hazlitt._
=We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,
three times as much by our pride, and four
times as much by our folly; and from these
taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or
deliver us by allowing an abatement.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=We are the children of our own deeds.= _Victor
Hugo._
=We are the miracle of miracles--the great
inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot
understand it, we know not how to speak of
it; but we may feel and know, if we like,
that it is verily so.= _Carlyle._
=We are the slaves of objects round us, and
appear little or important according as
these contract or give us room to expand.=
_Goethe._
=We are to earn the joys of a higher existence,= 25
=not by scorning, but by using, all the gifts
of God in this.= _W. R. Greg._
=We are too good for pure instinct.= _Goethe._
=We are very fond of some families because
they can be traced beyond the Conquest,
whereas indeed the farther back the worse,
as being the nearer allied to a race of
robbers and thieves.= _De Foe._
=We are wiser than we know.= _Emerson._
=We ask advice, but we mean approbation.=
_Colton._
=We barter life for pottage.= _Keble._ 30
=We boast our light; but if we look not wisely
on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness.=
_Milton._
=We build statues of snow, and weep to see
them melt.= _Scott._
=We by Fancy may assuage / The festering
sore by Fancy made.= _Keble._
=We can conceive or desire nothing more exquisite
or perfect than what is round us every
hour.= _W. R. Greg._
=We can do more good by being good than in= 35
=any other way.= _Rowland Hill._
=We can do nothing against the truth, but for
the truth.= _St. Paul._
=We can finish nothing in this life, but we can
make a beginning, and bequeath a noble
example.= _Smiles._
=We can hardly be confident of the state of
our own minds, but as it stands attested by
some external action.= _Johnson._
=We can have no dependence upon morality
without religion; so, on the other hand,
there is nothing better to be expected from
religion without morality.= _Sterne._
=We can live without our friends, but not without= 40
=our neighbours.= _Pr._
=We can more easily avenge an injury than
requite a kindness; on this account, because
there is less difficulty in getting the better of
the wicked than in making one's self equal
with the good.= _Cic._
=We can never soon enough convince ourselves
how easily we can be dispensed with
in the world.= _Goethe._
=We can offer up much in the large, but to
make sacrifices in little things is what we are
seldom equal to.= _Goethe._
=We can only know a little, and the question is
merely whether or not we know this well.=
_Goethe._
=We can only possess wealth according to our= 45
=capacity.= _Ruskin._
=We can receive anything from love, for that is
a way of receiving it from ourselves; but
not from any one who assumes to bestow.=
_Emerson._
=We can sometimes love what we do not understand,
but it is impossible completely to
understand what we do not love.= _Mrs.
Jameson._
=We can take up no scheme, however wild and
impracticable, but it will strike off some
flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge.=
_Ward Beecher._
=We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a
measure utilise it. The projectile force of
the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity;
it uses it.= _John Burroughs._
=We cannot all be masters, nor all masters /
Cannot be truly follow'd.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=We cannot all serve our country in the same
way, but each may do his best, according as
God has endowed him.= _Goethe._
=We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is
like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering
and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things, which have all this
rainbow character, defying all attempts at
appropriation and use.= _Emerson._
=We cannot be just if we are not humane.= 5
_Vauvenargues._
=We cannot be kind to each other here for an
hour; / We whisper, and hint, and chuckle,
and grin at a brother's shame; / However
we brave it out, we men are a little breed.=
_Tennyson._
=We cannot but speak the things we have seen
and heard.= _St. Peter and St. John._
=We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we
can yield to them in such a manner as to be
greater than if we could.= _Landor._
=We cannot fashion our children after our
fancy. We must have them and love them
as God has given them to us.= _Goethe._
=We cannot fight for love, as men may do; /= 10
=We should be wooed, and were not made to
woo.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 2.
=We cannot make our exodus from Houndsditch=
(_i.e._, the now dead religion of the past)
=till we have got our own= (_i.e._, out of it) =along
with us.= _Carlyle._
=We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but
the moment has the supreme claim.= _Emerson._
=We cannot part with our friends. We cannot
let our angels go. We do not see that they
only go out that archangels may come in.
We are idolaters of the old. We do not
believe in the richness of the soul, in its
proper eternity and omnipresence.= _Emerson._
=We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound, /
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs.=
_Keble._
=We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly= 15
=silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the
same moment; but a moment is room enough
for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash
of a murderous thought, and the sharp
backward stroke of repentance.= _George Eliot._
=We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor
too humbly of ourselves.= _Colton._
=We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak
presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy
countenance of David.= _Ruskin._
=We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because
it was allowed by great men.= _Emerson._
=We could not endure solitude, were it not for
the powerful companionship of hope, or of
some unseen one.= _Jean Paul._
=We crave a world unreal as the shell-heard= 20
=sea.= _E. L. Hamilton._
=We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.=
_Sydney Smith._
=We darken the cages of birds when we would
teach them to sing.= _Jean Paul._
=We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate
artifices as we do ourselves.= _Schopenhauer._
=We deem those happy who, from their experience
of life, have learned to bear its ills without
descanting on the burden.= _Juv._
=We derive from nature no fault that may not= 25
=become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate
into a fault. Faults of the latter
kind are most difficult to cure.= _Goethe._
=We do everything by custom, even believe by
it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking
as we may, are oftenest simply such
beliefs as we have never heard questioned.=
_Carlyle._
=We do not believe immortality because we
have proved it, but we for ever try to prove
it because we believe it.= _James Martineau._
=We do not commonly find men of superior sense
amongst those of the highest fortune.= _Juv._
=We do not correct the man we hang; we correct
others by him.= _Montaigne._
=We do not count a man's years until he has= 30
=nothing else to count.= _Emerson._
=We do not determine what we will think....
We have little control over our thoughts.=
_Emerson._
=We do not die wholly at our deaths; we
have mouldered away gradually long before.=
_Hazlitt._
=We do not judge men by what they are in
themselves, but by what they are relatively
to us.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We do not know what is really good or bad
fortune.= _Rousseau._
=We do not teach one another the lessons of= 35
=honesty and sincerity that the brutes do,
or of steadiness and solitude that the rocks
do. The fault is commonly mutual, for we
do not habitually demand any more of each
other.= _Thoreau._
=We don't always care most for those flat-pattern
flowers that press best in the herbarium.=
_Holmes._
=We draw the foam from the great river of
humanity with our quills, and imagine to ourselves
that we have caught floating islands
at least.= _Goethe._
=We eagerly lay hold of a law that serves as
a weapon to our passion.= _Goethe._
=We easily dispense with what was never our
own.= _Platen._
=We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our= 40
=doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment.=
_Jacobi._
=We estimate= (_lit._ measure) =great men by their
virtue, not by their success.= _Corn. Nep._
=We exaggerate misfortune and happiness
alike. We are never either so wretched
or so happy as we say we are.= _Balzac._
=We expect a bright to-morrow; / All will be
well. / Faith can sing through days of sorrow, /
All, all is well.= _Peters._
=We expect everything, and are prepared for
nothing.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We expect in letters to discover somewhat= 45
=of a person's real character. It is childish
indeed to expect that we are to find the
whole heart of the author unveiled....
Still as letters from one friend to another
make the nearest approaches to conversation,
we may expect to see more of a
character displayed in these than in other
productions which are studied for public
view.= _Blair._
=We expect old men to be conservative, but
when a nation's young men are so, its
funeral-bell is already rung.= _Ward Beecher._
=We fail? / But screw your courage to the
sticking-place, / And we'll not fail.= _Macb._,
i. 7.
=We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in
reality we suffer from self-love.= _Landor._
=(We) feel that life is large, and the world
small, / So wait till life have passed from
out the world.= _Browning._
=We find God twice--once within, once without= 5
=us; within us as an eye, without us as a
light.= _Jean Paul._
=We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order
to be like other people.= _Schopenhauer._
=We furnish our minds as we furnish our houses--with
the fancies of others, and according to
the mode and age of our country; we pick up
our ideas and notions in common conversation
as in schools.= _Bolingbroke._
=We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves.
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
I am always longing to be with men
more excellent than myself.= _Lamb._
=We gain the strength of the temptation we
resist.= _Emerson._
=We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to= 10
=store; / Enough requires too much; too
much craves more.= _Quarles._
=We gild our medicines with sweets; why not
clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments
as well?= _Chamfort._
=We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom
to profit by it.= _La Roche._
=We give advice by the bucket, but take it by
the grain.= _W. R. Alger._
=We go by the major vote, and if the majority
are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so
they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."=
_Horace Mann._
=We hang little thieves, and take off our hats= 15
=to great ones.= _Ger. Pr._
=We happiness pursue; we fly from pain; /
Yet the pursuit, and yet the flight is vain.=
_Prior._
=We hate delay, yet it makes us wise.= _Pr._
=We hate some persons because we do not
know them, and we will not know them
because we hate them.= _Colton._
=We have a great deal more kindness than is
ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness
that chills like east winds the world, the
whole human family is bathed with an
element of love like a fine ether.= _Emerson._
=We have all a cure of souls, and every man is= 20
=a priest.= _Amiel._
=We have all a speck of the motley.= _Lamb._
=We have all of us one human heart.= _Wordsworth._
=We have all of us our ferries (to cross over)
in this world, and must know the river and
its ways, or get drowned some day.= _Carlyle._
=We have all strength enough to endure the
troubles of others.= _La Roche._
=We have always considered taxes to be the= 25
=sinews of the state.= _Cic._
=We have, and this is an interesting fact, a plant
which may serve as a symbol of the most advanced
age, since, having passed the period
of flowers and fruit, it still thrives cheerfully
without further foundation.= _Goethe._
=We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile,
believe always, and never turn back.= _Simms._
=We have done deeds of charity, / Made peace
of enmity, fair love of hate.= _Rich. III._,
ii. 1.
=We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love, one another.=
_Swift._
=We have less charity for those who believe the= 30
=half of our creed than for those who deny the
whole of it.= _Colton._
=We have little control over our thoughts.
We are the prisoners of our ideas.= _Emerson._
=We have met the enemy, and they are ours.=
_Oliver H. Perry._
=We have more indolence in the mind than in
the body.= _La Roche._
=We have more mathematics than ever, but less
mathesis. Archimedes and Plato could not
have read the "Méchanique Céleste;" but
neither would the whole French Institute see
aught in that saying, "God geometrises," but
sentimental rhodomontade.= _Carlyle._
=We have no more / The world to choose from,= 35
=who, where'er we turn, / Tread through old
thoughts and fair. Yet must we sing--/ We
have no choice.= _Lewis Morris._
=We have not only multiplied diseases, but we
have made them more fatal.= _Rush._
=We have not read an author till we have seen
his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.=
_Carlyle._
=We have not the innocence of Eden; but by
God's help and Christ's example, we may
have the victory of Gethsemane.= _Chapin._
=We have not the love of greatness, but the
love of the love of greatness.= _Carlyle._
=We have not wings, we cannot soar; / But= 40
=we have feet to scale and climb / By slow
degrees, by more and more, / The cloudy
summits of our time.= _Longfellow._
=We have nothing to do with what is happening
in space (or possibly may happen in time);
we have only to attend to what is happening
here--and now.= _Ruskin._
=We have raised Pain and Sorrow into heaven,
and in our temples, on our altars. Grief
stands symbol of our faith, and it shall last
as long as man is mortal and unhappy.= _Wm.
Smith._
=We have scotch'd the snake, but not killed
it.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=We have such exorbitant eyes, that, on seeing
the smallest arc, we complete the curve, and
when the curtain is lifted from the diagram
which it served to veil, we are vexed to find
that no more was drawn than just that
fragment of an arc which we first beheld.=
_Emerson._
=We hear constantly of what Nature is doing,= 45
=but we rarely hear of what man is thinking.
We want ideas, and we get more facts.=
_Buckle._
=We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter
grief is loud, calm grief is silent.= _Auerbach._
=We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own
harms, which the wise powers / Deny us for
our good; so find we profit / By losing of our
prayers.= _Ant. and Cleo._, ii. 1.
=We in turn / Shall one day be Time's ancients,
and inspire / The wiser, higher race, which
yet shall sing; / Because to sing is human,
and high thought / Grows rhythmic ere its
close.= _Lewis Morris._
=We inherit, not life only, but all the garniture
and form of life; and work, and speak, and
even think and feel, as our fathers, and
primeval grandfathers, from the beginning,
have given it us.= _Carlyle._
=We injure mysteries, which are matters of
faith, by any attempt at explanation in order
to make them matters of reason. Could
they be explained, they would cease to be
mysteries; and it has been well said that a
thing is not necessarily against reason because
it happens to be above it.= _Colton._
=We keep but what we give, / And only daily= 5
=dying may we live.= _Lewis Morris._
=We know accurately only when we know
little; with knowledge doubt increases.=
_Goethe._
=We know better than we do.= _Emerson._
=We know God easily, provided we do not
constrain ourselves to define him.= _Joubert._
=We know not oftentimes what we are able to
do, but temptations shows us what we are.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=We know truth when we see it, let sceptic= 10
=and scoffer say what they choose.= _Emerson._
=We know what we are, but we know not
what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he
who does not take an active part in certain
subjects knows them but half and superficially.=
_Goethe._
=We learn to know a thing best in the place
where it is native.= _Goethe._
=We learn to know nothing but what we love;
and the deeper we mean to penetrate into
any matter with insight, the stronger and
more vital must our love and passion be.=
_Goethe._
=We learn wisdom from failure much more than= 15
=from success; we often discover what will
do by finding out what will not do; and probably
he who never made a mistake never
made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to
say of his studies in intellectual philosophy,
that he had become all the better acquainted
with the country through having had the
good luck sometimes to lose his way.= _Smiles._
=We lie down and rise up with the skeleton
allotted to us for our mortal companion--the
phantom of ourselves.= _Dickens._
=We like only such actions as have long already
had the praise of men, and do not perceive
that anything man can do may be
divinely done.= _Emerson._
=We like slipping, but not falling; our real
desire is to be tempted enough.= _Hare._
=We like to see through others, but not that
others should see through us.= _La Roche._
=We live by admiration, hope, and love; / And= 20
=even as these are well and wisely fix'd, / In
dignity of being we ascend.= _Wordsworth._
=We live by our imaginations, by our admirations,
by our sentiments.= _Emerson._
=We live in a real, and a solid, and a truthful
world. In such a world only truth, in the
long run, can hope to prosper.= _Prof. Blackie._
=We live in a world which is full of misery and
ignorance, and the plain duty of each and
all of us is to try to make the little corner
he can influence somewhat less miserable
and somewhat less ignorant than it was
before he entered it. To do this effectually,
it is necessary to be fully possessed of only
two beliefs: the first, that the order of
nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an
extent which is practically unlimited; the
second, that our volition counts for something
as a condition of the course of events.=
_Huxley._
=We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not
breaths; / In feelings, not in figures on a
dial.= _Bailey._ (?)
=We live in the age of systems.= _Rückert._ 25
=We loathe what none are left to share; / Even
bless 'twere woe alone to bear.= _Byron._
=We long in vain to undo what has been done.=
_Schopenhauer._
=We long to use what lies beyond our scope, /
Yet cannot use even what within it lies.=
_Goethe._
=We look before and after, / And pine for what
is not; / E'en our sincerest laughter / With
some pain is fraught; / Our sweetest songs
are those which tell of saddest thought.=
_Shelley._
=We love a girl for very different things than= 30
=understanding. We love her for her beauty,
her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her
character, with its faults, caprices, and God
knows what other inexpressible charms; but
we do not love her for her understanding. Her
mind we esteem (if it is brilliant), and it may
greatly elevate her in our opinion; nay,
more, it may enchain us when we already
love. But her understanding is not that
which awakens and inflames our passions.=
_Goethe._
=We love in others what we lack ourselves, /
And would be everything but what we are.=
_R. H. Stoddart._
=We love justice greatly, and just men but
little.= _Joseph Roux._
=We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity;
but not peace at any price. There is a
peace more destructive of the manhood of
living man than war is destructive of his
material body. Chains are worse than
bayonets.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=We love those who admire us, but not those
whom we admire.= _La Roche._
=We love to see wisdom in unpretending forms,= 35
=to recognise her royal features under a
week-day vesture.= _Carlyle._
=We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves
into seeming knowledge, when we
should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.=
_All's Well_, ii. 3.
=We make way for the man who boldly pushes
past us.= _Bovee._
=We manufacture everything there= (in our manufacturing
cities) =except men; we blanch cotton,
and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and
shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen,
to refine, or to form a single living
spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.=
_Ruskin._
=We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered
if it is once lost.= _Rousseau._
=We may all agree in lamenting that there are
so many houses where you will not find a
good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good
cyclopædia of reference. What is still more
lamentable, in a good many more houses
where these books are, is that they are
never referred to or opened.= _John Morley._
=We may almost say that a new life begins
when a man once sees with his own eyes
all that before he has but partially read or
heard of.= _Goethe._
=We may be as good as we please, if we please
to be good.= _Barrow._
=We may be pretty certain that persons whom= 5
=all the world treats ill deserve entirely the
treatment they get.= _Thackeray._
=We may build more splendid habitations, /
Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/
But we cannot / Buy with gold the
old associations!= _Longfellow._
=We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient
wealth to buy gentility, but very few
that possess the virtues which ennoble human
nature, and (in the best sense of the word)
constitute a gentleman.= _Shenstone._
=We may despise the world, but we cannot do
without it.= _Baron Wessenberg._
=We may fall in with a thousand learned men
before we fall in with one wise.= _Klinger._
=We may give more offence by our silence than= 10
=even by impertinence.= _Hazlitt._
=We may grasp virtue so hard as to convert
it into a vice.= _Montaigne._
=We may have a law, or we may have no law,
but we cannot have half a law.= _Johnson._
=We may have once been slugs, and may one
day be angels, but we are men now; and
we must, as men, do our work honourably and
thoroughly.= _Ruskin._
=We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we
would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer
the tasting of them too long, we shall find
that both are soured by age.= _Colton._
=We may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd /= 15
=On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.= _Newton._
=We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but
we may surely guard against their taking root
in us and bringing forth evil deeds.= _Luther._
=We may outrun / By violent swiftness that
which we run at, / And lose by overrunning.=
_Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said
of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have
made a better berry, but doubtless God
never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God
never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent
recreation than angling.= _Izaak Walton._
=We may seek God by our intellect= (_Verstand_),
=but we can find him only with the
heart.= _Cötvös._
=We may take Fancy for a companion, but must= 20
=follow Reason as our guide.= _Johnson._
=We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of
our cherished schemes, finding our failures
were successes.= _A. B. Alcott._
=We move too much in platoons; we march
by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality
enough; we are slaves to fashion,
in mind and in heart, if not to our passions
and appetites.= _Chapin._
=We must accept ourselves as we are.= _Scherer._
=We must accept the post to which Heaven
appoints us, and do the duty to which
Heaven calls us, and think it no shame,
but an honour, to hold any office, however
lowly, under heaven's King.= _Ed._
=We must all receive and learn both from those= 25
=who were before us and from those who are
with us. Even the greatest genius would not
go far if he tried to owe everything to his
own internal self.= _Goethe._
=We must all toil--or steal; no faithful workman
finds his life a pastime.= _Carlyle._
=We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when
it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is
carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.=
_Fénelon._
=We must be as courteous to a man as we are
to a picture, which we are willing to give the
advantage of a good light.= _Emerson._
=We must be free or die who speak the tongue /
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals
hold / Which Milton held.= _Wordsworth._
=We must be our own before we can be= 30
=another's.= _Emerson._
=We must bear what Heaven sends us; no
noble heart will bear injustice.= _Schiller._
=We must carry the beautiful with us, or we
find it not.= _Emerson._
=We must first cross a valley before we regain
a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile,
let us see how we can stroll through
it with our friends pleasantly and profitably.=
_Goethe._
=We must first pray, and then labour; first implore
the blessing of God, and use those
means which he puts into our hands.=
_Johnson._
=We must have the real thing before we can= 35
=have a science of the thing.= _Froude._
=We must hold by what is definite, and not
split up our strength in many directions.=
_Hegel._
=We must, if we would husband life and not
waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with
the dispensable, to content ourselves with
the minimum of want, to stake our reputation,
if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic
worth, and show once again, if we can, by
our mere life and labour, what are the "roots
of honour" and the "veins of wealth."= _Ed._
=We must judge of a form of government by its
general tendency, not by happy accidents.=
_Macaulay._
=We must labour unceasingly to render our
piety reasonable, and our reason pious.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=We must needs die, and are as water spilt on= 40
=the ground which cannot be gathered up
again.= _Bible._
=We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of
forgiveness, until we have been touched to
the quick where we are sensitive and borne
it meekly.= _Ward Beecher._
=We must not contradict, but instruct, him that
contradicts us.= _Antisthenes._
=We must not judge of despots by the temporary
successes which the possession of
power enabled them to achieve, but by the
state in which they leave their country at
their death or at their fall.= _Mme. de Staël._
=We must not make a scarecrow of the law.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 1.
=We must not only strike the iron while it is
hot, but strike it till it is made hot.= _Sharp._
=We must not regard what the many say of us;
but what he, the one man who has understanding
of just and unjust, will say, and
what the truth will say.= _Plato._
=We must not stand upon trifles.= _Cervantes._
=We must not stint / Our necessary actions, in= 5
=the fear / To cope malicious censurers; which
ever, / As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow /
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further /
Than vainly longing.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 2.
=We must not suppose ourselves always to have
conquered a temptation when we have fled
from it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We must not take the faults of our youth with
us into our old age, for old age brings with it
its own defects.= _Goethe._
=We must put up with our contemporaries,
since we can neither live with our ancestors
nor posterity.= _George Eliot._
=We must sometimes cease to adhere to our
own opinion for the sake of peace.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=We must strive to make of humanity one= 10
=single family.= _Mazzini._
=We must take the current when it serves, / Or
lose our ventures.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=We must take the world as we find it.= _Pr._
=We need change of objects.= _Emerson._
=We= (in England) =need examples of people who,
leaving Heaven to decide whether they are
to rise in the world, decide for themselves
that they will be happy in it, and have resolved
to seek--not greater wealth, but
simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but
deeper felicity; making the first of possessions
self-possession, and honouring themselves
in the harmless pride and calm pursuits
of peace.= _Ruskin._
=We need greater virtues to sustain good than= 15
=evil fortune.= _La Roche._
=We need not die while we are living.= _Ward
Beecher._
=We needs must love the highest when we see
it, / Not Lancelot, nor another.= _Tennyson._
=We never can know the truth of sin; for its
nature is to deceive alike on the one side
the sinner and on the other the judge.=
_Ruskin._
=We never can say why we love, but only that we
love. The heart is ready enough at feigning
excuses for all that it does or imagines of
wrong; but ask it to give a reason for any
of its beautiful and divine motions, and it can
only look upward and be dumb.= _Lowell._
=We never desire ardently what we desire= 20
=rationally.= _La Roche._
=We never learn what people are by their
coming to us; we must go to them if we
wish to know what they are made of, and
see how they conduct or misconduct their
surroundings.= _Goethe._
=We never live, but we hope to live; and as we
are always arranging for being happy, it
cannot be but that we never are so.= _Pascal._
=We never love truly but once. It is the first
time. Succeeding passions are less involuntary.=
_Du Cœur._
=We never reflect on the man we love without
exulting in our choice; while he who has
bound us to him by benefits alone rises to
our idea as a person to whom we have, in
some measure, forfeited our freedom.= _Goldsmith._
=We never see anything isolated in Nature,= 25
=but everything in connection with something
else which is before it, beside it, under
it, and over it.= _Goethe._
=We never sufficiently consider that a language
is properly only symbolical, only figurative,
and expresses objects never immediately,
but only in reflection; yet how difficult it is
not to put the sign in place of the thing,
always to keep the thing as it is= (_das Wesen_)
=before one's mind, and not annihilated by
the expression= (_das Wort_). _Goethe._
=We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get
rid of pitying them.= _Vauvenargues._
=We ought certainly to despise malice if we
cannot oppose it.= _Goldsmith._
=We ought not, in general, to take the opinions
of others upon trust, but to reason and judge
for ourselves.= _Locke._
=We ought not to isolate ourselves, for we= 30
=cannot remain in a state of isolation. Social
intercourse makes us the more able to bear
with ourselves and with others.= _Goethe._
=We ought not to judge men by their absolute
excellence, but by the distance which they
have travelled from the point at which they
started.= _Ward Beecher._
=We ought not to quit our post without the
permission of Him who commands; the post
of man is life.= _Pythagoras._
=We ought not to seek too high joys. We may
be bright without transfiguration.= _Ward
Beecher._
=We ought not to teach children the sciences,
but to give them a taste for them.= _Rousseau._
=We ought to attempt no more than what is in= 35
=the compass of our genius and according to
our vein.= _Dryden._
=We ought to be ashamed of our pride, but
never proud of our shame.= (?)
=We ought to obey God rather than man.= _St.
Peter._
=We ought to regard our servants as friends in
a lower state.= _Plato._
=We our betters see bearing our woes, / We
scarcely think our miseries our foes.= _King
Lear_, iii. 6.
=We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire= 40
=those rights which they have delivered to
our care; we owe it to our posterity not to
suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.=
_Junius._
=We owe to man higher succours than food and
fire. We owe to man, man.= _Emerson._
=We own whom we love. The universe is
God's because He loves.= _Ward Beecher._
=We pain ourselves to please nobody.= _Emerson._
=We pardon as long as we love.= _La Roche._
=We part with true joy almost more lightly= 45
=than with a beautiful dream.= _Fr. Grillparzer._
=We pass our life in deliberation, and we die
upon it.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=We pity in others only those evils which we
have ourselves experienced.= _Rousseau._
=We play the fools with the time, and the spirits
of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.=
_Hen. IV._, ii. 2.
=We poets in our youth begin in gladness, /
But thereof come in the end despondency
and madness.= _Wordsworth._
=We promise according to our hopes, and perform
according to our fears.= _La Roche._
=We properly learn from those books only
which are above our criticism, which we
cannot judge.= _Goethe._
=We read far too many things, thus losing time= 5
=and gaining nothing. We should only read
what we admire.= _Goethe._
=We readily believe what we wish to be true.= _Pr._
=We reap what we sow, but Nature has love
over and above that justice, and gives us
shadow and blossom and fruit that spring
from no planting of ours.= _George Eliot._
=We receive but little advantage from repeated
protestations of gratitude, but they cost
them very much from whom we exact them
in return.= _Goldsmith._
=We reform others unconsciously when we
walk uprightly.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We retain from our studies only that which= 10
=we practically apply.= _Goethe._
=We sacrifice to dress till household joys and
comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar
dry and keeps our larder lean.= _Cowper._
=We see but the outside of the rich man's
happiness; few consider him to be like the
silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is
at the very same time spinning her own
bowels and consuming herself.= _Isaac Walton._
=We see farthest into the future--and that is
not far--when we most carefully consider
the facts of the present.= _Dr. Jowett._
=We see so darkly into futurity, we never know
when we have real cause to rejoice or lament.
The worst appearances have often happy
consequences, as the best lead many times
into the greatest misfortunes.= _Lady Montagu._
=We see the blossoms wither and the leaves= 15
=fall, but we likewise see fruits ripen and new
buds shoot forth.= _Goethe._
=We seek but half the causes of our deeds, /
Seeking them only in the outer life, / And
heedless of the encircling spirit-world, /
Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in
us / All germs of pure and world-wide purposes.=
_Lowell._
=We seldom give our love to what is worthiest
in its object.= _J. M. Barrie._
=We seldom speak of the virtue we have, but
much more frequently of that which we have
not.= _Lessing._
="We shall fight in the shade."= _Leonidas, to
the threat of the Persians that their forest of
arrows would darken the sun._
=We shall find no fiend in hell can match the= 20
=fury of a disappointed woman,--scorned,
slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.=
_Cibber._
=We should always keep a corner of our heads
open and free, that we may make room for
the opinions of our friends.= _Joubert._
=We should be slower to think that the man
at his worst is the real man, and certain
that the better we are ourselves the less
likely is he to be at his worst in our company.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=We should be sparing in our intimacies; because
it so very often happens that the more
perfectly men are understood, the less they
are esteemed.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We should come home from adventures, and
perils, and discoveries every day with new
experience and character.= _Thoreau._
=We should count time by heart-throbs. / He= 25
=most lives / Who thinks most, feels the
noblest, / Acts the best.= _Bailey._
=We should despise the wretch who has never
once thought what it is he is doing= (_vollbringt_).
_Goethe_ (?).
=We should distinguish between laughter inspired
by joy, and that which arises from
mockery.= _Goldsmith._
=We should eat to live, and not live to eat.=
_Pr._
=We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its
oppression.= _Confucius._
=We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.= 30
=I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my
enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe
to myself.= _Colton._
=We should guard against a talent which we
cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve
it as we may, we shall always in the
end, when the merit of the master has become
apparent to us, painfully lament the
loss of time and strength devoted to such
botching.= _Goethe._
=We should have all our communications with
men as in the presence of God; and with
God, as in the presence of men.= _Colton._
=We should hold the immutable mean that lies
between insensibility and anguish; our attempts
should be, not to extinguish nature,
but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at
distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster
to our own advantage.= _Confucius._
=We should labour to treat with ease of things
that are difficult; with familiarity, of things
that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things
that are profound.= _Colton._
=We should live each day as if it were the full= 35
=term of our life.= (?)
=We should manage our fortune like our constitution;
enjoy it when good, have patience
when bad, and never apply violent remedies
but in cases of necessity.= _La Roche._
=We should never risk pleasantry except with
well-bred people, and people with brains.=
_La Bruyère._
=We should never so entirely avoid danger as
to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at
the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily
exposing ourselves to danger, than
which nothing can be more foolish.= _Cic._
=We should not be too hasty in bestowing either
our praise or censure on mankind, since we
shall often find such a mixture of good and
evil in the same character, that it may require
a very accurate judgment and a very
elaborate inquiry to determine on which side
the balance turns.= _Fielding._
=We should not spur a willing horse.= _Pr._ 40
=We should not trust the heart too much. The
heart speaks to us very gladly, as our mouth
expresses itself. If the mouth were as much
inclined to speak the feelings of the heart,
it would have been the fashion long ago to
put a padlock on the mouth.= _Lessing._
=We should often feel ashamed of our most
brilliant actions were the world to see the
motives from which they sprung.= _La Roche._
=We should only utter higher maxims so far as
they can benefit the world. The rest we
should keep within ourselves, and they will
diffuse over our actions a lustre like the mild
radiance of a hidden sun.= _Goethe._
=We should round every day of stirring action
with an evening of thought. We learn
nothing of our experience except we muse
upon it.= _Bovee._
=We should seem ignorant that we oblige, and
leave the mind at full liberty to give or refuse
its affections; for constraint may indeed
leave the receiver still grateful but it will
certainly produce disgust.= _Goldsmith._
=We should take a prudent care for the future,= 5
=but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part
of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because
we may happen to be so to-morrow.= (?)
=We should, to the last moment of our lives,
continue a settled intercourse with all the true
examples of grandeur.= _Sir Joshua Reynolds._
=We shut our eyes, and, like people in the
dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we
search for, without finding it.= _Sen._
=We sink to rise.= _Emerson._
=We smile at the satire expended upon the
follies of others, but we forget to weep at our
own.= _Mme. Necker._
=We sometimes meet an original gentleman,= 10
=who, if manners had not existed, would have
invented them.= _Emerson._
=We sometimes see a change of expression in
our companion, and say, His father or his
mother comes to the windows of his eyes,
and sometimes a remote relative. In different
hours, a man represents each of several of
his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight
of us rolled up in each man's skin--seven or
eight ancestors at least--and they constitute
the variety of notes for that new piece of
music which his life is.= _Emerson._
=We speak that we do know, and testify that
we have seen.= _Jesus._
=We still are fain, with wrath and strife, / To
seek for gain, to shrink from loss, / Content
to scratch our shallow cross / On the rough
surface of old life.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=We swallow at one gulp a lie which flatters
us, but only drop by drop a truth which is
bitter to us.= _Diderot._
=We take a great deal for granted in this world,= 15
=and expect that everything, as a matter of
course, ought to fit into our humours, wishes,
and wants; it is often only when danger
threatens that we awake to the discovery
that the guiding reins are held by one whom
we had well-nigh forgotten in our careless
ease.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=We take a pleasure in being severe upon
others, but cannot endure to hear of our own
faults.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We take greater pains to persuade others
that we are happy than in endeavouring to
think so ourselves.= _Confucius._
=We take no note of time but from its loss.= _Young._
=We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves.=
_Hazlitt._
=We talk on principle, but we act on interest.= 20
_Landor._
=We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our
own hearts are the sole confidants of our
sorrows.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=We tell the ladies that good wives make good
husbands; I believe it is a more certain
position that good brothers make good
sisters.= _Johnson._
=We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, /
And pass the tropics, and behold each pole; /
When we come home, are to ourselves unknown,
/ And unacquainted still with our
own soul.= _Davies._
=We think our civilisation near its meridian;
but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and
the morning star.= _Emerson._
=We tolerate everybody, because we doubt= 25
=everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because
we believe something.= _Mrs. E. B.
Browning._
=We trample grass, and prize the flowers of
May; / Yet grass is green when flowers do
fade away.= _R. Southwell._
=We treat God with irreverence by banishing
him from our thoughts, not by referring to
his will on slight occasions.= _Ruskin._
=We triumph without glory when we conquer
without danger.= _Corn._
=We unconsciously imitate what pleases us,
and insensibly approximate to the characters
we most admire. In this way, a generous
habit of thought and of action carries with
it an incalculable influence.= _Bovee._
=We underpin our houses with granite; what= 30
=of our habits and our lives?= _Thoreau._
=We use up in the passions the stuff that was
given us for happiness.= _Joubert._
=We usually lose the to-day, because there has
been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming.=
_Goethe._
=We very often have to do things during our
lives of which we do not understand the
reasons, but the more clearly we understand
the work we have to do, depend upon it, the
better the work will be done.= _W. E. Forster._
=We wander there, we wander here, / We eye
the rose upon the brier, / Unmindful that the
thorn is near, / Amang the leaves.= _Burns._
=We want but two or three friends, but these= 35
=we cannot do without, and they serve us in
every thought we think.= _Emerson._
=We want downright facts at present more
than anything else.= _Ruskin._
=We want foolishly to think the creed a man
professes a more significant fact than the
man he is.= _Thoreau._
=We want one man to be always thinking, and
another to be always working, and we call
the one a gentleman, and the other an operative;
whereas the workman ought often to
be thinking, and the thinker often to be
working, and both should be gentlemen in
the best sense.= _Ruskin._
=We waste our best years in distilling the
sweetest flowers of life into potions which,
after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate.=
_Longfellow._
=We wear a face of joy because / We have been= 40
=glad of yore.= _Wordsworth._
=We, who name ourselves its= (the world) =sovereigns,
we, / Half dust, half deity, alike unfit /
To sink or soar.= _Byron._
=We will have others severely corrected, and will
not be corrected ourselves.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We will not estimate the sun by the quantity
of gaslight it saves us.= _Carlyle._
=We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; /
But keep our course, though the rough wind
say no.= (?)
=We will obey the voice of the Lord our God,
that it may be well with us.= _Bible._
=We wish to be happier than other people; and= 5
=this is almost always difficult, for we believe
others to be happier than they are.= _Montesquieu._
=We would commend a faith that even seems
audacious, like that of the sturdy Covenanter
Robert Bruce, who requested, as he was
dying, that his finger might be placed on
one of God's strong promises, as though to
challenge the Judge of all with it as he
should enter his presence.= _Dr. Gordon._
=We wound our modesty and make foul the
clearness of our deservings when of ourselves
we publish them.= _All's Well_, i. 3.
=We wrap ourselves up in the cloak of our own
better fortune, and turn away our eyes, lest
the wants and woes of our brother-mortals
should disturb the selfish apathy of our
souls.= _Burns._
=We write from aspiration and antagonism, as
well as from experience. We paint those
qualities which we do not possess.= _Emerson._
=We'd jump the life to come. But, in these= 10
=cases, / We still have judgment here; that
we but teach / Bloody instructions, which,
being taught, return / To plague the inventor.
This even-handed justice / Commends
the ingredients of our poison'd chalice /
To our own lips.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=We'll stand up for our properties, was the
beggar's song, that lived upon the alms-basket.=
_L'Estrange._
=Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering
objects.= _Carlyle._
=Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as
under adversity; strong and deep ones have
two highest tides--when the moon is at the
full, and when there is no moon.= _Hare._
=Weak persons cannot be sincere.= _La Roche._
=Weak Virtue that amid the shade / Lamenting= 15
=lies, with future schemes amused, /
While Wickedness and Folly, kindred
powers, / Confound the world!= _Thomson._
=Weakness of character is the only defect
which cannot be amended.= _La Roche._
=Weaknesses, so called, are neither more nor
less than vice in disguise.= _Lavater._
=Wealth and want equally harden the human
heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the
human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike
drive nature away from the heart of man.=
_Theodore Parker._
=Wealth consists of the good, and therefore
useful, things in the possession of the nation;
money is only the written or coined
sign of the relative quantities of wealth in
each person's possession.= _Ruskin._
=Wealth cannot purchase any great private= 20
=solace or convenience. Riches are only the
means of sociality.= _Thoreau._
=Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished;
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.=
_Bible._
=Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety
buys; / The dangers gather as the treasures
rise.= _Johnson._
=Wealth imparts a birdlime quality to the possessor,
at which the man in his native poverty
would have revolted.= _Burns._
=Wealth implies the possession of what is of
intrinsic value and of a capacity to use it.=
_Ruskin._
=Wealth is a shift. The wise man angles with= 25
=himself only, and with no meaner bait.=
_Emerson._
=Wealth is not his that has it, but his that
enjoys it.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Wealth is the application of mind to nature;
and the art of getting rich consists not in
industry, much less in saving, but in a better
order, in timeliness, in being at the right
spot.= _Emerson._
=Wealth is the conjuror's devil; / Whom when he
thinks he hath, the devil hath him.= _Herbert._
=Wealth is the possession of useful articles
which we can use, (so that) instead of depending
merely on a "have," it is thus seen
to depend on a "can."= _Ruskin._
=Wealth leaves us at death; kinsmen at the= 30
=grave; but virtues of the mind unto the
heavens with us we have.= _Lord Vaux._
=Wealth makes wit waver.= _Sc. Pr._
=Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is
separated from his neighbour.= _Bible._
=Wealth of every species necessarily flows to
the hands of him who exerteth himself.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Wealth only by its use we know.= _Anon._
=Wealth, power, and even the advantages of= 35
=youth, have little to do with that which
gives repose to the mind and firmness to
the frame.= _Scott._
=Wealth richer than both the Indies lies for
every man, if he will endure. Not his oaks
only and his fruit-trees, his very heart roots
itself wherever he may abide--roots itself,
draws nourishment from the deep fountains
of universal being.= _Carlyle._
=Wealth which breeds idleness, of which the
English peerage is an example, and of which
we are beginning to abound in specimens in
this country= (America), =is only a sort of human
oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are
planted, to spend a contemptible life of
slothfulness in growing plump and succulent
for the grave-worm's banquet.= _Horace Mann._
=Wealth without contentment climbs a hill, /
To feel those tempests which fly over
ditches.= _George Herbert._
=Wear your learning, like your watch, in a
private pocket; and do not pull it out and
strike it, merely to show that you have one.
If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it,
but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked,
like the watchmen.= _Chesterfield._
=Wearers of rings and chains! / Pray do not= 40
=take the pains / To set me right. / In vain
my faults ye quote; / I write as others wrote /
On Sunium's height.= _Landor._
=Weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when
resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard.=
_Cymbeline_, iii. 6.
=Weary the path that does not challenge reason.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient
inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Weave in faith and God will find thread.= _Pr._
=Weder sicher noch gerathen ist, etwas wider
Gewissen zu thun. Hier stehe ich, ich kann
nicht anders. Gott helfe mir=--It is neither
safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience.
Here stand I, I cannot do otherwise. God be
helping me. _Luther at the Diet of Worms._
=Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been /
To publick feasts, where meet a publick
rout: / When they that are without would
fain go in, / And they that are within would
fain go out.= _Sir J. Davis._
=Wedlock is like a besieged fortress: those
who are outside wish to get in, and those
who are inside wish to get out.= _Arab. Pr._
=Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, / Thou's= 5
=met me in an evil hour; / For I maun crush
amang the stour / Thy slender stem; / To
spare thee now is past my power, / Thou
bonny gem.= _Burns._
=Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, /
Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, /
Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, /
"Are the weans in their bed? for it's noo
ten o'clock."= _William Miller._
=Weed your better judgments / Of all opinion
that grows rank in them.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=Weeds make dunghills gracious.= _Tennyson._
=Weel is that weel does.= _Sc. Pr._
=Weep no more, lady, weep no more. / For= 10
=sorrow is in vain; / For violets pluck'd, the
sweetest showers / Will ne'er revive again.=
_Anon._
=Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning.= _Bible._
=Weh dem Lande, wo man nicht mehr singt=--Woe
to the land where the voice of song has
gone dumb. _Seume._
=Weigh not so much what men say, as what
they prove: remembering that truth is simple
and naked, and needs not invective to apparel
her comeliness.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Weighty things are done in solitude, that is,
without society. The means of improvement
consist not in projects, or in any violent
designs, for these cool, and cool very soon,
but in patient practising for whole long days,
by which I make the thing clear to my highest
reason.= _Jean Paul._
=Weighty work must be done with few words.= 15
_Dan. Pr._
=Weise Hut, / Behält ihr Gut=--Wise care keeps
what it has gained. _Ger. Pr._
=Weise sein ist nicht allzeit gut=--It is not always
good to be wise. _Ger. Pr._
=Weiser Mann, starker Mann=--A wise man is
a strong man. _Ger. Pr._
=Weisheit, du wirst Unsinn / Im Mund des
Schwärmers=--Wisdom, thou changest into
folly in the mouth of the fanatic. _Otto Ludwig._
=Welch Glück geliebt zu werden: / Und lieben,= 20
=Götter, welch ein Glück!=--What a happiness
to be loved! and to love, ye gods, what bliss!
_Goethe._
=Welcome evermore to gods and men is the
self-helping man.= _Emerson._
=Welcome is the best cheer.= _Pr._
=Welcome, Misfortune, if thou comest alone.= _Pr._
=Well at ease are the sleepers for whom existence
is a shallow dream.= _Carlyle._
=Well for the drones of the social hive that there= 25
=are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for
an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake
the labour of its fabrication.= _Hood._
=Well has Ennius said, "Kindnesses misplaced
are nothing but a curse and disservice."= _Cic._
=Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched,
he is shackled.= _Ward Beecher._
=Well roared, lion.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=Well thriveth that well suffereth.= _Pr._
=Well to work and make a fire, / Doth both= 30
=care and skill require.= _Pr._
=Well, well, is a word of malice.= _Cheshire Pr._
=Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, / And
say, there is no sin but to be rich; / And
being rich, my virtue then shall be, / To say,
there is no vice but beggary.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=Well, you may fear too far.--/ Safer than
trust too far.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Wem nicht zu rathen ist, dem ist auch nicht
zu helfen=--Who will not be advised, cannot be
helped. _Ger. Pr._
=Wen die Natur zum Dichter schuf, den lehrt= 35
=sie auch zu paaren / Das Schöne mit dem
Kräftigen, das Neue mit dem Wahren=--Him
whom Nature hast created for a poet, she also
teaches to combine the beautiful with the powerful,
and the new with the true. _Platen._
=Wen Gott niederschlägt, der richtet sich selbst
nicht auf=--He raises not himself up again whom
God smites down. _Goethe._
=Wen jemand lobt, dem stellt er sich gleich=--Every
one puts himself on a level with him whom
he praises. _Goethe._
=Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir
doch treu=--Though all deny thee, yet will not
I ever. _Novalis._
=Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, / Die Seele
aus dem Fegfeuer springt=--As soon as the
money jingles in the box, the soul leaps out of
purgatory. _Sallet after Tetzel._
=Wenn das Glück anpocht, soll man ihm aufthun=--When 40
fortune knocks, open the door.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wenn das Leblose lebendig ist, so kann es
auch wohl Lebendiges hervorbringen=--When
what is lifeless has life, it can also produce what
has life. _Goethe._
=Wenn der Purpur fällt, muss auch der Herzog
nach=--If the purple goes, the duke must follow.
_Schiller._
=Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, /
Musst du vernünftig fragen=--If thou desirest
a wise answer, thou must ask a reasonable question.
_Goethe._
=Wenn du nicht irrst, kommst du nicht zu Verstand=--If
thou dost not err, thou doest not come
to understand. _Goethe._
=Wenn ein Edler gegen dich fehlt, / So thu' als= 45
=hättest du's nicht gezählt; / Er wird es in
sein Schuldbuch schreiben / Und dir nicht
lange im Debet bleiben=--If a noble man has
done thee a wrong, act as though thou hadst
taken no note of it; he will write it in his ledger,
and not remain long in thy debt. _Goethe._
=Wenn Gott sagt: Heute, sagt der Teufel:
Morgen=--When God says "To-day," the devil
says "To-morrow." _Ger. Pr._
=Wenn ihr's nicht fühlt, ihr werdet's nicht erjagen=--If
you do not feel it, you will not get
it by hunting for it. _Goethe._
=Wenn man von den Leuten Pflichten fordert
und ihnen keine Rechte zugestehen will,
muss man sie gut bezahlen=--When we exact
duties from people and acknowledge no just
claims they may have on us, we ought to pay
them well. _Goethe._
=Wenn man was Böses thut, erschrickt man
vor dem Bösen=--When people do evil, they are
afraid of the Evil One. _Goethe._
=Wenn mancher Mann wüsste, / Wer mancher
Mann wär', / Thät' mancher Mann manchem
Mann / Manchmal mehr Ehr'=--If many a man
knew who many a man was, many a man would do
many a time more honour to many a man. _Ger. Pr._
=Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht
Aaron--Kälber=--If Moses is not with Aaron, then
Aaron makes him--calves. _Frederick the Great._
=Wenn sich der Verirrte findet / Freuen alle= 5
=Götter sich=--When the wanderer finds his way
again, all the gods rejoice. _Goethe._
=Wer allen alles traut, dem kann man wenig
trauen=--Him who trusts everything to every
one, we can trust with little. _Lessing._
=Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen
nennen?=--Who dare name the child by his right
name? _Goethe._
=Wer darf ihn nennen?=--Who dare name Him?
_Goethe._
=Wer den Tod fürchtet, hat das Leben verloren=--He
who fears death is forfeit of life. _Seume._
=Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt, /= 10
=Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei=--He
who has no ear for the voice of poesy is a barbarian,
be he who he may. _Goethe._
=Wer der Vorderste ist, führt die Herde=--The
foremost leads the herd. _Schiller._
=Wer die Leiter hinauf will, muss bei der untersten
Sprosse schon beginnen=--He who would
mount a ladder must begin at the lowest step.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wer die Wahrheit kennet und saget sie nicht, /
Der bleibt fürwahr ein erbärmlicher Wicht=--Verily,
he is a wretched creature who knows
the truth and speaks it not. _Binzer._
=Wer dir als Freund nichts nützen kann / Kann
allemal als Feind dir schaden=--He who can
do you no service as a friend, can always work
you harm as an enemy. _Gellert._
=Wer edel ist, den suchet die Gefahr / Und er= 15
=sucht sie, sie müssen sich treffen=--Whoso is
noble, danger courts him, and he courts danger;
so the two are sure to meet. _Goethe._
=Wer erst klug wird nach der That, / Braucht
seine Weisheit viel zu spat=--He who is wise
only after the deed, uses his wisdom much too
late. _Rollenhagen._
=Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen; /
Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar
sein=--To him who is finished off, nothing
you can do is right; a growing man (a learner)
will be always thankful. _Goethe._
=Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts
von seiner eignen=--He who knows not foreign
languages knows nothing of his own. _Goethe._
=Wer fröhlich sein will sein Lebenlang / Lasse
der Welt ihren tollen Gang=--He who will be
happy through life must leave the world alone
in its own mad career. _Rückert._
=Wer ist der Weiseste? Der nichts anders= 20
=weiss und will, als das was begegnet=--Who is
the wisest man? He who neither knows nor wishes
for anything else than what happens. _Goethe._
=Wer ist ein unbrauchbarer Man? Der nicht
befehlen und auch nicht gehorchen kann=--Who
is a good-for-nothing? He who can neither
command nor even obey. _Goethe._
=Wer ist grösser, Schiller, Goethe? / Wie man
nur so mäkeln mag! / Himmlisch ist die
Morgenröte, / Himmlisch ist der helle Tag=--Which
is greater, Schiller or Goethe? One is,
or the other is, as you judge of them. Of
heaven is the red dawn of morning; of heaven
the clear light of day. _Bauernfeld._
=Wer ist mächtiger als der Tod? / Wer da
kann lachen, wenn er droht=--Who is mightier
than death? He who can smile when death
threatens. _Rückert._
=Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, /
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht?=--Who
can think anything stupid or sensible
that the world has not thought already? _Goethe._
=Wer lange bedenkt, der wählt nicht immer= 25
=das Beste=--He who is long in making up his
mind does not always choose the best. _Goethe._
=Wer lügt, der stiehlt=--He who lies, steals. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer mit sich selber eins, ist eins mit Gott=--He
who is one with himself is one with God.
_Bodenstedt._
=Wer nicht Bitteres gekostet hat, weiss nicht
was süss ist=--He who has not tasted bitter does
not know what sweet is. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer nicht hören will, der muss fühlen=--He
that will not hear must be made to feel. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang /= 30
=Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang=--Who
loves not wine, woman, and song, remains a fool
all his life long. _Luther._ (?)
=Wer nichts für andre thut, thut nichts für sich=--He
who does nothing for others does nothing
for himself. _Goethe._
=Wer nichts fürchtet, ist nicht weniger mächtiger,
als der, den alles fürchtet=--He who fears
nothing is not less mighty than he whom everything
fears. _Schiller._
=Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, / Wer
nicht die kummervollen Nächte / Auf seinem
Bette weinend sass / Der kennt euch nicht,
ihr himmlischen Mächte=--He who never ate
his bread with tears, who sat not on his bed
through sorrowful nights weeping, he knows
you not, ye heavenly Powers. _Goethe._
=Wer oft schiesst, trifft endlich=--He who shoots
often, hits the mark at last. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer sein eigener Lehrmeister sein will, hat= 35
=einen Narren zum Schüler=--He who undertakes
to be his own teacher has a fool for a
pupil. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer sich behaglich fühlt zu Haus, / Der rennt
nicht in die Welt hinaus; / Weltunzufriedenheit
beweisen / Die vielen Weltentdeckungsreisen=--He
who feels at ease at home, runs not
out into the world beyond. The many voyages
of discovery over the world argue a world-wide
discontent. _Rückert._
=Wer will, der vermag=--He is able who is willing.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wer will was Lebendig's erkennen und beschreiben /
Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben, /
Dann hat er die Teile in seiner
Hand, / Fehlt leider, nur das geistige Band=--He
who would know and describe anything
living, sets himself to drive out the spirit first; he
has then all the parts in his hand, only unhappily
the living bond is wanting. _Goethe, Mephisto
in "Faust."_
=Wer wohl sitzt, der rücke nicht=--Let him who
is well seated not stir. _Ger. Pr._
=Were a man of pleasure to arrive at the
full extent of his several wishes, he must
immediately feel himself miserable.= _Shenstone._
=Were defeat unknown, neither would victory
be celebrated with songs of triumph.= _Carlyle._
=Were I a steam-engine, wouldst thou take the
trouble to tell lies of me?= _Carlyle._
=Were I so tall to reach the pole / Or grasp= 5
=the ocean with my span, / I must be measured
by my soul: / The mind's the standard
of the man.= _Watts._
=Were it no for hope the heart wad break.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth
my hand and clutch the sun? Dost thou
not see that the true inexplicable God-revealing
miracle lies in this, that I can stretch
forth my hand at all, that I have free force
to clutch aught therewith?= _Carlyle._
=Were man / But constant, he were perfect.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, v. 4.
=Were man not a poor hungry dastard, and
even much of a blockhead withal, he would
cease criticising his victuals to such extent,
and criticise himself rather, what he does
with his victuals.= _Carlyle._
=Were one to preach a sermon on Health, as= 10
=really were worth doing, Scott ought to be
the text.= _Carlyle._
=Were the eye not sun-related= (_sonnenhaft_), =it
could never see the sun; were there not in
us divine affinities, how could the divine so
ravish us?= _Goethe._
="Were there as many devils in Worms as
there are roof-tiles, I would on."= _Luther's
answer to his friends who pled with him not
to go._
=Were there but one man in the world, he
would be a terror to himself; and the
highest man not less so than the lowest.=
_Carlyle._
=Were we as eloquent as angels, we would
please some men, some women, and some
children much more by listening than by
talking.= _Colton._
=Were we to take as much pains to be what we= 15
=ought to be as we do to disguise what we
really are, we might appear like ourselves,
without being at the trouble of any disguise
at all.= _La Roche._
=Were wisdom given me with this reservation,
that I should keep it shut up within myself
and not impart it, I would spurn it.= _Sen._
=Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no
price; every man is satisfied with the share
he has from nature.= _Henry Home._
=Westward the course of empire takes its way.=
_Berkeley._
=What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when
she invented, manufactured, and patented
her authors, contrived to make critics out of
the chips that were left!= _Holmes._
=What a delight to have a husband beside you,= 20
=were it only to salute you when you sneeze,
and say "God bless you!"= _Molière._
=What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element
is that of a sick body on the human
soul or thinking part!= _Carlyle._
=What a fool is he who locks his door to keep
out spirits, who has in his own bosom a
spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice,
smothered far down, and piled over with
mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning
trumpet of doom!= _Mrs. Stowe._
=What a force of illusion begins life with us,
and attends us to the end!= _Emerson._
=What a heavy burden is a name that has become
too soon famous!= _Voltaire._
=What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb= 25
=of one particular tear!= _Shakespeare._
=What a large volume of adventures may be
grasped within this little span of life by him
who interests his heart in everything.= _Sterne._
=What a man can do is his greatest ornament,
and he always consults his dignity by doing
it.= _Carlyle._
=What a man does not believe can never at bottom
be of any true interest to him.= _Carlyle._
=What a man does, that he has.= _Emerson._
=What a man does, that he is.= _Hegel._ 30
=What a man finds good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.=
_Bacon._
=What a man is contributes much more to his
happiness than what he has or how others
regard him.= _Schopenhauer._
=What a man is irresistibly urged to say, helps
him and us.= _Emerson._
=What a man wills, not what he knows, determines
his worth or unworth, his power or
impotence, his happiness or unhappiness.=
_Lindner._
=What a miserable world!--trouble if we love,= 35
=and trouble if we do not love.= _Count de
Maistre._
=What a piece of work is a man! How noble
in reason! How infinite in faculty! In
form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a God!= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=What a poor creature is the woman who, inspiring
desire, does not also inspire love and
reverence!= _Goethe._
=What a road had human nature to traverse
before it reached the point of being mild
to the guilty, merciful to the injurious, and
humane to the inhuman! Doubtless they
were men of godlike souls who first taught
this, who spent their lives in rendering the
practice of this possible, and recommending
it to others.= _Goethe._
=What a sense of security is in an old book
which Time has criticised for us!= _Lowell._
=What a strange thing man is! and what a= 40
=stranger / Is woman!= _Byron._
=What a thin film it is that divides the living
from the dead!= _Carlyle._
=What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration
by the resemblance of things that
in the original we do not admire!= _Pascal._
=What a view a man must have of this universe
who thinks he can swallow it all, who
is not doubly and trebly happy that he can
keep it from swallowing him!= _Carlyle._
=What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown
of the highest sort endures, say for two
thousand years. And then? Why then a
fathomless eternity swallows it.= _Carlyle._
=What actually constitutes the human element= 45
=in man is a kindly spirit.= _Schiller._
=What an enormous camera obscura magnifier
is Tradition! How a thing grows in the
human memory, in the human imagination,
when love, worship, and all that lies in the
human heart is there to encourage it!= _Carlyle._
=What an inaccessible stronghold that man
possesses who is always in earnest with
himself and the things around him!= _Goethe._
=What are all our histories but God manifesting
himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled
down, and trampled upon everything
that he hath not planted!= _Oliver Cromwell._
=What are all prayers beneath / But cries of
babes, that cannot know / Half the deep
thought they breathe?= _Keble._
=What are men better than sheep or goats, /= 5
=That nourish a blind life within the brain, /
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of
prayer / Both for themselves and those who
call them friend?= _Tennyson._
=What are the outward details of a life, if the
inner secret of it, the remorse, temptations,
true, often-baffled, never-ended struggle of
it, be forgotten? Details by themselves
will never teach us what it is.= _Carlyle._
=What are we great ones on the wave of
humanity? We think we rule it when it
rules us, and drives us up and down, hither
and thither, as it listeth.= _Goethe._
=What are words but empty sounds, that break
and scatter in the air, and make no real impression?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=What are your axioms, and categories, and
systems, and aphorisms? Words, words.
High air-castles are cunningly built of words,
the words well bedded in good logic-mortar;
wherein, however, no knowledge will come
to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=What Art had Homer? what Art had Shakespeare?= 10
=Patient, docile, valiant intelligence,
conscious and unconscious, gathered from all
winds, of these two things--their own faculty
of utterance, and the audience they had to
utter to; add only to which, as the soul of
the whole, a blazing, radiant insight into
the fact, blazing, burning interest about it,
and we have the whole Art of Shakespeare
and Homer.= _Carlyle._
=What art was to the ancient world, science is
to the modern.= _Disraeli._
=What avail the largest gifts of Heaven, /
When drooping health and spirits go amiss? /
How tasteless then whatever can be given! /
Health is the vital principle of bliss, / And
exercise of health.= _Thomson._
=What avails a superfluity of freedom which we
cannot use?= _Goethe._
=What avails the dram of brandy while it
swims chemically united with its barrel of
wort? Let the distiller pass it and repass it
through his limbecs; for it is the drops of
pure alcohol we want, not the gallons of
water, which may be had in every ditch.=
_Carlyle._
=What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.= 15
_Pr._
=What better time for driving, riding, walking,
moving through the air by any means, than
a fresh, frosty morning, when hope runs
cheerily through the veins with the brisk
blood and tingles in the frame from head to
foot?= _Dickens._
=What bitter pills, / Compos'd of real ills, /
Men swallow down to purchase one false
good.= _Quarles._
=What boots it at one gate to make defence, /
And at another to let in the foe?= _Milton._
=What boots the hero-arm without a hero-eye?=
_Jean Paul._
=What built St. Paul's Cathedral? Look at= 20
=the heart of the matter, it was that divine
Hebrew Book, the word partly of the man
Moses, an outlaw tending his Midianitish
herds four thousand years ago in the wildernesses
of Sinai!= _Carlyle._
=What by straight path cannot be reached, /
By crooked ways is never won.= _Goethe._
=What can be done, you must do for yourself.=
_Johnson._
=What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? /
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.=
_Pope._
=What can Fate devise to vanquish Love?=
_Lewis Morris._
=What can they see in the longest kingly line= 25
=in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful
soldier?= _Scott._
=What can we reason, but from what we know?=
_Pope._
=What cannot be abused is good for nothing.=
_Niebuhr._
=What cannot be avoided, / 'Twere childish
weakness to lament or fear.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 4.
=What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.=
_Merry Wives_, v. 4.
=What can't be cured must be endured.= _Burton._ 30
=What care I for words? yet words do well /
When he that speaks them pleases those
that hear.= _As You Like It_, iii. 5.
=What cares any man for appearances except
as signs of what otherwise he cannot see?=
_Ed._
="What cheer? Brother, quickly tell." /
"Above"--"Below." "Good-night"--"All's
well."= _Dibdin._
=What chiefly distinguishes great artists from
feeble artists is first their sensibility and
tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and
thirdly, their industry.= _Ruskin._
=What comes from God to us, returns from= 35
=us to God.= (?)
=What comes from the heart goes to the heart.=
_Pr._
=What constitutes a state?... Men who their
duties know, / But know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain.= _Sir William Jones._
=What devilry soever kings do, the Greeks
must pay the piper.= _Pr._
=What dire offence from amorous causes
springs! / What mighty contests rise from
trivial things!= _Pope._
=What distinguishes Christianity from all monotheistic
religions lies in nothing else than in
a making-dead to the law, the removal of the
Kantian imperative; instead of which Christianity
requires a free inclination.= _Schiller._
=What divine, what truly great thing has ever
been effected by force of public opinion?=
_Carlyle._
=What do I gain from a man into whose eyes
I cannot look when he is speaking, and the
mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair
of glasses which dazzle me?= _Goethe._
=What do you mean by composing tragedies,
when Tragedy in person stalks every
street?= (?)
=What does competency in the long-run mean?
It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness
of person, decency of dress, courtesy
of manners, opportunities for education, the
delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.=
_Whipple._
=Wha' does the utmost that he can, / Will
whyles= (sometimes) =do mair.= _Burns._
=What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? /
And what makes robbers bold, but too much
lenity?= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 6.
=What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do= 5
=justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?= _Bible._
=What exile from himself can flee?= _Byron._
=What fates impose, that men must needs
abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and
tide.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 3.
=What! fly from love? vain hope: there's no
retreat, / When he has wings and I have
only feet.= _Archias._
=What glitters is for the moment; the genuine
is for all time.= _Goethe._
=What God does all day is not to sit waiting= 10
=in churches for people to come and worship
him.= _Prof. Drummond._
=What God hath joined together, let not man
put asunder.= _Jesus._
=What God makes he never mars.= _Pr._
=What good I see humbly I seek to do, / And
live obedient to the law, in trust / That what
will come, and must come, shall come well.=
_Sir Edwin Arnold._
=What governs men is the fear of truth, except
such as is useful to them.= _Amiel._
=What great thing ever happened in this= 15
=world, a world understood always to be
made and governed by wisdom, without
meaning somewhat?= _Carlyle._
=What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press
has done for the mind; and the statesman
is no longer clad in the steel of special
education, but every reading man is his
judge.= _Wendell Phillips._
=What hands build, hands can pull down.=
_Schiller._
=What has been, may be; and what may be,
may be supposed to be.= _Swift._
=What has been written, as well as what has
been actually done, shrivels up and ceases to
be worth anything, until it has again been
taken up into life, been again felt, thought,
and acted upon.= _Goethe._
=What has never anywhere come to pass, that= 20
=alone never grows old.= _Schiller._
=What has posterity done for us / That we, lest
they their rights should lose, / Should trust
our necks to gripe of noose?= _John Trumbull._
=What hath he to do with a soul who doth
not keep his passions in subjection?= _Hitopadesa._
=What have I to do, ... either with your
amusements or your pleasures, unless it
was in my power to increase their measure?=
_Sterne._
=What have kings that privates have not too, /
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?=
_Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=What have not you men to answer for who= 25
=talk of love to a woman when her face is all
you know of her, and her passions, her
aspirations, are for kissing to sleep, her very
soul a plaything?= _J. M. Barrie._
=What he greatly thought, he nobly dared.=
_Pope._
=What house more stately hath there been, /
Or can be, than is Man?= _George Herbert._
=What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we
talk of ourselves! Our words sound so
humble, while our hearts are so proud.=
_Hare._
=What I cannot praise I speak not of.= _Goethe._
=What I for many a day wished, life has not= 30
=granted me, but it has instead taught me
this, that my wish was a foolish one.= _Geibel._
=What I gave, that I have; / What I spent,
that I had; / What I left, that I lost.= _Epitaph
inscribed on the tomb of Robert of Doncaster._
=What I have written, I have written.= _Pilate
of the legend he wrote over the Cross._
=What I must do is all that concerns me, not
what the people think.= _Emerson._
=What I object to is, not the poetry of sadness,
but the sadness of poetry. Many of the
poets make out the fountain of poetry to be
only a fountain of tears.= _Bovee._
=What, indeed, is man's life generally but a= 35
=kind of beast-godhood; the god in us triumphing
more and more over the beast;
striving more and more to subdue it under
his feet?= _Carlyle._
=What is a foreign country to those who have
science?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is a handful of reasonable men against
a crowd with stones in their hands?= _George
Eliot._
=What is a man, / If his chief good and market
of his time, / Be but to sleep, and feed? A
beast, no more.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=What is a man profited if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?= _Jesus._
=What is against Nature is against God.= 40
_Hebbel._
=What is all working, what is all knowing, but
a faint interpreting, and a faint showing
forth of the mystery, which ever remains
infinite?= _Carlyle._
=What, is any one, simply by birth, to be punished
or applauded?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is aught but as 'tis valued?= _Troil.
and Cress._, ii. 2.
=What is barely necessary cannot be dispensed
with.= _Goldsmith._
=What is becoming is honourable, and what is= 45
=honourable is becoming.= _Cic._
=What is beneath me floors me; what is on a
level with me bores me; only what is above
me supports and lifts me above myself.=
_Anon._
=What is bought is cheaper than a gift.= _Pr._
=What is bred in the bone will never come out
of the flesh.= _Pr._
=What is called the spirit of the times is at
bottom but the spirit of the gentlemen in
which the times are mirrored.= _Goethe._
=What is cheapest to you now is likely to be= 50
=dearest in the end.= _Ruskin._
=What is chiefly needed in the England of the
present day is to show the quantity of
pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent,
well-administered competence, modest,
confessed, and laborious.= _Ruskin._
=What is difficulty? Only a word indicating
the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing
particular objects; a mere notice of
the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to
children and fools; only a mere stimulus to
men.= _Samuel Warren._
=What is distance to the indefatigable?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is done by night appears by day.= _Pr._
=What is done for those who have not their= 5
=passions in subjection, is like washing the
elephant= (_i.e._, washing the blackamoor white).
_Hitopadesa._
=What is done in a hurry is never done well.= _Pr._
=What is done is done; has already blended
itself with the boundless, ever-living, ever-working
universe, and will also work there,
for good or evil, openly or secretly, through
all time.= _Carlyle._
=What is everybody's business is nobody's
business.= _Izaak Walton._
=What is excellent should never be carped at
nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially
thought over in silence.= _Goethe._
=What is extraordinary try to look at with your= 10
=own eyes.= _Old maxim._
=What is false taste but want of perception to
discern propriety and distinguish beauty?=
_Goldsmith._
=What is generally accepted as virtue in women
is very different from what is thought
so in men: a very good woman would make
but a paltry man.= _Pope._
=What is generally considered true amounts
to much the same as if it were actually true.=
_Cötvös._
=What is genius or courage without a heart?=
_Goldsmith._
=What is genuine but that which is truly excellent,= 15
=which stands in harmony with the
purest nature or reason, and which even
now ministers to our highest development!
What is spurious but the absurd and the
hollow, which brings no fruit--at least, no
good fruit.= _Goethe._
=What is gray with age becomes religion.=
_Schiller._
=What is happiness? To animals in this world,
health.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is important is to have a soul which
loves truth, and receives it wherever it finds
it.= _Goethe._
=What is in will out.= _Emerson._
=What is it= (thy protest against the devil) =properly= 20
=but an altercation with him before you begin
honestly fighting with him?= _Carlyle._
=What is it that keeps men in continual discontent
and agitation? It is that they cannot
make realities correspond with their conceptions,
that enjoyment steals away from
among their hands, that the wished-for comes
too late, and nothing reached and acquired
produces on the heart the effect which their
longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate.=
_Goethe._
=What is justice but another form of the reality
we love--a truth acted out?= _Carlyle._
=What is kindness? A principle in the good.=
_Hitopadesa._
=What is known to three is known to everybody.=
_Pr._
=What is learned in the cradle is carried to the= 25
=tomb.= _Pr._
=What is life but the choice of that good
which contains the least of evil!= _B. R.
Haydon._
=What is life except the knitting up of incoherences
into coherence?= _Carlyle._
=What is man but a symbol of God, and all that
he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to
sense of the mystic God-given force that
is in him?= _Carlyle._
=What is man, / If his chief good, and market
of his time, / Be but to sleep and feed? A
beast, no man.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love;= 30
=but the secret of my friend is not mine!= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=What is modesty, if it deserts from truth?=
_Johnson._
=What is more at ease, more abstracted from
the world, than a true single-hearted
honesty?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=What is much desired is not believed when it
comes.= _Sp. Pr._
=What is my life if I am no longer to be of use
to others?= _Goethe._
=What is nearest is often unattainably far off.= 35
_Goethe._
=What is nearest us touches us most.= _Johnson._
=What is new finds better acceptance than
what is good or great.= _Denham._
=What is noble?--That which places / Truth
in its enfranchised will, / Leaving steps, like
angel-traces, / That mankind may follow
still!= _C. Swain._
=What is not allotted the hand cannot reach,
and what is allotted will find you wherever
you may be.= _Saadi._
=What is not sung is properly no poem, but a= 40
=piece of prose cramped into jingling lines,--to
the great injury of the grammar, to the
great grief of the reader, for the most part!=
_Carlyle._
=What is not to be, that is not to be; if it be
to come to pass, it cannot be otherwise.
This reasoning is an antidote. Why doth
not the afflicted one drink of it?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is not true has this advantage that it
can be eternally talked about; whereas
about truth there is an urgency that cries
out for its application, for otherwise it has
no right to be there.= _Goethe._
=What is not worth reading more than once
is not worth reading at all.= _C. J. Weber._
=What is now called the nature of women is
an eminently artificial thing--the result of
forced repression in some directions, unnatural
stimulation in others.= _J. S. Mill._
=What is obvious is not always known, and what= 45
=is known is not always present.= _Johnson._
=What is of the earth has no permanence; our
hearts yearn after a better land.= _H. A.
Hoffmann._
=What is often termed shyness is nothing more
than refined sense, and an indifference to
common observations.= (?)
=What is our life but an endless flight of winged
facts or events?= _Emerson._
=What is past is past. There is a future left
to all men, who have the virtue to repent
and the energy to atone.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=What is philosophy? An entire separation
from the world.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is reason now was passion formerly.=
_Ovid._
=What is religion? Compassion for all things= 5
=that have life.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.= _Pr._
=What is specially true of love is, that it is
a state of extreme impressionability; the
lover has more senses and finer senses than
others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he
reads omens in the flower and cloud and
face and form and gesture, and reads them
aright.= _Emerson._
=What is strength without a double share /
Of wisdom? vast, unwieldy, burdensome, /
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall / By weakest
subtleties; not made to rule, / But to subserve
where wisdom bears command.= _Milton._
=What is the adored Supreme Perfection,
say?--/ What, but eternal never-resting
soul, / Almighty power, and all-directing
day; / By whom each atom stirs, the planets
roll; / Who fills, surrounds, informs, and
agitates the whole.= _Thomson._
=What is the best government? That which= 10
=teaches us to govern ourselves.= _Goethe._
=What is the best in the world? Healthy
blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves.=
_Auerbach._
=What is the body when the head is off?=
3 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.
=What is the city but the people? True, the
people are the city.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 1.
=What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt,
delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful,
all that is grand; a quick resolution
to do the greatest good by the smallest
means; a great benevolence joined to a
great strength and great humility.= _Lavater._
=What is the good of fear? The whole solar= 15
=system were it to fall together about our
ears could kill us only once.= _Carlyle._
=What is the highest secret of victory and
peace? To will what God wills, and strike
a league with destiny.= _W. R. Alger._
=What is the majority? Majority is nonsense=
(_Unsinn_). =Understanding has always been
only with the minority.= _Schiller._
=What is the true test of character, unless it be
its progressive development in the bustle
and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of
daily life?= _Goethe._
=What is the use of a lamp to a blind man, although
it be burning in his hand?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is the use of health or of life, if not to= 20
=do some work therewith?= _Carlyle._
=What is the voice of song, when the world
lacks the ear of taste?= _Hawthorne._
=What is there good in us if it is not the power
and inclination to appropriate to ourselves
the resources of the outward world, and to
make them subservient to our higher ends?=
_Goethe._
=What! is there no bribing death?= _Last words
of Cardinal Beaufort._
=What is this day's strong suggestion? /
"The passing moment's all we rest on!"=
_Burns._
=What is this life of ours? Gone in a moment,= 25
=burnt up like a scroll, into the blank eternity.=
_Carlyle interpreting young Luther's reflexion
on the sudden death by his side of his friend
Alexis._
=What is too great a load for those who have
strength?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is truth?= _Pilate scoffingly to Jesus._
=What is twice read is commonly better remembered
than what is transcribed.= _Johnson._
=What is valuable is not new, and what is new
is not valuable.= _D. Webster._
="What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to= 30
=Madame Campan, "in order that the youth
of France be well educated?" "Good
mothers," was the reply. The Emperor
was most forcibly struck with this answer.
"Here," said he, "is a system in one word."=
_Abbott._
=What is writ is writ.= _Byron._
=What joy a self-sufficing fortune yields, / Such
modest livelihood is dear to me. The wise
old maxim, "Not too much," / Too much
has power my heart to touch.= _Alpheus of
Mitylene._
=What life only half imparts to man, posterity
shall give entirely.= _Goethe._
=What love can do, that dares love attempt.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=What love hides is raised as from the dead /= 35
=Some day, and kills the love which covered
it, / And frankest truth is more than subtle
wit.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=What makes all doctrines plain and clear? /
About two hundred pounds a year. / And
that which was prov'd true before / Prove
false again, two hundred more.= _Butler._
=What makes life dreary is the want of motive.=
_George Eliot._
=What makes lovers never tire of each others'
society is that they talk always about themselves.=
_La Roche._
=What makes many so discontented with their
own condition is the absurd estimate they
form of the happiness of others.= _Fr._ (?)
=What makes old age so sad is, not that our= 40
=joys, but that our hopes then cease.= _Jean
Paul._
=What makes people discontented with their
condition is the chimerical idea they conceive
of the happiness of others.= _Thomson._
=What makes vanity so insufferable to us is
that it wounds our own.= _La Roche._
=What man dare do, in circumstances of
danger, an Englishman will. His virtues
seem to sleep in the calm, and are called
out only to combat the kindred storm.=
_Goldsmith._
=What man dare, I dare.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that= 45
=was beloved after his means?= _Timon of
Athens_, iv. 3.
=What man has done, man can do.= _Emerson._
=What man wants is always that the highest
in his nature be set at the top and actively
reign there.= _Carlyle._
=What matter though I doubt at every pore ... /
If finally I have a life to show, / The thing I
did, brought out in evidence / Against the
thing done to me underground / By hell and
all its brood, for aught I know?= _Browning._
=What matters it though the Gospels contradict
each other if the Gospel does not contradict
itself?= _Goethe._
=What matters it whether the alphabet= (by
which you are to spell out the meaning of life)
=be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt
ones, so you have an eye to read it?= _Carlyle._
=What may be dune at ony time will be dune at= 5
=nae time.= _Sc. Pr._
=What men prize most is a privilege, even if
it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.= (?)
=What men usually say of misfortunes, that
they never come alone, may with equal truth
be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances
which gather round us in a harmonious
way, whether it arise from a kind
of fatality, or that man has the power of
attracting to himself things that are mutually
related.= _Goethe._
=What men want is not talent; it is purpose.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=What millions died that Cæsar might be great!=
_Campbell._
=What must be, shall be.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 1. 10
=What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit,
thou wilt not wrench from her with levers
and screws.= _Goethe._
=What need the bridge much broader than the
flood? The fairest grant is the necessity;
look, what will serve is fit.= _Much Ado_,
i. 1.
=What need we have any friends, if we should
never have need of them?= _Timon of Athens_,
i. 2.
=What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd
bones?= _Milton._
=What of books? Hast thou not already a Bible= 15
=to write and publish in print that is eternal,
namely, a Life to lead?= _Carlyle._
=What once were vices are now the manners of
the day.= _Sen._
=What people call her= (England's) =history is not
hers at all; but that of her kings (though
the history of them is worth reading), or the
tax-gatherers employed by them, which is
as if people were to call Mr. Gladstone's
history or Mr. Lowe's, yours or mine.=
_Ruskin._
=What perils on a woman's life may throng, /
Sitting lonely with her thoughts, that chafe
and murmur like the surf!= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=What persons are by starts, they are by
nature. You see them at such times off
their guard. Habit may restrain vice, and
virtue may be obscured by passion, but
intervals best discover the man.= _Sterne._
=What profit is it for men now to live in heaviness,= 20
=and after death to look for punishment?=
_Apocrypha._
=What proves the hero truly great, / Is never,
never to despair.= _Thomson._
=What quite infinite worth lies in Truth! how
all-pervading, omnipotent, in man's mind is
the thing we name Belief!= _Carlyle._
=What rage for fame attends both great and
small! / Better be damned than mentioned
not at all.= _John Wolcot._
=What rein can hold licentious wickedness /
When down the hill he holds his fierce
career?= _Hen. V._, iii. 3.
=What religion do I profess! None of all you= 25
=name to me. Why none? Out of respect to
religion.= _Schiller._
=What right have you, O passer-by-the-way, to
call any flower a weed? Do you know its
merits, its virtues, its healing qualities?
Because a thing is common, shall you despise
it? If so, you might despise the sunshine
for the same reason.= _Anon._
=What rights are his that dare not strike for
them?= _Tennyson._
="What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after
them?" "After them! Nay, before them if
we can."= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 3.
=What shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue!= _Burke._
=What shall be, shall be--that is all; / To one= 30
=great Will we stand and fall, / "The Scheme
hath need"--we ask not why, / And in this
faith we live or die.= _Lewis Morris._
=What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis
shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it,
He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is
appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's
begun, thou must move and not rest; / For
sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, /
And running, not raging, will win thee the
race.= _Goethe._
=What signifies the life o' man / An' twerna for
the lasses, O?= _Burns._
=What signifies the loss of a Hercules even to
the loss of an idea?= _Ed._
=What signifies your gear? / A mind that's
scrimpit never wants some care.= _Allan
Ramsay._
=What should a wise man do if he is given a= 35
=blow? What Cato did when some one
struck him on the mouth;--not fire up or
revenge the insult, or even return the blow,
but simply ignore it.= _Sen._
=What skills it if a bag of stones or gold /
About thy neck do drown thee? Raise thy
head; / Take stars for money; stars not to
be told / By any art, yet to be purchased.=
_George Herbert._
=What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 2.
=What the eye does not admire, / The heart
does not desire.= _Pr._
=What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve.=
_Pr._
=What the fool does in the end, the wise man= 40
=does at the beginning.= _It. Pr._
=What the heart has once owned and had, it
shall never lose.= _Ward Beecher._
=What the heart or the imagination dictates
always flows readily; but where there is
no subject to warm or interest these, constraint
appears.= _Blair._
=What the light of your mind pronounces incredible,
that, in God's name, leave uncredited.=
_Carlyle._
=What the Maker sends us remains mysteriously
with us after the bearer of it is dead
and gone; and we, as we "mourn over, long
for, and love distant and departed" goodness,
are more embraced and possessed by it than
we were when it was present with us only
in the flesh, and we could look upon it and
handle it.= _Ed._
=What the poet has to cultivate above all things
is love and truth;--what he has to avoid, like
poison, is the fleeting and the false.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=What the Puritans gave the world was not
thought, but action.= _Wendell Phillips._
=What the universe was thought to be in Judea
and other places, this may be very interesting
to know; what it is in England here
where we live and have our work to do, that
is the interesting point.= _Carlyle._
=What thou seest is not there on its own= 5
=account, strictly taken, is not there at all.=
_Carlyle._
=What though care killed a cat: thou hast mettle
enough in thee to kill care.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=What though on hamely fare we dine, / Wear
hodden gray, and a' that? / Gie fools their
silk, and knaves their wine, / A man's a
man for a' that.= _Burns._
=What though our songs to wit have no pretence, /
The fiddlestick shall scrape them
into sense.= (?)
=What though success will not attend on all! /
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a
fall.= _Smollett._
=What though the field be lost? / All is not= 10
=lost; th' unconquerable will, / And study
of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage
never to submit or yield.= _Milton._
=What though the foot be shackled; the heart
is free.= _Goethe._
=What, though thou wert rich and of high
esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because
of thy loss of fortune?= _Hitopadesa._
=What tragic wastes of gloom / Curtain the
soul that strives and sins below!= _R. Garnet._
=What trifling silliness is the childish fondness
of the every-day children of the world! 'Tis
the unmeaning toying of the younglings of
the fields and forests.= _Burns._
=What 'twas weak to do, / 'Tis weaker to= 15
=lament, once being done.= _Shelley._
=What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and
will from time to time break through!= _Carlyle._
=What was my morning's thought, at night's
the same; / The poor and rich but differ in
the name. / Content's the greatest bliss we
can procure / Frae 'boon the lift; without it
kings are poor.= _Allan Ramsay._
=What was once to me / Mere matter of the
fancy, now has grown / The vast necessity
of heart and life.= _Tennyson._
=What we are going to, is abundantly obscure;
but what all men are going from, is very
plain.= _John Sterling._
=What we are, that only can we see.= _Emerson._ 20
=What we call conscience, in many instances, is
only a wholesome fear of the constable.= _Bovee._
=What we call our root-and-branch reforms of
slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only
medicating the symptoms. We must begin
higher up, namely, in education.= _Emerson._
=What we do determine oft we break, / Purpose
is but the slave to memory.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=What we do not understand we have no business
to judge.= _Amiel._
=What we do not use is a heavy burden.= 25
_Goethe._
=What we don't know is just what we need to
know; and what we do know we can make
no use of.= _Goethe._
=What we foolishly call vastness is not more
wonderful or not more impressive than what
we insolently call littleness.= _Ruskin._
=What we have been makes us what we are.=
_George Eliot._
=What we have in us of the image of God is the
love of truth and justice.= _Demosthenes._
=What we have we prize not to the worth, /= 30
=Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and
lost, / Why then we rack the value.= _Much
Ado_, iv. 1.
=What we hope ever to do with ease we may
learn first to do with diligence.= _Johnson._
=What we like determines what we are, and is
the sign of what we are.= _Ruskin._
=What we need most is not so much to realise
the ideal as to idealise the real.= _F. H. Hedge._
=What we poor mortals have to do is to endure
and keep ourselves upright as well and as
long as we can. God disposes as he thinks
best.= _Goethe._
=What we pray to ourselves for is always= 35
=granted.= _Emerson._
=What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that
in some sense we are. The mere aspiration,
by changing the frame of the mind, for the
moment realises itself.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=What we want to be pleased with flattery, is
to believe that the man is sincere who gives
it us.= _Steele._
=What we want to believe, what it suits our
convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to
believe, one need not go to sea to learn
what slender logic will incline us to believe.=
_Burroughs._
=What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared
with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think
where thy coward hopes had flown / Had
Heaven held out the martyr's crown.= _Keble._
=What were mighty Nature's self? / Her= 40
=features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by
the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within
us?= _Wordsworth._
=What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, /
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?=
_Southey._
=What will you have? quoth God; pay for it
and take it.= _Pr._
=What you can't get is just what suits you.=
_Fr. Pr._
=What you do not risk all to part with= (_dahingeben_),
=thou hast not loved and possessed
entirely.= _J. G. Fisher._
=What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs /= 45
=You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs.=
_From the Greek. Anon._
=What you see is but the smallest part / And
least proportion of humanity; / ... Were the
whole frame here, / It is of such a spacious
lofty pitch, / Your roof were not sufficient
to contain it.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 3.
=What your heart thinks great is great. The
soul's emphasis is always right.= _Emerson._
=What's aught but as 'tis valued?= _Troil. and
Cress._, ii. 2.
=What's come to perfection perishes. / Things
learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; /
Works done least rapidly art most cherishes.=
_Browning._
=What's done cannot be undone.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=What's done we partly may compute, / But= 5
=know not what's resisted.= _Burns._
=What's fitting, that is right.= _Goethe._
=What's gone and what's past help / Should be
past grief.= _Winter's Tale_, iii. 2.
=What's good for the bee is good for the hive.=
_Pr._
=What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, /
That he should weep for her?= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=What's impossible cannot be, / And never,= 10
=never comes to pass.= _George Colman the
younger._
=What's in a name? That which we call a
rose / By any other name would smell as
sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=What's more miserable than discontent?=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=What's nane o' my profit will be nane o' my
peril.= _Sc. Pr._
=What's not set about to-day is never finished
on the morrow.= _Goethe._
=What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade?= _Pr._ 15
=What's the good of the pipe if it's not played
on?= _Gael. Pr._
=What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my
ain.= _Sc. Pr._
=Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er
brings gloom or strife, / It must away,
for e'er he sings / The poet must have life.=
_Goethe._
=Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, /
In him alone 'twas natural to please.= _Dryden._
=Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy= 20
=or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden
bright to me / My own, my own fireside!=
_A. A. Watts._
=Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=Whatever a man has to effect must emanate
from him as a second self; and how would
this be possible were not his first self entirely
pervaded by it?= _Goethe._
=Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be
made likewise the cause of misery. The
medicine which, rightly applied, has power
to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance
prescribes it, the same power to destroy.=
_Johnson._
=Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always
best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve
resentment, and malice is punished by
neglect.= _Johnson._
=Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis= 25
=order and for its essence unity.= _Father
André._
=Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be
serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps
sinful, to be gloomy.= _Johnson._
=Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly
and benevolently done, that bit is his book
or his piece of art.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever comes from the brain carries the
hue of the place it came from; and whatever
comes from the heart carries the heat and
colour of its birthplace.= _Holmes._
=Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear
the title of valour, which should be lifted up
to such a height that, holding all things
under itself, it should be able to maintain its
greatness even in the midst of miseries.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=Whatever crushes individuality is despotism,= 30
=by whatever name it may be called.= _J. S.
Mill._
=Whatever disunites man from God disunites
man from man.= _Burke._
=Whatever does not concern us is concealed
from us.= _Emerson._
=Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic
vitality cannot live long, and can neither be
nor ever become great.= _Goethe._
=Whatever expands the affections or enlarges
the sphere of our sympathies, whatever
makes us feel our relation to the universe,
and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity,
to the great and beneficent Cause of all,
must unquestionably refine our nature and
elevate us in the scale of being.= _Channing._
=Whatever foolish people read, does them= 35
=harm; and whatever they write, does other
people harm.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever government is not a government of
law is a despotism, let it be called what it
may.= _D. Webster._
=Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is ever
in a state of instability.= _Sen._
=Whatever hath been well consulted and well
resolved, whether it be to fight well or to
run away well, should be carried into execution
in due season, without any further
examination.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whatever honour we can pay to their memory,
is all that is owing to the dead. Tears and
sorrow are no duties to them, and make us
incapable of those we owe to the living.=
_Lady Montagu._
=Whatever in literature, art, or religion is done= 40
=for money is poisonous itself, and doubly
deadly in preventing the hearing or seeing
of the noble literature and art which have
been done for love and truth.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.=
_Willmott._
=Whatever is best is safest, lies most out of the
reach of human power, can neither be given
nor taken away.= _Bolingbroke._
=Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever
is virtuous is graceful.= _Cic._
=Whatever is great in human art is the expression
of man's delight in God's work.=
_Ruskin._
=Whatever is great promotes cultivation as= 45
=soon as we are aware of it.= _Goethe._
=Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged
with melancholy. The eye of genius has
always a plaintive expression, and its natural
language is pathos. A prophet is sadder
than other men; and He who was greater
than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and
acquainted with grief."= _Mrs. Child._
=Whatever is, is right.= _Pope._
=Whatever is known to thyself alone has always
very great value.= _Emerson._
=Whatever is natural admits of variety.= _Mme.
de Stäel._
=Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it
mends some and impairs others; and he that
is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that
is hurt for a wrong.= _Bacon._
=Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to
be burnt in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not
keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets
the window in the landscape it displays.
A fine style gives the view of fancy--its
figures, its trees, or its palaces--without a
spot.= _Willmott._
=Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing= 5
=well.= _Lord Chesterfield._
=Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd
always redounds to his advantage, even if it
sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of
which his powers of swimming and wading
must be put to the test again.= _Goethe._
=Whatever makes religion its second object,
makes it no object.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever may be the natural propensity of
any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a
dog were made king, would he not gnaw
his shoe-straps?= _Hitopadesa._
=Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune
is to be overcome by bearing it.= _Virg._
=Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared= 10
=for thee from all eternity; and the
complication of causes was from eternity
spinning the thread not only of thy being,
but of that which is incident to it.= _Marcus
Aurelius._
=Whatever mitigates the woes or increases
the happiness of others, this is my criterion
of goodness; and whatever injures society
at large, or any individual in it, this is my
measure of iniquity.= _Burns._
=Whatever of goodness emanates from the
soul, gathers its soft halo from the eyes;
and if the heart be the lurking-place of crime,
the eyes are sure to betray the secret.= _F.
Saunders._
=Whatever our wanderings, our happiness will
always be found within a narrow compass,
and amidst the objects more immediately
within our reach.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Whatever outward thing offers itself to the
eye, is merely the garment or body of a
thing which already existed invisibly within.=
_Carlyle._
=Whatever purifies the heart, fortifies it.= 15
_Blair._
=Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For
every why he had a wherefore.= _Buller._
=Whatever that be which thinks, which understands,
which wills, which acts, it is something
celestial and divine; and upon that
account must necessarily be eternal.= _Cic._
=Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet
require a palate fit to relish and taste them;
it is fruition, and not possession, that renders
us happy.= _Montaigne._
=Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence,
that for us is the post of honour and
duty.= _T. Edwards._
=Whatever the skill of any country may be in= 20
=the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite
learning alone that it must expect a character
from posterity.= _Goldsmith._
=Whatever theologians may choose to assert,
it is certain that mankind at large has far
more virtue than vice.= _Buckle._
=Whatever these two men= (the Carlyles, father
and son) =touched with their hands in honest
toil became sacred to them, a page out of
their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind
of religion they put into their work.= _John
Burroughs._
=Whatever we think out, whatever we take in
hand to do, should be perfectly and finally
finished, that a word, if it must alter, will
only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing
to do but to unite the severed, to recollect
and restore the dismembered.= _Goethe._
=Whatever you are, be a man.= _Pr._
=Whatever you may think now, they= (the deeds 25
of each day) =are only biding their time; and
when you are weak and at their mercy, when
the world you fancied you were beyond, has
leisure to hear their story and scoff at you,
they will come forward and tell all the bitter
tale.= _Disraeli to young men._
=Whatso we have done is done, and for us
annihilated, and ever must we go and do
anew.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever a man ought to obey, he cannot
but obey.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.= _St. Paul._
=Whatsoever God doeth, nothing can be put to
it, nor anything taken from it.= _Ecclus._
=Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents= 30
=spirit to spirit, is properly a suit of
raiment put on for a season and to be laid
off.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever thine ill, / It must be borne, and
these wild starts are useless.= _Byron._
=Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember
the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.=
_Ecclus._
=Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy might.= _Bible._
=When a base man means to be your enemy, he
always begins with being your friend.= _Wm.
Blake._
=When a bold man is out of countenance, he= 35
=makes a very wooden figure on it.= _Collier._
=When a child can be brought to tears, not
from fear of punishment, but from repentance
for his offence, he needs no chastisement.
When the tears begin to flow from grief at
one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel
nestling in the bosom.= _Horace Mann._
=When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to
find any rhyme for sorrow besides "borrow"
or "to-morrow," his woes are nearer at an
end than he thinks.= _Thackeray._
=When a good man has talent, he always
works morally for the salvation of the world.=
_Goethe._
=When a great man strikes out into a sudden
irregularity, he needs not question the respect
of a retinue.= _Collier._
=When a head and a book come into collision,= 40
=and one sounds empty, is it always the book?=
_Lichtenberg._
=When a husband is embraced without affection,
there must be some reason for it.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When a man becomes dear to me, I have
touched the goal of fortune.= _Emerson._
=When a man dies, they who survive him ask
what property he has left behind. The
angel who bends over the dying man asks
what good deeds he has sent before him.=
_Koran._
=When a man gives himself up to the government
of a ruling passion--or, in other words,
when his hobby-horse grows headstrong--farewell
cool reason and fair discretion!=
_Sterne._
=When a man gives proof that his heart is
sound and that his life is sound, there is
no divergence of opinion that should keep
us from fellowship with him.= _Ward Beecher._
=When a man has no occasion to borrow, he
finds numbers willing to lend him.= _Goldsmith._
=When a man has not a good reason for doing= 5
=a thing, he has one good reason for letting
it alone.= _Scott._
=When a man has once forfeited the reputation
of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing
will then serve his turn, neither truth nor
falsehood.= _Tillotson._
=When a man is base at the heart, he blights
his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is
true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses
into virtues.= _Ruskin._
=When a man is conscious that he does no
good himself, the next thing is to cause
others to do some.= _Pope._
=When a man is going downhill, everybody
gives him a kick.= _Pr._
=When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is= 10
=his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife
his only commerce, and vassalage his food.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When a man is in love with one woman in a
family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes
of every person connected with it.=
_Thackeray._
=When a man is treated with solemnity, he
looks upon himself as a higher being, and
goes through his solemn feasts devoutly.=
_Jean Paul._
=When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he
always gets angry.= _Haliburton._
=When a man lives with God, his voice shall be
as sweet as the murmur of the brook and
the rustle of the corn.= _Emerson._
=When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons= 15
=and things, this is madness.= _Coleridge._
=When a man smiles, and much more when he
laughs, it adds something to his fragment
of life.= _Sterne._
=When a man versed in his subject treats any
topic lovingly and thoroughly, he gives us a
share in his interest, and forces us to enter
into the topic.= _Goethe._
=When a man's dog deserts him on account of
his poverty, he can't get any lower down in
this world.= _Amer. Pr._
=When a man's pride is subdued, it is like the
sides of Mount Ætna. It was terrible during
the eruption, but when that is over and
the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards
and olive-trees which grow up to the
top.= _Beecher._
=When a man's ways please the Lord, he= 20
=maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him.= _Bible._
=When a mean wretch cannot vie with another
in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins
to slander.= _Saadi._
=When a misfortune is impending, I cry, "God
forbid!" but when it falls upon me, I say,
"God be praised!"= _Sterne._
=When a noble life has prepared old age, it is
not the decline that it recalls, but the first
days of immortality.= _Mme. de Staël._
=When a nobleman writes a book he ought to
be encouraged.= _Johnson._
=When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the= 25
=fruit growing thence is called a renate, a
most delicious apple, as both by sire and
dame well descended. Thus his blood must
needs be well purified who is gentilely born
on both sides.= _Fuller._
=When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly
such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the "seven small children,"
in whose name he implores thy assistance,
have a veritable existence.= _Lamb._
=When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick,
the dames of Allonby are ready to
mount.= _Pr._
=When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the
man who has intrusted it.= _La Bruyère._
=When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed,
it is a clear proof that it should be
rejected.= _Vauvenargues._
=When a thought of Plato becomes a thought= 30
=to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of
Pindar fires mine, time is no more.= _Emerson._
=When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive,
it will have its own growth.= _Ward Beecher._
=When a true genius appears in the world you
may know him by this sign, that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him.= _Swift._
=When a wife has a good husband it is easily
seen in her face.= _Goethe._
=When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may
bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as
it were.= _Hitopadesa._
=When a woman wears the breeches, she has a= 35
=good right to them.= _Amer. Pr._
=When a work has a unity, it is as much so in
a part as in the whole.= _Wm. Blake._
=When a writer sets to work again after a
long pause, his faculties have, as it were,
to be caught in the field and brought in and
harnessed.= _Froude._
=When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and
feels that he is wise in loving her, he should
at once tell her so plainly, and take his
chance bravely with other suitors.= _Ruskin._
=When Adam dolve and Eve span, / Who was
then the gentleman?= _Pr._
=When affliction thunders over our roofs, to= 40
=hide our heads and run into our graves
shows us no men, but makes us fortune's
slaves.= _Ben Jonson._
=When all else is lost, the future still remains.=
_Bovee._
=When all is done, the help of good counsel
is that which setteth business straight.=
_Bacon._
=When all is said, the greatest art is to limit
and isolate one's self.= _Goethe._
=When all the blandishments of life are gone, /
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live
on.= _George Sewell._
=When ambitious men find an open passage,
they are rather busy than dangerous; and
if well watched in their proceedings, they
will catch themselves in their own snare,
and prepare a way for their own destruction.=
_Quarles._
=When an author is too fastidious about his
style, you may presume that his mind is
frivolous and his matter flimsy.= _Sen._
=When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess or
perversion of the mind, lays hold upon you,
make it a rule not to publish it by complaints,
but exert your whole care to hide
it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive
it away.= _Johnson._
=When any man finds himself disposed to complain
with how little care he is regarded, let
him reflect how little he contributes to the
happiness of others.= _Johnson._
=When any one ceases to care for his home, it= 5
=is one of the worst possible signs of moral
sickness.= _Spurgeon._
=When any one has offended me, I try to raise
my soul so high that the offence cannot
reach it.= _Descartes._
=When at one with ourselves, we are so with
others.= _Goethe._
=When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall one by one, an
unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.=
_Burke._
=When bairns are young they gar their parents'
heads ache; when they are auld they make
their hearts break.= _Sc. Pr._
=When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The= 10
=place its honour for the person's sake.= _George
Herbert._
=When beggars die, there are no comets seen: /
The heavens themselves blaze forth the
death of princes.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=When brothers part for manhood's race, /
What gift may most endearing prove / To
keep fond memory in her place, / And certify
a brother's love? / ... No fading frail
memorial give / To sooth his soul when thou
art gone, / But wreathes of hope for aye to
live, / And thoughts of good together done.=
_Keble._
=When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, /
If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree.=
_Pr._
=When children stand quiet, they have done
some harm.= _Pr._
=When children, we are sensualists; when in= 15
=love, idealists.= _Goethe._
=When clouds appear like rocks and towers, /
The earth's refreshed with frequent showers.=
_Pr._
=When clouds appear, wise men put on their
cloaks; / When great leaves fall, the winter
is at hand.= _Rich. III._, ii. 3.
=When death comes, it is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity.= _George
Eliot._
=When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
distrust is cowardice and prudence folly.=
_Johnson._
=When did friendship take / A breed for barren= 20
=metal of his friend?= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=When difficulties are overcome they become
blessings.= _Saying._
=When each comes forth from his mother's
womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.=
_Emerson._
=When every one minds his own business the
work is done.= _Dan. Pr._
=When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.=
_Napoleon._
=When fools fall out for every flaw, / They run= 25
=horn mad to go to law; / A hedge awry, a
wrong plac'd gate, / Will serve to spend a
whole estate.= _Saying._
=When Fortune means to men most good, /
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.=
_King John_, iii. 1.
=When found, make a note of.= _Dickens._
=When fresh sorrows have caused us to take
some steps in the right way, we may not
complain. We have invested in a life annuity,
but the income remains.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=When friends meet hearts warm.= _Sc. Pr._
=When friendships are real, they are not glass= 30
=threads or frost-work, but the solidest things
we know.= _Emerson._
=When God gives light he gives it for all.=
_Sp. Pr._
=When God will, no wind but brings rain.= _Pr._
=When God would punish a land, he deprives
its rulers of wisdom.= _Ger. and It. Pr._
=When Goethe says that in every human condition
foes lie in wait for us, "invincible
save by cheerfulness and equanimity," he
does not mean that we can at all times be
really cheerful, or at a moment's notice;
but that the endeavour to look at the better
side of things will produce the habit, and
that this habit is the surest safeguard
against the danger of sudden evils.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the= 35
=tug of war.= _Lee._
=When griping grief the heart doth wound, /
And doleful dumps the mind oppress, / Then
music, with her silver sound, / With speedy
help doth lend redress.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=When half-gods go, / The gods arrive.= _Emerson._
=When he speaks, / The air, a charter'd libertine,
is still.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=When holy and devout religious men / Are at
their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence.=
_Rich. III._, iii. 7.
=When I am angry, I can pray well and preach= 40
=well.= _Luther._
=When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. / Yet
fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; /
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. /
To-morrow's falser than the former day; /
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be
blest / With some new joys, cuts off what we
possest.= _Dryden._
=When I have told the truth, my part with it
is done; and if the world will not listen, the
world will just do the other way.= _Carlyle._
=When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am
invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to
the earliest times and to the latest.= _H. D.
Thoreau._
=When I strove after wisdom I appeared foolish
to fools, and wise when I lived like them.
The fool only esteems himself wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=When I want any good head-work done, I
always choose a man, if suitable otherwise,
with a long nose.= _Napoleon._
=When I was happy I thought I knew men, but
it was fated that I should know them in misfortune
only.= _Napoleon._
=When I wish to ascertain the real felicity of
any rational man, I always inquire whom he
has to love. If I find he has nobody, or does
not love those he has, I pronounce him a
being deep in adversity.= _Mrs. Inchbald._
=When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thank'd
enough; / I've done my duty, and I've done
no more.= _Henry Fielding._
=When ilka ane gets his ain, the thief will get= 5
=the widdie= (gallows). _Sc. Pr._
=When in company, people will rather be entertained
than instructed.= _Knegge._
=When, in your last hour (think of this), all
faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away
and sink into inanity--imagination, thought,
effort, enjoyment--then will the flower of belief,
which blossoms even in the night, remain
to refresh you with its fragrance in the
last darkness.= _Jean Paul._
=When industry builds upon nature, we may
expect pyramids.= _Sir T. Browne._
=When it goeth well with the righteous, the
city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish,
there is shouting.= _Bible._
=When it rains porridge, the beggar has no= 10
=spoon.= _Dan. Pr._
=When it's dark at Dover, / It is dark all the
world over.= _Pr._
=When labour is employed, labour can consume;
when it is not employed, it cannot
consume.= _Daniel Webster._
=When love begins to sicken and decay / It useth
an enforced ceremony.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 2.
=When love cools our fauts are seen.= _Sc. Pr._
=When love speaks, the voice of all the gods /= 15
=Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.=
_Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds,
too late, that men betray, / What charm can
soothe her melancholy? / What art can wash
her guilt away?= _Goldsmith._
=When loving hearts are separated, not the
one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor
it is which tastes the sting of death.=
_Duchesse de Praslin._
=When maidens sue, / Men give like gods.=
_Meas. for Meas._, i. 1.
=When man arrives at his highest perfection,
he will (as at the creation) be again dumb.=
_Hawthorne._
=When man seized the loadstone of science,= 20
=the loadstar of superstition vanished in the
clouds.= _W. R. Alger._
=When matters are desperate, we must put on
a desperate face.= _Burns._
=When men add a new wing to their house
they do not call the action virtue, but if
they give to a fellow-creature for their own
gratification, they demand of God a good
mark for it.= _J. M. Barrie._
=When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship.=
_Lew Wallace._
=When men are pure, laws are useless; when
men are corrupt, laws are broken.= _Disraeli._
=When men grow virtuous in their old age,= 25
=they only make a sacrifice to God of the
devil's leavings.= _Pope._
=When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic
wakes.= _Dryden._
=When money's taken, / Freedom's forsaken.=
_Pr._
=When musing on companions gone, / We
doubly feel ourselves alone.= _Scott._
=When nations are to perish in their sins, /
'Tis in the Church the leprosy begins; / The
priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, / To
watch the fountain and preserve it clear, /
Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, /
While others poison what the flock must
drink.= _Cowper._
=When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes= 30
=smoothly on; and when judgment is the
pilot, the insurance need not be high.= _Sir
T. Browne._
=When Nature is sovereign there is no need
of austerity or self-denial.= _Froude._
=When Nature removes a great man, people
explore the horizon for a successor; but
none comes, and none will.= _Emerson._
=When need is highest, help is nighest.= _Ger.
Pr._
=When neither he to whom we speak nor he
who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics.=
_Voltaire._
=When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater= 35
=waste?= _Thomson._
=When on life we're tempest driven, / A conscience
but a canker, / A correspondence
fixed wi' heaven / Is sure a noble anchor.=
_Burns._
=When once a man is determined to believe,
the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms
him in his faith.= _Junius._
=When once infidelity can persuade men that
they shall die like beasts, they will soon be
brought to live like beasts also.= _South._
=When once our grace we have forgot, /
Nothing goes right; we would, and we
would not.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 4.
=When once the young heart of a maiden is= 40
=stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after
it soon.= _Moore._
=When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour
to be always such. He can never
have any true friends that will be often
changing them.= (?)
=When one does nothing else but while time
away, it must of necessity often be a burden.=
_Goethe._
=When one encourages the beautiful alone, and
another encourages the useful alone, it takes
them both to form a man.= _Goethe._
=When one is in love, one wishes to be in fetters.=
_Goethe._
=When one is not received as one comes, this= 45
=is a nether-fire pain.= _Goethe._
=When one is truly in love, one not only says
it, but shows it.= _Longfellow._
=When one is young, one is nothing completely.=
_Goethe._
=When one thinks of the real agony one has
gone through in consequence of false teaching,
it makes human nature angry with the
teachers who have added to the bitterness
of life.= _General Gordon._
=When our actions do not, / Our fears do make
us traitors.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath
those we hate.= _La Roche._
=When our names are blotted out, and our
place knows us no more, the energy of each
social service will remain.= _J. Morley._
=When people complain of life, it is almost
always because they have asked impossible
things from it.= _Renan._
=When people laugh at their own jokes, their= 5
=wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own
froth.= _Spurgeon._
=When people once are in the wrong, / Each
line they add is much too long.= _Prior._
=When Peter's cock begins to crow, 'tis day.=
_Quarles._
=When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it.=
_Johnson._
=When pleasure is arrived, it is worthy of
attention; when trouble presenteth itself,
the same. Pain and pleasures have their
revolutions like a wheel.= _Hitopadesa._
=When poverty comes in at the door, love flies= 10
=out at the window.= _Pr._
=When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but
with the lowly is wisdom.= _Bible._
=When remedies are past, the griefs are ended /
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes
depended.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=When rich villains have need of poor ones,
poor ones may make what price they will.=
_Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=When rogues fall out, honest men get their
own.= _Pr._
=When shall we three meet again, in thunder,= 15
=lightning, or in rain?= _Macb._, i. 1.
=When soldiers have been baptised in the fire
of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my
eyes.= _Napoleon._
=When soon or late they reach that coast, /
O'er life's rough ocean driven, / May they
rejoice, no wanderer lost, / A family in
heaven.= _Burns._
=When sorrows come, they come not single
spies, / But in battalions.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=When speech is given to a soul holy and true,
time and its dome of ages becomes as a
mighty whispering-gallery, round which the
imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates
forever.= _James Martineau._
=When sun is set the little stars will shine.= _R._ 20
_Southwell._
=When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath
wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner
stuff.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=When the affections are moved there is no
place for the imagination.= _Hume._
=When the artist forgets himself in admiration
of his work, there is a fatal inversion and
subversion of all art whatsoever; and for
Love to worship Venus, his own creation,
except as an index and light to himself, is in
reality Love's apostasy, not his apotheosis.=
_Ed._
=When the ass is given thee, run and take him
by the halter; and when good luck knocks
at the door, let him in, and keep him there.=
_Sp. Pr._
=When the belly is empty, the body becomes= 25
=spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes
body.= _Saadi._
=When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch; wherefore, in such circumstances,
may it not sometimes be safer if
both leader and led simply sit still?= _Carlyle._
=When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul /
Lends the tongue vows.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=When the cat's away, / The mice will play.= _Pr._
=When the devil dies, he never lacks a chief
mourner.= _Pr._
=When the fight begins within himself, / A= 30
=man's worth something.= _Browning._
=When the fox preaches, take care of your
geese.= _Pr._
=When the glede's in the blue cloud, / The
laverock lies still; / When the hound's in
the green wood, / The hind keeps the hill.=
_Old ballad._
=When the gods come among men, they are
not known.= _Emerson._
=When the great God lets loose a thinker on
this planet, then all things are at risk. There
is not a piece of science, but its flank may be
turned to-morrow; there is not any literary
reputation, nor the so-called eternal names
of fame, that may not be revised and condemned.=
_Emerson._
=When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly= 35
=out at the mouth.= _Pr._
=When the heart is heavy and low, / The beauty
that on earth we find, / Or strain of music on
the wind, / Shall touch it like an utter woe!=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=When the heart is still agitated by the remains
of a passion, we are more ready to receive a
new one than when we are entirely cured.=
_La Roche._
=When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil,
he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself;
every movement, even corporeal movement,
shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely.=
_Jean Paul._
=When the hungry curate licks the knife, there
is not much for the clerk.= _Pr._
=When the man's fire and the wife's tow, in comes= 40
=the dell and blaws it in a lowe= (flame). _Sc. Pr._
=When the master passeth over all alike without
distinction, then the endeavours of those
who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When the million applaud you, seriously ask
yourself what harm you have done; when
they censure you, what good.= _Colton._
=When the mind's free, the body's delicate.=
_Lear_, iii. 4.
=When the new light which we beg for shines
in upon us, there be who envy and oppose,
if it come not in first at their casements.=
_Milton._
=When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest= 45
=echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are
planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.=
_Carlyle._
=When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre,
will there not be sparks flying?= _Carlyle._
=When the power of imparting joy / Is equal to
the will, the human soul / Requires no other
heaven.= _Shelley._
=When the quality of bravery is near, a great
man's terrors are at a distance. In the hour
of misfortune such a great man overcometh
bravery.= _Hitopadesa._
=When the reason of old establishments is gone,
it is absurd to keep nothing but the burden
of them. This is superstitiously to embalm
a carcase not worth an ounce of the gums
that are used to embalm it.= _Burke._
=When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs
suck it.= _Spurgeon._
=When the shore is won at last, / Who will
count the billows past?= _Keble._
=When the soul breathes through a man's intellect,
it is genius; when it breaks through
his will, it is virtue; when it flows through
his affection, it is love.= _Emerson._
=When the strong box contains no more, ... /= 5
=Both friends and flatterers shun the door.=
_Plutarch._
=When the sun is highest, he casts the least
shadow.= _Pr._
=When the tale of bricks is doubled, then
comes Moses.= _Heb. Pr._
=When the weather been maist fair, the dust
flies highest in the air.= _Sir David Lindsay._
=When the will's ready the feet's licht.= _Sc. Pr._
=When the wind= (civic tumult) =arises, worship= 10
=the echo= (retire into the country). _Pythagoras._
=When the world has once got hold of a lie, it
is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of
the world. You beat it about the head, till
it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo!
the next day it is as healthy as ever.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=When they will not give a doit to relieve a
lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a
dead Indian.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.
=When things are at their worst, they will
mend.= _Pr._
=When things are once come to the execution,
there is no secrecy comparable to celerity,
like the motion of a bullet in the air, which
flieth so swift as it outruns the eye.= _Bacon._
=When thou dost purpose ought within thy= 15
=power, / Be sure to do it, though it be but
small.= _George Herbert._
=When thou hast thanked thy God for every
blessing sent, / What time will then remain
for murmurs or lament?= _French._
=When thou makest presents, let them be of
such things as will last long; to the end
they may be in some sort immortal, and may
frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.=
_Fuller._
=When thou wishest to give thyself delight, think
of the excellencies of those who live with thee;
the energy of one, the modesty of another, the
liberal kindness of a third.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=When three know it, all know it.= _Pr._
=When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants= 20
=of the world will learn righteousness.=
_Bible._
=When Time, who steals our years away, /
Shall steal our pleasures too, / The mem'ry
of the past will stay, / And half our joys
renew.= _T. Moore._
=When timorous knowledge stands considering, /
Audacious ignorance hath done the
deed.= _Daniel._
=When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once
resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless
creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy
matter to pick up sticks enough from any
thicket where it has strayed to make a fire
to offer it up with.= _Sterne._
=When two brethren strings are set alike, / To
move them both but one of them we strike.=
_Cowley._
=When two friends have a common purse, one= 25
=sings and the other weeps.= _Pr._
=When two friends part, they should lock up
one another's secrets and exchange their
keys.= _Owen Feltham._
=When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is
a shade better to be the one that is driven
away into action, than the bereaved twin
that petrifies at home.= _Charles Reade._
=When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.= _Thomson._
=When was a god found agreeable to everybody?=
_Carlyle._
=When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe= 30
=this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also
Plato was debtor.= _Emerson._
=When we build= (public edifices), =let us think that
we build for ever.= _Ruskin._
=When we cannot get at the very thing we
wish, never to take up with the next best in
degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description.=
_Sterne._
=When we can't do as we would, we must do
as we can.= _Pr._
=When we destroy an old prejudice, we have
need of a new virtue.= _Mme. de Staël._
=When we discern justice, when we discern= 35
=truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow
a passage to its beams.= _Emerson._
=When we have broken our god of tradition,
and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then
may God fire the heart with his presence.=
_Emerson._
=When we have not what we love, we must
love what we have.= _Bussy-Rabutin._
=When we meet with a natural style, we are
surprised and delighted, for we expected to
find an author, and we have found a man.=
_Pascal._
=When we our betters see bearing our woes, /
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.=
_King Lear_, iii. 6.
=When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect= 40
=widens, the objects of our regard become
more obscure, and 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._
=When we take people merely as they are, we
make them worse; when we treat them as
if they were what they should be, we improve
them as far as they can be improved.=
_Goethe._
=When whins are out of bloom, kissing is out
of fashion.= _Pr._
=When wine is in, nature comes out.= _George
Meredith._
=When words are scarce they're seldom spent
in vain, / For they breathe truth that breathe
their words in pain.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=When words end, music begins; when they= 45
=suggest, it realises.= _Haweis._
=When worthy men fall out, only one of them
may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue
long, commonly both become guilty.=
_Fuller._
=When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth
the vicar, I'll make it rain.= _Pr._
=When you are compelled to choose between
two hated evils, look both full in the face,
and choose that which least hampers the
spirit and fetters pious deeds.= _Goethe._
=When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes,
keeps your feet fast and prevents
your rising.= _Amer. Pr._
=When you are in doubt abstain.= _Zoroaster._
=When you are predetermined to take one= 5
=soul's advice, act without consulting further
with any soul living.= _Sterne._
=When you are stung by slanderous tongues=
(die Lästerzunge), =comfort yourself with this
thought: it is not the worst fruits that are
gnawed by wasps.= _G. A. Bürger._
=When you cannot get dinner ready, put the
clock back.= _Swift._
=When you do not know what to do, it is a
clear indication that you are to do nothing.=
_Spurgeon._
=When you find yourselves tempted, be sure to
ask advice; and when you see another so,
deal with him gently.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=When you go to Rome, do as Rome does.= _St._ 10
_Ambrose of Milan._
=When you grind your corn, give not the flour
to the devil, and the bran to God.= _It.
Pr._
=When you have bought one fine thing, you
must buy ten more to be all of a piece.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=When you have got so much true knowledge
as is worth fighting for, you are bound to
fight or to die for it, but not to debate
about it any more.= _Ruskin._
=When you have nothing to say, say nothing.=
_Colton._
=When you hear that your neighbour has= 15
=picked up a purse of gold in the street, never
run out into the same street, looking about
you, in order to pick up such another.= _Goldsmith._
=When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be
brief.= _Hor._
=When you know a thing, to hold that you
know it; and when you do not know a thing,
to allow that you do not know it: this is
knowledge.= _Confucius._
=When you leave the unimpaired hereditary
freehold to your children, you do but half
your duty. Both liberty and property are
precarious, unless the possessors have sense
and spirit enough to defend them.= _Junius._
=When you lie down with a short prayer, commit
yourself into the hands of your faithful
Creator; and when you have done, trust
Him with yourself as you must do when you
are dying.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=When you organise a strike, it is war you= 20
=organise; / But to organise our labour were
the labour of the wise.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=When you see a man with a great deal of religion
displayed in his shop-window, you may
depend upon it he keeps a very small stock
of it within.= _Spurgeon._
=When you see a snake, never mind where he
came from.= _Pr._
=When you see a woman paint, your heart
needna faint.= _Sc. Pr._
=When your broth's ready-made for you, you
mun swallow the thickenin', or else let the
broth alone.= _George Eliot._
=When your head did but ache, / I knit my= 25
=handkerchief about your brows, / The best
I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I
did never ask it you again.= _King John_, iv. 1.
=Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows
not; faith knows not; only that it is through
mystery to mystery, from God to God.= _Carlyle
on the drama of life._
=Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er
is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in
glad surprise, / To higher levels rise.= _Longfellow._
=Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,
always suspect that it is not his reason,
but his passions, which have got the better
of his creed. A bad life and a good belief
are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours;
and when they separate, depend
upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness'
sake.= _Sterne._
=Whenever a separation is made between
liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion,
safe.= _Burke._
=Whenever I see a new-married couple more= 30
=than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider
them as attempting to impose upon the company
or themselves; either hating each other
heartily, or consuming that stock of love in
the beginning of their course which should
serve them throughout their whole journey.=
_Goldsmith._
=Whenever the offence inspires less horror than
the punishment, the rigour of penal law is
obliged to give way to the common feelings
of mankind.= _Gibbon._
=Whenever the people flock to see a miracle,
it is a hundred to one but that they see a
miracle.= _Goldsmith._
=Whenever you find humour, you find pathos
close by its side.= _Whipple._
=Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately,
he is presently disquieted in himself.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Where content is there is a feast.= _Pr._ 35
=Where do we find ourselves? In a series of
which we do not know the extremes, and
believe that it has none.= _Emerson._
=Where drink goes in, wit goes out.= _Pr._
=Where else is the God's presence manifested,
not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as
in our fellow-men?= _Carlyle._
=Where envying and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work.= _St. James._
=Where friends are in earnest, each day brings= 40
=its own gain, so that at last the year, when
summed up, is of incalculable advantage.
Details in reality constitute the life; results
may be valuable, but they are more surprising
than useful.= _Goethe._
=Where God gives, envy harms not; and where
he gives not, no labour avails.= _L. Pr._
=Where God has built a church, there the devil
would also build a chapel.= _Luther._
=Where God helps, nought harms.= _Pr._
=Where have they who are running here and
there in search of riches such happiness as
those placid spirits enjoy who are gratified
at the immortal fountain of happiness?= _Hitopadesa._
=Where I am, there every one is.= _Rabbi Hillel._
=Where idolatry ends, Christianity begins; and
where idolatry begins, Christianity ends.=
_Jacobi._
=Where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be
wise.= _Gray._
=Where is any author in the world / Teaches
such beauty as a woman's eye?= _Love's L.
Lost_, iv. 3.
=Where is the good of having a right to make= 5
=both yourself and your neighbours miserable?... Mutual
accommodation is the law
of the world, or its inhabitants would all be
wretched together.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=Where is the man who has the power and
skill / To stem the torrent of a woman's
will? / For if she will she will, you may
depend on't; / And if she won't, she won't,
and there's an end on't.= _Dane John Monument
at Canterbury._
=Where it is weakest, the thread breaketh.=
_Pr._
=Where law ends, tyranny begins.= _Fielding._
=Where lies are easily admitted, the father of
lies will not easily be excluded.= _Quarles._
=Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth= 10
=call himself affection's sentinel.= _Shakespeare._
=Where man is, are the tropics; where he is
not, the ice-world.= _Ruskin._
=Where Nature's end of language is declined, /
And men talk only to conceal the mind.= (?)
=Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in
the multitude of counsellers there is safety.=
_Bible._
=Where no fault is, there needs no pardon.=
_Pr._
=Where no hope is left, is left no fear.= _Milton._ 15
=Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.= _Pr._
=Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out:
so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife
ceaseth.= _Bible._
=Where none thou canst discern, make for thyself
a path.= _Goethe._
=Where once Truth's flame has burnt, I doubt /
If ever it go fairly out.= _Hannah More._
=Where one is wise, two are happy.= _Pr._ 20
=Where one man shapes his life by precept
and example, there are a thousand who
have it shaped for them by impulse and by
circumstances.= _Lowell._
=Where one member suffers, all the members
suffer with it.= _St. Paul._
=Where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope
never comes, / That comes to all.= _Milton._
=Where people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual
interest not to grow weary of one another.=
_Lady Montagu._
=Where power is absent we may find the robe= 25
=of genius, but we miss the throne.= _Landor._
=Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or
roguery is not far off.= _Johnson._
=Where shame is, there is fear.= _Milton._
=Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather.=
_Pr._
=Where the devil cannot come, he will send.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Where the devil has smoothed your road, /= 30
=Keep to the right like an honest man.= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Where the greater malady is fix'd, / The
lesser is scarce felt.= _King Lear_, iii. 4.
=Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and
illumines the pathway, many things are
made clear that else lie hidden in darkness.=
_Longfellow._
=Where the heart is, there the Muses, there the
gods sojourn.= _Emerson._
=Where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth
the front of self-respect, there look thou for
the man whose name none can know but
they will honour.= _Tupper._
=Where there is a mother in the home, matters= 35
=speed well.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Where there is a splashing of dirt, it is good
not to meddle and to keep far away.= _Hitopadesa._
=Where there is much light there is a darker
shadow.= _Goethe._
=Where there is music, nothing really bad can
be.= _Cervantes._
=Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed
that there must also be evil.= _Byron._
=Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity= 40
=to sympathise with joy is much
stronger than our propensity to sympathise
with sorrow.= _Adam Smith._
=Where there is no hook, to be sure there will
hang no bacon.= _Sp. Pr._
=Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.=
_Johnson._
=Where there is no law, there is no transgression.=
_St. Paul._
=Where there is no love, all are faults.= _Pr._
=Where there is no shame, there is no honour.= 45
_Pr._
=Where there is no sympathy with the spirit
of man, there can be no sympathy with any
higher spirit.= _Ruskin._
=Where there is smoke there is fire.= _Pr._
=Where there is too much light, our senses don't
perceive; they are only stunned or dazzled
or blinded.= _Pascal._
=Where there's a will there's a way.= _Pr._
=Where there's muckle courtesy there's little= 50
=kindness.= _Sc. Pr._
=Where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will
always be endeavouring to return, and will
peep out and betray herself one time or other.=
_Tillotson._
=Where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them.=
_Jesus._
=Where vice is, vengeance follows.= _Sc. Pr._
=Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed
before / The dropping sweat that springs
from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach
her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the
ascent, and rough the road.= _Hesiod._
=Where we find echoes, we generally find= 55
=emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary
with the echoes of the heart.= _J. F.
Boyes._
=Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment
fails, / And honour sinks where commerce
long prevails.= _Goldsmith._
=Where wilt thou go that thou wilt not have
to plough?= _Sp. Pr._
=Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you
sink.= _Delaune._
=Where words are scarce, they are seldom
spent in vain.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Where would be what silly people call Progress
if not for the grumblers?= _John Wagstaffe._
=Where you see your friend, trust to yourself.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.= _Jesus._
=Where your will is ready, your feet are light.= 5
_Pr._
=Where's the use of a woman's having brains
of her own if she's tackled to a geck as
everybody's a-laughing at?= _George Eliot._
=Whereas Johnson only bowed to every clergyman,
I would bow to every man, were it not
there is a devil dwells in man as well as a
divinity, and too often the bow is but pocketed
by the former.= _Carlyle._
=Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, /
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.=
_Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground.=
_Byron._
=Wherever a man dwells he will be sure to= 10
=have a thorn-bush near his door.= _Pr._
=Wherever a true woman comes, home is
always around her. The stars may be over
her head, the glow-worms in the night-cold
grass may be the fire at her feet; but home
is where she is; and for a noble woman it
stretches far around her, better than houses
ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion,
shedding its quiet light far for those who else
are homeless.= _Ruskin._
=Wherever in the world I am, / In whatsoe'er
estate, / I have a fellowship with hearts /
To keep and cultivate.= _A. L. Waring._
=Wherever nature does least, man does most.=
_Amer. Pr._
=Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil
freedom.= _Emerson._
=Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he= 15
=never fails to set his mark.= _Goldsmith._
=Wherever the health of the citizens is concerned,
much more where their souls' health,
and as it were their salvation, is concerned,
all governments that are not chimerical
make haste to interfere.= _Carlyle._
=Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is
also.= _Sen._
=Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root,
it sends forth branches beyond the sky.=
_Saadi._
=Wherever there is a parliament, there must
of necessity be an opposition.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Wherever there is a sky above him and a= 20
=world around him, the poet is in his place;
for here too is man's existence, with its infinite
longings and small acquirings; its
ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours;
its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and
hopes that wander through eternity; and
all the mystery of brightness and of gloom
that it was ever made of, in any age or
climate, since man first began to live.= _Carlyle._
=Wherever there is authority, there is a natural
inclination to disobedience.= _Judge Haliburton._
=Wherever there is cupidity, there the blessing
of the Gospel cannot rest. The actual poor,
therefore, may altogether fail to be objects
of that blessing, the actual rich may be the
objects of it in the highest degree.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Wherever there is power there is age.= _Emerson._
=Wherever there is war, there must be injustice
on one side or the other, or on both.=
_Ruskin._
=Wherever women are honoured, the gods are= 25
=satisfied.= _Manu._
=Wherever work is done, victory is obtained.=
_Emerson._
=Wherever you see a gaming-table, be very
sure Fortune is not there.... She is ever
seen accompanying industry, and as often
trundling a wheelbarrow as lolling in a
coach and six.= _Goldsmith._
=Wherever your lot is cast, duty to yourself and
others suggests the propriety of adapting
your conduct to the circumstances in which
you are placed.= _Samuel Lover._
=Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is
lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, /
For that Fortune's ever here.= _Goethe._
=Wherefore waste I time to counsel thee / That= 30
=art a votary to fond desire?= _Two Gent. of
Verona_, i. 1.
=Wherein does barbarism consist, unless in not
appreciating what is excellent?= _Goethe._
=Wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he
falleth from love.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the
eagles be gathered together.= _Jesus._
=Wheresoever the search after truth begins,
there life begins; wheresoever the search
ceases, there life ceases.= _Ruskin._
=Wheresoever two or three living men are= 35
=gathered together, there is society; or there
it will be, with its mechanisms and structures,
over-spreading this little globe, and
reaching upwards to Heaven and downwards
to Gehenna.= _Carlyle._
=Whereto serves mercy, / But to confront the
visage of offence? / And what's in prayer,
but this twofold force,--to be forestalled ere
we come to fall, / Or pardon'd, being down?
Then I'll look up.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
=Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be
come to thy house, he is to be treated with
respect; for of all men, thy guest is the
superior.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of
great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.=
_Heine._
=Whether he be rich or whether he be poor, if
he= (a man), =have a good heart, he shall at all
times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his
mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen
that sit above upon a tower on high.=
_Ecclus._
=Whether it be for life or death, do your own= 40
=work well.= _Ruskin._
=Whether one show one's self a man of genius
in science or compose a song, the only
point is, whether the thought, the discovery,
the deed, is living and can live on.= _Goethe._
=Whether religion be true or false, it must be
necessarily granted to be the only wise principle
and safe hypothesis for a man to live
and die by.= _Tillotson._
=Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the
stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.=
_Pr._
=Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can
have but water of it.= _Pr._
=Which death is preferable to every other?
"The unexpected."= _Cæsar._
=Which highest mortal, in this inane existence,
had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted;
and, when I looked through his
brave garnitures, miserable enough?= _Carlyle._
=Which is the great secret? The open secret= 5
(open, that is, to all, seen by almost none).
_Goethe._
=Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? /
That where fond Cupid still is adding
weight.= _Quarles._
=Which of all the philosophies think you will
stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I
hope will continue with us for ever.= _Schiller._
=Which of your philosophical systems is other
than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently
given out, where divisor and dividend
are both unknown?= _Carlyle._
=Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And
in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still
threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To
which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.=
_Milton._
=Whichever you do, you will regret it.= _Socrates,_ 10
_to one who asked him whether he should marry
or not._
=While a man gets he never can lose.= _Sp. Pr._
=While conscience is our friend, all is peace;
but if once offended, farewell the tranquil
mind.= _Mary Wortley Montagu._
=While craving justice for ourselves, it is never
wise to be unjust to others.= _Lew Wallace._
=While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical
language, be said to be extinct.=
_Carlyle._
=While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert= 15
=only irritates. You must wait till grief be
digested, and then amusement will dissipate
the remains of it.= _Johnson._
=While manufacture is the work of hands only,
art is the work of the whole spirit of man;
and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it.=
_Ruskin._
=While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave,
that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling
child / Roaming in youth's uncertain
wild.= _Keble._
=While mistakes are increasing, like population,
at the rate of twelve hundred a-day,
the benefit of seizing one and throttling it
would be perfectly inconsiderable.= _Carlyle._
=While others tippled, Sam from drinking
shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam
alone was drunk.= _Lucian._
=While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new= 20
=is already formed beneath.= _Carlyle._
=While there is hope left, let not the weakness
of sorrow make the strength of resolution
languish.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=While thy shoe is on thy foot, tread upon the
thorns.= _Pr._
=While we are indifferent to our good qualities,
we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to
our faults, until we come to look upon them
as virtues.= _Heine._
=While we are reasoning concerning life, life is
gone.= _Hume._
=While we think to revenge an injury, we many= 25
=times begin one, and after that repent our
misconceptions.= _Feltham._
=While you live, tell truth and shame the devil.=
1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Whilst a man confideth in Providence, he
should not slacken his own exertions; for
without labour he is unworthy to obtain the
oil from the seed.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whilst lions war and battle for their dens, /
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 5.
=Whilst we converse with what is above us,
we do not grow old, but grow young.=
_Emerson._
=Whining lover may as well request / A scornful= 30
=breast / To melt in gentle tears, as woo
the world for rest.= _Quarles._
=Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._
=Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.=
_Blair._
=White lies always introduce others of a darker
complexion.= _Paley._
=Who are wise in love, love most, say least.=
_Tennyson._
=Who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find /= 35
=The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and
snow.= _Byron._
=Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his
mind, / And to party gave up what was
meant for mankind; / Though fraught with
all learning, yet straining his throat / To
persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a
vote.= _Goldsmith._
=Who bravely dares most sometimes risk a fall.=
_Smollett._
=Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself.=
_George Herbert._
=Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks
must mourn; / And he alone is bless'd who
ne'er was born.= _Prior._
=Who builds a church to God and not to fame, /= 40
=Will never mark the marble with his name.=
_Pope._
=Who but the poet was it that first formed gods
for us; that exalted us to them, and brought
them down to us?= _Goethe._
=Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? /
Or sells eternity to get a toy?= _Shakespeare._
=Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of
heaven, nor earth.= _Two Gent. of Verona_,
v. 4.
=Who can be patient in extremes?= 3 _Hen. VI._,
i. 1.
=Who can compute what the world loses in the= 45
=multitude of promising intellects combined
with timid characters, who dare not follow
out any bold, vigorous, independent train of
thought, lest it should land them in something
which would admit of being considered
irreligious or immoral?= _J. S. Mill._
=Who can direct when all pretend to know?=
_Goldsmith._
=Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which
men shall praise, a higher task may find, /
Plodding his dull round on the common
earth, / But conquering envies rising in the
mind.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price
is far above rubies. The heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her, so that he
shall have no need of spoil. She will do him
good and not evil, all the days of her life.
She looketh well to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.=
_Bible._
=Who can heal the woes of him to whom
balm has become poison, who has imbibed
hatred of mankind from the fulness of love?=
_Goethe._
=Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin?= _Bible._
=Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, /
He breaks up house, turns out of doors his
mind.= _George Herbert._
=Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.= 5
_Pr._
=Who coldly lives to himself and his own will
may gratify many a wish; but he who
strives to guide others well must be able
to dispense with much.= _Goethe._
=Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, /
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest
slave; / Who reasons wisely is not therefore
wise,--/ His pride in reasoning, not in
acting lies.= _Pope._
=Who could pin down a shadow to the ground, /
And take its measure?= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Who does not act is dead; absorpt entire / In= 10
=miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: / O
leaden-hearted men, to be in love with
death!= _Thomson._
=Who does not help us at the needful moment
never helps; who does not counsel at the
needful moment never counsels.= _Goethe._
=Who does not in his friends behold the world, /
Deserves not that the world should hear of
him.= _Goethe._
=Who does the best his circumstance allows, /
Does well, does nobly; angels could no
more.= _Young._
=Who doth not work shall not eat.= _Pr._
=Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?= 15
_Marlowe._
=Who fastest walks, but walks astray, / Is only
farthest from his way.= _Prior._
=Who fears death forfeits life.= _Seume._
=Who fears to do ill sets himself a task; / Who
fears to do well sure should wear a mask.=
_Herbert._
=Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a
slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute,
and so glowing a gratitude for kindness,
as a generous boy?= _Thackeray._
=Who firmly can resolve, he conquers grief.= 20
_Goethe._
=Who follows all things forfeiteth his will.=
_George Herbert._
=Who forces himself on others is to himself
a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and
inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected
of whatever is little.= _Lavater._
=Who gets by play proves loser in the end.=
_Heath._
=Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the
trifle.= _Lavater._
=Who gives the lilies clothing, / Will clothe his= 25
=people too.= _Cowper._
=Who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.=
_Pr._
=Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared
for sacrifice.= _I. Disraeli._
=Who has a daring eye tells downright truths
and downright lies.= _Lavater._
=Who has a head will not want a hat.= _It.
Pr._
=Who has not felt how sadly sweet / The dream= 30
=of home, the dream of home, / Steals o'er the
heart, too soon to fleet, / When far o'er sea
or land we roam? / Sunlight more soft may
o'er us fall, / To greener shores our bark
may come; / But far more bright, more dear
than all, / That dream of home, that dream
of home.= _Moore._
=Who hath a greater combat than he that
laboureth to overcome himself?= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Who hath not known ill fortune never knew
himself or his own virtue.= _Mallet._
=Who here with life would sport, / In life shall
prosper never; / And he who ne'er will rule
himself, / A slave shall be for ever.= _Goethe._
=Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger,
instantly finds the fit word which settles all
around him in silence, is more than wise or
just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than
royal blood--he is of celestial descent.= _Lavater._
=Who in want a hollow friend doth try, /= 35
=Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Who is a stranger to those who have the
habit of speaking kindly.= _Hitopadesa._
=Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and
judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds
praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge
an inmate soul, but 'tis not his.= _Donne._
=Who is sure of his own motives can with confidence
advance or retreat.= _Goethe._
=Who is the best captain of a ship? The
grumbler and the man of discipline, who
will have things as they ought to be, even
though he lose every sailor serving under
him by his severity.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Who is the best general? The grumbler who= 40
=insists upon having everything in mathematical
order, and who has not the smallest
drop of the milk of human kindness about
him, whenever it is a question of duty or
efficiency.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Who is the happiest man? He who is alive
to the merit of others, and can rejoice in
their enjoyment as if it were his own.=
_Goethe._
=Who is the most sensible man? He who finds
what is to his own advantage in all that
happens to him.= _Goethe._
=Who is there almost, whose mind at some
time or other, love or anger, fear or grief,
has not so fastened to some clog that it
could not turn itself to any other object?=
_Locke._
=Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes
of destiny, and say to the spirit of
the time: Turn back, I command thee?
Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable
and inexorable, and accounted even
this the best.= _Carlyle._
=Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse
than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet;
the worst is not, / So long as we can say, /
This is the worst.= _Lear_, iv. 1.
=Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who
judgeth evil, God them amend.= _Sir Thomas
Wyatt._
=Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, /
And rots to nothing at the next great thaw.=
_George Herbert._
=Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
but he who kills a good book kills reason
itself.= _Milton._
=Who knows art half, speaks much and is always= 5
=wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines
to act, and speaks seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=Who knows not that truth is strong, next to
the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor
stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious;
those are the shifts and the defences
that error uses against her power; give her
but room and do not bind her when she
sleeps.= _Milton._
=Who knows the mind has the key to all things
else.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Who knows what Love is, may not sup /
On that which is not still divine.= _Dr. W.
Smith._
=Who leaves all receives more.= _Emerson._
=Who looks not before finds himself behind.= 10
_Pr._
=Who loves his own sweet shadow in the
streets / Better than e'er the fairest she he
meets.= _Burns._
=Who loves me, loves my dog.= _L. Pr._
=Who loves, raves.= _Byron._
=Who made the heart, 'tis He alone / Decidedly
can try us; / He knows each chord, its various
tone, / Each spring, its various bias. /
Then at the balance let's be mute, / We
never can adjust it; / What's done we partly
may compute, / But know not what's resisted.=
_Burns._
=Who make poor "will do" wait upon "I= 15
=should;" / We own they're prudent, but
who owns they're good?= _Burns._
=Who marks in church-time others' symmetry, /
Makes all their beauty his deformity.= _George
Herbert._
=Who never climbs will never fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Who never doubted never half believed.=
_Bailey._
=Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome
But half his foe.= _Milton._
=Who pants for glory finds but short repose; /= 20
=A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows.=
_Pope._
=Who plays for more / Than he can lose with
pleasure, stakes his heart.= _George Herbert._
=Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and
content much.= _Bacon._
=Who riseth from a feast / With that keen
appetite that he sits down? / Where is the
horse that doth untread again / His tedious
measures with the unabated fire / That he
did pace them first? All things that are /
Are with more spirit chaséd than enjoy'd.=
_Mer. of Venice_, ii. 6.
=Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; /
And to instruct them, 'twill not quit the
cost.= _George Herbert._
=Who seeks Him in the dark and cold, / With= 25
=heart that elsewhere finds no rest, / Some
fringe of the skirts of God shall hold, /
Though round his spirit the mists may fold, /
With eerie shadows and fears untold.= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Who shall be true to us, / When we are so unsecret
to ourselves?= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=Who shall decide when doctors disagree, /
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and
me.= _Pope._
=Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained
strength, / Or curb his swiftness in
the forward race?= _W. C. Bryant._
=Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, /
While the star of hope she leaves him?=
_Burns._
=Who should be trusted when one's right= 30
=hand / Is perjured to the bosom?= _Two Gent.
of Verona_, v. 4.
=Who shuts love out shall be shut out from
love.= _Tennyson._
=Who so firm that cannot be seduced?= _Jul.
Cæs._, i. 2.
=Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him /
With his fair-weather virtue, that exults /
Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest
comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when
from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in
a corner lies / Lamenting.= _Thomson._
=Who soars too near the sun with golden
wings melts them.= _Shakespeare._
=Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the= 35
=deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Who spouts his message to the wilderness, /
Lightens his soul and feels one burden less; /
But to the people preach, and you will find /
They'll pay you back with thanks ill to your
mind.= _Goethe, Prof. Blackie's translation._
=Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has
been slave to thousands; / But he that filches
from me my good name, / Robs me of that
which not enriches him, / And makes me poor
indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Who surpasses or subdues mankind / Must
look down on the hate of those below.= _Byron._
=Who the race of men doth love, / Loves also
him above.= _Lewis Morris._
=Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This= 40
=pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; / Left
the warm precincts of the cheerful day, /
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?=
_Gray._
=Who track the steps of glory to the grave.=
_Byron._
=Who trusts in God fears not his rod.= _Goethe._
=Who values a good night's rest will not lie
down with enmity in his heart if he can help
it.= _Sterne._
=Who values that anger which is consumed
only in empty menaces?= _Goldsmith._
=Who walks through fire will hardly heed the= 45
=smoke.= _Tennyson._
=Who watches not catches not.= _Dut. Pr._
="Who will guard the guards?" says a Latin
verse,--"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
I answer, "The enemy." It is the enemy
who keeps the sentinel watchful.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=Who will not mercy unto others show, / How
can he mercy ever hope to have?= _Spenser._
=Who would bear the whips and scorns of
time, / The oppressor's wrong, the proud
man's contumely, / The pangs of despised
love, the law's delay, / The insolence of
office and the spurns / That patient merit
of the unworthy takes, / When he himself
might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=Who would check the happy feeling / That
inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop
the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift
and strong?= _Wordsworth._
=Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat
under a weary life, / But that 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.
=Whoever acquires knowledge but does not= 5
=practise it, is as one who ploughs but does
not sow.= _Saadi._
=Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and
everything with his entire nature, whoever
tries to link together all that is without him
by such a species of enjoyment will only lose
his time in efforts that can never be successful.=
_Goethe._
=Whoever can administer what he possesses,
has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome
affair, unless you understand it.= _Goethe._
=Whoever can discern truth has received his
commission from a higher source than the
chiefest judge in the world, who can discern
only law.= _Thoreau._
=Whoever can make two ears of corn or two
blades of grass grow where only one grew
before, deserves better of mankind, and does
more service to his country, than the whole
race of politicians put together.= _Swift._
=Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven= 10
=has lost nothing, for there above is everything
he can wish for here below. He only
is a loser who persists in looking down on
the narrow plains of the present time.= _Jean
Paul._
=Whoever converses much among old books
will be hard to please among new.= _Temple._
=Whoever despises mankind will never get the
best out of others or himself.= _Tocqueville._
=Whoever does not respect confidence will
never find happiness in his path.= _Saying._
=Whoever fights, whoever falls, / Justice conquers
evermore.= _Emerson._
=Whoever gives himself to this= (evil-speaking and 15
evil-wishing), =soon comes to be indifferent towards
God, contemptuous towards the world,
spiteful towards his equals; and the true,
genuine indispensable sentiment of self-estimation
corrupts into self-conceit and presumption.=
_Goethe._
=Whoever has lived twenty years ought to
know how to order himself without physic.=
_Tiberius, quoted by Montaigne._
=Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant
feelings.= _Joubert._
=Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance
amicably together, and take hold of hands
without knowing each other, leaving the
next moment to meet no more, can form an
idea of the world.= _Vauvenargues._
=Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all
men--to the extent of the sixpence; commands
cooks to feed him, philosophers to
teach him, kings to mount guard over him--to
the extent of sixpence.= _Carlyle._
=Whoever has so far formed his taste as to be= 20
=able to relish and feel the beauties of the
great masters, has gone a great way in his
study.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Whoever is a genuine follower of truth, keeps
his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent
whither he is lead, provided that she is the
leader.= _Burke._
=Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing
he is about is too big for him. Haste and
hurry are very different things.= _Chesterfield._
=Whoever is king, is also the father of his
country.= _Congreve._
=Whoever is out of patience is out of possession
of his soul.= _Bacon._
=Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow= 25
=pure enough / To love them, brave enough
to strive for them, / And strong enough to
reach them, though the road be rough.= _E.
B. Browning._
=Whoever perseveres will be crowned.= _Herder._
=Whoever serves his country well has no need
of ancestors.= _Voltaire._
=Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it,
though it be with gold, and silver, and
precious stones, will give his owner but an
ill account of his voyage.= _Locke._
=Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, /
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall
be.= _Pope._
=Whoever will thrust Magdalen into the pit= 30
=will find that he has dropped with her into
the flames the key that should have opened
heaven for him, and assuredly shall he remain
outside until she, her purification completed,
shall take pity on him and bring it
thence.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Whoever wishes to attain an English style,
familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not
ostentatious, must give his days and nights
to the volumes of Addison.= _Johnson._
=Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide
from us that he possesses one.= _Goethe._
=Whoever would persuade men to religion
both with art and efficacy, must found the
persuasion of it upon this, that it interferes
not with any rational pleasure, that it bids
nobody quit the enjoyment of any one thing
that his reason can prove to him ought to be
enjoyed.= _South._
=Whole, half, and quarter mistakes are very
difficult and troublesome to correct and sift,
and it is hard to set what is true in them in
its proper place.= _Goethe._
=Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, /= 35
=Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.= _Hen.
V._, i. 1.
=Wholly a man of action, with speech subservient
thereto.= _Carlyle of his father._
=Whom God teaches not, man cannot.= _Gael._
=Whom Heaven has made a slave, no parliament
of men, nor power that exists on earth,
can render free.= _Carlyle._
="Whom the gods love die young," was said
of yore.= _Byron._
=Whom the grandeur of his office elevates over
other men will soon find that the first hour of
his new dignity is the last of his independence.=
_Chancellor D'Aguesseau._
=Whom the heart of man shuts out, straightway
the heart of God takes in.= _Lowell._
=Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounced /
Wisest of men.= _Milton, of Socrates._
=Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor
cares to fix itself to form.= _Tennyson._
=Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil.= _Carlyle._ 5
=Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like
clouds and wind without rain.= _Bible._
=Whoso can look on death will start at no
shadows.= _Greek saying._
=Whoso can speak well is a man.= _Luther._
=Whoso cannot obey cannot be free, still less
bear rule; he that is the inferior of nothing,
can be the superior of nothing, the equal of
nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his= 10
=lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.=
_Bible._
=Whoso devours the substance of the poor will
at length find in it a bone to choke him.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Whoso does not good, does evil enough.= _Pr._
=Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing,
and obtaineth favour of the Lord.= _Bible._
=Whoso hath love in his heart hath spurs in his
sides.= _It. Pr._
=Whoso findeth me= (Wisdom) =findeth life, and= 15
=shall obtain favour of the Lord.= _Bible._
=Whoso hath skill in this art= (music) =is of a good
temperament, fitted for all things.= _Martin
Luther._
=Whoso is not a misanthropist at forty can
never have loved his kind.= _Chamfort._
=Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit
thereof; so he that waiteth on his master
shall be honoured.= _Bible._
=Whoso lives for humanity must be content to
lose himself.= _O. B. Frothingham._
=Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his= 20
=Maker; and he that is glad at calamities
shall not be unpunished.= _Bible._
=Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not
depart from his house.= _Bible._
=Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and
saith, It is no transgression, the same is the
companion of a destroyer.= _Bible._
=Whoso serves the public is a poor creature=
(_ein armes Thier_); =he worries himself, and no
one is grateful to him for his services.= _Goethe._
=Whoso should combine the intrepid candour
and decisive scientific clearness of Hume
with the reverence, the love, and devout
humility of Johnson, were the whole man of
a new time.= _Carlyle._
=Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the= 25
=poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not
be heard.= _Bible._
=Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.=
_Bible._
=Whoso, without poetic frenzy, knocks at the
doors of the Muses, presuming that his art
alone will suffice to make him a poet, both
he and his poetry are hopelessly thrown
away.= _Plato._
=Whoso would find God must bring him with
him; thou seest him in things outside of
thee, only when he is within thee.= _Rückert._
=Whoso would work aright must not concern
himself about what is ill done, but only do
well himself.= _Goethe._
=Whoso would write clearly must think clearly,= 30
=and if he would write in a noble style, he
must first possess a noble soul.= _Goethe._
=Whosoever and whatsoever introduces itself
and appears, in the firm earth of human
business, or, as we well say, comes into
existence, must proceed from the world of
the supernatural; whatsoever of a material
sort deceases and disappears might be expected
to go thither.= _Carlyle._
=Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath,
cannot be my disciple.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever has not seized the whole cannot
yet speak truly (much less musically, concordantly)
of any part.= _Carlyle._
=Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be
possess philosophy.= _Saadi._
=Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many= 35
=thoughts, his wits and understanding do
clarify and break up, in the communicating
and discoursing with another. He
tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth
them more orderly, he seeth how
they look when they are turned into
words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself.=
_Bacon._
=Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and
affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh
it of the beast, and not from humanity.=
_Bacon._
="Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not
understand it," says Bettine; and among all
her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser.=
_Mrs. Child._
=Whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother,
and sister, and mother.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased;
and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.=
_Jesus._
=Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of= 40
=God as a little child, he shall not enter
therein.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever will be great among you, let him be
your servant.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall
find it.= _Jesus._
=Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit
once; / And He that might the vantage best
have took / Found out the remedy. How
would you be / If He, which is the top of
judgment, should / But judge you as you
are?= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? /
Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? /
Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; /
Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing
storms.= _Burns._
=Why are taste= (_Geschmack_) =and genius so= 45
=seldom willing to unite? The former is
shy of power, the latter scorns restraint.=
_Schiller._
=Why complain of wanting light? It is courage,
energy, perseverance that I want.=
_Carlyle._
=Why do we discover faults so much more
readily than perfections?= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=Why do we pray to Heaven without setting
our own shoulder to the wheel?= _Carlyle._
=Why does it signify to us what they think of
us after death, when our being has become
only an empty sound?= _Auerbach._
=Why does that hyssop grow there in the
chink of the wall? Because the whole universe,
sufficiently occupied otherwise, could
not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the
might and the right.= _Carlyle._
=Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why= 5
=don't the men propose?= _T. H. Bayly._
=Why dost thou try to find / Where charity
doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, /
Who eats it, who may know?= _Goethe._
=Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For
this plain reason--man is not a fly.= _Pope._
=Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of
Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your
enterprise? Know ye not that for him there
is quite other work appointed, which he
must do all alone, and not another with
him?= _Ed._
=Why is it that Love must so often sigh in
vain for an object, and Hate never?= _Jean
Paul._
=Why is it that we can better bear to part in= 10
=spirit than in body, and, while we have the
fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve
to say it?= _Dickens._
=Why is there no man who confesses his vices?
It is because he has not yet laid them aside.
It is a waking man only who can tell his
dreams.= _Sen._
=Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow
world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men /
Walk under his huge legs and peep about /
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes
withal.= _Tam. the Shrew_, i. 2.
=Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, /
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And
hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, /
Than in the perfumed chambers of the
great, / Under the canopies of costly state, /
And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?=
2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of= 15
=all that meets your view? / Wait for the
melting of the snow, / And then you'll see
what lies below.= _Prof. Blackie from Goethe._
=Why should a man, whose blood is warm
within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?=
_Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
="Why should calamity be full of words?" /
"Let them have scope; though what they
do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease
the heart."= _Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=Why should honour outlive honesty?= _Othello_,
v. 2.
=Why should I make a shadow where God
makes all so bright?= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Why should not conscience have vacation /= 20
=As well as other courts o' th' nation?= _Butler._
=Why should the Garment of Praise destroy
the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old
woman cannot sing and cry at the same
moment ... one emotion destroys another.=
_Prof. Drummond._
=Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let
the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, /
Where thrift may follow fawning.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon
a thing which makes thee not one whit the
better or the worse?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An
altar is in each man's cot, / A church in
every grove that spreads / Its living roof
above our heads.= _Wordsworth._
=Why should we faint and fear to live alone, /= 25
=Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we
die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and
next our own, / Knows half the reasons why
we smile or sigh?= _Keble._
=Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart
wants to repose.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Why should we have any serious disgust at
kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses
of the house. There is the hearth, after
all,--and the settle, and the fagots, and the
kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart,
the left ventricle, the very vital part of the
house.= _Thoreau._
=Why so large cost, having so short a lease, /
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?=
_Shakespeare._
=Why such heat= (crushing superstition)? =Other
nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost
sure to follow.= _Frederick the Great to Voltaire._
=Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it= 30
=is not the truth that he is speaking? If an
eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth,
is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?=
_Carlyle._
=Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which
I with sword will open.= _Merry Wives_,
ii. 2.
=Why, 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.
=Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set
my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what
can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as
itself?= _Ham._, i. 4.
=Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually
set their mark upon the face, especially
the eyes.= _Schopenhauer._
=Wickedness is its own punishment.= _Quarles._ 35
=Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every
sinner does more extravagant things than
any man that is crazed and out of his wits,
only that he knows better what he does.=
_Tillotson._
=Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that
leadeth to destruction.= _Jesus._
=Wide our world displays its worth, man's
strife and strife's success, / All the good and
beauty, wonder crowning wonder, / Till my
heart and soul applaud perfection, nothing
less.= _Browning._
=Wide will wear, but tight will tear.= _Pr._
=Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt / Eins in= 40
=dem andern wirkt und lebt!=--How everything
weaves itself into the whole; one works and
lives in the other. _Goethe._
=Wie bitter sind der Trennung Leiden!=--How
bitter are the pangs of parting! _Mozart._
=Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache
ohne Worte=--The heart, like the eye, has its
speech without words. _Bodenstedt._
=Wie das Gestirn, / Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne
Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last=--Like
a star, without haste, yet without rest, let
each one revolve round his own task. _Goethe._
=Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich
wieder aus der Asche hervor=--(Our
passions are true phœnixes;) when the old one
is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out
of its ashes. _Goethe._
=Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt=--Like
the starry heavens, still and in motion. _J. C. F.
Hölderlin._
=Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die= 5
=Jungen=--As the old birds sing, so will the young
ones twitter.
=Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den
Himmel / Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und
Hellas die Welt=--As the flowers adorn the
earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns
Greece, and Greece the world. _Herder._
=Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des
braven Mannes Wort=--Like an arrow to its
aim flies the good man's word. _Platen._
=Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!=--How
straitened is the lot of woman! _Goethe._
=Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn
man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!=--How fruitful
the smallest space if we but knew how to cultivate
it! _Goethe._
=Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen=--Easily gained, 10
easily spent.
=Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und
doch auch da zieht Gott herein=--How small
is the human heart, and yet even there God
enters in. _W. Hey._
=Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, /
Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken
banget!=--How earth and heaven contract when
our heart frets within its barriers! _Goethe._
=Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben
stumm. / Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage
nicht Warum?=--How? when? and where? the
gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because,"
and ask not "Why?" _Goethe._
=Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And
Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.= _Dryden._
=Wilful waste makes woeful want.= _Pr._ 15
=Will a courser of the sun work softly in the
harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of
fire, and his path is through the heavens,
bringing light to all lands; will he lumber
on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly
appetites from door to door?= _Carlyle on the
career and sorrowful fate of Burns._
=Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood /
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will
rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, /
Making the green one red.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends.=
_Shakespeare._
=Will it, and set to work briskly.= _Schiller._
=Will localises us; thought universalises us.= 20
_Amiel._
=Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.=
_Schopenhauer._
="Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true
God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have,"
which is the proper spirit of the
false.= _Ed._
=Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, /
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.= _Pope._
=Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.=
_Pr._
=Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie= 25
=Dichter empfinden=--Wilt thou understand a
poet, then learn to feel as a poet. _G. Keil._
=Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So
musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken=--Wilt
thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then
must thou see the whole in the least object.
_Goethe._
=Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das
Gute liegt so nah! / Lerne nur das Glück
ergreifen, / Denn das Glück ist immer da=--Wilt
thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies
so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune
that offers, for it is ever there. _Goethe._
=Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur
im Endliche nach allen Seiten=--Wouldst thou
step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within
the limits of the finite. _Goethe._
=Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du
frei sein, musst du sterben=--Wouldst thou
love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou
must die. _Hegel._
=Willst du mit Kinderhänden / In des Schicksals= 30
=Speichen greifen? / Seines Donnerwagens
Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen
auf=--Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny
with thy child's hands? The course of its car
of thunder no mortal hand can stay. _Grillparzer._
=Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, /
Einen zu geben, einen um einzustecken=--Would
you live a merry life, go with two
wallets, one for giving out and one for putting
in. _Goethe._
=Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them, then, in being merciful.=
_Sh._
=Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind,
by stringing together beadrolls of what
thou namest facts? The man is the spirit
he worked in; not what he did, but what
he became.= _Carlyle._
=Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do;
wilt thou understand others, look into thine
own heart.= _Schiller._
="Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth,= 35
="and you have all men's hearts and
purses."= _Smiles._
=Wine and youth are fire upon fire.= _Fielding._
=Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.=
_Bible._
=Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an
enemy.= _Fielding._
=Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises.=
_Pr._
=Wine washes off the daub.= _Pr._ 40
=Wings have we--and as far as we can go, /
We may find pleasure: wilderness and
wood, / Blank ocean and mere sky, support
that mood / Which with the lofty, sanctifies
the low.= _Wordsworth._
=Wink at small faults.= _Pr._
=Wir Menschen sind ja alle Brüder=--We men
are for certain all brothers. _Zschokke._
=Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences
and of itself.= _Plato._
=Wisdom and Fortune combating together, / If
that the former dare but what he can, / No
chance may shake it.= _Ant. and Cleo._, iii. 11.
=Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability
of thy times.= _Bible._
=Wisdom becomes nonsense= (_Unsinn_) =in the
mouth of a fanatic= (_Schwärmer_). _Otto Ludwig._
=Wisdom begins at the end.= _Webster._
=Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth= 5
=darkness.= _Bible._
=Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence:
but the excellency of knowledge is, that
wisdom giveth life to them that have it.=
_Bible._
=Wisdom is a pearl; with most success / Sought
in still water and beneath clear skies.= _Cowper._
=Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it
cannot at once, or completely at all, be read
off in words, and is only legible in whole
when its work is done.= _Carlyle._
=Wisdom is justified of her children.= _Jesus._
=Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at= 10
=their ease; rather Nature, when she adds
brain, adds difficulty.= _Emerson._
=Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than
when we soar.= _Wordsworth._
=Wisdom is only in truth.= _Goethe._
=Wisdom is that attribute through which
every action of a man receives its ideal
value or import= (_Gehalt_). _Schleiermacher._
=Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.=
_Bible._
=Wisdom is too high for a fool.= _Bible._ 15
=Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble,
though at last a sure one.= _Goldsmith._
=Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is
seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.=
_Sir J. Stephen._
=Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, /
But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates
here.= _De Bosch._
=Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains.=
_Quarles._
=Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. /= 20
=A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.=
_George Herbert._
=Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath
understanding.= _Bible._
=Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye
become as little children."= _Pascal._
=Wisdom sits with children round her knees.=
_Wordsworth._
=Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes.= _Pr._
=Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is= 25
=hoarded up, what profit is in them both?=
_Ecclus._
=Wisdom, which represents the marriage of
truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous
with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as
Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches.=
_Whipple._
=Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this
world that cannot be suppressed or annulled.=
_John Burroughs._
=Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er
gave.= _George Herbert._
=Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the
height, / The Muse's gifts will fill you with
delight.= _Onestes._
=Wise above that which is written.= _St. Paul._ 30
=Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the
best flower of civilisation, and the best result
which life has to offer us--a cup for gods,
which has no repentance. Conversation is
our account of ourselves. All we have, all
we can, all we know is brought into play,
and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all
our havings.= _Emerson._
=Wise is the man prepared for either end, /
Who in due measure can both spare and
spend.= _Lucian._
=Wise kings have generally wise councillors,
as he must be a wise man himself who is
capable of distinguishing one.= _Diogenes._
=Wise men are instructed by reason; men of
less understanding, by experience; the most
ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.=
_Cic._
=Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will= 35
=speak five times from their taste or their
humour to one from their reason.= _Emerson._
=Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that
they know nothing of what is for their own
advantage, but know surpassing things,
marvellous things, difficult things, and divine
things.= _Ruskin._
=Wise men argue causes, and fools decide
them.= _Anacharsis._
=Wise men, for the most part, are silent at
present, and good men powerless; the senseless
vociferate, and the heartless govern;
while all social law and providence are dissolved
by the enraged agitation of a multitude,
among whom every villain has a
chance of power, every simpleton of praise,
and every scoundrel of fortune.= _Ruskin._
=Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a
help either to forget or overcome them; but
to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's
mind is to cure melancholy by madness.=
_Charron._
=Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But= 40
=cheerly seek how to redress their harms.=
3 _Hen. VI._, v. 4.
=Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.=
_Selden._
=Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract
salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you
will.= _Cic._
=Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but
for action and business, having a point or
edge, whereby knots in business are pierced
and discovered.= _Bacon._
=Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which
man has found out for himself in that great
business of ours, of learning how to be, to
do, to do without, and to depart.= _John
Morley._
=Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.= _Pope._ 45
=Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young
soul lies fatally over the horizon in these
epochs.= _Carlyle._
=Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.=
_Young._
=Wissen ist leichter als thun=--To know is easier
than to do. _Ger. Pr._
=Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though= 50
=meant each other's aid, like man and wife.=
_Pope._
=Wit and understanding are trifles without
integrity.= _Goldsmith._
=Wit and wisdom are born with a man.= _Selden._
=Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning,
flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an
instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as
the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial
and abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the
possessor, if he knows not how to use it
discreetly.= _Montaigne._
=Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered= 5
=with virtue and humanity.= _Addison._
=Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one
gives the greatest flame, the other yields the
durablest heat; and both meeting make the
best fire.= _Sir Thomas Overbury._
=Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can
make anything of anything.= _Chapman._
=Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a
sudden jerk of the understanding.= _Whipple._
=Wit once bought is worth twice taught.=
_Pr._
=Wit strews a single ray= (of the prism) =separated= 10
=from the rest upon an object; never
white light, that is the province of wisdom.=
_Holmes._
=Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally
despised by the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._
=Wit without employment is a disease.= _Burton._
=Wit without wisdom is salt without meat.=
_Horne._
=Wit-work is always play, when it is good.=
_Ruskin._
=Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes= 15
=a friend, sometimes the engineer: /
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with
liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too
dear.= _George Herbert._
=Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of
Parliament, but the mysterious relations
which it emblemed still continue.= _Carlyle._
=With all appliances and means to boot.= 2 _Hen.
IV._, iii. 1.
=With bag and baggage.= _As You Like It_,
iii. 2.
=With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, /
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.= _Milton._
=With consistency a great soul has simply= 20
=nothing to do. He may as well concern
himself with his shadow on the wall.= _Emerson._
=With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, /
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.=
_Churchill._
=With devotion's visage / And pious action we
do sugar over / The devil himself.= _Ham._,
iii. 1.
=With disadvantages enough to call him down
to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest
things alive.= _Goldsmith._
=With every anguish of our earthly part the
spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant
when Jesus touched the blind man's lids
with clay.= _Lowell._
=With every breath we draw, an ethereal= 25
=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._
=With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can
cheerfully endure the shame and the cross:
and without it worldlings puke up their sick
existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury.=
_Carlyle._
=With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids
heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly
rags, / Plying her needle and thread--/
Stitch! stitch! stitch!= _Hood._
="With it, or upon it, my son."= _A Spartan
mother, when she handed her son his shield as
he set out to fight for his country._
=With just enough of learning to misquote.=
_Byron._
=With love come life and hope.= _John Sterling._ 30
=With malice towards none, with charity
for all, with firmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right.= _John Quincy
Adams._
=With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles
come.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=With moral, political, religious considerations,
high and dear as they may otherwise be, the
philosopher, as such, has no concern.= _Carlyle._
=With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.=
_Drayton._
=With narrow-minded persons, and those in a= 35
=state of mental darkness, we find conceit:
while with mental clearness and high endowments
we never find it. In such cases
there is generally a joyful feeling of strength,
but since this strength is actual, the feeling
is anything else you please, only not conceit.=
_Goethe._
=With none who bless us, none whom we can
bless--/ This is to be alone; this, this is
solitude!= _Byron._
=With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his
devilish deeds.= _Milton._
=With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance,
all things are attainable.= _Sir
T. F. Buxton._
=With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without
it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality
makes a poor man rich.= _Sen._
=With patient mind thy path of duty run; /= 40
=God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, /
But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst
see / The end of all events as well as
he.= (?)
=With poetry, as with going to sea, we should
push from the shore and reach a certain
elevation before we unfurl all our sails.=
_Goethe._
=With poetry second-rate in quality, no one
ought to be allowed to trouble mankind.=
_Ruskin._
=With remembrance of the greater grief to
banish the less.= _Howard, Earl of Surrey._
=With respect to luxuries and comforts, the
wisest have ever lived a more simple and
meagre life than the poor.= _Thoreau._
=With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive,= 45
=showy and tinkling, but affording just as
little for the heart as it offers much to eyes
and ears.= _Goethe._
=With stupidity and sound digestion man may
front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative
days are the terrors of conscience
to the diseases of the liver!= _Carlyle._
=With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends,
a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for
living, and may well dispense with other
physicians.= _A. B. Alcott._
=With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead
there is no change. Plato is never sullen.
Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes
never comes unseasonably. Dante never
stays too long.= _Macaulay._
=With the Gospels one becomes a heretic.=
_It. Pr._
=With the majority of men unbelief in one thing
is founded on blind belief in another thing.=
_Lichtenberg._
=With the possession or certain expectation of= 5
=good things our demand rises, and increases
our capacity for further possession and larger
expectations.= _Schopenhauer._
=With thought, with the ideal, is immortal
hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the
Muses sing.= _Emerson._
=With too much quickness ever to be taught; /
With too much thinking to have common
thought.= _Pope._
=With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one
still can be insupportable. The manners,
which are neglected as small things, are
often those which decide men for or against
you. A slight attention to them would
have prevented their ill judgments.= _La
Bruyère._
=With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish
men.= _St. Peter._
=With what a heavy and retarding weight does= 10
=expectation load the wing of time.= _William
Mason._
=With what is debateable I am unconcerned;
and when I have only opinions about things
... I do not talk about them. I attack only
what cannot on any possible ground be defended;
and state only what I know to be
incontrovertibly true.= _Ruskin._
=With women worth the being won, / The softest
lover ever best succeeds.= _Aaron Hill._
=Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house;
lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.=
_Bible._
=Withhold not good from them to whom it is
due, when it is in the power of thine hand
to do it.= _Bible._
=Within man is the soul of the whole; the= 15
=wise silence, the universal beauty, to which
every part and particle is equally related--the
Eternal One.= _Emerson._
=Within that awful volume lies / The mystery
of mysteries.= _Scott._
=Within the hollow crown / That rounds the
mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his
court.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=Within the most starched cravat there passes
a windpipe and weasand, and under the
thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a
heart.= _Carlyle._
=Within us all a universe doth dwell.= _Goethe._
=Within yourselves deliverance must be= 20
sought; / =Each man his prison makes.= _Sir
Edwin Arnold._
=Without a belief in personal immortality religion
surely is like an arch resting on one
pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.= _Max
Müller._
=Without a God there is for man neither purpose,
nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering
future, an eternal dread of every darkness.=
_Jean Paul._
=Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.=
_Emerson._
=Without a sign his sword the brave man
draws, / And asks no omen but his country's
cause.= _Pope._
=Without adversity a man hardly knows= 25
=whether he is honest or not.= _Fielding._
=Without affecting stoicism, it may be said
that it is our business to exempt ourselves
as much as we can from the power of external
things.= _Johnson._
=Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet.=
_Emerson._
=Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit
impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness.
The best parts only qualify a man to
be more sprightly in errors, and active to his
own prejudice.= _Addison._
=Without earnestness there is nothing to be
done in life; yet among the people we name
cultivated, little earnestness is to be found.=
_Goethe._
=Without economy none can be rich, and with= 30
=it few can be poor.= _Johnson._
=Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser
is the same to him as if it were another's.
But when it is said of a man "he hath so
much," it is with difficulty he can be induced
to part with it.= _Hitopadesa._
=Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess
not the knowledge therefore that thou hast
not.= _Ecclus._
=Without friends no one would choose to live,
even if he had all other good things.= _Arist._
=Without God in the world.= _St. Paul._
=Without great men, great crowds of people in= 35
=a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese,
like hills of ants or of fleas--the more, the
worse.= _Emerson._
=Without great men nothing can be done.= _Renan._
=Without justice society is sick, and will continue
sick till it dies.= _Froude._
=Without me ye can do nothing.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Without passion man is a mere latent force
and possibility.= _Amiel._
=Without passion there is no geniality.= _Mommsen._ 40
=Without philosophy we should be little above
the lower animals.= _Voltaire._
=Without poetry our science will appear incomplete,
and most of what now passes with
us for religion and philosophy will be replaced
by poetry.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Without real masters you cannot have servants.=
_Carlyle._
=Without some strong motive to the contrary,
men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined
common aim of irresistible attractiveness
naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce
naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing
and find their advantage in it.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact= 45
=teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers
who are always inquiring never learn anything.=
_I. Disraeli._
=Without the spiritual world the material world
is a disheartening enigma.= _Joubert._
=Without the way there is no going; without
the truth, no knowing; without the life, no
living.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Without were fightings, within were fears.=
_St. Paul._
=Without wonder there is no faith.= _Jean Paul._
=Witticisms please as long as we keep them= 5
=within bounds, but pushed to excess they
cause offence.= _Phædr._
=Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us
is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be
wise and true we all are, under the terriblest
penalties.= _Carlyle._
=Wives are young men's mistresses, companions
for middle age, and old men's nurses.= _Bacon._
=Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag; da send er
seinen Boten hin=--Where the devil cannot
come, he will send his messenger. _Ger. Pr._
=Wo fasse ich dich, unendliche Natur?=--Where
can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? _Goethe._
=Wo grosse Höh', ist grosse Tiefe=--Where there 10
is great height there is great depth. _Schiller._
=Wo innen Sklaverei ist, wird sie von aussen
bald kommen=--Where there is slavery in the
heart, it will soon show itself in the outward
conduct. _Seume._
=Wo man singet, lass dich ruhig nieder, / Ohne
Furcht, was man am Lande glaubt; / Wo
man singet wird kein Mensch beraubt; /
Bösewichter haben keine Lieder=--Where
people sing, there quietly settle, never fearing
what may be the belief of the people of the land.
Where people sing, nobody will be robbed. Bad
people have no songs. _Seume._
=Wo viel Freiheit, ist viel Irrthum=--Where there
is much freedom there is much error. _Schiller._
=Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten=--The
shadow is deeper where the light is strong.
_Goethe._
=Wo viel zu wagen ist, ist viel zu wägen=--Where 15
there is much to risk, there is much to
consider. _Platen._
=Woe does the heavier sit / Where it perceives
it is but faintly borne.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Woe, that too late repents.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Woe to every sort of culture which destroys
the most effectual means of all true culture,
and directs us to the end, instead of rendering
us happy on the way.= _Goethe._
=Woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for
he hath not another to help him up.= _Bible._
=Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child.= 20
_Rich. III._, ii. 3.
=Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot
bear to be alone.= _Hamerton._
=Woe unto you when all men speak well of
you.= _Jesus._
=Woe, woe to youth, to life, which idly boasts, /
I am the End, and mine the appointed Way.=
_Lewis Morris._
=Wohl unglückselig ist der Mann, / Der unterlässt
das, was er kann, / Und unterfängt
sich, was er nicht versteht; / Kein Wunder,
dass er zu Grunde geht=--Unhappy indeed is
the man who leaves off doing what he can do,
and undertakes to do what he does not understand;
no wonder he comes to no good. _Goethe._
=Wohlgethan überlebt den Tod=--Well-done outlives 25
death. _Ger. Pr._
=Wohlthätigheit kennt keinen Unterschied
der Nation=--Charity knows no distinction of
nation. _Count Moltke._
=Wollt ihr auf Menschen wirken, / Müsst ihr
erst Menschen werden=--Would you have an
influence over men, you must first become men.
_Sallet._
=Wollt ihr immer leben?=--Would you live for
ever? _Frederick the Great to his guards, on
their complaining of what they thought exposure
to unnecessary danger._
=Wolves in sheep's clothing.= _Jesus, of false prophets._
=Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.= 30
_Schiller._
=Woman, divorced from home, wanders
unfriended like a waif upon the wave.=
_Goethe._
=Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a
fine lady, qualifying her for a station in
which she will never appear, and at the
same time incapacitating her for that retirement
to which she is destined.= _Lady
Montagu._
=Woman, in accordance with her unbroken,
clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what
she has of heart and happiness, in the object
she loves.= _Jean Paul._
=Woman is at once the delight and the terror
of man.= _Amiel._
=Woman is like the reed which bends to every= 35
=breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.=
_Whately._
=Woman is mistress of the art of completely
embittering the life of the person on whom
she depends.= _Goethe._
=Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse;
could we make her as the man, / Sweet love
were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not
like to like, but like in difference.= _Tennyson._
=Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is
timid.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be
slight degrees of precedency among them,
but let them be all sacred.= _Burns._
=Woman is the lesser man.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Woman is the salvation or the destruction of
the family.= _Amiel._
=Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even
if a hundred men have been a grief to her,
she will still love the hundred and first.= _G.
Kinkel._
=Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the
grave.= _E. S. Barret._
=Woman, once made equal to man, becometh
his superior.= _Soc._
=Woman sees deep; man sees far. To the man= 45
=the world is his heart; to the woman the
heart is her world.= _Grabbe._
=Woman's at best a contradiction still.= _Pope._
=Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink /
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.=
_Tennyson._
=Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he
that despises it is no wiser than he should
be.= _Cervantes._
=Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown;
her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and
her pleasure, in the welfare of her family.=
_Rousseau._
=Woman's fear and love hold quantity; / In
neither aught, or in extremity.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining
one.= _Ruskin._
=Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short
as it is violent.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's
stone--what is once written upon it cannot
be rubbed out.= _Thackeray._
=Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will= 5
=still grow where even charity can find no
soil to nurture itself.= _Bovee._
=Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and
her intellect is not for invention or creation,
but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and
decision.= _Ruskin._
=Woman's power is over the affections. A
beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks
its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.=
_Bovee._
=Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never
lets rust.= _Mme. Necker._
=Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments,
which sound best in a room; but
man's that of wind instruments, which sound
best in the open air.= _Jean Paul._
=Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.= 10
_Eusden._
=Women always show more taste in adorning
others than themselves; and the reason is,
that their persons are like their hearts--they
read another's better than they can their
own.= _Jean Paul._
=Women and clergymen have so long been in
the habit of using pretty words without
troubling themselves to understand them,
that they now revolt from the effort, as if it
were impiety.= _Ruskin._
=Women and men of retiring timidity are
cowardly only in dangers which affect
themselves, but the first to rescue when
others are endangered.= _Jean Paul._
=Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being
once display'd, doth fall that very hour.=
_Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Women are born worshippers.= _Carlyle._ 15
=Women are confined within the narrow limits
of domestic assiduity, and when they stray
beyond them they move beyond their sphere,
and consequently without grace.= _Goldsmith._
=Women are ever in extremes; they are either
better or worse than men.= _La Bruyère._
=Women are like limpets, they need something
to hold on by.= _Sigma._
=Women are the poetry of the world, in the
same sense as the stars are the poetry of
heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious,
they are the terrestrial planets that rule the
destinies of mankind.= _Hargrave._
=Women bestow on friendship only what they= 20
=borrow from love.= _Chamfort._
=Women cannot see so far as men can, but
what they do see they see quicker.= _Buckle._
=Women exceed the generality of men in love.=
_La Bruyère._
=Women famed for their valour, their skill in
politics or their learning, leave the duties
of their own sex in order to invade the privileges
of men's.= _Goldsmith._
=Women forgive injuries, but never forget
slights.= _T. C. Haliburton._
=Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance= 25
=which qualifies them to endure beyond,
much beyond, the common run of men, but
... they are by no means famous for seeing
remote consequences in all their real importance.=
_Burns._
=Women, it has been observed, are not naturally
formed for great cares themselves, but
to soften ours.= _Goldsmith._
=Women judge women hardly; ... they have
no shading, / No softening tints, no generous
allowance / For circumstance to make the
picture human, / And true because so human.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Women know by nature how to disguise their
emotions far better than the most consummate
male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._
=Women, like princes, find few real friends.=
_Lord Lyttleton._
=Women, like the plants in woods, derive their= 30
=softness and tenderness from the shade.=
_Landor._
=Women may fall when there's no strength in
men.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Women, priests, and poultry have never
enough.= _Pr._
=Women should learn betimes to serve according
to station, for by serving alone she at
last attains to the mastery, to the due influence
which she ought to possess in the
household.= _Goethe._
=Women that are the least bashful are not unfrequently
the most modest; and we are
never more deceived than when we would
infer any laxity of principle from that freedom
of demeanour which often arises from
a total ignorance of vice.= _Colton._
=Women, though they have the warmest hearts,= 35
=are no citizens of the world, scarcely citizens
of a town or a village, but only of their own
home.= _Jean Paul._
=Women who have lost their faith / Are angels
who have lost their wings.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=Women wish to be loved, not because they
are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,
or intelligent, but because they are themselves.=
_Amiel._
=Women's hearts are made of stout leather;
there's a plaguy sight of wear in them.=
_Judge Haliburton._
=Women's jars breed men's wars.= _Pr._
=Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does= 40
=but show their hurtless nature; / When the
stream seems rough and frowning, / There
is still least fear of drowning.= _Durfey._
=Women's sins are not alone the ills they do, /
But those that they provoke you to.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Wonder is from surprise, and surprise ceases
upon experience.= _South._
=Wonder on till truth make all things plain.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream._
="Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause
of philosophy." This is quite as true in the
progress of the individual as in that of the
concrete mind; and the constant aim of
philosophy is to destroy its parent.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book.
Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling,
yearly needing repair; more like a tilled
field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual
tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to
year, and from age to age (we have books
that already number some one hundred and
fifty human ages); and yearly comes its
new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions,
philosophical, political systems, or
were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic
essays), every one of which is talismanic and
thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men.= _Carlyle._
=Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness,
altogether past calculation its powers of
endurance.= _Carlyle._
=Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a
single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, /
And I'll protect it now.= _G. P. Morris._
=Words are also actions, and actions are a kind
of words.= _Emerson._
=Words are but poor interpreters in the realms= 5
=of emotion. When all words end, music
begins; when they suggest, it realises; and
hence the secret of its strange, ineffable
power.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Words are but wind, but seein's believin'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Words are fools' pence.= _Pr._
=Words are good, but they are not the best.
The best is not to be explained by words.=
_Goethe._
=Words are like leaves, and when they most
abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is
rarely found.= _Pope._
=Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they= 10
=show / Where the mind ends, and not how
far it has been.= _Bailey._
=Words are men's daughters, but God's sons
are things.= _Izaak Walton._
=Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry;
imagination the life of it.= _Owen Feltham._
=Words are the motes of thought, and nothing
more.= _Bailey._
=Words are things, and a small drop of ink, /
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces /
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think.= _Byron._
=Words are wise men's counters, but they are= 15
=the money of fools.= _Hobbes._
=Words are women, deeds are men.= _George
Herbert._
=Words become luminous when the finger of
the poet touches them with his phosphorus.=
_Joubert._
=Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that
the heart did neither hatch nor harbour.=
_Feltham._
=Words, like Nature, half reveal / And half
conceal the soul within.= _Tennyson._
=Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and= 20
=current only from the tongue, without the
mind; but passion is in the soul, and always
speaks the heart.= _Southern._
=Words of love are works of love.= _W. R.
Alger._
=Words pay no debts.= _Troil. and Cress._,
iii. 2.
=Words that are now dead were once alive.=
_A. Coles._
=Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth,"
are the creation of a being that is finite, and
when applied to explain that which is infinite,
they fail; for that which is made surpasses
not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable
by our thoughts be measured by
our tongues.= _Colton._
=Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath= 25
=give.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Words which flow fresh and warm from a full
heart, and which are instinct with the life
and breath of human feeling, pass into household
memories, and partake of the immortality
of the affections from which they
spring.= _Whipple._
=Words without thoughts never to heaven go.=
_Ham._, iii. 3.
=Work, according to my feeling, is as much of
a necessity to man as eating and sleeping.
Even those who do nothing which to a sensible
man can be called work, still imagine
that they are doing something. The world
possesses not a man who is an idler in his
own eyes.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Work alone is noble.= _Carlyle._
="Work and wait," "Work and wait," is what= 30
=God says to us in creation and in providence.=
_J. G. Holland._
=Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees
learn to work at almost all things.=
_Carlyle._
=Work first, you are God's servants; fee first,
you are the fiend's.= _Ruskin._
=Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical
eternity of the periodical critics, but for the
real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine.=
_Carlyle._
=Work for immortality if you will: then wait
for it.= _J. G. Holland._
=Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; /= 35
=Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; /
Labour! all labour is noble and holy: / Let
thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.=
_Francis S. Osgood._
=Work, go, fall, rise, speak, be silent! In this
manner do the rich sport with those needy
men, who are held by the grip of dependence.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Work is for the living.= _Carlyle._
=Work is not man's punishment; it is his reward
and his strength, his glory and his
pleasure.= _George Sand._
=Work is of a religious nature,--work is of
a brave nature, which it is the aim of all
religion to be. "All work of man is as the
swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to
devour him; if he front it not bravely, it
will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance
of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it,
behold how it loyally supports him,--bears
him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says
Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes
in this world."= _Carlyle._
=Work is only done well when it is done with= 40
=a will.= _Ruskin._
=Work is our business; its success is God's.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Work is the cure for all the maladies and
miseries of man--honest work, which you
intend getting done.= _Carlyle._
=Work is the inevitable condition of human life,
the true source of human welfare.= _Tolstoi._
=Work is the mission of man on this planet.=
_Carlyle._
=Work is the only universal currency which
God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend
on its ability to master the world; that, on
power of work; that, on its power of thought.=
_Theodore Parker._
=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._
=Work till the last beam fadeth, / Fadeth to
shine no more; / Work while the night is
darkening, / When man's work is o'er.=
_Walker._
=Work touches the keys of endless activity,= 5
=opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck
before the immensity of what there is to do.=
_Phillips Brooks._
=Work was made for man, and not man for
work.= _J. G. Holland._
=Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, /
And hope without an object cannot live.=
_Coleridge._
=Work, work, work, / Till the brain begins to
swim; / Work, work, work, / Till the eyes
are heavy and dim; / Seam, and gusset,
and band, / Band, and gusset, and seam, /
Till over the buttons I fall asleep, / And sew
them on in a dream.= _Hood._
=Works of true merit are seldom very popular
in their own day; for knowledge is on the
march, and men of genius are the "præstolatores"
or "videttes," that are far in advance
of their comrades. They are not with them,
but before them; not in the camp, but beyond
it.= _Colton._
=Worldly affairs, which my friends thought so= 10
=heavy upon me, they are most of them of
our own making, and fall away as soon as
we know ourselves.= _Law._
=Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes
are torn in getting them, many a tooth
broke in cracking them, but never a belly
filled with eating them.= _R. Venning._
=Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool
one's self.= _Tennyson._
=Worse than despair, / Worse than the bitterness
of death, is hope; / It is the only ill
which can find place / Upon the giddy, sharp,
and narrow hour / Tottering beneath us.=
_Shelley._
=Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for
which there is no limit or measure.= _Carlyle._
=Worship that is false will kill the soul as= 15
=quickly as no worship.= _Saying._
=Worship your heroes from afar; contact
withers them.= _Mme. Necker._
=Worte sind der Seele Bild=--Words are the soul's
magic. _Goethe._
=Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen=--Words
are good if works follow. _Ger. Pr._
=Worth makes the man, and want of it the
fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello.=
_Pope._
=Worth many thousand is the first salute; /= 20
=Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly
greet.= _Goethe._
=Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.=
_Socrates._
=Would they could sell us experience, though
at diamond prices, but then no one would
use the article second-hand!= _Balzac._
=Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as
heartily as we do to a real or imaginary
mistress, and think life too short only because
it abridges our time of service, what
a new world we should have!= _Lowell._
=Would we but quit ourselves like men, and
resolutely stand our ground, we should not
fail of succours from above.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And= 25
=wake the foolish from his dream, / She must
be glad as well as good, / And must not only
be, but seem.= _Coventry Patmore._
=Would you have men think well of you, then
do not speak well of yourself.= _Pascal._
=Wouldst thou a maiden make thy prize, /
Thyself alone the bribe must be.= _Goethe._
=Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?=
_George Herbert._
=Wouldst thou know thyself, then see how
others act; wouldst thou understand others,
look thou into thine own heart.= _Schiller._
=Wouldst thou plant for eternity? then plant= 30
=into the deep infinite faculties of man, his
fantasy and heart. Wouldst thou plant for
year and day? then plant into his shallow
superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical
understanding, what will grow there.=
_Carlyle._
="Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, /
"Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those
who brave its dangers / Comprehend its
mystery!"= _Longfellow._
=Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself?
Subject thyself to reason.= _Seneca._
=Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor
human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by
aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only
sign.= _Keble._
=Wouldst thou travel the path of truth and
goodness? Never deceive either thyself or
others.= _Goethe._
=Wounds and hardships provoke our courage,= 35
=and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our
wits and minds are commonly at the best.=
_Charron._
=Wounds cannot be cured without searching.=
_Bacon._
=Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream
revenge.= _Congreve._
=Write down the advice of him who loves
you, though you like it not at present.=
_Pr._
=Write how you will, the critic shall show the
world you could have written better.= _Goldsmith._
=Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be= 40
=heard.= _George Herbert._
=Write thy wrongs in ashes.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Writers of novels and romances in general
bring a double loss on their readers--they
rob them both of their time and money; representing
men, manners, and things, that never
have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding
or perverting history and truth,
inflating the mind, or committing violence
upon the understanding.= _Mary Wortley
Montagu._
=Writing is not literature unless it gives to the
reader a pleasure which arises not only from
the things said, but from the way in which
they are said; and that pleasure is only given
when the words are carefully or curiously
or beautifully put together into sentences.=
_Stopford Brooke._
=Written all of it= (Christianity) =in us already in
sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you
can read.= _Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation._
=Wrong is not only different from right, but it
is in strict scientific terms infinitely different.=
_Carlyle._
=Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt
never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.
It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which
we are much more careful to conceal than
crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes
to a common friend, but I never knew a man
who would tell his silly weaknesses to his
most intimate one.= _Chesterfield._
=Würf er einen Groschen auf's Dach, fiel ihm= 5
=ein Thaler herunter=--If he threw a penny up,
a dollar came down. _Ger. Pr._
Y.
=Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command
you.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Ye are the light of the world.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with
you.= _Job._
=Ye are the salt of the earth.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and= 10
=swallow a camel.= _Jesus._
=Ye cannot serve God and mammon.= _Jesus._
=Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; / The
clouds ye so much dread / Are big with
mercy, and shall break / In blessings on
your head.= _Cowper._
=Ye gentlemen of England / That live at home
at ease, / Ah! little do you think upon / The
dangers of the seas.= _Martyn Parker._
=Ye gods, it doth amaze me / A man of such a
feeble temper should / So get the start of
the majestic world / And bear the palm
alone.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Ye good yeomen, whose limbs were made in= 15
=England.= _Hen. V._, iii. 1.
=Ye hae a stalk o' carl-hemp in you.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen
you.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Ye mariners of England, / That guard our
native seas, / Whose flag has braved a
thousand years / The battle and the breeze.=
_Campbell._
=Ye may darken over the blue heavens, ye
vapoury masses in the sky. It matters not!
Beyond the howling of that wrath, beyond
the blackness of those clouds, there shines,
unaltered and serene, the moon that shone
in Paradise.... The moon that promises a
paradise restored.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the= 20
=face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal
frown, read in the everlasting book, wide
open to your view, the lesson it would teach.
Its pictures are not in black and sombre
hues, but bright and glowing tints; its
music--save when ye drown it--is not in
sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful
sounds. Listen to the million voices in the
summer air, and find one dismal as your
own.= _Dickens._
=Ye shall know them by their fruits.= _Jesus._
=Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!...
In our aspirations to be great, / Our destinies
o'erleap their mortal state, / And claim a
kindred with you; for ye are / A beauty and
a mystery, and create / In us such love and
reverence from afar, / That fortune, fame,
power, life, have named themselves a star.=
_Byron._
=Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg / The
murmur of the world.= _Tennyson._
=Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, / And
muckle they may grieve ye.= _Burns._
=Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares= 25
=not to be great, / But as he saves or serves
the state.= _Tennyson._
=Yea, surely the sea like a harper laid hand
on the shore as a lyre.= _Swinburne._
=Year chases year, decay pursues decay, / Still
drops some joy from withering life away.=
_Johnson._
=Years do not make sages; they only make
old men.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Years following years steal something every
day; / At last they steal us from ourselves
away.= _Pope._
=Years steal / Fire from the mind as vigour= 30
=from the limb, / And life's enchanted cup
but sparkles near the brim.= _Byron._
=Yes, there are things we must dream and
dare, / And execute ere thought be half
aware.= _Byron._
=Yes, you find people ready enough to do the
good Samaritan without the oil and twopence.=
_Sydney Smith._
=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
harm us any more.= _Carlyle._
=Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, /
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word--Alone.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd, /= 35
=Than still contemn'd and flatter'd.= _King
Lear_, iv. 1.
=Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' the
milk o' human kindness.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing
purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men
are widen'd by the process of the suns.=
_Tennyson._
=Yet I've heard say, by wise men in my day, /
That none are outwitted so easy as they /
Who reckon with all men as if they suspect
them, / And traffic in caution, and watch to
detect them.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, /
The Scripture assures us the Lord will provide.=
_Newton._
=Yet taught by Time, my heart has learned to
glow / For other's good and melt at other's
woe.= _Pope._
=Yet there are surely times when there is
nought / So needed as unsettling, just to
get / Out of old ruts, and seek a nobler life.=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=Yet this grief / Is added to the griefs the great
must bear, / That howsoever much they may
desire / Silence, they cannot weep behind a
cloud.= _Tennyson._
=Yield not thy neck / To fortune's yoke, but
let thy dauntless mind / Still ride in triumph
over all mischance.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; /= 5
=Each victory will help you some other to
win.= _H. M. Palmer._
=Yield to God's word and will, and you will
escape many a calamity.= _Spurgeon._
=Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.=
_Pr._
=Yielding, timid weakness is always abused and
insulted by the unjust and unfeeling; but
meekness, when sustained by the "fortiter
in re," is always respected, commonly successful.=
_Chesterfield._
=You accuse woman of wavering affection.
Blame her not; she is but seeking a constant
man.= _Goethe._
=You always aspire to very little at first, but= 10
=as you mount the ladder, you are sure to
look down upon what you formerly looked
up to as the height of happiness.= _Brothers
Mayhew._
=You always end ere you begin.= _Two Gent. of
Verona_, ii. 4.
=You are always willing enough to read lives,
but never willing to lead them.= _Ruskin._
=You are my true and honourable wife, / As
dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That
visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=You are not very good if you are not better
than your best friends imagine you to be.=
_Lavater._
=You are obliged to your imagination for three-fourths= 15
=of your importance.= _Garrick._
=You are prosperous, you are great, you are
"beyond the world," as I have heard people
say, meaning the power or the caprice
thereof; but you are not beyond the power
of events.= _Disraeli to young men._
=You are to come to your study as to the table,
with a sharp appetite, whereby that which
you read may the better digest. He that
has no stomach to his book will very hardly
thrive upon it.= _Earl of Bedford._
=You are transported by calamity / Thither
where more attends you.= _Coriolanus_, i. 1.
=You arrive at truth through poetry, and I
arrive at poetry through truth.= _Joubert._
=You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; /= 20
=Knock as you please, there's nobody at
home.= _Pope._
=You begin in error when you suggest that we
should regard the opinion of the many about
just and unjust, good and evil, honourable
and dishonourable.= _Plato._
=You can easily ascertain= (_verstehen_) =what
comes from the heart, for what comes from
it in another's must go to your own.=
_Körner._
=You can imagine thistle-down so light that
when you run after it your running motion
would drive it away from you, and that the
more you tried to catch it the faster it would
fly from your grasp. And it should be with
every man, that, when he is chased by
troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher
and higher.= _Ward Beecher._
=You can never be wise unless you love reading.=
_Johnson._
=You can never by persistency make wrong= 25
=right.= _Johnson._
=You can speak well, if your tongue deliver the
message of your heart.= _John Ford._
=You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=You cannot abolish slavery by Act of Parliament,
but can only abolish the name of it,
which is very little.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others
down.= _Pr._
=You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well= 30
=of thought there which has no bottom; the
more you draw from it, the more clear and
fruitful it will be.= _G. A. Sala._
=You cannot get anything out of Nature or from
God by gambling;--only out of your neighbour.=
_Ruskin._
=You cannot have the ware and the money both
at once; and he who always hankers for the
ware without having heart to give the money
for it, is no better off than he who repents
him of the purchase when the ware is in his
hands.= _Goethe._
=You cannot have your work well done if the
work be not of a right kind.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot hide any secret.= _Emerson._
=You cannot lead a fighting world without= 35
=having it regimented, chivalried; nor can
you any more continue to lead a working
world unregimented, anarchic.= _Carlyle._
=You cannot love the real sun, that is to say,
physical light and colour, rightly, unless you
love the spiritual sun, that is to say, justice
and truth, rightly.= _Ruskin._
=You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's
ear.= _Pr._
=You cannot push a man far up a tree.= _Pr._
=You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's
head; you must break it up, and give him
the crumb in warm milk.= _Spurgeon._
=You cannot rear a temple like a hut of sticks= 40
=and turf.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=You cannot save men from death but by facing
it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it
for them.= _Ruskin._
=You cannot secure even enjoyment in stagnation.=
_Mrs. Gatty._
=You can't be lost on a straight road.= _Pr._
=You can't "have" your pudding unless you
can "eat" it.= _Ruskin._
=You can't order remembrance out of a man's= 45
=mind.= _Thackeray._
=You can't see the wood for the trees.= _Pr._
=You can't tell a nut till you crack it.= _Pr._
=You complain of the difficulty of finding work
for your men; the real difficulty rather is to
find men for your work.= _Ruskin._
=You do not believe, you only believe that you
believe.= _Coleridge._
=You do not educate a man by telling him what
he knew not, but by making him what he
was not, and what he will remain for ever.=
_Ruskin._
=You don't value your peas for their roots or
your carrots for their flowers. Now that's
the way you should choose women.= _George
Eliot._
=You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; /
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart /
Is true as steel; leave you your power to
draw, / And I shall have no power to follow
you.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 2.
=You feel yourself an exile in the East; but in
the West too it is exile; I know not where
under the sun it is not exile.= _Carlyle to a
young friend._
=You find faut wi' your meat, and the faut's= 5
=all i' your own stomach.= _George Eliot._
=You find yourself refreshed by the presence of
cheerful people. Why not make earnest
effort to confer that pleasure on others?
You will find half the battle is gained if you
never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.=
_Mrs. L. M. Child._
=You frighten me out of my seven senses.=
_Swift._
=You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.=
_Pr._
=You give me nothing during your life, but you
promise to provide for me at your death.
If you are not a fool, you know what I
wish for.= _Martial._
=You have deserved / High commendation, true= 10
=applause and love.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=You have many enemies that know not / Why
they are so, but, like to village curs, / Bark
when their fellows do.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=You have no business with consequences; you
are to tell the truth.= _Johnson._
=You have no hold on a human being whose
affections are without a tap-root!= _Southey._
=You have not outgrown, you cannot outgrow,
the need of a great and authoritative teacher.=
_Joseph Anderson._
=You have scotched the snake, not killed him.= 15
_Macb._, iii. 2.
=You have too much respect upon the world; /
They lose it that do buy it with much care.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=You knock a man into the ditch, and then you
tell him to remain content in the "position in
which Providence has placed him."= _Ruskin._
=You know how slight a line will tow a boat
when afloat on the billows, though a cable
would hardly move her when pulled up on
the beach.= _Scott._
=You know it is not my interest to pay the
principal, nor is it my principle to pay the
interest.= _Sheridan to a creditor of his._
=You know no rules of charity, / Which renders= 20
=good for bad, blessings for curses.= _Rich.
III._, i. 2.
=You know not where a blessing may light.= _Pr._
=You know that in everything women write
there are always a thousand faults of grammar,
but, with your permission, a harmony
which is rare in the writings of men.= _Mme.
de Maintenon._
=You lie nearest to the river of life when you
bend to it. You cannot drink but as you
stoop.= _J. H. Evans._
=You live one half year with deception and
art; / With art and deception you live
t'other part.= _It. Pr._
=You make but a poor trap to catch luck if you= 25
=go and bait it with wickedness.= _George
Eliot._
=You may as soon separate weight from lead,
heat from fire, moistness from water, and
brightness from the sun, as misery, discontent,
calamity, and danger from man.=
_Burton._
=You may as well ask a loom which weaves
huckaback why it does not make cashmere,
as expect poetry from this engineer, or a
chemical discovery from that jobber.= _Emerson._
=You may depend upon it, religion is, in its
essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the
world. It will alone gentilise, if unmixed
with cant; and I know nothing else that
will, alone; certainly not the army, which
is thought to be the grand embellisher of
manners.= _Coleridge._
=You may depend upon it that he is a good man
whose intimate friends are all good.= _Lavater._
=(You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding= 30
=fame, / And wist not that they undermine
(your) home of love and peace.=
_Dr. W. C. Smith._
=You may do anything with bayonets except
sit on them.= _Napoleon._
=You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others,
both in your conversation and actions, from
being superior as well as inferior to them.=
_Greville._
=You may grow good corn in a little field.= _Pr._
=You may have to wait a bit--some of you a
shorter, some a longer time; but do wait,
and everything will fit in and be perfect at
last.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=You may imitate, but never counterfeit.= _Balzac._ 35
=You may know a wise man by his election of
an aim, and a sagacious by his election of
the means.= _Rückert._
=You may overthrow a government in the
twinkling of an eye, as you can blow up a
ship or upset and sink one; but you can no
more create a government with a word than
an iron-clad.= _Ruskin._
=You may paint with a very big brush, and yet
not be a great painter.= _Carlyle._
=You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth,
that there neither is, nor ever was, any person
remarkably ungrateful who was not also
insufferably proud; nor any one proud who
was not equally ungrateful.= _South._
=You may ride 's / With one soft kiss a thousand= 40
=furlongs ere / With spur we heat an acre.=
_Winter's Tale_, i. 2.
=You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as
to kill the lion crouching yonder ready to
spring upon me. My wishes are all right,
and I hope Providence will direct the ball."
Providence won't. You must do it; and if
you do not, you are a dead man.= _Ward
Beecher._
=You might as well ask an oyster to make progress,
as the people of any country in which
grumbling could by any possibility be prohibited.=
_John Wagstaffe._
=You must be content sometimes with rough
roads.= _Pr._
="You must be in the fashion," is the utterance
of weak-headed mortals.= _Spurgeon._
=You must begin at a low round of the ladder if
you mean to get on.= _George Eliot._
=You must confine yourself within the modest
limits of order.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 3.
=You must educate for education's sake only.=
_Ruskin._
=You must empty out the bathing-tub, but not= 5
=the baby along with it.= _Ger. Pr._
=You must either be directed by some that take
upon them to know, or take upon yourself
that which I am sure you do not know, or
jump the after-inquiry on your own peril.=
_Cymbeline_, v. 4.
=You must get your living by loving, else your
life is at least half a failure.= _Thoreau._
=You must live for another if you wish to live
for yourself.= _Sen._
=You must live the life.= _Lawrence Oliphant._
=You must lose a fly to catch a trout.= _Pr._ 10
=You must not equivocate, nor speak anything
positively for which you have no authority
but report, or conjecture, or opinion.= _Judge
Hale._
=You must not fear death, my lads; defy him,
and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.=
_Napoleon._
=You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your art of war.=
_Napoleon._
=You must not measure every man's corn by
your own bushel.= _Pr._
=You must not suppose that everything goes= 15
=right at first even with the best of us.= _Mrs.
Gatty._
=You must not think / That we are made of
stuff so flat and dull, / That we can let our
beard be shook with danger, / And think it
pastime.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=You must rouse in men a consciousness of
their own prudence and strength, if you
would raise their character.= _Vauvenargues._
=You must seek and find God in the heart.=
_Jean Paul._
=You need not tell all the truth, unless to those
who have a right to know it all. But let all
you tell be truth.= _Horace Mann._
=You never can elude the gods when you even= 20
=devise wrong.= _Thales._
=You never long the greatest man to be; / No!
all you say is; "I'm as good as he." / He's
the most envious man beneath the sun /
Who thinks that he's as good as every one.=
_Goethe._
=You never will love art well till you love what
she mirrors better.= _Ruskin._
=You often understand the true connection
of important events in your life not while
they are going on, nor soon after they are
past, but only a considerable time afterwards.=
_Schopenhauer._
=You ought to read books, as you take medicine,
by advice, and not advertisement.=
_Ruskin._
=You rub the sore, when you should bring the= 25
=plaster.= _Tempest_, ii. 1.
=You said your say; / Mine answer was my
deed.= _Tennyson._
=You see when they row in a barge, they that
do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and
sweat; but he that governs sits quietly at
the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.= _Selden._
=You shall never take a woman without her
answer, unless you take her without her
tongue.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to
catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities.
"The times= (as Carlyle says) =are bad; very
well, you are there to make them better."=
_John Burroughs._
=You take my house, when you do take the= 30
=prop / That doth sustain my house; you
take my life / When you do take the means
whereby I live.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=You that choose not by the view, / Choose as
fair, and choose as true.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=You traverse the world in search of happiness,
which is within the reach of every man; a
contented mind confers it on all.= _Hor._
=You watch figures in the fields, digging and
delving with spade or pick. You see one of
them from time to time straightening his
loins, and wiping his face with the back of
his hand.... It is there that for me you
must seek true humanity and great poetry.=
_Millet._
=You were used / To say, extremity was the
trier of spirits; / That common chances
common men could bear; / That when the
sea was calm, all boats alike / Showed
mastership in floating.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 1.
=You who are ashamed of your poverty, and= 35
=blush for your calling, are a snob; as are
you who boast of your pedigree, or are
proud of your wealth.= _Thackeray._
=You who follow wealth and power with unremitting
ardour, / The more in this you look
for bliss, you leave your view the farther.=
_Burns._
=You who forget your friends, meanly to follow
after those of a higher degree, are a snob.=
_Thackeray._
=You will as often find a great man above, as
below, his reputation, when once you come
to know him.= _Goethe._
=You will catch more flies with a spoonful of
honey than with a cask of vinegar.= _Eastern
Pr._
=You will find angling to be like the virtue of= 40
=humility, which has a calmness of spirit and
a world of other blessings attending upon it.=
_Izaac Walton._
=You will find rest unto your souls when first
you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy
only when you have borne it as long as He
wills.= _Ruskin._
=You will find that most books worth reading
once are worth reading twice.= _John Morley._
=You will find that silence, or very gentle
words, are the most exquisite revenge for
reproaches.= _Judge Hale._
=You will get more profit from trying to find
where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring
what it is. Once for all, it 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; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy
form, the outline of which no definition holds.=
_Goethe._
=You will never live to my age, without you
keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and
in heart with joyfulness.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=You will never miss the right way if you
only act according to your feelings and conscience.=
_Goethe._
=You will never see anything worse than yourselves.=
_Anon._
=You wise, / To call him shamed, who is but
overthrown?= _Tennyson._
=You wish, O woman, to be ardently loved, and= 5
=for ever, even until death, be thou the
mother of your children.= _Jean Paul._
=You write with ease to show your breeding, /
But easy writing's cursed hard reading.=
_Sheridan._
=You'll repent if you marry, and you'll repent
if you don't.= _Old saying._
=Young authors give their brains much exercise
and little food.= _Joubert._
=Young Christians think themselves little;
growing Christians think themselves nothing;
full-grown Christians think themselves
less than nothing.= _John Newton._
=Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.= 10
_Dut. Pr._
=Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the
more.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=Young men are apt to think themselves wise
enough, as drunken men are to think themselves
sober enough.= _Chesterfield._
=Young men are fitter to invent than to judge;
fitter for execution than for counsel; and
fitter for new projects than for settled business.=
_Bacon._
=Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts;
old age is slow in both.= _Addison._
=Young men think that old men are fools; but= 15
=old men know young men are fools.= _Chapman._
=Young people are quick enough to observe
and imitate.= (?)
=Your acts are detectives, keener and more
unerring than ever the hand of sensational
novelist depicted; they will dog you from
the day you sinned till the hour your trial
comes off.= _Disraeli to young men._
=Your born angler is like a hound that scents
no game but that which he is in pursuit of.=
_John Burroughs._
=Your cause belongs / To him who can avenge
your wrongs.= _Winkworth._
=Your goodness must have some edge to it,= 20
=else it is none.= _Emerson._
=Your hands in your own pockets in the morning,
is the beginning of the last day; your
hands in other people's pockets at noon, is
the height of the last day.= _Ruskin._
=Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue
in "if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.
=Your labour only may be sold; your soul must
not.= _Ruskin._
=Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords
light but not heat.= _Young._
=Your levellers wish to level down as far as= 25
=themselves; but they cannot bear levelling
up to themselves.= _J. Boswell._
=Your noblest natures are most credulous.=
_Chapman._
=Your own soul is the thing you ought to look
after.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Your own words and actions are the only
things you will be called to account for.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Your prime one need is to do right, under
whatever compulsion, till you can do it without
compulsion. And then you are a Man.=
_Ruskin._
=Your tongue runs before your wit.= _Swift._ 30
=Your rusty kettle will continue to boil your
water for you if you don't try to mend it.
Begin tinkering and there is an end of your
kettle.= _Carlyle._
=Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living
preachers,--each cup a pulpit, and each leaf
a book.= _Horace Smith._
=Your words are like notes of dying swans--/
Too sweet to last.= _Dryden._
=You're always sure to detect / A sham in the
things folks most affect.= _Bret Harte._
=Yours is a pauper's soul, a rich man's pelf: /= 35
=Rich to your heirs, a pauper to yourself.=
_Lucillius._
=Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience,
are, each of them, the source of
ruin. What then must be the fate of him
in whom all four are combined?= _Hitopadesa._
=Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect.
Age looks back on the happiness of
youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment
in the recollection of hope.= _Coleridge._
=Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like
the days of spring. Instead of complaining,
O my heart, of their brief duration, try to
enjoy them.= _Rückert._
=Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness
or evil he sees not.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship= 40
=fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them
all!= _Holmes._
=Youth holds no society with grief.= _Euripides._
=Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old
age, a regret.= _Disraeli._
=Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose
the medium in the wild extreme.= _Aaron Hill._
=Youth is ever confiding; and we can almost
forgive its disinclination to follow the counsels
of age, for the sake of the generous disdain
with which it rejects suspicion.= _W. H.
Harrison._
=Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; /= 45
=Youth is nimble, age is lame: / Youth is hot
and bold, age is weak and cold; / Youth is
wild, and age is tame.= _Shakespeare._
=Youth is not rich in time; it may be, poor;
part with it, as with money, sparing; pay
no moment but in purchase of its worth;
and what its worth ask death-beds, they
can tell.= _Young._
=Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then
expect too much, and we are therefore exposed
to daily disappointments and mortifications.
When we are a little older, and
have brought down our wishes to our experience,
then we become calm and begin
to enjoy ourselves.= _Lord Liverpool._
=Youth is the season of credulity.= _Chatham._
=Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age
too insecure for happiness. The period most
favourable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate,
and generous life, is that between
forty and sixty. Life culminates at sixty.=
_Bovee._
=Youth may make / Even with the year; but
age, if it will hit, / Shoots a bow short, and
lessens still his stake, / As the day lessens,
and his life with it.= _George Herbert._
=Youth never yet lost its modesty where age
had not lost its honour; nor did childhood
ever refuse its reverence, except where age
had forgotten correction.= _Ruskin._
=Youth no less becomes / The light and careless
livery that it wears, / Than settled age his
sables and his weeds, / Importing health and
graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=Youth should be a savings-bank.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.= 5
_Ham._, i. 3.
=Youth would rather be stimulated than instructed.=
_Goethe._
=Youth, when thought is speech and speech
is truth.= _Scott._
=Youth will never live to age, without they keep
themselves in breath with exercise, and in
heart with joyfulness. Too much thinking
doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out,
that while one thinks too much of doing, he
leaves to do the effect of his thinking.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=Youthful failing is not to be admired except in
so far as one may hope that it will not be the
failing of old age.= _Goethe._
Z.
=Zahltag kommt alle Tag=--Pay-day comes every 10
day. _Ger. Pr._
=Zankt, wenn ihr sitzt beim Weine, / Nicht um
Kaisers Bart=--Wrangle not over your winecups
about trifles (_lit._ about the Emperor's
beard). _Geibel._
=Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and
the assured are too apt to be warm; but it
is their weak side in argument, zeal being
better shown against sin than persons, or
their mistakes.= _William Penn._
=Zeal for uniformity attests the latent distrusts,
not the firm convictions, of the zealot. In proportion
to the strength of our self-reliance is
our indifference to the multiplication of suffrages
in favour of our own judgment.= _Sir
J. Stephen._
=Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly
among fools.= _Tillotson._
=Zeal is like fire; it needs both feeding and= 15
=watching.= _Pr._
=Zeal is no further commendable than as it is
attended with knowledge.= _T. Wilson._
=Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it
encroaches upon the rights of others.= _Pasquier
Quesnel._
=Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.=
_Pr._
=Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a
man in the dark.= _Newton._
=Zeit ist's, die Unfälle zu beweinen, / Wenn sie= 20
=nahen und wirklich erscheinen=--It is time
enough to bewail misfortunes when they come
and actually happen. _Schiller._
=Zeit verdeckt und entdeckt=--Time covers and
uncovers everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Zeitungsschreiber: ein Mensch, der seinen
Beruf verfehlt hat=--A journalist, a man who
has mistaken his calling. _Bismarck._
=Zerstreuung ist wie eine goldene Wolke, die
den Menschen, / Wär es auch nur auf kurze
Zeit, seinem Elend entrückt=--Amusement is
as a golden cloud, which, though but for a little,
diverts man from his misery. _Goethe._
=Zerstörend ist des Lebens Lauf, / Stets frisst
ein Thier das andre auf=--Destructive is the
course of life; ever one animal eats up another.
_Bodenstedt._
=Zerstreutes Wesen führt uns nicht zum Ziel=--A 25
distracted existence leads us to no goal.
_Goethe._
=Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too
much.= _Euripides._
=Zielen ist nicht genug; es gilt Treffen=--To
aim is not enough; you must hit. _Ger. Pr._
=Zonam perdidit=--He has lost his purse (_lit._
his girdle). _Hor._
=Zu leben weiss ich, mich zu kennen weiss ich
nicht=--How to live I know, how to know myself
I know not. _Goethe._
=Zu Rom bestehen die 10 Gebote aus den 10= 30
=Buchstaben=; / _Da pecuniam_--=gieb Gelder=--At
Rome the Ten Commandments consist of ten
letters--_Da pecuniam_--Give money. _C. J.
Weber._
=Zu schwer bezahlt man oft ein leicht Versehn=--One
often smarts pretty sharply for a slight
mistake. _Goethe._
=Zu viel Demuth ist Hochmuth=--Too much humility
is pride. _Ger. Pr._
=Zu viel Glück ist Unglück=--Too much good luck
is ill luck. _Ger. Pr._
=Zu viel Weisheit ist Narrheit=--Too much wisdom
is folly. _Ger. Pr._
=Zu viel Wissbegierde ist ein Fehler, und aus= 35
=einem Fehler können alle Laster entspringen,
wenn man ihm zu sehr nachhängt=--Too
much curiosity is a fault; and out of one fault
all vices may spring, when one indulges in it too
much. _Lessing._
=Zufrieden sein, das ist mein Spruch=--Contentment
is my motto. _M. Claudius._
=Zum Kriegführen sind dreierlei Dinge nötig--Geld!
Geld! Geld!=--To carry on war three
kinds of things are necessary--Money! money!
money! _The German Imperial commandant,
Lazarus von Schwendi, in_ 1584.
=Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren=--To suffer am
I elected. _Schikaneder-Mozart._
=Zur Tugend der Ahnen / Ermannt sich der
Held=--The hero draws inspiration from the
virtue of his ancestors. _Goethe._
=Zwar eine schöne Tugend ist die Treue, / Doch= 40
=schöner ist Gerechtigkeit=--Fidelity indeed is a
noble virtue, yet justice is nobler still. _Platen._
=Zwar nicht wissen--aber glauben / Heisst
ganz richtig--Aberglauben=--Not to know,
but to believe, what else is it, strictly speaking,
but superstition? _Franz v. Schönthan._
=Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewöhnt, /
Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen=--It
is true they (the public) are not accustomed to
the best, but they have read a frightful deal (and
are so knowing therefore). _Goethe, the theatre
manager in "Faust."_
=Zwar weiss ich viel, doch möcht' ich alles
wissen=--True, I know much, but I would like
to know everything. _Goethe, "Faust."_
=Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen=--To
kill two flies with one flapper; to kill two birds
with one stone. _Ger. Pr._
=Zwei gute Tage hat der Mensch auf Erden; /
Den Hochzeitstag und das Begrabenwerden=--Man
has two gala-days on earth--his marriage-day
and his funeral-day. _Ger. Pr._
=Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, / Zwei Herzen
und ein Schlag=--Two souls and one thought,
two hearts and one pulse. _Halen._
=Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, /= 5
=Die eine will sich von der andern trennen=--Two
souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one
struggles to separate itself from the other.
_Goethe, "Faust."_
=Zwei sind der Wege, auf welchen der Mensch
zur Tugend emporstrebt, / Schliesst sich der
eine dir zu, thut sich der andre dir auf, /
Handelnd erreicht der Glückliche sie, der
Leidende duldend; / Wohl ihm, den sein
Geschick liebend auf beiden geführt=--There
are two roads on which man strives to virtue;
one closes against thee, the other opens to thee;
the favoured man wins his way by acting, the
unfortunate by endurance; happy he whom his
destiny guides him lovingly on both. _Schiller._
=Zweierlei Arten giebt es, die treffende Wahrheit
zu sagen; / Oeffentlich immer dem Volk,
immer dem Fürsten geheim=--There are two
ways of telling the pertinent truth--publicly
always to the people, always to the prince in
private. _Goethe._
=Zwischen Amboss und Hammer=--Between the
anvil and the hammer. _Ger. Pr._
=Zwischen heut' und morgen sind Grüfte, zwischen
Versprechen und Erfüllen Klüfte=--Between
to-day and to-morrow are graves, and
between promising and fulfilling are chasms.
_Rückert._
=Zwischen Lipp' und Kelchesrand / Schwebt= 10
=der dunkeln Mächte Hand=--Between cup
and lip hovers the hand of the dark powers.
_F. Kind._
=Zwischen uns sei Wahrheit=--Let there be truth
between us. _Goethe._
INDEX.
⁂ _The first number refers to the page, the second to
the number of the quotation on the page._
A.
=Aaron=, in absence of Moses, 532, 4
=Abasement= and elevation, 471, 6
=Abbot=, who burnt his fingers, 322, 27
=Abiding=, blessedness of, 30, 50
=Abilities=, natural, and culture, 290, 13;
like natural plants, 290, 12
=Ability=, combined with experience, 383, 37;
contentment with one's, 199, 49;
dependent on activity, 443, 27;
dependent on will, 37, 56;
everything in art, 60, 9;
how to know one's, 507, 49;
superior, use of, 407, 2;
the height of, 434, 24;
trying to surpass one's, 497, 18;
why conjoined with poverty, 451, 3
=Able= man, described, 7, 19;
importance of finding and installing, 106, 22; 427, 38;
men, why not rich, 451, 3
=Abode=, man's, in the future, 415, 27
=Above=, things, nothing to us, 361, 15;
those, have ends, 479, 30
=Absent=, an ideal person, 415, 28
=Absenteeism=, moral, 521, 41
=Abstract= terms, emptiness of, 161, 45
=Abstractions=, lofty, _versus_ complexities at hand, 240, 3
=Absurd= man, the, 223, 20
=Absurdity=, no, without its champion, 89, 51;
some slow in discerning, 181, 16
=Abundance=, effect of, on reason, 199, 2;
love of, 147, 54
=Abuse=, as against use, 1, 4; 2, 31;
no argument against use, 95, 43, 44;
provocative of abuse, 47, 41;
what is unsusceptible of, 534, 27
=Abuses=, as matter of sport, 260, 33
=Accent=, a pervading country, 469, 29
=Accessible=, discrimination of, from inaccessible, 471, 34
=Accidents=, behaviour under all, 243, 39;
rare, pleasure in, 316, 22
=Accommodation=, mutual, law of the world, 548, 5
=Accord=, perfect, with whom alone possible, 305, 39
=Accusing= spirit, and the oath, 415, 31
=Acheron=, greedy, 88, 21
=Achieved=, the, to him who looks forward, 55, 7
=Achievement=, exulting in, 473, 42
=Achievements=, greatest, first reception of, 432, 4
=Achilles=, the great, see, 207, 44
=Acknowledgment=, exacting a grateful, 426, 16
=Acquaintance=, large, wasteful of time, 175, 42
=Acquaintances= and friends, 268, 34
=Acquaintanceship=, expecting happiness from, 148, 11
=Acquirement=, every fresh, value of, 90, 56
=Acquisition=, unjust, 507, 40
=Acquisitions=, new, a burden, 297, 24
=Act=, an immortal seed grain, 36, 39;
who does not, dead, 551, 10
=Acting= according to thought, difficult, 489, 28
=Action=, a great source of, 362, 41;
a rule of, 546, 33;
a seed of circumstances, 163, 14;
all vital, unconscious, 184, 44;
an unwarrantable, 412, 53;
and thought, the worlds of, 465, 8;
best and only correct, 418, 3;
civil, second to doing a good, 297, 41;
contrasted with narrative, 289, 39;
contrasted with thought, 61, 25;
delayed, swallowed up by time, 486, 36;
dependent on will, 474, 37;
dumb, 55, 9;
effect of, as contrasted with thought, 485, 41;
effect of, on time, 349, 29;
every, measure of, 89, 52;
good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126, 35;
good, power of, 75, 7;
great, the effect on us of, 21, 47;
greater than sentiment, 91, 52;
hasty, contrasted with long pondering, 229, 34;
healthy, 153, 38;
how to test, 149, 47;
in, chief qualification, 184, 27;
involuntary, 3, 57, 58;
not thought, end of man, 425, 12;
our fairest, 427, 4;
our spontaneous, 339, 22;
power of, 224, 30;
real, the element of, 369, 11;
rectitude of, and intention, 370, 34;
relation of, to thought, 58, 37; 484, 47;
rule for, 114, 44;
rule of, 274, 45;
sole basis of, 205, 21;
spirit of, everything, 454, 32;
tendency of, 174, 5;
to be with decision, 57, 45;
true rule of, 92, 29;
virtue in, 334, 44;
voluntary, 38, 22;
worth of, dependent on motive, 163, 7, 10
=Actions=, brilliant, often matter of shame, 529, 1;
effect on us of our, 227, 22;
good, effect of, 128, 49;
good, in secret, 128, 48;
great, crowned, 133, 6;
great, eloquence, 434, 14;
how measured by wise men and fools, 108, 55;
more significant than words, 493, 41;
not to be hastily judged, 277, 21;
our epochs, 481, 20;
the importance of, 486, 1;
words, 562, 4;
wrong, apologies for, 377, 12
=Activity=, a noble and courageous, security of, 93, 52;
effect of, on the soul, 400, 5;
life without scope for, 205, 42;
man's, ever ready to relax, 266, 26;
reconciling effect of, 84, 39;
sole source of cheerfulness, 415, 6;
transforming power of, 66, 26;
undisciplined, hopelessness of, 505, 45;
without insight, 476, 7
=Actor=, might instruct a parson, 79, 20;
well-graced, interest in, 19, 33
=Acts=, great success of, due to fortune, 82, 32;
great, great thoughts in practice, 135, 21;
great, origin of, 133, 2;
illustrious, inspiring, 182, 18;
individual, not to be judged, 114, 13;
men's, detectives, 568, 17;
our, our angels, 337, 5
=Actual=, all from great mystic deep, 395, 24;
in relation to ideal, 395, 9;
the ideal, 415, 33
=Adaptation=, a sovereign rule, 387, 29
=Address=, value of, to boy, 122, 47
=Adieu=, a sweet, 395, 27
=Administer=, ability to, 93, 36
=Admiration=, and imitation, step between, 470, 5;
and love, 525, 34;
as a feeling, 305, 33;
contrasted with love, 63, 54;
elevating power of, 316, 34; 443, 25;
power of true, 460, 28;
the power of, 525, 20, 21;
unwise, contrasted with unwise contempt, 325, 21
=Admonition=, not readily forgiven, 274, 18
=Adore=, man to, not to question, 263, 36
=Adulation=, attendant on wealth, 259, 16;
the evil of, 104, 7;
to people and to kings, 107, 24
=Advance=, who does not, 364, 19
=Advanced=, age, a symbol of, 524, 26;
man, unhappy, 261, 19;
thinker, self-satisfaction of, 513, 32
=Advancing= in life, 490, 27
=Advantage=, or disadvantage, as motives, 202, 38;
to be taken, 209, 24;
price of, 9, 5
=Adverbs=, significance of, 126, 46
=Adventure=, commended, 217, 24;
for story's sake, 165, 39
=Adventurers=, good done by, 38, 38
=Adventures=, possible in life, 533, 26
=Adversaries=, merits of, how to treat, 85, 36
=Adversities=, how alone to overcome, 446, 9
=Adversity=, a school, 472, 30;
as a test, 97, 48;
as a teacher, 22, 46;
behaviour in, 89, 11;
brave spirit in, 2, 8;
compared with prosperity, 221, 48; 358, 22, 24, 26, 27;
contrary effects of, 438, 43;
effect of, on a man, 512, 23;
enlightening power of, 559, 25;
heroic endurance of, 145, 34;
man struggling with, and his deliverer, 432, 26;
more bearable than prosperity, 110, 33;
more tolerable than contempt, 268, 47;
rule for, 189, 22;
temper for, 5, 13;
test of strength, 177, 53; 175, 13;
use of, 408, 20;
virtue of, 460, 42;
what it brings to light, 215, 34
=Advice=, bad, 261, 32, 33;
best, 417, 32;
common motive in asking, 284, 32, 33;
giving and taking, 524, 13;
giving, and the wisdom to profit by it, 524, 12;
gude, seasonable, 137, 9;
medical, 300, 35;
men liberal with, 330, 13;
motive for asking, 522, 29;
of those who are well, 98, 46; 179, 5;
person to give, 335, 15;
rule in giving, 368, 19; 384, 11;
to be followed, if good, 172, 10;
unacceptable, 161, 34;
wanted and not wanted, 415, 34
=Advisement=, good, good, 320, 34
=Adviser=, to conceal his superiority, 61, 18
=Advising=, 368, 20, 21
=Advocate=, trade of, Carlyle on, 403, 20
=Afar=, the, 445, 12
=Affairs=, change of, change of men, 295, 46
=Affectation=, a confession, 489, 31;
essence of, 425, 31;
in style, 323, 29
=Affection=, display of, to be distrusted, 547, 30;
due to man, 58, 41;
effect of absence on, 2, 12;
entire, characteristic of, 83, 43;
great, and deep veneration, incompatible, 201, 8;
private, effect of, on judgment, 357, 7;
profound, characteristic of, 339, 34;
selfishly sought after, 177, 14;
tragic effects of wounded, 138, 36;
true, described, 507, 36;
value of, 420, 15
=Affections=, holy, the band of, 40, 40;
how won, 105, 15; 330, 37;
our, characteristic of, 337, 7;
our greatest tyrants, 324, 40;
the proper objects of, 387, 47;
to be moderated, 56, 31;
without a tap-root, 566, 13
=Affinities=, spiritual, as a bond, 166, 17
=Affirmation= before denial, 243, 35
=Affirmatives=, wanted, 71, 37
=Afflicted=, the, of God, helplessness of, 45, 3; 531, 36
=Affliction=, weakness of being daunted by, 542, 40
=Agamemnon=, brave men before, 517, 7
=Age=, and youth, characteristics of, 53, 26;
a thought to present to, 508, 40;
as a teacher, 21, 14;
compared with youth, 568, 37, 45, 49; 469, 2;
crabbed, and youth, 49, 30;
distrustful, 37, 16;
effect of, on our views of life, 444, 36;
emancipation from one's, impossible, 303, 20;
every, has its characteristics, 39, 52;
glory of, 430, 11;
golden, whither fled, 64, 27;
in man and in woman, 124, 15;
of gold, the true, 23, 31;
old, bashfulness in, 25, 61;
our, characterised, 337, 9, 10;
present, characterised, 525, 25;
surest sign of, 456, 27;
the function of, 60, 23;
the riddle of, how to be solved, 451, 34;
the self-satisfaction of, 186, 30;
this, chief curse of, 420, 6;
weakening effect of, 328, 11;
without brains, 341, 16
=Agencies= to be economised, 117, 4
=Ages=, great, characteristic of, 10, 43;
the, and the hours, 435, 35
=Agnosticism= of doubt, and that of devotion, 415, 43
=Agreeable=, art of being, 458, 34;
condition of being, 474, 28;
to be, every one's duty, 90, 13
=Agreement=, an indifferent, commended, 15, 38
=Agriculture=, advantages of, 329, 8;
occupation in, 411, 15
=Aid= at call, 482, 11
=Aim=, a lower, secured by devotion to a higher, 415, 26;
to, not enough, 569, 27
=Alacrity= in sinking, 166, 32
=Alarm=, who sounds, safe, 83, 29
=Alchemists=, discoveries of, 415, 49
=Alchemy=, 18, 29
=Alcohol=, pure, the thing wanted, 534, 14
=Alexander= the Great at the tomb of Achilles, 320, 26;
Juvenal on, 509, 4;
his tomb, 400, 18
=All=, co-operation with, 314, 28;
for man's good, 111, 34;
forsaking, finding all, 323, 33;
how one whole, 488, 11;
in flux, 10, 54;
in nothing, 185, 53;
the, incomprehensibility of, 141, 33;
the law and all the prophets, 220, 5;
reflex of, in every man, 92, 35;
things from above, 328, 9;
things, how to subject, 563, 32;
things of same stuff, 328, 7;
to be found in No, 319, 22
=Allegiance=, to fallen lord, merit of, 145, 34
=Allegory=, a transparent palace, 222, 5
=Alliance= with a powerful man, 318, 49
=Alliteration=, 17, 10
=Allotted=, the, and the non-allotted, 536, 39;
what is, and what is not, 414, 41
=Alms=, a rule in, 184, 46;
giving, but not thought, 492, 40;
to go before, 243, 14
=Almsgiving=, 305, 48
=Alms-people=, Ruskin's, 287, 38
=Alone=, doubly, 544, 28;
the word, 564, 34
=Alphonso= of Castile, saying of, 327, 30
=Altitude= to unpractised eye, 496, 36
=Amateur=, not to be discouraged, 416, 3
=Ambassador=, Wotton's definition of, 14, 18
=Ambition=, a dream, 73, 3;
a noble, 470, 13;
a shadow's shadow, 167, 16;
a vain, 322, 7;
and love, wings to great deeds, 258, 6;
as a motive, 399, 1;
danger of, 2, 33;
effect on mind of, 133, 32;
fling away, 107, 45; 165, 28;
end of, 266, 3;
for place and greatness, 321, 32;
freedom from, 485, 30;
great, from great character, 133, 8;
height of, 326, 15;
hurtful vice, 161, 17;
in Cæsar, 545, 21;
man's, 397, 33;
minds most and least actuated by, 276, 12;
Mme. de Pompadour on, 474, 1;
no, in heaven, 187, 21;
not to be too high-pitched, 243, 42;
often vain, 87, 11;
parent of virtue, 484, 9;
slavery, 14, 19;
toil and vanity of, 249, 44;
vaulting, 511, 48;
way of, 556, 14
=Ambitions= followed by adulation, 416, 4
=Ambition's= hands, washing of, 19, 9
=Ambitious=, man and his masters, 222, 43;
men, the risk to, 543, 1;
thoughts, 25, 47
=Amen=, let me say, 241, 35
=Amendment=, first impulse to, 386, 9;
though civilisation should go, 168, 34
=America=, a forecast of, 512, 20;
the only true, 184, 48
=Americans=, and English, 427, 44;
Emerson on, 335, 8
=Amiss=, nothing, with simpleness and duty, 296, 2
=Amusement=, good of, 569, 23;
_versus_ business, 173, 18;
wish of society, 396, 38
=Anarchy=, and tyranny, 504, 14;
death, 131, 13
=Ancestors=, deeds of, not ours, 88, 8;
our, 332, 12;
our duty to, 527, 40;
people who disrespect, 345, 20;
who has no need of, 553, 27
=Ancestry=, boasting of, 145, 21; 271, 10; 473, 2;
who has nothing but, to boast of, 150, 46
=Anchor=, that holds, 36, 38;
to the soul, 544, 36
=Anchorage= for man, 494, 24;
necessary in this world, 208, 33
=Anchoring=, no, fast, 377, 8
=Ancients=, and moderns, teachings of, compared, 416, 7;
our masters in morals, 521, 20;
that don't grow old, 432, 44;
we, 521, 9
=Anecdote=, value of one, 331, 37
=Angel=, the recording, and the oath, 415, 31;
the recording, no fable, 451, 4
=Angel's= face, her, 154, 47;
visits, 249, 38, 39
=Angel-visits=, 37, 27
=Angels=, and accommodation for them, 443, 10;
as created, 94, 22;
Disraeli on side of the, 450, 27;
men one day, 526, 13;
Swedenborg on, 187, 22;
the best, not in community, 417, 48;
visits of, let pass, 430, 34
=Anger=, a majestic, 471, 7;
a man who provoked to, silences it, 551, 34;
a punishment to one's self, 490, 7;
ability to moderate, 281, 18;
best antidote to, 271, 22;
best restraint upon, 142, 9;
dissolved in menaces, 552, 44;
end of, 540, 21;
for nothing to no purpose, 482, 28;
how to avoid, 215, 27;
how to overcome, 240, 16;
no guard to itself, 296, 1;
of a strong man, 416, 8;
often unreasonable, 466, 44;
restraint of, 142, 49;
slowness to, 147, 19, 20;
the bridle of, 272, 13;
the end of, 62, 44;
to burn slow, 240, 21;
unreasonable, with others, 28, 13;
unrestrained, evil of, 364, 18;
with one we love, 491, 3
=Angler=, the born, 568, 18
=Angling=, Izaak Walton on, 526, 18;
like humility, 567, 40
=Angry= at all, angry for nothing, 148, 47;
man beside himself, 159, 15
=Anguish=, great purifying power of, 6, 64
=Animal=, denial of, in man, 416, 47;
every, loves itself, 327, 42;
life of an, 439, 1
=Animals= summed up in man, 264, 19
=Annihilation=, no such thing as, 377, 7
=Annoyances=, the smallest, effect of, 453, 51
=Annoying= others, 144, 21
=Answer=, a perfect, 145, 31;
the shortest, 453, 27;
wise, how to get a, 177, 26; 531, 43
=Ant=, a silent preacher, 316, 23;
lesson of, 125, 3;
the, example of, 342, 16
=Antæus=, meaning of the fable, 122, 18
=Antagonist=, a prudent, 218, 10;
how to meet an, 373, 1;
an, not to be underrated, 307, 46
=Anthropomorphism= in thought, 60, 32
=Antiquary=, memory of, characterised, 21, 42
=Antique=, the, our admiration of, 337, 6
=Antiquity=, chief moral agent of, 453, 11;
divided from us only by age, 109, 2;
the world's youth, 16, 13
=Antony= over Cæsar's body, 33, 33
=Anvil= and hammer, 30, 31; 74, 20, 30
=Anxiety=, effect of, 198, 10;
misery of, 34, 41;
Plato on, 340, 18;
specific against, 220, 11;
to be despised, 62, 24
=Ape=, perfect, _versus_ degenerate man, 181, 6
=Aphorism=, a short but certain, 323, 33;
essence of, 425, 37;
true salt of literature, 271, 16
=Aphorisms=, only words, 534, 9;
the value of, 65, 38
=Apollo= to Phaëthon, 106, 34
=Apology=, Christian, 487, 15;
from want of sense, 307, 7;
who needs no, 19, 32
=Apostle= and preacher, different aims of, 224, 11
=Apostates= never genuine believers, 479, 54
=Apothegms=, practical ineffectuality of, 185, 16
=Apparel=, and the man, 416, 11;
proclaims the man, 48, 36;
singularity in, 149, 1
=Appearance=, deceptiveness of, 23, 13;
_minus_ reality, 61, 23;
neglect of, becoming in man, 112, 31;
_versus_ reality, 325, 47
=Appearances=, and reality, 481, 34;
deceptiveness of, 7, 52; 18, 23; 305, 17;
first, deceptive, 56, 32;
keeping up, 421, 14;
mere, mislead, 277, 7;
not to be trusted, 116, 39;
power of, 61, 22;
science of, 102, 36;
value of, 534, 32
=Appetite=, a satisfied, incredulous of hunger, 48, 13;
a well-governed, 24, 54;
allures to destruction, 163, 16;
change of, with age, 72, 13;
cruelty of, 546, 23;
from eating, 222, 25;
ideal of, 88, 5;
in youth, 7, 14
=Appetites=, unanswered, ground of complaint, 275, 42
=Applaud= to the very echo, 169, 19
=Applause=, dependence on, 152, 13;
gaining, and avoiding censure, 202, 20;
popular, not fame, 219, 56;
popular, the poison of, 320, 28;
reward of virtue, 278, 11;
to be regarded with suspicion, 545, 42
=Application=, felicitous, merit of a, 471, 12;
importance of right, 475, 4
=Appreciation= and criticism, 201, 27
=Apprenticeship=, no man's completed, 391, 13
=Approved man=, the, 312, 31
=Aptitudes=, to be tested, 79, 7
=Arc=, the, that we see, all that is drawn, 524, 44
=Arch-enemy=, the, 416, 14
=Archer=, how known, 14, 22
=Archimedes=, and his prop, 72, 4;
exclamation of, 89, 8
=Architect=, a fellow-worker, 446, 42
=Architecture=, attraction of, 174, 23;
Greek, character of, 136, 9;
the best, 417, 33
=Arguing=, disingenuous, 145, 25;
rule in, 185, 7
=Argument=, contrasted with testimony, 412, 48;
folly of heat in, 323, 38;
the best, 227, 22;
vain against nature, 166, 38;
_versus_ instruction, 370, 8
=Arguments=, wagers for, 108, 49
=Aristocracies= that do not govern, 356, 46
=Aristocracy=, an, the likely fate of, 13, 53;
essence of, 425, 36;
the, defined, 360, 37;
the right basis of, 229, 24
=Aristocrat=, a young, Iphicrates to, 287, 44
=Armada=, Spanish, scattering of, 5, 42
=Armies= not to be stamped out, 217, 3
=Arms=, a last resort, 328, 25;
and peace, 18, 8
=Army=, a school of morality, 416, 18;
book to study life in, 416, 17;
like a serpent, 14, 25
=Arrogance=, how fostered, 407, 20
=Art=, a great step in study of, 553, 20;
a haven of refuge, 265, 31;
a love for, test of, 472, 42;
a test of, 300, 43;
a wise man's, defined, 540, 27;
achievement in, 155, 9;
ancient and modern, contrasted, 14, 37, 38;
ancient, and modern science, 534, 11;
and Christianity, 420, 19;
and deception, life with, 566, 24;
and life, 516, 17;
and morals, laws of identical, 64, 25;
and nature, compared, 290, 28;
and nature, perfection by, 272, 43;
and morals, rules in, compared, 188, 15, 16;
and religion, 372, 13;
and the religious passion, 451, 13;
as the spirit is, 550, 16;
different appreciations of, 53, 32;
without breath of life, 237, 4;
capability everything in, 130, 26;
condition of perfection in, 265, 23;
contrasted with criticism, 225, 5;
contrasted with manufacture, 550, 16;
display of to be distrusted, 504, 40;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
easily learned, 414, 29;
concealment of elaboration in, 54, 28;
Emerson's definition of, 421, 28;
false ambition in, 191, 20;
first and last secret of, 287, 46;
genuine, the _raison d'être_ of, 91, 5;
great, the work of full manhood, 9, 12;
great, Ruskin's definition of, 9, 38;
highest achievement of, 435, 10;
highest, characterised, 434, 36;
highest problem of, 435, 7;
highest subject of, 60, 19;
how far teachable, 205, 10;
how to attain proficiency in, 292, 24;
ignoble, test of, 300, 43;
imitation of nature, 328, 41;
in, ability everything, 60, 9;
in, the only good, 173, 5;
inversion and subversion of, 545, 23;
less expressive than affection, 5, 40;
life of, 416, 12;
measure of love of, 567, 22;
mediæval and modern, 431, 14;
mediæval and modern, compared, 188, 1, 2;
misfortune in, 442, 34;
more than strength, 204, 18;
necessity in, 539, 33;
noble, expression of a great soul, 308, 12;
noblest, 465, 20;
object of, 445, 16;
of both divine and earthly inspiration, 22, 30;
no patriotic, 473, 44;
perfection of, 18, 28;
principle and aim of, 66, 8;
produced hastily, 416, 24;
products, nought and not bad, 357, 48;
question as regards, 450, 29;
rated by gold, 48, 43;
sayings about, 65, 16-18;
secret of power of, 207, 3;
_sine quâ non_ of, 100, 1;
teaching of, 456, 42;
technical skill in, 451, 13;
the best in, 186, 2;
the chief matter in any, 35, 47;
the claims of, 247, 47;
the faculty of, 426, 46;
the great in, defined, 540, 44;
the greatest, 452, 43;
the ideal in, 54, 7;
the last step of, 392, 10;
the laws of, 438, 26;
the oldest, a mushroom, 290, 22;
the theatrical, 431, 8;
to learned and unlearned, respectively, 70, 27;
true, characterised, 499, 38, 39;
unintelligible to the head alone, 433, 22;
unquickened from above and within, 507, 53;
when to be called fine, 136, 10;
who knows, half or wholly, 552, 5;
without enthusiasm, 316, 29;
worthless, apart from nature, 139, 20
=Artifice=, danger and disgrace of, 225, 9
=Artisan= at home everywhere, 361, 25
=Artisans= and artists, 184, 36
=Artist=, a bad and a good, distinguished, 323, 16;
an, essence of, 474, 27;
and his age, 416, 26;
and his art, 205, 10; 416, 28;
and his work, 416, 25; 512, 30;
and society, 14, 30;
at thought of mob, 65, 30;
conceiving and executing, 416, 27;
destructive influence of society on, 396, 12;
function of, 462, 10;
great, and his ideal, 431, 12;
greatest, characterised, 434, 36;
his function, 334, 45;
his praise in his work, 55, 8;
his true praise, 265, 5;
measuring tools of, 14, 29;
modesty in, merit of, 410, 38;
necessity of sight to, 448, 40;
good, mark of, 418, 15;
true praise of, 14, 28;
Ruskin's definition of, 14, 27; 14, 30;
spiritual, born blind, 454, 40;
the best, 426, 28;
the greatest, as defined by Ruskin, 143, 49;
vocation of, 416, 29;
truth in hand of, 18, 57
=Artist-work=, the most important, 301, 1
=Artistes=, conceit of, 218, 23
=Artists=, ancient, aim of, 208, 27;
and artisans, difference between, 184, 36;
great and feeble, distinctions between, 534, 34;
inventing and at work, 60, 28;
no standard for amateurs, 416, 3
=Arts=, a family of sisters, 421, 8;
all fine, related, 10, 38;
and nature, 221, 39;
conditions necessary for, 421, 22;
great, contrasted with false, 133, 9;
on what their vitality depends, 425, 21;
the fine effect of culture of, 168, 42;
the fine, mother and father of, 444, 12;
the fine, secret of, 182, 17;
the fine, the aim in, 188, 45;
the fine, what we know in, 190, 37;
the perfection of the, 447, 25;
the principle and aim of, 66, 8;
to learned and unlearned, 438, 33;
useful mother and father of, 444, 12
=Asbestos=, fate of what is not of, 541, 3
=Ashes=, live in their wonted fires, 77, 28;
the, of your sires, 394, 45
=Asketh=, he that, 93, 32
=Asking=, timid, 364, 50;
twice better than going wrong, 28, 33; 29, 48
=Aspiration=, its effect on us, 539, 36;
persistent, of mankind, like a compass to a ship, 447, 29
=Ass=, bray of, 367, 38;
why offensive, 85, 25;
dreams of the, 58, 16;
man with a head of, 41, 23;
mistaking itself for a stag, 41, 8;
never more than an ass, 171, 46;
rather an, that carries us, 29, 26;
the hungry, 222, 31;
the kick of, how to treat, 171, 45
=Assertion= no proof, 27, 6;
without discrimination, Dante on, 40, 58
=Asses= know asses, 79, 6
=Assistance=, a universal necessity, 304, 16;
mutual, a law of nature, 180, 43
=Association= of ideas, 257, 47
=Associations=, old, not to be bought, 526, 6
=Assuming=, the most, 479, 16
=Assurance= doubly sure, 167, 49
=Astray=, who walks, 551, 16
=Atheism=, moral root of, 277, 18;
Plato on, 466, 42;
practical, defined, 395, 10;
what it amounts to, 301, 3
=Atheist= by night, 34, 7;
no good man, 211, 26
=Atheist's= God, the, 301, 3
=Athene=, the goddess, 430, 18
=Athens= and Greece, 556, 6
=Atonement=, commencement of, 421, 11
=Attachment=, personal, as a ground of public conduct, 346, 51;
powerful, effect of, 354, 51;
the law of, 337, 13;
tokens of, 133, 10
=Attainment=, satisfactory, 313, 26
=Attempt= begun to be carried through, 24, 18
=Attention=, evil effect of constant, 46, 54
=Attorney's= epitaph, 155, 15
=Auctioneer=, the, at a non-plus, 358, 10
=Audacity=, the effect of, 346, 39
=Augustine's= prayer for deliverance, 245, 7
=Auld=, acquaintance, 389, 33;
Nickie Ben, Burns' address to, 102, 18
=Austerity= superseded, 544, 31
=Australia=, fertility of, 75, 50
=Author=, and his brother authors, 301, 5;
cares of an, 311, 20;
compared with his works, 301, 5;
enraged, 49, 35;
fastidious about his style, 543, 2;
genius not enough for, 208, 13;
how to understand an, 177, 44;
most engaging powers of, 459, 28;
in the regard of publisher, 301, 6;
popular, wish of, 84, 18;
profession of, 278, 44;
reading an, 524, 37;
rule in choosing, 42, 44;
unconsciously portrays himself, 90, 2;
who should not be, 150, 6;
without gift of selection, 151, 6
=Authority=, a test of character, 474, 25;
based on injustice, 194, 24;
based on kindness and force, 144, 5;
gentleness in, commended, 175, 14;
conduct of people in, 345, 1;
how founded, 330, 39;
how to destroy, 219, 2;
how weakened, 314, 12;
not to be lightly resisted, 304, 8;
of a greater, submission to, 449, 2;
provocative of disobedience, 548, 21
=Authors=, and their works, 284, 11;
Horace's advice to, 406, 30;
most original, 444, 3;
of a people, their worth, 420, 5;
three classes of, 468, 24;
to be content with choice readers, 379, 27;
young, error of, 568, 8
=Authorship=, three difficulties of, 468, 25; 497, 9
=Avarice=, and luxury compared, 258, 11;
compared with poverty, 354, 18, 35;
contrasted with poverty,
62, 43;
how created, 204, 39; 488, 32;
in contrast with gluttony, 124, 42;
no, in hell, 137, 21;
subduing, profit of, 230, 44
=Avaricious=, the, 386, 27;
the, their affectation, 50, 32
=Avengement=, man's part, 65, 35
=Avenue=, every, barred now, 317, 29
=Awkwarkness=, cause of, 521, 15;
sign of genius, 133, 22
=Awoke= and found myself famous, 165, 10
=Axioms=, only words, 534, 9
=Aye= or no, the power of, 189, 41
B
=Bachelors=, old, why there are, 415, 25
=Back=, defence of, 488, 38;
going, when easy and when impossible, 492, 44;
rather than wrong, 381, 1
=Backbiter=, and face-flatterer, the same, 300, 29
=Backsliding=, fatal, 478, 19
=Bacon=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
treatment of, 349, 20;
unconcern about his name, 110, 26
=Bad=, as a doctor, 129, 35;
at strife with good, 382, 8;
for sake of good, 125, 42;
ground, pains not to be wasted on, 297, 16;
in the thinking, 315, 2;
man always suspicious, 80, 32;
man, his enemies, 416, 45;
man, opponents of, 59, 44;
man, pretending to be good, 261, 38;
men, ability of, 477, 19;
mistaken for good, 417, 38;
nothing and no one absolutely, 218, 7, 13;
nothing, if understood, 78, 40;
nothing so, as we think, 378, 47;
once, bad always, 386, 23;
railing against, deprecated, 71, 37;
the fear of, 436, 18;
the, sparing, 31, 33; 148, 23;
thing, worthless, 1, 8;
when good, 331, 32
=Bairns=, young and old, and their parents, 543, 9
=Ballads=, more powerful than laws, 241, 33
=Ballot-box=, a leveller, 33, 45
=Banishment=, bitter bread of, 76, 17
=Baptism=, with water and with fire, 186, 15
=Barbarian=, a, 150, 38
=Barbarism=, defined, 549, 31;
first step from, 495, 10
=Barbarous=, character, traits of, 475, 31;
man, first spiritual want of, 428, 37
=Bargain=, a, and the purse, 6, 38;
a good, a loss, 31, 39;
to be clear, 260, 23
=Bargains=, confined to man, 263, 1;
great, no economy, 178, 45;
third party to, 470, 34
=Barrel-organ= in a slum, 170, 45
=Barter=, passion for, 77, 51
=Base=, and depraved training in, 70, 26;
man, a, who means to be your enemy, 541, 34
=Baseness=, at heart, effect of, on character, 542, 7;
irrespective of looks, 112, 37;
provision for turning, into nobleness, 21, 23
=Bashfulness=, a defect, 180, 30;
without merit, 278, 20
=Bathing=, no, twice in the same river, 302, 52
=Battalions=, the heaviest, God with the, 329, 27
=Battle=, a, won, Wellington on, 444, 45;
all, misunderstanding, 9, 14;
ceasing for want of combatants, 88, 22;
each man alone in, 190, 36;
necessary to victory, 401, 46;
won, as sad as one lost, 297, 35
=Battlefield=, mercy on the, 331, 11
=Battlefields=, world's, 465, 23
=Bayonets=, Napoleon on, 566, 31
=Be=, to, not to be, 490, 32
=Be-all= and end-all, 412, 54
=Bear= and endure, 346, 9, 10
=Beard=, or no beard, 146, 41;
pride of, 170, 46
=Beast=, no, without some pity, 301, 8;
ungovernable, how to manage, 188, 43
=Beasts=, wild and tame, to be avoided, 324, 44
=Beau=, Fielding's definition of, 1, 13
=Beaufort=, Cardinal, last words of, 537, 24
=Beautiful=, a manifestation, 417, 7;
and good, 417, 8; 430, 39;
benefit of, 540, 41;
capacity for, rare, 325, 12;
compared with rational, 331, 48;
effect of fostering, 113, 55;
Emerson on, 315, 37;
feeling for, to be cultivated, 264, 3;
formerly holy, 185, 50;
foundation of, 417, 10;
how to find, 526, 32;
in curves, 187, 43;
like sunshine, 417, 9;
nothing, by itself, 314, 45;
nothing, out of place, 206, 2;
only in song, 114, 25;
souls, short-lived, 162, 29;
the alone, 482, 34;
the, and the rude craftsman, 510, 51;
the, in the form, 23, 42;
the, lot of, 513, 21;
the, reconciliation of good and true, 518, 17;
things, the two most, 459, 27;
test of the, 313, 43;
to be encouraged, 460, 15
=Beauty=, a fragile good, 112, 30;
a sign of purity, 153, 37;
a thing of, 21, 37;
adoration of, 273, 29;
aim of the world, 208, 28;
all, in man, 312, 35;
and folly, 26, 14;
and life in the small, 189, 51;
and the eternal, inseparable, 153, 52;
and virtue, rarely combined, 110, 42;
and worship of, Goethe on, 66, 9;
as seen, undefinable, 567, 44;
as truth, 520, 22;
attractive power of, 1, 16;
basis and essence of, 540, 25;
born a, born married, 42, 6;
complex, 488, 22;
contrasted with grace, 131, 36-38;
contracted with grace and innocence, 66, 10;
contrasted with grandeur, 132, 8;
dead, chaos comes again, 109, 47;
defined, 197, 26;
dependence of, on expression, 97, 50;
effect of contrast on, 47, 33;
Elysian, 81, 4;
everywhere, 290, 35;
fair point of the line of, 427, 3;
final aim of art, 66, 8;
fleeting, 70, 15;
forms of, compared, 1, 15;
human, effect of sight of, 301, 40;
ideal, fugitive, 436, 10;
ideal of, 436, 11;
in a plain dress, 447, 47;
in common lives, 476, 20;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
like a leaf, 225, 20;
moral power of, 382, 16;
mortal, 22, 27;
not always blessed, 322, 34;
not separable from the eternal, 153, 52;
not vain, because fading, 197, 4;
of a rainbow character, 523, 4;
one, mortification to another, 292, 8;
only seen in suffering, 379, 37;
personal, power of, 129, 60;
persuasive power of, 10, 10;
possibility of, 471, 5;
principal ingredient in, 511, 41;
seat and sources of, 507, 34;
seldom unconscious, 105, 3;
sense of, and duty, 453, 9;
sought for pleasure, 20, 36;
sources of, 184, 40;
subtle attraction of, 99, 42;
the best part of, 413, 29;
the nature of, 406, 40;
too great, effect on sight of, 403, 5;
unconsciousness of, rare, 105, 3;
undemonstrable, 331, 23;
vain, 103, 24;
why snarled at, 274, 49;
with modesty, rare, 368, 3;
without modesty, 313, 42;
without virtue, 99, 25; 224, 20;
worship of mere, 465, 28
="Because"= our concern, not "why," 556, 13
=Becoming=, the, defined, 535, 45
=Bed=, a silken, kindly, 332, 21;
the conjugal, 386, 32
=Bede's= tomb, inscription on, 138, 26
=Bedlam=, how tenanted, 253, 47
=Bee=, little busy, 161, 11
=Bees=, keeping of, 437, 26
=Beggar=, and king, 190, 8;
and rich, different feelings of, 531, 32;
at his level, 460, 12;
Lamb on, 417, 11-17;
on horseback, 387, 40, 41;
pains taken by Nature in forming, 292, 26
=Beggar'd= all description, 155, 2
=Beggar's=, bag, 28, 54;
purse, 1, 19;
robes, 367, 39;
the, song, 530, 11
=Begging=, apt to provoke disgust, 88, 32;
shame of, to be spared, 123, 2
=Beginning=, a bad, 1, 6;
a good, 6, 39;
a hot, course and end of, 15, 6;
and end, contrast of, 194, 26;
cheerful, 8, 59; 90, 5;
contrasted with ulterior steps, 9, 15;
difficult, 8, 60;
implies an end, 48, 12;
most notable, 186, 40;
no, rather than never end, 29, 34;
prior to improving or finishing, 345, 4;
the true, unnoticed, 458, 35
=Beginnings= to be resisted, 356, 59
=Begun=, half done, 25, 49; 68, 30
=Behaviour=, contagious, 109, 21;
end of education, 77, 9;
in private, 58, 14;
learned, as we take diseases, 275, 20;
rule for, 394, 46;
the first sign of force, 347, 4
=Being=, all, founded on reason, 9, 3;
every, has its own beauty, 91, 35;
resigned with regret, 112, 2, 3;
the chain of, 511, 47
=Beings=, above us and beneath us, a wise man's attitude to, 199, 48
=Belial=, the sons of, 445, 33
=Belief=, a, easy to a man, 203, 16;
and conduct, inconsistency of, 264, 2;
and disbelief, dangerous, 346, 18;
a miracle, 197, 16;
alternations of, 173, 30;
affected by custom, 523, 26;
easier than judgment, 93, 38;
eludes system, 163, 15;
flower of, in the last darkness, 544, 7;
general ground of, 9, 28;
impotent to change nature, 301, 10;
in absurdity, 49, 50;
limiting, by comprehensibility, 148, 48;
modern, 565, 49;
multiform, 476, 19;
now-a-days, only half-hearted, 275, 41;
often unintelligent, 274, 4;
one's, effect on, of another's, 200, 49;
only in practice, 457, 19;
or disbelief, no compelling, 302, 36;
our, in others, 521, 29;
power of, 538, 22; 532, 28;
power of a firm, 27, 19;
that is contrary to truth, 301, 11;
the, we incline to, 539, 38;
variations of, from generation to generation, 305, 4;
_versus_ debate, 12, 13;
want of, to be concealed, 461, 15;
what regulates our, 528, 6
=Beliefs=, two, necessary to fulfilling our duty, 525, 23;
various as men, 274, 24
=Believers=, traditional, the god of, 430, 15
=Believing=, man, the, the original, 442, 8;
three means of, 468, 27;
unhasting, 145, 19;
without seeing, merit of, 30, 45
=Bell=, church, inscription on, 231, 5
=Bells=, church, 64, 26
=Bell-wethers=, men have their, 267, 28
=Belly=, a slave to, 417, 27;
empty, effect of, on body, 545, 25;
full, effect of, on spirit, 545, 25
=Belongings=, our chief, inalienable, 450, 3
=Beloved=, how to be, 490, 14;
object, centre of a paradise, 90, 6;
of the Almighty, 417, 28
=Below=, things, nothing to us, 361, 10
=Benefactor=, how we regard, 527, 24
=Benefactors=, how to treat, 71, 26
=Beneficence=, defined, 28, 3;
fruitful effects of, 1, 22;
tree of, well-rooted, 549, 18
=Benefit=, a high, compared with a low, 198, 46;
affected by manner of conferring it, 475, 1;
given quickly, 194, 38;
that sticks to fingers, 478, 15;
to one worthy of it, 28, 1
=Benefits=, our sense of, 385, 20;
remembered, and not, 144, 54
=Benevolence=, impossible to one ill at ease, 305, 40;
rare, 368, 6;
universal, pretenders to, 480, 14
=Benevolent=, heart, our regard for, 417, 30;
mistaken occupation of, 417, 31
=Berries=, two lovely, moulded on one stem, 395, 33
=Best=, a test of, 413, 20;
inexplicable by words, 562, 8;
liable to abuse, 110, 27;
man, Emerson's, 145, 31;
man, moulded out of faults, 479, 26;
nearest, 12, 58;
safety of, 540, 42;
the, in the world, 537, 11;
the, inexplicable by words, 67, 18;
the, a sufferer, 417, 50;
things, the law regarding, 427, 39;
when corrupted, 48, 27;
who does his, 55, 13
=Bestride= the narrow world, 142, 26
=Betrayal=, only by friends, 330, 8
=Betrayer=, the, defined, 418, 14
=Better=, and worse without limit, 184, 7;
enemy of well, 179, 36; 234, 6;
side of things, looking at, 543, 34;
the, the greater, 34, 37
=Bible=, a, all have to publish, 538, 15;
and the Jews, 418, 23;
an idol, 274, 36;
an indubitably inspired, 331, 40;
and religion, 205, 41;
as an educator, 274, 38;
effect on style of study of, 195, 26;
effect of familiarity with, 439, 34;
free circulation of, Goethe on, 285, 10;
from the heart of nature, 33, 10;
Goethe on, 164, 40;
honestly studied, a difficult book, 177, 10;
how it may do harm, and how good, 344, 52;
how to understand difficult parts of, 446, 27;
its eternally effective power, Goethe on, 331, 17;
morality, 384, 45;
not a panacea, 467, 14;
of a nation, 418, 24; 491, 4;
Sir William Jones on, 418, 21;
teaching of, 418, 22, 25;
the, and man's obligations, 392, 52;
the Hebrew, 434, 22;
the study of and eloquence, 303, 31;
true, just knows her, 215, 38;
truths still latent in, 418, 20;
writing a, 435, 8, 18
=Bibles=, how made great, 489, 1
=Biography=, faithfully written, a poem, 473, 8;
of souls, epochs in, 508, 24
=Bigot=, as regards reason, 148, 53
=Bigotry=, an unchristian, 495, 32;
effect of, on religion, 30, 18
=Bird=, an example, 400, 31;
an old, 15, 56;
in hand, 1, 37;
in the wood, 81, 14;
smallest, alighting on tree, 453, 52;
that flutters least, 403, 11
=Birds=, Burns' pity of, in winter, 181, 34;
by shallow rivers' falls, 34, 15;
early, 75, 32;
how taught to sing, 400, 9; 523, 22;
old, 327, 10, 11
=Birth=, beginning of death, 20, 35;
high, an accident, 156, 29;
low, comparative advantage of, 487, 52;
meanness of, not to be concealed, 46, 1;
naught without sense, 270, 24;
our, Wordsworth on, 337, 18;
pride of mere, 398, 33
=Birth-place=, insignificance of, 490, 10
=Births=, premature, 116, 32
=Bishop= of gold and wood, 89, 42
=Bitter=, in the memory, 415, 13
=Black=, but not the devil, 164, 36;
obliged to wear and buy, 490, 30
=Blade=, the trenchant, Toledo trusty, 458, 29
=Blame=, on the wronged, 224, 29;
not on one side only, 181, 30
=Blamelessness=, mark of imbecility or greatness, 114, 37
=Blaming= self, motive in, 330, 27
=Blast=, the loudest, 418, 34
=Blaze=, a, as a spectacle, 466, 34
=Blessed=, man, half part of, 143, 52;
the, according to Horace, 310, 25
=Blessedness=, must be sought and founded within, 298, 4;
not in rank or wealth, 209, 14
=Blessings=, as they go, 160, 54;
fleeting, 183, 21;
in relation to ills, 31, 17;
not valued till lost, 78, 18;
still rife, 267, 24;
unthought-of, 491, 25
=Blind=, and blind leaders, Carlyle's advice to, 545, 26;
leading blind, 174, 11;
the, and colour, 1, 41;
the, as leader, 361, 42;
the very, 27, 53
=Blindest=, the, 474, 50
=Blindness=, colour, better than total, 44, 31;
our, a blessing, 176, 6
=Bliss=, an hour of, value of, 382, 5;
search for, in wealth and power, vain, 567, 36;
the same in all, 46, 13
=Blockhead=, a, cavilling of, 1, 42;
according to Wm. Blake, 153, 19;
and his time, 431, 24;
the bookful, 418, 49
=Blood=, a peculiar fluid, 31, 7;
alone, not ennobling, 534, 23;
good, a virtue of, 31, 50;
hard to tame, 419, 8;
justification of shedding, 418, 41;
no foundation set on, 474, 31;
through scoundrels, 287, 39
=Bloom=, of youth, fading, 320, 25;
season of, only once, 441, 38
=Blossom=, no, no fruit, 301, 7
=Blossoms=, not fruits, 30, 60
=Blue-stocking=, estimate of, 1, 43
=Blunder=, the most fatal, 473, 28;
worse than a crime, 39, 10
=Blundering=, a means of learning, 34, 14
=Blush=, a, beauty of, 172, 3;
a, in the face, 28, 55;
meaning of a, 418, 45
=Blushing=, beautifying power of, 85, 11
=Bluster=, a blind for cowardice, 133, 16
=Blustering=, for the fop, 232, 52
=Boasters=, of great things, 399, 14
=Boasting=, before victory, 242, 10
=Boats=, in a calm, 567, 34
=Bodies=, large, likely to err, 230, 13;
without working, 126, 5
=Bodily= labour, alleviating, 235, 23
=Body=, a handsome, needs no cloak, 48, 8;
built by spirit, 86, 2;
effect of soul on, 110, 32;
feeble, effect of, on mind, 505, 17;
how to warm, 519, 1;
light of, 439, 12;
of man, a temple, 471, 19;
pent, here in the, 155, 11;
politic, evil in, 202, 39;
politic, the, like the human body, 233, 11;
the, and its passions, whence, 478, 40;
the, and raiment, 438, 48;
to be cared for, 409, 33;
with head off, 537, 12;
without spirit, 474, 22
=Boldly=, ventured, half done, 115, 52
=Boldness=, commended, 26, 50;
empty, 219, 55
=Bond=, who breaks his, 550, 38
=Bonfires=, risk of crowding round, 345, 10
=Book=, a, a book, 488, 42;
a bad, 208, 2;
a, digressions in, Swift and Sterne on, 68, 11, 12;
a, difficulty in composing, 185, 40;
a good, destruction of, high treason, 19, 16;
a good, value of, 283, 27;
a good, who kills, 552, 4;
a great, great, 7, 9;
a hieroglyphical, 283, 2;
a true, the virtue of, 562, 1;
a wise man's, defined, 540, 27;
an effective, 171, 1;
and head in collision, 541, 40;
as a friend, 505, 29;
every, written for a special public, 90, 17;
good, Milton's definition, 6, 40;
good, to read, 90, 16;
great, great evil, 272, 15;
how to render, lasting, 493, 3;
how serviceable, 301, 14;
how written down, 301, 16;
injurious, author of, 150, 47;
last thing in writing, 438, 9;
lifetime of, 22, 25;
love of a, 147, 49;
main worth of, 189, 30;
man of one, 37, 20; 125, 27;
no, so bad as not to yield some good, 299, 1;
no, useless, 318, 37;
on what condition readable, 313, 3;
projecting, sweeter than making, 167, 30;
right use of, 496, 37;
test of worth in, 301, 14, 15;
that time has criticised, 533, 39;
the rule in writing a, 171, 30;
the true value of a man's, 459, 14;
to learn wisdom from, 464, 18;
true, the writer of, 145, 35;
what makes a good, 489, 2;
what must be behind a, 477, 12;
without stomach for, 565, 17;
worth buying, 171, 2;
worth or unworth of, independent of style, 481, 42;
writer of, a world-preacher, 465, 42
=Bookish= knowledge in heads of fools, 108, 62
=Books=, a lover of, happiness of, 305, 14;
a substantialworld, 73, 2;
about books, 472, 1;
advantage of buying, 296, 56;
and brains, as possessions, 520, 23;
and conversation, 332, 3;
and nature, both belong to the seeing eye, 290, 29;
and the heart, 434, 14;
and the world, 477, 33;
as records, 10, 35;
as superseding gossip, 139, 16;
bad, not to be read, 29, 36;
big, how made, 284, 44;
borrowed, 450, 46;
castrating, 36, 43;
clever, 300, 25;
comparative insignificance of, 538, 15;
compared with observation, 323, 37;
consoling power of, 201, 49;
contain soul of the past, 185, 15;
Cowley to his, 44, 47;
critics of, at present, 476, 29;
demoralising, 521, 12;
diverse motives for reading, 398, 44;
eloquence and dumb presagers, 321, 10;
estimates of, at different ages, 8, 53;
evil of too many, 69, 46;
famous, some not worth reading, 398, 30;
good, few and chosen, 129, 6;
great actions, 91, 14;
have their destinies, 137, 54;
help from, 479, 1;
in science and literature, to read, 189, 42;
judged by sensations, 269, 37;
Martial on, 406, 47;
mental food, 224, 21;
mottoes to, worthlessness of, 489, 15;
never referred to, 526, 2;
never to be borrowed, 296, 56;
nine-tenths nonsense, 300, 25;
no end of making, 325, 7;
not permissible, 269, 15;
not so instructive as life, 52, 33;
not to be underrated or overrated, 304, 45;
of most value, 271, 16;
old and famed, why we should read, 487, 49;
old, compared with new, 327, 12;
old, converse with, 553, 11;
only thing of value in, 315, 30;
our, characterised, 377, 19;
parcel of well chosen, suggestiveness of, 446, 44;
point in regard to, 448, 21;
prized above a dukedom, 220, 9;
professorship of, desiderated, 301, 18;
quality required in, 1, 50;
reading of, that benefits, 204, 32;
reason of success of many, 268, 44;
sayings about, 397, 45, 46; 398, 1, 2;
scholars, and printers, 236, 14;
study of, contrasted with conversation, 455, 41;
study of, no guarantee of wisdom, 483, 11;
success of many, accounted for, 456, 13;
that have come down, 335, 18;
that help most, 419, 1;
that warp to be shunned, 166, 20;
the best effect of, 417, 35;
the channel of wisdom, 86, 20;
the titles of, their importance, 297, 34;
their use and uselessness, Goethe on, 440, 35;
to be loved early, 151, 40;
to be read only by advice, 567, 24;
value of, 1, 49;
which we learn from, 528, 4;
without thought, 340, 9;
worth reading, 567, 42
=Bored=, one must get used to being, 179, 31
=Bores=, all men, at times, 9, 60;
Voltaire on, 498, 22
=Boring=, the secret of, 235, 8
=Born=, fate of everything, 475, 10;
the gently, on both sides, blood of, 542, 25
=Borrower=, his creditor, 419, 2
=Borrowing=, caution against, 294, 36, 37;
forbidden, 251, 57;
rule in, 32, 6;
the lesson of, 353, 37
=Bosom= in one's, a host, 109, 45
=Boswells= rarer than Johnsons, 213, 9
=Boudier's= epitaph, 209, 43
=Bounty=, an autumn, 110, 2;
diffused too widely, 337, 20
=Bourbons=, the, Talleyrand on, 182, 20
=Bow=, Apollo's, not always bent, 295, 35;
overstrained, 11, 9;
test of strength of, 205, 29
=Bowers= of bliss, conveyed to, 311, 48
=Boy=, a happy, 140, 18;
the generous, 551, 19
=Boys=, the purity of, to be guarded, 299, 35;
training of, Plato on, 71, 35;
value to, of address and accomplishments, 122, 47
=Braggards=, greatest cowards, 432, 6
=Brain=, added, difficulty added, 557, 10;
coinage of, 482, 1;
overwrought, 558, 21;
product of, its quality, 540, 28
=Brains=, cannot be given, 164, 37;
our, seventy year clocks, 337, 21;
when the, are out, 457, 43; 480, 32
=Brave=, man, discourse of a, 2, 7;
man, and his word, 90, 19;
man, mark of, 419, 10;
man, may not yield, 113, 2;
man, the portion of, 382, 10;
man, unselfish, 59, 45;
man, yields to brave, 113, 4;
men, favoured by fortune, 113, 20;
men, generated by brave, 112, 48;
spirit, in adversity, 2, 8;
the, prodigality of, 48, 60;
youth, training of, 90, 20
=Bravery=, calm, 113, 3;
deeds of past, hard to appreciate, 90, 18;
far off, fear at hand, 42, 21;
incompatible with dread of pain, 303, 5;
often, in not attempting, 313, 13;
seen in perils, 38, 42;
the greatest, 410, 45;
true, characterised, 499, 40;
unyielding, 113, 2;
value of, 88, 6
=Bravest=, tenderest, 419, 11
=Bread=, a crust of, and liberty, 123, 10;
cast on waters, 36, 44, 45;
how to earn one's, 260, 49, 50;
miraculous, 321, 8;
provision of, 150, 21
=Breast=, human, without windows, 291, 11
=Breath=, a, power of, 2, 9;
our first, beginning of death, 428, 7
=Breathe=, freely, how to, 237, 40
=Breathing=, as inhaling and exhaling, 185, 16
=Breed=, in man, importance of, 95, 7
=Breeding=, effect of, on a man, 419, 13;
fine, merit of, 471, 21;
good, marks of, 403, 12;
good, value of, 409, 31;
high, contrasted with good, 129, 9;
more than birth, 30, 25;
the time of, 457, 45;
wise, nowhere, 557, 46
=Brevity=, danger of, 32, 33
=Brighter= from obscurity, 84, 7
=Brilliancy=, affectation of, 334, 30
=Brink= near destruction, 496, 30
=British= nation, the character of, 419, 14
=Britons=, the, Virgil on, 344, 39
=Broken= heart, dying of, 160, 51
=Brother=, friend, provided by nature, 503, 23
=Brotherhood=, the only possible, 472, 13
=Brothers=, effect of good, on sisters, 529, 22;
ever brothers, 301, 32;
wrath of, 465, 37
=Brow=, open, open heart, 79, 32
=Browning's= faith and hope, 209, 26
=Brute, et tu=, 88, 47
=Brutes=, lessons they teach, 523, 35
=Bubble= reputation, the, 20, 3
=Bubbles=, fate and tragic end of all, 9, 13
=Buckets=, dropping, into empty wells, 57, 1
=Bud=, opening, to heaven conveyed, 84, 26
=Buddhist=, Nature no, 292, 33
=Builder=, better than the building, 414, 30
=Building=, and its foundation, 439, 28;
effect of, on purse, 41, 17;
too low, 497, 34;
up, man's joy, 312, 36
=Bullet=, every, its billet, 90, 21
=Bungling=, hateful, 166, 30
=Bunyan=, in, personifications, 191, 28;
to readers of his Pilgrim, 115, 1
=Burden=, a, cheerfully borne, 419, 17;
a man's, known only to himself, 306, 15;
a willing, 36, 16;
cast off, another to bear, 175, 35;
known only to bearer, 319, 32;
light, 244, 28; 288, 27;
respect the, 374, 47;
laid on by necessity, 132, 43
=Burdens=, laid on and lifted off by God, 185, 16
=Bureaucracy=, tendency of, 2, 29
=Burgher=, the civilized, mark of, 346, 30
=Buried=, the, for this world, 117, 42
=Burns=, ambition of, 122, 24;
Carlyle on, 338, 48; 389, 43; 556, 16;
Carlyle's vindication of, 131, 13;
his charity, 466, 13;
his preference of wit to wealth, 122, 28;
his real hardship, 161, 28;
his respect for truth, 494, 38;
his inspiring idea, 123, 14;
on effect of sin on the heart, 168, 49;
reflections of, on his life, 161, 38;
songs of, 454, 29;
wish of, at the plough, 89, 34
=Burns=, prayer for humanity, 466, 15;
songs, Carlyle of, 251, 10
=Burnt= child dreads the fire, 4, 62
=Business=, and desire, every man hath, 92, 1;
and economy of time, 443, 11;
as a man's puppet, 140, 17;
contrasted with idleness, 436, 25;
defined, 237, 42;
definition of, 260, 2;
diligent in, 385, 16;
effect of, 237, 43;
how to deal with, 73, 15;
minding one's own, 175, 9;
now war, 212, 34;
one thing, generosity another, 169, 12;
other people's, attending to, 8, 17-19, 27, 36;
other's, _versus_ own, 158, 45;
our grand, not seeing but doing, 338, 6;
inattention to, 13, 6;
_versus_ amusement, 173, 18;
we love, 491, 13;
what is everybody's, 536, 8;
with men above it, 105, 23
=Bust=, animated, hollowness of, 35, 20
=Bustle=, and quiet, 443, 12
=Busy=, aversion of, to idle, 177, 50
"=But=," sneaking, evasive, &c., 302, 37;
the inventor of, 60, 30
"=But yet=," fie upon, 165, 45
"=Buts=," the modifying, 9, 2
=Butter=, bad, salted, 478, 2
=Buyer=, need of, for eyes, 111, 13;
requirements in, 217, 12;
requires a hundred eyes, 41, 10
=Buyers= and sellers, 181, 24
=Buying= and asking, 217, 13;
and selling, Spanish proverb on, 470, 28;
better than borrowing, 29, 18;
not begging, 81, 23;
prudence in, 33, 43;
the rule in, 176, 31;
what one cannot pay, 41, 9
=Byron=, his real hardship, 161, 28;
the poetry of, 387, 4
=Byron's=, feelings for those that love and those that hate him, 155, 20;
greatest grief, 110, 39;
last words, 167, 56
C
=Cæsar=, Augustus, on losing his legions, 511, 35
=Cæsar=, Julius, imperious, dead, 183, 35;
mighty, so low in death, 321, 22;
on Cassius, 241, 30;
on crossing the Rubicon, 411, 9;
when he crossed the Rubicon, 210, 8;
word of, as living and as dead, 33, 40
=Cake=, earned by baking it, 141, 36
=Cakes= and ale, no more, 72, 8
=Calamity=, great source of, 431, 38;
man under, 510, 30
=Calling=, a, advantage of, 146, 43
=Calm=, no sailing in, 303, 34;
nourishment of strength, 279, 14
=Calmness=, sign of strength, 277, 1; 354, 45;
source of, 456, 6
=Calumniators=, their own avengers, 480, 1
=Calumny=, alarm at, 101, 3;
best answer to, 495, 1;
eagerness to spread, 3, 42;
how to escape, 565, 6;
how to extinguish or to justify, 36, 23;
how to overcome, 47, 10;
how to silence, 559, 9;
no escaping, 28, 46; 305, 15;
ready acceptance and spread of, 299, 9;
sure to stick, 22, 42
=Calvin=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
treatment of, 349, 20
=Camp=, English, on the eve of battle, 116, 1;
virtues rare in, 368, 4
=Canary= bird, in a darkened cage, 419, 23
=Candour=, not necessarily impartiality, 23, 17;
the effect of, 35, 11
=Canker=, loathsome, in sweetest bud, 252, 16
=Cant=, defined, and its progeny, 197, 17;
mind to be cleared of, 43, 58
=Canticle=, the sublimest, 456, 8
=Canvassing=, exhausting effect of, 223, 38
=Capabilities=, defined, 99, 26
=Capability=, no vague general, 90, 23;
unknown till tried, 306, 14
=Capacity=, limited, 220, 33
=Capitalist=, in a civilised nation, 420, 3
=Capricious= man, his faith, 3, 24
=Captivity=, type of, 109, 24;
as an evil, 245, 29
=Carcass=, attractive power of, 549, 33
=Cards=, a pack of, 217, 8
=Care=, a fig for, 243, 3;
effect of, 51, 37;
foe togladness,
79, 15;
man's first, 266, 31;
not all on one object, 295, 29;
profitlessness of, 306, 46;
soothed by song, 280, 1;
the danger of too much, 479, 11;
vanity of, 16, 57;
want of, 518, 30;
wise, 531, 16
=Careless=, past preaching to, 179, 16;
people, 405, 45
=Carelessness=, about others' opinion, a bad sign, 294, 32
=Cares=, effect of, 114, 46;
nursed, 275, 29;
others', the burden of, 162, 31
=Caricature=, effect of, on Hogarth, 34, 18
=Carlyle=, as a thinker, 453, 7;
at Linlathen, 461, 46;
inspiring idea of, 123, 14;
James, to his son, 264, 27;
of his father, 485, 38;
of his mother when dying, 438, 6;
on his life, and world's relation to it, 464, 14
=Carlyle's=, books, John Burroughs on, 307, 21;
one certainty, 316, 21;
reflection on his life at Craigenputtock, 160, 53;
teaching, John Burroughs on, 461, 28
=Carlyles=, the, John Burroughs on, 419, 28; 541, 22
=Carper=, a, 2, 36
=Carters=, employment for, 489, 12
=Cash= payment, impotence of, 256, 8
=Cassandra= and the Trojans, 57, 23
=Cassius=, Cæsar on, 145, 4
=Castles= in air, foundations to be put under, 176, 46
=Castor= and Pollux, 36, 42
=Cat=, a scalded, 19, 2; 40, 43
=Categories=, only words, 534, 9
=Cathedral=, not so majestic as a tree, 324, 25
=Cathedrals=, of Christendom, the glory of, 276, 24;
the old, and the great blue dome, 445, 28
=Catiline's= flight, 1, 30
=Cato=, a, in every man, 469, 25;
has to submit, 419, 32;
the elder, Livy on, 163, 13; 187, 33
=Cause=, a good, injury to, 171, 3;
a good, needs support, 31, 25;
a noble, desertion of, 200, 3;
that is strong, 413, 2;
the best, needs advocacy, 56, 18;
true, sure of victory, 106, 8
=Causes=, great, never tried on the merits, 133, 14;
weightiest, most silent, 277, 1
=Caution=, enforced at every step, 94, 8;
from experience, 37, 18;
mother of safety, 225, 8
=Censor=, the business of, 234, 2;
the trade of, 198, 11
=Censure=, and flattery, 347, 22;
and ridicule, cheap, 201, 22;
avoiding, and gaining applause, 202, 20;
effect of, in contrast with glory, 124, 33;
from knowledge, 84, 27;
how and when to administer, 106, 19;
how to treat, 409, 15;
linked to fame, 101, 10;
not to be too hasty, 528, 39;
of a friend, without thanks, 289, 1;
often wrong, 318, 38;
to be received with complacency, 545, 42;
to begin at home, 409, 32;
unqualified, evil of, 313, 49;
who should, 242, 40
=Censurers=, fear of, 527, 5
=Censures=, commendations, 181, 19
=Centuries=, conspirators against soul, 419, 34;
lineal children of one another, 419, 33
=Century=, present, Schiller on, 78, 45;
thy, as thy life element, 252, 2
=Ceremony=, absurd and tiresome, 376, 51
=Ceres= and peace, 343, 56
=Certain=, quitting, for uncertain, 143, 37;
sacrificed for uncertain, 38, 27;
the only thing, 478, 27
=Certainty=, beginning with, 185, 42;
by way of doubt, 474, 2;
the only, 377, 1
=Chaff-cutter=, as creator, 174, 13
=Chain=, dependent on link, 32, 39
=Chains=, and slavery, 180, 4;
golden, heavy, 128, 44;
rattling of, as show of freedom, 276, 22
=Chamfort's= last words, 166, 13
=Chamois=, caught, though high-climbing, 119, 37
=Champion=, the, and his love of victory, 419, 37
=Champions=, great, special gifts of God, 134, 42
=Chance=, a nickname for providence, 233, 36;
a second, advantage of, 48, 38; 86, 18;
as a god, 103, 22;
as arbiter, 172, 24;
games of, traps, 118, 31;
gatherings of, 385, 22;
no such thing as, 474, 29;
scope for, everywhere, 36, 48;
unseen providence, 10, 7
=Chances=, common, bearable, 45, 11
=Change=, a call everywhere for, 457, 29;
a necessity, 527, 13;
cause of uneasiness, 79, 19;
everything subject to, 327, 45;
fear of, 186, 8;
in every, dissatisfaction, 186, 26;
life of world, 464, 9;
love of, 377, 55;
man hates, 34, 6;
necessity for, 479, 18;
not therefore change for better, 5, 10;
seldom for the better, 266, 16;
universal, 328, 17-18; 329, 9
=Chaos=, is come again, 96, 16;
doomed that harbours a soul, 301, 19
=Character=, a high, essential of, 48, 61;
a man's, how to raise, 567, 17;
a man's history, 435, 16;
alone, stable, 76, 44;
and talent, how formed respectively, 85, 20;
arbiter of fortune, 157, 9;
contrasted with reputation, 374, 9;
defined, 2, 61; 497, 15;
due to many influences, 307, 9;
due to way of thinking, 226, 10;
formation of, 409, 43; 429, 15;
good, value of, 78, 9;
his, not wholly known to a man, 92, 6;
how formed, 539, 28, 32;
how it reveals itself, 538, 19;
how to understand, 301, 20;
importance of, 161, 5;
individual, power of, 431, 21;
its victories, 460, 36;
mark of a simple, manly, 19, 32;
merit of having a, 490, 1;
national, tempered by environment, 289, 45;
no changing one's, 171, 51;
nobility of, the condition of, 477, 18;
penetrated by soul, 161, 21;
power of, 200, 51; 367, 41;
seizing a, and delineating, 495, 36;
strong, basis of, 385, 40;
strong, tendency of, to eccentricity, 76, 32;
the art of moulding, 301, 1;
the noble and the well-bred, contrasted, 445, 3;
the only, worth describing, 335, 4;
true test of, 537, 18;
unaffected by change of place, 44, 17;
varieties in, accounted for, 529, 11;
weakness of, 530, 16;
what is implied in, 64, 24
=Characters=, people's, how to learn, 527, 21;
strong, formation of, 404, 2, 3;
the most passionate, and their feelings of duty, 157, 23;
truthful, credulous, 49, 53
=Charitable=, the, and their charity, 419, 46
=Charities=, posthumous, characterised, 353, 24
=Charity=, a dearth of, 472, 22;
after death, Bacon on, 145, 47;
and friendship, 337, 22;
Christian, rare, 368, 10;
concern of all, 186, 49;
contrasted with intellect, 195, 18;
definition of, 481, 37;
effect of, on the press, 63, 40;
essential, 305, 34;
its destination not to be inquired into, 555, 6;
large, and white hands, 230, 14;
misplaced, repining at, 388, 23;
Moltke on, 560, 26;
no excess in, 423, 10;
of God, the restoring, 506, 22;
of great souls, 334, 50;
the first order of, 20, 46;
the power of, 196, 17;
to unrelated people, 166, 17;
towards half-believer, 524, 30;
that thinketh no evil, 420, 1;
virtue of the woman, 121, 50
=Charlatan=, a poor creature, 407, 36
=Charles II.= in his chamber, Rochester on, 155, 14
=Charm=, a native, compared with art, 494, 25
=Charmer=, were t'other, away, 161, 23
=Charms=, personal, effect of, 224, 19;
God-given, 126, 2
=Charter=, of Louis Philippe, 224, 27
=Chase=, joy of the, 552, 23
=Chaste= mind, the, mark of, 420, 2
=Chastisement=, contrary effects of, 40, 38;
God's not feared, 552, 42;
want of, defect in education, 321, 21
=Chastity=, female, two safeguards to, annulled, 226, 26;
in the tropics, 435, 11;
the nurse of, 412, 2
=Chatterers=, to be guarded against, 551, 5
=Chaucer=, characteristic of, 419, 44;
reading, 369, 5;
Spenser on, 52, 51
=Cheapest=, the, dearest, 535, 50
=Cheapness=, of its wares, as a basis for a nation, 414, 27;
of man, tragedy of, 420, 4
=Cheated=, how to be, 419, 35
=Cheating=, all wakeful against, 92, 28;
and being cheated, pleasure of, 72, 25
=Cheek=, eloquent, 123, 18
=Cheerful=, the, the privilege of, 319, 8
=Cheerfulness=, a duty to promote, 502, 48;
advantage of, 566, 6;
and health, 153, 31, 34;
badge of gentleman, 373, 46;
benefit of, 173, 38;
compared with mirth, 280, 16, 17;
concomitant of, 185, 27;
effect of, 231, 12; 426, 10;
from activity, 415, 6;
in want, 304, 18;
inward, thanksgiving, 196, 29;
no, by painful effort, 301, 21;
peculiar to man, 15, 25;
pleasing to the Muses, 2, 63;
root of, 314, 9;
sign of wisdom, 443, 36;
strength of, 562, 2;
to be promoted, 495, 27;
to be welcomed, 172, 5;
value of, contrasted with sadness, 15, 64
=Cherub=, sweet little, 470, 32
=Chickens=, for lion, not chickenweed, 174, 22;
not to be counted before hatching, 4, 20
=Child=, a cupid visible, 3, 3;
and its mother's blessing, 3, 4;
a, our model, 186, 31;
a spoiled, 82, 34;
a wise, 143, 13;
birth of, an imprisonment, 418, 29;
death of, to father, 489, 22;
destiny of, how determined, 429, 38;
distinctive character of, 424, 2;
education of, 420, 10, 11;
first lesson for, 400, 19; 492, 11;
how to feed, 565, 39;
how to train, 498, 54;
little, man to become, 428, 40;
our best service to a, 492, 29;
play of a, 518, 15;
pleasures of a, 27, 15;
simplicity of, superior to intelligence of intelligent, 506, 11;
stammering of, 420, 12;
thankless, a, 162, 28;
the, and the man, 223, 23;
the first and second lesson of, 243, 15;
the fresh gaze of, significance of, 429, 27;
the, in the cradle, and when grown into a man, 140, 8;
training of, 417, 5;
who needs not chastisement, 541, 36
=Childhood=, a forecast, 420, 13;
and age, 569, 3;
conversion into, a necessity, 96, 25;
depths in, 186, 27;
fancies of, 415, 48;
heart of, 434, 3;
impressions of our, 436, 26;
light of, 267, 13;
man's second, 267, 6;
the promise of, 172, 6
=Childishness=, second, 230, 36
=Children=, and parents, in great states and vile, 187, 19;
as we make them, 238, 12;
education of, compared with begetting of, 483, 8;
duty of man of high birth to his, 182, 1;
false training of, 341, 35;
formation of the character of, 77, 8;
glory of, 430, 12;
healthy, and nature, 291, 3;
how to keep, cheerful, 349, 24;
Jesus on, 466, 4;
late, 230, 37;
less cared for than animals, 273, 42;
little, Christ's love for, 406, 6;
love of, for marvellous, 315, 44;
men thrice, 521, 19;
no, now, 7, 21;
of God and of man, always, 469, 18;
sciences not to be taught to, 527, 34;
sorrow in parting with, 475, 6;
the sports of, 34, 16;
weak-minded, propagating, 416, 6;
when to be praised, 231, 25;
whom they are sure to love, 441, 24;
why lost, 222, 24;
writing down to, 497, 6
=Child's= church, building sites for, 456, 5
=Child's= ignorance of death, 19, 30
=Chimney=, a little, soon heated, 143, 5
=Chivalry=, age of, gone, 415, 38;
in what contained, 462, 12;
motto of, 444, 15;
of work, need of, 308, 5;
the essence of virtue, 44, 28
=Choice=, offered to man, 127, 32;
offered us, 465, 12;
the last, 65, 21
=Choler=, one's, consuming, a virtue, 491, 24
=Christ=, a foe to, 147, 14;
a miracle, 371, 24;
and Christendom, religions of, 451, 8;
and religion, 372, 33;
appearances of, 493, 22;
body of, 418, 47;
claim of, 147, 51;
condition of following, 386, 21;
condition of presence of, 548, 52;
confessing, what it is, 491, 21;
following, 171, 50;
greater than Zeno, 394, 27;
greatness of, as a conception, 334, 41;
His rule of judgment, 189, 36;
in bread, a harmless doctrine, 473, 7;
in gunpowder, 473, 7;
indispensable to His disciples, 559, 38;
life of, private, 439, 6;
life of, who thinks he can write, 365, 20;
relatives of, 554, 38;
on His Father's house, 188, 20;
on His mission among men, 481, 8;
on His work and working day, 167, 56;
promises of, greatness of, 476, 2;
teaching of, 432, 46;
the finite in, 185, 30;
the infinite in, 185, 30;
the principle unfolded by, 454, 45;
the reproach of, 482, 5;
the story of, Leo X. on, 362, 28;
true cross of, 458, 37
=Christ's=, disciples, 564, 7, 9, 17;
friends, 564, 6;
yoke, 409, 23
=Christendom= minus Christianity, 94, 10
=Christian=, a, here or nowhere, 171, 10;
a test of a, 440, 40; 443, 24;
faith, the fall from, summed up, 427, 10;
fortitude, 429, 16;
God's gentleman, 3, 7;
religion, the, 420, 16-21
=Christianity=, a, that will have to go, 420, 22;
character of belief in, 468, 27;
characteristic of, 534, 40;
here, 197, 24;
innate, 564, 2;
love of, irrespective of truth, 147, 47;
more commended than practised, 133, 13;
muscular, 156, 50;
on its negative side, 191, 15;
parent of liberty, 245, 19;
precepts of, 241, 7;
secret of, 122, 4;
the discovery in, 461, 34;
_versus_ idolatry, 548, 2;
_versus_ stoicism, 394, 27;
virtue of, 403, 34;
whatever its genesis, here, 496, 18;
witness of, within, 152, 37
=Christians=, the blood of, 386, 24;
young, growing, and full-grown, 568, 9
=Christopher, St.=, call to, 377, 29
=Chronicle=, humblest, a reflex of the age, 89, 33
=Church=, a, test of, 242, 35;
and its enemies, 239, 26;
controversy in, 69, 34;
her function, 65, 10;
in, all equal, 219, 48;
in danger, Carlyle on, 455, 8;
nearer the, 444, 35;
no, better than bigotry, 208, 51;
ark of safety, 97, 60;
spirit of, Boileau on, 354, 4;
the, 420, 23-25;
the, history of, 435, 21;
the office of, 206, 33;
the only true, 470, 41;
the stomach of, 65, 9;
visible, without invisible, 435, 21;
who builds, to God, 550, 40
=Churches=, name from building, 108, 23
=Churchmen= and their church, 420, 26
=Circuitous= often better than direct, 379, 30
=Circumstance=, believers in, 388, 25
=Circumstances=, and men, 274, 25;
and the man, 440, 21;
creatures of men, 263, 37;
depressing, that elevate, 466, 33;
effect on us of, 339, 8;
how to treat, 88, 27;
importance of change of, 276, 41;
indifference of, 431, 22;
our duty in reference to, 339, 8;
the influence of, 205, 31,
to be ruled, 266, 36
=Cities=, and their best citizens, 176, 4;
origin of, 70, 5
=Citizen=, a good, 19, 20;
an unworthy, 182, 7;
first duty of, 378, 24;
state in relation to, 455, 9;
the, and the man, 233, 2
=Citizens=, man-made, 26, 60;
of world, how we become, 200, 48
=City=, a great, 259, 7;
a, of what composed, 31, 51;
and country, 420, 28, 29;
advantage of living in, 177, 37;
building and destroying, 509, 26;
estimates, in presence of nature, 21, 30;
great, to a stranger, 474, 21;
no continuing, here, 155, 7;
our abiding, still ahead, 415, 27;
saved by a poor man who was forgotten, 477, 31;
the first, 127, 50
=Civil=, power, superior to the military, 37, 29;
quarrels, despatch in, 104, 49;
turmoil, evil of, 185, 31
=Civilisation=, dependence of, on freedom, 48, 45;
first step to, 495, 10;
near to barbarism, 443, 37;
our, Emerson on, 529, 24;
the founders of, 102, 25;
the problem of, 143, 53;
test of, 457, 12;
ultimate tendency of, 459, 31
=Civilised= man, the, described, 420, 31
=Civilisers=, two, 193, 4
=Civility=, cheap, 314, 10;
the best, 413, 4;
the part of, 557, 20
=Claim=, who makes, has no, 151, 42
=Clamour=, loud, insane, 253, 33
=Clan=, a sacrifice for its chief, 118, 5
=Class=, to be trembled at, 471, 15
=Classes=, the dangerous, 436, 14;
the higher, kicked off as burdens, 167, 9;
the upper, 460, 7
=Classical=, and romantic, 420, 34
=Clay=, damp, easily wrought, 17, 55
=Clean=, keep, better than make, 332, 44
=Cleanliness= next godliness, 161, 3
=Cleopatra=, nose of, 174, 26
=Clergy=, and their wranglings, 163, 3;
three sections of, 420, 35;
where Christianity is the established religion, 168, 11
=Clergymen= and their use of words, 561, 12
=Clerks=, the greatest, 432, 7
=Clever=, people, Goethe on, 121, 53;
people, never from stupid, 168, 7
=Cleverness=, a commendable, 179, 9;
little gain by, 329, 39
=Cliff=, tall, type of a great man, 20, 34
=Climbing=, possible, though soaring not, 524, 40
=Cloak=, take thine old, 209, 22
=Cloth=, bad, 37, 4;
the foundation of society, 396, 25
=Clothes=, and the man, 61, 23; 513, 37;
Carlyle's doctrine of, 541, 30;
do not always make the man, 298, 7;
early pride of, 251, 29;
respect paid merely to, 306, 23;
revealing and concealing effect of, 485, 37;
rule of fashion in, 185, 32;
soul in, 469, 11;
superfine, 447, 32;
under, a man, 186, 25;
with or without the man, Carlyle on, 123, 40
=Clothing=, gay, whom it attracts, 304, 2
=Cloud=, every, not storm-pregnant, 90, 25;
one, darkening power of, 331, 52;
that veileth love, 90, 26;
the, brightness behind, 2, 3
=Cloud-capt= towers, 420, 36
=Clouds=, and the sea, 421, 5;
round the setting sun, 421, 3, 4;
the, regarding, 148, 5;
a set-off to the sun, 174, 45
=Clown=, sphere of, 81, 3
=Coat=, a smart, 19, 59
=Cobbler=, to his last, 242, 44, 58; 293, 17; 386, 36
=Cobblers=, all, 279, 46
=Cock=, on its own dunghill, 118, 26;
on its own midden, 3, 15;
trumpet of the morn, 421, 6;
when he crows, 60, 10
=Coin=, intellectual, in exchange of thought, 190, 46
=Colander=, fermentation in, 314, 3
=College=, education at, 71, 24; 74, 2;
learning, Burns on, 74, 2
=Cologne=, Cathedral, Carlyle on, 513, 26;
three kings of, virtue in names of, 210, 27
=Colour=, all good, pensive, 9, 32;
as a gift of God, 324, 23;
impression of, 91, 34;
men's joy in, 275, 17
=Colt=, test of its worth, 377, 10
=Colts=, young hot, how to treat, 55, 32
=Columbus= a world-child, 465, 16
=Combat=, not victory, the joy, 204, 34;
the greatest, 551, 31
=Combatant=, a brave, 551, 7
=Combinations=, unequal, 507, 8
=Comeliness=, true, in the mind, 499, 42
=Comet=, a sign of disaster, 185, 34
=Comfort=, those who enjoy, 480, 10
=Comforts=, many, harmful, 284, 29;
our, anxieties, 337, 23
=Comic= and tragic side by side, 421, 9
=Command=, sweet, force in, 471, 30;
the right to, 323, 8;
to, a fine thing, 198, 25;
with conviction, power of, 207, 20
=Commander-in-chief=, risk in his absence, 504, 36
=Commanding=, from obeying, 308, 56;
one good at, 363, 20
=Commandment=, the eighth, comprehensiveness of, 190, 24; 331, 27
=Commandments=, the ten, in Rome, 189, 38; 569, 30
=Commands=, imperative upon all, 467, 9;
not to be debated, 84, 22
=Commendation=, how to administer, 374, 3
=Commendations=, censures, 181, 19;
to be weighed, 419, 40
=Commentators=, weakness of, 162, 24
=Commerce=, an evil effect of, 184, 9;
effect of, 548, 56;
effect of, on nations, 81, 39;
practices in, 188, 11
=Common=, good, merit of serving, 142, 25;
good, neglect of, a crime, 59, 50;
men, endurance of, 567, 34;
men, lightness of, 252, 45;
men, the dread of, 367, 41;
opinion, as a standard, 197, 6;
seeing miraculous in the, 437, 9;
the, enslaving power of, 520, 18;
the, rarely mistaken, 319, 5;
things, our power in, 189, 23
=Commonplace=, success of, 26, 52
=Commons=, House of, Coke on, 389, 47
=Common-sense=, exceptional, 315, 37;
as judge in high matters, 232, 41;
genius of humanity, 235, 9;
in high rank, rare, 368, 13;
how maintained, 314, 20;
the advantage of, 440, 25
=Commonwealth=, strongest, based on passion, 180, 32;
the condition of its welfare, 172, 9;
under so many heads, 310, 24
=Communications= with God and man, 528, 32
=Communicative= man, to be dreaded, 467, 3
=Communism=, injustice in, 185, 39
=Communities= like Arctic explorers, 273, 28
=Community=, constituents of, 361, 27
=Companion=, a faithful, 396, 39;
pleasant, value of, 44, 49
=Companions=, to chose, 217, 37
=Companionship=, loving, value of, 340, 45;
on a journey, 119, 25;
test of a man, 411, 41;
wise, value of, 148, 44
=Company=, as marking a man, 7, 46;
decent, condition of introduction into, 490, 26;
descent from high, to low, 266, 4;
effect of too much, 397, 20;
for entertainment, 544, 6;
good, effect of, on virtue, 129, 15;
good, on the road, 129, 16;
good, restlessness for, 551, 4;
the, to keep, 217, 19, 21;
_versus_ solitude, 464, 38;
we should seek, 524, 8
=Comparison= no proof, 45, 34
=Compass=, susceptibility of, to error, 18, 53
=Compassion=, and courage joined, 505, 47;
and ingratitude incompatible, 194, 17
=Compelled=, he who can be, 44, 20
=Compensation=, in nature, 90, 46;
law of, 109, 35;
universal, 94, 14
=Competency=, meaning of, 535, 2
=Competition=, death, 131, 13;
the only worthy, 445, 42
=Complaining=, Burns' contempt for, 106, 46;
how to avoid, 215, 27;
misery of always, 490, 4;
our, a reflection on heaven, 345, 5
our, Swift on, 337, 28;
uselessness of, 316, 47
=Complains=, who, gets little compassion, 151, 43
=Complaint=, matter of just, 237, 33;
whining, despicable, 166, 36
=Complaints=, cure, for many, 237, 25;
not, only events, a fit subject, 483, 44;
our, aimlessness of, 339, 7;
to hear, 493, 17
=Completeness=, attainable by all, 60, 3
=Complexion=, a sour, how to get rid of, 197, 33
=Complies= against his will, 145, 44
=Compliment=, the most elegant, 57, 3
=Compliments=, mere, no tempting bait, 277, 6
=Composition=, a great, how produced, 302, 14;
literary, Horace on, 50, 44
=Comprehensibility=, standard of belief, 398, 25
=Comprehensible=, common and insipid, 284, 20
=Compromise=, the supreme rule now, 317, 42
=Compulsion=, a, that is good for a man, 202, 4;
no reason upon, 173, 41
=Computation=, a touchstone, 313, 37
=Concealment=, contrasted with saying nothing, 8, 51;
how to frustrate, 385, 36;
Johnson on, 304, 46;
like a worm in the bud, 389, 10
=Conceit=, minds with and without, 558, 35;
not to be pitied, 168, 47;
of one's own creation, effect of, 325, 30;
strong, the power of, 404, 4;
wise in his own, 385, 18
=Conceited= people as judges, 311, 10
=Concentration=, commended, 71, 41;
the one prudence, 445, 39
=Conceptions=, our, anthropomorphic, 60, 32
=Concern=, our sole proper, 535, 33
=Conciseness=, desirableness of, 87, 1;
in speech commended, 92, 26
=Concord=, among men, a contrast, 387, 23;
and discord contrasted, 507, 32;
and discord, relative effects of, 46, 7;
effects of, contrasted with discord, 64, 10
=Condemnation= less curative than compassion, 45, 39
=Condescension=, insolence, 436, 42
=Condition=, determined by conduct, 306, 7;
external, sign of internal, 452, 19
=Conditions= already laid, 63, 36
=Condolement=, to persevere in, 494, 46
=Conduct=, a rule for, 404, 24;
as showing the man, 222, 7;
developed in society, 104, 42;
effect of, 473, 2;
in our own power, 43, 27;
Kant's rule of, 3, 45;
not communicable, 97, 34;
personal, power of, 200, 45;
proper rule of, 385, 4;
prudent, its two pivots, 227, 31;
rules for, 394, 50; 395, 6; 323, 14;
rule of, 70, 19-21;
significance of, 354, 1;
sovereign guides in, 241, 44;
steadfastness in, 147, 29;
to be according to circumstances, 549, 28
=Conference=, the advantage of, 369, 9
=Confession=, a new, wanted, 426, 22;
an open, 15, 60;
healing power of, 107, 5
=Confidant= of a man's vices, his master, 421, 23
=Confidence=, broken, lost, 149, 34;
effect of, 105, 52;
how won, 105, 15;
in all or in none, 510, 39;
lost, all lost, 150, 34;
power of, 281, 9
=Confinement=, effect of, on fierceness, 88, 13
=Conflict=, known only to strength, 403, 29
=Conforming= easier than making conform, 179, 14
=Conformity=, easier than persuasion, 205, 3;
what we lose by, 524, 6
=Confusion=, the, to be shunned, 103, 46
=Confutation= often mere heedless re-assertion, 119, 28
=Congregation=, a happy, 140, 14
=Conquer=, those who can, 111, 26; 478, 54
=Conquered=, man rarely, 365, 1;
race, how to treat, 200, 39;
the, their only safety, 505, 43
=Conquering=, the art of, 222, 30
=Conqueror=, every, has his Muse, 182, 18;
how regarded, 233, 7;
the greatest, 143, 50; 304, 19;
the true 514, 25
=Conquest=, of self, in the moment of victory, 30, 34;
the condition of permanency of, 301, 25;
without danger, 491, 23
=Conquests= by violence and by moderation, 269, 50
=Conscience=, a clear, 3, 14; 495, 25;
a clear, happiness of, 140, 11;
a coward, 446, 30;
a good, virtue of, 171, 38;
a guilty, 7, 16;
a sacrifice of, 64, 30;
a sound, invincible, 286, 41;
a Sunday, 470, 31;
a weak, 482, 30;
a, without darkness, 472, 21;
acting contrary to, 432, 29;
and history, 204, 5;
contrasted with passions, 224, 32;
friendship of, advantage of, 550, 12;
good, result of, 137, 33;
guilty, effect of, 137, 29;
in matters of, the rule, 187, 58;
in man as acting or reflecting, 60, 11;
large, none, 109, 5;
limit of its authority, 305, 9;
loss of, 147, 46;
not our law, 373, 6;
of many, 539, 21;
pain of, 446, 39;
peaceful, joy of, 437, 19;
sayings about the, 421, 25-27;
still and quiet, value of, 166, 8;
terror of, _versus_ diseases of the liver, 558, 46;
the basis of society, 396, 36;
the judge, 378, 31;
the lash of, 307, 42;
to be always consulted, 509, 18;
voice of, 461, 6;
without God, 3, 23;
wound of, an open one, 322, 16
=Conscientiousness=, the ground of, 392, 31
=Conscious= and unconscious, 460, 19
=Consciousness=, always of the wrong, 325, 17;
and unconsciousness contrasted, 506, 3
=Conservatism=, contrasted with reform, 371, 5;
what it has to defend, 419, 30
=Conservative=, the, consideration for, 313, 48;
the, defined, 423, 2;
the true, duty of, 419, 3
=Consider=, before acting, 32, 16;
before venturing, 85, 15
=Consideration=, always room for, 22, 35;
before action, 16, 7;
benefit of, 504, 20;
contrasted with thought, 6, 31;
first, and then despatch, 357, 6;
when necessary, 560, 15
=Consistency=, no concern of great soul, 558, 20;
not imperative, 71, 38
=Consistent= man, his faith, 3, 24
=Consolation=, rule in administering, 238, 10;
the surest, 234, 17
=Constancy=, man's one want, 533, 8;
not a virtue of the world, 139, 28;
not to be expected, 173, 37;
virtue of, 25, 63;
only in honesty, 472, 18
=Constant= as the northern star, 33, 13
=Constitution=, the, how to preserve, 419, 3;
the, not supreme, 469, 42;
less than man, 263, 29
=Contemplation=, advantage of, 344, 17;
for, formed, 109, 25
=Contemporaries=, to be borne with, 527, 8
=Contempt=, evil of, 141, 12; 149, 50;
hard to bear, 268, 47;
harder to bear than wrong, 432, 3;
never forgiven, 564, 4;
rather than castigation, 47, 6;
unwise, contrasted with unwise admiration, 325, 21
=Content=, a ground of, 27, 4;
bliss of, 539, 17;
dependent upon God, 374, 57;
in whatsoever state, 166, 46
=Contented=, man, free from anxiety, 62, 7;
man, weak, 202, 50
=Contention=, from pride, 34, 12;
how engendered, 334, 48;
with certainty of defeat, 201, 14;
religious, effect of, 183, 20;
to be avoided, 240, 52;
with words, 47, 35
=Contentment=, 20, 27;
a cause of, 521, 22;
better than riches, 82, 63;
commended, 236, 1; 367, 21;
defined, 338, 37;
in retirement, 360, 40;
maxim on, for home use, 372, 41;
not portion of world, 203, 49;
of mind, 442, 15;
our, 337, 29;
power of, 182, 9;
profit of, 69, 2;
source of, 116, 12;
St. Paul on, 141, 45;
state of, 505, 12;
_versus_ ambition, 141, 4;
with little, gain in, 175, 22;
with the present, 229, 14;
with what we can, 243, 24;
wisdom of, 229, 15
=Contingency=, no, 472, 17
=Contradicting=, to be avoided, 195, 52
=Contradiction=, a downright, 4, 45;
a flat, 80, 1;
a teacher, 150, 44;
being able to stand, 140, 28;
good and to be borne, 202, 5;
how to treat, 526, 42;
the meaning of, 47, 36
=Contradictions=, aggregate of all, 2, 21
=Contraries= everywhere in nature, 95, 15
=Controversy=, anger in, 185, 4;
the dust of, 424, 27
=Contumaciousness=, root of, 380, 49
=Convenience=, every, has its inconvenience, 329, 1
=Conversation=, a rule in, 333, 24;
alleviating effect of, 421, 33;
and discourse, effects of, on one's thoughts, 554, 35;
among gentlemen, 363, 10;
boldness in, 185, 43;
brilliancy in, effect on people of, 475, 17;
contrasted with reading, 455, 41;
discretion in, 285, 19;
due more to confidence than wit, 224, 31;
effect of, on mind, 404, 17;
Emerson on, 557, 31;
essentials of, 185, 44;
first requisite in, 428, 34;
our pleasure in, 285, 20;
perfection of, 447, 26;
rare, 268, 46;
relish for, increased with age, 138, 1;
rule in, 11, 55; 511, 46;
the charm of, 443, 39;
the ingredients of, 428, 23;
the worst form of, 17, 56;
_versus_ debate, 56, 17
=Conversation's= Lexicon, the best, 370, 7
=Converse=, ability to, condition of, 306, 11
=Conversing= with what is above us, benefit of, 550, 29
=Conversion=, known only to God, 20, 58;
that is imperative, 96, 25
=Converting= greater than conquering, 203, 30
=Conviction=, one's, from another's lips, 326, 1;
one's, infinitely strengthened by another's, 288, 15;
openness to, rare, 104, 57;
personal, sacredness of, 240, 37;
power of, 312, 32;
rare, 336, 5;
should be strong, 266, 29
=Convictions=, Goethe's respect for, 169, 14;
kicking against, 289, 29;
one's, from a stranger, 162, 37
=Cooking= confined to man, 262, 49
=Cooks=, the father of, 127, 43
=Coolness=, the value of, 217, 20
=Co-operation= a law of life, 131, 13
=Copy= to be followed, 108, 11
=Core= not finally hidden, 421, 34
=Corn=, good, in small fields, 83, 17;
who can make two ears of, grow instead of one, 553, 9
=Cornelia= of her sons, 478, 37
=Corpse=, fate of, indifferent, 408, 45;
not the whole animal, 421, 36
=Correction=, failure in, from want of courage, 227, 14
=Corregio= before a Raphael, 14, 35
=Correspondence=, the first requisite in, 428, 34
=Costume=, cut and colour in, 172, 7
=Cottage=, every equipment for, 90, 29;
smallest, large enough for love, 368, 39
=Cotter=, humble, Burns on, 161, 1
=Council=, a, sages indispensable to, 413, 25
=Counsel=, given rather than taken, 274, 35;
good, how regarded, 93, 25;
good, if not taken, 129, 17;
good, over-night, 137, 36;
good, rejected, 129, 18;
good, to fools, 129, 20;
good, value of, 542, 42;
good, without good fortune, 129, 21;
hasty, 325, 3;
no counsel, 150, 7;
no, no help, 148, 59;
no, till asked, 123, 20;
not at needful moment, 551, 11;
of a friend, 471, 11;
slow-footed, advantage, 394, 13;
the value of, 548, 13;
thrown away, 549, 30;
unselfish, rare, 199, 12
=Counsellor=, to be without, 493, 11
=Counsellors=, good, lack not clients, 120, 22;
good, value of, to prince, 161, 26;
the best, 335, 59
=Counsels=, hasty, effect of, 512, 4;
scattered, not to rest on, 375, 1
=Countenance=, an index, 518, 12;
more in sorrow, 3, 29
=Counting=, by nose, 334, 29;
correct, effect of, on friendships, 48, 19
=Countries=, the richest, now and formerly, 112, 33
=Country=, a great, mark of a, 133, 15;
a, strength and power of, 445, 26;
duty to our, 227, 1;
effect of, on men, 274, 6;
largest soul of a, 438, 1;
lifelong affection for, importance of, 505, 21;
longing for the, 322, 1;
love of, 56, 33; 559, 24;
love of, and good manners, 439, 48;
love of, comprehensiveness of, 328, 1;
love of, sweet, 73, 55;
merit of serving one's, 364, 44;
one's, defined, 337, 31; 343, 35; 504, 26;
sacrifice for, sweet, 73, 50;
served in various ways, 523, 3;
test of a, condition, 421, 20;
the, privilege of, 449, 28;
the undiscovered, 424, 19; 459, 34;
to be abandoned, 333, 47;
want of interest in one's, 502, 20;
wealth of a, 461, 39, 43;
who enjoy, 405, 52
=Courage=, a, from fear, 477, 44;
and compassion joined, 505, 47;
and fear, with reference to danger, 103, 32, 41;
compared with justice, 216, 17;
connected with heart, 287, 48;
enough, 169, 46;
from duty, 166, 14;
in a bad affair, 31, 58;
in confronting evil, 86, 4;
mental, rarer than valour, 278, 2;
more than rage, 367, 35;
necessity for, 521, 28;
often from fear, 233, 13;
only in innocence, 472, 18;
physical and moral, 348, 18;
pitch it should rise to, 63, 17;
sacred, what it evidences, 379, 7;
shown in death, 178, 22;
that braves heaven, 167, 3;
that we admire, 421, 40;
to endure, 3, 30;
want of, 518, 31;
with success or defeat, 493, 25
=Courages=, the best, 417, 34
=Course=, our, forward, 524, 27
=Courses=, bad, issue of, 33, 3
=Court=, does not make happy, 225, 1;
like a marble edifice, 224, 35;
sayings about, 422, 2-5;
selfishness at, 82, 60;
the, La Bruyère on, 363, 15
=Courteous= man, a, 147, 2
=Courtesies=, small and great, effect of, 453, 50
=Courtesy=, dependent on morality, 473, 41;
excess of, suspicious, 548, 50;
import of, 462, 12;
of the heart, 85, 29;
room for, 247, 48;
rule in, 185, 45;
rule of, 432, 2; 526, 28;
want of, 163, 33
=Courtier=, an assiduous, a slave, 363, 30;
father of the tyrant, 446, 43;
the requisites of, 420, 7
=Courtship=, a dream, 275, 4
=Covet= all, lose all, 42, 34
=Covetous=, man, and his wealth, 173, 21;
riches of, 422, 6
=Covetousness=, and modesty, as regards wealth, 86, 44;
cause of, 96, 32;
contrasted with charity, 40, 27;
folly of, 131, 30;
inconsistent with godliness, 171, 15;
its object, 300, 35;
penalty of, 13, 48;
slavery, 244, 16
=Cow=, the, and the piper, 122, 25
=Cowardice=, pain of, in fear, 103, 41
=Coward=, brave, under bad fortune, 542, 44;
the rights of, 538, 27
=Cowards=, boastful, 177, 49;
not visited by God, 127, 54;
sayings about, 487, 30, 31;
should be allowed to desert, 109, 26;
with hearts false as stairs of sand, 161, 41
=Cowl= makes not monk, 50, 39
=Cowper=, inspiring idea of, 123, 14
=Coxcomb=, a, man's own making, 291, 16;
and the flatterer, 422, 8;
once, one always, 109, 1
=Cradle=, what is learned in, 536, 25
=Crack=, a, in everything, 469, 30
=Craft=, a, advantage of having, 366, 20;
a, to be learned when young, 235, 39;
power of, 331, 20
=Crafty=, man, always in danger, 422, 10;
man and his time, 431, 24
=Creating= something, the condition of, 177, 32
=Creation=, a thought of God, 127, 34;
and destruction simultaneous, 190, 11;
not to be understood, 268, 8;
beginning of, 417, 21;
better than learning, 200, 22;
end of, 264, 8;
God's manner of, 128, 16;
harmony of, 332, 22;
motive of, 434, 26;
not easy, 301, 27;
visible and invisible, 461, 4
=Creation's= blot, creation's blank, 413, 46
=Creator=, an inference from nature, 291, 2
=Creature=, how to understand any, 190, 21;
of God, one, 128, 4;
the true, of God, 128, 4
=Creatures=, all provided for, 142, 11
=Credit=, easily lost, 283, 24;
given only to belief, 319, 31;
private, worth of, 357, 8
=Credulity=, its nature, and subjects of it, 225, 3
=Creed=, a, always sensitive, 383, 1;
a steadfast, foundation of, 34, 50;
not so significant as the man, 529, 37;
of the true saint, 422, 13;
outworn, a pagan suckled in a, 133, 31;
two elements in every, 186, 29
=Creeds=, effect of science on, 382, 24
=Creeping= in the way and running out of it, 142, 35
=Cricket= on the hearth, 102, 8
=Crime=, an equaliser, 50, 9;
eschewed from disgrace it brings, 8, 20;
every, avenged at the moment, 90, 33;
evil of overlooking a, 196, 26;
fatal prevailing source of, 333, 26;
indulgence to, 332, 1;
its natural punishment, 225, 2;
meditated, committed, 289, 31;
no consecrating, 312, 18;
no hiding of, 45, 8; 472, 24;
sharer in, 50, 52;
that most impute a, 479, 29;
the contagion of, 421, 31;
the disgrace, 39, 3; 69, 17; 233, 16;
when successful, 358, 28;
who hinders not, 146, 56
=Crimes=, causes of, 173, 39;
consecrated, 405, 28;
great, the foreshadows of, 363, 2;
not cured by cruelty, 50, 34;
others', our estimate of, 161, 13;
when a crown is at stake, 239, 19
=Criminal= laws to be gentle, 260, 44
=Criminality=, condition of, 277, 50
=Criminals=, and the light, 311, 37;
different fates of, of same type, 45, 9
=Cringe=, effect of ceasing to, 514, 13;
people who, 480, 4
=Crisis=, a, for both men and nations, 331, 29;
significance of, 94, 58;
the, to be prayed for, 243, 34
=Critic=, attribute of a good, 25, 2;
but a, 382, 7;
eye of, 426, 33;
true and false, function of, 3, 37;
temper required in, 30, 38;
the, on style, 563, 39;
what makes a, 206, 19
=Critical=, easier than correct, 203, 11;
nothing if not, 110, 5; 165, 2;
powers, the test of, 456, 28;
study, distracting, 280, 7
=Criticising=, contrasted with making better, 326, 3;
disadvantage of, 448, 6
=Criticism=, and appreciation, 201, 27;
brightest gem of, 35, 12;
contrasted with art, 225, 5;
destructive, in matters of faith, 172, 8;
enemy's, value of, 122, 11;
first condition of, 408, 38;
how to dodge, 381, 23;
just, rule for, 109, 9;
of self, 497, 11;
of what is above us, abstaining from, rare, 391, 14;
the cant of, Sterne on, 324, 32;
true, the object of, 294, 45
=Critics=, how created, 533, 19;
professional, incapacity of, 357, 50;
ready made, 265, 19;
Young on, 158, 23
=Cromwell=, Boswell's father on, 127, 46
=Cromwell's= judges, the Scotch on, 16, 20
=Crooked= cannot be straightened, 414, 38
=Cross=, a, and bitterness in life, 490, 29;
attractive power of, 420, 20;
bearing, cheerfully, 175, 8;
bearing, longest, 149, 11;
behind the devil, 61, 19;
essential to Christianity, 43, 7;
every, has its crown, 90, 22;
false doctrine of, 281, 30;
fitting close of the life, 422, 17;
of Christ, the power of, 422, 16;
one's own, hardest, 4, 38;
one's, to repel, 495, 19;
risk of rejecting one's, 175, 10;
sanctuary of the humble, 422, 15;
the, irreverence towards, 158, 21;
to every one, 39, 33;
the, religion of, 371, 41;
the, sustaining, 480, 18;
touchstone of faith, 105, 44;
the true of Christ, 458, 37;
the, way of, 513, 41
=Crosses=, overrated, 488, 43
=Crowd=, according to Coke, 286, 16;
bustling, passing through, 494, 45;
not company, 3, 38
=Crowded= hour of glorious life, 332, 6
=Crowds= without great men, 559, 35
=Crown=, a noble, one of thorns, 93, 2;
golden, 3, 39;
and headache, 3, 40;
noble, crown of thorns, 111, 23;
not always his who has earned it, 152, 7
=Crucified=, the, irreverence towards, 198, 21
=Cruel= only to be kind, 167, 54
=Cruelty=, of the affectionate, 422, 20;
under garb of mercy, 324, 33;
weakness, 9, 18
=Crumbs=, bread, 394, 43
=Crusaders=, war-cry of, 63, 9
=Cucumbers=, sunbeams out of, 142, 37
=Cultivated= men, importance of, 396, 6
=Cultivation=, generally essential to usefulness, 94, 52;
without ability, 290, 13
=Culture=, a false, defined and denounced, 560, 18;
affair of inner man, 333, 38;
effects of, 98, 11;
for a noble soul, 15, 53;
Goethe on, 207, 40;
high, a proof of, 205, 37;
human, our indifference to, 525, 38;
moral, the root of, 283, 11;
partial and extreme, 342, 3;
rule in regard to, 434, 33;
spontaneous, value of, 471, 27;
universality of, 22, 29;
the business of, 391, 11;
without intelligence, 292, 44
=Cunning=, art of, 416, 30;
dismasked, 20, 8;
men, Burton of, 518, 21;
on whom it imposes, 227, 30;
outwitted, 89, 24;
self-defeated, 82, 40;
stronger than strength, 250, 26
=Cup=, inordinate, unblessed, 91, 36
=Cupid=, a rogue, 13, 58;
methods of killing, 398, 3;
though small, great, 251, 39
=Cupidity= antagonistic to the Gospel, 549, 22
=Cupid's= bow, how rendered useless, 336, 45;
weapons, 257, 26
=Curiosity=, a low vice, 413, 39;
a scourge, 422, 28;
age of, gone, 415, 39;
evil of, 218, 29;
too much, 569, 35
=Curse=, a, 27, 21;
dinna, 68, 32;
to be shared by all, 477, 9
=Cured=, willingness to be, 341, 51
=Curses=, like processions, 232, 39;
small, on great great occasions, 394, 21
=Cursing= contrasted with swearing, 408, 18
=Custom=, a breach of, 419, 12;
a, falsely so called, 236, 8;
an evil, 261, 40;
ancient, 513, 39;
changing a, 285, 29;
force of, 46, 60; 47, 1, 2;
honoured in the breach, 3, 61;
man's lord, 266, 25;
more potent than reason, 350, 7;
needs no excuse, 43, 21;
often the only sanction, 162, 2;
power of, 48, 37; 510, 10;
power of, on belief, 523, 26;
the empire of, 132, 51;
the law of society, 396, 14;
the power of, 299, 29
=Customs=, local, 82, 14;
long, hard to shake off, 252, 32;
meaning in old, 4, 7;
observed more than laws, 461, 23;
of country to be followed, 108, 12;
old, 239, 34
=Cyclops=, the, at work, 182, 13
=Cynic=, a, described, 422, 33;
and his body, 315, 23
=Cynicism= deprecated, 71, 37
D
=Daggers=, I will speak, 241, 28
=Dainties=, bred in a book, 393, 2
=Daintiness= of stomach, 102, 42, 45
=Daisy=, the, Burns to, 531, 5
=Daisy's= fate, man's, 89, 37
=Dalliance=, not too much rein to, 71, 28
=Dame=, the scraping, wasteful, 311, 29
=Dan=, from, to Beersheba, all barren, 168, 17
=Dancing=, a corporeal poesy, 336, 39;
as a sign of happiness, 39, 32;
silent music, 287, 3
=Dandies=, remark upon, 483, 5
=Dandy=, in Shakespeare, 114, 43;
not without a heart, 559, 18
=Danger=, a common, 486, 14;
common, tends to concord, 45, 25;
despised, 43, 36;
foreseen, 3, 64;
how to oppose, 192, 5;
how to treat, 528, 38;
imminency of, 2, 42;
no, with due courage, 301, 45;
nothing free from, 299, 20;
effect of, on us, 529, 15;
on guard against, 36, 13;
the most deadly, 385, 39
=Dante=, as world-child, 465, 16;
as a figure in literary history, 184, 34;
rank as poet, 503, 48
=Daring=, a defence, 22, 41;
against daring men, 185, 12;
all that may become a man, 165, 37;
conceals fear, 22, 47;
defect of, 142, 30;
necessary for distinction, 22, 46
=Dark=, hours, man in, 86, 12;
running in, 148, 15;
the, in soul and their universe, 422, 36
=Darkness=, as co-factor with heat, 153, 51;
encountered as a bride, 172, 43;
of mind, our one enemy, 445, 35;
prince of, his greatest enemy, 21, 39;
powers of, how they seduce us, 488, 46;
rather than light, 249, 12, 13;
spiritual, how to disperse, 241, 10;
the only, 472, 20;
those insensible to, 480, 5
=Dashes= and modern humour, 392, 56
=Daughter=, marrying and bringing up, 202, 21;
too much cared for, 77, 26
=Daughters=, fragile ware, 70, 24;
love for, 38, 29;
slovenly, when wives, 55, 23
=David's= harp, 177, 3
=Dawn=, its solemnity, 474, 19
=Day=, a, losing or misspending, 482, 44;
a, what may bring forth, 3, 71;
and night, how to spend, 241, 42;
appointed, each man has his, 402, 22;
bright, requires caution, 205, 51;
each, how to live, 528, 35;
each new, how to regard, 327, 53;
end of night, 444, 48;
end of, regarded by God, 312, 39;
every, a Doomsday, 90, 36;
every, a leaf in life's history, 90, 35;
every, a rampart breach, 78, 41;
every, how to spend, 90, 37;
every, sets in night, 36, 17;
every, whole of life, 253, 10;
every, worth of, 243, 38;
fair, sign of, 15, 1;
of days, 422, 40;
offices of the, 191, 8;
parting, described, 342, 6;
poorest passing, the conflux of eternities, 448, 29;
still, but night setting in, 308, 30;
the claims of the, 201, 31;
the darkest, transient, 422, 37;
the most wasted, 32, 20;
the, owning, 144, 52;
the, value of, 298, 20;
Titus on loss of a, 13, 27;
when to praise, 22, 12
=Days=, calm, how to have, 176, 31;
fine, not as roses, 331, 19;
my, in the yellow leaf, 287, 43;
succeeding, unlike, 238, 40
=Dazzles=, a thing which, temporary nature of, 519, 20
=Dead=, as riders, 66, 27;
distinguished by their virtues alone, 227, 34;
happy, 3, 10;
no speaking ill of, 497, 27, 28;
of, nothing unfavourable, 58, 30;
selves, stepping-stones, 275, 33;
state of, 559, 2;
the, all holy, 447, 5;
the, and our concerns, 170, 15;
the, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 323, 2;
the, our need of, 422, 43;
the, our sole duty to, 540, 39;
the, purifying power of, 439, 17;
the, respect due to, 329, 29;
to bury their dead, 242, 46
=Dealing=, fair, blessed effect of, 312, 34;
plain, 349, 13, 14
=Dear= to another, dear to self, 172, 31
=Dearest=, the, 54, 19
=Death=, a deliverer, 248, 11, 12;
a happy, 140, 15;
a joy, 288, 8;
a matter of time, 414, 26;
a man mightier than, 532, 23;
a necessity, 10, 33;
a new birth, 116, 2;
a radical cure, 246, 46;
a reconciler, 79, 24;
a release, 61, 28;
a sleep, 519, 34;
a swift rider, 43, 31;
a universal interest, 253, 41;
an awakening, 246, 46;
an awakening as from nightmare, 250, 7;
and his brother sleep, 163, 2;
and sleep, 393, 37;
and sun not to be looked at, 235, 15;
and the puny body, 283, 59;
and the thought of, contrasted, 226, 20;
beautiful, 160, 49;
but parting breath, 326, 18;
common to all ages, 328, 5;
often comparatively painless, 270, 1;
effect of, on life, 247, 37;
end of all, 481, 14;
everywhere, 366, 48;
fear of, lamentable, 167, 53;
fear of, 275, 7;
fear of, most strange, 284, 37;
finishing touch, 234, 14;
gate of life, 283, 56;
gloried in by Nature, 291, 5;
gradual, 523, 32;
fearlessness of him who does not fear, 520, 14;
happy, a, 124, 37;
honour in, 159, 31;
how to escape or invite, 77, 38;
how to overcome, 517, 30;
if gods or no gods, 205, 33;
impartiality of, 341, 4;
implied in birth, 289, 41;
in battle, 386, 19;
in nature, birth, 9, 19;
mystery of, 25, 31;
necessary to life, 403, 14;
no discharge from, 473, 24;
no evil, 202, 34;
no remedy against, 47, 31;
no surprise to the wise, 226, 21;
no worse than life, 167, 26;
not feared beforehand, 168, 33;
not subject to fortune, 245, 6;
not the worst of evils, 309, 17;
not to be feared, in battle, 567, 12;
not to be forgotten, 262, 20;
not to be thought of, 334, 1;
of no season, 237, 1;
only in meaner parts, 116, 16;
ordained law of, 206, 22;
our farthest limit, 283, 60;
path of, to be trodden by all, 328, 4;
patiently submitted to, 72, 38;
peace to be made with, 74, 36;
Plato on, 306, 19;
pomp of, 448, 22;
principle of, received at birth, 19, 57;
reconciling, 319, 6;
Regnier on, 210, 38;
repose from all toils, 283, 57;
river of, to be crossed by all, 327, 57;
sayings on, 491, 35-37;
sense of, in apprehension, 453, 10;
sting of, 497, 10;
sting of, felt by survivor, 544, 17;
sudden, 368, 15;
that puts an end to pain, 408, 25;
the fear of, 200, 23;
the fearless of, 364, 7;
the fell sergeant, 481, 35;
the most desirable, 550, 3;
the poor man's dearest friend, 325, 50;
the sole, 110, 7;
the solemnity associated with, effect of, 352, 18;
the true, 512, 34;
the thought of, 19, 14; 173, 33;
triumphed over and led captive of, 269, 24; 250, 19;
way to, open, 311, 50;
who fears, 532, 9; 551, 17;
who fears not, 150, 19; 441, 6;
whoso can look on, 554, 7
=Death-bed= of a man, two queries over the, 542, 1
=Debt=, avoidance of, a first duty, 241, 19;
effects of, 5, 21;
evil of, 11, 65;
freedom from, 86, 43;
known when accounts come in, 333, 40;
two ways of paying, 466, 30;
not lessened by care, 38, 6, 7;
to be avoided, 368, 26;
without supper rather than in, 29, 24
=Debts=, all paid, 145, 50;
and sins, their number, 392, 54;
as legacy, 66, 11;
cleared by borrowing, 315, 18;
great and small, 394, 22;
small and heavy, effect of, 244, 27
=Decay=, contrasted with growth, 48, 9
=Deceit=, deceptiveness of, 7, 28;
effect of experience in, 447, 22;
art of, 416, 30
=Deceived=, twice, a disgrace, 171, 12
=Deceiving=, a deception, 274, 8;
the deceiver, pleasure of, 38, 43
=Decency=, connected with virtue and vice, 225, 6;
indispensability of, 105, 51;
want of, 183, 18
=Deception=, always of self, 266, 22;
and self-deception, 199, 46;
limited, 39, 31;
of appearances, 56, 36;
universal, 28, 52, 53
=Decision=, haste in, 4, 48
=Decoration=, the first spiritual want, 428, 37
=Deed=, committed, 27, 20;
good, in naughty world, 161, 14;
noble, effect on us of, 547, 27;
_versus_ fame of it, 155, 31;
one good, dying tongueless, 332, 23;
only avails, 457, 18
=Deeds=, causes of, spiritual, 528, 16;
compared with words, 562, 16;
contrasted with words, 166, 4;
evil, cannot be blazoned, 312, 18;
evil, vengeance in heart of, 211, 49;
foul, will rise, 113, 52;
good, value of, 129, 24;
great, immortal, 133, 18, 19;
great, power of, 243, 17;
men children of their, 522, 22;
more urgent than knowledge, 25, 24;
name of, from issue, 159, 42;
not always to be acknowledged in words, 6, 65;
not forgotten, 277, 15; not words, 99, 11;
of man, known to the Gods, 284, 2;
one's, the aim of, 163, 10;
our, sayings about, 337, 34-36;
pain of, lost in the glory, 192, 35;
past, compared with deeds now, 314, 15;
power of, 64, 11;
productive power of, 211, 48;
rather than words, 281, 8;
time for, 457, 42;
to be reciprocated, 1, 9;
unnatural, 508, 13;
when properly achieved, 185, 9
=Deep=, the howling, and its contents, 519, 9;
the, riches in, 185, 51
=Defeat=, from self alone, 313, 41;
in a foreign land, 334, 33
=Defection=, a, to be reprobated, 200, 3
=Defects=, as parts of character, 38, 28;
great, who have any business with, 334, 49;
moral, attributed to nature, 476, 12;
allowed only to great men, 179, 46;
without number, 414, 38
=Defence=, an insufficient, 534, 18
=Deference=, effect of, on manners, 493, 1
=Deficiencies=, as signs, 184, 40
=Defilement=, moral source of, 475, 18
=Definite=, a, to be aimed at, 526, 36
=Definition=, importance of, 145, 31;
value of power of, 145, 9
=Deformed=, the, displeasing, 314, 31
=Deformity=, the only, 188, 22
=Degeneracy= from man, 94, 33
=Degree=, a professional, necessary, 79, 36
=Deil=, the, Burns to, 229, 31
=Deity=, omniscience of, 78, 26;
the, as raising up and casting down, 511, 15
=Dejection=, extreme ignorance, 60, 18;
great, after enthusiasm, 133, 20
=Delay=, danger of, 162, 34; effect of, 104, 48;
effect of, on temper, 101, 30;
hateful, but profitable, 283, 10;
that is good, 129, 40;
waste, 185, 54
=Delays=, dangerous, 57, 4
=Deliberation=, evil of too long, 532, 25;
life wasted in, 527, 46;
long, contrasted with hasty action, 229, 34;
necessity of, 57, 43
=Delicacy=, admired by men, 67, 8;
in thought and speech, 269, 48;
sympathy inlet to, 302, 25
=Delight=, but a sip, 19, 45;
how to foster, 546, 18;
to, as an aim, 89, 4
=Delights=, to scorn, 495, 26;
violent, their end, 514, 32;
purchased with pain, 9, 21
=Delirium=, as a common failing, 432, 34
=Deliverance=, only road to, 444, 40;
solely from within, 559, 20
=Deliverer=, the hour of his coming, 546, 7
=Deluded=, the worst, 465, 29
=Delusion=, gain in shaking off a, 79, 1;
triumphs of, 458, 31
=Delusions= often sent as a snare, 327, 38
=Demigods=, incredible, 165, 11
=Democracy=, a, the likely fate of, 13, 53;
from Christianity, 43, 2;
its presence, 444, 29;
meaning of, 416, 34;
not our goal, 313, 22;
Ruskin's definition of, 4, 8;
test of, Lycurgus', 125, 8
=Democrat=, the, defined, 423, 2
=Demon= world, the, and its influence, 186, 43
=Demonic=, the, defined, 423, 4
=Denial=, alternation of periods of, with faith, 187, 49;
danger of, 243, 35;
the practice and regulation of, 491, 31
=Denier=, the, and his delight, 423, 1
=Deniers=, how to treat, 483, 20
=Departed=, the, we love, still with us, 539, 1
=Departure=, our point of, clear, 539, 19
=Dependence=, man's, 193, 13;
the evil of, 413, 3;
voluntary, noble, 114, 38
=Depth=, the, not to be dived into, 555, 15
=Deputies=, God's, 125, 53
=Derision=, often poverty of wit, 226, 18
=Descent=, boasting of, 363, 34
=Descriptions=, practical worthlessness of, 306, 32
=Desert=, good or ill, as treated by God, 28, 4;
what one may learn in the, 190, 23
=Deserts=, publishing one's, 530, 7
=Designing= often harder than doing, 269, 49
=Desirable= not always attainable, 297, 51
=Desire=, a viper in the bosom, 90, 40;
accomplished, 423, 7;
as part of our nature, 338, 39;
darkening power of, 98, 27;
from admiration, 538, 38;
impatient of delay, 88, 12;
inordinate, effect of, 547, 34;
its gratification, its death, 90, 39;
no satisfying, 276, 25;
objects of, everywhere, 414, 35;
out of the shot and danger of, 217, 41;
short of, more than desert, 150, 33;
suppressing, easier than satisfying, 201, 19;
the breath of life, 409, 12;
to be limited, 46, 56; 386, 27;
to be sacrificed to duty, 241, 40;
unsatisfactory fruit of, 473, 34;
unsatisfied, the evil of, 386, 35;
when rational, 527, 20
=Desires=, how to regulate, 188, 13;
unlawful and impossible, 507, 45
=Despair=, contrasted with rage, 367, 36;
effect of, on our powers, 233, 18;
finishing blow to misery, 233, 17;
outcome of, 540, 29;
the evil of, 206, 30;
the measure of hope, 423, 6
=Despatch=, evil of too great, 401, 37;
quick, virtue of, 546, 14
=Desperation=, rule in, 186, 10
=Despicable=, the alone, 482, 35
=Despising=, after reading, 237, 9;
only after examining, 448, 3
=Despot=, and his despotism, 233, 10;
in times of anarchy, 192, 4;
the only true, 369, 37
=Despotism=, defined, 540, 30, 36;
defied by despair, 62, 17;
effect of, on a man, 407, 5;
effect on, of unsuccessful revolts against, 22, 10;
fatal to patriotism, 506, 21;
in Russia, 233, 19;
life under a, 184, 11;
modern, 226, 6
=Despots=, how to judge of, 526, 43;
poor as others, 35, 5;
sway of, 35, 5
=Destination= of man, 312, 20
=Destinies=, founding of, 30, 17;
higher, a path to, 402, 17
=Destiny=, a preacher, 476, 15;
and man, 359, 30;
coerced by the strong, 319, 15;
great, if not known, 86, 14;
in substance always the same, 163, 9;
man's, in his own hands, 92, 38;
not to be arrested by us, 556, 30;
our limit, 82, 61;
over our horizon, 144, 37;
power of, 266, 5;
riddle of, how to resolve, 96, 21;
saddening, 264, 1;
the car of one's, how to manage, 456 22;
the saddest, 493, 10;
urn of, clutching into, 313, 28;
wheel of, not to be checked, 551, 44
=Destroyer=, of thousands, helpless to embrace two, 154, 45;
the, and his delight, 423, 1
=Destroyers=, how to treat, 483, 20
=Destroying=, skill in, 197, 8
=Destruction=, and creation, simultaneous, 190, 11;
the genius of, 224, 1;
the way to, 555, 36;
things that tend to our, 457, 26;
violent, but new creation, 9, 22
=Details=, significance of, 547, 40
=Detraction=, in heaven's sight, 393, 23;
malice of, 30, 36
=Development=, no pause in, 292, 6
=Devil=, a good defence against, 99, 5;
a, in man, 469, 31;
a mere protest against, not enough, 536, 20;
a necessity, 396, 13;
as servant of God, 79, 35;
a temptation of, 531, 46;
and his own temptations, 170, 6;
as busy as ever, 174, 16;
Burns on the occupation of, 168, 4;
Burns' pity for, 466, 12;
chained by telling truth, 165, 19;
comes uncalled, 34, 49;
difficulty of laying, 7, 61;
driven by, 144, 36;
familiarity with, and yet in fear of, 30, 33;
give, his due, 123, 27;
Goethe's, character of, 128, 24;
handsome when young, 233, 23;
how to deal with, 29, 28;
how to exclude, 115, 54;
how to keep, out, 475, 23;
hard to scare, 144, 35;
how to understand, 26, 53;
knowledge of, 80, 19;
may look a gentleman, 154, 37;
never sleeps, 280, 47;
not to be let go when caught, 241, 11;
persuasive power of, 484, 5;
playing, properly, 169, 38;
power of, generally unsuspected, 429, 46;
servant of, sure to go to, 108, 13;
shiftiness of, 560, 8;
the subtle power of, 242, 47, 48;
sugar over, 558, 22;
that despairs, 298, 14;
the, abolished, 188, 44;
the, defined, 402, 5;
the, no outwitting, 105, 7;
the, power of, over a man, 137, 43;
the, sayings about, 423, 15-30;
to be resisted, 374, 36;
under march of intellect, 441, 29;
use of a, 174, 15
=Devil's=, angel, a, 176, 17;
chapel, ever beside God's temple, 307, 15;
meal, 225, 16, 17;
rattles, playing with, 480, 13;
valet, 39, 7
=Devils=, easier to rouse than lay, 265, 39;
Luther's defiance of, 506, 12
=Devotion=, elevating power of, 200, 44;
not to be disturbed by work, 401, 37;
to God, test of, 414, 25;
too much, for religion, 398, 39;
affectation in, 489, 9
=Dew=, heaven in a drop of, 225, 32
=Dewdrop= and the star, like sisters, 423, 31
=Diamond= with a flaw, 28, 57
=Diamonds=, rough, may be mistaken, 378, 16;
rough, no one content with, 308, 21
=Die=, the, is cast, 210, 8;
the fittest place for man to, 33, 35
=Diet=, moderate, benefit of, 2, 47
=Difference=, identity of, 102, 15
=Difficulties=, a choice of, 477, 3;
greatest, where met, 432, 8;
nearer the goal, 66, 12;
our greatest, 64, 32;
overcome, 543, 21;
overcoming, 494, 43;
that we meet, 443, 20;
there, to be overcome, 203, 36;
to be stormed, 504, 17;
to Christians, 395, 4;
who never sinks under, 153, 11
=Difficulty=, defined, 536, 2;
from within, 314, 42;
how we overcome, 475, 44;
strength to confront, 99, 63;
what enables us to surmount, 316, 19
=Diffidence=, modest, attractions of, 466, 28;
safety of, 225, 8
=Digestion=, good, power of, 409, 10;
good, wait on appetite, 317, 31
=Dignity=, attribute of nobleman, 80, 22;
difficulty of attaining to, 98, 49;
official, Dickens on, 403, 44;
true, characteristic of, 499, 44
=Dilettante=, nature of, 460, 30;
the, mistakes of, 423, 38
=Diligence=, and skill, power of, 105, 21;
indispensability of, 105, 51;
the one virtue, 68, 26;
value of, 539, 31; without luck, 70, 33
=Dining-out=, the risk to Rousseau of, 34, 2
=Dinner=, a, warmed-up, 505, 20;
the English institution, 185, 1
=Diogenes=, quest of, 158, 41; 165, 3;
to Alexander the Great, 402, 13
=Dirt=, Lord Palmerston's definition of, 68, 43;
splashing of, to be shunned, 548, 36
=Dirty= water, empty out, but not baby, 567, 5
=Disagreeable= comes more speedily than desired, 158, 12
=Disagreeableness= better than insipidity, 29, 12
=Disaster=, common, consolatory, 45, 24
=Disasters=, ready belief in, 4, 3
=Disbelief=, folly of, 176, 9
=Discerning= when to have done, rare gift, 105, 4
=Discernment=, and high rank, not synonymous, 233, 34;
not common, 309, 8;
spirit of, rare, 6, 17
=Disciple= and his master, 423, 39
=Discipleship=, Christian, condition of, 554, 32
=Discipline=, effect of, 70, 30;
not to be slackened, 203, 21;
power of, 301, 44; 375, 6;
without nature, 292, 34
=Discontent=, a cause of, 38, 10;
a world-wide, 532, 36;
at its height, 521, 39;
in the body politic, 19, 10;
man's, 266, 33; misery of, 540, 12;
the root of, 536, 21
=Discontented=, man, the, 147, 3;
man, who is despised, 208, 16
=Discontentment=, a cause of, 537, 39, 41;
common cause of, 50, 50
=Discord=, all, harmony, 10, 2
=Discouragement=, pride, 316, 28
=Discourse=, good, effect of, on virtue, 129, 15;
good, qualities of, 129, 25
=Discourses=, meandering, Whately on, 268, 27
=Discoveries=, all great, from presentiment, 9, 39;
great, from above, 306, 45
=Discovery=, chemical, from a jobber, 566, 27;
joy of, 385, 29;
limited, 199, 10
=Discretion=, better than wit, 15, 65;
commended, 26, 54;
defined, 432, 27;
key to knowledge, 221, 7;
out-sport not, 244, 19;
the sanctuary of, 391, 43;
the value of, 511, 10;
virtue of, 381, 20;
which interferes with duty, 346, 22
=Discrimination=, virtue of, 145, 32
=Discussion=, equipment for, 147, 13;
false estimate of, 398, 19
=Disease=, removed only by skill, 309, 19;
young, growth of, 465, 44;
when cause known, 271, 53
=Diseases=, coming and going, 239, 2;
desperate, 62, 23;
effect of physic on, 110, 19;
how they enter, 253, 7;
inherited, 106, 10;
mental, like bodily, 207, 32;
modern, 524, 36;
of mind, root of, 10, 40;
representations of, demoralising, 302, 6
=Disesteem=, not to be regarded, 395, 4
=Disgrace=, in, with a sovereign, 151, 10;
of others, as a warning, 412, 26;
the only, 170, 17; 319, 19;
to whom a sin, 496, 27
=Disguise=, unmanly, 202, 10
=Disguising= what we are, trouble in, 533, 15
=Disgust=, the mother of, 380, 6
=Dishonour= worse than death, 11, 60; 12, 18
=Disinterestedness=, incredible, 161, 9
=Dislike=, how to overcome, 177, 31
=Disobedience=, two kinds of, 490, 13
=Disorder=, public, origin of, 10, 21
=Dispatch=, and hurry, in business, 32, 61
=Dispensable=, no need to covet, 415, 16;
the easily, 520, 12
=Dispensation= from death, no, 295, 9
=Display=, vanity of, 4, 49
=Disposition=, in the eye of God, 190, 32
=Disputation=, effect of, 9, 23;
evil of too much, 300, 18; 341, 23;
origin of all, 59, 25;
without definite ideas, 329, 24
=Disputes=, about shell, not kernel, 262, 11;
worthy of attention, 423, 46
=Disputing=, effect of, on truth, 192, 8;
sayings about, 472, 28, 29
=Disquiet=, source of, 459, 2
=Disraeli's= mark of great man, 6, 69
=Dissatisfaction=, cause of, with others, 330, 9
=Dissection=, not biography, 423, 47
=Dissension=, civil, a gnawing worm, 43, 37;
easy to sow, 267, 35
=Dissimulation=, a mask, 392, 30;
a necessity in life, 42, 15;
a royal art, 381, 11;
embarrassing, 225, 9;
hatefulness of, 76, 38;
Schiller and Goethe on, 513, 15, 16;
the power of, 364, 11, 12, 37
=Distance=, effect of, on view, 488, 7;
kept, a comfort, 171, 22;
lends enchantment, 94, 1
=Distinction=, reward solely of merit, 153, 17
=Distinctions=, illusory, 274, 47
=Distinguished=, being, pleasure of, 21, 55
=Distress=, common, a uniting power, 45, 12;
effect of, 457, 32;
God in, 125, 21;
lesson of, not to be forgotten, 404, 38;
national, no ground of despair, 472, 35;
public, the one sole cure for, 476, 16
=Distrust=, excessive, hurtfulness of, 96, 34
=Diversity=, universality of, 444, 9
=Divine=, a good, 198, 28;
affinities, proof of, in man, 533, 11;
always agreeable to reason, 298, 19;
grace, the law of, 375, 11;
love, power of, 424, 6;
mind, manifold energies of, 424, 5;
modern ideas of, 175, 40;
protection, not extended to injustice and wrong, 449, 48;
state, _par excellence_, 424, 7;
the, faith in, its range, 479, 42;
the, narrow view of, 525, 17;
the, not directly visible, 459, 12;
the only thing, on earth, 475, 42;
things, how to handle, 168, 29
=Diviner=, the best, 268, 3
=Divinity=, and philosophy, 70, 12;
that doth hedge a king, 478, 33;
that shapes our ends, 477, 45
=Division=, effect of, 381, 31
=Divorce=, defined, 233, 24
=Doctor=, dispensed with, 149, 30;
experience of, 424, 8;
his curing and killing, 174, 17;
man his own, 553, 16;
the, and his fee, 68, 38;
the best, 486, 48
=Doctors=, a fig for the, 217, 27;
cobblers, 279, 46;
when, disagree, 552, 27
=Doctrine=, no false, without some truth, 318, 11
=Document=, as a witness, 40, 34
=Doer=, a great, always reticent, 302, 13
=Doers=, great, in history, 431, 15
=Dog=, a barking, 331, 38;
a good, 31, 23;
a well-bred, 24, 51;
attachment to a well-bred, 58, 20;
bad, 1, 7;
good, and its reward, 1, 46;
I'd rather be a, and bay the moon, 47, 4; 166, 21;
ilka, his day, 181, 33;
living, better than dead lion, 111, 29;
that barks, 35, 3, 4;
the, an example, 409, 38;
the fawning of, 31, 13;
the good nature of, 430, 41;
the, in the manger, 250, 6;
when an old, barks, 27, 38;
will have his day, 241, 1;
with a man at his back, 171, 4;
with bone, 77, 29
=Dogmas=, not our first need, 204, 14
=Dogs=, coward, 49, 23;
that bark, 35, 3, 4, 13, 14, 34
=Doing=, a thing without a good reason, 542, 5;
all one can, effect of, 41, 22;
and saying, 7, 39;
fructification of, main thing, 313, 21;
ill or well, effect of, 252, 58;
joy's soul in, 481, 3;
leaving off, what one can, 560, 24;
measure of, 142, 24;
nothing, a curse, 503, 28;
nothing, a lesson in ill-, 298, 23;
nothing, evil of, 158, 44;
nothing for others, 150, 12;
nothing, hard work, 142, 43;
rather than seeing done, 274, 22;
rather than thinking, 333, 31;
right, importance of, 426, 5;
rule in regard to, 541, 5;
many things, shortest way of, 453, 28;
to precede speaking, 468, 21;
through another what one's self can, 209, 31;
well, profit of, 175, 12;
without understanding, 560, 24
=Doings=, a man's, significance of, 533, 29, 30
=Dome=, azure, and that of St. Peter's, different interest in, 424, 12
=Done=, how to get a thing, 333, 20;
not to be undone, 99, 22; 525, 27;
the, annihilated for us, 541, 26;
the, done, 3, 54;
the little, and what is to do, 439, 22;
things, done, 481, 2;
the, still active, 536, 7;
to have, 493, 6;
what is, is done, 23, 11;
when to have, hard to discern, 105, 4;
worthless so long as dead, 535, 19
"=Don't care=," a snare, 166, 1
=Door=, open, a temptation, 15, 61;
the, to be stooped to, 258, 29
=Double sense=, how to treat what has, 191, 37
=Doubt=, as guide in conduct, 296, 16;
a living, 479, 27;
alongside of knowledge, 280, 53;
all, yields to will, 241, 46;
and faith contrasted as to their origin, 233, 25;
and knowledge, 482, 38;
beginning with, 185, 42;
effect of knowledge on, 525, 6;
effect of, on faith, 552, 18;
effect of, on good, 505, 11;
enfeebling effect of, 150, 22;
from knowledge, 42, 7, 22; 163, 22;
honest faith in, 477, 8;
in, lean to mercy, 186, 12;
in philosophy and in religion, 35, 24;
modest, beacon of the wise, 281, 35;
no, no inquiry, 174, 46;
no permanence in, 474, 2;
no risk in, with disposition to believe, 296, 4;
parent of certainty, 474, 2;
rule when in, 547, 4, 8;
service of, 530, 42;
the effect of, 201, 13;
the end of, 425, 10;
the evil of, 23, 18;
the value of, 452, 3;
to be once in, 490, 31
=Doubtful= matter, rule in, 186, 10
=Doubting=, as necessary as knowing, 167, 46;
condition of knowing, 142, 27
=Doubts=, Faust on his, 278, 54;
Goethe's impatience with, 169, 14;
our, traitors, 337, 40;
resolved by interest, 111, 43;
to be affirmed or denied, 12, 28
=Down=, he that is, 147, 5, 6;
down in the world, 3, 5;
in the world, quite, 542, 18
=Downhill=, a man going, 542, 9
=Dowries=, evil of excessive, 379, 23
=Dowry=, a great, 71, 55;
a true, 309, 22
=Drama=, real object of, 450, 42
=Dramas= on earth, composed in heaven, 127, 2
=Drawing=, Ruskin's caution in regard to, 142, 29
=Dreadful= thing, between acting and first motion of, a, 29, 60
=Dream=, love's young, 33, 28;
the loveliest, and fear, 469, 16
=Dreamer=, a sort of madman, 424, 20
=Dreaming=, not man's end, 266, 18;
of dreaming, 521, 35
=Dreams=, children of night, 41, 52;
fear underlying, 27, 50;
not to be regarded, 371, 11;
into realities, 92, 30;
and sense, 337, 41
=Dregs=, always sink to bottom, 424, 21
=Dress=, deceptive, 23, 13;
expensiveness of, 528, 11;
medicine for women, 446, 10;
rule for, 394, 50;
standard of, 76, 19;
vanity of loving, 460, 25
=Drill=, not catechism, now needed, 458, 36
=Drink=, guid, effect of, on speech, 99, 35;
the effects of, 365, 44
=Drinking=, always, effect of, 479, 19;
five excuses for, 390, 1;
more deadly than thirst, 87, 30;
motives for, 398, 5;
the evil in, 488, 30
=Drinks=, to be shunned, 389, 44
=Drop=, power of a falling, 137, 40, 41;
the last, 438, 4
=Drugs=, to be shunned, 389, 44
=Drunkard=, and his rights, 424, 23;
and the attendant furies, 499, 31
=Drunkenness= and gluttony, evil effects of, 124, 39
=Dryasdust=, affecting to teach, 162, 26
=Dualism=, universal, 10, 52
=Dulness=, gentle, and its joke, 124, 24
=Dumb=, Kant's two things that strike, 504, 9
=Dunce=, a travelled and untravelled, 162, 3;
as representing a class of men, 273, 40;
female, offensive, 164, 41
=Duped=, fear of being, 151, 22;
sure way to be, 235, 30
=Dupes= at first, knaves at last, 329, 20
=Dust=, a handful, power of, 313, 41;
power of a little, 155, 44
=Duties=, first, of a man, 428, 14, 15, 25;
holy, the band of, 40, 40;
knowledge of, best part of philosophy, 221, 12;
not self-elected, 262, 3;
the primal, and charities, 449, 21
=Duty=, a, laid on all, 539, 34;
a man's sphere of, 477, 41;
a path open to all, 110, 12;
a plain, for all, 525, 23;
a spur to, 365, 15;
ahead, 267, 1;
akin to love, 255, 4;
and pleasure, everywhere, 292, 49;
at all hazards, 99, 54;
before even search for truth, 304, 38;
better known than practised, 93, 24;
defined by Wordsworth, 402, 38;
doing, blessedness of, 184, 38;
doing, lesson learned by, 403, 47;
doing one's utmost, 146, 3;
doing what lies nearest, 168, 13;
effect of trying to do, 502, 47;
immediate, of man, 521, 44;
importance of doing one's, 172, 9;
in, prompt, 186, 14;
its reward, 451, 23;
knowing and doing, everything, 215, 40;
life of education, 233, 21;
main thing for, 457, 22;
more potent than love, 254, 4;
most arduous, most sacred, 230, 26;
not speculation, supreme business of man, 140, 23;
our aversion to, 54, 2;
our rule, 47, 3;
our sole concern, 296, 48;
our, the king's, 94, 12;
path of, way to glory, 312, 45;
perplexities regarding, 87, 33;
point of, 519, 33;
present, 186, 1;
reward of following, 146, 11;
rule of, 366, 23;
sense of, central, 453, 12;
sole survivor of faith and love, 326, 4;
stated, the large claim of, 325, 4;
sum of, 240, 49; 486, 11;
that lies nearest, to be done, 72, 10, 11;
the assigned, to be done, 72, 9, 12;
the condition of existence, 312, 40;
the law of life, 251, 56;
the sum of, 496, 20;
the whisper of, and the response, 395, 20;
the whole of, 103, 33;
time for every, 127, 26;
to others, 1, 9;
troublesome, 93, 29;
virtue essential to, 413, 26;
we are now called to, 494, 11;
weight of, when fulfilled, 84, 31;
without God, 110, 11
=Dwarf=, at work without his machinery, 424, 28;
on giant's shoulders, 4, 75
=Dwarfs=, on giant's back, 348, 36
=Dying=, a man's greatest act, 212, 12;
before witnesses, 365, 17;
daily, benefit of, 525, 5;
the, and the world, 7, 23;
twice over, 30, 28;
without being missed, 202, 49
=Dynamite=, only destructive, 301, 35
E
=Eagle=, mew'd, a pity, 16, 36;
as oracle, 72, 14
=Eagles= contrasted with gnats, 124, 44
=Ear=, popular, estimate of, 448, 32;
quicker, in the dark, 53, 22;
road to heart, 224, 12;
the right, filled with dust, 451, 37
=Early= rising not equal to grace of God, 200, 11
=Earnestness=, advantage of, 159, 16;
importance of, 559, 29;
power of, 534, 2;
test of, 162, 27
=Ears=, deaf to counsel, but not flattery, 322, 12;
lead men, 276, 26;
sensitive, sign of health, 81, 36; 386, 50;
who hath, 146, 47
=Earth=, a great entail, 126, 3;
but a film, 414, 24;
despising, as a task, 488, 3;
for the virtuous man, 201, 44;
gifts of the, 325, 8;
how made free, or great, 64, 11;
made of glass, 45, 8;
no goal, 248, 1, 2;
population of, 228, 1;
the all-nourishing, 114, 52;
the, sayings about, 421, 31-34;
the axis of, its position, 416, 40;
the, with its injuries, trampled on or loved, 394, 27
=Earthly=, and heavenly, counterparts, 475, 43;
objects and interests, obscuring power of, 323, 18
=Ease= of mind, the condition of, 308, 18
=East and West=, thought of, contrasted, 174, 18
=Eating=, effect of excess in, 366, 25;
that requires sauce, 209, 20
=Eccentricity=, how to gain a character for, 177, 22;
in beauty, 89, 22;
in eyes of world, 464, 7;
in men of ability, 276, 14
=Echo=, power of, 431, 6
=Echoes=, mostly hollow, 548, 55;
our, 337, 42
=Economist=, the best, 145, 13
=Economists=, few good, 513, 25;
greatest, 432, 27
=Economy=, as a revenue, 310, 3;
first principle of, 206, 12;
human, the first principle of, 428, 31;
importance of, 559, 30;
in prosperity, 409, 14;
object of all, true, 445, 15;
too late, 387, 12
=Ecstasy=, power of, 460, 29
=Eden=, innocence of, lost, 524, 38
=Edicts=, less potent than king, 45, 47
=Edifices=, great, work of ages, 133, 21;
public, how to build, 546, 31
=Education=, a mistake in, 201, 37;
aim of, 415, 45; 435, 40;
an inversion of, 492, 38;
as facilitating government, 79, 38;
chief nobility of, 428, 6;
effect of an effeminate, 282, 15;
entire object of, 425, 19;
first condition of, 428, 9;
first step in, 158, 10;
for heaven, St. Jerome on, 243, 36;
importance of, 427, 20; 451, 5; 509, 20; 539, 22;
in defeat, 56, 60;
inner soul of, 233, 21;
meaning of, 566, 1;
modern, evil effects of, 281, 27, 28;
moral, nature and sum of, 283, 12;
more than knowledge, 220, 43;
most important part of, 443, 50;
motive of, 567, 4;
no, better than bad, 29, 54;
of individual, aim of the world, 464, 10;
of most miseducation, 34, 4;
of woman, the end of, 425, 9;
only, that deserves the name, 458, 16;
our ambiguous, evil of, 205, 48;
our, dissipating, 337, 11;
Plato on, 71, 35;
power of, 488, 8;
question of its importance, 450, 28;
real object of, 450, 41;
right law of, 451, 39;
secret of, 452, 40;
the best, 472, 30;
the business of, 291, 9;
the compulsory, needed, 458, 36;
the end of, 492, 8;
the first use of, 428, 42;
the, of the world, 375, 6;
the only real, 51, 18;
the, wanted, 476, 16;
whole of, 72, 48;
wise, 291, 3;
without capacity, 35, 35;
without God's grace, 371, 34;
without spirit, 169, 44;
wrong, times of, 469, 4
=Educational= laws to be strict, 260, 44
=Educators=, our, 275, 5
=Effect= involved in cause, 37, 12
=Effort=, every healthy, character of, 91, 21;
free, blessedness in, 89, 47; 95, 35;
great principle of, 431, 32;
unrestrained, evil of, 553, 6
=Efforts=, condition of success of, 10, 14;
limit to, 527, 35;
worthless, impress of, 555, 34
=Eggs=, the two, eaten at breakfast, 291, 48
=Ego=, merging one's, 210, 43;
the central, 462, 17
=Egoism=, importance of getting rid of, 152, 1
=Egoist=, life of an, 439, 2
=Egotism=, hateful, 234, 16;
how to bring down our, 475, 29
=Egotists=, a social pest, 447, 33
=Elect=, the, and the non-elect, 424, 42
=Election=, unconditional, 398, 16
=Elections=, advice regarding, 2, 23
=Elevates=, what, an advantage, 541, 6
=Elevation=, our, what contributes to, 540, 34
=Elevations=, temperature of, 434, 35
=Elizabeth=, Queen, Essex on, 135, 32
=Elizabeth='s, Queen, last words, 10, 6
=Eloquence=, and study of Bible, 303, 31;
at county conventions, 394, 29;
compared with discretion, 69, 10;
compared with insight, 162, 10;
continued, a bore, 49, 29;
dependent on heart, 433, 45;
described, 368, 1;
high-tide of, in Rome, 322, 37;
no feigning, 347, 32;
the source of, 344, 22;
triumphs of, 186, 19;
true, characterised, 499, 46, 47
=Eloquent= man, the, Cicero on, 143, 19
=Elsewhere= as here, 87, 34
=Emancipation=, no art, 218, 20;
not masterlessness, 155, 30;
without self-government, 94, 50
=Eminence=, effects of, on character, 16, 49;
the price of, 38, 4
=Emotion=, moments full of, 467, 19;
presupposed in reason and justice, 408, 38;
propagation of, from writer to reader, 297, 17;
the outlet of, 3, 49
=Emotions=, contrasted with thoughts, 457, 39;
pleasing, not to be recalled, 485, 19
=Emperor= to die at his post, 56, 32
=Empire=, course of, 533, 18;
extended, cost of, 97, 56;
extension of, 387, 22
=Empires=, the fall of, 89, 9
=Employment=, a necessity, 15, 35;
dependence of mental, on bodily, 106, 18;
parent of cheerfulness, 40, 49
=Empty= boxes, 1, 18
=Emulation=, effect of, 5, 8;
envy, 288, 47;
hath a thousand sons, 109, 29
=Encouragement=, better than correction, 48, 20;
the power of, 195, 12;
the voice of, amid contradiction, blessed, 30, 54
=End=, important, two ways to attain, 469, 3;
man's destined, and way, 372, 27;
pre-existent in the means, 37, 12;
sanctifies means, 50, 46;
the, crowns all, 425, 7;
the, crowns us, 46, 31;
to be always considered, 83, 47;
to be always kept in view, 541, 32;
to be known before way, 425, 14;
to be thought of from the beginning, 186, 24
=Endeavour=, honest, to be encouraged, 211, 51;
and pleasure, effects of, 349, 42
=Endeavours=, too high, vanity of, 142, 23
=Ending=, better than beginning, well, 130, 22
=Endowments=, first signs of, 133, 22;
personal, idolatry of, 276, 21
=Ends=, to be aimed at, 27, 25;
true, discernment of, 553, 25
=Endurance=, a source of strength, 125, 43;
commended, 539, 34;
from habit, 138, 10;
grandeur of, 312, 37;
patient, commended, 241, 20;
prolonged, effect of, 357, 59;
the first lesson to learn, 400, 19;
the power of, 364, 24, 38;
value of, 88, 6
=Endure= sooner than die, 235, 25
=Enemies=, belief that our, are also God's, 305, 18;
gaining, greater than vanquishing, 136, 44;
how to disarm, 244, 8;
how to regard one's, 467, 17;
how to treat, 400, 41;
if known, to be pitied, 175, 38;
make no, 260, 29;
men, by imitation, 566, 11;
none without, 304, 25;
secret, contrasted with open, 408, 52;
smallest, to be most dreaded, 83, 52;
who can love his, 552, 38
=Enemy=, a fleeing, a bridge of gold for, 14, 55;
appreciating the worth of, 298, 5;
deceiving, permissible, 199, 29;
man his own worst, 93, 19;
no action against, on private information, 334, 2;
no alliance with an, 304, 39;
no defiance of untried, 304, 41;
no, insignificant, 180, 21;
not to be despised, 62, 27;
not to be injuriously treated, 193, 55;
one, too many, 150, 28; 332, 11, 12;
opinion of, not to be despised, 296, 15;
our one, 445, 35;
the, to be met on the field, 407, 7;
to be fought outside the gate, 425, 15;
to have no, wretched, 280, 29;
way of flying, to be smoothed, 8, 2;
weakness of, our strength, 225, 13;
what it is to be an, 333, 12
=Energies=, how cramped, 337, 43
=Energy=, as possession, 142, 2;
basis of health, 153, 35;
dependence of, on misfortune, 136, 33;
first and only virtue, 272, 33;
in social service, not lost, 545, 3;
of which no heed is taken, 20, 21;
power of, 482, 17;
proper organ of the highest, 80, 41;
without knowledge, 12, 54
=England=, and France, the best thing between, 418, 4;
as one's country, 26, 55;
chief need of, 536, 1;
false trade of, 492, 25;
history of, a misnomer, 538, 17;
middle-aged women in, 186, 14;
our standpoint, 539, 4;
people of, enthusiastic, 447, 21;
people wanted in, 527, 14;
secure, if true to herself, 44, 50
=England's= safety, 243, 23
=English=, amusing themselves, 238, 1;
and Americans, 427, 44;
and French contrasted, 222, 21;
at their amusements, 182, 21;
Emerson on, 335, 8;
Mme. de Staël on, 359, 5;
nation, a trick of, 208, 26;
style, how to attain, 553, 31;
the, bravery and honour of, 425, 16;
the, Goldsmith on, 409, 39;
the, Napoleon of, 507, 1;
the, their two grand tasks, 503, 37;
the, Voltaire on, 362, 34;
when free, 234, 25;
well of, undefiled, 52, 51
=Englishman=, a true-born, 549, 8;
pluck of, 537, 43
=Englishmen=, for friends, 169, 20;
freedom a necessity for, 526, 29
=Enigmas=, wise men's partiality for, 199, 20
=Enjoying= and hoarding, 539, 45
=Enjoyment=, and Christianity, 420, 19;
and endurance, rules for, 120, 7;
and usefulness 360, 6;
highest, dependent on education, 77, 5;
how secured, 81, 43;
in want, 182, 32;
no help in, 519, 25;
our best, 523, 40;
rule for, 82, 57;
unrestrained, evil of, 553, 6
=Enlistment= for labour commended, 273, 39
=Enmities=, for time, 284, 1
=Enmity=, death, 488, 6;
man's, 193, 15;
not to be provoked, 383, 20
=Ennui=, a good condiment, 229, 36;
born of uniformity, 222, 41;
mark of manhood, 28, 45;
the brother of repose, 234, 42;
the effect of, 407, 34;
those who suffer from, 460, 7
=Enough=, and too much, 20, 22; 524, 10;
better than too much, 11, 10;
evil in more than, 92, 47;
excels a sackful, 121, 41;
misfortunes not withstanding, 190, 1;
more than, an anxiety, 146, 31;
never a small quantity, 38, 14;
where there is 20, 32;
who has, 553, 7
=Enslavement=, how to escape, 177, 46
=Enterprise=, in the young, 331, 12;
man of, aim of, 24, 26
=Enterprises=, great, wrecked by trifles, 78, 21;
how to carry on, 36, 28;
indiscreetly urged, 328, 13
=Entertainment=, ability to give or receive, 306, 11
=Enthusiasm=, as test of a man, 490, 6;
higher, of man not extinct, 434, 32;
how generated, 21, 47;
our love in our, 338, 31;
political effects of, 450, 5;
the enemy of, 376, 38;
vulgar, 299, 25
=Enthusiast=, better than timid thinker, 421, 21;
effect of opposition on, 335, 52;
the wild, zeal of, 307, 44
=Envied=, the, 425, 22;
the, rather to be pitied, 383, 36;
the, when dead, 97, 58
=Envious= man, the, 425, 23
=Environment=, enslaving power of, 522, 24;
importance of, 75, 1;
the tyranny of, 11, 57
=Envy=, a kind of praise, 108, 57;
a step from, to love, 141, 19;
a gnawing moth, 215, 31;
Burns on, 340, 17;
characteristic of, 34, 32;
distinct from emulation, 81, 50;
honour's foe, 160, 42;
human, 294, 35;
ignorance, 470, 37;
its malevolence, 25, 57;
passive disgust, 141, 19;
rather than pity, 181, 6; 246, 13;
sayings about, 196, 16-22;
singularity of, 311, 33;
the aims of, 406, 32;
the envious contrasted with, 238, 13;
the last stage of perversion, 438, 8;
the life-time of, 342, 22;
to be lived down, 389, 34;
tooth of, against the solid, 114, 6;
when harmless, 59, 5
=Epic=, future, of world, on whom it depends, 429, 39;
our, now and henceforth, 449, 40;
true, of our times, 458, 39
=Epicurean= maxim, 158, 18
=Epicurism= of reason, 378, 41
=Epigram=, should be like a bee, 327, 46;
the power of, 14, 57
=Epoch=, a glorious, which few reach, 284, 20;
an, most significant feature of, 444, 6;
great determining element in, 186, 34;
great, mark of, 211, 46;
our, dominant drift of, 491, 32;
the present, 331, 9
=Equality=, as bond of love, 124, 9;
among men, a figment, 274, 1;
condition of, 554, 9;
establishment of, by law, 226, 8;
holy law of humanity, 124, 10;
not true, 394, 52;
the condition of, 147, 23;
unknown to nature, 292, 5
=Equanimity=, happiness of, 140, 20
=Equity=, sundered from law, 231, 28;
to be respected, 188, 38
=Equivocation and evasion=, 89, 13
=Era=, a new, advent of, unannounced, 337, 26;
the present, 521, 9
=Eras= worthy of study, 264, 1
=Err=, to, human, 163, 42
=Erring=, Cicero on kindness to, 159, 22
=Error=, a mistake of judgment, 220, 17;
a way back from, 23, 47;
an old and new, 315, 20;
an old, mischief of, 489, 23;
and ignorance, 178, 14;
confessing, no disgrace, 58, 36; 304, 40;
consolation from, 421, 30;
containing some truth, dangerous, 14, 59;
contrary forms of, 182, 10;
dependence of glory on, 390, 25;
easier to recognise than truth, 203, 13;
freeing from, 492, 33;
from selfishness, 275, 6;
happiness of hoping to escape from, 320, 29;
human, misery of, Tennyson on, 321, 39;
in youth and in age, 60, 21;
insignificance of throttling one, 217, 14; 550, 19;
matter of endless talk, 324, 46;
natural to us, 501, 28;
not always harmful, 381, 51;
not every, folly, 310, 20;
of opinion, 85, 6;
old, evil effect of, 79, 3;
our great, 431, 17;
our love for, 420, 14;
our portion, 319, 13;
perennial, 197, 1;
perseverance in, folly, 51, 1;
prior to truth, 184, 37;
protestation against, its importance, 12, 40;
so long as one strives, 85, 40;
strengthening power of an, 268, 2;
the fate of, 501, 27;
the only, 319, 12;
to persevere in, folly, 159, 2;
treatment of, as sign of wise or fool, 54, 30;
utility of, 531, 44;
where freedom, 560, 13;
with a master, 280, 51
=Errors=, deliverance from, hard, 265, 16;
effect of diversion on, 468, 32;
ever renewed, 75, 11;
not to be built, 175, 33;
of a great mind, 425, 25;
of a wise man, 425, 26, 27;
our, dear to us, 114, 39
=Errs=, who, in tens, errs in thousands, 41, 19;
who never, 417, 46
=Eruptions=, superficial, when the heart is threatened, 304, 35
=Establish= one's self, how to, 354, 3
=Establishments=, old, when to abolish, 546, 1
=Estate=, one's, while in debt, 481, 11;
the third, 360, 38
=Estates=, how often spent, 268, 57
=Esteem=, and love, never sold, 214, 14;
commended, 243, 47;
often from ignorance, 181, 13;
our desert of, 522, 9;
without love, 19, 52
=Eternal=, in man's soul, 262, 28;
no hastening births of, 236, 59;
presence of, in time, 449, 7;
the, no simulacrum, 426, 6
=Eternities=, masquerade of the, 457, 47
=Eternity=, and time, 486, 47; 487, 2, 10;
depending on time, 126, 10;
effect of hope of, 302, 41;
feeling in man of, 186, 38;
in time, 495, 28;
looking through time, 55, 44;
manifest in time, 265, 2;
the spot in, ours, 426, 8;
unsurveyable, 297, 20;
vision of, indispensable, 150, 41;
youth, 466, 3
=Ethics=, right, the nature of, 377, 13
=Ethiopian=, the, and his skin, 35, 25
=Eulogy=, the assumption in, 12, 39
=Euphemy= contrasted with blasphemy, 30, 41
=Europe=, bewildered, the goal of, 313, 22;
fifty years of, 29, 22;
the glory of, gone, 415, 38
=Evangel=, our ultimate political, 440, 37
=Evangelicals=, Carlyle on, 443, 42
=Evening=, and its day, 520, 9;
as an emblem, 89, 26;
hushed to grace harmony, 162, 36
=Event=, great, for world, 431, 18;
out of our power, 34, 20;
to be mastered at the time, 90, 44
=Events=, all, of importance, 94, 46;
all part of a divine plan, 94, 45;
coming, foreshadowed, 44, 56;
fitfulness of, 252, 11;
gravest, noiselessness of, 431, 8;
greatest, of an age, 432, 9;
in life, their connection not understood at first, 569, 23;
mighty, turn on a straw, 279, 15;
no being beyond power of, 565, 16;
our relation to, 522, 4;
source of, 472, 32;
tutors, 434, 14
=Everything=, importance of attempting, 439, 10
=Everywhere=, nowhere, 222, 8
=Evidence=, one's own, not enough, 303, 37;
to be weighed, 352, 21
=Evidences= like weights, 437, 21
=Evil=, a source of good, 401, 35;
absolute, unknown to us, 317, 11;
all, as a nightmare, 9, 25;
all, at bottom good, 10, 7;
all, within, 475, 16;
anticipation of, 222, 32;
as well as good from God, 388, 22;
at its strongest, 26, 61;
better in youth, 200, 31;
beginning of every, 188, 30;
by thinking of it, 6, 4;
deed, curse of, 482, 2;
defined, 95, 35;
doing, for good, 150, 3;
effect of concealment on, 8, 50;
from God, 197, 27;
from thoughtlessness, 33, 6;
greatest, for a man, 35, 44;
he that doeth, 93, 33;
how to avoid, 461, 25;
how to overcome, 33, 47; 240, 16;
how to scare away, 24, 47;
inability to bear, 519, 36;
knowing and speaking, 493, 30;
latent in heart, 471, 25;
most common source of, 444, 5;
none all, 311, 8;
necessary for good, 401, 46;
no absolute, 472, 34;
no, felt till it comes, 301, 42;
no, without compensation, 301, 43;
not constant, 86, 13;
not doing, and not intending, 491, 43;
not struck at the root, 468, 23;
not to be traced, but extinguished, 547, 22;
how to overcome, 113, 6;
of the day, enough, 406, 16;
one, St. Paul of, 521, 45;
only hiding of, 473, 11;
overcoming, two ways of, 494, 44;
patiently borne, 301, 41;
reaction of, on self, 80, 33;
report, how to treat, 172, 13;
resisted, a benefit, 90, 45;
sense of filthiness of, a foil, 152, 15;
speaking, defence against, 171, 38; 172, 1;
that goeth out of one, 426, 12;
that men do, 426, 13;
the beginning of, 69, 29;
the root of, 170, 40;
theories of, helpless against evil, 62, 41;
thing, judgment of, often delayed, 214, 17;
things, goodness in, 476, 33;
to be overcome, 28, 14;
to be simply borne, 541, 31;
to come, better unknown, 38, 30;
wishing no, merit of, 298, 15
=Evils=, easily crushed at the birth, 327, 48;
extreme, alike, 9, 26;
great and little, effect on one of, 133, 24;
great and small, how to oppose, 492, 49;
great, impotence to overcome, 175, 15, 44;
guards against, 409, 16;
how to shield one's self from, 300, 21;
imaginary, 96, 23;
imaginary, how made real, 182, 36;
imaginary _versus_ real, 243, 41;
man's fear of, 206, 45;
neglect of small, 111, 38;
not imaginary, 10, 13;
origin of, 261, 4;
our, source of all, 201, 50;
real and possible, compared, 325, 11;
shunned, fallen into, 104, 40;
silently bearing, 523, 24;
which of two, to choose, 547, 2;
which we feel, 330, 28
=Evil-disposed=, the, 482, 49
=Evil-doer= and the light, 146, 5
=Evil-doers=, fear of, 532, 2
=Evil-speaker= compared with evil-doer, 261, 17
=Evil-speaking=, evil of, 553, 15
=Evil-wishing=, evil of, 553, 15
=Evolution=, only worthy of regard, 445, 44
=Exaggeration=, common, 473, 37;
weakening effect of, 329, 14
=Exalted=, station, ornament to merit, 222, 36;
who shall be, 146, 57
=Example=, and precept, 252, 43;
force of, 171, 36;
noble, force of, 78, 44;
potency of, 96, 49;
the effect of, 276, 43;
the power of, 375, 6;
value of, 158, 43
=Examples=, good, power of, 129, 27, 28;
perfect, evil effect of, 89, 28
=Excel=, daring to, 301, 29
=Excellence=, source of, 92, 23;
the appreciation of, value of, 297, 37;
to be studied, 338, 35;
uniformity of, tiresome, 507, 94;
what we must risk to attain, 489, 32;
world's treatment of, 464, 31
=Excellences=, deep hidden, 40, 33
=Excellency=, witness of, 207, 7
=Excellent=, persons, tortures of, 383, 31;
the, difficult, 39, 37;
the, how to treat, 536, 9;
the, rare and rarely valued, 426, 18;
the, unfathomable, 55, 2;
things rare, 328, 23
=Exception=, and rule, 96, 26;
going by the, 199, 39
=Exceptions=, according to order, 291, 6
=Excess=, a tendency of Nature, 94, 41;
every, a vice in end, 327, 49;
no, 170, 14; 271, 51;
nothing in, 242, 29;
of good, dangerous, 153, 38;
the evil of, 350, 10;
unstable, 94, 43
=Exchange=, as a means of life, 275, 3
=Excitement= contrasted with enthusiasm, 83, 38
=Excitements=, great, effect of, 426, 10
=Exercise=, benefit of, 90, 48;
bodily, St, Paul's estimate of, 31, 10;
defined by Johnson, 228, 34;
rules for, 6, 14
=Exigencies=, the science of, 97, 24
=Exile=, everywhere, 566, 4;
friendly face to, 496, 6;
no exile from self, 535, 6
=Existence=, a distracted, waste of, 569, 25;
a mystery to the greatest genius, 306, 41;
all earthly, a vapour, 368, 36;
contrasted with life, 487, 16;
disappointed, worse than none, 208, 39;
first delight of, 494, 43;
laws of, our knowledge of, 207, 22;
man's, secret of, 452, 47;
our, passed into words, 339, 38;
our, purpose of, 521, 26;
perfection of, 345, 47;
principle and end of, 521, 2;
source and destiny of all, 554, 31;
the healthy tenure of, 199, 4;
the only explanation of, 437, 14
=Existent=, the, its importance, 457, 21
=Expectation=, a retarding weight, 559, 10;
and uncertainty, as joys, 506, 1;
as regulated by desire, 173, 6;
effect of, on a blessing, 488, 10;
of good, effect on us of, 559, 5
=Expectations=, and non-preparedness, 523, 44;
extravagant, vain, 176, 1
=Expecting= nothing, blessedness of, 30, 51
=Expense=, our, the root of, 337, 45
=Expenses=, petty, effect of, on purse, 205, 32
=Expensiveness=, our, 340, 4
=Experience=, a light to truth, 467, 15;
a teacher, 78, 34;
and ability, possible effect of, 383, 37;
as a teacher, 220, 21;
as an educator, 323, 37;
as inducing fear, 97, 46;
authority of, 84, 30;
bitter, 34, 19;
bitter, advantage of, 532, 28;
by indulgence in passion, 144, 20;
contrasted with theory, 466, 20;
incommunicable, 63, 26;
its limited extent, 496, 17;
knowledge of, 114, 34;
like stern-lights of ship, 494, 35;
man's only school, 264, 34;
no antedating, 302, 55;
not equal to understanding, 269, 22;
one's own, and others', 75, 15;
others, no demand for, 308, 26;
our, of life, 337, 46;
painful, as a teacher, 81, 48;
perfect, 345, 48;
second-hand, 563, 22;
the fruit of life, 429, 31;
thrift in, 34, 5;
value of, 334, 22;
without thought, 529, 3
=Experiences=, common, instructive, 72, 45;
our chief, 337, 34
=Experiments=, subject of, 103, 26
=Exposition= of one another order of the day, 472, 1
=Expression=, clear, of difficult matters, 492, 19;
correct, the source of, 43, 56;
dependence of, on distinct thought, 284, 23;
how to attain facility of, 488, 40;
modest, virtue of, 281, 36;
purpose of nature, 462, 8;
test of thought, 253, 26;
varieties of, accounted for, 529, 11
=Expressiveness=, all, 478, 5
=Exquisite=, the, coy, 94, 47
=External= things, emancipation from power of, 559, 26
=Extracts=, necessity for, 444, 18
=Extraordinary=, the, how to treat, 536, 10;
only the, rebelled against, 265, 30;
to be looked at, 198, 3
=Extremes=, violent, temporary, 307, 38
=Extremity=, trier of spirits, 567, 34
=Eye=, a commanding, 15, 5;
a daring, 551, 28;
a steady good, 79, 9;
as an interpreter, 538, 4;
as an organ of speech, 534, 42;
by which one sees God, 426, 25;
first overcome, 186, 23;
importance of vision in, 417, 21;
interpreter of heart, 214, 11;
man's, not microscopic, 555, 7;
one, better than two, 269, 40;
only in forehead, 488, 38;
seeing, of the first times, 434, 30;
single, to be venerated, 18, 48;
soul in the, 416, 10;
the power of, 57, 26;
the, sayings about, 426, 26-42;
the, under distraction, 43, 16;
to be single, 439, 12;
to negotiate for itself, 240, 34;
versus ear, as vehicle of knowledge, 385, 21;
where love, 72, 34
=Eyes=, affected by our heart, 337, 47;
and the belly, 63, 52;
and ears, as witnesses, 63, 51;
and what they indicate, 7, 13;
effect of shutting, 205, 47;
homes of silent prayer, 154, 48;
how guarded from error, 300, 1;
importance of using, 202, 4;
more trusted than ears, 276, 43;
more trustworthy than ears, 324, 2;
never satisfied, 154, 36;
one man's, spectacles to another, 332, 57;
our, exorbitant, 524, 44;
our, misuse of, 521, 24;
posted as sentinels, 324, 1;
rather than ears, 158, 43;
speaking and betraying power of, 541, 12;
the feast of, 264, 35;
to be cared for, 409, 33;
to see withal, 520, 23;
to look right on, 243, 9;
weak, weakness of, 530, 12;
weakness of most, 325, 13;
without looking, 126, 5
=Eye-witness=, and hearsay, 350, 13;
one, value of, 332, 14
F
=Fable=, Love's world, 64, 13
=Face=, a handsome, 112, 36;
and the mind, 426, 43, 44;
as revealing the heart, 190, 33;
expression of, contrasted with tongue, 458, 10;
full impression of, 205, 11;
God hath given you one, 126, 11;
like a benediction, 142, 36;
not deceptive, 204, 21;
the index of age, 98, 42;
the, of labour, Carlyle on, 512, 10;
two sides of, 302, 33
=Faces=, expressive, 466, 38;
that most charm us, 482, 29;
variety in, 206, 3
=Facility=, how to acquire, 539, 31
=Fact=, and speech, gulf between, 401, 1;
goodman, plain-spoken, 130, 39;
not law, 5, 27;
significance of a, 5, 25, 26; 287, 46;
stranger than fiction, 99, 9;
the question for jury, 4, 50;
the importance of, 457, 21
=Faction=, effect of, 381, 31
=Factor=, rule of, and minister compared, 140, 31
=Facts=, all enfolded in first man, 264, 22;
and the truth of reason, 421, 32;
beadrolls of, insignificance of, 556, 33;
dissipated by time, 486, 35;
downright, our need of, 529, 36;
modelled by the man, 51, 48;
plainest, men blind to, 161, 8;
stubborn things, 33, 7;
the emphasis of, 425, 4;
the great, 431, 19
=Faculties=, a delight to exercise, 313, 1;
man's, no inventory of, 475, 8;
our, and their exercise, 521, 16;
our, their last perfection, 438, 7;
the soul's, a misnomer, 413, 5
=Faculty=, indispensability of, 105, 51;
not to be forced, 293, 6;
the logical, 313, 6;
the imaginative, 313, 6
=Fail=, no such word as, to youth, 190, 48
=Failing= at all, 492, 20
=Failings=, how regarded by heaven, 474, 5;
lean'd to virtue's side, 156, 51
=Failure=, a chief cause of, 105, 22;
as a teacher, 525, 15;
bright side of, 252, 48;
fruit of, 104, 14;
in a great object, 472, 38;
sure road to, 456, 29;
the only, to fear, 446, 1;
the parents of, 193, 9
=Failures=, a cause of, 386, 2;
a lesson to us, 329, 17;
how to regard, 373, 8;
no, where no efforts, 144, 50;
not to daunt us, 206, 20;
often successes, 526, 21
=Fair= day's wages, a, Carlyle on, 5, 28
=Faith=, a great, 285, 27;
a lively, wages of, 506, 33;
all in all of, 415, 50;
alternation of periods of,
with denial, 187, 49; 447, 28;
an audacious, 530, 6;
and doubt contrasted as to their origin, 233, 25;
and hope, differences about, 186, 49;
and knowledge, difference between, 186, 50;
approved, reward of, 105, 58;
as fashion, 149, 29;
commended, 243, 32, 33;
demand of love, 353, 53;
desire of, faith enough, 176, 34;
disowned when questioned, 242, 8;
essence of, 425, 38;
essence of all, 427, 6;
fanatic, and falsehood, 99, 62;
in an omnipresent God, denial or mere lip-assertion of, 427, 6;
in days of sorrow, 523, 43;
in whom alone, 104, 3;
knowledge in, 383, 10;
lesson of, 462, 6;
loss of, 146, 33;
narrow, power of, 14, 26;
necessary to faithful doing, 152, 41;
once lost irreparable, 172, 8;
only, that wears well, 446, 2;
orthodox, defined, 60, 4;
our slavery from want of, 485, 39;
plain and simple, 467, 37;
power of, 111, 26; 114, 3; 185, 52; 279, 32; 448, 37; 492, 34; 558, 26;
principal part of, 449, 24;
proper power of, 449, 41;
resting on authority, 427, 8;
right, if life right, 110, 23;
right, defined, 474, 15;
sister of justice, 216, 39;
steps of, 455, 12;
strengthened by knowledge, 504, 23;
the great trial to, 384, 26;
the one thing needful, 110, 17;
the only sure foundation, 9, 1;
the power of, 200, 44; 312, 23; 319, 11;
the proper object of, 240, 14;
the root of, 340, 15;
want of, 110, 17; 507, 11; 558, 26;
want, at present, 423, 44;
wilful, confirmed by absurdity, 544, 37;
with centre everywhere, 554, 4;
wonder essential to, 560, 4;
Voltaire's definition of, 481, 40
=Faithful=, in little, 147, 8;
sure of reward, 105, 46
=Faithfulness=, commended, 28, 48
=Faithless= among the faithful, 100, 27
=Faiths=, in all, something true, 184, 31
=Fallen=, the, succouring, 371, 14
=Falls=, some, means to rise, 398, 7
=False=, in one thing, 101, 2;
knowledge of, a truth, 221, 18;
men, mischief done by, 312, 46;
the, evil influence of, 2, 49
=Falsehood=, a salve, 181, 9;
after falsehood, 100, 30;
adhesiveness of, 226, 12;
as weakness, 443, 31;
at touch of celestial temper, 301, 49;
evil of, 502, 6;
goodly outside of, 322, 31;
how regarded, 223, 21;
in kings, 494, 3;
man fire to, 92, 30;
obstacle to happiness, 56, 27;
path of, 447, 8;
soothing, 181, 9;
the success of, 512, 5;
to be renounced, 501, 40
=Falsehoods=, that are not lies, 466, 39
=Falsities=, all, to be alike treated, 71, 34
=Falsity= of things, more seeming than real, 480, 33
=Fame=, a thin web, 174, 7;
common, rarely wrong, 45, 13;
complacency in, 312, 29;
course of, 514, 39;
exceptional, 323, 24;
how one earns, 330, 32;
in no hurry for, 172, 14;
insignificance of, 155, 31; 533, 44;
lessened by acquaintanceship, 280, 2;
law of, 439, 31;
lust of, and wise men, 440, 10;
modestly enjoyed, 28, 20;
obtained and deserved, 398, 36;
Pope on, 311, 49;
posthumous, a vain desire, 555, 3;
rage for, 538, 23;
the price of, 443, 32;
the struggle for, 97, 48;
thirst for, 260, 7;
true, like our shade, 499, 48
=Familiar=, by proxy, 311, 7
=Familiarity=, lowering effect of, 181, 28
=Families=, and their best members, 176, 4;
only two, 72, 3
=Family=, a happy, 140, 14;
bargaining in, over the pottage, 442, 43;
home of peace, 190, 35;
heroism in the, 432, 32;
in the bosom of one's, 336, 51;
Burns' prayer for a, 545, 17;
virtue, importance of, 427, 13
=Famine=, effect of, on heart, 530, 18;
evil of, 101, 31
=Fanaticism=, contempt of, 90, 9;
defined, 90, 9;
effect of, on a man, 407, 5
=Fancy=, charm of, 442, 7;
compared with reason, 369, 34; 526, 20;
contrasted with imagination, 183, 2;
exacting, 292, 13;
fantastical, 395, 1;
giving way to understanding, 431, 5;
how bred, 411, 40;
over reason, what, 10, 19;
sugar of life, 69, 9;
the tyranny of, 201, 36;
turned necessity, 539, 18;
_versus_ fancy, 522, 33;
without taste, 315, 41
=Fancying= in harmony with the fact, 369, 20
=Fantasies=, lightest, two meanings of, 503, 44
=Fantasy=, compared with understanding, 459, 33;
exorbitant demands of, 386, 46;
function of, 66, 5;
the age of, gone, 53, 25;
the power of, 266, 11;
the ripened fruit of, 387, 3
=Far-away= things, attractiveness of, 76, 11
=Farces=, seeming, tragedies, 268, 31
=Farewell=, hard to say, 555, 10;
Macpherson's, 317, 30
=Farewells= should be sudden, 244, 17
=Farthing=, a good, 31, 28
=Farthings=, valued, 480, 20
=Fashion=, a bad rule, 170, 23;
a maxim of, 88, 31;
a tyrant, 226, 13;
dominancy of, 526, 22;
effect of, 427, 14;
fool in, and one out of, 314, 19;
glass of, 322, 32;
imperious, 567, 1;
old and new, how regarded, 91, 1;
out of the, 19, 15;
power of, 385, 19; 440, 15;
tyranny of, 21, 16
=Fashions=, change of, a tax, 39, 45;
following the, 477, 10;
invented by fools, 108, 53
=Fastidious=, the, unfortunate, 238, 11
=Fastidiousness= to be avoided, 526, 27
=Fatalism,= faith of men of action in, 284, 10
=Fate=, all thralls of, 212, 21;
a mystery, 218, 12;
action of, on willing and unwilling, 73, 41;
and dreams of the past, 240, 47;
and the heart, 370, 24;
and the willing, 102, 47; 103, 3;
and the unwilling, 102, 47; 103, 3;
a pedagogue, 54, 25;
a, to be evaded, 217, 4;
best use of, 205, 50;
Cæsar's belief in, 34, 34;
certainty of, 111, 46;
cuffs of, on good and resolute man, 422, 22;
how to conquer, 491, 5;
in drawing of heart, 62, 3;
irresistible, 478, 11;
master of his, cannot complain, 60, 25;
most wretched, 415, 20;
not to be interrogated, 503, 1;
no evading, 308, 32;
no striving against, 264, 33;
our, what we make it,231, 8;
ordinations of, 517, 17;
our, how to overcome, 366, 12;
overloading of, 440, 16;
quarrelling with one's, 554, 37;
responsibility of, 33, 34;
scale of, lightest in, 550, 6;
shunned, embraced, 74, 8;
stars of, in the breast, 191, 44;
the book of, hidden all but a page, 154, 2;
the sorrowfulest, 454, 17;
to be submitted to, 535, 7;
under temptation, 412, 8;
undue respect to, 483, 9;
what we may make of, 523, 18
=Fated=, the, and the feared, 54, 37
=Fates=, our, like rivers in their rise, 33, 19;
the, work of, 427, 22
=Father=, banker provided by nature, 505, 31;
a, deceiving, 363, 43;
affection of, for daughter, 38, 29;
a, function of, in a family, 174, 27;
and his house, scorning, 494, 19;
and son, respect of, mutual, 148, 50;
and mother, indebtedness to, 65, 34; 66, 1;
a priest, 252, 46;
duty of, in training son, 158, 10;
when old and daughter, 489, 21;
words of, to his children, 463, 47
=Fatherland=, before life, 86, 6
=Fathers=, our, objects of pity, 186, 30;
our, to be as good as, 490, 8
=Fatigue=, most wearisome, 472, 36;
the best nightcap, 138, 10
=Fault=, a, denied, 506, 37;
a, virtue out of, 332, 2;
avoiding one, and rushing into another, 117, 8;
condemned ere committed, 46, 10;
every, at first monstrous, 93, 13;
excusing of a, 14, 49;
in every, folly, 186, 33;
man's grand, 266, 32;
which needs a lie, 314, 4
=Fault-finders=, nothing safe from, 315, 39
=Fault-finding=, not always safe, 508, 36;
of fools, 409, 2, 3;
our, 521, 11;
to be avoided, 283, 38;
without mending, 268, 58
=Faultless=, nothing, 553, 29
=Faults=, advantage from, 204, 17;
allied to excellences, 468, 13;
as taints of liberty, 32, 26;
committing and permitting, 428, 17;
confessed, half mended, 46, 16;
deception as regards our, 550, 23;
difficult to weed out, 398, 8;
effect of a call to give up, 344, 55;
Goethe on, 205, 20;
greatest of, 432, 30;
hard to cure, 523, 25;
how corrected, 34, 9;
in honest and dishonest, 69, 21;
lie gently on him, 395, 15;
men moulded out of, 28, 36;
mended, not to be referred to, 276, 30;
nature of, 9, 27;
none exempt from, 92, 2;
of bad and of good men, 25, 43;
of others and our own, 8, 21, 22;
of others, instructiveness of, 98, 16;
often corrected by chance, 39, 38;
of the player and the man, 10, 41;
one's own, best known, 169, 9;
one's own, easily pardoned, 101, 32;
others' zeal in amending, 315, 15;
our, not to discourage, 296, 41;
our own, and our neighbour's, 91, 53;
our relation to, as our own or others, 529, 16;
pleasure in others', 390, 26;
seeing only others', 50, 12;
seeking only for, 480, 17;
that kill us, 206, 22;
that look handsome, 322, 35;
to be thankful for, 93, 10
=Faust=, in a dilemma, 169, 41;
Goethe's, without fruit, 314, 34
=Favour=, a, against one's will, 28, 2;
a, what it consists in, 5, 32;
a, when to ask, 296, 3;
asking for, 149, 31;
how to confer a, 529, 4
=Favours=, injudiciously conferred, 27, 56, 57;
from the great, 116, 5;
refusing, 341, 46, 47
=Fear=, a bad preserver, 261, 39;
a, daily surmounting, value of, 142, 45;
an inventor, 227, 4;
and reverence contrasted, 492, 21;
desponding, effect of, 62, 30;
early and provident, 75, 31;
effect of, 121, 55; 492, 22;
effect of, on speech, 81, 46;
getting rid of, a first duty, 428, 14;
how bred, 387, 54;
incompatible with love, 255, 1;
incompatible with wisdom, 504, 38;
inconsistent with love, 146, 13;
of the Lord, 427, 26-29;
perpetual, evil of, 272, 46;
persuasive power of, 180, 33;
sign of low birth, 57, 15;
slavery to, 302, 18;
stages of, 457, 48;
cold, that freezes, 102, 20;
those who dwell in, 483, 7;
to be suppressed, 160, 22;
unknown to Germans, 14, 21;
unlimited, 70, 47;
unreasonableness of, 537, 15;
who has no, 264, 6
=Feared= by many, fearing many, 294, 7
=Fearless= man, a, 532, 32;
the, 150, 19
=Fears=, our effects of, 545, 1
=Feast=, constituents of a, 394, 19;
what constitutes, 206, 4
=Feasts=, by whom made and by whom eaten, 108, 56
=Feather=, incapable of momentum, 455, 37
=Feeble=, in work unhelpful, 305, 7;
the, to be supported, 488, 24
=Feeling=, an unpleasant, a warning, 95, 5;
and thought, 484, 42;
as opposed to thinking, 8, 58;
by whom induced, 33, 26;
compared with seeing, 384, 41;
delicacy of, 11, 8;
how to awaken, 483, 23; 401, 47;
importance of, 119, 26;
in reality keener than in song, 268, 38;
man of, fate of, 427, 19;
not attained by hunting for it, 531, 47;
not man's end, 266, 18;
one's, to be trusted, 184, 45;
power of, 264, 30;
strong, tendency of, 404, 5;
the analogy of, 44, 30
=Feelings=, at meeting and farewell, 338, 1;
by which we live, 525, 20, 21;
duration of, 497, 32;
fine, without vigour of reason, 106, 27;
fineness of, not given to every one, 217, 7;
great, like instincts, 135, 20;
our most exalted, 338, 37;
the, hid in man, 539, 16
=Feet=, her, beneath her petticoat, 155, 1
=Feigned=, the, never lasting, 315, 7
=Felicity=, from self alone, 162, 30;
greatest, 432, 11;
or infelicity, a man's, how to know, 544, 3;
in the soul, 163, 19
=Fell=, Dr., I do not love thee, 165, 47
=Fellow=, a lucky, 36, 40
=Fellow-feeling=, effect of, 5, 33
=Fellowship=, a, to cultivate, 542, 3;
founded on truth, 150, 24;
the end of existence, 312, 30
=Fetters=, a burden, 304, 29;
when one wishes to be in, 544, 44
=Feud=, an old, easily renewed, 47, 27
=Fibres=, tension of all, 427, 36
=Fiction=, compared with truth, 501, 48;
contrasted with fact, 369, 19, 20;
inferior to fact, 99, 12;
more potent than fact, 338, 2
=Fictions=, to resemble truth, 105, 31
=Fiddlestick=, the power of, 539, 8
=Fidelity=, among rebels, 370, 11;
but a name, 308, 45;
compared with justice, 569, 40;
contrasted with love, 246, 11;
gone, 67, 5;
importance of, 501, 25;
in small things, 3, 25;
to be practised, 504, 15
=Field=, a large, to ear, 166, 43
=Fields=, and cities, 70, 5;
holy, over whose acres, 158, 26;
where joy for ever dwells, 102, 21
=Fiends=, absolute, 2, 18
=Fight=, no, no victory, 174, 43;
to, and die, 492, 24;
to, with stronger, no obligation to, 473, 38
=Fighting=, an affair of the heart, 313, 10;
and being beaten, compared, 173, 10;
does not feed men, 294, 44
=Fights=, that, and runs away, 109, 51; 146, 14
=Figure=, a pleasing, value of, 16, 40
=Finding=, not the possession, sweet, 298, 1
=Fine Art=, as defined by Ruskin, 106, 23
=Fine=, characteristic of everything, 427, 39, 40;
thing, expense of buying, 547, 12
=Finesse=, a great step in, 198, 41;
hovers between virtue and vice, 225, 21;
recourse to, mark of incapacity, 227, 18
=Finger-posts=, authentic, few, 377, 41
=Finished-off=, man, no satisfying, 531, 17;
_versus_ becoming, 281, 5
=Finite=, and infinite, respective conditions of, 205, 26;
let alone infinite, too much for man, 262, 21;
shadows forth infinite, 261, 45
=Fire=, a mighty, to quickly kindle, 482, 48;
a neglected, 294, 30;
a slow, 19, 53;
and wind, 484, 19;
its power, 27, 12;
little, to be trodden out, 8, 42;
matter for the, 541, 3;
no extinguisher, 179, 33;
sayings about, 427, 46, 47; 428, 1, 2;
slumbering in ashes, 233, 27;
the only, worth gauge or measure, 264, 20;
who walks through, 552, 45;
wind-fed and wind-extinguished, 320, 1
=Fires=, violent, 157, 10
=Fireside=, my own, an Eden, 540, 20
=Firm=, legal, advantage of two attorneys in, 476, 34
=Firmament=, unseen support of, 311, 26
=Firmness=, and rashness, 543, 24;
with pliability, 179, 8
=Fitting=, the, right, 540, 6
=Flame= and smoke as passing into each other, 203, 10
=Flash=, not the thunder, 206, 13
=Flatterer=, and tyrant, compared, 465, 35;
at whose expense he lives, 498, 36;
Latin word for, 438, 10;
Steele on, 165, 25;
the greatest, 474, 26;
to be avoided, 324, 44
=Flatterers=, why so obnoxious, 450, 45
=Flattery=, a visor to villany, 307, 39;
and censure, 347, 22;
attractive, 23, 10;
benefit of, 421, 7;
easier than praise, 275, 10;
how harmful, 390, 27;
ill-manners, 315, 49;
inconsistent with love, 303, 35;
to cajole fools, 301, 52;
to fools and wise men, 487, 50;
what is wanting to be pleased with, 539, 37
=Flaws=, where they abound, 427, 39, 40
=Flesh= to be sacrificed to spirit, 440, 8
=Flock=, no, without one dead lamb, 472, 39
=Flogging= before better than afterwards, 200, 9
=Flower=, a, despising, as a weed, 538, 26;
and seed, relation of, 428, 49;
born to blush unseen, 117, 23;
of humanity, and the slime it springs from, 429, 18;
of sweetest smell, 429, 1;
petal of, and granite boulder, 191, 12;
mystery included in a, 251, 16;
tender, with head elate, 457, 8;
thoughts from a, 494, 27
=Flowers=, as symbols of nature, 44, 33;
as preachers, 568, 32;
contrasted with weeds, 408, 22;
fair, by the wayside, 382, 15;
the sweetest, our treatment of, 529, 39;
Wordsworth on, 127, 18
=Fluency=, often scarcity, 421, 13;
secret of, 538, 42
=Flunkeyism=, 271, 19
=Flush= of health and of death, 469, 33
=Flute=, a beginner on, 192, 31;
and lyre, with voice compared, 429, 3;
blowing on, not playing, 30, 40
=Fly=, not without spleen, 89, 15;
those that, 482, 45;
Uncle Toby to the, 125, 1; 482, 21
=Foe=, no, no friend, 144, 27;
service of, 412, 52
=Foes=, our greatest, within, 187, 14;
what they teach, 115, 13
=Folk=, old and young, compared, 213, 15
=Folks= that stand on their heads, 478, 3
=Follies=, in relation to wisdom, 92, 39;
committed out of complaisance, 165, 12;
greatest of, 432, 31;
our own and others, differently regarded, 529, 9;
reasoning us out of our, 483, 2
=Folly=, a characteristic of, 87, 25; 195, 31;
compared with wisdom, 557, 5;
disdainful of itself, 329, 5;
greatest and commonest, 494, 20;
how alone to conceal, 404, 29;
in every one, 212, 10;
learned at college, 211, 43;
sayings about, 429, 5, 6;
shoot, as it flies, 98, 20;
the short, best, 227, 12;
universal, 172, 15;
without remedy, 80, 34
=Fondness=, fostered by time, &c., sure, 406, 1
=Fontaine=, La, epitaph of, 211, 44
=Food=, though given, to be wrought for, 125, 39
=Fool=, a great, 179, 7;
a, how to win, 45, 1;
a learned, 505, 36;
a, mark of, 404, 34;
a, when silent, 89, 16;
a witty, and a foolish wit, 29, 7;
a thorough, 144, 34;
according to Wm. Blake, 153, 19;
and his hobby, 2, 60;
and his opinions, 359, 29;
and learning, 236, 34;
and wise, 10, 39;
and wise contrasted, 252, 10;
and wise, diverse conduct of, 538, 40;
as he grows richer, 443, 22;
as regards reason, 148, 53;
at forty, 30, 2;
conscious of his folly, 151, 4;
effect of praising, 355, 13, 14;
familiarity with a, 32, 59;
getting rid of a, 31, 45;
hard arguing with, 333, 23;
hard to discover, 208, 23;
his sorrows and fears, 466, 25;
in his devotions, 504, 8;
in his own house, knowledge of, 349, 7;
kind, the worst, 437, 28;
let me play the, 241, 34;
mark of, 333, 1;
may be knave, 164, 31;
never changes his mind, 180, 41;
no, without admirer, 505, 37;
of virtue, be, not of vice, 108, 36;
old and young, 239, 35;
once a, always, 363, 18;
rather than saddening experience, 166, 26;
the conceit of, 404, 27;
the, sayings about, 429, 7-11;
to self worse than being fooled, 563, 12;
truths of a, 425, 26;
without the stuff of success, 505, 35
=Foolish=, man, aversion of, to the wise, 108, 38;
ever, never wise, 151, 48;
once very, never wise, 150, 30
=Foolishest= man, no, without a knowledge all his own, 472, 40
=Foolishness=, the thought of, 457, 35
=Fools=, all, 9, 62; 482, 20; 498, 23;
behaviour to, characteristic of a man, 315, 13;
deliberate, the wisdom of, 322, 17;
favoured by fortune, 113, 19;
favourites of women and fortune, 124, 36;
gabble of, evil of, 420, 6;
dependence of knaves on, 174, 47;
in majority, 89, 49; 239, 27;
indispensable to wise men, 118, 14;
intelligible only to God, 66, 48;
learn by experience, 89, 40;
learned, 236, 10;
many, 404, 28;
necessary to wise men, 127, 38;
old, 398, 32;
our feelings towards, 343, 54;
rush in where angels fear to tread, 109, 39;
safety in number of, 444, 23;
sayings about, 5, 54-68; 6, 1, 2; 90, 50-52;
talk of, 238, 39;
taught by experience, 97, 34;
that boast, 399, 14;
their company saddening, 421, 15;
to be first won, 11, 41;
trade by the eye, 219, 50;
unpitied by heaven, 154, 14;
with wit insufferable, 108, 17
=Foot=, had music in't, 157, 17;
slip of, and of tongue, 81, 18
=Footway=, rule of, 452, 13
=Fop=, described, 6, 2;
Diogenes on a, 186, 18;
one, plague to another, 292, 8
=Forbidden=, the, man's hunger for, 506, 17;
the, striven after, 300, 35
=Force=, affects action, not will, 225, 23;
and right, power of, 201, 47;
brute, as social bond, 32, 49;
contrasted with opinion, 335, 38;
even in a righteous cause, 89, 25;
giant for weak, 212, 42;
man of, virtue in, 471, 3;
no honestly exerted, lost, 302, 29;
personal, 347, 1;
when legitimate, 228, 18;
with and without judgment, 516, 11
=Forebodings= of evil, 114, 36
=Foreign=, rule insecure, 8, 25;
the, not to be shunned, 264, 32
=Foresight= of what is to come paralysing, 421, 4
=Forest=, planting and uprooting, 509, 26
=Forethought=, value of, 221, 34;
favours brave, 113, 39;
manly, 216, 48
=Forfeited=, the, irrecoverable, 305, 21
=Forgetfulness= contrasted with memory, 273, 14, 25
=Forgetting=, expediency of, 88, 16
=Forgiven=, the, duty of, 5, 18
=Forgiveness=, a source of weakness and strength, 94, 57;
natural, 163, 41;
rule of, 513, 30;
too ready, 364, 23;
with God and Christ, 471, 28
=Forgiving=, and forgetting, Schopenhauer on, 492, 31;
Schiller on, 513, 31
=Forgotten= things insignificant, 325, 23
=Form=, mathematical, _versus_ living, 271, 2
=Forms=, our social, 339, 17;
their tendency to corrupt, 21, 17
=Formulas=, essential, 262, 4;
value to man of, 473, 31
=Forsaking= all, the profit of, 552, 9
=Fortitude=, as a virtue, 460, 42;
commended, 122, 45;
defined, 432, 27;
the root of, 340, 15;
true, defined, 499, 49;
value of, 471, 17
=Fortunate=, better than wise, 81, 13;
the always, 441, 14
=Fortune=, a better, to desire, 495, 51;
a broken, man of, 340, 27;
a fickle jade, 257, 45;
a goddess, man-made, 312, 4; 318, 30;
a great, 259, 13;
a great, making and keeping, 208, 10;
alternation of, with misfortune, 444, 7;
a man's best, 54, 5;
a man's, on his forehead, 414, 33;
a match for, 495, 3;
an expensive mistress, 353, 49;
and her gifts, 225, 26;
and her arrows, Dryden on, 240, 48;
and ruin, 269, 8;
and the prudent, 342, 23;
and wisdom, 557, 1;
a self-sufficing, 537, 32;
an unsuitable, 50, 49;
bad, may be changed to good, 455, 20;
bad, virtue for, 187, 15;
boast of, 473, 2;
choice of, 494, 37;
companion of valour, 516, 9;
dependent on the character, 39, 46;
diminished, how to behave under, 172, 17;
does not change nature, 245, 51;
effect of good and bad, 416, 44;
everywhere, 549, 29;
fatal lures of, 22, 34;
fatal obstructions to, 467, 33;
favoured of, at home, everywhere, 113, 32;
favourite of, 22, 48;
footsteps of, 257, 34;
frowns of, not to daunt, 242, 16;
frustrating power of, 38, 8;
Goethe on effect on him of good and bad, 154, 26;
good, 564, 5;
good, a cloak, 530, 8;
good, accompanied by good, 538, 7;
good and bad, a necessity, 224, 22;
good and bad, as elements of virtue, 136, 45;
good and bad, how to act in, 182, 34;
good, and good sense, 523, 28;
good, folly of not embracing, 143, 6;
good, from our endeavours, 129, 29;
good, hard to sustain, 527, 15;
good, mother of, 401, 20;
good or bad, to whom it falls, 232, 49;
good or bad, ill to determine, 523, 34;
good or bad, to what we ascribe, 520, 40;
good, our stomach for, 339, 23;
good, preferred to wisdom, 137, 42;
good, to the soldier, 350, 16;
good, to be seized, 158, 21;
good, virtue for, 187, 15;
her aim in her gifts, 172, 18;
how to behave under change of, 172, 16;
how to manage, 528, 36;
how to make, a friend, 177, 40;
how to overcome, 541, 9;
indifference to, 503, 17;
inequalities of, Burns' lament over, 253, 19;
large, misery of keeping, 280, 23;
loom of, and the webs, 439, 39;
making, mistress, 202, 54;
maligned, 207, 24;
man maker of his, 92, 17;
neither to elate nor depress, 390, 10;
not to be mistress, 296, 40;
not to be yielded to, 565, 4;
one's, in one's self, 75, 13;
one's, no fleeing from, 107, 37;
ounce of, value of, 279, 10;
ever with industry, 549, 27;
partiality of, 53, 42;
power of, 163, 25;
power of, by whom alone confessed, 448, 38;
power of, limited, 299, 2;
present and past compared, 240, 25;
question about, 450, 25;
reverse of, Horace in, 231, 6;
ruler of life, 201, 48;
smiling or frowning, 394, 36;
surest passports to, 115, 3;
the arbiter of, 157, 9;
the favoured of, 68, 29; 307, 10;
the goal of, attained, 541, 42;
unstable, 331, 13, 33;
vanity of seeking, 480, 9;
vicissitudes of, 225, 25; 514, 2;
visit of, 473, 25;
the, which nobody sees, 429, 17;
what the benefits of, require, 541, 18;
when she means most good, 543, 26;
with the fortunate, 185, 13;
without an enemy, 413, 18;
without fairness, 326, 30;
without prudence, 318, 30.
See =Fortuna=.
=Fortune's= fool, 164, 42
=Fortunes=, and husbands, 518, 48;
how made formerly and now, 112, 34;
large, sayings about, 230, 15, 16
=Forwards=, the great thing, 431, 41;
the word, 517, 33
=Fought= all his battles o'er again, 399, 37
=Fountain=, smallest, heaven in, 301, 54
=Fowls=, far-off, Burns on, 102, 14
=Fox=, and hedgehog, tricks of, 18, 31;
and his captor, 285, 27;
and his knavery, 59, 55;
and lion compared, 519, 6;
cunning of, 30, 14;
once caught, 505, 34;
one, more than enough, 79, 8;
sayings about, 429, 21, 22;
skin of, sewed to the lion's, 52, 14;
taken in by a fowl, 160, 4
=France=, in, nation not corporate, 226, 25;
in the van, 225, 28;
inconsistencies in, 498, 31;
indebtedness of, to Corneille, 498, 51;
monarchy in, 225, 27
=Francis I.= after his defeat at Pavia, 498, 32
=Franklin=, motto on bust of, 84, 36
=Frankness=, entire, permitted only to a few, 105, 10
=Fraud=, defined, 70, 48;
detected in a, distrusted, 365, 24;
first and worst, 428, 3;
in generalities, 70, 52;
to conceal, 114, 15
=Frederick the Great=, a king, 179, 25;
his indifference to criticism, 166, 14;
last words of, 226, 17;
social ideal of, 188, 7;
tired of ruling slaves, 169, 40;
two sides of his character, 5, 48
=Frederick William I.= of Prussia's boast, 170, 9;
in reference to his son, 156, 27
=Free=, country, life in, 184, 11;
creature, a perfectly, 472, 11;
man, according to Klopstock, 152, 29;
man, the, defined, 429, 24;
man, the only, 143, 48;
no man, not lord of himself, 298, 28;
not all, who mock their chains, 86, 35;
settled in heaven, 393, 30;
the, man, 366, 32;
to be, what it is, 490, 15;
who thinks himself, without being free, 298, 29;
who to be deemed, 304, 22;
who would be, 155, 21; 220, 7
=Freedom=, 265, 17;
abroad _versus_ slavery at home, 28, 29;
absolute, 2, 19;
and cultivation, 48, 45;
and peace, 481, 36;
but a name, 281, 16;
civil, home of, 549, 14;
conceded, 167, 36;
condition of, 554, 9; 556, 29;
dependence of, on knowledge, 220, 36;
dependent on law, 53, 38;
enough, 171, 17;
essential to existence, 114, 35;
from woman's bonds, 84, 34;
her quiet eye, 313, 31;
human, 61, 1, 2, 5;
in chains, 264, 31;
in bonds, 331, 44;
native to man, 172, 42;
no barriers to, 154, 30;
no, without justice, 182, 24;
often imaginary, 267, 14;
only in obedience, 96, 22;
on the mountains, 23, 9;
perfect, the condition of, 483, 32;
popular, Mephisto on, 54, 38;
real, condition of, 205, 28;
sayings about, 64, 16, 17;
spiritual, attainable by all, 245, 50;
the basis of, 335, 6;
the condition of, 267, 20; 306, 8;
the height of, 304, 13;
the measure of, 394, 51;
the only possible, 193, 11;
the only, worth the name, 446, 4;
the seat of, 67, 12;
the secret of, 190, 39;
true, in self-command, 90, 54;
when abused, 344, 46;
which we cannot use, 534, 13;
who deserves, 334, 52;
who has sufficient, 15, 16;
with despotism, 495, 14;
without self-command, 304, 6; 306, 8
=Freedom's= battle once begun, 109, 41
=Freemen=, corrupted, 48, 25
=Free-will=, necessity of, 265, 13;
source of slavery, 393, 34;
the function of, 95, 35
=French=, and English, contrasted, 222, 21;
Mme. de Staël on, 359, 5;
Revolution, first watchword of, 114, 12
=Frenzy=, effect of, compared with reason, 258, 44
=Fretting=, vanity of, 69, 2
=Friend=, a constant, 3, 26;
a, defined, 298, 41;
a desirable, 169, 22;
a faithful, Napoleon on, 5, 30;
a far-off, effect of tidings of, 423, 50;
a good, 6, 41;
a good, value of, 270, 48; 505, 16;
a, love for, 30, 29;
a necessity for a man, 171, 18;
a reconciled, 17, 43;
a reserved, danger of, 472, 2;
a stranger, not an estranged, 29, 2;
a, to all, 146, 61;
a true, 513, 20;
a, value of, 384, 30;
a virtuous, casting off, 491, 16;
a, with world shut out, 386, 20;
an agreeable, Horace's preference for, 299, 37;
an imprudent, dangerous, 376, 53;
an old, not easily lost, 187, 42;
and his faults, 13, 29;
as nettle, not echo, 29, 10;
admonition of, value of, 419, 21;
difficulty of helping, in trivial matters, 315, 46;
essential to happiness, 289, 5;
everybody's, nobody's, 222, 9;
faithful and just to me, 149, 24;
from enemy, 97, 8;
great service of, 432, 5;
having no need of, 143, 2;
how to approach, 243, 22;
how to keep a new, 70, 18;
how to live with, 252, 3;
how to treat, 486, 2;
ignorant, danger from, 315, 45;
man to spurn as, 169, 28;
mindfulness of, when happy, 490, 28;
mistaken zeal for, 145, 51;
no, without fault, 207, 25;
only way to have, 446, 26;
only if proved, 301, 55;
only, self, 78, 6;
rule for choice of, 57, 50; 80, 26;
rule in choosing a, 62, 4;
the candid, Canning's aversion to, 123, 17;
the service of a, 412, 52;
the, to trust, 499, 4;
the wounds of, 100, 26;
to be steadfast, 544, 41;
true, value of, 81, 21;
turned enemy, 398, 4;
want of true, misery of, 199, 3;
what most endears a, 314, 18;
who does not befriend, 149, 39;
who cannot bear foes, 149, 38;
who flatters and detracts, 405, 42;
who not needs, 157, 44;
without, no good enjoyable, 318, 22;
worth dying for, hard to find, 423, 35;
wronging, penalty of, 149, 10;
Zeno's definition of, 10, 12
=Friendly= relations, how to keep up, 334, 3
=Friends=, after wine-casks drained, 68, 4;
a hundred, not too many, 79, 8;
a necessity, 529, 35; 538, 13;
a thousand, not too many, 150, 28;
absent, in the memory, 442, 1;
among, or enemies, 381, 7;
and enemies, 242, 15;
and foes, space for, 14, 53;
and their characteristics, 6, 5-12, 41;
and their purses, 124, 12;
being without, 42, 29;
better than grateful dependants, 200, 29;
but a name, 308, 45;
by choice, 235, 16;
choice and change of, 28, 25;
community among, 45, 26;
created by transactions, 473, 36;
dead, a magnet to next world, 75, 6;
Emerson on his, 288, 7;
essential to enjoyment, 318, 22;
failings of, how to treat, 85, 36;
faithful, falling out of, 427, 11;
false, 100, 41, 42; 398, 11;
feeling at misfortune of, 53, 7;
good, man good, 566, 29;
grapple, to thy soul, 429, 28;
hard task to make, of all, 327, 55;
having many, 321, 35;
how to choose, 185, 29;
in adversity, 13, 28; 39, 1;
in distress, 514, 15;
in need, having, 143, 2;
indispensability of, 559, 33;
lightly cast off, 142, 15;
like fiddle-strings, 114, 30;
misfortunes of, not displeasing, 181, 25; 190, 12;
mutual property, 12, 60;
no true, his who fears to make a foe, 153, 14;
not four, in world, 210, 44;
not to be suspected, 179, 13;
old, 327, 14, 15; 361, 39;
old, best, 77, 47;
our, and our faults, 338, 4;
our estimate for, 96, 57;
preferable to wealth, 37, 54;
prudence of gaining, 202, 11;
real, the value of, 369, 12;
reticence with, 71, 33;
sayings about, 237, 46, 47;
test of, 329, 21;
thou hast, 482, 31;
three good, 148, 46;
true, hard to distinguish, 239, 8;
true, to one another, 499, 51;
wealth, 504, 24;
when wealth goes, 160, 29;
with change of fortune, 71, 15
=Friendship=, a selfish, 104, 45;
compared with love, 114, 49;
a, that is binding, 315, 11;
a useless, 413, 9;
after love, 141, 11;
and little gifts, 219, 38;
and love, 254, 3, 18;
and love, incompatible, 253, 42;
and passion, contrasted, 6, 11;
and pity, incompatible, 348, 49;
as a pleasure, 246, 36;
attractive power of, 90, 57;
attributes of, 13, 30-37;
basis of, 350, 19;
being without, 479, 45;
belated, 470, 38;
by proxy, 311, 7;
chastity of, 384, 5;
comfort of, in adversity, 25, 16;
compared with hatred, 141, 21;
contrasted with love, 255, 22;
defined, 222, 10; 377, 11;
despised, 182, 16;
double effect of, 481, 30;
effect of distance and absence in, 69, 39;
essence of, 425, 39;
experience of those who cultivate, 483, 17;
fate of, 568, 40;
faults notwithstanding, 11, 47;
female, growth of, 104, 30;
forgiving, 224, 7;
fruit of, 452, 39;
genuine, a test of, 413, 8;
gifts of, 511, 24;
grass on path of, 242, 20;
greatest blow to, 314, 24;
how kept green, 7, 20;
ideal of, 436, 12;
imperilled through money, 27, 17;
imperilled by pecuniary favours, 103, 25;
in dividing inheritance, 190, 25;
judgment before, 214, 3;
lasting, basis of, 170, 30;
light of, 439, 11;
no, without virtue, 392, 46;
not at too heavy a cost, 172, 20;
not based on feasting, 103, 59;
not to be cheap, 260, 32;
often due to weakness, 219, 7;
our, and charity, 337, 22;
that has to be constantly bought, 209, 21;
the claims of, 247, 47;
the first law in, 138, 49;
to be mutual, 168, 21;
tried in need, 128, 37;
true, 413, 22; 499, 52; 500, 1-3;
true, a feature of, 88, 29;
true, how possible, 163, 1;
true, indissoluble, 145, 39;
true, without ceremony, 38, 24;
unfitness for, 554, 36;
value of, 392, 35;
without weakness of, without strength of, 150, 45
=Friendships=, broken, no repairing, 32, 46;
dissolved by silence or neglect, 286, 5;
for eternity, 284, 1;
new, not at expense of old, 317, 26;
not founded on affinities, 315, 16;
of years, the depth of, 337, 44;
schoolboy, 470, 8;
when real, 543, 30
=Frog=, a, if it had teeth, 89, 17
=Frost=, God's plough, 429, 29
=Froth=, not beer, 382, 18
=Frugality=, a small, often no economy, 12, 35;
an estate, 309, 30;
and fortune, 193, 35;
and parsimony, 558, 39;
with contentment, 70, 13
=Fruit=, forbidden, 112, 9;
from labour, 324, 28;
late, keeps well, 230, 38;
present in the seed, 37, 12;
test of a tree, 116, 42;
the latest, ripens, 55, 24;
the worst, 474, 48
=Fruits=, the test, 564, 21
=Fulness=, all, here, 155, 6;
lapsing in, 494, 3
=Function= defined, 3, 52
=Fury= of a woman scorned, 154, 3
=Future=, a form of, 519, 5;
a happy, predicted by George Sand, 433, 13;
a, open to all, 537, 2;
always to be provided for, 173, 36;
and past compared, 447, 3;
anxiety about, 71, 30;
concern for, bootless, 66, 20;
construed from past, 1, 5;
duty with regard to, 495, 39;
for whom, 234, 38;
greatness of, 440, 19;
how to face, without fear, 220, 11;
how to see farthest into, 528, 13;
how to treat, 501, 15;
ignorance of, 253, 25;
improvidence in regard to, 326, 12;
in the porch of, 429, 40;
judged of by past, 167, 28;
learned from past, 169, 5;
not our concern, 296, 48;
not to be desired, 165, 40;
not to be feared, 103, 47;
solicitude about, 399, 16;
state, effect of uncertainty regarding, 69, 20, 50;
thought of, elevating, 94, 49;
veiled by God, 359, 23;
what it hides, 67, 21;
wisely hidden, 384, 47
=Futurity=, uncertainty regarding, 528, 14
G
=Gaiety=, a medium in, 477, 46
=Gain=, at expense of credit, 52, 47;
effect of greed of, 183, 19;
lust of, 258, 5;
scent of, good, 257, 42;
unjust, 356, 6;
unjustly distributed, 77, 53;
worldly, and loss, 20, 52
=Gains=, evil, losses, 271, 31;
light, profit of, 149, 10;
not all gains, 309, 24;
small, profit of, 219, 34;
unjust, instances of, 399, 8
=Galba=, the emperor, Tacitus on, 260, 9
=Galileo= and his "Yet it moves," 84, 12
=Gall=, a little, effect of, 505, 33
=Gallant=, the, motive of, 386, 18
=Gambler=, a young, 214, 43
=Gambling=, and travelling, compared, 499, 10;
gain by, a loss, 551, 23;
nature of, 565, 31;
pedigree and progeny of, 233, 37
=Gamester=, keep, from dice, 217, 15
=Gaming-table= and fortune, 549, 27
=Garb=, makes not the monk, 223, 17
=Garden=, the first, 127, 50
=Gardener=, business of, 494, 39;
grand old, and his wife, 116, 35
=Garibaldi= to his soldiers, 397, 11
=Garrulousness=, disesteem of, 484, 36
=Gatherer= and disposer of other men's stuff, 164, 38
=Gay=, the, disliked by the sad, 324, 5
=Gear=, gathering, for independence, 491, 17
=Geese= for swans, 9, 53
=Gem=, why so small, 19, 49
=Gems=, valueless as food, 403, 20
=General=, a, in prosperity, 370, 17;
a, the qualities of, 368, 32;
influence of good, on his men, 31, 61;
the best, 551, 40
=Generalising= resented by Nature, 292, 33
=Generality=, how to win over the, 491, 12
=Generalship= in good fortune and bad, 73, 37
=Generation=, cursing one's, 303, 39;
each, a duty laid on, 199, 51
=Generosity=, after justice, 27, 26;
and justice combined, power of, 429, 47;
charm of, 129, 31;
easier than justice, 162, 6;
in train of high birth, 225, 30;
rare, 269, 23;
_versus_ business, 169, 12;
virtue of a man, 163, 40;
with what is another's, 98, 45
=Geniality= defined, 133, 28
=Genius=, a characteristic of, 198, 15;
a common fate of, 510, 27;
ages of, superseded by theories of, 466, 19;
a fine, criticism of, generally false, 176, 33;
after the philosophic ideal, 405, 43;
always melancholy, 540, 46;
a mark of, 491, 8, 15, 46;
a necessity for triumph of, 48, 65;
and education, 77, 11;
and wit, functions respectively of, 53, 36;
and fortune's favours, 113, 40;
and taste, why seldom together, 554, 45;
and the world, 464, 24;
as such, unconscious, 169, 47;
at its rising, 377, 31;
a true, natural, 289, 19;
a truly great, mark of, 22, 6;
by outstripping reason, 239, 6;
capacity for patience, 233, 28, 29;
characteristics of, 492, 36;
connection of, with childhood, 90, 24;
contrasted with mediocrity, 272, 3;
contrasted with talent, 409, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50; 410, 1;
contrasted with wit, 223, 4;
dependent on attention, 22, 13;
defined, 195, 20; 513, 14; 546, 4;
distinctive mark of, 489, 29;
development of, condition of, 490, 9;
effect of adversity on, 194, 10, 11;
effect of prosperity on, 194, 11;
endowments peculiar to, 6, 25;
every great, and his vocation, 91, 15;
every work of, characteristic of, 93, 53;
fine, envy of, 207, 31;
great, how formed, 6, 66;
greatest, most indebted, 432, 13;
greatest works of, acquaintance with, 493, 13;
honour done to, 194, 7;
how often dumb, 269, 10;
human, its limitations, 333, 44;
idleness, the blight of, 5, 20;
in what its greatest power, 91, 3;
its indebtedness, 526, 25;
often without talent, 269, 11;
lamp of, 37, 45;
man of, how ruined, 217, 18;
man of, one consideration for every, 549, 41;
men of, all workers, 450, 39;
men of, as men of business, 276, 5;
men of, generosity of, 276, 4;
men of, in advance, 563, 9;
men of (see =Men of Genius=);
men of, two divisions of, 496, 19;
men of, unregarded, 176, 4;
mistake and regret of, 71, 41;
nature in league with, 280, 52;
no great, quite sane, 318, 27;
no lonely son of, to despair, 241, 46;
no, without madness, 472, 50;
noblest function of, 416, 20;
not attainable by labour alone, 315, 47;
not to be constrained and urged, 12, 45;
of light, 429, 48;
often hid under rude exterior, 21, 48;
often of slow growth, 268, 19;
often without talent, 269, 11;
on the summit of the ideal, 206, 7;
pith of, contracted, 395, 17;
privilege of, 206, 41;
selection a test of, 521, 13;
self-defended, 91, 4;
subject to gloom, 466, 35;
superior to intellect, 137, 38;
test of, 494, 23;
the bestower of, 494, 3;
the death of, 424, 18;
the first qualification of, 53, 33;
the great nursery of, 289, 46;
the highest, characterised, 434, 39;
the patrons of, 28, 22;
the power of, 190, 44;
the pride of, 400, 33;
the purpose of, 201, 45;
the school of, 47, 42;
the stern friend of, 397, 29;
the three requisitions of, 325, 15;
three things that enrich, 485, 26;
tendency of, to eccentricity, 76, 32, 33;
true, sign of, 22, 4; 542, 32;
two kinds of, 468, 35;
unconsciously developed, 92, 31;
under misfortune, 379, 24;
vain sigh of, 488, 50;
_versus_ talent, 54, 32;
warped by education, 77, 21;
what forms, 396, 7;
without a heart, 536, 14;
without moderation, 281, 24;
without power, 548, 25;
without taste, 380, 17;
without training, 78, 7;
works and words of, 474, 47;
work of, a child of solitude, 3, 35
=Geniuses=, great, biographies of, 133, 29;
those that look like, 478, 13
=Genoese=, proverb about, 450, 1
=Gentil man=, according to Chaucer, 143, 25
=Gentility= and vulgarity, 102, 34
=Gentle=, world gentle to, 121, 38;
yet not dull, 484, 11
=Gentleman=, a, characteristics of, 6, 27, 28;
a, outfit of, 137, 11;
a true, rare, 275, 44;
a questionable, 6, 29;
an original, 529, 10;
best dressed, 143, 46;
by nature, 149, 37;
contrasted with clown, 181, 10;
Horace's characteristics of, 86, 42;
how formed, 77, 7;
manners of, defined, 346, 15;
mark of, 49, 4;
sphere of, 81, 3;
the badge of a, 373, 46;
the best, 143, 47;
the first and the last, 199, 13;
the word of, 463, 42
=Gentlemen=, rare, 520, 35
=Gentleness=, antidote for cruelty, 22, 2;
commended, 400, 33;
connection of, with firmness, 205, 22;
more pleasing than strength, 283, 33
=Gentry=, rabble amongst, 470, 22
=Genuine=, hard to eliminate, 331, 46;
the, and the spurious, 536, 15;
the durability of, 519, 20
=Geologist=, an antiquarian, 233, 30
=Geometry=, road to, 474, 17
=German= God, the, the temple of, 298, 9
=Gethsemane=, victory of, attainable, 524, 38
=Getting=, and getting by renouncing, 201, 39;
easier than keeping, 122, 14;
no, what we don't bring, 305, 42
=Ghost=, a, never visible to two, 63, 15; 302, 1;
raising one, effect of, 177, 9
=Ghosts=, the only genuine, 473, 39;
whom they visit, 122, 1
=Giant=, on the shoulders of, 37, 55;
strength of, tyrannous to use, 201, 34
=Giant's= strength, how excellent, 326, 2
=Gift=, a, dearer than a purchase, 535, 47;
a, in each for all, 57, 17;
a rare, 495, 12;
a, we can receive, 522, 46;
an acceptable, 145, 1;
better than a prayer, 79, 31;
every good, from God, 91, 8, 9;
smallest, how made great, 91, 6;
that destroys liberty, 53, 6;
the only, 446, 6
=Gifted= man, the, defined, 430, 7
=Gifts=, against Nature's law, 377, 13;
an enemy's, 76, 39;
effect of, on freedom, 544, 27;
evil effects of, 430, 4;
gate of, closed at birth, 543, 22;
God's, 125, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 54; 126, 1, 2, 4, 10;
of God, how to treat, 522, 25;
of God to man, 262, 7;
often losses, 401, 36;
power of, 52, 30;
receiving, a loss, 245, 28;
the best, least admired, 417, 38;
to receive, 495, 13;
when givers prove unkind, 496, 11;
who can be trusted with, 334, 51;
winning power of, 286, 34;
without election, 326, 30
=Girl=, education of, Ruskin on, 417, 18;
proper confidant of, 449, 39;
qualities we love in a, 525, 30
=Girls=, beauty and deformity in, Ruskin on, 302, 2;
morality of, 443, 6
=Giver=, a cheerful, 127, 12;
and receiver, rules for, 241, 9;
love of, not gift of lover, 151, 41
=Giving=, an honour, 80, 18;
and receiving, 191, 16;
Bismarck's maxim on, 72, 29;
business of rich, 119, 11;
contrasted with receiving, 492, 41;
effect of, 525, 5;
for one's gratification, deemed a merit, 544, 22;
hand, a, 6, 33;
not receiving, our gain, 95, 11;
prompt, 30, 26;
to poor, Diderot on, 71, 21;
without bottom, 230, 18
=Gladiator=, the wounded, 381, 3
=Gladness=, alternates with sadness, 379, 17;
peculiar to man, 416, 9;
sown for the upright, 249, 18
=Gladsome= thing, the most, 443, 46
=Glance=, a, significance of, 150, 15
=Glances=, progeny of, 109, 42
=Glass=, first to fourth, 428, 19
=Glasses=, cracked, easily broken, 118, 50
=Glib= and oily art, 169, 1
=Glitter=, not gold, 10, 29;
the fascination of mere, 407, 32
=Glitters=, what, temporary, 535, 9
=Gloaming=, wooing in, 64, 3
=Globe=, the mad-house of universe, 168, 45
=Gloomy= temper, foolish or worse, 540, 26
=Glory=, a spur, 195, 47;
after death, 43, 19;
ambition for, 552, 20;
bewitching power of, 117, 20;
false, 100, 43;
inveteracy of desire of, 88, 18;
in rising after a fall, 430, 11;
love of, Talleyrand on, 256, 7;
mixt with humbleness, 132, 3;
no, without danger, 88, 48;
our greatest, 338, 8;
paths of, 447, 13;
popular, a coquette, 352, 44;
rejection greater than conquest of, 78, 39;
shadow of virtue, 124, 19;
that is unreal, 124, 18;
the custody of, as a task, 155, 36;
the path to, 22, 40;
the torch of, 103, 27, 28;
to him who despises it, 124, 21
=Gluttony=, effect of, on heart, 530, 18;
effect of, on mind, 186, 17
=Goal=, how to attain, 118, 52;
our, a riddle, 539, 19;
our political, 313, 22;
steps to, 203, 42
=God=, a, all mercy, 6, 35;
a blank tablet, 130, 49;
a conception of, 497, 17;
a, over and behind us, 470, 19;
a, the hypothesis of, Laplace on the, 393, 3;
acknowledging, 169, 48;
acts of, 183, 11;
alive to misery, 308, 31;
all-avenging, 38, 26;
all-pervading, 87, 17;
all things full of, 57, 30; 213, 25; 214, 47; 406, 49;
an absentee, 197, 29;
and existence, 437, 14;
and heaven, as gifts, 488, 12;
and His laws, 292, 36;
and His word, Koran on, 492, 46;
and Mammon, service of, incompatible, 564, 11;
and soil, as creditors, 202, 8;
and St. Edmund, for sole friends, 518, 24;
and the right, 192, 32;
as builder, 91, 27;
as His worshipper, 19, 44;
as the only just, 84, 25;
as working and suffering, or reposing, 205, 26;
barred by our idolatries, 546, 36;
before or in, state of feeling, 170, 11;
being of, encompassed with difficulty, 324, 29;
believing and acknowledging, different, 169, 48;
better deal with, than saints, 200, 32;
cannot be recompensed, 131, 6;
cause of, and emancipation of reason, 227, 23;
condition of knowing, 525, 8;
denying, evil effect of, 479, 37;
effect of living with, 542, 14;
eternity, His vindication, 123, 7;
existence of, absurdity of proving the, 82, 17;
existence of a personal, 87, 24;
existence of, proving or doubting, 495, 8;
fear of, effect of, 484, 7;
folly of proving existence of, 358, 2;
for all, 93, 15;
forgotten and prayed to, 284, 17;
found twice, 524, 5;
geometries, quoted, 524, 34;
gifts of, all good, 9, 49;
give to, his due, 375, 5;
glory of, present in all things, 485, 35;
good and just in all life, 399, 46;
goodness of, infinite, 9, 34;
helpful to the helpless, 130, 47;
here or nowhere, 426, 6;
His dwelling-place, 192, 17;
His omnipresence and omniscience, 492, 46;
how best discerned, 153, 54;
how He is to be found, 526, 19;
how to attain knowledge of, 220, 4;
how to honour or insult, 476, 4;
how to lose, 384, 44;
image of, in man, 539, 29;
in Christ, rational acknowledgment, Browning on, 168, 23;
in history, 150, 23;
in nature and man, 321, 29;
in relation to universe, 481, 17;
in the bosom, 430, 17;
in the breast, 6, 36;
in the breast, limited power of, 60, 5;
in the depth of the soul, 130, 48;
in the heart, 131, 2; 556, 11;
in the heart of him who longs for Him, 324, 48;
in the living and becoming, 422, 47;
in the mouths of philosophers, 347, 36;
in the whirlwind, 376, 35;
in the will, His condescension, 294, 33;
inscrutable, 498, 9;
irreverence towards, 529, 27;
kindness of, 99, 23;
kingdom of, how to enter, 512, 52;
kingdom of, popularly and figuratively, 495, 4;
knowledge of, 437, 40;
knowledge of, identified with justice, 144, 7;
living to, alone, 144, 23;
love of, test of, 147, 52;
man needs, 203, 28;
man, the key to, 478, 30;
men of, have always been, 276, 1;
misplaced trust in, 176, 8;
name of, not to be taken in vain, 185, 3;
nature of, not to be searched into, 288, 46;
near to man, 395, 19;
necessary to invent, 390, 7;
no, agreeable to every one, 546, 29;
no repose out of, 483, 30;
not found in soul, not found anywhere, 152, 33;
not waiting in churches, 535, 10;
of this world, 430, 16;
of traditional believers, 430, 15;
omnipresence of, 130, 50; 131, 8; 172, 30;
only to be left for a better master, 112, 40;
original and end, 116, 25;
our, a household God, 338, 5;
our being in, 187, 27;
our conception of, 520, 38;
power of contrasted with man's, 262, 14;
presence-chamber of, 202, 40;
promises of, 449, 36;
purposes of abstruse, 214, 27;
record of appearances of, 418, 24;
secondary, no God, 151, 50;
seeking, outside the soul, 385, 8;
sense of a, 211, 15;
Son of, embraced by faith, 404, 9;
sovereign, 89, 39;
supreme, 174, 6;
supreme over stars, 21, 1;
the art of, 421, 41;
the great proof of, 460, 41;
the greatness of, 173, 20;
the impossibility of proving non-existence of, 223, 35;
the, of the Koran 472, 45;
the living garment of, 292, 2;
the love of, 484, 13;
the love of, breadth of, 439, 50;
the, of our time, 282, 39;
the portion of those that love, 98, 19;
the power of, 299, 7;
the provider, 63, 12;
the soul of all, 9, 6;
the true physician, 130, 52;
the true, spirit of, 556, 22;
the, within, 87, 3, 4; 469, 37;
thy convoy in storm, 230, 27;
to be acknowledged, 313, 14;
to be obeyed, rather than man, 527, 37;
true honouring of, 142, 54;
true love of, 147, 48;
trust in, 105, 25;
trust in, and do right, 242, 57;
trust in, commended, 547, 19;
trust in, Cromwell's, 360, 35;
universal conception of, 141, 38;
unlimited and all containing, 493, 18;
unlimited by space and time, 486, 26;
unnamable, 532, 8;
veiled and unveiled, 292, 31, 32;
ways of, just, 215, 29, 30;
web of, without beginning or end, 472, 7;
what alienates from, 540, 31;
what comes from, destiny of, 534, 35;
what is meant for, sacred, 520, 2;
where and how to know, 472, 6;
where men weep, 382, 17;
where to seek and find, 567, 18;
who seeks, in the dark and cold, 552, 25;
who would find, must bring, 554, 28;
wisdom and judgments of, 322, 15;
with us, everything, 371, 12;
without, nothing but darkness, 326, 26;
without to be sought for within, 288, 2;
word of, 520, 7;
word of, near, 463, 41;
work of, character of, 519, 21;
work of, first and last, 428, 11;
works of, a book, 469, 22;
works of, still glorious, 66, 43;
worshipped, if known, 63, 5
=God-forsaken=, cry of the, 422, 21
=Godlike=, the, sadness of, 475, 20;
thing, one, in world, 191, 43
=God-protected= people, 66, 34
=God's= council chamber, no key to, 137, 16;
delight, 325, 28;
elect, called to be sad, 127, 51;
gifts to man, 306, 45;
goodness, implied in His being, 130, 40;
help, helpless without, 156, 35;
laws, omnipresence of, 306, 39;
life, in man, 420, 18;
light for all, 543, 31;
love, no falling out of, 456, 23;
mills, 131, 9;
name not to be taken in vain, 409, 26;
operations contrasted with man's, 273, 44;
plan unfathomable, 141, 33;
presence, the real, 547, 38;
promise, a pillow, 306, 38;
Sabbath work, 428, 11;
voice, the true, 458, 43;
work and man's contrasted, 197, 38;
work, full of Himself, 298, 39;
work, perfect, 127, 15, 27; 541, 29
=Gods=, avenging, feet of, 68, 17;
effect of adoring, 480, 7;
fate of favourites of, 330, 33;
gifts of, misintelligence of, 321, 27;
ground of faith in, 270, 26;
how to draw near, 556, 32;
how to resemble, 217, 36; 427, 35;
joy of the, 532, 5;
mills of, 335, 35;
not to be tempted, 61, 11; 242, 11;
rural, familiarity with, 113, 33;
sayings about, 430, 20-31;
secrets of, no prying into, 242, 11;
tempting the, 506, 7;
the, among men, 545, 33;
the, and their gifts, 68, 13;
the existence of, how suggested, 356, 52;
the, the lavishness and stinginess of, 320, 22;
the, man dear to, 289, 28;
the, mother of, 400, 8;
the patience of, 430, 21;
the, the path of, 402, 32;
the, to be reverenced, 183, 52;
the, under law, 406, 51;
the, voices from, 467, 9;
their life sad, 438, 52;
their silence, 556, 13;
their avatars, 489, 4;
unjustly blamed, 183, 55;
when they arrive, 543, 37;
whom they love, fate of, 363, 3
=Goethe=, and Schiller, compared, 532, 22;
Carlyle's defence of, 272, 31;
greatness of, Carlyle on, 311, 19;
how he is to be read, 506, 15;
inspiring idea of, 123, 14;
of his inherited nature, 517, 26;
on his studies, 166, 40;
sphere-harmony of, 454, 29;
treatment of, 349, 20
=Goethe's=, devotion to truth, 172, 39;
greatest gain, 420, 27;
motto, 326, 27;
refuge from world, 114, 32
=Going=, and sending, difference between, 42, 37;
back rather than going wrong, 29, 23;
slowly, going safely, 42, 36
=Gold=, a chimæra, 209, 47; 224, 10;
and dirt, 128, 38;
and silver, self-commended, 160, 1;
carrying only, 148, 49;
evil effect of, 162, 19;
lust of, evil of, 365, 45;
object of ambition, 109, 43;
power of, 9, 55;
power of, limited, 131, 28;
the power of, 13, 26; 288, 45;
to gild refined, 492, 39;
to have and to want, 493, 7
=Golden=, age, before us, 222, 2;
age, never such to itself, 203, 3;
age, not of gold, 222, 1;
age, the, Goethe on, 430, 32, 33;
key, that, 413, 11
=Goldsmith=, Johnson on, 305, 3; 318, 31;
inspiring idea of, 123, 14
=Good=, ability of doing, good, 25, 41;
absolute, unknown to us, 317, 11;
action, one, condoning power of, 111, 22;
alone capable of conservation, 313, 48;
and better, fate of, 30, 16;
all, basis of, 94, 19;
all, from heaven, 11, 56;
all, save God's, limited, 9, 34;
all things for, 174, 36;
and evil, difference between, 475, 7;
and evil, mixed, 406, 46;
and evil, only opposed, 95, 22;
and evil, unexpected, 137, 39;
and great, 94, 21;
and ill, how to treat, 200, 26;
angel, warning of, 29, 74;
antagonism to, a constant necessity, 477, 11;
association with the, 20, 32;
at last to all, 165, 16;
balance of, 67, 22;
beauty of, to be regarded, 71, 37;
bought with toil and tears, 458, 44;
calling, bad, 172, 32;
compared with evil, 228, 14;
deed, ennobling, 150, 2;
deeds, man's wealth hereafter, 91, 7;
deeds, noiselessness of, 30, 19;
do, a universal rule, 98, 29;
doing, sayings on, 70, 35-37, 40;
doing, teaching good, 150, 4;
doing, to the bad, 261, 26;
doing, without occasion of evil, difficulty, 201, 7;
done slowly, 232, 40;
due to exercitation, 283, 23;
easier to be, than to seem, 320, 36;
easy to be, with no hindrance, 86, 31;
ever near, 556, 27;
everywhere, 549, 29;
extreme of, to be avoided, 305, 46;
faith, importance of, 117, 36;
for evil, 340, 8;
for one, not for another, 31, 18;
fortune and good sense, rare, 274, 20;
fortune hard to bear, 179, 24;
fountain of, within, 253, 11;
from bad, discrimination of, rare, 328, 39;
from freely opened hand, 338, 10;
from God, 94, 33;
from seeming evil, 116, 19;
from within, 52, 20;
greatest, by whom wrought, 285, 22;
growth of, amidst evil, 161, 32;
habitual enjoyment of, 31, 19;
how to do most, 522, 35;
humour, a happiness, 207, 43;
impossible to wicked, 126, 22;
in the thinking, 315, 2;
in the vilest, 110, 27;
knowing, and not doing, 493, 19;
known or pursued, 253, 3;
lament over lost, 508, 10;
man, a, defined, 37, 50; 514, 37;
man, a, of talent, character of his work, 541, 38;
man always a tiro, 31, 62;
man, needs room, 60, 9;
man, rule of a, 1, 27;
man, satisfied from himself, 6, 48;
man, striving in the dark night, 6, 47;
man, the death of, 55, 44;
man, the loyal heart of, 66, 28;
man, the mark of, 206, 35;
man, unenvious, 151, 9;
man, unknown, work of, 463, 48;
men, all things becoming in, 328, 6;
men, duty of, when bad combine, 543, 8;
men, helplessness of, at present, 557, 38;
men, need of, 64, 28;
men, treatment of failings of, 426, 48;
men, value of, 464, 46;
misconstruing, a treble wrong, 494, 29;
name, carelessness of, 152, 44;
name, once tainted, 118, 50;
native and foreign, how to treat, 217, 17;
news, bringer of, 144, 10;
no, from what is not natural, 298, 16;
no pure, in man's offer, 302, 8;
not to be mistaken or censured, 333, 17;
nothing, by itself, 314, 45; 315, 1;
nothing so, as not to suffer from abuse, 317, 1;
of others, securing, 152, 47;
of others to be sought, 385, 1;
old rule, the, 430, 44;
on the highway, 94, 20;
only from self, 80, 10;
or evil as we take it, 190, 40;
our highest, 519, 37;
out of season, evil, 510, 40;
people, far apart, 116, 37;
promised, gain in being bereft of, 399, 23;
public and private, 359, 39;
qualities, unserviceable to one's self, 166, 45;
rarity of, 183, 12;
report not so easily spread as ill, 177, 25;
sense and expression, 87, 29;
sense and good nature, 129, 56;
sense, how we estimate, 317, 13;
sense, indignant, 193, 19;
sense, road to, 498, 29;
slow in developing, 314, 25;
source of, 126, 34;
thing, a disappointment at first, 302, 4;
that is done for us, 476, 39;
that is possible, 340, 8;
the, behaviour of, 184, 39;
the, easy to rule, 98, 43;
the end of all, 10, 54;
the genuinely, hard to know, 343, 40;
the goal of ill, 323, 3;
the internal source of all, 402, 29;
the, in man, 537, 22;
the only, that profits, 335, 10;
the public, to be sacrificed to, 124, 20;
the really, for ever, 298, 22;
the really, hard to attain, 67, 32;
the, sayings about, 430, 35-37, 39, 42, 45-47;
the sovereign, according to Bacon, 436, 41;
the, those who forward, to be honoured, 325, 12;
thing out of Nazareth, 35, 26;
things illusory, 154, 31;
things in threes, 9, 36;
those who do most, 482, 40;
though small, sufficient, 406, 14;
to be defined and held fast, 158, 24;
to be, and disagreeable, 490, 16;
to be done unconsciously, 242, 24;
to be left to heaven's disposal, 403, 2;
to be sought for, 99, 37;
to be willed, 519, 14;
to circulate, 29, 71;
to him who serves the state, 564, 25;
to men, condition of doing, 176, 10;
to whom good, 364, 52;
turn, a, merit of, 1, 14;
undying, 475, 25;
when it thrives best, 94, 18;
while asleep, 1, 3;
who best knows, 144, 11
=Good-breeding=, how attained, 216, 19;
never affectation, 489, 35;
power of, 130, 7;
want of, 452, 27
=Good-fellowship=, ground of, 73, 45
=Good-for-nothing=, a, 532, 21;
the, Goethe on, 430, 38
=Goodness=, a benefit to all, 304, 32;
a characteristic of, 515, 3;
and beauty, 433, 7;
an end, 135, 35;
a test of, 304, 7;
better than wealth, 31, 55;
Burns' criterion of, 541, 11;
departed, mourned over a possession, 539, 1;
first and second condition of, 428, 10;
God's, and His providence, 128, 6;
in one's friend's esteem, 565, 14;
in the eye of law, 97, 3;
love of, 151, 39;
not famous for, infamous, 175, 27;
often mere harmlessness, 268, 28;
pride of, 567, 21;
real, rare, 376, 52;
rewarded, 19, 64;
self-evolved, 303, 6;
tendency of, 514, 49;
test of, 276, 13;
the sin-bearing power of, 385, 24;
thoughts of, 484, 34;
timid shyness of, 105, 18;
unconcentrated, 465, 32;
united with greatness, 319, 36;
why snarled at, 274, 49;
without edge to it, 568, 20
=Goods=, common, none, 119, 36
=Good-will=, best gift, 279, 44;
everything in morals, 60, 9
=Goose=, a, that lays golden eggs, 91, 54;
that lays the golden egg, 430, 50
=Gospel=, contrasted with law, 438, 19;
in nature, as in Bible, 128, 2;
of Christ, all great and goodly things symbols of, 476, 2;
the, value of, 430, 51
=Gospels=, only edifying use of, 489, 30;
only two possible, 468, 34;
the, contradictions in, 538, 3
=Gossip=, a vice, 183, 39;
effect of, if circulated, 172, 12;
superseded by books, 139, 16;
the town's, insignificance of, 564, 23
=Gossips=, quarrelling of, 377, 23
=Gothic= cathedral, Emerson on, 430, 52
=Gotten= easily, gone easily, 38, 15
=Govern=, men, how to, 492, 47;
they that, the most, 479, 41
=Governing=, class, conduct at present of, 431, 1;
fundamental art of, 494, 4;
men, Danton on, 29, 11;
powers, the only, 335, 16;
man's prerogative, 373, 7
=Government=, a, how to judge of, 526, 38;
a lazy, Butler on, 316, 48;
a merely business and bread-protecting, 6, 60;
as a science, Rousseau on, 227, 33;
best, defined, 277, 11;
by wisest our goal, 313, 22;
contract of, dissolved by despotism, 233, 10;
democratic, among whom possible and impossible, 378, 46;
despotic, 361, 44;
difficulty in, 550, 46;
essence of, among good men, 425, 32;
forms of, futility of, 277, 29;
forms of, how determined, 429, 14;
good, beginning of, 9, 33;
good, condition of, 396, 34;
in what it resides, 301, 35;
never originative, 90, 10;
no dissension to hinder, 317, 35;
not to waver, 6, 61;
of England, 431, 3;
of men, only by serving them, 330, 14;
of world, 464, 5, 35, 41;
officers of, 131, 19;
overthrowing and creating, two different things, 566, 37;
parliamentary, defined, 341, 45;
qualification for, 474, 8;
real, our need, 312, 44;
representative, defined, 233, 31;
representative of order; 250, 48;
republican, Tacitus on, 371, 22;
the miracle in, 315, 24; the best, 65, 7; 109, 40; 417, 39;
the burden of, Cromwell on, 169, 25;
the first object of, 359, 34;
the only safe, 302, 10;
to be in advance, 431, 2;
where men are selfish, 477, 42;
wisdom that suffices for, 15, 47;
without self-government, 2, 24
=Governments=, a duty of all, 549, 16;
all, a compact with devil, 9, 37;
bureaucratic, the fatal disease of, 423, 43;
cause of decay of, 224, 34;
free, tyrannies of, 114, 28;
how far good, 9, 31;
monstrous absurdity in modern, 475, 45;
secret of success in, 216, 14
=Governors=, our, 522, 7;
the life of all, 72, 17
=Grace=, a day of, 4, 1;
contrasted with nature, 290, 34; 291, 38;
divine, power of, 145, 5;
essential, 305, 34;
fascination of, 63, 48;
given, as needed, 60, 15;
helpless by itself, 301, 11;
in contrast with gifts, 122, 36;
in movement, 182, 5;
melancholy, 81, 4;
power of, 66, 10;
purpose of, 240, 54;
source of, 319, 4;
stronger than nature, 132, 17;
the soul of complexion, 433, 7;
to be seized at once, 60, 15;
to whom given, 366, 19
=Graceful=, the, defined, 540, 43
=Gracefulness=, from one's self, 315, 3
=Graces=, effect of teaching of, 360, 22;
the, and Venus, 512, 31
=Grain=, value of one, 332, 28
=Grammar=, above kings, 225, 33;
lordship claimed over, 78, 12
=Grammarians=, and troubles of world, 227, 10;
not subject to Cæsar, 34, 35
=Grandeur=, a mark of, 511, 41;
and comfort, incompatible, 565, 27;
to be kept ever before us, 529, 6;
to be shunned, 117, 10
=Granite=, block of, as an obstacle and stepping-stone, 418, 39;
from, to immortality of the soul, 198, 45
=Grapes=, where sweetest, 66, 22
=Grasp=, a hearty, good, 167, 41
=Grasping=, at too much, 42, 33; 364, 51
=Grass=, and flowers, 529, 26;
ilka blade of, 181, 32
=Gratification=, unbridled, evil of, 245, 44
=Gratitude=, a burden, 227, 27;
and love incompatible, 253, 43;
commended, 122, 15;
less potent than fear, 103, 36;
of small commercial value, 440, 22;
protestations of, 528, 8;
the root of, 340, 15
=Grave=, an early, 346, 16;
a lonely, sigh for, 312, 12;
as bed of rest, Carlyle in view of the, 323, 2;
from, to gay, 139, 35;
the, honours at, 387, 9;
the, our meeting-place of rest, 564, 33;
voices from the, 274, 39;
wicked and weary in, 477, 30
=Graves= of the hamlet, 27, 52
=Gravity=, from thought and from dulness, 469, 24;
less wise than it looks, 244, 38;
too much, shallowness of, 497, 37
=Gray= hairs, Jean Paul on, 133, 3
=Great=, and good, 94, 21;
and little, on Fortune's wheel, 238, 24;
becoming, and being born, 203, 29;
deeds, by whom done, 199, 31;
folk, secrets of, like wild beasts in cages, 453, 3;
from smallest, 23, 39;
master, how great, 7, 2;
mind, character of labours of, 91, 17;
name, hard to earn, 180, 24;
no, or small, to the soul, 472, 49;
sacrifices to make one, 538, 9;
thing, always done easily, 171, 7;
thing, how and by whom done, 7, 8;
thing, no, without meaning, 535, 15;
wax, by others waning, 168, 30;
what is, effect of, on cultivation, 540, 45;
why such, 238, 27
=Great man=, a, and his reputation, 567, 38;
ability to perceive, 208, 3;
a, in midst of the crowd, 201, 24;
according to Emerson, 143, 126;
and his age, 431, 23, 24;
and his descent, 87, 42;
and his talk, 7, 9;
and human nature, 431, 25;
a subject only for one as great, 325, 1;
characteristic of, 302, 16; 307, 32;
first test of, 428, 39;
heavenward path of, 434, 19;
his love of justice, 151, 3;
house of, flagstone at, 304, 4;
Landor's test of, 6, 60;
living for high ends, 6, 70;
mark of, 206, 26;
no, dies a natural death, 217, 8;
no, without inspiration, 295, 27;
quotes bravely, 7, 1;
secret of, anticipated, 292, 17;
speaking always or rarely, 469, 20;
the faults of, 427, 24;
unique, 91, 16;
vacancy he leaves behind, 544, 32;
who entitled to praise, 333, 34
=Great men=, age of, gone, 415, 40;
and little, difference between, 423, 34;
and world, 464, 6; 465, 2, 5;
characteristics of, 198, 2; 306, 50; 431, 26;
devotion to, 387, 31;
difficulty of believing in, 496, 16;
effect of evil fortune on, 208, 1;
errors of, 301, 39;
fame of, to what due, 225, 15;
great mountains, 285, 2;
how linked to their age, 64, 31;
how we estimate, 523, 41;
importance of, 559, 36;
late appreciation of, 206, 10;
men of faith, 381, 44;
mission of, 212, 1;
mutual isolation of, 63, 14;
necessary, 398, 28;
never limit themselves, 238, 25;
of different moulds, 290, 42;
perverse worship of, 162, 21;
popular, 238, 26;
seldom scholars, 465, 24;
tender-heartedness of, 15, 42;
treatment of, and fate, 209, 49;
unbelief in, as a sign, 307, 5;
unconscious, 285, 22;
when the lion roars, 394, 20
=Great souls=, effect of gold on, 128, 39;
effect of tranquillity of, 316, 32;
in collision, 73, 36;
not common, 308, 12;
sign of, 205, 49;
still exist, 67, 20;
talk of, 259, 40;
the composure of, disconcerting, 376, 54;
the fate of, 492, 3;
virtue of, 460, 39
=Great, the=, an unhappiness of, 205, 5;
connection between, and the little, 281, 4;
dependence of, 431, 10;
dependence on, 163, 4;
favourites of, 166, 5;
friendship with, 74, 1;
hard to win, 314, 26;
intimacy with, without servility, 149, 37;
neighbourhood of, dangerous, 228, 13;
only, 144, 51; 153, 27;
on the wave of humanity, 534, 7;
pride of, how to humble, 514, 13;
ruled rather than ruling, 322, 28;
truly, according to à Kempis, 143, 56
=Great things=, all from above, 306, 45;
by whom alone producible, 303, 19;
by whom done, 38, 38;
how to achieve, 353, 43;
made up of littles, 251, 13, 14;
not to be sought, 385, 7;
the element of all, 391, 39
=Greatest=, in these times, 463, 27;
man, according to Ward Beecher, 143, 51;
man, the, 144, 51;
men, world's treatment of its, 314, 34;
the, the briefest, 432, 12;
unknown, 338, 7
=Greatness=, aggregate of minuteness, 135, 38;
and prudence, contrary counsels of, 359, 18;
an essential attribute of, 303, 42;
Christian, condition of, 554, 41;
condition of attaining, 467, 40;
despised, mark of greatness, 259, 22;
essence of, 425, 40;
first step to, 428, 38;
growth and decay of, 102, 19;
how attained, 434, 25; 482, 39;
in need of defence, 22, 27;
in one's self commended, 28, 39;
insecurity of, 23, 12;
man's, proof of, 9, 57;
men capable of, 311, 22;
no, without inspiration, 477, 20;
not to be aimed at, 385, 3;
of man, how to comprehend, 200, 21;
our relation to, 524, 39;
penalty of, 490, 17;
potentiality of, 167, 4;
qualifications for, 490, 18;
root of, 278, 21;
self-evolved, 303, 6;
solitary, 75, 29;
tendency of, to calm, 14, 34;
the condition of all, 152, 39;
true, mark of, 207, 16; 500, 4;
various ways to, 397, 42;
whom to thank for, 175, 30
=Greece=, and the world, 556, 6;
Byron of, 229, 25;
but living Greece, no more, 405, 51;
her conquest, 131, 47;
nothing without freedom, 326, 25;
seven wise men of, ground of their fame, 453, 16
=Greed=, craving of, 83, 12;
how to overcome, 240, 16;
insatiableness of, 122, 33
=Greeks=, and Romans, the only ancients that continue young, 63, 47;
sayings about, 432, 44-46;
their dream of life, 508, 32
=Green= spot, our final inheritance, 41, 53
=Greeting=, the stranger's, to be returned, 455, 22;
to be with noble feeling, 221, 28
=Gregory VII.= on his death-bed, 68, 23
=Grief=, and excess of it, 398, 13;
after gladness, 98, 1;
and its shadows, 75, 24;
a symbol of Christianity, 524, 42;
bitter and calm, 524, 46;
capable of counsel, 413, 14;
effect of time on, 66, 7;
effect of imparting, 473, 24;
expression of, 97, 57;
great, effect on mind of, 133, 32;
how to conquer, 142, 17;
hard to master a, 93, 9;
limited, 70, 47;
limit of, 540, 7;
love _plus_ grief, 109, 46;
man's, 266, 33;
moderate and immoderate, 281, 20;
pleasure of, 379, 14;
sayings about, 432, 48, 49;
shallow, 446, 22;
softened with time, 473, 6;
tamed with time and thinking, 486, 27;
that can be advised, 244, 35;
to be private, 189, 19;
unedifying, 166, 16;
unseen, sincere, 181, 51;
wail of, 461, 13
=Griefs=, ended with remedies, 545, 12;
from evils that have not happened, 398, 31;
great, dumb, 166, 15;
great, effect of, on less, 133, 33;
never stated too lightly, 303, 33;
when fresh, not to be dispelled, 550, 15
=Grievances=, old, not to be repeated, 296, 57
=Grin=, power of a merry, 36, 14
=Groove=, moving in the same, 315, 50
=Grose=, Captain, Burns on, 174, 49
=Grotesques=, no, in nature, 467, 31
=Grow=, ceasing to, 149, 41
=Growth=, contrasted with decay, 48, 9;
fast and slow, 334, 19
=Growths=, natural, pleasing, 191, 4
=Grub= and butterfly, 471, 22
=Grumbler=, wise, a benefactor, 462, 33
=Grumblers=, benefactors, 417, 29
=Grumbling=, elevating power of, 417, 29;
essential to progress, 566, 42;
evil effect of, 144, 41;
philosophy of, 447, 36;
room for, 205, 40;
too much, 492, 5
=Guard=, who keeps no, on himself, 552, 3
=Guesses=, Goethe on, 171, 30
=Guest=, a, rank of, 549, 37;
a welcome, 146, 54
=Guests=, how viewed, 428, 12;
unbidden, 505, 46
=Guide=, a true, 145, 36
=Guiding-star= everywhere, 190, 43
=Guilt=, chief earthly ill, 247, 49;
communion in, levelling, 99, 3;
confession of, 103, 6;
conviction of, better than severity of punishment, 406, 19;
counsels of, infatuated, 320, 9;
danger of first step in, 241, 49;
dependent on station, 327, 43;
diversely rewarded, 182, 6;
greatest incitement to, 271, 18;
hard not to betray, 155, 35;
indelible, 10, 46;
misery of, 321, 25;
sure to be punished, 178, 48;
yoked to misery, 126, 13
=Guilty=, evil of sparing, 279, 29;
heart, greatest terror to, 475, 39;
the, what is due to, 496, 8
=Guinea=, power of, 429, 13
=Gullibility=, and quackery, 361, 4;
man's, not his worst blessing, 357, 34
=Gunpowder=, genuine use of, 430, 1
H
=Habit=, bad, when to overcome, 261, 35;
effect of, 366, 44;
force of, 46, 59, 60;
importance of, in youth, 4, 10;
only motive, 269, 14;
power of, 111, 33; 259, 11; 475, 36;
the chains of, 419, 36;
use doth breed, 162, 42
=Habits=, bad, effect of, 292, 16;
how formed, 1, 24;
ill, grow apace, 181, 44;
rule in formation of, 82, 18
=Hades=, the descent to, easy, 98, 48
=Haggis=, a, charging downhill, 89, 18;
Burns to a, 99, 36
=Hair=, a, casts a shadow, 89, 19
=Hair-splitting=, 142, 18
=Half= and whole compared, 399, 22
=Half-man=, a, 145, 7
=Hallow'd= spot, a, why crave, 555, 24
=Halves=, all things, 75, 25
=Hame=, best, 76, 10
=Hamlet=, Shakespeare's, how composed, 388, 12
=Hammer=, better, than anvil, 181, 5
=Hand=, a cold, 216, 53;
a hard, 472, 10;
and its own work, 486, 3;
disfigured by toil, 268, 23;
from, to mouth, 116, 6;
Napoleon's, connected with his head, 287, 48;
shakes of, characteristic, 475, 32;
the instrument of instruments, 264, 15;
the, of toil, Carlyle on, 512, 10;
the touch of a vanished, 33, 20;
to be educated, 95, 20
=Handicraft=, good, foundation of, 128, 22
=Hands=, before knives, 106, 35;
clean, with gloves on, 394, 33;
folding and opening, 213, 11;
power of, 535, 17;
work of the, 519, 23
=Handsome= figure, effect of, 283, 50
=Hanging=, as a correction, 523, 29
=Hannibal=, Maherbal to, 514, 22
=Happiest=, man, the, 150, 42; 443, 47; 551, 41;
man, according to Goethe, 143, 27;
men, the, 448, 5;
of men, George Sand on, 433, 8
=Happiness=, a, better than, 495, 38;
a condition of, 12, 6; 61, 17; 488, 20;
a rare, 368, 5;
always exaggerated, 330, 5;
and attainment of a wish, 332, 41;
and misery, kinship of, at the root, 540, 23;
and misery, contrasted, 353, 8;
Aristotle on, 304, 34;
as a proportionate quantity, 273, 43;
a, that never leaves us, 171, 25;
at present, or nowhere, 175, 39;
Burns' ideal of, 271, 27;
but one solid basis of, 471, 18;
centered in heart, 172, 22;
claim to, mischief of, 206, 44;
condition of,81, 44;
confined to no spot, 107, 13;
constancy in, 479, 18;
contrasted with sorrow, 476, 38;
determining element of, 313, 24;
dependent on renouncing the world, 217, 6;
dependent on restraint, 250, 13;
destroyed by envious fortune, 22, 34;
discovery of a new, 203, 7;
domestic, 70, 54, 55;
earthly, experience of, 170, 1;
earthly, in dreams, 319, 26;
essence of, 541, 18;
ever near, 335, 3;
from change, illusory, 268, 55;
from moderation, 23, 48;
greatest, in existence, 494, 13;
health, 536, 17;
how to obtain, 373, 47;
how to weigh, 53, 41;
how we lose, 527, 22;
imaginary, 521, 43;
in anticipation, 93, 46;
independent of prosperity and adversity, 286, 21;
independent of wealth and greatness, 297, 46;
in feeling one with the whole, 173, 2;
in sufficiency for self, 77, 34;
in the heart, 185, 52;
in what to be sought, 12, 25;
love of, higher in man than, 471, 33;
made dependent on chance, 200, 4;
main thing for, 457, 22;
matrimonial, condition of, 353, 46;
matter of feeling, 180, 1;
meaning of, 490, 21;
negatively defined, 492, 28;
never perfect, 86, 29; 210, 21;
no, without a friend, 289, 5;
no, without love, 364, 4;
not dependent on congruity of opinion, 331, 42;
not promoted by argument, 173, 38;
not the purpose of life, 490, 20;
not to be boasted of, 333, 11;
of others, hard to taste, 381, 39;
offered to all, 290, 4;
one good way to, 332, 28;
one's, not to be thought of, 329, 28;
only personated, 521, 21;
or unhappiness, what determines, 533, 34;
our desire for, 530, 5;
power of, to swell heart, 326, 8;
purpose of nature, 516, 52;
pursuit of, 524, 16;
rather than full purse, 81, 15;
real, cheap enough, 369, 13;
real, defined, 459, 35;
Ruskin's definition of true, 267, 2;
sayings about, 232, 43-50; 433, 9-12;
seat of, 154, 7;
secret of, 452, 41;
seekers for more than, 483, 18;
seen through another's eyes, 160, 52;
sinful and natural, 478, 38;
solid, in the heart, 174, 3;
source of, 202, 1;
the basis of, 338, 12, 13; 349, 33;
the highest, 434, 41;
the one condition of, 87, 12;
the only, worth while, 446, 7;
the principle of, 366, 21;
to be deserved, 175, 34;
to be found at home, 567, 32;
to fill the hour, 492, 26;
to attain, 532, 19;
true, 87, 2;
two foes of, 459, 25;
unexpected, 132, 18;
untasted, 60, 13;
utmost possible, 493, 12;
what it consists in, 12, 62;
what most contributes to, 533, 32;
within narrow bounds, 541, 13;
without self-control, 192, 24
=Happy=, apology for being, 487, 15;
day, a, foretold, 433, 14;
days, a succession of, hard to bear, 298, 18;
days bygone, misery of recalling, 295, 44;
man, insensible to lapse of time, 58, 17;
man, the, 433, 14, 15;
man, the only, 142, 3;
presence of, to wretched, 449, 8
=Hard= times not rare, 35, 2
=Hardened=, the, with time, 124, 38
=Hard-heartedness=, who prone to, 238, 31
=Hardships=, our own and others', 433, 18;
stimulating effect of, 563, 35
=Harm=, no, but from one's self, 295, 11; 314, 6
=Harmony=, as accepted by the crowd and the musician, 445, 7;
hard to restore, 67, 35;
in which things are reconciled, Gœthe on, 285, 26;
inner, everything, 151, 16;
the condition of, 511, 39
=Harness=, die with, on back, 31, 3;
necessary for a man, 12, 44
=Harper=, a, on one string, 376, 37
=Haste=, and prudence incompatible, 313, 44;
but not hurry, 484, 16;
evil of, 133, 34;
evil of an excess of, 481, 1;
raw, 75, 37;
unreasonable, evil of, 508, 21;
vulgar, 315, 27
=Hat=, man in pursuit of his, 469, 5
=Hate=, a grief, 473, 5;
deadliest, from deepest desire, 116, 24;
drop of, in cup of joy, 79, 37;
effect of one shriek of, 344, 4;
that blossomed into charity, 491, 41
=Hater=, a good, 167, 37
=Hatred=, a form of love, 436, 29;
alien to a true man, 22, 5;
avowed, 196, 40;
contrasted with pity, 348, 52;
deprecated, 71, 44;
effect of, 381, 31;
effect of, on worth of a man, 141, 3;
effect of one drop of, 332, 10;
effect of time on, 487, 18;
grafted on extinct friendship, 433, 21;
greatest, characterised, 432, 15;
how provoked, 105, 15;
how to overcome, 117, 14;
in life alone, 319, 6;
our, reason and effect of, 524, 18;
poisoning power of, 332, 10;
the bitterest, 2, 53;
too keen, effect of, 545, 2;
unproductive of good, 30, 5
=Haughtiness= from birth, 398, 33; from work, 206, 40
=Havelock's= fidelity to principle, 167, 22
=Having=, dependent on using, 122, 9
=Hazard=, motive for, 276, 37;
of the die, 167, 11
=Head=, a great, the function of, 184, 27;
a witless, 25, 4;
and heart, difficult to unite, 398, 35;
big, witless, 1, 28;
contrasted with heart, 433, 24;
empty, conceited, 58, 39;
figure, mere figurehead, 198, 37;
hoary, to be honoured, 377, 30;
inferior to heart, 433, 25, 30;
one good, value of, 332, 24;
stupid, with good heart, 87, 40;
that wears a crown, 140, 22;
the hoary, 435, 23;
to be held up, 158, 25;
without moral sentiments, 433, 23
=Headache=, effect of a, 390, 3
=Heads=, grey, 380, 29;
in hearts, 398, 35;
little and long, 467, 6;
may differ when hearts don't, 153, 48
=Healing=, in health, 184, 14;
by medicine, lance, or fire, 326, 41
=Health=, a recipe for, 217, 27;
a sign of, 453, 32;
and exercise of, 534, 12;
and sickness, rules for, 187, 20;
before holiness, 452, 9;
better in Nature's hand than doctor's, 29, 50;
chief condition of, 224, 30;
compared with money, 282, 40;
dependence of, on cheerfulness, 40, 48;
from labour, 387, 13;
from temperance, 260, 36;
good, wealth, 41, 30;
how to promote, 81, 42;
importance of, 245, 32;
life, 309, 38;
necessary for holiness, 12, 22;
of citizen, bodily and spiritual,
concern of all governments, 549, 16;
sacrifice of, 432, 31;
secret of, 2, 47;
sign of, 433, 27;
source of, 116, 12;
text for a sermon on, 533, 10;
the flower of, 40, 51;
the best preservative of, 417, 55;
the sphere melody, 435, 3;
the use of, 537, 20;
the value of, 123, 13; 428, 43;
true wealth, 492, 35
=Healthy=, man, and the seasons, 433, 28;
the, sweet-tempered, 9, 42
=Hear=, who will not, 532, 29
=Hearing=, and obeying God's word, merit of, 30, 46;
and seeing, 521, 32;
before speaking, 83, 42;
man, compared with the speaking, 140, 19;
mere, and learning, 525, 12;
not always believing, 64, 1;
no, without understanding, 85, 39;
not followed by faith, 32, 15;
rather than sacrifice, 217, 33;
value of, 116, 7
=Hearsay=, as a basis of communion, 472, 16
=Heart=, a bleeding, only healer of, 125, 11;
a child's, without sorrow, 165, 35;
a great, qualities of, 477, 23;
a heavy, effect of beauty or music on, 545, 36;
a man's, his honour, 54, 4;
a merry, 147, 15;
a noble, an open hand, 167, 18;
a noble, immovable, 48, 6;
a poor, and a rich purse, 198, 39;
a product of, test of, 565, 22;
a pure, to be prayed for, 135, 18;
a saddened, inconsolable by words, 54, 27;
a, untainted, 538, 37;
an empty, 435, 37;
an oracle of fate, 62, 3;
an ungrateful, no melting, 107, 46;
and its divine motions, 527, 19;
and mind, methods of, different, 22, 45;
and the Muses and gods, 548, 33;
as an oracle, 64, 29;
as sound as a bell, 142, 50;
carrying, on tongue, 149, 40;
compared to ocean, 287, 51;
contracting power of, 556, 12;
contrasted with head, 433, 24;
doors of, shut, 382, 9;
effect of fire in, 106, 40;
effect of purification of, 541, 15;
endowments of, 392, 49;
everything, 279, 34;
female, like new indiarubber shoe, 427, 33;
fountain of life, 217, 34;
free and fetterless, 326, 13;
germs of all things in, 430, 2;
gifts of, 122, 39;
glowing, power of, 297, 26;
God's voice in, 458, 43;
good, value of, 549, 39;
great, the function of, 184, 27;
hardening of, measure of, 190, 15;
higher, the warmer, 250, 5;
human, a tablet on which all things are writ, 292, 48;
honest, free frae guile, 435, 26;
human, sayings about, 435, 42-44;
in prosperity and adversity, 401, 24;
its history, 222, 13;
its place of rest, 103, 62;
its romance, 222, 13;
its yearnings, 536, 46;
known only to God, 154, 21;
light, vitality of, 8, 31;
less inflexible than head, 233, 4;
life of, 75, 26;
like a millstone, 54, 3;
like the sea, 272, 24;
literature of the, 262, 24;
loving, willing, 103, 43;
makes us right or wrong, 289, 12;
man's, insatiable, 266, 35;
meditative, 441, 43;
must have an object to rest on, 123, 12;
my, leaps up, 287, 49;
native soil of thoughts, 54, 36;
noble, noblest task of, 122, 32;
no traitor, 80, 17;
not to be controlled, 315, 8;
not to be dictated to, 218, 9;
not to be too much trusted, 528, 41;
not to cling too much to things, 297, 52;
open not, to every one, 232, 24;
place of, 549, 4;
product of, its quality, 540, 28;
pure, strength of, 288, 24;
reflective of world, 75, 8;
sayings about the, 433, 30-46; 434, 1-13;
secrets of, how revealed, 222, 7;
sensitive, an unhappy possession, 385, 23;
simplicity of, healing and cementing, 121, 44;
stout in, never God-forsaken, 131, 5;
sincere and tranquil, characteristic of, 545, 38;
sovereign over head, 433, 25;
standard of worth, 271, 42;
sunny spots in, without light, 126, 6;
teaching of, compared with reason, 370, 3;
thankful, prayer for, 321, 17;
the, allurements that draw, 68, 3;
that has gone through no sorrow, 452, 1;
the great in, 144, 51;
the, has its own religion, 91, 3;
the, impulse of, 267, 3;
the, that is most like God, 484, 8;
the, speech of, 556, 1;
the true sun-flower, 268, 59;
true as steel, 566, 3;
true greatness of, 500, 30;
to keep up, difficult, 208, 14;
uneasy, effect of, on our view of things, 320, 32;
unpurified by woe, 59, 52;
virtues of, underrated, 276, 21;
wear my, upon my sleeve, 169, 17;
what comes from the, test of, 323, 7;
what goes to, 534, 36;
when at peace, 53, 27;
when it leads the way, 548, 32;
who has most, 150, 37;
who touches our, as with a live coal, 142, 48;
with Divine love in it, 383, 45;
without error rare, 106, 17;
wrinkles of, 465, 41;
wrong, effect of, on head, 176, 19
=Hearth=, a, of one's own, value of, 54, 31; 77, 45
=Heart's= bitterness, control, 30, 5
=Hearts=, bad, effect of gold on, 128, 39;
everywhere the same, 274, 24;
fellowship with, to be cultivated, 549, 12;
few, rightly affected to heaven, 154, 4;
full of grief, masked, 117, 24;
great, like great mountains, 252, 29;
hard, how to win, 396, 45;
highest, temper of, 207, 1;
how to win, 70, 25;
in heads, 398, 35;
kind, value of, 163, 5;
kind, more than coronets, 218, 34;
loving, parted, sorrows of, 546, 27;
muffled drums, 18, 35;
not to be alienated, but united, 277, 25;
of different moulds, 92, 19;
property of, inalienable, 538, 41;
reasons of, 233, 3;
toying with, 496, 29
=Heaven=, a plain road to, 35, 32;
ascent to, 485, 36;
at once far and near, 314, 46;
blue of, and the cloud, 418, 44;
communion with, condition of, 217, 31;
compensation from, 60, 16;
conversing with, as a task, 488, 3;
demand of, 483, 24;
door of, lowly, 154, 19, 23;
everywhere overhead, 473, 43;
face to face in, 203, 19;
fire of, source of, 458, 41;
gates of, battered by prayers, 25, 64;
going to, alone, 207, 13;
going to, by force of habit, 398, 37;
help of, 176, 12;
has its thorns, 298, 12;
how to purchase, 360, 5;
how to respond to, 123, 6;
impenetrable to prayer, 118, 10;
in a dewdrop, 225, 32;
in earth, 76, 6;
in proportion to earth, 371, 39;
life of, from soil of earth, 109, 37;
near us, 154, 40;
nearness of, 116, 3;
nothing true but, 482, 19;
old and new road to, 479, 9;
once in, better than often at the door, 28, 44;
only in the eye, 27, 13;
road to, 515, 22;
still open, as of old, 403, 6;
teachings of, 456, 43;
the ladder of, 458, 48;
the miles to, 99, 32;
the, of the soul, 545, 47;
the question as regards, 450, 29;
the way to, 392, 32;
treasures of, 458, 20;
unthinkable, 33, 39;
way to, 461, 29;
when deaf, 103, 49;
who excluded from, 304, 1;
worth much, 184, 46
=Heavenly=, and earthly counterparts, 475, 43;
powers, sovereign ways of, 434, 15;
powers, who knows not, 532, 33;
things, love of, 198, 7
=Heaven's=, appointments to be accepted, 526, 24;
judgment, just, 488, 29
=Heavens=, a way through, remains, 375, 4;
not to be scaled, 127, 28;
sayings about the, 434, 16-18;
the silent, 453, 38
=Heavenward= progress, our, 338, 15
=Heaviness= that's gone to be forgotten, 243, 40
=Hector=, fame of, and the fall of Troy, 154, 27;
love of, 154, 28;
sad look of, 154, 38
=Hegel= on Christianity, 42, 54
=Height=, and depth, correlative, 560, 10;
how to attain a, 526, 33;
the, and the steps to it, 434, 23
=Heights=, other, ahead, 336, 40
=Heir=, an, weeping of, 139, 5
=Helicon=, rills from, 116, 8;
the fountain of, 429, 20
=Hell=, a fierce, 472, 38;
better to reign in, 29, 51;
feeling, 27, 13;
for the inquisitive, 51, 41;
getting to, hard work, 186, 5;
proof of existence of, 191, 24;
scroll over gate of, 230, 20;
the fear o', 427, 25;
the, of these days, 434, 26;
which way I fly, 550, 9
=Hellas= made strange by time, 316, 53
=Help=, before preaching, 144, 31;
man's, to man, 494, 28;
mutual, importance of, 450, 32;
no effectual, from another, 306, 21;
no help, 150, 7;
not at needful moment, 551, 11;
only in union, 15, 39;
only source of, 304, 36;
our power of, small, 488, 17;
slow, 394, 14;
spontaneous, in need, 30, 27;
the rule of, 158, 8;
the, to be given, 368, 44;
who alone gives, 334, 53;
worthlessness of, Goethe on, 169, 23
=Helper=, a willing, does not wait, 83, 59
=Helpers= in distress, 514, 15
=Helpful=, the only permanently, 315, 33
=Helpfulness=, man's, 193, 50
=Helps=, as a thinker, 453, 7
=Henry IV.= of France, wish of, 211, 23;
to his soldiers at Ivry, 397, 8
=Heraldic= arms, the noblest, 172, 23
=Heraldry=, in what contained, 461, 12
=Hercules= and his work, 555, 8
=Here=, and now, as interests, 524, 41;
or nowhere, our aim, 155, 48
=Hereafter=, witness to a, 488, 49
=Heredity=, in families, 419, 33;
no escape from law of, 162, 25
=Heresies=, in Church, root of, 452, 8
=Hermits=, a virtue in, 199, 24
=Hero=, a bore at last, 91, 23;
all that is necessary to make, 477, 17;
and his valet, 205, 44;
death of, 395, 25;
desire of, to meet hero, 86, 11;
dust in the balance, 190, 13;
every, property of, 206, 42;
faith essential to, 202, 35;
glory of, 205, 35;
merit of biographer of a, 142, 48;
mock, under misfortune, 260, 1;
no, without enemies, 520, 32;
no, without humanity, 519, 35;
none a, to his valet, 303, 49;
proof of a, 538, 21;
source of his inspiration, 569, 39;
such only in heroic world, 134, 22;
the first characteristic of, 392, 27
=Hero-arm= without hero-eye, 534, 19
=Heroes=, and poets, akin, 351, 35;
as dead and as alive, 488, 47;
effect of history on, 228, 15;
legacy of, 438, 34;
literary, Johnson on, 434, 29;
many, too long lived, 44, 36;
moral, in the field, and heroines, 349, 9;
without poet, 517, 7
=Heroic=, act, a triumph at last, 91, 24;
deeds, the greatest, 432, 32;
heart, of the first times, 434, 30;
when mask drops, 234, 1
=Heroine=, and hero, 302, 28
=Heroism=, in domestic life, 465, 23;
the essence of, 386, 14;
true, 500, 5
=Hero-worship=, defect in our, accounted for, 175, 40;
our, effect on us of, 338, 14;
the corner-stone of society, 190, 34
=Hid=, what cannot be, disclosing, 325, 32
=Hierograms=, sacred, 99, 17
=High=, and low, independent of place, 315, 4;
and low, pleasures of, contrasted, 238, 29;
apprehension of the, rare, 419, 26;
looks and mean thoughts, 274, 42;
man, the, a failure, 482, 4;
place, men in, thrice servants, 275, 18;
rank not same as discernment, 233, 34;
station, effect of, 238, 22;
the, low origin of, 23, 46;
things, effect of converse with, 328, 26;
things, exposure of, to danger, 379, 31;
things, mind not, 279, 35
=Higher=, a, acknowledgment of, necessary to man, 61, 10;
reverence for a, 340, 45
=Highest=, attainable by the lowest, 116, 27;
not to be spoken of in words, 188, 27;
the, exemplar of each, 28, 12;
the, in God's esteem, 434, 43;
the, to be loved, 527, 17;
the, to be reverenced, 375, 29;
things, above control, 189, 26
=Highway=, not to be deserted, 71, 46;
sowing in, 148, 21
=Highways=, public, to be kept clear, 450, 8
=Hill=, going down, 171, 31
=Hills=, seen far off, 31, 4;
steep, climbing, 244, 12
=Hindus=, the, vow of, 64, 34
=Hint=, enough for the wise, 235, 3
=Hip=, catch one upon, 172, 33
=Historian=, a, a species of prophet, 435, 15
=Historical= genius, the true, 458, 46
=History=, a great, an epical, 287, 32;
a satire on humanity, 121, 54;
all, a Bible, 9, 44;
always a pleasure, 157, 20;
and biography, identical, 476, 24;
and conscience, 204, 5;
effect on, of heroes, 228, 15;
God in, 150, 23;
how to read, 455, 40;
interest of, 462, 9;
laws of, Cicero's, 366, 29;
man's, summarised, 266, 37;
of every man, 435, 18;
our best, 337, 14;
our, Cromwell on, 534, 3;
problems of, confronted, 207, 33;
study of, profitlessness of, for self-culture, 304, 31;
temporal, meaning of, 455, 1;
the best benefit from, 53, 30;
the facts of, 457, 33;
the only poetry, 446, 12;
the only true, 30, 22;
the two pinions of, 402, 37;
the verdict of, when possible, 207, 27;
Voltaire's view of, 223, 19;
what constitutes, 335, 42
=Hoard=, and heart, 338, 17;
to be moderate, 340, 10
=Hoarding=, and enjoying, 539, 45;
forfeiting life, 144, 53
=Hobbes' thesis=, 157, 47
=Hobby-horses=, expensiveness of, 402, 31
=Holdfast=, the only dog, 110, 29
=Hole=, a, in a' your coats, 174, 49
=Holiness=, different effects of, and liberty, 245, 38;
no, without health, 12, 22
=Holy=, give not, to dogs, 123, 21;
prior to unholy, 94, 22
=Holy Land=, the, 482, 32
=Home=, a golden milestone, 75, 16;
a good, man unworthy of, 304, 1;
a man's starting-point, 163, 8;
a necessity, 105, 5;
a palace, 36, 32;
a source of joy, 174, 3;
being far from, 102, 9;
good of, 12, 4;
happy at, advice to, 71, 1;
how made attractive, 165, 30;
how regarded in England, 82, 44;
no longer cared for, a bad sign, 543, 5;
no place like, 279, 2;
not here, 414, 16;
of one's own, and a good wife, value of, 78, 48;
place of peace, 325, 48;
returning under good omens, 300, 13;
sacredness of, 474, 18;
safest refuge, 71, 11;
staying at, commended, 533, 1;
the dream of, 551, 30;
value of, enhanced by travel, 95, 1;
where a true woman is, 549, 11
=Home-life=, backbone of a nation, 305, 26
=Homer=, art of, 534, 10; Carlyle on Iliad of, 158, 37; 436, 17;
dead, rivalry for, 387, 49, 50;
ground of our interest in, 70, 32;
nods, 8, 38;
rank as poet, 503, 48;
the praise of, 368, 46
=Homers=, how made great, 489, 1
=Homes=, how, thrive, 45, 29;
why unhappy, 275, 2
=Honest=, heart, disadvantage of, 445, 43;
I dare to be, 165, 38;
man, an, 15, 17;
man, Burns on, 16, 65;
man, the, 435, 27, 28;
man, unaffected, 443, 16;
people, chief misfortune of, 333, 25;
to be as this world goes, 490, 22
=Honesty=, a powerful fetter, 21, 44;
a true, single-hearted, 536, 32;
as a legacy, 302, 44;
as policy, 35, 9;
before riches, 521, 17;
cheaper than hypocrisy,533, 15;
contrasted with knavery, 219, 42, 43, 47;
if pawned, never redeemed, 229, 29;
indispensableness of, 304, 24;
lasts longest, 78, 25;
not safe, 409, 27;
often goaded to ruin, 4, 47;
out of world of knaves, how, 123, 41;
rare, 25, 38;
recommends itself, 106, 31;
strong in, 474, 33;
the importance of, 428, 38;
the value of, 370, 48;
to be practised, 504, 15;
who pauses in, 441, 19
=Honey=, a waste of, 200, 41;
who would gather, 152, 52
=Honey-bees=, so work the, 395, 36
=Honour=, acme of, 460, 18;
and duty, the post of, 541, 19;
and glory, 463, 11;
an earnest of more, 223, 31;
an upholding power, 415, 12;
as reward, 159, 46, 47;
before fear of death, 173, 7;
before
life, 406, 38;
bound by, 170, 13;
call of, to be followed, 172, 25;
effect of, on arts, 159, 49; I
love the name of, 167, 47;
in the meanest habit, 20, 53;
in what it lies, 3, 59;
incompatible with ease, 76, 8;
loss of, 78, 22; 172, 40;
lost, all lost, 105, 55; 106, 1;
man worthy of, sure destiny of, 68, 10;
mine, my life, 279, 43;
more precious than life, 246, 30;
new-made, doth forget men's names, 207, 29;
not merely to be wooed, 384, 34;
once lost, 7, 29;
our true, the seat of, 338, 42;
post of, Carlyle on, 448, 35;
public, effect of, 357, 8;
reward of action, 272, 8;
stintedness in, 532, 3;
the place of virtue, 199, 38;
the post of, 47, 25;
titles of, 489, 16, 17;
to only two sets of men, 503, 45;
to whom due, effect on, 22, 11;
true and false, 199, 15;
undeserved, delight in, 101, 3
=Honourable=, nothing, without justice, 299, 11;
praiseworthy, 159, 36;
the, defined, 535, 45
=Honours=, and manners, 238, 37;
dearly bought, 238, 38;
effect of, on manners, 159, 48;
great, great burdens, 133, 35;
hereditary, value of, 155, 22;
how to render remote, near, 474, 16;
men's, 312, 13
=Hood=, a page of, Lowell on, 130, 23
=Hoof=, a clattering, 155, 29
=Hook=, to be always baited, 386, 37
=Hope=, a helmet, 118, 22; a long, 79, 22;
a too dear, 476, 42;
a waking dream, 110, 4; 222, 44;
against fortune, 552, 29;
air-castles of, still in the air, 140, 24;
all men's, 223, 18;
all-pervasive, 405, 50;
cherisher of life, 49, 52;
deceitful, 320, 23;
enjoyment, 495, 7;
evil of want of, 548, 42;
fed by fancy, 119, 9;
good, the effect of, 401, 29;
he who lives by, 441, 18;
indulgence in, 509, 41;
last stay to give way, 227, 36;
living in, 147, 43;
man's great, 265, 21;
man's greatest happiness, 110, 41;
man's only possession, 263, 48;
never comes, 548, 23;
never lose, 382, 6;
no extinguishing of, 311, 45;
no, no fear, 548, 15;
often illusory, 3, 9;
persistency of, 224, 15;
persuasive power of, 180, 33;
power of, 173, 13; 525, 20;
prayed for, as a blessing, 37, 27;
sayings about, 400, 31-33;
our inclination to, 521, 31;
term of, 5, 4;
the phœnix, 447, 39;
the power of, 319, 16;
to be cherished, 112, 42;
true, 500, 6;
vain, gain in loss of, 20, 25;
worse than despair, 563, 13
=Hopes=, a bad investment, 401, 22, 23;
as causes of ruin, 102, 11;
high, 82, 41;
our, defined, 338, 18;
vain spending on, 78, 10
=Horace=, his aim in life, 279, 20;
on his muse, 63, 31
=Horace's=, prayer, 158, 1;
thanksgiving to the gods, 63, 30
=Horizon=, a property in the, 470, 21
=Horse=, a willing, 32, 58;
and his rider, 117, 7;
bridled, ear of, 84, 20;
even a, will stumble, 89, 20;
grown fat, 37, 19;
sayings about the, 435, 30, 31;
what makes a good, 36, 1
=Horses=, buying, 185, 18;
in England and Italy, 82, 45;
to be fed, not pampered, 84, 16
=Hospitable= heart, who owns, 403, 27
=Hospitality=, a, not to be refused, 399, 2;
genuine, effect of, 471, 8;
not impoverishing, 168, 9;
what it consists of, 242, 19
=Host=, the, characterised, 435, 32
=Houndsditch=, the exodus from, when possible, 523, 11
=Hour=, darkest, 422, 38;
past, never returns, 292, 48;
that brings pleasant weather, 484, 27;
the call of, 71, 31;
the, God's, 223, 18;
the morning, 283, 47;
the transient, to be seized, 36, 53
=Hours=, all, to be improved, 406, 7;
happy, 435, 36
=House=, an empty, 435, 37;
divided against itself, 171, 8;
full of guests, 36, 31;
one's own, one's real root-room, 317, 44;
ornament of a, 446, 31;
the, what it may be made, 333, 2
=Household= as home, 435, 39
=Households=, kingdoms, 251, 22
=House-keeping=, hard, 270, 45;
vice of our, 460, 34
=House-mother=, a good, 389, 7
=Houses=, high, upper storey of, 156, 31;
repairing old, cost of, 327, 19
=How=, question of, 518, 25
=Human=, affairs, their risings and sinkings, 451, 46;
countenances, sympathetic, 510, 26;
element in man, 533, 45;
face, Sir J. Reynolds on, 435, 41;
kindness, full o' the milk o', 564, 36;
mind, the disease of, at present, 423, 44;
mind, saying of, 498, 5;
nature, everywhere the same, 332, 17;
nature, how to distort, 152, 40;
nature, its derivation, 65, 34;
nature, rules applicable to, 189, 52;
nature, strength of, under wrong, 468, 12;
nature, the peculiarity of, 3, 65;
nature, two ruling principles in, 504, 2;
race, character of, 100, 36;
race, daring of, 22, 45;
race, the, its best condition, 436, 3;
race, the, task of, 421, 17;
strength, to be exerted against fate, 404, 17;
things, frail support of, 328, 32;
worth, reverence for, the essence of all religions, 375, 28
=Humanism= contrasted with Christianity, 42, 56
=Humanity=, a common property, 524, 22;
and education, 65, 34;
as an invention, 261, 53;
as a whole, the only true man, 173, 2;
divinity of, 475, 42;
due to education, 163, 28;
grandmother and daughters of, 396, 32;
grows dearer, 402, 48;
how to elevate, 490, 41;
imitated, so abominably, 167, 14;
in deeds, 517, 28;
its designs and hopes, 206, 5;
joy of, 431, 30;
mistrust of, evil of, 151, 46;
only true principle of, 446, 23;
our goal, 163, 32;
our limit, 253, 8;
the battle of, 215, 46;
the essence of, 198, 43;
the sacred law of, 84, 14;
to be esteemed, 517, 28;
true, in the fields, 567, 33;
what to seek for, 527, 10;
who lives for, 554, 19;
without God, 338, 20
=Humble=, only, to rule, 169, 10;
sanctuary of, 422, 17
=Hume= and Johnson, if combined, 554, 24
=Humility=, a noble, how possible, 334, 42;
and knowledge, 356, 29;
as an ornament, 432, 33;
before God, effect of, 319, 35;
idea of, 428, 39;
modest, beauty's crown, 281, 37;
the Christian doctrine of, 420, 16;
too much, 569, 32;
want of, 518, 32
=Humour=, and pathos conjoined, 547, 33;
contrasted with wit, 558, 3;
essence of, 425, 41;
enough of a kind, 262, 26;
good, effect of, on weak spirits, 118, 18;
men of, men of genius, 276, 6
true, 231, 16;
true, defined, 500, 8-10
=Hunger=, a teacher, 259, 2; 285, 39;
best sauce, 180, 6;
effect of, on temper, 101, 30
=Hurry=, effect of, 104, 48, 50;
evil of, 536, 6;
man in a, Whately's advice to, 441, 16;
sign of incompetency, 553, 22
=Hurting= and healing, 513, 8
=Husband=, and wife, qualities of, 190, 45;
and wife, as economists, 492, 19;
the hen-pecked, and the tyrant wife, Burns' anathema on, 52, 1
=Husbandman=, and his labours, 436, 6;
happiness of, 320, 27;
unselfish labour of, 17, 29;
Virgil of, 371, 19
=Husbandry=, good, good divinity, 129, 34
=Huss=, John, at the stake, 322, 3
=Hymen= contrasted with war, 518, 38
=Hymn-book= not a panacea, 467, 14
=Hypocrisy=, homage to virtue, 223, 32;
intolerable, 468, 29;
in managing another, 93, 47;
where it begins, 91, 44
=Hypocrite=, Bishop Hall on, 436, 7;
Burns' aversion to, 127, 10;
worse than open sinner, 29, 47
=Hypocrites=, Satan's dupes, 174, 1
=Hypotheses=, lullabies, 164, 27;
repudiated by Newton, 164, 25
=Hypothesis=, power of a good stout, 122, 5
=Hyssop= in chink of wall, _raison d'être_ of, 555, 4
I
=Icicle=, image of chastity, 40, 37, 39
=Idea=, a single, devotion to, 168, 37;
a single, possession by, deprecated, 169, 18;
an idle or distracting, evil of, 110, 18;
an infinite religious, power of, 421, 38;
and fact compared, 464, 28;
devotion to an, 379, 7;
fixed, danger of, 5, 47;
manifestation of, as beautiful, fleeting, 65, 28;
men possessed with an, 276, 18;
new, hard to instil, 491, 11;
power of an, 186, 34;
risk of sacrificing all to, 289, 37;
superior worth of, 538, 33;
the, and its manifestations, 65, 5;
the, that is once spoken no longer ours, 436, 8;
to be acted on, if it cannot be uttered, 217, 47
=Ideal=, accompaniments of, 559, 6;
better than actual, 91, 55; 92, 9;
attained, a low one, 149, 45;
describable only when conceived as real, 448, 40;
every one has his, 26, 58;
from duty, 116, 31;
in actual, 415, 33;
now insisted on, not natural, 112, 32;
ousted by the real, 415, 28;
pursuing one's own, 173, 29;
the, an illusory vision, 72, 40;
the, for every one, and how to realise it, 124, 7;
to grow in the real, 436, 9
=Idealist=, the, and his body, 315, 23
=Ideals=, extinct, 65, 4;
our, defined, 338, 21
=Ideas=, ancient, entertainment by moderns of, 174, 9;
change of, pleasure in, 315, 43;
confining, controlling power of, 524, 31;
delusive, prevalence of, 58, 10;
hard to discern, 391, 26;
having, and thinking, compared, 493, 9;
how realisable, 302, 34;
like pieces of money, 207, 34;
made flesh, 399, 21;
mistaken, the stupefying and pauperising effect of, 201, 35;
new, daring and inspiring, genesis of, 297, 26;
not measure of a man, 312, 32;
our, like pictures, 338, 22;
our want, not facts, 524, 45;
power of, 546, 30;
the shells of, 89, 38;
those who build on, 479, 23;
to assume a visible form, 91, 30;
world of, a refuge, 492, 14
=Idioms=, in language, 91, 11
=Idiots=, only, twice cozened, 116, 22;
the greatest, 478, 13
=Idle=, always busiest, 180, 20;
always dodge work, 108, 7;
chagrins of, 467, 28;
man, character of, 333, 8;
man, according to Socrates, 143, 41;
people, and their ennui, 345, 8;
the, and the devil, 423, 28;
the, characteristic of, 238, 20;
their intentions, 436, 13
=Idleness=, a reproach, 490, 23;
a tempting of the devil, 178, 52;
better than a bad trade, 29, 13;
busy, 268, 40;
evil of, 15, 19; 34, 3; 287, 29; 306, 42;
evil of encouraging, 175, 11;
fly, 108, 1;
harder work than industry, 97, 20;
in youth, penalty of, 25, 37;
its hopelessness, 187, 32;
mischief of, 224, 14;
strenuous, the toil of, 403, 35;
the blight of genius, 5, 20;
the evil of, 12, 48;
the toil of, 153, 17;
too much, effect of, 497, 38
=Idler=, a young, 214, 42;
like a handless watch, 15, 20
=Idlers=, great talkers, 345, 16
=Idolater=, the true, 363, 32
=Idolatry=, a mad, 488, 19;
the, that is condemnable, 46, 9
"=If=," comprehensiveness of, 24, 37;
the inventor of, 60, 30;
virtue in, 568, 22
=Igdrasil=, the tree, 399, 46
=Ignorance=, a modest confession of, 13, 51;
and unconsciousness of it, 147, 36;
as support of priestcraft, 377, 26;
audacious, _versus_ timorous knowledge, 546, 22;
comfort of, 116, 10;
contrasted with error, 84, 50; 85, 4; 85, 10;
evil of, 306, 42; 436, 14;
happiness, 83, 45;
honest, 471, 1;
human, Goethe on, 320, 29;
in action, 315, 25;
life-long, a tragedy, 414, 3;
man's, 483, 25;
of good from bad, effect of, 178, 21;
of self, 175, 5;
our, fatal, 539, 26;
rather than falsehood, 28, 56;
sense of, from greater knowledge, 443, 28;
sense of, mark of wisdom, 175, 5;
that marks a superior nature, 469, 32;
the only darkness, 472, 20;
true, 146, 2;
unconsciousness of, 147, 37;
voluntary, blameworthness of, 148, 41
=Ignorant=, man, an, according to the Hitopadesa, 151, 14;
the, most violent, 477, 24
=Iliad=, and wayside incidents, 436, 16;
Homer's, Carlyle on, 158, 37; 436, 17
=Iliads=, no formulæ for making, 467, 32
=Ilium=, sacred, fate of, 86, 33
=Ill=, a solace under, 184, 35;
patiently borne, 442, 41;
reports, credit given to, 274, 7;
saying and thinking no, 208, 41;
to do, who fears, 551, 18
=Ill-bred= man, mark of, 447, 30
=Ill-done=, the, no concern of ours, 554, 29
=Ill-fortune=, the, inexperienced in, 551, 32;
without power on him whom good fortune deceives not, 181, 41
=Ill-humour=, protection from, 517, 31
=Illiterate= man, mark of, 447, 30
=Ill-luck=, fascination of, 398, 34;
how to avert, 31, 27
=Ill-mannered=, manners of, to whom odious, 441, 26
=Ill-manners=, three sources of, 356, 32
=Ill-natured= man, and public spirit, 202, 33
=Ills=, imaginary, Burns on, 33, 11;
in relation to blessings, 31, 17;
the, we have to be borne, 424, 19;
why ills, 139, 17
=Ill-thought= of, to be, sometimes a good, 490, 24
=Ill-tidings=, let, tell themselves, 123, 31
=Ill-usage=, effect of, 292, 16
=Illusion=, and after remorse, 61, 32;
its extent, 482, 19;
men's fondness for, 275, 9;
no end to, 72, 50;
power of, 349, 33;
that gladdens contrasted with truth that saddens, 80, 2;
the attractive power of, 320, 20;
the danger of, 422, 34;
which pervades life, 533, 23
=Illusions=, unmasking of, disliked, 502, 16
=Illustrious=, men, the sepulchre and the memorial of, 325, 5;
the most, 197, 15
=Ill-will=, the force of, 426, 48
=Images=, things expressed through, 480, 44
=Imagination=, a need of, 397, 22;
and reality, the worlds of, 465, 7;
appeals to, 263, 43;
as wings of ostrich, 157, 2;
contrasted with judgment, 223, 34;
death of, in love, 472, 27;
free, as nothing else, 315, 19;
in the poet, 448, 18;
madcap of the brain, 223, 33;
man's ruling and divine power, 403, 38;
more sensitive than heart, 200, 54;
Napoleon on the power of, 39, 8;
necessary to recognition of truth, 105, 12;
no imagination, 150, 8;
power of, 525, 21;
sayings about, 436, 20-23;
science indebted to, 382, 27;
strong, tricks of, 405, 53;
subject only to art, 78, 37;
surpassed by reality, 369, 21;
the element of, 397, 22;
to be kept sane, 217, 31;
under the affections, 545, 22;
want of, a grave defect, 16, 14;
without learning, 150, 32;
without taste, 78, 37;
without truth, 105, 33
=Imbecility=, man's, effect of, 436, 24
=Imitation=, a source of all apprenticeship, 138, 9;
easy, 34, 19;
long step to, 470, 5;
more potent than precept, 200, 46;
not discipleship, 490, 8;
of another's style, 493, 23;
of evil contrasted with that of good, 150, 49;
of good and of bad, 223, 15;
power of, 475, 36;
rule in, 362, 8; 529, 29
=Immaterial= things essential to life, 468, 26
=Immortality=, balked of, 144, 42;
effect of disbelief in, 544, 38;
essence of, 425, 33;
faith in, to be enjoyed in silence, 243, 12;
Horace's assurance of his, 310, 21;
how we forfeit, 529, 39;
our faith in, 523, 27;
the blazing evidence of, 337, 38;
the interest in, 66, 46
=Impatience=, Burns on, 340, 17;
difficult to conquer,
167, 1;
the evil of, 343, 11;
to right one's self to be curbed, 402, 10
=Imperial= spirits, rare prerogative of, 492, 43
=Imperfections=, our, the secret of, 306, 22
=Impious= to be feared, 166, 6
=Importance=, airs of, deceptive, 7, 38;
effect of imagination on, 565, 15;
in matters of, trust unsafe, 184, 19
=Impossibilities=, created by idleness, 202, 28;
faith laughs at, 100, 21
=Impossible=, everything at first, 92, 11;
no binding to the, 8, 34;
possible only to man, 261, 47;
proof of certainty, 38, 32;
the, 540, 10
=Imposture=, evils of, 9, 46;
probably for good, 357, 34
=Impression=, moral, when strongest, 338, 36
=Impromptu= test of wit, 223, 16
=Improvement=, means of, 531, 14;
not every, virtue, 298, 70;
secondary to invention, 98, 44
=Improvements=, resistance to, as innovations, 480, 16
=Improvidence= of life, 550, 42
=Impudence=, a god, 466, 24;
how to avoid imputation of, 461, 26;
mistaken for confidence, 289, 30;
the acme of, 440, 41
=Impulse=, the inner, power of, 475, 44
=Impunity=, evil effect of, 184, 6
=In= and out, in spiritual world, 191, 19
=Inability=, moral, and guilt, 283, 13;
suspends law, 183, 48
=Inaction=, accursed, 292, 6
=Inanimate=, the, to speak and reason, 265, 9
=Inanity=, alone endless, 314, 44
=Incapable= aping capable, 194, 39
=Incapacity=, the first proof of, 428, 33
=Incense=, a little, effect of, 505, 32;
ashes, and burning of, 301, 9;
on altar, obscuring effect, 421, 1
=Incivility=, from a superior, 506, 38
=Inclination=, and will, in the matter of virtue, 6, 42;
conquering, benefit of, 503, 8;
determining power of, 480, 39;
natural, to be controlled, 212, 7;
undue regard for one's own, 467, 16;
with habit, impossible to conquer, 491, 22
=Incomprehensible=, comprehensible, 61, 9
=Incongruous=, the, displeasing, 314, 31
=Inconstancy= man's one fault, 320, 35
=Increase=, the end of, 94, 40
=Incredible=, how to treat, 538, 43
=Incredulity=, a religion like the others, 223, 36
=Independence=, apostrophe to, 486, 10;
commended, 11, 28;
evil of loss of, 277, 4;
fruit of injustice, 224, 2;
rebellious, painful, 340, 45;
the best, 417, 40;
the glorious privilege of, 491, 17;
the secret of, 204, 24
=Independent= mind, Burns to, 483, 43
=Index=, an, a saving, 487, 1
=Indian=, the poor, faith of, 252, 12
=Indies=, wealth of the, 461, 41, 42
=Indifference=, prevalence of, now, 317, 42;
two kinds of, 131, 10
=Indigence=, man in, 542, 10
=Indigestion=, cause of dreams, 41, 52
=Indignation=, source of inspiration, 390, 24;
that makes verses, Carlyle on, 436, 27;
weaker than love, 255, 9
=Individual=, always moving, 436, 28;
as a private door to the divine, 125, 35;
first period of, 428, 28;
most important period in life of, 444, 1;
no, for his own sake, 91, 45;
no bridge between one and another, 472, 12;
the measure of an, 210, 28;
the, in society, 396, 17
=Individualism=, absolute, 2, 20;
adverse to welfare of the whole, 95,14;
preservative of power, 75, 18
=Individuality=, at a discount, 526, 22;
one's, his limit, 303, 26;
one's, sacred, 304, 43;
planted in instinct, power of, 174, 32
=Individuals=, easily dispensed with, 522, 42;
singly and corporately, 212, 11
=Indolence=, a perpetual holiday, 177, 48;
an end of, 334, 37;
king for life, 325, 9;
mistaken for patience, 330, 44;
our mental, 524, 33;
that voluntary debility, evil of, 414, 23
=Indolent= man, in love, 202, 55
=Indulgence=, how we learn, 205, 20;
rarer than pity, 187, 11
=Industrious=, first need of, 494, 1
=Industry=, as a defence, 99, 5;
building upon Nature, 544, 8;
condition of God's gifts, 125, 38;
dependence on one's own, 200, 36;
gifts that crown, 194, 4;
its support, 186, 41;
mistress of, 549, 27;
mother of, 518, 26;
the power of, 394, 7;
unfortunate condition of, 396, 21
=Inevitable=, arguing with, 472, 47;
folly of fearing or lamenting, 534, 28;
the, folly of distress about, 404, 33;
the, hard to bear, 54, 35;
to be yielded to, 551, 44
=Infant=, crying in the night, 15, 41;
those who have lost an, 480, 8
=Infant's= faith, sacredness of, 151, 47
=Inference= compared with observation, 323, 36
=Inferior=, finding one's, a first duty, 428, 15;
the, of nothing, worthlessness of, 147, 23
=Infidelity=, associated with bigotry, 407, 9;
general, as soil for religious ideas, 119, 39
=Infinite=, an epitome of, in every man, 266, 47;
how to attain to, 556, 28;
how to express, in art, 185, 10;
in finite, 495, 28;
nearness of, 116, 3;
seen in finite, 261, 45;
surest of facts, 436, 32;
the, how to read, 384, 37
=Infinity=, the chosen for, 507, 7
=Infirmity=, the badge of, 287, 33;
that last, of noble minds, 101, 23
=Influence=, defined, 9, 50;
over men, how to attain, 560, 27;
secret of, 436, 34;
true, 500, 11
=Influences=, man needs, 264, 1
=Infortune=, worst kind of, 110, 31
=Ingratitude=, a curse on, 403, 40;
evil of, 491, 14;
hatefulness of, 166, 31;
man's, 31, 2;
our suffering from, 524, 3;
the worst of vices, 132, 35
=Ingle-nook=, men must leave, 275, 39
=Inheritance=, as citizens, value of, 260, 8;
anticipated, 176, 23;
from our sires, 525, 3;
man's, 288, 6
=Inherited=, the, how to profit by, 519, 15
=Inhumanity=, man's, 266, 38
=Iniquity=, Burns' measure of, 541, 11;
sowing, penalty of, 148, 22
=Injuries=, benefit of, 436, 35;
best remedy for, 194, 31;
disregard of, mark of a great mind, 259, 21;
effect of slighting or being angry at, 194, 29;
not to be avenged, 154, 42;
our sense of, 385, 20;
revenging, costly, 198, 5;
to be expected, 97, 23;
to wilful men, 497, 3;
unexpected, 244, 34
=Injuring= to benefit, 483, 12
=Injurious= under injury, 311, 32
=Injury=, a galling, 155, 37;
avenging, easy, 522, 41;
better receive than do, 2, 48;
by a noble man, how to treat, 531, 45;
ghost of an, 472, 44;
how to meet an, 171, 29;
how to recompense, 370, 32, 33;
meditated, done, 194, 30;
mistake in avenging, 550, 25;
scorning to avenge, 427, 4
=Injustice=, committed, _versus_ injustice suffered, 149, 46;
effect of, on its perpetrator, 485, 31;
effect of sight of, on temper, 209, 6;
greatest, 432, 28;
height of, 158, 38;
Jacobi's definition of, 216, 11;
no man means an, 302, 50;
no success, 405, 29;
not to be borne, 85, 16;
rather suffer than do, 169, 30;
to individual, 436, 36;
unbearable, 526, 31
=Inmost= things melodious, 194, 34
=Inner=, and outer, 446, 32;
sacrifice of, to outer, 198, 36
=Innocence=, a heroic, 469, 41;
silent, persuasiveness
of, 453, 36;
and obscurity, advantages of, 323, 30;
and mystery, incompatibility of, 210, 18;
badge of, 87, 38;
coerced, like a caged lark, 44, 18;
eloquence of, 15, 43;
friend of, 66, 45;
from misfortune, 329, 22;
greatest prerogative of, 492, 2;
how regarded by guilty, 151, 5;
in whom alone, 104, 3;
power of, 66, 10;
prior to guilt, 94, 22;
to be protected at any cost, 29, 44;
to eye of vice, 496, 39;
true, mark of, 365, 19;
within, good armour, 153, 23;
youth-preserving power of, 319, 8
=Innocent=, as doves, 399, 27;
sleep of the, 436, 40;
the, what is due to, 496, 8
=Innovations=, crude at first, 20, 45
=Inquirers=, Goethe's dislike to, 272, 23
=Inquiries=, numerical, 318, 39;
scientific and learned, Mephisto on, 512, 50
=Inquiry=, before judgment, 27, 47;
beginning of, 417, 22;
default of, 174, 47;
fundamental, 174, 46;
the proper subject of, 288, 46
=Inquisitive= person to be shunned, 345, 42
=Inquisitiveness=, penalty of, 147, 28;
implying ill-will, 51, 47
=Insanity=, a certain, necessary, 304, 11;
common, 300, 16;
contrasted with inspiration, 255, 14
=Inscriptions=, lapidary, 187, 39; 230, 8
=Insect=, an, an insect on a queen, 305, 19
=Insensibility=, and anguish, the mean between, 528, 33;
too much, 497, 46
=Insight=, before eloquence, 162, 10;
clear, its compass, 164, 13;
deep, tendency of, 56, 51;
effect of, 525, 14;
indispensableness of, 391, 26;
reckoned final, 262, 16;
worth a life's experience, 13, 52
=Insincerity=, Carlyle on, 471, 20
=Insinuations=, Devil's rhetoric, 73, 38
=Insolence= from contemptible people, 471, 10
=Inspiration=, contrasted with insanity, 255, 14;
from above time, 486, 38;
from indignation, 99, 4;
in the dullest, 190, 26;
necessity for, 326, 24;
of the Almighty, 206, 21;
possibility of, 471, 5;
the word, 463, 25;
to be enjoyed while it lasts, 243, 31;
to be waited for, 503, 2
=Inspired=, the truly, 417, 4
=Instability=, cause of, 540, 37;
of things, 19, 35
=Instant=, the, to be taken by forward top, 244, 18
=Instinct=, as substitute for reason, 111, 11;
contrasted with reason, 369, 35, 42;
mere, no guide for a man, 212, 7;
our, most sacred, 54, 2;
to be trusted, 501, 11
=Instincts=, who speaks to the, 553, 35
=Institutions=, aim of all, 440, 26;
ancestral, to be respected, 289, 25
=Instructed=, the, a time coming for, 501, 13;
the half and the wholly, Goethe on, 151, 17
=Instruction=, divers agents of, 557, 34;
effect of, 70, 30;
even from an enemy, 102, 27;
methods of, 462, 30;
of merely clever men, 437, 2;
the only solid, 446, 19;
valuable as life, 409, 17
=Instrument= mistaken for agent, 73, 43
=Instruments= that boast, 399, 14
=Insult=, harder to bear than wrong, 432, 3;
how to treat, 538, 35; 540, 24;
polite, its keenness, 453, 46
=Insurrection=, how to foment, 90, 1
=Insurrections=, dangerous, 204, 25
=Integrity=, Cromwell on, 405, 24;
reputation for, forfeited, 542, 6;
sayings about, 357, 37, 38
=Intellect=, a large, mark of, 14, 23;
a man's, measure of his worth, 163, 20;
all, moral, 10, 27;
and experience as lights, 94, 32;
and heart, connection of, 520, 16;
better than Nature, 291, 41;
different forms of, and their relation to the ridiculous, 61, 30;
dweller in, lonely, 472, 19;
endowments of, 392, 49;
error of, measure of, 190, 15;
function of, 458, 42;
heroism of, 100, 17;
inflexible, 233, 4;
life of, 75, 26;
man of, his proper place in affairs, 440, 26;
man of, lost without energy, 440, 27;
men of great, not of the world, 276, 3;
occupied in splitting hairs, 416, 31;
our ideal of, 416, 5;
sayings about the, 437, 4-6;
superior, always self-conscious, 305, 49;
march of, 441, 28, 29;
timid, loss to world from, 550, 45;
without energy, 12, 32
=Intellectual= men, when at their best, 202, 48
=Intelligence=, a man of large, 37, 52;
as a social bond, 32, 49;
characteristic of, 1, 31;
clear, the great point, 240, 27;
dependence of, on misfortune, 136, 33;
educating, 492, 6;
men of limited, censure of, 238, 14;
movements of, characterised, 404, 41;
natural, power of, 292, 44;
self-conscious, illusory, 162, 44;
without energy, 31, 1
=Intelligent=, the, right of, 437, 7
=Intemperance= in feeling, 199, 50
=Intent=, secret, betrayed by outward act, 3, 44
=Intention=, a pure, 272, 30;
evil, guilt of, 140, 41;
fixed upon God as end, 413, 17;
of things never clear, 451, 19
=Intercourse=, our social, 339, 9;
social, good effect of, 396, 2
=Interest=, as a teacher, 64, 30;
lessening fatigue, 178, 25;
limit of, in people, 274, 43;
_minus_ self-interest, 94, 15;
power of, in settling doubts, 111, 43;
private, no such thing as, 172, 44
=Interests=, great, apt to clash, 189, 45;
man's, an augury of him, 411, 41;
renounced, not tastes, 275, 35
=Intimacies=, to be sparing in, 526, 23
=Intolerable= things, three, 468, 29
=Intolerance=, fierce, as a symptom, 412, 22
=Intolerant= man, the, 437, 8
=Intoxication=, habitual, criminality of, 138, 23
=Intrepidity=, commended, 243, 39
=Introspection=, no, 483, 46
=Intrusion=, prying, 551, 22
=Invent=, how to learn to, 200, 43
=Invention= after truth, 105, 33;
and memory, 273, 20;
highest, characterised, 434, 38;
the difficult achievement, 98, 44
=Inventions=, adding to, 179, 1;
and society, 396, 32;
daughters of humanity, 121, 56;
perfection of, slow, 299, 18
=Inventor=, a borrower, 334, 46
=Investigators=, quibbling, 444, 4
=Invisible=, embodied in visible, 266, 11;
the, garment of, 457, 24;
world, in and about us, 437, 11
=Iron=, hand, in velvet glove, 15, 44;
striking the, 527, 2
=Irregularities= as signs, 184, 40
=Irremediable=, not to be lamented over, 37, 28
=Irresolute= man, pitiable, 475, 37
=Irresolution=, a proof of weakness, 474, 32;
effect of, 201, 10;
rebuked, 161, 37
=Irretrievable=, the, how to treat, 114, 44
=Isolation=, no such thing as, 188, 24;
of man from man, impossible, 274, 41;
to be avoided, 527, 30
=Italy=, seasons in, 156, 17
J
=Jack= and gentleman, 392, 19
=Jackdaw=, the Welshman's, 484, 14
=Jackdaws=, how to escape the scream of, 397, 31
=Jargon=, dogmatic, 70, 34
=Jealous=, with what possessed, 437, 16
=Jealousy=, cancer of, 419, 24;
how to get rid of, 176, 14;
ineradicable, 49, 19;
its malignant nature, 437, 17;
love of self, 181, 14;
that may make better, 480, 28;
the fruit of, 78, 28;
the green-eyed monster, 29, 63
=Jean Paul= of his early poverty, 449, 27
=Jehovah=, Jove, or Lord, 103, 7
=Jeer=, effect of one, 332, 43
=Jericho=, go to, 125, 2
=Jest=, a, expected, 437, 18;
and earnest, treatment of, 172, 34;
rather lose, than friend, 29, 31;
preferring, to friend, 148, 51;
sundering, from earnest, 151, 26;
the prosperity of a, 7, 40, 41
=Jester=, little short of fool, 146, 45;
to be shunned, 108, 3
=Jesting=, danger of, with the great, 98, 28;
not understood by nature, 292, 30
=Jests=, he, at scars, 144, 6;
made and repeated, 108, 56;
wanton, 518, 36
=Jesuit= order described, 224, 3
=Jesus=, always with His own, 252, 9;
and Socrates, difference between, 423, 33;
His own sole witness, 1, 52;
of Himself as Son of man, 454, 9;
religion of, 451, 9;
the heart of, unpenetrated, 42, 50;
the teaching of, 529, 12
=Jew=, hath not a, eyes, 141, 16
=Jewels=, God's, how polished, 126, 12;
hid, lost, 156, 21;
merely to look at, 115, 2
=Jews=, the, Goethe on, 437, 15
=Job=, afflictions of, the record of, 447, 19
=Job's= faith, 169, 33
=John Bull=, advice to, 241, 22;
the _vis inertiæ_ of, 312, 24;
the pride of, 424, 26
=Johnny Pigeon's= epitaph, 155, 12
=Joke=, a, love of, 124, 24;
among whom to risk a, 333, 49;
the worst, 474, 49
=Jokes=, laughter at one's own, 545, 5;
risk incurred by, 109, 34
=Joking=, incompatible with malignity, 497, 24;
rule in, 4, 16;
with ladies, 281, 2
=Jollity= and tranquillity, 499, 1
=Journal=, the learned, Emerson on, 207, 38
=Journalist=, Bismarck's definition of, 569, 22;
to whom he owes tribute, 498, 34
=Jove=, prayer to, 380, 56
=Joy=, amid misfortune, 22, 24;
and grief, in measure, 371, 25;
and pain, relative amount of, 471, 36;
and sorrow, 114, 48;
and weeping at, 162, 5;
as a teacher, 334, 47;
concealment of, 145, 30;
deep, awe in, 9, 20;
each present, absorbing, 75, 22;
effect of, as compared with that of grief, 136, 34, 35;
effect of excessive, on reason, 54, 1;
effect of imparting, 473, 24;
effect of, on mind, 133, 32;
effect of reflection on, 417, 3;
fellowship in, 460, 32;
great, after great change, 133, 45;
great, how earned, 133, 36;
how to find, 567, 41;
how we part with, 527, 45;
in Heaven, 532, 5;
man's, only in building up, 312, 36;
meaning of, 91, 37;
not in joys, 64, 18;
our face of, 529, 40;
profound, 357, 53;
seen only in a beautiful face, 379, 37;
shared, 20, 7; 92, 22;
shared, joy doubled, 122, 12; 385, 28;
sympathy with, 548, 40;
the greatest, 474, 14;
three parts pain, 28, 18;
true, 500, 12, 13;
true, a character of, 374, 26;
true, its origin, 499, 35;
unfelt, hard to feign, 154, 32;
vanishing, 519, 25
=Joyousness=, essential to all useful effort, 77, 37;
mother of virtues, 64, 19
=Joys=, concealment of, 149, 36;
connection of, with sorrows, 191, 41;
each condition its own, 82, 55;
highest, source of, 434, 44;
killed with love, 154, 1;
little and great, 251, 21;
not unmingled, 508, 11;
participation in another's, 152, 2;
purest, how obtained, 452, 20;
too high, not to be sought, 527, 33;
unfelt, hard to feign, 154, 32
=Judas=, equal to Jesus at the ballot-box, 33, 45;
even a, among the apostles, 89, 21
=Judge=, a lax, 310, 27;
a good and faithful, 31, 60;
an incompetent, 175, 6;
and jury, their functions, 4, 50;
and law, compared, 259, 4;
appeal to the heart of, 125, 4;
duties of, 214, 30-33;
duty of, 390, 19;
not, and reason why, 112, 6;
of others, how to, 527, 31;
others, how we, 523, 33;
our, he who made the heart, 552, 14;
who acquits a criminal, 214, 1;
who cannot punish, 7, 43;
whom no king can corrupt, 154, 5
=Judges=, cobblers, 279, 46;
function of, 237, 20;
good, rare, 129, 41;
should have two ears, 376, 31;
the duty and practice of, 233, 22;
virtue required in, 327, 58
=Judging= by the event, 493, 25;
defined, 493, 26;
men, golden rule of, 198, 27;
others, 41, 4;
well or evil, 551, 2
=Judgment=, a, well tried, 387, 52;
and wit, 557, 50; 558, 6;
and knowledge, 221, 6, 7;
as a mark of genius, 281, 22;
as the inner man, 405, 47;
at the helm, 544, 30;
contrasted with imagination, 223, 34;
contrasted with invention, 196, 13;
deceptive, 453, 13;
dependent upon feeling, 522, 20;
divine, 125, 22, 32, 33; 127, 47;
fled to brutish beasts, 321, 6;
haste in, 187, 36;
how to form, 27, 47;
lack of, danger of, 94, 17;
last, necessary, 7, 62, 63;
last, responsibility at, 568, 28;
like a pair of scales, 437, 21;
limit of, 539, 24;
of others, 93, 20;
of posterity and contemporaries, contrasted, 47, 7;
of the wisest, 463, 26;
one's own, as standard, 267, 4;
of man and woman, 267, 34;
private, Dr. Stirling on, 357, 9;
private, no standard of right, 286, 10;
right, rule for, 109, 9;
self-satisfaction with, 93, 10;
spoiled by imagination, 398, 22;
the world's, 384, 22;
to be according to law, 214, 24;
to be charitable, 163, 21;
trade on, 57, 41;
vulgar, of a great man, 422, 19;
weakness of, 66, 16;
which we have here, 530, 10;
word of, above man, 114, 13
=Judgments=, estimate of our, 489, 13;
to be weeded of opinion, 531, 7;
worthlessness of people's, 181, 26
=Juggling=, as governing world, 204, 7
=Julian=, his apostrophe to Christ, 514, 3
=Juliet=, love of, for Romeo, 123, 15
=Jupiter=, leniency of, 390, 33
=Jurists=, bad Christians, 215, 9
=Jury=, function of, 4, 50
=Just=, cause, defence of, 215, 42;
condition of being, 523, 5;
for unjust, 17, 38;
man may need help, 89, 32;
man, rising again of, 109, 4;
path of, 447, 11;
perfectly, or according to ability, 490, 33;
the actions of, 335, 12;
the, the little of, 439, 26;
the only, stern, 151, 18;
the, without law, 117, 43;
thing, the strong, 455, 35
=Justice=, a safe shield, 93, 49;
a source of wrong, 9, 24;
administrator of, qualities of, 152, 28;
ally of religion, 313, 45;
all-pervading, 431, 36;
and generosity combined, power of, 429, 47;
and just men, our love for, 525, 32;
and liberty, effect of separating, 547, 29;
as administered, 54, 23;
as bandaged, 22, 28;
at all risks, 105, 26, 27;
compared with severity and love, 285, 13;
defined, 113, 12; 408, 17; 432, 27; 536, 22;
defined and described, 216, 32, 34-38;
discernment of, a revelation, 546, 35;
divine, instant, 125, 31;
enforced in Bible, 384, 45;
essence of, 425, 42;
exact, mercifulness of, 95, 45;
extreme, evil, 98, 3;
first, 27, 25;
foundation of temple of charity, 40, 29;
God's, unfailing, 128, 9;
guide, 241, 23;
how preserved, 245, 46;
how to be loved, 151, 3;
impartial, truest mercy, 207, 6;
in judgment and action, defined, 225, 39;
in the eyes of God, 491, 42;
lawyer's, _versus_ God's, 161, 40;
love of, 222, 12;
no, without generosity, 202, 36;
not to be sold, 344, 14;
one hour in the execution of, 332, 37;
orbs of, steadfast, 484, 29;
respect for the gods, 68, 53;
second to religion, 297, 39;
secure, 553, 14;
simple, 164, 26;
springs of, 283, 19;
subtlety of, 225, 40;
the administration of, 402, 45;
the chamber of, 46, 36;
the foundation of, 117, 36;
the, in fair round belly, 437, 23;
the only fountain of, 63, 46;
the reward of, 496, 13;
those who doubt or deny, 483, 19;
to man, desire of all, 273, 37;
uncompromising, 169, 8;
unfailing, 340, 19;
virtue of, 460, 39, 40;
virtue of great souls, 66, 30;
virtue of the man, 121, 50;
Westminster, and God's, different, 268, 50;
when too severe, 406, 39;
with the gods, 390, 12;
without recompense, 271, 30
=Juvenal= on his book, 365, 22
K
=Keats'=, epitaph, 155, 13;
rank as poet, 503, 48
=Keeping=, and giving, rule in, 217, 40;
as a merit, 293, 40
=Kepler's= highest wish, 288, 2
=Kernel=, who would eat, 364, 54
=Kettle=, rusty, not to be tinkered, 568, 31
=Key=, a gold, power of, 6, 37
=Kin=, a little more than, 8, 46
=Kind=, only the, fair, 311, 9;
words, healing power of, 15, 27
=Kindly= spirit, a, the human element, 332, 16
=Kindness=, according to the Hitopadesa, 143, 31;
a sudden blaze of, 406, 1;
breaks no bones, 137, 35;
commended, 243, 47;
deeds of, how repaid, 440, 22;
defined, 536, 23;
exemplar in repairing, 189, 29;
how to recompense, 370, 32;
little deeds of, effect of, 251, 9;
prevalency of, 524, 19;
requiting, hard, 522, 41;
soon forgotten, 50, 51;
the joy of doing, 106, 21;
to grateful and to ungrateful, 132, 40;
to the good, not wasted, 31, 35
=Kindnesses=, misplaced, 531, 26;
the best, 408, 31
=Kindred=, love of, 107, 38
=King=, a clown at heart, 33, 46;
a good, 6, 44;
a, the look of, 430, 38;
attribute of a, 553, 23;
an anointed, no deposing, 312, 19;
and kingdom, relation between, 375, 39;
contrast between, and a father, 86, 10;
every inch a, 25, 34; 179, 25;
fitness of the name, 89, 48;
good, value of, 127, 11;
his limits, 80, 55;
morality of a, 443, 5;
not a creature of chance, 296, 35;
of England, legal mercy of, 438, 35;
Popinjay, 35, 15;
sayings about the, 375, 40-45; 437, 31-38;
the (see =Rex=);
what most becomes, 301, 17
=Kingdom=, a man's, 313, 23;
of God, condition of entering, 554, 40;
of God, in what it consists, 437, 39
=Kings=, a world of, 172, 11;
and people, 534, 38;
and people, relation of, 447, 23;
anger of, 132, 50;
bands of, 15, 46;
contrasted with shepherds, 123, 43;
courts of, composition of, 22, 1;
divine right of, 451, 36;
divine right of, settled, 479, 7;
eyes and ears of, 286, 2;
heaven-chosen for us, 35, 15;
knowledge of, 493, 31;
last argument of, 505, 1;
not without good qualities, 38, 36;
not without their virtues, 190, 2;
only eloquence in behalf of, 233, 15;
only privates _plus_ ceremony, 535, 24;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, 162, 30;
the art of, 381, 11;
the curse of, 206, 6;
the, of modern thought, 437, 37;
the politeness of, 223, 12;
the true, 478, 50;
the wealth of, 335, 34;
their misdeeds and the penalty, 57, 53;
wise, and their councillors, 557, 33
=Kinship=, spiritual, test of, 73, 44
=Kiss=, echo of the sound of a, 454, 28
=Kissing=, full of sanctity, 157, 1
=Kitchen=, fundamental institution, 45, 22;
vital part of the house, 555, 27
=Kite=, a carrion, 2, 37
=Knave=, a crafty, 3, 32;
a, how to win, 45, 1;
an old, 15, 57;
and fool, 5, 58;
found out, 81, 5;
one thoroughly, 91, 38;
once, 331, 21;
wit needed by, 109, 11
=Knavery=, and folly, excuse for, 102, 29;
baseness of, 200, 17;
defined and developed from cunning, 51, 28;
no, if no fools, 174, 47
=Knaves=, first of nine order of, 428, 27;
honourable in the mass, 238, 33
Knight, lying, in dark ages, 302, 49;
scarce a, 145, 7
=Knights= of chivalry, 42, 35; 260, 41
=Know=, seeking to, 40, 59;
three things to, 199, 27;
to, as an act, 493, 44
"=Know thyself=," as a precept, 76, 42; 183, 43
=Knowing=, and doing, 525, 7;
compared with doing, 557, 49;
condition of, 525, 14;
difficult, 165, 6;
easier than doing, 175, 23;
meaning of all, 535, 41;
people, 99, 6;
the step from, to doing, 305, 13;
worth, not always knowable, 297, 51
=Knowledge=, a forbidden, 383, 48; 384, 47;
a burden, 506, 27;
a question of use, 203, 31;
a rare, 477, 28;
a steep, 110, 12;
all in all of, 415, 50;
all, useful, 166, 47;
and doubt, 482, 38;
and knowing it, 147, 34;
and thought, 485, 1;
as a helpmate to virtue, 515, 1;
as a test, 147, 31;
as a treasure, 324, 42;
benefit of, in use, 204, 26;
by rote, 493, 29;
by travelling and by reading, 413, 37;
Comte's stages of, 39, 53;
contentment in regard to, 199, 49;
contrasted with ignorance, 178, 7, 8;
crediting, to others, 62, 1;
death, 319, 12;
definition of, 547, 17;
diffused, 68, 5;
dissembling, not safe, 176, 37;
divorced from justice, 383, 5;
effect of, on faith, 504, 23;
essence of, 425, 43;
excellency of, 557, 6;
exclusively one's own, its value, 540, 48;
for imparting, 385, 32;
from enterprise, 269, 41;
from others' folly and wisdom, 413, 24;
gaining, a delight, 280, 8;
grades in, 469, 32;
great, an effect of, 431, 44;
great, without vanity, effect of, 133, 46;
growing in, happiness of, 413, 41;
highest, 493, 40;
how to acquire, 243, 10; 381, 25;
how to seek, 405, 55;
human, Goethe on, 320, 29;
in a disciplined mind, 508, 22;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
increased, sorrow increased, 146, 59;
intimacy better than extent of, 102, 6;
irreverent, 15, 45;
its flowers and seed, 453, 5;
its price the drawback, 312, 9;
its quality main thing, 204, 31;
little, who has, 42, 25;
man of, mark of, 146, 49;
natural, how attained, 290, 14;
no, lost, 302, 40;
no, without thinking, 481, 24;
not enough, 203, 40;
obstacle to, 383, 17;
of causes, happiness in, 104, 24;
of wise and ignorant contrasted, 30, 13;
origin of, 73, 22;
our, at best, 521, 18;
our highest enjoyment, 489, 27;
our, often worthless, 539, 26;
our, an illusion, 319, 13;
possession of, a right, 308, 22;
question in regard to, 522, 44;
real, the nature of, 369, 14;
ripening and flowering of, 229, 38;
rising in, effect of, 546, 40;
sayings about, 493, 28-44; 494, 1;
seat of, 452, 37;
source of, 393, 20;
strength, 147, 35;
that is worth, 142, 4;
that suffices, 201, 31;
the beginning and end of, 100, 11;
the beginning of, 254, 50;
the best part of, 417, 52;
the condition of acquiring, 12, 24;
the desire of, an effect of, 423, 10;
the key of, 392, 5;
the only, we possess, 358, 7;
the pearl of the faith-sea, 23, 8;
the tree of, 136, 36; 458, 24;
thirst for, 443, 29;
thorough, test of, 445, 37;
three stages of, 90, 38;
to be heralded by reverence, 260, 28;
to be reverenced, 241, 24;
to many too costly, 269, 36;
true, 500, 14, 15;
true, defined, 374, 14;
true, for life, not debate, 547, 13;
vain pursuit of, 145, 43;
versus practice, 162, 18;
we need not travel to acquire, 496, 33;
when alone accurate, 525, 6;
when no longer a pleasure, 331, 28;
with limits of satisfaction in, 93, 58;
without energy, 12, 54;
without God 110, 11;
without integrity, 195, 16;
without knowing it, 147, 33;
without practice, 553, 5;
without religion, 371, 44;
without sense, 43, 17;
without virtue, 515, 1;
worth of, though others know it not, 510, 6
=Know'st= thou the land, 218, 28
=Knox=, John, Earl of Morton on, 144, 19;
gospel of, to the Scotch, 241, 39
L
=Labour=, a physician, 227, 37;
and health, 153, 36;
and rest, 478, 22;
as a teacher, 220, 22;
associated with pleasure, 125, 52;
but not soul, saleable, 568, 23;
captains of, to be honoured, 273, 39;
clamorous at gate of morning, 43, 44;
contrasted with luck, 257, 37;
cultivated, effect, 51, 6;
daughter of pain, 485, 5;
division of, division of men, 204, 38;
employed or unemployed, 544, 12;
endurable only in youth, 74, 21;
everlasting law of, 405, 49;
evil of, not regarding, 175, 11;
for other men, 167, 35;
habit of, lost, man lost, 253, 27;
hard, virtue of, 475, 23;
honest, face of, 159, 29;
how made happy, 205, 13;
how made light, 12, 65;
law of, 441, 27;
mostly skilless, 431, 31;
no disgrace, 84, 29;
no living without, 174, 20;
omnipotence and indispensability of, 314, 41;
prescribed by Christianity, 241, 7;
problem, the real, 565, 48;
relieving power of, 235, 24;
results of rising by, 387, 13;
sayings about, 228, 23, 24;
teachings of, 62, 13;
the end of, 425, 12;
to be loved, 255, 37;
to organise work for the wise, 547, 20;
vain, 96, 24;
virtue in, 17, 23;
we delight in, 437, 42;
when unavailing, 59, 5
=Labourer=, Jesus on rights of, 437, 43;
the true, and his hire, 458, 47
=Labours=, lingering, 129, 36;
past, recollection of, 213, 61
=Ladder=, how to climb, 152, 51; 532, 12; 567, 2;
mounting the, effect of, 565, 10
=Ladders= to heaven, 50, 26
=Ladies=, Johnson's liking for, 165, 7;
presence of at the play, 64, 2;
young, affections of, 415, 35
=Lady=, characteristic of, 6, 27;
every, queen for life, 276, 32;
mark of, 49, 4
=Ladyism=, fine, 560, 32
=Lairds=, Burns' advice to the, 326, 22
=Laissez-faire=, effect of, on masses, 123, 33
=Lamb=, a pet, 16, 33;
shorn, God's care for, 66, 42
=Lambs=, poor harmless, 550, 28
=Lame=, to be waited for, 179, 20
=Lamenting=, misery of always, 490, 4;
weakness of, 539, 15
=Land=, a, how God punishes, 543, 33;
a, where there is no singing, 531, 12;
at the disposal of fortune, 166, 10;
buying, 41, 11;
possession of, sole right to, 312, 26;
possessors of, duty of, 353, 12;
the, our mother, Carlyle on, 437, 47;
the owners of, 437, 48;
the, the proprietors of, 358, 14;
to hastening ills a prey, 181, 40;
where the cypress and myrtle, 220, 8
=Landowner=, honest, a servant, 304, 13
=Landscape=, charms of, 89, 44;
point of astonishment in, 186, 36;
property in a, 311, 34
=Language=, English, 82, 47;
merit in, 104, 21;
one, enough for a woman, 334, 27;
only symbolical, 527, 26;
secret of, 452, 42;
the finest, 427, 41;
unkind, evil of, 507, 41
=Languages=, a feast of, 479, 8;
foreign, ignorance of, 532, 18
=Lapse=, effect of one, 334, 13
=Larks= caught if heavens fall, 34, 13
=Lasses=, brittle ware, 124, 2;
noblest work of Nature, 23, 25
=Last day=, beginning and height of, 568, 21;
day to every man, 60, 35
=Laugh=, a good, 6, 45;
who knows not how to, 345, 15
=Laughing=, at _versus_ grinning at, 86, 3;
and weeping, cousins german, 229, 6;
disarming, 209, 34;
not subject to mode, 275, 11
=Laughs=, he who, not a bad man, 151, 30
=Laughter=, as a sign of worth, 305, 6; compared
with sorrow, 400, 1; effect of, 180, 39;
excessive, a sign of sadness, 306, 9;
ill-timed, 119, 35;
loud, vulgarity of, 253, 34;
matter for, now, 390, 9;
men can bear, 273, 38;
of the cottage and court contrasted, 105, 54;
often deceptive, 38, 1;
our sincerest, 525, 29;
riotous, Holmes on, 451, 45;
significance of, 162, 7; 441, 1;
two kinds, to be distinguished, 528, 27;
unextinguished, 507, 10;
unmannerly, 114, 42;
virtue in, 94, 56;
with reason, 180, 40
=Law=, a shield to tyranny, 180, 26;
and equity, distinct, 84, 17, 18;
asleep at times, 71, 53;
combined with justice, 4, 5;
contrasted with necessity, 121, 57;
Cicero's definition of, 87, 7;
evasion invented with, 103, 13;
extreme, wrong, 215, 25;
felt as a restraint, 205, 24;
foul chimneys of, hard to sweep clean, 67, 36;
function of, 53, 37; going to, 295, 42;
good, beginning and end of, 417, 19;
ignorance of, no excuse, 178, 19;
impeded by severity, 453, 19;
love in, 184, 24;
must be reason, 315, 9;
no, no sin, 548, 43;
no, without a hole in it, 85, 33;
not to be a scarecrow, 527, 1;
obedience to, when a hardship, 280, 24;
of one's nature, sacredness of, 302, 42;
one certainty in, 184, 15;
oppression by, 344, 51;
pleadings in, 464, 43;
possession by, 213, 6;
requisite in a, 237, 12, 17;
rule of nature, 94, 25;
sacred, 215, 11;
sanctioned by consent, 46, 46;
sayings about, 244, 42-46; 438, 12-29;
seat of, 452, 38;
source of, 125, 44;
stronger than man, 113, 1;
subtlety in, condemned, 300, 15;
teaching of, 220, 5;
the foundation of, 295, 33;
the life of, 369, 36;
to yield to circumstance and custom, 491, 18;
virtue of, 110, 38;
voice of, 452, 38;
who has to execute, 369, 27;
with public morals corrupt, 240, 28
=Lawful= and honourable, 159, 35
=Lawgiver=, man's absolute, 356, 10;
the spirit of, 454, 36
=Laws=, good and bad, defined, 6, 46;
and manners, 267, 36-38, 43;
authors of, 238, 32;
during war, 391, 48;
good, from bad manners, 97, 14; 129, 42;
God's and lawyers' connection with, 205, 15;
good, origin of, 237, 14;
good, out of bad manners, 31, 15;
how rendered binding and stable, 227, 24;
human, copies, 338, 19;
in a corrupted state, 48, 28;
just, to the good, 215, 39;
many, a bad sign, 226, 16;
many, evil of, 210, 42;
ministers and interpreters of, 237, 20;
no, for the just, 117, 43;
oppression of, 19, 11;
organic, Ruskin on, 336, 24;
path of, and power of, 326, 11;
permanence of, 85, 26;
power of, 514, 47;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, 162, 30;
proper tendency of, 457, 6;
relation of, to penalties, 443, 17;
Ruskin's advice as to reform of, 28, 40;
strict, value of, 403, 36;
the object of, 237, 13; the purpose of, 193, 7;
too severe, worthless, 222, 33;
when useless and when broken, 544, 24;
without morals, 365, 42
=Lawsuit=, agreement better than, 28, 28
=Lawsuits=, issue of, protracted, 331, 7;
why avoid, 118, 13
=Lawyer=, Brougham's definition of, 438, 30;
profession of, 107, 11
=Lawyer's=, business, 205, 15;
fee, the cheapest, 208, 49
=Lawyers=, by whom enriched, 108, 40;
experience of, 424, 8
=Laziness= in individual and in mass, 7, 65
=Lazy= man, the, 1, 21
=Leader=, should know the way, 86, 5
=Leaf=, the two lobes of, 302, 33
=Leal=, in the land o' the, 478, 10
=Learned=, in his infidelities, 504, 8;
man, a truly, 413, 43;
man, Aquinas' definition of, 158, 27;
man, rich, 159, 14;
men, Goethe on, 188, 6;
men, more numerous than wise, 526, 9;
men not always liberal, 443, 48;
soon, learned long, 38, 16;
the business of, as compared with the ignorant, 193, 30
=Learner=, advice to, 318, 16;
his gratitude, 532, 17
=Learning=, a little, dangerous, 8, 44;
a little, hard to gain, 208, 21;
according to quality of man, 276, 11;
and play, 288, 28;
by observation and experience, 413, 37;
by seeking and blundering, 34, 14;
chief part of, 383, 15;
doting on scraps of, 398, 10;
earthly, end of, 540, 3;
ever, and never knowing, 89, 45;
evil of its apparent facility, 222, 24;
from living, 251, 48;
great school for, 431, 35;
has its value, 229, 18;
how to advance, 187, 40;
inferior to creating, 200, 22;
limitation of, 79, 18;
living by, 308, 20;
loving, 175, 16;
man who does not use his, 151, 32;
matter of quality, 450, 26;
men of great, generosity of, 276, 4;
men of, like ears of corn, 198, 9;
mere, 148, 45;
much, a weariness, 285, 14;
much, much ignorance, 285, 15;
no, without labour, 177, 21;
not wisdom, 304, 20;
of antiquity, venerable, 225, 10;
only to forget, 118, 52;
philosophy as regulating regard for, 347, 24;
possible, every day, 318, 10;
rule in, 237, 41;
rule of, 141, 37;
sayings about, 525, 12-15;
Solon on his, 121, 49;
the condition of, 303, 15;
the source of all, 138, 9;
to be used like a watch, 530, 39;
to last with life, 410, 15;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, 492, 9;
without commonsense, 208, 24;
without discretion, 559, 28;
without morals, 364, 32;
without nature like a maimed man, 292, 35;
without sense, 148, 45;
worth anything, how to acquire, 305, 44
=Leaven=, power of a little, 8, 45
=Legality=, risk of, 226, 2
=Legend=, wedded to history and fancy, 519, 12
=Legislation=, ancient, wisdom of, 117, 17;
and administration, mistake about, 198, 17;
foolish, a rope of sand, 108, 37
=Legislator=, aim of the, 415, 47;
should be moderate, 213, 43
=Leibnitz's= optimism, Voltaire's version of, 498, 33
=Leisure=, and solitude, Scipio Africanus on his, 168, 1;
dependent on business, 443, 27;
value of, 211, 4;
without literature, 336, 48
=Lending=, caution against, 294, 36;
rule of, 141, 37
=Leniency= at times a crime, 107, 8
=Lenity=, evil effect of too much, 535, 4
=Leonidas= at Thermopylæ, 397, 12
=Leopard=, spots of, not seen, 184, 16
=Lesson=, first, to be learned, 444, 2;
the best, for many, 417, 49
=Lethe=, a stream of, in every breath, 558, 25
=Letter=, a, does not blush, 251, 1;
and spirit, opposite effects of, 250, 33;
long, reason for a, 210, 46;
what we look for in a, 187, 41
=Letters=, as memorials, 32, 41;
devotion to, a regret, 117, 26;
mirror of a man's breast, 184, 18;
not to be carelessly written, 438, 47;
qualities, good and bad, in, 402, 46;
style of, 456, 2;
the invention of, 206, 18;
the love of, 440, 1
=Levellers=, their aim, 568, 25;
their failure, 483, 1;
two, 219, 10
=Lever=, power of, Archimedes on, 169, 15
=Levers= that move men, 468, 36
=Levity=, unpardonable, 509, 8
=Liar=, a swearer, 8, 9;
and his oaths, 505, 30;
needs good memory, 8, 10
=Liars=, how to be treated, 71, 44;
no legislation for, 473; 13;
to have good memories, 277, 36
=Libel=, a, in a frown, 47, 51
=Liberal=, the, sayings about, 438, 45, 46
=Liberalism=, modern, the follies of, 429, 4
=Liberality=, defined, 226, 3;
grounds of, to be weighed, 28, 11
=Liberties=, from the devil, 245, 26;
the basis of all, 153, 35
=Liberty=, a form of true, 35, 46;
and justice, effect of separating, 547, 29;
as desired by Milton, 123, 19;
child of the north, 56, 52;
civil, defined, 245, 12;
civil, utmost bound of, 481, 47;
crowing about, by slaves, 315, 17;
dearer than country, 343, 24;
destroyed by gifts, 53, 6;
effect of, on man, 396, 3;
free and at her ease, 226, 5;
growth of tree of, 222, 26;
headstrong, 153, 30;
how to forfeit, 27, 60;
how to preserve, 68, 37;
in harmony with law, 435, 1;
in nations, 226, 4;
in relation to taxation, 185, 41;
inspiring power of, 112, 46;
lean, and fat slavery, 235, 36;
limit of, 266, 39;
Mme. Roland at statue of, 321, 12;
no such thing as, 474, 30;
of ancient date, 226, 6;
opening of, 27, 10;
passion for, 235, 10;
political, where only found, 352, 12;
possibility of, 440, 37;
safeguard of, 77, 12;
spirit of, Burke's deference to, 288, 20;
the first to strive for, 324, 18;
the only valuable, 446, 8;
the true, of a man, 458, 49;
tree of, how it grows, 458, 26;
true and false, 500, 16;
defined, 471, 13;
turbulent, versus quiet slavery, 261, 24;
under a pious king, 100, 34;
value of, 436, 3;
when once lost, 526, 1;
without deserving it, 454, 13
=Libraries=, large, by whom not needed, 451, 33
=Library=, a witness against its owner, 450, 22;
browsing in, 167, 48;
circulating, 3, 12;
enough, 271, 36;
luxury of revelling in, 148, 13
=Licence=, an enemy to liberty, 245, 22
=Licentiousness=, after reformation, 6, 67
=Lie=, a double-distilled, 35, 28;
a flattering, contrasted with a bitter truth, 529, 14;
a half true, 8, 16, 29;
a, like a snowball, 8, 14;
a, sure to be unmasked, 27, 49;
a, to be crushed, 8, 28;
a, uncalled for, 53, 18;
deformity of, 315, 42;
essence of, 425, 30;
inexcusable, 314, 4;
one, in the heart, evil of, 28, 56;
task involved in telling, 152, 26;
what it wants, 457, 17
=Lies=, abhorrent to nature, 290, 20;
all, will be dishonoured some day, 302, 45;
and the belief of them, 473, 15;
destroyer of, our gratitude to, 206, 15;
doomed to vanish, 506, 10;
establishing one's self on, 475, 22;
great, great as great truths, 133, 47;
how to overcome, 240, 16;
man born enemy of, 262, 17;
respect implied in telling, of one, 533, 4;
scorned by the upright, 46, 32;
self-productive, 332, 46, 47;
that ruin humanity, Ruskin on, 206, 15;
tolerance of, effect of, 548, 9;
white, lead to black, 550, 33
=Life=, a bark against the tide, 242, 14;
a battle and a march, 263, 10;
a becoming, 462, 14;
a blessed, 470, 3;
a blossoming and a withering, 62, 16;
a chamber being frescoed with colours, 339, 39;
a conscious half, impossible, 303, 16;
a constant want, 163, 23;
a faint link between us and our hereafter, 29, 62;
a galling load, 321, 15;
a good, time enough for, 32, 30;
a greeting and a parting, 265, 36;
a happy and an unhappy, equalised, 390, 21;
a heroic, 434, 37;
a higher, how to earn, 522, 25;
a law of, 443, 9;
as led, a riddle, 538, 20;
a little gleam of time, 332, 48;
a loathed, compared with death, 461, 45;
a long sigh, 320, 15;
a long, the secret of, 568, 1;
a merry, how to live, 556, 31;
a mistake about, 409, 19;
a mystery, 547, 26;
a new, beginning of, 526, 3;
a new, with every budding bosom, 109, 32;
a, not worth living, 166, 19;
a peaceful, how to ensure, 492, 42;
a progress, 266, 41; a pure and true, how to attain, 384, 38;
a quiet, specific for, 275, 34;
a reality, and all one has, 481, 13;
a really long, 413, 38;
a rule in, 212, 7; 311, 2;
a satisfied, 380, 61;
a school, 310, 36;
a sign of, 183, 31;
a simple, benefit of, 286, 27;
a state of endurance, 163, 24;
a steady self-control, 266, 45;
a stern reality, 266, 46;
a short, advantage of, 453, 25;
a useless, 23, 45;
a voyage under sealed orders, 284, 19;
a well-written, rare, 24, 55;
a wise, 516, 53;
according to nature or opinion, 389, 46;
ascent of green mountain of, 266, 3;
advancing in, 144, 48;
aim of, 415, 46;
all a cheat, 543, 41;
all, as death, 399, 46;
always a hope, 527, 22;
amid doubt, 538, 2;
among men, 16, 53;
among men, breaking or hardening, 177, 4;
an abortive, Young on the course of, 22, 15;
an ever-vanishing present, 266, 44;
an obscure, 311, 4;
and art, difference of, 84, 41;
and death, 464, 4;
and death, a contrast, 329, 32;
and death according to law, 94, 42;
and death, not complete, 488, 31;
and time, 485, 11;
apart from world, 144, 30;
as a study, interesting, 350, 6;
at all, a miracle, 403, 3;
at beginning and end, 467, 7;
at different ages, 22, 16;
awful and wonderful, 55, 47;
bartered away, 522, 30;
based on time, 339, 40;
best and safest course of, 449, 37;
between duty and desire, 439, 18;
bodying forth of the invisible, 266, 11;
Bolingbroke on, 476, 32;
book of, interpreter of, 538, 4;
brevity of, 262, 32;
brighter the longer, 249, 35;
Burns' apostrophe to, 335, 53;
by medical prescription, 363, 42;
Calderon on, 362, 33;
charms of, that we never knew, 320, 14;
cheap, and bread dear, 320, 30;
Christian, Pascal on, 241, 21;
compared with hope, 228, 14;
complaints of, unjust, 545, 4;
complete from the first, 26, 57;
condensing lesson of, in pointed sentence, 448, 39;
condition of art of, 395, 38;
corner-stone of body, 421, 36;
daily, harvest of, 458, 45;
daily, instructiveness of, 52, 33;
defined, 434, 40; 536, 26, 27;
dependent on "No," 300, 37;
dependent upon death, 403, 14;
described, 537, 1;
detachment from, gradual, 265, 6;
drama of, spectators of, 191, 39;
dreary, its cause, 537, 37;
each man's, dark to him, 404, 53;
elaborate preparation for, folly of, 494, 20;
epitome of many a man's, 292, 46;
essential furniture of, whence imported, 231, 51;
elements of a complete, 221, 9;
evanescence of, 537, 25;
every condition in, value of, 212, 15;
every period, its prejudices and temptations, 93, 44, 45;
every time of, has its care and burden, 327, 41;
everywhere romantic, 90, 55; experience of, Burns', 554, 44;
farewell of a Greek to, 210, 12;
fateful stages in, 147, 12;
first lesson of, 428, 24, 25;
first, lived well, 413, 45;
folly of wasting, 154, 16;
fondness and carelessness of, 475, 41;
for action, 3, 51;
for a single day, 363, 14;
fraction of, how to increase, 429, 23;
fresh only from the soul, 84, 42;
full of stumbling-blocks, 64, 21;
gift and ministry of, contrasted, 493, 16;
glorious, crowded hour of, 400, 24;
God's highest gift, 434, 40;
golden moments in, lost, 430, 34;
great art of, 493, 24;
great moments of, but moments, 431, 29;
greatest ornament of an illustrious, 432, 33;
greed of, 516, 22;
half wasted, 457, 11;
hampered by itself, 3, 8;
high, people in, 187, 26;
highest maxims of, to be respected, 333, 17;
his, was gentle, 157, 5; how man spends, 265, 40;
here only once, 264, 36;
how rendered miserable, 227, 13;
how rounded off, 522, 18;
how ruled, 201, 48; how shaped, 548, 21;
how to achieve, 567, 8, 9;
how to extend, 14, 7;
how to husband and not waste, 526, 37;
how to know, 493, 35;
how to make sweet, 173, 17;
how to quit, 179, 32;
how to take a, 567, 30;
how to write a worthy, 8, 30;
how we take, main point, 125, 14;
ignorance of, 441, 4;
in, no present, 187, 45;
in the morning of youth, 321, 14;
in the present, a secret, 20, 54;
in the straitest circumstances, if wise and loyal-hearted, 160, 53;
in the world, and beyond, 524, 5;
inevitable condition of, 562, 43;
inner genial, effect of kindling, 68, 3;
instinct to protect and cherish, 434, 40;
its autumn and spring, 528, 15;
its healthfulness, 460, 6;
its joys and sorrows, Browning on, 141, 41;
known to few, 79, 17;
laughing at and grinning at, 203, 8;
learning from, 448, 39;
length of, effect of, 439, 32, 33;
like travelling, 288, 12;
long, desire of, 91, 51;
long, together, suggestiveness of, 496, 24;
longer than misfortune, 32, 34;
longest, shortness of, 439, 36;
loom of, and patterns it weaves, 439, 40;
lost in getting a living, 473, 28;
lost, irretrievable, 80, 6;
lottery of, 418, 33;
made strait on purpose, 404, 39;
made up of deception and art, 45, 56;
main thing regarding, 310, 31;
man's, a kind of beast-godhood, 535, 35;
memory of a well-spent, 32, 32;
mode of, seldom our own choosing, 467, 2;
moments of, fatal or fated, 403, 25;
more significant than words, 85, 21;
more than breathing, 161, 12;
more than meat, 438, 48;
more than meat and clothing, 409, 25;
mostly from hand to mouth, 105, 11;
never stainless, 302, 33;
no dream, 338, 25;
no fraction of, to be sold, 484, 3;
no longer on old lines, 230, 17;
no pastime, 526, 26;
no, without perplexity, 395, 35;
not to be bartered, 272, 25;
not judged, before death, 214, 9;
not to be trifled with, 57, 5;
nobility of, 445, 2;
noble, eternal in its action, 93, 3;
nothing that has, perfect, 316, 42;
obscure, not therefore worthless, 289, 26;
of man, collective, 205, 19;
of poor and rich, small difference between, 448, 28;
on moderate means, 182, 2;
one's own, sacred, 75, 19;
only a hope, 317, 14;
ordained law of, 206, 22;
our, a thousand-stringed harp, 338, 23;
our chief want in, 337, 25;
our, control over, limited, 340, 22;
our first ideas of, 338, 2;
our, a mutual hostility, 338, 26;
our mode of, characterised, 339, 9;
our, not what it might be, 338, 27, 28;
our true, 64, 16;
our waste of, 529, 39;
our whole daily, of spirit birth, 395, 24;
out of the ruins of life, 53, 24;
outward details of, insignificance of, 534, 6;
past, and help that lies in it, 230, 31;
pathos and sublime of, 494, 18;
peaceable, commended, 173, 8;
perfect, attribute of, 345, 49;
perfected in death, 220, 19;
postponing, 364, 34; power of fortune over, 163, 25;
primitive and frontier, advantage of, 208, 40;
problem of, 449, 29;
prospective, 520, 39;
purpose of, 521, 26;
query regarding purpose of, 520, 17;
quiet continuity of, 366, 21;
ragged line of, 439, 18;
reality of, without fancy, 442, 7;
resignation of, motive for, 480, 15;
rising on life, 509, 15;
river of, and its ferries, 524, 23;
river of, how to drink out of, 566, 23;
rule of, 182, 27; 237, 3; 519, 14;
ruled by fortune, 516, 29;
saved, by losing it, 554, 42;
sacrificed to reasoning about it, 550, 24;
sayings about, 54, 12-18; 517, 1, 2;
scorn of, revered, 209, 50;
secrets of, how revealed, 453, 4;
servile to skyey influences, 172, 35;
severe condition of knowing, 505, 9;
shadow-hunting or shadow-hunted, 550, 4;
Shakespearean rules of, 253, 40;
significance of, 453, 34;
signs of, 184, 40;
simple, happiness of, 26, 10;
simplicity of, gain in, 189, 20;
sincere, required, 100, 13;
sojourn in an inn, 98, 15;
source of its value, 371, 2;
sporting with, 551, 33;
state of, alone suitable for a man, 414, 10;
still beautiful, 320, 31;
struggle of, question of, 191, 40;
stuff to try soul's strength, 165, 34;
subordinate to something higher, 265, 25;
sunshine of, 456, 24;
tediousness of, 407, 34;
text and commentary, 428, 18;
that is merely breathing, 153, 8;
that
we praise, 43, 22;
the chief condition of, 224, 30;
the dearer, the longer, 443, 23;
the course of, destructive, 569, 24;
the cup of, to be drunk, 422, 24;
the dark spot in, 11, 39;
the end of a man's, 52, 32;
the end of, Sophocles on, 336, 53;
the essence of, 200, 22;
the first problem in, 428, 32;
the fluctuations of, 94, 42;
the fountain of, 217, 34;
the fruition of, 429, 31;
the fullest, 528, 25;
the gate and way to, 403, 23;
the great felicity in, 431, 20;
the happiest, 83, 45;
the interpreter of, 334, 45;
the lot of, 94, 42;
the longest half of, 251, 50;
the meaning of, 338, 34;
the noblest, 144, 32;
the observation of, 448, 39;
the one meaning of, 256, 38;
the only sign of, 533, 33;
the only wealth, 474, 44;
the price of, life, 179, 28;
the stuff of, 487, 7;
the sure way to, 215, 28;
the true, of man, 458, 51;
the true question in, 95, 11;
the use of, 537, 20;
the way of, its secrets, 64, 21;
the web of, 462, 2;
the, which renews a man, 439, 8;
things essential to, 468, 26;
three epochs in, 467, 8;
time's fool, 33, 29;
to be believed before book, 165, 20;
to be enjoyed as it passes, 503, 4;
to be in the whole, 18, 51;
to be still prayed for, 300, 5;
to genius, 492, 37;
to happy and unhappy, 433, 16;
to miserable and to happy, 321, 13, 15;
transitions of, 517, 24;
tree of, ever green, 132, 42;
true beginning of, 205, 30;
true enjoyment of, 197, 14;
true, how to live a, 503, 7;
time of, to be wise, 179, 15;
two ways out of, 23, 40;
uncertainty in, source of, 205, 48;
under a poor roof, 117, 10;
up and down tendencies of, 186, 37;
use we may make of, 522, 37;
waste of, 365, 26;
wasted, 269, 20;
waves of, and strand of death, 452, 15;
way of, 516, 26;
way of, in sere yellow leaf, 288, 25;
web of, heaven-woven, 79, 13;
what has, power of, 531, 41;
what it consists of, 525, 24;
what makes, poor, 204, 27;
what survives wreck of, 191, 31;
while digestion lasts, 550, 14;
who would love, 148, 52;
wilderness of, springs in, 191, 26;
wisdom of, 244, 7; 462, 27;
with art and deception, 566, 24;
with its enmities, to be faced, 60, 31;
with some, like a sleigh-drive, 558, 45;
without a purpose, 516, 21;
without God, 559, 22;
without hope, 335, 17;
without labour, 300, 4;
without learning, 516, 20;
without love, 249, 28;
without self-denial, 133, 39;
without superior, inferior, or equal, 493, 10;
without use to others, 536, 34;
without women, 33, 9; 538, 32;
woven of old and new, 10, 3;
woven of wind, 316, 50;
wrecked, cause of, 385, 35
=Life's=, blessings, how taught to value, 458, 3;
end, 255, 3;
rewards, 255, 5;
wealth, 255, 5;
young day, love of, 168, 48
=Light=, a curtain, 439, 10;
a ray of, when seen, 450, 36;
and fire, 197, 18;
and shadow, 560, 14;
by which we see, 439, 9;
by whom shunned, 311, 37;
dry, 439, 14;
dry, best, 73, 26;
for the million, 508, 1;
in a clear breast, 146, 32;
in darkness, 439, 13;
in nature and man, 417, 21;
indispensability of, 105, 51;
intense, beautifying effect of, 473, 35;
loving, hating, 146, 5, 6;
new, burst of a, to the unprepared heart, 419, 19;
new, distrusted, 545, 44;
new, dread of, 89, 54;
new, elevating power of, 89, 54;
new, spiritual, effect on soul of, 70, 8;
no, without eyes, 559, 32;
our boast of, 522, 31;
perfect, how to attain, 439, 12;
perfect, too dazzling, 346, 1;
self-evident, 330, 11;
shadow of God, 502, 8;
sovereign in the physical world, 246, 1;
spiritual, and its source, 116, 33;
spiritual, never entirely extinguishable, 303, 8;
the true, defined, 413, 32;
too much, effect of, 548, 48;
which we reject, 439, 15
=Light=, and heavy, different fortunes of, 235, 27;
things compared, 288, 23
=Light-minded= men, improvident, 244, 32
=Lightning=, and thunder, God's harbingers, 249, 30;
as an alternative, 249, 22;
heaven's (in a man), not to be caressed, 332, 7;
in the collied night, 32, 40;
spiritual, 439, 15, 16;
to godlike and godless men, 128, 18
=Lights=, broken, and shapes, 243, 8
=Like=, not look upon his, again, 149, 21;
to like, 9, 30; 19, 39; 39, 28; 124, 8; 489, 20
=Like-minded= and of unlike-minded, the fortunes of, 345, 7
=Likeness=, family, 101, 35;
in nature more than difference, 75, 3
=Liking=, power of, 498, 53
=Likings=, a man's, a test of him, 411, 39;
significance of our, 539, 32
=Lilies=, the, consider, 46, 50
=Limbs=, too large, a weakness, 202, 39
=Limit=, the real definition of a thing, 21, 35;
to progress, 87, 26
=Limits=, every man has, 304, 17
=Line=, a straight, in morals, 20, 61;
crooked and straight, 205, 8
=Linen=, dirty, to be washed at home, 179, 27
=Link=, importance of a, 332, 49
=Linnæus=, the sexual system of, 517, 3
=Linnet's= song, feeling that inspires, 553, 3
=Lion=, not asleep, though silent, 52, 28;
or sheep, as commander, 200, 28
=Lion's= share, 78, 8
Lions with stag for leader, 112, 35
=Lips=, that give a right answer, 92, 26;
to be guarded as palace doors, 131, 12
=Listener=, a good, rare, 208, 22;
a good, worth listening to, 89, 7
=Listening=, at keyhole, 85, 23;
the faculty of, 426, 47;
to some more pleasant than talking, 533, 14
=Literary=, ages, taste of all, 477, 21;
career, a thorny path, 224, 25;
composition to be kept nine years, 244, 9;
man, the true, 458, 52;
men of the present, 187, 47;
work, characteristic of, 530, 9
=Literature=, a discovery to be made in, 469, 40;
a noble profession, 168, 8;
a silent, 262, 24;
a talent for, a snare, 409, 42;
a, when classical, 302, 46;
and humanity, 523, 37;
compared with the conversation of a grandly simple soul, 47, 48;
decline of, as a sign, 422, 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
false, 564, 1;
first lesson of, 428, 25;
glorious doom of, 206, 16;
highest problem of, 435, 8;
how concocted, 185, 17;
its, test of a nation, 541, 20;
life in, 206, 23;
modern, _minus_ its metaphysics, 175, 36;
modern, temporary nature of, 284, 25;
on oatmeal, 523, 21;
our esteem for, 338, 16;
proper task of, 449, 44;
sentimental, inferiority of, 387, 4;
what one wants in, 207, 2
=Litigant= unlike the goose, 439, 21
=Litigation=, misery of long, 117, 21
=Little=, beings, aspirations of, 91, 40;
managing a, merit in, 203, 26;
minds, and the faith of great ones, 99, 57;
the infinitely, pride of, 436, 33;
the, to be done well, 72, 15;
things, power of, 317, 37;
things, running after, 483, 15;
treatment of, a spiritual sign, 54, 11;
who cannot live upon, 387, 34
=Littleness=, as wonderful as vastness, 539, 27
=Live=, happily, how men 190, 31;
knowing how to, enough, 20, 30;
let us, to-day, 158, 18;
to, how, alone, 472, 6;
to, to dream, 237, 5
=Lived=, what has, immortality of, 508, 30
=Livelihood=, struggle for mere, debasing, 179, 17
=Lives=, English, worth reading, 467, 29;
lost in change of purpose, 269, 42;
of the best, 439, 27;
our, how we spend, 520, 34;
reading, but not leading, 565, 12;
the finest, 427, 42;
wrecked, cause of, 207, 5
=Lives=, one who, for others, 551, 6;
one who, for self, 551, 6
=Living=, a thing deferred, 513, 24;
above one's means, 441, 21;
after one's own opinion or the world's, 201, 24;
alone, no reason to fear, 555, 25;
and dead, now to treat, 158, 22;
and dead, the partition between, 533, 41;
and living dishonoured, 200, 13;
and out-living, 200, 12;
and thinking, contrasted, 40, 12;
art of, like every other, 416, 21;
as angels, 48, 40;
being, mistake in professed study of, 532, 38;
cheap, 559, 1;
corked up for ever, 478, 17;
defined, 516, 44, 45;
earning a, without living, 441, 5;
for eternity, hard, 161, 28;
for others contrasted with living for self, 151, 35;
for self or for others, 149, 43;
greatly, test of, 333, 15;
happily, defined, 494, 6;
how to get a, 567, 7;
long, sorrow in, 229, 35;
man, test of a, 395, 8;
mere, good, 161, 22;
once, never lost, 316, 40;
one day, insignificance of, 176, 47;
right of, 60, 29;
rule of, 113, 22;
rules of, Dr. Johnson's, 353, 47;
sayings about, 494, 5-10;
secret of, 453, 1;
so long as life, 395, 5;
the, compared with the dead, 10, 36;
the respect due to, 329, 29;
to no purpose, 151, 36;
twice, 109, 50; 158, 3;
ways of getting a, 461, 36;
well, 28, 8;
well, our main duty, 311, 53;
well, no man's concern, 295, 22
=Loan=, a double loss, 110, 14
=Lochaber= no more, 102, 23
=Lock= and key, a security, 168, 39
=Lodge=, oh, for a, in some vast wilderness, 325, 51
=Loftiest= of the race, the, characteristic of, 439, 30;
mortal, and his desires, 439, 29
=Logic= as compared with ethics, 88, 10
=Logician=, the best, 433, 41
=Loneliness=, extreme of, 395, 7;
man's, inexplicable, 161, 33;
the best, 417, 45
=Longevity= a sign of purity, 153, 37
=Longing=, vain, 525, 27-29, 31
=Longwindedness=, evil of, 237, 31
=Look= on't again I dare not, 164, 30
=Looking=, at the best side, habit of, 433, 2;
not therefore seeing, 2, 38;
not thinking, 333, 31
=Looks=, others', significance of, 469, 19
=Loquacity=, where to learn, 332, 45
=Lord=, good, good animal, 184, 12;
great, service under, 393, 4;
sayings about the, 439, 42-45;
the, eyes of, 426, 42;
the, fear of, 487, 32;
the, no counsel against, 474, 46;
the, sure to come, 174, 24;
what He requires of us, 535, 5;
when to seek, 385, 5
=Lord's=, blessings, on whom bestowed, 439, 41;
Prayer, Napoleon on, 72, 46
=Lordship=, conquest, 155, 31;
jealous of fellowship, 253, 45
=Loss=, first step to repair, 415, 32;
sometimes better than gain, 87, 10;
the smallest, not to be slighted, 394, 3
=Losses=, accustomed, 52, 41;
and crosses, lessons from, 484, 20;
comparative, 128, 23; 137, 34;
great and little, effect of, 350, 30;
relative value of, 151, 38
=Lost=, all is not, 539, 10;
sought in every cranny but the right, 111, 27;
the, valued, 110, 8
=Lot=, one's, matter of discontent, 318, 8;
our, how to estimate, 260, 37;
our, to be followed, 538, 31;
the, its disposal, 439, 47
=Louis XIV.=, Boileau of, 337, 4;
kept waiting for his carriage, 209, 33;
of his wife, 233, 1
=Louis XVI.=, Tilly on, 253, 37
=Lovable=, the, and the ridiculous, congruity of, 105, 8
=Love=, a contrast, 172, 21;
a cruel tyrant, 102, 1;
a dream, 247, 18;
a falling from, 549, 32;
as fulfilling the law, Professor Blackie on, 295, 24;
as our one debt, 340, 28;
a power divine, 314, 32;
as reconciler of things, 285, 26;
a rule of, 546, 37;
as seasoning, 504, 25;
a standard, 19, 63;
a warfare, 279, 24;
a wonderful, 486, 4;
accompaniment of, 27, 24;
all-comprehensiveness of, 256, 12;
all-hallowing, 74, 37;
always at first sight, 551, 15;
an impulse to help, 161, 4;
and admiration, 525, 34;
and ambition, wings, 258, 6;
and bickering, 482, 24;
and duty, inseparable, 474, 3;
and esteem, never sold, 214, 14;
and fear, connected, 471, 31;
and God, 189, 58;
and jealousy, 211, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40; 548, 10;
and labour, effect of, 127, 16;
and prudence, ill-matched pair, 359, 19;
and wisdom incompatible, 13, 8;
and reverence, objects respectively of, 110, 21;
as a bond, 124, 9;
as an educator, 492, 51;
as a gift of heaven, 477, 48,
as a present, 383, 20;
as a teacher, 320, 19;
as obligation, 506, 13;
ascetic, 120, 27;
at moment of parting, 487, 18;
at sight, 33, 30;
attended by memory, 479, 25;
attraction of, its law, 146, 36;
based on equality, 84, 13;
before rejection, 243, 35;
blessedness of unbroken, 104, 17;
blind, 25, 9;
burden of, 249, 19;
Christian, 257, 2;
common as light, 45, 10;
compared with admiration, 4, 33;
compared with friendship, 114, 49;
compared with hatred, 141, 21;
compared with passion, 65, 21;
compared with severity and justice, 285, 13;
composition of, 130, 12;
condition of, 556, 29;
contrasted with admiration, 63, 54;
cooling, effect of, 544, 13, 14;
courage in, 104, 25;
course of true, 109, 19;
credulous, 49, 51;
cruel power of, 183, 54;
daring of, 537, 34;
deep as the sea, 287, 41;
defined, 546, 4;
delight of, in tormenting, 17, 36;
described, 11, 44;
determining power of, 480, 39;
different kinds of, 34, 43;
direst disaster in, 476, 27;
disappointed, poison of, 218, 27;
discovery of estranged, 475, 5;
divine, described, 70, 70;
divine power of, 424, 6;
doubt of, 72, 20, 27;
early, yearning after, 320, 18;
educative power of, 222, 11, 14;
effect of, on man, 11, 51;
effect of absence on, 221, 44;
effect of different kinds of, 319, 3;
effect of, on life, 85, 14;
effect of looks on, 253, 15;
effect of, on a man's thinking, 543, 15;
effect of, on broken hearts, 498, 8;
effect of, on temper, 74, 15;
effect of time on, 487, 18;
effect on partisanship, 141, 13;
end of existence, 312, 30;
endures no tie, 108, 34;
enjoyed, 122, 23;
ennobling power of, 25, 59;
enslaving, 419, 27;
entire, a worship, 83, 44;
essential to intelligence, 202, 31;
everywhere, 190, 20;
evil of want of, 548, 44;
excess of, deprecated, 321, 18;
excessive, to be avoided, 15, 48;
excitement of, 187, 52;
expanding power of, 542, 11;
fate of, 568, 40;
first, alone infinite, 75, 9;
first consciousness of, 475, 21;
first, recurrence to, 331, 2;
first sigh of, 234, 36;
following or fleeing, 108, 10;
forced, 101, 53;
forced, not lasting, 112, 7;
genesis of, hard to date, 201, 9;
gifts of, 511, 24;
God's training of, 125, 45;
greatest miracle of, 432, 24;
happiness in, 242, 5;
heaven-revealing power of, 173, 3;
honoured, and why, 9, 65;
hope in, spite of reason, 311, 42;
hottest, 432, 12;
how kept out, 135, 10;
how to be won, 73, 53;
how to reap in, 175, 20;
idleness, 364, 15;
ignorant of, 144, 15;
impossible to conceal or express, 172, 45;
impossible to Mephistopheles, 86, 38;
indefinable by language, 399, 35;
indefinable to a true lover, 144, 26;
in man and in woman, 352, 33;
in the heart, a spur, 41, 27;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
incompatible with dignity, 68, 6;
intelligence of, 116, 23;
invincible, 534, 24;
its coming and going, 222, 15;
killing joy, 384, 39;
lad's, saying about, 229, 9;
life, 488, 15;
magic power of, 440, 13;
master of all arts, 69, 53;
might of, 279, 13;
miraculous power of, 325, 34;
moderation in, commended, 31, 58;
money powerless to buy, 457, 9;
mystic art of, 326, 5;
no cure for, 271, 33;
no explaining, 527, 19;
no fear in, 472, 37;
no habitant
of earth, 326, 6;
no, lost, 19, 12;
no, no true pain, 144, 43;
no reason for, 308, 51;
no retreat from, 537, 8;
no struggling against, 178, 54;
no, without love, 241, 48;
not binding lover, 172, 41;
not perfect in, 146, 13;
not the sole, or even chief object of any, 294, 50;
not to be scorned, 383, 20;
not to be spoken of with scorn, 296, 66;
of a father, 103, 8;
of God, no falling out of, 217, 1;
old and new, 489, 11;
old, changing, for new, 479, 38;
old-fashioned, dead, 330, 2;
one thing needful, 414, 35;
one's first, 88, 23;
only known to mother, 319, 18;
only victory over, 446, 25;
our first, 527, 23;
our, to others, 525, 31;
pain of, a mystery, 212, 5;
pain from, 72, 32;
pains of, 340, 46;
pangs in, many, 251, 46;
partiality of, 269, 27;
passion of, effect of, on the tongue, 545, 27;
perfect, sayings about, 346, 2-4;
power of, 64, 11; 319, 27; 325, 34; 457, 25; 525, 20; 558, 30;
power of, on fools and clever people, 226, 36;
power of, over hatred, 141, 17;
power of, over sorrow, 86, 34;
power of, over the gods, 544, 15;
power of, in poet, 296, 19;
prevalency of, 524, 19;
principle of, 521, 2;
pure, might of, 360, 7;
rapture and pain of, 221, 40;
reconciling power of, 268, 16;
reflects thing beloved, 165, 23;
relieving power of, 27, 29;
risk of forswearing, 382, 10;
room enough everywhere for, 368, 39;
satisfying, 237, 22;
sayings about, 13, 56-67; 14, 3; 65, 22-25; 187, 50-53;
246, 5-12; 494, 13-16;
season, the, 440, 3;
separated in life, 504, 29;
sigh of, 555, 9;
sorrowing after hope, 479, 25;
specific against, 37, 31;
strength of, 403, 19; 404, 10;
successful, 405, 41;
sudden, 406, 2;
suppressing, 407, 22;
sympathy of, blessing in, 483, 34;
test of, 539, 44;
test of citizenship, 240, 42;
test of power of, 66, 25;
that can be reckoned, 478, 1;
that descends, 440, 6;
that lets itself be known, 479, 12;
the best, 482, 46;
the centre of, 78, 13;
the chaste blossom of, 391, 37;
the deceptive power of, 329, 33;
the double bliss in, 320, 17;
the faith of, 218, 22;
the fire of, not quenchable by words, 484, 4;
the first, 428, 26;
the first sigh of, 428, 35;
the heart's romance, 222, 13;
the hottest, 435, 33;
the key to vision, 265, 7;
the monstrosity in, 481, 46;
the offer or refusal of, 302, 48;
the only equaliser, 119, 27;
the point of, 427, 3;
the range of, 381, 38;
the rights of, 527, 42;
the true season of, 413, 33;
the truth about, 537, 7;
the universal sway of, 222, 20;
those who can animate, 335, 20;
thy, seek not to tell, 296, 61;
to be paid in love, 128, 28;
to be yielded to, 328, 35;
to doubt, 491, 47;
to God, condition of, 371, 40;
to project itself as an arrow, 47, 52;
to reason about, 367, 49;
transposing power of, 480, 38;
true, 413, 34; 500, 17-22;
true, unconcealable, 80, 14;
true, course of, 422, 1;
true, ever the same, 54, 8;
true, not to be hid, 544, 46;
true, sweet, 408, 25;
typified by colour, 44, 32;
unconcealable, 290, 31;
universal, described, 507, 36;
unquenchable, 270, 4;
unquenchable by words, 63, 43;
unwisely directed, 528, 17;
_versus_ wealth, 208, 4;
waywardness of, 106, 4;
who shuts out, 552, 31;
when deep, 83, 57;
when ripening, 377, 25;
when satisfied, 7, 58;
who alone obtain, 482, 37;
who hath, in his heart, 554, 14;
who knows, 552, 8;
wise in, advice to, 550, 34;
without esteem, 19, 52
=Love's= young dream, 478, 28
=Love-letter=, how to write good, 497, 5
=Loved=, and lost, to have, 487, 54;
how to be wholly, 490, 45;
not lost, 176, 3;
not wisely, but too well, 400, 48
=Lover=, a, for everything, 75, 21;
accepted and betrothed, 415, 30;
engaged in war, 279, 23;
fine trait in character of, 198, 12;
loved, 9, 56;
no deceiving, 366, 28;
senses of, 537, 7;
the desire of, 452, 28;
unconscious of space and time, 402, 3;
sayings about, 440, 4, 5
=Lover's=, doubts and suspicions, misery of a, 33, 21;
the, privilege, 495, 33
=Lovers=, easily entertained, 85, 19;
never tire of each other, 537, 35;
self-tormentors, 161, 10;
the perjuries of, and Jupiter, 346, 26;
two, a spectacle for gods, 79, 34
=Lovers'=, eyes, sharpness of, 110, 16;
memories, 273, 5;
quarrels, 13, 5;
tongues, silver sweet, 162, 33
=Loving=, a heaven-soaring wing, 41, 6;
and being loved, 531, 20;
and hating, alike without reason, 329, 16;
and losing, 200, 30;
believing, 41, 5;
daring, 419, 11;
fearing, 41, 7;
or not loving, effect of both alike, 533, 35;
pain of, 460, 31;
pleasure in, 472, 3;
too much, 39, 14
=Low= man, the, a success, 482, 4
=Lowest=, from, a path to highest, 116, 27;
the, to be borne with, 375, 29
=Lowly= soul, blessed, 403, 8
=Loyalty= to country sacred, 242, 2
=Lucifer=, the sin of, 428, 36
=Luck=, believers in, 388, 25;
good, 129, 44-46;
good, applied energy, 17, 12;
good, too much, 569, 33;
inspires pluck, 124, 35;
the power of, 55, 21
=Lucky=, a, man, 348, 47
=Ludlam's= dog, 232, 34
=Luminaries=, intellectual, at their brightest, 508, 8
=Lust=, contra sted with nature, 291, 38;
degrading power of, Sallust on, 286, 8
=Lustre=, no, without light, 473, 17
=Lute=, little rift in, 206, 24
=Luther=, at the Diet of Worms, 156, 26; 531, 2;
on his way to Worms, 533, 12
=Luxuries=, most, harmful, 284, 29
=Luxury=, and avarice, compared, 258, 11;
compared with poverty, 354, 35;
fatal to kingdoms, 331, 15;
peril of, 104, 26
=Lying=, accusation of, 489, 25; as vice, 31, 50;
cowardly, 246, 4;
habit of, 433, 3;
its beginning and end, 84, 19;
only for tradesmen, 241, 31;
the meanness of, 387, 35;
the price of, 429, 41
=Lyre=, a welcome, at banquet, 56, 16;
the, winged, 315, 35;
with voice and flute, compared, 429, 3
=Lyrics=, to be sung, 239, 31
M
=Machine=, the model, 264, 5
=Machinery=, does not feed men, 294, 44;
indispensability of, 140, 40;
ruinous effect of, 11, 43
=Macpherson= under the gallows, 379, 18
=Mad=, all, once, 386, 22;
with all rather than alone, 29, 22
=Madam=, and moon, light of, borrowed, 114, 16
=Madding= crowd's ignoble strife, far from, 102, 10
=Madman=, a, according to Schiller, 143, 6;
a sort of dreamer, 424, 20;
belief of every, 194, 46;
in the eye of law, 117, 44, 45
=Madmen=, all, 234, 16; worst of, 465, 31
=Madness=, a germ of, in all, 190, 14;
common calamity, 170, 16;
defined, 542, 15;
fine, of the poet, 111, 10;
how induced, 314, 20;
in the dullest, 190, 26;
method in, 484, 31;
pleasure in, 470, 18;
tendency to, even in wisest, 186, 43;
the element of, 81, 34
=Magdalen=, thrusting, into the pit, 553, 30
=Magistracy=, bought, justice by, 145, 23
=Magistrates=, function of, 237, 20
=Magnanimity=, meaning of, 490, 27
=Mahomet=, and the mountain, 174, 25;
compared with Moses, 284, 10
=Maid=, love for a, moral power of, 305, 20
=Maiden=, a, how to win, 563, 27;
a tender thing, 248, 47;
in new clothes, 241, 43;
qualities we love in, 525, 30;
simple, in her flower, 19, 31;
the, to love, 499, 4;
when her heart is stolen, 544, 40
=Maiden's= reserve, her security, 306, 28
=Maidens= to be praised, 114, 14
=Majesty=, attribute of kings, 80, 22;
incompatible with love, 308, 55
=Majority=, a clear, 333, 33;
appeal to, against reason, 315, 28;
going by, 524, 14;
the, opinions of, 440, 15;
the, what, 537, 17;
two that make a, 331, 36; 333, 33;
voice of, no proof, 461, 8;
voice of, on any high matter, 441, 33
=Maladies=, cure for all, 562, 42;
desperate, remedies for, 24, 28;
our spiritual, source of, 339, 21
=Malcontent=, political, described, 12, 11
=Male= appointed to rule, 73, 39
=Malice=, to be despised, 527, 28
=Malignity=, no pure, 474, 7;
unjustifiable, 466, 44
=Mammon=, great, 133, 49; p
ower of, 259, 45
=Man=, a, a man, 539, 7;
a, and his faults, 516, 24;
a, assailed, 159, 4;
a, at his worst, how to judge of, 528, 22;
a bad, no association with, 304, 42;
a bad, never amusing, 334, 3;
a born worshipper, 261, 45;
a communicative, Swift's dread of, 307, 43;
a, composition of, 187, 35;
a, counterfeit of, 143, 24;
a, described, 143, 7;
a, distinguishing mark of, 28, 9;
a, dread power, 352, 17;
a drowning, 42, 27;
a fighter, 169, 39;
a great and good, 142, 58;
a happy, 140, 21; 166, 2;
a hard, 143, 3;
a, his nature, 12, 10;
a, how he finds himself, 305, 41;
a, how interpreted, 556, 33;
a, knowing, difficult, 208, 12;
a microcosm, 473, 18;
a minnow, in the All, 496, 10;
a moving temple of God, 90, 7;
a mystery, 522, 23;
a, no concealing, 161, 2;
a, not wretched, 34, 48;
a, one with his native soil, 331, 41;
a, stimulating effect of sight of, 22, 14;
a real, 241, 45;
a reed that thinks, 233, 27;
a, rich in himself, 190, 6;
a, rated at his own value, 224, 8;
a sad, 143, 3;
a social animal, 16, 3;
a stately edifice, 535, 27;
a strong, 12, 9; 143, 10;
a subject of study, 467, 4;
a symbol of God, 459, 41; 536, 28;
a, to meet, 164, 32;
a, touchstone of, 34, 42;
a well-bred, 24, 52;
a, what best becomes, 170, 21;
a whole number, 11, 61;
a wilful, 24, 57;
a wise, according to Epictetus, 143, 14;
a wise, according to the Hitopadesa, 143, 15;
a wise, according to Xenophon, 143, 16;
a, worth of, 204, 42;
ability of, 537, 46;
affected by time, 240, 13;
after God's or another's pattern, 200, 14;
aim of, compared with woman's, 288, 44;
akin to God in spirit, 173, 19;
all a prey to, 314, 27;
all-relatedness of, 476, 9;
all the sphere, 314, 27;
an actor in a drama, 373, 5;
an exception, 464, 30;
an individual, mature fruit of time, 15, 40;
an interest to man, 473, 19;
an inventor, 334, 46;
and animal, contrast between, 416, 9;
and ape, distinction between, 346, 30;
and beast, moral difference of, 443, 4;
and citizen, 440, 19;
and his age, inseparable, 11, 49;
and his circumstances, 440, 21;
and his defects, how to regard, 253, 1;
and his expression 440, 20;
and his God, 96, 50;
and his inseparable attendants, 566, 26;
and misery, twins, 109, 36;
and nature, distinction between, 424, 1;
and other animals, the distinction between, 202, 24;
and world, 464, 40;
angel as well as devil in, 174, 41;
apprentice to pain, 223, 24;
as a piece of work, 533, 36;
as great or small, 473, 16;
as his works, perishable, 35, 31;
as regards knowledge and practice, 162, 18;
as subject of art, 60, 19;
as weary and heavy laden, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 352, 41;
aspiring to be an angel, 223, 26;
assurance of a, 3, 19;
at the best, 550, 4;
attitude of, to truth and falsehood, 223, 21;
bad, the fair words of, 137, 53;
basest thought about, 416, 47;
below himself, 143, 21;
best served, 143, 22;
bachelor, betrothed, wedded, 25, 39;
by nature and art, 18, 45;
call no, happy before death, 241, 45;
central part in, 453, 12;
centre of all beauty and worth, 312, 35;
characteristic function of, 241, 25;
characteristic of, known only to God, 415, 3;
chief fault of, 60, 14;
child of nature, 26, 60;
compared to a clock, 44, 4;
contrasted with woman, 560, 45;
dear to man, 58, 22;
dear to the gods, 36, 18;
defined, 352, 19;
despised by world, 465, 4;
distinctive mark of, 489, 29;
distinguishing qualities of, 76, 54;
effect of favour and a fall on, 225, 18;
either god or devil, 159, 23;
either god or wolf, 159, 17;
end of, 425, 12, 13;
ever in need of man, 154, 17;
ever wrestler rather than believer, 84, 47;
either born king or fool, 24, 23;
every, a potential madman, 91, 49;
every, a quotation, 92, 12;
every, a reflex of the All, 92, 35;
every, a special vocation, 91, 28;
every, a suggestion, 92, 16;
every, at birth, 150, 29;
every, dupe to himself, 92, 15;
every, exceptional, 92, 14;
every, his own valuator, 92, 27;
every, knowledge of, special, 92, 20;
every, in a sense alone, 92, 19;
every, rule for, 240, 39;
every, to follow his own star, 212, 7;
every, when sick, 92, 13;
extraordinary, without root in life, 205, 43;
feeling one's self a, 217, 36;
final destiny of, 91, 29;
folly in, 471, 32;
folly of, in having and not using faculties, 126, 5;
foolishest thought about, 416, 47;
formed to be a husband, 291, 8;
free at first, 164, 35;
God in, 174, 19;
God in, a birth of faith, 100, 16;
god or devil, 367, 41;
God's creature, 93, 18;
God's proper treasure, 128, 34;
good, sign of a, 418, 15;
great, by conviction, 312, 32;
greatest, a son of man, 60, 6;
greatest crime of, 111, 17;
hard to persuade, 265, 10;
has a good and a bad angel, 92, 8;
has still all the faculties he ever had, 297, 6;
highest, brother to his contemporaries, 435, 2;
highest glory and highest disgrace of, 493, 40;
his body and soul, 159, 13;
his destiny, 482, 18;
his nature the rule for, 81, 27;
his own enemy, 91, 48;
his own portion, 12, 26;
his vitality, 461, 5;
how to estimate a, 370, 29; 505, 10;
how to know a, 177, 23; 493, 28;
how he knows himself, 334, 47;
how to influence a, 177, 45;
how to study, 495, 52;
human element in, 533, 45;
hungry, to be alone, 87, 32;
if alone, a terror to himself, 533, 13;
ignorant of himself, 316, 51;
ill to advise, 161, 34;
in a series, 521, 27;
immensity of his possibilities, 26, 62;
in contrast with nature, 291, 4;
in God's image, 125, 24;
in himself, 522, 11;
in his deed a precedent to man, 9, 68;
in his self-delusion, 119, 22;
in presence of Nature, 292, 23;
in prosperity, 90, 32;
in relation to his defects and talents, 12, 27;
in relation to instinct, 522, 26;
is what he is, 387, 48;
interest in, 163, 31;
is sincere, when alone, 91, 44;
just and resolute, Horace on, 216, 42;
key to every, 437, 27;
knowing, and men, different, 201, 18;
knowledge of, 437, 40;
known by his company, 312, 7;
known by what he honours, 389, 39;
left to his passions, 236, 44;
life of, a diary, 439, 3;
life of, how led, 488, 36;
life of, its course, 439, 4;
like Ulysses, 182, 30;
limit of evil in, 218, 13;
lord of himself, and his resources, rare, 151, 11;
lovable through his errors, 65, 6;
lowest, life of, 439, 7;
Luther's definition of a, 554, 8;
made for society, 521, 33;
master of his fate, 329, 34;
measured by his own standard, 278, 45;
most essential fact about, 443, 44;
nearest God, 143, 35;
new always in a new time, 444, 44;
no bad, happy, 295, 12;
no, born for himself, 295, 24;
no, born without faults, 289, 33;
no, but has his time, 473, 22;
no, compelled to be compelled, 218, 15;
no, entirely a devil, 303, 8;
no, extraordinary, without a mission, 212, 1;
no, friendless, 473, 20;
no longer a temple, 95, 10;
no, the man prayed for, 242, 3;
no, the one waited for, 58, 38;
no, wise at all moments, 295, 15;
no, wise by himself, 295, 25;
noble, attractive power of, 78, 43;
not easy to transplant, 313, 7;
not hindered by society, 396, 8;
not his own guide, 204, 6;
not men, God-made, 128, 4;
of celestial descent, 551, 34;
of decision, 441, 11;
of action, the chief concern of, 58, 32;
of genius and other men, difference between, 462, 7;
of genius, his view of things, 297, 21;
of genius, sayings about, 440, 23, 24;
of noble deeds, in trouble, misjudged, 208, 18;
of pluck, 477, 43;
of sound brain and his knowledge, 92, 20;
of the world, how to be, 413, 48;
oh for a, with heart, head, hand, 325, 52;
on the confines of two hostile empires, 95, 13;
one, with a higher wisdom, worth of, 332, 56;
of only one subject, 66, 44;
only point in regard to, 446, 13;
original, and the world, 464, 13; 465, 17
our obligations to, 527, 41;
only sleeping and feeding, 535, 38;
overwhelmed with misfortune, 374, 19;
part of a whole, 489, 7;
peculiarity of, 426, 4;
piped to by fortune, 20, 23;
Plato's definition of, 15, 24;
poor, if not raised above self, 507, 51;
power looked for in, 221, 29;
preacher to woman, 460, 43;
presence and passion of, 465, 17;
presence of absence of, a difference, 548, 11;
presumption of, rebuked, 125, 7;
proof of a, 204, 29;
proper study of man, 220, 2;
pure, in this world, 441, 10;
qualities to possess to make, 488, 14;
real science and study of man, 228, 20;
regarded as end of creation, 203, 17;
religiously viewed, 91, 46;
sayings about, 60, 32-38; 61, 1-13; 91, 44-55; 92, 1-44;
science of, obscure, 267, 30;
self-ruined, 127, 15;
separated from his circumstances, 371, 23;
small, surveying great, 19, 54;
something in, as yet unnamed, 178, 30;
something of all in every, 476, 40;
soul of the whole, 559, 15;
spirit of, indomitable, 504, 18;
strange contradictions in, 162, 16;
subject to his power, 12, 12;
summary history of, 261, 44;
substantiality in a, 443, 19;
taught only by himself, 146, 30;
test of, 489, 34;
that hath no music in him, 440, 31;
that stands by himself, 440, 33;
the, and the hour, 440, 29;
the arch-machine, 196, 14;
the beauty of, 65, 1;
the best, 289, 33;
the façade of a temple, 12, 11;
the fatal, 427, 16;
the first, significance of, 422, 11;
the foundations of, 429, 19;
the greatness of, how to comprehend, 339, 20;
the highest might of, 513, 10;
the knowledge of, price of, 491, 33;
the life of, 465, 19;
the life of, a journey, 439, 5;
the little, 439, 24;
the lot of, 52, 40;
the merely merry, 440, 38;
the merely serious, 440, 38;
the more universal, the greater, 210, 28;
the noble, with nobler, 439, 25;
the noblest function of, 53, 45;
the noblest, that ever lived, 483, 28;
the, of character, 440, 32;
the ordinary, happiness of, 446, 30;
the real, 450, 38;
the riddle of the world, 49, 40;
the shadow of, 292, 1;
the state of, 481, 47;
the state of, Wolsey on the, 102, 19;
the substantial, 479, 1;
the terrible, 117, 38;
the, that blushes, 440, 30;
the want of, 554, 46;
the wealth of a, 461, 40;
the, who cannot wonder, 441, 3;
the whole, of this new time, 554, 24;
the wisest, 14, 44;
the, without sense of his relation to things, 440, 35;
this was a, 157, 5;
threefold property of a, 449, 45;
to be obeyed, 464, 15;
to be saved from damnable error, 173, 32;
to free oppressed, 126, 9;
to what appointed, 33, 17;
treating a, with solemnity, effect of, 542, 12;
truly blest, 440, 39;
truly free, will and action of, 223, 30;
two things necessary to make a man, 544, 43;
weakness of, 267, 25;
well-ordered, independence of, 147, 27;
what exalts, 488, 33;
when God visits him, 127, 33;
when most God-like, 12, 8;
when one is a, 568, 39;
when quite destitute, 223, 25;
when reformer and when conservative, 522, 13;
when true, 173, 2;
when truly alive, 264, 26;
while living, necessary, 19, 50;
who always wins, 142, 6;
who bears rule, 153, 12;
who can call to-day his own, 140, 26;
who can define, 145, 9;
who cannot blush, 440, 41;
who cannot endure his own company, 441, 2;
who cannot laugh, 441, 1;
who cannot win a woman, 413, 47;
who depends on public recognition, 440, 42;
who does not fear death, 441, 6;
who does not think what he is doing, 528, 26;
who has no enemies, 441, 8;
who has only ancestry to boast of, 441, 9;
who is not passion's slave, 123, 16;
who knows not how to live, 441, 4;
who never decides, 441, 12; who never loved his kind, 554, 17;
who owes his bread solely to heaven, 140, 27;
who runs away, 14, 58;
who wavers in wavering times, 441, 11;
whom kings have most to fear, 153, 10;
whose mother has not inspired him with veneration, 507, 20;
whose soul is veiled by pair of glasses, 534, 42;
why no, can judge another, 303, 14;
within man, 92, 9;
without a purpose, 109, 15;
without bread, 42, 51;
without enthusiasm, 165, 46;
without passion, 559, 39, 40;
without philosophy, 559, 41;
without prayer, 534, 5;
without shame lost, 289, 24;
without the Bible, 392, 52;
word of, 520, 7;
Wordsworth's lament over, 14, 48;
worthiest, according to Burns, 454, 4;
worthiest of affection, 189, 60
=Man's=, arm, if upheld by the gods, 402, 20;
being, secret of, the sphinx's, 452, 44;
chief want, 538, 1;
discontent, 352, 31;
doings symbolic, 10, 34;
faculty, feet not wings, 524, 41;
finest qualities, how to preserve, 427, 45;
first great work, 428, 21;
gifts, 219, 51;
greatest ornament and dignity, 533, 27;
grief his grandeur, 352, 31;
life, sphere of, 202, 41;
lot, like wind, 385, 11;
nature, secret of, 452, 45;
needs and wishes, 514, 16;
only true joy, 316, 27;
origin and end, 412, 39;
soul, majestic, 241, 46;
true ambition, 204, 37;
true beginning and father, 486, 12;
true elevation, 340, 45;
true safety, 340, 45;
true want, 538, 8;
two gala-days, 570, 3;
work, a, 261, 46
=Management=, good, economy of, 129, 47
=Manfulness=, in sin as well as faith, commended by Luther, 26, 6
=Manhood=, a, how built up, 92, 43;
a period of unlearning, 482, 33;
a struggle, 568, 42;
passing away of, 514, 19;
possible here, 156, 22;
sense of, elevating power of, 443, 26;
measure of, 354, 40
=Manhood's= work, 402, 22
=Mankind=, an unco' squad, 564, 24;
and his task, of what composed, 313, 12;
contractedness of, 140, 9;
contrary estimate of, 398, 42;
does not doubt, 265, 11;
ever in progress, 106, 20;
evil of despising, 553, 12;
generally bad, 326, 35;
how interpreted, 556, 33;
how to love, 177, 39;
how to maintain love for, 188, 42;
knowledge of, damaging effect of, 277, 54;
Machiavelli on, 57, 16;
one and a whole, 173, 25;
proper study of, 449, 43;
to love, and to see into, 494, 14;
wish of, collectively, 89, 50
=Manliness=, commended, 366, 36
=Mannerism=, how produced, 139, 20
=Manners=, a probity in, 470, 20;
artificial, effect of assuming, 469, 26;
authors of, 238, 32;
cannot be imparted, 137, 37;
caught as diseases, 200, 50;
composing, more than composing books, 141, 42;
defended by ceremony, 38, 20;
effect of pride on, 194, 40;
effect on, of liberal arts, 194, 14;
everywhere to be respected, 76, 14;
fine, inventor of, 120, 26;
fine, mantle of fair minds, 106, 28;
fine, support of, 106, 29;
good, 129, 48-51;
good, and love of country, 439, 48;
good, to attain to, 490, 5;
good, not communicated, 128, 52;
good, the basis of, 417, 1;
good, the element of, 454, 5;
how learned, 478, 83;
importance of, 181, 17; 204, 46; 559, 8;
men's evil, 277, 24;
once vices, 538, 16;
people of, distinguishing trait of, 424, 4;
pleasing, effect of, 283, 50;
refinement of, how attained, 216, 19;
regulated by the king, 45, 47;
root of defect in, 56, 61;
striking, bad, 403, 43;
strange, disconcerting, 281, 5;
that speak well of the man, 469, 27;
the power of, 406, 21;
the supreme power in, 187, 56;
to be studied, 313, 31
=Manual= labour, the value of, 305, 44
=Manufacture=, contrasted with art, 550, 16
=Manufactures=, our, 525, 38
=Many=, men, many minds, 332, 58;
the, no pleasing, 123, 24; 258, 30
=Maria Theresa's= epitaph, 388, 2
=Mark=, missing the, 416, 15
=Market-place=, training of, 450, 13
=Marksman=, a good, 6, 49
=Marriage=, a happy, 249, 41;
a query prior to, 36, 33;
a way to repentance, 118, 30;
a suitable, 390, 30;
according to luck, 93, 31;
advice regarding, 175, 21;
an open question, 197, 19;
an unhappy, 280, 25;
as birds in cages, 198, 8;
before and after, 217, 44; 276, 29;
before, evil, 147, 56;
concern of others in one's, 324, 17;
contentment in, 187, 57;
early, advantage of, 117, 2;
extremes in, 64, 7;
fascination of, 118, 36;
for money, 148, 1;
in despair, 341, 24;
in opinion and reality, 191, 29;
inducements to, 451, 26;
kills or cures, 80, 20;
may mar, 23, 22;
rule in, 82, 63; 270, 23;
saying on, 568, 7;
significance of, 326, 14;
Socrates on, 550, 10;
the happiest, 124, 6;
true, union in, 192, 15;
unfortunate, evil of, 202, 43;
well-matched and ill-matched, 531, 27;
with an old person, in hope of his death, 479, 44
=Marriages=, unequal, 496, 41; 507, 9;
why few happy, 451, 1
=Married=, in haste, 485, 45;
life, who fit for, 335, 7;
people, their mutual interest, 548, 24
=Marry=, times not to, 192, 40
=Marrying=, anticipated and experienced, 36, 34
=Martyr=, a, to live harder, than to die, 203, 5;
blood of the, 436, 39;
what makes a, 206, 1
=Martyrdom=, ennobled by Christianity, 42, 54;
to bystanders, 458, 14
=Martyrdoms= as seen at the time, 9, 58
=Martyrs=, accepted by nature, 292, 18;
the blood of, 418, 42;
the modern, 359, 33
=Masses=, effect of giving power to, 123, 33;
judgment of the, 518, 11
=Master=, a fellow worker, 446, 42;
a good, 152, 17;
and his affairs, 71, 6;
and servant, unhappy relation of, 395, 14;
being without a, 491, 1;
careless, 2, 35;
early, 75, 34;
effect of presence of, 80, 53;
every one finds his, 85, 27;
eye of, 426, 34;
finding, a first duty, 428, 15;
measure of, 441, 41;
minds, rare, 292, 38;
no one born, 295, 45;
of whole world, 150, 13;
presence of, eye of house, 327, 39;
qualification for, 175, 3;
spirits, 56, 54;
the, and the mansion, 293, 34;
true, 145, 36;
who fears his servants, 279, 47;
who will not serve one, 42, 17
=Master's= eye, worth of, 53, 28
=Masterhood=, and servanthood, correlative, 107, 7;
restriction necessary to, 152, 39
=Masters=, accustomed, not easily dispensed with, 239, 17;
and their domestics, 105, 9;
change of, to the poor, 189, 18;
no serving two, 303, 24; 305, 22;
not all, 523, 2;
real, importance of, 559, 43;
serving two, 41, 15;
the great, the subject of all, 324, 34
=Mastership= and servantship, value of, 96, 19
=Mastery=, empty claim of, over others, 10, 1;
essence of, 492, 48;
of a subject, how to attain, 117, 32;
how to attain to, 390, 36;
mistaken for egoism, 65, 29;
thorough, how possible, 303, 25; 305, 22
=Material= things essential to life, 468, 26
=Mathematics=, our, 524, 34
=Mathesis=, a fundamental, 494, 11
=Matrimony=, the state of, 234, 22; 405, 46
=Matter=, spirit-informed, 277, 43;
subject to mind, 279, 32
=Maturity=, law of, 445, 5
=Maxim=, the grand modern, 38, 45;
the, of maxims, 491, 38
=Maxims=, by themselves, 12, 33;
good, value of, 129, 52;
sound, the value of, 400, 23;
their helpfulness, 356, 1;
their, show men, 239, 4;
too high, to be reserved, 529, 2
=Mazes=, in wandering, lost, 336, 43
=Me=, our, the only reality, 482, 12
=Mean=, a, in all things, 87, 14;
deed, debasing, 150, 2;
the proper course, 98, 5
=Meaning= well, 495, 24
=Meanness=, debasing, 16, 16;
more hopeless than wickedness, 166, 44
=Means=, and end, 5, 50;
I'll husband, 110, 25;
must be at hand, 3, 32;
to do ill deeds, 162, 39
=Measures=, nothing to men, 273, 41
=Meat=, and stomach for it, matter of thanks, 398, 14;
one man's, not another's, 5, 7;
where mouths, 127, 30, 42
=Medal=, and its reverse, 40, 3;
reverse of, thought on, 333, 3
="Meddle not,"= as a maxim, 413, 31
=Medea=, her method of reform, 305, 28
=Mediævalism=, chief moral agent of, 453, 11
=Medical= skill, profession of, universal, 106, 36
=Medicine=, contrary effects of, 84, 35;
Mephisto on the study of, 59, 58
=Mediocrity=, aiming at, 489, 32;
helpful to make wise, 189, 56;
in power, 314, 35; 376, 46;
naturally pleasing to us, 308, 1;
respectable, inoffensive, 374, 50;
the ascendency of, a sign of the times, 429, 45;
to be cheerfully accepted, 172, 19;
when unendurable, 466, 32
=Meekness=, power of, 405, 25;
true, faces of, 398, 12
=Melancholy=, and mirth, correlated, 482, 27;
charm in, 125, 9;
contrasted with cheerfulness, 40, 46;
how to prevent, 81, 41
=Melanchthon's= rule, 188, 25
=Melodies=, of the everlasting chime, 467, 10;
the sweetest, 408, 30
=Melody=, in the heart of everything, 9, 47;
sphere, 435, 3
=Member=, suffering in one, 110, 13
=Memorial=, more durable than brass, 96, 47
=Memorials=, enduring, 99, 20
=Memory=, and judgment compared, 21, 3;
dependent on forgetfulness, 495, 18;
dependent on oblivion, 176, 16;
independent of will, 338, 33;
necessity of exercising, 273, 11;
not to be dragooned, 565, 45;
pleasures of, 546, 21;
Themistocles on his, 273, 6;
the dark background of, 323, 23;
the faculty of, 426, 45;
wise, the condition of, 176, 16;
with little judgment, 26, 11
=Men=, a little breed, 523, 6;
a thousand kinds of, 275, 25;
after modern or ancient model, 124, 13;
all conditioned by circumstance, 138, 29;
all, play-actors, 286, 31;
ambitious, like tallest trees, 456, 40;
and the law, 438, 24;
and their vices, how to treat, 340, 32;
and women of right sort, 35, 2;
angels or slugs, practically no matter, 339, 42;
anvil as well as hammer, 92, 32;
argumentative, 398, 19;
as individuals, and their belongings, 521, 3;
as measured of God, 125, 29;
as the generation of leaves, 326, 37;
as they are born, 398, 16;
at birth and death, 9, 60;
at their best, 289, 49;
blindness of, 65, 33;
born for others, 310, 13;
born too soon, 116, 32;
bubbles on stream of time, 111, 40;
but three classes of, 466, 29;
by what standard to weigh, 333, 19;
childless, progeny of, 445, 10;
collective beings, 521, 3;
collectively, respect for, despised individually, 16, 1;
common, apologies for men, 45, 15;
compared with plants, 349, 16;
dangerous, 149, 13;
differences among, 110, 20;
dream of a shadow, 393, 16;
driven as turkeys, 521, 14;
effect of, ignorance of, 65, 32;
evil, characteristic of, 95, 32;
evil of shunning, 65, 31;
false estimate of, 162, 22;
far-observant, often unknown to themselves, 529, 23;
for certain brothers, 556, 41;
glorious, Bacon on, 124, 23;
god-devils, 357, 35;
God's _versus_ devil's, 128, 10;
good, value of, 129, 53;
good, mercy in, 187, 18;
graded from birth, 21, 15;
great (see =Great men=);
greatest, sayings about, 432, 16-23;
greatest, simplest, 432, 41;
happy, full of present, 140, 23;
how misknown, 65, 31;
how ruined, 9, 69;
how to be weighed, 507, 13;
how to govern, 492, 47;
how to make true or great, 501, 14;
how to treat, 510, 14, 15;
how treated by the gods, 68, 36;
hypocrites when talking of themselves, 535, 28;
in love, philosophy of, 542, 15;
in one respect all alike, 188, 39;
in the eye of God, 127, 23;
inconstancy of, 391, 24;
inequality among, 239, 10;
known when in misfortune, 544, 2;
knowledge of, advantage of, 60, 34;
lenses, 336, 41;
like chameleons, 520, 42;
like fishes in sea, 107, 3;
like nails and like rivets, 398, 17;
like spaniels, 398, 23;
Marmontel's feelings towards, 164, 46;
may come and go, 165, 29;
members of one body, 521, 33;
most, insolvent, 284, 26;
never present with themselves, 521, 41;
no class of, dispensable, 86, 19;
no greater now than have been, 302, 19;
not common, 115, 6;
not helpers, but hinderers, 494, 28;
not helpful or to be helped, 169, 23;
of ability, now often unbelievers, 293, 27;
of genius, under misfortune, 238, 3;
of low and of high degree, vanity, 407, 35;
of one pattern, 190, 3;
of retiring timidity, 561, 13;
of unbridled passions, helping, 536, 5;
old, lives of, 327, 24;
old, what should be the care of, 327, 23;
old, without judgment of their peers, 337, 22;
on earth as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, 155, 16;
only distinction among, 446, 42;
only performers, not composers, 127, 2;
only players, not authors, 127, 1;
ordinary, aspiring to be geniuses, 239, 6;
put off with stories, 298, 3;
races of, compared to leaves, 249, 49;
seat of logic of, 64, 15;
seducing, 477, 15;
self-made, respect for, 90, 11;
shadows, and shadow-hunted, 538, 29;
soldiers, 10, 60;
some, demi-gods, 357, 35;
some, women, 88, 20;
symmetrical, 276, 2;
that are ill to manage, 472, 15;
to act as men, 28, 37;
to act as men now, 526, 13;
to be afraid of, 442, 3;
to be both men and children, 243, 25;
to be mystified, not satisfied, 405, 56;
to be shunned, 169, 23;
to be weighed with merchant's scales, 265, 12;
truly great, characteristic of, 500, 45, 46;
two, alone worthy of honour, 503, 45;
two levers to move, 468, 36;
unmarried, in social relations, 508, 9;
virtue and vice of, 541, 21;
want of concord among, 163, 18;
what is required of, 243, 29;
when angels, 521, 36;
when children, philosophy of, 542, 15;
when just, 238, 34;
when likest gods, 158, 42;
when maidens sue, 544, 18;
when more divine, 52, 29;
when most godlike, 521, 40;
when properly themselves, 521, 42;
who hope for no better life, 478, 46;
wise, full of present, 140, 23;
with some, personifications, 191, 28;
See =Les hommes=, 238, 31
=Men's=, judgments of one another, 299, 13;
lives, a prophecy in, 470, 1
=Men-children=, children only, 32, 44
=Mendacious= being, the one, 476, 17
=Mental=, disease the fatalist, 423, 42;
diseases not to be spoken of, 260, 27
=Mephistopheles'= account of himself, 79, 35
=Mephistopheles=, character of, 128, 24;
like cat with mouse, 117, 41;
spirit of, 60, 1
=Merchandise=, a, curs'd, 52, 3
=Merchant=, making and counting his money, 442, 4;
profession of, 107, 11;
the, temptation of, 13, 21;
true-bred, as a gentleman, 22, 3
=Mercury=, a, not made out of any log, 97, 53
=Mercy=, a, to be condemned, 470, 11;
as dealt by God, 125, 25;
attractive power of, 28, 6;
divine sovereignty of, 33, 18;
effect of, on sin, 314, 17;
God's, near, 280, 27;
God's, universal, 128, 5;
in a king, 301, 17;
in every place, 478, 8;
nobility's badge, 408, 26;
power of, on sinner, 496, 28;
quality of, 450, 21;
the, required, 495, 41;
too much, 497, 40;
true, 500, 23;
whereto serves, 549, 36;
who will not show, 553, 1;
woman's virtue, 65, 35
=Merit=, and good fortune united, 208, 5;
better than descent, 173, 9;
from use of gifts, 330, 12;
independent of time and mode, 235, 29;
man's highest, 266, 36;
modest, 278, 20;
not prior to existence, 306, 13;
often a drawback, 234, 5;
power of, 26, 15;
power of, in contrast with charms, 40, 32;
proof of superior, 226, 11;
sufficiency of one's, 456, 15;
the test of, 473, 26;
unprotected, to be cherished by wealth, 244, 2;
without fame, 101, 28;
without modesty, 278, 20
=Merriest=, when men are, 488, 9
=Messiah=, the perpetual, 193, 43
=Messias= of Nature, 459, 41
=Metal=, native, test of a man's, 200, 47
=Metamorphoses=, universal, 314, 28
=Metaphor=, a glowing, power of, 46, 11
=Metaphysic=, contrasted with logic, 252, 30;
the only intelligible, 372, 20
=Metaphysics=, defined, 544, 34;
in modern literature, 175, 36;
obscurative of truth, 201, 3;
the utmost of, 144, 9
=Method=, an individual matter, 75, 17;
economy from, 260, 38
=Microcosm=, each, a macrocosm, 75, 20
=Microscopes=, and eyes, 98, 21
=Middle= course, safest, 188, 4; 271, 56; 272, 1, 10
=Midas= _versus_ Apollo, 412, 43
=Midnight=, morrow in, 469, 23
=Might=, and right, the same, 184, 30;
measure of right, 278, 1;
stronger than right, 78, 47;
the, the right, 480, 26;
without right, 112, 15
=Mights=, of men, the main question, 451, 44
=Mighty=, dependent on wise, 61, 35; 462, 37
=Migrate=, why men, 276, 23
=Mildness=, power of, 261, 39
=Military= life, fascination of, 286, 18
=Milk= of human kindness, 166, 7
=Mills=, God's, grind slow, 128, 11, 12
=Millstone=, a, collects no moss, 79, 29
=Milton=, characteristic of, 419, 44;
music of, 445, 29;
on his blindness, 485, 50;
some mute inglorious, 399, 10
=Mind=, a degraded, lowest state of, 368, 29;
a diseased, tender, 277, 56;
a kingdom, 288, 10;
a moodiness of, how to treat, 543, 3;
a small, sign of, 202, 2;
a vacant, 2, 13;
a well-cultivated, 24, 53;
a willing, 24, 58;
alone old, 315, 31;
an incomplete, 468, 20;
and body, intimate connection of, 266, 28;
and heart, methods of, different, 222, 45;
as related to body, 122, 42;
base, mark of, 488, 1;
change of, mark of wisdom, 180, 41;
character of, to what due, 461, 20;
celestial and divine, 541, 17;
collision of, with mind, good, 202, 9;
conceiving and bringing forth, 442, 14;
creative power of, 442, 13;
dark depths in, 1, 26;
diseased, not to be ministered to, 35, 21;
dormant without inspiration, 326, 24;
dupe of heart, 223, 5;
effect of, on the body, 488, 3;
elation of, to be restrained, 80, 15;
elevation of mind, without justice, 413, 7;
fastened to a clog, 551, 43;
fields of, to be cultivated, 51, 7;
good, wealth of, 277, 44;
grandeur of, condition of, 490, 9;
greatness of, proofs of, 259, 23;
guilty, effect of, 432, 51;
human, march of, 441, 30;
human, sayings about, 435, 46; 436, 1, 2;
in suspense, easily swayed, 74, 9;
little, always, 25, 26;
little, conversing with great, 439, 25;
dislocated movements of, 69, 45;
lofty, good, 79, 9;
made-up, not to be advised, 47, 55;
makes the body rich, 111, 28;
maturity of, and bodily decay, 507, 21;
must be stimulated, 44, 19;
noble, contrasted with vulgar, 79, 30;
noblest, character of, 445, 8;
our better, 337, 17;
power of, on body, 202, 46;
presence of, test of a man, 200, 47;
sayings about the, 442, 15-28;
strong, unconscious, 455, 33;
the form of forms, 264, 15;
the gentle, mark of, 429, 50;
the great, 144, 51;
the, in the face, 478, 12;
the, its power of persuading itself to see what it chooses, 333, 27;
the man, 277, 46; 533, 5;
the true and sound, 459, 11;
the truly strong, unconscious, 459, 17;
to be kept bent, 243, 18;
to be kept in hand, 217, 35;
under too large obligations, 442, 12;
without education, 510, 11;
without, of one's own, 150, 39;
who knows the, 552, 7;
young and advanced, 465, 45
=Minds=, different pursuits of different, 67, 23;
excellent, levity in, 471, 4
fearless, success of, 103, 58;
great, characteristic of, 419, 42;
great contrasted with little, 251, 24-26
great, (see =Great minds=);
greatest, when they generally appear, 487, 28;
ill at ease, 397, 32;
little, how caught, 342, 13;
magic of action and reaction of, 477, 1;
occupied with small matters, 39, 24;
old, to be kept in exercise, 327, 25;
our, how we furnish, 524, 7;
our, when unoccupied, 338, 34;
strongest, unknown, 404, 11;
the finest, 427, 43;
thoughtful, love colour, 9, 32;
weak, weakness of, 530, 13, 14
=Minister=, defined in the Hitopadesa, 143, 8;
to live by ministering, 148, 19
=Ministers=, how judged, 465, 3
=Ministry=, a, advantage of opponents of, 480, 11;
test of a, 490, 3
=Minnow=, an emblem of man, 496, 10
=Minor=, the desire of, 452, 28
=Minorities=, rights of, to protection, 131, 26
=Minute=, every, how to fill, 240, 41
=Minuteness=, reverence for, in estimate of greatness, 135, 38
=Mirabeau=, last words of, 241, 29;
the greatness of, 413, 49;
to the Marquis de Brézé, 317, 15
=Miracle=, a, in quest of, 547, 32;
man the, of miracles, 522, 23;
pet child of faith, 55, 10;
the great indestructible, 53, 44;
the true, 533, 7
=Miracles=, age of, 415, 41;
all, how achieved, 157, 43;
cause of, 201, 11;
faith required for, 353, 51;
futility of, without spiritual sense, 175, 2;
how wrought still, 32, 3;
no longer, 3, 2;
of Christ, 442, 29;
the source of, 340, 7
=Mirror=, objects in a, 86, 37;
the best, 417, 47
=Mirth=, and melancholy, correlated, 482, 27;
hard to feign, in sorrow, 67, 30;
most, only apparent, 284, 28;
power of, 114, 9;
string attuned to, 478, 23;
unfelt, hard to feign, 154, 32;
unreasonable, 508, 23;
violent, 514, 34
=Misanthropist= at forty, 554, 17
=Mischief=, joy in, 294, 35;
not to be spoken, 271, 52;
origin of all, 10, 4;
past and prosper'd, 243, 6;
past, mourning, 494, 36
=Misconception=, purposed, evil of, 488, 28
=Miser=, and his losses, 13, 44;
Dryden to the, 124, 48;
his only right act, 24, 36;
mind of, 538, 34;
passion of, joyless, 222, 34;
sayings about the, 442, 30, 31;
the, his wants, 410, 14;
who dies rich, 13, 23
=Miserable=, apology for being, 487, 15;
only medicine of, 442, 32
=Miseries=, cure for all, 562, 42;
happiness at others', 181, 27;
our greatest, 340, 1;
past, recollection of, 213, 58
=Misers=, compared with moles, 282, 12;
greedy, rail at sordid, 136, 8;
that gloat over their money, 483, 4
=Misery=, a cause of, 200, 42;
a man's, from within, 485, 34;
a widespread cause of, 284, 30;
always exaggerated, 330, 5;
another's, no matter of sport, 474, 23;
cause of all, 494, 5;
enduring, 370, 16;
fatal prevailing source of, 333, 26;
in, God's help seen, 205, 17;
inconsistent with occupation, 307, 27;
not to be laughed at, 180, 8;
of man, the source of, 442, 33;
our own making, 314, 36;
plaint of, to be listened to, 116, 28;
sacred even to gods, 111, 4;
to-morrow's, not to be forestalled, 529, 5
=Misfortune=, a second master, 259, 1;
and wisdom, 54, 33;
as a school, 68, 45;
badge of innocence, 87, 38;
blessed, 27, 54;
Burns under blows of, 167, 23;
but one, for man, 110, 18
effect of, on understanding, 192, 6;
greatest, 432, 25;
how to face, 293, 2;
indispensable to man, 136, 33;
never alone, 298, 27;
not to be thy maid, 296, 40;
one, vigil of another, 333, 7;
one's own, and others', 171, 40;
others', admonitory, 31, 57;
scene of a, avoided, 88, 26;
self-caused, 41, 16;
suggestion of, in joy, 22, 24;
sure to come some day, 36, 47;
talked of not disagreeable, 59, 32;
temptation of, 186, 48;
the greatest, 318, 25;
the one, for a man, 471, 16;
the parent of, 368, 16;
a misnomer, 476, 25
=Misfortunes=, another's, easily borne, 168, 10;
as a source of talk, 7, 33;
best to forget, 181, 8;
how lightened, 17, 20;
in spite of, enough, 477, 2;
not always evil, 386, 38;
not believed in, till they come, 317, 10;
not to be repined over, 112, 41;
of others, easy to bear, 317, 6;
our greatest, source of, 338, 9;
our own and other's, 433, 18;
our own, not the heaviest, 176, 6;
our worst, 340, 1;
to be boldly faced, 502, 52;
variable, 281, 13;
when to bewail, 569, 20;
women's, self-made, 165, 33
=Misgovernment=, evil of, 261, 10;
sophistical, dilemma on which it rests, 139, 18
=Misled=, the, what is due to, 496, 8
=Mismanagement=, doomed, 374, 24;
not for ever, 480, 41, 46
=Mist=, how to escape a, 193, 52
=Mistake=, a general, 417, 38;
throttling of one, inconsiderable, 550, 18;
Wellington's protestation against, 473, 27
=Mistakes=, and discovery, 525, 15;
every one makes, 180, 19;
hard to correct and sift, 553, 34;
root of all great, 187, 12;
to be eschewed, 296, 11
=Mistrust=, treason, 414, 18
=Misunderstanding=, inevitable, 395, 11
=Misunderstood=, to be, a bitterness, 490, 29
=Mob=, described, 27, 40;
Emerson's definition of, 13, 50;
in a civilised nation, 420, 32;
sentiments of, 300, 9;
suffrages of, Horace on, 309, 25;
the, a scare to poet, 322, 8;
the fickle, 67, 7;
the, sayings about, 442, 36-39
=Mob-tumults=, Goethe's uneasiness at, 164, 33
=Mode=, set, tendency to, 205, 45;
the origin and character of, 65, 36
=Moderation=, an impregnable fortress, 112, 54;
exceeding, 492, 45;
in living, 334, 44;
the good in, 23, 48;
with a clear sky, 270, 50
=Modern= society _versus_ Christianity, 43, 5
=Moderns=, and ancients, teachings compared, 416, 7;
the, contrasted with Greeks, 432, 45
=Modes=, ridiculous, 376, 42
=Modesty=, a virtue of the low-born, 319, 17;
as a virtue, 48, 55;
as an ornament, 432, 33;
as covering self-conceit, 168, 24;
commended, 27, 48;
contrast with loquacity, 253, 17;
dead, 7, 34;
divorced from truth, 536, 31;
false, 100, 44, 45;
in youth, 4, 41;
misconstrued, 350, 1;
more majestic than strength, 249, 14;
necessity of, 300, 41;
not promoted, 114, 50;
of nature not to be overstepped, 406, 25;
ornament, but drawback, 28, 21;
the prohibitions of, 367, 14;
true and false, 500, 24;
Virgil's, 293, 39;
want of, 313, 42
=Mole=, as oracle, 72, 14
=Molière=, Boileau of, 180, 37; inscription on his
bust, 397, 2
=Moment=, a, capacity of, 523, 15;
birth of a, 160, 27;
both a cradle and a grave, 443, 1;
claim of, 523, 12;
divine, in a man's life, 70, 8;
each, nearer death, 40, 2;
event of a, 2, 40;
every, instructive, 92, 40;
every, of infinite value, 92, 45;
last, exaggerated, 443, 49;
passing, to be noted well, 321, 32;
power of a, 19, 35;
present, to be seized, 136, 12; 298, 8;
that may become eternal, 442, 42;
the, difficult to square with, 86, 8;
the greatest, in life, 481, 38;
the passing, value of, 537, 24;
the present, 449, 11, 12;
value of, 519, 15;
value of every, 212, 15
=Moments=, decisive power of, 334, 7
=Monarch=, great, a mark of, 88, 37;
of all I survey, 164, 44;
sacredness of, 21, 8
=Monarchies=, how ruined, 239, 24;
the fate of, 374, 4
=Monarchs=, fear of change perplexes, 103, 50
=Monarchy=, a, the likely fate of, 13, 53;
absolute, one objection to, 167, 24;
expensiveness of its trappings, 458, 17;
Schopenhauer on, 65, 37
=Money=, a blessing and bane, 104, 33;
a passport, 222, 28;
alienating effect of, 27, 17;
all it breeds, 52, 49;
as servant and master, 222, 29;
best use of, 418, 7;
blood and life, 88, 42;
by whom most needed, 304, 30;
chief value and virtue of, 420, 8;
collecting machine, in a civilised nation, 420, 32;
definition of, 530, 19;
despising, 344, 23;
does not feed men, 294, 44;
effect of being with or without, 46, 12;
either slave or tyrant, 183, 30;
enjoyed by few, 513, 22;
given in alms on good security, 344, 53;
indispensable, 2, 22;
lending, as a means of living, 274, 40;
lending, risk in, 364, 30;
loss of, bitter, 316, 38;
loss of, lament over, 260, 12;
loss of, misery from, 350, 2;
love of, 49, 57;
making, innocence of, 274, 21;
man with, or without, 46, 12;
master, if not servant, 173, 21;
more powerful than love, 14, 3; 254, 14;
breeds only money, 44, 13;
no respect without, 127, 40;
not to be covetous of, 309, 30;
persuasiveness of, 332, 33;
persuasive power of, 28, 6;
power of, 14, 47; 19, 29; 23, 31; 23, 36; 88, 7, 9;
119, 30-32; 173, 22; 246, 8; 299, 21; 314, 8;
537, 36; 555, 13;
public, like holy water, 165, 36;
ready, eloquence of, 376, 45;
ready, value of, 17, 53;
Ruskin's definition of, 10, 5;
sayings about, 119, 30-32;
splendour in use, 318, 34;
terror of not making, 434, 26;
the love of, 440, 2;
the question in regard to, 503, 30;
want of, brings care, 14, 56;
who want to borrow, 480, 21
=Money-bag= with holes, 209, 16
=Moneyed= man, attendant of, 28, 6
=Moneyless= man, 19, 28
=Money-makers= and money-spenders, 277, 9
=Monk=, danger of offending a, 27, 27
=Monomania=, often unperceived, 268, 24
=Monument=, who deserve a, 482, 36;
who should have no, 305, 8
=Mood=, the right, to be seized, 294, 34
=Moods= belong to man alone, 291, 14
=Moon=, and its light for all, 443, 2;
dispensable, 174, 33;
the, that shone in Paradise, 564, 19;
when the sun is there, 383, 38
=Moonlight= sleeps upon this bank, 162, 38
=Moral=, a, to be brief, 547, 16;
achievement of man, 533, 38;
conduct, second great rule of, 431, 34;
energy, contrasted with brilliant parts, 191, 11;
perfection, minimum state of, 334, 31;
qualities, not enough, 105, 51;
sentiment, only school of, 446, 16;
sentiment, the atmosphere of, 416, 33
=Morality=, a too austere, 226, 19;
aim of all, 415, 44;
and civilisation, 43, 39;
and religion, 371, 37; 372, 32;
as it now is, Shelley on, 371, 35;
contrasted with religions, 467, 13;
department of philosophy, 507, 33;
dependence of, on faith, 100, 12;
implies religion, 175, 29;
independent of the religion, 121, 42;
national, no, without religion, 369, 22;
not moral philosophy, our want, 203, 34;
of some, in remnants, 443, 7;
sum of, 493, 15;
the laws of, 438, 26;
true, 500, 25;
true, the condition of, 357, 12;
vital, first condition of, 481, 44;
without religion, 522, 39
=Morals=, and art, rules in, compared, 188, 15, 16;
cultivated by love, 484, 22;
genesis of, 267, 42;
good-will everything in, 60, 9;
in youth, moulding, 97, 1;
our teacher in, 521, 20;
rooted in fear, 188, 17;
straight in, alone right, 534, 21;
the new, 189, 43;
to be made attractive, 523, 11
=More, Sir T.=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34
=More's= "Utopia," 331, 27
=Morn=, advancing, with rosy steps, 317, 36;
in russet mantle, 253, 4;
the breath of, 408, 23
=Morning=, a fresh, frosty, exercise in, 534, 16;
how to use the, 401, 38;
only a, in all things, 180, 28;
summons of every, 212, 8;
the first hour of, 428, 22;
the value of, 191, 8, 9
=Mortality= never taken home by us, 9, 70
=Mortals=, fate of, Virgil on, 335, 58
=Moses= compared with Galen and Justinian, 55, 15
=Moth=, the, desire of, for the star, 423, 11
=Mother=, a priestess, 252, 46;
among children, Goethe on, 475, 33;
as teacher limited, 383, 8;
busy, and daughter, 259, 43;
devotion of a, not thrown away, 305, 25;
effect of scream of, on child, 333, 45;
fondness of, 3, 4;
in the home, effect of 548, 35;
Lord Langdale on his, 174, 39;
love of a, 321, 8;
one good, value of, 332, 25;
the good, 430, 40;
the power of, 429, 38;
venerableness of a, 333, 9;
who feels ennui, 415, 19
=Mother's=, care, despising, 494, 19;
heart, 444, 13, 14;
kiss, power of a, 219, 29;
secret hope, 568, 40
=Mother-grace=, the, 444, 11
=Mothers=, good, value of, 537, 30;
knowledge peculiar to, 319, 18;
sad-hearted, while we sleep, 550, 17
=Mother-tongue= in a foreign land, 322, 9
=Mother-wit=, and false theology, 422, 26;
better than learning, 15, 66
=Motive=, everything, 163, 7;
the principal thing, 243, 1
=Motives=, essential to man, 127, 14;
human, the two great, 459, 26;
man sure of his, 551, 38
=Motley=, the, in every one, 524, 21
=Mountain=, a, in labour, 342, 9;
beyond every, 27, 11;
every, has its valley, 325, 45;
scenery, impressiveness of, 485, 27
=Mountains=, high, a feeling, 167, 39;
never meet, 115, 9
=Mourning=, the most demonstrative, 318, 18
=Mouth= shut, but eyes open, 43, 50
=Move=, one false, effect of, 332, 15
=Movement=, the principle of, 375, 7
=Movements=, all great, enthusiastic, 91, 12;
backward, advance, 470, 15
=Multitude=, difficulty in teaching, 423, 36;
faith of the, 509, 29;
not to be followed, 108, 16;
sayings about the, 444, 20, 23, 24
=Murder=, one, _versus_ millions, 333, 10;
punishment of, a necessity, 95, 6;
sacrilegious, 46, 27;
will speak, 110, 24
=Muses=, the, power of, 444, 25
=Mushrooms=, lowly, cared for, 146, 55
=Music=, a becoming, and vehicle of emotion, 249, 47;
a characteristic of, 507, 52;
all-relatedness of, 244, 31;
compared with poetry, 351, 6;
dependent on tone, 39, 6;
effect of, 543, 43;
effect of words on, 546, 45;
elevated sensation of, 443, 41;
everywhere in nature, 384, 29;
good, effect of, 424, 38;
hard to collect into a distinct idea, 445, 7;
health to soul, 215, 33;
human, 265, 23;
in all things, 478, 9;
in orchestra, interpreter of, 206, 29;
in the heart, 444, 26;
key to female heart, 287, 25;
like softest, to attending ears, 162, 33;
Luther's esteem for, 297, 45;
Luther on skill in, 554, 16;
marching to, 332, 42;
mediocre, 466, 32;
moral effect of, 548, 38;
of men's lives, 162, 35;
Plato's definition of, 444, 17;
pleasure we feel in, 448, 7;
possibility of, 471, 5;
power of, 543, 36;
power of, to change nature, 317, 2;
quickening power of, 277, 27;
spiritual, how produced, 401, 46;
sweet, effect of, 164, 47;
the demonic in, 423, 3;
the food of love, 173, 23;
the most heaven-affecting, 324, 21;
the sphere of, 81, 33;
the sweetest, 456, 32;
the true universal speech, 287, 26;
true, 500, 26;
nobly non-utilitarian, 226, 22
"=Must=," God's, youth's answer to, 395, 19
=Must=, hard nut to crack, 287, 27
=Mysteries=, Divine, not to be meddled with, 204, 1;
made matters of reason, 525, 4
=Mystery=, a higher, wise man unwilling to unveil, 507, 17;
a, not to be spoken of mysteriously, 402, 4;
abode of faith, 100, 24;
and vice or roguery, 548, 26;
fascination of, 284, 22;
for whose benefit, 53, 35;
significance of, 506, 3;
supposed a sign of evil, 548, 39
=Mystics=, enthusiastic, 443, 43
=Myth=, a, not a lie, 296, 10
=Mythology=, significance of, 296, 10
=Myths= of fables, the, 492, 34
N
=Nae= luck aboot the hoose, 111, 20
=Nail=, worth of a, 187, 8
=Name=, a, better make, than inherit, 169, 32;
a good, 6, 50;
a good, security of, 44, 12;
a good, worth of, 31, 46;
a great, magic in, 470, 7;
a, too soon famous, 533, 24;
ambition for a, 14, 20;
but sound and smoke, 119, 26;
good, in man and woman, 129, 55;
good, loss of, 105, 56;
ill, easily got, 289, 15;
my good, he that filches, 146, 15;
virtuous, prized, 24, 44;
what's in a, 540, 11
=Namelessness= of many things, 284, 11
=Names=, and virtues, different sources of, 116, 15;
great, what they stand for, 134, 38
=Naming=, difficulty of, 532, 7
=Naples=, Bay of, Mme. de Staël on, 173, 14
=Napoleon=, Carlyle on, 440, 37;
of his generals, 167, 50;
tired of Europe, 223, 11
=Napoleon III.=, career of, 180, 35
=Narrow=, circle, effect of, on mind, 184, 20;
way, to be chosen, 305, 5;
world, bestriding like a Colossus, 555, 12
=Narrowing=, a necessity for both God and man, 127, 24
=Narrowness=, a, not possible now, 201, 53
=Narrow-souled= people, like narrow-necked bottles, 207, 35
=Nation=, a rich and happy, 14, 32;
a, strength of, 482, 50;
a talkative, 345, 16;
a truly free, 414, 1;
and its honour, 444, 30;
Bible of a, 492, 4;
biography of, 418, 26;
character of, not in its fine folks, 419, 39;
civilised, constituents of a, 420, 32;
composed of actors, 289, 44;
first period of, 428, 28;
genius of, 471, 29;
history of, a Bible, 418, 24;
how governed, 444, 29;
life of, Ruskin on, 438, 51;
narrow stand for a great, 414, 27;
no reforming, by "tremendous cheers," 305, 28;
proverbs of a, 450, 2;
a, secret of destiny of, 319, 23;
that can't defend itself deserving of being destroyed, 175, 32;
that does not stake its all on its honour, 298, 24;
that is indestructible, 305, 26;
that cannot retrograde, 421, 38;
the first and second power of a, 428, 30;
treatment by, of its greatest men, 239, 20;
true mind of, how to know, 459, 1;
wealth without intelligence ruin to, 305, 27;
what creates a, 193, 26;
what determines destiny of, 423, 13;
whence the good of a, 117, 40
=National=, character found among the peasantry, 266, 9;
good, self-derived, 314, 48;
greatness, condition of, 477, 35;
life without epoch, 475, 3
=Nationality=, characteristics of, 7, 35;
compared with individuality, 193, 24
=Nations=, and their most eminent men, 176, 4;
basis of, character of, with posterity, 541, 20;
cause of hostility of, 229, 28;
distances and divisions of, how to measure, 423, 48;
effect of modesty on, 193, 27;
glory of, 443, 37;
great, characteristic of, 133, 18;
in, head before heart, 13, 54;
law of welfare of, 232, 45;
leprosy in, Church source of, 544, 29;
that navigate most, 443, 34;
to ingraft new ideas on, 491, 11;
vicissitudes of, 81, 37;
wisdom of, 462, 28
=Native=, land, a man's connection with, 288, 33;
land, its fascinating power, 295, 39;
land, love for, 32, 25;
land, want of love for, 168, 41;
soil, dear, 343, 29
=Natural=, as source of good, 298, 16;
effect of desiring to appear, 316, 36;
graceful, 92, 50;
never shameful, 337, 3;
symbolic, 92, 51;
the, a mark of, 541, 1;
things, without shame, 290, 17
=Naturalist=, requirements in, 262, 2
=Nature=, a great, development of, 142, 55;
a whole, 173, 25;
against, against God, 535, 40;
all, unknown art, 10, 7;
an enigma, till solved in and by man, 94, 27;
and art at one, 290, 3;
and her secrets, 508, 20;
and man, 549, 13;
and man, distinction between, 424, 1;
and necessity barriers, 170, 7;
and wisdom at one, 318, 47;
as a judge, 389, 11;
as felt by experience, 94, 32;
as regards God, 66, 2;
aims of, 66, 3;
as seen by intellect, 94, 32;
at bottom, 482, 12;
at heart, music, 384, 29;
be, your teacher, 44, 44;
cheerful lesson of, 564, 20;
circular power in, 472, 7, 31;
cruelty in, 20, 44;
cursed, as breeding ingratitude, 403, 40;
diseased, oftentimes breaks forth, 69, 13;
effect of contact with, in our city estimates, 21, 30;
errorless, 18, 44;
everything in, of one stuff, 94, 24;
fashioned him, then broke the mould, 290, 5;
filling the sails, 544, 30;
full of milk of human kindness, 486, 5;
gave sign of woe, 75, 46;
gift of, to man, 264, 9;
God's body, 9, 6;
her carefulness and her carelessness, 394, 47;
her gifts out of love, 528, 7;
her means, 249, 31;
how perfected, 404, 12;
how to regard our, 523, 16;
impartial,
5, 16;
in smallest things, 498, 1;
in the smallest, untameable, 5, 49;
inanimate, way from, to spirit, 198, 45;
inferior to grace, 131, 34;
inferior to spirit, 454, 35;
infinite vastness of, to the wisest, 496, 17;
inner secret of, impenetrable, 194, 42;
inexpugnable, 176, 7;
judgment of, effect of time on, 486, 33;
just, 226, 28;
laws of, God's thoughts, 232, 7;
life of, defined, 53, 34;
lore of, our treatment of, 408, 24;
love of, for her children, 219, 53;
made up of negative and positive, 94, 26;
makes no leaps, 290, 10;
more potent than will, 480, 35;
my goddess, 483, 42;
never without a purpose, 290, 9;
no beating back, 40, 36;
no blank or trifle in, 301, 13;
no caprices in, 475, 12;
no coercing, 73, 14;
no driving out, 290, 18;
no fixtures in, 467, 30;
no solitude in, 474, 20;
not affected by greater or less, 260, 16;
not to be baulked, 72, 41;
not to be coerced, 538, 11;
not to be extinguished, only repressed, 528, 33;
not to be grasped, 560, 9;
nothing seen isolated in, 527, 25;
office of prophet of, 198, 24;
omnipotent, 241, 46;
one throughout, 287, 28;
one touch of, 334, 28;
one whole, 199, 1;
one's, denying, 432, 29;
our feeling for, 508, 25;
outer shelf of, showing, 194, 42;
partial to cross-breedings, 226, 27;
path of, narrowness of, 447, 9;
perception of, 488, 36;
pity and rigour of, 193, 51;
pleasure of study of, 475, 9;
pleasures of, 470, 17;
secret of our mastery over, 206, 39;
secrets of, not to be forced, 119, 29;
self-imitative, 226, 29;
self-imparting, 391, 11;
surpasses art, 104, 51;
teaching of, 332, 39;
testimony of, versus learned arguments, 511, 16;
the aims of, 66, 3;
the book of, 418, 48;
the course of, 421, 41;
the course of, only partially known, 421, 42;
the favourite of, 264, 9;
the first step of, 392, 10;
the law of, 438, 20, 27, 28;
the living garment of God, 321, 29;
the masterpiece of, 6, 9;
the riddle of; 507, 6;
the spirit of, 401, 42;
the truths of, 459, 23;
those to whom she reveals herself, 335, 21;
through, up to Nature's God, 393, 31;
to be humoured, 243, 21;
too noble for world, 157, 6;
unchallengeable, 2, 51;
unhinged by gold, 162, 19;
unwillingly dragged to light, 519, 11;
whole sense of, where found, 301, 48;
without danger or restraint, 497, 25;
without the poet, 539, 40;
wonders of, at hand, 186, 36;
world of, mirrored in man, 465, 6
=Natures=, finest, flaws in, 427, 40;
good by disdaining as well as attaining, 85, 37;
great, two kinds of, 467, 26;
our, like oil, 338, 40;
sad, tolerance of, 379, 13
=Navigators=, ablest, fortunate, 462, 25
=Nay=, a woman's, worth of, 141, 43
=Near=, key to far, 444, 34;
not sought in far off, 462, 38;
the, 445, 12;
the, neglected, 367, 9
=Nearest=, the, often far off, 54, 20
=Neatness= a virtue, 526, 27
=Necessary=, the barely, indispensable, 535, 44
=Necessities= sterner than hopes, 444, 38
=Necessity=, a teacher, 285, 39, 43;
all-powerful, 14, 33;
and fancy, 101, 46;
and free will hostile, 95, 13;
and law, power of, 121, 57;
and Nature barriers, 170, 7;
as a weapon, 194, 12;
basis of all, 10, 56;
earnest aspect of, 84, 40;
from habit, 138, 11;
hard to wield, 74, 35;
her allotments, 5, 12;
owns no holiday, 104, 39;
how to anticipate, 152, 19;
how to more than conquer, 523, 8;
in relation to strength, 417, 25;
its pressure beneficial, 267, 32;
its strength, 315, 10;
law for all but man, 8, 55;
man in relation to, 12; 64;
mother of invention, 276, 56;
ground of existence, 94, 44;
our master, 58, 18;
power of, 313, 32-34; 231, 34;
praised as virtue, 231, 3;
rebel of all laws, 103, 42;
ring of, always at the top, 250, 12;
ring of, ring of duty, 140, 10;
superior to Nature, 292, 11;
yoke of, to be borne, 175, 31
=Need=, a bitter, at present, 472, 6;
and wish, 105, 2;
man's first, 204, 14;
our prime one, 568, 29
=Needle=, to pole, 395, 32
=Negation=, mere, unfruitful, 116, 18;
the end of opposition, 425, 8;
opposed to activity, 94, 5
=Negations=, taking safety under, 203, 2
=Negative= principle, the importance of, 191, 15
=Negatives=, deprecated, 71, 37
=Neglect=, a little, dangerous, 8, 42, 47, 49
=Negligence=, one, fatal, 169, 33
=Negro=, Fuller on, 436, 19
=Neighbour's=, our, prosperity and poverty, 449, 47
=Neighbours=, their value to us, 522, 40
=Nelson's= signal at Trafalgar, 82, 43
=Nemesis= on the alert, 381, 21
=Neptune's= trident, 235, 26
=Nero=, on signing a death-warrant, 512, 1
=Nerves=, the man, 444, 42
=Nescience= greater than science, 382, 31
=Nest=, one's own, beautiful, 4, 37
=Nest-life=, echo of, audible only in sorrow, 424, 37
=Net=, while fisher sleeps, 89, 5
=Nets=, useless where no fish, 82, 28
=Nettle=, how to handle, 121, 40;
stroking a, 484, 37
=Never=, a long while, 38, 5
=New=, a precedent some day, 328, 27;
age, a, want of, 426, 22;
and old, discretion in regard to, 28, 16;
and old, the conflict of, characterised, 421, 24;
its appearance and effects of, 541, 2;
foil, to old, 183, 13;
in science and morals, 189, 43;
nothing, in life, 315, 29;
reproduction of old, or forgotten, 180, 15, 16;
seldom good, 183, 12;
the, and the valuable, 537, 29;
the, how to employ, 243, 44;
the, still but in birth pangs, 424, 15;
unexpected quarter it comes from, 430, 46;
year's, a, greeting, 240, 29
=News=, good and bad, 402, 44;
only teller of, 446, 21
=Newspaper=, literature, Goethe on, 333, 41;
the influential, Emerson on, 207, 38
=Newspapers=, Napoleon's dread of, 114, 1;
our fortresses, 191, 35
=News-writer=, highest reach of, 435, 9
=New Testament=, revelation in, 375, 13
=Newton=, on his own worth, 172, 26
=Nicknames=, good, effect of, 306, 25
=Niggard=, always poor, 159, 5;
contrasted with generous, 24, 7
=Night=, a long, 370, 18;
and morning, rule for, 406, 28;
cause of, to man, 76, 4;
counsel by, 226, 30;
deeds of, 536, 4;
last in the train of, 99, 53;
sayings on the, 444, 45-49; 445, 1;
sober-suited matron, 44, 39;
the darkest, followed by day, 55, 24
=Nightingale=, the, Milton on, 408, 21
=Nights=, drowsy, how to have, 176, 31
=Nimbleness=, contrasted with haste, 141, 5
=Nimrod=, the, of this era, 450, 40
=Nineteenth= century, the enthusiasm of, 245, 18
=Nirvana=, 313, 15;
road to, 444, 40
"=No=," a surly, honest fellow, 302, 37;
from merely saying, no good, 116, 18;
power of saying, as a sign, 309, 16;
to be deliberate, 337, 1
No=,= man indispensable, 180, 3;
one called happy before death, 63, 34;
the way to yea, 319, 22;
value of learning to say, 236, 6
=Noah's= ark, mouldy rolls of, 308, 15
=Nobility=, a man's, a test of, 368, 14;
a sure mark of, 234, 34;
and virtue, of kin, 242, 6;
appendix to, 170, 35;
at its origin, 10, 8;
source of, 308, 7;
in mind, 76, 53;
mark of true, 425, 17;
of race, mark of, 184, 21;
of soul, and of birth, 55, 28;
our old, to be preserved, 244, 1;
oldest and only true, 445, 33;
the beginning of, 190, 22;
the only, 488, 39;
true, essence of, 426, 2;
true, its origin, 500, 27
=Noble=, and vulgar, self-estimates of, 461, 10;
birth, proof of, 391, 21;
blood, humble, 213, 4;
descent, value of, 171, 11;
heart, attractive power of, 385, 22;
how men become, 190, 31;
man, and danger, 532, 15;
man, defined, 60, 22;
mind, mark of, 491, 44;
only, to be good, 163, 5;
people, loyalty of, 15, 52;
qualities, non-transferable, 484, 10;
silent ones, of world, 465, 10;
soul, proved in difficulty, 186, 3;
souls, power of, 508, 112;
the, appreciation of, 53, 31; 489, 36;
the, defined, 484, 26; 536, 38;
the, great, 309, 48;
the, in death, 445, 4;
to keep with noble, 203, 1;
words for shield of, 116, 36
=Nobleman=, a definition of, 360, 39;
a degenerate, 505, 25;
defined, 143, 38;
qualities of a, 380, 27
=Nobleness=, attribute of all, 10, 32;
its derivation, 319, 29;
refining power of, 16, 16;
test of, 76, 52;
the idea of, 184, 25
=Nobles=, born, 304, 9
=Nod= _versus_ rod, 15, 55
=Noise=, music in distance, 268, 37;
not might, 14, 31;
of things deafening, 232, 51
=Noises=, encourager of, 431, 6
=Nomadism=, evil of, 346, 29
=Non-being=, no step in nature to, 517, 24
=Non-existent= rather than ignoble, 29, 35
=Nonsense=, consecration of, 523, 18;
daring, 53, 19;
in rhyme, 235, 43;
no objection in, 167, 31;
refreshing, 166, 9
=No-progress= men to be debarred public highways, 450, 8
=Northern= star, constant as, 164, 39
=Nose=, big, and handsome face, 210, 20
=Noses=, counting, to ascertain truth, 398, 27;
long, Napoleon's partiality for, 544, 1;
the length of, 472, 14
=Nothing=, absolute, 2, 21;
blessed in every respect, 299, 3;
extenuate, 400, 48;
for ever, 510, 29;
for nothing, 330, 1;
from nothing, 58, 34; 97, 16;
of nothing, 24, 3;
only once in the world, 476, 8;
perishes, 328, 17;
they that do, 479, 39
=Novel=, every, debtor to Homer, 93, 5
=Novels=, their unreality, 378, 1;
writers of, and double wrong they do, 563, 42
=Novelty=, charm of, 87, 28;
desire for, 179, 35;
love of, a ruling passion, 324, 36;
man's itch for, 87, 16;
people's delight in, 205, 12;
undue charm of, 536, 37
=Now=, the, 445, 12
=Numbers=, I lisp'd in, 21, 18;
round, 378, 17
=Nurse=, influence of, 3, 13
=Nursery=, training in, 443, 50
O
=Oak=, felled by blows of little axe, 269, 44;
when it falls, 445, 14
=Oak-tree=, when it falls and when it is planted, 545, 45
=Oarsmen= and steersman, 567, 27
=Oath=, powerless in domain of reason, 324, 26;
that does not bind, 305, 35
=Oaths=, but straws, 110, 29;
oracles, 157, 19;
straw to passion, 455, 39
=Obedience=, blind, 55, 9;
for those who can't rule, 243, 7;
imperative, 541, 27;
must be free, 204, 12;
not sacrifice, 45, 48;
Shelley on, 354, 46;
source of all virtues, 116, 14;
that is easy, 207, 20;
the key to freedom, 96, 22;
the virtue in, 364, 8;
to heaven, how learned, 449, 1;
true, 500, 28;
true, virtue of, 306, 44;
two kinds of, 490, 13;
value of, 10, 42;
virtue of Christianity, 403, 34;
when to be enforced, 171, 33
=Obeisance=, time for, 207, 11
=Obeyed=, how to be cheerfully, 176, 32
=Obeying= and governing, 203, 15
=Obeys=, who, and who commands, 151, 49
=Object=,and expression, 527, 26;
greatest in universe, and a greater, 432, 26
=Objects=, all, windows into the infinite, 10, 9
=Obligation=, haste in discharging, 490, 25;
limit to, 505, 7
=Oblivion=, the condition of memory, 176, 16;
the cormorant, 421, 35
=Obscure=, the, defined, 445, 23
=Obscurity=, cause of, 209, 45;
cause of, in writer, 205, 2;
contentment with, commended, 236, 1;
in an author, relative, 149, 8;
patience of, a duty, 343, 13
=Obsequiousness=, advantage of, 323, 32
=Observation=, Burns on lack of, 464, 42;
much, effect of, 285, 23;
to precede judgment, 27, 47;
vigilant, effect of, 92, 31;
want of, 109, 49; 143, 23;
width of, commended, 242, 30
=Observed= of all observers, 322, 32
=Observer=, a fine, characteristic of, 541, 4;
an acute, 144, 49;
great, a, 7, 3
=Obsolete= to the pot, 169, 42
=Obstacles=, glory in overcoming, 443, 20;
also stepping-stones, 418, 39
=Obstinacy=, 1, 12;
slavery, 15, 54
=Obvious=, the, ignorance of, 536, 45
=Occasions=, great, source of, 133, 7
=Occupation=, absence of, 2, 13;
blessing of, 307, 27;
constant, moral effect of, 46, 57;
necessity, duty, and pleasure, 291, 7;
sharpening effect of, 90, 3;
want of, a plague, 461, 16
=Occupations=, mechanical, 441, 42
=Ocean=, beating of, 445, 24
=Offence=, an, which we pardon, 330, 34;
and punishment, disproportionate effect of, 547, 31;
every, at first, 93, 6;
giving and appeasing, 201, 28;
inclination to give, 124, 16;
none free from, 304, 14;
not soon forgotten, 50, 51;
pardon of, bringing under obligation, 446, 45;
rising above, 543, 6;
taking, 21, 27
=Offences=, at my beck, 467, 22
=Offender=, and offended, as regards memory of offence, 42, 19;
never forgives, 146, 4;
the, unforgiving, 42, 18-32
=Offers=, extravagant, denials, 325, 27
=Office=, a kind, natural to one, 331, 47;
effect of, on character, 259, 5;
high, slavery of, 554, 1;
just pride of, 212, 2;
testing power of, 17, 32;
unfitness for, 179, 19;
without pay, a temptation, 14, 10
=Official=, duty of, 170, 3
=Officious=, the, mischievous, 161, 35
=Offspring=, unworthy, boast of, 509, 12
=Old=, and new, discretion in regard to, 28, 16;
and new, the conflict of, characterised, 421, 24;
few know how to be, 105, 17;
harness, better die in, 29, 21;
how first appreciated, 183, 13;
I love everything that's, 167, 42;
idolatry of the, 523, 13;
maid's tongues, 64, 5;
man, an, just beginning to live, 365, 39;
man in a house, 15, 58;
man, one misery of, an, 333, 29;
man, only old despicable, 299, 22;
man, sayings of, 118, 35;
men, and their good advice, 239, 33;
men, beauty of, 430, 14;
men, errors of, 425, 29;
men, failing of, 198, 18;
oak, twist out of, 209, 3;
people, borne with, 265, 32;
people, talk of, 238, 39;
people, who forget their age, 234, 30;
superseded by new, 445, 30;
the, death of, 445, 29;
the, extolled, 513, 38;
the, once new, 328, 27;
the, passed away, 424, 15;
to know how to grow, 493, 32;
what never grows, 535, 20
=Old age=, a burden, 132, 46; a peaceful, how to
attain, 177, 33;
a regret, 568, 42;
a time of folly, 83, 58;
a weakness of, 199, 51, 52;
a worn out, cause of, 245, 43;
advance of, 74, 21;
an anxiety of, 466, 1;
and faults of youth, 527, 7;
and its wrinkles, 228, 16;
and memory, 225, 38;
approach of, unfelt, 310, 2;
benefit of knowledge to, 220, 31;
beyond astonishment, 188, 34;
chief characteristic of, 69, 24;
desire of, 147, 42;
discomforts of, 285, 50;
folly and jesting unseemly in, 161, 31;
Goethe on, 6, 22;
grief in, 192, 41;
hard to bear, 78, 31;
hoarding, 213, 2;
hoped for, yet dreaded, 224, 6;
its sadness, 537, 40;
only ornament of, 446, 11;
prepared by a noble life, 542, 23;
respect formerly for, 259, 12;
Seneca on, 16, 8;
the disappointment of, 190, 19;
the dotage of, 386, 44;
the ills of, 361, 33;
the temper of, 362, 1;
those who grow virtuous in, 544, 25;
time of astonishment, 182, 25;
to limit itself, 445, 32;
undesired, 91, 51;
weakness of, 516, 36;
weaknesses of, 275, 43
=Oldest=, not always best experienced, 298, 6
=Once=, better than never, 81, 20;
no custom, 77, 31
=One=, power of, to infect all, 136, 13;
see, see all, 384, 32;
thing, engrossment with, 168, 37
=One's=, own, how a thing is made, 313, 50;
own, negatively defined, 121, 45;
own, right to, 330, 43;
self, to be sought within, 293, 19;
self, fighting with and conquering, 391, 12
=Onward=, ever, 183, 15
=Openness= of mind, indispensable in discussion, 147, 13
=Opinion=, advantage of wide range of, 223, 14;
and force in government, 112, 16;
as a guide, 34, 50;
change of, not inconstancy, 295, 6;
common, ignorance of, 200, 53;
compared with truth, 502, 4;
duel of, nature umpire in, 190, 41;
effect of similarity of, 521, 1;
effect of time on, 335, 44;
every new, suffrages for, at first, 93, 1;
inconsistencies of, often justifiable, 193, 3;
inferior to heart, 54, 4;
matter of indifference, 136, 1;
nothing but, 94, 34;
of another, test of one's, 492, 27;
of us, to respect, 527, 3;
of the many, worthlessness of, 565, 21;
one man's, no man's, 332, 60;
popular, 352, 45, 46;
power of, 277, 13; 464, 34;
private, 359, 36;
private and public, 357, 10;
public, 315, 26; 359, 35-38;
public, impotence of, 534, 41;
public versus private, 453, 41;
reaction of, on one's self, 93, 39;
surgeon to my hurt, 172, 36;
test of worthlessness of, 157, 8;
what is wanted in, 313, 20
=Opinions=, changing, by law, 495, 34;
divisive effect of, 507, 14;
false, source of, 458, 13;
golden, from all, 166, 41;
how to express, 281, 38;
men's, fallible, 159, 3;
master of all, no bigot, 151, 21;
no right to have, 308, 22;
of friends, room to be left for, 528, 21;
of others, how to construe, 493, 41;
of stupid and ignorant people, 404, 40;
of things, effect on us of, 438, 50;
our, condition of satisfaction with, 521, 47;
our wrangling for, 521, 47;
predominant, 356, 5;
to be tested, 527, 29;
variety of, 446, 28;
want of fixed, 552, 17
=Opium=, carrying power of, 497, 12
=Opportunities=, little, to be improved, 251, 30;
of evil and good compared, 446, 29;
to be embraced, 441, 40;
value of, 244, 7
=Opportunity=, a lost, 461, 42;
but one, of a kind, 472, 8;
folly of losing, 322, 19;
how often lost, 57, 42;
importance of, 247, 31;
makes thief, 80, 13;
power of seeing and seizing, 381, 4;
temptation of, 166, 39;
tempting power of, 84, 10;
to be noted, 216, 49;
to be seized swiftly, 381, 4;
to be waited for, 12, 29
=Opposition=, how to face, 28, 35;
parliamentary, a necessity, 549, 19;
the virtue of, 303, 34
=Oppression=, unbearable, 194, 50;
under one deity, occasion for another, 379, 26
=Optics=, spiritual, 464, 39;
the law of, in human transactions, 188, 46
=Opulence=, and poverty, states of, contrasted, 173, 46;
vulgar, its insolence, 518, 8
=Oracle=, an ambiguous, 169, 35;
I am Sir, 165, 4
=Oracles=, heaven's, be preserved, 108, 4
=Orator=, a fully equipped, 150, 48;
all admire, 259, 9;
delivering everything for an, 109, 12;
desire of, 85, 18;
greatest gift of, 319, 28;
qualities of, 2, 52;
secret of success of, 61, 31
=Orators=, great, and their words, 135, 30;
no, born, 289, 42;
resource of, that want depth, 38, 12;
that always convince, 239, 13
=Oratory=, first and last thing in, 428, 41;
how to train for, 179, 21;
mediocre, 466, 32;
the aim of, 336, 5;
the main point in, 313, 20;
the seat of, 188, 40
=Orb=, the smallest, thou behold'st, 478, 25
=Ordeal=, that may be faced, 218, 21
=Order=, gain of time, 119, 14;
good, importance of, 61, 33;
man's law, 264, 16;
our limit, 567, 3;
social, without liberty, 396, 3;
the power of, 410, 42;
the teacher, 287, 22
=Orders=, no shame in obeying, 469, 13
=Organ=, inscription on, 156, 48
=Organisation=, closing of individual, 27, 10;
military, foundation of, 58, 28
=Origin=, pride of, 356, 39
=Original=, how to be, 461, 27;
man, and popular, contrasted, 448, 33;
the, still here, 130, 52
=Originality=, in authors, 444, 3;
merit of, 442, 8
=Origins=, the question of, insoluble, and for idle people, 243, 37
=Orphaned=, the truly, 298, 2
=Orpheus=, represented in poet, 459, 5
=Others=, bondage to, 385, 1;
often a burden to us, 8, 56;
trust not to, what one's self can do, 166, 42
"=Ought=," God in the word, 126, 42
=Ounce=, the last, 438, 5
=Our= own, before another's, 526, 30
=Ourselves=, to see, as others see us, 322, 24
=Ourselves=, to be accepted as we are, 526, 23, 24
=Outer= and inner, 446, 32
=Outward=, the, a garment of invisible within, 541, 14
=Outwitted=, the easily, 564, 38
=Over-consideration=, vanity of, 149, 48
=Over-curious=, the, 446, 33
=Overfeeding=, mortality from, 57, 19
=Over-happiness= no happiness, 140, 12
=Overpraise=, evil of, 472, 26
=Ovid=, on his muse, 63, 33;
on his rhymes, 36, 22;
on his works, 210, 23;
to his muse, 132, 21
=Own=, one's, devotion to, 166, 17;
one's, right to, 168, 18
=Owner=, foot of, 429, 12
=Ownership=, conquest, 155, 31;
exclusive, theft, 227, 20
=Ox=, a strange, 32, 10;
a tired, 32, 14;
an old, steady, 32, 55;
that works, not to be muzzled, 483, 47
=Oyster=, the first to eat an, 149, 20
P
=Pactolus= river, the blind and the seer at, 511, 5
=Paganism=, virtue of, 403, 34
=Page=, a, sparkling with points, 334, 24
=Pain=, a nether-fire, 544, 45;
and joy, relative amount of, 471, 36;
and pleasure, companions, 349, 30;
and pleasures, revolutions of, 545, 9;
as urging to labour, 95, 35;
avoidance of, the aim of wise man, 321, 36;
birth of higher natures, 23, 46;
compensation in, 328, 2;
consecrated in Christ, 524, 42;
felt, the worst, 446, 38;
flying, 524, 16;
from happiness, 2, 62;
great agent in march of world, 431, 9;
how to beguile, 435, 17;
how to eschew, 177, 34;
ill to bear, 364, 42;
man's master, 223, 24;
not imaginary, 10, 13;
not to be given, 431, 16;
one, lessened by another, 332, 18;
positive, 380, 62;
risk of shirking, 382, 10;
seductive power of, 88, 15;
shared, divided, 385, 28;
sympathetic, 242, 31;
three parts in joy, 28, 18;
which we give ourselves for others, 527, 43
=Pains=, forgotten after gains, 112, 29;
too much, bad, 300, 12
=Painstaking=, too much, a disease, 497, 43
=Painter=, effect of love of gain on, 439, 49;
genius necessary to, 489, 40;
his own colour-grinder, 446, 42;
what a, should paint, 93, 41;
licence conceded to, 348, 25
=Painters= and poets, common licence to, 351, 36
=Painting=, before, blackening behind, 41, 14;
does not feed men, 294, 44;
in old and in later times, 188, 35;
mediocre, 466, 32;
moral effect of, 383, 32;
that attracts by mere verisimilitude, 533, 42;
with a big brush, 566, 38
=Pallas=, the birth of, 301, 27
=Pantaloon=, lean and slippered, 438, 32
=Paradise=, a moment in, cheap at the price of death, 78, 36;
in, alone, 280, 6
=Parasite=, nothing without its, 73, 21
=Pardon=, never and always, 127, 29;
nothing in yourself, 178, 23;
term of, 527, 44
=Pardoning=, sometimes an evil, 278, 13, 15
=Parent=, authority of, how forfeited, 506, 20
=Parents=, and children, in great states and vile, 187, 19;
and children, as regards mutual support, 79, 40;
and children, how they regard each other, 41, 54;
death of, to child, 489, 22;
respect for, as a duty, 374, 43;
their joys, griefs, and fears, 437, 20
=Parliament=, member of, difficult to choose, 203, 44
=Parnassus=, the elect of, 234, 18;
the poor man's, 287, 12
=Parsimony= and frugality, 558, 39
=Pars magna=, 88, 36
=Parsons=, cobblers, 279, 46
=Part=, acting a, long, difficult, 201, 5;
inexplicable, if whole is so, 554, 33
=Particles=, significance of, 425, 20
=Particular=, in art, to represent universal, 448, 16;
the, the universal limited, 446, 46
=Parties=, all work together, 244, 4;
how formed, 276, 15;
the weakness of, 206, 32
=Parting=, an image of death, 180, 39;
ordained of God, 85, 42;
the pain of, 382, 1;
the pangs of, 555, 41
=Partington, Mrs.=, and the Atlantic, 416, 32
=Partisanship=, effect of, on truth, 382, 22
=Parts=, men of great, 276, 5
=Party=, a sacrifice to, 550, 36;
animosities, effect of, 424, 40;
best service to, 145, 8;
government, evil effect of, 276, 15;
in England, habit of, 433, 4;
leader, his difficulties, 145, 17;
man, no convincing, 144, 17;
spirit, evil of, 457, 7
=Passion=, a disappointed, the wound of, 201, 43;
a god, 404, 51;
a malignant, 189, 57;
being without, 491, 2;
easier to inspire than faith, 203, 14;
employment of, apart from reason, 144, 47;
extreme, folly of, 314, 16;
fit of, an exposure, 145, 14;
function of, 329, 43;
in the soul, 562, 20;
infinite, everywhere, 334, 54;
latent in every heart, 186, 35;
long-cherished, 67, 26;
moral power of, 226, 35;
never decides aright, 297, 22;
no, can be hid, 93, 42;
not to be bought, 32, 21;
ruling, the power of a, 542, 2;
susceptibility to, 545, 37;
the power of, 559, 39, 40;
unsteadiness of, 341, 51;
_versus_ reason, 20, 20;
volatile, 65, 20
=Passionless=, man, as regards evil, 143, 28
=Passions=, and feelings, contrasted with reason, 369, 23, 31;
as orators, 239, 13;
contrasted with conscience, 224, 32;
effect of absence on, 2, 11;
exaggerations, 10, 15; 65, 19;
general and particular, 439, 48;
gentle, fruits of, 121, 28;
great, incurable diseases, 136, 47;
hard to conceal, 363, 1;
how to treat our, 461, 25;
like rivers in their course, 249, 51;
man great by his, 263, 43; man without, worthlessness of, 92, 36;
man's, saddening, 264, 1;
our, abuse of our, 529, 31;
our, in frenzy and under reason, 338, 43;
our, like convulsion fits, 338, 44;
our, masters rather servants, 276, 34;
our, the true phœnixes, 338, 45; 556, 3;
power of the, 38, 37;
private and public, 239, 12;
Rousseau on his, 39, 2;
sayings about, 446, 47-51; 447, 1;
strong, life of manly virtues, 404, 7;
subduing, a work, 207, 8;
their duration, 225, 12;
their use and nobleness, 306, 31;
transmuted by music, 287, 1;
violent, how formed, 514, 35;
voice of the body, 46, 39;
why implanted, 291, 15;
winds of the vessel, 239, 15;
without, without principle and motive, 150, 40.
See =Les passions=.
=Past=, a form of present, 519, 5;
and future, our relation to, 521, 8;
cold dead hand of, curative of egotism, 475, 29;
court of the, 422, 5;
events, to be ignorant of, 295, 41;
great spirits of, 431, 39;
grief over, natural, 274, 28;
how to appropriate, 454, 8;
how to treat, 501, 15;
key to future, 404, 22;
lamenting, vain, 494, 2;
no concern to us, 180, 9;
no erasing the, 294, 40;
not to be lamented, 103, 47;
not to be undone, 23, 11;
not wasted if we rise on its ruins, 311, 46;
our yearning after, 15, 37;
present, and future, compared, 429, 37;
present, and future, how to regard, 252, 58;
the barbaric, study of, 264, 1;
the hours of the, 302, 22;
the, sayings about, 447, 2-7;
the soul of, in books, 185, 15;
unalterable, 312, 33
=Pastime=, the dearest, 65, 8
=Pastor=, profession of, 107, 11
=Pastors=, ungracious, conduct of, 71, 25
=Pastures=, good, 130, 3
=Patch= rather than a hole, 28, 27
=Paternity= in law, 87, 23
=Pates=, lean, fat paunches make, 102, 45
=Path=, a best, for every man, 471, 13;
the beaten, safe, 513, 43, 44;
the best, through life, 417, 53;
the direct, 61, 33;
sure and honest heart, all, 215, 28
=Pathetic=, the, its elements, 447, 14
=Pathway=, a, to be made where none visible, 548, 18
=Patience=, a lesson in, 75, 12;
a prayer, 432, 35;
abused, 343, 20;
against fortune, 484, 33;
an alleviator, 74, 34;
and faith, 449, 24;
and its fruit, 226, 37;
and perseverance, power of, 180, 25;
as a passion, 82, 24;
as a remedy, 15, 32;
as an antidote, 226, 39;
attained no small feat, 124, 3;
being out of, 553, 24;
better than learning, 119, 19;
commended, 558, 40; 566, 34;
cowardice in noble hearts, 414, 36;
defined, 226, 38;
exhortation to, 509, 21;
in man and wife, 314, 14;
in seeking the Lord, 394, 5;
like, on a monument, 389, 12;
more than brains, 77, 32;
nobler than beauty, 82, 23;
Kepler's, of faith, 174, 8;
oil of the lamp, 266, 23;
power of, 175, 37; 179, 38; 237, 23; 295, 48; 338, 47; 342, 55; 464, 32;
prayed for, 217, 22;
preached by all, 9, 63;
rampart of courage, 112, 53;
sort thy heart to, 400, 17;
_versus_ haste, 54, 21;
want of, 162, 15;
want of, want of philosophy, 554, 34;
when outraged often, 117, 47;
worth the pains, 146, 20
=Patient= man, fury of, 29, 72
=Patriot=, glory of, 205, 35;
the, who saves his country, 478, 14
=Patriotism=, as an affection, 36, 19;
unfelt at Marathon, 413, 44;
its substitutes under despotism, 506, 21;
power of, in the heart, 315, 33
=Patriots=, great, excellent as men, 133, 41
=Patron=, Johnson's description of, 16, 22
=Patronage=, begging, 162, 23;
two kinds of, 505, 28
=Paul= and David, our opinions of, 523, 17
=Paunch=, a fat, without fine sense, 348, 44
=Pay=, a true man's, 306, 33
=Pay-day=, its recurrence, 569, 10
=Peace=, a certain, safer than an expected victory, 272, 42;
and anger, contrasted, 35, 6;
and concord, the price of, 483, 39;
and joy from content and love, 249, 19;
and plenty, the brood of, 349, 50;
and war, effects of, compared, 518, 42, 46;
beautiful, 382, 13;
becoming in men, 35, 6;
dependence of, on neighbours, 289, 6;
few qualified for, 484, 25;
first duty of citizen, 378, 24;
how alone attainable, 306, 34;
how to live in, 324, 9;
how to preserve, 490, 35;
how to secure, 240, 51; 390, 41;
in heaven and on earth, 344, 47;
life in, 149, 4;
man in, 188, 52, 53;
no, apart from ideal, 26, 58;
no, perfect, 202, 5;
no, without arms, 295, 34;
only ground of, 314, 1;
our love for, 525, 33;
sacrifices for, 467, 11;
secret of, 537, 16;
the foes of, 329, 35;
tranquil, a wish, 272, 34
=Peaceful=, the, peace-making, 106, 53
=Peacemakers=, the, 447, 16
=Peaks=, loftiest, in clouds, 550, 35
=Pearls=, give not, to swine, 123, 21;
in the deep, 185, 51;
tears, 346, 28;
to be dived for, 85, 7
=Peasant=, contrasted with philosopher, 460, 4;
with fowl in pot, 211, 23
=Peasantry=, a brave, value of, 33, 1
=Pebble=, casting, from hand, effect of, 199, 1
=Pedagogue=, the, and the age, 457, 2
=Pedant=, a, defined, 16, 25; 152, 48;
a female, offensive, 164, 41;
and teacher contrasted, 234, 23;
the real, 437, 8
=Pedantry=, defined, 54, 11;
origin and evil of, 421, 24;
vacancy, 344, 25
=Pedigree=, kingly, traced backwards, 534, 25;
mere, of no avail, 402, 34;
pride of, 522, 27
=Peerage=, the English, 530, 37
=Pen=, magic of, 440, 12;
mightier than sword, 447, 18;
most wonderful of tools, 296, 64;
steadying power of, 509, 39;
strokes of, to be deliberate, 455, 31
=Penalty=, according to offence, 4, 59;
paid by innocent, 77, 49
=Penitence=, better than casuistry, 200, 15
=Penny=, a bad, 32, 12;
to spend, I hae a, 166, 28
=Penury=, abyss of, 296, 56
=People=, a great, condition of continued power of, 448, 36;
a great, instinctive feeling of, 437, 1;
a, without religion, 253, 2;
chief glory of a, 420, 5;
choice of, measure of, 123, 42;
common-place, how to win, 333, 21;
effect of treating, as they are or should be, 546, 41;
glory of, 430, 11;
great, special gifts of God, 134, 42;
heart of a country, 234, 26;
high-class, rule of intercourse with, 187, 34;
how to move the heart of, 303, 12;
how to understand, 556, 34;
mass of, characterised, 431, 27;
most objectionable, 444, 4;
only three classes of, 468, 3;
silence of, a lesson to kings, 235, 11;
sympathetic, 408, 35;
that sing, safe to live among, 560, 12;
the, and kings, 447, 20, 23;
the, and their orators, 234, 27;
the, miscreant calling himself, 186, 44;
the, open to flattery, 312, 38;
the, supreme law of, 379, 51;
the, voice of, 347, 31;
the, voice of, to be regarded, 389, 35;
the, their fondness for deception, 353, 1;
voice of, how to regard, 461, 9;
with no annals, 140, 28;
without laws, 79, 42
=Peoples=, great, conservative, 9, 40
=Perception=, of a fact, a fact, 288, 17;
want of, fatal, 461, 17
=Perdition= catch my soul, 96, 16
=Perfect=, nothing, till humanised, 315, 32;
the, around us, 522, 34;
thing, treatment of, 362, 21
=Perfection=, by nature and by art, 272, 43;
claim of, 145, 40;
desire of, a disease, 423, 9;
dumb, 544, 19;
easily dispensed with, 333, 28;
end of, 540, 3;
from trifles, 499, 23;
greater, dispensable, 520, 41;
how to arrive at, 489, 37;
in art, demand for, 302, 9;
in heaven's regard and man's, 517, 18;
in one's self to be aimed at, 28, 12;
law of, 227, 3;
sought in another, 75, 4;
supreme, 537, 9;
the three sources of, 468, 30
=Perfumed=, like a milliner, 114, 43
=Perhaps=, a great, in quest of, 210, 36
=Perishable=, to be made imperishable, 521, 26
=Perjuries=, lovers', 72, 6
=Perjury=, the punishment of, 346, 27;
when a virtue, 234, 20
=Permanence=, the condition of, 354, 36
=Perplexity=, moral, 1, 39
=Persecution=, better than being shunned, 29, 15;
history of, 435, 19
=Perseverance=, effect of, 496, 31;
gain of, 34, 10;
law of, 438, 21;
power of, 80, 54; 96, 54; 135, 29;
rarer than effort, 227, 8;
reward of, 496, 12; 553, 26;
virtue of, 56, 38; 346, 30;
want of, 142, 34
=Persistence=, merit of, 346, 30, 31
=Persistency=, attracts confidence, 89, 27
=Person=, a third, annoyance to two, 82, 4;
a worthy, respected by the good, 143, 17;
mystery of a, 444, 28
=Personality=, great, how to respect, 492, 23
=Persons=, and things to be taken as they are, 276, 13;
criticising of, 476, 29;
great, behaviour towards, 498, 45;
interesting, the only, 335, 8;
the emphasis of, 425, 4;
universally treated ill, 526, 5;
who please us, 443, 14
=Persuasion=, and faith, power of, 279, 32;
law of, 241, 16;
power of, 104, 57; 312, 23;
susceptibility to, the rule, 336, 5
=Perversion=, last stage of, 438, 8
=Perversities=, greatest of all, 432, 29
=Pervert=, no, fit for kingdom of God, 303, 47
=Perverted= minds, effect of things on, 328, 22
=Pestilence=, evil of, 101, 31
=Peter= more feared than respected, 117, 29
=Petition= to God, a precept, 93, 48
=Petticoat= government, 32, 47
=Phaëton=, epitaph on, 156, 14
=Phariseeism= intolerable, 468, 29
=Pharmacopœia=, Napoleon's, 520, 28
=Philanthropic=, the, mistaken occupation of, 417, 31
=Philanthropy=, a vain, 536, 5;
mere, not the aim of life, 256, 38;
true, 482, 3;
with a flaw, 414, 5
=Philina= on her days and nights, 212, 13
=Philip II.= of Spain's boast, 170, 5
=Philistinism=, instance of, 203, 3
=Philosopher=, and the toothache, 477, 37;
and trifles, 150, 17;
characteristics of, 489, 42, 43;
content with being, 177, 16;
contrasted with peasant, 436, 15; 460, 4;
defined, 447, 34, 35;
dejection unseemly in, 56, 45;
his first business, 428, 8;
most aspiring, his proudest boast, 449, 50;
object and duty of, 445, 20;
should not swear, 324, 26;
the, and practical interests, 558, 33;
the, characteristic of, 419, 43;
true, character of, 419, 41;
without good-breeding, 452, 27;
work for a, 495, 36
=Philosopher's=, stone, a, 21, 23;
stone, the, 343, 60;
stone, the true, 47, 18, 23; 177, 1
=Philosophers=, a trouble to the world, 278, 37;
in talk, fools in art, 269, 45;
Rousseau on, 409, 18;
their opposite views of man, 398, 42
=Philosophic= study, the condition of, 421, 39
=Philosophical=, act, the true, 459, 3;
systems, worthlessness of, 550, 8
=Philosophies=, man's supplements of his practice, 267, 5
=Philosophising=, true, 383, 41
=Philosophisings=, cold, in presence of heart, 444, 37
=Philosophism=, fruit of, in France, 310, 4
=Philosophy=, a deliverer and a defender, 227, 5;
a genuine, 494, 11;
a test of a man's, 315, 23;
according to Plato and to Bacon, 189, 6;
after defeat, 333, 6;
and adversity, 4, 71;
and Christianity, 42, 52;
and divinity, 70, 12;
and misfortune, 227, 7;
as deceptive, 227, 6;
beginning of all, 459, 3;
best part of, 221, 12;
compared with poetry, 350, 41;
compared with religion, 372, 7, 17;
defined, 537, 3;
divine, 161, 7;
effects of little, and of depth in, 8, 48;
effect of, on one in fear, 449, 5;
existence and necessity of, 442, 6;
first qualification for, 61, 14;
function of, 516, 23;
glory of, 430, 13;
importance of, 81, 40; 559, 41;
misapplied, 521, 25;
motive to, 207, 9;
not enough, 26, 2;
permanent, 550, 7;
politics harmful to, 313, 47;
power of, 70, 9;
problem of, 449, 30;
sayings about, 447, 37, 38;
small draughts of, and large, 394, 23;
temple of, qualification for entering, 508, 3;
the beginning and end of, 192, 33;
the one, 471, 17;
the first cause of, 561, 44;
the sign of a ripened, 13, 51;
the two objects of, 423, 40;
too austere, 497, 30;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, 492, 9;
visible, 426, 17
=Phocion= to Demosthenes, 271, 37
=Phœnix=, a symbol of progress, 106, 20;
the, burning of, 190, 11
=Phœnix-bird= in the fire, 545, 46
=Physic=, hated, yet helpful, 484, 32;
the best, 533, 31;
to the dogs, 485, 42
=Physician=, a, to be old, 212, 48;
dispensed with, 559, 1;
must be humane, 78, 35;
no perfect, 334, 25;
profession of, 107, 11;
those who need, 479, 33;
to be honoured, 159, 50;
who has never been sick, 303, 48;
wise, usefulness of, 25, 1
=Physicians=, I die by the help of too many, 165, 41;
many, bad sign of a state, 226, 16;
the two best, 411, 48;
two real, 227, 37
=Physiognomists=, the best, 348, 24
=Physique=, effect of, on estimate of self, 278, 5
=Picture=, good, a sermon, 91, 10;
poem without words, 287, 37;
to ensure a genuine, 240, 27
=Pictures=, attraction of, 174, 23;
by nature, 72, 7;
good, shades and lights in, 468, 9;
importance of arrangement in, 323, 20;
pleasure in, 519, 31
=Piece=, a, how to compose, 119, 15
=Piety=, among the ruins of Iona, 413, 44;
and reason to be combined, 526, 39;
ascetic, 120, 27;
but a means, 116, 38;
defined by Cicero, 216, 30;
how best displayed, 334, 38;
real, 334, 1;
the, of a reformed man, 24, 56;
to be kept distinct from art, 345, 22
=Pig=, every, scrubbing, 152, 12
=Pigeons=, no, ready roasted, 119, 12, 13
=Pilate=, jesting, without eye for truth, 212, 34
=Pilgrimages=, profitlessness of, 148, 6
=Pilgrims=, few, saints, 105, 19
=Pillow=, a sibyl, 447, 40
=Pills=, sugared, 16, 56;
to be swallowed, 348, 42
=Pilot=, of Galilean Lake, 447, 41;
vigilance required in, 39, 41
=Pilotage=, in calm, 184, 8;
in storm, 184, 10
=Pilots=, skilful, reputation of, how gained, 393, 17
=Pindar=, passion of, mine, 542, 30
=Pious=, honoured by gods and men, 51, 38; 447, 44
=Pipe=, that is not played on, 540, 16
=Pity=, akin to humour, 164, 9;
ere charity, 36, 7;
how to show, 389, 40;
human, power of, 283, 26;
no, without rigour, 12, 46;
not hatred, 71, 44;
object of, 425, 22;
often more becoming than envy, 383, 36;
our, measure of, 527, 47;
rather than envy, 29, 27;
through severity, 396, 44;
virtue of law, 110, 38
=Pitying= better than condemning, 201, 26
=Place=, a consecrated, 46, 43;
a man below his, 152, 30;
dignified by deed, 116, 13;
preparation for a, 488, 37;
trodden by a good man, 447, 46
=Places= and place-holders, 63, 45
=Plagiarism=, Kingsley on, 301, 37
=Plagiarists=, honest, 10, 45
=Plain=, blunt man, a, 164, 49;
the perfectly, 381, 37
=Plain-dealing=, exceptional, 313, 37;
in disfavour, 107, 30
=Plain-spokenness=, an eccentricity, 177, 22
=Plan=, the divine, no need to understand, 155, 16
=Planet=, rather than moon, 166, 23;
sceptre of the, 458, 30
=Plant=, often removed, 16, 39
=Plate=, enjoyed as earthenware, 133, 37
=Plato=, as a thinker, 453, 7;
father of thought, 340, 10;
fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
the greatness of, 349, 19;
thought of, mine, 542, 30;
treatment of, 349, 20;
wrong with, rather than right with others, 84, 45
=Plato's= "Republic," 331, 27
=Plausibility= and truth, 355, 15
=Player=, and the times, 253, 6;
might teach parson, 169, 49
=Playfulness= after exertion, 151, 26
=Playing=, too much, 492, 5
=Pleasant=, mingled with bitter, 271, 55;
and unpleasant, matter of habit, 316, 25
=Pleasantry=, must be spontaneous, 101, 43;
with whom to risk, 528, 37
=Please=, others how to, 510, 20;
to, as a wish, 89, 4
=Pleasing=, art of, 416, 22;
every one pleasing none, 151, 20;
many a vain attempt, 217, 5;
no, every one, 117, 6;
pleasure of, 520, 37
=Pleasure=, a man of, 12, 34;
after pain, 376, 5;
and fear of the penalty, 65, 26;
and pain, 32, 35; 340, 42;
and pain, cousins german, 229, 6;
as a moralist, 474, 24;
at expense of pain, 308, 29;
blinding power of, 223, 22;
cost of, 10, 16;
diving for, 186, 9;
effect of indulgence in, 271, 20;
effect of, on sense of time, 349, 29;
effect of refinement upon, 443, 18;
evil only when enslaving, 82, 51;
excess of, criminal, 242, 32;
from activity, 93, 50;
illusory, hope of, 403, 24;
intellectual and sensual, 191, 14;
lawful, 84, 38;
looked forward to, 79, 41;
men's proneness to, 158, 46;
mere, as motive of action, 278, 23;
no compensation for pain, 31, 17;
not to be despised, 168, 6;
of the world, a dream, 362, 22;
precursor of grief, 136, 37;
pursuit of, demoralising, 147, 26;
sacrifice of, a gain, 198, 16;
sacrificing, to duty, 149, 35;
satieties of, 467, 28;
sequel to, 485, 45;
that strikes the soul, 448, 8;
the most exquisite, 234, 28;
the sweetest, 324, 28;
to an ill-conditioned being, 489, 33;
true, the fountain of, 188, 47;
without reason, result of, 407, 28;
without self-flattery, 330, 3
=Pleasure-seeker=, the, 448, 5
=Pleasures=, bitter when abused, 239, 18;
Burns on evanescence of, 33, 22;
great, rarer than great pains, 134, 43;
how enhanced, 517, 22;
how to look at, 252, 58;
like wine, 526, 14;
mental, never cloy, 278, 3;
not to be exalted, 294, 39;
of the world, the, 448, 9;
our, and pains, 339, 1;
our, how protracted, 338, 49;
temperate man's, 457, 3;
the sweetest, 325, 10;
tranquil, 498, 55
=Plenty=, everywhere, 271, 48
=Pliability=, and firmness, 179, 8;
man's, characterised, 408, 27
=Plodders=, continued, gain of, from other's books, 394, 25
=Plodding=, effect of, 480, 2;
not easy, 201, 38;
universal, evil of, 555, 32
=Ploughman's= clocks, 278, 32
=Ploughshare=, soldiers of, 397, 10
=Poem=, a great, suggestive, 91, 18;
a heroic, at bottom, 473, 8;
a, what makes 204, 10;
an indifferent, writing, and understanding a good, 201, 21;
as image of life, 16, 43;
heroic, qualification for composing, 153, 2;
qualities of a true, 110, 40; 310, 35;
true, writer of, his reward, 437, 10;
which is not sung, 536, 40
=Poems=, all great, foundation of, 324, 24;
by mere water-drinkers, 318, 15;
for the day and for all time, 138, 41;
heroic, how to produce, 241, 17;
old, sacred, 380, 24;
painted window-panes, 119, 18
=Poesy=, difficulties in, 316, 31;
immortal, 227, 15;
spirit of, 454, 37
=Poet=, a, defined, 486, 19;
a, for everything, 75, 21;
a, how to understand, 556, 25;
a necessary qualification for, 559, 27;
a, of superior merit, not to be described, 384, 28;
a, on canvas, same as in song, 16, 47;
a word for, 409, 29;
akin to madman, 24, 17;
always waited for, 426, 22;
and his inspiration, 203, 37;
as representing a class of men, 273, 40;
as revealer of beauty, 150, 50;
business of, 489, 39;
by birth, 350, 36;
coin of a, 163, 6;
delight of, in wandering, 80, 3;
distinguished from prophet, 449, 46;
dramatic, Horace on, 370, 40;
dramatic, two qualifications of, 503, 36;
everywhere in his place, 549, 20;
eyes to other men, 284, 14;
function of, 64, 21; 206, 37;
genius necessary to, 489, 40;
God the perfect, 127, 5;
great, limitedness of, 311, 27;
high watch-tower of, 59, 48;
his resources, 406, 17;
how formed, 492, 32;
licence conceded to, 348, 25;
like the eagle, 444, 31;
lyric and epic, beverages of, 440, 11;
native land of, 444, 31;
Nature's teaching to, 531, 35;
nothing useless to a, 489, 24;
object of, 445, 19;
of to-day, and the wealth he inherits, 522, 12;
often child of love, 325, 34;
pen of, tempered with love's sighs, 296, 19;
qualification of, 252, 4;
qualifications for, 303, 2, 3;
satirical, a check, 18, 60;
sayings about, 448, 11-19;
scared by the mob, 322, 8;
sign of the, 453, 33;
spirit required of, 237, 4;
suffering necessary to, 426, 23;
the, advice to, 558, 41;
the, and troubles of life, 540, 18;
the, attributes of, 16, 44-46;
the business of, 14, 16;
the complete, his outfit, 421, 16;
the eye of, 470, 21;
the high priesthood of, 550, 41;
the irreligious, 437, 13;
the note-book of, 426, 30;
the only teller of news, 446, 21;
the struggle of the, 93, 51;
the true, 459, 4-6;
to be, one must be a poem, 152, 54;
to sing to himself and the Muses, 34, 59;
what he has to cultivate and shun, 539, 2;
what it is to be a, 489, 44;
what makes a, 198, 49;
what makes the, 373, 11;
with nothing to interpret and reveal, 174, 29;
without poetic frenzy, 554, 27;
who entitled to be called, 50, 48;
work for a, 495, 36
=Poet's= gift, Horace's admiration of, 182, 8
=Poetasters=, conceit of, 218, 23
=Poetic=, art, destiny of, 508, 31;
genius, the test of, 457, 13;
pains, a pleasure in, 470, 16
=Poet-priest= still waited for, 465, 14
=Poetry=, ancient and modern, contrasted, 448, 20;
and prose, defined, 358, 20;
and words, 562, 12;
as an educator of children, 411, 14;
at bottom, 313, 4;
attractive power of, 24, 39;
averse to reasoning, 71, 32;
born of pain or sorrow, 350, 33;
by a bad man, 389, 37;
compared with painting, 340, 51;
contrasted with science, 382, 37; 383, 2;
elements or subjects of, 425, 3;
essence of, 426, 1;
from an engineer, 566, 27;
good, personification, 130, 5;
how to understand, 565, 19;
if nonsense, when reduced to prose, 200, 2;
in common lives, 476, 20;
inferior, denounced, 193, 47;
its dwelling-place, 372, 27;
its relation to philosophy, 345, 8;
its sadness objected to, 535, 34;
lyric, 258, 26;
mediocre, 466, 32;
mistaken test of, 198, 13;
must be of ideas, 184, 22;
not dead, 372, 27;
not the thing now wanted, 358, 11;
nursed by wrong, 284, 42;
of eighteenth century, 339, 2;
old-fashioned, character of, 327, 13;
organic, 377, 19;
popular, fault of, 448, 13;
second-rate, condemned, 558, 42;
surpassed by music, 286, 47;
the elevating power of, 200, 44;
the essence of, 369, 19;
the kingdom of, 54, 24;
the life of, 562, 12;
the only, 335, 11; 446, 12;
transporting, 315, 35;
true, in the fields, 567, 33;
true, truer than science, 500, 29;
value and dignity of, 559, 42;
value of, 565, 19;
who has no ear for, 532, 10;
without taste for, 150, 38
=Poets=, at first and at last, 528, 2;
a question about, 487, 45;
and poverty, 354, 16;
but two orders of, 503, 48;
contrasted with orators, 289, 42;
good, inspired interpreters, 130, 6;
great, and their readers, 310, 22;
great, best qualities in, 10, 30;
great, how their works have been read, 464, 3;
great, of slow growth, 315, 12;
great (see =Great Poets=);
make witty, 157, 22;
mediocrity in, 272, 2;
modern, Goethe on, 281, 29;
nature-made, 291, 50;
our, Emerson on, 339, 3;
sensitive, 121, 48;
their wish, 24, 21;
three, of Greece, Italy, and England, 485, 23;
to be fed, not pampered, 84, 16
=Poison=, slow, dangerous, 16, 48; 79, 12;
those that need, 479, 14
=Polarity=, our own, our law, 521, 30
=Policy=, and incidents, 192, 55;
object of all true, 445, 15;
the best, 35, 9
=Polish=, what is alone susceptible of, 335, 22
=Polite= people, excessively, designing, 347, 5
=Politeness=, benefit of, 28, 19;
defined, 227, 16;
estimable, 376, 51;
morally rooted, 301, 46;
of wise and fools, 462, 31;
only source of, 446, 24;
true, 38, 19;
value of, 474, 6;
wise and foolish, 21, 61
=Political=, economy, real science of, 450, 43;
watchword, highest, 435, 5
=Politician=, object and duty of, 445, 20
=Politicians= and statesmen, contrasted, 455, 10
=Politics=, as gambling, 472, 41;
bungling in, hateful, 166, 30;
philosophy harmful to, 313, 47;
sayings about, 189, 8-10;
subject to circumstances, 475, 24;
too rigorous, 497, 30
=Polonius=, advice of, to Laërtes, 123, 30
=Pomp=, insignificance of, 123, 13
=Poniards=, she speaks, 389, 14
=Poor=, and rich, 126, 15, 16;
and sins of rich, 59, 29;
compared with rich, 451, 24-27, 32;
considering, 30, 49;
fate of devourer of the, 37, 54;
giving to, 123, 46; 146, 21;
ignorance of, Carlyle on, 203, 35;
in purse, 18, 17;
man, a, 137, 46; 141, 23; 147, 53;
man, a, and a liar, 423, 8;
man, a really, 441, 5;
man, according to Emerson, 143, 53;
man, despised, 343, 47;
man, how, may become rich, 34, 1;
man, put to shifts, 158, 29;
man who is, 304, 12;
mercy to, blessed, 146, 50;
not to be robbed, 377, 43;
once, poor always, 386, 30;
man, become rich, pride of, 180, 2;
spectres that accompany, 203, 35;
spirit, mark of, 489, 5;
the alone truly, 319, 14;
the, obsequious to rich, 63, 50;
the, pity for, in a storm, 352, 37;
the poverty of, 423, 14;
the, sayings about, 448, 23-27;
the tillage of, 285, 12;
the uncomplaining, 59, 28;
the wretchedness of, 328, 40;
who think themselves so, 304, 10
=Poorest=, in his cottage, safety of, 448, 31;
place, plenty of, 448, 10
=Pope=, not born for high life, 169, 2;
of his religion, 408, 33;
on his verses, 173, 24
=Pope's= prayer for charity, 411, 12
=Populace=, the, insolence of, 129, 2
=Popular=, man and original contrasted, 448, 33;
the, characterises the people, 94, 48
=Popularity=, defined, 227, 17;
evanescence of, 124, 28;
fleeting, 181, 18;
sudden, 406, 4;
to be shunned, 51, 31
=Portion=, the best, 409, 31
=Portraits=, ancestral, in a mirror, 13, 43;
the best, 417, 54
=Position=, contentment with one's, commended, 566, 17;
filling of, main thing, 125, 36
=Positive=, as legible as negative, 483, 45;
and egative, universal in nature, 94, 26;
and negative universal, 174, 42, 43
=Possess=, how to, 39, 12;
who deserve to, 479, 53
=Possessing= and possessed, 519, 13
=Possession=, a permanent, 166, 34;
an acknowledged title, 385, 25;
as justifying right, 27, 22;
by right, 79, 33;
condition of true, 316, 43;
not mere fame, 206, 38;
of good things, effect on us of, 559, 5;
the only real, 167, 34;
thorough, a test of, 539, 44;
true, condition of, 520, 4
=Possessions=, a blessing or a curse, 138, 48;
of which one has more than he knows, 324, 47;
our, and wishes, 331, 18;
inherited, to be employed, 82, 56
=Possible=, ever possible, 415, 2
=Post=, a vacant, effect of filling, 498, 44;
our, not to be deserted, 527, 32
=Posterity=, our duty to, 527, 40;
our obligations to, 535, 21;
the judgment of, 47, 7
=Posture-maker=, the best, 291, 52
=Pot=, a little, 77, 30;
of ale, fame for, 169, 24
=Poultry=, world peopled with, 291, 48
=Poverty=, a calamity, 18, 17;
a drawback in life, 490, 34;
a hindrance to virtue, 1, 34;
a master, 467, 27;
and love, incompatible, 544, 10;
and reproach, 490, 23;
and vice, 518, 33;
a teacher, 150, 44;
better than cowardice, 197, 28;
better than vice, 29, 16;
chill air of, 3, 5;
condition of, without freedom, 88, 38;
contentment with, commended, 236, 1;
contrasted with avarice, 62, 43;
craft of, 18, 18;
cramping effect of, 141, 25;
direct road to, 397, 40;
discredit of, 24, 42;
disgrace of, 259, 36;
effect of, 394, 15;
effect of, on native character, 314, 11;
from sloth, 103, 14;
hard to bear, 78, 31;
hard to gild, 208, 11;
honest, 159, 32;
how so galling, 299, 41;
key to, 394, 5;
measure of, 148, 3;
national, incompatible with national prosperity, 334, 9;
no evil to a genuine man, 109, 3;
of spirit, God's delight, 18, 15;
real, 17, 4; 358, 4;
sayings about, 343, 50-52;
security of, 149, 17;
shame of, 388, 33;
standard of, 93, 21;
stronger than wealth, 26, 5;
the evil of, 530, 32;
the sixth sense, 18, 16;
the worst kind of, 55, 23;
to be hidden, 227, 2;
when one is down, 547, 3;
which oppresses a nation, evil of, 132, 44
=Power=, a, over and behind us, 470, 19;
a test of character, 474, 25;
always jealous, 318, 13;
an unseen, shadow of, 416, 38;
and fate, 102, 48;
and impotence, what determines, 533, 34;
arbitrary, how established, 17, 27;
constraining, how to be free from, 517, 27;
earthly, when likest God's, 14, 41;
everywhere, 247, 13;
excessive, end of, 19, 8;
how retained, 183, 37;
innate lust for, 88, 35;
lawless, weakness of, 121, 57;
love of, a childish passion, 256, 9;
our absolute, limited to ourselves, 340, 23;
over others, condition of, 211, 47;
pains and pleasures of, 446, 40;
persuasiveness of, 122, 13;
possessor of, 60, 12;
responsibility in relinquishing, 297, 40;
royal, firm as a rock of iron, 170, 9;
sovereign, the secret of, 386, 13;
the arrogance of, 299, 6;
the basis of all, 10, 18;
the desire of, an effect of, 423, 10;
the impression of, due to mass, 4, 56;
the secret of, 319, 7;
true, silent, 11, 33;
unjust, to be let fall, 323, 27;
unlimited, a risk, 304, 23;
when apparent, 10, 17;
wielded with violence or moderation, 514, 36;
with age, 549, 23;
without justice, 216, 26
=Powerful=, the most, 353, 28
=Powers=, one's, not to be dissipated, 380, 7;
unseen, Wordsworth's faith in, 311, 52
=Practice=, and preaching, 355, 56;
and theory, 466, 22;
better than preaching, 15, 67;
effect of, 94, 39; 504, 43;
everything, 272, 40;
power of, 96, 53;
without Nature and learning, 292, 35
=Prairies=, the, 462, 18
=Praise=, and dispraise, alike, 486, 7;
assumption of him who praises another, 531, 37;
but not of one's self, 240, 23;
by letter, 483, 38;
from love, effect of, 449, 3;
generally for praise, 330, 16;
greed of, mark of weakness, 391, 4;
ground of, 231, 23;
more difficult than flattery, 269, 26;
not to be too hasty, 528, 39;
received, our estimate of, 92, 34;
rule in, 384, 11;
the refusal of, 234, 41;
undeserved, effect of, on an honest heart, 498, 30;
unqualified, evil of, 313, 49; vain, 475, 27;
when deserved, 170, 19
=Praising= everybody, praising nobody, 152, 5
=Prayer=, a perfect, 19, 34;
a short, 211, 29;
an impotent, 62, 9;
answered, as offered, 125, 13;
as a wish, 430, 5;
as teaching, 303, 32;
before labour, 526, 34;
condition of answer to, 153, 39;
course of, unknown, 421, 43;
defined, 227, 18;
efficacy of, 19, 46;
for grace or guidance, 172, 29;
in heaven's sight, 187, 23;
mental (see =Mental prayer=);
no, no prospering, 149, 42;
no, no religion, 306, 43;
power of, 23, 38;
proper matter of, 313, 26;
the greatest, 432, 35;
the greeting of the day, 107, 2;
to ourselves, efficacy of, 539, 35;
unknown power of, 283, 41;
_versus_ practice, 503, 31;
what's in, 549, 36;
when angry, 543, 40
=Prayerless= men, 534, 5
=Prayers=, denied, a benefit, 525, 1;
forced, not good, 112, 14;
only cries of babes, 534, 4;
short, 389, 30;
that journey far, 398, 43
=Praying=, best, 144, 56;
dependent on living, 311, 25;
disturbed by working, 105, 24;
idle, 555, 2;
soul, waiting of, 449, 4;
striving, 28, 7;
that is vain, 293, 20
=Preacher=, and apostle, different aims of, 224, 11;
compared with his sermons, 301, 4;
not to be judged, 214, 10;
the best, 144, 57;
the true, 459, 7;
under the gallows, 93, 17;
who preaches with effect, 476, 15
=Preaching=, effective, 30, 11;
in wilderness or highway, 552, 36;
object of, 445, 17;
to the unwilling, 329, 10;
when angry, 543, 40;
with a full belly, 76, 26
=Precedent=, origin of, 333, 39
=Precedents=, bad, from good beginnings 328, 15;
creating, 387, 44
=Precept= and example, effects of, 355, 9, 58
=Precepts=, effect of, 276, 43;
rigorous religious, endorsed by abandoned men, 307, 26
=Precipitancy= often instructive, 79, 11
=Precipitation=, evil of, 504, 20
=Precocity=, evil of, 398, 38; fate of, 11, 48
=Predecessor=, to equal, 492, 12
=Predestination=, M. Aurelius on, 541, 10
=Preferment=, affected scorn of, 269, 43;
chances of, 149, 6
=Prejudice=, an old, need created by destroying, 546, 34;
reasoning against, 370, 8
=Prejudices=, how to treat, 307, 47;
laying aside, a work, 207, 8;
moral, stop-gaps of virtue, 283, 14;
one's own, to be cast out, 265, 34
=Presbyter=, new, old priest, 297, 30
=Presence=, a good, value of, 6, 51;
effect of a, silent, 334, 10
=Present=, a potent divinity, 64, 20;
absurd feeling about the, 476, 26;
alone ours, 82, 54;
and future, Fichte's view of, 288, 9;
and the future, 234, 37, 38;
complacence in comparing, with past, 201, 4;
for whom, 234, 38;
how to treat, 501, 15;
importance of, 449, 10;
in life, 182, 31;
its comprehensiveness, 449, 9, 14;
man's business solely with, 415, 1;
man's tyrant, 265, 4;
never in our thoughts, 175, 43;
sufficiency of, 140, 23;
sum of past and future, 414, 34;
the, ignored, 521, 24;
the, importance of seizing, 79, 18;
the possession of, 462, 13;
the, underrated, 322, 22;
those commonplace, 415, 28;
time, characterised, 339, 4;
time, in labour, 477, 25;
time, Ruskin on, 557, 38;
time, the, 272, 32; 438, 31;
time, the, in birth pangs, 285, 16;
to be employed, 36, 27;
to be enjoyed, 71, 12; 529, 5;
value of, 92, 40
=Presents=, giving, rather than paying debts, 268, 56;
the most acceptable, 2, 44;
the quality in, 546, 17
=Press=, daily, Goethe on, 10, 59;
sayings about, 449, 15-17
=Presumption=, of a spiritual nature, 281, 31;
the source of, 204, 43
=Pretensions=, folly of our, 522, 10
=Prevention=, before both law and crime, 231, 42
=Price=, nothing without, 539, 42
=Pride=, a, commended, 470, 2; a noble, 469, 28;
a passing flower, 75, 51;
a shameless liar, 391, 19;
abhorrent, to gods, 86, 16;
always injurious, 303, 36;
and debt, 224, 13;
and ingratitude, combined, 566, 39;
angry, folly of, 325, 36;
as a tax, 170, 33, 34;
characteristics of, 147, 16;
commended, 27, 48;
debasing power of, 209, 22;
effect of subdued, 542, 19;
enraged, as a counsellor, 266, 23;
extreme, ignorance, 60, 18;
followed by shame, 242, 34;
from ignorance, 446, 34;
gifts of, 511, 24;
Highland, 409, 9;
how to lessen one's, 176, 14;
in man, 261, 50;
less, nobler the blood, 213, 4;
matter of shame, 527, 36;
misery of, 444, 8;
reasoning, evil of, 189, 17;
the food of, 107, 28;
with the mask off, 194, 52
=Priest=, a Christian, Chaucer's idea of, 33, 4;
lying, in dark ages, 302, 49;
his love for his flock, 61, 16; 449, 19;
the world's, 458, 52
=Priestcraft=, the support of, 277, 26
=Priesthood=, all men's vocation, 524, 20;
of father and mother, 252, 46
=Priests=, effect of their conduct on church, 239, 26;
false, St. Augustine on, 286, 6;
real and sham, 18, 59
=Prime Minister=, no, explicit, 302, 51
=Primrose=, by river's brim, 16, 64
=Prince=, born a, a misfortune, 390, 16;
first servant of state, 59, 56;
greatest merit of, 357, 1;
how to forfeit favour of, 150, 16;
manners of, effect of, 239, 7;
qualities of a, 393, 8
=Princes=, and their subjects, 519, 8;
and wise men, 61, 35;
false praise of, insult, 253, 36;
hands and ears of, 118, 7;
fault in, 199, 24;
the clemency of, a lure, 224, 28
=Princes=' favours, wretchedness of depending on,
321, 2
=Principle=, a new, value of, 15, 4;
steadfastness to, 167, 22
=Principles=, developed apart from men, 104, 42;
our, in frenzy and under reason, 338, 43;
right, knowledge of, versus love of, 151, 28;
righteous, principal thing, 275, 38;
steadfastness of, 104, 12;
where no, whims, 151, 7
=Printing-press=, power of, 535, 16
=Prisoner= and free man contrasted, 449, 26
=Private=, affairs, talking of, 469, 38;
soldier in France, 498, 39
=Privilege=, defined, 357, 15;
our pride in, 538, 6
=Probabilities=, a thousand, short of one truth, 279, 26
=Problem=, a palpably hopeless, 123, 41;
our first, 206, 11
=Problems=, soluble and insoluble, 263, 5
=Procrastination=, danger of, 162, 34;
evil of, 540, 14
=Prodigal= compared with miser, 449, 31
=Prodigals=, as regards money, 49, 14
=Production=, greater than expansion or decoration, 449, 32;
law of, 252, 2
=Profane=, negatively defined, 315, 36
=Profanity=, no, where no fane, 469, 12
=Profession=, a man's, his master, 167, 17;
no, without its troubles, 174, 31;
one, enough for a man, 493, 38
=Professions=, five great intellectual, 107, 11
=Professors=, great, 483, 16
=Profit=, contrary views of, 284, 31;
late, better than none, 58, 45;
no, except through pleasure, 306, 47
=Profitable= things, the casting away of, 419, 29
=Profits=, moderate, 166, 18;
slender, but often, 219, 39
=Profundity= to be avoided, 11, 29
=Progress=, delight in sense of, 513, 32;
dependent on man's energy, 446, 14;
due to grumblers, 549, 2;
human, great steps in, not due to reason, 521, 46;
no pause in, 292, 6;
no, retrogression, 150, 5;
no, with half a will, 12, 53;
no, without grumbling, 566, 42;
often backward, 72, 43;
often illusory, 273, 28;
or retrogression, 10, 31;
social, a degeneracy, 17, 2;
symbolised by burning of Phœnix, 106, 20;
the secret of, 312, 24;
steps of, 94, 9;
when we make most, 330, 30; 333, 22
=Prohibition=, as a charm, 225, 7
=Projecting= to accomplishing, a long road, 232, 53
=Prometheus=, fire of, dangerous to handle, 267, 3;
rather than Epimetheus, 221, 34
=Prometheus Vinctus=, the unregenerate, the misery of, 496, 15
=Promise=, a debt, 17, 3; 152, 6;
a gift, 495, 7;
a, unfulfilled, 473, 1;
a, we may trust, 501, 8;
and performance, 10, 20;
disappointment of, 161, 36;
given and broken, 449, 34;
_versus_ performance, 14, 15
=Promised Land=, the, 449, 35
=Promises=, extravagant, 148, 10;
lavish, evil of, 231, 26
=Promising=, and fulfilling, between, 570, 9;
and hoping, 357, 60;
and performing, rule in, 528, 3;
at death, 566, 9;
slow in, faithful in performing, 151, 12
=Propensities=, evil, subduable, 301, 44
=Propensity=, natural, stubborn, 541, 8
=Proper= and honourable, inseparable, 56, 41
=Property=, bequest of, 547, 18;
defined by Proudhon, 227, 19;
got dishonestly, fate of, 58, 13;
ill got, 261, 11, 12;
in others, right of, 527, 42;
our own, small, 521, 3;
parting with, before death, 152, 3;
pleasure in, how spoiled, 312, 10;
right of, 289, 14;
right to, and the sanction, 306, 48;
right to, Xenophon on, 480, 31;
who should hold, 479, 22
=Prophecies=, belief in, most pernicious of superstitions, 324, 39
=Prophecy=, our gift of, whence, 522, 8;
voice of, 461, 7;
wisely denied us, 122, 35
=Prophet=, a, not less a man, 127, 56;
among every people, 93, 43;
distinguished from poet, 449, 46;
not honoured at home, 17, 5;
to every people, 125, 54
=Prophets=, armed and unarmed, 10, 37;
false, 29, 68; 560, 29;
the art of, 287, 6;
the teaching of all, 220, 5;
unconscious, all, 520, 43
=Propriety= sacrificed to pleasure, 289, 27
=Prose=, and verse, difference between writing, 497, 7;
of seventeenth century, 339, 2;
speaking, without knowing it, 99, 50; 181, 23;
writer, ranked as sage, 202, 25;
writing, ancient and modern, 445, 31
=Proselytes=, man's pleasure in making, 262, 30
=Proselytising=, a natural ambition, 494, 21
=Prosperity=, a comparison, 395, 16;
and friendship, 227, 21;
behaviour in, 89, 11;
condition of beholding, 302, 53;
continuous, hard to bear, 94, 28;
different effects of, 171, 32;
effect of, on temper, 104, 18;
effect of sudden, 259, 15;
forgetful, 224, 24;
in our own hands, 277, 29;
its attendant languor, 471, 24;
man's, the secret of, 302, 49;
moral effect of, 258, 12;
national, incompatible with national poverty, 334, 9;
no, above discouragement, 303, 38;
no, by falsehood, 302, 49;
no, enjoyable without adversity, 303, 44;
of another, to rejoice in, 495, 17;
past, memory of, 110, 31;
road to, 140, 34;
temper in, 5, 13;
the rule for, 189, 22;
to one unaffected by adversity, 390, 20;
unhinging, 295, 38;
virtue of, 460, 42
=Protestantism=, effect of, on the character, 37, 1;
modern, and the cross, 281, 30
=Protestation=, to be distrusted, 265, 14
=Protesting=, evil of, 423, 37
=Proud=, man, in authority, 33, 15;
man, in the eye of angels, 324, 35;
inwardly a beggar, 414, 6;
man, often mean, 449, 49;
the, appeal to, 409, 28;
the, compared with the vain, 511, 3;
the, their affectation, 50, 32;
the, their humiliation, 455, 25;
the truly, 440, 36;
thought for the, 111, 41
=Proudhon's= ideal of society, 288, 5
=Proverb=, defined, 17, 8;
described, 17, 9;
good, ingredients of, 386, 48;
Lord J. Russell's definition of, 463, 33;
the spiritual force of, 476, 13
=Proverbial= sayings, 467, 35
=Proverbs=, convincing power of, 415, 9;
of the wise to be studied, 62, 26;
significance of, 429, 49;
William Penn on, 462, 28
=Providence=, a frowning, 27, 8;
an inference from history, 291, 2;
and an inert people, 486, 24;
and one's wish, 566, 41;
and things as they are, 168, 5;
faith in, not to slacken effort, 550, 27;
faith of men of thought, 284, 12;
God's, the measure of, 128, 6;
no freezing, 301, 56;
those who watch, 480, 22;
to be trusted 390, 14;
trust in, Mahomet on, 486, 17;
watching, 148, 57;
ways of, our knowledge of, 207, 22;
with the intelligent, 128, 13
=Prudence=, a guardian angel, 318, 29, 30;
a virtue of old age, 411, 44;
and fortune, 202, 54;
as guide, 65, 12;
contrasted with genius, 120, 9;
defeated by tenderness, 450, 4;
defined, 113, 12; 432, 27;
from time, 486, 38;
in matters of, the rule, 187, 58;
the first to forsake the wretched, 280, 28;
the one, 445, 39;
the part of, 450, 5;
the sanctuary of, 382, 20;
want of, 518, 33
=Prudent=, favoured by chance, 39, 39;
man and his time, 431, 24;
people, how they profit, 37, 17
=Psyche's= one word, 453, 47
=Public=, as judges, 569, 42;
as master, 152, 18;
as patrons of genius, characterised, 139, 10;
calamity, the chief, 485, 8;
composition of, 234, 39;
how caught, 330, 42;
men, wise character of, 359, 27;
opinion, hard to defy, 277, 14;
opinion without a sovereign, 449, 23;
servant to, poor animals, 151, 19;
spirit, ages of, 415, 42;
the, described, 54, 22;
the judgment of, 295, 32;
the sayings about, 450, 7-12;
the servant of, 42, 26;
who serves, 554, 23
=Pudding=, cold and love, 44, 27
=Pulpit=, teaching of, and training of the marketplace, 450, 13;
whose voice reaches farthest, 324, 38
=Punctuality=, and kings, 223, 12;
important, 80, 4;
Nelson's, 166, 35;
strict, the virtue of, 403, 37
=Punishment=, and crime, 51, 5 (see Crime);
benefit of, 330, 24;
by the laws, 438, 29;
contrasted with forgiveness, 277, 55;
corporeal and pecuniary, 329, 4;
dreaded and deserved, 126, 52;
for one's own actions, 430, 24;
injustice in, compensated, 138, 6;
rule in, 318, 2;
sayings about, 450, 14, 15;
the greatest, 356, 48; 473, 3;
the rudest, 473, 21;
unfailing, 368, 11
=Punsters=, Holmes on, 345, 9
=Pupil= often outstrips master, 325, 41
=Purchase=, the time to, 76, 29
=Pure=, the, a characteristic of, 541, 4;
heart, God's throne, 403, 8
=Pureness=, Goethe's prayer for, 271, 28
=Purgation=, now rather than hereafter, 200, 21
=Puritans=, the, and their work, 479, 7;
their legacy to the world, 539, 3
=Purity=, and simplicity, 392, 9;
of aim, attainment of, 154, 34;
only from purity, 5, 52;
the, required, 495, 41
=Purpose=, fixed, necessity of, 222, 8;
increasing, through the ages, 564, 37;
of things, question unscientific, 450, 30;
one, at a time, 177, 12;
prosecution of, 112, 51;
single, value of, 462, 3;
steadfastness of, 530, 3;
to be followed by deed, 428, 47;
when in one's power, to be carried out, 546, 15
=Purposes=, effect of, on the mind, 442, 17;
good, in churchyard, 269, 4;
how often broken, 539, 23;
wrecked, cause of, 207, 5
=Purse=, a beggar's, 1, 19;
a common, effect of having, 546, 25;
as a friend, 63, 53;
full of other men's money, 413, 21;
in the head, 171, 14;
man who has lost, 169, 36;
the, its importance, 450, 19;
who steals my, 552, 37
=Purses= among friends 124, 12
=Pursuit=, enchantment of, 206, 8;
the pleasure of, 10, 57
=Pushing= man, deference to, 525, 37
=Pyramid=, two that reach the top of, 469, 2
=Pyramids=, antiquity of, 73, 46;
the, 450, 20
=Pyrenees=, no longer any, 180, 23
Q
=Quack= talent, the two sources of, 459, 29
=Qualities=, bad, akin to good, 88, 24;
natural, superiority of, 444, 33;
that ruin, rather than raise, 407, 30;
too high, inconvenience of, 497, 32
=Quarrel=, pretext for, easily found, 177, 20;
proneness to, 484, 2
=Quarrelling=, and both feeling in the wrong, 276, 40;
blame of, 52, 22;
no time for, 422, 42;
with ourselves, 522, 19
=Quarrels=, entrance to, 29, 67;
how to prevent, 504, 10;
others', meddling with, 148, 2; 145, 20;
why prolonged, 239, 22
=Question=, test of a man in answering, 489, 34;
the vexing, 518, 25
=Questioning=, much, effect of, 552, 22;
prudent, value of, 359, 24;
the value of, 148, 12
=Questionings=, curious, 274, 3
=Questions=, old vexed, now sorrowfully solving themselves, 327, 20;
test of a man, 214, 38;
when to answer, 207, 10
=Quickness=, evil of too much, 559, 7
=Quotation=, a fine, 5, 46;
classical, 43, 48;
justified, 168, 20;
the value of, 462, 29
=Quotations=, Burns' fancy for, 168, 15
R
=Rabble=, the supreme powers, 109, 14
=Rabelais'= last words, 210, 36
=Race=, a humble, how ennobled, 131, 3;
always moving, 436, 28;
not hybrids, respected by Nature, 292, 20
=Races=, growing effeminacy of, 239, 23
=Rage=, how to treat, 335, 51;
of love turned to hatred, 154, 3
=Rags=, disgraceful, 277, 41
=Railway= travelling, Ruskin's estimate of, 128, 25
=Rain=, continual, effect of, on blossoms, 320, 4
=Rainbow= as a sign, 450, 33
=Rainy= day, for unlearned, 165, 49
=Rake= at another's expense, 281, 3
=Rank=, but the guinea's stamp, 109, 16;
concern about, 467, 34;
high, a burden, 132, 45;
not happiness, 209, 14;
vanity of, 490, 43
=Raphael=, Lessing on, 367, 55
=Rare=, the, seldom forgotten, 319, 5
=Rascal=, putting, to confusion, 297, 44
=Rascals=, how to diminish, 260, 48
=Rash=, none, when not seen, 311, 11
=Rashness=, a fault of youth, 411, 44;
discouraged, 4, 68;
effect of, 394, 13;
effect of, on business, 141, 5
=Rational=, and real, 520, 20;
compared with beautiful, 331, 48
=Raven=, brought up, still a raven, 80, 25
=Read=, how to, with profit, 303, 21;
things to, 368, 49
=Read=, not, not written, 310, 37;
who has, little, 171, 24
=Reader=, a good, 489, 2;
and author, 240, 2;
and the book he reads, 93, 55;
good, rare, 6, 52;
how to interest a, 299, 5
=Readers=, busy, 32, 62
=Reading=, a benefit to few, 469, 6;
a rule for, 297, 18;
advice in regard to, 208, 15;
advices on, 369, 1, 2;
as an entertainment, 301, 38;
counsels for, 235, 45;
experiment in, 502, 45;
harmful to fools, 540, 35;
how to profit from, 175, 19;
idling, 212, 26;
importance of, 565, 24;
John Morley on, 433, 1;
miscellaneous, to be avoided, 280, 19;
mistake about, 483, 37;
much, effect of, 285, 23;
much, Hobbes on, 172, 37;
much, the moral effect of, compared with seeing, 12, 50;
object of, 445, 18;
frequent, not enough, 198, 35;
rule for, 528, 5;
the most pleasant and profitable, 30, 21;
the object of, 368, 50;
to doubt or scorn, 14, 39; 139, 34;
twice, the benefit of, 537, 28;
value of, 77, 7;
what is not worth, twice, 536, 43;
without reflecting, 495, 11;
worst kind of, 17, 56
=Real=, and Ideal far apart, 115, 33;
as contrasted with possible, 234, 40;
man, a, defined by Mencius, 153, 9;
rational, 520, 20;
the, for ever, 219, 54;
the, how to measure, 271, 43;
the, to be idealised, 539, 33
=Realities=, hard to discern, 391, 26
=Reality=, always nobler than fancy, 90, 49;
and fancy, the provinces of, 101, 48;
and imagination, the worlds of, 465, 7;
behind appearances, 481, 34;
better than imagination, 14, 14;
importance of, 205, 21;
_minus_ appearance, 61, 23;
only, supportable, 316, 18;
the only, 482, 12;
the product of, how to regard, 241, 47;
truth of, why unrecognised, 105, 12
=Reaping=, more difficult than sowing, 495, 45;
the rule in, 510, 28
=Reason=, a misuse of, 207, 18;
a rare guide, 162, 20;
against a crowd with stones, 535, 37;
agreeableness to, as a test, 298, 19;
and contingency, 462, 1;
and knowledge, 513, 10;
and necessity, 462, 1;
and instinct contrasted, 172, 46;
and piety, to be combined, 526, 39;
and prudence, in conduct, 241, 44;
and religion, 372, 6;
and spirit, two aspects of one thing, 414, 37;
and understanding, objects of, 67, 2;
being without, 491, 2;
compared with fancy, 526, 20;
elevating power of, 68, 20;
every man's, his oracle, 92, 42, 44;
functions of, 329, 43; 504, 2;
its rank, 435, 4;
like drunk man on horseback, 163, 29;
like sweet bells jangled, 317, 38;
loss compared with deprivation of, 458, 15;
misapplied, 468, 22;
no, upon compulsion, 123, 38;
not to fust unused, 407, 29;
once passion, 537, 4;
origin of, 102, 3;
our chart, 46, 35;
our delight in, abuse of, 337, 37;
relation of, to revelation, 375, 12;
sacredness of, 148, 33;
service under, advantage of, 152, 19;
sound and sufficient, the lot of few, 400, 22;
sovereign with the noble, 15, 52;
the function of, Cicero on, 368, 31;
the pilot, 239, 15;
the use of, 53, 39;
those who have no, 127, 6;
true, its power, 500, 36;
truths of, not dependent on facts, 421, 32;
_versus_ blind force, 350, 24;
_versus_ faith, 20, 20;
without the light of divine truth, 352, 6;
worse appear better, 157, 15, 16
=Reasonable=, or unreasonable, asking what is, 194, 33;
the, open to every one, 217, 7
=Reasoner=, a wise, 551, 7
=Reasoning= mule, obstinacy of, 17, 41
=Reasons=, nothing to the chaff, 133, 5;
our own, our satisfaction in, 331, 4;
strong, effect of, 404, 8
=Rebellion=, no equity under, 471, 37
=Rebels=, treatment of, 47, 38
=Reckoning=, when banquet's o'er, 394, 48;
without host, 41, 21
=Reckonings=, short, 389, 31
=Recollection=, a happy, 505, 39;
inferior to pertinency, 139, 14
=Recompense=, 381, 19;
Fénelon on his, 284, 18;
rule of, 21, 19
=Reconciliation=, desire for, as a prognostic, 238, 30
=Recreation=, necessity of, 111, 12
=Redress=, the surest way to, 456, 30
=Refined= man, characteristic of, 452, 12
=Refinement=, what contributes to, 540, 34
=Reflection=, commentary on experience, 97, 28;
noble, 34, 19;
they who practise not, 479, 21;
value of, 77, 7
=Reform=, evil of unsuccessful attempts at, 22, 10;
not joyous, but grievous, 305, 28
=Reformation=, attended by a great licentiousness, 6, 67;
salve of, in ignorance of the sore, 452, 23;
the, egg of, 84, 24;
the only solid, 495, 15;
unconscious, 528, 9
=Reformers=, error of our, 206, 17
=Reforming= a world or a nation, 495, 15
=Reforms=, great, negative as well as positive, 91, 19;
history of, 435, 20;
how far effective, 9, 59;
necessary, how helped, 127, 8;
our, not radical, 539, 22
=Refusal=, a friendly, 28, 30;
less than nothing, 17, 46
=Refusing=, in, the "no" only heard, 266, 1
=Regard=, how to win, 42, 13
=Regeneration= accompanied with travail, 12, 7
=Regimenting= men, importance of, 202, 44
=Regret=, no, no amendment, 147, 38
=Reign=, to, worth ambition, 495, 16
=Rejected= of man, accepted of God, 112, 1
=Relations=, hard to discern, 391, 26;
hatred among, 2, 53;
our, character of, 339, 9;
our, and our friends', how chosen, 339, 10
=Relationships=, one's, requirement in, 10, 28
=Relatives=, by chance, 235, 16
=Religion=, a bigotry, 524, 29;
a cloak, 165, 5;
a fruit of time, 486, 32;
a God, 398, 40;
a necessity to great minds, 76, 27;
a new, not the thing wanted, 297, 31;
and liberty in Catholic and Protestant countries, 185, 23;
and love, strength of, 253, 48;
and morality, divorce between, 427, 18;
and wise
men, 11, 5;
anything but living for, 277, 17;
characteristic of, 64, 8;
Cicero's definition of, 216, 30;
contrasted with beliefs, 85, 38;
contrasted with morality, 467, 13;
contrasted with superstition, 407, 6, 7, 12, 13;
dead letter of, fate of, 422, 44;
defined, 537, 5;
definition and power of, 452, 45;
dependence of, on prayer, 306, 43;
display of, 547, 21;
disputing about and practising, 423, 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
essential to education, 77, 4;
effect of, 489, 8;
effect of first sense of, 2, 56;
effect of too deep study of, 497, 36;
errors in, 464, 43;
errors in, sanction of, 189, 34;
essence of all, 425, 34;
every established, once a heresy, 90, 43;
fancy in, 101, 51;
felt as a slavery, 12, 47;
first object, whole object, 151, 44;
first element in, 379, 8;
flower of, when perfect, 447, 24;
Frederick the Great on, 174, 48;
from habit, 398, 37;
fruit of age, 536, 16;
gentilising power of, 566, 28;
heartfelt, the source of all, 392, 31;
how to persuade men to, 553, 33;
in relation to art, 18, 50;
inconsistency of our zeal for, 197, 10;
indispensable to society, 307, 14;
living, root of, 252, 6;
made secondary, 541, 7;
matter of feeling, 121, 43;
Monday, 282, 27;
mongers, and their dupes, 284, 36;
much, no goodness, 285, 24;
much profession in, 189, 32;
murdered by bigotry, 30, 18;
national, now no test of a people, 306, 36;
no living, till dead own itself dead, 106, 54;
no teaching, without having, 305, 43;
no, without humanity, 142, 44;
not credited, excesses for, 496, 43;
not professed, 538, 25;
of all sensible people, 168, 27;
of one age in the next, 451, 10;
of present time, 114, 22;
only guide of life, 549, 42;
only one true, 476, 19;
origin of, in society, 340, 20;
our abuse of, 339, 13;
our, and treasure to be one, 508, 4;
our, Emerson on, 339, 12;
power of, 174, 44;
rooted in fear, 188, 17;
soul of, 100, 18;
sum of, 493, 15;
sympathy with Nature, 408, 43;
talk against, suspicious, 547, 28;
temple-step of, 456, 5;
the all in, 189, 33;
the only foundation of, 189, 36;
the performance of duty, 375, 29;
though undefined, no chimæra, 138, 34;
to be one's own, 240, 37, 38;
too hard, 497, 30;
true, 500, 31-33;
true, object of, 445, 21;
upon mere authority, 493, 14;
vestibule of, 283, 17;
vital, first condition of, 481, 44;
with suffering, no wonder, 203, 28;
without morality, 305, 11; 522, 39;
without personal immortality, 559, 21
=Religions=, all once true, 451, 12;
Goethe's three, 468, 28;
of world, 451, 11;
only two possible, 466, 27;
the essence of all true, 375, 28;
the genesis of, 372, 34;
transient, but not religious sense, 333, 42
=Religious=, a, not less a man, 7, 26;
enthusiasm, hollowness of, 215, 26;
men at their beads, 543, 39;
passion, the, and art, 451, 13;
principles, Hume on, 96, 1;
revival, the ground on which to hope for, 422, 44
=Religiousness=, true, condition of, 357, 12
=Relish= in one's self, 310, 1
=Remedies=, extreme, for extreme evils, 98, 9;
imaginary, for imaginary diseases, 269, 30;
our, in ourselves, 339, 13;
sayings about, 470, 23;
slower than diseases, 410, 51
=Remedy=, of remedies, 514, 14;
where sure, 504, 30;
worse than disease, 5, 2
=Remembrance= our inalienable paradise, 64, 13
=Reminding= may cause forgetting, 273, 9
=Remorse=, as punishment, 473, 21;
not imaginary, 10, 13
=Removals=, quick, 365, 8
=Renounce=, who needs not, 161, 19
=Rent=, to pay, plough or not, 17, 50
=Renunciation=, a life-long demand, 483, 41;
effect of, 237, 40;
essential to happiness, 217, 6;
importance of, 205, 30
=Repentance=, a deathbed, 4, 6; 55, 37;
a vain, 142, 52;
act of, the virtue in, 414, 7;
daughter of the skies, 44, 43;
man not satisfied with, 550, 43;
man's virtue, 66, 40;
our glory, 338, 8;
pain of, 446, 37;
true, 500, 34, 35;
with amendment rare, 117, 28
=Repetition=, the effect of, 171, 47
=Reports=, evil, belief in, 307, 1
=Repose=, a well-earned, 399, 15;
agitating effect of our love of, 197, 9;
not finding, complaint of, 274, 46;
of mind, a specific for, 229, 17;
shameful, evil of, 344, 31;
the beginning of, 425, 10;
through equipoise, 103, 46
=Reproach=, only defence against, 472, 23
=Reproaches=, best revenge of, 567, 43
=Reproof=, effect of, that hits a sore place, 398, 41;
how to administer, 374, 3;
of kings, 107, 26
=Republic=, contrasted with monarchy, 282, 25;
necessity for, 515, 10;
the want of a, 109, 13;
Ruskin's definition of, 17, 49
=Republics=, how ruined, 239, 24
=Reputation=, a, dies at every word, 21, 40;
a great, Napoleon on, 7, 4;
a high, responsibility of, 434, 31;
a sinking, sign of, 199, 16;
blaze of, 418, 35;
different from esteem, 87, 6;
life on, prospective, 161, 44;
like a man's shadow, 227, 28;
loss of, 101, 7, 8; 305, 2;
man's esteem for, 266, 12;
of others, as a support, 280, 30;
sayings about, 451, 14-16;
spotless, its value, 450, 18;
the bubble, 211, 30
=Resentment=, Burns on, 340, 17;
concealed, 196, 40;
not to stain innocence, 402, 10;
of a poor man, 451, 17;
to be restrained, 243, 43
=Resentments=, quick, 365, 9
=Reserve=, commended, 205, 39;
effect of, on character, 443, 38
=Resetter= as bad as thief, 24, 9
=Resignation=, difficult, 161, 29;
under unjust suffering, 237, 33
=Resistance=, spirit of, innate, 470, 30
=Resisted=, what it is to be, 333, 12
=Resolution=, acting with, 362, 10;
bad, effect of, 201, 10;
dauntless spirit of, 28, 35;
ebbing, 109, 28;
fate of authors of, 483, 10;
help in need, 97, 39;
native hue of, 485, 46;
one's, to be kept secret, 297, 5;
power of, 15, 34; 237, 21;
road to, 452, 3;
steadfast, effect of, 92, 3
=Resolutions=, first, most honest, 107, 1;
good, 356, 3;
hasty, 141, 10;
our, frail, 337, 15;
sudden, 406, 3
=Resolve=, built on reason, 330, 45;
the feeble, despicable, 166, 36
=Respect=, at a distance, 260, 6;
for others, condition of, 474, 11;
lost only with loss of self-respect, 305, 38;
the alone worthy of, 142, 4;
to all and sundry, a risk, 549, 7
=Respectability=, how earned, 274, 19
=Responsibility=, for acts, 34, 29;
not affected by ignorance, 448, 2
=Respectable= people, world-made, 292, 9
=Rest=, a man's, 278, 26; a, that remaineth, 477, 27;
after all difficulty, 504, 16;
and unrest, 378, 23;
condition of, 378, 33;
effect of, 368, 17, 18;
how found in this world, 325, 8;
how to find, 567, 41;
in grave, 182, 29;
our, not to be the rest of stones, 243, 28;
peculiar to the spirit, 246, 44;
perfect, not to be found, 155, 18;
the secret of, 242, 33;
the only, worth anything, 307, 2;
too much, effect of, 497, 44, 45
=Restlessness=, as a motive, 399, 1;
man's, accounted for, 536, 21;
no wisdom where, 473, 32
=Restraint=, a necessity, 212, 7;
by arbitrary power, 207, 28;
_versus_ liberty, 202, 26
=Results=, contrasted with details, 547, 40;
great, of slow achievement, 135, 1
=Resurrection=, the, promise of, 338, 30
=Reticence=, value of, 145, 37
=Retirement=, good for the soul, 59, 27;
love of, an extra sense, 153, 3
=Retribution=, divine, 125, 23, 30
=Retrogression=, no, 116, 2
=Retrospect=, pleasing, 27, 9
=Revelation=, and religion, 372, 1;
and sense to see it, 463, 22;
defined, 434, 38;
independent of our seeking, 481, 18;
mistake about, 275, 13;
of God, the only, 428, 46;
only steady guide, 34, 50;
the only, 85, 32;
the sole medium of divine grace, 538, 11
=Revelations=, two, necessary to society, 396, 13
=Revenge=, and pleasure, their ears, 349, 31;
best, 252, 7; 492, 30;
most heroic, 307, 3;
sense of, 512, 8;
sign of weak mind, 280, 4;
study of, folly, 148, 32;
taking and passing over, 190, 7;
to the rude man, 22, 19
=Reverence=, a central law, 215, 48;
a supernatural sense, 262, 12;
and fear contrasted, 492, 21;
and love, objects respectively of, 110, 21;
as an element in thought, 484, 6;
compared with fear, 291, 43;
due to gods, 58, 41;
not innate, and its importance, 334, 21;
the first object, 21, 29;
to herald knowledge, 260, 28;
value of, 189, 37;
with knowledge, 241, 24
=Reverie=, losing one's self in, 494, 12;
under reflection, 371, 4
=Revolt=, the promoters of, 335, 13
=Revolution=, and its martyrs, 549, 38;
by whose fault it arises, 7, 5;
dangerous classes in a, 344, 51;
French, meaning of, 429, 25;
French, described, 122, 4;
modern, merely dissolution, 281, 31
=Revolutions=, aim of all, 440, 26;
cause of, 451, 22;
fear herald of, 103, 39;
great, as movements, 135, 2;
great, cause of, 431, 13
=Rewarding=, rule in, 203, 32
=Rhetoric=, for, he could not ope, 111, 1;
god of, ceased from, 546, 36;
spiritual, the law of, 241, 16;
two rules of, 459, 24;
use of rules of, 109, 6
=Rhyme=, excellence in, a defect often in, 411, 32;
the powerful, enduring power of, 312, 43;
rudder of verses, 111, 2;
without purpose or thought, 235, 43
=Rhythm=, enchanting power of, 38, 13
=Rich=, art of getting, 530, 27;
business of, 119, 11;
dependence of, 431, 10;
ghost of the, and his wealth, 299, 39;
hastening to be, 147, 55;
how to become, 136, 43; 171, 26;
making, or poor, 477, 4;
man, a, 211, 19;
man, a, that is great, 414, 6;
man, according to Emerson, 143, 53, 54;
man, ready made, 208, 47;
man, the only, 144, 52;
man who is, 304, 12;
man's happiness, 528, 12;
men, weary of themselves, 237, 24;
mistake to seem, 265, 15;
none, by himself, 306, 12;
none so, as he should be, 304, 49;
not to be flattered, 107, 19;
partnership of poor with, risky, 99, 1;
secrets of, can't be kept, 320, 11;
that shall come to want, 148, 7;
the, benefactors to, 513, 27;
the, discontent of, 110, 35;
the right to be, 308, 24;
the, sayings about, 70, 1-3; 451, 24-32;
the truly, 19, 21;
what it is to be, 490, 37;
what makes us, 191, 42;
who would grow, 41, 29
=Richard's= himself again, 154, 46
=Richelieu=, Corneille, on, 360, 43;
on his deathbed, 211, 1
=Riches=, a bar to felicity, 161, 30;
a burden unloaded by death, 175, 4;
a test of a man, 14, 46;
accessible to man of common sense, 440, 25;
acquisition of, no end to misery, 286, 14;
affected despite of, 269, 43;
all, from heaven, 219, 51;
as a good, 18, 17;
as excluding from heaven, 204, 22;
baggage, 165, 21;
best effect of, 237, 24;
cause of ennui, 173, 40;
chains, 307, 52;
dependent on poverty, 171, 43;
fascination of, 74, 13;
fatal to happiness, 160, 48;
first approach to, 428, 4;
great, only by taxing labour of others, 303, 9;
great, sole use of, 325, 2;
great, source of all, 405, 27;
grow in hell, 242, 7;
how dispensed, 338, 29;
how to acquire, 243, 10;
how to increase, 140, 3;
incentives to evil, 77, 36;
Jean Paul's contempt for, 169, 24;
mistakes about, 128, 27;
motive in coveting, 97, 47;
never enough increased, 183, 53;
no guarantee for digestion, 174, 30;
passion for, restlessness of, 257, 43;
power of, 70, 14; 530, 20;
profession without possession of, 449, 33;
real, 17, 4; 358, 4;
the greatest, 474, 14;
true, how procured, 359, 4;
unenjoyed, 175, 28;
we can and cannot carry, 281, 21;
who delights in accumulating, 151, 2;
who has enough, 20, 24
=Richest=, man, the, 143, 45; 406, 35
=Rider=, a good, on good horse, 6, 53
=Ridicule=, if instructive, bearable, 166, 27;
settling power of, 376, 43;
that benefits, 29, 45;
the test of, 369, 38;
unbearable, 331, 43
=Ridiculous=, appreciation of, test of a man, 34, 8;
being, hard to avoid, 202, 45;
easy to recognise, 496, 34;
from affectation, 330, 7;
how we become most, 521, 38;
sense of, dependent on intellect, 61, 30;
sense of, test of character, 276, 31;
side, our, 522, 10;
step from, to sublime, 334, 12
=Right=, and might identical, 279, 12; 184, 30;
and wrong, Goethe's test of, 306, 16;
as founded on possession, 27, 22;
assertion of, 211, 12;
at whatever cost, 71, 51;
before might, 370, 23;
champions for, 92, 32;
consciousness of, 150, 22;
divine, divine might, 70, 10;
following, as right, 386, 13;
Hobbes on, 215, 18;
how to assume one's, 368, 23;
keep to the, 548, 30;
knowledge of, enough, 171, 20;
man, the, 59, 47;
of man, first, 490, 19;
of man, most indisputable, 324, 30;
of slow attainment, 567, 15;
power of, 12, 1;
sometimes in abeyance, 71, 52;
sure to win, 111, 3;
that is born with us, 517, 23;
the, and no fear, 170, 12;
the one thing to be done, 485, 43;
the, to be anxious about, 455, 23;
to look into blots of, 167, 13;
way, how never to miss, 58, 46;
with the strongest, 233, 26
=Right-about-face=, a brave word, 32, 54
=Right-doing=, the key to, 177, 11
=Righteous= man, mercy of, 18, 1
=Righteousness=, effect of, 424, 39;
fruit of, 429, 32;
overmuch condemned, 28, 15
=Righting=, of things in time, 480, 48;
one's self without right, 315, 22
=Rights=, how forfeited, 96, 44;
of men not worth discussing, 451, 44;
permanence of, 85, 26;
transmitted, 231, 43
=Rigour= often less effective than lenity, 237, 35
=Ring= gone, but not finger, 166, 48
=Rings=, uses of, 61, 20
=Ripe= moment, the, to be seized, 4, 1
=Ripeness=, all, 275, 37
=Rising=, in the world, rapid, how to esteem, 276, 39;
sun, homage paid to, 272, 19
=Risk=, the charm of, 94, 36;
to be run to save all, 9, 4
=Rivalry=, effect of, on talent, 194, 8;
foiled, effect of, 542, 21
=River=, a, a guide, 513, 45;
brink of that mighty, 103, 45;
every, leads to the sea, 108, 14
=River-courses=, the great, 431, 33
=Rivers=, roads, 239, 25
=Road=, a long, 48, 22;
any, a world-highway, 16, 18;
common, safe, 217, 28;
good, and wise traveller, different, 6, 54;
how to make long, short, 474, 16;
every, leads to an inn, 108, 15;
right in the end, 212, 14;
the, who knows, 42, 24
=Robb'd=, yet not robb'd, 147, 17
=Robert= of Doncaster's epitaph, 535, 31
=Rocks=, lessons they teach, 523, 35
=Rod=, the, sparing, 148, 24
=Rogue=, a, defined, 18, 20;
resemblance of, to honest man, 377, 5
=Rogues=, not always punished, 85, 35;
not to be pitied, 177, 6
=Roman= citizen, Cicero on punishing, 198, 31
=Romance=, age of, transition into that of science, 431, 5;
ages of, 300, 40;
everywhere, 90, 55; 191, 1;
the only, for grown-up persons, 446, 5
=Romances= compared with history, 255, 10
=Romans=, Emerson on, 335, 8
=Romantic=, the, contrasted with the classical, 43, 49;
the, defined, 452, 7
=Rome=, Augustus Cæsar's boast in regard to, 509, 23;
better first elsewhere than second in, 166, 22
=Rooks=, how to get rid of, 68, 31
=Room=, ample, and verge enough, 122, 51;
the, required, 368, 38
=Root=, condition of taking, 488, 13
=Rose=, brief life of, 505, 42;
scent of, enough, 61, 21
=Rosebuds=, gather, while ye may, 118, 56
=Roses=, contrasted, 33, 5;
who would gather, 152, 53
=Roughness=, effect of, 387, 54
=Rousseau=, Joubert on pathos of, 178, 53
=Rousseau's= last words, 210, 37
=Routine=, cramping to life, 437, 39;
fatal effect of, 423, 43
=Roving=, profitlessness of, 218, 30
=Rude=, breast, not without inspiration, 22, 32;
man, the, characteristic of, 452, 12
=Rudder=, or rock, 152, 43; 460, 33
=Ruin=, going to, 128, 26;
how the gods bring about, 363, 4;
how we come to, 346, 21;
of everything, source of, 206, 44;
of men, 276, 36;
source of our, 522, 15;
sources of, 568, 36;
the broad road to, 69, 29;
the road to, 452, 4;
what underlies all, 506, 22
=Ruins=, grey, beams of day on, 111, 16;
no cause to mourn over, 311, 44
=Rule=, how to, 364, 11;
the desire to, 51, 34;
the sovereign, 297, 48;
what can and cannot, 301, 35
=Ruler=, a, friendless, 320, 21;
a good, test of, 305, 50;
as such, 17, 35;
duty of, 390, 19;
positive and negative qualifications of, 153, 1;
qualification of, 148, 14;
quality in a, 324, 10;
test of a, 181, 37;
to regard his people's voice, 389, 35
=Rulers=, limit of their authority, 239, 1;
many, not good, 337, 2
=Ruling=, art of, 431, 11;
men, and amusing them different, 8, 8;
passion, power of, 452, 14;
safe, the condition of, 303, 28;
the art of arts, 218, 20
=Rumour=, growth of, 101, 5;
often converse of truth, 233, 9;
spread of, 281, 14
=Running=, the, not enough, 39, 10;
vain, if on wrong road, 519, 26
=Ruskin= on his teachings, 559, 11
=Rust=, foul cankering, 113, 56
=Rutland=, Countess of, epitaph of, 506, 30
S
=Sabbath=, Christ's saying on, 452, 16;
ordainer of, pity in, 151, 51;
profaned, no gain, 316, 52
=Sack=, bad, 37, 5;
empty, 79, 23
=Sackcloth=, what underlies, 506, 25
=Sacrament=, received, a benefit, 152, 8
=Sacrifice=, a duty, 185, 38;
a sick man's, 19, 24;
a sorrowful, 440, 7;
as duty and necessity, effect of, 395, 23;
in the eyes of God, 491, 42;
necessary to realisation of idea, 302, 34;
of less for greater, 332, 61
=Sacrifices=, in little things, hard, 522, 43;
our, passive, 339, 14
=Sad=, man, not friend, 260, 30;
the, disliked by gay, 324, 5;
when has cause, 165, 22
=Saddest= thing, the, 443, 46
=Sadness=, a mark of goodness, 475, 20;
deep, 514, 34;
enjoyment in, 471, 23;
soul's poison, 118, 17
=Safety=, the only, 397, 5;
the parent of, 37, 15
=Sagacious= man contrasted with a wise, 566, 36
=Sage=, a, defined, 18, 54;
a true, a world-pupil, 143, 11;
how regarded, 233, 7;
test of a, 478, 51;
why esteemed by world, 210, 45
=Sages=, ancient, aim of, 208, 27
=Sailing= without wind, 209, 2
=Sailor=, a disgrace to, 35, 10;
first, daring of, 182, 14;
heart of, 34, 17
=Saint=, peasant, toiling for bread and light, 405, 19;
run mad, 111, 36;
seeming, not to be trusted, 501, 18
=Sainthood=, questionable, 476, 31
=Saints=, a communion of, for all who have faith, 483, 27;
a living communion of, 470, 4;
God's triumph over, 385, 14;
living and dead, different treatment of, 461, 24
=Salvation=, a dubious, offering, 73, 31;
according to Plato, 216, 22;
all alone, misery, 200, 16;
by human means, 430, 23;
first step in, 194, 27;
no, in the course of justice, 484, 17;
only road to, 444, 40;
things that tend to our, 457, 26
=Samaritan=, the good, doing, 564, 32
=Same=, the, everywhere, 39, 9
=Samson's= riddle, 340, 13
=Sanctity=, the root of, 452, 9
=Sanctuary=, shall we raze, 141, 49
=Sand=, no grain of, unpeopled, 302, 12
=Sanity=, a test of, 191, 36;
how preserved, 314, 20;
perfect, exceptional, 304, 11
=Saracens=, Emerson on, 335, 8
=Sarcasm=, the sting in, 416, 19
"=Sartor Resartus=," two main ideas of, 263, 15
=Satan=, finds mischief, 192, 36
=Satiety=, as reformer, 294, 16;
fulness of, a curse, 397, 43
=Satire=, and poverty, 354, 25;
general and personal, 187, 1;
hard to suppress, 67, 29;
truthful, effect of, 20, 12
=Satires= and lampoons, written with wit and spirit, 229, 23
=Satirical= vein, danger of, 146, 42
=Satisfaction=, effect of, 93, 57
=Satisfied=, and dissatisfied, different conduct of, 482, 51;
well, 144, 1
=Sauce=, the best, 336, 1
=Savage=, civilised, worst, 59, 46;
noble, 164, 35
=Saved= once, saved for ever, 79, 25
=Saving=, a great art, 400, 37;
a man against his will, 196, 27;
having, 114, 5;
necessity of, as well as gaining, 363, 35
=Saviour=, a, vocation of, 58, 2
"=Savoir-vivre=," the first condition of, 374, 45
=Say=, having one's, 168, 46
=Saying=, and doing, 70, 43; 379, 38;
and doing, difference between, 29, 59;
before singing, 236, 5;
from, to doing, a long stride, 52, 36;
insincere, 503, 19;
well and doing well, different effects of, 30, 7
=Sayings=, wise, 557, 42-44
=Scaffold=, not the disgrace, 39, 4
=Scandal=, and a lie, 8, 15;
and tea, 253, 49;
and the great, 109, 45
circulation of, 101, 6;
lust of, 470, 6;
waits on state, 135, 33
=Scandals=, dead, use of, 55, 30;
fly, 329, 31
=Scapegoat= always needed, 3, 62
=Scattering= and increasing, 477, 5
=Scenes=, new, power of, 297, 32;
prying behind, 152, 55
=Scepticism=, the misery of, 262, 48
=Sceptre=, snatched from tyrants, 84, 36;
weight of, when known, 144, 46
=Schemes=, sinister, how defeated, 316, 32;
our, not favoured by Zeus, 10, 11;
the best laid, 417, 44
=Schiller=, and Goethe, compared, 532, 22;
and his ideal, 481, 28;
Goethe of, 379, 11;
on his education, 492, 14
=Schiller's=, ideal, premature, 54, 9;
scorn for worldly possessions, 63, 41
=Schisms= in Church, root of, 452, 8
=Scholar=, a good and ripe, 116, 9;
great, common defect of, 7, 6;
self-denial required in, 19, 6;
the affair of, 346, 8;
the ink of, its merits, 436, 39;
the true, procedure of, 459, 8;
without good-breeding, 452, 27
=Scholars=, greatest, 432, 37;
greatest, not wisest men, 258, 50;
seldom great men, 465, 24;
unregarded, 176, 4
=School=, true preparatory, 319, 24
=Schoolboy=, the desire of, 452, 28
=Schooling=, good, missed, 150, 44;
our, a preparation for slavery, 320, 37
=Schoolmasters=, express and unexpress, 426, 24;
our, 526, 25
=Science=, a true man of, defined, 143, 40;
advance in, due to individuals, 184, 42;
an exchange of ignorances, 220, 44
and Christianity, 420, 19;
and the theologians, 97, 59;
and thought, law of, 484, 38;
as truth, 500, 29;
at bottom, 313, 4;
children not to be taught, 527, 34;
compared with conscience, 46, 40;
condition of any, 526, 35;
contrasted with religion, 372, 30
defined, 383, 3;
dictionary and grammar of, 236, 28;
falsely so called, 532, 38;
its value to the race, 521, 5;
men of, controversy unworthy of, 276, 8
modern, Ruskin on, 281, 32;
no, patriotic, 473, 44;
not in bulk, 162, 24;
physical, a lesson of, 348, 19;
pride of, an evil, 275, 41;
prosecuted for its own sake, 81, 40;
the faculty of, 426, 46;
the fathers of, 247, 34;
the home-making power of, 535, 36;
the new in, 189, 43;
the want in, 399, 18;
two things to consider in, 189, 44;
without poetry, 559, 42;
work of, 464, 2
=Sciences=, advantages of study in, 157, 22;
functions of the several, 131, 48;
history of, a fugue, 64, 23
=Scipio=, Africanus, saying of, 319, 1
=Scoffer=, fate of, at the resurrection, Mahomet on, 331, 10
=Scolding=, folly of continual, 225, 4;
vanity of, 304, 50
=Scorning=, futility of, 145, 43
=Scotch=, drink, Burns on, 108, 30;
drink, Burns on the power of, 237, 8;
the, temper of, 346, 11
=Scotchman=, the, Goldsmith on, 558, 23
=Scoundrel=, no, without his apology, 218, 17
=Scoundrelism=, course of, 421, 44
=Scoundrels=, guiding, by love, 492, 51;
just hatred of, backbone of religion, 215, 37
=Scribbling=, incessant, evil of, 192, 53
=Scripture=, demand for, 22, 36;
how to interpret, 93, 60;
no jesting with, 296, 46
=Scruples=, to be guarded against, 241, 38
=Scylla= shunned, 485, 49
=Sea=, sayings about, 452, 30-35;
secret of, how to learn, 563, 31;
the, a harper, 564, 26;
treacherous, 23, 19
=Searchable= and unsearchable, wise treatment of, 54, 26
=Searching= commended, 22, 11
=Season=, things in, 162, 1
=Secrecy=, and vice, 548, 26;
once whispered, 168, 12;
recommended by Burns, 25, 32;
recommending, 370, 31;
to be kept, 141, 48
=Secret=, a, hard to keep, 485, 22;
a, imparted, 17, 13;
between two or three, 360, 10;
blame of disclosing, 498, 43;
how to keep a, 177, 13;
how to lose command of, 150, 25
keeping and disclosing, 199, 18;
kept and revealed, 19, 5;
knowing and revealing, 207, 30;
of a friend, his, not mine, 536, 30;
power of a, 486, 8;
the great, 550, 5;
trusting, to a servant, 152, 35;
weight of a, 377, 3;
who would wish to keep, 553, 32;
woman cannot keep, 25, 7
=Secrets=, all, to be laid open, 315, 40;
keeping of, 11, 53;
revealing, 496, 4;
why coveted, 311, 13
=Sectarian= bigotry, Ruskin on, 514, 31
=Sectary=, the, mistake of, 191, 38
=Sects=, founders of, 307, 32;
the, and reason, 93, 61
=Security=, insecure, 144, 45;
often near ruin, 325, 33
=Seducer=, no, happy, 295, 12
=See=, they that won't, 148, 20;
to, but not be seen through, our wish, 525, 19
=Seed=, and flower, relation of, 428, 49;
and tree, interval between, 469, 35;
sown by God, 379, 1, 2
=Seed-corn= not to be ground, 107, 48
=Seed-field=, man's, 288, 6
=Seeing=, an object, necessity of, 508, 5;
and looking, different, 2, 38;
before overseeing, 242, 56;
believing, 41, 12;
culminating in dimness of vision, 395, 22;
followed by contemplation, 20, 37;
for one's self, a great moment, 15, 3;
in part, 539, 46;
musically, 384, 29;
rarer than thinking, 164, 13;
thing beautifully done, pleasure of, 471, 26;
through, but not being seen through, 329, 15;
through, preventing seeing, 274, 37;
truly, condition of, 176, 2
=Seeking=, compared with finding, 125, 18;
or not and finding, or not, 152, 10
=Seemly=, the, permitted, 84, 38
=Seen=, compared with heard, 480, 47
=Seer=, a, beguiling, 218, 19;
and seen, alike punished, 127, 55
=Seers= and thinkers compared, 453, 7
=Selection=, natural, defined, 290, 15;
saved, trouble saved, 85, 12;
the art of, importance to author, 151, 6
=Self=, admiration of, 127, 19;
admirer or lover of only, 334, 31;
alone interesting, 313, 38;
an eternal entity, 483, 29;
as a mirror of truth, 10, 2;
as one's enemy, 79, 16;
concentration on, fruits of, 10, 40;
conquest of, 146, 48;
estimation of, 79, 14;
evaluation of, to be rigorous, 79, 14;
harmony with, 543, 7;
how best to shun, 167, 38;
how to know, 465, 15; 556, 34;
how to live to, 483, 40;
how to regard, 323, 34; 523, 16;
ignorance of, 175, 5;
instance of love of, 88, 33;
left to, good at times, 205, 38;
Luther's fear of, 164, 45;
man's, his worst blind, 324, 19;
oneness with, oneness with God, 532, 27;
one's, as a miracle and monster, 167, 2;
one's truest and deepest, 519, 32;
our estimate of, 93, 26;
pious and just honouring of, 447, 42;
respect only for, 201, 12;
saying good or bad of, 381, 24;
thinking modestly of, 150, 11;
to be overcome, 324, 14;
trust of, and distrust of, 105, 36;
unbelief in, 427, 30;
undervaluing, and others, 148, 40;
where to be sought and found, 384, 46;
worship of, dreary, 86, 7;
dead, a stepping-stone, 167, 19
=Self-abasement=, effect of, 83, 11
=Self-assertion= and self-denial, 340, 37
=Self-censure=, a fishing for praise, 9, 17
=Self-commendation=, a legitimate, 471, 14
=Self-conceit=, a source of darkness, 445, 35;
cause of ruin, 163, 12;
how to lessen, 176, 14;
not to be obtrusive, 301, 34;
the first sin, 428, 36
=Self-concentration=, man's, his fatalest disease, 423, 42
=Self-confidence=, its attestation, 522, 38;
the power of, 395, 38
=Self-confident=, the, to beware, 241, 8
=Self-conquest=, victory, 227, 11
=Self-control=, man without, 551, 33
=Self-culture= and study of history, 304, 31
=Self-deception=, 523, 23;
the greatest, 305, 1
=Self-denial=, greatness of, 133, 39;
how judge a life of, 303, 41;
importance of teaching, 465, 30;
Scott on the power of, 411, 13;
superseded, 544, 31;
the benefit of, 362, 23;
the gain of, 385, 9;
want of, 518, 32
=Self-dependence=, 8, 40;
happiness of, 161, 24
=Self-endeavour=, the key to success, 34, 11
=Self-esteem=, due, a necessity, 171, 16, 21;
grounded on just and right, 325, 40
=Self-forgetfulness=, the best, 418, 1
=Self-help=, alone owned by nature, 292, 25;
as an acquisition, 190, 23;
Heaven's help, 7, 32
=Self-helping= man, welcome, 531, 21
=Self-knowledge=, a necessity, 312, 6;
a, not bad, 304, 21;
an effect of, 418, 19;
difficult, 178, 51;
how attained, 161, 6; 334, 55;
index of, 382, 23;
limited, 525, 11;
never perfect, 306, 3;
rare, 517, 5;
source of, 276, 16;
sum of wisdom, 117, 31;
Thales on, 443, 40;
the condition of, 296, 8;
value of, 151, 25; 218, 26
=Self-love=, a balloon, 222, 18;
and debt, 224, 13;
blinding, 78, 29;
excess of, 552, 11;
function of, 504, 2;
greatest flatterer, 222, 17;
offended, 222, 19;
to be cut out, 52, 17
=Self-lovers=, the nature of, 206, 31
=Self-made= men, our, 339, 15
=Self-maintenance=, no hardship, 494, 17
=Self-neglecting=, a sin, 386, 7
=Self-praise= offensive, 231, 24
=Self-reformation=, a contribution to national, 152, 9;
a labour, 419, 38
=Self-regard= a right, 470, 10
=Self-reliance=, after failure, 346, 44;
the virtue in, 417, 1
=Self-respect=, effect of, on morals, 493, 1;
importance of, 24, 10
=Self-restraint=, necessity of, 305, 5;
the virtue of, 266, 24
=Self-reverence=, 2, 2;
as a virtue, 451, 21
=Self-satisfied= man, the, 505, 27
=Self-subdual= as a conflict, 301, 24
=Self-sufficiency=, law of, 443, 8
=Self-taught=, a merely, man, 532, 35
=Self-trust=, its comprehensiveness, 189, 47;
the value of, 506, 14
=Self-will= to be subdued, 142, 4
=Selfish=, like sympathetic, 408, 36;
no happiness to, 162, 43
=Selfishness= always a failure, 90, 47
=Selling=, the rule in, 176, 13
=Semblance= _versus_ substance, regard for, 150, 14
=Sense=, as deceptive, 473, 5;
and dreams, 337, 41;
and thought, their partitions, 373, 9;
better than loquacity, 261, 23;
common, contrasted with fine, 106, 30;
compared with learning, 236, 28;
good, relation between, and good taste, 83, 51;
higher, ennobling power of, 131, 3;
in confronting evil, 86, 4;
men of, and wit, 467, 5;
native, to be respected, 509, 29;
objects of, not there, 539, 5;
strength, 146, 53;
true, its power, 500, 36;
want of, 3, 20;
want of, and crime, 173, 39
=Senses=, and faith, 99, 56;
avenues to enjoyment, 313, 2;
delusion of, how to annihilate, 186, 45;
man owes to experience, 37, 6;
not deceptive, 453, 13;
origin of, 102, 2;
our, and impressions, 339, 16;
our, planets, 262, 46;
their truthfulness, 66, 16
=Sensibilities=, our, to be cherished, 204, 14
=Sensibility=, effect of, on circumstances, 46, 14;
excessive, 386, 51;
quick, mark of intelligence, 365, 11;
that is true taste, 278, 24;
too much, 497, 46;
without humour, 425, 41
=Sensible=, man, a merely, his value, 7, 44;
man, a, when deceived, 232, 52;
man, most, 551, 42;
the, no novelty, 532, 24
=Sensual= indulgence, effects of, 156, 45
=Sensualist=, body of a, 418, 46
=Sensuality=, always a failure, 90, 47;
an offence to reason, 151, 1;
debasing, 16, 16;
life of, how atoned for, 79, 39;
most potent antidote to, 473, 29;
the evil of, 399, 39
=Sentence=, good, the first quoter of, 297, 43;
understanding _versus_ dissecting, 423, 47;
what gives force to, 207, 38
=Sentences=, our, characterised, 337, 19;
pregnant, 468, 10
=Sentiment=, in women and men, 476, 30;
no expression of, we don't feel, 330, 29;
the sail, 264, 23;
_versus_ action, 91, 52
=Sentimental=, doomed, 453, 14
=Sentimentalism=, a watery, 490, 4
=Sentimentalist=, barren, 416, 47;
the, assiduous, tiresome, 334, 24
=Sentiments=, social, rule for, 244, 13
=Separation=, rule of, 520, 11
=Sequence=, essential to value, 94, 23
=Serenity=, a gift of time, 487, 22;
attainment of, 154, 34;
feigning, 453, 16;
peculiar to man, 416, 9
=Serfdom= in England at present, 472, 4
=Serious=, difficult to master, 496, 34
=Seriousness=, the root of, 340, 15
=Sermon=, criticism of a, 477, 38;
qualities required in, 242, 53
=Sermons=, flowers in, 107, 54; in stones, 408, 20
=Serpent=, shedding its skin, 550, 20;
wisdom of, whence? 455, 4
=Serpent's= brood, no covenant with, 218, 6
=Servant=, a, by nature, advantage of, 198, 32;
a wise, the loss of, 439, 46;
bad, worst part of, 458, 8;
being without a, 491, 1;
how to secure faithful, 177, 35;
negligent, how made, 2, 35;
never, never master, 150, 43;
qualification for, 175, 3;
the duty of, in misfortune, 188, 12
=Servants=, a necessity, 172, 27;
ambition of, 116, 20;
evil of many, 66, 49;
greatest, in a house, 270, 51;
how to regard our, 527, 38;
many, little service, 42, 39
no, without real masters, 559, 45;
of the great, airs of, 136, 49;
that wait on man, 283, 35;
the most abject, 70, 16
=Serve=, what will, fit, 538, 12
=Served=, how to be well, 177, 30, 35, 36;
the best, 37, 51
=Service=, a, that is no slavery, 100, 34;
care or coldness in, 189, 49;
from below upwards, a necessity, 495, 37;
greater than the god, 488, 19;
measure of, 171, 49;
of self, best, 330, 4;
our domestic, 337, 39;
our highest, a watchword, 435, 5;
pride of, a merit, 150, 43;
proffered, 278, 33;
reciprocal, 1, 14;
remuneration for, 532, 1
small, true, 394, 32;
the curse of, 488, 48;
the law of, 184, 41;
value of faithful, 313, 11;
who can do no, as a friend, 532, 14;
with noble ease, 153, 18
=Serving= others, two ways of, 284, 31
=Servitude=, a noble, 263, 34
=Set=, one's own, mistake about, 149, 16
=Settlements=, all, temporary, 472, 31
=Seventeenth= century, how far of worth, 453, 17
=Severity=, compared with love and justice, 285, 13;
our, thought of, at death, 543, 18
=Sex=, either, imperfect, 80, 8;
virtue of, 460, 43
=Shackles=, the, not therefore a slave, 539, 11
=Shade=, we shall fight in, 397, 12
=Shadow=, a, no measuring, 551, 8;
and the sun, 93, 62;
catch not at, 36, 52;
gazing on one's, 269, 28;
dependent on light, 548, 37;
on dial, 453, 49;
failing to grasp a, 195, 9
=Shadows=, clutched at for substances, 162, 44;
kissing, 399, 6;
Nature's, 292, 41
=Shakespeare=, a wonder to nature, 292, 7;
and wayside incidents, 436, 16;
art of, 534, 10;
Ben Jonson on, 149, 25;
characteristic of, 419, 44;
death of, without sign, 415, 37;
harmony of, 454, 29;
how made great, 489, 1;
M. Arnold on, 484, 1;
magic of, 33, 23;
Milton on, 55, 35; 538, 14;
rank among poets, 503, 48;
the player, 465, 14
=Shakespeare's=, critics, Carlyle on, 300, 26;
knowledge, 394, 28;
wit, 311, 54
"=Shall=," same as "can," 35, 1
"=Shalt=," legibility of, 483, 45
"=Shalt, thou=," as a command, how softened, 421, 10
=Shame=, a barrier, 140, 24;
false, 100, 46;
soil of virtue, 197, 20;
the moral virtue of, 289, 24
=Sharpness=, a matter of degree, 330, 40
=Shekinah=, the true, 459, 9
=Shell=, delight in the, 186, 31;
lure to kernel, 333, 18
=Shelter=, the only storm-proof, at present, 66, 28;
though given, to be wrought for, 125, 40;
under an old hedge, 209, 1
=Shepherd=, a good, duty of, 31, 31
=Shepherds=, contrasted with kings, 123, 43
=Sheridan=, a witticism of, 451, 38;
to a creditor, 566, 19
=Sheridan's= self-confidence, 167, 32
=Shiftlessness=, poverty of, 474, 51
=Shine=, how one may fail to, 566, 32
=Ship=, the best captain of a, 551, 39;
with most sail, 453, 23
=Shoe=, benefit of wearing, 197, 11
=Shoes=, old, till new ones, 71, 48
=Shooting=, often, effect of, 325, 31
=Shop=, opening and keeping open, 201, 29
=Short-cuts=, circuitous, 45, 40
=Shortcomings= to be overlooked, 320, 7
=Shot=, a good, 144, 33
"=Should=" and "would" contrasted, 414, 28
=Showy=, the, and the true, 453, 29
=Shrew=, how to chastise, 145, 48
=Shrewdness=, power of, 328, 7
=Shyness=, meaning of so-called, 536, 47
=Sibyl=, impersonation of the prophetic in nature, 291, 26
=Sick= with too much, 109, 18
=Sickness=, amendment after, rare, 105, 19;
mental, how relieved, 65, 15;
poor-spirited, 428, 43
=Sighing=, plague of, 16, 38;
vanity of, 72, 31
=Sighs=, the Bridge of, 300, 28
=Sight=, effect on, of bodily anguish, 558, 24;
great, first impression of, 315, 21;
partial, better than none, 26, 9;
people vainest of their, 202, 52;
point of, not within, 427, 37;
requisites of, 300, 27;
the sense of, 2, 54
=Significant=, and insignificant, diverse estimate of, 55, 5
=Silence=, a, commended, 547, 14;
a necessity, 477, 6;
a preacher, 468, 31;
a Pythagorean, benefit of, 345, 21;
a temple, 457, 5;
a test of sagacity, 20, 26, 30;
a, to be imitated, 243, 27;
to maintain, ability, will, and obligation, 382, 21;
and speech, prompters of, 205, 23;
better than irrelevancy, 29, 40;
better than discourse, 129, 4;
better than propagating error, 170, 8;
confession, 42, 31;
compared with speech, 401, 2; 402, 2;
contrasted with unrestrained talk, 488, 4;
essential for peace, 23, 6;
expressive, 74, 19;
great empire of, fascination of, 253, 13;
in these days preferable to speech, 256, 28;
incapacity for, a misfortune, 39, 17;
its significance, as induced, 490, 2;
misconstrued, 350, 1;
never recorded, 180, 45;
of fools and wise, 235, 12;
often safe course, 235, 14;
or saying better, 28, 24;
power of, 382, 20;
reaping, 152, 20;
rebuke for, 26, 51;
safety of, 19, 27;
sometimes offensive, 526, 10;
tact required for, 378, 45;
the significance of, 144, 8, 13, 14;
the wish of the strong, 397, 27;
tree of, fruit of, 458, 27;
value of, 171, 35; 185, 14;
virtue of, 367, 40;
virtue of the foolish, 227, 35;
virtue there is in, 26, 56;
when a duty, 535, 29
=Silent=, men, and objects to be guarded against, 29, 64, 65;
the noble, 253, 13
=Siller=, want of, 3, 20
=Silver=, love of, 147, 54
=Similes=, always imperfect, 318, 32
=Simple=, more difficult than the complex, 201, 40;
reasonings of, 498, 48
=Simpleton=, a, advice of, 505, 22
=Simplicity=, advantage of faith in, 333, 14;
and beauty, 507, 34;
as a grace, Ben Jonson on, 123, 11;
excellence of, 185, 26;
power of, 360, 11;
rare, 5, 24;
seal of truth, 54, 29; 392, 7
=Sin=, a, confessed, 344, 21;
and misery, 209, 23;
and repentance, experience of, 93, 14;
sundry attitudes to, Fuller on, 146, 12;
burnt into the blood by practice, 453, 40;
each, God-annihilating, 75, 23;
essence of, 425, 33;
evil of, 272, 47;
forsaking all, 148, 39;
found out, 28, 41;
guilt of, dependent on knowledge, 326, 31;
how to avoid, 149, 32;
how to save men from,565, 41;
how to treat, 509, 37;
natural to man, 13, 9;
of hot heart and of cold, 471, 28;
source of all, 116, 14;
that hero atones for, 204, 4;
the unpardonable, 446, 18
thinking about, waste, 481, 21;
truth of, not to be known, 527, 18;
without limits, 375, 18
=Sincerity=, as a virtue, 100, 28;
how to constrain, 55, 33;
simple, commended, 87, 20, 21;
the happiness of, 171, 25;
without simplicity, 269, 33;
years of, 215, 35
=Sing=, how learn to, 252, 1;
I, because I must, 165, 42
=Singer=, the business of, 66, 19
=Singers=, business of, 489, 39;
the general fault of, 328, 37
=Singing=, according to gift, 93, 31;
as an accomplishment, 374, 17;
at work, Carlyle on, 123, 36;
true, worship, 500, 38
=Singularity=, and fashion, 102, 30;
none without, 307, 33;
sign of genius, 133, 22;
taste for, how induced, 222, 40
=Sinned=, more, against than sinning, 164, 29
=Sinner=, a worn out, most denunciatory, 25, 25;
repentance of, joy of gods over, 532, 5
=Sinners=, faintly condemned, 476, 3;
mercy of heaven to, but not fools, 154, 14
=Sinning=, and bearing with the sin different, 105, 6;
occasion for pardon, 384, 24
=Sins=, denied, 310, 30;
Emerson's advice in regard to, 438, 42;
the root of all, 68, 22
=Situation=, to every, its own pleasures, 187, 44
=Sixpence=, virtue in, 553, 19
=Skeleton=, the, our mortal companion, 525, 16
=Skies=, attempt to scale, vain, 322, 7
=Skill=, and exertion, economy of, difficult, 201, 40;
and labour, value of, 94, 35;
compared with strength, 221, 45;
mead of, 497, 19;
not an estimable quantity, 358, 10;
not visible, 516, 16;
power of, 300, 8;
the greatest, 432, 36
=Skin=, a living, blessedness of having, 473, 31;
a, natural to all living, 9, 54
=Sky=, who aims at the, 392, 51
=Slackness= breeds worms, 243, 18
=Slain=, the, thrice he slew, 399, 37
=Slander=, comfort under, 547, 6;
lives upon succession, 111, 6;
not to be believed, 27, 31;
provocation under, 490, 36;
to good man, 395, 30;
world's delight in, 226, 15
=Slave=, a, defined, 150, 39;
a freedom allowed, 62, 2;
a heaven-made, irredeemable, 553, 38;
as regards reason, 148, 53;
at heart, not free, 180, 4;
born to be, 25, 58;
fetters of, 427, 34;
if I'm
designed yon lordling's, 172, 42;
none, with will free, 306, 6
=Slave-driving=, two kinds of, 399, 1
=Slave-holding=, effect of, 51, 52;
enslaving, 177, 8
=Slaves=, all, 522, 17;
master of, 441, 34;
men who are, 478, 52;
the greatest, 311, 14;
virtue of, 103, 43
=Slavery=, act of will, 114, 17;
bitter, 69, 19;
but one, 476, 23;
defined, 471, 13;
in the heart, 560, 11;
not abolishable by Parliament, 565, 28;
only deliverance from, 96, 19;
our, self-imposed, 339, 21;
spiritual, 8, 26;
the distinguishing sign of, 424, 3;
the greatest, 387, 36;
the one intolerable, 445, 38
=Sleep=, a gentle thing, 322, 5, 6;
a palliative, 246, 45;
and his brother Death, 163, 2;
at midday, 281, 10;
death's counterfeit, 388, 6;
gift of God to His beloved, 142, 33;
in smoky cribs, 555, 14;
inventor of, blessed, 30, 47;
no, where care, 36, 4;
of rustic men, 399, 24;
of the labouring man, 453, 43;
our, when deepest, 162, 44;
rule for, 387, 8;
Shakespeare on, 258, 28;
tired Nature's sweet restorer, 487, 34;
when I am drowsy, 165, 22
=Sleepers=, and awake, alike watched over, 125, 41;
the, to whom life is a dream, 531, 24
=Sleeping=, the, and the dead, 453, 44
=Slippery= places, standing on, 148, 28
=Sloth=, a thrall to, 147, 24;
and poverty, 103, 14;
evil of, 107, 36;
misery entailed by, 117, 22
=Slothful= and waster, 142, 5
=Sluggard= in his own conceit, 453, 48
=Sluggishness= and stupidity, 103, 15
=Slugs=, men once, 526, 13
=Small=, connected with great, importance of, 394 34;
people, the talk of, 65, 11;
things, man who scorns, 441, 20;
things, not to be despised, 342, 14
=Smallest= space, fruitful, 556, 9
=Smile=, a, a test of character, 399, 19;
a broad, after a frown, 19, 61, 62;
from a superior, 566, 38;
or laugh, effect of, on a man, 542, 16;
the virtue in a, 94, 56
=Smiles=, characters of, 466, 41
=Smiling= in self-mockery, 385, 33
=Smith=, a poor, 143, 9
=Smoke=, and flame, interchangeable, 203, 10;
consuming one's, a first lesson, 491, 24;
convertible power of, 307, 13;
to be emitted only as fire, 472, 48;
when to consume and when to emit, 456, 14;
where fire, 107, 18
=Snail=, the, in its shell, 454, 3
=Sneer=, malicious, 440, 17
=Snob=, Thackeray's definition of a, 567, 35, 37
=Snow=, statues of, 522, 32
=Soaring=, no, without wings, 180, 11
=Sobriety=, how secured, 81, 42;
the virtue of, 403, 33
=Sociability=, how produced, 344, 49;
risky, 199, 23;
source of, 483, 35
=Social=, evils, nature of, 215, 32;
hive, drones and busy bees of, 531, 25;
intercourse, advantage of, 527, 30;
procedure, all, dependent on finding and installing the able man, 106, 22;
ties that warp from truth, 51, 50
=Socialism=, alpha and omega of, 416, 2;
charges against, 468, 1;
defined, 519, 7
=Sociality=, the foundation of, 396, 1
=Societies=, insecure, 467, 28
=Society=, a church, in one of three predicaments, 90, 28;
advantage of, 397, 21, 22;
based on religion, 340, 20;
bases of, 427, 13;
collectively representing culture, 20, 2;
composition of, 163, 30;
condition of, 549, 35;
contingent on mutual dupery, 277, 20;
conversation in, 47, 43;
dependence of, on religion, 307, 14;
effect of, 397, 23;
family ideal of, 338, 41;
fatal, 397, 23;
fine, no help in, 488, 51;
good, advantage of, 77, 7;
great hope of, 431, 21;
how possible, 335, 1;
importance of, to a man, 205, 16;
in birth-pangs, 457, 29;
no, without flattery, 173, 35;
only one great, 476, 14;
relation of, to humanity, 121, 56;
rules of, nothing, 378, 31;
the basis of, 105, 38; 372, 15;
the best, 397, 25, 28;
the bonds of, 396, 4;
the upper and under currents of, 460, 10;
the vital element in, 451, 7;
whence its regeneration, 451, 5;
without justice, 559, 37
=Socrates=, and Christ, 420, 16;
and Christ, difference between, 423, 33;
equanimity of, 63, 42;
Milton of, 554, 3;
of himself, 396, 40
=Soil=, weed-producing, value of, 21, 4
=Soldier=, brave, the aim of, 24, 33;
effect of use on, 509, 36;
his ultimate and perennial office, 454, 7;
inspiring effect of courage of, 48, 66;
no, without war, 520, 32;
profession of, 107, 11;
trade of, its nature and honourableness, 454, 6;
without good-breeding, 452, 27
=Soldier's=, honour, 515, 37;
prize and wealth, 109, 43
=Soldiers=, baptized in fire, Napoleon on, 545, 16;
Napoleon on, 465, 26;
two kinds of, 468, 11
=Solidarity=, instance of, 453, 52;
of life, 474, 52
=Solitude=, at times best society, 111, 7;
defined, 558, 36;
how we endure, 523, 19;
its safety, 476, 27;
its unknown nature and extent, 251, 11;
life of, in a crowd, 201, 24;
love or dislike of, 12, 51;
necessary for all great work, 3, 35;
or solitariness not good for man, 203, 50;
or vulgarity, our choice, 465, 12;
painful, 64, 9;
perpetual effect of, 346, 34;
power of, on mind, 189, 53;
risk of, 30, 43;
the incapable of, 560, 21;
the virtue in, 531, 14;
true, Byron on, 279, 3;
unnatural, to be abandoned, 81, 24;
who prepared for, 405, 52;
why intolerable, 206, 28;
within, 420, 28
=Solomon=, felicities of, the record of, 447, 19
=Something= _versus_ nothing, 89, 3
=Son=, a, how to enrich, 461, 30;
a, legacy to, 22, 17;
love for, 38, 29;
the best, 418, 2
=Song=, an old, 163, 6;
ascensive forces of, 99, 58;
effect of, contrasted with eloquence, 80, 50;
gift of, 125, 46;
great, sincere, 9, 41;
in own reward, 170, 10;
sacred, love of, 109, 27;
the end of everything, 498, 35;
the meaning of, 194, 14;
the power of, 20, 5; 36, 24, 25; 37, 30;
when great, 133, 40;
without ear of taste, 537, 21
=Songs=, our sweetest, 525, 29
=Sophistry=, entangling power of, 398, 24
=Sophists=, effect of their teaching on Church, 239, 26
=Sorrow=, a sign of nobleness, 450, 23;
a teacher, 150, 44;
akin to course of things, 476, 36;
and fear, associated with melancholy, 103, 31;
and joy, 213, 27, 28, 37, 41, 42, 46, 50, 51, 52;
as a teacher, 334, 47;
consecrated in Christ, 524, 42;
contrasted with happiness, 139, 42;
disappearance of, under love, 86, 34;
each present, absorbing, 75, 22;
effect of time on, 318, 36;
effect of, worse than giddiness, 231, 12;
ennobled by Christianity, 42, 53; 43, 3;
for loss of fortune, 539, 12;
give, words, 123, 26;
gnarling, mocked at, 124, 43;
how to treat, 528, 29;
involves joy, 114, 48;
knowledge, 136, 36;
over the dead, effect of, 444, 32;
path of, 447, 10;
real, hard to detect, 369, 15;
self-incurred, 153, 28;
shared, 20, 7;
sign of deep, 422, 46
sympathy of, 456, 37;
tears of, fruit of, 94, 13;
the eloquence of, 391, 38;
the first great, 472, 25;
the triumph of, 42, 53, 56;
vanity of, 531, 10;
violence of, how to tame, 511, 30;
what underlies all, 506, 22;
while there is hope, 550, 21
=Sorrow's=, crown of sorrow, 20, 6;
fell, tooth, 104, 27
=Sorrows=, a fire at which we warm our hands, 249, 37;
all, healed by heaven, 75, 48;
associated with pleasure, 409, 11;
desperate, 100, 35;
each condition its own, 82, 55;
how they come, 545, 18;
lighter than cares, 36, 9;
little and great, 251, 19;
never wanting, 212, 20;
not to be complained of, 543, 28;
of earth, in eye of heaven, 474, 5;
of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow compared, 454, 11;
our, like thunder-clouds, 339, 18;
part of the divine plan, 89, 23;
small and great, effect of, 19, 55;
soothed by friendship, 319, 10;
source of, 11, 13;
true easing of, 503, 31;
vanished, soul-quickening, 48, 59;
we must bear, 468, 18
=Soul=, a fresh, breeding, 491, 10;
a great, 184, 13;
a man's, his mightiest possession, 297, 42;
a noble, to the vulgar, 421, 12;
a precious, 168, 19;
a reality, 262, 25;
a strong, mark of, 346, 30;
a strong, to be prayed for, 112, 47;
a strong, works of, 307, 16;
a sweet and virtuous, never gives, 334, 43;
a true, first trial questions of, 141, 34;
a, with unsubdued passions, 535, 22;
active, the one thing of value, 445, 40;
an enigma to itself, 361, 30;
an inmate, 551, 37;
and body mutually helpful, 9, 35;
and love, co-operating or disjoined, 253, 50;
as God, unchangeable, 75, 45;
beautiful, finding, a gain, 79, 5;
black speck in every, 469, 21;
cannot be killed, 402, 6;
independent of counsel, 62, 37;
depth of, approved, 430, 19;
depths in, 466, 36;
effect on, of chastening, 48, 5;
elevation of, 537, 14;
excellence and greatness of, in what seen, 223, 13;
fiery, effect of, on body, 5, 44;
frequent contrast of body and, 8, 41;
gives form to body, 325, 14;
immortality of, Goethe's faith in, 164, 43;
great, invulnerable but for compassion, 506, 39;
greatness of, a mark of, 81, 2;
greatness of revelations of, 26, 63;
his, entrusted to each man, 127, 52;
how it regards all it loves, 325, 6;
how rendered great, 162, 9;
human, a bird born in a cage, 436, 4;
immortality of, proof of, 494, 26;
in sick body, 533, 21;
indispensable, 179, 23;
individual, union it should seek, 436, 30;
indolence of, evil of, 107, 30;
its greatness, 482, 25;
its integrity, sacred, 314, 37;
its palace, 6, 63;
its spiritual position, 95, 13;
largest, of a country, 438, 1;
life of, 75, 26; 487, 3;
like a star apart, 486, 9;
man's, an unspeakable subject, 162, 14;
man's, like water, 385, 11;
man's mightiest possession, 324, 37;
mystery in connection with, 263, 20;
no kindling of, without soul, 162, 26;
noble and ignoble, in prosperity contrasted, 171, 32;
noble, fairest fortune to, 61, 5;
of man, presence-chamber of Highest, 202, 40;
one's anxiety about, 13, 46;
one's own, 94, 12;
our, our own, 94, 12;
poorest, wishes of, 448, 30;
sad, in merry company, 379, 14;
salvation of, sole motive of religion, 152, 31;
sayings about, 454,14-27;
secret of, inexpressible by words, 308, 3;
sick, its physician, 65, 14;
sickness of, common cause of, 325, 30;
so situated that it may emancipate itself, 126, 8;
sanctuary of, 18, 36;
source of events, 472, 33;
strength of, true to its high trust, 133, 42;
strength without greatness of, 385, 12;
strenuous and success, 21, 2;
that strives and sins, misery of, 539, 13;
the, no coercing, 33, 36
the, everything, 352, 39;
the, great and plain, 133, 41;
the, indivisible, 413, 5;
the, mirror of, 426, 29;
the sole reality, 446, 20;
the window of, 426, 31;
the true strength of, 459, 10;
thrift of having, 2, 55;
unbelief in the richness of, 523, 13;
virtuous and sensuous, 461, 3;
want of the, 233, 8;
without fixed purpose, 222, 8;
without reflection, 20, 9;
youth of, 466, 3
=Soul's=, grandeur, in what revealed, 312, 32;
the, emphasis right, 540, 1
=Souls=, all, forfeit once, 554, 43;
at work in stinted body, 194, 13;
the, Cicero on, 284, 6;
common, contrasted with nobler, 45, 21;
dear to God, 33, 25;
feeble, how they fail, 104, 4;
fine, _versus_ fine society, 488, 51;
generous, weakness of, 120, 6;
godlike, forbidden fleshly gratification, 128, 21;
great, characterised, 238, 23;
great, endurance of, 136,48;
great (see =Great souls=);
hard to discern, 391, 26;
lessons taught to, incommunicable, 484, 42;
little, shifty, 251, 36;
men's, the poles of 277, 30;
noble, do nothing by halves, 298, 17;
our chief concern, 568, 27;
our, far-seeing, 339, 19;
privileged, Frederick the Great on, 237, 45;
pure, crushed to death, 468, 19;
related, division among, a sad riddle, 414, 8;
sad, Dante's, 222, 22;
small, authors of great evils, 276, 19;
strong, related, 10, 25;
to be saved, and souls not, 154, 15;
to whom God manifests Himself, 127, 20;
twin, 467, 39;
yearning, appeal to, 518, 14
=Sovereigns=, a weakness of, 407, 48
=Sovereignty= and learning, 236, 35
=Sowing=, and reaping, 8, 32;
compared with reaping, 379, 19;
necessary to reaping, 149, 5
=Space=, and time, a dream, 402, 3;
and time, as interests, 424, 41;
and time, but creations of God, 486, 26;
and time, do not belong to the eternal world, 293, 24
=Spared=, better, a better man, 165, 32
=Sparing= and spending, in due measure, 557, 32
=Spark=, neglected, 20, 10
=Sparks=, and the light they give, 14, 12
=Sparrow=, providence in fall of, 477, 47
=Spartan= mother to her son, 87, 35
=Spartans=, the, Emerson on, 335, 8
=Speak=, injunction to, 523, 7;
well, advantage of ability to, 198, 34;
well, how to, 565, 26
=Speaker=, fine, who does not speak the truth, 555, 30
=Speaking=, a master of, 93, 56;
a rule of, 567, 11;
condition of, 305, 23;
evil from, 116, 7;
good, condition of, 506, 4;
in childhood, 190, 17;
man, contrasted with silent, 42, 20;
men, soul of all worth in, 189, 27;
much and to the point, 205, 9;
much or seldom, significance of, 151, 17;
rule in, 381, 18;
rule of, 141, 37; 274, 45
sowing, 152, 20;
well, 362, 6;
what is implied in, 334, 40;
what is wanted in, 313, 20;
what one likes, 152, 11;
without thinking, 138, 24
=Spécialité=, a, desirable, 141, 32
=Species=, Cuvier's definition of, 20, 11
=Speck=, black, in every soul, 469, 21
=Spectacles=, behind which is no eye, 441, 3;
ugliest of, 506, 26
=Speculation=, among practical men, 189, 14;
contrasted with practice, 355, 2;
Goethe on the man of, 5, 34;
limit of, a wise man's, 199, 48;
no, in those eyes, 307, 18;
not man's end, 266, 18;
our proneness to, 331, 6;
tendency of, 174, 5
=Speculations=, effect of time on, 486, 33
=Speech=, a knavish, by whom entertained, 7, 47;
and fact, gulf between, 401, 1;
and silence, 370, 44, 45;
and thought, 484, 42;
as a sign, 437, 29;
combined with song, 10, 22;
compared with action, 402, 42;
contrasted with silence, 391, 28, 33;
corruption in, bad sign, 549, 17;
discretion of, 69, 10;
disguise of thought, 182, 22;
effect of, to a soul holy and true, 545, 19;
fair, 1, 9;
flattering, 273, 2;
freedom of, risky, 341, 2;
Goethe's rule in regard to, 519, 30;
good, what underlies all, 506, 23;
hour of, 253, 18;
indiscreet, 148, 25;
kind, power of, 150, 13;
like a tangled chain, 157, 12;
modern, theme of, 38, 17;
motive of most, 330, 35;
not safe, when one would be silent, 303, 29;
often matter of regret, 224, 9;
pungency of, how to attain, 177, 29;
rarer than song, 79, 2;
right naming, 313, 4;
rule of, 308, 23; 519, 14;
rule for, 244, 14; 382, 19; 481, 4;
rules for, 400, 39-45, 50, 51, 55; 401, 1;
subservient to action, 553, 36;
the best, contrasted with thought, 392, 26;
the bond of society, 317, 12;
the dial-plate of thought, 320, 33;
the greatest virtue of, 336, 9;
to be sparing, and good, 100, 29;
to be weighed, 42, 45;
to conceal thought, 226, 34;
to purpose, tact required for, 378, 45
=Speeches=, fine, of knaves or fools, 106, 31;
long, a bore, 92, 26
=Spenser=, characteristic of, 419, 44
=Spending=, before earning, 148, 27;
economy in, 165, 13;
more difficult than earning, 76, 45;
much, and gaining little, 495, 46;
the use of, 376, 12
=Spendthrift=, the, 357, 47;
with others' property, 201, 25
=Sphere=, chosen for one, 295, 32;
limit of one's view, 241, 26
=Sphinx-riddle=, of the day, to whom insoluble, 150, 14
=Spinoza=, Novalis on, 131, 4
=Spirit=, a drop of, not water, the thing wanted, 534, 14;
a man of, 511, 34;
a soaring, 2, 63;
a worthy and generous, sign of, 199, 38;
and nature, 454, 34;
and reason, two aspects of one thing, 414, 37;
architect of body, 86, 2;
confining power of, 94, 7;
constructive power of, 94, 6;
debauchery of, 85, 30;
defined, 54, 16;
hard to keep, pure, 395, 35;
he that ruleth his, 147, 19;
how to warm one's, 519, 2;
in which we act, highest matter, 59, 57;
indigenous, 60, 2;
instance of elevation of, 54, 11;
listening to voices of the, 144, 42;
men of, characteristic of, 319, 17;
oppressed by matter, 58, 19;
power of, over nature, 290, 27; 291, 47;
presence of, as remedy, 514, 14;
small, impotent against a greater, 307, 12;
sovereign in moral world, 246, 1;
swifter than body, 3, 11;
task of, 454, 39;
the alone born of, 303, 7;
the genuine, characterised, 59, 49;
the interpreter of action, 3, 47;
the mysterious ways of, 454, 31;
the only possession of, 303, 7;
the organ of revelation, 538, 11;
the, sayings about, 454 31-35;
the striving, drawn to truth, 197, 1;
the sword of, 404, 10;
the, within, 533, 22;
the work of, idle questioning about, 508, 33;
to be under rule, 15, 31;
versus flesh, 454, 34;
versus letter, 438, 44;
we love, ever mysteriously with us, 539, 1;
who hath no rule over his, 146, 51;
wilful gloominess of, 171, 27;
without body, 474, 22;
witnessed to by nature, 290, 26
=Spirits=, art in binding, 218, 20;
dangerous to fraternise with, 119, 24;
evil, and the light, 311, 37;
from the vasty deep, 165, 17;
great and little, their errors, 7, 7;
great, power of, over love, 135, 10;
how tried, 98, 10;
locking out, 533, 22;
no art in freeing, 218, 20;
noble, and the dead, 308, 14;
stirring, 403, 15;
to be tried, 27, 32;
victory, source of, 23, 38
=Spiritual=, and sensual, mediator between, 287, 8;
chemistry, mixtures of, 442, 35;
death, in this epoch, 331, 9;
denial of, in man, 416, 47;
in man determining power, 207, 4;
leaders of the race, 533, 38;
man judge and not judged, 147, 21;
man, mysterious ways of, 454, 31;
man, the, and his world, 454, 44;
heavens, the phenomena of, how produced, 191, 18;
nature of man, one and indivisible, 267, 7;
opportunity thrown away, 176, 4;
problem resolved by Christ, 454, 45;
sovereignty of, 262, 25;
power, denial of a test, 190, 15;
the, sayings about, 454, 41-43; 456, 1, 2;
universe, in what it exists, 462, 14;
universe, the laws of, 454, 46;
virtue, perfection of, 447, 27;
word, influence of, 79, 10
=Spiritually-minded=, to be, 490, 39
=Spirit-world=, not shut, 64, 22
=Splendour unseen=, 145, 10
=Spontaneity=, destroyed by analysis, 14, 17
=Sport=, perfection of faculty, 438, 7;
tedious, 171, 42
=Spring=, days of, 568, 38;
the, when apprehensible, 455, 4
=Spur=, a, in head, 20, 19;
no, to prick the sides of my intent, 167, 6
=St. Christopher and Christ=, 205, 46
=St. Francis=, the order of, rules of, 497, 4
=St. Martin=, faith of, 506, 35
=St. Paul's=, its builders and architect, 403, 18;
the builder of, 534, 20
=Stage=, man on the, 331, 16
=Stagnation=, enjoyment impossible in, 565, 42
=Stags with lion for leader=, 112, 35
=Standing=, high, the risk of, 479, 48;
still, no, 116, 2
=Stanzas=, ill-polished, advice as to, 88, 25
=Star=, a, a good steed, 81, 26;
guiding, takes an astronomer to catch a, 81, 26;
one's, to be followed, 383, 44;
the greatest, 432, 38;
without haste, without rest, 556, 2
=Stars=, as gems on God's mantle, 200, 40;
but hid to reappear, 419, 18;
Byron's apostrophe to, 564, 22;
companions of solitude, 171, 28;
for money, 538, 36;
hid by heaven's own light, 311, 55;
hide heads diminished, 22, 20;
road to, not easy, 309, 31;
sayings about, 455, 5-7;
the, Carlyle on, 162, 41;
the eternal, there, 426, 7;
two, different spheres of, 504, 6;
way to the, 258, 35
=Start=, early, 75, 35
=State=, a, at its greatest, 20, 41;
a, the fate of, guided by unintelligence, 414, 9;
a, worth in, 465, 36;
affairs of, the question in, 53, 11;
cloth of, may be mean, 165, 27;
construction and destruction of, 21, 43;
effects of prudence and enthusiasm on, 450, 5;
element of greatness of, 449, 25;
health of a, condition of, 433, 26;
in danger, Carlyle on, 455, 8;
its relation to citizen, 455, 9;
life of a, like a stream, 54, 13;
misfortune in, 442, 34;
no, now purely self-derived, 392, 22;
quality of heart of, 223, 10;
the, false ambition in, 191, 20;
the, Louis XIV.'s definition of, 223, 9;
the, purpose of, 492, 7;
the safeguards of a, 309, 39;
what constitutes a, 534, 37
=States=, how lost, 330, 19;
in, unborn and accents unknown, 161, 39
=Statesman=, a, out of harness, 167, 40;
and politician contrasted, 455, 10;
proper study of, 20, 43;
two qualities of, 504, 3
=Statesmanship=, true, 500, 39
=Statesmen=, cobblers, 279, 46;
minds of some, 442, 27
=Station=, a freak of fortune, 96, 61;
high, a low-bred man in, 20, 13;
high, when appreciated, 156, 33
=Stations of eminence=, 81, 28, 29
=Statue=, a, without tongue, 246, 32;
the light on, no anxiety, 71, 36
"=Steal, thou shalt not=," comprehensiveness of, 331, 27
=Stealing=, akin to lying, 258, 17;
sayings about, 148, 29, 30; 152, 23
=Steel=, true as, 287, 50
=Step=, a false, effect of, 171, 48;
a man's greatest, in life, 60, 7;
first difficult, 38, 2;
first expensive, 180, 29;
one wrong, 334, 36;
the hardest, 432, 17
=Stepping-stones=, rising on, of dead selves, 167, 19
=Stewards=, heaven-elected, 273, 35
=Still=, people dangerous, 238, 21;
waters, danger of, 241, 37
=Stoic=, sayings about, 455, 13, 14
=Stoicism=, sayings about, 455, 15, 16
=Stomach=, a hungry, not fastidious, 212, 24
=Stone=, a rolling, 18, 21;
a white, 7, 67;
refused by builders, 455, 18
=Stones= thrown only at fruit-loaded trees, 330, 15
=Stoning=, different kinds of, 197, 30
=Stoop= to rise, 395, 37
=Stores=, best of, 403, 20
=Stories=, gulling power of, 298, 3
=Storm= and a master-spirit, 441, 35
=Story-telling=, mark of mediocrity, 224, 16;
the habit of, 199, 11;
the least supportable, 324, 22
=Straightforward=, hard to walk, 190, 38
=Straightforwardness=, effect of, 498, 16
=Strain=, it had a dying fall, 414, 11
=Stranded=, nothing ever, 314, 28
=Strange= better than troublesome, 29, 33
=Straws=, knotting, rather than nothing, 29, 30
=Stream=, prudence before crossing, 42, 16
=Streams=, shallow, run dimpling, 88, 2
=Strength=, admired by women, 67, 8;
assurance of, 386, 2;
cause of loss of, 56, 62;
course of, 443, 31;
innate, 10, 23;
not equal to desire, 65, 13;
not to be divided, 526, 36;
one's, ignorance of, 11, 31;
our, measure of, 200, 51;
our, secret of, 339, 24; 522, 2;
popular estimate of, 55, 1;
property in the, we have overcome, 520, 32;
superior, with right, 407, 3;
the secret of, 46, 4; 190, 39;
the determining element of, 313, 24;
varieties of, sources of, 455, 27;
without wisdom, 537, 8
=Strife=, anti-Christian, 242, 28;
genders strife, 250, 31;
more interest in, than victory, 184, 33;
to be left off, 417, 23
=Stringed= instruments, sayings about, 455, 28, 29
=Striving=, and forgetting, 111, 42;
eager, from ignorance, 317, 8;
praying, 28, 7
=Stroke=, a transmitted, still a stroke, 455, 30
=Strokes=, power of repeated, 155, 5
=Strong=, and unsound contrasted, 450, 44;
for the weak, 455, 34;
men, the faith of, 388, 25;
not independent of help, 399, 33;
the, love life, 10, 24
=Stronger=, contending with, 424, 41
=Strongest=, right with, 61, 26
=Stubbornness=, how to meet, 18, 52;
how to treat, 4, 65
=Student=, brooding, Wordsworth to, 509, 16;
diligent, solitary, 397, 24;
the life of a, 378, 42;
the one virtue of a, 68, 27
=Students=, ill-behaved, as preachers, 63, 49
=Studies=, for ornament, 496, 38;
how regarded by different classes, 49, 33;
learned, the value of, 139, 1;
what of our, we retain, 528, 10
=Study=, ennobling, 467, 21;
evermore overshot, 395, 26;
how to enter on a, 186, 31;
importance of, 200, 48;
much, a weariness, 327, 7;
the effect of, 394, 9;
the use of, 407, 2;
what should be our chief, 324, 31;
without genius, 78, 7
=Stuff=, we are made of, 522, 18
=Stumbling-block=, man must have a, 111, 37;
not to be laid, 384, 33
=Stupid=, class, the, 471, 15;
the, no novelty, 532, 24
=Stupidity=, and indolence, 193, 31;
and sluggishness, 103, 15;
deadening effect of, 161, 8;
dreadful, 434, 28;
invincible to the gods, 281, 1;
our one enemy, 445, 35;
penalty of, 412, 43;
with sound digestion, power of, 558, 46
=Style=, a fine, characteristic of, 541, 4;
a natural, our pleasure in, 362, 7;
a noble, condition of, 554, 30;
a rugged, 166, 29;
after a model, 94, 11;
copy of mind, 119, 43;
dependent on mind, 456, 1;
every man has his, 92, 4;
fastidiousness about, 543, 2;
how to write a grand, 119, 43;
how to write a lucid, 119, 43;
master of, mark of, 211, 52;
Swift's definition of, 358, 5;
the man, 235, 17;
two great faults of, 358, 15
=Subject=, adherence to, 217, 38;
the power of the, 33, 32;
will of, wanton restraint of, 95, 9
=Subjects=, difficult, novel and profound, how to treat, 528, 34
=Sublime=, an instance of, 72, 46;
from, to ridiculous, 74, 40;
moment in man's life, 12, 31;
nature of, 167, 29;
of man, the, 489, 7;
sayings about, 456, 4-9;
step from, to ridiculous, 334, 12;
the truly, 459, 18
=Sublimest= spectacle, the, in the world, 405, 19
=Sublimity=, contrasted with humour, 164, 7;
in child and maiden, 249, 14
=Subordinates=, need of, 329, 11
=Subsistence=, man's sure, 265, 35;
Mirabeau on three means of, 211, 6
=Substance=, discriminated from accident, 2, 45;
for shadow, 36, 53;
my, is not here, 305, 31;
the only real, 446, 20
=Substitute= in absence of the king, 21, 9
=Succeeding=, best way of, 565, 7
=Success=, a condition of, 5, 39; 209, 35;
a diagnosis required for, 495, 53;
a dream, 72, 49;
a result, 159, 33;
a secret of, 271, 57;
by failure, 99, 27;
condition of, 12, 36;
conditions of, 149, 7;
Danton on the secret of, 38, 11;
desert of, thing to aim at, 488, 27;
encouragement from, 160, 37;
ever tinged with sadness, 210, 21;
failure of, reason of, 201, 46;
first essential of, 495, 44;
first secret of, 386, 15;
great secret of, 493, 34;
honoured, 89, 10;
how missed, 456, 26;
how to attain, 177, 43;
how won, 330, 25;
in need of consolation, 89, 30;
nothing succeeds like, 316, 39;
secret of, 452, 46, 48, 49; 476, 6;
the effect of, on our judgment, 138, 32;
the greatest, 432, 39;
the parent of, 193, 36;
two ways to, 468, 3;
worldly, glare of, 469, 36;
worldly, Queen Elizabeth on, 479, 24
=Successes= often disappointments, 277, 23
=Succour=, angelic, 162, 12;
from above, when sure, 563, 24
=Suddenness=, the shock from, 88, 14
=Suffer=, to, and be strong, sublime, 219, 52
=Sufferance=, badge of Jew, 111, 8
=Sufferer=, the greatest, not always best, 298, 6
=Suffering=, acute, of short duration, 520, 6;
compulsory, 381, 22;
contrasted with happiness, 139, 40;
effect of, on native character, 314, 11;
general, a sign of general immorality, 119, 40;
human, cause of, 267, 31;
human, root of, 134, 39;
law of, 443, 9;
necessary to being, 489, 45;
nothing singular in, 326, 39;
often in apprehension, 350, 8;
our lot, 206, 25;
protection from, 517, 31;
remembrance of, 361, 9;
sole remedy for, 111, 9;
the effect of, 335, 9;
vicarious, 428, 24
=Sufferings=, another's, judging of, 202, 32;
light, test of, 244, 33;
our, tutors, 342, 52;
superiority to, 475, 2
=Sufficiency=, a moderate, 27, 55
=Suffrage=, universal, questionableness of, 507, 38
=Sullenness=, an attribute of things, 480, 34
=Summit=, of power, man at, 116, 30;
the, reached by climbing, 34, 11
=Summons=, the, that arouses a man, 284, 16
=Sun=, a type of Jesus, 483, 33;
and shadow it casts, 546, 6;
beautifying power of, 26, 21;
-clear, the, no arguing against, 4, 72;
down, while yet day, 155, 3;
extinction of, effect of, 415, 10;
looks on all alike, 453, 8;
never sets on my dominions, 170, 5;
not to be economically viewed, 530, 2;
on evil and good, 144, 28;
real or spiritual, condition of love for, 565, 36;
spots, vulgar judgment of, 422, 19;
splendour of brief, 89, 29;
the rising, Mirabeau to, 390, 4;
the, no liar, 397, 13;
the power of, 319, 21;
the real and the spiritual, defined, 565, 36;
the, sayings about, 456, 16-21;
there, though concealed, 89, 35;
things that love, 10, 58;
who soars too near, 552, 34
=Sunbeam=, incorruptible purity of, 21, 11
=Sunlight=, our dependence on, 204, 9
=Sun-setting=, a bright, 520, 19;
effect of, 396, 49
=Suns= that shine at night, 334, 14
=Sunshine=, from, to sunless land, 161, 15;
those who bring us, 483, 3
=Superfluities=, folly of pursuit of, 397, 44
=Superfluous=, necessary, 235, 18
=Superior=, and inferior, law of, 198, 19;
man, way of, 461, 21;
without subjection to, no rest, 125, 6
=Superiority=, condition of, 554, 9;
contrasted with majority, 260, 15;
manifestation of, price of, 441, 25;
the art of attaining, 233, 32;
the condition of, 147, 23
=Supernatural=, Horace on introduction of, into composition, 293, 33;
the, the source and goal of all things, 554, 31;
the, to a child, 315, 44;
true region of, 396, 33
=Superstition=, effect of, contrasted with atheism, 21, 32;
compared with fanaticism, 101, 40;
defined, 569, 41;
effect of science on, 544, 20;
Frederick the Great on Voltaire's raid against, 555, 29;
its power over us, 456, 25;
obstinacy of, 468, 7;
rather than unbelief, 166, 25;
the basis of, 53, 3;
the worst, 465, 33;
those opposed to, 479, 31;
weakness of, 11, 20;
where sure to be found, 402, 43
=Supper=, Holy, observance of, 435, 25
=Suppliants= at preferment's gate, 508, 14
=Surfeit=, mortality from, 286, 17;
suffering from, 19, 58;
they that, with too much, 478, 44
=Surgeon=, good, qualifications of, 6, 56;
young, 212, 48
=Suspicion=, a life of, 147, 40;
the evil of, 400, 27
=Suspiciou=s man, a, 41, 31
=Swallow=, the, wheeling, 553, 3
=Swallow-flights=, short, of song, 389, 32
=Swan of Avon=, sweet, 149, 25
=Swearer=, the cheap, 420, 3
=Swedenborg=, the mourner, 465, 14
=Sweet=, and bitter, common source of, 116, 29;
no, without sweat, 302, 23;
the fate of everything, 513, 21
=Sweetness=, fleeting, 88, 41;
versus asperity, 4, 55
=Swift's= epitaph, 504, 35
=Sword=, and pen compared, 27, 51;
and the right, 456, 36;
good, in poor scabbard, 130, 13;
leaden, in ivory scabbard, 7, 72;
striking with, 148, 31
=Swordsman=, a good, 31, 28
=Sworn= foe to sorrow, care, or prose, 167, 23
=Sybarite=, the, and his body, 315, 23
=Symbol=, new, a welcome gift, 473, 30;
the idea of a, 184, 23
=Symbolic=, everything, 10, 55
=Symbols=, who works merely with, defined, 152, 48
=Sympathy=, and pleasure, effects of, 349, 32;
flower of life, 502, 12;
in ordinary life, rare, 385, 34;
indifference to, 316, 24;
power of, 281, 9; 319, 11; 390, 40;
secret of, 253, 14;
with lowest, power of, 153, 10;
with spirit of man, significance of, 548, 46
=Systems=, only words, 534, 9
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=Taciturnity=, commended, by Burns, 235, 42;
where to learn, 332, 45
=Tact=, and perseverance, value of, 346, 40;
contrasted with talent, 409, 48;
importance of, 559, 45
=Taking= out and never putting in, 4, 43
=Tale=, a round, unvarnished, 251, 28;
an oft-told, 369, 4;
he cometh with a, 142, 16;
I could a, untold, 165, 31;
plainly told, 15, 18;
spoiled in telling, 307, 23
=Tale-bearer=, words of, 463, 44
=Talent=, a, to be guarded against, 528, 31;
all, moral, 10, 27;
and character, how formed respectively, 85, 20;
and the world, 464, 24;
as determining and determined, 2, 57;
as man's enemy, 464, 47;
compared with wealth, 136, 42;
contrasted with genius, 120, 18, 50; 121, 3;
definition of, 481, 41;
eye for, what is involved in, 458, 40;
field open to, 194, 4;
for literature, a, 477, 22;
guide to vocation, 75, 14;
great, happiness of, 17, 40;
happiness of using, 441, 15;
mark of, 491, 39;
ordinary, with perseverance, power of, 558, 38;
the curse of, 206, 7;
versus genius, 54, 32;
a, which we cannot perfect, 29, 66
=Talents=, by nature, 239, 28;
characteristic of, 382, 14;
distinguished, not therefore discreet, 69, 44;
great, often hid, 379, 28;
great (see Great talents);
high, the pride of, 400, 33;
often without genius, 269, 11
=Talisman=, a, acknowledged by nature, 21, 23
=Talk=, filthy, 166, 33;
honourablest part of, 435, 29;
measure of, 529, 19;
the ineffectuality of, 176, 40;
unwise, harmfulness of, 509, 11
=Talkers=, a consideration for, 306, 24;
an evil they suffer, 428, 16;
compared with thinkers, 33, 8;
great, 39, 23; two sets of, 399, 3;
weaknesses of, 19, 13
=Talking=, always, effect of, 479, 19;
and acting, motives of, 529, 20;
caution in regard to, 345, 6;
good, and good work, conjointly impossible, 305, 22;
great charm of, 496, 1;
and doing nothing, 491, 19;
in morals and art, 53, 8;
long, effect of, 252, 36;
much, 148, 35, 36;
not to be monopolised, 297, 3;
passion of women, 448, 4;
the rule in, 34, 28
=Tall= men often empty-headed, 325, 37
=Tardiness=, the evil of, 401, 37
=Tarpeian= Rock, the, 227, 29
=Task=, a noble, never easy, 305, 32;
one's, how to be done, 541, 33
=Taskmaster=, the great, 19, 7
=Taste=, defined, 381, 28;
effect of delicacy of, 57, 48;
false, defined, 536, 11;
good (see Good taste);
purity of, test of, 339, 5;
sense of, its exquisiteness, 137, 32;
true, development of, 500, 40
=Tastes=, pleasant, 349, 26
=Tattler=, characterised, 21, 25
=Taxation=, a reason for, 295, 34;
for benefit of a class, 496, 3;
in relation to liberty, 185, 41;
of posterity, for folly, 475, 45;
on mere labour and brains, 307, 19
=Taxes=, self-imposed, 522, 21;
sinews of the state, 524, 25;
the heaviest, 170, 33;
to the commonwealth, 511, 50
=Teach=, who should, 242, 40
=Teachable= mind, mark of, 21, 26
=Teacher=, a good, test of, 305, 50;
a wise, 144, 3;
an authoritative, ever a necessity, 566, 14;
and pedant contrasted, 234, 23;
business of, 492, 50;
man's best, 414, 32;
qualification of, 77, 22; 151, 45;
the only, 454, 38;
with imperfect knowledge, 475, 34
=Teachers=, our real, 231, 51;
who have boobies to deal with, Burns' pity for, 126, 18
=Teaching=, a, before all, 519, 38;
false, Gen. Gordon on, 544, 48;
great art of, 493, 33;
no living by, 308, 20;
no, without inspiration, 162, 26;
rule in, 366, 14;
to be commensurate with intelligence in pupil, 203, 46;
to be successful, 353, 35;
when spiritually profitable, 307, 24
=Tear=, a, for pity, 142, 51;
law that moulds, 414, 20;
merit of drying, 424, 25;
of joy, the, 456, 44;
of tender heart, no stemming, 208, 32;
the mourning, 456, 44;
witchcraft in a, 533, 25
=Tears=, a debt, 406, 50;
a necessity for man, 239, 9;
causes of, 399, 4;
expression of tenderness, 282, 16;
expressiveness of, 195, 42;
joyful, oh for a bosom in which to shed, 322, 21;
lent by nature, 291, 10;
motive powers, 231, 14;
Nature's, 292, 42;
obscuring power of, 478, 18;
of penitents, 456, 45;
often a bad sign, 151, 13;
sacredness in, 470, 25;
safety-valves, 452, 22;
sometimes for show, 349, 53;
soothing power of, 87, 27;
sowing in, 479, 49;
tender, power of, 482, 41;
the cause of, 205, 18;
the channels of, 394, 38;
to be secret, 335, 24
=Teeth= without bread, and bread without teeth, 41, 25
=Telegraph=, electric, no substitute for face of a man, 425, 1
=Teleology=, question of, 450, 30
=Telescope= _versus_ eye, 360, 36
=Telescopes= and eyes, 98, 21
=Tell-tale=, harm one, does, 332, 20;
out of school, 457, 1
=Temper=, an even and cheerful, benefit of, 426, 9;
and circumstance, accord between, 143, 29;
fate, 12, 59;
the, how to treat, 198, 39
=Temperaments=, our, diversity in, 339, 25
=Temperance=, a physician, 227, 37;
and health, 153, 32, 37; 260, 36;
as a virtue, 460, 42;
defined, 113, 12; 432, 27;
in cold latitudes, 435, 11;
incompatible with love of pleasure, 303, 5;
true, a part of, 199, 49
=Tempers=, unsociable, 508, 26
=Tempest=, sorest, issue of, 454, 10;
the objects it attacks, 457, 4
=Temple=, but one, in world, 471, 19;
no, easily reared, 565, 40;
reared on ruins of churches, 125, 19
=Temptation=, a, merely fled from, 527, 6;
anxiety to avoid, a snare, 269, 25;
common, 469, 17;
effect on us of resisting, 524, 9;
enduring, blessed, 30, 53;
flight from, 117, 11;
no guard against, 306, 26, 40;
object of, 106, 43;
our desire, 525, 18;
power of victory over, 565, 5;
resisted, not known, 540, 5;
resisting, serving God, 126, 33;
to sin in loving virtue, 284, 12;
virtue unequal to overcome, 162, 32;
when under, 547, 9
=Temptations=, and trials, our own, thought hardest, 91, 50;
beginning of all, 417, 20;
only skin deep, 268, 15;
teaching of, 525, 9
=Tenants=, poor, in the factor's hands, Burns on, 352, 38
=Tendency=, present, of things, 429, 45
=Tenderness=, defeating prudence, 450, 4;
thought of, at death, 543, 18;
throne of, 75, 49;
want of, 518, 34;
weakness of, 395, 21
=Tennyson=, rank as poet, 503, 48
=Term= of things, God-appointed, 480, 32
=Territory=, loss of, 439, 46
=Terror=, a life-long, horror of, 27, 46
=Terrors=, men amidst, 161, 8;
most, illusory, 284, 39
=Testament=, framed with injustice, 472, 51
=Testimony=, written, value of, 250, 34
=Teufelsdröckh=, as a rejected man, at the centre of indifference, 111, 14
=Thanks=, at all enough, 544, 4;
exchequer of poor, 89, 46;
fed on, 287, 42
=Thanksgiving=, God-glorifying, 126, 35
=Theatre=, and pulpit, 457, 14;
private, of great account, 262, 5
=Theft=, contrasted with carelessness, 36, 6;
proscribed by Christianity, 241, 7
=Theme=, a common, hard to treat freshly, 67, 28
=Theologian=, experience of, 424, 8
=Theologians= slain by science, 97, 59
=Theological= absurdities embraced by the greatest men, 307, 26
=Theology=, and philosophy, Carlyle on, 347, 38;
compared with religion, 372, 22;
false, the cure for, 422, 26
=Theorists=, crotchety, 444, 4
=Theory=, all, gray, 132, 42;
how to test a, 397, 38
=There=, never here, 457, 15
=Thief=, and anvil, 8, 60;
and opportunity, 77, 27;
saving a, 381, 8;
the greatest, 324, 41
=Thieves=, and their chains, 251, 38;
little and great, how treated, 219, 35, 36;
more, than are hanged, 52, 23
=Thing=, a, how defined, 21, 35;
that most needs to be done not easy, 414, 31
=Things=, all, co-operative, 11, 3;
all, only halves, 75, 25;
are as regarded, 233, 12;
best at their sources, 238, 8;
how to know, 377, 19;
more, in heaven and earth, 467, 23;
often misconstrued, 33, 16;
the path of, 447, 12;
to be done decently and in order, 240, 20;
with more spirit chased, 552, 23
=Think=, how to learn to, 200, 43
=Thinker=, accurate, compared with accurate observer, 110, 34;
arrival of, an epoch, 186, 32;
earnest, no plagiarist, 301, 37;
fairest fortune to a, 54, 26;
great, test of, 305, 37;
peril to things caused by advent of, 545, 35;
the, and the public, 486, 18;
the light he requires, 457, 28;
the, want of, 529, 38;
to be guarded against, 29, 73
=Thinkers=, and seers compared, 453, 7;
relation of, to workers, 482, 47
=Thinking=, a disease, 333, 31;
abortiveness of always, 42, 8;
acting, 496, 21;
and having ideas compared, 493, 9;
and living, contrasted, 40, 12;
and saying, 344, 42, 43;
any, rather than none, 266, 19;
as wishing, 320, 8;
before writing, 241, 2;
clear, and ardent loving, 230, 32;
contrasted with doing, 50, 42;
defined, 339, 26;
effect of, 475, 15;
evil of too much, 559, 7;
faculty, Goethe's thrift of, 334, 18;
free-, a vain boast, 523, 26;
how alone possible, 205, 14;
leaving off, evil of, 427, 17;
less harm from, than speech, 269, 6;
man a terror to the devil, 21, 39;
man, fairest portion of, 493, 4;
man, not appreciated, 161, 16;
no, no wisdom, 148, 4;
often no thinking, 161, 16;
power of, 485, 2;
powerful and bold, 264, 30;
rare, 164, 13;
rule of, 274, 45;
that is none, 149, 15;
the rule of, 481, 16;
the value of, 369, 6;
too much, 152, 32;
too much, effect of, 569, 8;
what is implied in, 334, 40
=Thirty=, without sense at, 364, 5
=Thomson=, Littleton on the muse of, 110, 3
=Thongs=, from others' leather, 32, 45
=Thorn=, but a changed bud, 21, 41;
near the rose, 529, 34
=Thorns=, when to trample on, 550, 22
=Thought=, a good, a boon, 6, 56;
a good, power of, 75, 7;
a great, news of, 145, 1;
a monarch of, the thought of, 518, 47;
a noble, effect on us of, 547, 27;
a single, significance of, 20, 15;
a sudden, 21, 10;
a true, mark of, 414, 17;
accompaniments of, 559, 6;
and action, the worlds of, 465, 8;
and diction, propriety of, conjoined, 358, 15;
and its relation to world, 484, 30;
application of, merit in, 473, 14;
as expressed in action, 3, 48;
compared with speech, 401, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17;
constant, unconscious overflow of, 46, 58;
contrasted with action, 61, 25;
contrasted with will, 556, 20;
dependence of, on character, 161, 5;
every, once a poem, 94, 54;
good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126, 35;
grandeur of, 162, 11;
greatness of, 311, 51;
he, as a sage, 149, 14;
high, rhythmic, 525, 2;
how made healthy, 205, 13;
how to test, 149, 47;
intense, fatiguing, 280, 3;
its activity, 315, 10;
justice of, how attained, 216, 19;
less, more talk, 282, 11;
moment to seize a, 90, 44;
mustard-seed of, its vitality, 444, 27;
nature of, 432, 9;
no, contented, 307, 29;
no curbing, 264, 29;
norm of, 253, 18;
of ages, crystallised in a moment, 89, 38;
on the sea of passion, 508, 29;
one, inclusive of all, 334, 23;
one's own, to be entirely credited, 220, 3;
one's, to be trusted, 184, 45;
original, preciousness of an, 169, 31;
parent of deed, 457, 34;
power in, 474, 34;
power of, 94, 55; 206, 39;
prior to fact 457, 33;
profound, 443, 21;
property in, 484, 24;
pure, independent of time, 486, 46;
relation of, to action, 58, 37;
revelation of its power, 451, 20;
sin of stifling, 496, 2;
slave of life, 33, 29;
tendency of, 203, 25;
that cannot be simply expressed, 542, 29;
the aim of every, at its origin, 94, 53;
the atmosphere of, 81, 32;
the analogue of, 44, 30;
the generous, 125, 17;
the, to him who cannot think, 421, 18;
the well of, effect of drawing from, 565, 30;
the world-process, 279, 33;
true and precise, superior to cloudy fancy, 500, 37;
undying, 26, 16;
want of, effect of, 521, 15;
when beautiful or just, 307, 28;
wicked, impress of, 555, 34;
withering, hid in smiles, 117, 24
=Thoughtfulness=, a medium in, 477, 46
=Thoughtlessness=, cause of evil, 33, 5
=Thoughts=, appropriation and invention of, 199, 44;
audacity of human, 44, 21;
best expression of, to be respected, 467, 1;
bitter, to be suppressed, 33, 12;
dead men's, as agents, 419, 20;
divine revelations, 96, 2;
evil, our power over, 526, 16;
evil, to a good man, 173, 1;
free, but not hell-free, 119, 16;
good, how they come, 10, 48;
good, unexecuted, 130, 21;
great, from above, 306, 45;
great (see =Great thoughts=);
heard in heaven, 137, 8;
how to treat our, 428, 6;
in the heart of, courtesy, 156, 30;
like flowers, 207, 36;
love's heralds, 257, 6;
man's, with the stars, 263, 39;
men's (see =Men's thoughts=);
native soil of, 54, 36;
no rule for preserving or acquiring, 233, 35;
noble, the companionship of, 478, 47;
of little-minded people, easy to gauge, 251, 23;
of preternatural suggestion, 33, 24;
of things, influence of, 274, 11;
of unreflective minds, 508, 22;
our, and ourselves, 339, 27;
our best, 337, 16;
our fugitive, 339, 28;
our relation to our, 523, 31;
outrun us, 274, 5;
pass muster, 240, 45;
pregnant, 468, 10;
prostitution of, 182, 22;
religious, mixed with scruples, 307, 29;
roving, to be guarded, 320, 33;
sayings about, 457, 35, 39;
that look through words, 157, 13;
the only immortal, 507, 48;
thy, give no tongue, 123, 30;
unstained and evil, 508, 28
=Thraldom=, a, unpitied, 147, 24;
hateful, 323, 22
=Thrall=, in person, may be free, 457, 40
=Threateners=, not fighters, 73, 6;
often cowards, 268, 30
=Threatening=, loud, 482, 42
=Threats=, hardening effect of, 496, 28;
naught, 150, 19
=Threshold=, expectant, 90, 5
=Thrift=, and magnificence, 359, 12;
as a revenue, 259, 37;
secret of, 218, 25
=Thriving=, distrust of, 191, 45
=Throne=, a, raised to, and being born to, 203, 6;
by what established, 457, 41;
something behind, 476, 35
=Thunder=, nothing but, 48, 39
=Thunderbolts= on innocent, 214, 48
=Thyrsus=, the, bearers of, 417, 4
=Tibullus=, Ovid on remains of, 209, 51
=Tide=, but no gulf-stream, in affairs, 500, 47;
in the affairs of men, 470, 35;
the, to be seized, 527, 11
=Time=, a new, birth of, in pain, 182, 33;
a proper, for everything, 104, 48;
a test and a revealer, 337, 4;
a waste of, 520, 23;
advices in regard to, 409, 34, 35;
ameliorating effect of, 285, 38;
an innovator, 271, 24;
and eternity, 88, 4;
and I against any two, 165, 8;
and our complaint of its shortness, 520, 34;
and the hour, 44, 52;
as a cure, 81, 1;
as counsellor, 472, 9;
as preacher, 59, 43;
beyond our power, 340, 23;
connection of, with eternity, 150, 41;
dependence of things on, 481, 20;
different relationships of men to the, 431, 24;
driving away, 479, 40;
earth-spirit at loom of, 395, 20;
effect of, on a man, 240, 13;
economised, too late, 269, 35;
enough, if well applied, 331, 35;
eternity made manifest, 265, 2;
expenditure of, 97, 25;
fleetness and tyranny of, 78, 20;
flight of, irreparable, 117, 13;
God's, and ours, 62, 48;
how it is annihilated, 542, 30;
how to baffle, 401, 48;
how to beguile, 491, 7;
how to count, 528, 25;
how to win, 260, 38;
how we get rid of, 407, 34;
ill employed, lost, 330, 36;
in relation to eternity, 482, 6;
in relation to life, 339, 40;
its evanescence, compensated, 522, 6;
its stealthy flow, 228, 22;
its unnoticed lapse, 453, 49;
killing, a labour, 466, 6;
lenient hand of, 437, 36;
man the child of, 265, 2;
man's-angel, 62, 15;
man's inheritance and seed-field, 288, 6;
mystery of, Carlyle on, 413, 13;
no, for saying all things, 87, 31;
of day, known only to wise, 108, 46;
one's distribution of, 63, 20; 387, 51; 388, 1; 393, 15;
one's own, benefiting, 150, 31;
our complaint and conduct in regard to, 521, 7;
our, fixed, 339, 29;
passing of, common to all, 395, 31;
rightly seized, 63, 20;
sayings about, 235, 19-21; 412, 9-17; 486, 24-53; 487, 1-25;
silence of, 317, 3;
take good note of, 300, 23;
that bears no fruit, 457, 46;
the accepted, 27, 14;
the flight of, 412, 5;
the havoc of, our exclusive contemplation of, 338, 38;
the magic of, 569, 21;
the, our treatment of, 528, 1;
the present, Emerson on, 482, 13;
the present, sayings about, 449, 13, 14;
the reality of, 205, 27;
the sun-steeds of, 456, 22;
the thought of, 481, 15;
the, to be studied, 174, 35;
the weird images of, 316, 53;
the, who wants the spirit of, 364, 2;
things done in, 192, 1-3;
to be economised, 81, 45;
to be honoured in passing, 392, 23;
to be occupied, 510, 32;
to be seized, 176, 49;
to be taken by the forelock, 158, 20;
to be valued, 85, 41;
two different attitudes to, 336, 21;
value of, 72, 5;
waste of, 432, 10;
wasted on others, 4, 2;
wasted, 269, 30;
wasted and wasting, 169, 4;
well or ill used, 483, 13, 14;
well used, 332, 40;
whiled away, a burden, 544, 42;
who have no, 345, 19;
wishing for too much, 176, 13.
See =Il Tempo=.
=Times=, as representing the eternities, 457, 47;
bad, but compensations, 67, 20;
now babbly, now dumb, 58, 42;
past, a seven-sealed book, 67, 19;
spirit of the, 67, 19;
spirit of the, defined, 535, 49;
the, a fatal trait of, 427, 18;
the, a tendency of, 429, 45;
the, always mean and hard, 35, 2;
the, and our duty to them, 567, 29;
the background of, dark, 322, 30;
the, unjust complaint of, 275, 42;
the, insoluble by us, 521, 30;
these naughty, 322, 18
=Time-shadows=, only, perishable, 219, 54
=Timid=, man, in love, 202, 55
=Timing= of things, 458, 1
=Tiresome=, secret of being, 452, 43
=Tit for tat=, 1, 45
=Title-page=, as index of book, 265, 38
=Titles=, and men, 204, 36;
high, effect on weak minds, 238, 28;
noble, alone transferable, 484, 10
=Titus=, saying of, 65, 39
=Toady=, a, defined by Disraeli, 408, 28
=To-day=, and to-morrow, 155, 42, 43; 283, 45, 46;
Carlyle on, 395, 3;
happiness of owning, 140, 26;
sayings about, 491, 27-30;
value of, 107, 12;
value of insight into, 123, 14;
why we lose, 529, 32;
worth of, compared with to-morrow, 334, 26
=Toe=, light fantastic, 44, 38
=Toil=, a necessity, 526, 26;
effect of change of, 482, 8;
effect of, on native character, 314, 11;
sons of, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 323, 2;
vain, without heaven's grace, 323, 5
=Toiler=, only, to have, 169, 10
=Toleration=, our, 529, 25;
rule and limit in, 395, 9
=Tomb=, before death, or none, 171, 13
=To-morrow=, gone and coming, 340, 2;
not to be cared for, 409, 24;
pupil of to-day, 68, 52
=Tongue=, a killing and a quiet sword, 142, 41;
and its issues, 520, 25;
an evil persuasive, 33, 2;
as a traveller's outfit, 41, 28; 42, 5;
compared with
fire and sword, 106, 38;
cowards with the, 45, 14;
evil, an evil mind, 250, 14;
evil, bite of, 307, 22;
evil, its owner, 188, 26;
holiday to, 123, 39;
instrument of good and evil, 153, 41;
readiness with the, 510, 25;
restraining, as a virtue, 250, 18;
sayings about, 258, 5-11;
to be confined, 46, 25;
power of, 55, 36; 191, 33; 174, 36;
venom of, 474, 43;
want of eloquent, a misfortune, 39, 17;
worst part of bad servant, 250, 15
=Tongues=, compared to clocks that run on striking, 398, 9;
evil, pain of, 482, 23;
in trees, 408, 20
=Too= much, a defect, 516, 35
=Tools=, a necessity for all, 294, 49;
all man's invention, 262, 22;
and the man, our modern epic, 449, 40;
to him that can handle them, 224, 26;
use of, confined to man, 262, 47
=Top=, attempt to reach, at a leap, 200, 42
=Topic=, lovingly and thoroughly treated, effect on us of, 542, 17
=Torrents=, strong, their charge, 455, 36
=Touch=, a sure, a rare gift, 380, 17
=Towers=, lofty, and their fall, 37, 49
=Town= and country, 127, 17
=Towns=, contrasted with rural retreats, 228, 17;
great, a sort of prison, 135, 22;
immorality of, 239, 36
=Trade, a=, an estate, 146, 43;
a useful, value of, 23, 44;
as a means of life, 275, 3;
no, without its enjoyments, 504, 44;
two of a, 186, 22
=Trader=, what he first barters, 428, 5
=Tradition=, magnifying power of, 534, 1;
only one thing better than, 476, 18;
the god of, broken, 546, 36;
the source of all, 476, 18
=Tragedies=, why compose, 535, 1
=Tragedy=, true end of, 458, 38
=Tragic= and comic side by side, 421, 9
=Train=, the lackeyed, for others' pleasure, 110, 37
=Training=, mere, _versus_ spirit, 169, 44;
superior to teaching, 411, 15;
the best, 77, 20;
time for, 513, 46
=Traitor=, the greatest, 474, 36
=Traitor's, a=, weapons, 334, 35
=Traitors=, no legislation for, 473, 13
=Traits=, family, how deepened and intensified, 314, 11
=Tranquillity=, condition of, 282, 53;
divine, 322, 20;
incompatible with idleness, 67, 34;
virtue in, 187, 56
=Transcendental=, the, in a book, 315, 30
=Transcendentalism=, Carlyle on, 201, 30
=Transition=, every, a crisis, 94, 58
=Transitory=, the, but an allegory, 8, 63;
study of, as such, 168, 16
=Translation=, need not be verbal, 294, 2
=Translators=, traitors, 498, 49
=Trappist=, and his body, 315, 23
=Traveller=, a wise, and his country, 505, 41;
who is a philosopher, 441, 17;
who is only a vagabond, 441, 17;
wise, and a good road, 6, 54;
with an empty purse, 510, 45;
without observation, 458, 19
=Travellers=, licence to, 21, 60;
unregarded, 176, 4
=Travelling=, alone or with another, 150, 26;
railway, Ruskin on, 367, 44;
safe and not unpleasant, 149, 17;
that profits not, 152, 34;
use of, 460, 14;
without effect on nature, 171, 44
=Treachery=, deliberate, penalty of, 57, 44;
due to weakness, 274, 17;
evil in, 204, 23;
the price of, 400, 29;
what is dreadful in, 192, 13
=Treasure, a=, hard to guard, 179, 6;
coveted, hard to guard, 259, 30
=Treasures=, accumulated, purpose of, 123, 45;
by a lying tongue, 430, 3;
heavy with tears, 399, 8
=Treatment= according to desert, 509, 33
=Tree=, bearing bad fruit, 95, 2;
with both fruit and shade, 458, 28;
without blossoms, 507, 50
=Trees=, ability to root up, 334, 32;
harm of transplanting, 32, 5;
large, give more shade than fruit, 124, 11;
old, hard to bend, 213, 14;
short of the sky, 36, 3
=Trencherman=, a very valiant, 143, 12
=Trial, a=, that is not dangerous, 307, 30;
the glorifying effect of, 319, 25
=Trials=, past, not to discourage, 242, 21
=Trifles=, as felt, or not felt, 12, 23;
different estimates of, 150, 17;
holy and a base care for, 469, 24;
how to treat, 527, 4;
making an amusement of, 480, 12;
not to be despised, 481, 6;
significance of, 202, 42;
significance of treatment of, 201, 32;
well habited, 468, 17
=Trinity=, the, according to Emerson, 459, 38
=Triumph=, after victory, 16, 10;
without glory, 529, 28
=Triumphs= and sorrows, our, 529, 21
=Tropes=, everywhere, 291, 27
=Trouble=, best remedy for, 15, 32;
eased by talking of it, 86, 40;
past, memory of, 405, 1
=Troubles=, being chased by, 565, 23;
cure for, 393, 41;
due to God dragging us, 269, 29;
effect of slight and great, 239, 16;
how to face, 497, 54;
light and deep, contrasted, 51, 36;
little, worry of, 162, 13;
no guard against, 306, 26;
none without, 304, 26;
of others easily borne, 524, 24;
one's, how to soften, 459, 16;
one's, how to treat, 167, 51;
one's own, heaviest, 2, 58;
that must not be told, 467, 38
=Troy=, no more, 117, 16, 18;
site of, 210, 14
=True=, and false, price of, when paid, 111, 24;
and good, how reconciled, 518, 17;
being, always possible, 474, 35;
not always verisimilar, 235, 31, 32;
once, true always, 331, 30;
the, alone beautiful, 376, 50;
the, as a spirit in the atmosphere, 203, 33;
the, harder to find than false, 510, 35;
what is considered, same as true, 536, 13;
what is not, advantage of, 536, 42
=Trust=, and distrust an error, 183, 16;
and distrust, foresight necessary for, 112, 18;
and distrust, Goethe on, 11, 40;
and love, soul's nourishment, 253, 51;
and trust not, 105, 37;
effect of, 483, 21;
experience before, 26, 64;
founded on love, 27, 24;
objects to, 329, 40;
power of, 502, 44
=Trusting= every one, 149, 33
=Truth=, a distasteful, profitable, 368, 49;
a genuine follower of, 553, 21;
a new, receiving, 370, 19;
a new, the effect on us, 21, 47;
a, pushing, too far, 360, 18;
a test of, 90, 12; 487, 14;
abstract, importance of, 119, 38;
an insult to many, 466, 43;
an offence, 180, 27;
and error, 85, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9;
and goodness, how to travel the path of, 563, 34;
and its expression, 331, 49;
and purity, 360, 12;
and reality, the tap-root of life, 244, 3;
and the imitation of it, 188, 36;
and the utterance of, a necessity for man, 9, 67;
arguing deceitfully for, 148, 34;
at any cost, 29, 43;
at heart, effect of, on character, 542, 7;
awful, of things, 47, 50;
beauty of, 315, 42;
being alone with, 207, 21;
beholding, after being lost in metaphysics, 201, 3;
belief of, 436, 41;
best way to, 418, 8;
better than consistency, 345, 17;
better than wit, 537, 35;
by count of noses, 398, 27;
by doubting, 73, 30;
by poetry, 565, 19;
characteristic of, 531, 13;
commended, 243, 46;
consolation from, 421, 30;
dearer than a friend, 13, 39;
discernment of, 553, 8;
discernment of, a revelation, 546, 35;
devotion to, effect of, 563, 23;
duty towards, done when told, 543, 42;
duty with regard to, 67, 4;
easy, 164, 26; effect of mere, 23, 42;
enough, if in the air, 488, 23;
every, not to be told, 325, 46;
power of fear of, over men, 535, 14;
firmness for, 153, 20;
first condition of accepting, 428, 40;
general, seldom applied, 119, 41;
good and harm of telling, 67, 6;
great, against whom barred, 302, 17;
harsh, 169, 8;
he that is of, 93, 34;
how regarded, 223, 21;
how to draw out, 379, 36;
how to know a, thoroughly, 491, 6;
how to understand, thoroughly, 304, 47;
impotent without enthusiasm, 83, 39;
in dreams, 322, 26;
in fashion of the day, 22, 7;
in head and in hand, 18, 57;
in light, 191, 3;
in possession of a child, 41, 37;
indifference to, in trifles, 167, 10;
injured by defence of it, 329, 37;
inquiry of, 436, 41;
irritating, 58, 11;
its defender, 199, 35;
its power and strangeness, 476, 3;
knowledge of, 436, 41;
language of, 437, 49;
lost in disputation, 300, 18;
love of, importance of, 536, 18;
love of, test of, 256, 10;
maintaining and being maintained by, 202, 17;
man cold to, 92, 30;
man's relation to, 521, 23;
might of, 133, 43; 259, 10;
more than oratory, 271, 49;
mother of, 391, 41;
naked, an offence, 289, 20;
need not be all told, 390, 15;
new, damaged by old error, 79, 3;
new, seeks circulation, 173, 26;
new, the challenge of, 92, 52;
no, not error to some, 180, 22;
not all to be told, 567, 19;
not consistency, 71, 38;
not easy to bury, 208, 20;
not relished by man, 262, 13;
not to be all disclosed, 167, 52;
not to be served out pure, 322, 25;
not to be thwarted, 522, 36;
objective value of, 174, 37;
of the essence of man, 262, 6;
often in jest, 268, 32;
only to be spoken, 400, 39;
open to sight, 525, 10;
opposed by the age, 199, 35;
orbs of, steadfast, 484, 29;
our concern not consequences, 566, 12;
our love of, evidence of, 338, 32;
permanency of, 457, 25;
persecution of, J. S. Mill on, 423, 33;
plain, sublimity of, 333, 30;
power of, 514, 24;
precious and divine, 111, 32;
products of, that cannot be weighed, 508, 19;
pure, adulteration of, 360, 9;
qualities of, 315, 48;
quickened by God into deeds, 125, 17;
rejected, a sword, 22, 8;
reserved, 10, 61;
reveals itself like God, 55, 3;
risk of speaking, 148, 26; 323, 32;
sacrificed for shadows, 38, 23;
satisfying recompense of, 240, 26;
sayings about, 228, 2-5; 512, 53-57; 513, 1-6; 518, 18-20;
scientific, of old date, 383, 6;
search for, secondary to duty, 304, 38;
seal of, 54, 29;
seeking or not seeking, a sign, 549, 34;
self-defensive power of, 321, 19;
simplicity, a test of, 316, 9;
stings, 181, 9;
strong, almost as God, 552, 6;
subtlety of, 225, 40;
that has to be reserved, 419, 26;
the knowing and not speaking, 532, 13;
the life of the, 404, 10;
the only asbestos, 335, 23;
the, sayings about, 459, 20-22;
the, two ways of telling, 570, 7;
the urgency of, 536, 42;
the vouchers for the, 400, 50;
the, will out, 548, 51;
thirst for, abiding, 457, 31;
those who follow, 480, 23;
Time's daughter, 63, 23;
to be bought, but not sold, 33, 42;
to be made attractive, 524, 11;
to be veiled, 289, 20;
to die for, 491, 34;
to whom to confess, 3, 22;
unpalatable, 107, 23;
vanishing, 67, 5;
_versus_ charity, 205, 34;
violation of, social effect of, 95, 8;
vital, by our very side, 33, 31;
what it demands of us, 324, 46;
when seen, loved, 111, 31;
uncertain who has found, 92, 23;
why derided, 274, 49;
with friend to be both loved, 175, 24;
worth of, 538, 22.
See =Falsehood= and =Justice=.
=Truth-doer=, and the light, 146, 6
=Truthfulness=, the importance of, 199, 36
=Truth-seeker=, a, a citizen of the world, 152, 14
=Truths=, blunt, effect of, 488, 26;
like fruits, 239, 30;
often employed to deceive, 325, 39;
new, only old with a new name, 269, 31;
select, 181, 20;
shielded by veils, 468, 33;
spiritual or vital, nature of, 516, 27;
the greatest, 432, 40
=Tub=, every, on its own bottom, 95, 4;
to a whale, 383, 47
=Tumult=, seasons of, evil in, 192, 16
=Tumults=, civic, to be shunned, 546, 10;
of mind, not easily allayed, 309, 26
=Turner= on his death-bed, 456, 19
=Twa= lovely een, Burns on seductiveness of, 166, 12
=Twigs=, young, 213, 14
=Twilight=, disastrous, 186, 8;
lot of man, 52, 40;
natural, safety of, 479, 51;
world's light, 202, 47
=Two=, souls in one breast, 570, 5;
things, to require, 495, 20
=Type=, less valuable than time, 487, 1;
Nature's carefulness of, 394, 47
=Tyranny=, and law, 548, 8;
intolerable, 468, 29;
limited, 306, 27;
law and justice under disguise of, 180, 26; worst sort of, 25, 42
=Tyrant=, always in fear, 152, 24;
and serf, not God-made, 168, 5;
his fear, 364, 49;
kiss of, admonitory, 207, 12
=Tyrants=, plea of, 558, 37;
Burns against, 232, 26;
not for ever, 103, 45;
who wear no crown, 388, 37
U
=Ugliness=, the root of, 369, 16
=Ulysses=, bow of, bending, 203, 45
=Unanimity= in a council, 259, 14
=Unascertainable=, the, how to regard, 492, 4
=Unbaptized=, the, with clean hearts, 506, 35
=Unbelief=, Carlyle on, 471, 20;
contrasted with belief, 27, 30;
effect of, 415, 14;
foundation of, 27, 16;
founded on blind belief, 559, 4;
in man, 84, 47;
our age of, not without hope, 173, 34;
prevalent among men of ability, 293, 27;
the battle against, 417, 2;
the fearful, 427, 30;
the, that torments us, 339, 30
=Unborn=, rather be, than untaught, 29, 17;
the, blessed, 550, 39
=Uncertain=, the, how to treat, 192, 49, 50
=Uncle Toby=, ways of Sterne's, 121, 39
=Unconquerable= man, an, 153, 5
=Unconscious=, the, region of, 304, 33;
the, value of, 459, 32
=Unconsciousness=, commended by Christ, 242, 24;
sign of health, 453, 32
=Unction=, flattering, 110, 15
=Understanding=, and expression, 87, 29;
and reason, objects of, 67, 2;
and wit, 558, 1;
candle of, in heart, 168, 32;
compared with fantasy, 459, 33;
contrasted with reason, 369, 28, 33;
defined, 513, 14;
dulness of, how to treat, 349, 5;
end of, 433, 29;
error essential to, 176, 39;
evil of abuse of, 167, 27;
forgiving, 45, 52;
fortitude of, 499, 50;
healthy, defined, 433, 29;
high source of, 436, 44;
its rank, 435, 4;
judgments of, Goethe on, 437, 23;
man's best candle, 266, 27;
no, without love, 522, 47;
of people better than censure, 29, 53;
one thing well, 496, 32;
perfect, value of, 432, 39;
power of, 485, 40;
sound, the dread of, 434, 28;
source of, 206, 21;
the condition of hearing, 11, 62;
the condition of, 12, 38;
the modern god, 431, 5;
the, pursuing its rightful course, 486, 48;
things, condition of, 496, 35;
two conditions of, 496, 14;
value of, 153, 11; 162, 4;
way for, 100, 22;
without, without purpose, 79, 28
=Undertaking= too much, 66, 24
=Undertakings=, great, distrusted, 410, 47;
great, the requisite to, 385, 38
=Undiscovered=, the, country, 553, 4
=Uneasiness=, the cause of our, 201, 36
=Unemployed=, the, a burden, 82, 56
=Unexpected=, the, happens, 195, 2
=Unfortunate=, blessing an evil to, 496, 26;
man, an, according to Goethe, 143, 20;
the, unwise, 253, 9
=Ungrateful=, man, an, 194, 21;
men, different kinds of, 143, 57;
service to, 194, 16;
to do good to, 491, 40
=Unhappiness=, cause of, 521, 22;
cause of all our, 498, 37;
imaginary, 521, 43;
man's, cause of, 267, 9;
source of, 303, 11;
the one, for a man, 445, 41;
the true, 175, 18
=Unhappy=, the, 447, 17;
the, a comfort of, 326, 33;
the, always wrong, 459, 36;
the, and their time, 433, 14;
the, cared for by God, 125, 51;
the, on earth, 466, 37
=Unhelpful=, the, 305, 7
=Unimaginative=, the, defects of, 459, 37
=Uninquisitiveness=, man's, 359, 14
=Unintelligible=, how to interpret, 384, 37
=Union=, power of, 11, 50; 15, 39; 89, 41;
motive for, and the power of it, 559, 44;
strength, 224, 17
=Unity=, in a work, test of, 542, 36;
not uniformity, 103, 46
=Universe=, a, in each man, 559, 19;
a man's, how determined, 407, 47;
a thought of God, 54, 34;
and particles that compose it, 475, 4;
as seen from England, contrasted from that as seen from Judea, 539, 4;
divine-infernal, 316, 21;
each man to adjust himself in, 202, 4;
ever in transformation, 249, 32;
great soul of, 431, 37;
how bound together, 21, 5;
laws of, mistake regarding, 355, 1;
nature of, 467, 30;
the, no wronging, 311, 35;
the, sayings about, 459, 38-46; 460, 1, 2;
the, out at sea, 340, 5;
those who love the whole, 480, 6;
to him who thinks he can swallow it all, 533, 43;
under government, 92, 49;
_versus_ the spirit of God, 462, 15
=University=, the true modern, 459, 13;
years, importance of, 2, 32
=Unjust=, in little, 147, 8;
thing, doomed, 316, 46
=Unkindness=, not of nature, 292, 16;
pining effect of, 283, 25;
small, 19, 56
=Unlearn=, who needs not, 161, 19
=Unlearned= man, the, ignorance of, 460, 3
=Unlearning=, a slow business, 56, 48;
not right, 141, 24
=Unlooked-for=, the, 509, 7
=Unnatural=, imperfect, 94, 51
=Unnecessary=, the, dear, 81, 6
=Unprosperous=, the, suspicious, 328, 2
=Unpunctuality=, loss in, 139, 15
=Unreality=, never patronised long, 316, 18
=Unseen= and unknown, power over us of, 199, 21
=Unsettling=, times of, needed, 565, 2
=Unsophisticated= man, the, 176, 17
=Unsought=, those that come, 482, 43
=Unthinking= persons, their speech, 193, 2
=Untruth=, an, that has the start, 314, 5
=Unused=, the, a burden, 519, 15
=Up= and doing, 243, 45
=Upholstery=, for whom, 508, 2
=Upright=, highway of, 435, 13;
subject to hatred and envy, 141, 3
=Uprightness=, a sure card, 148, 43;
commended, 539, 34
=Urn=, storied, hollowness of, 35, 20
=Use=, constant, effect of, 104, 43;
effect of, on strength, 184, 32;
essential to possession, 316, 43;
power of, 111, 33;
what we do not, 539, 26
=Useful=, but part of important, 520, 13;
encourages itself, 460, 15;
only to be gloried in, 300, 34;
with agreeable, mingling of, 327, 52;
regard of the ancients for, 208, 30
=Usefulness=, condition of, 144, 38;
incompatible with baseness, 186, 16
=Useless=, nothing, to sensible people, 180, 5;
people, 460, 16;
to self, useless to others, 151, 15
=Usurer= and his plough, 460, 17
=Utmost=, the, who does, 535, 3
=Utopia=, Emerson's, 169, 10;
the true, life in, 191, 22
=Utopias=, premature truths, 239, 29
=Uttered=, the, and unuttered, part of life, 460, 19
V
=Vagabonds=, nature-made, 292, 9
=Vain=, man, folly of, 489, 41;
men, how to treat, 243, 48
=Vainglory=, anti-Christian, 242, 28
=Vale= of life, cool, sequestered, 102, 10
=Valetudinarians= like misers, 345, 12
=Valiant=, and his sufferings, 460, 20;
as compared with cowards, 49, 26;
the most truly, 153, 26;
valour of, 3, 17
=Valour=, against adversity, 4, 69;
contrasted with endurance, 460, 22;
definition of, 103, 53;
in distress, 69, 48;
mean of, 441, 39;
of just man, 460, 21;
power of, 540, 29;
sad, wise, 379, 15;
the better part of, 418, 18;
the truest, 198, 14;
true, defined, 500, 41
=Valours=, our, our best gods, 339, 31
=Value=, in men and things, 460, 23, 24;
the one thing of, 445, 40
=Vanity=, a mark of humility, 490, 42;
a preservative against, 437, 41;
a source of, 40, 33;
a, which is deadly, 470, 2;
application to, of truth, 476, 1;
as lack of understanding, 92, 7;
as regards fashions, 477, 10;
compared with pride, 356, 34, 36;
corrupting power of, 507, 2;
desecrating power of, 476, 10;
difficult to manage, 474, 40;
in rags, 168, 28;
inherent in mankind, 92, 48;
masterpiece of, 100, 44;
our, _versus_ dignity, 339, 32;
why insufferable, 537, 42
=Vanquished=, he could argue still, 89, 36
=Vapour=, floating, subject to gravity, 428, 48
=Variety=, source of pleasure, 278, 36;
the zest in, 315, 34
=Vase=, a bungled, 14, 6
=Veil=, a, of the gods, not to be lifted, 242, 11; 506, 7
=Veils=, the moral value of, 289, 21
=Venerate=, the untrained to, 507, 20
=Veneration=, deep and great affection, incompatible, 201, 8;
secret of, 460, 26;
that is godlike, 191, 43
=Vengeance=, deep, begotten of deep silence, 56, 55;
gods of, their action, 66, 6;
nature of, 375, 22;
noblest, 445, 9;
sacrifices from, 269, 39
=Venturing=, warrant for, 176, 36
=Venus=, the cruel pleasure of, 391, 10
=Veracity= as a duty, 445, 22
=Verse= that wounds, curst by Pope, 52, 2
=Verses=, writing, no special craft, 367, 11
=Vesture=, colour of, 422, 32;
cut of, 422, 32
=Vexations= not to be aggravated, 294, 39
=Vice=, all, under a guise of virtue, 474, 42;
an emancipator of the mind, 414, 21;
and virtue, methods of, contrasted, 45, 41;
dignified by action, 515, 18;
every, brink of a precipice, 327, 47;
evil of, 66, 31;
eradicable with time, 75, 27;
forsaking, 361, 45;
in the form of example, 512, 3;
only antidote for, 171, 19;
Roman, Juvenal on, 299, 38;
under disguise of virtue, 100, 33
=Vices=, attacking, in the abstract, 489, 38;
how regarded, 50, 11;
insinuating power of, 516, 22;
not all our own, 294, 43;
often from good qualities, 268, 26;
that have banished virtue, 225, 31
=Vicissitude=, advantage in, 12, 43
=Victory=, a Cadmæan, 216, 47;
by force, 552, 19;
celebrated in song, 533, 3;
different effects of, 171, 32;
greatest, 391, 12; main thing, 178, 29;
masters of, 444, 41;
no, without cost, 307, 37;
noblest, 227, 11;
not by violence, 191, 30;
reward of, 514, 5;
secret of, 537, 16;
without bloodshed, 132, 14
=Victuals=, one's, criticising, 533, 9
=Vigilance= as a virtue, 518, 13
=Vile=, nothing so, as to yield no good, 317, 1
=Villains=, rich and poor, in league, 545, 13
=Villainy=, diverse rewards of, 332, 55
=Vine= round the oak, and the reason, 453, 45
=Vinegar=, the sharpest, 456, 33
=Violence=, as a manager, 261, 9;
short-lived, 20, 42
=Violent=, the, short-lived, 316, 41
=Violin=, a beginner on, 192, 31
=Virgil's=, ambition, 412, 30;
epitaph, 268, 4
=Virtue=, a defence, 5, 1; 36, 35;
a soul raised to, a masterpiece, 322, 23;
attainment of, 445, 6;
according to reason, 460, 44;
and vice, how to treat, 370, 28;
alone happiness, 220, 1;
as a covering, 188, 21;
as an anchor, 511, 14;
attribute of, 382, 14;
base of every, 257, 27;
best plain set, 120, 8;
certainty in, where to find, 189, 31;
cheap without trial, 154, 20;
child of freedom, 67, 12;
complacent fair-weather, 552, 33;
condition of its growth, 249, 55;
consciousness of, 91, 2;
cornerstone of, 386, 12;
decease of, Cicero on, 128, 46;
defined, 546, 4;
dependence of, on misfortune, 136, 33;
divine path to, 412, 47;
element of, 485, 5, 7;
end of life, 111, 35;
enduring, 70, 15;
for its own sake, 214, 26;
force of, 506, 22;
foundation of all, 164, 4;
her sublime elevation, 488, 45;
Hesiod's path to, 451, 35;
how to acquire, 243, 10;
how to see her form, 488, 45;
how to seek, 405, 55;
in a beautiful form, 132, 24;
in ambition and in authority, 188, 23;
in regretting, 269, 34;
initial, of the race, 436, 38;
its brother, 307, 34;
its own reward, 11, 1;
joy of, in being put to test, 119, 6;
least, not to be deferred, 57, 5;
less in favour than vice, 149, 44;
love for, 233, 34;
made a vice, 526, 11;
manifestation of, measure of, 19, 64;
measure of a man's, 13, 1;
must be dignified, 156, 34;
never cruel, 140, 38;
no, quite unconscious, 303, 46;
no tax on, good of, 89, 53;
not valued by fortunate, 67, 27;
obstructions to, 23, 46;
only want of, despised, 330, 18;
ostentation in, 149, 3;
parent of, 193, 37;
pathway to, 548, 54;
primal condition of, 449, 20;
produced by collision, 44, 28;
proper theatre of, 307, 25;
pure, till tried, 212, 19;
pursuit of, beyond bounds, 194, 43;
sayings about, 66, 29-33; 228, 6-12; 397, 3, 4, 6; 515, 35-54; 516, 1-9;
silent, arm of world, 464, 11;
sometimes awkwardly set, 181, 15;
that can't be bought, rare, 105, 13;
that requires to be guarded, 414, 22;
the only necessity, 507, 26;
the sentinel, 46, 38;
to be exercised, 165, 24;
to her votaries, 48, 7;
true, 500, 42, 43;
two roads to, 570, 6;
under calumny, 34, 54;
under oppression, 50, 2;
_versus_ pedigree, 164, 48;
we boast of, 265, 41;
weak, 530, 14;
within, honour without, 175, 26;
without discretion, 559, 28;
without its reward, 260, 7;
without restraint, 183, 34;
zeal for, value of, 331, 34
=Virtues=, acknowledged by Christianity, 43, 6;
and faults, interchangeable, 523, 25;
at different ages, 185, 28;
fortifying, 432, 27;
gentlemanly, rare, 526, 7;
godlike, parent of all, 420, 16;
greatest, Augustine on, 432, 43;
late in maturing, 438, 3;
lost in interests, 239, 32;
milder, correlated to severer, 442, 10;
not all our own, 294, 43;
one's, thinking of, 438, 37;
our, sayings about, 339, 34-37;
permanency of our, 530, 30;
severe and restrictive, 453, 18;
to profit one, 509, 22;
two chief, 319, 36;
two kinds of, 399, 11;
we speak of, 528, 18
=Virtuous=, deeds and their reward, 109, 22;
most, of men, 444, 10;
sayings about the, 461, 1-3, 21;
the, defined, 540, 43
=Visible=, garment of invisible, 457, 24
=Vision=, clearness of, its comprehensiveness, 495, 30;
consequence of intensified, 395, 22;
imperfect, effect of, 323, 19;
limit of, for most, 304, 37;
measure of our, 539, 20;
now, through a glass darkly, 110, 28;
the, of visions for a man, 422, 40
=Visionaries=, all, 521, 6
=Visions=, the, we see, 521, 6
=Vitality=, fate of what has no, 540, 33
=Vocation=, a peculiar, to every one, 75, 14;
apt to mistake our, 521, 10;
chosen for one, 296, 32;
of man, primary, 449, 22
=Voice=, as index of character, 473, 12;
human, power of, 436, 5;
is in my sword, 167, 7;
inner, to be trusted, 519, 10;
of man, general and perpetual, 429, 44;
soft, gentle, and low, 155, 4;
wisest, no longer divine, 463, 25
=Void=, in things, 321, 42
=Voltaire=, impotency of his logic, 197, 24;
in relation to his time, 82, 34;
on his life, 258, 27
=Volubility= different from pertinency, 42, 49
=Volume=, flesh-bound, the only revelation of God, 428, 46
=Vote=, of a slave, a nuisance, 307, 11
=Votes=, should be weighed, 265, 37;
worthlessness of decisions by, 520, 15
=Voting=, decision by, Cromwell's protest against, 517, 36
=Vow= to heaven to be first paid, 321, 11
=Vows=, unheedful, 507, 23
=Vox populi, vox dei=, falsehood of, 414, 15
=Vulgar=, incapable of pure truth, 289, 20;
people, mark of, 403, 12;
respect of, for wealth, 136, 42;
sayings about, 461, 10-12;
working on, with fine sense, 492, 10
=Vulgarity=, and fashion, 102, 30, 34;
condemned, 64, 9;
essence of, 425, 35;
marks of, 69, 30;
or solitude, 465, 12
=Vulnerable=, point, our, 522, 10;
point, the, 164, 20
W
=Wages=, God's business, 279, 38;
never to be angrily demanded, 304, 5;
our claim of, 260, 43
=Waggons=, creaking, 49, 39
=Wailing=, no remedy, 311, 24;
over the dead, ineffectual, 230, 29
=Waiting=, advantage of, 94, 16;
in vain, 20, 14;
not Goethe's way, 160, 24
=Walking=, a falling forward, 461, 14;
a series of falls, 13, 2
=Wallets=, our two, 345, 41
=Wanderers= o'er eternity, 33, 27
=Wandering=, think of, 171, 37
=Want=, caused by haste, 141, 7;
effect of, on heart, 538, 18;
full satisfaction of, 493, 2;
prayer of, to be listened to, 116, 28;
that man has to dread, 204, 40
=Wants=, four material, 287, 5;
knowledge and effort necessary for supply of, 152, 38;
man's, 266, 17;
source of our, 203, 48;
which we are insensible of, 12, 30
=War=, a game which subjects might veto, 33, 32;
an iron cure, 60, 27;
and peace, Schiller on, 221, 32;
art of, Napoleon on, 567, 13;
art of, Wellington on, 462, 5;
begun, hell let loose, 137, 19;
conquest by cruelty in, 50, 33;
conquest in, 201, 1;
epithets of, 27, 33, 41, 44, 45;
evil, 181, 38;
evil of, 101, 31; 191, 30;
for war, 155, 8;
final aim of, 59, 54;
glorious, pride, pomp, and circumstance of, 102, 22;
hell enlarged, 122, 31;
honour of, 382, 13;
horror of, 506, 26;
how to look on, 27, 43;
how to still, 288, 48;
legitimate object of, 27, 42;
man in time of, 188, 52;
mistakes in, inevitable, 150, 36;
murder, 98, 28;
no second blunder in, 30, 30;
once business, 112, 34;
right form of, 106, 6;
ruin to thousands, 280, 32;
sacrifices in, 209, 48;
sign of injustice, 549, 24;
sources of, 116, 11;
success in, 405, 31;
success in, right earned by, 150, 1;
three things required in, 569, 37;
when just, 216, 41
=Ware=, bad, never cheap, 329, 45;
no, without the money, 565, 32
=Warfare=, the greatest, 391, 12;
the spiritual, of these days, 191, 35
=Warlike= people, vices of all, 119, 42
=Warmth=, great, at outset, an evil sign, 135, 23;
in winter, 191, 27
=Warning=, comparative worthlessness of, 334, 22;
word, not heeded, 23, 10
=Warnings=, earth full of, 75, 47
=Warrior=, an old, 15, 59;
and war-horse, but a vision, 414, 24
=Warriors=, great, why remembered, 135, 24
=Wars= and mothers, 27, 35
=Waste=, caused by haste, 141, 7;
where no enjoyment, 544, 35
=Waster=, after an earner, 77, 40
=Watching=, vain, 96, 24
=Water=, afar, and fire, 3, 32;
and blood, different destinations of, 425, 2;
and wine as mirrors, 192, 30;
as servant and master, 106, 39;
drinking, 73, 8;
not to be quarrelled with, 522, 5;
pure, to be sought at the fountain, 42, 38;
smooth, to be guarded against, 57, 34;
spilt upon the ground, 21, 13;
that has passed the mill, 45, 54;
where the brook is deep, 394, 40
=Waters=, still, deadliest, 313, 27
=Wattle=, Captain, 63, 44
=Wave=, the longest, 439, 37
=Waves=, tainted with death, 103, 45
=Way=, a, fashioning, through the impassable, 331, 8;
best, to be chosen, however rough, 42, 43;
good, to be inquired after, 402, 16;
how to make, 312, 24;
noiseless tenor of their, 102, 10;
seeing one's, 168, 26;
that seemeth right, 470, 42;
truth and life, importance of the, 560, 2;
wrong in one's own, rather than right in another, 45, 2
=Ways= to end, many, 10, 44
=Wayside=, building by, 145, 22
=Weak=, man, every, under a tyrant, 325, 43;
the, concessions of, 421, 19;
the, moderation of, 226, 14;
the, strength of, 323, 41;
when united, 512, 49
=Weakest=, the, 386, 2;
spot, the, in every one, 461, 38
=Weaklings= must lie, 443, 31
=Weakness=, and ignorance, how to treat, 349, 5;
born vanquished, 403, 29;
every man his, 92, 5;
how not to expose a, 176, 45;
innate and acquired, 398, 29;
man's, God's respect for, 125, 28;
mischief of, 58, 7;
misery of, 490, 44;
not so dependent as strength, 403, 30
=Weaknesses=, concealment of our, 564, 4
=Weal=, every, has its woe, 90, 34;
human, the sum of, 187, 37
=Wealth=, a burden, unless understood, 553, 7;
a dubious gain, 415, 8;
a form of, 357, 8;
a man's, the measure of, 533, 29;
a spring of, 220, 30;
accompaniments of, 49, 56;
amassing, 178, 51;
and freedom, effect of, 548, 56;
and place, get, 122, 6;
and poverty, 354, 11;
and poverty, connection of, with moral qualities, 152, 21;
Butler's definition of, 111, 39;
by mere labour and economy, 303, 30;
condition of possessing, 522, 45;
deference to, 329, 3;
effect of, 194, 37;
essence of, 426, 3;
evanesence of, 238, 5;
first, 428, 43;
for sake of independence, 118, 55;
gaining versus guiding, 119, 10;
gathering, 118, 57;
powerless to give happiness, 35, 30;
gotten before wit, 146, 19;
hidden, here, 243, 13;
how to save men from, 565, 41;
ill-acquired, 238, 4;
ill-gotten, not lasting, 181, 43;
in relation to man and woman, 124, 14;
instability of, 77, 44;
its destination nowadays, 53, 14;
limit to want, 250, 11;
loss of, misery of, 200, 35;
lust of, evil of, 345, 43;
man's best, 6, 58;
man's true, 91, 7;
material, of a country defined, 441, 37;
moral condition of the power of, 508, 35;
much, little enjoyment, 285, 15;
natural, according to Socrates, 47, 21;
not a source of pleasure, 513, 23;
not quickly won, 132, 5;
not happiness, 209, 14;
of Indies, who would bring home, 152, 50;
or want, children of, common fate of, 41, 53;
people of, 460, 7;
poor, keeping up appearance of, 311, 30;
poor man's, 41, 45;
parted with before death, 41, 13;
power of, 189, 16;
rapidly accumulated, 319, 2;
ruinous to a nation without intelligence, 305, 27;
sayings about, 461, 39-44;
source of, no question, 506, 18;
the only, 474, 44;
the substantial, of a man, 456, 12;
the world's, 465, 25;
to men of sense, 276, 9;
true veins of, 459, 15;
unjust, fate of, 145, 27;
_versus_ men, 181, 40;
way to, 461, 32;
without enjoyment, 559, 31;
which is wealth, 166, 3;
without rich heart, 559, 23
=Weapon=, murderous, dangerous to carry, 119, 23
=Weapons= of war, Luther's estimate, 35, 19
=Wearing= out, compared with rusting, 105, 14
=Weary=, stale, flat, and unprofitable, 162, 45
=Weathercock=, like a, 211, 16
=Weathers=, something good in all, 478, 32
=Web=, a tangled, 322, 33;
begun, sure of thread, 109, 20
=Wedded= people, most, one couple more, 284, 15
=Wedge=, to be effectual, 462, 3
=Wedlock=, an awakening, 275, 14;
humble, 163, 43;
perfect, man and woman in, 189, 1;
state of sorrow, 78, 19
=Weeds=, as a sign of the soil, 13, 49;
native to fattest soil, 284, 38;
noisome, 308, 36;
showiness of, 23, 43;
to be weeded out in time, 317, 40
=Weep=, women appointed to, 33, 17
=Weeping=, as king, and not weeping as father, 86, 10;
beauty, the image of, 476, 41;
eyes turned to heaven, 553, 10;
in children rather than men, 29, 8
=Weights=, greatest, how God hangs, 125, 49
=Weighty=, willing to be weighed, 151, 23
=Welfare=, human, source of, 562, 43; 563, 2;
national, condition of, 144, 7;
of the whole, importance of, 86, 1
=Well=, a bad, 32, 11
=Well=, or ill, matter of feeling, 93, 22;
to do, who fears, 551, 18
=Well-being=, essential to being, 27, 21
=Well-considered=, the, and well-resolved, to be done, 540, 38
=Well-doing=, here or nowhere, 175, 41;
patient doing, 474, 45
=Well-done=, the value of, 560, 25;
twice done, 48, 31
=Well-read= man, respect for, 338, 16
=Well-springs= everywhere, 190, 43
=Wellington=, saying of, at Waterloo, 140, 32
=Wheat=, a corn of, must die, 96, 18
=Wheel= of fortune, the, and its spokes, 462, 4
=Wheels=, great, uphill and downhill, 240, 53
=When=, question of, 518, 25
=Whence=, the question of, vain, 488, 14
=Where=, and when, significance of, 272, 29;
question of, and how, 518, 25
=Wherefore=, the, dark to us, 55, 4
=Whetstone=, office of, 117, 37
=Whim=, every man his, 240, 46
=Whimpering= for the fool, 232, 52
=Whining=, sentimental, as a symptom, 412, 22
=Whips= and scorns of time, 553, 2
=Whirligig= of time, the, 485, 47
=Whisky=, Burns on, 195, 6
=Whisperings=, cut-throat, 52, 15, 18
=Whist=, Talleyrand on, 517, 41
=Whistled=, for want of thought, 149, 18
=Whole=, a, never seen, 302, 32;
a, thrown away on public, 519, 27;
everything woven into the, 555, 40;
the, connection with, to be aimed at, 11, 38;
the, how to benefit by, 556, 26
=Wholeness=, not halfness, the rule, 520, 1, 5
=Wholesome= and poisonous, how man learns what is, 37, 6
=Wicked=, and wicked one, 522, 14;
as judged by the deluge, 498, 24;
career of, 429, 36;
compared with indiscreet, 109, 44;
fellow become pious, 24, 56;
listening to, 495, 29;
men, their disbelief in good, 239, 5;
not to be envied, 114, 45;
perfidy of, a blessing, 44, 37;
sacrifice of, 452, 18;
still with us, 58, 33;
tender mercies of, 457, 10;
uneasy in presence of good, 184, 1
=Wickedness=, a method in, 470, 12;
beginning of, 417, 20;
cowardly, 320, 9;
extreme, never of sudden growth, 295, 23;
its own reward, 11, 1;
licentious, its career, 538, 24;
treasures of, 499, 16
=Widows=, easy-crying, 76, 12
=Wife=, a childless, a dear friend, 213, 62;
a, marrying, 510, 42, 43;
a, to a man, 13, 3;
and a fortune, 29, 1;
and children, hostages to fortune, 146, 44;
and weans, Burns on, 478, 42;
as a trial, 93, 16;
as husband, 20, 49;
choice of, 277, 16; 412, 19;
choosing, 185, 18;
dearer than bride, 162, 8;
described, 389, 2;
dowry of, 72, 1;
fault of, due to husband, 212, 18;
good, value of, 17, 16; 54, 31;
husband answerable for, 383, 39;
love for, 38, 29;
my true and honourable, 565, 13;
rule in choosing a, 62, 4;
sayings about a, 462, 19-21;
secret of her influence, 36, 36;
what a man wants in a, 415, 25;
who findeth a, 554, 13;
whom to choose for, 42, 42, 46;
with a good husband, how known, 542, 33
=Wilderness=, life and light in, 190, 43
=Wiles=, the craftiest, a bad cloak, 422, 9
=Will=, a divided, evil of, 152, 46;
a divine, faith in, 538, 30;
a holy, lives, 79, 13;
alone formidable, 446, 17;
an independent, 62, 37;
analogue of, 44, 30;
and inclination in relation to virtue, 6, 43;
and judgment, 437, 21;
and way, 532, 37;
as law, 231, 41;
authoritative, 89, 43;
centre of good and evil, 475, 19;
everything, 228, 19;
firm, power of a, 151, 8;
government of, better than knowledge, 131, 23;
in affections and passions, 462, 22;
incarnated, our interest in manifestations of, 395, 12;
its nature, 517, 21;
its only satisfaction, 446, 15;
man's determining force, 313, 24;
man's want, 344, 54;
no compelling, 5, 6;
no, no wit, 149, 19;
obstructed, 182, 28;
omnipotence of, 315, 5;
peculiar to man, 8, 55;
power of, 17, 19; 517, 38;
power of right, 241, 46;
power of, with skill and perseverance, 488, 14;
preciousness to a man of his, 475, 38;
ready, the power of, 546, 9;
sovereign in the world, 94, 29;
the great of, 144, 51;
the, of God, 125, 44;
the rudder, 264, 23;
the soul of deed, 6, 36;
thwarted in world, 464, 33;
usurping the place of intellect, 323, 40;
virtue of a strong, 322, 29;
who forfeits his, 551, 21
"=Will do=," making, wait upon "I should," 552, 15
=Willing=, all, effecting nothing, 152, 46;
everything and doing nothing, 298, 21;
the virtue of, 263, 25
=Willingness= not enough, 203, 40
=Willow= and oak, 462, 23
=Wills=, our, and fates, contrary, 339, 41
=Wind=, sowing, 479, 50;
the, observing, 148, 5;
the, with and against, 490, 12
=Windbags=, their doom, 435, 34
=Windows=, prying into, 148, 9
=Winds= of heaven to visit, 164, 24
=Wine=, a blessing and bane, 104, 33, 36;
effect of, on nature, 546, 43;
eloquence from, 104, 2;
great fault of, 259, 35;
good (see =Good wine=);
no, if drunk like water, 142, 22;
no, no love, 326, 40;
power of, 16, 29; 514, 28;
revealing power of, 182, 35;
sweet, vinegar from, 112, 44;
sweet, when sour, 408, 11;
tasting of, 428, 20;
treacherous friend, 413, 19;
women, and song, who loves not, 532, 30
=Wine-cup=, more fatal than the sea, 182, 26
=Wings=, brave, gift of, 125, 37;
people vainest of their, 202, 52;
without feet, 150, 32
=Winking= with the eye, 148, 58
=Winter= in lap of May, 33, 37
=Wisdom=, a mark of, 391, 28;
a point of, 199, 47;
aim of, not happiness, 81, 22;
and gray hairs, 136, 15;
and her charge, 484, 34;
and misfortune, 54, 33;
and wit, 558, 2, 13;
and wit, natural gifts, 304, 20;
appeals of, disregarded, 112, 4;
at another's expense, 104, 19;
before gold, 29, 49;
beginning of, 417, 24;
better than valour, 221, 33;
bird of, her flight, 418, 27;
condition of, 153, 34;
constancy in, 479, 18;
contrasted with knowledge, 220, 15, 20, 23, 47; 221, 5;
dependent of, on courage, 139, 13;
discernment of, 557, 33;
divine, effect of belief in, 161, 27;
effect of, 548, 20;
essential to justice, 216, 27;
fair, to rule, 243, 16;
first and second point of, 428, 29;
first order of, 20, 46;
first step of, 515, 38;
first step towards, 356, 54;
forms in which we love, 525, 35;
from ability, 308, 49;
function of, 197, 41;
great, a mark of, 199, 37;
great point of, 198, 38;
greatest, 473, 4;
hallmark of, 164, 2;
high, allied to insanity, 434, 34;
high value of, 133, 44;
highest, 435, 11;
highest heaven of, near, 434, 42;
how gained, 12, 21;
how recognisable, 207, 29;
how to learn, 236, 7;
how we learn, 525, 15;
human, honour due to, 123, 34;
in deeds, 310, 8;
in keeping golden mean, 400, 38;
in mouth of fanatic, 531, 19;
infused into everything, 92, 46;
invariable mark of, 437, 9;
knowledge involved in practice of, 150, 18;
Lavater's definition of, 473, 32;
learning rules of, without conforming to them, 151, 33;
lesson in, to be welcomed, 176, 15;
lessons of, 240, 7, 8;
main lesson of, 198, 48;
man of, 440, 28;
master-work of, 493, 32;
matter of years, 55, 27;
men's, 522, 28;
mile-stones on road to, 300, 28;
not always wise, 65, 2;
not self-derived, 295, 25;
not to be too wise, 86, 15; 477, 26;
of the wise, 462, 38;
only one, avails, 319, 20;
oracles of, 285, 21;
power of, 485, 40; 514, 9;
price of, 449, 18;
profession _versus_ practice of, 93, 37;
road to, how measured, 442, 25;
seat of, 452, 37;
shown in sense of follies, 225, 35;
simple, our love for, 144, 3;
source of, 194, 6;
striving after, in the eyes of fools, 543, 44;
sublimity of, 456, 9;
superiority of, 548, 58;
talking and acting, two things, 201, 23;
taught by age, 21, 14;
taught by Nature, 329, 36;
test of, 276, 13;
that is too late, 532, 16;
that would win men, 563, 25;
the greatest, 190, 5;
the prime, 493, 39;
those who follow, 480, 23;
three paths to, 34, 19;
throughout life rare, 242, 36;
to be husbanded, 175, 7;
to them that hold her, 389, 1;
too early or too late, 66, 20;
too late, 344, 50;
too much, 569, 34;
travelling in quest of, 480, 19;
truest, 465, 20;
unmarketable if for sale, 533, 17;
value of, 162, 4;
_versus_ fortune, 141, 15;
_versus_ learning, 484, 6;
wellspring of, 463, 43;
which one is forbidden to impart, 533, 16;
who findeth, 554, 15;
whom to thank for, 175, 30;
wish to be alone in, 39, 16;
without self-respect, 295, 36;
world's treatment of, 206, 34;
worth of, 332, 56
=Wisdom's= root, 369, 3
=Wise=, always few, 234, 19;
and fool, as regards speech, 235, 5;
and foolish, contrasted, 80, 58; 197, 22; 462, 32, 34; 463, 2, 9;
and foolish, difference between, 10, 39;
and their defect of zeal for converts, 320, 16;
and their words, 67, 10;
as serpents, 30, 4; 399, 27;
be, to-day, 30, 1;
be, with speed, 30, 2;
cautious, 162, 17;
ears and tongues of, 61, 34;
everything, already thought, 8, 62;
few to be followed, 108, 16;
for saying nothing, 165, 43;
in time, 153, 29;
learn from their enemies, 16, 51;
life of, compared with that of poor, 558, 44;
man, a mark of, 478, 24;
man, a, reticencies of, 307, 49;
man, a very, 286, 26;
man and fool, 362, 40;
man and poet, 448, 11;
man and the state, 492, 7;
man and the world, 151, 37;
man, as distinct from learned, 8, 1;
man, characteristic of, 151, 26; 197, 42;
man, contrasted with sagacious, 566, 36;
man, his rule in action, 380, 31;
man, latter part of his life, 438, 11;
man looks ahead, 380, 32
man, lordship of, 380, 30;
man, mouth of, 434, 1;
man, progress of, compared with that of fool, 522, 3;
man, strong, 531, 18;
man, that is esteemed by world, 438, 40;
man, the keeper of his secrets, 459, 19;
man, the reflections of, wisely limited, 199, 48;
man, the strong, 455, 32;
men and fools, 5, 54, 57, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65; 108, 54;
men and poverty, 354, 16;
men, folly in, 467, 20;
men, indispensable to God, 126, 21;
men rarer than learned, 526, 9;
men, the little foolery of, 439, 23;
not independent of advice, 311, 40;
nothing insipid to, 315, 6;
prone to doubt, 162, 17;
saws and modern instances, full of, 267, 21;
sayings about, 462, 30-38; 463, 1-17;
the, blessedness of, 479, 34;
the constancy of, defined, 224, 33;
the, folly in, 469, 34;
the, guide of, 65, 12;
the, law of, 438, 22;
the, should confer together, 328, 3;
the only, 479, 20;
the only, sad, 151, 18;
the only wretched, 116, 10;
their aversion to society, 235, 4;
thoughts of, how expressed, 296, 10;
thoughts of, value of, 85, 32;
to be, and to love, impossible, 490, 46;
when compelled into silence, 378, 25;
who to be called, 34, 45;
wise to himself, 144, 2;
words of, 463, 46;
words of, in troublous times, 192, 7
=Wisely= worldly, be, not worldly wise, 29, 75
=Wisest=, content with destiny, 67, 11;
man, the, 68, 47; 532, 20;
man, often not wise at all, 143, 44;
sayings about, 463, 19-28;
who thinks not himself so, 234, 32
=Wish=, an unfulfilled, pain of, 446, 37;
effect of, gratification of every, 533, 2;
father to thought, 104, 38;
one's, when in love, 544, 44;
an ungranted, lesson in, 535, 30
=Wishes=, and powers, chasm between, 140, 13;
God's, _versus_ man's, 62, 11;
how our, lengthen with years, 249, 56;
youthful, 520, 3
=Wishing=, and possessing, 521, 37;
to be despised, 62, 24
=Wishing-gate=, the, 463, 31
=Wit=, affectation of, 480, 29;
and folly, balanced, 109, 33;
and judgment, at strife, 469, 7;
and sense, 467, 5;
and wisdom, natural gifts, 304, 20;
at a nonplus without folly, 12, 37;
at the expense of memory, 330, 38;
best, 32, 17;
contrasted with genius, 223, 4;
contrasted with humour, 164, 8;
defined, 513, 14;
disturbance of equipoise, 185, 27;
given in vain, 399, 7;
how developed, 396, 7;
how it comes, 510, 2;
how spoiled, 223, 7;
how to reply to, 373, 43;
in conversation, 223, 1;
its most brilliant flashes, 443, 35;
kind of, to be bridled, 469, 9;
like a coquette, 223, 8;
little, weary feet, 251, 44;
men of, fools necessary to, 505, 26;
men of, two classes of, 468, 14;
must be spontaneous, 101, 43;
never at home, 157, 18;
news only to ignorance, 231, 10;
not confined to one, 10, 49;
not to be arrested, 223, 6;
not to be importuned, 565, 20;
not to be too refined, 71, 45;
one's, matter of self-complacency, 318, 8;
of language and of ideas, contrasted, 463, 32;
preferring, to good sense, 495, 2;
relation of, to talent, 83, 50;
sparks of, not enough, 488, 25;
the body and soul of, 32, 36, 37;
the highest order of, 373, 30;
thrown away, 10, 50;
too much, evil effect of, 497, 47;
touchstone of, 223, 16;
true, 500, 44;
true, characteristic of, 253, 34;
unsparing, 31, 52;
value of one's own, 15, 63;
without modesty, 313, 42
=Wit's= pedlar, 144, 4
=Witch=, a, being, and being reckoned, 487, 47
=Within=, what is not from, weak at root, 520, 10
=Without=, within, 476, 11
=Wits=, and dunces, 25, 5;
effect of dainty living on, 102, 45;
great, allied to madness, 135, 26, 27;
intemperate, 195, 25;
never puzzled, 150, 10;
rarely men of genius, 276, 6;
shallow, their censure, 388, 27;
short-lived, 389, 29;
silly people, 362, 36;
without thinking, 126, 5
=Witticism=, holding in, difficult, 201, 15
=Witty=, who can't be, 345, 14
=Wives=, choice of, 105, 20;
economy, virtue of, 164, 23;
ill, 1, 1
=Woe=, sour, delight of, in fellowship, 400, 28;
that heritage of, 253, 21;
trappings and suits of, 385, 15;
trappings of, 167, 12;
trifling with, evil of, 252, 58
=Woes=, a way to peace, 174, 4;
mortal, the pathos of, 406, 50;
that cannot be healed, 551, 2
=Wolf=, caught by ears, 183, 17;
changes coat, not character, 257, 52
=Wolsey=, on his fall, 292, 51;
reflection of, on his fall, 138, 31
=Woman=, a, at the window, 71, 17;
a, four storeys high, 27, 36;
a gluttonous, 173, 28;
a, in every strife, 318, 12;
a learned, Euripides on, 399, 38;
a loving, a priestess, 91, 43;
a, mode of showing love to, 495, 21;
a, openly bad, 16, 31;
a perfect, 16, 28;
a restriction upon, 21, 49;
a spiritual auxiliary, 223, 39;
a, to be praised, 103, 24;
a true, home always around, 549, 11;
admiration of, for courage, 316, 26;
aim of, 288, 44;
always extreme, 24, 5;
and her passion of love, 187, 25;
as protector, 505, 28;
as taskmaster, 240, 18;
a truly educated, 307, 51;
born of tardiness, 285, 34;
case of, betrayed, 544, 16;
changeable, 71, 18;
character of, 511, 45;
circling ivy, 264, 6;
counsel of virtuous, 242, 1;
courage of, under strong affection, 539, 41;
daring of, 22, 44;
defined, 389, 4 (see =She=);
delight and terror of man, 35, 34;
beautiful, Fontenelle's description of, 1, 17;
difference between the "yes" and "no" of, 29, 58;
disappointed, fury of, 528, 20;
disgrace for a, 168, 40;
divination in, 70, 6;
empire of, characterised, 425, 5;
end of education of, 425, 9;
errors of, source of, 425, 28;
every, alike in the dark, 257, 36;
every, at heart a rake, 276, 32;
fine, conversation of, 476, 37;
first glory of, 360, 13;
formed to be a mother, 291, 8;
functions of, contrasted with man's, 262, 19;
grace of, 494, 40;
good, compared with a man, 24, 41;
handsomeness in, 307, 50;
heart of, 233, 5;
heart of pious, 75, 49;
her laughing and weeping, 104, 36;
her prison and kingdom of heaven, 65, 25;
honoured, God pleased, 549, 25,
how she can make sure of love, 568, 5;
in argument with men, 185, 8;
in unwomanly rags, 558, 28;
in humanity, 225, 19;
in love, 307, 52;
inconstant, 225, 11;
influence of, on a man's career, 48, 41;
jealousy of, 192, 46;
life without, 380, 18;
like a mill, 11, 12;
lost, 295, 31;
lot of, 556, 8;
love for, in ignorance of her, 535, 25;
love in, 471, 35;
love of, contrasted with man's, 265, 8;
man's indebtedness to, 33, 9;
manners of, everything, 207, 42;
men without, 326, 20;
ministering angel, 323, 1;
mission of, 292, 21;
mistake in creating, 292, 10;
moved by jewels, 74, 6;
Nature's masterpiece, 292, 10;
noblest station of, 385, 3;
not to have her own way, 176, 21;
offended, 183, 41;
one
language enough for, 334, 27;
only admirable, 30, 3;
our ruler, 69, 18;
patience in, 314, 14;
perfect, 346, 5;
perfected, 76, 7;
power of mere love on, 448, 1;
power of one hair of, 332, 29;
power of, to dispel cares, 174, 21;
preacher to man, 460, 43;
privilege in the household of, 440, 18;
queen through her grace, 221, 29;
ready with her answer, 567, 28;
reputation of, 451, 15;
rich, insufferable, 196, 2;
road to the heart of, 166, 37;
rule of, by serving, 244, 5;
sentiment, 264, 23;
sayings about, 463, 35-39;
sharpness of vision of, 85, 31;
smiles of, 27, 34;
stranger than man, 533, 40;
the pettish, 504, 21;
thoughts of, alone, 285, 35;
to be her own, 240, 55;
to wed an older than herself, 242, 39;
tongue of, 226, 1;
tow, 263, 14;
true, value of, 376, 8;
unjustly accused, 565, 9;
virtues becoming in, 391, 27;
virtuous, described, 551, 1;
vision and world of, as contrasted with man's, 55, 6;
wakes to love, 262, 15;
what makes a, a queen, 488, 41;
what the word contains, 59, 51;
who does not inspire love and reverence, 533, 37;
who wears the breeches, 542, 35;
why misunderstood, 451, 2;
wise and foolish, 95, 17;
wisest and elegant, contrasted, 463, 28;
wish of every, 212, 17;
wit in, 307, 50;
with brains tackled to a geck, 549, 6;
with dowry enough, 74, 12;
word of a, in love, 285, 33;
word of, to be respected, 170, 4;
worth in, 218, 11;
worth wooing, lover who wins, 559, 12;
worthy of love, 389, 5.
See =Mulier=.
=Woman's=, a, reason, 167, 5;
advice, how to treat, 356, 13;
eye, eloquent, 467, 18; 111, 44;
judgment, 267, 34;
life, 538, 18;
looks, books, 288, 14;
lot, Schiller on, 323, 12;
love, 266, 48;
love, preciousness of, 218, 16;
will, 548, 6;
will, the power of, 38, 9;
wisdom, 417, 5;
wit, not to be confined, 260, 22;
work, 267, 12
=Womanhood=, genius in, 120, 23
=Women=, a blessing and bane, 104, 33;
and others' opinions of them, 275, 25;
as haters, 483, 8;
as mystics, 443, 43;
as talkers, 345, 16;
best medicine for, 446, 10;
brain-, compared with heart-women, 419, 9;
burden they are born to, 496, 22;
business of, 244, 6;
characteristic of, 238, 17, 19;
cause of their errors, 275, 6;
dependence on, of honesty in men, 176, 18;
differences among, 110, 20; 274, 31;
discreet, characteristic of, 69, 5;
education of, not to be committed to men, 71, 23;
effect of beauty on, 487, 51;
effect of government on, 487, 51;
effect of virtue on, 487, 51;
fair, know it, 173, 16;
fate of, 206, 9;
finer than men, 27, 39;
foolish, 168, 2;
given to dissimulation, 168, 43;
good, power of, 78, 42;
good, Romilly's obligations to, 475, 11;
good, the only grudges of, 130, 32;
grace in, better than beauty, 131, 33;
great, characteristics of, 135, 28;
higher worth of, its risk, 450, 17;
how to choose, 566, 2;
in England and in Italy, 82, 45;
inextinguishable passion of, 448, 4;
influence of, on manners, 61, 29;
invention among, 513, 28;
love of, 275, 26, 28;
middle-aged in England, 188, 14;
most, without character, 284, 41;
nature in, allied to art, 291, 21;
nature of, Terence on, 317, 25;
parts they play, 477, 36;
peculiar badges of, 286, 28;
power of, 238, 18;
power of kindness in, 218, 46;
proper province for, 427, 12;
pursuits of, and men's, 10, 47;
sayings about, 64, 14, 15; 67, 8, 9;
seduced, 477, 15;
services of, 78, 23, 24;
so-called nature of, 536, 44;
society of, value of, 454, 5;
sole precious good for, 24, 44;
that are serviceable, 442, 40;
that inspire the greatest passion, 37, 57;
the book of, 234, 10;
their power to govern, 479, 6;
to be praised, 114, 14;
to what appointed, 33, 17;
two faults of, 275, 14;
two passions in, 188, 10;
use of knowledge to, 460, 13;
virtue in, contrasted with that of men, 536, 12;
who grill, fate of, 273, 31;
who love their husbands, their reward, 451, 6;
why they dislike one another, 238, 35;
wit in, 223, 2;
worth of, 11, 6;
writings of, 566, 22
=Women's=, eyes, books, arts, academies, 116, 34;
fancies less giddy than men's, 242, 39;
tongues, 59, 53
=Won=, the, never lost, 314, 26
=Wonder=, and fear, effect on the spirits of, 192, 34;
deemed vulgar, 299, 25;
inevitable, 35, 23;
refraining from, 299, 26;
significance of, 441, 3
=Wonderful=, not affected by time, 197, 23
=Wonders=, all alike, 307, 54;
man amidst, 161, 8
=Wood=, not seen for the trees, 142, 14
=Woods= and fields, senses of, 31, 12
=Wooed=, women should be, 523, 10
=Wooing=, and winning, 172, 28;
of prudent men, 219, 40;
Scotch, 30, 35;
time, favourite, 64, 3
=Wool=, gathering and weaving, 202, 22
=Word=, a living, value of, 29, 38;
a man's, distrust by the pedant of, 22, 36;
a profitable, 336, 57;
an immortal seedgrain, 36, 39;
enough to wise, 63, 39;
every idle, to be accounted for, 91, 31;
fit, prosperity of, 125, 17;
free, 55, 9;
from the Lord, effect of, 533, 33;
God's, man's true bread, 265, 33;
idlest, a seed, 314, 13;
ill, effect of, on liking, 332, 9;
in a twisted ear, 53, 43;
in season, pregnancy, of, 25, 19, 20;
incarnated, 263, 47;
its abiding meaning, 11, 34;
known by context, 312, 7;
man's, weight of, 267, 11;
of an hour, significance of, 333, 43;
of God, its obscurity, 456, 43;
of God, not to be sold, 344, 14;
once vulgarised, 25, 17;
power of a, 80, 5;
saddest, 110, 30;
significance of a, 110, 36;
single, often a poem, 19, 36;
spoken and written, 517, 45;
the, he that spake it, 149, 28;
to wise man, 512, 48;
truly spoken, lasting, 316, 33;
unspoken, contrasted with spoken, 325, 19;
uttered, effect of, on self-will, 212, 16;
uttered, irreclaimable, 88, 43; 295; 43;
when it flows free, 65, 27;
why the, became man, 321, 16;
winged, power of, 329, 13;
with two meanings, serviceableness of, 334, 35
=Words=, a man's, significance of, 235, 44;
a mist of, 280, 46;
air-castles of, 156, 28;
and secrets of the soul, 308, 3;
and the soul, 563, 17;
at hand, with something to say, 87, 29;
big, not associated with good deeds, 403, 21;
bonds, 157, 19;
cheerful, from the living to the living, 171, 37;
choice of, 85, 22;
comparative insignificance of, 85, 21;
compared with thoughts, 485, 12, 16;
contentment with, 464, 29;
contrasted with deeds, 166, 4;
corruption of, 161, 42;
deeds, 330, 10;
deeds rather than, 281, 8;
definition of, called for, 57, 9;
dress of, 424, 22;
empty sound, 534, 8;
fine, and fit, 107, 10;
fine, without deeds, 106, 32;
gentle and quiet, effectiveness of, 121, 29;
good (see =Good words=);
hasty in, 385, 17;
immodest, unjustifiable, 183, 18;
impotency of, in sorrow, 54, 27;
in pain, 546, 44;
inadequacy of, 417, 43;
kind (see =Kind words=);
less expressive than actions, 3, 50;
like leaves, 463, 45;
like sunbeams, 207, 37;
magic wrought by, 281, 7;
many, involving lies, 87, 5;
men of few, 275, 45;
of breath, 28, 47;
of earnest men, 301, 36;
of great men, weight of, 133, 23;
of others to be weighed, 270, 25;
only words, 165, 23;
perfect, to be respected, 466, 1;
persuasive power of, 122, 16;
power of, 33, 38; 77, 8; 512, 37; 534, 9;
power of, over us, 339, 38;
readiness of, condition of, 512, 40;
right, value of, 161, 18;
saddest and sadder, 173, 27;
safest, 452, 21;
sense of, dependent on usage, 199, 26;
their shortcoming, 67, 18
taking, for things, 100, 31;
that are thunderbolts, 51, 2;
that live for ever, 213, 3;
that please, 534, 31;
to be few, 242, 23;
usage in, 285, 48;
vagueness in use of, 315, 38;
valuable, 469, 8;
waste of, 2, 39;
when good, 563, 18;
when ideas fail, 76, 28;
when scarce, effective, 549, 1;
without thoughts, never to heaven go, 288, 26
=Wordsworth=, inspiring idea of, 123, 14;
lament of, when old, 477, 32;
prayer of, 123, 35;
rank as poet, 503, 48
=Work=, a, how proved possible, 453, 26;
advice in regard to, 260, 21;
all, an appeal to the unseen, 304, 5;
all, religious, 303, 43;
all, to be well done, 549, 40;
all true, divine, 184, 43;
and worker, proper relation between, 201, 37;
aright, whoso would, 554, 29;
as his, a man's measure, 19, 43;
best, how done, 418, 11;
best, never done for money, 418, 12;
by arms and brains necessary, 477, 14;
diligence in, reward of, 443, 30;
effect of intelligence on, 529, 33;
every man's, born with him, 303, 51;
every noble, impossible at first, 93, 4;
for a God, 494, 22;
for all, 477, 7;
for eternity, or only for day, condition of, 563, 30;
for mere money, 493, 5;
for which one is unfit, 501, 1;
good, and good talk, conjointly impossible, 305, 22;
good, condition of, 565, 33;
good, test of, 362, 11;
great intellectual, without effort, 302, 15;
half done, 269, 20;
how it may be done, 543, 23;
how to attain expertness in, 68, 28;
how to get, done, 177, 24;
ill done, the, not our concern, 152, 45;
important factors in all, 284, 34;
in, the chief qualification, 184, 27;
and its instruments, 79, 26;
man appointed to, 33, 17;
man's best, 12, 52;
man's end, 266, 18;
man's necessity, 203, 22;
mission of man, 262, 48; 266, 18;
necessities for, 105, 51;
need of a chivalry of, as that of fighting, 308, 5;
no great, easy, 308, 19;
not left half done, 204, 28;
not under taskmaster's eye, 9, 66;
of a man, true, a second self, 540, 22;
of a strong oul, 307, 16;
of genius, test of every true, 549, 41;
of merit acknowledged at last, 25, 21;
only honoured when finished, 8, 5;
our destiny, and how it should be done, 522, 1;
our, not fruit of it, our concern, 240, 15;
our, to be work of men, 339, 42;
paid beforehand, 42, 40;
real, never paid, 304, 5;
resumption of, after a long pause, 542, 37;
solid bit of, 6, 55;
standard of, 125, 15;
tiring, 478, 20;
to be thoroughly finished, 541, 23;
transitoriness of, 499, 3;
unwise, hopefulness of, 509, 11;
_versus_ charity, 441, 22;
victory, 549, 26;
weighty, how to do, 531, 15;
well done, effect of on worker, 206, 40;
who will not, 172, 2;
willing to, unwilling to wait, 151, 24;
with a sad heart, 478, 6;
worship, 228, 25
=Worker=, happiness of, 508, 38;
high and wise, Emerson on, 110, 1;
the, want of, 529, 38
=Workers=, and their spirit, superior to the work, 499, 3;
brave, fate of, 335, 13
=Working=, meaning of all, 535, 41;
too much, 492, 5;
true, worship, 500, 38
=Working-day= world, full of briars, 321, 1
=Workman=, a cunning, and his tools, 422, 23;
good, his wages, 505, 15;
good, proper reward of, 449, 42;
test of, 11, 16
=Workmen=, how made, 98, 31;
not superintending, effect of, 41, 24;
on the war-path, 388, 24
=Works=, cherished by art, 540, 3;
good, necessary for salvation, 130, 37;
good, the fruit of faith, 99, 61; 100, 12, 23;
great, due to perseverance, 135, 29;
man's, as his mind, 111, 18;
noblest, authors of, 444, 10;
our, sayings about, 339, 43, 44;
perfect, rare, and why, 346, 6;
the best, authors of, 418, 13;
worth of, in the spirit, 204, 35
=World=, a believing, Carlyle's faith in, and hope of, 25, 22;
a book to study, 242, 51;
a queer concern, 234, 9;
a stage, 10, 52; 167, 20;
a working, this, 445, 2;
all the, players, 498, 6;
all's right with, 128, 8;
an air-image, 482, 12;
and thought, 484, 30;
as good and as bad, 199, 22;
as it is, best, 538, 31;
as known to us, limited, 149, 16;
bad paymaster, 234, 12;
best theatre, 397, 21;
blindness of, 407, 32;
burden of, 395, 18;
but a show, 272, 6;
carrying, in thought and in fact, 201, 17;
children of, silliness of, 539, 14;
conditional, 125, 5;
different views of the, 117, 39;
down in the, 171, 23;
effect of kindness to, 176, 38;
Emerson's good-bye to, 129, 14;
envy of, 86, 17;
everything in, tangled and fleeting, 94, 30;
fact hated by, 482, 9;
fashion of, 111, 15;
first illuminated by love, 265, 7;
folly in government of, 483, 36;
for all, 92, 21;
forgetfulness of, 366, 35;
forgetting, by the world forgot, 161, 25;
friendship of, price of, 220, 6;
God of, 44, 54;
God of, always the same, 60, 26;
God's statue, 286, 30;
governed by a holy will, 506, 8;
great soul of, characterised, 431, 36;
great success of the, 431, 40;
half, and other half, 5, 5;
hampering action of, 114, 32;
heartlessness of, Chamfort on, 166, 13;
his, who can wait, 179, 38;
history, its import, 67, 13;
history of, 435, 22;
hope for the, 378, 48;
hospital, 48, 44;
hostility of, 104, 15;
how governed, 46, 30; 139, 33;
how it gets along, 179, 40;
how it is governed, 319, 30;
how it may become a home and peopled garden, 312, 34; 493, 37;
how to amend, 176, 11;
how to astonish, 177, 27;
how to enlarge one's, 210, 43;
how to learn to reverence, 464, 21;
how to mend, 461, 31;
how to please, 418, 10;
how to rule quietly, 177, 41;
how to subdue, 260, 43;
how to take, 527, 12;
how to treat, if not renounced, 52, 31;
how ruled, 112, 10;
humouring, follies from, 165, 12;
idea of, how obtained, 553, 18;
in the hand, 25, 23;
in these days, 191, 34;
insupportable, if not of God, 138, 33;
interest in a man's conflict with, 444, 1;
its two luminaries, 368, 31;
judgment of, 67, 13; 437, 22;
in one's old age, 484, 8;
knowledge of, dearly bought, 221, 13;
law of, 118, 5;
let great, spin for ever, 113, 53;
lighter than thought, 288, 23;
lights of, only temporarily obscured, 419, 81;
like a staircase, 179, 39;
literally a show, 313, 5;
madhouse, to the philosopher, 58, 10;
main enterprise of, 440, 14;
man of the, mark of, 441, 31;
master of, 143, 55;
material without the spiritual, 560, 1;
men born to command, 300, 39;
men debtor or creditor to, 345, 3;
mistake of the young soul about, 191, 34;
most finished man of, 443, 44;
necessity of knowing, 151, 27;
new, with every dawn, 109, 32;
no better seen, 64, 4;
no conformity to, when wrong, 518, 23;
"no" to the, significance of, 70, 17;
noisy inanity of, 253, 13;
not dumb to the capable, 496, 5;
not meant only for the few, 168, 5;
not ruled by blind chance, 89, 35;
not to be tutored, 457, 2;
not to be wooed for rest, 550, 30;
nothing without Greece, 326, 25;
one half, and the other, 78, 46; 332, 30, 31;
only fence against, 446, 3;
our dependence on, 330, 41;
population of, 448, 34;
promises of, 449, 37;
quarrelling with, to amuse it, 488, 34;
quicksands of, 208, 33;
rational, how to regard, 67, 1;
real sun of, 264, 20;
rhythmic order of, 111, 25;
sayings about, 67, 14-17; 464, 4-47; 465, 1-25; 482, 17-22;
scorn of, how to treat, 241, 40;
secret of, 206, 43;
selfishness of, 104, 15;
servant to him above it, 395, 29;
slave of, 143, 55;
solidarity of, instance of, 312, 15;
spiritual, not closed, 455, 2;
sign of, as still young, 111, 45;
suffrages of, how to gain, 314, 37;
system of, one, 456, 38;
the, dispensing with, 526, 8;
the forsaken of, but seemingly so, 477, 13;
the only habitable, 95, 12;
the, want of, 396, 30;
this, no home for a man, 156, 24;
this present, Carlyle on, 482, 10;
this unintelligible, 434, 21;
this working-day, 161, 20;
thorns and dangers of, 164, 34;
to a resolute man, 496, 9;
to be taken as it
is, 300, 22;
to be understood, not judged, 29, 53;
to every man as to the first man, 150, 29;
to know, 493, 43;
to the child and to the grown man, 140, 8;
to the Hindu, 496, 7;
to the liberal, 496, 23;
to the wise man in retreat, 151, 37;
too much respect to, 566, 16;
tragic _embarras_, 462, 16;
two ways of rising in, 468, 4;
under power of a lie, 546, 11;
unseen, alone real, 313, 5;
wags, 162, 40;
wax, to a firm will, 151, 8;
we live in, 525, 22, 23;
weary, 208, 46;
web of, 53, 39; 462, 1;
who looks, in the face, 144, 24;
whole, not deceived or deceiving, 306, 4;
wide, for wandering in, 217, 24;
wishes to be deceived, 286, 32;
without and within, relation of, 75, 8;
working, necessity of being regimented, 565, 35;
worshipped or despised, 147, 32;
would be deceived, 63, 25
=World's=, ills, to run away from, 495, 23;
joy, 478, 21;
masters, 170, 24;
reward, the, 506, 16;
sovereigns, Byron on, 529, 41;
the, mine oyster, 555, 31;
work, by whom forwarded, 418, 36
=World-epoch=, great event in, 186, 32
=World-revolutions=, great, far-reaching effects of, 431, 43
=World-spirit=, the, 465, 13
=World-traveller=, a, 458, 18
=Worldly= people and their riches, 461, 18
=Worlds=, imagined new, 75, 2
=Worm=, no god dare wrong, 103, 48
=Worries=, who has no, makes worries, 42, 11
=Worry=, not work, killing, 204, 45
=Worse=, appear the better reason, 33, 2
=Worship=, easier than obedience, 201, 20;
its beginning, 187, 16;
no true, now-a-days, 275, 41;
significance of, 441, 3
=Worst=, the, we can see, 568, 3;
things at the, 546, 12;
when not at the, 552, 1
=Worth=, a thing's, measure of, 21, 36;
all, in man, 312, 35;
definition of, 94, 38;
determining element in, 313, 24;
felt by loss, 30, 10; 42, 48;
hidden, worthless, 343, 44;
how determined, 486, 1;
irrespective of looks, 112, 37;
known after loss, 539, 30;
man's, how rated, 330, 31;
man's, measure of, 533, 30;
man's reverence for, 389, 41;
man's, test of, 545, 30;
measure of, 212, 3;
of thing, test of, 519, 19;
or unworth, what determines, 533, 34;
real, 369, 17, 18;
revealed by life, 488, 16;
sterling, mark of, 226, 33;
substantial, before ornament, 106, 47;
test of, 482, 26;
the achievement of, 17, 39;
to be distinguished from unworth, 290, 30;
undying, 308, 6;
who can recognise, 335, 14
=Worthless=, always worthless, 25, 26;
man, a, defined, 59, 1
=Worthy=, men, at odds, the blame, 546, 46;
people, a misfortune of, 505, 18
=Would= and shall compared, 497, 31;
and should, compared, 497, 31;
must yield to can, 42, 14
"=Would=" and "should" contrasted, 414, 28
=Wound= always leaves a scar, 25, 28; 88, 17
=Wrath=, as dealt by God, 125, 25;
nursing her, 118, 58;
sun not to set upon, 242, 22
=Wreath= easier to find than find wearer, 79, 21
=Wreck=, a beacon, 25, 29;
of life, secret of, 520, 36
=Wren=, the poor, pluck of, 448, 26
=Wren's= monument, 390, 23
=Wrestling=, strength from, 149, 9
=Wretch=, concentred all in self, 62, 28
=Wretched=, comfort to, 73, 49; 397, 7;
in heart, unhelpful, 305, 7;
learned to succour, 141, 27;
presence of, to happy, 449, 8;
regard for, a duty, 87, 9;
the most, 239, 21;
weakness of the, 87, 13
=Wretchedness=, from fancy, 298, 42;
intentional, impious, 143, 30;
_must_ complain, 25, 30;
source of, 303, 11;
that is voiceless, 415, 20;
to be pitied by man, 30, 32
=Write=, how to, 364, 10;
rule for one who intends to, 333, 48;
where to learn to, 177, 38
=Writer=, best part of, 413, 30;
book for a, 252, 56;
good, mark of, 91, 11;
good, rare, 6, 52;
great, mark of, 7, 10;
original, and the taste to appreciate him, 91, 13;
sure of many readers 441, 23;
wise, 25, 2
=Writers=, all great, writers of history, 91, 20;
all immortal, source of inspiration of, 9, 45;
clear and turbid, 43, 57;
great, and their words, 135, 30;
who have genius, 504, 5
=Writing=, advantage of, 369, 9;
art of, secret of, 53, 9;
benefit to few, 469, 6;
clear, condition of, 554, 30;
condition of, 305, 23;
ease in, how acquired, 499, 45
easy, Sheridan on, 568, 6;
fine, the root of, 452, 10;
for eternity, hard, 161, 28;
for money, 302, 54;
friends, delay in, 21, 28;
good, allegorical, 130, 38;
good, condition of, 506, 4;
good, source of, 383, 27;
insincere, 503, 19;
itch for, 412, 27;
master of, 93, 56;
men, soul of all worth in, 189, 27;
of fools, harmful, 540, 35;
passion for, 383, 29;
plainest, in dusk, 190, 27;
rule in, to the public, 11, 55;
rules for, 297, 17-19;
slovenly, uncourteous, 394, 10;
styles of, 456, 3;
ultimate rule in, 459, 30;
well, and writing readily, 192, 37;
well, merit of, 324, 43;
well, requisites for, 497, 8;
without purpose, 244, 10
=Writings=, ancient, folly of controversy about, 508, 33
=Written=, what is, remains, 184, 4;
worthless, so long as dead, 535, 19
=Wrong=, and God, 3, 55;
and the law, 3, 56;
as regards right, 6, 3;
avengement of, 331, 20;
by rule and by caprice, 200, 20;
difficult to avoid, 86, 9;
doing, a disgrace, 319, 19;
forgetting of, a revenge, 112, 22;
going, always harmful, 381, 51;
going, and turning back, 201, 16;
going, result of, 545, 6;
in the place of truth, 501, 34;
instruction from finding we are, 476, 22;
knowledge of, dispensable, 171, 20;
matter of consciousness, never right, 325, 17;
possible to be, 165, 14;
suffering and paying for, 202, 19;
to know, the first essential thing, 445, 36;
to one threatening to many, 286, 13;
with many, 29, 57
=Wrongs=, little, 251, 45
=Wrong-doer= never pardons, 112, 27
=Wrong-doing= punished on earth, 8, 61
Y
=Yea=, the everlasting, 256, 3
=Years=, a man's, counting, 523, 30
"=Yes=" to be deliberate, 337, 1
=Yesterday= and to-morrow, both are, 422, 31
=Yielding= commended, 37, 32, 34
=Yoke=, an easy, 288, 27
=Young=, idea, to teach, 57, 51;
in age, advantage of being, 490, 38;
in youth happy, 124, 38;
man, best rules for, 417, 57;
man, growing virtue of, 428, 13;
man's life, happiness and virtue of, 425, 18;
men, and their command in affairs, 297, 8;
men, conservativeness in, a bad sign, 524, 1;
men, errors of, 425, 29;
men, glory of, 430, 14;
men, love for, 122, 46;
men, our, 340, 3;
men, Professor Blackie to, 295, 13;
men, task of, 214, 46;
men, the conceit of, 305, 24;
talk of, 238, 39;
the, Goethe's tolerance with, 411, 37;
to be dealt gently with, 169, 21;
what it is to be, 491, 4
=Younger=, the wish to be, 307, 48
=Youth=, a lesson to teach, 508, 40;
ambitious schemes of, at mid-age, 466, 2;
and age, respective liveries of, 112, 5;
and hope, 225, 38;
and its knowledge of world, 203, 47;
and old age, as regards impressibility, 227, 9;
and wine, 556, 36;
as evil time, rather than age, 200, 31;
beautiful, 160, 50;
bridge from, to manhood, 300, 28;
characteristics of, 22, 33;
conceit in, misery of, 560, 23;
conceit of, 93, 7;
confidence of, 190, 19;
contractedness, of, 140, 9;
dalliance, evil of, 177, 2;
education of, 95, 20;
eternal, how attained, 95, 39;
excesses of, 426, 20;
failing of, 216, 46;
first impressions of, indelible, 242, 4;
flower of, when most beautiful, 429, 2;
follies of, to be unlearned in manhood, 482, 33;
foolhardiness in, 48, 62;
grief in, 192, 41;
hard to restrain, 321, 7;
heedfulness in, commended, 243, 5;
home-keeping, 158, 36;
importance of training, 378, 30;
in love, Ruskin's advice to, 542, 38;
incomplete, 544, 47;
incontinence in, effect of, 195, 24;
inspiration of, 23, 41;
learning to be a man, 466, 14;
not necessarily inexperienced, 12, 42;
penalty of, liberty to, 260, 44;
perils of, 419, 25;
pliability and obstinacy of, 38, 25;
profession of, naturalness in, 270, 8;
reckless, 370, 27;
responsibility of, 423, 13;
roses of, 382, 14;
temper of, 362, 1;
the guide of, 60, 23;
the more it is wasted, 419, 22;
thoughts of, 419, 7; 457, 38;
thrift in, 213, 2;
time to learn, 178, 28;
to be modest, 4, 41; 56, 34;
to be respected, 271, 17;
to be saving, 225, 37;
to be used as a springtime, 509, 40;
too covetous of honour, 288, 43;
virtuous, happy season of, 140, 24;
wandering in his own way, 165, 9;
weakness of, 199, 51;
what he strives for, 60, 24;
wisdom and beauty in, rare, 192, 39;
without enthusiasm, 304, 3;
yearning for, 395, 2
=Youthful= impressions, Goethe on, 460, 38
Z
=Zeal=, a, commended, 384, 49;
blind, 30, 57, 59;
not to outrun charity, 296, 42;
religious, effects of, 372, 37
=Zeus=, dice of, 326, 34
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